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Publication of Â鶹´«Ã½ Register notice regarding regulatory reviews for calendar year 2000: The Commission has voted to publish a notice in the Â鶹´«Ã½ Register listing its regulatory reviews...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission will host a public forum to review the "do-not-call" provision of the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). The "do-not-call" provision prohibits sellers or telemarketers...

Online auction house ReverseAuction.com, Inc. has agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that it violated consumers' privacy by harvesting consumers' personal information from a competitor...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has accepted a proposed consent agreement that would allow RHI AG (RHI) to acquire Global Industrial Technologies, Inc. (Global), while addressing the competitive concerns...

Appointment of hold separate trustee: The FTC has approved the appointment of Deloitte Consulting LLC as a hold-separate trustee in the following matter: Exxon Mobil Corporation. This trustee is being...

Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for approval of a transaction from the following: Exxon Mobil Corporation. The application regards Exxon Mobil's proposed...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has accepted a consent order, subject to final Commission approval, that would allow the purchase of Polyfibron Technologies, Inc. by MacDermid, Inc., while resolving the...

In an ongoing sweep of pyramid scams on the Internet, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission and 26 state law enforcers have targeted over 600 Internet pyramid sites for law enforcement action. "We're keeping a...

Petition to reopen and modify or set aside orders: The FTC has received a petition from First American Real Estate Solutions, LLC requesting that the Commission reopen proceedings and withdraw or...

Two defendants in one of six Santa Barbara, California, companies charged by the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission with making fraudulent claims about government auctions and foreclosed properties have agreed...

Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for approval of a transaction from the following: Precision Castparts Corp. The FTC is seeking public comments on the...

Office supply fraud is one of the most significant business-to-business telemarketing frauds according to the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission. Industry estimates that telemarketing fraud is costing the...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced the establishment of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security and requested nominations for committee members...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement with the following entity: Dominion Resources, Inc. The Commission action...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has asked a U.S. District Court Judge to halt the operation of a vast pyramid scheme promoted in part on the Internet, and to freeze the defendants' assets, pending trial...

Publication of Â鶹´«Ã½ Register notice regarding the Fair Credit Reporting Act The Commission has voted to publish a notice in the Â鶹´«Ã½ Register announcing an adjustment of the ceiling on allowable...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has negotiated an agreement with the Ford Motor Credit Company (Ford Credit), the auto financing subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, under which Ford Credit will pay $650...

Guidelines for consumer protection in online commerce were adopted today by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental forum of 29 countries, including the...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced the proposed settlement of antitrust charges that the merger of Hoechst AG and Rhone-Poulenc S.A. would violate federal law. Under a proposed merger...

Filing of staff comments with the New Mexico Public Regulations Commission regarding its Code of Conduct for public utilities and their affiliates: The staff of FTC's Bureau of Economics filed...