The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission has told Google to move its mystery barge where construction is currently going on because it lacks the necessary permits, The Associated Press reported.
Legal & Regulatory
Regulators strips off accreditation of private equity-backed university in Chile
Chilean regulators have removed the accreditation of Universidad de las Americas, a university owned by Laureate Education where the honorary chancellor is former President Bill Clinton, Bloomberg reported.
Tech company giants start unveiling details on secret government requests for data
In a bid to show that their participation in the surveillance efforts of the government was limited, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google started to publish details on the number of government requests for data, Reuters reported.
40 Israeli firms to be put on auction block for foreign investors
According to a government official, foreign funds are circling the Israeli companies that are going to be put up for sale by the state in a bid to increase competition, Bloomberg reported.
Academic says private equity fees not properly characterized for tax purposes
University of North Carolina Professor Gregg D. Polsky wrote in the February 3 edition of Tax Notes that payments given by companies to their private equity owners are not characterized properly for tax purposes, The New York Times The Dealbook reported.
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It may still be the first two months of the 2014 but redesigning Apple's iPad is probably the regulatory overreach of the year committed by the Federal Trade Commission, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States or Cfius is expected to thoroughly scrutinize the $2.9 billion acquisition of Motorola's handset business by Chinese technology firm Lenovo.
Joaquin Almunia, the Competition Commissioner of the EU, still has to make a decision on allegations that Google abused its market dominance and the price discrimination claims made of Russia's Gazprom before his term ends, Reuters reported.
The Singaporean government launched iSTART, a financing program designed to fund the expansion of local telecommunication and mobile app startups into Indonesia, which could potentially be an avenue for growth for the Singaporean and IT industry.
Coupons.com, the online coupon firm backed by T. Rowe Price Group Inc and Passport Ventures, has filed for an IPO of up to $100 million with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Reuters reported.
Applications filed with the US Department of Transportation by Easter Air Lines Group Inc in order to take the long-defunct Eastern Air back to the skies again, Reuters again.
Apple Inc is facing claims amounting to $840 million from state attorneys general and plaintiffs, which included consumers, in lawsuits related to the pricing of electronic books, Bloomberg reported.
San Francisco, US-based social media giant Twitter decided to buy more than 900 patents from American multinational tech firm IBM to settle patent infringement claims against it, with the two companies forming a patent cross-licensing agreement.
The UK government is now listing down charities, educational, and other random websites wrongly blocked by Internet service providers when web filters designed to block porn came into full effect.
