And, unsurprisingly, the FTC has sent warning letters11 threatening high penalties to brands for influencer violations. The Platform-Provided Tools May Be Deployed Safely Despite risks involved in some platform-provided tools for targeted marketing, these tools are very useful, and businesses should ...
The basis of the FTC’s complaint here is that they believe Intel is threatened by the rise of GPUs as programmable computing devices, and that using them in GPGPU situations threatens Intel by making CPUs less important (something NVIDIA has been trying to play for ages) and as a result l...
And the competitive dynamics in luxury might also be a bit different from, say, the grocery industry, where the FTC has sued to block the merger between Kroger Co. KR and Albertsons Cos. Inc. ACI to keep food prices lower. “In luxury, to begin...
The FTC has already sued this deal, choosing the present the case to its internal administrative law judge. In this trial, the judge is set to make an initial decision that can be appealed to the full commission for a vote. Microsoft could then appeal to a federal court if the decision ...
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"The FTC's report sheds light on how partnerships by big tech firms can create lock-in, deprive start-ups of key AI inputs, and reveal sensitive information that can undermine fair competition," FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement. The FTC has the power to open market studies to ...
The FTC has already started making suggestions to IoT system developers to employindustry best practicesfor restricting and protecting the information their devices gather. The agency has also shown that it is willing to enforce those expectations with legal action. For instance, the FTCsued a video...
The Federal Trade Commission hasofficially suedMicrosoft in an attempt to stop the company's $69 billion acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard. The suit, which was filed Thursday, December 8, claims that the deal would make Microsoft too strong a competitor in the video...
Importantly, the FTC has brought several enforcement actions against companies engaging in the harmful use of AI in other algorithms, including luring consumers to invest in online stores by using deceptive claims that the companies' AI ensure success and profitability. The FTC s...
The U.S. decided to file the lawsuit followingan investigation by the FTCthat looked into whether the companies were complying with a previous settlement involving TikTok’s predecessor, Musical.ly. In 2019, the federal government sued Musical.ly, alleging it vio...