Newsweek sought email comment from the FTC and its outgoing chairwoman, Lina Khan, on Friday. Why It Matters. The flurry of lawsuits before the change to a GOP administration unde

The regulator revived claims that the firm tried to monopolize the Texas anesthesia-provider market after a judge had dismissed similar allegations last year.

Major retailers can tailor prices based on customer data including location, demographics or shopping history, the US Federal Trade Commission said in initial study findings, raising concerns about the use of what they termed “surveillance pricing.

Antitrust regulators have reached a deal with Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe that doesn’t penalize the private equity firm for rolling up the market for anesthesia services in Texas, but tries to prevent it from happening again.

The ruling, which went into effect this week, requires businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up for it in the first place.

After years of complaints about “unlawful” repairability policies, the FTC is suing tractor manufacturer Deere & Company. Repairability advocates are calling it a milestone for consumer rights.

The FTC’s suit is the latest move in a long-running fight between Deere, farmers, and legislators. A 2017 Vice documentary showed that Nebraska farmers had turned to using pirated software from Eastern Europe to get around software locks on hardware.

From 2017 to 2022, the companies marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent, netting them $7.3 billion in revenue.

The Federal Trade Commission is accusing Deere & Co. of unfairly monopolizing the farm equipment repair market.

The Federal Trade Commission will bar the automaker from sharing customer geolocation and driver behavior with consumer reporting agencies for five years. The first such order, it will last 20 years,