Dangerous ad category: Credit repair
The Federal Trade Commission just busted two purveyors of the credit repair trade, an apparently non-existent service that some unscrupulous companies claim they are...
BSA looking to expand
Boy Scouts of America says it remains the largest youth organization in the nation, but still its membership is well below its 1970s high...
Quickie Chapter 11 for Chicago Cubs
Up until Monday, the Chicago Cubs had not been included in the Tribune Company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. But the baseball team filed its...
iheartradio mobile app adds video
For the first time, users of Clear Channel Radio’s iheartradio mobile app can now access on-demand video content daily. As well for the first...
Tribune launches Tribune365
In a major national marketing initiative, Tribune announced the launch of Tribune365 (www.trb365.com), its multichannel sales solutions group providing customized marketing programs to advertisers...
Bids in for Boston Globe
According to the Boston Globe, whose reporters have an intense interest in the subject, a team led by former Globe executive Stephen Taylor stepped...
Consumers, CEOs confidence grows
The chief executive community seems to be seeing signs that the economy is genuinely turning around, according to one survey; and while said to...
Republicans tighten endangered list
The Republican National Congressional Committee is holding a special fund-raiser for sitting members who are expected to face particularly tough re-election campaigns. Once planned...
Sinclair may get a Moody’s upgrade
Now that Sinclair Broadcast Group has resolved some major financial issues, Moody’s Investors Service is reversing course. Instead of having Sinclair’s credit ratings under review for a possible
Napster iPhone app coming?
ElectricPig reports a Napster iPhone app has been made and is good-to-go. That’s the word from Napster’s Thorsten Schliesche, who told them that his...
Free credit report confusion addressed
Consumers are entitled to a free credit report every year. But there are certain advertisements that have confused the issue greatly, and the FTC...
FTC clarifies endorsement rules
The possibility of getting hit with an $11K Federal Trade Commission fine for saying nice things about a product or service that doesn’t live up to expectations has many in the media wringing their hands
Sun-Times unions agree to concessions
Finally coming to grips with the reality that no second bidder was going to surface to buy the newspaper company out of bankruptcy, most...
Windows Marketplace opens to compete with iPhone
ZDNet reports Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft’s version of Apple’s iPhone App Store, opened for business officially on 10/6 with 246 applications. Yes, that...
Fisher launches 38 hyperlocal neighborhood websites
Fisher Communications launched a network of 28 hyperlocal neighborhood websites in the Portland market and 10 in the Eugene market, increasing local content offerings...