Sentences with phrase «companies under scrutiny»

Many of the publishing companies under scrutiny have only recently got into ebooks and haven't setup a proper pricing policy yet.

«Drug Pricing companies under scrutiny for prices increases, such as Alexion, would benefit,» Golub wrote.

HousingWire recently reported on a national company under scrutiny - and paying the price - for allegedly deceptive marketing tactics.

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Amazon and its dominance in e-commerce have come under heightened scrutiny in recent weeks, as President Donald Trump continues to take on the tech company and its billionaire CEO and Washington Post-owner Jeff Bezos.

But drug companies won't be the only ones under scrutiny.

Once you have registered in an amnesty program, all sales tax issues your company faces in the future will be under state scrutiny, says Paul N. Gada, senior small - business tax analyst with CCH Business Owner's Toolkit, a division of CCH Tax and Accounting in Riverwoods, Illinois.

The revelations come at a time when the unregulated power of the tech companies is under increased scrutiny, and Congress is weighing whether to limit the immunity that it granted to tech companies in 1996 for third - party content on their platforms.

The ICO added that it will «closely monitor any successor companies,» countering the possibility of Cambridge Analytica could simply continue under a different name to avoid scrutiny.

Actress Jessica Alba has recently been under a huge amount of public scrutiny after it came out that the «natural» products her Honest Company sold may not be so natural after all.

It's an opportunity to show that large tech companies — which are under growing regulatory and political scrutiny — can be vehicles for disproportionately positive social and economic change.

Apple Inc., which contracts manufacturing to Foxconn, has also come under media scrutiny for its relationship to the company.

Last year, Singapore, a trading hub of the world's largest commodity companies, came under scrutiny from the governments of some resource - producing countries such as Australia who said they suspect the companies are using units in the Southeast Asian financial center to avoid tax.

Legal issues aside, the tweet could be viewed as a heavy - handed move for a company already under scrutiny after an earlier Medium post by a 25 - year - old employee identifying herself as Talia Jane, who complained of low wages and poor treatment in her customer service role at Yelp food delivery subsidiary Eat24.

But these harassment issues have come under particular scrutiny in 2016 amidst racial tension through the U.S. and after the ailing Twitter was unable to secure acquisition bids from major media companies due to concerns with the quality of the community on Twitter.

Although the company rarely applies for H - 1B visas specifically, Gerlis often applies for L - 1A and L - 1B visas for intra-company transfers, which have similarly come under scrutiny as part of Trump's executive order.

A U.S. health regulator has barred blood - testing company Theranos Inc.'s founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, from operating a lab for at least two years, the latest blow for a company that is under scrutiny for the accuracy and quality of its tests.

Tax law The tech industry's exotic tax arrangements are under extra scrutiny in Europe, with investigators probing companies like Microsoft and Amazon.

LOS ANGELES, May 2 - U.S. companies with more cash on their balance sheets thanks to tax reform are coming under greater scrutiny from activist investors, a top Goldman Sachs Group Inc investment banker said this week.

The company and its investors have been under heightened scrutiny after 17 were killed in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida in February.

But as these recent fiery debates within the drug industry underscore, pharma's price hike tactics, now under constant public scrutiny, may well lead to more far - reaching change — whether imposed by legislation or by biopharma companies upon themselves.

Judge argues that services provided by PE firms to their affiliated funds and portfolio companies are investment advisory services, a designation that already faces more scrutiny under the Dodd - Frank Act.

The report comes at a time when dozens of companies have completed, or are in the midst of, raising hundreds of millions through the ICO process — offerings that are now likely to come under renewed scrutiny.

Yes, the worldwide practice of poaching company executives is under scrutiny due to legal action against a top headhunting firm.

The board members» other directorships include a handful of companies that have recently come under scrutiny — Goldman Sachs (gs), News Corporation (nws), Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (gmcr)-- which, ideally, should give the group a decent sense of how they should navigate the turbulence that's ahead.

Practices regarding the collection, use, storage, transmission and security of personal information by companies operating over the Internet have recently come under increased public scrutiny.

