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The Commission has received an application for divestiture from the following: Lafarge S.A./Blue Circle Industries PLC; Blue Circle North America Inc.; and Blue Circle Inc. (Lafarge). Through this...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission and several states nationwide including North Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Illinois will be hosting a joint press conference at FTC Headquarters in...

The Commission has approved the filing of an amended complaint regarding the following: Travel Express International, Inc. (TEI). The FTC filed its original complaint against TEI on April 9, 2001...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced that The Hearst Trust and its wholly owned subsidiary, The Hearst Corporation (Hearst), have agreed to settle charges that it failed to include required...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced it has settled charges brought through an administrative complaint against FanBuzz, Inc. (FanBuzz), a corporation with headquarters in Minnetonka...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today issued an administrative challenge to MSC.Software Corporation's (MSC) 1999 acquisitions of Universal Analytics, Inc. (UAI) and Computerized Structural Analysis &...

The Commission has received an application from America Online/Time Warner, Inc. (AOLTW) requesting approval of a non-affiliated Internet service provider (ISP) and alternative cable broadband service...

Saying that "there is no question that consumers are deeply concerned about the privacy of their personal information ... how it's being used ... and who is using it," Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission will hold a one-day public workshop at its Washington, D.C. headquarters on November 8, 2001, to discuss office and cleaning supply fraud. The workshop will give FTC staff...

A new staff report issued today by the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission examines which features of various state retail electricity programs appear to have resulted in consumer benefits and which have not...

Lisa Frank, Inc., manufacturer of popular girls’ toys and school supplies, and operator of a Web site featuring those products, will pay $30,000 in civil penalties to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission...

A cyberscammer who used more than 5,500 copycat Web addresses to divert surfers from their intended Internet destinations to one of his sites, and hold them captive while he pelted their screens with...

Timothy J. Muris, Chairman of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission, will unveil the agency's Privacy Agenda on October 4, 2001 during a speech at the Privacy 2001 Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. The FTC's...

Scheme operators who deceptively advertised a free 800 number dating service and then worked with a so-called "billing aggregator" to "cram" unauthorized charges of $3.99 a minute onto callers' phone...

A cyberscammer who used more than 5,500 copycat Web addresses to divert surfers from their intended Internet destinations to one of his sites, and hold them captive while he pelted their screens with...

The Commission has received an application from America Online/Time Warner, Inc. (AOLTW) requesting approval of a non-affiliated Internet service provider (ISP) and alternative cable broadband service...

WHO: Timothy J. Muris, Chairman, Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission, cyberlawyers and investigators from the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. WHAT: Press availability to unveil a law enforcement initiative...

Staff of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics, Bureau of Consumer Protection, and Office of Policy Planning support a proposal by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to survey patients...

An adult Web site company that illegally billed consumers' credit cards and phone bills without their authorization has agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that the practices violated...

The most senior antitrust officials of the United States (Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission Chairman Timothy Muris, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Charles James) and the European Union (Commissioner...