Brightpick’s new warehouse robot can reach 20-foot-high shelves
Brightpick, a maker of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), on Tuesday announced a lofty addition to its current line. The ...
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FTC orders GoDaddy to fix poor web hosting security practices
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will require web hosting giant GoDaddy to implement basic security protections, including HTTPS APIs and mandatory multi-factor authentication, to settle charges ...
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FTC Takes On Deere & Co. In New Right-To-Repair Fight
In the latest crackdown by U.S. authorities on unfair repair practices, the FTC is suing leading agricultural equipment manufacturer Deere & Company for preventing farmers from easily fixing their ...
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FTC sues John Deere for ‘unfairly’ raising repair costs on farm equipment
The FTC’s lawsuit is the latest salvo in the fight over right-to-repair. The FTC’s lawsuit is the latest salvo in the fight over right-to-repair. Justine Calma is a senior science reporter ...
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The FTC Suing John Deere Is a Tipping Point for Right-to-Repair
“Farmers rely on their agricultural equipment to earn a living and feed their families,” FTC chair Lina Khan wrote in a statement alongside the full complaint. “Unfair repair restrictions ...
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FTC Orders H&R Block To Pay $7 Million And Make Changes To Advertising Practices
Last February, the FTC filed an administrative lawsuit against the tax prep company, alleging that H&R Block unfairly advertised its online tax filing products as "free" when many consumers could ...
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FTC: Big 3 PBMs generated $7.3B from specialty generic drug markups
The FTC’s findings—which analyzed 51 specialty generic drugs from 2017 to 2022—showed these pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs') affiliated pharmacies spun up $7.3 billion in excess revenue ...
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FTC slams PBMs for boosting specialty drug prices at the expense of the U.S. health care system
By doing so, the companies significantly padded their bottom lines at the expense of the American health care system, according to the FTC. Specifically, the companies were able to generate more ...
Yahoo Finance24d
FTC alleges PBMs cost consumers $7.3 billion marking up drug prices
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a 60-page report Tuesday targeting the three biggest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), claiming the companies hiked the prices of specialty drugs by ...
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FTC accuses CVS, Cigna, UnitedHealth of abusing middleman role, shares down
FTC said the "Big 3 PBMs" — CVS’s Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth’s OptumRx — imposed markups of hundreds to thousands of percent on critical drugs, including those ...
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FTC releases second report slamming pharmacy benefit managers
The findings are similar to those in the FTC’s initial report released last summer as part of the agency’s ongoing investigation into PBMs. However, the second report looks at a much broader ...
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FTC Prepares to Sue Largest U.S. Apartment Landlord Over Hidden Fees
On the final days of her tenure as FTC chair, Lina Khan sits down with WSJ’s Damian Paletta to reflect on her historically aggressive approach to antitrust enforcement. Photo: Umit Gulsen for ...