Two divisions that Twitter is considering divesting itself of are Vine, the mobile six-second video service, and MoPub, a mobile advertising business, they said.
Clinton is a Methodist, and that church's governing body is considering divesting itself of investments in Israel; that's another story.
Earlier this year, Ernst & Young sold its consulting unit to Cap Gemini for roughly $11 billion, and PricewaterhouseCoopers is considering divesting itself of its consulting unit by year-end.
At that time, Viacom said it was considering divesting several of its television stations because federal rules limit a company to owning TV stations capable of reaching a maximum of 35percentt of the 98 million United States homes with television sets.
Citigroup has decided to sell a 0.8percentt stake in Fubon, Taiwan's fourth-largest listed financial group, and is considering divesting its entire 10.2percentt holding, the two banks said in a joint statement.
Mr. Pearson also said on the call that the pricing environment had changed, and that the industry was "being aggressively sort of attacked for past pricing actions". He said that Valeant was considering divesting the division selling neurological drugs where, he said, the biggest price increases had occurred.
Los Angeles is considering divesting its $4 billion pension fund of all investments connected with South Africa.
PricewaterhouseCoopers is also considering divesting itself of its consulting unit by the end of the year.
"We always appreciate hearing from students about their viewpoints, but Harvard is not considering divesting from companies related to fossil fuels," Kevin Galvin, a university spokesman, said by e-mail.
Having already put its lucrative exchange-traded fund business up for sale to give its capital a boost, the bank is now considering divesting its less profitable private equity division.
