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PricewaterhouseCoopers loses pwc.com domain fight
News PricewaterhouseCoopers has failed in an attempt to win the Internet domain pwc.com from Ultimate Search, a Hong Kong based firm. PricewaterhouseCoopers had claimed that the pwc.com domain name is "directly identical and confusingly similar to its...
[May 27, 2002, 18:00]
Security firms: Stay safe, save money
News At a recent publicity event in San Francisco, two security companies and accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers showed off their latest tool for selling software: a calculator that lets clients estimate how much money they can save by using the...
[June 13, 2002, 11:09]
IBM stung twice for consultants
News The price IBM paid for PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting business has gone up by hundreds of millions of dollars. In a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week, Big Blue said it paid PricewaterhouseCoopers $397m (£250.52m) in July.
[August 20, 2003, 11:35]
WEEE directive brings legal headaches
News Companies will face a variety of legal challenges as they attempt to comply with the EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) will caution this week.
[November 21, 2005, 17:05]
Internet's expansion at risk, says report
News Nine out of ten people are unwilling to give credit card details over the Internet according to new research from accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers published Monday. Head of the UK privacy practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers David Wright has a...
[December 11, 2000, 6:53]
VC funding tops $9bn in 3Q
News Venture capitalists continue to throw an astounding amount of cash at the tech sector as funding reached a record $9.04bn in the third quarter, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree Survey, released Monday.
[November 16, 1999, 10:30]
European tech market facing consolidation
News According to the Technology Insights report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Advisory Group, mergers and acquisition activity in the technology industry jumped 23 percent last year, with worldwide deals totalling €155bn (£106bn).
[March 30, 2005, 16:50]
Venture investments fall for third straight quarter
News Venture capital investments fell for the third consecutive quarter as the year came to a close, marking a trend that hasn't been seen for at least five years, according to a joint-survey released Wednesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree and...
[February 7, 2001, 8:56]
Broadband spurs online advertising
News The trade group, in concert with auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers, reported on Thursday that Net ad sales totalled $1.6bn for the quarter and $6bn for the year. A number of factors that had been negatively impacting revenue growth seem to be turning...
[June 13, 2003, 8:21]
Viruses and DDoS attacks flood UK firms
News The DTI's biennial Information Security Breaches Survey was conducted by a consortium of companies including PricewaterhouseCoopers. In a statement released on Tuesday, Chris Potter, a PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, said that although most UK...
[March 2, 2004, 13:10]
US dot-coms going bankrupt faster than Europeans
News A comparison study by London based business consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found European dot-coms to be a lot more cautious in the spending of their venture capital. The PricewaterhouseCoopers Internet 150 report, published last week...
[October 4, 2000, 14:54]
Venture capital slowly flowing back to IT
News The MoneyTree survey was issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association. While both the telecommunications and the computers and peripherals sectors posted double-digit gains, most funding...
[July 30, 2003, 9:25]
Online ad revenues to surge
News Based on an ongoing study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the IAB reported that first-quarter online advertising spending hit $693m, nearly doubling the $351m recorded in the first quarter of 1998. Industry revenues continue to rise, due in no small...
[August 20, 1999, 8:42]
Watchdog: HMRC did breach data laws
News After the disclosure of the breach, the government appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers chairman Kieran Poynter to report on the causes. We will decide what further action to take [against HMRC] once the final PricewaterhouseCoopers report is available.
[December 18, 2007, 13:54]
Security policies fall behind Internet adoption
News Chris Potter, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said that most companies -- especially small- and medium-sized businesses -- are waiting until they experience a "major breach" in security before putting "effective controls" in place.
[April 20, 2004, 12:00]
IBM bullish on new year
News After a series of moves that included 15,000 job cuts, divestitures of businesses, such as its hard disk drive operation, and the $3.5bn (£2bn) purchase of consulting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM believes it is back on track after suffering a...
[November 14, 2002, 15:43]
The overworked workplace hits home
News This is but one of the many disturbing findings in a major new study, "Feeling Overworked: When Work Becomes Too Much," from the Families & Work Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers. According to my boss, Toni Riccardi, chief diversity officer for...
[August 10, 2001, 8:30]
How to spot hot companies quickly
News Recent research indicates that eight out of 10 of America's fastest-growing companies outsource at least one peripheral business function, delegating its day-to-day management to outside providers (PricewaterhouseCoopers); seven out of 10 fast...
[March 30, 2000, 11:19]
Will techs gain from auditor scrutiny?
News Lucent Technologies announced earlier this month that it would no longer use PricewaterhouseCoopers for consulting work, but would retain the company as its auditor. The Big Five accounting firms -- Andersen, Ernst & Young, KPMG International...
[February 28, 2002, 15:36]
Security breaches down, says IT security report
News According to Chris Potter, a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers and a survey team leader, "there are still two fundamental contradictions" exposed by the report. The survey is produced by a consortium led by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Department...
[April 22, 2008, 17:39]
