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PC World via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 4:20 pm ET
As in years past, this was a traditionally slow IT news week, especially in the U.S., where Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday was a primary focus, followed by the annual retail extravaganza known as Black Friday.
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INO News - Fri Nov 27, 9:41 am ET
(AP:BRUSSELS) Yemen's national airline has escaped an EU blacklist despite calls for the carrier to be banned from flying to Europe following a June crash off the Comores islands that killed 152 people.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 3:44 pm ET
William Kennard, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has resigned from the board of the New York Times Co. to become the U.S. ambassador to the European Union.
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Nasdaq - Wed Nov 25, 10:32 am ET
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- The European Union's main business lobby has asked European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet to push China to let its currency appreciate.
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Slashdot - Fri Nov 27, 11:44 am ET
An anonymous reader points out a blog post reporting that on Monday The EU Council is set to give US intelligence services full access to SWIFT banking data, despite a unanimous call by the European Parliament not to do so. "The move of SWIFT the data server to Switzerland would be an excellent opportunity to stop the nearly unlimited access of US authorities on EU bank transactions. But EU ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 1:41 pm ET
The European Union's top executive on Tuesday refused to rule out a bloc-wide tax on its half-billion population, in remarks sure to raise eurosceptic hackles.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 2:22 pm ET
Austria and Germany were on Friday still blocking a planned accord allowing the United States to use data about European citizens in anti-terror investigations as a November 30 deadline closes in.
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UPI - Fri Nov 27, 11:43 am ET
BRUSSELS, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- European Council President-designate Herman Van Rompuy and the European Union's revolving presidency will be linked in several ways, observers said.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 12:23 pm ET
European Union antitrust regulators on Tuesday dropped a monopoly abuse probe into wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc. after mobile phone companies withdrew complaints about high royalty fees.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 8:50 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Czech Republic will continue running excessive fiscal deficits and breaking the European Union’s rule if lawmakers do not change laws governing the budget, Finance Minister Eduard Janota said.
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OfficialWire - Fri Nov 27, 11:56 am ET
The EU 27 Retail Energy Price Dataset provides an insight into currently prevailing retail gas and power prices in the 27 EU markets. It shows prices for large and small consumers in both the B2B and B2C sectors. Prices are published on a monthly basis.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 23, 1:45 pm ET
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Oracle Corp. ’s planned $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. may be blocked by European Union regulators because of concerns that Oracle might be able to eliminate Sun’s MySQL database product as a competitor, according to an EU document.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 9:24 am ET
The head of the European Commission unveiled his new 'cabinet' on Friday, handing France's Michel Barnier responsibility for financial services, despite staunch British opposition.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 7:55 am ET
The United States should be ready to spell out its long-term vision for reducing carbon emissions over the next two decades, not just until 2020, the European Union said Tuesday.
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UPI - Tue Nov 24, 6:20 pm ET
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The European Union should respect territorial integrity and sovereignty in a common principle for the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, analysts said.