Bad Business

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• UK Police Shut Down 1,200+ Websites Selling Cheap Designer Goods

  
  Business Pundit — Authority: 650
  Image: Uggaustralia The BBC reports on a massive Scotland Yard operation that shut down 1,219 sites that advertise designer brands like Tiffany and Ugg boots: Customers who buy from the sites either receive nothing, counterfeit goods, or have their credit card details stolen. Criminal gangs in Asia are ...
  19 hours ago

• Great: Now I Might Have To Abandon Amazon

  
  SCHWAPP!!! — Authority: 108
  Amazon is being sued over labor practices . Thing is: this is something basically every company Ive ever worked for has done/gotten away with. Well, at least every non-union job Ive had (which is all but one). So many employers more or less require you to be in before your shift starts. If you clock in right on time, ...
  1 day ago

• How to Lose a Hundred Million Dollars… Like Lenovo

  
  Technology Info — Authority: 456
  Lenovo might make some pretty good PCs, but they’re not that good when it comes to business. As you might already know, they recently bought back their mobile phone making unit for twice the price they sold it for in 2008. The lucky folks getting the cash are the Hony Group, making a million dollars [...]Related ...
  1 day ago

• Cable networks suck

  
  DelusionalRants — Authority: 130
  So Im sure we all remember the whole drama of earlier this year or last year where I was about to lose stuff like Comedy Central because Time Warner and the networks were in a battle.   The networks were even like fine well block your customers from accessing our websites since they get net through you too.  Since ...
  2 days ago

• Advice re Japan Law Society, Tokyo/Osaka association of NJ lawyers: they really won’t pay you if they invite you to speak

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  I gave a seminar for the Japan Law Society in Osaka a year ago, something that was even applied for legal profession education credit overseas. Checking my records recently I realized I never got paid anything for it. Contacted, they replied that they never were going to pay me anyway (not even the general minimum ...
  5 days ago

• Toyota to Repair Gas Pedals, Brake Systems After Recall

  
  Business Pundit — Authority: 650
  After a major recall in September, Toyota is installing new brake systems and shorter gas pedals on about 3.8 million cars. After those modifications, the cars will no longer be in danger of accelerating unintentionally. The Detroit Free Press reports: For 2005 through 2010 model year Toyota Avalons, 2007 ...
  1 week ago

• 2.1 Million Stork Craft Drop-Side Cribs Recalled

  
  Business Pundit — Authority: 650
  Image: CPSC The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) today announced a recall of Stork Craft drop-side cribs. More than 2.1 million cribs are being recalled. Infants can become entrapped and suffocate when the drop-side drops one or more corners. The CPSC has more : Stop Using Your Stork Craft Crib. Order ...
  1 week ago

• Things I Hate: Chevy Traverse Commercial with Howie Long

  
  Teeny Manolo — Authority: 129
  You know, normally I am the very last person to dislike a child. But for some reason, I dislike the character this child plays in this commercial. I’m very tired of the “precocious redhead” type, thank you very much. Even Welch’s Grape Juice got the picture after a while. Have you seen an ad of theirs ...
  1 week ago

• OnStar

  
  MoneyXperiment.com — Authority: 108
  General Motors is really making me start to regret ever signing up for their OnStar service last year when I bought a new truck.  The truck itself is awesome and the capabilities of the OnStar system are impressive.  What’s not impressive is being called repeatedly by OnStar customer service when you choose to ...
  1 week ago

• Consumer Product Safety Commission to Announce New Crib Recall

  
  Business Pundit — Authority: 650
  Image: CPSC The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) will announce one of the biggest crib recalls in US history tomorrow , according to CBS sources. The cribs in question have dropdown sides, which can injure babies. The CBS Early Show reports: The CPSC says it has no doubt that dangerous and recalled ...
  1 week ago

• Response To LA Times Story Underscores the JG Wentworth Reputation

  
  Structured Settlements 4Real: What's Real in the Structured Settlements, Settlement Planning, Settlement Consulting and Litigation Recovery Management Space? — Authority: 430
  Todays LA Times carries the story of a rally protest rally against the University of California regents prepared to approve a 32% increase in student fees.  One readers comments demonstrate the "special" place in history cemented by the obnoxious J.G. Wentworth PR machine. "Theresone simple answer for ...
  1 week ago

• Fortune 100 Companies Don’t Use Twitter Effectively (Study)

  
  Business Pundit — Authority: 650
  Image: Blogtepreneur Most Fortune 100 companies don’t use Twitter effectively , according to a Weber Shandwick study released today. Mashable has more : Out of the 540 total Twitter (Twitter) accounts registered by Fortune 100 companies, 50 percent of the accounts had fewer than 500 followers and another ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scary, and Not in a “Good” Way

  
  Teeny Manolo — Authority: 129
  This is Mattel’s immortalization of  Twilight’s Jacob Black.  You know, Werewolf Barbie. It makes me uncomfortable in ways I have difficulty expressing. Is it the fact that this is supposed to be targeted to tweens? Is it the fact that the actor who plays Jacob Black is still a minor, yet is obviously ...
  2 weeks ago

• I Have Seen Hell. It is a Cube.

  
  Cause For Concern — Authority: 124
  As many of you know, in the real world I am a web designer/expert running my own business. And since business is not exactly eating up my time and aiding in the paying of the bills, I spent today interviewing for what looks to be a "real" job. I havent worked in an office proper for about 2 1/2 years. The interview ...
  2 weeks ago

• NPR interview with Jake Adelstein, author “Tokyo Vice”, on how police and laws do not stop NJ human trafficking in Japan

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  Jake Adelstein, whose new book TOKYO VICE just came out, was interviewed on Americas National Public Radio program "FRESH AIR" on November 10, 2009. What follows is an excerpt from their podcast, minute 23:45 onwards, which talks about how domestic laws hamstring the NPA from actually cracking down on human ...
  2 weeks ago

• Whatever happened to ethics?

  
  Virtual Assistant - THE Blog About Our Industry — Authority: 112
  On some of the business forums I belong to (not just VA forums) I see discussions amongst members who sub-contract work out to other service providers.  One of the big turn-offs for some in using a sub-contractor is that some of the sub-contractors overstep their boundary and show no respect for the original ...
  2 weeks ago

• Making Jeter wait a bad move for Yankees

  
  Sports & recreation - sports-rec.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  The Yankees policy is no early extensions — ever. Thats bad business when it comes to their most iconic player, Bob Klapisch says.
  2 weeks ago

• UPDATE: Kyoto Tourist Association replies, tells Kyoto hotel “Kyou no Yado” to stop “Japanese speakers only” rules

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  Regarding an issue I blogged here about earlier this week, about a hotel named "Kyou no Yado" that advertised on its Rakuten Travel listing that it would refuse any customer who did not speak Japanese, an update:I contacted the Kyoto Tourist Association, the Kyoto City Tourism Board, and the National Tourism Agency in ...
  2 weeks ago

• There’s Something Very Wrong Here

  
  Teeny Manolo — Authority: 129
  It seems I’m all about the studies lately, and I’ve got a fairly disturbing one that inspired this post.  According to Girlguiding UK: Girls as young as seven would like to change something about their appearance and half of 16 to 21-year-olds would consider surgery to achieve their perfect body, a study has ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pfizer’s Phinal Phlip-Off

  
  Quick Hitts — Authority: 108
  Pfizer is abandoning the New London, CT site where their greed led to abolishing property rights for every single American.The city of New London sold 24 acres of land to Pfizer for ten bucks, but Pfizer didn’t want to have to look at the older houses that dotted the waterfront.  They claimed they wanted the [...]
  3 weeks ago

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