Samsung is out $300 million to federal regulators—the second largest criminal antitrust fine in history—stemming from an investigation that began in 2002. The chip-maker was caught conspiring via e-mail, telephone and face-to-face conversations discussing fixing the price of memory chips starting back in April of 1999:
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