Federal Trade Commission

On Monday Federal Trade Commission has announced a settlement made with a number of online marketers who allegedly had ties with Google. The firms with such big names "Google Money Tree," "Google Pro," and "Google Treasure Chest," were attracting people offering to make money online and to earn $100,000 in six months.

American law enforcement and regulatory agencies are waging war with massive medical insurance fraud that plagued the nation as US consumers are tightened in crisis economic environment and many customers have no health insurance – the uninsured, the unemployed, and the uninsurable.

The US Federal Trade Commission has said that complaints filed recently about privacy protections on online social-networking service Facebook Inc. raise "issues of particular interest to us at this time." 

In December the Federal Trade Commission announced its new online portal called You Are Here. The service represents a virtual mall where kids can learn to avoid online scams, spot misleading ads, and learn good habits to be smart consumers.

According to the Federal Trade Commission’s survey issued Thursday, even savvy youngster can figure out how to access violent or explicitly sexual content in some in Internet.

 The research of variety of online worlds, where users create avatars and interact with other users' avatars, found 7 of the worlds with the most explicit sex and violence set a minimum age of 13 and 8 set a minimum age of 18. Kids under 13 attempted to register, will be rejected at five of the sites.

Wednesday, BlueHippo Funding, that's been dogged by consumer complaints for years, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation status, that reflects a move signaling the likelihood that the company will soon be closed.

As it’ known at the beginning of this week, Intel was reported in news with surprising intention to delay its expected new graphics microprocessor chip code-named Larrabee. So, why would Intel cancel such a high profile product?

On the one side, this decision might be a part of a tacit agreement with rival Advanced Micro Devices, itself with a graphics chip initiative. Thus, the companies has recently signed a 5-year long bitter anti-trust battle that would ultimately cost Intel $1 billion

 Intel Corp was accused of threatening computer makers and paying billions of dollars in kickbacks to maintain its market dominance. Intel allegedly violated state and federal antitrust law through the methods used to monopolize the market for personal computer chips at the expense of rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Now Intel's microprocessors power more than 80 percent of the world's PCs.

 The Federal Trade Commission has filed an appeal in federal court concerning the credit card operations deceptive marketing. The complaint alleged that a catalog credit card operation deceptively marketed its card, failed to honor its refund policy, and charged up-front fees for a guaranteed line of credit. The accused, who charged consumers hundreds of dollars in fees for the card, voluntarily agreed to an order that prohibits the practices asserted in the complaint pending trial.