Two people will share a $50,000 prize from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for the best idea to block illegal robocalls from reaching the owners of mobile and wired phones. Serdar Danis and Aaron Foss will each receive $25,000 for their ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against a ban on Microsoft's Xbox as he found it did not violate a patent owned by Motorola Mobility. In a one-paragraph ruling, Judge David P. Shaw gave an ...
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Eleven complainants have sent an open letter to the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, urging him to formally charge Google with breaching competition law. “The Commission opened proceedings ...
Tags: Google, search engine, search manipulation
The recycling of rigid plastics, excluding bottles, climbed 13 percent in 2011 to reach at least 934 million pounds for the year, and U.S. consumers with local access to recycle all non-bottle rigid plastics shot from 40 percent to 57 ...
Tags: rigid plastics, bottles, containers
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Bedding major Tempur-Pedic said Friday the Federal Trade Commission has approved its proposed acquisition of rival Sealy Inc. FTC clearance was the last major hurdle preventing the deal from being finalized, and ...
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On Monday, Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based service center Metals USA Holdings Corp. announced the expiration of the 30 day go-shop period as part of the merger agreement between Metals USA and Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. Pursuant to the ...
Tags: Steel, Metals, Metal Service
Mobile carriers should deploy a number of safeguards to protect their customers against a growing problem of unauthorized billing through mobile payments, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Friday. The FTC report ...
Tags: Bill Cramming, mobile payment, cyber safety
The Federal Trade Commission is pursuing complaints against 29 affiliate marketers accused of sending "hundreds of millions of unwanted spam text messages" to consumers. The texts enticed recipients with promises of "free" gift cards from ...
Tags: Federal Trade Commission, affiliate marketers, Spam Text Message
Europe's antitrust agency had put Microsoft on the honor system, letting the company monitor its own compliance with a 2009 settlement that required it to offer other browsers to Windows users, the EU's top regulator admitted. That ...
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The number of major mattress makers is about to shrink again. Four years after Serta and Simmons combined under joint ownership, Tempur-Pedic has now gotten approval from the Federal Trade Commission to acquire competitor Sealy. The ...
Recently, consumers nationwide have received a phone call from federal employees, informing them that they're among the first Americans selected to receive health-insurance cards as part of the Affordable Care Act. Before they mail out ...
Tags: Care Act, Identity-Theft Scam, Medicine
New legislation in the U.S. Senate that would allow Internet users to tell companies to stop tracking them is unnecessary and could slow e-commerce growth, some tech groups said. Sens. John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, and ...
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. will go forward to acquire Metals USA. The US government relative department pointed out that the merger already has no doubt of antitrust concerns. In an early notice under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust ...
Smartphone manufacturer HTC has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that the firm failed to take "reasonable steps" to patch security vulnerabilities in its products, thus putting information belonging to millions of ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission said HTC agreed "to develop and release software patches to fix vulnerabilities found in millions of HTC devices." No financial penalty against the company was announced. The FTC said it investigated ...
Tags: HTC, HTC Devices, software