7, at the Tupelo Middle School robotics classroom and workshop. The kickoff is the start of this school year’s For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Tech Challenge ...

In 2023, consumers reported $114 million in losses from scams involving BTMs — a nearly 900% increase over the preceding three years, the FTC said Tuesday in a report. Losses through June of ...

Community group, Funny Wonders, launch a new youth group for those interested in engineering, coding and design which will ...

An FTC spokesperson told me in an email that the agency was “seriously considering” appealing the Texas judge’s ruling. Even if the agency doesn’t salvage its own ban, though, a ...

U.S. District Judge Ada E. Brown of the Northern District of Texas ruled that the proposed ban on noncompete agreements is The FTC ban was slated to go into effect on Sept. 4. A ruling by a ...

A federal judge blocked the Federal Trade Commission's noncompete regulation. The Texas judge ruled the FTC exceeded its authority and called the move arbitrary and capricious. The rule was set to ...

The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that Care.com had agreed to a proposed $8.5 million settlement to address what the FTC called “unlawful practices,” which include misleading both the ...

The FTC’s noncompete ban targeted contractual clauses that apply to an estimated 1 in 5 U.S. workers by the agency’s own estimates. The rule would have allowed noncompete agreements with ...

U.S. District Judge Ada Brown said Tuesday the FTC did not have the legal authority to create the noncompete ban, which was supposed to go into effect Sept. 4. Brown’s ruling was widely expected ...

The structure of employment contracts is undergoing a seismic shift with the recent move by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ban non-compete clauses. This landmark decision has the potential ...

On April 23, 2024, the FTC announced the issuance of a final rule banning employers from entering into, enforcing, or attempting to enforce post-employment non-compete clauses, subject to limited ...

In a ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown granted a motion for summary judgement filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other plaintiffs, and rejected the FTC’s own petition for a ...