Commission Actions

A North Carolina physician-hospital organization (PHO) and ten of its physician members have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they fixed prices for the services of the PHO’s 450...

On Friday, August 6, 2004, I submitted my resignation as Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, effective August 31st. My six and one-half years on the Commission have been a period of great...

The Federal Trade Commission will publish a Federal Register Notice on Friday, August 13, 2004, seeking public comment on proposed rules regarding commercial electronic mail messages. The CAN-SPAM Act...

The Federal Trade Commission today launched a new Internet Web site that is dedicated to last year's 100th Anniversary Bureau of Economics (BE) Roundtable. Thirteen former BE directors, covering the...

Commission approval of final consent order: Following a public comment period, the Commission has approved a final consent order in the matter concerning Itron, Inc.’s acquisition of Schlumberger...

Under a consent agreement announced today, the Federal Trade Commission will allow Cephalon, Inc.’s $515 million acquisition of Cima Labs, Inc., provided that Cephalon grants Barr Laboratories, Inc. a...

An operation that used a feature called the “Windows Messenger Service,” which is part of the Microsoft Windows operating system, to barrage consumers’ computers with pop-up ads for the pop-up...