Posts Tagged ‘Federal Trade Commission’

New Law Demands Bloggers To Declare Free Products Received From Companies

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 19:31 By Rajeev Saxena

The U.S Federal Trade Commission has passed a new law, under which any an all bloggers, media outlets, Twitterers etc. will have to declare and add a footnote at the end of the article, providing the information on the product and the company that gave them the freebie. The FTC hopes to broaden the horizon [...]

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Good ridance Arthur Levinson

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:40 By NARUTO

Google’s big boss spoke good about Arthur Levinson and about Apple recently, but there wasn’t another way: the CEO of Genentech, that worked until last week in the managements of two of the largest companies of the valley of the Silicon, had to leave giant of searches, something that was made official today by an [...]

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Federal Trade Commission Spies on Bloggers

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 0:18 By Jaiyant Cavale

If you are a blogger and you were happy to write about just about anything, think again. You may come under the scrutiny of Federal Trade Commission and if they find out that had been writing nice things about a certain laptop because you were given that laptop by the manufacturer, you may be fined [...]

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Gifts for Bloggers? Beware!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 0:07 By Jaiyant Cavale

If you are a blogger and you were happy to write about just about anything, think again. You may come under the scrutiny of Federal Trade Commission and if they find out that had been writing nice things about a certain laptop because you were given that laptop by the manufacturer, you may be fined [...]

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Are Online Advertisements on the Verge of Downfall?

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 23:08 By Jaiyant Cavale

Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission has been worried about the privacy issues that affect the consumers today, when the browse Internet. Its head David C. Vladeck has now sought to change the way online ads and online marketing takes place, and he claims it is in the best interest of the [...]

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