Published on: 2025-06-22 09:18:52
Verizon petitioned the Trump administration to let it lock phones to its network for longer periods of time, making it harder for customers to switch to other carriers. There are two rules that require Verizon to unlock phones more quickly than other major carriers. Verizon agreed to both rules and gained significant benefits in return—first in 2008 when it purchased licenses to use 700 MHz spectrum that came with open access requirements and in 2021 when it agreed to merger conditions in order
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 07:20:45
For years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star program has helped consumers save a collective $40 billion in annual energy costs. Now, the Trump administration wants to wind it down, according to a report from CNN. The Energy Star program, which has a budget of $32 million, is a public-private partnership that works with appliance and electronics manufacturers to certify energy-efficient products while also helping consumers find rebates to lower the purchase cost. “El
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 17:20:45
For years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star program has helped consumers save a collective $40 billion in annual energy costs. Now, the Trump administration wants to wind it down, according to a report from CNN. The Energy Star program, which has a budget of $32 million, is a public-private partnership that works with appliance and electronics manufacturers to certify energy-efficient products while also helping consumers find rebates to lower the purchase cost. “El
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 17:02:13
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Representative Kat Cammack (R-FL) introduced a bill Tuesday that would require “large app store operators” like Apple to let users install third-party app stores and set them as their default. The bill, called the App Store Freedom Act, aims to “promote competition and protect consumers and developers in the mobile app marketplace,” according to a p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 13:01:17
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Visa has launched a new platform designed to let artificial intelligence agents purchase products on behalf of users, effectively giving AI access to people’s credit cards — with strict guardrails. The system, called Visa Intelligent Commerce, was unveiled last Wednesday at the company’s Global Product Drop event in San Francisco and enables AI assistants to not only re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 22:10:29
The popular Chinese ecommerce site Temu appears to have abruptly removed all products in the US version of its online store that ship directly to consumers from China, causing widespread confusion among both the company’s suppliers and customers. The change seemingly happened earlier this week, just days before a trade loophole that allows American consumers to buy products from China without paying tariffs is set to disappear as part of sweeping new import duties imposed by US president Donald
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-06 01:41:42
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Sweeping tariffs have brought widespread confusion to international markets, and businesses everywhere are bracing for price hikes. US carrier execs have recently spoken out about the potential impact tariffs could have on smartphone sales. Both Verizon and AT&T have expressed plans to pass tariff-associated costs along to end consumers. The current US administration’s chaotic love affair with tariffs is still wreaking havoc upon global markets, and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 21:01:00
SpiffyJ/Getty Images AI agents are changing how we work, but Salesforce's latest research reveals that consumers are also looking to agentic AI to simplify their daily lives. The survey of 2,552 US consumers identified four personality types interested in AI agents: the Life-Hacker, the Tastemaker, the Minimalist, and the Smarty Pants. Also: Why neglecting AI ethics is such risky business - and how to do AI right The findings reveal that consumer personas are as varied as the AI agents servi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 23:39:28
The Federal Trade Commission is suing the rideshare company Uber for what it's calling deceptive business practices with its Uber One subscription service. In its complaint filed in a San Francisco district court, the FTC cites instances where customers say they were charged for the service when they believed their subscriptions were canceled or were not allowed to cancel their accounts easily. Uber One costs $10 a month and allows users to get discounts, free delivery on Uber Eats and cash bac
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-10 12:11:00
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been instructed to pull back on protecting consumers from predatory practices from student loan lenders, medical debt collectors and digital payment apps. Bloomberg/Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will no longer prioritize protecting consumers with medical debt, student loans or digital payment and peer-to-peer lending platforms, according to an internal memo reported by The Wall Street Journal. Instead, the bureau has been ins
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-10 18:22:55
