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A lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission alleges that food and beverage maker PepsiCo engaged in illegal price discrimination by giving unfair price advantages to one big-box retailer

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The forces protecting consumers from abuse by big business are in retreat. Former Italian Premier Mario Draghi last year called for reform of merger control in Europe to boost the region’s global competitiveness.

CAZ Investments Chief Investment Officer Christopher Zook analyzes the number of merger and acquisition deals that took place under Biden versus Trump. 

Nvidia investors will soon reap in some awesome benefits in the coming months, when Donald Trump assumes the role of US President after Joe Biden's tenure. This is majorly because of the fact that Trump is considered to be pro-market and some of his economic policies, although reportedly inflationary, may bringing in a bulkload of money for the US Treasury, if reports are to be believed.

The Federal Trade Commission says it will soon require hotels, vacation rental platforms and live event promoters to disclose any fees up front when they list prices

The Federal Trade Commission is suing the largest U.S. distributor of wine and spirits for allegedly discriminating against small and independent businesses

President-elect Donald Trump has made another flurry of job announcements

Antitrust enforcers with the Federal Trade Commission have opened a wide-ranging investigation into Microsoft’s business practices, starting off a big legal project that an incoming Trump administration must take up or abandon

Wall Street dealmakers and corporate leaders expect the flood gates to open on merger and acquisition activity after President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.

A federal rule banning fake online reviews is now in effect

The Federal Trade Commission has adopted a rule that will require businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating artificial intelligence, the US Federal Trade Commission said in a report released on Thursday. The report analysed how Meta Platforms, ByteDance's TikTok, Amazon's gaming platform Twitch, and others manage user data, concluding that data management and retention policies at many of the companies were «woefully inadequate.» YouTube, social media platform X, Snap, Discord and Reddit were also included in the FTC report, though its findings were anonymised and did not reveal specific companies' practices. YouTube is owned by Alphabet's Google.

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says a “significant number” of the millions of computers that crashed on Friday, causing global disruptions, are back in operation as its customers and regulators await a more detailed explanation of what went wrong

Donald Trump's vice presidential pick J.D. Vance has openly praised the work of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, a sign that the agency's broad approach to antitrust enforcement could enjoy some level of support from a second Trump administration. Vance, a Republican U.S. senator from Ohio, joined the presidential ticket on Monday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Trump officially became the party's nominee.

U.S. antitrust enforcers have decided to investigate the roles Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI have played in the artificial intelligence boom, according to people familiar with the pending actions

The Federal Trade Commission is challenging patents on 20 brand name drugs, including the blockbuster weight-loss injection Ozempic

The Federal Trade Commission is challenging hundreds of pharmaceutical patent listings in an effort to smooth the path to more affordable alternatives to brand-name drugs—including blockbusters such as Ozempic and Victoza. The crackdown is the latest assault against what the agency regards as drugmakers’ patent ploys intended to stall generic competition. At issue is what is called the Orange Book, a document published by the Food and Drug Administration that lists patents relevant to brand-name pharmaceuticals.

Is there anything that Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan doesn’t think she can do? Apparently not. On Tuesday she and her fellow Democratic commissioners effectively invalidated tens of millions of employment contracts without authority from Congress. The FTC’s 570-page rule outlaws so-called non-compete agreements across the economy.

Federal regulators said large grocery chains used their size and scale to keep shelves stocked during the pandemic, edging out smaller rivals when most stores struggled with product shortages and distribution bottlenecks. The Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Thursday on the impact of Covid-19 supply-chain disruptions that large retailers used their size to pressure suppliers of food and household goods, the agency said, including putting stricter delivery requirements into place and fining vendors that didn’t comply.

A Microsoft engineer is sounding an alarm about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company’s artificial intelligence image-generator tool

When the World Trade Organization meets this month in Abu Dhabi, will anyone from the Biden Administration stand up for U.S. economic interests? It’s a fair question now that Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and leftwing groups are hijacking U.S. trade policy.