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Updates to the never-ending e-books story: • Will there be a settlement in the e-book price-fixing investigations by the United States and Europe? The Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed sources, that Apple and two of the five book publishers involved appear to be holding out. The investigations center on the “agency pricing” model that has become common in e-books: publishers set prices and retailers such as Apple sell the e-books and take a cut. As we mentioned on GMSV last month when news of a U.S. probe broke, the agency model has mostly raised consumers’ prices. Today’s WSJ piece says the publishers balking at a settlement may be doing so because they would probably have to allow Amazon.com to go back to discounting e-books.
iTunes: Time to right the syncing ship — When Apple introduced iTunes in 2001, it served one purpose: As a music jukebox app. Later that year, it added its most important feature: The ability to sync tracks with the just-introduced iPod. Originally, you could just drag tracks onto …
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Family, friends 'desperate' for information about Morgan Hill teen missing since March 16. 49ers quarterback Alex Smith and teammates helped with the search Saturday.
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Airbnb's argument against tax doesn't fly — Special pleading is “a form of spurious argumentation,” Wikipedia explains, by “someone attempting to cite something as an exemption to a generally accepted rule, principle, etc.” — For example, San Francisco's Airbnb, the online …
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SoMe is a film about the rise (and fall?) of social media. Produced by web rabble-rouser and satirist, Loren Feldman , the film will feature Feldman’s signature puppet act (it will be cool, I promise) and interviews with and segments about web luminaries like: Julia Allison, Michael Arrington, Steve Ballmer, Henry Blodget, Chris Brogan, Robert Bruce, Paul Carr, Pete Cashmore, Brian Clark, Ron Conway, Henry Copland, Jay Cuthrell, Mike Daisey, Barry Diller, Jack Dorsey, Dan Farber, Steve Gillmor, Paul Graham, MC Hammer, Shel Israel, Andrew Jecklin, Steve Jobs, Kim Kardashian, Ashton Kutcher, Loic LeMeur, Jakob Lodwick