General Strike To Disrupt Services Across Greece Wednesday
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"Our country´s workers, both in the public and in the private sectors, are battling against the high prices that are strangling households and citizens," ADEDY, a confederation of trade unions for civil servants, said in a statement.
ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said in a statement that the fine "clearly signals to businesses that misleading consumers about the cost of a product or service is a serious matter which can attract substantial penalties".
The judge had made clear that the lower penalty "should not be understood as any reduction in the court's resolve to impose penalties appropriate to ... deterring contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law", Cass-Gottlieb added.
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SYDNEY, taxi Pelion airport to piraeus price Dec 7 (Reuters) - An Australian court fined Uber Technologies Inc A$21 million ($14 million) on Wednesday for threatening cancellation fees it never charged and overstating fare estimates on some rides.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which brought the case against Uber, and the tech firm had already agreed on a fine of A$26 million, but O'Bryan told the court the evidence provided by both sides was "grossly inadequate", Pelion airport bus leaving him to speculate on the harm to consumers.
In Athens, subways and buses were to suspend services all day Wednesday,, and minibus taxi Katigiorgis taxis were set to stay off the streets from 6 a.m.
until Thursday morning. Unions planned to hold protest marches in the city Wednesday morning.
ride-sharing app broke consumer law by misleading customers with warnings they would be charged for cancelling some rides from 2017 to 2021 and by using an inaccurate software algorithm to estimate fares for a taxi service it offered until August 2020, the Federal Court ruled.
LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Rival semiconductor giants ARM and Intel have agreed to work together to manage networks of connected devices from both firms, clearing a major stumbling block to market growth of the so-called Internet of Things (IoT).
Judge Michael Hugh O'Bryan said in a written ruling that by supplying inaccurate information on its smartphone app, Uber "would be expected to lead a proportion of consumers to alter their decision and not proceed with the cancellation and perhaps deter future cancellations", while distorting demand for its service.
Travelers were advised to contact airlines. Late Tuesday, aviation authorities announced that air traffic controllers and taxi from Katigiorgis port to acropolis civil aviation workers would not participate in the strike after all.
That meant domestic and international flight cancellations and schedule changes announced by Greece's main airlines for Wednesday would be readjusted, with many flights taking place.
This will allow customers using IoT chips based on either company's products to manage them in the same system, executives at the two companies said in separate blog posts. (Reporting by Eric Auchard in London; editing by Jason Neely)
"We see a significant acceleration in terms of how the market will grow in terms of the number of managed devices and the volume of data that moves through these systems," Himagiri Mukkamala, an ARM senior vice president and general manager for its IoT Cloud Services division, told Reuters in an interview.
Britain's ARM, a unit of Japan's Softbank Corp, said on Monday it had struck a strategic partnership with Intel to use common standards developed by Intel for managing IoT devices, connections and data.
Most of the world's biggest suppliers of IoT chips rely on low-power ARM designs, including NXP, taxi from Pelion to delphi Renesas and Microchip's Atmel, minibus taxi Katigiorgis while Intel, known for its powerful data-crunching processors, dominates the cloud data centre market, where IoT data are analysed and processed, Gartner analyst Bill Ray said.
