- Mon Dec 21 2009 Obama names chief of cybersecurity
The White House is trying to address the vulnerability of banking, energy, and communications systems to attacks.
(From The New York Times)
Posted by John Markoff
- Mon May 24 1999 PriceWaterhouseCoopers targets utilities
PriceWaterhouseCoopers and IT services and consulting firm SPL WorldGroup announce an e-business alliance geared toward the utilities industry.
Posted by Melanie Austria Farmer
- Thu Jan 13 2000 PricewaterhouseCoopers takes stake in InterTrust
The Big Five consulting firm makes an equity investment of an undisclosed amount in the digital rights management firm.
Posted by Melanie Austria Farmer
- Mon Sep 11 2000 HP mulls $18 billion bid for PricewaterhouseCoopers arm
The computing giant says it is in talks to buy the consulting business of the Big Five accounting firm to strengthen its services arm, sending HP's shares down 3 percent.
Posted by Melanie Austria Farmer
- Wed Jul 9 1997 Deposing the information
Pamela Samuelson doesn't come off as the hell-raiser she is. The
48-year-old law professor speaks in the measured, long sentences of one
long accustomed to delivering classroom lectures, not diatribes.
Posted by Margie Wylie
- Wed Feb 16 2005 Time to regulate the software industry?
With flaws providing an open door to viruses and worms, industry observers debate imposing rules on software companies.
Posted by Dawn Kawamoto
- Mon Mar 31 2003 Deloitte Consulting stays put
The group will not separate from its parent firm, making the combined company stand out from other large audit firms that have clipped their consulting wings.
Posted by Ed Frauenheim
- Thu May 9 2002 IT consulting post-Enron
Terry Jost, a vice president at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, predicts that the controversy over conflict of interest will challenge IT consultants at the Big Five like never before.
Posted by Charles Cooper
- Tue Jul 30 2002 IBM grabs consulting giant for $3.5 billion
Big Blue agrees to buy PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting arm for cash and stock, a deal that expands its already extensive services business.
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Thu Mar 15 2001 Consultancy iXL hires several execs
iXL Enterprises named several new additions to its executive team as the battered Web consultancy continues to actively pursue and attract talent. Atlanta-based iXL said Jay Norman, a former partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, will lead its financial services consulting practice. Sanjay Apte is also joining iXL as its senior information technology and engineering executive. Prior to iXL, Apte worked at Financial Fusion where he was vice president of professional services.
iXL also appointed Patrick Carter to lead its CRM (customer relationship management) practice. CRM software helps companies manage such things as their customer requests and marketing activities. Most recently, Carter was president of Targetbase Interactive and had also been a manager at Ernst & Young. iXL recently appointed former PwC partner Christopher Formant as its new president and CEO. Formant, who led PwC's global banking consulting practice, took over the spot that was held by iXL founder Bert Ellis.
Posted by Melanie Austria Farmer
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