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Automatic Data Processing, Inc. has agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that its 1995 acquisition of AutoInfo, Inc. assets resulted in a monopoly and substantially lessened competition...

Consumer groups and telecommunications industry participants in a two-day workshop at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission beginning Thursday, June 19, at 9 a.m. will examine increased consumer complaints...

Marketers of some of the most popular exercise equipment on the market today have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission allegations that they made exaggerated weight-loss claims in their...

Guidelines for how companies advertise and market the metal content, movement and performance of watches are to be updated to reflect modern manufacturing processes and, wherever reasonable, to...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has negotiated a settlement agreement with Student Assistance Services, Inc. and other defendants who ran an alleged scholarship search service scam. The settlement would...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced the following action. Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application...

Oasis Southwest, Inc., a Las Vegas, Nevada-based prize promotion telemarketer and its two principals have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that the company was running a phony prize...

International Masters Publishers Inc. (IMP), a Stamford, Connecticut-based company that sells informational cards on a variety of topics -- recipe cards, home repairs, gardening, sewing, sports...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has extended until August 1, 1997, the public comment period on whether to modify, rescind or retain Rule 703, which sets out its requirements governing informal dispute...

Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has approved an application for approval of a divestiture from Mahle GMBH, of Stuttgart...

Consumer privacy issues will be the focus of a Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission public workshop beginning June 10. Workshop participants will examine issues affecting privacy, including the online collection...

A settlement agreement that the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has negotiated with Sears, Roebuck and Co. would give the agency a tool to ensure that Sears makes full refunds totaling up to $100 million or...

Robert Pitofsky, Chairman of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission, told the House Judiciary Committee today that deregulation in the electric power industry could benefit consumers by reducing prices and...

WestPoint-Stevens Inc. has agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that it violated the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act (Textile Act) by misbranding the sheets and towels it...

Rosemarie A. Straight has been appointed by Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky to be the FTC's Executive Director, responsible for the agency's personnel, budget, finance, procurement...

CVS Corporation has agreed with the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission to divest a total of 120 Revco drug stores or pharmacy counters -- 114 stores in Virginia and six pharmacy counters in the Binghamton, New...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced the following actions. Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has obtained a settlement agreement from Jenny Craig, Inc. to resolve deceptive advertising charges in connection with the diet program's claims about weight loss, weight...

Defendants who allegedly ran a fraudulent scheme that lured consumers into making lengthy and expensive calls -- unknowingly -- to Guyana or the Caribbean, have agreed to pay a total of $111,000 in...

The Joe Camel advertising campaign violates federal law, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charged today. The campaign, which the FTC alleges was successful in appealing to many children and adolescents...