Microsoft has been given preliminary approval to settle a class-action anti-trust case in Arizona by giving away $105m (£57m) in computer vouchers.
The software giant had been accused of using its monopoly position to over charge for its software.
Under the deal businesses and homes who bought Microsoft products between January 1996 and January 2002 will get vouchers of up to $24 each
Kenneth Lay, Enron’s former chief executive, has spoken out for the first time since the 2001 scandal that shook corporate America to the core.
Mr Lay blamed the fraud on his finance chief, claiming to be one of the 98% of Enron employees who were “good, honest, hardworking individuals”.
Prosecutors have been trying to build a case against Mr Lay for over two years
Former Shell chairman Sir Philip Watts who stood down after the firm’s oil reserves estimates were dramatically cut has received a £1m ($1.8m) pay-off.
Shareholders were highly critical of Sir Philip who headed exploration and production at the time when most of the reserves in question were booked
Halliburton said it has terminated its relationship with an ex-chairman of its Kellogg, Brown and Root subsidiary over financial impropriety.
KBR is being investigated by the US stock market regulator over allegations it paid bribes for Nigerian gas deals.
Halliburton said it had severed ties with Jack Stanley, who had worked as a consultant since retiring in December 2003, and another person, over Nigeria
A man who says he was fired by Caterpillar Inc. because he wasn’t able to urinate for a drug test sued the equipment giant, alleging discrimination.
The plaintiff said Wednesday he suffers from paruresis, more commonly known as shy bladder syndrome, and was physically unable to urinate into a specimen cup, despite having drunk 40 ounces (1
The city of New York has sued drug maker GlaxoSmithKline, claiming that the company engaged in “anticompetitive, fraudulent, and inequitable conduct,” when it acquired patents for its anti-depressant Paxil.
The suit, filed in federal court in Philadelphia, accuses the company of unfairly keeping generic versions of the drug off the market by obtaining more than a dozen “frivolous” patents on Paxil over the past decade.
The complaint accused the company of violating antitrust laws and seeks repayment of the millions of dollars the city has spent purchasing Paxil for New York residents through the Medicaid program
TRAGEDY struck at Afam in Oyigbo local government area of Rivers State Sunday as over 29 persons were killed in a fire outbreak at Shell oil well in the area.
A source told Daily Champion that the fire was caused by a disagreement among indigenes of the three communities in Afam over the sharing formula for “royalties” from the illegal bunkerers who have turned the Shell oil well head into an illegal bunkering.
The three communities had been contesting the ownership of the land on which the well head is sited with each insisting on taking the lion’s share of the booty
A production company sued Sony Pictures and its Columbia Pictures division, alleging the studios shortchanged the firm on receipts from the 1970s film “The Lords of Flatbush,” court documents state.
The suit filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court by Ebbets Field Film Co. claims breach of contract and violation of the business and professional code
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Merck & Co Inc. said Friday the Internal Revenue Service could make it pay more than $2 billion in taxes and penalties because of the agency’s decision to disallow deductions the drug maker has claimed since 1993 from a partnership.
Investors initially appear unconcerned by the tax issue as Merck (MRK: down $0
Japanese police have arrested seven former executives of Mitsubishi Motors on suspicion of falsifying reports into a fault that caused a fatal accident.
The seven all worked for the company in January 2002, when a woman was killed by a wheel that broke off a passing Mitsubishi truck.
Up until March of this year it had blamed improper maintenance