The financial-reform bill signed last week by President Barack Obama gives shareholders of all companies a periodic, nonbinding vote on their corporation's executive-pay plan and requires companies to disclose the disparity between the CEO's pay and that of other employees.
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M-GO's pay-as-you-go streaming service helps people find, rent, buy and enjoy digital entertainment on the devices they use and choose - TVs, iPads, tablets, Blu-ray players, streaming players, Macs, PCs and soon game consoles and smartphones.
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Republican Gov. Chris Christie has proposed including public-employee unions under New Jersey's pay-to-play rules, which generally limit political contributions by affected groups and individuals.
In December the company launched Vrtua, a high-speed residential broadband service available only to Globo Cabo's pay-TV subscribers.
The trade unions and his own Social Democratic left-wingers are already squealing about the government's plans to bring an element of private financing to Germany's pay-as-you-go state pensions, while the opposition has pulled out of the negotiations altogether.
"We're bringing boxing back to its roots, " says HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg, who favors a return to a 1980s model where only big fights featuring the likes of Thomas Hearns, Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard were deemed worthy of closed-circuit status (closed-circuit theater and arena telecasts being the forerunner of today's pay-per-view).
Modeled closely after U.S.-style pay packages, the plan spreads 9 million shares among Iusacell's top 40 executives.
Like M-Pesa, EasyPaisa offers remittances and bill pay -- it's already handled more than 270, 000 bill-pay transactions.
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Having mortgaged all of his family's property--including his mother's house--just to pay satellite fees, Massie turned to his viewers to help sell the network.
Brazil's Net Communications Services(7.8, NETC) is the country's largest pay-TV provider, with 3 million customers.
Furthermore, the performance is commendable given that the U.S. pay-TV market is highly saturated.
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The American media conglomerate also owns Sky Italia, Italy's biggest pay-television provider, which has over four million subscribers.
Those who survive are paid to perform: even in America, Tyco's performance-related pay schemes have a reputation for generosity.
The buzz generated by the band's pay-what-you-want publicity stunt may also boost sales.
But Nasdaq already has servers humming in London, and Greifeld has exported Nasdaq's pay-to-play strategy to compete with the LSE.
These reforms are intended to encourage private pensions (by offering public subsidies and tax exemptions) to supplement the state's pay-as-you-go scheme.
As in other OCED countries whose populations are aging rapidly, Germany's pay-as-you-go state pension plan is on the verge of collapse.
The company ultimately wants to compete better in the saturated U.S. pay-TV market by arming itself with a viable bundling option.
However, this was expected due to the saturation in the U.S. pay-TV market and a higher churn resulting from programming disputes.
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Netflix commands close to 25% share of roughly 85 million U.S. broadband households and about 20% share of the U.S. pay-TV households.
The company has done well in terms of understanding the needs of the market, which are different the U.S. pay-TV market in many ways.
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As Brazil's largest pay-TV provider and a big hitter in phone services and Internet access, NETC is a play on Brazil's growing middle class.
HBO, the group's pay-television channel, will broadcast her Detroit concert live.
In addition to empowering both established and emerging creators, Vimeo's pay-to-view service promises to bring even more unique, quality content to Vimeo's 85 million monthly viewers.
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Virgin Mobile's pay-as-you-go plan, for example, costs 10 cents a minute if you buy 200 minutes, but only five cents a minute if you order 1, 000.
Supporters of the U.S. private-pay system fear a shift in power to Washington will cut down on the innovation and choice that comes with the free market.
Since 2006, the number of households paying to watch UFC fights has exceeded 700, 000 at least 17 times, compared with 13 times for HBO's pay-per-view boxing matches.
Customers who prefer not to purchase a recurring plan or sign a 2-year contract may instead purchase the device at full Suggested Retail Price (SRP) and utilize Sprint's pay-as-you-go services.
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The U.S. pay-TV market is getting saturated and there is not much room left to grow, except for relying on the growth in total number of households or poaching subscribers from competitors.
Democrats, especially the fiscally conservative "blue dog" coalition in the House, demanded the relief adhere to the House's "pay-go" rules, which require spending increases to be offset without adding to the deficit.
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