The Federal Trade Commission is seeking increased transparency with product endorsement on blogs and social networks. Paid product endorsements on blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other social websites will need to reveal their sponsorship, otherwise they will be faced with fines, a lawsuit or other penalties. The new guidelines will come into effect on December 1st. [...]

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A government official in Switzerland is demanding that Google turn off its street view map service citing privacy issues. One cause of concern was that numerous vehicle license plates and human faces were not blurred in the street view maps. The official is asking that Google shut down the service until it conforms to Swiss [...]

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Nortel was once the object of hatred for causing the savings of many Canadians to plummet following an accounting scandal and the drop of stock prices. Now the company is a surprising object of nostalgia in protests against its sale to foreign investors. Many Canadians are asking their government to review the estimated $1.13 billion [...]

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Top antitrust officials and senior democratic law makers are seeking to focus on industries that may be plagued with antitrust concerns. This is a major reversal on the previous administration’s policy of not prosecuting large, dominant companies who have engaged in antitrust practices. Some of the cases being reviewed by the antitrust chief at the [...]

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