Sentences with phrase «political research company»

Over the weekend, news broke over that Cambridge Analytica, a political research company, had accessed 50 million Facebook...

What a week its been for Facebook, the social media giant has plummeted $ 37bn in value after news broke of a so - called data grab on more than 50 million profiles by Cambridge Analytica, a political research company with links to Trump.

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Not so fast, says JPMorgan, which argues the likelihood of a full rebound will remain low until investors get more clarity on Facebook's relationship with political - research company Cambridge Analytica, and how much liability the tech giant has.

But while political polling has brought market research companies like Nanos public attention and name recognition, it's not always positive.

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

The political - research company is currently at the center of a massive Facebook data scandal, which may have exposed the personal data of up to 87 million users to Cambridge Analytica.

On today's episode, I talk to Tom Webster, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Edison Research, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across theResearch, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across theresearch for some of the top companies across the nation.

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.

Cambridge Analytica's statement later goes on to characterize the subsequent weeks as «a siege of media coverage» that has since led to «virtually all of the company's customers and suppliers» distancing themselves from the political research outfit.

In June 2016 BBVA Chief U.S. Economist Nathaniel Karp, citing BBVA Research's Political Uncertainty Index, said companies large and small were adopting a «wait and see» approach ahead of the election.

Twitter sold data to Aleksandr Kogan's Global Science Research (GSR), the company that supplied the Facebook data of up to 87 million users to political data...

Twitter sold data to Aleksandr Kogan's Global Science Research (GSR), the company that supplied the Facebook data of up to 87 million users to political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.

Champions 12.3 — which includes CEOs of major food companies Nestlé, Tesco and Unilever, along with government ministers, executives of research and intergovernmental institutions, foundations, farm organizations, and civil society groups — will work to create political, business and social momentum to reduce food loss and waste around the world.

Governments, companies, research institutions, and civil society need to articulate both quantitatively and qualitatively the political and business case for action.

On Friday night, Facebook made a surprise announcement that the company had suspended a political analytics research firm, Cambridge Analytica.

He'd presented the app to Facebook and to its users as a project gathering for academic research, but then had turned around and given it to a company that had not been named or identified, and which sought to use the data for political, not academic, purposes.

Ending decades of uncertainty and political brinksmanship, Congress is poised to lock in a tax break for companies investing in research and development.

The demand for public opinion research is growing, says Oliver Krieg, a spokesperson for TNS Emnid, a German political and social research company with 12 researchers on staff.

With the effort to lure Boeing's 777X on the minds of the Show Me State's political figures, the company is planning to bring several hundred research and development jobs to the St. Louis region.

The shifting US political landscape should also help boost revenues for many companies investing in ESCs, if President Barack Obama expands federal funding for ESC research, says Brozak.

Previously, he founded an international survey research and data processing company and other successful businesses in the media and political fields.

Based on a real - life story of a tobacco - company research scientist (Russell Crowe) and the ramifications of his decision to disclose industry secrets to the American public on an episode of 60 Minutes, it was a moody, intense affair that many critics touted as one of the year's best films; it netted 7 Oscar nominations in the process.Mann was back in the Academy Award hunt two year's later with Ali, a biopic of the beloved boxer Muhammad Ali that focused on both his athletic accomplishments and his political battles.

The conclusions were written before the research began, because that's how political campaigns work,» says Everley, who questioned the effectiveness of targeting specific companies in an attempt to solve a problem that the paper's authors admit is global.

To make it clear that this is entirely a political witch hunt, the Times explains that «the company published extensive research over decades that largely lined up with mainstream climatology.

Global Witness» research has revealed that several of the companies that have sent parcels to the latest Dubai sale are far from transparent about who owns and controls them, which may include some of Zimbabwe's most powerful political elites.

Decades before climate change became a hotly debated political issue, the biggest oil company in the world was doing cutting - edge research into just what was causing it and how dangerous it might be.

As noted in a University of Calgary internal audit, this project was funded through a «climate change» research fund controlled by political science professor Barry Cooper and fed by donations from various oil companies and foundations.

Lawsuit against B.C. government alleges Liberals received «major» political donations from pharmaceutical companies, halted drug - safety research,

In Thailand, the company claimed to have done research for multiple political parties on the scale of vote - buying.

The political - research company is currently at the center of a massive Facebook data scandal, which may have exposed the personal data of up to 87 million users to Cambridge Analytica.

The most pointed exchanges were aimed at Facebook, which acknowledged on Monday before the hearings that more than 126 million users potentially saw inflammatory political ads bought by a Kremlin - linked company, the Internet Research Agency.

Israeli hackers reportedly gave information from the hacked emails of two world leaders to Cambridge Analytica, the political - research company at the center of a massive Facebook - data scandal.

Cambridge Analytica, the political - research company at the center of a massive Facebook - data scandal, received private emails of two world leaders from Israeli hackers.

The political data analytics firm were said to have obtained the data through the now - dissolved company Global Science Research (GSR).

Facebook Deputy Chief Privacy Officer Rob Sherman says the company would be willing to speak with federal regulators about the use of personal data by a political research firm tied to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.

The first order for research by Bolton's political action committee, The John Bolton Super PAC, was made in August 2014, when the company was still in the process of collecting data from the users of the social network, The New York Times reported Friday, citing former company employees and campaign finance records.

The company is under fire for allegedly using data obtained by Global Science Research (GSR) from Facebook profiles to influence political events in the US and UK.