Sentences with phrase «public enterprises said»

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In the second quarter of 2013, tech IPOs represented about a quarter of all IPOs — and plenty of analysts are saying that we're going to start seeing a lot more tech companies (especially enterprise software) go public in the next several months driven, in part, by a backlog generated in a sluggish 2012.

Sweeney says he sees parallels between Qualtrics and Atlassian, another Accel - backed enterprise tech company that bootstrapped itself in its early days and went public amid a difficult IPO market.

They're running quote - unquote just their IT shop, and Oracle public cloud is already scaled enough that we can run the full IT of multiple large enterprises,» he said.

«I was outraged as a customer using their product and significantly concerned for every woman who works at Uber,» said DeNardo, who is head of public relations and social media for Justin Kan Enterprises and start - up incubator Zero - F in San Francisco.

Bonney was engaged in promoting the free enterprise, anti-union position of his party, while working as a public servant, Butcher said.

By: African News Agency Updated 2 hours 37 minutes ago The chairperson of Transnet, Linda Mabaso, has resigned with immediate effect, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Thursday.

Considering that achieving the greatest good for the greatest number is kind of the point of democracy and any other coercive form of government, I guess you can say that Rand is opposed to the Republic as well, although in public she essentially gutted her own philosophy and said that she was only opposed to people being allowed to vote on matters of private enterprise.

If, say, questions about austerity or the regulation of banks are in the public eye, different ideologies will try to win the debate by appealing to the virtues of private enterprise, or to the need for public transparency and accountability, or to the greater redistribution of wealth.

In a letter sent to Armstrong last month by Tony Blair, the Prime Minister says the office should «work in partnership with the sector to make progress in the key areas of public service delivery, philanthropy, volunteering, building strong communities and social enterprise» (R&R, 26 May, p2).

He said it involves devolving power to the lowest possible level, allowing charities and social enterprises to compete for public service contracts and encouraging more volunteering and social action.

One source said a private poll conducted for a commercial enterprise showed Weiner grabbing a significant number of votes from the three top contenders: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, former Comptroller Bill Thompson and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

Before, any state - owned enterprise that borrowed money, it was added unto the public debt, but what we have done now is to create a Public Debt Management Strategy that says that state - owned enterprises must borrow off their own balance sheets,» he apublic debt, but what we have done now is to create a Public Debt Management Strategy that says that state - owned enterprises must borrow off their own balance sheets,» he aPublic Debt Management Strategy that says that state - owned enterprises must borrow off their own balance sheets,» he argued.

«We have to say to people, «You have a public education system that is the escalator and can bring you as high as you want to go,»» Cuomo told students at the Academy of Finance and Enterprise in Long Island City.

Cuomo announced the start of construction of Delta Airlines» new, $ 4 billion terminal at LaGuardia Airport, and also said JLC Infrastructure, a joint venture comprising Magic Johnson Enterprises and Loop Capital Markets, will invest in the project — marking the first time in state history that a minority or women - owned business will be a partner in a public - private construction project.

Hawkins said that such practices would include environmental audits, tracking economic indicators of public welfare and sustainability, and instituting a Syracuse version of New York City's online «Checkbook NYC» transparency tool that tracks the budget, revenue, spending, payroll, and contracts, including minority and women's business enterprise contracts, in real time.

«She looks at how to tackle some of these problems with limited public funds,» said Rick Lazio, a former congressman who now heads the affordable housing practice at law firm Jones Walker and served with Glen as a trustee at Enterprise Community Partners, a nonprofit housing finance organization.

«We need to enhance workers rights and support cooperatives and public enterprises that distribute the fruits of labor according to work, not ownership,» Hawkins said.

The change in 2014 to bring in Public Service Enterprise Group to run LIPA's electrical grid has so far brought minimal improvement, the comptroller said.

Ray Halbritter, Oneida Nation Representative and Nation Enterprises chief executive officer, said this new investment in Central New York «will continue the success we have had in working hand - in - hand with the local community to create good jobs and generate public revenues.

Chu cited his role in key reports by National Academies and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on the competitiveness of the U.S. scientific enterprise and the state of fundamental research, studies that «sounded alarms that the health of science, science education and integration of science into public decision - making in the U.S. was in peril and heading in the wrong direction,» he said in his candidacy statement.

Federal funding of science and technology may fall short of what is needed to keep the U.S. research enterprise competitive, said AAAS CEO Rush Holt, but he also increasingly hears «concerns about what I would call an ongoing trend that goes back many years, even decades, where ideology and ideological assertions have been crowding out evidence in public and private debates and policymaking.»

Chinese state - owned enterprises like CNNC and CGN have been increasingly aware of their public image and seeking to improve transparency, but critics say they are still largely functioning as government bureaucracies rather than commercial enterprises.

Once you start digging into this, it also ends up saying something about how different disciplines see themselves, how the public sees them, and how we frame the entire research enterprise in applied versus non-applied terms.

90, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., says that part of the reason current expanded time schools do show success is because their student bodies are self - selected — families choose these schools.

