In September, for instance, California will start requiring out-of-state sellers with California affiliates to collect sales tax from California residents.
And the Fair Trade Commission is investigating allegations that Hyundai Motor colluded with affiliates to put pressure on component suppliers to cut prices.
Questions could arise as to the business model for Fox and CBS as they have been relying on affiliates to carry their signal in the past.
Hours after Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, signed the Internet sales-tax law last week, Amazon cut ties with its roughly 9, 000 Illinois affiliates to avoid collection there.
The audience was diminished by competition from the Fox network, which showed a science fiction drama, and NBC, which allowed affiliates to show a baseball playoff between the New York Yankees and Oakland A's.
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Komen had faced criticism over its connections with Planned Parenthood for several years, but had previously defended the relationship, including providing written guidance to affiliates on how to answer questions about it.
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And the American people should be confident that we will not waver in our resolve to defeat al Qaeda and its affiliates and to root out violent extremism in all its forms.
Now, after Amazon already pulled the digital download, EA has apparently sent an email out to all marketing affiliates asking them to stop actively promoting the game.
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In a statement, Zango said third-party affiliates were to blame for the problems and stated it had been working in accordance with the FTC's standards since January 2006.
The New York-based company also disclosed that Elliott Associates LP and one of its affiliates plan to ask federal regulators for permission to buy a major stake in the company and may seek board seats at the annual meeting in May.
Fox, which tested Move Networks' technology on the Web sites of 24 of its affiliates last year, plans to expand to 200 affiliates this summer and give consumers video-editing tools so they can produce their own brief programs.
According to the SEC, the Quantek hedge fund made loans to affiliates of Guerra and his Bultick Capital Markets Holdings that were not properly documented or secured, leading employees to later re-create the missing related-party loan documents, but misstate important loan terms and backdate materials to cover up the situation.
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Neither the Buyer nor its affiliates are deemed to be a related party of Sony.
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They sell this aggregation to affiliates, who pay them broadcast fees, and cable companies, who pay them carry fees.
They found that conducting lending through affiliates lowered returns to investors by 70%.
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ESPN's Audio division reaches around 24 million listeners per week through its own stations and affiliates, according to its website.
Once they activated three malls, they would also earn commissions as affiliates driving traffic to sites touted on BigSmart's Web site, including those of Dell, Office Max, Martha Stewart and Maine's own L.L. Bean.
Some states are passing laws requiring collection of sales tax by out-of-state entities that have in-state affiliates. (That's the plan in New York, Illinois, Rhode Island and North Carolina.) Amazon has cut ties to affiliates in most affected states.
Unless there is a grassroots revolt, there seems nothing to stop a merger of the national organisations, though local affiliates will be left to decide whether to follow.
For example, many forex traders had accounts with U.S.-based forex brokers first, and moved their funds to the foreign affiliates of their U.S. brokers in order to get higher leverage and avoid the hedging rule.
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Following the highly charged week in which Komen pulled ( and ultimately reinstated) funding to a handful of Planned Parenthood affiliates, this resignation has been, to watchers of the situation, a long time coming.
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And Aereo is taking existing signal from the affiliates, without having to pay the broadcast networks.
What services does your firm or its affiliates offer in addition to pension consulting services?
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With affiliates, Chung hopes to sell 5 million vehicles globally by 2010, up from 3 million last year.
During the same period, the CW will abandon Sunday nights, an evening of programming it will hand back to the affiliates.
"The unions can't be allowed to become affiliates of the political parties, " said Mannan Kochi, senior vice president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association.
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Many states including New York expanded sales tax to require merchants to collect taxes if they merely have in-state affiliates they contract with and link to.
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Lawmakers questioned the British-based bank over these accusations and more, demanding to know how and why its affiliates in India and elsewhere exposed the bank to black market cash.
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So if this forex broker says its U.S. retail forex traders using offshore platforms from its affiliates have more time to close accounts, that may not be true in my view.
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