Tag Archives : Federal Trade Commission

Intel: chip war is over

Intel: chip war is over

Intel agreed to stop adopting anticompetitive practices against rivals, settling old accusations of abuse of market dominance, the agency said U.S. trade, Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday. The company, which produces 80 percent of all microprocessors in the world, has also agreed to give manufacturers of complementary products, such as graphics [...]
Google Finally Receives FTC Approval For The AdMob Acquisition Deal

Google Finally Receives FTC Approval For The AdMob Acquisition Deal

The U.S Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finally given its approval to Google for the highly anticipated $750-million acquisition of mobile advertising firm AdMob, since the FTC was requested by consumer advocacy to revoke and block the deal. The FTC has stated that, even though the entire acquisition deal of AdMob by Google seemed to create a lot [...]
New Law Demands Bloggers To Declare Free Products Received From Companies

New Law Demands Bloggers To Declare Free Products Received From Companies

The U.S Federal Trade Commission has passed a new law, under which any an all bloggers, media outlets, Twitterers etc. will have to declare and add a footnote at the end of the article, providing the information on the product and the company that gave them the freebie. The FTC hopes to broaden the horizon of consumer privacy with this move and bring [...]
Good ridance Arthur Levinson

Good ridance Arthur Levinson

Google‘s big boss spoke good about Arthur Levinson and about Apple recently, but there wasn’t another way: the CEO of Genentech, that worked until last week in the managements of two of the largest companies of the valley of the Silicon, had to leave giant of searches, something that was made official today by an official report. No justification [...]
Federal Trade Commission Spies on Bloggers

Federal Trade Commission Spies on Bloggers

If you are a blogger and you were happy to write about just about anything, think again. You may come under the scrutiny of Federal Trade Commission and if they find out that had been writing nice things about a certain laptop because you were given that laptop by the manufacturer, you may be fined up to $11,000. In fact, FTC has taken the matter so [...]
Gifts for Bloggers? Beware!

Gifts for Bloggers? Beware!

If you are a blogger and you were happy to write about just about anything, think again. You may come under the scrutiny of Federal Trade Commission and if they find out that had been writing nice things about a certain laptop because you were given that laptop by the manufacturer, you may be fined up to $11,000. In fact, FTC has taken the matter so [...]
Are Online Advertisements on the Verge of Downfall?

Are Online Advertisements on the Verge of Downfall?

Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission has been worried about the privacy issues that affect the consumers today, when the browse Internet. Its head David C. Vladeck has now sought to change the way online ads and online marketing takes place, and he claims it is in the best interest of the consumer. The idea always has been that [...]