By Nathalie Voit The Department of Transportation (DOT) is proposing new mandates for consumers seeking airline ticket refunds, according to a press release posted on the agency’s website on August 3. The DOT said the proposed rulemaking follows a surge in travel service complaints since early 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic upended traditional air travel. The announcement [...]
By Nathalie Voit Google Chrome browser users can expect third-party cookies to stick around until at least the latter half of 2024, the tech giant announced on July 27. “The most consistent feedback we’ve received is the need for more time to evaluate and test the new Privacy Sandbox technologies before deprecating third-party cookies in [...]
By Nathalie Voit Payment processing company First American Payment Systems is the subject of a federal lawsuit initiated by the U.S. government, according to a press release posted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on July 29. The complaint, filed by the FTC on Friday, claimed that First American and two of its sales affiliates, Eliot Management Group [...]
By Nathalie Voit Record-high home prices have prompted many potential U.S. homebuyers to relocate. According to a report from real estate brokerage platform Redfin, one in three Redfin.com users are looking to migrate from one metro area to another due to surging housing prices. Redfin said the share of homebuyers searching for a new home in a [...]
By Nathalie Voit Well over half of older American women are financially insecure–and females are more likely than males to end up in this precarious economic situation–a report from the University of Massachusetts-Boston showed. According to the Elder Index, which calculates the minimum cost of living for older adults, the proportion of single women aged 65 [...]
By Nathalie Voit The Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) has a little over three weeks to avert a U.S. railway strike that could spell disaster for the whole nation. According to news from the industry, the U.S. rail freight sector has been plagued by months-long labor disagreements between major rail carriers and their unions. So far, [...]
By Nathalie Voit Workers across all sectors of the U.S. economy appear bent on unionizing. From railway to port workers, the transportation and logistics industry is reporting its highest share of labor unrest in years. The latest threat to domestic supply lines originates in the western part of the country, specifically in California, Oregon, and [...]
By Nathalie Voit In an order adopted July 21, the Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ordered all U.S. voice service providers to cut off robocall traffic related to a well-known and illegal auto warranty operation. The pre-recorded marketing messages come from a massive robocall scheme led by Roy Cox, Jr., Aaron Michael [...]
By Nathalie Voit Amazon is acquiring San Francisco-based virtual healthcare chain One Medical, according to a statement from the company posted on July 21. The e-commerce retailer will purchase the membership-based primary care service for approximately $3.9 billion, or $18 per share, according to details of the binding merger agreement. “We think health care is [...]
By Nathalie Voit Small business owners continue to be preoccupied with the impact of inflation on their business, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and MetLife said in a report made public on June 29. According to the Small Business Index, about 9 in 10 small business owners (88%) are concerned about rising costs, and nearly half [...]
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