TPMDC Antitrust Exemption
iPad
Apple Locks Down iPad App Market, Opens Up Legal Woes
Apple is exerting more control over content purchased for and available on its popular iPad by enforcing rules that require magazine, newspaper and e-reader publishers to sell all content through iTunes.
As of March 31, apps that do not take payments through its iTunes store will be rejected. Although Apple has long required app publishers to sell subscriptions via Apple's "In App Purchase API," some publishers -- notably, The Wall Street Journal andThe Financial Times -- sold them outside Apple's digital store.
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Health Care
Leahy To Introduce Amendment To Repeal Insurers' Anti-trust Exemption
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced today that he will introduce an amendment to the Senate health care reform bill that will repeal the anti-trust exemption granted to health insurers.
"This amendment will prohibit the most egregious anticompetitive conduct - price fixing, bid rigging and market allocations - conduct that harms consumers, raises health care costs, and for which there is no justification," Leahy said in a statement. Leahy had also introduced a separate bill repealing the exemption in September.
The House version of the bill also has a provision to end the exemption.
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