Shady Deal Corp.

FTC settlement jolts collection of customer data: Sears, K-Mart rapped over shady online data collection; a warning to other companies to state intentions clearly.(Enforcement & Litigation)
Compliance Week; 9/1/2009; 2156 words; ...settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and Sears Holdings Corp. could portend a new wave of enforcement actions against companies...was announced June 6; the FTC accepted public comment on the deal until early July and will make a final decision on any other...

This kitchen's cooking again; The more things change the more they stay the same. The Normandy Kitchen is back at downtown's Best Western Normandy Inn.(BUSINESS INSIDER)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 8/3/2009; 954 words; ...90 percent. Two of the lease deals are in its flagship office building...square feet of flex space at Shady Oak Business Center at 10333...sale Financially troubled Opus Corp. is looking to sell its property...construction. The statement said Opus Corp. has preselected eight commercial...

DiMasi case rocked accounting firm, IBM division.(Business)
The Boston Herald; 6/3/2009; 806 words; ...who was indicted yesterday with three others tied to a shady software deal - centers around Cognos ULC, a Canadian company with...charged yesterday. Cognos is now a subsidiary of IBM Corp., which purchased Cognos after the multimillion...

'CSI' writer sued by couple over show's characters
AP Worldstream; 5/23/2009; 572 words; ...sued a writer for the CBS show CSI, claiming two shady characters on the show were named after them in revenge for a real estate deal gone bad. Real estate agents Melinda and Scott...program aired. ___ CBS is a division of CBS Corp.

Who Owns Your Social Network?
The Washington Post; 3/15/2009; 1061 words; ...the Web's biggest deal ever, one that promised...a Web company's hot deal. Julia Angwin's "Stealing...have blown up Murdoch's deal. To block him, all that...s roots in the Web's shadier precincts. The site...their MySpace pages, News Corp. was not going to have...