Domino’s Pizza Sheds Light on Internet Background Checks

There is a fairly good chance that if you turned on the news, or read the paper this morning (April 16th, 2009), you noticed Domino’s Pizza in the headlines. The last time they made headlines this big was when their drivers were caught going above the speed limit for fear of not delivering on-time and losing [...]

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Getting on the “Nice List”

Most of the time, going to our blog you expect to see a highlight on a story that shows why boards should do better background checks on their CEOs, etc.  Although the hits from stories about corporate figures that everyone loves to hate are wonderful, occasionally you have to give credit where credit is due. [...]

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U.N. Wastes U.S. Money

Before you start saying four letter words under your breath, this isn’t about U.N. bashing, so don’t go that way.  It is about looking at mistakes or errors in judgement and using that information to avoid doing it in your own business.  Supposedly the U.N. wasted a $25 million dollar grant on shoddy work (a [...]

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It’s Getting Close To Prom Night

… and wouldn’t you like to be able to run a few background checks on your children’s friends before they go out on the big night, and possibly party hard?  Well, we’d love to offer you that service because we would probably make much money at it … but we don’t do that, and legally [...]

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Spies in the grid

This is both a “found in the news” and a “FYI” post.  The article mentioned is a little technical, so if you are a reader in your company forward it to your I.t. or Tech guys.
Click Here for an article from KDKA Pittsburgh based on information from some former National Security Officials about outside hackers [...]

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Uncooperative tax havens making changes

I’m sure you have heard of certain nations that were blacklisted.  Apparently those nations are making changes to get back into the financial world. Generally these havens are countries that support banking secrecy.  The four main countries are: Philippines, Uruguay, Costa Rica and Malaysia.  They are not completely “out of the frying pan”, but simply [...]

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Where are YOU found? Possibly in the EU.

Did you ever wonder where “you” are found?  I’m not talking about you physically – I’m talking about your personal information?
There are many urban legends about how the government and Internet providers capture your e-mails and such on their systems for later use without your consent.  Does this actually happen – to some level, yes [...]

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Most Wanted – Are You On This List?

Click Here for an interesting link. It’s the FBI’s Most Wanted page. It feature criminal celebrities that have made the top ten most wanted, terrorists lists, crime alerts, and featured fugitives. For those with criminology, it can be a treasure trove of information.
For businesses, it can be very useful. Have you [...]

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The AIG Saga Continues

As always, hindsight is a great tool for CYA – especially with the former AIG CEO.  He now says (even though more or less on his watch is when the bonus contracts were created) he would not have paid them.  That is basically authorising fraudulent spending, then saying you wouldn’t have really done that.  I’m sure [...]

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Michael Vick makes a great business decision

… or not.
But he does give us a great example of what not to do.  Basically with defined-benefit plans you are not allowed to use the funds for anything other than the specified use.  As you know, Michael Vick had a little bit of an issue with dogfighting.  Due to the legal costs he pulled funds [...]

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