When it comes to custom-made, high-tech home building, prefabricated home systems can be a boon.
Colas notes that Apple is hardly the only tech heavyweight building up a considerable cash balance.
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On the call, Mr. Einhorn also criticized the broader practice of tech companies building large cash reserves to protect themselves against unexpected downturns, or to fund possible acquisitions.
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New York Tech Meetup also hopped into action, building a tech project hub called NY Tech Responds.
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It was Ron Huldai, Tel Aviv's 13-year mayor and a former combat pilot, who, while London's Tech City was not even the subject of an interdepartmental memo, had got on with building a tech center second only to Silicon Valley.
When Bill Gates had a choice between building a tech company and finishing school he picked his passion and Microsoft resulted.
But, also like many social entrepreneurs, we struggled to answer when would be the right time to start building that tech backbone.
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Virginia Tech converted a classroom building where a student gunman killed 32 people in 2007 into a peace studies and violence prevention center.
"As tech becomes pervasive, the building blocks of commerce are being patented and are the subject of major patent campaigns, " says Ms. Chien.
Compaq technology chief Shane Robison sketched out the big challenges in erecting a single, simplified technology platform and in building a compelling tech proposition for the new HP to sell.
Glick 55, came up with the idea for Jinni six years ago after spending 20 years as an engineer at Oracle and Israeli tech company Orca working on building electronic guides for pay TV operators in Europe.
He says tech and chocolate startups both entail building the right culture and testing products repeatedly.
And excitement about this challenge is building, both in the tech community and beyond.
Those countries are home to private health care chains that target international patients and are building modern, high-tech hospitals with a reputation for quality care.
Figuring out the precise locations of people indoors and creating services around that is a new frontier for tech companies that want to bring inside the building what GPS and navigation services offer to drivers.
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And there, unbeknownst to me is TechCrunch story number 5, an article about the start-up founded by my oldest daughter Kit: With Tech From Space, Ministry of Supply is Building the Next Generation of Dress Shirts.
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Moreover, cities are sending mixed messages to tech entrepreneurs if municipal officials are investing in building office space for them and offering financial enticements at the same time that they are cracking down on companies like Uber, Matwyshyn adds.
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Jetlev Southwest, headquartered in Newport Beach, California, frequently caters to executive groups -- particularly from the tech industry -- seeking a novel team-building experience.
For those who aren't particularly tech-savvy, the Japanese company is working on building full systems for offices and bars.
More importantly, they say countries such as Japan, South Korea and China are building very big, specialised and hi-tech ships, and they are not interested in constructing smaller vessels.
Finally, we showcased several high-tech toys starting with Roominate -- a customizable house-building kit that can be configured with working circuits.
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen threw millions at building a "Wired World" global network of tech and media companies, with little to show for it.
In addition, says Libes, the usual accelerator is tech-focused and a significant portion is devoted to coding and building a product to demonstrate during the final pitch day.
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Apple may find the task of building a team of cartographers daunting when compared to its usual tech work.
By 1982 that operation was a full-time concern, and he was building phone banks that would eventually become TeleTech's high-tech call centers.
Building a rubbish pile is, it turns out, surprisingly high-tech.
The prime example he offers is the cost of building stadiums now that credit is hard to come by and high-tech amenities are increasingly needed to lure fans from their 60-inch, high-def home televisions.
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After drifting into disuse over the decades, that nondescript building, clearly public in nature, has officially reopened as the Digital Harbor Tech Center, a community hackerspace and supplementary learning center for Baltimore City Public Schools.
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Inside the tech industry, companies eager to tap into all that excitement and potential revenue and brand-building are tripping over each other to position themselves as not just cloud providers but as real cloud providers, official cloud providers, the one-and-only-true cloud provider, and even as Wikipedia-approved cloud providers.
Even in this consumer boom that is still the vast majority of all tech spending, though consumer devices like an Apple iPhone with a corporate application, or a company building software using Amazon Web Services, make those distinctions harder.
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