The UK's Food Standards Agency has said it will consider taking legal action over the discovery of horse DNA in some beef burgers on sale in several retailers in the UK and Ireland. The UK's food safety watchdog is urgently investigating ...
Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) has issued a statement suggesting it will take legal action against companies exporting crude oil without dealing with the central government, including the confiscation of cargoes and ...
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TECHNOLOGY mogul Gary Cohen has launched legal action in the US over last year's sale of Hyro's web-based businesses to Kit Digital, accusing the buyer of misrepresenting its financial position and breaching the terms of the deal. Mr ...
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US based Southern Copper's Cuajone and Toquepala copper mines, and its Ilo smelter in Moquegua region are operating normally after workers ended a two day strike. The company said in a release that the company was able to maintain ...
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New laws coming into effect this year will ban employers from demanding access to prospective and current employee social networking accounts. Facebook had announced in March 2012 that it was receiving a "distressing increase in reports" ...
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IDG News Service - IBM has been slapped with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by chemical products manufacturer Avantor Performance Materials, which alleges that IBM lied about the suitability of an SAP-based software package it sells in order ...
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The Nasdaq stock exchange in New York is to pay$40m compensation for technical problems that caused confusion on Facebook's first day of share trading. The stock exchange plans to pay$14m to its affected member firms,with the balance to ...
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The company told Instagram fans it has no intention of selling photos after its new terms and conditions sparked outrage among users yesterday. The photo-sharing service saw many of its users threaten to delete their accounts after it ...
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California's attorney general has sued Delta Air Lines for failing to include a privacy policy within the company's mobile application, an alleged violation of the state's Online Privacy Protection Act. The lawsuit, filed in Superior ...
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Swiss bank UBS is planning to take legal action against Nasdaq OMX Group to recoup losses it made related to the Facebook IPO, the company said on Tuesday as it reported its second quarter results. As a result of "the gross mishandling of ...
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Privacy campaign group Europe vs. Facebook has threatened to take the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to court if it is not satisfied with the DPC's final responses to its 22 complaints about Facebook's privacy policies, and appealed for ...
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Google's Motorola Mobility business has filed a new patent infringement suit against rival Apple,claiming that a number of Apple iPhone features infringe patents Google acquired when it bought Motorola's mobile phone unit. Motorola is ...
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Two of the big four accountancy firms have been named in a new lawsuit claiming damages for HP shareholders following the write-down of Autonomy. HP bought Autonomy in 2011 for $11.7bn, but last week claimed former managers at the UK ...
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Somerset County Council is making preparations for legal action from Southwest One, the shared services joint venture it formed with IBM in 2007. The stand-off is the culmination of 18 months of crisis talks over the joint venture's ...
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Financial Post reported that a line of yellow buoys marking the boundaries of a scallop farm outside Prince Rupert, British Columbia presents the biggest challenge Enbridge Inc may face in its bid to connect Canada’s oil sands to ...
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