When Hess, a resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., was first approached, he says he was hesitant, wondering if this project would be more rehashing of the same old ideas.

«For us, what's going on in Newark is not a triumph, it's a tragedy,» said Sharon Smith, who has three children in that city's public schools and was among about 40 parents and students who filled the 12th floor conference room at the American Enterprise Institute.

Business leaders in the United States say they can't find enough educated or qualified workers due in part to the growing numbers of college students leaving school before earning their degrees, according to new research from Civic Enterprises, a D.C. public policy firm.

One of the event's core focuses was on public enterprises, such as schools and roads, that business groups say are in dire need of improvement.

The Careers and Enterprise Company will do more to support and train teachers, its chief executive has said after criticism of the organisation's use of public money.

«Heather represents both ends of the talent attraction and retention spectrum — students in need of an education that prepares them for college and careers, and the business community that relies on our public schools to produce that talent,» said Doug Maibach, Chairman of the Barton Malow Enterprises Board of Directors and Executive Vice President of Barton Malow Co. «We are fortunate to have her on board to help us bridge that talent divide so all students are prepared for the competitive 21st century workforce.»

«Common Core is a badly damaged brand, and you see public officials trying to get some distance,» said Rick Hess, an education policy analyst for the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

«Over the last few years, the shift in consumer expectations from print to digital is not to be ignored,» said Vailey Oehlke, president - elect of the ALA's Public Library Association division, to The Press Enterprise.

The phone was first announced during Mobile World Congress in February but not shown to the public, and the new photos demonstrate how the Classic will attempt to lure back their core enterprise users.The phone is said to feature a 1.5 GHz quad - core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 and 2 GB of RAM, a unique combination given the current direction of smartphone chipsets with faster clockspeeds and even faster GPUs.

What I want to say here is that if just an announcement of doing something good for the health of the public sector enterprises or overall economy can deliver such high returns in such a short period of time, then I think nobody has truly imagined the actual potential of these CPSEs and PSUs if the government honestly gets serious with its duty to run these companies professionally.

Others, such as Exelon and New Jersey's Public Service Enterprise Group, said they will have no trouble meeting the standards.

Management of the Rockaways» power grid has been taken over by PSEG Long Island, part of Public Service Enterprise Group, which in early October issued an updated plan called Utility 2.0 that aims to modernize the company's electric system and may open the door to a microgrid project, said Jackson Morris, formerly of Pace University's Energy and Climate Center and now director of eastern energy for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

And «unlike commercial enterprises, the courts can not decide to serve only the most technically capable or well - equipped segments of the public,» Roberts said, explaining why such systems must be tested for ease of use and compatibility.

«Wholesale privatization without a careful, public examination of other, more citizen - friendly, alternatives is not acceptable,» Free Government Information asserts, while Simon Fodden at Slaw.ca says that even if Malamud is being alarmist, the situation presents «a cautionary tale for any government agency that wants to leverage its records with the help of private enterprise.»

«The problem in Canada is if you're a commercial enterprise your normal reaction is to say «I don't think these patents are very valid so I'm going to enter the market and if they sue me then I will defend it,» but as a public hospital you can't do that,» he says.

Decentralized public blockchains are the only way enterprises will commit to digitizing services in an interoperable manner, says EY's Paul Brody.

This way, Baldet said, organizations and enterprises could occupy their own private universes which would be separate from public networks, but would still be able to gain the auditability as well as security of a public blockchain network.

And while there are trade - offs with public blockchains that enterprises simply can not afford, what businesses want from ethereum, and what ethereum wants in return, she said, is the ability to interoperate.

«It doesn't necessarily have to be all enterprise disaster recovery systems over here, and all anti-fragile public blockchain anonymous transaction things over here,» she said.

«I think we're going to see the distinction between public chain and private chain eradicated in the next two to three years,» says Jeremy Millar, chief of staff at ConsenSys, and a founding board member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, a group of financial and tech firms that includes J.P. Morgan and is pushing Ethereum - based blockchains for business.

Enterprises have been slow to adopt Amazon Web Services and other public cloud services, but that could soon change, says McKinsey.

Public blockchains are unsuitable for enterprises, says MultiChain in its White Paper.

«The configuration of cloud - based storage by enterprises to allow public or semi-public access is by now an all - too - common story, a move that needlessly exposes sensitive customer data to the risk of exploitation,» UpGuard said in a blog post this week.

«We believe that collaborating across projects will help set best practices for blockchain interoperability and encourage broader market adoption across enterprises and the public,» Matt Spoke, CEO of blockchain startup Nuco and founder of AION, said in a statement.

«It allows enterprises who are not yet ready to adopt a public Blockchain to first deploy a permissioned Blockchain - based identity management solution and then decide whether to move to a public Blockchain,» says Armin Ebrahimi, CEO of Shocard.

«A lot of these changes are in many ways simply a next generation of functionality that already existed in some form or another, though made more intuitive for new users to help increase adoption and usage frequency,» says Erik Mason, senior manager of public relations at Zerto, an enterprise disaster recovery firm.