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AT&T-Mobile merger good for rural Kentucky
Guest ColumnistWhitesburg’s Mimi Pickering is a sincere, but misguided, local filmmaker. “The unregulated, market-driven approach to providing broadband has not worked for us,” Pickering wrote in a Lexington Herald-Leader article. Her “plot&...Tags: T-Mobile, Politics, Consumers, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Restructuring and Recapitalization
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Waters: AT&T, T-Mobile merger is good for rural Kentucky
Whitesburg’s Mimi Pickering is a sincere, but misguided, local filmmaker.
“The unregulated, market-driven approach to providing broadband has not worked for us,” Pickering wrote in a Lexington Herald-Leader article.
Her “plot&...Tags: T-Mobile, Politics, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Economy, Business and Finance
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Judge to rule within weeks on bid to dismiss Corbett suit over Penn State sanctions
HARRISBURG — A federal judge said Monday she would decide within weeks whether to dismiss Gov. Tom Corbett's lawsuit alleging NCAA sanctions against Penn State over the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal violate antitrust laws. U.S. District Judge...Tags: Politics, Executive Branch, Litigation, Lawyers, College Sports
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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 New York Times, Steve Jobs, The Washington Post, Prices, Book
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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: Online Media Industry, Google Inc., Computing and Information Technology Industry, Eric Schmidt, Economy, Business and Finance
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High hospital bills go public, but will it help?
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, the government is publicly revealing how much hospitals charge, and the differences are astounding: Some bill tens of thousands of dollars more than others for the same treatment, even within the same city....
Tags: Medicare, National Institutes of Health, Consumers, Mayo Clinic, Pneumonia
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Hampton, Richmond bazaars battle over vendors
Sandra Gardner set out two years ago to create a craft and vendor bazaar in Hampton Roads that would rival the popular Bizarre Bazaar in Richmond. And a rivalry has ensued between the two shows. Gardner's event, The Bodacious Bazaar, is hosting its...
Tags: Anti Trust Crime, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Hampton Roads, Corporate Crime, Stranger Than Fiction
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New technology, auction methods lead some to ask: is this price-fixing?
Bid rigging has been a recurring problem in the sale of property tax liens, but largely at auctions conducted in person, and not online as they are now in most of Florida. But the new technology may facilitate another kind of crime: price fixing. At...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Crime, Law and Justice, Science and Technology, Justice System, Technology
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Report: Carfax slapped with $50M antitrust suit by 120 dealers
Autoblog.comFiled under: Car Buying, Government/LegalIn December 2012 Automotive News published a piece on dealers unhappy with Carfax, alleging that the most well known used vehicle history reporting company had maneuvered itself into a monopolistic position.... -
JBS okayed to acquire U.S. plants
According to Feedstuffs.com, the U.S. Department of Justice has closed its investigation of the antitrust implications of the acquisition of two U.S. beef packing plants by JBS S.A. without taking any enforcement action. This means that JBS can conclude...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice
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Google's Android is target of new antitrust complaint in Europe
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. is under fire from a coalition of companies including Microsoft Corp. which have called on European antitrust authorities to launch an investigation into the Internet giant's dominance on smartphones. The FairSearch group...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Companies and Corporations, Anti Trust Crime, Federal Trade Commission, New Products
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Baseball books cover the bases
George Plimpton knew the score. A generation or so ago, the late Paris Review editor developed what he called the "Small Ball Theory" of sports writing, which posits "a correlation between the standard of writing about a particular sport and the ball it...Tags: Sports, Folklore and Mythology, Bud Selig, Don Sutton, Los Angeles Dodgers
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