One aggrieved investor recounts how his firm had to wait months to get approval to take over a port terminal, because it needed 21 separate entities to sign off.
People are 18 times more likely to buy directly in their News Feed than when clicking off to a separate website, said Wade Gerten, chief executive of 8thBridge.
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They would have to spin off trading in riskier derivatives to separate subsidiaries, but the parent company would still receive the profits.
Cablevision spun off MSG to separate its cash-rich cable businesses from its more financially volatile entertainment properties.
Another weakness was in the Time Inc. magazine business, which the company plans to spin off into a separate publicly traded company by the end of the year.
Instead of having a set of separate researchers off to the side, we take individuals from our security consulting services, from our security operations center, and from our security engineering team, then combine them into one team.
Passengers on the Southeastern service were asked to move off the train or into a separate carriage as an off-duty midwife, nurse and police officer came forward to help.
Again, the purpose, said Lees, was to incorporate data into the general Windows Phone experience that other smartphone providers might wall off as separate apps, forcing people to launch an app to get access to the information contained within it.
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The company announced Monday that it has abandoned plans to spin off its six nuclear power facilities into a separate entity and will take a charge of 40 to 45 cents per share charge because of the decision.
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To accomplish this, you must hit a separate key to bring up each weapon, taking your eyes off the screen and your finger off the trigger.
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Expedia recently decided to spin-off TripAdvisor into a separate public entity.
To separate himself from the pack, Cook provides off-season clothing storage free of charge.
The NYSE is to spin off its regulatory arm into a separate, not-for-profit entity, removing potential conflicts of interest.
ConocoPhillips intends to separate into two separate businesses, and when the move is complete Chief Executive Jim Mulva will ride off into the sunset.
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The residential mortgage business is so profitable, in fact, that GMAC wants to protect it by spinning it off as a separate subsidiary, in the hope that it will be assigned a higher credit rating than the rest of the company.
To top that off, several major TV manufacturers produce separate models that run completely different platforms.
It also announced plans to spin off its Hometown and Outlet stores into a separate publicly traded company.
This will make it easier to separate their businesses, decide which are profitable and hive off the rest.
Time Warner plans to spin off the Time Inc. business into a separate publicly traded company by the end of the year.
Building on last year's experience, elaborate efforts have been made by police to steer rival groups of fans off the M4 at separate locations.
The activists' main idea for Carrefour was to get the company to spin off part of its enormous property portfolio into a separate entity.
So HP intends to turn its PC business into a separate unit and then spin it off.
Expedia also announced its plans to spin-off its media and advertising business arm TripAdvisor into a separate publicly traded company.
With teams from each firm ensconced in separate rooms, officials from Amaranth shuttled between them, seeking to sell off positions, craft bridging loans and possibly negotiate a takeover.
Los Angeles forward Brad Richardson and defenseman Drew Doughty gingerly skated off at separate points of the first period, but both returned to the ice.
He also says to keep front, middle and back offices separate, keep the data, watch for behavioral changes, force everyone to take off at least two consecutive weeks each year.
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The investment community, you see, was delighted by news that Netflix was going to increase prices 60% for some customers and spin off the DVD business into a separate company called Qwikster.
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Its chief executive, Manfred Schneider, has sold off peripheral businesses and spun off the loss-making fibres division into a separate subsidiary, requiring workers to take a pay cut.
Lots of corporations are still sectioning off digital and social media functions as separate units, making it more difficult to tie their work back to the bigger-picture strategy of the organization.
Finally, a reorganisation late last year, which created separate units for mass-market, business and multimedia phones, caused Nokia to take its eye off the ball.
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