Posted April 23, 2010 by cgseo under under
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Pay-Per-Click A California man has been indicted for cyber extortion after demanding New York Life Insurance pay him $200,000 if they didn’t refund his insurance premiums. According to the Department of Justice , Anthony Digati, 52, allegedly threatened in emails and on a website he created to make false public statements and send millions of spam emails in an effort to damage the reputation of New York Life and cost the company millions of dollars. In January, Digati sought the return of his insurance premiums from New York Life after he purchased variable life insurance and became dissatisfied with the performance of the insurance. New York Life told Digati that those premiums would not be returned. In response, Digati sent an email to more than a dozen employees, executives, and one board member of New York Life directing them to visit the website he created. On the website Digati wrote,” My demand is now for $198,303.88. This amount is NOT negotiable.” “I am going to drag your company name and reputation, through the muddiest waters imaginable. This will cost you millions in lost revenues, trust and credibility. The process is in motion and will be released on March 8th, 2010. If you delay and the site goes live, The price will then be $3,000,000.00.” He added, “By the way: Yes, I am crazy. Yes, I am vindictive. Yes, I am extremely upset. Yes, I will do everything that I said. I have absolutely nothing to lose or any fear of retaliation, no judge in the world is going to rule for a 200 billion dollar company when there is a lonely customer that you stole from!” Digati is charged with one count of extortion through interstate communications. If convicted he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison and maximum fine of $250,000.
Tags: California, cyber extortion, dozen-employees, fear, lonely-customer, new york life, performance, reputation, Review and Story
Posted April 20, 2010 by cgseo under under
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Pay-Per-Click The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative told WebProNews today it applauds a new study that projects regulating all forms of Internet gambling in the United States would create up to 32,000 jobs over five years. The study, by market intelligence firm H2 , found regulating all forms of online gambling would generate up to a total gross expenditure of $94 billion over five years and $57.5 billion in tax revenue from projected wagering, related job creation and growth of supporting business over the same period. Previously, it was forecast that $72 billion over ten years would be collected from license fees and other federal and state taxes in a regulated environment without sports betting. “This analysis further reinforces the fact that a regulated environment will pay dividends throughout the economy,” said Michael Waxman , spokesperson for the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative.
Tags: analysis, chairman-barney, common sense, country, dividends, Gambling, government, government revenues, job creation, market intelligence firm, obama, secure-internet, spokesperson, study
Posted April 20, 2010 by cgseo under under
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Pay-Per-Click Amazon.com has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the North Carolina Department of Revenue, seeking to block the state’s demand for the “name and address of virtually every North Carolina resident who has purchased anything from Amazon since 2003, along with records of what each customer purchased and how much they paid.” Amazon says in its complaint, that in December North Carolina requested information on sales to customers in the state between August 1, 2003, and February 28,2010, as part of its audit. The company said it turned over information to the sate to meet the request, including product codes for every item purchased. Amazon said it did not provide the “name, address, phone number, email address or other personally identifiable information of any customer.” Amazon said it has “fully cooperated” with North Carolina, but it objects to turning over its customer’s personal information. In the filing Amazon added, “the DOR has no business seeking to uncover the identity of Amazon’s customers who purchased expressive content, which makes up the majority of the nearly 50 million products sold to North Carolina residents during the audit period, let alone associating customers’ names and addresses with the specific books, music, and video content that they have purchased during the past seven years.” Last year, North Carolina passed a law that required out-of-sate retailers to collect sales tax in the state if they have marketing affiliates. Amazon responded by ending its affiliate program in North Carolina and currently does not collect sales tax in the state.
Tags: 50 million, Amazon, carolina, collect-sales, december-north, expressive content, Legal, name and address, names and addresses, north carolina, said-it-turned, sales tax, seven years, specific, virtually-every
Posted April 16, 2010 by cgseo under under
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Pay-Per-Click With all of the struggles and controversies surrounding the news industry these days, there is a lot of confusion out there about what falls under fair use and what doesn’t. The more savvy bloggers who have been in the game for a while usually have a better grasp on the concept, but there are still plenty of others who aren’t so well versed. After all, anyone can start a blog, and not everyone comes from a news or legal background. Do you every worry about quoting major media sources?
Tags: best practices, fair, fair use, first-amendment, law school, Legal, little pieces, michael donaldson, origins, pat aufderheide, People, Social, webpronews videos
Posted April 16, 2010 by cgseo under under
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Pay-Per-Click Two months ago, Xerox sued Google and Yahoo for patent infringement, and the two defendants haven’t responded by pulling out their checkbooks.
Tags: all possibilities, Google Maps, google yahoo, loopholes, network marketing, patents, Review and Story, Xerox, yahoo, yahoo search, yahoo-publisher