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MillerCoors' Plan to Close North Carolina Brewery Faces State And Federal Antitrust Scrutiny
Apr 6, 2016North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper spoke at a Teamsters rally outside of the MillerCoors brewery in Eden, North Carolina. MillerCoors announced plans to close the Eden brewery in September 2015, just two days before merger talks ...
Tags: MillerCoors, Eden brewery, ABI, SAB, North Carolina Brewery
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Thai Union Frozen Products Considers Stake Sale in Chicken of The Sea
Aug 21, 2015Thai Union Frozen Products (TUF) is considering divesting its stake in American tuna brand Chicken of the Sea, a move that could clear the way for its planned $1.5bn acquisition of Bumble Bee Foods. TUF CEO Thiraphong Chansiri was quoted ...
Tags: Frozen Products, Chicken
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Qualcomm's Financial Report Sending Its Shares Lower
Jan 29, 2015Qualcomm Inc said it expects its newest Snapdragon mobile chip will not be used in a major customer's flagship smartphone, sending its shares lower. The chipmaker said in a statement on Wednesday it expects fiscal 2015 revenue between $26.0 ...
Tags: Qualcomm, Snapdragon, mobile chip
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The Large Reduction in Anti-Dumping Tariff Rates Finished by US Government
Jan 6, 2015The US government has finished reviewing anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariff rates imposed in 2012 on PV modules imported from China and decided to reduce the former rates to an average of 1.82% and the latter to an average of ...
Tags: China-Made PV Modules, Lights
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Brazilian Regulators Are to Investigate Google After Claims by Search Rivals
Oct 16, 2013Brazilian regulators are to investigate Google after claims by Microsoft and Brazilian search rivals that the firm is involved in anti-competitive practices. Brazil's antitrust watchdog Cade said that it was looking into accusations that ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Google
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Google Seems to Have Relented in Its Long-Running Battle with The European Union
Oct 1, 2013Google seems to have relented in its long-running battle with the European Union over changing its search engine to more accurately reflect rival companies and services. The EU's commissioner responsible for competition, Joaquin Almunia, ...
Tags: google, Computer Products
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Google Is Asked for Better Assurances From The Company in an Antitrust Investigation
Jul 23, 2013Europe's competition chief confirmed Wednesday that he has written to Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to ask for better assurances from the company in an ongoing antitrust investigation. "After the analysis of the market test that was ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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EU Investigators Raided The Offices of The Bloc's Biggest Telecommunications Providers
Jul 15, 2013European Union investigators have raided the offices of three of the bloc's biggest telecommunications providers as part of an antitrust probe examining if they're limiting their customers' access to third-party applications including ...
Tags: Mobile Operators, Antitrust Probe
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Google Is Not Obligated to Delete Sensitive Data From Its Search Index
Jun 27, 2013Google is not obligated to delete sensitive data from its search index, despite being subject to EU privacy legislation. That's the view of a top adviser to the European Court of Justice about a case concerning whether individuals can ...
Tags: google, Data, Computer Products
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Google Looks to Be Beating off Stiff Competition From Apple
Jun 13, 2013Internet giant Google is closing in on Waze, an Israeli-based mobile app company that offers a free social GPS application featuring turn-by-turn navigation. Facebook and Yahoo in its bid to acquire the company, with an all-cash offer, ...
Tags: google, apple, facebook, yahoo, Computer Products
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Google Is Likely to Have to Agree to More Concessions
May 29, 2013Google is likely to have to agree to more concessions before the European Union's antitrust probe into the web giant is settled, says Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia (pictured). The world's number one web firm has been under ...
Tags: Google, EU Antitrust, Computer Products
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Google Faces Another Antitrust Probe by Us Regulators Into Whether The Firm Is Using
May 28, 2013Google 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 ...
Tags: Computer Products
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Google Is Reportedly Squaring up to Facebook in a $1bn Bidding War
May 28, 2013Google is reportedly squaring up to Facebook in a $1bn (£660m) bidding war for Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze. According to Bloomberg, the internet giant has expressed an interest in buying up the start-up ...
Tags: Computer Products, google, software
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Motorola Abuses Its Dominant Position in The E.U. by Enforcing an Injunction Against Apple
May 8, 2013Motorola Mobility abuses its dominant position in the E.U. by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany on the basis of its mobile phone standard-essential patents (SEPs), the European Commission said in a preliminary ...
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Google Has Submitted a Package of Concessions to The European Commission
Apr 15, 2013Google has submitted a package of concessions to the European Commission (EC) as it attempts to avoid a fine following an antitrust investigation. Over the past two and a half years, European Union (EU) competition regulators have been ...
Tags: Google, mobile marketplace