Apple CEO Cook ordered to testify in e-books case


NEW YORK: Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook must sit for a deposition in the US government's lawsuit against the company over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market, a judge ruled on Wednesday.

US District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan granted the US Justice Department's request to compel Cook to testify for four hours in the lawsuit, which accuses Apple of conspiring with five publishers to raise e-book prices.

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