The US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched legal action against unknown traders over claims they broke rules when trading in Heinz options before the US$28bn deal to buy the food giant was announced. The SEC claims traders had ...
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Blazingly fast WiFi at home is becoming possible with new ac routers that emulate the speeds achieved by fast category 6 Ethernet cable installed in a dwelling. Modem routers such as Netgear's D6300 and the R6300 router-only model seek to ...
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US authorities have reached a settlement with Macmillan, the last of five publishers accused of colluding with Apple in an e-book price-fixing conspiracy. The US Justice Department said in a statement that with the five publishers ...
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A group of US lawmakers have proposed a bill that would make it illegal for employers or schools to require the disclosure of passwords for social networks such as Facebook. The bipartisan proposal comes after reports that some firms have ...
Associated British Foods has "emphatically" denied allegations of tax evasion on profits made by its sugar processing operations in Zambia. In a report published by Action Aid at the weekend, the charity claims the Ryvita and Silver Spoon ...
Tags: ABF, Zambia, tax evasion on profits
iOS jailbreaks may come and go, but Apple continues to warn that hacking an iPhone to install unapproved software, while not illegal, may void the device's service warranty. The latest jailbreak -- the term for leveraging a vulnerability ...
Associated British Foods (ABF) is embroiled in a tax dodging row with the charity ActionAid over its sugar-producing subsidiary in Zambia. Kingsmill owner ABF denied tax dodging in Zambia According to a report published by the charity, ...
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Former Oracle partner CedarCrestone is alleging the vendor has engaged in an "unlawful and systematic attack" against the third-party support market and has a monopoly on support revenue. Oracle terminated CedarCrestone's partner license ...
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An industry group called the Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace (ICOMP) has claimed that Google's dominant position in online search and advertising was generated as a result of a "broad-ranging and illegal network of ...
It is claimed that the industry’s collective bargaining structure is just a cosy club of big business, the union (SACTWU) and government, who deliberately manipulate wage levels to the detriment of small companies. The facts are ...
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has refused to "confirm or deny" whether it is investigating bankrupt systems integrator 2e2, after Computing asked the regulator whether it had been called in to investigate the defunct company. The ...
Google has issued a lawsuit against BT in both the US and the UK over what it claims is an infringement of its patents. In 2011, BT launched its own legal action against Google for infringing six of its patents in a US court in Delaware. ...
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During the panel discussion at the SteelOrbis Market Talks Meeting held in Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey on February 13, Namik Kemal, chairman of the Turkish Steel Exporters' Association (CIB),discussed Turkey's steel export figures for ...
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iOS jailbreaks may come and go, but Apple continues to warn that hacking an iPhone and jailbreaking it, while not illegal, may void the device's service warranty. The latest jailbreak – the term for leveraging a vulnerability to ...
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Liquidation is looming for collapsed distributor and systems integrator 2e2 after administrators admitted that they have given up trying to sell the company as a going concern.As a result,the administrator has announced the loss of 627 jobs ...
Tags: Liquidation Looms, Redundant, company news