According to two anonymous sources, EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding and Michel Barnier, who leads financial-services policy for the EU were not happy with Antitrust Commissioner Joaquin Almunia lack of consultation with fellow commissioners and complainants prior to agreeing to a settlement with Google over antitrust concerns.
US District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr rejected the trial date extension of the defense lawyers of suspected Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and said that a November 3 trial is fair and realistic.
New York Department of Financial Services superintendent Benjamin Lawsky revealed the agency's plans of enforcing regulations regarding digital currency businesses and said that it would be using existing money laundering laws to do so.
Data thefts at U.S. retailers have rekindled enthusiasm in Congress for a single federal law on how customers should be notified about such breaches, but those efforts face the same roadblock as in the past: dozens of overlapping state laws already in place.
