Sentences with phrase «promises made to consumers»

Did he do everything he could to live up to the promises he made to his consumers with his actions, no matter what?

The FCC and FTC have drafted an agreement to ensure ISPs «live up to the promises they make to consumers» following the net neutrality rules repeal... and it ain't great.

The agreement was produced by the FCC and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and it's said to ensure that «internet service providers live up to the promises they make to consumers,» following the adoption of the Restoring Internet Freedom Order.

Not exact matches

The product is expected to make a big splash with consumers thanks to its promise to immerse users inside new virtual worlds — but also for its innovative design.

The settlement required Facebook to «take several steps to make sure it lives up to its promises in the future, including giving consumers clear and prominent notice and obtaining consumers» express consent before their information is shared beyond the privacy settings they have established,» the FTC said.

But with Amazon's promise to make price - cuts and consumer preferences generally veering towards healthy, organic foods, grocery store investors likely fear that Whole Foods could cut deeper into the market shares of traditional grocers like Kroger — as well as their suppliers.

Panera, meanwhile, has worked hard to stand out from the crowd by promising diners that the chain's food uses «cleaner» ingredients, a move that it feels makes it more on trend with prevailing trends today as consumers — in particular millennials — want better quality foods.

This would bar Internet service providers from creating multiple levels of connection speeds and charging consumers and companies for access to «fast lanes» — a move critics argue will automatically create «slow lanes,» which will make it very difficult for promising new startups to get up and running.

«For all of those consumers who still love Diet Pepsi with aspartame, we'll figure out how to make it available online,» Pepsi Chief Executive Indra Nooyi promised investors.

The Fed has long been turning away from QE and putting greater emphasis on forward guidance; in other words, trying to affect consumer and businesses behaviour by making promises about the future course of monetary policy.

Mr. Obama's address made no reference to the Consumer Financial Products Agency he promised a year ago to be the centerpiece of financial reform.

Responding to increased expectations from consumers and pressure from environmental organizations, among other motivations, hundreds of corporations have made public promises to help end deforestation.

Consumers are fed up with being sold to, having promises made to them and sitting through endless sales pitches.

The worries escalated as Bezos appeared on talk shows, making promises to consumers to expect sub - $ 10 prices for popular digital books.

In turn, that led to a number of smaller competitors intensifying their efforts to take a piece of the market; during January's Consumer Electronics Show, a variety of e-reader prototypes appeared in booths throughout the exhibition hall, with airy promises that the devices would make their debut sometime in 2010.

The FTC also alleges the defendants targeted distressed homeowners, making false promises to consumers that they would provide mortgage relief and prevent foreclosure.

When a consumer is trying to get a loan that will help their family get a home, a car, or a job, and their credit is making it difficult, it may seem like a great idea to work with a company that is promising to repair their credit.

This is an important topic for consumer protection because there are many agencies and individuals making promises to «cure» debt problems and fix debt problems in minutes.

(2) The terms and conditions of payment, including the total of all payments to be made by the consumer, whether to the credit repair business or to some other person; (3) A complete and detailed description of the services to be performed and the results to be achieved by the credit repair business for or on behalf of the consumer, including all guarantees and all promises of full or partial refunds and a list of the adverse information appearing on the consumer's credit report that the credit repair business expects to have modified; (4) The principal business address of the credit repair business and the name and address of its agent in this State authorized to receive service of process; and (5) One of the following statements, as appropriate, in substantially the following form: a. «As required by North Carolina law, this credit repair business has secured a bond by..........

Tip - offs to Rip - offs Steer clear of debt negotiation companies that: 1) guarantee they can remove your unsecured debt 3) promise that unsecured debts can be paid off with pennies on the dollar 4) require substantial monthly service fees 5) demand payment of a percentage of savings 6) tell you to stop making payments to or communicating with your creditors 7) require you to make monthly payments to them, rather than with your creditor 8) claim that creditors never sue consumers for non-payment of unsecured debt 9) promise that using their system will have no negative impact on your credit report 10) claim that they can remove accurate negative information from your credit report.

But the company did not, the FTC alleges, make efforts they'd promised to pay off or eliminate consumers» loans.

Make sure that your complaint highlights that the seller did not provide what was promised to the consumer upon purchase.

«This is a class action arising out of Defendants» failure to perform the material terms of an offer made to Plaintiff and other consumers comprising the class for a Starwood Preferred Guest («SPG»)- branded American Express credit card; namely, the promise of 35,000 hotel loyalty points, called SPG Starpoints, in exchange for $ 5,000.00 in qualifying purchases made to the card during the first six months after issuance,» Heilman said in the filing.

