Mr Buffett may have been forced to go public after a lawsuit was filed last week against Phibro, the commodities arm of the Travelers financial-services group, alleging that it was trying to manipulate the silver market.
Some are the charitable arm of for-profit financial services institutions such as the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, the Schwab Charitable, and the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
In addition, the financial-services arm will be starved of the cheap money it has relied upon to date.
Dave Brown, from Lancashire, works for the global services arm of BT, told BBC Five Live that agency and contract staff were taken on in the knowledge they would be the first to go.
Kirk Strawser, managing partner of Wipro Consulting Services, the business consulting arm of Indian tech giant Wipro controlled by billionaire Azim Premji, has died in the US after a brief illness, the company confirmed Wednesday.
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Western Geophysical, the seismic surveying arm of Houston-based oilfield services firm Baker Hughes, adopted the Intelisys system in June.
Salomon Smith Barney, the securities arm of financial services company Citigroup, recently said it would offer Internet trading later this year, reversing a previous policy of limiting clients' Internet access to research and portfolio checking.
The market leaders are GoGrid, Rackspace and Amazon Web Services, the computing arm of the online retailer, which made headlines for kicking WikiLeaks off its servers.
Although it operates data centres of its own, it outsources much of its computing to Amazon Web Services, the cloud-computing arm of the online shopping giant.
Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Monday that the Pakistani army and intelligence arm have "a lot of questions to answer" given the location of the bin Laden house and the length of time he was there.
But as the only Big Four firm to not sell its consulting arm after the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley and the introduction of new scope of services restrictions to support more auditor independence, Deloitte is the biggest and strongest of all the firms in technology and systems implementation, in particular.
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It used this cheap money to fund its own operations, but also lent some of it through the financial-services arm.
And I would presume that the old EDS business is the arm of HP that has been providing IT services to GM.
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IBM's services arm is keeping the hardware part of the company afloat: anyone can make a computer, but the ability to help a company use it is worth paying extra for.
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Last June it signed a deal with Microsoft and an arm of the Chinese government to create a software joint venture that will supply IT outsourcing services and employ 5, 000 people outside Beijing.
Last June it signed a deal with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and an arm of the Chinese government to create a software joint venture that will supply IT outsourcing services and employ 5, 000 people outside Beijing.
In light of the Kaiser poll, the underlying challenge for their outsourced business services partners in the accounts receivable management (ARM) industry may be to treat the symptoms of ignorance.
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The grand-daddy of Internet services is Minitel, the ubiquitous on-line data service created by France Telecom (an arm of the government) in 1978-82.
Over the past four years he has used E-Trade's once-roaring stock to acquire ever more services, offering the nation's top-yielding certificates of deposit, an asset management arm and a cut-rate version of the "wrap" accounts invented by old-line brokers.
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