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Alexandra Berzon, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on April 25 at 7:00 am PT
PokerStars is in negotiations to acquire Full Tilt Poker in a deal that would end the two online poker companies’ legal battles with the U.S. Justice Department, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 13 at 9:40 am PT
Customers, yes, but Apple and the book-publishing industry — not so much.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 11 at 8:49 am PT
Apple competes ferociously with Amazon. But the feds say Cupertino considered a different strategy, where Apple would rule music and movies, and Amazon would rule e-books. Really?
Chad Bray and Brent Kendall in Media on April 11 at 7:39 am PT
The U.S. filed an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Apple Inc. and five of the nation’s largest publishers, alleging they conspired to limit competition for the pricing of e-books.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on April 11 at 4:32 am PT
The Department of Justice may file a suit against Apple today over e-book price-fixing complaints, according to reports from
Reuters and
Bloomberg. The DOJ has been probing antitrust complaints regarding Apple’s 2010 pacts with book publishers; several of the biggest publishers are preparing to settle those charges by “tearing up” those deals, according to
The Wall Street Journal.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 6 at 3:34 pm PT
Casinos and some of their partners are seeing the benefits of letting players connect to games found in casinos before, during and after visits to Las Vegas.
News Byte
John Murrell in Mobile on February 13 at 2:28 pm PT
Just hours after
European Union antitrust regulators gave the okay to Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, their counterparts at the U.S. Department of Justice
did the same. The DOJ echoed the EU concern over how Google will handle standards essential patents and said it would be watching, but it concluded overall that “the specific transactions at issue are not likely to significantly change existing market dynamics.” Also approved was
the sale of a batch of Nortel patents to a consortium composed of Apple, Microsoft and RIM.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 3 at 2:06 pm PT
Caesars Entertainment may be known for its Las Vegas casinos, but it also has a burgeoning business developing way off the Strip.
