The Federal Trade Commission is hoping to go viral. On Tuesday the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection uploaded some funny videos to YouTube -- paro...
Scott Ballum | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business
This article originally appeared on PSFK.com. Competition? Mergers? Supply and demand? Find our what's cooking at the Food Court. These are the kind...
AP | SARAH SKIDMORE | Posted 02.12.2009 | Business
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Federal Trade Commission on Monday asked a federal judge to halt the integration of Wild Oats and Whole Foods Market as par...
Brian Kahin | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business
Unfortunately, there is little transparency in today's patent system. Indeed, the patent system is beset by information failure.
Gourmet.com | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business
Now, a local, nine-store natural foods purveyor based in Portland, OR, called New Seasons Market--which had no involvement whatsoever in the Wild Oats...
AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 12.28.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The cigarette industry for 42 years has made factual claims about tar and nicotine levels based on machine testing blessed by the F...
Leslie Harris | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
The next president steps into a landscape where the capacity to collect, store and exchange sensitive personal information has outgrown the legal framework that protects that information.
AP | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago
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...
Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
While consumer advertising has moved on, political advertising is caught in a curious time warp -- combining modern technology with the unfettered, unregulated ability to say down is up and the opponent hates puppies.
Thomas Frank | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
At business's urging, business was left up to its own devices; its own devices turned out to be precisely the things that our grandparents set up regulatory agencies to guard against.
Wired.com | John C. Abell | Posted 06.14.2008 | Business
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...
New York TImes | Louise Story | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Corporations and shoppers in the United States spent more than $54 million last year on carbon offset credits toward tree planting, wind farms, solar ...
Stephen Balkam | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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.
New York Times | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The head of the Federal Trade Commission has rejected requests by lawmakers, other commissioners and a small rival company to open a formal antitrust ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business