Energy
Gas Climbs Past $3 Per Gallon
California's gasoline prices are climbing past $3 per gallon for the second time this summer. And the reason this time is the…
Aug 7, 2009Consumer Watchdog
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Health Insurance Whistleblower Urges Obama Health Chiefs To Join Him At Free Urban Health Care ‘Expedition’ In L.A. Stadium
Truth-teller Wendell Potter Asks White House Officials To See Insurance Crisis First-Hand Santa Monica, CA -- In private and public messages to…
Aug 6, 2009
Insurance
Co-op In Spotlight For Insurance Plan
United Agricultural Benefit Trust Spotlighted As Model For Healthcare Cooperatives Private insurers can screen out people more at risk for serious illness,…
Aug 6, 2009
Insurance
Health insurance competition: One of their bigger lies
When health insurance companies or their Congressional sock puppets tell you that competition in the private market will reform health care and…
Aug 5, 2009
Insurance
Health insurers aren’t the victims, but the victimizers
The head of the health insurance lobby, Karen Ignani, is crying foul about being demonized by Democrats trying to complete health insurance…
Aug 5, 2009
Insurance
Our Opinion: Follow The Money Trail
If those congressmen who have received money from the health care industry recused themselves from the debate, you could almost hear a…
Aug 5, 2009
Privacy
L.A. Council committee meeting on Google plan postponed again
A proposal to switch Los Angeles city government's email and some other computer applications to a "...
Aug 5, 2009
Privacy
FTC to Apple, Google Boards: We’re Watching
The Federal Trade Commission says it will keep investigating the board memberships of Apple and Google despite Google CEO Eric Schmidt's withdrawal…
Aug 5, 2009
Insurance
Will the White House embrace CIGNA whistleblower to shine a light on reform? (VIDEO)
I introduced him in San Francisco at the Civil Justice Foundation last week as a man who could change the direction of…
Aug 4, 2009
Privacy
OK, You Get Custody Of Art And Al, But They Spend Alternate Weekends With Us
If Apple and Google were hoping that a Schmidt-ectomy would satisfy the FTC’s concerns over their board-level connections, they were wrong. While…
Aug 4, 2009
Privacy
Arthur Levinson To Follow Eric Schmidt’s Lead?
Calls for Genentech Inc.chairman Arthur Levinson to quit either the board of Apple Inc. or the board of Google Inc. are increasing,…
Aug 4, 2009
Privacy
Schmidt And Jobs Part Company
John Simpson at the Consumer Watchdog, a non-profit organisation, has applauded Mr. Schmidt's move but at the same time criticised the "clubby…
Aug 4, 2009
Privacy
Google And Apple Not Off The Hook
The resignation of Google's Eric Schmidt as a director of Apple's board has failed to halt a government inquiry into possible antitrust…
Aug 4, 2009
Privacy
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Resigns From Apple’s Board
Google CEO Eric Schmidt's resignation today from Apple's board underscored that it when comes to business, competition is thicker than friendship. Meanwhile,…
Aug 4, 2009
Privacy
FTC Says Google, Apple Probe Still On As Spotlight Shifts
Consumer Watchdog Wants Genentech Exec To Quit Google Or Apple Board Consumer Watchdog, formerly known as the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer…
Aug 3, 2009
Privacy
U.S. FTC To Press On With Apple-Google Board Probe
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it will continue to investigate the relationship between the boards of Apple Inc.…
Aug 3, 2009
Privacy
Genentech’s Levinson Still Straddles Apple, Google
Now that Google chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt no longer serves on the board of Apple, an industry group is calling…
Aug 3, 2009Consumer Watchdog Calls On Genetech Exec To Quit Either Google Or Apple Board
Santa Monica, CA -- Genentech Board Chairman Arthur D. Levinson should quit as a director of either Internet giant Google or Apple…
Aug 3, 2009