Sentences with phrase «on company schemes»

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French media savant Frederic Filloux, clearly affected by temporarily residing in sunny California, supports a scheme whereby media companies would band together to negotiate with Google (goog) and Facebook (fb) to sell subscriptions on their behalf.

Use the same color schemes, fonts, and logos that you use on your website or company literature.

Prosecutors said McArthur admitted that during the scheme, he gave Livingston unauthorized access to a remote administration tool on a computer connected to the network of a Pennsylvania - based telecommunications company where he worked.

On April 15, 2011, a day that would later become known as Black Friday in the online poker community, the Department of Justice shuttered two major online poker giants, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, accusing the company founders of fraud, money laundering, and operating a Ponzi scheme.

Another factor that might cause weak sales on a company site is its color scheme.

Billionaire investor William Ackman in 2012 claimed the company was running a pyramid scheme, recruiting members with a promise of payment for enrolling others in distribution, rather than depending on the actual sale of its nutritional supplements and weight management products.

Within Fortune senior editor Roger Parloff's canonical feature about hedge fund manager Bill Ackman's audacious, indefatigable attack on Herbalife — an at times seemingly pyramid - scheming nutrition company — the following quote rings out: «Who the hell does he think he is?»

Ballmer and company did much to sour gamers on its brand last year with an ill - advised plan to kill used games, a scheme they were forced to backtrack on because of the backlash.

Such a scheme would impose a limit on the carbon emissions that a company can release.

Icahn had already received permission to buy as much as 35 % of Herbalife stock in July, which he announced the same day the nutrition products company reached a controversial settlement with the FTC that imposed restrictions on its business model but stopped short of calling it a pyramid scheme.

Back then, shells — that is, companies with ticker symbols but no operations — became synonymous with so - called pump - and - dump schemes in which stockbrokers artificially inflated share prices after a shell merged with a private company, without making financial statements on the acquisition available to investors.

Currently, Tizeti's customers are averaging 900 gigabits of Internet usage at peak times, and roughly 200 gigabits of internet usage on average — all through the company's uncapped internet providers scheme.

CARACAS Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has sued a group of oil trading companies through a U.S. trust over a multi-billion dollar corruption scheme to buy petroleum products below market value, the lawyer representing the trust said on Thursday.

These include actions by the People's Bank of China to further curtail digital asset trading, an alliance between the central bank and other agencies to target fraudulent virtual currency schemes, and an announcement from the Shenzhen stock exchange stating that companies speculating on blockchain technology will face repercussions.

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

In response to shareholder feedback, the company revamped its executive compensation program by introducing a formulaic bonus scheme (which included metrics based on TSR, production, expenses, and margins), conditioning equity awards on performance metrics (relative TSR and absolute cash flow), and reducing Mr. Nichols» salary by one - third.

Prior to 2012 the company was the most valuable forestry company to be listed on the TSX, however it quickly fell from grace when Carson Block — a short - seller from Muddy Waters Research, called the company a Ponzi scheme.

We are working on legal scheme in which all the collected funds will be placed into the fund and further this fund will establish a subsidiary company, which will issue an investment loan.

Herbalife (HLF)-- FTC out with «verdict» on the Pyramid Scheme — NOT a Pyramid scheme BUT fines company $ 200m and mandates changes to biz practices — does this seem like the company is in the clear?

when i got into investing a few years ago after graduating college, i tried the whole scheme of investing in speculative stocks like some biotech's and i have lost out on many of the great returns shown in the strongest companies.

And crucially, while drinking at a bar with Harry Crane, he finds that he has been out of the loop on the big - tobacco scheme being plotted by Jim Cutler and Lou — a Machiavellian stratagem intended not only to land a big account, but also to push Don out of SC&P, since Don's past antics have made him toxic to tobacco companies.

The scheme gives design students the opportunity to work on a brief designed by industry experts, providing them with a real experience of the process of packaging design and the opportunity to win a work placement at one of the UK's leading packaging companies.

The color scheme is rich and warm, according to Quisberg, and SUPERVALU counseled the company on the rest of the details.

The Colombian - based DAABON Group, an early pioneer in organic palm, banana and coffee farming and production, has become the first company in the world to become certified under the RSPO NEXT scheme operated by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

Food companies and retailers have to decide what food ingredients / products to focus on, and then select suitable traceability / sustainability schemes.

The announcements follow the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (Cert) scheme, which came into effect yesterday and doubles previous obligations on energy companies to help people make their homes more energy efficient and reduce household emissions.

One such beneficiaries of the scheme is White Stone Foods Company Limited; a major importer of frozen foods in the country, owned by a known financier of the ruling NPP, a council of State member, who has also been placed on the Ghana Ports and Habour Authority (GPHA) board, Eunice Jacqueline Buah.

Former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos, 67, and Adam Skelos, 32, both of Rockville Centre, are to go on trial Nov. 16 on conspiracy, bribery and extortion charges alleging schemes to use the lawmaker's clout to get his son work with a developer, a malpractice insurer and an environmental company.

