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View online Hi, here is your weekly round-up of highlights from Out-Law News. As always, there are plenty of other stories from this week. You can also access our archive of weekly emails  Free Out-Law Breakfast Seminars, November 2012 Clouding your vision: the opportunities and hidden dangers of B2B cloud computing London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Register your interest: http://www.out-law.com/en/outlaw-events/   This week's highlights from Out-Law News TMT & Sourcing and Intellectual Property OFT to investigate fairness of personalised pricing The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will investigate the use of 'personalised pricing' in a bid to discover if the practice treats consumers fairly. 15/11/2012 Nature not reach of Twitter messages should determine whether prosecutions should be pursued, says expert The nature of messages posted on social media platforms and not how many people read those comments should determine whether public prosecutors purse legal action against those that breach UK communications laws, an expert has said. 15/11/2012 UK requests for Google user data down despite growing number of requests by other countries The UK Government and UK courts made fewer requests to Google for information about its users in the six months to June this year than they did in the preceding six months, bucking an international trend, according to Google statistics. 14/11/2012 UK continues to oppose new single EU data protection law regime The UK, together with a number of other EU member states, is still opposed to the creation of a new singularly applicable data protection regime across the trading bloc, according to a new report. 13/11/2012 Google's cloud database management service offers EU-only data storage and processing A redeveloped cloud service offering from Google gives businesses the opportunity to process and store personal data exclusively on servers based in the EU or US. 12/11/2012 Apple and HTC sign patent licensing agreement following legal disputes Apple and Taiwanese device manufacturer HTC have agreed to allow one another to use each other's "current and future patents" under a new 10 year licensing deal agreed on by the two companies. 12/11/2012 Employment EAT provides clarity on what it means to provide a "short-term" service A contract for a "single specific event" need not necessarily be of "short-term duration" to prevent workers being caught by regulations governing the employment rights and status of a particular worker when there is a change in service provider, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has said. 15/11/2012 Financial Services Providing investment advice to a fund manager should be exempt from VAT says Advocate General Third party advice relating to the management of an investment fund may be treated in the same way as fees arising from the management of an investment fund, a top EU legal adviser has suggested. 14/11/2012 Head of CBI calls on Government to "draw a line" under lawsuits against banks The head of an influential business lobby group has called on the Government to "draw a line" under legal proceedings against banks, allowing them to use that money more "productively" by "lending to the economy". 13/11/2012 Corporate European Commission drops quotas in favour of "40% objective" for women on boards The European Commission has signalled that it will not press ahead with proposals to introduce mandatory 40% representation by women on EU corporate boards. 14/11/2012 Tax UK's tax treatment of foreign-sourced dividends was discriminatory, says CJEU A long-running case on the tax treatment of dividends could cost the UK Government "hundreds of millions of pounds", an expert has said, after a European court found that taxing dividends from outside the UK differently was discriminatory. 14/11/2012 Energy Regulators investigating alleged manipulation of UK gas prices The Government will "act quickly" to address any gaps in the powers of regulators to tackle market abuse following allegations that companies operating in the UK gas market distorted prices, it has said. 13/11/201 Pinsent Masons: combining the experience, resources and international reach of McGrigors and Pinsent Masons   About this email This is a weekly email for subscribers of Out-Law.com, a website with more than 10,000 pages of legal news and guidance. If and when you need further advice, we hope you'll choose Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com .   Please forward this email to your friends. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like your own subscription, register here. Copyright © 2012 Pinsent Masons LLP, All rights reserved.  You are receiving this email because you are a contact of Out-Law.com or Pinsent Masons LLP and your details are held in their clients and contacts database  Our mailing address is:  Pinsent Masons LLP 30 Crown Place London, UK EC2A 4ES United Kingdom