Google recently reached an agreement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) under which the firm will pay $125 million to resolve outstanding legal actions against it in relation to its Google Book search service, which offers full-text searching facilities to users.
The agreement, reached after two years of negotiations, is subject to [...]

Ask most people how they would structure a new business and the chances are that they will talk about starting a company. That’s fine and works a lot of the time but usually only in conjunction with a shareholder agreement.
One of the oldest forms of business structure is the Partnership – and this is often [...]

Here’s a question received a few days ago from Ron:
Hi,
Last year I invested a large amount of money in a limited business. The business made some money but not enough to break even. I am thinking of winding the limited company up although we have been more successful this year/ So I can go into [...]

Must all companies have a secretary?
Yes and No. From 6th April 2008 private companies will not need to have a company secretary but public limited companies still will. Furthermore companies registered before 6th April 2008 will have to change their Articles of Association at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the shareholders to remove the requirement [...]

The one aspect most likely to delay the start of business for a new company is not the actual incorporation but the printing of stationery.
Letter headings and other stationery cannot be printed until after the company is incorporated. This is not just commercial prudence in case a name is turned down, but certain items such [...]

On 2nd July 1890 the US Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act. This was the first national legislation to try and deal with price fixing deals between companies, which in theory were competitors, to the detriment of their customers.
 
The act, named after its author, Senator John Sherman, an Ohio Republican and chairman of the Senate [...]