With their dedicated Facebook pages and selective advertising, companies have been targeting interest, tracking clicks, and building customer acquisition databases.
These victims, he says, were misled by Davison Design's bogus claims including false representations about how selective the company was in choosing inventions to work with, making misleading promises of close contact with manufacturers and a deceptive claim that the company's revenue came from sharing royalties with inventors, rather than from the $800 to $12,000 in fees it charged inventors.
Selective logging allows companies to fell choice trees without denuding whole tracts of woodlands.
Weak courts and selective enforcement encouraged companies to conduct business outside Russia.
Wall Street is being very selective in taking companies public, and blessing only those with particularly high revenue and growth projections.
Mr. Einhorn thinks the S.E.C. should force the publication of information given to the rating agencies, by ending their exemption from Regulation FD, which generally bars selective disclosures by companies.
The commission will also be examining whether to keep a new rule that was a cornerstone of Mr. Levitt's tenure that prohibits the selective disclosure by companies of financial information.
Browne added that Quora will be highly selective of which companies' messages it chooses to show.
"We are incredibly selective on the companies we partner with," Braswell told me in an interview last month.
Under European Union (EU) state aid rules member states are not allowed to grant companies selective tax advantages that distort competition.
