The European Commission on Tuesday warned 13 optical disk drive suppliers that they may face a formal antitrust investigation for participating in a worldwide cartel. The companies are alleged to have been engaged in bid rigging for at ...
Apple and four major e-book publishers have offered retailers such as Amazon.com the option to set their own prices for e-books for the next two years in a bid to end an antitrust investigation in the European Union. The European ...
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Samsung dropped all claims pending in European courts in which it asserted patents that are essential for mobile communication devices to prevent the sales of Apple products in Europe. The injunction requests against Apple,which aimed to ...
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Research from Experian has revealed that European businesses might lose billions of Euros as a result of errors that will slow payments when the Single European Payments Area (Sepa) system comes fully into force in 2014. Sepa attempts to ...
Expanding the radio spectrum available for license-exempt applications such as Wi-Fi is one of a number of options the European Commission is considering to drive wireless innovation and make the use of radio spectrum more efficient, a ...
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The European Commission (EC) wants to impose pension changes that would cost UK businesses £350bn (eURO440bn) and 180,000 jobs, according to research commissioned by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Describing the ...
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With approval from the Canadian government granted on Friday, China National Offshore Oil Corp. has crossed the biggest hurdle to its $15.1 billion takeover bid for Nexen and the deal should close by the end of the year, analysts said in ...
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Intel this week presented an array of arguments to the E.U. General Court in its appeal of a massive 1.06 billion euros (US$1.33 billion) fine imposed by Europe's antitrust regulators. In 2009, the European Commission fined Intel for ...
Atop the new investigation into Microsoft's failure to give some Windows users a browser ballot screen, European Union (EU) antitrust officials are also looking into charges that Microsoft has blocked rival browser makers from harnessing ...
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Using Visa or MasterCard for donations to WikiLeaks was made possible again Wednesday when the French organization Defense Fund Net Neutrality (FDNN) started accepting payments via those credit card providers through the French Carte Bleue ...
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Microsoft could have escaped the wrath of European Union antitrust regulators and the risk of potential fines in the billions if it had paid attention to an exchange on its own support site more than a year ago. The back-and-forth between ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's agreement with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's opposition to trade protectionism implies that she may attempt to dissuade the EU Commission from launching an anti-dumping investigation against solar products ...
The European Commission is expected to announce its position on the anti-dumping investigation requested by solar firms in Europe on September 6,2012.Solar firms around the world have been waiting for the announcement since Europe-based ...
The top two stories on just-food's pages this week included Barry Callebaut's deal to buy Petra Foods' cocoa ingredients business and the European Commission's warning it will come forward with ideas for a grocery code adjudicator next ...
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Cyber criminals are increasingly using .eu domain names in their attack campaigns, according to data from multiple security companies. “Numerous malicious .eu domains have been registered during November which are being used to ...
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