* Independent BIOS Vendor ; a company that produces BIOS firmware

On July 14, 2006, San Francisco businessman and real estate investor Clint Reilly filed a lawsuit against Hearst Corp. ( owner of the San Francisco Chronicle ) and MediaNews Group ( owner of the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal, Oakland Tribune and all other paid-circulation dailies in the Bay Area ), alleging that the two companies have been conspiring to control advertising rates, a violation of antitrust laws.

The control of medium and big companies must be made by one or several independent auditors of companies, appointed by the general assembly among the members of the Institute of Independent Auditors of Companies.

The remaining Board positions are known as Independent Governors ( also referred to as Outside Governors ), and are selected from among individuals, preferably of national stature, and can not be employees or officers of the partner companies.

Independent telecom auditing firms are not affiliated with telecom companies that sell mobile phones and devices, Internet service, long distance calling or land line telephony.

Independent music production companies rapidly gained a significant foothold in popular music and soon after became the main intermediary between artist and record label, discovering and signing new artists to production contracts, producing the recordings and then licensing the finished product to record labels for pressing, promotion and sale.

During this time, Jacksonville also became a banking and insurance center, with companies such as Barnett Bank, Atlantic National Bank, Florida National Bank, Prudential, Gulf Life, Afro-American Insurance, Independent Life and American Heritage Life thriving in the business district.

He is also chairman of various international advisory boards and councils for many international companies, including Power Corp. ( Montreal ), Bombardier ( Montreal ), the China International Trust and Investment Corp. ( Beijing ), J. P. Morgan Chase and Co. ( New York ), Violy, Byorum and Partners ( New York ), VS & A Communications Partners ( New York ), Independent Newspapers ( Dublin ) and General Enterprise Management Services Limited ( British Virgin Islands ).

As the Scots were intended as a military force those settlers whose travel was paid for by the Trustees of the Colony were organized into two companies, the Highland Independent Company of Foot, an infantry force, and the Highland Rangers, a mounted force.

When it began it was composed of two companies, the Chemical and Hose Company and the Independent Hook and Ladder Company.

* Independent soda, made by small privately run companies

* Independent video game development, video games created without financial backing from large companies

In January 1955 the ITA authorised the creation of ITN ( Independent Television News ), a company owned and operated by the ITV companies collectively, to provide a news service for the new network.

Kenneth Clark, of the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) which let the franchise, remarked: " We did not quite foresee how much Granada would develop a character which distinguishes it most markedly from the other programmes companies and from the BBC.

The solution to the problem was to create the Independent Television Authority which would closely regulate the new commercial channel in the interests of good taste, and award franchises to commercial companies for fixed terms.

The Times on 21 June reported that " Independent television companies last night received hundreds of protest calls after an Anglia program, Alternative 3, gave alarming facts about changes in the Earth ’ s atmosphere.

* Independent business, privately-owned companies

Independent companies also built branches from Essendine to Stamford and Bourne and from Welwyn to Hertford and to Dunstable via Luton, all of which were worked by the GNR.

During his time at Heinz, O ' Reilly held roles as major shareholder and chairman of several companies, including Waterford Wedgwood ( 1995 – 2009 ) and Independent News & Media, and of a major partnership of solicitors, Matheson Ormsby Prentice, in Dublin.

O ' Reilly draws salaries, share options and benefits from many companies, in addition to capital gains on shareholdings, an article in The Village Magazine suggesting he has earned € 110 million since 2000 just from Independent News and Media.

The " Independent Television " service was made up of regions, with each region run by different companies.

Independent companies should provide distribution and transmission services.

Blekinge Institute of Technology is located in the Telecom City area and works closely together with many telecommunications and software companies including Telenor, Ericsson AB and Wireless Independent Provider ( WIP ).

Independent companies such as Quaife do offer replacement gearkits for the T9 as well as sequential boxes for those with a racing fever and the need for a more robust transmission.

