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FTC: Invasive spyware illegal
Orlando :: FL :: USA | about 14 hours ago
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Federal Trade Commission and a Florida company said they are near agreement on appropriate use of spyware that can invade others' computers. The FTC and the Orlando company, CyberSpy Software, which manufactures a product, RemoteSpy, that gets into other...
Tags: FTC, Orlando, Computer network security, Keystroke logging, Anti-Spyware Coalition, Spyware, Rogue software, Malware, Technology Internet
CSL's 'fear' pushed takeover
Melbourne :: Australia | about 23 hours ago
Credibility A US judge has released uncensored court documents relating to CSL's failed $US3.1 billion ($A3.4 billion) takeover bid for Talecris Biotherapeutics, revealing CSL was ''truly scared'' Talecris would raise blood plasma production and slash industry profitability.
Tags: CSL, Talecris Biotherapeutics, FTC, Australia, Melbourne, New World Mobility, Federal Trade Commission, Canada Steamship Lines Inc., Business Finance, New World Development, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
All his world's a stage – and it's a pretty big world
Grass Valley :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Wright is specifically referring to Sedaris' tenure as an elf at Macy's SantaLand in Manhattan one holiday season. The experience became the comic essay "The SantaLand Diaries," which Sedaris read on National Public Radio in 1992, and it jump-started...
Tags: Philip Sneed, FTC, Carolyn Howarth, Sacramento, artistic director, David Sedaris, wright says, santaland diaries, Grass Valley, Joe Mantello, Wright, Essays, Entertainment Culture
Body Solutions is back in business
Dallas :: TX :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Body Solutions, a once high-flying weight loss product brought down by overblown promotions and a deceptive founder, is back with a new name, a new owner and a more restrained pitch. Gone is the “Evening Weight Loss Formula” tag that once followed the...
Tags: Michael Casas, Body Solutions Ultra, dietary supplement, Mark Nutritionals Inc., weight loss, Harry Siskind, FTC, Dallas, Dietary supplements, Health Medical Pharma
Pre-Paid Legal Services says FTC may sue
Ada :: OK :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc., a network of independent law firms, said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission may sue the company over allegedly misleading representations made by its identity theft prevention program. The news sent the stock plummeting...
Tags: Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc., FTC, Ada, Pre-Paid Legal Services, Identity theft, Business Finance, Consumer protection, Corporate crime, Federal Trade Commission, Law Crime, Credit history, Multi-level marketing, Credit
Crackdown On Loyalty Program Scams Shows How Ridiculously Sucessful They Were
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Many of these are incredibly sneaky, such that many users have no idea they signed up for it until they get their credit card statements. Even worse, many of the "tricks" involve getting legitimate sites to offer these "services" to their users -- and...
Tags: FTC, San Francisco, Vertrue, Confidence trick, Affinion Group, Credit card, Social engineering, Fraud, Credit, Deception
The new FTC regulations will tidy up ebusiness.
Thank god for the new FTC regulations which are about to take effect. As a person who spends a lot of time reading other people’s websites and press releases, I get sick of all the crap which gets touted around about the next “big thing”...
Tags: ftc regulations, internet market, email list, allnews, New York City, Michael Nunn, FTC
Consumer alert
Oak Lawn :: IL :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Some readers had wondered what was up with Baja Sol Fresh Mex Grill, which opened earlier this year in Oak Lawn, at 5273 W...It looked like it might be closed, and callers were greeted by a recorded message letting them know that employees were busy helping...
Tags: Chris Lower, FTC, BlueHippo, Oak Lawn, BlueHippo Funding, Franchising, Consumer protection, Corporate crime, Federal Trade Commission
FTC seeks contempt order against BlueHippo
Baltimore :: OH :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility BlueHippo Funding, the Woodlawn electronics sales company that has been the subject of thousands of consumer complaints and the target of regulators in multiple states, is again in trouble. The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday asked a court to find...
Tags: BlueHippo, FTC, Marylanders, Baltimore, BlueHippo Funding, Federal Trade Commission, Movieland, Business Finance
S Korea' FTC head alludes to reducing fines on LPG industry cartel
Seoul :: South Korea | 10 days ago
Credibility The chief of South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Friday that the country's liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) firms, accused of price fixing activities, may be levied a less amount of fine than previously announced. "There may be a wide gap between the...
Tags: SK Gas LPG, FTC, South Korea, lpg firms, Chung Ho-yul, ftc head, Seoul, Fuel gas, Liquefied petroleum gas, Price fixing, Cartel, Gasoline, Business Finance, Anti-competitive behaviour, Competition law, Competition
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