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- Alaska Airlines Settles Pay for Pilots, Execs
- The union for Alaska Airlines' pilots has approved a contract that restores much of the pay cuts imposed on them in 2005, thus ending a long and often-contentious bargaining process. Separately, shareholders of the airline's parent company have approved the pay structure for senior executives in one of corporate America's early "say...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
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- Ruling By End March in EMI Deal Dispute
- By Grant McCoolNEW YORK (Reuters UK) - A U.S. judge said he would rule by the end of March on whether or not to grant a request by Citigroup Inc C to move a lawsuit by Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd to London in a dispute over the buyout house's...
- News items 2010-03-04
- Judge Could Tip General Growth's Future
- By Ilaina JonasNEW YORK (Reuters) - The top two U.S. mall owners will square off before a judge on Wednesday to shape the outcome of the largest U.S. real estate bankruptcy ever.General Growth Properties Inc GGWPQ will ask Judge Allan Gropper of the federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan to give...
- News items 2010-03-02
- PE Firm Offers To Take JDate Parent Spark Networks Private
- PE firm Grant Hill Partners, which might be best known for buying and then selling IGN, wants to take online dating company Spark Networks private. Grant Hill, which bought a minority stake in Spark in late 2005 and now owns about a quarter of the company’s stock, is offering...
- External links 2010-03-02
- A deluge of questions for Rudd at the Press Club
- Further to the previous post, the questions for Rudd on health reform are pouring in from Croakey contributors. Here are some more: Association Prof Gawaine Powell Davies, UNSW Research Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity: 1. Will primary health care be brought into the same system as hospitals, to...
- News items 2010-03-02
- Digital Economy bill amendments could deny UK YouTube access
- Dave Bailey, Computing , Wednesday 3 March 2010 at 12:14:00 Amendments could force ISPs to block popular websites Liberal Democrat Lords Razzall and Clement-Jones have proposed an amendment to the Digital Economy bill which could see UK ISPs forced to...
- News items 2010-03-03
- U.S. Could Challenge China on Google's Behalf at WTO
- Google made news in Washington on Tuesday as the Obama Administration is reportedly considering using the World Trade Organization to help Google in its censorship battle with China. Meanwhile, a leading U.S. Senator said he plans to introduce legislation punishing companies that cave in to censorship demands. ...
- News items 2010-03-03
- ATandT Confirms Yahoo is Default Search For The Android Motorola Backflip
- AT&T March 7 will launch the Motorola Backflip with Yahoo, not Google as the default search engine for its first phone running Google's Android operating system. AT&T and Yahoo spokespeople confirmed for eWEEK Yahoo, whose share of the search market slipped to 17 percent through January, will be the search...
- News items 2010-03-03
- Opting out of NHS Spine | Henry Porter
- Doctors are concerned about the rapid roll-out of the patient database, and are helping people who don't want to be on it If private detectives hack people's phones and provide transcripts of their messages to News of the World reporters, it should only take us a moment to...
- News items 2010-03-03
- Microsoft in spotlight over Google case
- When internet entrepreneur Shivaun Raff was looking last year for ways to advance her campaign against Google over what she claimed were anti-competitive practices, she found support and advice from a deep-pocketed source: a Brussels-based lobbying group almost entirely funded by Microsoft.That meeting of interests contributed to her search service, Foundem, eventually lodging a formal complaint to the European Commission, and helped to trigger Brussels' decision to launch the first-ever antitrust review of Google's core search business.The Microsoft connection has become the focus of intense interest in Brussels - particularly since the software company itself lodged another of the three complaints that triggered the Commission's informal inquiry.Foundem's public campaign against Google, which it accused of unfairly relegating its service in the Google search rankings, began under its own steam. But it took the help of the Microsoft-backed group - Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace - to turn that into a formal anti-trust complaint.Ms Raff said she had previously ruled out a complaint because she had assumed it would be too expensive and difficult for a small company. But she said that after approaching IComp last year, the idea "came up in conversation" with representatives of the body, and that they assured her it was not as daunting a process as she thought.A "virtual" body without a permanent staff, IComp's work is carried out by legal adviser David Wood and Burson-Marsteller, the communications group that has played a central role in Microsoft's lobbying activities. Their fees are paid in large part by Microsoft, which set up IComp and is said by one person familiar with the group to pay most of its running costs.Ms