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Companies hope that by making price increases hard to see, they can escape notice and avoid a customer backlash

Your kids need you. >> i already said good-bye to my kids. >> the chase eventually ended in the driveway of simpsons brentwood mansion where he surrendered after a brief standoff. cameras followed him to the police station where journalists watched from a distance as copped booked him before handing out his mug shot. it was the first day of what would become a years long media circus. >> no matter which way hertz decides to go with simpson, they may not avoid customer backlash. >> the latest nig...

October. chinese officials insist they comply with those u.n. sanctions. next, a major announcement from apple tonight, after admitting some iphone batteries slowed down without their customers knowledge. the company facing multiple lawsuits because of it. and tonight, apple is apologizing, and revealing plans, they say, will make it right. heres abcs senior national correspondent matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, apple with that rare apology, following a surge of customer backlash and multip...

Shareholders during outbreaks of e doe lie. starbucks decision to hire thousands of refugees may be hurting the brand according to credit analysts who decided customer-backlash and giving the company a hold rating. thats it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. im raph. my name is anne. im one of the real live ...

Announcement by the president put the stocks on track. futures higher this morning. stocks in europe are rising. shares in asia with gains overnight. six weeks in the trading year. nasdaq up 5%. the biggest winner of the three. dow up more than 2%. verizon bringing back something customers used to love. im not talking about the motorola razr. unlimited data plans. >> can you get them to bring back the razr? >> no. customers can switch for $80 a month. that covers one line. the account must be ...

This is a move thats come as a bit of a surprise. >> thats right, ali, it is a surprise today, environmentalist groups have been protesting the decision, but justin trudeau says, in fact, the expansion of this pipeline does not contradict his environmental goals. when you listen to the local government in alberta, they say the project is essential for the vitality of their energy industry there, and the expansion of this pipeline will improve the capacity to about 890,000 barrels day from 300,00...

Backing off after a major customer backlash goes what else, viral on the web. julie banderas live in new york. >> hey, thats right. angry customers fed to blogs, and petitions after verizon charge to do charge the $2 bill paying fee for on-line or telephone single payments. 24 hours later, the companys president released the following statement, and i quote, at verizon, we take great care to listen to our customers. based on their input, we believe the best path forward is to encourage customers...

We also continued to contact customers via the information they provided to us phone or email. 45 minutes ago, jimmy brown told us he got no call, no email. he also says he got no letter when he deplaned. he did, however, get a mcdonalds voucher with which he bought some chicken selects. apparently and his wife had a crispy chicken sandwich meal. >> shepard: not aware the mcrib is back. >> they wanted angus burger but they were sold out. busy mcdonalds. >> shepard: im sure. more banks are tossin...

>> lets take a look at where stocks are trading right now. we have the dow jones industrials up by 257 points. s, and p is higher by nearly 31. the nasdaq is up by over 6 points. the teetering european economy may have hope of stability by the end of the month. the german chancellor and french president sarkozy said they have a comprehensive response to the debt crisis. their proposal that includes a plan to strengthen europes banks will be discussed at the next summit at the end of october. the...

wide. hes a yemeni citizen. hes been hiding there for several years. hes a popular figure in yemen. hes so popular that many people thought that after osama bin laden was killed that he might ascend the hierarchy of al qaeda and be the next leader. hes a charismatic figure. hes someone who is putting his statements on the internet. a different language than a previous generation of al qaeda leaders. able to bring more members into the fold. and just a few months ago, a few days after o...