From Gizmodo: The world’s most valuable company and a business run by the richest man in modern history have been engaged in an irritating cold war for years, and they need to knock it off. When I say that Amazon and Apple are engaged in tech’s most annoying feud, I don’t mean it’s the most important battle … Read more
From The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page: This week some of America’s most beloved internet companies will follow the footsteps of Big Tobacco and Wall Street in a dreaded rite of passage: the Capitol Hill perp walk. The top lawyers for Google, Facebook and Twitter will try their best to explain to the Senate Intelligence Committee how misinformation spread … Read more
From Tidbits: There has been a lot of talk lately about how dedicated Apple is to its professional users, the ones who use Apple hardware and software to make their livings. . . . . In a conference room tucked away in a library on the campus of Vanderbilt University, I spent a morning surrounded … Read more
We’re getting pretty close to the end of posts about the antitrust suit against the Price-Fix Six until something else happens. Here are diverging views on the merits of the suit from two law school professors. First, Professor Daniel Crane: The book publishers felt that Amazon was devaluing the e-book market in order to promote … Read more