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...news for consumers is that this legal battle may sap Skype's funding or even threaten its existence. Skype has more than 405 million subscribers who are able to make free and discounted calls around the globe...
...that the SFO had acted unlawfully in scrapping the inquiry, a decision later overturned by the House of Lords.) And the prosecution of BAE for overseas corruption would be only the second such case against a British firm. Building contractor Mabey & Johnson was last month fined $10.5 million for similar offenses dating back to the early 1990s. (Read: "The Gulf: An Exquisite Balancing...
Lewis' problems came to a head this summer. Bank of America had struck a deal with the SEC to pay $33 million to end an investigation into whether some unnamed Bank of America executives had mislead shareholders when it purchased Merrill. The SEC alleges that in early December, on the eve of a vote to approve the Merrill deal, Bank of America executives told shareholders that no bonuses would be paid to Merrill executives prior to the acquisition. In fact, Bank of America had agreed more than a month earlier to approve the payment of more than $5 billion...
...Pennington, an emeritus professor of virology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. "Clinical trials are on the magnitude of thousands and can screen out common and mild reactions for the vaccine - fever and sore arms mostly. But if a vaccine causes a severe reaction in one in a million people, there's no way to test for that." (See pictures of swine flu hitting Mexico...
...sexually transmitted infection linked to most cervical cancers. (American women receive Gardasil, an HPV vaccine manufactured by Merck.) Introduced last year, Cervarix is expected to cut deaths from cervical cancer in Britain by about 75% - or 650 deaths a year. So far, the vaccine has been given to 1.4 million women in Britain, and Morton's death is the first to be possibly linked to the shot. But there have also been less serious side effects in recipients. Britain's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has recorded more than 2,000 suspected reactions to the vaccine since April...