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FreeNewsFeed Unhappy Customers: Complaints To BBB Up 10 Percent
Complaints to the Better Business Bureau were up nearly 10 percent last year, with the banking industry seeing the biggest jump in unhappy customers. Complaints about banks spiked 42 percent to 29,920 in 2009, according to the annual report released Monday by the BBB. That made banks the third most complained about industry, after cell phones and cable- and satellite-TV providers. It was the second year in a row that the banking industry saw a big jump in complaints. Complaints about banks rose 15 percen...

FreeNewsFeed Apple Chief Operating Officer Gets $5 Million Bonus
Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave. Timothy Cook, 49, will also receive 75,000 restricted stock units scheduled to vest in 2011 and 2012, Apple said in a regulatory filing Friday. Jobs, 55, famously limits his salary to $1 per year, which leaves Cook the company's highest-paid executive. In 2009, Cook received an $800,400 salary; $800,000 in nonstock incentive compensation; and abo...

FreeNewsFeed FCC Prepares To Outline National Broadband Plan
In what could be the final deathblow to dial-up connections, the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday will outline to Congress how it will spend $7.2 billion in stimulus funds to provide high-speed broadband Internet access to millions of Americans. The FCC, under Chairman Julius Genachowski, has spent a year working on a plan that would reallocate up to 500 megahertz of the radio frequency spectrum through voluntary auction. That would add more broadband Internet via airwaves instead of cables an...

ZDNet Jobs, Apple directors face new stock-options lawsuit
Chief executive Steve Jobs and several directors are being sued again over their role in the company's stock-options backdating affair

ZDNet ICO: Name organisations at employment tribunal
Organisations involved in employment-tribunal disputes could be named, following an Information Commissioner's Office ruling

Yahoo Wireless China's new generation picky about factory jobs (AP)
AP - Factory worker Chen Qinghai frowned as he looked at a tall bulletin board full of help-wanted notices from companies making everything from photocopiers and DVD drives to mobile phones and car parts.

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