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Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For

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“Fat paychecks, sweet perks, fun colleagues, and over 70,000 jobs ready to be filled — these employers offer dream workplaces. Like Google, which reclaims the top spot this year to become a three-time champion. Meet this year’s top 100.” Related – “YouTube (owned by Google) Traffic Statistics 48 hours of video are uploaded every minute,… Continue Reading

Tablet and E-Book Reader Ownership Nearly Double Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period

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Tablet and E-book reader Ownership Nearly Double Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period, Lee Rainie Director, Pew Internet Project “The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers, which also jumped… Continue Reading

EPIC: FTC Adds Google+ to Antitrust Investigation

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EPIC: “Bloomberg News has reported that the Federal Trade Commission has expanded its antitrust investigation of Google to include Google’s social networking service, Google+. The report comes after Google announced that it would include personal data gathered from Google+ in the results of users’ searches, a move that led EPIC to urge the FTC to… Continue Reading

EU Sweeps Check on Violations of Consumer Rights

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“An “EU sweep” is an action co-ordinated by the European Commission, and carried out simultaneously by the national consumer enforcement authorities in the Member States, Norway and Iceland. In a given week each year, consumer authorities check hundreds of sites in a particular sector in order to see where consumer rights are being compromised or… Continue Reading

EU investigates consumer credit websites – a market underperforming for consumers

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News release: “Were you ever about to sign a contract for a personal loan, credit card, or other consumer credit and discovered that it was all working out more expensive than you had first expected? An EU-wide investigation of websites offering consumer credit took place to check whether consumers are receiving the information to which… Continue Reading

FTC Action Bans Payment Processor from Using a Novel Payment Method to Debit Accounts

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News release: “A payment processor and two of its principals are now banned from using a new payment method to process electronic payments under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which resolves charges that they debited consumers’ bank accounts without their consent. The settlement furthers the FTC’s ongoing efforts to protect financially-strapped consumers during… Continue Reading

Commentary – Online Archives Disappear Along With Unique Collections

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Print libraries, book collections, book shops – targets of fiscal austerity, the growing impact and power of e-books, social media, pay walls, e-commerce structures, and changing values about print media itself – are increasing disappearing. Regardless of the application of specific determining factors, the results are increased thresholds to open access to “knowledge.” There is… Continue Reading

Report of Data Protection Audit of Facebook Ireland Published

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News release: “The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, Ireland 21 December 2011 published the outcome of its audit of Facebook Ireland(FB-I) which was conducted over the last three months including on-site in Facebook Ireland’s Headquarters in Dublin. The report is available in 2 parts: Report of the Audit, including recommendations and the Facebook Technical… Continue Reading