New Italian prime minister an antitrust aficionado
November 15, 2011
The new prime minister of Italy, Mario Monti, called to save the day in Europe, is a familiar face in antitrust circles here and overseas.
November 15, 2011
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz and commissioner-nominee Maureen Ohlhausen received a mostly friendly reception at their confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee November 15, but were peppered with questions about the status of pet projects by both Democratic and Republican senators.
November 15, 2011
Tax-preparation firm H&R Block is dropping its $288 million purchase of software rival TaxACT, an acquisition that the Justice Department had sued to block, following a ruling in the Justice...
November 15, 2011
The new prime minister of Italy, Mario Monti, called to save the day in Europe, is a familiar face in antitrust circles here and overseas.
November 15, 2011
The Justice Department’s controversial decision to shutter four of its regional antitrust offices came into the public eye for the first time when Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., came under...
November 15, 2011
A decision by the FTC and its partner agencies to significantly scale back their sweeping voluntary guidelines on marketing food to children has thrown into question whether the proposed standards...
November 15, 2011
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz has gone on record publicly praising one of the Digital Advertising Alliance’s revised principles for online privacy.
November 15, 2011
State governments are teaming up to ask the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and prosecute intellectual property theft by foreign-based companies, which they say is undermining the economic...
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