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He will not have taken twenty-four hours for the first criticisms fall. Monday, February 13, Apple announced that the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an NGO based in the United States, would begin inspections in the main factory of its subcontractor Foxconn, China. A direct response to repeated criticisms of how employees are treated Chinese manufacturer iPhones and other iPads company, shortly after the publication of a survey of New York Times and a growing online petition signed by more than 200,000 people, asking the technology giant to change its policy on working conditions of its subcontractors.
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The European Commission and the Department of Justice United States have allowed Google, Monday, Feb. 13, to buy the mobile handset manufacturer Motorola Mobility. The EU executive has not imposed a condition that operation of $ 12.5 billion (9.5 billion) announced in August but she said it would monitor the use of patents by Google and its s competitors to ‘ ensure that competition law is respected. “We have approved the acquisition (…) because after careful consideration, this transaction does not raise itself from the competition problem” , said EU Competition Commissioner, Joaquin Almunia.
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The group of search engine Google is preparing an exhibition of equipment that will be able to broadcast music streaming, believed to know the Wall Street Journal , dated Thursday, February 9. According to the sources of daily, Google, which is poised to buy the phone manufacturer and decoders Motorola Mobility , affix his mark on this unit, whose output is expected this year. Such a device would include competing Apple in hardware, while the firm at the apple makes most of its revenue from sales of its products.
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