Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro , a consumer-rights law firm today announced that the firm, along with 33 state Attorneys General and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), have reached a proposed settlement with Macmillan over allegations of ...
US authorities have reached a settlement with Macmillan, the last of five publishers accused of colluding with Apple in an e-book price-fixing conspiracy. The US Justice Department said in a statement that with the five publishers ...
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The company that publishes books under the Macmillan imprint has agreed to allow discounting of its electronic books as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over price-fixing in the fast-growing e-book market. Under ...
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Apple and four other e-book publishers have settled an antitrust battle with the European Union. After a year of investigations into allegations of cartel price-fixing, the European Commission has decided to accept commitments to alter ...
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A judge has approved an e-book price-fixing settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and three book publishers. Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in an order dated Wednesday, ...
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Apple and four major e-book publishers have offered retailers such as Amazon.com the option to set their own prices for e-books for the next two years in a bid to end an antitrust investigation in the European Union. The European ...
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Penguin Group has become the latest book publisher to reach a settlement with the U.S.Department of Justice in a lawsuit that alleges that Apple and five publishers had conspired to raise e-book prices. Under the proposed settlement ...
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US based BioData, a developer of scientific digital tools, has named Adam Sartiel as the company's new chief executive officer (CEO). Supported by Digital Science, a technology company of Macmillan Publishers, the company has developed a ...
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Retailer Iceland has awarded a £10m contract for marketing activity, including point-of-sale materials, to the print and campaign management group HH Global The contract covers point-of-sale, print management, data services, online ...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Chiromics have partnered to discover classes of small molecules against biological targets. The collaboration will leverage Chiromics' compound collections of accessible complexity, Chalis, hit recognition ...
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Salesforce.com customers interested in using the vendor's emerging family of marketing software could benefit from a new partnership it has formed with Facebook for targeted ad delivery. The companies announced the pact late Thursday ...
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IDG News Service-Three book publishers will pay more than$69 million to U.S.states to settle charges they collaborated to fix prices of e-books. Hachette Book Group,HarperCollins Publishers and Simon&Schuster have agreed to an antitrust ...
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Cancer charity Macmillan had to overcome user resistance when it upgraded its IT service management (ITSM) technology, after the organisation outgrew its existing technology and processes. The organisation eventually overcame user ...