EU highlights difficulty of establishing online antitrust
Almost five months after the EC said it was examining anti-competition complaints against Google, its competition commissioner has said judging a constantly evolving market is 'complex'
Almost five months after the EC said it was examining anti-competition complaints against Google, its competition commissioner has said judging a constantly evolving market is 'complex'
Following the widely publicised successes of some "sharing economy" companies such as Airbnb, the British government has commissioned an independent report with the idea of making the UK a "global centre" for sharing start-ups.
Business secretary Vince Cable has said that detailed work is underway on plans to get academia and industry to turn their innovative high-tech research into commercial products
The government has fleshed out plans that will see £200m given to organisations to set up centres to commercialise technology research
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Google, Yahoo, eBay and Facebook ask Lord Mandelson to remove a clause that would give future ministers 'sweeping powers' to amend copyright law