The Financial Times reported Thursday that several European mobile carriers plan to block advertising as a way to stand up to the likes...

Many non-lawyers are unaware that it’s legally possible for consumers to waive their free speech rights to negatively review or otherwise...

The Virginia Supreme Court has issued a ruling that Yelp is not compelled to reveal the identities of seven anonymous online reviewers....

ICANN, the organization that approved the .sucks domain, is asking the U.S. and Canadian governments if the company operating the domain...

Amazon is taking its battle against fake reviews to the courts, filing a lawsuit yesterday in Seattle’s King County Superior Court...

An appellate court in the UK ruled earlier today that British iPhone users could pursue their privacy suit against Google arising out of...

When consumers are ready to make an online purchase a substantial number will pause during checkout, tab over to a search engine and...

The retail industry is not giving up on giving states the ability to tax e-commerce sales. This week, a bipartisan group of senators...

Last fall, Google sued Mississippi State Attorney General Jim Hood in federal court to quash a “punitive and burdensome subpoena.” The...

With any marketing medium, there’s a certain amount of pollution that can create a toxic environment unsuitable for brand activity. With...

A few years ago Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that privacy standards in the US were relaxing. It’s perhaps more accurate to say...

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has implicitly issued a challenge to the FTC. Covering alleged non-compliance with the FTC’s 2013 directive...

To Google something has come to mean looking it up online. As the saying goes, “Google is a verb.” However, that usage hasn’t yet become...

A Colorado-based firm has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it falsely advertised free...

So-called “non-disparagement clauses,” buried in terms and conditions or consumer purchase agreements, would probably be voided under the...

Yelp has been repeatedly sued under various theories for allegedly manipulating reviews to gain ad revenue from business owners. However,...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a settlement with what it calls “one of the world’s reputedly biggest spammers,” over a...

Throughout its ten year history, Yelp has been sued a number of times for allegedly manipulating reviews to generate ad revenue from...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, released its first ever transparency report  today, claiming it...

A substantial number of local business owners are frustrated by (even resentful of) Yelp’s review filter. Now operating under the banner...