Sentences with phrase «company as it probes»

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office has subpoenaed the Weinstein Company as it probes any potential violations of state civil rights law or New York City human rights law in the wake of sexual harassment and assault allegations against former executive Harvey Weinstein.

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New York attorney - general Eric Schneiderman subpoenaed The Weinstein Company as part of a probe into whether studio officials had violated the law in their handling of abuse claims against its disgraced co-founder Harvey.

The gathering is intended to probe what companies from Johnson & Johnson to 3M to Samsung — as well as every leading consulting firm across the globe — have already discovered: that smart, creative, and bold «design thinking» is one of the most essential (if too - often - overlooked) pathways for companies to build better products, connect with customers, improve their collaborations, and make the day - to - day corporate processes that now drive most of us crazy less crazy - making in the future.

Billionaire Vincent Bollore was charged by French investigators as part of a probe into the possible use of bribes in two African countries to obtain port contracts from public officials, according to a statement from his company.

This exposes you to some serious risks as Ramos explains that if an employee has a history of bad behavior, a company might just jump the gun and fire him or her without probing the situation further.

As an environmental remediation rental company, we have more than 150 specialized assets — water - level indicators, water - interface probes and gas - detection equipment — that are leased to environmental technologists, engineers and field personnel.

That probe, which involves as many as 30 other companies, goes on.

Of the 12 companies hit with sanctions in Friday's action, the Treasury Department said seven are either controlled or owned by Deripaska, the billionaire who emerged as a central figure in the U.S. probe of possible election interference by the Kremlin and its associates.

It plans to «cascade» down its probe to other federally - regulated institutions, such as smaller banks, federal credit unions and federal trust companies, she added.

News broke in March that German authorities were launching an antitrust probe of the company, with an aim of determining whether the company had misused its role as a dominant social network to collect users» digital information.

Thanks to a document known as a private letter ruling, even small companies can probe the Internal Revenue Service's attitudes about state - of - the - art, aggressive tax strategies.

Update: A spokesperson for the ICO said is investigating 30 organizations, including Facebook, as part of its probe into the use of personal data and analytics by political campaigns, parties, social media companies and other commercial actors.

Late last month Denham revealed the watchdog had been looking into Facebook's partner category service as part of its political probe, examining how the company used third party data to inform targeted advertising.

second, whether a «proposal seeks to «micro-manage» the company by probing too deeply into matters of a complex nature upon which shareholders, as a group, would not be in a position to make an informed judgment.»

Rule 14a - 8 (i)(7) is intended to permit exclusion of a proposal that «seeks to «micro-manage» the company by probing too deeply into matters of a complex nature upon which shareholders, as a group, would not be in a position to make an informed judgment.»

The spectacle that Shkreli created around himself and his company Turing Pharmaceuticals since late summer, even as the criminal probe proceeded, raised the question of whether he had any idea of the risk he was running — or whether his conduct was part of a plan to beat the rap in Brooklyn federal court and generate business.

The company is already facing a number of federal probes into its privacy practices as it transitions from its former chief legal officer, Salle Yoo, who was not notified about this incident, to Tony West, who will start this week.

Brown says the company also works extensively with academic resources to find technology - based solutions such as neutron probe ground moisture indicators and micro-emitter sprinkler systems for its custom irrigation system.

More importantly, the company termed Rattner's conduct as «inappropriate, wrong and unethical» and pledged to cooperate fully with Cuomo's continuing probe — the key word being continuing.

The dynamics of this stage of the conversations could be promising: Carper is acting as a go - between to centrists such as Sens. Snowe, Landrieu, Nelson and Lieberman, while Schumer is in constant contact with liberals like Sen. Sherrod BrownSherrod Campbell BrownHillicon Valley: Facebook, Google struggle to block terrorist content Cambridge Analytica declares bankruptcy in US Company exposed phone location data Apple starts paying back taxes to Ireland Overnight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Senate Dems call for probe into why Trump has not issued Russia sanctions MORE (D - Ohio).

Federal authorities have subpoenaed Dussich, the janitorial supply company owner with the minty trash bags, as part of their probe.

I got to know in the heady days of his work with the Deloitte and Touche company, even as the fracas over the probe into his dealings with Dr. William Adda (former CEO of the State Enterprises Commission).

Hymowitz received some negative press back in 2009 when Bloomberg News reported he had received state pension funds to invest from a company then - AG Cuomo had identified in his pay - to - plau pension fund probe as paying possible illegal kickbacks.

