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- Call for pay freeze in public sector
- A pay freeze for senior public sector staff including judges, family doctors, NHS managers and top civil servants was proposed by ministers yesterday, along with rises of less than 1 per cent for hospital doctors, dentists and ordinary civil -servants.In evidence to the review bodies that recommend pay for...
- External links 2009-10-05
- BBC challenges critics on licence fee share-out
- The BBC threw down the gauntlet to critics yesterday, saying that the public did not want to see its licence fee shared with other broadcasters and dismissing critics such as James Murdoch as "desperately out of touch".After a summer in which the government and its commercial rivals identified the...
- External links 2009-09-09
- Car sales surge in August
- Scrapping incentives lifted car sales around the world in August, preliminary data showed, as government subsidies tempted buyers seeking the trade-in bonuses into dealerships.In Japan, car sales rose for the first time in more than a year. Several other countries and carmaking groups in Asia and Europe reported higher...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Lobbying leads to harder stance on net piracy
- Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, yesterday hardened the government's attack on online piracy . The move came after lobbying by the film and music industry over concerns that the digital economy bill provides an in-suf-ficient deterrent.The government took the unusual step of adding to an ongoing consultation a proposal...
- External links 2009-08-25
- Germany and GM stuck over Opel
- Talks between General Motors and a German government task force about Opel on Tuesday brought no immediate end to a stalemate over the spin-off of the US carmaker's European arm.John Smith, GM's chief negotiator, was in Berlin to press Angela Merkel's government for more information on the sale, including...
- External links 2009-08-25
- US extends cash for clunkers plan
- The US government has extended by 18 hours the deadline for car dealers to file applications for rebates under the "cash for clunkers" car scrappage scheme, after heavy demand brought down a computer system processing the deals.The Department of Transportation said yesterday that it had taken 635,000 applications valued...
- External links 2009-08-24
- GM delay to choosing Opel bidder irritates Berlin
- Germany's government has expressed irritation at General Motors' failure to decide on a preferred bidder for a controlling stake in Opel/Vauxhall, heightening the political stakes over the future of the European car manufacturing group.Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, told German television ZDF that she "regretted" GM's inaction and said a...
- External links 2009-08-23
- Oracle deal gains DoJ approval
- Oracle yesterday won clearance from the US Department of Justice for its $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems, after an earlier delay in the approval process threatened to knock the deal off course. The acquisition is still waiting for European approval.The US software company had originally hoped to close the...
- External links 2009-08-20
- US to end cash-for-clunkers scheme
- The US cash-for-clunkers car scrappage scheme has become a victim of its own success, with the government announcing on Thursday that the incentives will come to an end on Monday evening, just a month after they were introduced.The decision was taken to ensure that payments under the scheme do...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Anti-pirate party
- Tech blog Tim Bradshaw: The debate over what to do with those caught swapping music and movies online flared up again this weekend after the FT reported that the UK government was considering accelerating its anti-piracy plans.Recent ministerial changes have given record labels and other rights holders fresh...
- External links 2009-08-17
- How one corporate misstep led to a change in American law
- In recent years great bluster has been generated over accusations that privacy laws or norms were broken by large segments of the US information brokering industry and the anti-terror efforts of the George W. Bush administration. But one misstep by a single big company produced tangible change.Hewlett-Packard was engulfed...
- External links 2009-08-16
- Row erupts over Afghanistan claims
- Bob Ainsworth, defence secretary, was embroiled in a political row last night after he implied that the British military would be able to pull back significantly from frontline operations in Afghanistan by next summer."We can in the next year get in a position where the Afghans will take responsibility...
- External links 2009-08-16
- Scotland eyes carbon-capture for North Sea
- Scotland-based companies and the government at Holyrood hope proximity to the rapidly-depleting oil and gas fields of the North Sea will put the country at the forefront of a potentially lucrative new industry ? storing carbon dioxide.The UK government believes carbon capture and storage CCS is essential for curbing...
- External links 2009-08-16
- GM opts for Magna in Opel deal
- General Motors on Thursday said its board had supported a bid by Canada's Magna International and Russia's Sberbank to buy a majority stake in its European Opel and Vauxhall business.The decision will see Magna and Sberbank take 55 per cent of the "new Opel", employees take 10 per cent...
- External links 2009-09-10
- Construction industry boosted by stimulus funds
- Public spending showed signs of making a much-needed impact on the beleaguered construction industry yesterday as government stimulus money helped drive up new orders in the sector.More than £3bn of new work was commissioned in July, an increase of 39 per cent on the previous month, as investment on...
- External links 2009-09-10
- UK government to approve TV product placements
- TV advertisements are set to break out from the confines of the ad break as the government reversed its opposition to product placement in the UK.Ben Bradshaw, the culture secretary, is expected to propose this week that commercial broadcasters and TV producers will be able to receive payment to...
- External links 2009-09-13
- Murdoch tabloid swings to Tories
- Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper has switched its support from the Labour government it is credited with helping to sweep to power in 1997 to back the Conservative party in next year's general election.The UK's top-selling daily dealt the blow the morning after Gordon Brown, prime minister, delivered a speech...
- External links 2009-09-30
- Political fury over F Telecom suicides
- Didier Lombard, chief executive of France Telecom, faced calls for his resignation yesterday as he found himself at a centre of a political storm in France following the 24th suicide by a company employee in 18 months.France's opposition socialists and far-left parties demanded that Mr Lombard quit the company...
- External links 2009-09-29
- Investors favour nuclear power utilities
- The pro-business credentials of Germany's incoming coalition government gave a modest boost to the country's equity markets yesterday, with investors quick to judge that some of Europe's biggest power generation companies would be among the corporate winners from Sunday's general election.Shares in Eon and RWE, the utility companies, led...
- External links 2009-09-28
- Brown puts fiscal stimulus centre stage
- A series of ministers will use this week's Labour party conference to claim government action helped pull the country back from the economic abyss, while their Tory counterparts will as surely use their own conference next week to blame the government for the downturn's depth.Gordon Brown drew the battle...
- External links 2009-09-27
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