Sentences with phrase «allows private companies»

The federal Natural Gas Act allows private companies to use eminent domain to acquire property for natural - gas pipelines.

Cuba is still subject to a wider U.S. economic embargo, but removal from the list allows private companies and banks more opportunities to do authorized business with Cuba — which ultimately will aid travelers.

This program allows private companies to receive tax credits from the State of Nevada for making donations to «scholarship organizations.»

Regulation A + is a type of offering which allows private companies to raise up to $ 50 Million from non-accredited investors.

Critics say that the bill would allow private companies to swap clients» data without consent or notification.

Aitel suggested that, rather than outsource tasks or projects to particular individuals without security clearance, the government could allow private companies specializing in penetration testing — the practice of testing a computer system, network or application to find vulnerabilities that a hacker could exploit — to apply for security clearance and compete for a contract.

The dispute - resolution provisions, which Canadian officials have claimed are similar to those contained in NAFTA, would also allow private companies to contest government decisions.

The government would own it for the public good and allow private companies to offer services on it.

Title III of the JOBS Act outlines Reg CF, a type of offering allowing private companies to raise up to $ 1 million from all Americans.

It has allowed private companies, almost without restraints, to set up toll gates across public highways of communication and to exact a toll from the public....

«We very much hope that other police chief's will listen to Mick Creedon's concerns before allowing private companies to profit from police privatisation.

ALBANY — In 2013, New York voters were asked to consider an unusual constitutional amendment that could allow a private company, NYCO Minerals, to clear the middle of a forest in the Adirondack Mountains and create an open pit for mining.

The offices of the New York attorney general and inspector general have declined to open investigations into the 2013 constitutional amendment that allowed a private company, NYCO Minerals, to conduct open - pit mining on state land in the Adirondack Mountains.

-- A group of 30 Criminal justice advocacy groups are pressuring the City Council to end all programs that allow private companies to profit off of prisons

The decision was strongly criticised by the unions, as was the decision to allow private companies to run the two new build prisons, HMP Oakwood and HMP Thameside which opened in Spring 2012.

The State is considering allowing private companies to begin drilling for natural gas in upstate New York, while the City is shelling out more than $ 630 million between now and 2017 on «filtration avoidance» by protecting the Cat / Del watershed, where 90 % of our water comes from.

The government then introduced the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act in 1999, thereby de-regulating the insurance sector and allowing private companies.

Update: In the months that have passed since this blog post was posted, the Florida DHSMV has begun allowing private companies to once again offer the Florida driver license test online for first time drivers.

Utah has long generated revenue from its lands to fund its public schools, usually by allowing private companies to have mineral rights.

Not exact matches

As VC firms raise larger funds and pump capital into venture - backed companies at various stages, they allow them to stay private longer.

U.S. officials are concerned by the specter of former military and intelligence officers working at Kaspersky, and fear that the company's software could allow Russian state - sponsored hackers to steal user files, read private email correspondence or attack critical infrastructure in the United States.

Bayless, who specializes in later - stage private - equity placement, says, «Origin Group allows larger companies to utilize the advantages of being small and flexible in order to attack problems created by their bigness.»

Mobli was also famous for being one of the first startups to use NASDAQ's private market, allowing early employees to cash out their shares in the company by selling them to other private investors.

Based on the results, the company put together the infographic below, which looks at three critical areas of cloud security: Virtual Private Networks (VPN, which allows a computer or a Wi - Fi - enabled device to send and receive data securely across a shared or public network), bring your own device (BYOD) policies and a Domain Name System (DNS, the system that Internet domain names and addresses are tracked and regulated by).

By definition, it's a private network that allows for employees of an organization to create and access content, communicate with other individuals within the company, and ultimately develop company culture.

For a private equity fund, that repeat customer allows it to use debt in its purchase of the company.

Starting Tuesday, the crowdfunding platform will begin taking advantage of a securities rule put in place last May that allows anyone, not just accredited investors, to invest in private companies in exchange for equity.

With the emergence of ambitious private space companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin and others, though, who's allowed to do what in the solar system is less clear.

Long delayed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Title III was the most controversial provision of the JOBS Act because it allowed non-accredited investors — generally defined as individuals with less than $ 1 million in assets who earn less than $ 200,000 per year — to invest in private companies as shareholders.

Rule 506 (c), which allows for the use of public solicitation in private securities offerings, is bringing about a groundbreaking change in the way small companies (such as my own) finance themselves.

The move essentially allows those who recently became Dell stockholders, especially those in favor of the going - private deal, to vote their stake in the company.

The private market for shares prior to a public listing allows employees and founders of private companies such as Spotify to cash in on some of their paper wealth, while letting other investors get a head start on the listing.

Private insurance companies are not allowed to exclude applicants for the basic insurance policy on medical grounds.

The company also said it will give journalists access to a more secure internet by allowing them to easily set up their own virtual private network on a private server through an offering they call Outline.

That's when what's known as a «private right of action» kicks in, which would allow anyone to sue companies for transmitting excessive or unwanted electronic messages.

I think about going public, or maybe a partnership, but we're entering into a very high - risk, demanding phase of the company's development, and strategically I think being private will allow us to make some good long - term choices.

Going private would have allowed the firm to make changes without the demands placed upon publicly traded companies, away from the scrutiny of the media and investors.

«If you think of private company stock as a product of a company, what seller of a company isn't allowed to talk about their own product, their own goods?»

When the Securities and Exchange Commission lifts its 80 - year - old ban on general solicitation on Monday, private companies will be allowed to publicly advertise their efforts to raise funds.

The liquidity via sharespost.com and secondmarket.com allows companies to raise additional capital and bridge their finances in the private markets, if they are capital efficient and have revenue, why would they force an IPO?

increased support of viable early stage issuers by private equity companies, thereby allowing issuers to defer listing until they are at a more mature stage, or avoid the listing process if they are acquired by a larger entity.

Accredited Investor: an investor who meets specific SEC income and net worth criteria, allowing him or her to invest in startups and other high - risk private company securities.

All the same, the CSE has already signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the private blockchain firm Kabuni Technologies Inc. that would allow the company to be the first to raise funds on the platform.

BDCs were created by Congress in 1980 as a means to provide smaller U.S. businesses access to capital and allow average investors the opportunity to invest in private companies, enabling further diversification similar to that sought by large institutional investors.

As these companies go where no businesses have gone before, they raise questions only fuzzily addressed by the Outer Space Treaty: What are private companies allowed to do in space?

Indiegogo is the first major crowdfunding site to use a new securities rule that took effect six months ago, allowing ordinary investors to risk up to a few thousands dollars a year backing private companies.

On June 19, 2015, three years after the JOBS Act was signed, Title IV (Regulation A +) of the JOBS Act went into effect, allowing private early - stage companies to raise money from all Americans.

A paper co-authored by University of Ottawa Professor Michael Wolfson, one of Canada's top researchers on income and equality issues, said there was much debate of Ottawa's new program this year allowing some income splitting for couples with children, but most people don't realize income splitting has long existed for thousands of professionals such as doctors and lawyers who have been able to funnel their incomes through private companies they create to hold their income.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

Private companies are currently allowed to solicit only accredited investors - those with a net worth of at least $ 1 million, excluding the value of their homes, or annual income of more than $ 200,000.