IT pricing to face parliamentary scrutiny - The Australian Financial Review

IT pricing to face parliamentary scrutiny
The Australian Financial Review
A parliamentary inquiry will look at whether computer products are more expensive here than overseas markets as it examines price discrimination. The Lower House Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications will examine how consumers, ...

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Manicures Shall Be Priced Equally For Men And Women, Says New York City - Huffington Post

Manicures Shall Be Priced Equally For Men And Women, Says New York City
Huffington Post
The salons are among 138 businesses that have been hit this year for violating a little-known provision that has many pulling their hair: gender-pricing discrimination. The majority of violations so far this year—103—were issued to salons and ...

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The Wacky World of Prices: Rental Cars, Hollywood, and HBO - The Atlantic

The Wacky World of Prices: Rental Cars, Hollywood, and HBO
The Atlantic
These pricing practices are forms of price discrimination, which is to say they are ways to customize the price point so the seller doesn't leave much money on the table relative to each particular consumer's willingness to pay.

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Apple co-founder Woz weighs in against tech giant on price discrimination - Sydney Morning Herald


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Apple co-founder Woz weighs in against tech giant on price discrimination
Sydney Morning Herald
Autoplay OnOff Video feedback Video settings Apple co-founder Steve 'Woz' Wozniak has sided with Australian consumers on the contentious topic of price discrimination, saying we shouldn't have to pay more for technology goods that cost much less in the ...
Apple co-founder Woz weighs in against Apple on price discrimination The Age
Steve Wozniak brands price discrimination by Apple, others in Australia as ... The Next Web (blog)
Steve Wozniak Slams Apple's "Horrible" Prices Down Under Cult of Mac
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European Union opens probe of parallel drug trade - San Francisco Chronicle

European Union opens probe of parallel drug trade
San Francisco Chronicle
Officials may examine drugmakers' arguments that price discrimination could be justified for lower prices of medicines intended to be used in poorer countries, he said. An EU investigation could provide guidance on drugmakers' efforts to block parallel ...

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A Transition in the Law - Business West

A Transition in the Law
Business West
On May 1, 1989, the US Supreme Court held that discriminating against individuals based on non-conformity with gender stereotypes is a form of gender (sex) discrimination prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (See Price Waterhouse v.

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Lawrence Wu, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting to Speak at KC's ... - PR.com (press release)

Lawrence Wu, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting to Speak at KC's ...
PR.com (press release)
He has testified on issues related to price fixing, as well as market definition and market power in antitrust litigations involving allegations of exclusive contracting, price discrimination, and anticompetitive exclusionary conduct.

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Campaign to mark Memorial Day with petition to end marriage discrimination ... - San Diego Gay & Lesbian News


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Campaign to mark Memorial Day with petition to end marriage discrimination ...
San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
"This Memorial Day, we remember those who have paid the ultimate price for our freedom, but we must also recognize that our gay and lesbian service members and their families pay a price every day even as they serve our country – a price their straight ...
SLDN, Freedom To Marry, Launch Petition To End DOMA Lez Get Real

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The AM Roundup: Tale of Google Street View, Gupta Trial, More - Wall Street Journal (blog)

The AM Roundup: Tale of Google Street View, Gupta Trial, More
Wall Street Journal (blog)
WSJ Discrimination: New York City is cracking down on price gender-based discrimination. Barbershops and salons represent 103 of the 138 businesses that have been hit this year for violating the little-known provision that says prices for a given ...

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You Say Marriage, I Say Jobs - New America Media

You Say Marriage, I Say Jobs
New America Media
... price of weddings in 2012 hovering around $26000, who can afford to get married? The employed. With a national unemployment rate at 8.2 percent, and LGBTQ people facing additional socioeconomic inequalities due to discrimination in the workplace, ...

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