Sentences with phrase «technology startups like»

For example, our boogeyman has always been how technology startups like Expedia and Travelocity «destroyed» travel agents.

They are investing $ 77 million in clean technology startups like solar.

There's a link — albeit tenuous — between art sales and stock market performance, and at this point, the message seems to be clear: the hype cycle that's pushed up valuations for everything from hot technology startups like Uber and Snapchat to modernist paintings seems to be coming to an end.

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Usually, this is used for technology companies but is great for every vertical in a startup, especially tech - based like the Fownders social learning platform.»

Technology like cloud computing, big data, and the move to mobile are helping to launch startups faster than ever before.

Around 2009, such U.S. startups as Fulton Innovation and WiTricity began licensing technologies with futuristic - sounding names like «inductive coupling» and «magnetic resonance.»

«Blockchain» became the buzz word in financial technology this year, with everyone from banking and financial institutions (like Goldman Sachs and the New York Stock Exchange) to payment processors (Mastercard, Visa, and American Express) extolling its potential and publicly announcing interest in it, often in the form of startup investments.

Nearly a year ago, Walmart launched its startup incubator Store No. 8 with the aim of reshaping the retail experience through technology like virtual reality and drones.

That has led investors like Tom Darden, CEO of the $ 2.2 billion Cherokee Investment Partners, to create a North Carolina startup named Industrial Heat, which licensed the technology of Italian scientist Andrea Rossi.

Like many startup founders, Thillainadarajah spent those early days pursuing clients, pitching investors and refining his technology.

Startups to watch: Anchored by internet 1.0 titans like image - sharing service Photobucket, the scene got its start with a high concentration of work / play - oriented software developers working at facilities such as the University of Colorado and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

This is a unique group of investors who are focused on building out bitcoin and blockchain technology, assisting startups and companies with developing in specific areas like compliance and regulation, payments, security, identity, smart contracts and more.

Numerous books are coming out, and startups trying to capitalize on the technology are popping up like daisies.

Like Red Robin, those two rivals also work with online and mobile ordering startup Olo to ensure the back end of the technology would run smoothly with their physical restaurants.

While Watsi's mission is stereotypically nonprofit (in the best possible way), the company operates more like a technology startup.

The networking giant said on Tuesday that it will pay $ 260 million for cloud computing startup CliQr, whose technology lets corporate software run more efficiently across internal data centers and public cloud data centers operated by the likes of Amazon (amzn), Microsoft (msft), and Google (goog).

The startup's founders are all business technology veterans who previously worked at companies like Cisco and data storage company Veritas.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said the weakening technology market and its impact on startups will help big companies like Cisco that may be shopping for companies to buy.

The brand recently announced a Digital and Technology Innovation Center, where CarMax team members will work in a startup - like environment to develop platforms, features, and apps to continue to elevate CarMax's customer experience.

Startups working on digital currencies like Bitcoin and the related blockchain technology have raised $ 1.3 billion in traditional venture capital since the start of 2017, but $ 4.5 billion via more controversial initial coin offerings, TechCrunch reported.

The startup competes with some of the software products sold by older and bigger technology companies like IBM (ibm), NetScout Systems (ntct), and CA Technologies (ca).

But Suchter said that it can also be applied to other new, cutting - edge technologies like containers, as popularized by startups like Docker.

The startup is working on technology that would use magnetic levitation in low - pressure tubes to transport people and goods at airplane - like speeds.

Banks have to embrace technology and change their culture to be like startups, amid growing competition from tech giants, DBS CEO Piyush Gupta said.

The sprawling Skolkovo Innovation Center is still working to construct and fill its space with startups and industry partners (which include names like Boeing and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

But if companies like Microsoft are able to combine their enormous pools of capital, people and technology with the agility of a startup, they could force fledgling companies to rethink how to maintain their competitive advantage.

The startup has eight employees, some of whom previously worked at big enterprise technology companies like VMware, Microsoft and Citrix.

The startups developing this networking technology promise companies that they won't be forced to buy proprietary networking gear like switches and routers from Goliaths like Cisco who have long dominated the space.

Drone navigation technology is a hot sector with startups like AirMap, ANRA Technologies, and Skyward all building their own variations.

If your Watson - powered startup shows promise, it becomes a «partner,» often via a quasi-incubator model, and enjoys access to IBM business and technology advisers — and a shot at a capital infusion from the $ 100 million IBM is making available to Watson startups, like those featured here.

Indeed, Atlanta now has 11 innovation centers, where startups and enterprise companies can connect and engage, as well as conferences like Venture Atlanta and SuperNova South, where investors, founders and corporations can come together to network and be the first to see the newest, hottest technologies.

The company acquired a Google Glass - like startup called Vergence Labs back in 2014 and has since hired a bunch of other eyewear and wearable technology experts.

This wasn't quite like the typical conversations I have about the common challenges of running a startup with entrepreneurs, investors, and fellow technology reporters.

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

PS — LAUNCH Festival Sydney has 1,500 founders coming for free for two days on June 19 and 20 and will feature three startup competitions: one for new companies (under a year old), one for crypto startups and one for frontier technologies (i.e., technologies that are not mainstream yet, like robotics, AI and new food technologies).

And tools like LaunchDarkly help startups and technology companies refine their products more quickly to fit the needs and wants of users.

Because startup investors are ostensibly focused on technology companies, the fact that most professional venture capitalists have a background in engineering (electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering mostly, but there are some more niche areas like nuclear engineering represented here) or technical subjects (like information systems and materials science) is predictable.

Her background is in search and natural language processing technology and her operational experience spans product development roles from coding to product management at both startups and Fortune 500 companies like PayPal and Salesforce.

It's often the case that blockchain startups raise their first outside rounds as ICOs, but size-wise these funding events look less like seed rounds and more like super late - stage technology growth rounds.

Maybe the next billion - dollar startup in this space will come from a dorm room or garage instead of a citadel of technology innovation like Intel.

Tim Draper, the billionaire technology investor and prominent venture capitalist who has invested in some of the most successful technology startups in the likes of Coinbase,...

Tech startups like Utopia Mobile are enabling access to Facebook and Twitter on feature phones without internet, using Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) technology, the same technology which is used when a user needs to send a message to the operator to know his mobile balance.

The remaining Chinese startups on the list include three other Beijing - based ones: Face + +, best known for its face recognition technology, its close rival SenseTime, as well as Mobvoi, the developer behind the Siri - like mobile voice search service Chumen Wenwen.

«Like MaRS» financial technology cluster, fintech is also one of Cyberport's key focus areas with local and overseas startups striving to achieve success and expand globally.

Do you think that organizations like BTL are crucial to support the development of new Blockchain technology startups?

Car companies like GM, Volkswagen, Daimler and many others are putting billions of dollars towards backing a range of startups that are building technology and services for that brave new automotive future (a small handful of examples: GM investing $ 1 billion in Lyft, Volkswagen investing $ 180 million in smart car tech maker Mobvoi, and Ford pumping $ 1 billion into Argo AI for self - driving tech).

He works with both startups and brands like Sumall, Dell, Adknowledge and others focused on marketing, business and technology.

Despite their relative success, however, Tel Aviv's startups are behind the curve when it comes to adopting new technologies, like programming languages.

Benchmark has historically been a tech - based startup, so I've been mostly looking at ways that digital technologies could impact the healthcare system, not at products or drugs or things like that.

A lot — like saving your whole company from going under, as was the case of India - based, technology startup Hubbl.