The lawyer, Daniel Gitner, represents a former energy company executive who is on trial with Percoco and two others in an alleged bribery scheme.

That scheme is one of two federal prosecutors say Percoco participated in between 2012 and 2016, in which he netted more than $ 300,000 from companies with business before the state in exchange for his taking «official action» on their behalf.

The New York Times» piece on Herbalife yesterday, which details how billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman is waging a PR campaign to destroy the supplement company for his own profit, buries the role of three of the city's most prominent Latino politicians in a massive campaign to cast Herbalife as a pyramid scheme targeting minorities.

The Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings came into effect on 6 April 2013 for high value residential property (# 2m and above) owned by companies, partnerships with a corporate partner and collective investment schemes (collectively known as «non-natural persons»).

On Thursday, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, perpetual thorn in Albany's side, formally announced the charges, which stem from two corruption schemes between state officials and private companies that had millions of dollars worth of business before New York state, including those awarded contracts under the «Buffalo Billion» program — one of the governor's key initiatives meant to draw businesses to upstate New York to revive the flagging economy.

Will he confirm that after I spent a Saturday afternoon chasing him round the TV studios, it became clear that there is no Government - funded national internship scheme and that the companies that he has identified as providing internships made it clear that no extra internships were intended on top of the ones already announced?

A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, an energy company executive and two Syracuse - area development company executives are on trial in Manhattan over their roles in an alleged bribery scheme.

The pillars on which the scheme was erected — large companies that funnel their influence through legal campaign contributions (and through «fees» that wind up in legislators» pockets), a system in which outside business interests are barely disclosed and rarely reviewed — have been laid bare.

Recommendations range from a need to build more affordable housing, through to proposals for a «Help to Rent» scheme which could help more young people negotiate the challenges of saving for a deposit and costly monthly rents, as well as better mental health support and incentives to encourage companies to take on more young apprentices.

Osinbajo noted that the scheme which will be jointly executed by the Federal and State Governments, would concentrate on the obligations of all Nigerian companies and citizens to pay their taxes, wherever their income is earned.

Thursday 14 March 2013 11 am Oral Questions Measures to force British companies to disclose any tax avoidance schemes that could be detrimental to poorer countries - Lord Collins of Highbury The findings of the Care Quality Commission's Home Care Inspection Review Not Just a Number - Baroness Wheeler Crime detection rates - Baroness Smith of Basildon Debate Afghanistan's regional relationships and their impact on its long - term future - Baroness Warsi Orders and Regulations Diocese in Europe Measure; Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Measure - The Lord Bishop of Newcastle Short Debate Impact on the UK of future demographic trends - Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

Clinton is expanding on her plans to crack down on corporate inversions, the controversial scheme where companies move their legal address abroad for tax reasons.

The obscure Brooklyn company at the center of the nursing home scandal already owed millions of dollars in unpaid taxes, and its principals were accused of «secretly scheming» against a former business partner, long before the city signed off on a sweetheart deal that netted the firm a $ 72 million profit, records show.

And Mr O'Leary has been on record saying his company will not sign up to an EU carbon trading scheme.

The recent convictions of both former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos both hinged on corruption schemes involving the same Long Island real estate company.

Vincent Delazzero and Ralph Petrillo, owners of two of the largest marble and stone contracting companies in the metropolitan area, plead guilty Monday in White Plains federal court to participating in a tax fraud scheme designed to evade taxes on profits made from a collusive bidding scheme in which both participated.

NEW YORK — The trial of former - Andrew Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco continued on Wednesday, as prosecutors alleged that one of the companies involved, Competitive Power Ventures, bribed Joseph Percoco through a $ 300,000 scheme where they educated his wife, Lisa Percoco, for what prosecutors say was very little work.

Prosecutors previously — and Howe Monday — said the corruption scheme involved Percoco allegedly helping the firm's dealings with the Cuomo administration on a power plant matter at a time when the company hired Percoco's wife.

Two Cor executives — along with a former vice president at an energy company — are on trial with Percoco over whether they engaged in an alleged bribery scheme in which payments allegedly flowed to Percoco and his wife in return for the former senior Cuomo adviser helping them.

«If it wasn't bad enough that Chris Collins was pushing legislation to benefit a company that he's the largest stockholder of, now we find out that he doubled down on this egregious offense by urging other members of Congress to join his money - making scheme,» said Basil A. Smikle Jr., executive director of the New York State Democratic Committee.

Howe, 57, a cooperating witness on his first day on the stand in Manhattan federal court, laid out how he came to be the linchpin of an alleged scheme by two clients to pay more than $ 300,000 in bribes to Percoco — referred to by them in code as «zitti» — to buy influence for an energy company and a Syracuse developer.

An attorney for Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., for instance, who lobbied on behalf of Competitive Power Ventures, an energy company once seeking certain regulatory approvals in New York, has argued that there are at least four schemes alleged by the government.