The Latest Breaking News from FTC

Two days after applying for a job on LinkedIn, Sandi Pounder received the good, if surprising, news.

Employers say that noncompete agreements are needed to protect trade secrets and investments. The FTC says they deprive workers of their economic liberties and has proposed a rule to ban them.

Microsoft's proposed investment in OpenAI is a "smart poker move" as A.I. advances, Wedbush's top tech analyst argues.

Noncompete agreements bar about 30 million American workers from quitting their jobs to work for rival companies or start their own businesses, a practice that the Federal Trade Commission calls exploitative and wants to ban.

We don’t know whether the Federal Trade Commission is right that forbidding noncompete agreements in labor contracts will increase wages by nearly $300 billion per year. Nor do we have a strong opinion about whether the ban can be carried out via regulation, as just proposed, or requires legislation like…

Nearly half of U.S. employers have some of their employees sign noncompete clauses. Now the FTC wants to ban them.

Personal emails linked to 235 million Twitter accounts hacked some time ago have been exposed according to Israeli security researcher Alon Gal — making millions vulnerable to having their accounts compromised or identities exposed if they have used the site anonymously to criticize oppressive governments, for instance

The Federal Trade Commission says the practice is harming competition within the labor market by preventing companies from hiring the best available talent.

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