A pilot project involving 10 factories that make products for the firms tests a new approach for dealing with low wages and long work hours. Walt Disney Co. and McDonald´s Corp., whose supply chain has drawn criticism, quietly released a long-promised report on a pilot project to improve labor conditions in China.
Microsoft has launched a programme aimed at stemming the growing Linux tide on ultra low-cost PCs, but has some rather onerous terms if manufacturers want to play.
Families who believe that a mercury-based preservative thimerosal found in many vaccines causes the development of autism are set to make their case to a Federal Court.
SBI E*trade Securities Co., a Japanese online brokerage, faces a possible penalty for violating financial regulations, the country´s securities watchdog said.
Davy, Ireland´s largest securities firm, agreed to invest 35 million euros ($54 million) to cover losses from bonds that it sold to Irish Credit Unions.
Consumer-goods makers, music producers and other companies must unite to fight counterfeit products as the European Union can´t solve the problem with new laws, Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy said.
With online privacy seemingly never far from the news, a U.S. court has this week ordered social networking Web site Facebook to deliver private information relating to one of its users.
Blackwater Worldwide is not likely to face criminal charges in connection with a September 16 shooting in Baghdad in which 14 Iraqi civilians were killed, AP reported Saturday, citing a half-dozen individuals closely associated with a US Department of Justice probe.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral arguments Friday in the appeal by former USA Today reporter Toni Locy against sanctions imposed on her for refusing to disclose government sources who provided information about former US Army germ-warfare researcher Dr. Steven J. Hatfill.
BG Group Plc, the third-biggest U.K. natural gas company, won a one-month deferral of a requirement to make a takeover offer for New Zealand´s Contact Energy Ltd. unit should its bid for parent Origin Energy Ltd. succeed.
Centro Properties Group, the Australian property group that won a A$6.6 billion ($6.2 billion) debt extension this month, slumped 14 percent after claims were filed in the Federal Court alleging the company misled investors.
Land of Leather Holdings Plc and its chief executive officer were fined a total of 224,000 pounds ($439,000) by the U.K.´s financial regulator for improper sales of payment protection insurance.
A hacker who identified himself as "Anonymous Coward" stole personal data of 6 million Chileans - reportedly including a daughter of the president - and posted it briefly on the Internet, authorities said Sunday.
Slovenia´s foreign minister says the European Union will send a delegation to Georgia in the upcoming days to try to prevent an escalation in tensions in the former Soviet state´s relations with Russia.
Temasek Holdings Pte, Singapore´s state-owned investment company, lost its appeal on an Indonesian antitrust ruling and was ordered to sell its stake in either of the country´s two biggest mobile-phone operators within a year.
The federal appeals court that handles patent cases struggled to define the term “process” as part of its deliberations in a case that will decide whether a method for buying or selling energy qualifies for protection.
German businessman Alexander Falk was convicted of fraud and sentenced to four years in prison by a German court for inflating the value of Ision Internet AG before he sold the company in 2000.
Tse Sui Luen Jewellery (International) Ltd. Chairman Tommy Tse was sentenced to five years in prison for tax fraud and charges related to bribes given to travel agents, a spokeswoman for Hong Kong´s Judiciary Department said.
Former Siemens AG Chairman Heinrich von Pierer faces an administrative probe by Munich prosecutors over his possible role in a bribery scandal at the company.
Several oil companies have agreed to pay 423 million U.S. dollars to settle more than 500 lawsuits brought by water suppliers and users in California and 19other states over groundwater contaminated with the gasoline additive MTBE, it was reported Thursday.
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