Eleven complainants have sent an open letter to the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, urging him to formally charge Google with breaching competition law. “The Commission opened proceedings ...
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The European Commission today launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of solar glass from China. The initiation is based on a complaint lodged by the association EU ProSun Glass, which claims solar glass from China is being ...
UK cereal maker Weetabix has had its WeetaKid mobile app banned for making children feel "inferior" if they did not eat the company's products. The app fell foul of the UK's Advertising Standards Authority, which ruled it "exploited" the ...
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Ofcom today gave the go-ahead for Everything Everywhere to use its existing spectrum allocation for 4G mobile services in the UK. Ofcom's decision means Everything Everywhere – formed from the merger of Orange and T-Mobile – ...
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European Union regulators will not force Microsoft to open its Windows RT operating system to rival browsers, the Brussels-based antitrust agency said Wednesday. At the same time, the European Competition Commission served Microsoft with ...
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IDG News Service - Google has proposed a settlement of its antitrust case to the European Commission that involves labeling its own services when it presents them in search results, news reports said Wednesday. But complainants in the ...
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China has officially rejected a request by the US, Europe and Japan to have a special panel of the World Trade Organization arbitrate a dispute over the country's controversial policy of restricting exports of rare earths. China mines ...
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The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has found the dumping of carbon steel welded pipe, commonly identified as standard pipe exported from Chinese Taipei, the Republic of India, the Sultanate of Oman, the Republic of Korea, Thailand ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission said Tuesday it had launched an investigation into wireless consumer electronics devices and components from 13 top technology companies and their subsidiaries, including Samsung, Acer, and Nintendo, ...
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The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) closed its investigation of the alleged injurious dumping and subsidizing of certain unitized wall modules from China because the complainants failed to discharge their evidentiary burden, ...
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