Trump’s AI Plan Urges Lighter Touch by FTC in Win for Microsoft July 25, 2025 By Emily Birnbaum Microsoft Corp. stands to gain from new White House AI guidelines that call on the US Federal Trade Commission to...
Antitrust Enforcers ‘Get Out of the Way’ of Multibillion-Dollar Deals July 15, 2025 By Jody Godoy President Donald Trump’s antitrust enforcers recently cleared a string of multibillion-dollar deals in a week, demonstrating a willingness to settle...
Meta Investors, Zuckerberg Square Off at $8B Trial Over Alleged Privacy Violations July 14, 2025 By Tom Hals Mark Zuckerberg is expected to appear as a star witness in an unusual $8 billion trial that kicks off this...
Retailers Sue New York to Block Algorithmic Pricing Law July 3, 2025 By Jonathan Stempel New York state was sued on Wednesday by the National Retail Federation over a new law requiring retailers to tell...
Walmart to Pay $10M to Settle FTC Lawsuit Over Money Transfer Fraud June 23, 2025 By Jonathan Stempel Walmart has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit accusing the world’s largest...
FTC Fines Payment-Processor Paddle $5 Million for Alleged Support of Schemes June 20, 2025 Paddle.com Market, a U.K.-based payment processor, and its subsidiary, Paddle.com, Inc., will pay $5 million and be permanently banned from...
FTC Drops Case Over Microsoft’s $69 Billion Activision Blizzard Deal May 28, 2025 By Jody Godoy The U.S. Federal Trade Commission dropped a case that sought to block Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of “Call of Duty”...
FTC Nixes Antitrust Lawsuit Against PepsiCo Over Pricing May 27, 2025 By Josh Sisco PepsiCo Inc. scored a major legal victory Thursday after the three members of the US Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously...
Appeals Court Blocks Trump From Removing Democrats From Labor Boards April 7, 2025 By Daniel Wiessner and Jonathan Stempel A federal appeals court blocked U.S. President Donald Trump from removing Democratic members from two federal labor boards on Monday,...
FTC Concerned About Privacy Protections in 23andMe Bankruptcy March 31, 2025 By Jody Godoy The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is concerned about the potential sale or transfer of Americans’ personal information by 23andMe ancestry...