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Directors warned about greenwash
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
...ral and environmentally friendly products on US supermarket shelves are making potentially false or misleading claims. Once more, it's something that has potentially enormous implications for com...
Could Childhod Obesity Be Declining?
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 16, 2009
... childhood obesity may be declining for the first time in 20+ years. However, could the numbers be misleading?
Research shows consumption of high fat foods is declining and soup, yogurt and fruit ar...
FIA 公布 2010 年 F1 参赛名单
in Wangtam, on June 14, 2009
...intage Signs
• AT&T already sold out of launch day iPhone 3G S pre-orders
• Facebook URL Madness: I Got Mine, But So Did Haywood Jablome
• Facebook Members Register Personalized User Names a...
Cardboard coffins and green funerals
in Sox First, on April 22, 2009
...e as the newspaper and music industries. But then, as John Maynard Keynes said, the long run can be misleading because in the long run, we're all dead....
Millionaires and fake prosperity
in Sox First, on March 12, 2009
... America is now the world's biggest debtor nation. So all this talk about fewer rich people is misleading. The so-called prosperity was just an illusion created by the financial bubble. This is a...
Credit Card Company Tricks to Avoid
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on February 5, 2009
...as "promises," according to McHenry. You believe the promises, but they are usually a.) misleading and b.) repealed in some way in the card agreement's fine print.
An example: Promis...
Geithner on Currency Manipulation, and China's Reaction...
in China Venture News, on January 26, 2009
...ngton Post Su Ning, vice governor of the People's Bank of China, called Geithner's remarks misleading and "out of keeping with the facts," and said they could sidetrack efforts to m...
Some considerations for spend analysis initiatives
in Supplychainer, on December 15, 2008
...#39;t reflect the reality; analysis of procurement data or suppliers if based on such data could be misleading.
Therefore, in parallel with spend analysis efforts, usually there should be a data qua...
Kevin Trudeau's Secret "They" (Actually "He") Don't Want You to Know
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 8, 2008
...pears:
The FTC filed its first lawsuit against Trudeau in 1998, charging him with making false and misleading claims in infomercials for products he claimed could cause significant weight loss and cu...
Apple iPhone misleading commercial faces the axe
in Java Entrepreneur, on August 27, 2008
...rt Apple as an Apple iPhone television commercial received a halting order after it was found to be misleading customers.
In the TV commercial the iPhone can be seen in the hand of a person with fin...
Merrill Lynch's money mismatch
in Sox First, on August 22, 2008
...rill Lynch with New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo moving to sue the firm for allegedly misleading investors over auction rate securities. Things are so desperate that Merrill Lynch is now...
The iPhone 3G Class Action Lawsuit
in The Wireless Weblog, on August 21, 2008
...es could potentially affect thousands of consumers."
"Apple's advertising blitz was misleading, the lawsuit claims," writes Computerworld's Gregg Keizer . "'Defendan...
Bodog Says Payments Are A-OK
in Internet Poker, on August 4, 2008
...ly, the article does not make a clear distinction between these cases, which, as a result, paints a misleading picture.
The facts are these: the first of these cases - relating to a seizure of funds...
Update On U.S.A. Friendly Internet Casinos
in The Gambling Weblog, on August 1, 2008
...ing accounts by U.S. financial institutions. Of course the Federal Government is quite content with misleading information that causes U.S. citizens to think it is illegal to gamble online.
Here'...
UBS in the gun
in Sox First, on July 28, 2008
...General Andrew Cuomo Thursday has brought a multi-billion dollar civil lawsuit against the bank for misleading investors by getting them to buy junk of auction-rate securities. Meanwhile, UBS has gon...
Free Enterprise Fund and climate change
in Sox First, on July 25, 2008
...d the Securities and Exchange Commission to crack down on "companies against making false and misleading statements concerning global warming." Apparently companies that are taking a stand ...
Ten Things Worth Knowing about the Chinese Internet
in China Venture News, on July 8, 2008
...d the complex nature of censorship in China.
My favorite of the "Ten Things," It's misleading to imagine that the only Chinese Internet activity that matters politically involves &quo...
Arrests everywhere
in Sox First, on June 20, 2008
... of conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud as part of the arrangements that had them allegedly misleading investors. Apparently, the tell-tale evidence is in some emails. These included some cor...
