The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Meta have wrapped up a six-week trial over the Facebook and Instagram parent’s alleged social networking monopoly, leaving the final decision in the hands of ...

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared his worries and plans during the company's first-quarter earnings call. "It's hard to tell ...

The FCO asserted that Amazon's pricing controls are based on non-transparent marketplace rules, and unfairly interfere with ...

Regulators alleged that Amazon’s price caps limit the visibility of merchants’ products and interfere with their freedom to ...

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 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.

(AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File) (CN) — Amazon.com failed to persuade a federal judge to toss a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that accuses the online retailer and three of its executives of tricking ...