PriceFixing Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The Steve Jobs email that has the DOJ's interest

by Steven Sande (May 16th, 2013)

TUAW has covered the US Department of Justice price-fixing case against Apple for the past several years. Now an email sent from former Apple CEO Steve Jobs to James Murdoch of News Corporation (parent company of HarperCollins publishers) is being interpreted by the DOJ as showing that Apple and ...

Daily Update for March 22, 2013

by Steven Sande (Mar 22nd, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson needn't testify in e-book case

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 6th, 2013)

Steve Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson has been dropped from the upcoming Apple e-books price-fixing case, according to Paid Content. Class-action lawyers had originally subpoenaed Isaacson to submit his notes from interviews with Jobs regarding the iBookstore. However, Isaacson refused to do ...

Judge: Walter Isaacson doesn't have to hand over biography notes

by Steven Sande (Jul 30th, 2012)

It's beginning to look like we'll need to change our name to "The Unofficial Apple Legal Weblog," since we have a story of one more case involving Apple. This story is in reference to a class action suit regarding alleged price fixing on ebooks by Apple. Lawyers for the plaintiffs have ...

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 ...

Samsung executive fixed pricing for chips in Apple computers

by Erica Sadun (Dec 21st, 2006)

A Samsung executive will pay a quarter-million dollar fine and serve almost a year in prison after pleading guilty to memory chip price fixing. He violated the Sherman Antitrust Act when Samsung colluded with other companies to fix DRAM chip prices. Four other memory makers have been charged as ...