Sentences with phrase «government gives companies»

The federal government gave the company a favorable deal for the clean - up of a river the company polluted, saving Alcoa millions of dollars, according to WWNY - TV.

The mine owner, Volcan Compania Minera S.A., had threatened to close the mine, and bury 4,000 jobs, before the government gave the company permission to take more of the town, including the historic church and center square.

Not exact matches

The state government has given New Energy Corporation environmental approval for a $ 184 million waste - to - energy plant proposed for Port Hedland, but the company, and other proponents of similar plants

The net effect of the Ontario government's new policy is to subsidize jobs in an already strong labour market, increase the wages of already high - income workers and give hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

I would worry that the government needs to make an example out of someone or some company given all the greed and excesses that Silicon Valley has come to represent.

The latest filing in the legal war between the planet's most powerful government and its most valuable company gave one indication of how the high - stakes confrontation could escalate even further.

Great to see that our Governments continue to give all of our local opportunities away overseas companies!!

There's no new theme to it, just more riffs on the old one of a self - reinforcing spiral of slower growth in China crushing the economies of its raw material suppliers, while an appreciating dollar makes it ever harder for emerging market companies and governments to repay the debts they gleefully took on when the Federal Reserve was giving away dollars for free.

The government does not require companies to give employees any paid parental leave, making it the only developed country in the world that does not, Business Insider's Rachel Gillett reported.

The company did not give an update on sales of the device, but only to say that both businesses and government agencies seem to be interested.

Turning them into a publicly owned network, like today's interstate highway system, would give the government the responsibility to create clear, fair rules for private companies wishing to use them.

But Lesko's lists pertain mostly to small business: you'll find information on agencies that give development assistance to expanding companies, economic reports that regional Federal Reserve banks will send you, government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for research grants — in sum, information on the offerings of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the country.

If a company boss can't play with a government official, there's little point in him spending his money,» said the owner of a golf equipment store in Shanghai who only gave his surname as Huang.

However, the government gives financial compensation to private insurance companies with a lot of high - risk customers.

The two companies did not mention any possible termination fees related to failing to secure regulatory approval, which may be a heightened concern given recent U.S. government opposition to big deals like Comcast - Time Warner Cable, Staples - Office Depot and General Electric - Electrolux.

The company's been given the official blessing by the Chinese government because it willingly self - censors content that Beijing deems sensitive.

On the one hand, if the lead in cross-border cases is automatically given to the country where the company's headquarters are located, that may encourage companies to establish their European bases in countries with small regulators (although to be fair, the Irish privacy regulator is beginning to get stepped - up government funding).

Should tech companies build backdoors to give the government access to customer data?

Think about the public calls by Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOG) for looser immigration standards — or companies like Apple (AAPL) offshoring jobs and then requesting that the government give them tax breaks to repatriate income.

The British government on June 30 already gave its qualified approval allowing News Corp. to purchase the 61 percent of British Sky Broadcasting that it doesn't already own, on the condition it spins off Sky News as a separate company.

The appointment, announced on Wednesday, Netflix, gives the video streaming giant a high - profile former government official at a time of increased regulatory scrutiny of some of the nation's biggest technology companies.

Mr. Cohen said that he had given a similar statement to the Federal Election Commission in response to a complaint filed by the government watchdog group Common Cause, which contended that the payment, made through a limited liability company that Mr. Cohen established, was an in - kind contribution to the Trump campaign.

It is true that American companies gave away our jobs to Mexico and China and India and other nations, but it is also true that our government gave the green light to those companies to do so through trade policy.

As Stephen Gordon explained yesterday, there are two ways to do cap - and - trade: either the government sells pollution permits to companies and the government gets the revenue or the government gives away the permits to companies and the companies get the revenue from selling the permits to each other.

Given that the Fisheries Act has been gutted in response to lobbying by energy companies (they found habitat protection «onerous» and it has been removed), government supporters say the infrastructure to protect fish and freshwater is no longer necessary.

And while a gridlocked federal government hasn't done much to stimulate the economy, Paulsen said the weakening dollar and falling interest rates could give U.S. businesses, especially technology companies, a big boost.

Traditionally, most attention in Canadian government support has been given to technology and product readiness, with scant attention being paid to the fact that without proper commercialization strengths a large number of Canadian start - ups have died or have been acquired for a pittance by foreign businesses which then proceeded to harvest the economic benefits for the innovations initially developed by Canadian companies.

