The suits seek $40 billion in total, but only the second, on behalf of consumers, names Enron.
Although Monday's Journal article focused only on Facebook and its developers, the same newspaper in May reported that Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent.
Consumers named these companies, as well as Newman's Own and Coca-Cola, as corporations that place as much importance on supporting a social cause as they place on profit.
Priceline.com of Norwalk, which runs the Internet site where consumers name their own price for a variety of goods, is probably the most well-known of the state's Internet companies.
More than 300,000 customers signed up in the first quarter for the service that lets consumers name the price for groceries online and then pick up the goods at a supermarket.
Helio, Los Angeles, which plans to introduce a wireless service aimed at younger consumers, named the Marina del Rey, Calif., office of Deutsch, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, to handle advertising.
WHEN Priceline.com arranges deals in which consumers name their own price for, say, airline tickets, it reports the money that the passenger pays for the seat as its own revenue, even though it neither owns nor flies any airplanes.
In our proposed mechanism, consumers name their own price and the mechanism will find service bureaus who are willing to make the part under the stated price.
The news keeps getting worse for Priceline.com, the Internet company that lets consumers name their own price for an airline ticket.
The PriceLine-Travelocity deal is a direct response to the September launch of Expedia's Hotel Price Matcher program, which lets consumers name their own price for rooms in a system similar to PriceLine's.
The site lets consumers name their own price on any given product, aggregates it all together, and presents the data on a dashboard for the merchant.