The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit today against Uber, alleging the rideshare and delivery company charged consumers for its Uber One subscription service without their consent, failed to deliver promised savings, and made it difficult for users to cancel the service despite its “cancel anytime” promises. “Americans are tired of getting signed up for unwanted subscriptions that seem impossible to cancel,” said FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson. “The Trump-Vance FTC is fighting back on b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 09:22:55
The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit today against Uber, alleging the rideshare and delivery company charged consumers for its Uber One subscription service without their consent, failed to deliver promised savings, and made it difficult for users to cancel the service despite its “cancel anytime” promises. “Americans are tired of getting signed up for unwanted subscriptions that seem impossible to cancel,” said FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson. “The Trump-Vance FTC is fighting back on b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-15 09:54:47
The Chinese e-commerce marketplace app DHgate, which is now the No. 2 free iPhone app in the U.S., isn’t the only one that’s oddly benefiting from President Trump’s tariffs on U.S. imports from China. Another Chinese shopping app, Taobao, has now also entered the Top 5 as of Thursday. U.S. consumers began flocking to these apps over the past several days in the wake of numerous TikTok videos from Chinese manufacturers explaining how much of the luxury goods market operates out of China. The vid
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-29 01:25:13
The fintech sector is rallying Wednesday following the Trump administration's announcement of a 90-day pause on planned tariffs. Affirm was up 20%, Toast and Block rose 13% and PayPal increased 10%. The 90-day pause doesn't eliminate the threat of tariffs — it just delays it. Investors are still pricing in risk, including inflation, discretionary pullbacks, hardware import costs and credit exposure. Legacy payment networks such as Visa and Mastercard , both up 6%, continue to benefit from inf
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-04 16:22:00
Cars and agricultural products aren't the only goods the Trump administration is targeting with tariffs. As part of the package of tariffs announced on March 5, the US slapped a 10% tariff on Canadian energy in addition to 25% tariffs on nearly all goods imported from Canada and Mexico. At first, some businesses, like carmakers, were temporarily exempted, but that's no longer the case as of April 2. The Trump administration unveiled a list of tariffs for every country in the world, ranging from
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-11 12:52:59
Sometimes, surprises are lurking in everyday data. Take a category of consumers that Doug Rubin’s startup, Northwind Climate, calls “climate doers.” They’re concerned about climate change and tend to prioritize climate-friendly purchases, the sort of identifiers who might be stereotypically associated with things like buying organic foods or prioritizing local businesses. “Turns out that the climate doers category actually are the consumers who most frequent fast-food restaurants,” Rubin told
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-11 17:52:59
Sometimes, surprises are lurking in everyday data. Take a category of consumers that Doug Rubin’s startup, Northwind Climate, calls “climate doers.” They’re concerned about climate change and tend to prioritize climate friendly purchases, the sort of identifiers that might be stereotypically associated with things like buying organic foods or prioritizing local businesses. “Turns out that the climate doers category actually are the consumers who most frequent fast food restaurants,” Rubin told
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-12 22:24:00
If the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doesn't prioritize protecting consumers, does it matter if the watchdog agency still exists? It might seem like a philosophical question, but this could be the CFPB's final chapter. On Friday, a federal court blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the agency with a temporary injunction, ordering employees be reinstated. But some of the damage has already been done. The CFPB has suspended most operations and started unwinding regulations, a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-27 17:44:19
In July 2024, AT&T became the first carrier to apply for a technology transition discontinuance "under the Adequate Replacement Test relying on the applicant's own replacement service," the order said. "AT&T indicated in this application that it was relying on a totality of the circumstances showing to establish the adequacy of its replacement service, but also committed to the performance testing methodology and parameters established in the 2016 Technology Transitions Order Technical Appendix.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-29 00:50:21
Apple continues to face the fallout from its decision to delay the “more personalized Siri” that it first announced last summer as part of Apple Intelligence. Axios reports that Apple is facing a federal lawsuit alleging that its “promotion of now-delayed Apple Intelligence features constituted false advertising and unfair competition.” Apple Intelligence lawsuit Apple Intelligence has played a key role in Apple’s marketing of the iPhone 16. The company has run ads promoting features including
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-29 04:44:19
