tagged w/ Class Action Lawsuit
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Obviously, this new “academy” values the welfare of the corporate interest over the interests of the individual voter and seeks limit corporate losses suffered through lawsuits and punitive damages, and it was launched by the right-wing Law and Economics Center at George Mason University, which means, as an educational institution, it maintains a special exemption from the House Ethics Rules on banning gifts to elected officials
http://veracitystew.com/2011/09/21/the-brothers-koch-educating-our-elected-leaders-video/Obviously, this new “academy” values the welfare of the corporate interest... more
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Bryan Garner answers the question - Should Class-Action Lawsuit Be Hyphenated?
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Two law firms, Beck & Lee from Miami and The Weston Firm in San Diego, have filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court alleging unfair business practices by local business review and rating website operator Yelp.
The plaintiff in the suit, a veterinary hospital in Long Beach, CA, is said to have requested that Yelp remove a negative review from the website, which was allegedly refused by the San Francisco startup, after which its sales representatives repeatedly contacted the hospital demanding payments of roughly $300 per month in exchange for hiding or deleting the review.
Sounds familiar, you say?
You may be thinking of last year, when East Bay Express ran an explosive story, basically accusing Yelp of being in the ‘Business of Extortion 2.0′, which covered similar ground. Shortly after reporter Kathleen Richards published the article, Yelp vehemently denied everything and called her piece inaccurate.
Now, the company will have to defend itself in court rather than on its company blog.
The lawsuit essentially alleges that the heavily funded startup runs an “extortion scheme” and has “unscrupulous sales practices” in place to generate revenue, in which the company’s employees call businesses demanding monthly payments in the guise of advertising contracts, in exchange for removing or modifying negative reviews.
The case, which is styled Cats and Dogs Animal Hospital Inc. v. Yelp Inc., was filed on February 23, 2010, and is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. We have an e-mail in with Yelp and are awaiting a response.
Update: a Yelp representative commented as follows:
Yelp provides a valuable service to millions of consumers and businesses based on our trusted content. The allegations are demonstrably false, since many businesses that advertise on Yelp have both negative and positive reviews. These businesses realize that both kinds of feedback provide authenticity and value. Running a good business is hard; filing a lawsuit is easy. While we haven’t seen the suit in question, we will dispute it aggressively.
The class action lawsuit comes mere weeks after Yelp took a large investment from Elevation Partners, and months after we reported the company walked away from a $550 million Google acquisition deal.Two law firms, Beck & Lee from Miami and The Weston Firm in San Diego, have filed... more
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“Fraudsters have definitely proven that strong two-factor authentication processes can be defeated,” said Avivah Litan of Gartner. “Enterprises need to protect their users and accounts using a three-prong layered fraud prevention approach that uses stronger authentication, fraud detection and out-of-band transaction verification and signing for high-risk transaction.”
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/01/03/hackers-conquer-two-factor-authentication/“Fraudsters have definitely proven that strong two-factor authentication... more
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Google was born on the Web and is increasingly giving Microsoft fits by forcing the decades-old software giant to compete on Google's terms. Like open source. Like cloud computing.
Microsoft may shore up its fortunes in the short term with a successful Windows 7 launch. But in the long term, its very success with outdated "desktop" products threaten to cede the market to Google.
We'll have all of it, please
It's not really fair to Microsoft. Microsoft is a victim of its own success, needing to cater to its existing clientele with each new release, in true "Innovator's Dilemma" fashion. Hence, Microsoft continues to make a lot of money, but its last two quarters have seen traditional strengths like Windows become a drag on earnings as enterprises spend more money with Google, Red Hat, and others...Google was born on the Web and is increasingly giving Microsoft fits by forcing the... more
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Understanding the market potential and knowing what the entrepreneur and his team may be able to bring to the table, or what they may be hiding, is important to the development of sound investing strategies. This is not to say you should assume entrepreneurs are stealthy individuals bent on tricking you into investing, but it’s essential to gather this inside knowledge as part of the process.Understanding the market potential and knowing what the entrepreneur and his team may... more
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For some reason, too many practitioners, and many/most consultants, think that if something is stated on the website, then all personnel magically, or by some type of mystical digital osmosis, know what it says and have actually read it.
That goes for the rarely-read-by-employees website privacy policy.
Most personnel don’t know what their website policy says because most get little to no awareness or training about privacy to begin with, and so most go along their merry way each day performing their job responsibilities in ways that violate that posted privacy policy!
Assuming all personnel know what the privacy policies even say = dumb dangerousnessFor some reason, too many practitioners, and many/most consultants, think that if... more
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