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Drug Company Deals Cost Taxpayers Billions: FTC
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Oct 31, 2011 A new group of widely used, name-brand pharmaceuticals will soon no longer be so exclusive. This month several popular prescriptionsincluding Nexium, Plavix, and the world's best-selling drug, Lipitorare due to come off patent, allowing
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FTC obtains court orders against two acne-fighting apps
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The agency obtained a court order prohibiting AcneApp and AcnePwner from making acne-treatment claims. The apps were sold on Apple's iTunes store and the Android Market and claimed to treat acne with colored lights emitted from smartphones. The app
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Even savvy consumers can find it tough to negotiate car sales
Kabul :: Afghanistan | over 1 year ago
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The agency received enhanced powers under the last year's Wall Street reform law to regulate auto dealers. The FTC says it is gathering information on whether more regulation, enforcement and consumer education are needed, or if current protections
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Those Pay-To-Delay Deals Keep On Coming: FTC
Trenton :: NJ :: USA | over 1 year ago
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In its latest attempt to derail purportedly anti-competitive patent settlements, the US Federal Trade Commission has issued a new report tracking the number of so-called pay-to-deals. The agency claims these settlements are costing consumers gobs of
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The Unintended Consequences Of Trying To Overprotect Children From The Internet
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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It's one of those "for the children!" laws that are so popular with politicians, but which never seem to have any basis in evidence, and never seem to consider the unintended consequences. Under the law, as we noted, any site that wants to target
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Consumer Groups Say Junk Food Ads Mislead Teens
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Four consumer and privacy groups accused PepsiCo, which owns Frito-Lay, of being deceptive in advertising to teenagers by creating gaming and other promotions that are not labeled as ads, and asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate. The
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Taiwan's largest dairy product traders fined for price-fixing
Taipei :: Taiwan | over 1 year ago
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Taipei, Oct. 19 (CNA) The fair trade authorities slapped the country's three largest dairy product traders with fines of up to NT$12 million ( US $399,000) Wednesday for colluding to fix prices...NT$12 million, while Uni-President Enterprises Corp.
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The FTC’s privacy guy: You don’t want to meet him.
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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October 18, 2011 Dean Takahashi The Federal Trade Commission s David Vladeck had a funny opener at the Web 2.0 Summit . I'm the guy you don't want to meet and frankly I don't want to meet you either, he said, drawing laughs...Vladeck said that the
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'Last dollar' scams play of desperation of financially distressed
Snohomish :: WA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 Last dollar' scams play of desperation of financially distressed Hard times are prime time for scammers. Con artists and business owners utilizing shady practices know that desperate people will use up all their resources and
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'Undertreatment of Pain' vs. Prescription Drug Addiction and Death
Portland :: TX :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Also, directly off the APF propaganda pages -- "The problem of undertreated pain is well established. Members of the APF Board of Directors were part of the recent congressionally-mandated IOM review of Pain in America that reported 116 million
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