A federal investigation into Nassau's chief deputy county executive, Rob Walker, centers on a $ 12 - million county storm cleanup contract won by a company that gave money to Walker's political committee just as the agreement was finalized, according to a source with knowledge of the probe.

This comes as federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into stock sales by three Equifax Inc executives before the company disclosed the massive data breach, news that has weighed heavily on the stock price.

Newsday is reporting that «state lawmakers tucked into this year's state budget an extension of a law that grants a significant benefit to medical malpractice insurance companies operating in the red, such as Roslyn - based Physicians Reciprocal Insurers, a company linked to the federal probe of Sen. Dean Skelos.

The sharp criticism of Correctional Medical Care, a Pennsylvania - based private company, came as the state was probing the company's conduct related to multiple inmate deaths across the state.

Financial analyst Sydney Casely - Hayford has called on the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) to expand its probe into activities at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) to cover previous administrations as well.

The company recently dropped Pigeon's firm as its lobbyist amid a joint federal - state probe into his activities.

The prosecutors sent a grand jury subpoena to the Glenwood real estate company in May 2014 as part of their probe into kickbacks pocketed by Silver, according to the Manhattan federal court papers filed earlier this month.

Percoco's disclosure forms for 2014 show he took on two private clients with interests before state government even as he managed Cuomo's 2014 campaign; those companies are among those of interest in the federal probe.

With private companies like Virgin Galactic promising to take tourists to Mars and the nonprofit Planetary Society hoping to send microbes to orbit the Mars moon Phobos (though as of this writing the probe is stuck in Earth's orbit), «these issues are becoming more and more obvious.

Companies have already begun to market fMRI tests as accurate lie detectors, even though Spence says the results achieved during controlled studies are rarely duplicated during far less predictable police probes.

Companies will need to do more work to nail down their intellectual property — such as by patenting primers, probes, and testing methods.

This is another new category, recognising AdooQ Bioscience as the chemical probes company which is making the largest gains in the market.

In other words, unless special probes are spiked in, the coverage of a given gene from a company's panel test is probably the same as you'd get from their exome - wide test.

How Exxon responds to resolutions proposed for the company's annual meeting next May could add to scrutiny of the company, as New York State prosecutors probe what Exxon knew about global warming and what it told investors and the public.

EMAP: Pollution Probe developed the Electric Mobility Adoption and Prediction (EMAP) initiative as a predictive analytical tool to help utility companies prepare for the expected increase in demand for EV charging in their communities.

The probe was prompted in part by reports in the Los Angeles Times and the online publication Inside Climate News, alleging that Exxon researchers expressed concerned about climate change from fossil fuel emissions decades ago, even as the company publicly raised doubts about whether climate - change was scientifically valid.

Global minicab app Uber has turned to Hogan Lovells to carry out an internal privacy probe, as the company faces criticism following comments made by an executive about suggesting he might reveal personal information about hostile journalists.

The General Motors ignition switch recall case illustrates the consequences of a failure to escalate serious matters to senior staff, as the company faces government investigations and a congressional probe.

Whether it is probing allegations of corruption overseas or something as potentially mundane as a star professional athlete allegedly conspiring with low - level employees to deflate footballs, the public brand of the company is going to be impacted by the quality of the internal investigation.

Late last month Denham revealed the watchdog had been looking into Facebook's partner category service as part of its political probe, examining how the company used third party data to inform targeted advertising.

Update: A spokesperson for the ICO said is investigating 30 organizations, including Facebook, as part of its probe into the use of personal data and analytics by political campaigns, parties, social media companies and other commercial actors.

In interview, chief executive says the company will investigate tens of thousands of apps; describes probe as a «deterrent» rather than solution

The UK data regulator is investigating Facebook, along with 29 other companies, as it probes the use of data by political campaigns following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and has warned it may take «enforcement action.»

Groups in both the Senate and the House of Representatives have questioned Apple, and the company faces more than 45 class - action lawsuits from consumers as well as international probes, too.

The remarks go beyond what the company told Congress during public hearings on November 1 as part of probes into Russian election meddling.

US regulators and state attorneys general are increasing pressure on Facebook as they probe whether the company's data - collection practices have hurt the people who use its services.

The company is facing multiple privacy investigations in the U.S. and U.K. over the leak of personal information pertaining to as many as 60 million Facebook users to voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica (see Probes Begin as Facebook Slammed by Data Leak Blowback).