Former Wipro salesman sues for Â£1m in commission
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Says it didn't shell out for outsourcing deal A salesman who helped Wipro, India's largest outsourcing firm, win the "mother of all outsourcing deals" to supply IT services to Shell is suing the firm for unpaid commission on the deal.â¦
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Direct Revenue LLC will pay $1.5 million to settle adware-related charges filed by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Insurer fined Â£1.26m after failing to take reasonable care of policyholders' details
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Microsoft gas been ordered by a jury to pay $1.5 billion in damages to Lucent-Alcatel for patent infringement.
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In a $1 million settlement, Verizon is reimbursing customers who had their broadband service disconnected.
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Litigation is draining the cash of this longtime Unux vendor.
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A former Xerox customer service agent is charged with stealing and reselling stolen cartridges.
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One of the witnesses against Sharman Networks had at one time offered to be an expert witness for the company in the civil trial now taking place in Australia, according to Sharman&#39;s attorney.
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Secure Computer agrees to pay $1 million to settle charges that it violated Washington state's spyware law.
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A Florida businessman has sued former New  York Stock Exchange director Kenneth Langone for $1.8 billion,  claiming he made false statements about data management company  Seisint in hopes that ChoicePoint Inc. could buy it for a low  price.
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The Tories are in the firing line over a 'secret' Â£1m call centre amid fresh claims about their property dealings.
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(InfoWorld) - The operator of two computer privacy services has agreed to pay up to $1 million in refunds to customers to settle charges of using deceptive marketing techniques and selling the customer's personal information. Consumer Digital Services, which sold the Privasafe and SurfSafe software and services, has agreed to pay $300,000 in fines and legal fees and offer refunds to Washington state consumers who were billed for their products, according to Katherine Tassi, assistant attorney general for Washington. Terms of the settlement were outlined in a consent decree filed Thursday in King County Superior Court in Seattle. Consumer Digital Services is controlled by Gary Salmirs, of Fort Lee, New Jersey, who is also named in the settlement. The state alleges that the company violated state consumer protection laws, but neither Salmirs nor the company admit to any wrongdoing in the settlement, Tassi said. According to her, the company lured customers with offers of free gift cards, flat-screen monitors, andÂ software, promoted through pop-up ads and e-mail. Customers handed over personal informationÂ such asÂ addresses, telephone numbers, and dates of birth, thinking that they were getting a free product. "What they actually were doing was signing up for a paid service," Tassi said. Thousands of consumers received unexpected $14.95-per-month charges for the company's software and services, and almost nobody got a free gift card or flat-screen monitor. "Our investigation showed that only one of the over 13,000 Washington consumers ever actually got this free item," Tassi said. Consumers didn't have to hand over credit card information in order to be billed because the charges were tacked on to regular monthly telephone bills, she added. Last year, the Florida attorney general investigated a company called Email Discount Network for engaging in similar billing practices, Tassi said. Consumer Digital Services took its Web sites offline sometime during the past month, Tassi said. But according to cached copies of these sites, the company said that its products would remove spyware, protect consumers against "unscrupulous marketers," make Internet surfers anonymous, and even boost connection speeds. In fact, the "exact opposite" occurred, Tassi said. "They actually were compiling a huge database of consumer information that could be used for marketing purposes," she said. This data was eventually sold to marketing companies, she added. Washington state residents who were billed for Privasafe or SurfSafe products since Jan. 1, 2004, can get their money refunded and will be contacted by Consumer Digital Services. The company could not be reached immediately for comment.
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Bernie Ebbers' closest associate claims the former WorldCom boss was directly implicated in a $11bn fraud at the company.
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HFC bank is fined Â£1m for failings over payment protection insurance, the City regulator says.
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Claims 'deceit, negligent misrepresentation' over CRM deal
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Verizon Wireless has agreed to settle a probe into the marketing of its Internet usage plans and reimburse $1 million to customers for wrongful account termination, the New York attorney general said on Tuesday.
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Company wins $84,177 over term violation; U.K. individuals, though, are virtually helpless against spammers, lawyer says.