Yahoo Sues Lottery Spammers
in I got Spam?!, on May 29, 2008
...of dollars in "processing fees".
"The unauthorized use of Yahoo's trademarks is misleading, fraudulent, and has actually confused, misled, and deceived the public," said Joe S...
Is a Bachelor's Degree Worth the Cost?
in The Online Universities Weblog, on April 30, 2008
...that, over their lifetimes, college graduates earn more than nongraduates, but that's terribly misleading. You could lock the collegebound in a closet for four years, and they'd still go on to...
Black and Decker Pocket Power
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 19, 2008
...tal power draw is less than 16 watts, you can use both ports simultaneously.
The name is somewhat misleading, though. The manual specifically states that the Pocket Power should not be used in a p...
Fewer big corporations getting tax audits
in Sox First, on April 15, 2008
...ng the IRS to claim that audits for all corporations is increasing. But that's just garbage and misleading. The findings, contained in the latest data from the Transactional Records Access Clear...
College Spring Games Round-Up
in End Zone Buzz, on April 14, 2008
... a combined 11 times.
Oklahoma Sooners: The final score was Red 69, White 40, but that is a bit misleading, as OU uses their own scoring system instead of the usual TD's and field goals. QB Sam...
Celebrities Take Revenge On Gossipers
in The Celebrities Weblog, on April 14, 2008
...ebrities pulling convincing pranks on the Paparazzi, and others of their ilk, in the form of misleading rumors, about themselves.
The show does have a more "Candid Camera", a show I ...
When statistics lie
in Sox First, on April 7, 2008
...hts equally in statistics and in quoting scripture - HG Wells. "Statistics can be completely misleading. If you take five six foot 10 inch foot giants and five four foot 10 inch dwarves, then t...
Jeff Skilling's appeal
in Sox First, on April 4, 2008
...ould hardly say he was acting in shareholders' interests when, according to the charges, he was misleading shareholders and the investing public into believing the financial strength and security ...
Making Sense Of It All
in Do you like to cook?, on March 28, 2008
...nscientious consumer these days can often be difficult. The labels on meat are confusing and can be misleading. What means what?
Here is a quick tutorial to help you make important, educated decision...
Charming in Court
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 11, 2008
...plus-size clothing retailer is accusing crescendo Partners and Myca Partners of filing "misleading and incomplete documents" with the Securities and Exchange Commission to win shareho...
Dune Closure NOT the Solution to Border Issues
in Under My Helmet, on March 4, 2008
...al border crossings.
The American Sand Association (ASA) has issued a response to the slanted and misleading LA Times article.
OHV COMMUNITY OPPOSES DUNE CLOSURE AS PART OF SOLUTION TO BORDER I...
SEC-PCAOB arm wrestle
in Sox First, on February 27, 2008
...es. That would have been in my mind not only a much narrower scope of review but potentially even a misleading opinion to investors. At one point they wanted auditors to only look at the denied contro...
SEC litigation and share price
in Sox First, on February 26, 2008
...s unfairly, selling securities without proper registration, accounting fraud and releasing false or misleading information about a company and its securities. And yes, it's no secret that SEC law...
Brazen Employer of the Week: Outback Steakhouse Forces Wait Staff to Pay Its Credit Card Fees
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on February 7, 2008
... The title of this post is a bit misleading, because after this policy made it into the newspaper, OSI Restaurant Partners (parent company of outback Steakhouse) took it all back and said, &q...
2008 Mock Draft - Top 15
in End Zone Buzz, on January 23, 2008
...s Dewayne White and Jared DeVries each had 6.5 sacks for the team last season, but that is a little misleading as they each had three sacks in a single game, accounting for nearly half their total.
...
U. of Phoenix Parent Company to Repay Investors $280 Million
in The Universities Weblog, on January 17, 2008
...The Apollo Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix , was found liable this week for misleading investors and ordered to repay shareholders $280 million, according to the Associated Pre...
More Dating Sites Than You Could Ever Need?
in The Dating Weblog, on January 4, 2008
...h links and information to a variety of the other sites that are on the Internet. The name is a bit misleading, as there aren't (yet) one hundred sites on the list. More important in the informati...
Buffett bonding
in Sox First, on January 2, 2008
Interesting questions raised from The Wall Street Journal's scoop last week that Warren Buffett plans to make a buck out of the turmoil in the financial markets by establishing a bond insurance firm with the goal of giving local governments a cheaper borrowing option. The business will guar...
