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Highlighting the agency's continuing efforts to protect consumers from unscrupulous telemarketers pitching phony credit card "protection" offers, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced that it...

In another aggressive sweep targeting corporations and individuals that promise loans and credit cards for an advance fee, but never deliver them, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission, state Attorneys General...

Due to an unexpectedly large showing of public interest in its workshop: "Competition Policy in the World of B2B Electronic Marketplaces," the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission announced today that the...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today accepted a proposed consent agreement that would allow Pfizer Inc. (Pfizer) to consummate its $90 billion merger with Warner-Lambert Company (Warner), while ensuring...

Application for modification of Commission order: The FTC has received a petition from the following requesting that the Commission modify a previously issued order: Alliant Techsystems Inc. On March...

In prepared remarks delivered today before the American Antitrust Institute Conference: An Agenda for Antitrust in the 21st Century at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade...

Two used mattress retailers, Mega Furniture, Inc. and Nueva Furniture, Inc., both based in Brooklyn, New York, have agreed to enter into court settlements with the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission as a part...

Jodie Bernstein, Director of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, presented FTC testimony today before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the...

In testimony today before the House Commerce Committee Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission said it favors legislative provisions that would...

Riley Manufactured Homes, Inc., an Urbana, Illinois-based seller of prefabricated housing, and company president, Dennis Ohnstad, have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that they...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final consent agreements with the following: Day Trading International; CompuTrade LLC, et al.; and...

Staff of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission and the District of Columbia inspected 32 used car dealers in Washington, D.C. last Thursday to determine whether they are complying with the FTC's Used Car Rule...

The Commission has approved the amendment of a complaint against the following: Advanced Public Communications Corporation. The original complaint in this matter was issued as part of the law...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission and the District of Columbia's Corporation Counsel will hold a joint press conference on Monday, June 12, at 10:30 a.m. to announce the results of its sweep of used car...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced the following actions: Publication of Â鶹´«Ã½ Register notices: The Commission has voted to publish a Â鶹´«Ã½ Register notice announcing that the public...

SUMMARY: The Commission on Online Child Protection, (the COPA Commission), was directed by Congress in the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), 47 U.S.C. Sec. 231, to conduct a study regarding methods...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission and the Department of Commerce will host a workshop to explore the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for consumer transactions Online, June 6 and 7 in the...

ACTION: Hearing announcement and request for submission of comments in preparation for hearing of the Commission on Online Child Protection. SUMMARY: The Commission on Online Child Protection (the...

Citing competitive concerns in Fort Worth and several smaller cities in Texas, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today voted to seek a preliminary injunction to block the Kroger Company's proposed...

The FTC has approved a petition from the following to reopen and modify a Commission order: Meade Instruments Corporation, in the matter of Harbour Group Investments, L.P. In its petition, Meade had...