Advertising and promotion expenditures for smokeless tobacco products reached $236.7 million in 2001, according to a biennial Federal Trade Commission report. The report shows that promotional...

Commission authorization of the staff to file amicus brief and appear as amicus curiae: The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amicus brief and to appear as amicus curiae in Carter v. ICR...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit in U.S. District Court charging Mercury Marketing of Delaware, now doing business as GoInternet.net, and its principal Neal D. Saferstein with contempt of...

In three separate recent actions, the Federal Trade Commission has settled charges against companies engaged in the deceptive sale of "equal employment opportunity" advertisements. The defendants...

One of the country’s largest credit-repair operations has agreed to pay more than $1.15 million in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law. The...

Global Vending Services, Inc., headquartered in Las Vegas, and its principals, Nicholas G. Chomakos and Matthew A. Capicchioni, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they failed...

Alleging that Aspen Technology, Inc’s (AspenTech) $106.1 million acquisition of Hyprotech, Ltd. (Hyprotech) in 2002 was anticompetitive and led to the elimination of a significant competitor in the...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the appointments of Ann Malester as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition and Steven K. Bernstein as Assistant Director for Mergers I, one of the...

Two companies who marketed and sold bogus cell phone radiation protection patches have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated federal laws by making false and misleading claims...

During the five weeks since it opened on June 27, consumers have registered more than 30 million telephone numbers in the National Do Not Call Registry: nearly 24 million, or 80 percent of those...

The Commission approved a proposed divestiture by ConocoPhillips, Inc. under the terms of the decision and order in the matter involving the recent merger of Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Company...

Two companies settled FTC charges today that they fraudulently marketed purportedly authentic International Driver’s Permits (IDPs) on the Internet. Under the terms of the settlement, the defendants...

Star Credit Services, Inc. of Holbrook, New York, and its owner, James Shovak are permanently enjoined from deceptively offering or selling advance-fee loans as a result of a settlement with the...

The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice (DOJ) today released a detailed agenda for the final sessions of their joint hearings on health care and competition law and policy to be held...

A federal district court judge has issued a preliminary injunction halting the alleged illegal activities of Trek Alliance, freezing its assets and those of its principals pending trial, and...

America’s Shopping Network (ASN), Inc., Consumer Services (CS), Inc., Karen Zagami, Louis Gangi, and Carianne Sica are banned from selling any work-at-home opportunities that are chain marketing...

Pamela Jones Harbour assumed her position as a Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission today after being sworn in by Chairman Timothy J. Muris. President Bush named Harbour, an Independent, to a...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris today told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the agency supports most of the provisions of the Senate and the House versions of the Greater Access...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a Consumer Alert, “File-Sharing: A Fair Share? Maybe Not,” that warns consumers about a number of risks associated with file-sharing. Computer users who share...

As part of the FTC’s ongoing “Project ScholarScam” – a law enforcement and consumer education outreach program to combat fraudulent college financial aid schemes – the Federal Trade Commission has...