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Justice Department calls Apple the 'ringmaster' in e-book price fixing case

by Yoni Heisler (May 15th, 2013)

Back in April 2012, the US Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and a number of publishers for allegedly colluding to raise the price of e-books on the iBookstore. The original suit targeted five publishing companies; Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon ...

E-book price fixing court date set for 2013

by Mike Schramm (Jun 25th, 2012)

The Justice Department has been ready to take Apple to task over these recent allegations of e-book price fixing, and now a court date has been set: Apple will have to face the music almost a year from now, on June 3, 2013. Apple, Macmillan and the Penguin Group are the targets in the case, and ...

AT&T withdrawing merger application with the FCC while pursuing win with the Justice Department

by Mel Martin (Nov 24th, 2011)

AT&T apparently believes its idea to merge with T-Mobile is headed for trouble, and today the telecommunication giant announced it has withdrawn its joint application for FCC approval ahead of what was going to be a US $39 billion dollar deal. The two companies say they are going to focus ...