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Europe's largest data-protection authorities have launched a joint action against Google to force it to remedy alleged breaches of EU privacy rules by the search giant. The Financial Times reports.
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LONDON, April 5- Britain's biggest gas storage site ran dry of normal supply on Friday and is using gas usually reserved for the technical operation of the site, National Grid data showed.
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The Saudi's investment in a Texas refinery's expansion is meant to ensure that it will retain an important market for its crude in the United States at a time when American politicians intend to wean the country off imported oil, The New York Times reports.
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NEW YORK, April 4- If you read just one book this spring to understand how the world is changing, it should be Mohsin Hamid's new novel, "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia." Asia's rise is a story of the eastward tilt of global gross domestic product, but behind those numbers are billions of individual lives that are being radically transformed.
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*China reports 10 cases, four deaths, from new bird flu. And according to Ab Osterhaus, a world leading flu researcher who is head of viroscience of the Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands, studies his team and another in the United States have been doing are the best way to find out.
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AMSTERDAM, April 3- Enrichment Technologies, which is jointly owned by Areva and Urenco, said on Wednesday it had shut facilities in five countries after two workers died from their injuries in an accident at its Dutch plant last week.
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*Medical tourism on the rise in Turkey. ISTANBUL, April 3- Sitting in a private clinic in an upscale neighbourhood of Istanbul, Saleh, a human resources executive from Qatar, is preparing to leave Turkey with a smile on his face and more hair on his head.
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*Nine confirmed cases so far in China, three patients dead. But there is no evidence so far that the H7N9 flu- now known to have infected nine people in China, killing three- is spreading from person to person, and there is still a chance it might peter out and never fully mutate into a human form of flu.
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CANBERRA, April 3- Australia will force corporate giants such as Google Inc and Apple Inc to disclose their tax arrangements in an effort to curb alleged tax avoidance by multinational corporations.
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AMSTERDAM, April 3- Enrichment Technologies, jointly owned by Areva and Urenco, said it had shut facilities in five countries after two workers died from their injuries in an accident at its Dutch plant last week.
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Europe's largest data-protection authorities have launched a joint action against Google to force it to remedy alleged breaches of EU privacy rules by the search giant. The Financial Times reports.
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*Lack of Cyprus meltdown spurs trimming of safety hedges. LONDON, April 2- German Bund futures fell and Italian and Spanish bonds made small gains on Tuesday with investors edging away from low-risk assets as fears of a major financial meltdown emanating from Cyprus receded.
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NEW YORK-- General Motors Co. said Tuesday that its financial arm completed the purchase of most of Ally Financial's operations in Europe and Latin America.
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*Long-term worries persist, Italy yields seen rising. LONDON, April 2- Italian and Spanish bond prices rose on Tuesday with investors edging away from low-risk assets as fears of a major financial meltdown emanating from Cyprus receded.
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CHICAGO, April 1- U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill Inc on Monday said it named Marcel Smits, the former chief executive of packaged food maker Sara Lee Corp, as its chief financial officer effective April 15.
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*Portugal faces stiff competition for foreign investment. TORRES VEDRAS, Portugal, April 1- For Portugal to succeed in ambitions to reindustrialise its shrinking, debt-laden economy, it will not be down to the revival of mass manufacturing but to the sprouting of high-tech start-ups such as UAVision.
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NEW YORK-- Schlumberger Ltd., the world's biggest oilfield service company, said it is working out a new payment agreement with PDVSA, Venezuela's state-owned oil and gas company. Kibsgaard made the remarks at a speech at the Howard Well Conference in New Orleans, a transcription of which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18.
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*Says JAB proposing 12.75 euros per share. AMSTERDAM, March 28- D.E Master Blenders 1753 said on Thursday it received a 6.4- billion-euro takeover offer from German investor Joh A Benckiser, sending shares of the Dutch coffee and tea maker up more than 25 percent.
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AMSTERDAM, March 28- German investor Joh A Benckiser is in talks over a 6.4- billion-euro deal to buy the owner of Douwe Egberts coffee and bolster its position in a hot drinks industry benefiting from innovation and emerging market growth.
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AMSTERDAM, March 28- German investor Joh A Benckiser is in talks over a 6.4- billion-euro deal to buy the owner of Douwe Egberts coffee and bolster its position in a hot drinks industry benefiting from innovation and emerging market growth.
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*Liberty already tied up with $15.75 bln Virgin Media deal. AMSTERDAM, March 28- Cable operator Liberty Global extended its reach into the Netherlands by buying a 12.65 percent stake in Ziggo for 632.5 million euros, prompting speculation it might eventually make a full bid.