Commission Actions

Advocacy/comments filed by FTC staff: The staff of the Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection has provided comments to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) regarding...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice announced today that representatives of the United States and Brazil have signed a bilateral antitrust cooperation agreement. Brazil becomes...

Consumer complaints about "cramming" - unauthorized charges on telephone bills - are rising dramatically according to Federal Trade Commission testimony delivered to the Senate Committee on Small...

One hundred twenty four thousand consumers - most of them small business owners - who may have had unauthorized charges "crammed" onto their telephone bills for Internet services they never ordered or...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted a proposed consent agreement that would allow the $6 billion merger of El Paso Energy Corporation and Sonat Inc., while ensuring that competition is...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted a proposed consent agreement settling charges that VNU N.V.'s acquisition of Nielsen Media Research, Inc. would violate antitrust laws. The agency alleged...

Petition to reopen and modify and order: The Commission has received a petition from the following entity to reopen and modify an existing order: Compaq Computer Corporation, in the matter of Digital...