The company also came under the scrutiny of Congress once more and that pressure, which came from subcommittees in both the House and Senate and from both political parties, appears to have paid off.

The Silicon Valley companies have been under scrutiny for months for the way they collect and use people's data, with Facebook reeling from revelations that the political research firm Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal information of up to 87 million of its users.

I work for an online retail company as the sole customer service representative, the web optimization specialist, and the sole social media coordinator (on top of assisting with other projects) and I've been falling under scrutiny from my boss for not getting things done, when two of those are full time jobs on their own!

Mulligan, the interim CEO, has served as the company's chief spokesman on the data breach, holding up well under scrutiny during Congressional hearings.

SAN FRANCISCO — In the second major shake - up in a week, a top Uber executive has left the ride - hailing company as it comes under heavy scrutiny for its workplace culture and its business practices.

Over that period the business models of those companies have come under increased scrutiny.

Practically every company that goes public these days first files to do so under the JOBS Act, a federal law which gives companies that meet certain criteria the ability to file confidentially while regulators at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission review its documents without subjecting them to public scrutiny.

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis and the state's Republican Party paid $ 345,000 to a data company that is now under scrutiny for its use of personal information about Facebook users.

He came under scrutiny last September after firing Austin Beutner, then publisher of the Los Angeles Times, because of a clash over whether the L.A. Times and San Diego Union - Tribune should remain part of the company.

That's unrealistic for a company trading below its New York IPO price in an industry under intense scrutiny — unless its shareholder turns buyer.

Facebook's data collection practices, the core of its ad - based business model, have come under broad scrutiny in recent weeks as the company has been forced to raise its estimates of how much user information was leaked and to admit that «most» of its more than two billion users may have had their public profile data scraped by outside harvesters.

Theranos first came under scrutiny in October 2015, when the two - time Pulitzer - prize winning WSJ journalist John Carreyrou published an explosive investigative piece, suggesting that the company — then valued by investors at a stunning $ 9 billion — had greatly exaggerated its abilities to quickly process an expansive range of laboratory tests from a few drops of blood.

WeWork isn't the only operator seeking financial backing to fuel ambitious growth plans, yet it is certainly under the closest scrutiny, and investors will naturally look to WeWork when considering investment opportunities in other workspace companies.

«Probably all these companies have some questionable accounting, so they may prefer to move out of the U.S., not to come under too much scrutiny,» said Marc Faber, managing director of Hong Kong fund management company Marc Faber Ltd..

The Times investigative team was already exploring social media manipulation, «partly because of the Russia investigation, and reporting into firms like Cambridge Analytica,» said Nicholas Confessore, a reporter for the team, referring to a data company that worked for Donald J. Trump during the presidential campaign and is now under congressional scrutiny.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken special interest in ICOs, warning companies that their definition of a «utility token» will come under intense scrutiny by federal regulators.

Capital Markets Corporate Debt As Russian companies strive to cope with higher borrowing costs and a shortage of dollars and euros to repay foreign debt, emerging markets bonds are coming under increasing scrutiny by investors.

The company, whose best - known subsidiary is The University of Phoenix, has come under government scrutiny on grounds that it recruits under - qualified students who later default at a high rate on their government - subsidized loans.

The franchise model has come under scrutiny in the car industry because of egregious actions by some overseas car companies.

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Federal authorities have no current plans to charge Mickelson with any criminal wrongdoing, though he and Walters, the story continued, are still under scrutiny for «separate well - timed trades» they placed in Dean Foods in 2012 before the company's stock took off.

Heinz wasn't the only company that came under scrutiny.

Both companies are under scrutiny following claims by a whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, who worked with Cambridge Analytica and alleges it amassed large amounts of data through a personality quiz on Facebook called This is Your Digital Life.

The program has fallen under scrutiny by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office, along with former top aide to Cuomo, Joe Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, who represent companies that had contracts from within the Buffalo Billion program.

At the point of her FBI interviews, she had moved on to other jobs, including consulting for a medical billing company, while Singh was coming under federal scrutiny.