Just over nine years later Gursahaney is now the chief executive of publicly traded ADT.
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In 2007, I contracted with ADT to install a home security system and monthly burglary and fire monitoring.
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Install wireless devices that are supervised by an alarm panel and central alarm station, like ADT or a local alarm company.
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Also unsettling was the fact that he had no ADT logo on his shirt and did not speak a word of English.
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In response to my concerns, I was assured that these subcontractors, while not ADT employees, had recently been subjected to thorough background checks.
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Most disturbing, our family passports disappeared at the time the ADT technicians were in the house and had to be reported as stolen.
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As it turned out it was one of the batteries on the detectors that ADT did not replace when they upgraded her system.
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According to the Tampa Bay Times, the city received proposals from IBM, Aware Digital, ADT Security Services, Total Recall Corp.
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Investors in iControl include ADT, Charles River Ventures, Cisco, Comcast Interactive Capital, GE Security, Intel Capital and the Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers iFund.
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Earlier this summer I had ADT update her alarm system.
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Security giant Tyco International, which makes the ubiquitous ADT alarm systems, on Tuesday predicted a gloomy outlook for the security industry and reduced its 2009 earnings estimates.
After protracted negotiations, ADT agreed to compensate for the damage.
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Consider that Tyco incorporated in Bermuda in 1997 by way of a merger with ADT that incorporated there in 1984, to avoid U.S. taxes on certain international income.
Snyder was the president of ADT Security Services , a subsidiary of Tyco International (nyse: TYC - news - people ), for the past nine years.
As a publicly traded pure play in residential security, ADT has an advantage in its recognizable brand, its dominant share and cash-flow-rich economics similar to those of cable television.
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In my last letter to ADT, in February 2008, I asked the company to please advise me whether ADT had determined that the passports had been stolen by ADT subcontractors.
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One of America's most admired CEOs, he used hundreds of acquisitions to build Tyco into a sprawling empire that makes ADT burglar alarms and garbage bags, medical equipment and electronics.
Tyco (NYSE:TYC) spun off its ADT Corp. (NYSE: ADT) alarm security business as a separate public company on October 2 after selling its pipe and valve business earlier this year to pump maker Pentair.
Given the overwhelming negative customer feedback regarding industry leaders, such as ADT (a subsidiary of Tyco International), on sites such as Hellopeter.com (90% unfavorable), it is apparent that there is room-for-improvement in the industry.
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He spotted ADT during his operational review and was immediately intrigued by its business model, which he saw as a unique combination of technology and services in a critical niche: keeping people safe at home.
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To Gursahaney what he saw tucked deep inside giant Tyco was the perfect business for the post 9-11 environment: an aging population in an increasingly unsafe world and a highly fragmented home security business that ADT already dominated.
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Among the largest underlying components of UPRO, in trading today AbbVie Inc. ( NYSE: ABBV) is down about 0.5%, ADT Corp ( NYSE: ADT) is down about 0.5%, and AES Corp. ( NYSE: AES) is lower by about 0.1%.
Among the largest underlying components of UPRO, in trading today Actavis, Inc ( NYSE: ACT) is up about 0.2%, ADT Corp ( NYSE: ADT) is trading flat, and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ( NYSE: AMD) is up by about 0.8%.
Hoyos got his boot in the door at BofA in March 2007, when reps from adt, the security company now part of Tyco International, spotted Hoyos' exhibit at a conference in Las Vegas. adt later enticed representatives from its clients, including Goldman Sachs, American Express and BofA, to Global's workshop in New York.
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