ALEXANDRIA, Va. , might 13, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Bing’s statement on Wednesday that it’ll stop showing ads for payday advances was an obvious and troublesome conflict of great interest: the organization’s GV investment investment (previously Google Ventures) has spent huge amount of money into the customer financing startup LendUp, which markets itself as being a competitor of regulated short-term loan providers.
“Bing is only disguising a small business choice underneath the veil of customer advocacy,” Community Financial solutions Association CEO Dennis Shaul stated. “Hiding behind vague claims of ‘principles’ and ‘helping people,’ Google kowtows to those activists whose only goals would be to prevent payday financing. [Read more...]