News Corp offer compromise to EC to allow BSkyB takeover
Richard Murdoch’s News Corporation has submitted a remedy to the European Commission in the hope that it will allow them to buy the 61% stake in BSkyB they do not already own. The European Commission...
View ArticleTottenham ready to challenge Olympic stadium decision in court
Tottenham Hotspur’s chairman, Daniel Levy, is reportedly consulting the club’s lawyers ahead of the announcement that will finally establish which club is to get the Olympic Stadium after the 2012...
View ArticleNews Corp one step closer to acquiring BSkyB
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has been given the provisional green light by the Culture Secretary to acquire the rest of the shares in BSkyB, a takeover widely condemned as a serious threat to...
View ArticleCompetition Commission orders BAA to sell Stansted
The Competition Commission has again ordered BAA to sell Stansted airport and either Glasgow or Edinburgh airport in order to comply with its 2009 ruling. Spanish-owned BAA, which also owns Heathrow,...
View ArticleNational Grid sues for access to Europe-wide cartel’s secret documents
The High Court in London has to rule on whether National Grid can have access to confidential documents that were made by companies involved in a Europe-wide engineering cartel, which the company is...
View ArticleTesco to challenge price-fixing fine of £10m
Tesco has been fined £10m by competition watchdog the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for being part of a group of supermarkets and dairy processors that fixed dairy prices between 2002 and 2003. Tesco...
View ArticleLandlady wins important step in battle to air Premier League games
A pub landlady from Portsmouth has made important progress in her legal battle against the Premier League and its exclusive deals with Sky Sports and ESPN. Karen Murphy wants to be able to buy cheaper...
View ArticleUS to sue Apple over alleged E-book pricing conspiracy
The United States is to sue Apple and two publishers over e-book pricing. It claims that the technology giant is guilty of colluding over price setting. Five other companies were also named, but they...
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