Despite saying in December that talks with Google could not go on forever, European Union Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia seems resigned to keep waiting. Almunia laughed as he said at a Wednesday press briefing that "talks were ...
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Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has settled a class action lawsuit accusing the cooperative of conspiring to control the raw milk market in the southeastern US. DFA will pay US$140m to the plaintiffs. An additional, refundable $9.3m per ...
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Driller Transocean has agreed to pay $1.4 billion in fines and penalties and to plead guilty to one count of violating the Clean Water Act in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the US ...
A court in California has ordered Apple to produce without delay an unredacted version of its recent patent agreement with HTC, after Samsung Electronics said the agreement was relevant to its patent infringement dispute with Apple. The ...
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Samsung Electronics has alleged that three recent products from Apple, including the iPad mini, infringe on its patents. The South Korean company said in a filing Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ...
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OAO Severstal announced the signing of a compromise and settlement agreement amongst, inter alia, the Government of Liberia, Afferro Mining Inc and the company’s indirect subsidiary Lybica Holding BV in relation to tax claims made by ...
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Lakeland Industries, Inc. a leading global manufacturer of industrial protective clothing for industry, municipalities, healthcare and to first responders on the federal, state and local levels, announced financial results for its third ...
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A US judge has ordered Apple to disclose details of its patent-sharing deal with HTC to rival Samsung. Earlier this month, Apple and HTC signed a 10-year licence agreement, but did not disclose the details. Samsung, which is involved in ...
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A California court on Wednesday ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle, which competes with HP in the hardware market but shares ...
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Taipei, Sept. 11, 2012 (CENS)--To attract more mainland Chinese investments to Taiwan, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) may ease restrictions on qualified domestic institutional investors (QDIIs) from China to invest in Taiwan's ...
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The Central Bank of Ireland has imposed a monetary penalty of€2.45m against Aviva's two subsidiaries Aviva Insurance Europe and Aviva Life&Pensions Ireland,for violating rules pertaining to stock lending. As per the settlement ...
London based underwriter Aviva has entered into a settlement agreement to transfer its entire holding in Spanish joint venture (JV) Aseval to lender Bankia for 608m (£494m) in cash, which will be held in trust. Pending receipt of ...
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The proceedings which have been in progress since 2009 against the US-American guitar manufacturer Gibson Guitar regarding contraventions of the Lacey Act were concluded at the beginning of August 2012 with a settlement agreement. As part ...
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Penguin Group has become the latest book publisher to reach a settlement with the U.S.Department of Justice in a lawsuit that alleges that Apple and five publishers had conspired to raise e-book prices. Under the proposed settlement ...
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A California court has ordered Oracle to continue support for the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle announced it would no longer develop its market-leading database server for the ...
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