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29 Sep 2000
According to reports, the European Commission is expected to approve the $135 billion takeover of Time Warner by America Online. However, it is also expected to block the proposed joint venture deal between Warner Music and EMI Group unless the companies...
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29 Sep 2000
US technology stocks have taken another blow with Apple issuing a profits warning and Microsoft losing two of its directors, including Paul Allen.
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29 Sep 2000
On Monday, 2nd October 2000 the Human Rights Act 1998 comes into force in the UK. Whilst the Act will only be directly enforceable against public sector employers (such as the police, central and local government, and prisons), and semi-public employers...
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29 Sep 2000
A user of the BT free on-line e-mail service Talk21 is reported by the BBC to have found by accident that he could access the e-mail accounts of other individuals when he used a software package for gathering marketing information on the web site of his...
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28 Sep 2000
A global survey of the financial services industry released today by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young shows that while the greatest e-commerce concern in 1997 and 1998 was security, this is now dwarfed by the need to get e-solutions into the market place...
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28 Sep 2000
A new bill is being introduced in California aimed at those who write and disseminate computer viruses or who commit denial of service attacks.
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28 Sep 2000
In a case that may prove to be the most resounding blow yet to senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail, a Californian e-mail service has obtained a temporary restraining order that prohibits a company and its owner from sending any unsolicited commercial...
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28 Sep 2000
New legislation has been proposed in the US that would legalise the practice for which MP3.com has been ordered to pay a minimum of $118 million in damages.
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27 Sep 2000
US Supreme Court justices yesterday voted 8-1 in favour of sending the Microsoft antitrust case appeal to a lower court, granting the wish of Microsoft to take its arguments against splitting up the company before the Court of Appeals. The US Department...
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27 Sep 2000
Broadcom, a maker of high-speed communications chips, has taken action in a Californian court, demanding that its bigger rival Intel stops shipping or selling products that Broadcom claims are the result of stolen trade secrets.
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