FTC Examines Intel-NVIDIA Relationship as Part of Investigation
Submitted by Amandeep Dhaliwal on Sat, 12/05/2009 - 21:51As a part of its ongoing investigation of Intel, the US Federal Trade Commission has reportedly questioned NVIDIA over the recent legal actions that happened between both the companies. It has been reported that the FTC is looking to know the complete details of whether Intel's lawsuit against NVIDIA was a deliberate attempt on the company's part to disrupt NVIDIA's business.
Google announces new privacy policy for Book Search
Submitted by Amandeep Dhaliwal on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 09:34In compliance with the US Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) counsel that Google develop a privacy policy for its Book Search feature, such that use of consumer data is restricted, Google has released explicit details about the privacy policy it intends using if it receives the court approval of its Book Search settlement with US Authors Guild and publishers.
FTC intends cracking down on blogosphere payola
Submitted by Justin Sorkin on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 20:53The Associated Press has reported that with guidelines, expected to be released later this summer, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) intends cracking down on blogosphere payola - the guidelines will help FTC penalize bloggers who promote products, without disclosing sufficient details about them.
FTC assessing Apple-Google “interlocking directorates” issue for antitrust ties
Submitted by Justin Sorkin on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 07:00According to The New York Times' Monday report, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking a close look at the Apple-Google relationship, to assess whether the companies have violated the antitrust law by having two common members - Google's CEO Eric Schmidt and Genentech's former CEO Art Levinson - on their boards of directors.
Privacy group asks FTC to probe the sufficiency of Google security safeguards
Submitted by Amandeep Dhaliwal on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 08:38Google's accidental release of private information of users this month has led to an online privacy group's calling upon the federal regulators to probe into the sufficiency of the security safeguards by Google.











