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• Tech leaders call for global harmony on privacy, security

  By Kenneth Corbin | 28 January, 2012 05:30

  For large multinational companies, or even smaller outfits with modest aspirations of foreign expansion, the patchwork of global laws and regulations governing security and privacy can present a major compliance challenge.

• EU issues objections to Oracle's Sun acquisition

  By James Niccolai | 10 November, 2009 11:34

  The European Commission on Monday issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, saying the deal would harm competition in the database market.

• EU pushes for single online content market

  By Paul Meller | 06 May, 2009 06:17

  The European Commission wants to scrap the patchwork of national rules governing what music and movies consumers can download from the Internet, and instead create one marketplace for everyone in the European Union, commissioners Vivane Reding and Meglana Kuneva said Tuesday.