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Setting the Record Straight on the FTC's Testimonial and Endorsements Guide

Mary K. Engle | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media

Read More: FTC Testimonial and Endorsements Guide, Randall Rothenberg, Federal Trade Commission, Advertising, Ftc, Media News
Mary K. Engle

Randall Rothenberg recently took a shot at the FTC on the Huffington Post for its newly introduced Testimonial and Endorsements Guide. Here is our response.

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Google In Washington: Will Obama's Love Affair With Google Go Sour?

Fortune | Posted 10.22.2009 | Technology

Read More: Google, Google FTC, President Obama, Google Books, Obama, Google Politics, Obama Google, Federal Trade Commission, Google White House, Ftc, Google DC, Technology News

But Google's ambitions rankle big competitors in the tech, media, and communications sectors, and privacy hawks are starting to fret about the company...

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Car Dealers Exempt From New Consumer Protection Agency

Steve Parker | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Walt Minnick, White House, National Automobile Dealers Association, North Dakota, Congress, California, Mike Castle, John Campbell, President Obama, Cfpa, Cars, Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Mississippi, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Delaware, Travis Childers, House Financial Services Committee, Business News
Steve Parker

The House Financial Services Committee approved a key amendment Thursday, 47-21, to keep automobile dealers exempt them from a new government consumer protection agency.

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An Open Letter to the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission

Randall Rothenberg | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Iab, FTC Bloggers, Internet Advertising Bureau, Federal Trade Commission, Ftc Bloggers Disclose Payments, Ftc, Jon Leibowitz, Media News
Randall Rothenberg

Does the FTC really intend to probe America's opinion-mongering apparatus this closely? Do you have a team of Freuds and Jungs able to examine "the weight" consumers give opinions from social media?

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Jason Linkins

FTC Official: "We Are Not Going To Be Patrolling The Blogosphere

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Advertising, Ftc, Bloggers, FTC Guidelines, Federal Trade Commission, Blogging, Media News

As you may have heard, twenty-first century advertisers have long been trying to persuade us to buy their products. But until very recently, they wer...

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Pfizer-Wyeth Merger Tentatively Approved By FTC

AFP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Europe, Divestiture, Federal Trade Commission, Anticompetitive, Drug, Eu, Wyeth, Divest, ftc.gov, Pharmaceutical, Merger, Ftc, Pfizer, Conditions, Business News

NEW YORK (AFP) -- US regulators gave tentative approval Wednesday to a deal allowing Pfizer to buy pharmaceutical Wyeth, boosting the size of the worl...

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New FTC Blogging Regulations: Forcing Transparency on a Culture of Full Disclosure

Ian Paul | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Federal Trade Commission, Blogging, Ftc, Ftc Regulations, Media News
Ian Paul

The Federal Trade Commission has come up with a set of strange new regulations to protect consumers from potentially misleading information in the blogosphere and social networks.

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FTC: Bloggers Must Disclose Payments For Reviews -- Or Pay Big

AP | DEBORAH YAO and EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 10.05.2009 | Technology

Read More: Ftc, FTC Bloggers, FTC Blogger Fine, FTC Payments, FTC Disclosure, Bloggers, Blogs, Blogger, Social Media, Federal Trade Commission, Blogger Review, Blogger Disclosure, Ftc Guidelines Bloggers, Blogger Must Report Review Payments, Ftc Bloggers Disclose Payments, Technology News

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for ...

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Stimulus Scams Have Reached 270k People, FTC Chief Says

bloomberg.com | Angela Greiling Keane | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Jon Liebowitz, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Stimulus, Stimulus Scams, Stimulus, Business News

Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- "Opportunistic fraudsters" are exploiting the recession and pitching deals they link to the U.S. stimulus package, cheating co...

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Subprime Lenders Modify Home Loans For Government

nytimes.com | PETER S. GOODMAN | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Loan Modification, Subprime Mortgages, Federal Trade Commission, Making Home Affordable, Loanmod, Business News

LOS ANGELES -- From the ninth floor of a downtown office building on Wilshire Boulevard, Jack Soussana delivered staggering numbers of mortgages to ho...

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Lawmakers: "Nearly Impossible" For Consumers To Tell What's Green

greenbiz.com | GreenBiz StaffPublished June 12, 2009 | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Greenwashing, Environment, Green Living, Green Business, Federal Trade Commission, Ftc, Green News

"It is now nearly impossible for the average consumer to get the information they need to determine whether a product is truly green: how and where th...

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Arthur Delaney

Credit Card Law Will Curb FreeCreditReport.com Ads

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Report, Ftc, Credit Score, Credit Card Debt, Federal Trade Commission, Free Credit Report Commercials, FreeCreditReport.Com, Business News

The credit card reform bill signed into law by the president on Friday won't just put a stop to several unfair practices of the credit card industry -...

