Europe's top digital commissioner has called for an "Airbus for chips" to boost the bloc's microelectronics sector. Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes said on Tuesday that if the European Union wants to be a global player in chip ...
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Apple and four other e-book publishers have settled an antitrust battle with the European Union. After a year of investigations into allegations of cartel price-fixing, the European Commission has decided to accept commitments to alter ...
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Three has announced it will be recruiting almost 800 new staff by the end of 2014. The majority of the roles will be based at its Glasgow offices with the addition 380 telesales staff, making the total employees close to 1,000. However, ...
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European chemicals output will contract by 2.0 per cent in 2012 compared with 2011, European chemicals group Cefic said. A lowering of its forecast released in September, the chemicals trade body downgrade reflects recent data showing a ...
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SES has announced that its 51st SES spacecraft is in orbit after successful ILS Proton launch, providing fresh satellite capacity in multiple frequency bands to Europe, Africa and the Middle East. BETZDORF, LUXEMBOURG, July 13, 2012 ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) estimates that total benefit overpayments due to fraud and error in 2011-12 were GBP3.2 billion, equating to 2% of total benefit expenditure of GBP 159bn. Total underpayments in 2011-12 are ...
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It's a staggering figure – around 2.9m tonnes of food and drink is wasted each year, according to Wrap. It's a number that's been troubling politicians and environmentalists but it is a problem that packaging can help tackle. And ...
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The European Union (EU) today agreed to allow the UK’s top operators to work together on mobile payment solutions. Vodafone, O2 and Everything Everywhere announced the plan to create a joint venture in March this year, hoping to ...
UK mobile operator 3 will not be able to launch its own 4G services until September 2013, despite buying suitable spectrum from its rival Everything Everywhere (EE). Ofcom announced on 21 August that it would allow Everything Everywhere ...
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The European Commission today launched a public consultation into net neutrality. It will be led by the vice president for the digital agenda at the EC, Neelie Kroes, who is keen to establish the facts around management of internet ...
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The European Commission (EC) has announced funding for IT research totaling almost €1.5bn. The cash is part of a larger €8.1bn pot the EC plans to invest in various research projects proposed by businesses and organisations ...
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Local authorities could pay double that of central government to fund the broadband roll-out across the UK. The European Commission gave the green light to the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme, which will see a £530m pot of ...
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A 10MW (megawatt) modular datacentre worth £60m will be built in Birmingham by March 2013 to provide storage services for high street banks, financial services firms, media companies, technology companies and small businesses. The ...
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Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt wrote to Europe's top antitrust authorities with proposals aimed at avoiding a fine for anticompetitive behavior and abuse of its dominant market position. The European Commission confirmed Monday ...
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Seven international electronics manufacturers were fined a total of $1.92 billion by the European Commission on Wednesday for conspiring to fix the price of cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) in two separate cartels between 1996 and 2006. European ...
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