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Apple executive Eddy Cue defends e-book deals at antitrust trial
NEW YORK — Eddy Cue, the Apple Inc. executive in charge of negotiating the company's controversial e-book deals, defended how the tech giant started its online bookstore as he made his highly anticipated appearance on the witness stand in a...
Tags: Books and Magazines, Apple iTunes Radio, Manhattan (New York City), Book, Economy, Business and Finance
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Wild Oats chain is poised to reopen this year
Wild Oats Markets Inc., the closed purveyor of organic and natural foods, is planning a comeback this year, potentially aided by local billionaire Ron Burkle. The company, which has been out of operation since 2007, now says on its website that it is...
Tags: Genetic Engineering, Companies and Corporations, Tesco plc, Arable Farming, Organic Foods
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Google wants to show drivers the Waze, buys Israeli maps startup
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google, which has already outpaced all other competitors in online maps, has sealed a $1-billion-plus deal for Waze, an Israeli social mapping company that is popular with drivers who use it on mobile devices to avoid traffic congestion....
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Road Transportation, Israel, Transportation, Economy, Business and Finance
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Federal Judge Finalizes Approval Of UTC-Goodrich Antitrust Settlement
The Hartford CourantA federal court judge issued her final approval of a deal that that took care of the government's antitrust concerns about United Technologies Corp.'s $18.4 billion acquisition of Goodrich Corp. last year. The settlement required that UTC divest a...Tags: Sales, Companies and Corporations, U.S. Department of Justice, Economy, Business and Finance, Justice System
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Diligent attention to detail paying off at online travel agency
Just after finishing college in England, Barney Harford was a finalist for a job at Mars Inc., which makes chocolate bars and other food products. "Ultimately, they said, 'You were close, but we decided not to offer you a job,'" Harford recalled. "'...
Tags: Chicago Hotels, Corporate Officers, China, The Wall Street Journal, Science
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Apple, U.S. come out swinging as e-book trial gets underway
NEW YORK — Apple Inc. and five major publishers conspired to fix prices on e-books, costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars, a U.S. Justice Department attorney argued during the first day of a marquee antitrust trial. Apple's attorney...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Apple iPad, Steve Jobs, Corporate Officers, U.S. Department of Justice
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Apple e-book price-fixing trial about to get underway
For a company that beat down prices of online music, Apple Inc. finds itself in the odd situation of defending itself against government claims that it conspired to fix prices for electronic books. Starting Monday, the Justice Department will lay out in...
Tags: Books and Magazines, Corporate Crime, Restraint of Trade, Manhattan (New York City), Book
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Chinese firm to buy pork producer Smithfield Foods
China is hungry. The world's most populous country has for years been on an agricultural buying binge, scooping up supplies of soybeans, palm oil, cotton and just about anything else that can be culled from the soil. Now, with 1.3 billion mouths to...
Tags: Smithfield Foods, Companies and Corporations, Consumer Goods Industries, China, Petroleum Industry
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Judge tosses Corbett's suit against NCAA over Penn State sanctions
Gov. Tom Corbett's lawsuit to reverse NCAA sanctions over Penn State's role in the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal fails to show how the penalties harm Pennsylvanians, a judge said in dismissing the case. U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane granted...Tags: Tom Corbett, Government, Separation of Church and State, Corporate Crime, Politics
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Australian dairy farmers cut out middlemen
SYDNEY, Australia - Tim Bale's dairy farm barely broke even in six years as mergers of processors and competition between supermarkets Coles and Woolworths pushed down milk prices. So 14 months ago, he decided to cut out the middleman. "The milk...Tags: Earnings, Consumer Goods Industries, Australia, Beverage Industry, Japan
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Friday roundup: DOJ and Apple, John Green's commencement speech
John Green, bestselling and prize-winning author of young adult novels including "The Fault In Our Stars" and "Looking for Alaska," gave the commencement address at Butler University on May 11. It's witty, smart, thoughtful, and going viral; if you...
Tags: The Washington Post, Book, Steve Jobs, Google+, Prices
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On eve of Google developers conference, company 'hot again'
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Even though its ubiquitous Internet search engine practically mints money, Google Inc. was widely seen as a company whose best days were behind it. It was written off as the next Microsoft Corp. — a staid high-tech...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Facebook, The TCW Group, Inc., Google Inc., Social Media
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