FTC Postpones Enforcing Call Abandonment Provisions of TSR
The Federal Trade Commission will not begin taking action against telemarketers running afoul of call abandonment provisions in the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) starting Jan. 2.
The Federal Trade Commission will not begin taking action against telemarketers running afoul of call abandonment provisions in the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) starting Jan. 2.
Valassis Communications Inc. will acquire Advo Inc. for $33 per share, or roughly $1.2 billion in cash. As part of the purchase agreement, both companies have agreed to dismiss all pending litigation.
InfoUSA, which acquired Opinion Research Corp. for $134.3 million in August, will reorganized the company's operations into two groups.
SonoSite, Inc., a distributor of hand-carried ultrasound technology based in Seattle, has retained MarketBridge, to bolster SonoSite's physician office channel sales.
Microsoft has stopped a British man from selling lists of e-mail addresses, which it alleges were used for spamming, according to reports.
Sharper Image Corp. has requested an extension until March 1 to come into compliance with listing requirements for the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
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Yellow Pages Web site YP.com will pay more than $2 million in restitution to 33 states to settle charges that it deceptively marketed online advertising packages, California attorney general Bill Lockyer announced last week.
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The Federal Trade Commission has settled with the final defendants in its do-not-call case against satellite television provider DirecTV.