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- Scale of generic drug raids in France points to wider investigation
- The breadth of the European Commission's antitrust probe into the generic industry launched this week suggests it extends beyond a single deal and explores practices across the sector in France, industry experts said yesterday.Sanofi-Aventis, Ratio-pharm, Teva, Ranbaxy and Novartis all confirmed that their French offices had been raided by...
- External links 2009-10-07
- Grey is the new colour
- "A strange mixture of well-meaning steps at social reform, half-baked schemes for quasi-socialist industrial planning, regulation to protect consumers, welfare programs to help the hardest hit, government support for the cartelisation of industry, higher wages for some, lower wages for others, on the one hand government pump priming, on...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Friends site sale hits obstacle
- The sale of Friends Reunited hit a stumbling block yesterday when it was referred to the Competition Commission over concerns it could damage the online genealogy market.ITV had agreed to sell the networking site for by Financial Times
- External links 2009-11-02
- Brussels set to launch complaint over Oracle's deal to buy rival Sun
- Oracle is braced for a formal objection from Brussels to its planned $7.4bn ( by Financial Times
- External links 2009-11-03
- Supply glut and lower prices forecast
- The world faces a looming natural gas glut that will cool prices, according to the International Energy Agency, the rich countries' watchdog, raising the prospect that Russia's grip over Europe's energy security will loosen. In a draft version of its forthcoming World Energy Outlook, to be published next week,...
- News items 2009-11-04
- France Telecom Egypt rebuff
- France Telecom yesterday vowed to appeal to Egypt's supreme court after the country's stock market regulator once again rejected the French group's attempt to take full control of ECMS, Egypt's largest mobile operator.A review panel of the Egyptian stock market regulator rejected an appeal by France Telecom which has...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Social sites losing popularity with young
- Social networking websites have lost some of their "cool" factor with younger users and are on their way to becoming the preserve of the middle-aged, according to figures published by Ofcom.The proportion of British 15- to 24-year-olds with a profile on a social networking site such as Facebook or...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Fraud spotlight on Hollywood
- Hollywood studios and film producers are set to face increasing scrutiny from anti-fraud officials, as a result of a trial involving incidents in Bangkok that could have repercussions across the entertainment sector.Gerald Green, an American film producer, and his wife, Patricia, are alleged to have -violated the US Foreign...
- External links 2009-08-09
- NHS trusts told to prepare for restrictions on funding
- Flagship NHS hospitals have yet to face up to the reality of the looming squeeze on health spending, the foundation trust regulator warns today.Three-year plans produced by the NHS foundation trusts - the selfgoverning hospitals and mental health services that now serve about half the population - show that...
- External links 2009-08-09
- Sky hits at BBC Trust handling of Canvas
- British Sky Broadcasting has written to the BBC Trust expressing "serious concerns" about its handling of Project Canvas, the ambitious plan to create an internet-connected successor to Freeview, the free-to-air digital TV service that competes with Sky.The Trust's conduct of a consultation process on Canvas "will only serve to...
- External links 2009-08-16
- Spanish GM workers agree restructuring
- General Motors' Spanish workers on Monday voted to approve Magna International's modified restructuring plan for their plant, bringing the Canadian company's takeover of Opel a step closer.Separately, the European Commission on Monday said it would rule by November 27 as to whether the deal complied with its antitrust...
- External links 2009-10-26
- Ranbaxy suffers 53% fall in US sales
- The financial pain inflicted by a US import ban on some of the products of Ranbaxy Laboratories, India's largest drugsmaker, continues to hurt the company a year after it was first imposed.In the US, sales fell 53 per cent to $44m during the quarter to the end of September...
- External links 2009-10-26
- UK watchdog rules against ticketing merger
- The controversial merger deal struck by Ticketmaster Entertainment and Live Nation suffered a further setback on Thursday after UK antitrust authorities poured cold water on their plans to create a live music powerhouse.In a provisional ruling, the Competition Commission said the tie-up between the top US ticket seller and...
- External links 2009-10-08
- Government climate body calls for U-turn over energy deregulation
- Liberalisation of the UK's energy market should be reversed, with ministers taking more control of decisions such as building new renewable energy generation, the government's Committee on Climate Change will say today.The call for a U-turn on 20 years of government policy that has created one of the world's...
- External links 2009-10-11
- Xstrata still keen on deal with Anglo
- Xstrata signalled on Thursday that it remained interested in a deal with Anglo American even as it dropped its ambitious proposal for a "merger of equals" with the rival miner.The Switzerland-based mining company on Thursday backed away from making a formal offer for Anglo after the UK Takeover Panel...
- External links 2009-10-15
- Web group says FTC rules unconstitutional
- The internet's largest advertising group called on the US Federal Trade Commission to withdraw its recently issued guidelines for endorsements in advertising, saying the new rules were unconstitutional and unfairly punish bloggers and users of social media.The Interactive Advertising Bureau said the FTC's "Guidelines Concerning the Use of Endorsements...
- External links 2009-10-15
- Sky shrugs off controversy
- British Sky Broadcasting, never long out of the headlines, has a busy period ahead. Its first quarter earnings are being hyped by analysts, who think recent trends in media consumption are all flowing BSkyB's way, writes Ben Fenton .In the next few months, the satellite broadcaster will also be...
- News items 2009-10-18
- China launches own 'Nasdaq'
- China will this week launch its long-awaited Nasdaq-style stock market with 28 companies lined up to list on the new exchange, including China's first listed film company.Shang Fulin, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, on Saturday said the new market would open on October 23, according to the...
- External links 2009-10-18
- Tories plan to drive TV growth with deregulation
- The shadow culture secretary says he wants to make conditions ripe for commercial growth in TV, not by spending taxpayers' money, but deregulating.In an interview with the Financial Times, Jeremy Hunt says he believes that current rules that force ITV to sell all available airtime are "complete madness" -...
- News items 2009-10-18
- GSK faces Merck in vaccine price war
- GlaxoSmithKline plans to undercut its rival Merck in a battle for sales following US regulatory approval for its cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix.The UK-based pharmaceutical group said it would charge less than Gardasil, Merck's vaccine, which generates more than $1bn ( by Financial Times
- External links 2009-10-19
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