The Google One-Star Review Scam Targeting Restaurants
In a new scam targeting restaurants, criminals are leaving negative ratings on restaurants’ Google pages as a bargaining chip to extort digital gift cards. Restaurateurs from San Francisco to New York, many from establishments with Michelin stars, said in recent days that they’ve received a blitz of one-star ratings on Google, with no description or […]
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Google Says It’s Time for Longtime Small-Business Users to Pay Up
When Google told some small businesses in January that they would no longer be able to use a customized email service and other workplace apps for free, it felt like a broken promise for Richard J. Dalton Jr., a longtime user who operates a scholastic test-prep company in Vancouver, British Columbia. “They’re basically strong-arming us […]
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4 Quick Tips for Managing Email Overload on the Go
Email has been known to stress out some members of Generation Z and others who favor the immediacy of chat apps over a teeming inbox. But the old electronic postal system still has its fans, who may prefer its slowness — or usefulness for composing longer messages, delivering file attachments and organizing the digital paper […]
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Jon Gruden’s Lawsuit Against the NFL Can Proceed in Open Court
Jon Gruden won two important battles in his civil suit against the N.F.L. on Wednesday when a judge in Clark County, Nev., denied two of the league’s legal motions — one to dismiss his lawsuit outright and the other to compel a closed-door arbitration. Gruden filed the lawsuit in November 2021, a month after The […]
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University of Michigan Fires Its President Over Inappropriate Relationship
The president of the University of Michigan, Mark S. Schlissel, has been fired for having a relationship with a subordinate that the university’s Board of Regents said violated university policy and was carried out “in a manner inconsistent with the dignity and reputation of the university.” The board terminated Dr. Schlissel’s employment effective immediately after […]
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