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27 Mar 2008
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) will not publish new rules on insurance brokers' commissions before 2009. But the financial regulator said that it still has concerns about commissions and will carry out further work on disclosure and conflicts...
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27 Mar 2008
A Parliamentary committee today launched an inquiry into how life insurance companies should use inherited estates – the surplus (or 'orphan') assets that have built up over the years in their with-profits funds.
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28 Feb 2008
The founder of a company set up to re-sell Microsoft software licences claims he will still be able to do so, despite changes made by Microsoft to its software licences which appear to be designed to stop the re-sale.
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28 Feb 2008
A US appeals court has ordered a reconsideration of the damages that Microsoft must pay to a Guatemalan inventor who successfully sued it for patent infringement.
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28 Feb 2008
The European Commission has fined Microsoft €899 million in an unprecedented move penalising the company for not complying with a previous Commission order.
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27 Feb 2008
The Information Commissioner has ordered the Government to release minutes of cabinet meetings at which the decision to invade Iraq was made. The order has been made under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.
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27 Feb 2008
One of the internet's biggest sellers of domain names is being sued for allegedly forcing consumers to buy addresses from it to the exclusion of other providers. The US class action law suit also claims that addressing authority ICANN is facilitating...
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27 Feb 2008
The European Commission and US Government have seized 360,000 computer components in a series of co-ordinated raids. The action was the first time that the two bodies have worked on a joint enforcement operation to protect intellectual property rights....
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27 Feb 2008
The European Commission hopes that more companies will take part in public private partnerships after it published legal guidance on how such deals should be structured.
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26 Feb 2008
The European Commission has said that a Microsoft pledge to make its software more open and accessible to developers will not affect its judgment on alleged past infringements of EU law.
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