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Daniel craig will swap his tar teen knee -- martini for a heineken. speaking of heineken, listen here your product is perfect and you are messing with it? why? heineken is changing the bottles, long necks like any other beer instead of line ken bottles. a spokeswoman tells ad age tested the long necks along with consumer groups and they did pretty well. for some reason they did not run this by me. baseballs opening day is here at long last. dont even think about eating peanuts and cracker jacks ...

10 patents dealing with technology and advertising online. its said to be the first major legal battle of its kind. as you know facebook recently announced plans it to go public. analysts say an initial public offering of stock could value the company at some $100 billion. big business is on notice. thats the message from consumer groups, labor unions and other organizations. they accuse corporations of trying to buy our democracy. you think? they are promising pay back but critics point out som...

Direction. >> as the california attorney general praised the settlement, outside there were protests. other consumer groups and many experts say the banks got off easy. >> the banks come out the big winners because the costs they are paying are very small in terms of the damages that were done. >> the five banks together earned more than $46 billion in profits last year. yet under the settlement, they have to pony up $5 billion in hard cash. >> kristen welker reporting. more than half the settle...

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its decision day in florida. the polls open in two hours. it is an ugly fight to the finish. >> and a prestigious college has fudged some s.a.t. scores for some of the incoming freshmen. why would they do that and admit to it? um find out. 911 calls from the crash in florida. >> hes coming too fast. >> here comes another one. see, there he goes. that was a bad one. >> well be talking to someone who was in the middle of the wreckage, sandwiched between two semis. a tennessee state s...

Google calendar, google pictures, everything that you do on there will be tracked. google says its nor a more efficient search experience and they also say better to better target ads. >> google maps? >> everything. >> shepard: google images. email? >> one privacy agreement this time. >> shepard: the move is opening google to a lot of criticism. >> consumer groups, regulators are lashing out about this saying the company is not doing enough to protect consumer rights in this particular case. the...

Suffering from congestion, cough and a fever. he is said to be alert and smiling at this time. >> is there too much arsenic in apple juice? under pressure from consumer groups, the food and drug administration may tighten restrictions on how much of the chemical can actually go into that drink. most arsenic is organic. and passes through the body safely. inorganic arsenic found in pesticides can pose cancer risks if high levels are consumed. studies show arsenic levels in apple juice are low and...

Want it lowered down to three parts a billion but doctors say loweringed standard may not be enough. listen. >> the issue here is, to what level do the juice companies comply? i dont personally believe lowering it from 23 parts down to three parts a billion will have much significance in terms of human health? but they have to set a standard and the standard should be lower. >>trace: but law the feds can seize any juice that exceeds that 23 part as billion standard but they have never done so. >...

For money and there are loopholes that allow nonprofit organizations, bill collectors in many cases and politicians if they want you to vote for them can give you a call and thats allowed under the call. well, one man want as right to sue in federal court and thats what this whole court case is about. theyre hearing arguments in the supreme court as to whether or not regular citizens if you get one of these calls in a gray area or think youre wronged here, you think theres a violation of law, yo...

A quarter of all sales are in november and december for retail shops. so you can imagine that is the game. you have to win there. black friday weekend last year drew $45 billion in sales. 212 million americans shopped that weekend. thats just about everybody except your dog and your grandpa. >> shepard: right and the 1-year-olds. >> right. >> shepard: watch gerri willis 5:00 eastern, 4:00 central on the willis report on fox business network. if your stocking isnt stuffed as full this year blame ...