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• 85% of Debt Settlement Companies May Be Closing Soon and Taking Your Money With Them

  
  How to Get Out of Debt - Free Help — Authority: 141
  There is no doubt that the workshops and hearings by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are going to result in changes that will significantly impact the debt settlement industry. The FTC has been carefully looking into the industry and is disgusted with the actions of many companies. These would be the companies ...
  8 hours ago

• Law to stop identity theft postponed

  
  Jan Norman on Small Business — Authority: 425
  Will the Federal Trade Commission EVER enforce the 2003 federal law requiring 11 million businesses to combat identity theft? The agency has pushed back the enforcement deadline a fourth time for what is popularly called the Red Flag rule. The new deadline is June 1, 2010. Every business is impacted if it allows ...
  10 hours ago

• Bloggers: Are You Now Legally Vulnerable?

  
  Media Relations — Authority:
  If you blog, the government has now recognized the power of blogging by issuing an 80+ page document  you need to be aware of.  On December 1, in American Fork, Utah, there will be a free seminar for local bloggers (seating limited to 25). Why attend? Newly released Federal Trade Commission guidelines may: 1) ...
  13 hours ago

• Amazon Makes It Easy For Affiliates To Tweet Offers… and Break The Law?

  
  Kikabink News - Internet Marketing News — Authority: 479
  Last week Amazon introduced a ‘no brainer’ initiative for affiliates in the Amazon Associates program – a one-click way to send a promotional offer on Twitter.As explained in the... (Click on the title for the full story...)
  1 day ago

• Will All Affiliates Be Affected by New FTC’s Rules?

  
  Affiliate Marketing Blog — Authority: 426
  An excellent question was posed by Eric Alexander earlier this morning: Does it [the passing of the new Federal Trade Commissions disclosure rules for "endorsements and testimonials" ] only affect product or service endorsements or even all affiliate links, banners, etc that a website may publish? I’ve ...
  2 days ago

• When It Rains, It Pours!

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 583
  It’s more than a slogan for a salt company. It’s an old saw that means when bad things happen, they tend to come in droves. That could be the forecast for Intel, as we have news that the Federal Trade Commission might jump on the dogpile that is forming on Intel. The suit expected to come is said to parallel the ...
  3 days ago

• New FTC Rules for affiliate marketers apply Dec1 2009

  
  Stompernet SEO Course — Authority: 163
  Important News for online affiliate marketers about FTC - Federal Trade Commission Rules apply on Dec 1 2009, attend this online free webinar by New York Times best selling Author Joel Comm to help you understand the new FTC rules
  3 days ago

• Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online

  
  Moomette's Magnificents — Authority: 128
  Kids and Family I’d like to let you know about a new resource available at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC is introducing Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online . This booklet is chock-full of practical tips to help parents help their kids navigate the online world – whether ...
  4 days ago

• Weeze(r) Is Back!

  
  FITSNews — Authority: 635
  Los Angeles-based rock band Weezer has a new album out, which the Federal Trade Commission requires us to inform you that we will be receiving a free copy of in the mail.  Perhaps even from Rivers Cuomo himself.  Or maybe Elisa Cuthbert. Because that’s just how we roll. Anyway the album, entitled Raditude , ...
  4 days ago

• Advice for Advertisers with Affiliates on Twitter

  
  Affiliate Marketing Blog — Authority: 426
  On October 27, 2009 LinkShare launched a Twitter tool for affiliates to use. Almost simultaneously with the LinkShare’s announcement, Amazitter (an iPhone app for tweeting Amazon affiliate links) came out. The wave continued, and yesterday Amazon has changed its policy from no affiliate links on Twitter to ...
  4 days ago

• Better Business Bureau takes issue with Comcasts fiber network claim

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  The ongoing war over whether cable or the telco broadband networks are better has been a phenomenon raging between the two industries for over a decade. As Verizon has expanded its Fiber to the Premises-based FiOS Internet and TV service, Comcast has continually struck back saying it too has a nationwide fiber ...
  4 days ago

• Free Credit Report Isn’t

  
  The Consumer Warning Network — Authority: 118
  THIS ONE’S FREE By: Larry Wiezycki FreeCreditReport.com is a $700 million a year business.  It has nine million subscribers who visit the website looking for their government-mandated free credit report after seeing their catchy TV ad. The ads warn that you must “Know your Score” or fall prey to identity ...
  5 days ago

• FTC’s Video Response to Questions on Endorsement Guides

  
  Affiliate Marketing Blog — Authority: 426
  I have just found out that the Federal Trade Commission has published video responses to the following 6 questions: What’s new about the Endorsement Guides? Why did the FTC update the Endorsement Guides? What do the Endorsement Guides mean for bloggers? How do bloggers follow the Endorsement Guides? Is the ...
  6 days ago

• Red Flags Rule Delayed

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 152
  The Federal Trade Commission announced a delay in the enforcement of the Red Flags Rule . The rule had been set to go live on Nov. 1. But the FTC statement indicated that enforcement of the rule will now occur in June 2010.
  6 days ago

• A Free Credit Score Followed by a Monthly Bill

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  The government is trying to counter what it says are ads that trick consumers into paying for credit monitoring services.
  1 week ago

• Humana Trolls College Campuses for Whores

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 485
  Humana is trolling college campuses looking for whores willing to accept money to be on-line promoters of an anti-reform policy that’s against the student’s own, best interests – or will be, once... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• CMP.ly Introduces a Disclosure Policy Solution

  
  Affiliate Marketing Blog — Authority: 426
  Earlier today Janet Meiners Thaeler (aka NewspaperGirl ) tweeted : CMP.ly is said to have been born “in response to a continued push for transparency and honesty in blogging and within social media and digital communications”. This solution seeks to address the problem of “no established structure or ...
  1 week ago

• FTC delays enforcement deadline for Red Flags Rule

  
  CPA Success — Authority: 420
  If you and your business are scrambling to meet the Nov. 1, 2009 deadline to comply with the Federal Trade Commissions "Red Flags Rule," relax. Youve got a little more breathing room. At the request of Congress, the FTC is delaying the enforcement deadline for the Red Flags Rule until June 1, 2010. The FTC ...
  1 week ago

• Time to regulate paid Aussie blog comment – and to penalise the offenders

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 617
  In this guest post,  Daniel Young of PR agency Burson-Marsteller Australia argues that marketers and bloggers who make undisclosed paid comments should be fined From December 1, bloggers in North America will be required to disclose ‘important connections’ with advertisers as a result of new guidelines ...
  1 week ago

• Facebook picks up $711 million; Spam King faces jail time

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 663
  Filed under: Internet , Scandals , Technology Who needs venture capital money when you have litigation? Facebook was awarded $711 million in damages Thursday in an anti-spam case against Sanford Wallace, an internet marketer. The popular social networking platform went after Wallace for tapping its users ...
  1 week ago

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