In the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration, the Biden FTC rushed to initiate major lawsuits and to tie a bow on various antitrust

The state’s junk fees ban is designed to increase price transparency for consumers, but it may have unintended consequences.

The watchdog agency's surveillance pricing study indicates that a wide range of consumer behaviors — including the items they leave unpurchased in an online shopping cart — can be used to "tailor" pricing to individual users, as opposed to one price for all customers, a Friday news release says.

The Federal Trade Commission and the Illinois and Minnesota Attorneys General announced a lawsuit against agricultural equipment manufacturer John Deere over its practices that have allegedly increased equipment repair costs for farmers and deprived them of the ability to make timely repairs on critical farming equipment.

The FTC and attorneys general from Minnesota and Illinois sued Deere & Co. over its “unfair practices” relating to equipment repairs.

The Right to Repair lawsuit carries significant implications for farmers, independent repair access and antitrust enforcement. Here's what an antitrust attorney and a D.C. lobbyist have to say about the legal action.

Starting this year, there are a swath of new state and federal consumer protection laws that have already or will soon go into effect, impacting

Deere & Co. unfairly forces farmers to visit authorized dealers to repair their equipment, resulting in higher prices than if they could fix it themselves or get help from independent shops, the Federal Trade Commission claims in a lawsuit.

In its final days, the Biden administration sued John Deere over repair restrictions, calling them “unfair corporate tactics” that hurt farmers.

Fake messages claim unpaid fees, seek payment via fraudulent links. Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says this scam is becoming increasingly sophisticated and widespread.

Over the last decade we have brought you frequent reports not from the coolest of hackerspaces or the most bleeding edge of engineering in California or China, but from the rolling prairies of the

Iowa is second in the nation for statewide teacher shortages across more than 15 subject areas.