The Competition Commission has referred its findings of cartel conduct against Glass South Africa, National Glass, Northern Hardware & Glass, Furman Glass, McCoy’s Glass and AF-FSL Glass to the Competition Tribunal for a hearing The ...
A US judge has ordered Apple's chief executive Tim Cook to testify in a case brought by the government accusing the tech giant of conspiring to raise e-book prices. US Federal Judge Denise Cote issued the order after a teleconference ...
Tags: Apple, CEO, Tim Cook, e-Books Case
Dell has reported another quarter of declining revenue and profit as the company's CEO continues his battle to take the PC maker private. It was the fifth consecutive quarter in which Dell's profits shrank, and the fourth in which it ...
Tags: Dell, desktop, laptop PCs
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 ...
Tags: Macmillan, e-Book Trial, Apple
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 ...
Tags: Macmillan imprint, electronic books, US
The Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a dairy-farmer cooperative that has been accused of conspiring with four other organizations to suppress milk prices paid to dairy farmers across 14 US states, has agreed to pay $158.6m to settle the ...
Tags: Dairy Farmers, milk price, Foods
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has settled a class action lawsuit accusing the cooperative of conspiring to control the raw milk market in the southeastern US. DFA will pay US$140m to the plaintiffs. An additional, refundable $9.3m per ...
Tags: DFA, raw milk market, class action lawsuit
IDG News Service - China has punished six companies, including Samsung and LG, for manipulating LCD panel prices in the country, and ordered them to pay a total of $56 million in fines. Samsung, LG, and four Taiwanese companies ...
Bloomberg reported that antitrust body fined POSCO, Hyundai Hysco Co and five other South Korean steelmakers were fined a combined KRW 291.7 billion (USD 273 million) for fixing the price of some products. The Fair Trade Commission ...
Tags: antitrust body, POSCO, Hyundai Hysco Co, fine, price fixing
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 ...
Tags: Apple, e book, European Union, Amazon
Hewlett-Packard has filed a complaint against display manufacturers Chunghwa Picture Tubes and Tatung Company of America, seeking to recover damages it claims it suffered as a result of their involvement in a price fixing scheme. Chungwha ...
South Korea's oil refiners are likely to face tougher challenges in coming years as President-elect Park Geun-Hye vows consumer-focused policies and tighter business regulations under her economic democratization platform. Park, from ...
Tags: South Korea, oil refiners, economic democratization platform, oil
Seven international electronics manufacturers were fined a total of $1.92 billion by the European Commission on Wednesday for conspiring to fix the price of cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) in two separate cartels between 1996 and 2006. European ...
Tags: EU, price, CRTs, separate cartels
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, ...
Tags: judge, ebook, price fixing settlement, U.S.Department of Justice