Investor recently spent 360 million euros buying a Norwegian debt collecting company, Lindorff, and Ekholm said he expected that company to "participate in consolidation" and buy other smaller players.
Wikileaks had one of its accounts frozen by the donation-collecting company Moneybookers, and claims the freeze was a result of the organization being placed on a U.S. government watchlist and an Australian government blacklist.
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Eight years after he started, he proposed the company began collecting African-American art.
He said that when Kaminskas first came to England he worked for Intersecond, a company legitimately collecting clothes for Lithuanian cancer charity Azzara.
Catherine Davis, producer of Yahoo's site for kids, Yahooligans, said the company stopped collecting personal information about its child visitors 18 month to two years ago.
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Authorities said United States Environmental Services, an oil spill response company, was collecting oily water.
The company will also be collecting donations to relief efforts at each of their 2, 200 stores.
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At that point, according to a source close to the company, AIG started collecting documents, presumably to turn them over to the government.
His company is encouraging the collecting community, including dealers in and out of state, to communicate opposition to the exemption repeal to members of the key legislative committees.
Mr Sen's company has been accused of collecting deposits from investors promising attractive returns and then defaulting on payments.
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The company has admitted its data collecting cars collected more than first believed.
It was created after mistakes on privacy including the company's Street View cars collecting personal data as they captured images of street scenes.
Viborg says that the company even accepts cash payments upfront to avoid collecting identifying banking details.
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Fred M Fehsenfeld had helped build the company since 1977, from when it started collecting waste lubircant oil from mechanics and the like.
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Co-owned by Chuck Newman, his brother, Allan, and a few employees, ReCellular is the biggest company of its kind but still relies on elementary collecting techniques.
The bigger risk to Facebook is that growing concern over online privacy translates into a wave of legislation around the world that makes it far harder for the company to exploit the mountains of data it is collecting.
In the latest example of the growing fragmentation of the world of work, a new company called Quri is offering to pay shoppers for collecting pictures and other data while they shop in supermarkets, drug stores and other retail outlets.
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The company has positioned itself between local merchants and customers, collecting funds from every transaction and holding them for a while before giving the merchant their cash.
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Whether it be Google's penchant for collecting search and browsing histories or Street View WiFi information, the company is no stranger to concerns about its healthy appetite for user data.
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The company was still exploring business models, but knew that collecting and combining data about what, when and where their users were eating could offer invaluable insights to anyone from consumer packaged goods companies (CPG) to mom-and-pop restaurants, CEO Justin Massa told me in an interview last year.
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If you are the head of accounts receivable, and your firm get bought by another company which is bigger than yours and has a different way of collecting the money owed, and you lose your job as a result of the merger, you are unsettled for a while, but you can understand why it occurred.
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Another company operates the property: paying rent to Ventas, hiring staff and collecting payments from residents.
The monster-collecting Pokemon craze of the late 1990s started as a series of titles for the company's Game Boy portable system and eventually sold in excess of 106 million units.
TiVo's digital video-recording software for collecting your favorite prime time and cable shows is top notch, but the small company still has a ways to go in working out on-demand video download deals with studios and Web services.
The company later admitted in response to an audit request by German authorities that it had inadvertently been collecting samples of such data.
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The company makes money by providing transaction information and resources between the customer, merchant and their respective banks, collecting a fee based on the number and dollar value of transactions that it processes.
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Social Intelligence Corp. takes personal information given to the company by its clients and uses its own software to search the web for user-generated content, collecting a broad array of links and categorizing data to generate matches.
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