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Unclear if China ready to sign IT agreement: WTO chief

November 8, 2014 creative asia, china, during-the-asia, mexico-city, organization, roberto, world, world-trade

BEIJING (Reuters) – China is part of “intensive” talks on a global trade pact regarding information technology products, the World Trade Organization's chief said on Saturday, but it is unclear if a deal will be made at a meeting of Asia-Pacific leaders underway in Beijing. The United States and other countries have been hopeful that China would sign on to the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), which requires signatories to eliminate duties on some IT products, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that ends on Tuesday.

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EU official criticizes Google meetings on right to be forgotten ruling

November 4, 2014 admin cybersecurity, data-protection, europe, expects-revenue, fourth, julia-fioretti, meetings, meetings-were, most-popular, revenue-largely, search-engine, series, soham, world

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A senior EU official criticized a series of public meetings held in Europe by Google on a landmark court ruling on the “right to be forgotten”, saying the meetings were part of lobbying efforts against EU data protection rules. Paul Nemitz, a director in the European Commission’s justice department, made his comments at Google’s Brussels meeting, the last in the series of meetings aimed at helping the world’s most popular Internet search engine implement the judgment

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U.S. Online Ad Market Rebounds in First Half of 2010 (PC World)

October 12, 2010 admin apple, become-even, california, electronic-gadget, holding-on-tight, its-stores, online, product, purse, shelves, the-first, the-shelves, whitman, world

PC World – Marketers in the U.S. boosted their online ad spending in the first half of 2010 after holding on tight to their purse strings for most of last year.

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FCC Broadband Speed Tests Should Also Support Enforcement (PC World)

March 12, 2010 admin data, force-carriers, gets-its, heels, man-looks, nobel-peace, offering-free, promises, the-commission, the-data, world, zeus

PC World – While it’s great the Federal Communications Commission is offering free broadband speed tests, it would be greater if the commission would use the data to force carriers to more accurately describe the speeds they offer and then keep their promises.