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With Google adding a browser to its search engine, cloud applications, ad tracking and toolbar, it already knows more about you than…
Nov 5, 2008The nonprofit Consumer Watchdog has called on Google to amend several features in its new browser that, they claim, seriously compromise your…
Nov 5, 2008Chief among the group's complaints is Google Suggest, a feature found in Chrome and other Google applications like Google Toolbar. In an…
Nov 4, 2008Online Video Targets Google’s New “Chrome” Browser, Websites And Software Revealed SANTA MONICA, CA -- Consumer Watchdog has created a You Tube…
Nov 3, 2008The energy giant nets $7.9 billion in the third quarter, the latest in the industry to post eye-popping earnings. "These profits show…
Nov 1, 2008Perhaps the biggest threat to Google Inc.'s increasing dominance of Internet search and advertising is the rising fear, justified or not, that…
Nov 1, 2008It posts net income of $14.83 billion, the biggest profit ever for a U.S. company, amid sky-high oil prices. Judy Dugan, research…
Oct 31, 2008Current Oil Price Breather Is Right Time for Action to Prevent Next Speculative Bubble, Says Group Santa Monica, CA -- The…
Oct 31, 2008Internal FDA documents revealed by Congressman Henry Waxman show that "key FDA career officials strongly objected to Bush Administration drug labeling regulations…
Oct 31, 2008The 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…
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