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14 Dec 2012
Apple and four major publishers have reached a settlement with the European Commission over claims that the companies had engaged anti-competitively in relation to the sale of electronic books (e-books).
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10 Dec 2012
The European Commission has served fines totalling more than €1.47 billion to six companies it said had operated in at least one of two global cartels where prices for cathode ray tubes (CRT) were fixed.
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07 Dec 2012
A major drugs company has lost its appeal against a ruling by an EU court which had ordered it to pay €52.5 million for abusing a dominant market position in the market for ulcer medicines.
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06 Dec 2012
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has claimed that a Chinese telecoms firm and its subsidiary engaged in a decade-long price fixing conspiracy that caused HP to overpay for display screens.
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04 Dec 2012
Google is "misleading" consumers by displaying links that businesses have paid for among the results generated by its 'Shopping' search engine, Microsoft has said.
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27 Nov 2012
Companies that fail to provide consumers with the ability to move their personal data to rival firms could face action under EU competition laws, the EU's Competition Commissioner has warned.
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27 Nov 2012
Governments across the world have taken issue with a number of the applications for new generic 'top-level' domains (gTLDs), claiming that some companies that seek to control the registration of web addresses at the new domains should not be allowed to...
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14 Nov 2012
A long-running case on the tax treatment of dividends could cost the UK Government "hundreds of millions of pounds", an expert has said, after a European court found that taxing dividends from outside the UK differently was discriminatory.
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13 Nov 2012
The Government will "act quickly" to address any gaps in the powers of regulators to tackle market abuse following allegations that companies operating in the UK gas market distorted prices, it has said.
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18 Oct 2012
Organisations that face being fined for breaching UK competition law will be able to challenge the level of penalty being proposed or the way the fine has been calculated under a new procedure outlined by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
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