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Microsoft, Google Join Rivals to Back Apple in FBI Fight
March 4th, 2016
Tech competitors argue privacy, security threatened in case San Bernardino shooting victim among those supporting Apple Tech giants including Microsoft Corp. and Google set aside often fierce rivalries to back Apple Inc. in its fight against a judge’s order ...
Bitcoin Technology Tested In Trial By 40 Big Banks
March 3rd, 2016
The technology behind Bitcoin is starting to make progress on Wall Street. By December, financial technology company R3 CEV had brought together a consortium of 42 banks to create standards and protocols for using blockchain technology in financial services. ...
Intercontinental Exchange To Acquire Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations, Inc. And Credit Market Analysis From Mcgraw Hill Financial
March 2nd, 2016
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges, clearing houses and data services, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations, Inc. (SPSE), a leading provider of fixed income ...
Restoring trust in transatlantic data flows through strong safeguards: European Commission presents EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
March 1st, 2016
The European Commission today issued the legal texts that will put in place the EU-U.S. The European Commission today issued the legal texts that will put in place the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and a Communication summarising the actions taken over the ...
China’s central bank attempts to boost economy with cash injection
March 1st, 2016
The People’s Bank of China has loosened rules on banks’ cash reserves for the fifth time in a year in the hope cheaper loans will be made available China’s central bank has stepped up action to bolster its cooling ...
Apple Goes to the Supreme Court
February 25th, 2016
The Justices should hear the e-book antitrust case. The Supreme Court may consider as early as Friday whether to take an appeal of one of the great antitrust abuses of recent decades, and the economic import is far larger ...
New international law firm launches
February 23rd, 2016
Gowling WLG, a new international law firm created by the combination of Gowlings, a leading Canadian law firm, and Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co (WLG), a leading UK-based international law firm, launched on 22 February. With more than 1,400 ...
Iran oil minister: Support any effort to stabilize market and prices
February 18th, 2016
Iran could support any effort to stabilize oil prices, including cooperation between OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers, the nation’s oil minister said after a meeting Wednesday, according to Reuters. Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said while he supports a production ...
Oil price rises ahead of OPEC talks with Iran
February 17th, 2016
Oil prices were higher on Wednesday morning as OPEC oil ministers traveled to Iran to talk about a possible production freeze between global oil producers. Skepticism has mounted over the possible freeze mooted Tuesday and Iran has already voiced ...
Can technology bring lawyers into the 21st Century?
February 17th, 2016
The legal profession is perhaps more associated with bulging files of papers, odd clothing and arcane procedures than with technological innovation. But several start-ups are trying to give this most conservative – and sometimes vexing – of professions a ...
