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The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
moneyscience: The European Commission has formally approved plans for the break up of Lloyds Banking Group. http://bit.ly/3zqX20
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Information Policy (Free subscription) | yesterday
The European Commission has formed a new group in an attempt to regulate companies' growing gathering and use of customers' personal data. The group has been formed to address problems the Commission says are eroding consumer trust. advert: Pinsent Masons...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
BASKING RIDGE, NJ (MARKET WIRE) Avaya today announced it received clearance from the European Commission for its proposed acquisition of Nortel's enterprise solutions business.
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Forex Analytics (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
European Union Competition regulator Wednesday announced the approval of the restructuring plan of Lloyds Banking Group Plc, and the approval of the restructuring plan and an illiquid asset back-up facility of Dutch-based financial institution ING under EC Treaty state aid rules. The European Commission also approved an asset relief and restructuring package for the Belgian [...] Post from: (c)Autor:...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said the European Union backs Russia’s plans to join the World Trade Organization. We clearly show our support for Russia’s accession to the WTO, Barroso said at a press conference following a Russia-EU summit. Barroso said that Russia’s entry into the global trade club would have a positive effect for [...]
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Xbitlabs (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Ombudsman Confirms Maladministration in Anti-Trust Case Against Intel, But Says They Were Not Serious
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InfoWorld (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oracle and Sun Microsystems have been granted an extra week to defend their planned $7 billion merger in front of European regulators, the European Commission said Friday.
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
The European Commission, the EU’s main competition watchdog, has extended the deadline for approval of Oracle’s proposed $7.4bn merger with rival Sun Microsystems
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Computer World (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oracle and Sun Microsystems have been granted an extra week to defend their planned US$7 billion merger in front of European regulators, the European Commission said Friday.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Merck & Co., Inc. today announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has recommended approval of ELONVA® (corifollitropin alfa injection) as a treatment in controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) in combination with a GnRH antagonist for the development of multiple follicles...
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AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm sitting in the hotel lobby in Barcelona talking to an interesting English guy, Jon Worth, who, along with a small group of friends, just launched a campaign to push for more women on the European Commission. As Jon tells it, the European Commission is kind of like the Cabinet for the European Union (it's all a bit confusing). Here's Jon's explanation on the Web site, it pretty much tells the story:...
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Open Secrets (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you want to make an information request to the EU's directorate-general for employment, its webform asks you to indicate which of the 27 member states you are from. Strangely it also offers you one other option - you can say you come from Wales. Why the employment DG has made this unique concession to Welsh nationalism is not immediately obvious. But this is one of the intriguing minor mysteries...
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Mineweb - Daily news headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
The European Commission's ruling that Italy must end its preferential electricity tariffs to Alcoa is a "dark day for European heavy industry," Alcoa's CEO Klaus Kleinfeld said.
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Open Source (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mueller said the delay in Oracle's response means a decision on the merger won't come from the European Commission until January 27.
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Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
more images more images EU extends Oracle/Sun review deadline until Jan 27 BRUSSELS — European Union regulators said Friday that they have extended until Jan. 27 a deadline to wrap up their antitrust review of Oracle Corp.'s planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. The European Commission said Oracle had asked for more time "in order to have [...]
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gredia | 03/09/2009
The GREDIA research project partly funded by the European Commission has just completed, making available to the Grid community tools that can be used for building and improving Grid applications. Mentioning just a few we have released: - APPEA: A user-friendly Grid application development platform - DRLS: A Distributed Replica Location Service for searching multimedia content, based on P2P overlay...
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ifp | 04/08/2009
A new report on land use in France shows just why many international buyers view France as an attractive place to buy a rural retreat. The report* from the European Commission classifies only 5% of the surface area of the country as ‘urban land’. The vast majority of the country is composed of either agricultural land (60%), or forest and other natural space (34%). The balance is made up of semi-humid
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xtoff | 16/03/2009
A delegation of Europe + Foundation, led by former French Prime Minister, and French Senator Jean-Pierre Raffarin presented to Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, its working papers on how to strengthen the European market’s attractiveness for investments, technologies and skills. The Europe + Foundation organises the 7th annual edition of the World Investment Conference. Europe