Sentences with phrase «is a shady company»

Cambridge Analytica is a shady company owned by the British firm SCL Group — and, reportedly, in part by the right - wing - funding Mercer family — which claimed it could build models that identify persuadable voters by using six key personality types.

Merrick Bank's «customer service» is terrible, and in my opinion, they are a shady company.

It is hard to deny that OnePlus is doing a really good job as far as marketing is concerned, well, that's at least my opinion, and even though I do think that OnePlus, as a whole, is a shady company, to say the least, I do believe that they're affecting the smartphone industry in a good way.

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Netflix has said BitTorrent use in Canada has been cut in half since the company set up shop and independent studies have found the same — that legal services such as Spotify curb use of shadier ones wherever they pop up.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is in charge of repairing the reputation of a company besieged by a variety of alleged shady practices and scandals.

This eliminates the possibility of shady buyers defrauding honest merchants by claiming that the product they received is not up to their expectations, and subsequently filing a chargeback through their credit card company.

That means Zuckerberg is now slated for two high - profile congressional hearings over how the company allowed an app to harvest extensive data on as many as 87 million users without their consent before said app traded notes with shady electoral firm Cambridge Analytica.

The ride - booking company has now released a statement on the shady tool and what it is now planning to do to move forward.

Link building has gone through some significant changes over the years because it is what those «shady SEO companies» you've heard so much about could use to game the system.

Namely, these are folks working for extremely low wages, and they are being hired by shady companies who want to pay as little as possible.

Right under the snooping radar of Akufo - Addo's Lilliputian ministerial nose, diplomatic and non-diplomatic passports reportedly disappeared under mysterious circumstance only to reappear in the company of international drug dealers who, once again, are either reportedly related to the political sniffer dog himself, Akufo - Addo, or to shady persons closely connected to the uppermost echelons of the ethnocentric NPP.

It further added that the words were understood to mean «the second — fourth plaintiffs are organized criminal companies employed by the first plaintiff, through a corporate culture of malfeasance and impropriety, to perpetrate fraud on the Republic of Ghana and their other clients through illegal, dishonest, fraudulent, sleazy, shady and opprobrious commercial transactions».

The presidency, according to a high level source at the Flagstaff House, is now awaiting the outcome of separate investigations by the Bureau of National Investigation, EOCO, National Security, and the Ghana Police Service into some suspected shady deals involving Mr Boateng Aidoo and his companies to determine the way forward.

The NYC Department of Education is still paying a shady Long Island tech firm, Custom Computer Specialists — even though it was advised to avoid the company after a scandal that sent a consultant to prison.

Demonstrators cited several shady deals exposed by The Post, including allegations that the Toll Brothers development company — which gave $ 50,000 to Mayor de Blasio's Campaign for One New York — was allowed to build above height limits in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Note that this is real acai berry puree, instead of all of the «miracle pill» acai berry scams that you see all over the internet these days... most of which are produced by shady companies where you don't even know if they put any real acai extract in their pills.

As shady as these companies are, I certainly wouldn't trust them to actually be truthful in what they're putting in the pills... how do you know it's not just sawdust in the pill?

Singlesnet is a pay service and they have done some shady practices with lead - gen companies this past year on Google and through email to get to where they are now.

And because Facebook's often stressed that it isn't a forum for shady hookups, it can't argue that the two companies are engaged in similar business.

Malin Akerman is the ice queen who runs the shady tech company.

What follows is a plan to get her back involving a big heist that will expose all the shady dealings this company has been partaking in.

The plot — an evil, shady bio-engineering company called Energyne loses control of an illegal experiment that catches three unsuspecting animals in the crossfire and leads to a national disaster — is totally, utterly utilitarian, but it works for the movie's purposes just fine.

Apple was brought to court for fixing e-book prices in 2013 and a court - appointed monitor was dispatched to basically insure the company was not doing anything shady in regards to e-books.

I mean, think about it: how stupid is it to pay a shady company thousands of dollars to publish your book when you can do it on your own?

Here are some of the dangers of working with unreliable, shady companies:

Yota has never focused on North America, they are a shady Russian company that has expanded as far as the UK.

Self - publishing takes many forms, and while there are still companies that can be considered shady vanity presses, POD technology has given the writer the ability to publish her / his own book for little or no money.

Author Solutions is the umbrella several seriously shady self - publishing service companies: Author House, Xlibris, iUniverse, and Trafford.

It seems that the key point in certification being denied was that the plaintiffs» lawyers failed to demonstrate that the alleged actions (essentially shady selling of marketing services) were a company - wide / directed practice, rather than isolated cases.

Somebody I met claims that some «shady» business owners out there can create a company with the purpose of paying for an expensive service - then make that company file for bankruptcy to avoid paying for said service (after the service was already completed).

These types of companies have been in the news for shady business practices like illegal repossession and bating customers into loans with extremely high interest rates.

«Debt relief» firms, of which debt settlement companies are a subset, have attracted the Federal Trade Commission's attention due to shady practices.

There are many shady «debt help» companies online.

Checking that a personal loan company is legitimate can help high - risk consumers avoid shady deals.

Sure, we have the usual China risk, but UTStarcom isn't some shady company with a fraud story.

The company has been accused of engaging in shady student loan repayment practices, such as forcing consumers to pay a higher monthly rate than is actually required, which leaves borrowers with less disposable income.

Credit card companies really are shady.

If you fall for it, complain Consumers who take the bait and sign up with such shady companies would be wise to send the companies a letter telling them they do not want to work with them anymore, says Cho.

But be cautious about signing up for debt consolidation services because there are a lot of shady companies looking to profit from desperate consumers.

Post-claim underwriting is a shady practice, where only after the insured becomes disabled or dies does the insurance company actually determine if they were insurable in the first place!

Poor credit doesn't mean you are doomed to high interest rates and shady loan companies.

Credit card companies might be shady, but they don't force you to apply for a credit card.

Finally, it can also be tricky to separate legitimately helpful programs from scams and shady fly - by - night companies.

It can also be tricky to separate legitimately helpful programs from scams and shady fly - by - night companies.

As much as Citi DoubleCash looks attractive double (minus 3 % foreign exchange fee), I find the company to be shady.

The top spots are controlled by the big companies probably doing some similar shady tactics, so how could an Indie developer go above and beyond this — is another issue all together.

Because if that was the case already I severely doubt Destiny 2 and Battlefront 2 wouldn't be nominated for anything but most microtransactions or shadiest company.

Did you think something shady was going down in your company?

I would argue the opposite; it's the fact that good audits weren't conducted in time that allowed these companies to get away with their shady practices for so long.

This is a smallish company but has been around a while and has a lot of evidence of shipping products: I think this is a case of shady customer service and not shady products.