It only took four days for Amazon to take advantage of the ruling on the e-book price-fixing settlement.
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All the more reason, perhaps, to eschew old-fashioned price-fixing, and to move ahead with the more sensible among their recent proposals, such as cutting import tariffs and encouraging competition.
HarperCollins, one of the three publishers that settled with the Department of Justice over the e-book price-fixing case, is already seeing its title discounted below what they had been selling for by Amazon, the leading U.S. bookseller.
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's former senior manager in the Desktop Display Business Group, was found guilty today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, of participating in a worldwide TFT-LCD price-fixing conspiracy from May 15, 2002 to Dec. 1, 2006.
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But it seems unlikely that Britain's competition regulator will rubber-stamp such a price-fixing agreement.
We also saw it when Democrats and Republicans in the House came together to pass a bill that will force insurance companies to abide by common-sense rules that prevent price-fixing and other practices that drive up health care costs.
"This international price-fixing conspiracy impacted countless American consumers by raising the price of computer monitors, notebooks and televisions containing LCD panels, " said Scott D.
ENGADGET: Former senior manager at AU Optronics found guilty of involvement in LCD price fixing
He has written a memoir, "Threshold Resistance, " that tells about his career and a 9-month prison sentence he served in 2004 on an art auction price-fixing conviction.
He called for major reforms in the application of anti-trust law, arguing for narrow view of anti-trust law that would regulate only the most obvious and egregious examples of price-fixing by corporate coalitions and mergers that would eliminate competition.
As rival Virgin Atlantic tipped off the OFT about the price-fixing scandal, it was granted immunity.
BBC: The fines followed probes on both sides of the Atlantic
The European Commission and the Mexican government have opened investigations into the companys alleged price- fixing.
This after all is not the first price-fixing scandal: Wall Street has had several.
A. Alfred Taubman had a lot to lose at his trial on price-fixing charges.
Diana Brooks testifies Alfred Taubman was in on auction house price-fixing from start to finish.
Christopher Davidge, former Christie's CEO, says the auction house price-fixing scheme was Taubman's idea.
The LIBOR scandal is grabbing most attention but it is not the only price-fixing investigation.
It isn't just the price-fixing disgrace, which shocked both Christie's and Sotheby's when it came to light.
In a dizzying pirouette, acting for shareholders, he played Christie's against Sotheby's in the 2001 price-fixing scandal.
Just weeks after the company was formed, the Federal Trade Commission, worried about price-fixing, launched an investigation.
In 1992, Whitacre, an executive at the agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland, was part of a price-fixing scheme.
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote is scheduled to begin hearing the price-fixing case Monday in federal court in Manhattan.
He was also an informant for the FBI in the largest price-fixing scandal in the history of the United States.
Sainsbury's and Asda have admitted price-fixing of milk and cheese, as has Safeway - before it was bought by Morrisons.
The LCD price-fixing conspiracy affected some of the largest computer manufacturers in the world, including Hewlett Packard, Dell and Apple.
ENGADGET: Former senior manager at AU Optronics found guilty of involvement in LCD price fixing
One thing that should be unleashed immediately is antitrust: on a local level many hospitals and doctors work as price-fixing cabals.
Alfred, the company's founder, did nine months in jail related to a price-fixing scandal at auction house Sotheby's, where he was chairman.
He is understood to be frustrated by the lack of prosecutions under the new Competition Act to end price-fixing and break-up cartels.
Only last year the Swedish car giant Volvo admitted price-fixing in Britain but escaped any punishment because there were no available powers.
Companies constrained by the NRA price-fixing requirements saw their business steadily decrease.
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Profitability in vitamins has suffered since the European Commission broke up an international price-fixing cartel in which Roche was a leading figure.
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