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• Article | 22/06/2010 Intel may settle FTC antitrust complaint

  Intel may be close to settling the antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission late last year.
• Article | 3/06/2010 US FTC cracks down on spyware seller

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with Florida spyware vendor CyberSpy Software, two years after suing the company for sellin...
• Article | 25/05/2010 FTC won't oppose Google's acquisition of AdMob

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission won't block Google's US$750 million acquisition of mobile advertising vendor AdMob because the deal isn't likely to ...
• Article | 18/05/2010 US FTC asked to investigate Google Wi-Fi 'snooping'

  A consumer group has called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google after the search company revealed that it had been collecting p...
• Article | 30/03/2010 US lawmakers ask for FTC investigation of Google Buzz

  Eleven U.S. lawmakers have asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google's launch of its Buzz social-networking product for breaches o...
• Article | 1/02/2010 Apple's iPad marketing sparks complaint

  Apple's iPad, announced Wednesday, has already led to one complaint to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in which a consumer charged Apple with false ...
• Article | 18/12/2009 Privacy groups bring Facebook complaints to FTC

  Ten privacy and consumer groups, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), filed a complaint Thursday with the U.S. Federal Trade Co...
• Article | 20/11/2009 Company selling 'free' Web auction kits settles with FTC

  An online marketer offering supposedly free Internet auction kits has settled a complaint filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for charging cons...
• Article | 20/10/2009 ChoicePoint to pay $275,000 for second data breach

  Data broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security effor...
• Article | 6/10/2009 US FTC tells bloggers to disclose payments, freebies for reviews

  Some bloggers may soon have some fessing up to do.
• Article | 8/07/2009 Online attack hits US government Web sites

  A botnet comprised of about 50,000 infected computers has been waging a war against U.S. government Web sites and causing headaches for businesses in ...
• Article | 7/07/2009 US FTC Web site down Monday

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Web site has been down since late morning on Monday, and agency representatives said they don't know what caused t...
• Article | 18/05/2009 US FTC drops Rambus antitrust case

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has officially dropped its antitrust case against memory maker Rambus, after losing a U.S. Supreme Court case in Feb...