Tag Archives: Prices (Fares Fees and Rates)

Apple Executive Defends Pricing and Contracts in Antitrust Case

Just days after Apple introduced the iPad and opened an e-bookstore, the biggest player in the e-book market, Amazon, changed the way it sold digital titles. Steven P. Jobs took out his iPhone and shot off an ... Read more

Food and Gas Drove Wholesale Prices Up in May

WASHINGTON — Economic reports released on Friday weighed on investors, showing that consumer confidence has fallen this month and that American factories barely increased their output in May. ... Read more

Argentina Falls From Its Throne as King of Beef

BUENOS AIRES — A thick slab of grass-fed sirloin dripping in its own juices: so many Argentines consider such a feast a birthright to be enjoyed regularly that one president in the 1990s quipped to an ... Read more

Publishers Tell of Disputes With Apple on E-Book Prices

In an e-mail to her boss, Leslie Moonves, Carolyn K. Reidy, the chief executive of Simon & Schuster, dismissed an Apple executive as a “minion.” David Shanks, the chief executive ... Read more