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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Federal Trade Commission member Terrell McSweeny has been in her post for about a year and a half, and in a nearly hour-long interview with FTC:WATCH she seemed more relaxed than when she chatted...
Congress wants to take away a merger review tool that the Federal Trade Commission doesn’t use terribly often but wants to keep as an option.
The Federal Trade Commission’s recent decision to file an amicus brief — only its fourth of the year — in a case involving charges of “product hopping” signaled the agency’s aspiration that such...
The stunning decision by the European Court of Justice to strike down a 15-year agreement that allows companies to transfer personal data from Europe to servers in the United States has triggered a...
A precautionary approach to the "Internet of Things" by federal regulators could hamper innovation, the Republican member of the US Federal Trade Commission warned Wednesday, urging her colleagues...
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating the advertising claims made by Volkswagen about the environmental benefits of its diesel engines.