News Summary: FTC’s ‘robocall’ contest winners

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THIS IS A MESSAGE FOR ROBOCALLS: The Federal Trade Commission announced winners for its national contest to develop a blocking technology for illegal sales calls — those annoying prerecorded phone pitches known as robocalls. The FTC logs about 200,000 complaints each month from consumers who are fed up with robocalls.

COLLECT CALLS: Aaron Foss, a freelance software developer, and Serdar Danis, a computer engineer. Each will receive $25,000.

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