A class-action lawsuit accuses industry executives of agreeing between 2005 and 2009 not to poach one another's employees

Engineers allege hiring collusion in Silicon Valley

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Many booksellers are distrustful of Amazon, a company of boundless ambition and some aggressive ways

An offer from Amazon to its most bitter rivals

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, loves disrupting markets. In that regard, he must be having a delightful summer. The book business, once so mired in the past that it seemed part of the antiques trade, is up for grabs.A US federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Apple had illegally conspired with five of the six biggest publishers to try to raise prices in the budding e-books market.The decision came two days after Barnes & Noble lost its chief executive and said it would not appoint another, signalling the biggest chain of physical bookstores could be immediately broken up.The verdict in the Apple case might have been a foregone conclusion, telegraphed by the judge herself, but it emphatically underlined how the traditional players in the book business have been up-ended. Only Amazon, led by Bezos, seems to have a plan. He is executing it with a skill that infuriates his competitors and rewards his stockholders."We're at a moment when cultural power is passing to new gatekeepers,"

E-book ruling gives Amazon an advantage

Several companies that were supposed to be the foundation of a new Internet era plummeted this week, as analysts and investors downgraded their dreams. There were instant echoes of the crash of 2000, when the money stopped flowing, the dot-coms crumbled and Silicon Valley devolved into recriminations and lawsuits.

Some hear echo of 2000 as Internet stocks collapse

The two big casino states, Nevada and New Jersey, are racing into online gambling as a way of protecting their turf. They will in essence become laboratories for what is and is not feasible in internet wagering.Nevada legislators, who previously authorised online poker, hurriedly passed a new bill this week that allows the state to enter into deals with other states to essentially pool their gambling populations. â€œThis is the day we usher Nevada into the next frontier of gaming,â€ Brian Sandoval, Nevadaâ€™s governor, said on Thursday as he signed the bill.In the year since online poker became a theoretical possibility in Nevada, no company has yet offered it. One problem: Itâ€™s too small a market, especially in a state where it is not exactly hard to gamble the old-fashioned way â€” by plunking your body down in a casino or, for that matter, just about anywhere else.â€œWe donâ€™t have a universe of players,â€ Pete Ernaut, a Nevada political cons

Online gambling heats up

Google may soon be fighting antitrust battles on two fronts.

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Engineers allege hiring collusion in Silicon Valley

An offer from Amazon to its most bitter rivals

E-book ruling gives Amazon an advantage

Some hear echo of 2000 as Internet stocks collapse

Online gambling heats up

Some hear echo of 2000 as Internet stocks collapse

US antitrust move has Google fighting on two fronts