Google has responded to complaints about its surreptitious snooping of users of Apple devices by claiming that it is not subject to UK privacy laws. The claim was made in a bid to get a lawsuit against the company, launched in the UK, ...
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Inspectors from the municipality of Jeddah have destroyed around five tonnes of tainted cement and a large quantity of cement blocks and bricks ready for sale during a raid on two sites in Al-Hamdaniyah district in the eastern part of the ...
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China's top price regulator has imposed penalties on a local gold and jewelry industrial association and five jewelry firms in Shanghai for price-fixing practices, China News Service reported Monday. The National Development and Reform ...
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China has fined six baby milk formula companies a total of 670 million yuan (US$108 million) for price-fixing, following an anti-trust investigation launched in early July, the country's top economic planner announced Wednesday morning. ...
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New research has indicated that hogs that die while in transit, usually do so as a result of pre-existing heart conditions. The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) is now using the study as evidence livestock truckers shouldn't be held ...
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Insurance provider WellPoint has agreed to pay a $1.7 million fine for exposing more than 600,000 personal records online due to weak database security, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) said Thursday. WellPoint, based ...
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European Union investigators have raided the offices of three of the bloc's biggest telecommunications providers as part of an antitrust probe examining if they're limiting their customers' access to third-party applications including ...
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Eleven cement companies will be forced to make a provision of Rs 669 crore in the June quarter for the Rs 6,698-crore penalty levied on them by the Competition Commission of India. In the cement price cartelisation case, the Supreme Court ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has threatened to fine Google, if the web giant doesn't make its privacy policy clearer by September. Failure to provide information about how it uses and stores user data could see Google fined ...
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According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Michael Taylor, 29, of Wellingborough, suffered serious injuries when his right hand and forearm were drawn into gluing rollers of the machine. Taylor has had four operations and extensive ...
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has served Google with an enforcement notice regarding the collection of data by the web firm's Street View cars. The decision follows an investigation into Google which found its collection of ...
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The European Commission (EC) has imposed a fine of €146m on nine pharma companies, including Ranbaxy Laboratories, for blocking the entry of cheaper generic drug of Lundbeck's anti-depressant, citalopram. Lundbeck agreed with each of ...
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The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined £6,031,200 against investment company Sesame for providing unsubstantial investment advices to clients and poor management of systems and controls to check its appointed ...
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Porsche’s former chief financial officer has been convicted of credit fraud by a German court in a criminal case relating to a failed 2009 bid by the sports car maker to buy Volkswagen. Bloomberg reports Holger Haerter was convicted ...
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The European Union (EU) is expected to penalize nine companies, including Denmark-based Lundbeck and Indian firm Ranbaxy for halting generic medicines from entering into the market and violating competition laws. Other companies scheduled ...
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