Customers who bought e-books during a period of alleged price-fixing between Apple and five major publishers may be eligible to compensation payments. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has announced ...
Following through on a policy change announced in 2012, IBM has started restricting availability of hardware patches to paying customers, spurring at least one advocacy group to accuse the company of anticompetitive practices. IBM "is ...
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Biotechnology company Amgen has reached a deal to buy all outstanding shares of California-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals for $125 per share in cash. The purchase price of the transaction that is expected to be closed by the beginning of ...
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Vacuum and exhaust- abatement equipment maker Edwards Ltd of Crawley, UK and Atlas Copco Group, a Sweden-based provider of industrial productivity solutions, have entered into a definitive merger agreement in a transaction valued at up to ...
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Microsoft has directly accused Google of sabotaging the YouTube app on the Windows Phone platform with "impossible roadblocks", accusing the web company - which owns the video streaming network - of demanding unnecessary development ...
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Five large US book publishers have openly objected to new restrictions outlined by the US government after Apple was found guilty of conspiring to artificially raise e-book prices. After having already found Apple to have "conspired to ...
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GranBio, a Brazilian biotechnology company, and Rhodia, a Solvay Group company, have signed an agreement to create a partnership to produce bio n-butanol. Bio n-butanol is made from sugar cane straw and bagasse, the same raw material that ...
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The specialty chemicals group ALTANA has signed a definite agreement to acquire the global rheology business of Rockwood Holdings Inc. The unit, currently part of Rockwood's "Performance Additives" segment, is one of the world's leading ...
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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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The German Federal Cartel Office believes no significant improvement has occurred in the underlying conditions for log marketing in the German states of North-Rhine Westphalia, Thuringia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Baden-Württemberg. ...
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Cal-Maine Foods, a US-based egg producer, has reported a net loss of $3.8m for the fourth quarter of 2013, compared with a profit of $37.2m for the same period in 2012, due to lawsuit settlement charge that offset the company's improved ...
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Spanish food processing firm Ebro Foods has reported that its net earnings for the first half of 2013 increased 5.5% to €71m, compared with €67.2m for the same period in 2012. For the period, net sales decreased 1.1% to ...
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It is learned that Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) has started an administrative proceeding to investigate Aperam. The body claims that Aperam Inox South America SA might be taking unfair advantage of its ...
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The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block Ardagh Group's planned acquisition of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA's SGO.FR +1.92%U.S. glass-bottle operations, saying the purchase would violate antitrust laws. Ardagh, a glass and ...
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In order to adapt EU payments market to the opportunities of the single market and to support the growth of the EU economy, the European Commission adopted today a package including: • A new Payment Services Directive ("PSD2") and ...