Not Quite Yet
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 2, 2008
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There were some highly misleading headlines just before Christmas regarding Donald Trump's star-crossed mega-golf project for northeast Scotland.
I have blogged about the project at some leng...
Private equity: who makes money?
in Sox First, on November 26, 2007
...e," Gottschlag said. Gottschlag has come to the obvious conclusion: private equity firms are misleading investors. "Our research shows the way private equity fund performance is most ofte...
The Stuff They Won't Tell You: This Week's Picks
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on November 21, 2007
...ridged to fit your schedule.
My Favorite:
Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In
Anahad O'Connor. Times, $14 paper (2...
Peat rich in complaint
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 31, 2007
...wable energy biogas plants. The complaint contends that RePeat contains no peat, and therefore is a misleading name.
Well then, by that logic, someone should sue hershey 's for selling Payd...
OCT Scans: Inexpensive Look into Multiple Sclerosis?
in Straightfromthedoc, on October 16, 2007
...ing (MRI) - a very costly procedure.
MRI, aside from being expensive and uncomfortable, is often misleading since brain inflammation - also a symptom of the disease - can skew brain volume readings...
The Press's Inherent Bias
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on September 23, 2007
...you will hold another person's interest?
I believe these terms, impartial and objective, to be misleading, and agree with Jeff of BuzzMachine that they are absolutely obsolete. There is an inhere...
My Travel Wishlist
in Wandalust, on September 23, 2007
...ng in that the hotel should have been rated 3 or, worse, 2 stars instead.
No more PLUS. It's misleading to quote a price with a plus, especially when the plus amount makes the total price doubl...
Big dogs don't want to play fair
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on September 22, 2007
... (MS-PL) because OSI has found two flaws in the license which make the term "Permissive" misleading.
Honestly, that is just a bunch of techie mumbo-jumbo to me. I only just barely grasp th...
Identity & Metrics Essential for IT Leaders
in The CIO Weblog, on August 21, 2007
... exist today, IT's metrics are, for the most part, miscalibrated. Our dashboards lie to us. How misleading can this be? Consider this actual scenario: A new CIO was brought in by a high-tech firm ...
A call to boycott West Fraser
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on August 20, 2007
...o for your enjoyment. In conjunction with the previous article, it seems Forest Ethics is not being misleading - but I still urge you to see both.
When Victoria Secret boycotted West Fraser , t...
Management Consultants Don't Spread Ideas
in Businesspundit, on July 26, 2007
...sion that management consultants are key to spreading new ideas in organisations is exaggerated and misleading, according to a unique fly-on-the-wall study funded by the Economic and Social Research C...
Bear Grylls, a Fraud?
in The Outdoor Weblog, on July 25, 2007
... the waters of the Pacific in a raft he built, then I believe him. Anything else on the contrary is misleading.
The Eton- educated 33-year- old is also alleged to have choreographed parts of Born Su...
Amp'd Mobile Shutting Down?
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 22, 2007
For those of you who used Amp'd Mobile as your service provider, you'd better find someone else. And quick!
The word from PhoneNews.com is that Amp'd Mobile will likely be shutting down on 24 July 2007 . To make matters worse, according to the FAQ on the Amp'd Mobile site, cu...
Protecting your kids on the Net
in The Parenting Weblog, on July 13, 2007
...ough.org, Protectkids.com . Interesting and informative, especially the topic on Stealth sites and misleading URLs
Pornographers purchase domain names such as the .com equivalent of a popular .gov ...
HCL's - Verticalization Strategy in Europe
in The CIO Weblog, on June 22, 2007
...king salary to something on which employees do not have a direct impact can be very frustrating and misleading.
IDC believes that major focus points for the short term in order to better target th...
Company reports distort value
in Sox First, on June 12, 2007
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Company reports might be misleading investors by distorting their true market value, according to a new study. The study , from London's Cass Business School, found that conventional measure...
tvtrip.com
in Wandalust, on June 12, 2007
... Tired of looking at misleading hotel pictures? Or arriving at your hotel and then finding out that it's located in The middle of the ghetto? Then tvtrip.com might be able to help you.
Tv...
