Webloyalty, Fandango named in coupon lawsuit
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Online marketing company  Webloyalty.com Inc. and online movie ticket seller Fandango  Inc. were named in a lawsuit on Monday that accuses them of  participating in a scheme where customers' credit cards are  billed monthly fees without their knowledge.
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Retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co has been hit with a lawsuit seeking class-action status that alleges a company Web site compromises customers' private information.
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Electronics retailer Best Buy is facing a lawsuit over deceiving customers into paying higher prices once in store by having two websites, one accessed by employees and another available on the Internet.
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LOS ANGELES Nov 17, 2004 - Following the lead of record companies who curtailed rampant Internet piracy by targeting even small-time file swappers, Hollywood studios have launched a first wave of lawsuits against people who allegedly downloaded recent
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The Motion Picture Association of America says it has sued a company that sells Internet downloads of current movies like &quot;I, Robot&quot; and &quot;Spider-Man 2&quot; without permission.
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A Michigan-based executive for PepsiCo Inc. of Purchase and two former executives of PepsiCo&#39;s Frito-Lay division were sued by federal regulators yesterday for allegedly helping Kmart falsify its earnings.
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LOS ANGELES  - The Motion Picture Assn.  of America has filed suit against two Web sites that it claims  are allowing Internet users to view pirated films, many of  which are still in theaters.
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The Web site has been fighting claims that its founder stole the idea. Now another man says he was the creator.
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Sears faces a class-action lawsuit after making the purchase history of its customers public on its Managemyhome.com Web site.
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A lawsuit disrupts the symbiosis of a celebrity store and a magazine that features it.
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Company sues Mac enthusiast site and others, lending credibility to hot rumors surrounding product plans.
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The founder of MySpace.com parent   Intermix Media on Thursday said he is seeking a federal   investigation of the sale of Intermix to News Corp. NWSa.N   last year, claiming the deal defrauded shareholders by   undervaluing the Internet's most popular networking site.
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SEATTLE A central Pennsylvania company is named in a lawsuit filed by Microsoft on claims of counterfeit and illicit certificates of authenticity.
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(InfoWorld) - A U.S. district court has ordered a halt to an operation that allegedly added unauthorized charges to the phone bills of small businesses and nonprofit groups for Web sites services that, in many cases, they didn't know they had and didn't request, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said. Judge Kenneth Hoyt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas has approved a temporary restraining order halting the activity and freezing the assets of a group of businesses and individuals, the FTC announced Thursday. The FTC's complaint named defendants WebSource Media, BizSitePro, Eversites, Telsource Solutions, Telsource International, Marc R. Smith, Kathleen A. Smalley, Keith Hendrick, Steven Kennedy, John O. Ring, and James E. McCubbin, Jr. The defendants illegally billed thousands of customers, according to the FTC. The operation was a maze of interrelated companies directed by the people named as defendants, the FTC said. The operation used telemarketers to make cold calls to small businesses and nonprofits, and offered a âfreeâ 15-day trial of a Web site design. The customers were told there was no charge or obligation and that the Web site would be cancelled automatically if it was not approved by them. Whether the customers agreed or not to be billed after the trial, their phone bills were often charged. When consumers called to dispute the charges, the operators told them they had âverification recordingsâ of an employee authorizing the charges. The FTC said the operation is typical of fraudulent Web cramming operations -- by using sales pitches to employees who frequently lack authority to make commitments for their employers and failing to effectively notify consumers that a Web site has been set up. The operators repeatedly changed the names of their companies to avoid detection by telephone companies they rely on to bill consumers and to evade scrutiny from law enforcers, the FTC said.
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A set of plaintiffs in a class-action suit argued Monday that Google has not exercised reasonable care to prevent "click fraud" and has misrepresented efforts to stop swindlers from repeatedly clicking Web site links to drive up advertising costs.
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Customers of several popular online retailers, including Fandango.com, Priceline.com , and Staples.com, were victims of an alleged Internet scheme in which their credit cards were charged a monthly fee for a ``discount club" membership they had never requested, according to a class action lawsuit filed yesterday in US District Court in Massachusetts.
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Amazon and Microsoft have filed lawsuits against companies that used their names to commit fraud on the Internet. One suit accuses Gold Disk Canada of &quot;spoofing,&quot; or sending e-mails that appear