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March 3rd, 2010:

Gripe site prevails in domain cybersquatting case

Gripe site prevails in domain cybersquatting caseBy Jacqui Chenggripe site that incorporates a company's entire trademark into its domain is still protected under the First Amendment, a US District Judge has ruled.

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In share price terms, BP has outperformed Shell massively

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The Hayward plan: keep squeezing the oil can: The BP chief’s watchword is efficiency – and it should keep shareholders happy

Nils Pratley (Business)
Tuesday 2 March 2010 21.13 GMT

BP has been a terrible performer: rich in assets but never delivering respectable returns. This radical view was advanced today by none other than Tony Hayward, the company’s chief executive. Of course, he didn’t put it in such stark terms. BP, he said, had begun “a new phase to realise the potential of the portfolio built over the past decade”.

Hayward, despite being at the helm for two-and-a-half years, can get away with this analysis because he has clearly done much to address the perceived shortcomings. His era has seen a revival of the spirit of nuts-and-bolts engineering within BP. read more

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Nigerian Rebel Group Says It Attacks Shell’s Kokori Station

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March 03, 2010, 12:52 AM EST

By Dulue Mbachu

March 3 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Kokori oil flow-station in the southern Niger River delta was attacked by the People’s Patriotic Revolutionary Force, the group said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.

The group said with the attack it was resuming “fresh and final hostilities in the Niger-Delta and beyond.”

The group called on international oil companies “to vacate the Niger-Delta region with immediate effect.”

Shell Nigeria spokesman Precious Okolobo didn’t didn’t immediately respond to a message left on his phone seeking comment. read more

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Britain Grapples With Debt of Greek Proportions

Without a strong political majority to tackle Britain’s lumbering fiscal problems, investors could start to make it greatly more expensive for the government to raise funds, setting the stage for a potential double-dip recession, if not worse.

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