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<title>DOJ accuses Apple, e-book publishers of 'unmistakable' harm</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/23/fights.to.save.settlement.with.three.publishers/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1208/Apple-DOJ-iBooks-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Department of Justice has filed its response to Apple's call for the settlement with three of the major publishers to be dismissed or suspended at least until after the trial in which the DOJ accuses Apple and two other publishers of colluding to fix e-book prices. In it, the DOJ accuses Apple, Penguin Group and Macmillan of causing "unmistakable consumer harm."...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple DOJ e-book collusion trial set for June 3, 2013</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/06/26/date.a.compromise.between.apple.doj.requested.dates/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/Apple-Lawsuits%26Legal-new-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has set the e-book antitrust bench trial, which pits the Department of Justice against Apple and two of the five major book publishers, to June 3, 2013. The date is much later than Apple wanted, but much earlier than the Department of Justice wanted. Apple was hoping to get the trial underway as soon as pos...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>DOJ investigates cable providers over Netflix complaints</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/06/13/itunes.hulu.netflix.traffic.allegedly.discriminated.against/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1339626643_departmentofjustice-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Justice Department is allegedly in the midst of a large-scale antitrust investigation focusing on potentially anticompetitive practices by cable companies that compete with online video purveyors such as Apple's iTunes store, Hulu, or Netflix. Regulators are said to be attempting to determine if Comcast violated a net-neutrality agreement to not discriminate against competitors that send data ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Simon &amp; Schuster settles with states in price fixing suit</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/17/federal.complaint.dropped.civil.suit.pending/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/judgecote-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[One of the defendants dealing with multiple antitrust lawsuits has settled the overall complaint filed by many states' attorneys general. As a result, Judge Denise Cote granted a motion on Tuesday to dismiss Simon &amp; Schuster from the federal complaint. The terms of the settlement have not been provided....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 02:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hitachi-LG manager pleads guilty to fixing DVD drive prices</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/lgz330-handson.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US Department of Justice stated Monday that a Hitachi-LG Data Storage executive had admitted to price fixing charges.  Senior Sales Manager Woo Jin Yang agreed to face reduced prison time of six months, as well as pay a $25,000 fine, for artificially raising the bidding prices of CD and DVD drives sold for HP PCs.  Between August 2006 and February 2009, Yang, three others, and an unnamed compa...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Friday Night Lights author caught by Amazon e-book rules</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/30/bissinger.hurt.by.apple.amazon.no.lower.price.war/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/afterfridaynightlights.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The insistence on having no lower prices at e-book stores has had a conspicuous if brief casualty, according to an account.  Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger shared with the New York Times that he had had his sequel book, After Friday Night Lights, pulled by Amazon after it was chosen by Starbucks as a Pick of the Week and given away through Apple's iBookstore for free through redemption ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Barnes &amp; Noble and Microsoft settle Android patent fight</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/30/barnes.and.noble.gets.investment.truce/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/barnesandnoblenooktablet-handson.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Barnes &amp; Noble and Microsoft on Monday settled an Android patent dispute through a union.  An e-reading partnership, Newco, will see Microsoft take a $300 million, or 17.6 percent, stake in a project that should merge Barnes &amp; Noble's Nook business and its college division.  In return for the funding, Barnes &amp; Noble will make a Nook app for Windows 8 to help foster textbooks on future Microsoft-po...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple also facing class actions over e-book prices in Canada</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/20/ibookstore.may.be.forced.to.change.in.canada.too/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/ipad2-books2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US lawsuit over e-book pricing was quietly preceded by civil lawsuits in Canada.  An interview with Quebec attorney Normand Painchaud confirmed to the Montreal Gazette that he had asked for class action status on a lawsuit against Apple and the same five major publishers targeted by the US government.  Other lawsuits have been filed in the provinces of British Columbia and Ontario....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/20/ibookstore.may.be.forced.to.change.in.canada.too/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple says decision to face DOJ trial voluntary, talks to EU</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/ipad2-tvad7.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple on Wednesday stated that its confronting a Department of Justice lawsuit over e-book pricing was deliberate.  Attorney Daniel Floyd told Judge Denise Cote that Apple believed the lawsuit was "not an appropriate case" and wanted to prove itself in court.  The company wanted this to be "decided on the merits," Reuters heard while observing Floyd at a hearing....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple rebuffs DOJ e-book suit, says Amazon was monopoly</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/ipad2-tvad7.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple after silence through the past two days responded Thursday to the Department of Justice lawsuit over alleged e-book pricing collusion.  Spokesman Tom Neumayr flatly rejected the accusations when asked for comment by AllThingsD, recapping the company's objections to the European Union that the iBookstore was beneficial as it was created.  The iPad-focused store kept Amazon from having excessi...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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