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

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:28:51 -0400

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

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:01:08 -0400

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

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:06:08 -0400

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

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:39:58 -0400

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

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:31:50 -0400

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 ...

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

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:25:42 -0400

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 reported ...

FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez Names Senior Staff

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:44:01 -0400

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

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:40:51 -0400

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

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:20:02 -0400

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

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:39:08 -0400

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 ...

Jeff Reevess Strength in Numbers Consumer spending slowdown could kill 2013 rally

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:23:06 -0400

And while May's numbers were admittedly the highest in about six years, and while there's no immediate reason to panic, investors should pay close attention to the trend going ...

First batch of MetroPCS customers migrated to T-Mobile LTE network

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:49:10 -0400

LTE phone across to the new network. Approximately 60% of MetroPCS' customers are thought to upgrade their phones every year, prompting T-Mobile to anticipate a 'rapid pace' for its migration plan; indeed, the company expects a full customer migration to be completed by the end of 2015. John Legere, president and chief executive officer of T-Mobile US, commented: 'The moment ...

Encourage use of polymer packs in consumer products

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:44:18 -0400

Many manufacturers of consumer products such as toiletries, cosmetic, syrups and medicines, etc., still use breakable glass containers and inconvenient tin-tubes for ...

Consumer staples lift Britains FTSE off 6-week lows

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:30:50 -0400

* FTSE 100 up 0.7 percent* Reckitt tops gainers after Citi upgrade* Vodafone benefits from M&A chatter in telecoms* Petrofac slides after Saipem profit warningBy Alistair SmoutLONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - Britain's top share index ...

hybris selected by ASICS for its global consumer websites

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:06:19 -0400

Hybris Japan K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of hybris, the world's fastest-growing commerce platform provider ranked "leader" by both principal analyst firms, announces today ASICS Corporation (Headquarters: Kobe, Japan; President CEO: Motoi Oyama) had selected hybris Commerce Suite for the infrastructure of the company's new global consumer websites, featuring corporate, ...

Tanzania NBC Launches Hajj Promotion for Customers

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:48:37 -0400

TWO Islamic banking customers of the National Bank of Commerce (NBC) are expected to win a full package trip to Mecca to attended annual Muslims pilgrimage event popularly known as Hajj later this year. This was revealed in Dar es Salaam on Friday during the launching ceremony of the second Hajj Promotion campaign that will last in two and a half months. Speaking during the ceremony, the NBC ...

Angry man fires shots wounds woman at Potawatomi Bingo Casino

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:02:45 -0400

Patrons at a Milwaukee bingo casino Sunday wrested a gun away from a man who fired several shots that left a woman wounded, police said. Police said the suspect, a 27-year-old Wauwatosa man, opened fire on the gaming floor of the Potawatomi Bingo Casino about 1:30 a.m., the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. A 23-year-old Milwaukee woman was shot in the leg, city police Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer ...

Women accused of stealing credit card numbers from Walmart customers www.privateofficer.com

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:22:00 -0400

Nayeliz Soto told police she knew it was wrong to use credit card numbers stolen from customers to make more than $6,000 in purchases at the Greenacres Walmart where she ...