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The FTC has launched an antitrust probe against Google's search practices. It will investigate if Google uses its search dominance to stifle competition in other markets.

The FTC has launched a probe into Google's practices. The Wall Street Journal reported that the probe had to do with the way Google ranked its own services on its search engine.

Google confirmed on Friday that the Federal Trade Commission is looking into its practices. Although the exact nature of the civil probe isn't clarified yet, the WSJ reported that the FTC is seeking to find out if Google search unfairly places its own services higher on search queries or charges them less for search advertising.

Google responds to the FTC probe and says it will oblige with the agency's requests.

U.S. antitrust regulators told Google they opened a formal investigation into whether the dominant search company illegally abuses its market power.

U.S. Federal Trade Commission will issue subpoenas to Google and other companies as part of an investigation into practices in Google's search engine business.

The Federal Trade Commission is looking to investigate whether or not Google has abused its strong position in web search.

Google Inc is about to receive the civil equivalent of a subpoena from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission as part of a probe into the giant Web company's Internet search business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Facebook's facial recognition technology.

FTC says Do Not Track needs to come to mobile platforms, specifically app stores, which can collect user information without the consumer knowing.

A new report from the FTC says certain electronics manufacturers aren't doing as good a job preventing kids from buying R-rated content.

U.S. antitrust regulators may investigate Google Inc's dominance of the Web search industry, and will settle on the agency to launch a probe once scrutiny into the company's plan to buy ITA software is done, a source told Reuters on Tuesday.

U.S. antitrust regulators may investigate Google Inc's dominance of the Web search industry, and will settle on the agency to launch a probe once scrutiny into the company's plan to buy ITA software is done, a source told Reuters.

The Federal Trade Commission is considering an antitrust investigation of Google Inc's dominance of the Web search industry, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter.

Google has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission in regards to its privacy practices.

Search giant Google Inc has settled with U.S. regulators investigating privacy problems that cropped up in its botched roll-out of social network Buzz, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.

Search giant Google Inc has settled with U.S. regulators investigating privacy problems that cropped up in its botched roll-out of social network Buzz, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.

Toys 'R' Us has agreed to pay a $1.3 million penalty for violating a 1998 order that barred it from pushing suppliers to refuse to sell to competitors or from urging limits to those sales, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.

Senators, government organizations and even the President are throwing their support behind 'Do Not Track' legislation.

Identity theft has topped the list of consumer complaints last year, followed by debt collection, according to a report from the Federal Trade Commission.

A Washington, DC-based nonprofit watchdog has urged the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to halt deceptive advertising and labeling of vitaminwater by a Coca-Cola Co unit.