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FTC investigating Smurfberries, other in-app purchases

By , Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has said they will be investigating in-app purchases for applications marketed to children, such as Smurfs’ Village. The argument is that some children do not

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Investigating Apple

By , Sunday, Feb 20, 2011
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Word is the US federal government, and the always eager European Union, are looking into Apple’s new in-app subscription service. Last year, following complaints from Adobe, they looked

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Adobe complaint behind possible DOJ/FTC inquiry into Apple?

By , Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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Apple’s lock-out of Adobe CS5 iPhone packager as part of the iPhone OS 4 SDK, thus preventing Adobe from locking developers into CS5, has has allegedly so angered the Flash-maker

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Rumor: Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission jostling over inquiry into Apple restriction on cross-compilers

By , Monday, May 3, 2010
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Citing the usual “people familiar with the matter”, the New York Post claims the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commissions are negotiating over which one of their organizations will

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FTC Investigating Apple and Google Antitrust Issues

By , Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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The New York Times (via Daring Fireball) reports that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into whether the ties between Apple and Google’s respective Boards of Directors violate

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