Howard Beales, the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) director of consumer protection, said that his regulatory group would bring action against an unspecified company doing business on the Internet. He said the company allegedly changed its privacy policy retroactively, opening up...
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A 2003 law targeting the common banking practice of selling customer information without their permission will finally be implemented by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC announced new proposed rules yesterday and is accepting comments through part of July....
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Disney representatives in the U.K. said the company was developing an online "Theme Park" consisting of online games based on the themes from its various successful animated movies. The company said gaming will become a large focus, perhaps eventually eclipsing...
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PR Week reviewed the state of the PR blog, both those written by PR flacks and corporate blogs that allow reporters the illusion of letting them route around PR flacks. But PR blogs aren't terribly new - they just provide...
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Visa reported that e-commerce charges for the year to date grew 59 percent relative to last year, to a whopping $37.6 billion. The rise comes even as alternative forms of online payments are quickly gaining steam as well, including e-checks...
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Those would-be buyers that prove tentative in handing over their credit card information may not be so concerned about fraudulent charges. Half of users, as reported in a study by Jupiter, fear that the information will be used to target...
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Search engine marketing firm Traffix announced it will purchase SendTraffic.com for about $5.4 million. SendTraffic has more than 100 clients and projects $10 million in sales with $1 million in operating income over the next year. The company's founders have...
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Adware firm WhenU made its opening arguments to a federal judge in Utah yesterday. It said the recent Utah law was "arbitrary and Draconian" and not even in the purview of the state, as the U.S. Constitution assigns interstate commerce...
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