Voxx launched a new e-commerce platform, rolling it out first through its Premium Audio Co. subsidiary, it said Monday. The company has been looking “at all aspects of its consumer-facing assets to improve the customer experience” and move to a more “user-friendly platform” designed to improve visibility, data aggregation and support functions, it said.

The FTC voted 3-2 along party lines Thursday to issue a policy statement outlining enforcement priorities against unfair, deceptive and anticompetitive practices involving the gig economy. The commission also unanimously issued a staff report on dark patterns and a proposed rule against impersonation fraud.

Experts said repeatedly at the ForumGlobal 6G conference Friday that planning needs to start now for the next generation of wireless beyond 5G. Speakers agreed regulators around the world will have to look at additional bands and put increased emphasis on more dynamic sharing.

Businesses will continue to seek a way forward on a concerning, soon-to-expire exemption in California's privacy law for employee and business-to-business (B2B) data, a California Chamber of Commerce (CalChamber) official told us Friday. Many privacy lawyers are warning businesses about the carve-out sunsetting at year-end due to the legislature failing to pass an extension. Starting Jan. 1, the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) is “really no longer just a consumer law,” said Sheppard Mullin’s Julia Kadish in an interview.

The “massive acceleration” of digital commerce “infrastructure” around the world was “one of the most important things that happened during the pandemic,” Visa President Ryan McInerney told an Autonomous Research investment conference Thursday. He also said consumer spending, from Visa’s perspective, remains stable in most of the world, despite record-high inflation, waning consumer confidence and geopolitical tensions from the war in Ukraine.

TikTok has employees in Beijing as do many other global tech companies, TikTok Chief Operating Officer Vanessa Pappas told the Senate Homeland Security Committee during a hearing Wednesday.

The U.S. Court of International Trade in its April 1 remand order gave the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative “one final opportunity” to cure its Administrative Procedure Act violations and "flesh out" the reasons why it rejected the 9,000+ comments it received in the Lists 3 and 4A Section 301 tariff rulemakings, without devising “new rationales for dismissing them,” said Akin Gump lawyers for lead Section 301 plaintiffs HMTX Industries and Jasco Products, in comments in docket 1:21-cv-52 on USTR’s Aug. 1 remand determination. “USTR’s response to that directive flunks the Court’s test,” they said.

The U.S. Court of International Trade “bent over backwards” to allow the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to comply with its Administrative Procedure Act obligations in its imposition of the Lists 3 and 4A Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods when it remanded the duties to the agency for further explanation on the rationale for the actions it took in the context of the comments it received, said an amicus brief Wednesday in docket 1:21-cv-52 from the Retail Litigation Center, CTA, National Retail Federation and four other trade associations. With USTR’s “non-responsive” answer Aug. 1 to the remand order, the time has come for the court “to impose the normal remedy for unlawful agency action” by vacating the Lists 3 and 4A tariffs and ordering them refunded, it said.

The Senate Judiciary Committee hasn’t moved to subpoena testimony from Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, committee leaders told reporters Tuesday. Their comments came after bipartisan concern over data security allegations about the platform during a hearing with a company whistleblower. Tuesday’s hearing confirms that allegations from whistleblower Peiter Zatko are “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies,” a company spokesperson said in a statement.

Silicon Labs unveiled four products in its Series 2 line at its virtual Works With Developer Conference Tuesday, including one supporting the cross-protocol Matter smart home connectivity standard, which the company expects to be released this fall after several delays. Plans for Matter were first announced in December 2019, with plans to release the standard in a year.