«Whilst the aviation industry has made long - term promises to halve carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, consumers are already making much bigger cuts, simply by choosing to take the train.

The OTON, created by EnGeniux, is making a promise to provide free, randomly generated videogames to the consumer.

In a press statement last month the FTC released the following statement regarding the matter «As we enter the year's biggest shopping period, companies need to be reminded that if they make product promises to consumers — as Sony did with the «game changing» features of its PS Vita — they must deliver on those pledges,» said Jessica Rich, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.

In putting these images together, Robinson shows us two very different means to transcendence, one promised by consumer expression, made in Detroit, and another available through Rothko's abstract art.

«HMF, the putative building block, is a chemical derived from sugars like glucose and fructose that has shown promise as a replacement for oil - based chemicals typically used to make several consumer goods and industrial chemicals.

Put at its most contentious, poor consumers and litigants in matters like housing disrepair will be swept out of courts to make room for a Mr Berezovsky to sue a Mr Abramovich in litigation bearing the promise of serious fees for both courts and lawyers.

The express warranty is a written or spoken promise regarding the performance, nature, character, purpose, quality, or use of an item made by a seller to the consumer.

735 ILCS 5/13-213 (c): Alteration, modification or change No product liability action based on any theory or doctrine to recover for injury or damage claimed to have resulted from an alteration, modification, or change of the product unit after the date of first sale, lease, or delivery of possession of the product unit to its initial user, consumer, or other nonseller may be limited or barred by subsection (b) if the action is commenced within the applicable limitation period; and, in any event, within 10 years from the date the alteration, modification, or change was made, unless defendant expressly has warranted or promised the product for a longer period and the action is brought within that period.

For consumers, access to justice is partly about holding retailers and suppliers accountable for the promises they make and for the safety of their products and services.

With the discontinued NES Classic having generated controversy around Nintendo's ability to meet consumer demand, the company is now under pressure to try and deliver far more units and make good on its past promises.

It will be exciting to see what the team that built this phone goes on to do next, especially since they got so much right, but when it comes to consumer electronics, it rarely makes sense to buy a promise.

As the indomitable tide of the Internet of Things continues to roll in, consumers — homeowners, in particular — find themselves presented with an ever - expanding selection of networked devices that promise to make life easier, safer, or just more interesting.

Nokia is marketing itself as the company that wants consumers to have the latest version of Android, promising to ensure the likes of Nokia 6, Nokia 5 and other future Nokia phones receive the latest OS and security patches as soon as Google makes them available.

Toshiba promises that using its Wacom stylus feels like writing on paper, which should make the dynaPad more enticing to consumers.

So far in Nokia's recent revival history, they have been making promises, especially on phone updates, to consumers everywhere, and so far, they've managed to fulfill them.

Windows Defender Application Guard promises to make Edge the most secure browser for enterprise customers (sorry consumers).

Google has promised that it fixed these Nexus 9 problems in a last - second firmware update that made it to the end - consumers device.

Vladeck, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, was joined by Tony West, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice; Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray; and a Grandview, Texas, job seeker who lost money to a company that made false promises of full - time work with benefits.

Today, the CFPB made good on that promise when it announced a proposed rule on TRID, and stated in their announcement that «the Bureau understands that it is usual, accepted and appropriate for creditors and settlement agents to provide a closing disclosure to consumers, sellers and their real estate brokers or other agents.»

It is one thing for the Compensation Pillar to be removed, it's quite another for a brokerage to make a performance guarantee, by leveraging off of the MLS brand and consumer ignorance — which is clearly the case when the brokerage makes no promise of compensation should they fail to: SELL the home on the MLS, during the initial listing period.

Unique Brand Power: Members will enjoy immediate and long - term value from representing and epitomizing a «brand promise,» which unmistakably signals to consumers that their search for real estate excellence has finally been simplified, systematized and made reliable.

* FCA tells banks can't rely on «buyer beware» defence * Regulator taps behavioural economics for first time in UK * Lawyer says speech marks key shift in regulation in Britain By Huw Jones LONDON, April 10 (Reuters)- Britain's new watchdog announced sweeping changes in financial regulation on Tuesday, telling banks they can no longer blame customers when products go wrong and promising to study how consumers behave to make sure they can make the...

(And can you name a few items that are currently available to consumers) DM: The next wave of technology promises to truly make kitchens personal spaces with wall panels that can be changed to reflect your mood and appliances that will interact with your personal health and help you to choose foods to meet caloric and other nutrient goals.