The shift in consumer media consumption from fixed, dedicated platforms to open, IP-based platforms caused problems for both in the second quarter. The period also saw a courtroom showdown between Apple… Read more »
Apple and Microsoft are up to no good says antitrust lawyer David Balto. Dropping even the pretense of fairness and competition, the unlikely team have enlisted one of the most aggressive… Read more »
The thrust of the Justice Department’s two recent antitrust investigations is the same in each: to see whether incumbent media providers are abusing their dominant positions within traditional distribution chains to… Read more »
Tablets featured prominently in the connected consumer space during the second quarter of 2012, both as a product category in their own right and as a component of broader platform strategies… Read more »
Apple and the publishers facing antitrust charges from the Department of Justice may not have conspired on their respective responses to the government’s allegations, but they’re certainly singing form the same… Read more »
No company likes to be on the receiving end of an antitrust suit by the Department of Justice, but Apple is having trouble hiding its contempt for the government’s case against… Read more »
The first quarter of 2012 featured several high-profile legal and regulatory battles over privacy, antitrust and copyright that could eventually reshape digital markets, including the pay-TV business and online advertising. It… Read more »
What’s happening in the e-book market is not fundamentally different from what happened in the music industry. The retail price of recorded music has plunged thanks to digital technology and the… Read more »
There’s no escaping the Apple antitrust story today. I’ll have more about it in tomorrow’s Weekly Update, but for now I’ll just note that there seems to be a fair amount… Read more »
There are a lot of odd things about the Justice Department’s antitrust investigation of Apple over e-book pricing, starting with the fact that Apple is not the dominant player in the… Read more »