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- Advertising Roundup: Yahoo and Google Feeling Slow Ad Market, FTC Cracking Down on Greenwashing, and More
- Advertising Roundup: Yahoo and Google Feeling Slow Ad Market, FTC Cracking Down on Greenwashing, and MoreRE: Advertising Roundup: Yahoo and Google Feeling Slow Ad Market, FTC Cracking Down on Greenwashing, and MoreWell, the green search engine www.treehoo.com is constantly growing. Maybe because they care about the environment...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
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- Advertising Roundup: Yahoo and Google Feeling Slow Ad Market, FTC Cracking Down on Greenwashing, and More
- Yahoo reports Q3 earnings, layoffs -- Yahoo reported a 64 percent drop in income for Q3 and CEO Jerry Yang warned investors that the near future of the advertising market isn't looking bright. The company will slash 10 percent of its workforce in Q4. [Source: CNET] FTC...
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Julie Brill Nominated to FTC: A Message to Drug Manufacturers?
- The Obama administration may have sent a subtle message to drug manufacturers Monday, when it nominated Julie Brill to be one of two new commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission. The message? Make sure your marketing practices don't collide with consumers' best interests.Brill has overseen consumer protection for states since...
- News items 2009-11-19
- The FTC Says "No" to a Negative Option Fraud
- Hooray! The Federal Trade Commission is finally cracking down on companies that rely on negative option marketing to make their sales. Negative option deals, as you already know, take your silence as a "yes" and then bill you forever for something you probably didn't want in the first place. Here's...
- Blog posts 2009-12-07
- FTC can enforce don't-call registry
- DENVER -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared away a hurdle that has kept the government from fully cracking down on telemarketers who contact people on the national do-not-call list. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked a lower court order barring the Federal Trade...
- Research articles 2003-10-08
- Discounters hit FTC record on retail price maintenance.
- WASHINGTON FNS -- The Federal Trade Commission is trying to defend itself against a barrage of charges that it is failing to enforce the law on manufacturer resale price maintenance and that is has lost interest in cracking down on Robinson-Patman Act violations and deception in...
- Research articles 1984-02-24
- You Snooze, You Lose
- In the strongest sign yet that the government will, if it must, regulate corporate security, the Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on companies with lax security on their websites. In its third such case, the FTC recently settled with clothing and accessory company Guess. Customer data was stolen...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Shedding unwanted diet claims. (Editorials).(Editorial)
- Several weeks back, the FTC announced that it is cracking down on deceptive marketing for diets and nutritional supplements. Anyone who has watched late-night cable or listened to the radio knows that, as with so many other products, TV and radio are the media of choice for...
- Research articles 2002-12-16
- Companies of all sizes continue to fall prey to business supply scams.(Brief Article)
- Office supply fraud is one of the most significant business-to-business telemarketing frauds according to the Federal Trade Commission FTC. Estimates are that telemarketing fraud is costing the legitimate toner industry $100 million in retail sales. "Operation Misprint," a multi-agency effort, is cracking down...
- Research articles 2000-02-28
- Cyber Con Men Beware!
- Online-auction fraud complaints have increased a hundredfold during the last three years. Now, the feds are cracking down on the fastest-growing source of crime on the Internet. As cyberspace con artists increasingly prey on unsuspecting online-auction bidders -- incidents of Internet fraud have increased 100 times in two years...
- Research articles 2000-04-17
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