Browsing: Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
FTC rocks oil industry with claim that Texas executive was colluding with OPEC to fix prices
The US Federal Trade Commission declined to challenge Exxon Mobil Corp.’s $60 billion purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources Co. but…
Pottery Barn parent Williams-Sonoma fined for marketing furniture as ‘crafted’ in the U.S. when it was made in China
Home products retailer Williams-Sonoma will have to pay almost $3.2 million for violating a Federal Trade Commission “Made in USA”…
Monday’s FTC announcement to implement a nationwide, retroactive ban on the enforcement of employee noncompete agreements promises to improve wages,…
MGM Resorts sues to halt probe that began after a massive hack prompted a front-desk clerk to ask the FTC chair for her credit card number
MGM Resorts International sued the Federal Trade Commission to stop an investigation into how it dealt with a cybersecurity attack…
Meta dinged as appeals court rules against delaying FTC reexamination of Facebook privacy terms after $5 billion penalty
Meta Platforms Inc. failed to convince a federal appeals court to postpone the US Federal Trade Commission’s reexamination of alleged privacy…
Scammers impersonating FTC agents are averaging $7,000 per theft—more than double what they were stealing 5 years ago
Scammers pretending to work for the Federal Trade Commission isn’t new, but they’ve perhaps never been quite so successful. So…
U.S. to reimburse more than $4.1 million lost to loan forgiveness scams as FAFSA problems persist
The Federal Trade Commission has announced it’s sending 27,584 checks to consumers victimized by student loan forgiveness scams—about $4.1 million…
71-year-old grocery billionaire has a deal to buy 413 supermarkets from Kroger/Albertsons but feds point to his track record of mass closures
Seeking to blunt criticism that their nearly $25 billion merger to create a grocery behemoth would stifle competition, Kroger Co.…
The FTC is suing to block Kroger’s $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons, saying the merger of the two biggest supermarket chains would result in higher grocery prices
The US Federal Trade Commission, eight states and Washington DC sued to block Kroger Co.’s $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons…
$24.6 billion mega deal rocked by Colorado AG’s claim supermarkets colluded not to hire each other’s workers
Kroger’s $24.6 billion acquisition of competing grocery chain Albertsons could be in jeopardy after two challenges by state attorneys general—and…