Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technology offers significant benefits but also poses risks to consumers who use it, according to a Federal Trade Commission staff report issued today. The staff report...

An operation that used bogus “scans” and illegal spam to market an anti-spyware program that didn’t work as claimed has had its assets frozen and been barred from making deceptive claims by a...

Authentication Web site: As part of its continuing efforts to assist the private market in the creation, testing, evaluation, and deployment of the anti-spam and anti-phishing technology known as...

The operator of a Canadian business directory scam who previously was ordered jailed by a U.S. district judge for violating a court-imposed asset freeze now has been ordered to pay $2.9 million to the...

In a unanimous opinion issued today, the Federal Trade Commission upheld a July 2004 initial decision by Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) D. Michael Chappell, ruling that Kentucky Households Goods...

Application for approval of proposed divestiture: The Commission has received an application for approval of a proposed divestiture from Cytec Industries, Inc., related to Cytec’s recent acquisition...

New York-based Scholastic Inc. (Scholastic) and two of its subsidiaries, Scholastic-at-Home (SAH) and Grolier Incorporated (Grolier), have agreed to settle allegations that they violated laws enforced...

AVS Marketing, Inc., and its president, William R. Heid, have agreed to pay $400,000 in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they deceptively marketed a purported weight...

The marketers of the dietary supplements FiberThin and Propolene have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that their misleading weight-loss claims violated federal laws. The principal defendants...

Commission authorization of the staff to file amended complaint: The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amended complaint in the matter currently pending against Cleverlink Trading Limited...

In a report to Congress required by the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (“CAN-SPAM Act”), the Federal Trade Commission says it does not recommend...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it has closed its investigation of the proposed tender offer by Omnicare, Inc. for NeighborCare, Inc., the largest and likely second-largest...

BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its failure to take appropriate security measures to protect the sensitive information of thousands of its...

The FTC today told Congress it should consider extending security protections for sensitive consumer data and requiring that companies that possess such data notify consumers when they are victims of...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras has named Michael Salinger to be Director of the agency’s Bureau of Economics. Current Director Luke Froeb, who has served at the FTC for the...

Creaghan A. Harry, doing business as Hitech Marketing, Scientific Life Nutrition, and Rejuvenation Health Corporation, will pay $485,000 in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission charges...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that Valero L.P. (Valero) has agreed to make three major divestitures to settle a Commission complaint that its proposed $2.8 billion acquisition of Kaneb...

The deadline for public comments regarding the upcoming two-day Marketing, Self-Regulation, and Childhood Obesity Workshop has been extended. As announced in a Federal Register notice that will be...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it is closing its investigation into Arch Coal, Inc.’s (Arch) acquisition of the Triton Coal Company’s (Triton) North Rochelle coal mine, saying that...

Two consent orders announced by the Federal Trade Commission today both resolve the competitive concerns about Chevron Corporation’s (Chevron) proposed $18 billion acquisition of Unocal Corporation...