Baidu's open source Apollo program reflects the Chinese search engine's strategy to gaining a piece of the autonomous vehicle industry pie.
But his last CES keynote sends this message: Microsoft has far more fingers in far more slices of the electronics and entertainment industry pie than any of its competitors.
While it's rightfully known as the center of the universe for so many industries, it's amazing how a little friendly competition with Silicon Valley has fostered a cooperative atmosphere between New Yorkers as the Big Apple strives to grow its slice of the tech industry pie.
Backed with well over $100 million in venture financing from Generation Investment Management and Bessemer Venture Partners, the new hardware offering from Toast is the latest foray in its quest to dominate a market that also includes vendors like TouchBistro, Revel and Upserve — all of whom are vying for a slice of the restaurant industry pie.
Attendance is a tiny piece of the revenue pie for an industry fueled by off-site betting.
While still comprising a sliver of the overall music industry pie, the sector has experienced steady growth since 2007, and increasingly, is one of the few figures on a record company balance sheet that isn't itemized in parentheses.
Over two days, 40-odd entrepreneurs, CEOs, CTOs, COOs and CFOs have found themselves stuffed in a windowless basement conference centre at London's Strand Palace Hotel, each hoping to claw a larger share of the £3 billion global dating industry pie.
It certainly appears to have worked: today, CAA employs hundreds of agents, represents a staggering proportion of A-listers, and has a finger in the pie of lucrative industries like marketing, live events, and digital media.
Another one of ALEC's more egregious pieces of legislation, the Prison Industries Act (PIE), privatizes prison labor and directs any money earned by the prisoners towards expanding the prison industry, creating more prisoner work programs and paying corporations for setting them up.
They want an even bigger share of the entertainment industry's financial pie.
