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Talks Quicken Over E-Book Pricing

Talks to resolve U.S. and European price-fixing probes into e-books are heating up, with three international publishers inclined to settle the matter, according to people familiar with the matter.

LCD Makers Cough Up $538 Million to Settle Price-Fixing Charges

Seven major liquid-crystal display makers settle charges that they illegally conspired to fix prices of LCDs.
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Yahoo: You (Don't) Always Have Other Options

Total Music or Total Collusion?

Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris’s attempt to wrest control of the digital music market from Apple has–shock!–run afoul of U.S. regulators. The Justice Department has begun investigating Universal for proposing to its three main competitors that they collaborate on “Total Music,” a service that would bake the cost of an “all-you-can-eat” music subscription into [...]