The Federal Trade Commission has obtained agreements with three companies addressing concerns that recent coupon and cash rebate offers were either false or misleading. Through the first proposed...

Federal Trade Commission staff today announced the results of their second "surf" of sites that advertise and sell jewelry on the World Wide Web. Although compliance with the FTC's Jewelry Guides...

Publication of Federal Register notice regarding regulatory reviews for calendar year 2000: The Commission has voted to publish a notice in the Federal Register listing its regulatory reviews...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a public forum to review the "do-not-call" provision of the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). The "do-not-call" provision prohibits sellers or telemarketers...

Online auction house ReverseAuction.com, Inc. has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated consumers' privacy by harvesting consumers' personal information from a competitor...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted a proposed consent agreement that would allow RHI AG (RHI) to acquire Global Industrial Technologies, Inc. (Global), while addressing the competitive concerns...

Appointment of hold separate trustee: The FTC has approved the appointment of Deloitte Consulting LLC as a hold-separate trustee in the following matter: Exxon Mobil Corporation. This trustee is being...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted a consent order, subject to final Commission approval, that would allow the purchase of Polyfibron Technologies, Inc. by MacDermid, Inc., while resolving the...

Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for approval of a transaction from the following: Exxon Mobil Corporation. The application regards Exxon Mobil's proposed...

In an ongoing sweep of pyramid scams on the Internet, the Federal Trade Commission and 26 state law enforcers have targeted over 600 Internet pyramid sites for law enforcement action. "We're keeping a...

Petition to reopen and modify or set aside orders: The FTC has received a petition from First American Real Estate Solutions, LLC requesting that the Commission reopen proceedings and withdraw or...

Two defendants in one of six Santa Barbara, California, companies charged by the Federal Trade Commission with making fraudulent claims about government auctions and foreclosed properties have agreed...

Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for approval of a transaction from the following: Precision Castparts Corp. The FTC is seeking public comments on the...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the establishment of the Federal Trade Commission Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security and requested nominations for committee members...

Office supply fraud is one of the most significant business-to-business telemarketing frauds according to the Federal Trade Commission. Industry estimates that telemarketing fraud is costing the...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement with the following entity: Dominion Resources, Inc. The Commission action...

The Federal Trade Commission has asked a U.S. District Court Judge to halt the operation of a vast pyramid scheme promoted in part on the Internet, and to freeze the defendants' assets, pending trial...

Publication of Federal Register notice regarding the Fair Credit Reporting Act The Commission has voted to publish a notice in the Federal Register announcing an adjustment of the ceiling on allowable...

Guidelines for consumer protection in online commerce were adopted today by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental forum of 29 countries, including the...

The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated an agreement with the Ford Motor Credit Company (Ford Credit), the auto financing subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, under which Ford Credit will pay $650...