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...Google has lobbied hard in recent months against a proposed change to copyright law in Brussels, and put in eleventh hour emergency calls in advance of the Android ruling....
...Warren Estey will leave his role as co-head of US equity capital markets to become the bank’s head of Americas natural resources....
...These advances have become too significant for the oil and gas industry to ignore....
...Gerson, WaPo) Political sideshow How Obama made humour history The Obama White House has deftly used humour – at the White House Correspondents’ dinner, for instance – to advance his agenda....
...“There’s unlikely to be the big titan v titan litigation that we saw in the smartphone wars.”...
...Thanks to rapid advances in artificial intelligence, sensor technology and computing power, labs from Silicon Valley to Tokyo are making huge strides in robotics that will transform industries from healthcare...
...Portraits such as of the poet Tennyson and “Madonna and Child” are on display in a new exhibition at London’s V&A. Forwarded Source code poetry Programmers are artists too....
...Man v Machine? As advances in artificial intelligence accelerate, worries about the future spread. 25 to watch. Our take on the next big ideas and companies that you may not have heard of yet....
...That is Act V, and we are not there yet. For now we are still very definitely in the age of hydrocarbons....
...The same is true of shale: the economics of North American gas production may be unsustainable right now but the advances in extraction techniques are genuine....
...In keeping with the nameless spirit of their movement and to guard against lawsuits, they picked a uniform disguise – Guy Fawkes masks like those used in the movie V for Vendetta....
...It gave a strong defence to the earlier decision in State Street Bank & Trust Co. v....
...The biggest growth will be in the Asia-Pacific region, with a requirement for 180,600 pilots and China alone needing 70,600, but Europe will need nearly 95,000 – and North America more than 97,000....
...Shareholder primacy, the idea that a corporation’s role is to maximise shareholder wealth above all else, has its roots in a 1919 Michigan Supreme Court case, Dodge v. Ford Motor Co....
...So any notion that Google officials in Silicon Valley can just thumb their noses at the Italian police has been mooted by the relentless advance of modern technology....
...Behind this simple advance is support in Windows 7 of DLNA, a standard that makes it possible for different pieces of hardware on a home network to recognise each other and interoperate....
...“We worked our way up the mountain without actually knowing the path we were taking in advance....
...The fall in the value of subprime-linked securities has boosted a group of funds which spotted the problems in advance....
...On August 6 2007 the Bush administration decided to hold firm with the decision of the International Trade Commission in the long-standing Broadcom v Qualcomm dispute....
...The case, KSR v Teleflex, involved an adjustable accelerator pedal....
...Bantam reportedly paid a $7m advance for the book and publishing sceptics doubted at the time that it would earn much of a return on its investment....
...Twombly v. Bell Atlantic, now before the US Supreme Court, offers a powerful object lesson of the dangers of that dual approach....
...When it comes to foreign equity funds, it seems Seoul cannot quite decide if the “V” in VC stands for “venture” or “vulture” capital....
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