A letter from Apple’s legal team reveals that the firm wants Europe to revise rules covering patents that are essential to industry standards.
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Apple seeks revised patent rules
Some persistence is merely doggedness. Newt Gingrich’s persistence is a form of confidence — the firm belief that, given enough time and enough debates, his skills will prevail. He knows how to probe an opponent’s weakness, how to humiliate a journalist, how to employ an applause line and how to parry an uncomfortable question. The anti-Romneys who came before him were chosen more or less at random. Gingrich has earned his surge that produced a 13-point victory in South Carolina on Saturday. Read full article > >
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Newt Gingrich, the man who knows too much
The sinking of the Costa Concordia could cost parent firm Carnival up to $95m (£62m; 75m euro), the firm says.
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Ship sinking costs Carnival $95m
The rights to Marvel Comics hero Ghost Rider – played by Nicholas Cage in two films – belong to the firm and not the writer who conceived him, a judge rules.
Federal authorities have uncovered e-mails that detail the transfers of money in the firm’s last days, including transfers that contained customer money, according to people close to the investigation.
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DealBook: E-Mail Clues in Tracking MF Global Client Funds
The UK’s economy is experiencing weak growth but inflation pressures have eased, according to the firm behind closely-watched surveys.
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Surveys ‘point to weak UK growth’
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has consulted with a Washington consulting firm staffed by former CIA agents and U.S. diplomats for public-relations advice following his arrest for sexual assualt. Strauss-Kahn previously hired the firm, TD…
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Strauss-Kahn Taps Ex-CIA Firm
The president of Tepco, which operates the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, resigns as the firm reports a $15bn loss.
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Tepco head quits after $15bn loss
As its original partners leave, the elite at Goldman Sachs hold less control over the firm, giving way to the demands of outside shareholders. And the partners’ power base may soon erode further.
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DealBook: A Once-Tight Flock at Goldman, Now Scattered
The shuttered law firm Howrey is facing its first legal challenge over the events that led up to the firm’s rapid demise.
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Howrey sued over abrupt dismissals
Executives of the firm that owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig say they will donate their bonuses to the families of those killed in the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
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Execs give bonuses to Gulf victims’ kin
The security firm on the new comedy “Breaking In” (Fox at 8 p.m.) has an interesting way of selling its protection services — just break in and steal things to convince people they really need security. What could possibly go wrong? In the premiere, the firm’s mysterious owner (Christian Slater) blackmails a new recruit, a college student and expert computer hacker.
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TV Highlights: ‘Breaking In,’ ‘Extreme Couponing,’ Jeff Beck on ‘American Idol’
The nuclear crisis unfolding in Japan will not affect EDF’s plans to build new reactors in the UK, the firm’s boss tells the BBC.
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UK nuclear plants ‘must go ahead’
A judge closes file-sharing cases brought by ACS Law and is considering ruling whether the firm should be made liable for wasted costs.
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Judge considers costs for ACS Law
More than 1,000 Auto Windscreens workers in Derbyshire and the West Midlands are to lose their jobs after attempts to find a buyer for the firm failed.
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Windscreen repair firm jobs lost
TV Highlights: ‘Breaking In,’ ‘Extreme Couponing,’ Jeff Beck on ‘American Idol’
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
