In the meantime, Guangzhou is working to build up a financial-services and technology sector to offset its dependence on manufacturing.
These assets--the brand, the audience, the financial strength and the technology--position us to capitalize on this pivotal moment for Yahoo!
Brayman and his team, all of whom previously worked at Sentinel, focus exclusively on five sectors--industrials, consumer, health care, technology and financial--where they have special competence and feel they can add value.
Companies represented here today are moving forward with a series of major trade and investment deals that will create jobs for both Americans and Russians across many sectors, from aerospace, to automotive engineering, to the financial sector and high-technology.
This pivotal round of funding was led by Bo Axel Ax:son Johnson, a private investor whose company, Coding Technologies was sold to Dolby, and Nils-Robert Persson, executive chairman of the board for Cinnober Financial Technology, the Sweden-based provider of electronic trading platforms.
Over the past 18 months the firm has bought nine companies including an online self-publishing site, a financial-data firm and one with a technology that newspapers can license for an online-payment system.
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Our entrepreneurial know-how and financial technology are ahead of everyone else's by light years.
The telecom, technology and financial-services industries all are looking for strategies to make them leaders in the evolving business of getting consumers to pay for products with their phones.
Moreover, a prolonged investment drought in the region will hurt the major American industries -- notably aerospace, high technology, construction equipment and financial services -- that have prospered most from the Asian boom.
Accenture, with more than 3, 000 people in New York, saw the Lab as an opportunity to help the city create more high-end jobs in financial technology, and, not so incidentally, to deepen its own relationships with financial services clients while simultaneously getting a glimpse of rising new technology innovations.
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Bloomin' Brands, Manchester United and debt-recovery technology specialist Performant Financial Corp.
According to the Boston Consulting Group, the potential for such tainted research was greatest in the technology, telecoms and financial-services industries, which contributed the lion's share of investment-banking revenues.
The event focuses on technology start-ups in financial services.
Technology and financial shares were the best-performing on a sector basis, up more than 1% apiece.
Among the U.S. sectors in which bankers expect to see more activity are industrials, financial services, technology, clean technology and housing-related areas, said Mary Ann Deignan, head of equity capital markets for the Americas at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
There were also gains on adaptation, deforestation, technology transfer, capacity-building and financial support.
Today this means investing in technology, health care and financial services (baby-boomers save for retirement).
With the woes of the financial sector grabbing headlines, technology companies could opt to write-off bad acquisitions now, kill ill-conceived product lines or lay off unneeded workers.
Consider that during this 42-year period we had wars, financial and energy crises, technology and real estate bubbles, and of course periods of high market volatility.
As Europe stumbles into recession our multinational corporations must feel the heat from a declining euro and lessening revenues, particularly sectors like technology, consumer durables and non-durables and financial services like credit cards receivables, travel and entertainment.
CMOs of top technology brands log an average of 60 months, while financial-services CMOs stick around about 54 months.
She sees significant potential for further improvement of the islands using environmentally friendly technology and regard the acquisition as a long-term financial investment.
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Mr. Kunze said the firm's "road show" marketing efforts met strong demand from investors in small-capitalization stocks who have an interest both in technology and financial sectors.
The electronic design automation and IP industries are increasing in importance, and Synopsys in particular is well-positioned to accelerate innovation due to its combination of financial strength, technology leadership, global support, and strategic vision.
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His interest in financial issues prompted him to get a mid-career MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006.
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Although the financial industry likes to think of itself as a technology leader, outside high-speed trading it frequently lags behind other industries, said a regulator.
Where they have worked best, financial mergers have profited from the simple economies of scale offered by a common information-technology system.
Certainly, financial assets in general are over-priced, especially those, such as shares in technology companies, that are seen as a source of future growth and profits.
The impact investing industry channels capital to market-based solutions in areas such as affordable housing, clean technology, financial services for the poor, sustainable agriculture and other related sectors while targeting returns ranging from below market to market rate.
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Technology start-up, PlayMoolah, is today announcing that it is working financial institution, OCBC Bank.
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