In July 2024, AT&T became the first carrier to apply for a technology transition discontinuance "under the Adequate Replacement Test relying on the applicant's own replacement service," the order said. "AT&T indicated in this application that it was relying on a totality of the circumstances showing to establish the adequacy of its replacement service, but also committed to the performance testing methodology and parameters established in the 2016 Technology Transitions Order Technical Appendix.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-02 08:36:41
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken action against the "Click Profit" business opportunity scheme for allegedly earning $14 million while deceiving consumers with false promises of guaranteed passive income through online stores. Click Profit is an online business paltform promoted on social media and through websites that claims to help consumers generate passive income by setting up and managing e-commerce stores on Amazon, Walmart, and other platforms. The company claims its cus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-04 08:26:47
Packages ride on a conveyor belt during Cyber Monday, one of the company's busiest days at an Amazon fulfillment center on December 2, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. The Federal Trade Commission is going after an e-commerce company that allegedly took millions of dollars from consumers as part of a "passive income" scheme, which spun up Amazon storefronts on their behalf and promised "insane returns" that were higher than the stock market. The FTC said Tuesday it filed a lawsuit against the company
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-04 12:15:57
Packages ride on a conveyor belt during Cyber Monday, one of the company's busiest days at an Amazon fulfillment center on December 2, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. The Federal Trade Commission is going after an e-commerce company that allegedly took millions of dollars from consumers as part of a "passive income" scheme, which spun up Amazon storefronts on their behalf and promised "insane returns" that were higher than the stock market. The FTC said Tuesday it filed a lawsuit against the company
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-06 00:30:22
After decades of relying on Google’s ten blue links to find everything from travel tips to jeans, consumers are quickly adapting to a completely new format: AI chatbots that do the searching for them. According to new research from Adobe, AI search has become a significant traffic channel for retailers. The company analyzed “more than 1 trillion visits to U.S. retail sites” through its analytics platform, and conducted a survey of “more than 5,000 U.S. respondents” to better understand how peop
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-18 08:58:36
Later this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will start distributing over $25.5 million in refunds to those misled by tech support companies Restoro and Reimage's scare tactics. The FTC will send 736,375 PayPal payments starting March 13 to consumers tricked into paying for unnecessary computer repair services. Between now and March 13, those eligible for a refund will receive an email and must redeem the PayPal payment within 30 days. Restoro Cyprus Limited and Reimage Cyprus Limited
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-30 08:00:00
As of today, the Humane Ai Pin is dead—less than a year since its launch. Following an acquisition by HP, Humane shut down many of the core features of the artificial-intelligence-powered wearable and deleted user data, rendering it useless. Yes, some functions remain, like checking battery life (useful!), but you can't access the voice assistant. If you spent $700 on an Ai Pin, you might be wondering what you can do now. These are the risks of being an early adopter, but not getting a refund o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-09 00:10:47
Senator Ron Wyden wants the government to force companies to make it clear to buyers what they are getting when they buy digital media online. Wyden in a letter to the FTC is seeking guidance to “ensure that consumers who purchase or license digital goods can make informed decisions and understand what ownership rights they are obtaining.” Consumers should know how long the license lasts, and whether they can transfer or resell the license (typically not). The Verge earlier reported on the lett
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 23:27:00
In a nutshell: Senator Ron Wyden is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to ensure consumers understand what they're actually buying when they purchase digital goods. In a letter to newly appointed FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Wyden urged the agency to issue guidance requiring online storefronts to clarify to customers whether a digital product is a permanent purchase or merely a temporary license. In a letter obtained by The Verge, Wyden pointed out that many consumers don't realize digital p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 23:27:00
In a nutshell: Senator Ron Wyden is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to ensure consumers understand what they're actually buying when they purchase digital goods. In a letter to newly appointed FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Wyden urged the agency to issue guidance requiring online storefronts to clarify to customers whether a digital product is a permanent purchase or merely a temporary license. In a letter obtained by The Verge, Wyden pointed out that many consumers don't realize digital p
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