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Questionable Advertising

Eurostar, the cross-Channel train operator, has called on regulators to scrutinise adverts by British Airways that it says are misleading.

Guillame Pepy, Eurostar’s boss, has asked France’s competition and anti-fraud body, the DGCCRF, to investigate ads offering cheap flights between Paris and London.

The complaint is about French ads that offer customers “London at 29

Microsoft faces new probe

The US state of Massachusetts is investigating whether the software giant Microsoft has violated its anti-trust settlement with 18 other states.

Massachusetts said it would look at allegations that the company retaliated against a computer maker for promoting the rival operating system, Linux.

In a court filing, the state said that none of the allegations had been resolved and it would “move forward on an enforcement path should its investigations identify provable violations”

Woman, 102, dies after ‘eviction’

A 102-year-old woman who was forced to leave the care home where she had lived for nine years has died.

Winifred Humphrey had been told she must leave Bradley House in Whitstable, Kent, because the owners no longer wanted council-funded residents.

She was transferred, with 11 other residents, to another care home less than a mile away on 20 June

Ordered to pull misleading adverts

The US government has ordered a drug giant to quit running a series of radio and newspaper ads that call the allergy spray Flonase a cost-effective alternative to pricey allergy pills.

The ad campaign urged allergy sufferers to ask their doctor about Flonase, a nasal spray, instead of antihistamine pills like Allegra and Zyrtec. Flonase maker GlaxoSmithKline began the ads shortly after insurance companies raised prices for the pills this spring

FDA tells Glaxo to pull misleading Flonase ads

U.S. regulators ordered GlaxoSmithKline Plc to pull radio and print advertisements for its Flonase prescription nasal allergy spray that the Food and Drug Administration deemed misleading

300 Job Cut

Sprint today announced that it would be cutting 300 workers without any redundancy or job severence pay.

Tax shelter summons

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) – U.S

Excessive Spending

Dot-com boom begot obscene wealth and trouble

CALL it the privilege of wealth, AOL-style. The dot-com feeding frenzy was creating obscene riches at virtually every level of the company.

It was a simple calculus: dot-coms paid whopping fees to promote their wares on AOL

Halliburton awarded US military contact

WASHINGTON (AP) – Halliburton’s contract to restart Iraq’s oil production has doubled in cost over the past month, and the no-bid work may last longer than expected, the Army says.

The expanded role awarded to Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company cost taxpayers $184.7 million as of last week, up from $76

Tender for PeopleSoft

12th June 2003 Oracle Corporation has made a tender for a takeover of PeopleSoft corporation.

The consolidation is believed to be a reaction to the PeopleSoft bid for J.D