The government followed up by making an illegal gift to American car manufacturers by saying «We're going to break international law and only give subsidies to U.S. auto companies, not foreign - owned companies in the United States.

The hope was that capital gains would suffice to pay off the loans that the government gave its supporters and cronies to buy industrial companies will little or no cash down.

In an attempt to generate employment and drive the country's economy forward, the Government of the Philippines announced that it's giving the go - ahead to 10 cryptocurrency and blockchain companies to take full advantage of

I am Chairman of the UK Government's Start Up Loans Company, where budding entrepreneurs are given capital to start businesses.

She concurred that given limits to government control of free speech, companies do have more freedom to police what's out there.

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

Employee stock ownership of different magnitudes, from 5 - 25 % in stock market companies to 30 - 100 % in small businesses, appears in companies throughout the U.S., with plans designed by local entrepreneurs and companies based on their specific conditions, given the many formats that the U.S. government has recognized over two and a half centuries.

Given their effectiveness to small companies as a financing vehicle, the federal government should consider allowing small companies to convert to income trusts.

Although voluntary, the pressure on companies to begin reporting on these measures will be strong, given the now global focus on climate change from governments and consumers alike.

Companies like Caterpillar earn billions in revenue from Canadian resource developments. Yet Caterpillar is under no compulsion to produce anything in Canada. To the contrary, our governments gave Caterpillar carte blanche to take over and then shut down important productive assets. They will continue to supply our resource projects from outside the country, unless and until we implement a strategy to enhance our capacity to do this important, valuable work ourselves.

The Liberal government gave $ 35 million to a chemical company that makes plastic resins just one day before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to use Canada's G7 presidency to get other nations to commit to reducing or phasing out single - use plastics.

In an attempt to generate employment and drive the country's economy forward, the Government of the Philippines announced that it's giving the go - ahead to 10 cryptocurrency and blockchain companies to take full advantage of the tax perks and other benefits...

CONCLUSION: While this topic was not covered on TSLA's 1Q18 conference call last night (our analysis on this call will be published shortly), given Autopilot is among the main key drivers of TSLA's current valuation, and the «Autopilot was found by the U.S. government to reduce crash rates by as much as 40 %» line has been used by TSLA time - and - time again, we feel this development could prove more important than the company's earnings conference call yesterday.

Fortunately, many energy companies filed their Q1 earning reports that same week, giving Albertans an opportunity to discover what energy sector CEOs really thought about the impact of an NDP government on their company's business.

We hope it will give governments a nudge in the right direction towards policies that make employee ownership more attractive (they will soon reap the rewards as innovative companies begin to flourish in their countries).

While the government has cracked down on ICOs, accusing several companies of fraud, Deedcoin's on - the - books number from the SEC gives the company some added legitimacy moving forward.

Given that companies slashed the pension system to bits and have just gotten a tax break worth billions and billions from the federal government, the least they can do is pass a little on to us workers.

This public - private partnership gives consumers the best of both worlds: strong government backing and the convenience and speed of a private company.

On the issue of how to support Canadian content when fewer Canadians are purchasing cable TV subscriptions, the government tested four options to raise new money for Canadian content: making telecom companies divert some smartphone and Internet revenue; requiring «foreign companies like Netflix and iTunes» to devote a portion of revenues; giving consumers the option of making a voluntary $ 2 contribution on their telecom or Netflix bill; or making telecom companies add an app to every smartphone sold in Canada that would provide access to Canadian music, TV and film for between $ 5 and $ 15 a month or a flat charge of $ 3 on the sale of all smartphones.

«Although the government is being tough on bitcoin, but in some sense, we should give a break to companies that has a top 10 market capitalization ICO market.

The Italian government holds the largest stake in Enel, and it is trading at what we think is an unreasonable discount to the European utility sector.3 The company has a new CEO, nominated by Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has been given a mandate to clean up the corporate structure, drive down costs and drive up earnings.

The Kuwaiti government gave the go - ahead to a request by the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) to create what would be the country's largest oil company, according to ArabianBusiness.com on Continue Reading

Government contractor factoring gives your company the needed cash to overcome these as well as the many other problems associated with a lack of immediate cash.