trade

FTC Announces Winners of Death-to-Robocalls Challenge

The Federal Trade Commission gets about 200,000 calls monthly from consumers complaining about robocalls, those illegal prerecorded messages hawking everything from timeshares in the Bahamas to free money. Because the commission's "do-not-call" registry was...

Continue reading »

Tags: , ,

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 Net News No Comments

WTO Allows Antigua to Open Online Piracy Site

Antigua and Barbuda have been given the power by the World Trade Organization to sell or give away U.S. copyrighted media downloads without compensation to the rights holders.

Continue reading »

Tags: , ,

Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 Net News No Comments

WTO Allows Antigua to Open Piracy Site

Antigua and Barbuda have been given the power by the World Trade Organization to sell or give away U.S. copyrighted media downloads without compensation to the rights holders.

Continue reading »

Tags: , ,

Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 Net News No Comments

FTC: “Nonprofit” crammed $70M in bogus charges on phone bills

suburbandollar A shady outfit billed phone customers for more than $70 million in unauthorized charges and then transferred much of the revenue to a "purported nonprofit," the Federal Trade Commission alleged in a...

Continue reading »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 Net News No Comments

FTC to place limits on Google’s use of standards patents

Federal antitrust enforcers have been looking into Google this year on two issues: how the company arranges its search results, and its use of standards-based patents as ammunition in the sprawling smartphone wars. Just...

Continue reading »

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Autoblog