These policies can help stop the accidental release of confidential material and catch people supplying a company's competitors with key information.
Although the armored-vehicle business may lose some ground as overseas contingencies wind down, the shipbuilding business routinely outperforms competitors and the information business is well positioned in all segments.
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It would also handover confidential corporate information to competitors, including data on salary structures, revenues, and the number and types of employees.
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"They only have to provide technical interface information to competitors to allow them to make products that are interoperable with Microsoft Windows, " said Jonathan Todd, the EC's antitrust spokesman.
Novartis had said the payment was to persuade Mr Vasella not to work for its competitors or pass on any information to them.
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Some have expressed concern that Carlyle will sit on AlpInvest's board and have access to proprietary information about its competitors, which AlpInvest invests in.
Yes, but you can't blame companies for wanting to keep useful information from the hands of competitors.
Police have begun busting a cabal of programmers who used malicious computer software known as a Trojan horse to spy on more than a dozen companies and then sell information about their operations to competitors.
Limited disclosure rules for private companies when the shareholder count exceeds 500 allows the playbook to stay in the locker room and competitors to not gain undeserved access to proprietary information.
"Thanks to the determination of Python Challenge competitors, we are able to gather invaluable information that will help refine and focus combined efforts to control pythons in the Everglades, " commission executive director Nick Wiley said.
In June the FTC alleged that Intel illegally withheld technological information from three vendors who are also competitors.
Criminals, competitors and governments are deliberately targeting advanced technologies and information assets, a fact which should concern any organization with a significant supply chain footprint.
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These things are going to keep happening especially in countries where there is an incentive to steal information, or upload viruses onto a competitors network.
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We also need to make sure that America can move goods and information as fast as any of our competitors, whether on the road or online.
For instance, the option to submit offering documents confidentially with the SEC has proved popular, with companies saying it has allowed them to avoid publicizing information they wouldn't want their competitors to see.
Maybe your favorite hobby, maybe politics or competitors, favorite sports, news sites, industry information, and you plug in these keywords, and you allow Google to email you on the frequency that you suggest daily, weekly, monthly, of the results of those keyword searches.
It prevents employees from taking proprietary information, such as marketing strategies, to competitors.
So is the leaking of a computer code to competitors more of a breach than a board member leaking information?
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Specifically, the CMA analysis cites evidence of the ease with which foreign operatives can obtain coveted Confidential Business Information if given even limited access to American competitors' facilities.
The investigations include specific IRS Information Document Requests that range from cash sales to competitors to bank statements.
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The methods and means used by unfriendly competitors or hostile nation states and the nature of modern day information processing technology dictate that we must be vigilant in protecting critical information assets and our national research infrastructure.
Every time an employee opens a confidential client e-mail or downloads a document detailing internal strategy from a location other than the secure office network, that information is at risk for exposure to criminals, competitors and other unintended audiences.
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Corporate insiders, blessed with more information about the prospects for their companies and those of competitors than any outsider could possibly obtain, have a history of successfully buying near market lows and selling near market tops.
There is no shortage of chief information officers sighing with relief for not having Allscripts, or competitors shaking their heads at its misfortune (and their good fortune).
Cuomo's office said it is looking for information on whether Intel penalized computer manufacturers for buying processors from competitors, paid customers for exclusivity, and illegally cut off competitors from distribution channels.
And once information conveyed to investors becomes public, it is also available to competitors.
That means any personal or commercial information that is typically guarded closely by companies would become available to competitors and others.
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The opportunity they seek is the delivery of insights and timely information to make more effective decisions to out execute their peers and competitors.
Politely request financial information, especially balance-sheet ratios, but agree not to share it with competitors.
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