{"id":961319,"date":"2025-09-13T07:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961319"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:32:12","slug":"amazon-google-probed-by-ftc-over-search-advertising-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/13\/amazon-google-probed-by-ftc-over-search-advertising-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, Google probed by FTC over search advertising practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google misled advertisers that place ads on their websites, according to people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The investigations, which are being conducted by the agency\u2019s consumer protection unit, focus on whether the companies properly disclosed the terms and pricing for ads, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing a confidential matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google misled advertisers that place ads on their websites, according to people familiar with the matter. The investigations, which are being conducted by the agency\u2019s consumer protection unit, focus on whether the companies properly disclosed the terms and pricing for ads, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing a confidential matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}