IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Justice is recommending that AU Optronics,a Taiwanese maker of LCD panels,pay a US$1 billion fine,and two former executives serve 10 years in prison,for the company's participation in a long-term ...
Tags: DOJ, AU Optronics, LCD price fixing, highest fine
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 ...
Tags: E-Book Publishers, pricing-fixing, retail prices, Apple
IDG News Service - Apple has opposed a government proposed judgment in an e-books price-fixing lawsuit, stating that the judgement seeks to terminate and rewrite its contracts "before a single document has been introduced into evidence, ...
Tags: Apple, Publishers, government
Holcim Ltd. (HOLN) may receive a fine this year for price fixing in Brazil that is a third less than the maximum expected by the cement maker. Antitrust regulator Cade will probably issue a penalty of 20 percent of Holcim’s 2005 ...
Tags: market view, cement
IDG News Service-Attorneys general from 24 states on Thursday announced they have reached settlement agreements with LCD makers LG Display,AU Optronics and Toshiba,who will pay close to$571 million end the price-fixing case against them. ...
Tags: LCD Makers, settlement agreements, LG Display, AU Optronics, Toshiba
Sharp said Monday it has agreed to pay Dell and two other companies$198.5 million to settle a lawsuit for fixing LCD panel prices in Europe and North America. The company agreed to settle the civil lawsuit,which was first filed in ...
Tags: Sharp, Dell, price-fixing lawsuit, LCD panel prices, Asian LCD makers
A jury in San Francisco on Tuesday decided to fine Toshiba?$87 million for colluding with other vendors to keep LCD prices artificially high, but the Tokyo-based company doesn't expect to have to pay anything. U.S. antitrust law calls for ...
Tags: Toshiba, LCD, LCD Display, Sharp, LG
According to the Al Eqtisadiah business daily, ministry inspection teams and police swooped in on businesses in Jeddah and other parts of the western region on January 5, arrested at least 14 people and seizing ten trucks. The raids ...
Tags: market view, cement, price