Here’s some more troublesome news on the Groupon front (NASDAQ:GRPN), this time in Korea. The South Korean Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has reportedly fined Groupon’s Korea office because an employee wrote 147 fake product reviews on the Groupon website, this according the Korean Herald citing the FTC statement (Korean). The commission has fined Groupon 17 million won (or about $14,773) and has ordered them to display the details of the penalty on its website. I tried to find the notice on groupon.kr but with no luck, though I should make clear ...
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FTC Still Unsure About Blogging Disclosure Guidelines
Shevonne authors at ChicWriter.com and wrote this article on behalf of TopHost.Gr, a Greek web host that offers shared hosting. Remember last year when the FTC caused a huge uproar in the blogosphere when it announced that it was going to start requiring bloggers to disclose all products and services received in exchange for a blog post? It’s 2010 and the FTC is still unsure on how to handle this. According to the FTC Northeast Regional Director Leonard Cohen, the FTC is still trying to define the disclosure guidelines for bloggers. He ...
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