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The company's business-facing division provides SaaS that allows brands to manage and analyze review data to improve their products and customer service. [6] [7] ConsumerAffairs was founded in 1998 by Jim Hood. [8] The company has been headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma since 2010 and also has offices in Austin, Texas, the Philippines, and ...
Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy.
In 2013, the Texas Legislature added water utility regulation to the agency's responsibilities. [ 6 ] Since the introduction of competition in both the local and long distance telecommunications markets and the wholesale and retail electric markets, the PUC has also played an important role in overseeing the transition to competition and ...
The court in a 7-2 vote ruled that the funding structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which allows the agency to be funded directly by the Federal Reserve, is ...
Consumers' Checkbook/Center for the Study of Services (doing business as Consumers’ CHECKBOOK) is an independent, nonprofit consumer organization.It was founded in 1974 [1] in order to provide survey information to consumers about vendors and service providers.
Originally set up as the Office of Regulatory Loan Commissioner in 1963, [4] the Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner (OCCC)’s current name was established when the Texas Credit Code was enacted in 1967. [5] The Texas Finance Commission oversees the OCCC, [6] and appoints the Consumer Credit Commissioner who serves at its will. [7]
Ripoff Report is a private for-profit website founded by Ed Magedson. [1] The Ripoff Report has been online since December 1998 and is operated by Xcentric Ventures, LLC which is based in Tempe, Arizona. [2] In 2023 an Australian judge found the company purports to be a consumer review site but profits from extortive business practices. [3]
Abuses akin to ballot stuffing of favourable reviews by the seller (known as incentivized reviews), or negative reviews by competitors, need to be policed by the review host site. Indeed, gathering fake reviews has become big business. [2] In 2012, for example, fake book reviews have been revealed as significantly affecting ratings on Amazon.