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A policy that would create a process to guide the naming of roads, housing estates is finally nearly ready to be adopted by Laois County Council. The progress, ...
Ministers are weighing a wave of foreign interest in Britain’s tech and defence jewels
Britain’s leading travel brand, Thomas Cook, has been slammed by Which? Holiday magazine. A survey published today says the company that pioneered organised tourism in Victorian times has “work to do to get standards up to 21st-century expectations”. The survey of 4,500 Consumers’ Association members criticises Thomas Cook’s “poor quality hotel rooms and unhelpful resort staff”. The firm, which is Britain’s second-largest tour operator, was rated poorest out of 29 for resort reps and the quality of flights and transfers. Thomas Cook also earned only two stars out of five for...
John Fingleton; and vice president of Charles River Associates and former CMA director of Economics Matthew Bennett discussed how to navigate the CMA’s approaches in reviewing digital deals, including: the CMA’s current policy position on tech deals and which transactions catch their attention; navigating the CMA’s hold separate orders in digital businesses; building, buying, partnering and countering claims of competition harm; addressing CMA prospective and dynamic theories of harm; and addressing complexity in digital remedies beyond the U.K. Ms. Vandenborre introduced the webinar b...
BBC News image copyrightGetty Images In a landmark lawsuit, US regulators have accused Facebook of buying up rivals in order to stifle competition. They have made it clear they will seek a drastic remedy - the sale of Instagram and WhatsApp. On this week's Tech Tent we ask whether it is really likely that the social media giant's empire will be dismantled. Listen to the latest Tech Tent podcast on BBC Sounds Listen live every Friday at 15.00 GMT on the BBC World Service New York Attorney General Letitia James could hardly have been clearer in her denunciation as she outlined the case she and ...