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Dell Files New Suit in LCD Price Fixing Saga
Dell has launched yet another legal salvo in the ongoing war over LCD price fixing. This time those on the receiving end are Hitachi, Sharp, Toshiba, HannStar, and Seiko. Dell isn’t alone in this war,...
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Samsung and Eight Other Chip Makers Fined $404 Million for Price Fixing
Following an extensive investigation into alleged price fixing violations, the European Commission found nine memory makers guilty of wrongdoing and fined them a collective $404 million.The companies...
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DRAM Makers Settle Pricing Fixing Dispute for $173 Million
Thirty-three states, including California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and others, will receive $173 million from six DRAM makers to settle a suit accusing them of fixing prices for...
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LCD Makers Accused of Price Fixing (Again)
Following an investigation into the business practices of several LCD makers, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has gone and sued a number of companies on allegations of price fixing, a charge he...
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Oracle Cries Foul, Slaps Micron with Lawsuit over Chip Pricing
Oracle is accusing memory chip maker Micron of conspiring to fix prices, alleging it overcharged Sun for memory parts, Bloomberg reports.In its complaint, Oracle said Micron and other DRAM makers...
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EU Fines Six LCD Makers for Price Fixing Shenanigans
Six LCD makers have been assessed fines of over $850 million (€648 million) by the European Commission for allegedly "operating a cartel which harmed European buyers of television sets, computers, and...
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LCD Makers Including Sharp and Samsung Settle Price Fixing Case for $388 Million
Sharp, Samsung, and half a dozen other liquid crystal display (LCD) panel makers may have colluded to fix prices earlier in the decade, according to claims brought on by a class action lawsuit. The...
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Hitachi Executives Plead Guilty to Disk Price Fixing, Will Serve Prison Time
A trio of executives at Hitachi and LG will spend some time behind bars for conspiring to rig bids and fix prices for the sale of optical disk drives, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today....
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LCD Price Fixing Settlement Tops Half a Billion Dollars
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman this week announced a $553 million multi-state settlement with seven major technology corporations accused of illegally conspiring with each other to...
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AU Optronics to Appeal LCD Price Fixing Verdict
There's a good chance you overpaid for a computer monitor or notebook purchased between 1999 and 2006, the time frame in which several display makers were engaged in a price fixing scandal. All but one...
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Justice Department Close to Settlement With Apple & Several Publishers over...
Apple’s legal team has been waging a war for years now against Android OEMs, and if Reuters sources are to be believed, they probably should have spent a bit more time reviewing e-book negotiations...
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Toshiba Faces $87 Million Pricing Fixing Fine, Proclaims Innocence
Everyone knows you 'don't do the crime if you can't do the time,' or in Toshiba's case, if you can't pay the fine. The only problem with that is Toshiba is innocent, or so the company claims, just like...
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LG Display is Biggest Loser in LCD Price Fixing Settlement
AU Optronics Corp., LG Display, and Toshiba Corp. have all three agreed to pay a combined $571 million in damages to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging the three were involved in a scheme to...
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European Commission Accuses 13 Optical Drive Suppliers And Two Major OEMs Of...
Have you bought a preconfigured big-box type PC sometime in the last five years? If so, you might have been slightly screwed over. That's what the European Commission claims, at least. Today, the EC...
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Federal Judge Finds Apple Guilty of Conspiring to Raise E-Book Prices
Apple finds itself in a legal pickleU.S. District Judge Denise Cole has found Apple guilty of colluding with five major U.S. publishers to drive up prices of electronic books (e-books), saying that the...
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DRAM Makers Reach $310M Settlement in Price Fixing Case
Here's how to collect your bountyYou can now submit claims for your piece of a $310 million settlement reached between a dozen different Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) makers in a federal...
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