AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo teamed up in a letter to Congress to push for a dramatic
scaling back of government - surveillance programs.
RIM plans to launch its next - generation BlackBerry 10 platform early next year, and it remains to be seen whether or not it will be able to use it to
win back some of the government contracts it has lost over the past year.
Richard Lee, the PR director of Entapay, appears to have subsequently distanced the company from the bold claims, stating «We never said that we had the
official backing of the government.
Derivatives trading is the culmination of a wild year for bitcoin, which captured imaginations and investment around the world, propelled by its stratospheric gains, and its anti-establishment mission as a currency without
the backing of a government or a central bank, and a payment system without a reliance on banks.
The target on
the backs of government and political organizations coupled with limited security budgets poses an uphill battle to agency security teams.
Bitcoin is a virtual currency that trades on the Internet, without
the backing of any government or central bank.
For years, the world has watched as China posted economic growth rates three times as fast as the United States, built on
the back of government - directed capital investment and massive exports to the wealthy world.
Unlike established currencies that have
the backing of the government and the central bank of the country, the value of cryptocurrencies boils down to computers and math.
We have to stop trying to put our responsibility as Christians on
the backs of the Government.
He said multinational companies in Korea and the United States, for instance, were able to get to that peak because they had
the backing of the government and the people.
Slaughter, a Democratic House member from upstate New York, has
the backing of government data for this depressing statistic, though we also noted that the United States has at least seen improvements in these scores across all races since the early 1990s.
He complained that members of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) with
the backing of the government had been antagonizing members of APC in the state, but vowed that they would not succumb to blackmail and provocation.
Though Mr Reynolds» law is unlikely to get
the backing of the Government, and thus unlikely to pass, it will be the first opportunity MPs have had to vote on proportional representation since the last election.
There have been charges over the past week that the sophistication of the anthrax suggests that it was produced with
the backing of some government, such as Iraq.
With
the backing of government and private organizations, buckling up became today's nearly universal habit.
These were voluntary but had
the backing of the government, and it was implied that the targets would be legally enforced if companies resisted.
unbridled opportunity in the KSA on
the back of the government's renewed ambition and new investment.
Last year, Schools Week revealed that a group of schools was planning an «entirely vocational pathway» to qualified teacher status, and had sought
the backing of government for its new apprenticeship.
A group of schools planning an «entirely vocational pathway» to qualified teacher status (QTS) has sought
the backing of government for its new apprenticeship.
Teacher pay has now fallen by around 15 % in five years on
the back of government pay policy and inflation.
But in the past, Alex has always had
the backing of the government.
Unlike other industries, I feel like this industry doesn't have a whole lot of visibility given that it is essentially built on
the back of government and public opinion.
Now, a growing number of lenders are offering such mortgages without
the backing of a government guarantee — the definition of a conventional loan.
We have broadly characterized bonds into two fundamental categories: those that have
a backing of a government guarantee and those that don't.
Accordingly, if you're approved for a conventional loan but have a low credit score or income, you're likely to pay higher interest rates and more in insurance charges than you would for an FHA loan; this is because it's riskier for lenders to offer a conventional loan to you without
the backing of the government.
The biggest argument against cryptocurrencies is that unlike fiat currencies, they do not have
the backing of any government.
And Bitcoin does not have
the backing of any government — in fact, some governments, including China's, are hostile to it and have taken steps to curtail its use.