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7 quotes of note from the Amazon decision

Lesley Fair
In Amazon’s Appstore, many apps geared toward kids prompted them to use fictitious currency, like a “boatload of doughnuts” or a “can of stars,” as part of game play. But a federal district court
Business Blog

Deceptive “safe” indoor tanning claims burn consumers

Lesley Fair
“Slash your risk of cancer” – by using a tanning bed? That claim caught our attention, too. A settlement with Dr. Joseph Mercola and two Illinois-based companies includes $5.3 million in refunds for
Business Blog

Are your “all natural” claims all accurate?

Lesley Fair
If companies market their products as “all natural” or “100% natural,” consumers have a right to take them at their word. That’s the message of four proposed FTC settlements and one just-issued
Competition Matters

Quo Vadis Post-Actavis?

Jamie Towey, Bureau of Competition
For more than 15 years, one of the FTC’s top priorities has been to put an end to anticompetitive reverse-payment settlements between brand-name drug makers and their potential generic rivals. In our
Technology Blog

Time to rethink mandatory password changes

Lorrie Cranor, Chief Technologist
Data security is a process that evolves over time as new threats emerge and new countermeasures are developed. The FTC’s longstanding advice to companies has been to conduct risk assessments, taking
Competition Matters

Is FTC v. Actavis Causing Pharma Companies to Change Their Behavior?

Jamie Towey and Brad Albert, Bureau of Competition
Since 2004, brand-name and generic drug manufacturers have filed certain agreements with the FTC and DOJ as required by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (also known as
Business Blog

Mind the gap: What Lumosity promised vs. what it could prove

Lesley Fair
Ads for Lumosity’s “brain training” program made it sound simple. Play games for 10-15 minutes several times a week to delay memory decline; protect against dementia and Alzheimer’s disease; improve
Business Blog

2015’s top-pick topics: A 10-tative list

Lesley Fair
2015 saw the end of The Late Show with David Letterman, but his Top 10 List legacy lives on. From the home office in Washington, D.C., here is our informal take on ten topics we covered this year in
Business Blog

Oracle Java SE case serves up a cuppa caution

Lesley Fair
When consumers updated Java SE, which has been installed on more than 850 million computers, Oracle Corporation promised “safe and secure access to the world of amazing Java content” and stated that