Sentences with phrase «than high tech»

These remotely piloted vehicles are no more than high tech snipers.

But what happens when some of those solutions are in fact more polluting than the higher tech alternatives we might otherwise pursue?

Meanwhile, celebrities from Rihanna to Anna Wintour have been spotted with feature phones, rather than higher tech models.

Not exact matches

In light of the stock market's recent decline, investors seem increasingly to be giving the tech sector the cold shoulder, with stunning drops in value of once high - flying stocks, among them the micro-blogging site Twitter, whose stock is down more than 50 percent compared to September of 2014.

Lockheed delivered 66 of the high - tech, stealthy fighters last year to the U.S. and allies, 40 percent more than in 2016, hitting its target.

When they get venture money, these women - led companies generate revenues that are 12 percent higher than those of comparable male - run tech companies.

Moreover, Quattlebaum, a biotechnology entrepreneur himself, estimates that only 20 percent of high tech or biotech companies ever generate revenue, and less than 10 percent will be profitable.

Bitcoin, the largest crypto, is down more than 70 % from its all - time highs set at the end of 2017, as regulators look to clamp down on exchanges and tech companies shun advertisements related to the nascent digital coin market.

In the early days, many high - tech startups are focused on the product more than on selling it.

Today's small businesses are operating in a high tech global economy that is more competitive than any ever before.

The high - tech approach to an everyday task is one of the reasons the startup has landed relationships — many of them exclusive — with more than 65 retailers, including Costco and Whole Foods.

Whether they dropped out or stuck it out, going to college more than paid off for today's top tech startup billionaires — higher ed skeptic and Stanford alum Peter Thiel included.

Tim Cadogan, CEO of OpenX, a global leader in ad - tech that uses a monetization platform to deliver the highest revenue across all digital outlets, suggests looking for ways to enhance the products and services of other companies rather than compete with them.

While that's higher than peers such as Nikon and Canon, which have sales multiples closer to 1, it's still quite low compared to the valuations of other companies in the tech world.

If you live in a first world country, you more than likely have a chance to take advantage of these various high - tech services.

The Rinspeed car is only a concept, but it's packed with almost every tech feature imaginable as the auto industry works to makes cars more high - tech and connected than ever before.

That solution might be a little more high - tech than necessary, but you need to do something beyond simply providing career opportunities to your high - potential talent.

Software and Internet companies, desperate to get to market even faster than other high - tech companies, have median burn rates of 5 % and 8 %, respectively.

Waterloo's economy was still known more for manufacturing than high - tech at the time.

«The vehicles are less quirky than they once were, but Volvo is really building on its legendary safety reputation by embracing a particular attitude toward luxury and by advancing the high - tech cause.

But some writers are turning their blogs into little more than high - tech sandwich boards.

The fussy work looks more like a craft — say, needlepoint or weaving — than high - tech manufacturing, though each of the thousands of cables has its own serial number for quality control and traceability.

And delivery, he argues, is more blue - collar than high - tech.

In popular, high - paying industries like tech, women are offered lower starting salaries than their male counterparts for the same job at the same company 63 percent of the time.

Commercial imaging satellites tend to be big, expensive, and seriously high - tech, which is why there are fewer than a dozen in orbit today.

Tutoring franchise CEO Hao Lam from Vietnam and brothers Edi and Etrit Demaj from Kosovo — who launched a number of high - tech real estate enterprises in the Detroit area — did more than just risk their careers to get where they are; they risked their lives.

Tech shares have been leading the broader U.S. stock market higher for more than a year.

Apple's stock hit correction territory Friday after falling more than 10 percent from its 52 - week high, but the massive tech company isn't alone in its gloomy performance.

Tech companies bidding for coveted talent are indirectly driving housing costs higher than most people can easily afford.

Large or small, high tech or low, a business's uncertainties are real, and losses are more likely than gains.

The 450 new high tech jobs are in addition to the 5,000 full time U.K. jobs Amazon has pledged to create this year that would take its British workforce to 24,000 permanent employees, from more than 22,000 at present.

Forward - thinking minds in science and tech are integrating high - tech device and human body and going further than ever.

It has been downloaded more than 200 million times, making it one of the hottest high - tech products in history.

ABOUT OSRAM OSRAM, based in Munich, is a leading global high - tech company with a history dating back more than 110 years.

And women - led private tech companies that are able to secure funding achieve 35 % higher return on investment than male - led tech companies.

There's less pressure to flip an inventory than there would be for, say, a retailer of rapidly changing high - tech products.

Peter Diamandis is chairman and CEO of the XPrize innovation competition, executive chairman of Silicon Valley - based teaching organization Singularity University and the founder of more than a dozen high - tech organizations.

Many of the high - growth software companies that have been transforming the tech industry since their founding have been waiting to capitalize until much longer than we've previously seen — although I expect this tide will start to turn by early Q2, and we should see many of these high quality companies reveal their financial strength to the public world.

But for other targeted groups, like the superwealthy or high - tech workers, we're dealing with more myth than reality.

These days, as more teenage boys ponder forgoing college for high - tech jobs or starting their own companies, his young male audience seems larger than ever.

In particular, she was captivated by the high - tech moguls, some not much older than herself, who had the ability to forge new types of electronic ties that left people better connected to one another and to the world.

I found the new Fitbit watch more high tech than high fashion after wearing a pre-release model for a few days.

In 2007, the number of high - tech employees in the region totalled more than 70,000, according to Statistics Canada.

Ahrens knew that he'd need a basic site: no more than 15 Web pages and little high - tech work.

Young companies are now offering higher salaries than the tech industry average — with developers earning 26 percent more, marketers raking in an additional 7 percent, and sales / business development folks commanding a 12 percent premium to work at startups.

Sullivan uses only two computer - based services — automatic payroll and a «sweep» account that invests excess funds in an interest - bearing account at the end of each business day — and those services are better described as mid-tech than high - tech.

According to Bloomberg and research by Lesa Mitchell and Professor Vivek Wadhwa, women - led high - tech startups are more capital efficient, achieve 35 percent higher return on investment, and generate 12 percent higher revenue than male - owned companies when venture - backed.

HALIFAX — Embattled tech giant BlackBerry announced the closure Thursday of its offices in the Halifax area, eliminating more than 300 high - paying jobs as part of a global push to cut costs.

«The site has grown from one building to a fully integrated research, development, prototyping and educational complex spanning 1.3 million square feet and boasting more than $ 20 billion in high - tech investments and over 300 corporate partners on site,» including IBM, Intel, GlobalFoundries, Samsung, TSMC, Toshiba, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, ASML and Lam Research.

SPECIAL LUNCH SESSION: NEXT FRONTIERS OF FERTILITY Discovery Track In the high - tech health revolution, there may be no more fertile ground than fertility itself.