Commission Actions

The Federal Trade Commission today launched a new Internet Web site that is dedicated to last year's 100th Anniversary Bureau of Economics (BE) Roundtable. Thirteen former BE directors, covering the...

Commission approval of final consent order: Following a public comment period, the Commission has approved a final consent order in the matter concerning Itron, Inc.’s acquisition of Schlumberger...

Under a consent agreement announced today, the Federal Trade Commission will allow Cephalon, Inc.’s $515 million acquisition of Cima Labs, Inc., provided that Cephalon grants Barr Laboratories, Inc. a...

An operation that used a feature called the “Windows Messenger Service,” which is part of the Microsoft Windows operating system, to barrage consumers’ computers with pop-up ads for the pop-up...

Commission authorization of staff amicus brief filing: The Commission has authorized the staff to file a joint amicus brief in Spano, et al. v. SAFECO Insurance Co. of America, et al., No 04-35313...

The Federal Trade Commission today released a statistical survey of fraud in the United States that shows that nearly 25 million adults – 11.2 percent of the adult population – were victims of fraud...