Yodlee, also based in Silicon Valley, allows consumers to aggregate information from websites where they have an account, such as their bank or their brokerage.
You can also get information from websites such as SaveSmartSpendHealthy.com.
Getting personal information removed from websites that collect it can feel a lot like playing Whac-a-Mole.
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Gloria has discovered a wealth of information from numerous websites that have increased the number of her written stories.
Calvert gathered publicly available information from company websites, SEC filings, the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index and other sources.
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The current backlash results from alterations made in April that introduced a service for people to incorporate information from other websites into their Facebook profiles.
Disclosure standards and rules are often laughable, but luckily you can glean important information from companies' own websites.
But 59 percent of the very rich also gather financial information from the daily financial press, 38 percent from websites other than those of their advisors or providers, 38 percent from cable news and 34 percent from weekly financial press.
Whereas most Americans used to get their news from the same three networks over dinner, or a few influential papers on Sunday morning, we now have the option to get our information from any number of blogs or websites or cable news shows.
Since 2000, the library has been collecting pages from websites that document government information and activity.
The Federal Trade Commission adopted final amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule that strengthen kids' privacy protections and give parents greater control over the personal information that websites and online services may collect from children under 13.
At the same time this program rolled out, Twitter also announced support for Do Not Track (DNT), which if enabled in your browser settings, will prevent Twitter (and other websites) from collecting the information that enables this feature.
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OracleMobile.com and Strategy.com, respectively subsidiaries of Oracle, a database supplier and MicroStrategy, a data-warehousing firm, allow users to select information they want to receive on their wireless devices from corporate websites.
The move arose out of a dispute over cost-cutting measures that American was attempting to obtain through reorganizing the way that flight information is distributed from the airline to the consumer who shops on websites like Orbitz.
What is surprising is that this data has been sitting on the SEC and FINRA websites for years and only now are there calls from financial advisors about inaccurate information and fears that investors will misinterpret what the information means.
Vizify will draw information from Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, LinkedIn and also connect through work-based websites you add yourself.
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American contested in a Fort Worth court in April that Travelport presents a civil antitrust threat to airlines that prefer to directly send its flight information to websites through its own technology, rather than go through a GDS, which aggregates flight data from many air carriers in exchange for regular fees from the airlines.
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