U.S. News Backlash Continues
in The Universities Weblog, on May 21, 2007
...uding Drew University and Lafayette College, signed a letter excoriating the magazine for providing misleading data that "degrade the educational worth ... of the college search process."
I...
AIM Global to highlight the positive side of RFID with Get the Truth Out initiative
in The RFID Weblog, on May 1, 2007
...ongoing industry activities for self regulation. Their rapid response team would be kicking out any misleading reports regarding the technology and it would be imparting balanced information dealing w...
Best Graduate Schools for 2008
in The Universities Weblog, on April 30, 2007
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Pundits may dismiss the U.S. News rankings as superficial, misleading, misguided, or simply a profit-making scheme. Whatever you call them, add "influential" to the list. Right or wrong, ...
Fannie Mae: more of the lawyers' picnic
in Sox First, on April 24, 2007
...e Mae of not disclosing information and of "repeatedly, systematically and intentionally" misleading them. Just your standard corporate catastrophe - one side blaming the other. This will t...
Presidents Boycotting U.S. News?
in The Universities Weblog, on April 12, 2007
...and fill out the forms, or do they have a point? Are educational rankings really that bad? Are they misleading? Or are presidents simply afraid of what rankings reveal?
As always, stay tuned.
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Content and Service Providers: Equally Guilty
in The Smart PDA, on March 30, 2007
...s an old game actually. Many unscrupulous content providers lure people to incur monthly bills with misleading ads or free offers.
But this problem wouldn't exist in the first place if service pr...
Dishonesty In Business
in Bizinformer, on February 21, 2007
...notation of intent.
But Webster's second definition is far broader: "to create a false or misleading impression." That definition includes lies of omission; it even extends beyond spe...
Spy Coldly Shoots Benz's 2009 SL Test Mule
in carzz.org, on February 12, 2007
...ly be the current SL's replacement.
On closer inspection, however, these photographs are most misleading as the convertible's rear is only thinly disguised and fundamentally unchanged from t...
Could Adobe be a winner in mobile video
in The Digital TV Weblog, on January 14, 2007
...out $12.1 million, or 2% of overall sales, and $32.7 million on the year.
But that number is a bit misleading. Purchase accounting rules related to the Macromedia acquisition kept some $59 million of...
Estee Lauder gets it wrong?
in Are you a beauty?, on December 27, 2006
...etic companies do lie through their teeth.
But, the Origins ordeal might be much worse than simple misleading advertising, according to the press release Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., the chairman of Ca...
Mistletoe is No Anti-Cancer Drug, Doctors Say
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 26, 2006
...with cancer inject themselves mistletoe extract in the hope of improving their condition. This is a misleading fact and can cause serious harm.
Read the full report at Science Daily .
BMJ article...
Internet Mapping Services Not Reliable
in The Outdoor Weblog, on December 12, 2006
...eaders regarding maps and planning.
But even hard-copy maps from supposed reliable sources can be misleading, as Al Margary pointed out in a comment:
"... if you had the "Official Oregon ...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 14
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on December 5, 2006
...ften much greater than an earnings number might suggest:
Berkshire's own reported earnings are misleading in a different, but important, way: We have huge investments in companies ("investee...
Small Business Loans Qualifying For A Line Of Credit
in Biz Plan Hacks, on November 15, 2006
...t to unilaterally change the terms or cancel the line of credit at anytime.
This may or may not be misleading (unless the covenant of your agreement restricts it), as most banks do not always agree o...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 11
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 16, 2006
...traint."
In discussing the ways that insurance companies' earnings can be unintentionally misleading, Buffett offers an opinion that resonates in our recent corporate climate:
"...audi...
Throwing the Roulette Ball
in Philoneist, on October 10, 2006
...initely hard to present science in a way that is comprehensible to the general public without being misleading. Scientists could do a much better job of feeding information to journalists, and putting...
次世代 Office, Office 2.0？
in Wangtam, on September 18, 2006
这是一个对于互联网重大更替的年代，其中的重头戏 ---- 企业与办公当然也不会独立之外。之前有过一些 关于 Office 2.0 的信息与讨论 ，而且不少国外的互联网产业都盯着这块"肥肉"呢。在 10 月份的 Office 2.0 Conference 之前，nick 很细致地分析了一下， 信息化办公的历程以及展望 ，相当中肯和精辟，很有参考价值，所以全文转载一下。
