Archive for the ‘Social media’ Category
Enough to be Dangerous: CreditCards.com
Recently, Experian (“the leading global information services company”*) announced that it and CreditCards.com “will co-host a live, interactive, online town-hall discussion of credit reporting and scoring.” CreditCards.com made the same announcement, replete with countdown clock to the exciting event. Experian’s newfound public outreach/reach-out for goodwill follows the drubbing it took at the hands of Congress and the FTC [...]
mint.com and Experian – strange bedfellows
See if you can follow this. The players The Consumerist, a former property of notorious Gawker Media, is now owned by Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports. The move is nearly inexplicable, but, apparently, CU thinks that that is how to get young and hip. But there is a firewall. A new entity, Consumer Media LLC, [...]
Blogosphere comments on credit scores and employers
A thousand comments based on a premise stated by politicians.