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  • Firm loses bid to intervene in Google antitrust challenge

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    U.S. search and advertising company Yelp has lost its bid to intervene in Google’s challenge. The challenge is against a 2.4 billion euro (2.7 billion dollars) EU antitrust fine after an EU court said it had no direct interest in the case. The Luxembourg-based General Court also rejected an application by U.S.-based lobbying group Consumer…

  • German court rules Uber limousine service illegal

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    The Federal Court of Justice in Germany on Thursday has upheld lower-court rulings, handing down a final judgment to rule that a defunct limousine service, Uber Black, offered by Uber was illegal. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the federal court passed the judgment in favour of a complaint brought by a Berlin taxi business that the so-called…

  • France, Germany aim to keep digital tax alive

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    France and Germany on Tuesday sought to salvage a proposed EU tax on big digital firms including Google and Facebook by narrowing the focus to cover only companies’ online advertising revenue. Eager to break months of deadlock, the two countries’ finance ministers put a new proposal to their EU counterparts at a meeting on the…

  • Brexit deal: May expresses optimism following EU leaders’ approval [Video]

    Brexit deal: May expresses optimism following EU leaders’ approval [Video]

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    British Prime Minister Theresa May has expressed optimism following the approval of her Brexit deal by twenty-seven leaders of the European Union (EU). TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the Brexit deal seeks to end free movement once and fall, with a new skills-based immigration system. The deal also seeks a free trade area with the EU for…

  • Brexit: European Council President says EU, UK will remain friends

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    President of the European Council (EC), Donald Tusk, has said the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) will remain friends, following endorsement of the Brexit deal by EC. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Tusk stated this in his remarks after the special meeting of the EC that endorsed the deal on Sunday. The EC President,…

  • Former Prime Minister says Theresa May’s Brexit deal is dodo

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    Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said the Brexit deal, approved by the European Council on Sunday, is a dodo. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the former Prime Minister stated this while speaking on Marr on Sunday morning. “The problem is, the deal’s a dodo,” Blair stated, while stressing that he has respect for Prime Minister…

  • Breaking: European Council endorses Brexit deal

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    The European Council (EC) has endorsed the agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union (EU) and the European Atomic Energy Community. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports this is following a special meeting by President Donald Tusk and members of the European Council that finalised and formalised…

  • Brexit: Britain’s departure will diminish Europe’s weight – Tony Blair

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    Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Tony Blair has said the departure of Britain will diminish the weight of Europe. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the former Prime Minister, who is also the Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, stated this in an article to EU leaders on Sunday. The…

  • Bayelsa obtains $1mn World Bank/EU loan

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    The Bayelsa State Government on Wednesday commenced the deployment of one million dollars bilateral loan it obtained from the World Bank and European Union (EU). Projects selected for implementation from the loan are scheduled to be completed in two years. Figures from Debt Management Office put Bayelsa’s external debt as at June 20018 at 47.756…

  • Good Brexit is possible – Theresa May

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    British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday said a good Brexit that would be of national interests is possible. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports May stated this while addressing the House of Commons following the publication of a draft agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. “A good Brexit, in the national…