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Hogwash Alert: How to Survive the Pandemic of Swine Flu Scams and Swindle

Ben Sherwood | Posted 06.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Better Business Bureau, Survivors Club, Symantec, Salma Hayek, Hogwash, Malware, Scam, Swine Flu, Madonna, Spam, Tamiflu, Snake Oil, Federal Trade Commission, Hollywood, Media News
Ben Sherwood

Long before you'd ever come down with swine flu, you'll be exposed to another kind of virus sweeping the world: A global outbreak of online scams preying on your fears of the so-called aporkalypse.

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30 Years After TMI, A Lesson For Today's Economists

Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Anti-Trust, Tmi, Pennsylvania, Nuclear Power, Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Ithaca, Federal Trade Commission, Harrisburg, China Syndrome, Three Mile Island, Harrisburg-Pennsylvania, Business News
Craig

Our new test for any enterprise, be it a financial institution, a power plant, or a war, must be, "Is it too large to be allowed to fail?" If the answer is "yes" then we cannot proceed.

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Arthur Delaney

Dems Grill FTC Head: "What Happened?"

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bobby Rush, Ftc, Henry Waxman, Regulation, Jon Leibowitz, Federal Trade Commission, Politics News

On Tuesday, members of a House subcommittee lamented the weakness of consumer protection from predatory lenders -- be they credit card companies, payd...

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Arthur Delaney

Debt Collection Boss: "Business Is Brisk"

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt Collectors, The Affiliated Group, Sunrise Credit Services, Collection Agencies, Debt Collection Industry, Debt Collection, Ftc, ACA International, Federal Trade Commission, Collection Agency, John Nemo, Business News

John Nemo says the notion that debt collectors are capitalist vultures who profit off other folks' struggles is a "stereotype." Nemo is a spokesman ...

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Arthur Delaney

Debt Horror Story: Parents Hounded For Their Late Son's Payments

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt After Death, Zombie Debt, Debt, Debt Collection, Federal Trade Commission, Business News

This story was reported with help from our readers. Have you been asked by a collection agency to pay debt for a deceased friend of relative? If so, ...

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NPEs and Abstract Patents

Brian Kahin | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Bilski, Enlarged Board of Appeals, Us Patent System, Ftc, Abstract Patents, Software Patents, Patent Enforcement, Federal Trade Commission, Business Methods Patent, Patent Law, Intellectual Property, NPE, International Patent, EU Patents, Patent Bubble, Software Patent Court Decision, Federal Circuit in Bilski, Supreme Court, High-Tech Patents, Peter Detkin, Department of Justice, Extortion, Technology, Intellectual Ventures, Patent Law Enforcement, 1998 State Street Decision, Business News
Brian Kahin

Unfortunately, there is little transparency in today's patent system. Indeed, the patent system is beset by information failure.

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Internet Drug Scam Busted

AP | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Internet Scam Drugs, CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, Canadian Healthcare, Federal Trade Commission, Ftc, Internet Scam Busted, Internet Drug Scam, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) - One of the largest spam operations in the world, a vast network involving countries from New Zealand to China and the United States, ha...

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Chip Wars: AMD's Persistence Starting To Dent Computing Giant Intel

Wired.com | John C. Abell | Posted 06.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Antitrust Investigation, Intel Monopoly, Intel, Antitrust, AMD Lawsuit, Amd, Federal Trade Commission, Ftc, Business News

The Federal Trade Commission has begun a formal anti-trust investigation of Intel, a move that AMD has long sought as part of its global, take-no-pris...

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Regulators OK Google's Purchase Of Doubleclick

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Antitrust Suits, Doubleclick, Federal Trade Commission, Antitrust Market, Google, Business News

U.S. antitrust regulators approved Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick Inc. Thursday, removing a key obstacle to a formidable combinati...

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Child Online Safety Comes of Age

Stephen Balkam | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Family Online Safety Insitute, Charlie Firestone, Derek Wyatt, Federal Trade Commission, FTC Majoras, Family Online Safety Insitute Conference, Deborah Platt Majoras, Helen Normoyle, Child Online Safety, Vint Cerf, Chris Chea, Bob Corn-Revere, FOSI Conference, Fosi, Deborah Tate, Ftc, Media News
Stephen Balkam

The online safety community, which has been around since the mid-1990s, has reached a critical point of maturation -- some would say an awkward adolescent stage -- where the stakes are higher.

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FTC Continues Attempt To Block Whole Foods/Wild Oats Deal

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Whole Foods, Federal Trade Commission, Wild Oats Whole Foods, Business News

Federal regulators are continuing legal efforts to block Whole Foods Market Inc.'s $565 million takeover of rival Wild Oats despite the deal closing i...

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FTC Refuses To Charge Intel With Antitrust Claims

New York Times | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Federal Trade Commission, Ftc, Deborah Majoras, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Business News

The head of the Federal Trade Commission has rejected requests by lawmakers, other commissioners and a small rival company to open a formal antitrust ...

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