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The controversy begins when you begin typing in the Chrome browser and suggestions are made. Those suggestions are coming from Google, so…
Oct 31, 2008The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google and Yahoo are closing to walking away from their proposed advertising alliance after the…
Oct 31, 2008Consumer Watchdog on Thursday named Exxon in its campaign for more regulation of energy trading markets. The group has said congressional moves…
Oct 31, 2008'Consumers Now Know Where Their Money Went'; Congress, White House Must Prevent a Repeat of Costly Energy Bubble Santa Monica, CA --…
Oct 30, 2008Momentum Could Fade in the Wake of Crude's Steep Price Decline Speaking specifically about BP, Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog said the British…
Oct 29, 2008Financial companies may be scrambling for cash but being low on funds hasn’t stopped their political spending according to a report in…
Oct 28, 2008BP Profit, Including Inventory, More Than Doubles from Year Ago to Over $10 Billion on Spiking Oil Prices Santa Monica, CA --…
Oct 28, 2008Today's report in the Wall Street Journal that the Treasury Department may let insurance companies tap into the $700 billion bailout fund…
Oct 24, 2008Here's another interesting piece of information about the health insurance mandate out of Massachusetts. New enrollment numbers for the state-subsidized Commenwealth Care…
Oct 24, 2008A new survey out of Massachusetts questions whether the newly insured under that state’s mandatory health insurance law are really protected. According…
Oct 23, 2008$14 billion profit for the first three quarters is more than $7 billion above 2007, money that “went straight onto consumers’ crushing…
Oct 22, 2008More lawsuits over broadband early termination fees could loom, lawyers and consumer groups said in comments on a recent suit against Qwest…
Oct 21, 2008Gasoline prices also may get an artificial boost from oil companies cutting their output, said Judy Dugan, research director for Consumer Watchdog,…
Oct 16, 2008However, the competition smells like a public-relations move to Jerry Flanagan, health care policy director for California-based Consumer Watchdog. "What the insurance…
Oct 15, 2008A new LA Times/Bloomberg poll says Americans believe that we need more regulation of industry in order to protect against the type…
Oct 15, 2008In its fight to muster a quorum for regular stem cell board meetings, a board subcommittee has signed off on ...
Oct 14, 2008OLDWICK, N.J. -- Any major overhaul of the U.S. health system next year are shaky given the $700 billion federal rescue of…
Oct 13, 2008A blog at the LA Times today - Schwarzenegger's pale green report card - highlights the weak ratings on environmental scorecards given…
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