Independent production usually meant restricted circumstances, but not always — Sweet Smell of Success, for instance, despite the original plans of the production team, was clearly not made on the cheap, though like many other cherished A-budget noirs it might be said to have a B-movie soul.

Some successful groups like Independent Rijswijk began to move towards a national movement.

Independent linearity is probably the most commonly-used linearity definition and is often found in the specifications for DMMs and ADCs, as well as devices like potentiometers.

Independent filmmaker Greg Carter described it as ; " It feels like someone is walking into your house and stealing your furniture ...

Independent schools, like state grammar schools, are free to select their pupils, subject to general legislation against discrimination.

" Conversely, Adam Mars-Jones of The Independent called it " so preposterous that it begins to seem like a science-fiction artifact ... the product of a parallel-universe 1990s which somehow by-passed the decades since the 1950s.

He was joined by Mary Harney ( like O ' Malley, an Independent TD expelled from Fianna Fáil ), and later by Fianna Fáil TDs Bobby Molloy and Pearse Wyse and Fine Gael TD Michael Keating.

William Cole thought he wrote like an illiterate and said he was an Independent by profession, but a deist in conversation.

During the Independent State of Croatia, flag was like the modern, but without crown and there was letter " U " at the top left of the flag.

The ISU-152, like the earlier SU-152 and contemporary ISU-122, was employed by Independent Heavy Self-propelled Artillery Regiments.

The German Revolution of 1918 overthrew the old absolutism and, like Russia, set up Workers ' and Soldiers ' Councils almost entirely made up of SPD and Independent Social Democrats ( USPD ) members.

In May 1889, Carpenter wrote a piece in the Sheffield Independent calling Sheffield the laughingstock of the civilized world and said that the giant thick cloud of smog rising out of Sheffield was like the smoke arising from Judgment Day, and that it was the altar on which the lives of many thousands would be sacrificed.

When the party was reorganized in 1904 into the Unified Socialist party, Viviani, like fellow Socialist Aristide Briand, stayed outside, and thenceforth called himself an Independent Socialist.

NGOs like the New Rules Project and New Economics Foundation provide research and tools for pro-independent business education and policy while the American Independent Business Alliance provides direct assistance for community-level organizing.

Later, day churches were also introduced, for e. g. The Apostolic church, Independent churches, like Deeper Life Bible Church, came into the area in the second part of the 20th century.

* Vive le Beret: The Slouchy Felt Headgear is Selling like Hot Croissants in France by Harriet Walker, The Independent, April 15, 2009

Independent directors like Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh and Byambasuren Davaa created movies that connected ancient traditions and mythology, and how they may relate to life in a modern world.

After the SPD leadership under Friedrich Ebert had excluded the opponents of the war from party ranks, the Spartacists joined with so-called " Revisionists " like Eduard Bernstein and Centrists like Karl Kautsky to found the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany ( USPD ) under the leadership of Hugo Haase on 9 April 1917.

The daughter of James Lee, a miner ( who later gave up work in the mines to run a hotel ) and Euphemia Grieg, she inherited her father's socialist inclinations, and like him joined the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ).

Independent agencies usually cater to a special or niche market, such as the needs of residents in an upmarket commuter town or suburb or a particular group interested in a similar activity, such as sporting events, like football, golf or tennis.

Independent of political influence, the group seeks to reach out to all parts of the global community to help stamp out sweatshop labour fullstop-often dealing directly with groups of workers that would normally have no voice and no support outside their immediate community-for example Batay Ouvriye in Haiti and individuals like jailed union official Ali Nejati in Iran.

Independent research shows kids put limited weight on lyrics in deciding which music they like, caring more about rhythm and melody.

Independent or family bakeries make gooey butter cakes, from a time when there were still many neighborhood corner German and Austrian American bakeries in St. Louis, in neighborhoods like Dutchtown, Bevo Mill, and the Tower Grove area, and others.