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		<title><![CDATA[Oracle accuses Brussels over Sun deal evidence]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Oracle executives and their advisers yesterday accused Europe's top competition regulator of misrepresenting customer evidence as they tried to overturn objections to the US group's proposed $7.4bn purchase of Sun Microsystems.Oral hearings, held in private, over the deal began in Brussels yesterday morning and will continue today.Officials at the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fight for data on ethnic minorities]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A refusal by regulators to provide detailed information about ethnic minority staff working in commercial radio and television stations is being fought by a media union.Bectu, the union, took its challenge to the decision by the information commissioner and the communications regulator Ofcom to the central London county court...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Generic drug groups raided]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ European competition regulators yesterday launched a fresh set of raids on the premises of some drug companies because of concern about anti-competitive practices.This is the third set of "surprise investigations" at individual companies, following a wide-ranging inquiry into the pharmaceutical sector, ordered by the European Union competition commissioner Neelie...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brussels to rule on Microsoft deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The European Commission is set to give formal approval next week to a settlement with Microsoft that ends the latest European antitrust case against the company. The two sides reached a broad agreement in September, though final details have only been hammered out in recent days before being put...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It was not just the smart address. Commodity-rich Kazakhstan's companies were seduced by London as a funding source. They wanted the regulatory and corporate governance thumbs-up of a London listing, the traditional home of mining companies. City investment bankers, lawyers and accountants were meanwhile drawn by the promise of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:00:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BHP and Rio Tinto sign iron ore deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The proposed iron ore joint venture in Australia between BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto faces a period of tough regulatory scrutiny after the two leading mining companies signed a binding agreement.Rio and BHP, the world's second and third-biggest producers of iron ore, did not disclose details of the deal...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Comcast move for NBCU to face tough scrutiny]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ US lawmakers warned they would closely scrutinise Comcast's bid for control of NBC Universal, as the cable company sought to ease regulatory and shareholder concerns.The combination of the General Electric-controlled NBCU, valued at $30bn, with $7.25bn worth of Comcast's cable channels will create one of the US's largest media...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:59:28 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Severn's profits soar as Ofwat ponders price cut]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Severn Trent refused to confirm or deny a possible rights issue to shore up its finances, as it awaits the results of Ofwat's five-year price determination tomorrow."I'm not going to rule anything out, I'm not going to rule anything in," said Tony Wray, chief executive, ahead of a ruling...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Survey finds a world sceptical of free markets]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The free market economy is flawed but should be addressed by regulation and reform rather than being replaced by a new economic system, according to a poll conducted in 27 countries.The survey, commissioned by the BBC World Service, found widespread but measured scepticism of the world economic system in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business coalition calls for firm CO2 treaty]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The private sector investment needed to tackle climate change will not be made without a binding international deal on carbon emissions, according to the head of a big business coalition.Lars Josefsson, chairman of Combat Climate Change, a group including BP, General Electric, Unilever and more than 60 other large...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Orange and T-Mobile reject need for Ofcom concessions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom have signalled they are unwilling to make concessions to competition regulators who will decide whether to allow the merger of their UK mobile phone businesses.Hamid Akhavan, Deutsche Telekom's chief operating officer, and Olaf Swantee, head of France Telecom's mobile operations worldwide, said they saw...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ofcom clears way for 'white space' networks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Rural areas of the UK could gain access to broadband internet services by using spare television spectrum after the communications regulator gave the green light yesterday to the technology's development.Ofcom published a discussion paper on use of so-called "white space" spectrum - the buffer radio spectrum between television channels,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brussels set to launch complaint over Oracle's deal to buy rival Sun]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Oracle is braced for a formal objection from Brussels to its planned $7.4bn ( by Financial Times]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Friends site sale hits obstacle]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:34:42 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:17:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:07:41 -0700</pubDate>
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