Raff said that while she had formulated the main part of the complaint, Mr Wood had also worked on it, "topping and tailing" it with his expertise. Mr Wood played down his involvement, describing it as only "high-level advice".Gavin Grant of Burson-Marsteller, who played a part in setting up IComp, said his agency had supported Foundem in ways including advising it on which European MPs to approach with its case and helping it deal with press enquiries. However, he denied that this amounted to providing full support to Foundem, adding: "They couldn't afford our fees."Ms Raff and the IComp founders all insisted that Foundem's founders were the driving force behind its complaint. But the signs of Microsoft's involvement will raise questions about whether the fierce rivalry between the two technology companies has helped to set the regulatory arena."There are those in the Commission who will be more sceptical of complaints that look like they are fomented by Microsoft and part of an attempt to deflect [the Commission's] attention from Microsoft itself," says Thomas Vinje, the legal representative for Ecis, a tech industry group that waged a successful lobbying campaign in Brussels against the software group.In a blog last week, Microsoft sought to pre-empt that criticism, pointing out that European antitrust reviews were often triggered by complaints from competitors. But while Ecis' support was broad-based, with companies such as Oracle and IBM acting behind the scenes in support of more overt opponents such as Sun Microsystems, the complaints against Google for now remain narrow.There has been a pattern of small companies launching competition-related complaints in Brussels and then being backed by trade associations in which rivals have a role - or sometimes being backed by those rivals themselves. This has been particularly noticeable in the highly-charged technology area where many of the fiercest antitrust battles of recent years have been fought. by Financial Times
- External links 2010-03-04
- China Plans New Trade Office as Global Disputes Grow: Sources
- By George Chen and Jonathan LynnBEIJING/GENEVA (Reuters) - China is setting up a new agency to help streamline its trade negotiating bureaucracy as the world's third-largest economy faces a growing number of commercial disputes.The new China Trade Representative office CTR will absorb a tangle of offices that have overlapping influence...
- News items 2010-03-10
- Ex-NY Bank President First Accused of TARP Fraud
- By Grant McCoolNEW YORK (Reuters) - The former president of New York's privately held Park Avenue Bank was arrested and charged on Monday with being the first person to attempt to steal from U.S. government bailout funds in the financial crisis.A 10-count criminal complaint accused Charles Antonucci of devising "an...
- News items 2010-03-15
- TV broadcasters prepare for spectrum battle
- A fight is brewing in Washington, D.C., and this one's not the much-publicized battle over health care reform.No, the brawl that is just getting started is much quieter and could drag on for years. In one corner of the ring is the Federal Communications Commission, which wants to reclaim wireless...
- News items 2010-03-17
- 'Breaking Bad' Builds Buzz With Jolt
- AMC is getting amped for the season premiere of Breaking Bad, lining up Jolt Energy Drink as a sponsor of Vince Gilligan's Emmy Award–winning series. In conjunction with Breaking Bad's March 21 return to AMC, Jolt will distribute more than 1 million co-branded cans of its four signature flavors to...
- News items 2010-03-18
- Murkowski and Automakers Rumble Over EPA Regs
- An effort by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to block the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gases would bring about the "collapse" of a delicate deal reached last year between automakers, states, and the federal government to reduce vehicle emissions, automakers said on Wednesday. The Alliance...
- News items 2010-03-18
- Highlights from the Reconciliation Bill, and Maggieâ??s Comments on the Changes
- Overall, the changes in the reconciliation bill will make the Senate bill more progressive—and fairer. My prediction: the bill will pass. Those who oppose universal coverage are becoming angrier, louder, more abusive, and more frantic. This is because they realize that they are losing, and now they are just flailing...
- News items 2010-03-18
- Court Orders Fed to Release Bailout Documents
- By Grant McCool and Jonathan StempelNEW YORK (Reuters) - In a significant victory for news media, a federal appeals court said the Federal Reserve must disclose records on emergency lending programs to banks bailed out by the government in the financial crisis.The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ordered...
- News items 2010-03-19
- Airbus manufacturer may bid for Air Force tankers
- European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company officials on Friday signaled they might jump into the lucrative competition to build 179 aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force.In a statement released Friday morning, the European consortium that manufactures Airbus planes said the Defense Department has indicated it would welcome a proposal...
- News items 2010-03-19
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