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FTC Examining Allegations Of Misleading Amazon Prices
Friday, July 21, 2017 - 1:58pm | 616Read More...The Federal Trade Commission is looking into a complaint by the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog that Amazon.com AMZN misleads customers about its pricing discounts. In June, Consumer Watchdog looked at 1,000 products on Amazon and found that the retail giant put reference prices on about 46% of...
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Just What They Needed: Google Gets An Airfield
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 3:18pm | 463Read More...You know a company is large when the federal government chooses it to run and maintain a federal airfield. On Monday, the General Services Administration (GSA) and NASA announced they selected a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) subsidiary, Planetary Ventures LLC, to run and regulate Moffett Federal...
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Facebook, Click Fraud, and Digital Advertising Deception
Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 11:22am | 2003Read More...Click fraud and its perpetrators hit national headlines this month after Long Island startup Limited Run decided to discontinue its Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) advertising on suspicions of bot ad clicks. The underlying difficulty of advertising on the Internet, however, is nothing new. John M. Simpson...
