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AutoDesk, Inc. and SoftDesk, Inc.

Consent order settles charges that the acquisition of Sojidesk, Inc. would reduce competition in the development and sale of computer-aided design software engines (CAD) and prohibits Autodesk from reacquiring "IntelliCADD," a CAD engine recently sold by Softdesk to Boomerang Technology, Inc., or any entity that controls the IntelliCadd technology.

Type of Action

Administrative

Last Updated

March 31, 1997

FTC Matter/File Number

9710049

Docket Number

C-3756

Press Release

FTC Gives Final Approval to Time/Warner Deal

Date

February 7, 1997

Following a public comment period in which 12 comments were received, the Federal Trade Commission announced today it has made final, without modification, a consent agreement with Time Warner Inc...

Press Release

FTC Requires Restructuring of Time Warner/Turner Deal: Settlement Resolves Charges that Deal Would Reduce Cable Industry Competition

Date

September 12, 1996

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved a restructuring of the acquisition by Time Warner Inc. of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. originally valued at $7.5 billion. Time...

Public Statement

Competition and Efficiencies in Merger Analysis: Proposal from the Federal Trade Commission Staff Report on Competition Policy in the New High-Tech, Global Marketplace

Date

August 6, 1996

Introduction I am pleased to be on this panel to discuss new developments and directions in antitrust law and policy. This topic is particularly relevant to my job as Director of Policy Planning at...

Cases and Proceedings

Dell Computer Corporation

Type of Action

Administrative

Last Updated

June 17, 1996

FTC Matter/File Number

931 0097

Docket Number

C-3658

Public Statement

Selected Themes from the FTC's Hearings on Global and Innovation-Based Competition

Date

March 7, 1996

Introduction I am very pleased to be here today to discuss new directions in antitrust and competition policy. This topic goes to the very heart of the Federal Trade Commission’s hearings this past...

Public Statement

Intellectual Property and Antitrust: Divergent Paths to the Same Goal

Date

March 5, 1996

INTRODUCTION I am pleased to be here today to discuss antitrust and intellectual property law, their mutual concern with fostering innovation, and some of the points at which these two bodies of law...

Public Statement

The Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property Issues: A Report from the FTC Hearings

Date

February 2, 1996

Introduction I am very pleased to be here today to discuss how concerns about innovation arise in the context of both antitrust and intellectual property law, and to note some of the points at which...

Statutes

Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act ("TAKE IT DOWN Act")

Mission

Consumer Protection

Law

Pub. L. 119-12

The TAKE IT DOWN Act criminalizes the publication of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions. It also requires covered platforms to: (1) create a process for consumers to notify covered platforms of...

https://www.ftc.govhttps://www.congress.gov/119/plaws/publ12/PLAW-119publ12.pdf

Statutes

Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (“PADFAA”)

Mission

Consumer Protection

Law

Pub. L. 118-50

The statute makes it unlawful for a data broker to sell, license, rent, trade, transfer, release, disclose, provide access to, or otherwise make available personally identifiable sensitive data of a...

Text of the Protecting Americans' Data Against Foreign Adversaries Act (68.97 KB)

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Event

The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families

June 4, 2025 | 9:00AM - 3:45PM

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop entitled "The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families" on June 4 at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C...

Technology Blog

The FTC Is on the Front Lines of Tech Innovation & Regulation

Date

January 17, 2025

The FTC has been hard at work over the past few years. Part of the agency's mission has been to build internal muscles to better anticipate how existing and emerging technologies can harm consumers...

Technology Blog

Behind the FTC’s 6(b) Report on Large AI Partnerships & Investments

Date

January 17, 2025

Today, the FTC released a staff report with OT staff’s findings from the agency’s study into large AI Partnerships and Investments. The last two years have seen the creation or expansion of three...

Technology Blog

Surveillance Pricing Update & The Work Ahead

Date

January 17, 2025

Today, FTC staff released initial insights from the Surveillance Pricing 6(b) study, highlighting findings that intermediaries have access to a wide swath of data types and data sources (including...

Technology Blog

Unpacking Real Time Bidding through FTC’s case on Mobilewalla

Date

December 3, 2024

The FTC recently announced a new enforcement action in which it alleged that the data broker Mobilewalla collected and retained sensitive location information from consumers—often without their...

Technology Blog

Data Clean Rooms: Separating Fact from Fiction

Date

November 13, 2024

Don’t judge a book by its cover – how a technology is named doesn’t tell you how it is used. This is the case with Data Clean Rooms (“DCRs”), which are not rooms, do not clean data, and have...

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Artificial Intelligence Compliance Plan

The Federal Trade Commission's Compliance Plan for OMB Memoranda M-25-21: Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust. It outlines the FTC’s strategic approach to...

Technology Blog

Behind the FTC’s Inquiry into Surveillance Pricing Practices

Date

July 23, 2024

For thousands of years, from ancient Mesopotamian markets to the modern-day yard sale, sellers have set their prices based, in part, on who was buying. In these transactions, prices can be targeted...

Business Blog

Anonymous messaging app targeting teens: Read the disturbing allegations in FTC and Los Angeles DA action against NGL

Date

July 9, 2024

An anonymous messaging app marketed to kids and teens: What could possibly go wrong? A lot, allege the FTC and the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office. A complaint against NGL Labs and founders Raj...

Technology Blog

Global Perspectives from the International Competition Network Tech Forum

Date

June 13, 2024

In March, the Federal Trade Commission hosted the first-ever Technology Forum by the International Competition Network (ICN) members in Washington, D.C. The forum brought together 21 competition...

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