May 17- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Friday said it approved Tesoro Corp's purchase of BP Plc's 240,000 barrel per day Los Angles area refinery and other assets in a 3-0 vote. The commission found the deal would not substantially lessen competition among seven refiners for gasoline in California, the nation's largest gasoline market.
Skyy Consulting Inc. has agreed to stop transmitting illegal robocalls to consumers and pay a $75,000 civil penalty as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.
NEW YORK-- The Federal Trade Commission is sending out about $1.7 million in refund checks to consumers who lost money to a group that claimed it could help people get free government grant money.
WASHINGTON, April 18- Three women lawyers at the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division are on the short list to fill a Democratic vacancy on the Federal Trade Commission, according to sources knowledgeable about the process.
WASHINGTON, April 8- Bosley Inc, which markets treatments for balding men, has settled charges that it gave sensitive business information about products and prices to a competitor with which it later decided to merge, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.
The Federal Trade Commission, which has dubbed the arrangements "pay for delay," has fought them in court for more than a decade with mixed success, culminating in the case now before the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, March 19- Upscale retailer Neiman Marcus Group Inc settled with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday for advertising some clothing as having fake fur when it was in fact real, potentially upsetting fur-averse buyers.
WASHINGTON, March 13- Developers of applications for mobile devices should make important disclosures easy for users to find rather than burying them, the Federal Trade Commission said in guidance for technology companies on Wednesday. Both Google's Android and Apple's app stores have hundreds of thousands of apps available for download.
*FTC probing Office Depot/ OfficeMax deal, Tesoro refinery buy. WASHINGTON, Feb 28- President Barack Obama is to name Edith Ramirez, once his colleague at the Harvard Law Review, as chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Feb 28- President Barack Obama intends to name Edith Ramirez the chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, a White House official said on Thursday. Ramirez would replace outgoing Chairman Jon Leibowitz, who handled high-profile, anti-trust cases against Intel Corp and Google Inc during his tenure.
WASHINGTON, Feb 28- President Barack Obama intends to name Edith Ramirez the chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, a White House official said on Thursday. Ramirez would replace outgoing Chairman Jon Leibowitz, who handled high-profile, anti-trust cases against Intel Corp and Google Inc during his tenure.
*Pursued Google, Intel, Reebok, Skechers, others. WASHINGTON, Feb 15- Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz steps down next week after a tenure that included going after drug companies paying generic firms to keep competition off the market and investigating internet company Google Inc..
*Experian says some errors were in consumers' favor. WASHINGTON, Feb 11- One in twenty American consumers had mistakes on their credit reports that would have increased their interest rates on loans or caused them to pay more for insurance, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report released on Monday.
*Led probe into Google that ended with mild reprimand. WASHINGTON, Jan 31- The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Jon Leibowitz, said on Thursday he will step down in mid-February after a tenure famous for a probe of allegations that Google manipulated search results that resulted in a mild reprimand for the technology company.
WASHINGTON, Jan 31- The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Jon Leibowitz, said on Thursday that he will step down in mid-February after a tenure that included a controversial decision to end a highly public probe of Google with only a mild reprimand.
*Financial data, Social Security numbers stolen. WASHINGTON, Jan 28- California- based CBR Systems Inc, which stores stem cells from umbilical cord blood, has settled charges that poor data protection policies led to the exposure of hundreds of thousands of clients' Social Security numbers and financial data, the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.
*Financial data, Social Security numbers stolen. WASHINGTON, Jan 28- California- based CBR Systems Inc, which stores stem cells from umbilical cord blood, has settled charges that poor data protection policies led to the exposure of hundreds of thousands of clients' Social Security numbers and financial data, the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.