| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Consumer Survey: Sprint = Biggest Loser
| | | Sprint is scraping the bottom of the barrel among US carriers in terms of overall satisfaction. The results come from Consumer Reports, which polled more than 58,000 subscribers about their opinions. Sprint received poor marks all around, with consumers dinging its value, voice and text quality, and 4G reliability. Sprint ranked second last year. (InformationWeek)
Why This Is Important: Verizon took the lead for customer satisfaction, with AT&T and T-Mobile following behind.
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| | #2 | Bosses May Use Social Media To Discriminate Against Job Seekers
| | | Many companies regularly look up job applicants online as part of the hiring process. A new study suggests they may also use what they find to discriminate. (WSJ)
Why This Is Important: It's already common knowledge that employers use social media as a means to vet applicants and check for drug use and other untoward behaviors, but now it seems some applicants don't even stand a chance when it comes to things out of their control, like their race.
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| | #3 | Why It Makes Sense For Businesses To Threaten Online Critics
| | | Add another page to the fast-growing chronicle of shady ways for companies to try bullying customers who post unflattering reviews on the Internet. This time the unlucky critic was Jen Palmer, who told a CBS affiliate in Salt Lake City that she received a bill for $3,500 from Kleargear.com, a company that sells office tchotchkes. (Businessweek)
Why This Is Important: Garnering a reputation as a company that damages its customers' credit reports over unflattering comments is not a tactic that will draw in new ones.
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"There is so much information we reveal about ourselves online, sometimes in ways we do not even realize," said Alessandro Acquisti, an information-technology and public-policy professor at Carnegie Mellon.
| | | Blog Post of The Day | After 15 Years Of Llama-Whipping, AOL Shuts Down Winamp For Good
By Cyrus Farivar
Winamp, the storied MP3 player bought by AOL in June 1999 for over $80 million, is set to shut down in exactly one month. According to a post that went live Wednesday at 12:00pm ET on the Winamp website: Winamp.com and associated Web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. More » |
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