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The man behind the world’s biggest online illegal film site arrested
July 21st, 2016
US officials plan to charge the Ukrainian owner of the Web’s “most visited” piracy site, Kickass Torrents. The site distributes $1 billion worth of illegally copied content and is the world’s 70th most popular site. Attorneys for the US ...
A paper trail links online traders to tax havens
July 21st, 2016
A paper trail that runs from Okinawa to Canada and from Israel to Italy and France links some unauthorized online traders on the blacklist of Japan’s financial regulator to offshore companies in tax havens, an analysis of files leaked ...
Spreadsheet fashions accounting error at M&S
July 13th, 2016
Veteran high street retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S) has suffered the embarrassment of having to re-issue its first quarter results just hours after the initial release, when analysts’ questions revealed a double counting error, reversing the previously positive news ...
Italy may trigger collapse of European economy
July 11th, 2016
No emergency measures of either the European Central Bank or any other central banks can rescue the European banking system that currently stands on the verge of collapse. The shares of Europe’s largest financial institutions – Deutsche Bank and ...
Playtech announced the appointment of an independent Non-Executive Director
July 11th, 2016
Playtech (LSE: PTEC) announced the appointment of Claire Milne as an independent Non-Executive Director with immediate effect. Claire will join Playtech’s Remuneration Committee, Risk & Compliance Committee, Audit Committee, and Nominations Committee. Claire joins the Board as a recognised ...
KPMG first firm to appoint head of Brexit to executive leadership team
July 7th, 2016
KPMG appoints Karen Briggs ‘Head of Brexit’ to executive leadership team. Following the outcome of the UK’s recent referendum on EU membership, KPMG in the UK has appointed Karen Briggs, one of its most senior partners, to the newly ...
Brexit isn’t the most serious threat to the EU — the euro is
July 4th, 2016
Brexit isn’t the most serious threat to the EU — the euro is One surprising thing about Britain’s vote to leave the EU is that Britain’s economy has been doing better than a lot of European countries. Unemployment in ...
Devereux Chambers to lead crowdfunded Brexit legal challenge
July 1st, 2016
Barrister Jolyon Maugham QC is teaming up with human rights firm Bindmands to take on the EU referendum result. A crowdfunding campaign launched by Mr Maugham has successfully raised £10,000 to underwrite a public law case against the result ...
Facebook wins privacy case, can now track any Belgian it wants
July 1st, 2016
In a somewhat unexpected twist, Facebook has won a legal battle against Belgium’s data protection authority, which had sought to prevent Facebook from tracking non-Facebook (or not-logged-into-Facebook) users, both on the Facebook website itself but also via the company’s ...
Here Are 3 Crazy Scenarios In Which Brexit Doesn’t Happen
June 30th, 2016
The Brexit vote raised more questions than it answered. Thursday’s Brexit referendum, in which British voters supported leaving the European Union, sent shockwaves through financial markets all over the world. The pound has plunged. The U.K.’s stock market has ...
