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  • Marketing scams in 2012 saw Australian consumers robbed of over $94mn Marketing scams in 2012 saw Australian consumers robbed of over $94mn

    SYDNEY - Australian consumers were fleeced of nearly $94 million last year due to various marketing scams, with the majority being perpetrated using text messages and direct calls, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in its latest report. The actual number of losses due to scams could be much higher because many go unreported, stated ACCC Deputy Chair Delia Rickard. The ...

  • Apple details requests for customers’ data

    The company, like some other businesses, asked the government to be able to share how many requests it received related to national security, as well as information on how it handled them. Those requests were made as part of Prism, the recently revealed highly classified National Security Agency program that seizes records from Internet ...

  • Hertz-owned Thrifty says offer of free rental car was a mistake apologizes to customers

    DALLAS -- Thrifty Car Rental says it's sorry, but many customers who were offered a free one-day rental won't be getting that after all. The company says the offer was intended for a select group of top customers but was sent accidentally to many other people. "We're very sorry for any confusion our eagerness may have caused," the chain, which is owned by Hertz Global ...

  • Man arrested after making Best Buy customers uncomfortable deputies say

    Jean Makihotch, 24, of no fixed address, was arrested Friday, June 14, 2013 at a Best Buy in Wellington, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest ...

  • FTCs Privacy Guru Named Head of Bureau of Consumer Protection

    Jessica Rich, a 20-year Federal Trade Commission career attorney and expert in privacy, data and identity protection, and new technologies was named the new director of the agency's bureau of consumer ...


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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Who hasn't looked at a ten-year-old picture of himself and cringed at the sight? Those terrible clothes, that ridiculous haircut. What was I thinking? you ask yourself. How could it have possibly been socially responsible to go out into public looking like that? This phenomenon is the central joke of "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," a hilarious spoof of James Bond movies and the Swin ... ...

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  • New Jersey to New York bus delayed 2 hours due to lost driver

    Passengers on a NJ Transit bus from Dunellen, N.J., to New York said they were 2 hours late for work because the driver became lost. Aileen Iosso, a passenger on Thursday's No. 113 Express bus, said she boarded the vehicle in Cranford about 7 a.m. expecting to arrive at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York's Manhattan borough by 7:39 a.m., The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger ...

  • FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez Names Senior Staff

    FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez Names Senior Staff Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez has named seven senior staff members with extensive experience in consumer protection and antitrust law. "I am very pleased to have such a strong leadership team at the FTC," Ramirez said. "Their knowledge and experience will help keep the FTC at the forefront in promoting ...

  • QVC Millionaire Home Shopping Queen Tara McConnell On How To Talk To Customers

    Tara McConnell with QVC Program Host David Venable. McConnell spends roughly 10 hours on TV each month. Tara McConnell never intended to be an entrepreneur. She was a college student with dreams of becoming a psychologist. And then an internship changed her life. "I was doing everything and anything," says McConnell of her time at Exton-based marketing ...

  • U.S. Consumers Not Buying Web Advertisers Relevance Argument for Tracking

    Edelman ) suggests most people aren't buying it. The vast majority of U.S. consumers, 88 percent, feel that there are "too many technologies tracking and analyzing our behavior," according to study. Eighty-five percent said companies are collecting too much information on consumers. And 86 percent feel that they have "lost control of their privacy." Only about 28 percent ...

  • Co-op Bank bailout what it means to customers

    The Co-op says the 'ethos, ethics and banking nature is a key part of our plan that goes forward', but others remain less sure. Photograph: Frank Baron for the ...

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