DeviceAnywhere is a service of Mobile Complete, a closely-held company based in San Mateo, Calif.
He has since made it his mission to scale up the closely-held, venture-funded company.
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With closely-held (especially family) companies, the IRS has a keen eye for who is getting paid too much.
Second, a business entity must be capitalized adequately for its purpose this is a common weakness with single-owner and closely-held entities.
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Richard Gliklich, a Harvard professor, runs a profitable, closely-held business called Outcome that develops such prospective databases for big drug companies and organizations like the American Heart Association.
For that reason, the IRS monitors compensation by closely-held companies.
But the situation is trickier if the business is closely-held.
Mr Guru's hanging, which was kept a closely-held secret, comes within months of the Indian government's execution of Pakistan-born Mohammad Ajmal Kasab--the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai.
Unlike its main rivals, closely-held Printpack and American National Can, "Bemis isn't afraid to say 'Let's screw up our earnings for a year' if the investment keeps them on top for the next decade, " Tiss says.
The closely-held company, which has offices in Colorado and Illinois, powers the Wi-Fi on all domestic AirTran Airways, Delta Air Lines and Virgin America flights as well as select Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways flights.
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All of that was swept aside starting in the late 1970s, when Wall Street firms began to evolve from closely-held partnerships into giant, global institutions run by hotshots motivated by bonuses, and owned by shareholders demanding ever-increasing profits to support ever-increasing stock prices.
Lei Jun, the billionaire entrepreneur who cofounded Xiaomi in 2010 with a former Microsoft executive, also took the opportunity to announce that Android-based smartphones were going on sale in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the first overseas foray for the closely-held company, which sold 7.1 million phones in 2012.
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The companies he controls--Hollinger Inc. and closely held Ravelston -- have just an 18% economic interest in Hollinger International through Class B shares that have ten times the voting rights of common stock.
Outside Wheeling Park's White Palace Ballroom in Wheeling, West Virginia, Craig Bouchard, president of the little-known, closely held Esmark of Chicago, was frantically calling large investors, pulling off a long-shot coup.
The new investment puts Square among some of the highest-valued closely held technology companies.
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But it hasn't always been smooth going for the 1, 200-employee closely held concern.
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Its budget continues to be a closely held secret -- making it impossible to assess the implementation of Gorbachev's commitment to reduce defense spending by 14 percent.
It is our way or it is not studied at all, '' said Dr. Wicks, the research and development director at PatientsLikeMe, a closely held health-data sharing company in Cambridge, Mass.
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The Washington Post (nyse: WPO - news - people ), a closely held and thinly traded company, did its chest-thumping July 15 following the Coke announcement.
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However, as the company structure moves from closely held to publicly-traded the distribution costs increase.
They are all decision-makers in their small, closely held family companies, usually having taken over from elderly patriarchs.
Duty-free sales are still the closely held company's main profit center, but Vichai says his managing all of Suvarnabhumi's commercial activities is a boon for all concerned.
He has co-authored numerous books, including Valuation of Closely Held Businesses: Tax and Legal Issues, Asset Protection Strategies: Tax and Legal Aspects, and Business Workout Strategies: Tax and Legal Aspects.
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In fact, Obama and his national security team made every effort -- successfully -- to keep the intelligence about bin Laden a closely held secret for almost a year, from the time they first identified what they believed might be the al Qaeda leader's hideout in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, in August 2010 until May 1, 2011, when the raid was launched to kill him.
In the U.S., a big maker of so-called squeezable fruit is Peter Rabbit Organics, a closely held British firm with products in more than 8, 000 outlets, including 6, 000 Starbucks Corp.
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The move is new ground for closely held Related, which recently began work on its 26-acre Hudson Yards project in Manhattan, a mixed-used project that is the largest development in the city.
The studies "aren't substantial enough or rigorous enough to enable doctors to use in making decisions for their patients, " says Connie Manz, chief medical officer for closely held 21st Century Oncology, a large provider of radiation-therapy services based in Fort Myers, Fla.
While peer PR agencies including Burson-Marsteller and Fleishman-Hillard were bought up by advertising agencies, Edelman remained closely held and independent.
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