While juggernauts like Niantic, Improbable and Unity were able to raise hundreds of millions from investors this year with pitches that undoubtedly touched on the future importance of AR/VR technologies, the strong, more traditional, gaming industry backbone that the companies have was likely key to them scoring that capital now.
Doing so would help Tesla become the industry backbone and expand its network of power stations without building them itself, he said.
Leadership experts who saw a preview of the campaign noted its emphasis on entrepreneurs in young industries, rather than titans from American's industrial backbone.
The state-run sugar industry, the backbone of the countryside employing 400,000 workers, is near collapse.
The housing industry, a backbone of the economy, is holding up reasonably well, and consumers continue to spend, the Fed said.
What does land do if you haven't got a meal?" He said that land redistribution needed to proceed, but in a way that would not destabilize the agricultural industry, the backbone of the economy.
Single-aisle jets seating 100 or more passengers form the most hotly contested part of the commercial plane market because models like the decades-old Airbus A320 and the Boeing 737 are the industry's backbone.
With these, "we can be the E.R.P. of the services industry, the backbone to run their business," he said, referring to enterprise resource planning software that manages information across a company.
That, in turn, reflects a decline in heavy industry, the backbone of the economy.The north-east's provinces—Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning ranked in the bottom five of China's 31 provinces for GDP growth in the first three quarters of 2014.
With a "new industry" as backbone: namely devoted to the audiovisual, press, textile and crafts, health, logistics and media sectors.
On Meet the Press in December of 2008, he called the auto industry "the backbone of American manufacturing", and argued, "it's not an option to simply allow it to collapse".
