Bellevue Internet company Intelius has agreed to a $1.3 million settlement with the Washington attorney general after consumers complained they were tricked into signing up for an online ...

Information-gathering company, Intelius, has released an app called Date Check that in minutes scans billions of publicly available documents stored on numerous databases and hidden in countless files ...

<strong>[Updated with details from news conference and comment from Intelius]</strong> The Washington Attorney General's Office has settled a legal dispute with <a ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) - Intelius, an online "information commerce" company, enrolled thousands of visitors in programs that charge monthly fees without their knowledge, the customers say in a federal ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by John Cook on May 14, 2012 at 1:37 pm ...

Forbes columnist Kashmir Hill recently Googled her name, and to her surprise found an advertisement in the search results from Bellevue-based Intelius. That set the reporter on a quest to find out why ...

SEATTLE (CN) - Intelius bills customers $19.95 a month "in perpetuity" for Internet services they don't know they are ordering, a class action claims in Federal Court. And Intelius profits twice, by ...

The ads are strikingly creepy, encouraging readers to be suspicious of those they know and love. In one (pictured at right), which has run in The Seattle Times and other local and national ...

Intelius, a company that performs background checks on people, has acquired Spock, a people search engine, for an undisclosed amount. The deal was signed today, VentureBeat just confirmed with Spock’s ...

Intelius, which provides online background checks and sells cellphone directory information to consumers, filed papers on Thursday to go public. The Bellevue company said it hopes to raise up to ...

Simply sign up to the US & Canadian companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. At the peak of the dotcom bubble 12 years ago, Naveen Jain, an entrepreneur from the Seattle area, rode ...

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