antitrust 
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Steve Jobs, Winnie the Pooh and the iBook Launch
The Apple/DOJ trial turns into a trip down memory lane.
News Byte
Thomas Penfield Jackson, Judge in Microsoft Antitrust Case, Dead at 76
Thomas Penfield Jackson, the federal judge who in 2000 branded software giant Microsoft a predatory monopolist that should be split in two, only to see his ruling reversed on appeal, has died of cancer complications at the age of 76, according to an obituary in the New York Times. An appeals court set aside his ruling in part because of interviews he gave to journalists in which he explained his views. Microsoft later settled the case and the government decided not to seek the company’s breakup.The Apple iBooks Origin Story
In the beginning, Steve Jobs wasn’t even interested.
Apple’s Cue Says Publishers Pushed for Higher E-Book Prices
The man the Department of Justice calls the “chief ringleader” of Apple’s alleged conspiracy to raise e-book prices finally takes the stand in the government’s price-fixing case against Apple.
EU Regulators Eye Google Again — This Time It’s Android
More trouble for Google abroad.
Time Warner Cable Says It’s Blocking Some Programmers from the Web — But It’s Still Not Holding Up Web TV
The country’s second-biggest cable TV operator is blocking some TV networks from selling to “over the top” Web video guys like Intel. But it can’t stop the biggest networks.
Is Steve Jobs Message a Smoking Gun in Apple E-Book Case?
Apple may not have been quite as indifferent to publishers’ deals with Amazon as it professes to be.
Can Google Reroute Around Regulatory Concerns About Waze Buy?
Big Google deals always get some scrutiny.
Apple Accuses DOJ of Unfairly Twisting Steve Jobs’s Words
“There’s something inherently unfair and uncomfortable about placing such reliance on the out-of-court statements of someone who’s not here to explain them or place them into context.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook: “The E-Book Case to Me Is Bizarre”
And that’s why Apple is taking the DOJ to the mat.
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