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Consumer question: When is 'green' logging really green?
SEATTLE — The seal looked appealing, a daisy on a field of green, with the words “Tested Green.” It was issued to more than 120 products as a guarantee of environmental responsibility. The problem, federal trade regulators announced in...Tags: Career and Workplace, Accounting and Auditing, Forests, Advanced Training, Science and Technology
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Chicago-area conspiracy theorist targets Sandy Hook family
Jillian Soto remembers the day she stumbled across a website that showed photos of her at her sister's funeral — and was horrified to read accusations that she had faked grief as part of an elaborate government hoax. Only a month earlier, Victoria...
Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Justice System, Dietary Supplements, Flu, Social Media
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Bayer says receives FTC nod for Conceptus buy
ReutersFRANKFURT, May 29 (Reuters) - Germany's Bayer said on Wednesday it had obtained antitrust clearance from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for its planned $1.1 billion acquisition of U.S. contraceptive devices maker Conceptus . Bayer said the...Tags: Germany
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Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
Reuters(Adds ENRC) May 29 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Wednesday: ** Sprint Nextel Corp and Japan's SoftBank Corp said on Wednesday they had entered a national security agreement with U.S....Tags: Germany, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Japan, Science and Technology
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Google faces new federal antitrust probe - source
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc , which dominates web display advertising, has broken antitrust law in how it handles some ad sales, a source told Reuters on Thursday....Tags: Corporate Crime, Antitrust Issues, Google Inc., Anti Trust Crime
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ITC: Microsoft Xbox doesn't violate Motorola Mobility patent
Microsoft Corp. did not violate a Motorola Mobility patent when it made its Xbox gaming console, the International Trade Commission ruled Thursday. If the ITC had found that Microsoft infringed, it could have barred the Xbox from being imported into...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Entertainment, Judges, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Motorola Mobility, Inc.
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Watch out for unauthorized charges on cellphone bills
Take a line-by-line look at your cellphone bill — all dozen or so pages. See a $9.99 charge for horoscopes, flirting tips or some such thing that you didn't request? If so, you've been crammed. Once only a big problem with landline telephones,...
Tags: Horoscopes, Justice System, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Telecommunication Service
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McManus: Obama's war on red tape
Here are three things the Obama administration has done that you probably didn't know about: Ever struggle with those accordion-style rubber sleeves on nozzles at the gas station? The sleeve — technically a "vapor recovery nozzle" — was...
Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Elections, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Litigation and Regulation, George W. Bush
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Tribes' payday loans under scrutiny
A growing number of Indian tribes are getting into the payday loan business, saying they just want to raise revenue for their reservations while helping cash-strapped consumers nationwide. But federal officials suspect that, at least in some cases,...
Tags: Local Government, Laws, Trials, Justice System, Litigation and Regulation
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FTC calls on online ad industry to agree on do-not-track standard
SAN FRANCISCO -- New Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez had some tough words on "do not track" in her first speech to the advertising industry. Ramirez on Wednesday urged the industry to give consumers "effective and meaningful privacy...Tags: Lobbying, Advertising, World Wide Web Consortium, Online Advertising, Human Interest
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