More than 6, 000 victims contacted the firm last year, compared with 3, 500 the year before.
As a result, Samsung hopes to sell more smart-phones in America than any other firm this year.
He joined the firm last year and worked along side Meeker since then.
The firm last year hired Ralph Rosenberg, an industry veteran who spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Microsoft already serves up ads for popular networks such as Facebook and bought a stake in the firm last year.
Mr Cocchi, who was brought in from a sister firm that year, resorted to the sort of overhaul that many struggling Italian companies now face.
One out of every two people who have contacted our firm this year is either a pre-retiree do-it-yourself (DIY) investor or a newly retired DIY investor.
On March 14th all charges were dropped against Patricia Dunn, the former chairman of Hewlett-Packard, over her role in the boardroom spying scandal that shook the computer firm last year.
The former head of Sam Zell's Equity International is launching a new private-equity shop and consulting business, following his departure from Mr. Zell's firm last year that surprised many in the real-estate industry.
Rangers, who ended Celtic's three-year reign as Scottish champions when they clinched the title last season, are away to their Glasgow rivals in a return to the traditional Old Firm New Year fixture on 2 January.
In most cases--including John Hancock--here's what the R class means: The firm each year will take 50 basis points---one-half of 1%--in expenses off the assets under management in the form of a so-called 12b(1) charge, authorized for marketing expenses.
By cutting transaction expenses, aggregating buying power, holding auctions in order to lower prices and exploiting the efficiencies of a single marketplace, the companies hope to save billions of dollars while simultaneously making a fortune on their stakes in the exchange itself, which is to be floated as a stand-alone firm next year.
The 29-year-old firm has dominated this year's biggest cancer treatment conference, the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), with its drugs Herceptin, Avastin and Tarceva.
Rockpoint Group, a Boston-based private-equity real-estate firm, last year closed down its Frankfurt office.
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Acciona made a hefty profit by selling on to Enel, an Italian energy firm, last year.
Similar reasons were cited for the departure of the Cliveden Group, a Swiss firm, last year.
Steve Black has let me know that he would like to leave the firm early next year.
It was previously a charity but was taken over by a venture capital firm earlier this year.
They agreed to a non-compete agreement which prohibits them from working for a competing firm for one year.
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Concrete, named the Netherlands' architecture firm of the year in 2012, takes a very different, more client-led approach.
Or when China's CNOOC oil company put up a bid for the American oil firm Unocal a year earlier?
Flo-Sun bought one in New York from a Canadian firm earlier this year.
Coelho began working for a Wall Street investment firm the same year he left Congress -- and was soon earning millions.
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Another partner in the core team at Kleiner China, Forrest Zhong, left the firm early this year to form South River Capital.
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Goals Soccer Centres has reported a fall in profits, after taking a hit from an aborted takeover of the firm earlier this year.
Atul Sobti, boss of Ranbaxy, an Indian generics firm bought last year by Daiichi Sankyo, a Japanese pharmaceutical giant, offers a different reason for scepticism.
Group firm CG Foods' Wai Wai, a popular brand of instant brown noodles, was ranked as Nepal's top consumer brand by research firm acnielsen last year.
In a poll he did for financial services firm SunAmerica this year, 54% of people over 55 said they viewed retirement as a new chapter rather than a time to wind down.
There are currently only two FTSE 100 companies - Burberry and Imperial Tobacco - with female chief executives, after Cynthia Carroll left mining giant Anglo-American and Dame Marjorie Scardino retired from the top job at media firm Pearson last year.
But with its new thin client offerings--the first products to come out of its acquisition of hardware firm Neoware last year--HP is hoping to tap into a growing trend sparked by software offerings from companies such as VMware and Microsoft: virtualization.
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