If an online friend or romantic interest starts asking for money—stop. In this vital warning from the FTC, you’ll learn how scammers use emotional manipulation and fake emergencies to exploit trust.

In the high-stakes battle for AI supremacy, Big Tech has found a new weapon: buying a company’s brainpower without buying the ...

Kudos to the FTC for ending its Google antitrust investigation, but its ill-advised initial decision to investigate offers valuable lessons for other antitrust regulators.

The FTC has its defenders, who argue that despite Google’s commanding position in the search market — nearly 70 percent of queries happen on its service — many of the changes that have ...

Had Google agreed to Leibowitz’s original offer, sources say, it would have been under the FTC’s jurisdiction for between seven and 10 years — a period during which Donald Trump’s DOJ ...

The FTC objected to this “all-or-nothing choice” and forced Google to allow Yelp to pull its data from Google’s verticals without penalty. This is, indeed, precisely the remedy recommended ...

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it won't block Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick. The vote was 4 to 1 to close the 8 month investigation. According to the FTC's ...

Though it should be said that at no point does the FTC outright say that Google should be broken up, any lay reader with a knowledge of U.S. antitrust law and English can reasonably come to that ...

After Google bypassed Safari privacy settings, the FTC charged the search giant $22.5m to settle. But how many hours does it take for Google to recover? Five.

Google isn’t particularly happy about the deal Microsoft has with OpenAI to host its technology on Microsoft servers, so it has now asked the FTC to step in and force Microsoft to end its deal ...

The FTC had a monopoly lawsuit against Google in its sights, and it blinked. An investigation published in Politico found that in 2012, commissioners ignored Google's monopolistic behavior.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Jon Leibowitz said Google is forcing consumers to make a "brutal choice" with its planned privacy changes on March 1. "Other than saying that they have been ...