Mt. Gox is requiring all users to verify their accounts in order to make non-bitcoin currency deposits and withdrawals, less than a week after U.S. authorities said they shut down online payment processor Liberty Reserve for alleged money ...
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The ban was introduced in 2011 in shops across Italy, with only biodegradable, cloth or paper bags on offer. Italy will only be able to impose fines on violators when the law is approved by the European Union, and many small shops and ...
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The founder of Liberty Reserve, an online digital currency and payments system based in Costa Rica, has been arrested and charged with money laundering. Further reading Retailers looking to cut Visa and other 'middlemen' out of the ...
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Police in the southern Italian city of Taranto have confiscated €8.1 billion worth of property and goods belonging to the Riva family, owners of the Riva Fire holding company which controls the troubled Ilva steel plant, as widespread ...
Tags: Italy, production, steelmaking, European Union, Brescia
Oracle and managed services provider ServiceKey have come to a proposed settlement of an intellectual-property lawsuit Oracle filed against the company last year. Oracle sued ServiceKey in February 2012, alleging that it and another ...
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Last week, Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) officers in NSW and Victoria seized approximately 32 kilograms of ephedrine. The drugs were detected in 14 separate consignments from Hong Kong, China, India and Ireland ...
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There are some chemicals that work as an alternative to heroin. The mephedrone is popular as an element that gives the regular high to the people who loves this state of the body and mind. The mephedrone is illegal and is not going to help ...
Google is facing another antitrust probe by US regulators into whether the firm is using its Google is facing another antitrust probe by US regulators into whether the firm is using its position as the world's number one web organisation to ...
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Iran's government is considering imposing a tax of up to 40 percent on iron ore exports to benefit from the increase in iron ore sales to China, according to Reuters. During the first quarter of the current year, Iran's iron ore exports ...
Tags: iron ore, raw mat, China, Iran, Middle East, quotas&duties, trading
Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) announced this week that it expects positive results from the Ministry of Economy regarding research into illegally imported plate from Russia and Ukraine, which should shortly extend to other steel ...
Tags: plate, flats, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, North America, imp/exp statistics
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted online payment processor Liberty Reserve for laundering $6 billion in a series of global transactions, which the agency charges may be the largest international money laundering prosecution in ...
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U.S. companies should be allowed to take aggressive countermeasures against hackers seeking to steal their intellectual property, contends the private Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property. The 100-page report, ...
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In 2003, Yukos was preparing for a game-changing merger with another private Russian oil company, Roman Abramovich's Sibneft, to create a 2.3 million b/d Russian oil producing giant. The deal was scuppered, however, in large part because ...
Tags: Yukos Demise, Giant Oil Producer
Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. and other countries, according to a new ...
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With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinion. Most people would put Jeff Garzik in the former camp. A Bitcoin core developer for ...
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