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Databases used by major retailers to prevent workers accused of stealing from getting another job are increasingly under scrutiny. The New York Times reports.
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Databases used by major retailers to prevent workers accused of stealing from getting another job are increasingly under scrutiny. The New York Times reports.
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NEW YORK-- A debt buyer and debt collection law firm based in Mississippi have agreed to pay nearly $800,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges they misled consumers into paying unnecessary fees and falsely threatened them with lawsuits.
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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.
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Animal protection groups are applauding the settlement of federal claims that Neiman Marcus and two other retailers had marketed real fur as fake, The New York Times reports.
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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.
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Klobuchar told Reuters the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights would also likely hold an oversight hearing soon to hear from the new leadership at the Justice Department's antitrust division and the Federal Trade Commission.
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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.
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WASHINGTON, March 8- Fast, efficient mobile payments could be a huge boon to business but companies must ensure customer data is safe and provide users with recourse in case of fraudulent or incorrect billing, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report on Friday.
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*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.
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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.
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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.
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Executives at Reader's Digest must be hoping that the magazine's second trip to bankruptcy court in under four years will be its last.
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*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..
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*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.
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*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.
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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.
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*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.
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*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.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 16- POM Wonderful made deceptive advertising claims in saying that its pomegranate juice and other products would make users healthier, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 8- Priceline.com Inc has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy Kayak Software Corp, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. It operates like a search engine, letting consumers compare pricing along with other websites such as Priceline.com rivals Expedia Inc and Orbitz Worldwide Inc..