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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Facebook could soon be staring down a lawsuit as the Federal Trade Commission and numerous states attorneys general finish up one or more antitrust cases against the social media giant, Reuters reports.

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

Facebook bought Instagram, the photo- and video-sharing social networking service, in 2012 for $1 billion and WhatsApp, the cross-platform messaging service, in 2014 for $19 billion. The document was prepared by Facebook staff based on work it commissioned from lawyers at Sidley Austin, a Chicago-based law firm, and reviewed by WSJ.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 48 states launched a massive antitrust lawsuit on Facebook Wednesday (Dec. The FTC is seeking an injunction in federal court that could require divestitures of assets, including Instagram and WhatsApp.

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MAY 8, 2019

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is eyeing tighter scrutiny of small business lending practices as Commissioner Rohit Chopra calls on the regulator to combat predatory SMB loan contracts, reports in Bloomberg said on Wednesday (May 8). Chopra spoke at an agency forum in Washington, D.C.,

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MAY 19, 2020

million to settle allegations that they laundered credit card transactions for scams targeting hundreds of thousands of consumers, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Tuesday (May 19). Payments processing giant First Data Merchant Services and one of its executives will pay $40.3

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JUNE 18, 2019

The legislative proposal would limit lenders’ ability to include confessions of judgment to out-of-state debtors in their contracts, a controversial legal instrument that requires borrowers to agree to bypass traditional court proceedings and accept liability to damages. “These guys are ruthless and relentless.”

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JANUARY 11, 2017

The three brands that L’Oréal is buying are CeraVe, AcneFree and Ambi, which were each bought by Valeant between 2008 and 2012 for a total of about $150 million, according to estimates by Evercore ISI. As the parent company of Bausch + Lomb, Valeant was investigated by congressional panels, the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S.

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