By Dominic Jones on October 19, 2006
By Dominic Jones WARREN BUFFETT wrote recently in a memo to his managers that just because everyone else is doing something shady, doesn’t make it acceptable. He could have been writing about the Web today, where deception and dishonesty are rife. Of course, this is nothing new. The Web has been a hunting ground for [...]
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By Dominic Jones on September 6, 2006
By IR Web Report Staff BIZARRE revelations that Hewlett-Packard’s chairwoman and “an internal group” within the company hired private investigators to spy on directors’ personal home and cellphone records has set tongues wagging across the Internet and in boardrooms everywhere. The story, documented in extraordinary detail in a Newsweek article, raises questions about the legality [...]
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