Web firms joining the initiative include search giant Google, domain registration firm Network Solutions, hosting companies as well as payment processors Paypal, Visa and Mastercard.
Brad Oltmanns is the current Chairman of the PwC Global Board, which has responsibility for the governance of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, the PwC Network, and oversight of the PwC Member Firm Network Leadership Team.
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It now averages more than 270 million monthly users, according to AppData, a tracking service from research firm Inside Network.
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The gig with expert network firm Primary Global was just some extra pocket change.
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This is software that sits at the edge of a firm's network and inspects the outgoing data traffic.
Another person was sentenced to prison today in the insider trading case involving expert network firm Primary Global Research.
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Previously, criminal charges were filed against eight consultants and staff of Primary Global Research LLC, a California expert-network firm.
First, the firm makes the network, that is, the contacts of all its partners, available to all of its portfolio companies.
Bob Kresek, managing partner of financial planning and wealth-management firm Founders Financial Network, said he hadn't received a single call Monday from worried investors.
Noah Freeman is a cooperating witness and is awaiting sentencing for his role in getting inside information from consultants hired by the expert network firm Primary Global.
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The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that individuals familiar with the case have confirmed that the expert network firm used in the scheme was Gerson Lerhman.
Jiau, however, was the person who could monetize the shared information from the investment club very quickly, because she was being paid as a consultant by Primary Global, an expert network firm feeding information to hedge funds.
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"You can do all the fancy pictures you want, but if you have the name of 10 buyers that's way more important, " says Mr. Taylor, who adds that his firm's network of contacts helps him talk regularly to past clients about potential buyers.
However, in the insider trading case of James Fleishman of the expert network firm Primary Global, a jury conviction and a government recommended sentence of 84-108 months was not enough to convince presiding Judge Rakoff that a long prison term was appropriate.
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That means someone installing the smart wiring in the walls of buildings, the network firm providing the platform connecting the smart devices, the gadget-makers that provide an Apple-like user experience for every fixture, and the next-generation utility offering new forms or methods of energy delivery.
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The relationship between Gilman and Martoma was facilitated by an expert network firm, an industry that has been at the heart of a number of insider trading cases brought by Preet Bharara in recent years, cases that have put the likes of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam behind bars.
In an example of a network that failed, a multinational consulting firm set up an internal social network with the vague objective of getting its consultants to work together more effectively.
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And third, that in most cases the firm that owns the network also provides the service.
He has two servers and employs a local tech firm to do his network and support.
PC, which the unidentified worker then used to log on to the firm's corporate network.
Last year, across its entire 33, 500 mile (54, 000km) sewer network the firm said it had removed 2, 000 tonnes of grease.
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His firm operates through a network of locals who knock on doors and pester their acquaintances to buy lipstick and shampoo.
Heavy rain can overwhelm the drains, forcing Thames Water, the firm that runs the network, to discharge a mix of rainwater and sewage directly into the Thames.
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Oxford Analytica is an independent strategic-consulting firm drawing on a network of more than 1, 000 scholar experts at Oxford and other leading universities and research institutions around the world.
Taking advantage of the tough legal jobs market, the firm will build a network of thousands of non-staff lawyers, says Peter Pantaleo, the managing partner of the New York office.
The inventor is Todd Glassey, a 52-year-old Bay Area resident who describes himself as the Chief Scientist of network security firm Certichron and founder of the U.S. Time Server Foundation.
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"This rage is often a result of pent-up hostility, " said business psychologist Dr. Wilfred Calmas, who interpreted the results of the survey conducted by Concord Communication, a Marlboro, Massachusetts-based network consulting firm.
The International Board of Partners can only kick the offending firm out of the network when that separate legal entity, part of the loose confederation of member firms that equals the global brand, does something bad.
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According to internet and network analysis firm Renesys, the cable lit up with activity last week with data flowing through it between Telefonica and the nation's state telecom company, Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA).
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