Amazon has made a quiet but meaningful change to how marketers can buy its Prime Video inventory, introducing a deal ...

EVANSTON, Ill. ( WGN) — An Illinois woman thought she was sending gift cards to actor Kevin Costner in hopes of elevating her ...

The suit echoes the push by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to adopt a ‘click to cancel’ rule, which requires businesses to get consumers’ consent for subscriptions, auto-renewals and ...

Since President Donald Trump took office in January and replaced former FTC Chair Lina Khan with Andrew Ferguson, the U.S.

The FTC accused Amazon in 2023 of using “deceptive user-interface designs known as ‘dark patterns’ to trick consumers into enrolling in automatically renewing Prime subscriptions.” ...

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday backpedaled on an earlier statement made by its lawyer who had asked a Seattle judge to delay the Amazon Prime trial (NASDAQ:AMZN) due to lack of ...

The agency blamed recent staffing and budget constraints. The agency blamed recent staffing and budget constraints. Lauren Feiner is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the ...

The FTC last year accused Amazon of using "manipulative, coercive or deceptive user-interface designs known as 'dark patterns' to trick consumers into enrolling in automatically renewing Prime ...

Judge John Chun agreed with the FTC that Amazon (AMZN) “tricked, coerced, and manipulated consumers into subscribing to Amazon Prime…employing user-interface designs known as ‘dark patterns ...

Yesterday, Amazon failed to convince a US district court to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit targeting the tech giant's alleged history of tricking people into signing up for Prime.

Last June, on a whim, I canceled Amazon Prime. I’d seen the FTC’s lawsuit claiming the company “sabotaged” people’s attempts to disenroll and thought it might be worth experiencing ...

(Reuters) - Amazon.com has denied duping millions of subscribers to its Amazon Prime service, asking a U.S. judge in Seattle to dismiss a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that the ecommerce giant ...