FOCUS: UK businesses need fast and reliable internet connections to compete in the global market. It is a need that has been recognised in the manifestos of the two main […]
Continue Reading →FOCUS: The future of the ‘sharing economy’ of ride-sharing apps, accommodation-sharing websites and money lending services will be shaped by how competition law deals with emerging innovators, and how that […]
Continue Reading →China will remove export tariffs in rare metals, according to a Ministry of Finance statement quoted by Reuters . Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →DiploFoundation a non-profit organisation with offices in Malta, Geneva and Belgrade which offers postgraduate level academic courses and training workshops on a variety of diplomacy-related topics. The organisation has put […]
Continue Reading →The EU’s highest court has confirmed that LG Display must pay a €210 million fine for participating in cartel activity in the liquid crystal display (LCD) panels market. Read Complete […]
Continue Reading →A recent dispute shows how even a new uniform data protection law for the entire EU might not prevent regulators from interpreting those rules differently, to the potential detriment of […]
Continue Reading →A new anti-terror surveillance law being proposed to the French parliament will affect businesses as well as individuals in France, says Paris-based Diane Mullenex of Pinsent Masons, the law firm […]
Continue Reading →Finnish telecoms company Nokia is to buy French rival Alcatel-Lucent in an all-shares deal that values Alcatel-Lucent at €15.6 billion (US$16.6 billion). Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →The European Commission believes Google has abused a dominant market position by “systematically favouring its own comparison shopping product in its general search results pages”. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →Finnish telecoms company Nokia is in talks to buy France-based rival Alcatel-Lucent, the companies have announced. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →The number of data breaches uncovered by a security software company’s annual survey rose by 23% in 2014. The fact that the number of exposed identities dropped could mean that […]
Continue Reading →Digital rights campaign groups have called the latest EU proposals on net neutrality “incoherent” and “misleading” and have called on citizens to lobby members of the European Parliament as the […]
Continue Reading →UK copyright laws do not provide online content providers with freedom to retransmit TV programmes shown by UK public service broadcasters (PSBs) to fixed-line internet users who could otherwise watch […]
Continue Reading →US mobile network AT&T has been fined $25 million by the country’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) following a data breach that affected almost 280,000 of its customers. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →The growing use of mobile phones, Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and text-based and social media services to initiate calls may mean that the UK’s dominant landline telephone providers no […]
Continue Reading →Changes to the rules governing when the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) can fine companies for making unsolicited telephone calls or sending unsolicited text messages will help the UK’s privacy watchdog […]
Continue Reading →The EU’s highest court will be asked to determine whether UK copyright laws have to be changed to remove a defence to copyright infringement that relates to the streaming of […]
Continue Reading →The Consumer Rights Act aims to rectify the traditional complexities of UK consumer law by consolidating eight pieces of separate legislation in this area into a single piece of legislation. […]
Continue Reading →Forcing consumers to de-select pre-ticked boxes to prevent businesses collecting, using and disclosing their personal information goes against their “right to informational self determination”, a data protection watchdog in Germany […]
Continue Reading →Ofcom should not force owners of telecoms infrastructure to provide access to their network to rivals as a means for enabling more competition in the high-speed business broadband market, BT, […]
Continue Reading →Dubai has set up a company to develop and operate medium-sized, multi-purpose ports in emerging economies. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →“Innovative financial and commercial models” could be used to encourage investment in telecoms infrastructure and help deliver ‘ultrafast’ broadband services to businesses and communities in the UK, the government has […]
Continue Reading →The UK government will publish detailed plans to create a standardised method of giving consumers access to their banking data in order to compare providers by the end of this […]
Continue Reading →Businesses, trade groups and intellectual property (IP) specialists are split on whether UK rules should allow inventors to obtain both a UK national patent and a new unitary patent for […]
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