The UK Office of Fair Trading is investigating whether in-app payments on smartphones and tablet computers are illegally encouraging children to spend money. The investigation follows several recent cases in which children have spent ...
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Calls to ban advertising to young children have been rejected. ISBA – the voice of British advertisers – rejected the calls from a pressure group for an immediate ban on the advertising of products aimed at children. The ...
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Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar plans to introduce three major LED lighting products in 2013 including LED lighting filaments for which volume production is expected to begin at the end of the second quarter. Epistar predicts sales of ...
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is used in food packaging such as tins, bottles (including baby bottles until recently), and boxes as well as in dental fillings. Its use has been a concern among food and health officials and governments for several ...
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Eyeing the sometimes considerable data roaming bills that companies receive, a startup called Wandera launched a service Wednesday that promises to cut down on roaming data use. The company is based in both London and San Francisco and ...
Textiles Ministry of India has called on the domestic cotton yarn producers to maintain the prices of their produce at low levels, so as to avert any negative impact on any of the textile industry segments, particularly the powerloom ...
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A court in California declined to certify as class action a lawsuit by workers alleging an illegal cartel formed by seven technology companies including Apple, Google and Intel. The judge, however, raised the possibility that she may ...
Wiesbadener Volksbank - Private Banking The Private Banking department of the Wiesbadener Volksbank has found its home in a historic villa - which is ...
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Are Incandescent Light Bulbs Really Illegal? Both of our kids like to sleep with multiple sources of light: a bright incandescent light bulb from a half-open closet, the dim glow of a flower-shaped silicone night light, and the occasional ...
Related Media Defense of biotechnology is personal Biggest wine hoax in history reveals trade secrets Whiskey is for drinking; agriculture water is for fighting Eating lunch while catching up on the news, the headline “Monsanto ...
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The campaign, which is running in national newspapers and magazines, features a print-out of an email obtained by JTI in which an unnamed official at the Department of Health requests an impact assessment from an Australian counterpart of ...
Apple has received a blow from the US Patent Office with the news that its "bounce-back" patent has been rejected, handing a victory to Samsung in the latest stage of the two firms' seemingly never-ending IP battle. The decision, which ...
Meat firm Cranswick has posted “outstanding trading” both for the year to March 31 2013 and its fourth quarter, according to City analyst Shore Capital. Cranswick's results were driven by 'new product development, robust ...
Finnish engineering and technology company Metso is all set to supply an OptiConcept M containerboard production line for the Ban Pong mill of Siam Kraft Industry in Ratchaburi, Thailand. The start-up of the machine with an extended scope ...
APPLE'S ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander. Google's new Bay View campus will feature walkways angled to force accidental encounters. Facebook, while ...