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Pharmaceutical giant Merck pulls funding from Boy Scouts over anti-LGBT discrimination

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Pharmaceutical giant says it will consider giving money again ‘when the organisation’s inclusion criteria has been expanded’ The drugs giant Merck has suspended its funding for the Boy Scouts of America, citing its discrimination against gay people. The maker of top-selling drugs including asthma treatment Singulair and the HPV vaccine…

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Software piracy costs record $63.4 billion in 2011

File photo of Chinese customers in a shop selling various pirated products in Beijing (AFP)

Software piracy cost the industry a record $63.4 billion globally in 2011 with emerging economies listed as the main culprits, an annual study said Tuesday. This was up nearly eight percent from the previous record of $58.8 billion in 2010, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) said in the study. In the Asia Pacific, which…

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Cablegate: MPAA, RIAA, BSA weighed in on France’s Internet disconnection law

According to a US diplomatic cable given to secrets outlet WikiLeaks, US business interests played a role in the passage of a French law that created Internet user blacklists, ostensibly to be used against people who access copyrighted content online. The “Creation and Internet law,” which became law in Sept.…

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