Federal Trade Commission member Noah Phillips spoke with FTCWatch reporters June 7 on a balcony outside his office overlooking 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Inside his office, a picture hangs on the wall of conservatives’ bête noire, Louis...
The antitrust agencies are busy considering possible revisions to the horizontal merger guidelines. Recent speeches and writings by some key players give us hints of what the final product might look like.
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Apple Inc. has agreed to settle an FTC complaint by paying at least $32.5 million to reimburse consumers who did not give consent to charges that their children incurred while using mobile apps....
So you just received a mailer that includes a sweepstakes ticket from a local car dealer that says if the numbers you scratch off match the numbers at the top of the letter, you’re a winner. If you...
EDITOR’S NOTE: A trial is underway in Boise, Idaho, that could determine the future configuration of the health-care industry in the United States and mark the beginning of the end of the iconic...
The advertising pitch couldn’t help but grab the attention of anybody looking for an easy path to shed some weight. After all, it was pushing a “clinically-proven” approach in which all you had to...
When the FTC recently announced it had gained major settlements against several companies for using deceptive advertisements to promote bogus weight loss products, it also did something a bit...
The Justice Department’s victory in its antitrust lawsuit challenging Bazaarvoice’s $168 million acquisition of PowerReview – a deal that brought together the two leading providers of online...