Tag: FTC
US: FTC announces a workshop on non-competes in the Workplace
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced an agenda for its upcoming workshop in Washington, DC, regarding non-compete agreements in the workplace.
Non-compete clauses are...
US: Axon sues the FTC amid antitrust probe
Axon Enterprise on Friday sued the US Federal Trade Commission in a bid to have potential antitrust litigation heard in a federal district court and...
US: FTC proposes expanding antitrust reporting requirements
A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed rule seeks to clarify when a transaction is exempt from pre-merger notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act because the...
US: FTC names new Economic Bureau Chief
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Joseph Simons has tapped University of Maryland economics professor Andrew Sweeting to succeed Bruce H. Kobayashi as director of...
US: FTC Challenges Post/TreeHouse Foods cereal deal
The Federal Trade Commission is challenging a cereal-industry deal in which Post Holdings Inc. is seeking to buy the private-label cereal business of TreeHouse Foods Inc.
The FTC announced Thursday...
US: Top FTC Antitrust Deputy to depart amid tech probes
A top antitrust deputy at the Federal Trade Commission is set to retire at the end of 2019, as the commission investigates tech companies’...
US: FTC considers blocking Facebook App integration
Officials at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are considering the possibility of a preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust issues related to how the...
US: Bayer’s $7.6B bid to offload Elanco draws FTC attention
Bayer’s eager to send its animal health unit to Elanco so it can focus its healthcare efforts on pharmaceuticals. But that US$7.6 billion selloff,...
US: FTC gets backers in Qualcomm Case
Open Markets and 40 legal scholars have weighed in with amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs backing its charges.
The scholars, including some from...
“United States v. Apple” Review: In Competition We Trust
By L. Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal
Politicians and social critics who worry about “the curse of bigness”—and vow to rewrite antitrust law to break...
