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Beware The CEO Panhandlers
Enjoy your weekend, and mind your pockets when you’re out and about. “I Am Going To Be Small” by Jeffrey Brown, via Neatorama
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Corporate Lawyer To Corporations: Stop Suing Websites!
A well-respected lawyer has a simple message for corporations: stop suing disgruntled customers who start websites to air their grievances. Though William Pecau of Steptoe & Johnson thinks that...
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Toyota Posts First Loss In 59 Years
Here’s a story that we missed late last week, probably because we were busy having nightmares about snake heads. Toyota lost $7.74 billion this past quarter. That’s more than GM (though less than GM...
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It’s like the dot-com boom is finally over. Time Warner is spinning AOL off into its own company once again by the end of the year. AOL will get most of the terrible customer service in the divorce....
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Want to see the top 10 biggest bankruptcies in U.S. history so far? [Fortune]
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How To Identify Astroturfers And Front Groups
Everyone likes to hate on spammers, but they’re basically the houseflies of the Internet. Far more insidious and damaging are astroturfers and front groups—those corporate-funded, agenda-pushing people...
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Dear God: Comcast To Consider Partnering With Ticketmaster
When you read about the proposed Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger, you might have thought to yourself, “Sure, this would be a merger between the world’s largest ticketing company and the largest concert...
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'I Stopped Denying People': Ex-Bank Of America CSR Tells All
Here’s a testimonial from a former Bank of America customer assistance employee. She was fired on Monday for offering repayment plans to too many customers, even those who “deserved” the 29.99% APR for...
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Prepare Your Delta Air Lines EECB For Takeoff
After reading Martin’s unaccompanied minor air travel horror story yesterday, Aaron sent us this updated list of Delta Air Lines executive contact information from Elliott.org. Remember: exhaust all...
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Group Critical Of Baby Einstein DVDs Gets Evicted, Blames Disney
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) was the group responsible for pressuring Disney into offering refunds on Baby Einstein DVDs last October. Now the CCFC says Disney threatened the...
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How Corporations Got The Same Rights As People (But Don’t Ever Go To Jail)
In every common-sense, everyday way, a corporation is not a person. Corporations don’t date, don’t have families, don’t go catch a movie on Friday night. They also don’t go to jail when they do...
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