Fonterra has temporarily suspended its consumer operations in Sri Lanka after it faced allegations that some of its milk products were contaminated. The protests comes after claims by the Sri Lankan authorities that some of Fonterra's ...
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HP CEO Meg Whitman has reshuffled her senior team in advance of the announcement of what is expected to be lacklustre financial results later today. Chief operating officer Bill Veghte will replace Dave Donatelli as head of HP's ...
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Software giant Microsoft is co-operating with US federal authorities in an investigation into alleged "illegal activity" by employees and business partners in Russia and Pakistan. John Frank, vice president and deputy general counsel of ...
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A complaint against Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) lamp compliance scheme Recolight has been dropped by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) without a formal investigation. Manchester-based lamp recycling firm Mercury ...
China is intensifying its investigation into alleged bribery in the pharmaceutical and medical services sector with a fresh three-month probe due to begin today. The investigation by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, a ...
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Oracle has settled a lawsuit it brought last year against a former partner it alleged was providing third-party support for its PeopleSoft application in an illegal fashion. "Oracle America, Oracle International Corporation, and ...
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Computer giant Apple has become embroiled in a new row over its suppliers after China Labour Watch claimed that Pegatron, one of Apple's outsourced manufacturers in China, was violating local labour regulations. In a report released today ...
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Germany's Federal Cartel Office Bundeskartellamt has announced the imposition of further fines amounting to almost €100 million on eight rail companies in a case involving price fixing for train track rails, with Essen-based ...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is mulling to establish a joint venture (JV) with a Chinese company as part of its vaccine strategy of teaming up with local partners. The plans come at a time when the company is facing corruption and tax laws ...
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Japanese automaker Toyota Motors has agreed to pay its vehicle owners $1.6bn to settle a lawsuit over sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) reports in 2009 and 2010, which allegedly caused their vehicles to lose value. The settlement, ...
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Honda has filed a response to an amended class action complaint, which alleges some of the automaker's vehicles have defective window regulators. In the case, Grodzitsky versus American Honda Motor Co., the plaintiffs argue the window ...
The individual owners of Michigan-based glove manufacturer Glove Coaters Inc. deny that their gloves had anything to do with the glass accident involving a Houston glass employee last year, and are asking a federal judge to deny him any ...
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Irn Bru maker AG Barr is remaining tight-lipped about press reports that it is preparing a £1bn bid for Glaxo Smith Kline’s iconic drink brands Ribena and Lucozade, in the wake of its failed merger bid with Britvic. He ...
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BT has hit back against press criticism generated by the National Audit Office's report into the rising costs and delays that have affected the government's rural fibre-broadband rollout. The company says, in particular, that it has not ...
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European Union politicians at both national and European levels demanded on Monday that the U.S. answer allegations of spying on E.U. embassies, while others called for asylum for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Speaking on behalf of ...
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