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Google, Apple in Regulators' Cross Hairs Again
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Michael Ricci
What happens with Silicon Valley companies is not staying in Silicon Valley. Regulatory scrutiny is on the rise as two of the region's most prominent companies find themselves at the center of two different online security and privacy brouhahas that are getting attention in Washington. The Federal Communications Commission said Friday that it would increase scrutiny of online security and privacy issues in the wake of security breaches involving Apple Inc.'s iPad and Google Inc.'s inadvertent collection of private data ...
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Google Balks at Turning over Data to Regulators
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Michael Ricci
Google has balked at requests from regulators to surrender Internet data and e-mails it collected from unsecured home wireless networks, saying it needed time to resolve legal issues. A Google employee on a camera-equipped tricycle recording images for Google's Street View Maps near Paris in August 2009. In Germany, Google said it was not able to comply with the Hamburg data protection supervisors Thursday deadline to hand over data the company had collected inadvertently, it says while roving cars were ...
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British Regulators Put Roadblock on Ticketmaster-LiveNation Merger
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Michael Ricci
Sorry old chum. Ticketmaster and Live Nation may have to divest assets in the United Kingdom in order to go ahead with their proposed merger, British regulators said today.
The country's Competition Commission, which investigates mergers for the British government, issued a provisional ruling that the merger of ticketing giant Ticketmaster and concert production company Live Nation could “severely inhibit" German ticketing company CTS Eventim AG. CTS signed a deal before the proposed merger was announced in February ...
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