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Chelsea Clinton has reaped $9 million in compensation since 2011 for serving on the board of an internet investment company, according to Barron’s, the financial publication. Barron’s reported Sunday that Clinton has profited handsomely as a board member for IAC/InterActiveCorp, a media and internet investment company that has an ownership stake in 150 well-known brands, such as Vimeo, Tinder, Angie’s List and Home Advisor. Clinton, the only child of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has served on IAC’s board since 2011 and receives an annual $50,000 retainer and $250,000 worth of restricted IAC stock...

Angie's List Inc. said Wednesday its revenue grew 11%, but it was less than analysts had expected as gross paid membership additions fell 27% for the services marketplace and consumer-review company. Despite seeing revenue growth, Angie's List has posted mostly losses since going public in 2011, as expansion efforts have ratcheted up costs. In the most recent quarter, Angie's List booked a loss of $8.3 million, or 14 cents a share, compared with a loss of $18.4 million, or 31 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue grew to $87.3 million from $78.9 million.

Consumer-services marketplace books a loss of $8.3 million Angie’s List Inc. said Wednesday its revenue grew 11%, but it was less than analysts had expected as gross paid membership additions fell 27% for the services marketplace and consumer-review company....

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - A Charlotte woman called On Your Side Investigates for help after she paid a local contractor thousands of dollars for work on her house that wasn't completed. Tanza Boller recently bought a house for her and her two children with the intention of fixing it up. She said she wanted to find someone she could trust, so she used Angie's List to help find a company to do the work.

Since Angie’s List does not want your business, you should cancel your membership like I did. After I cancelled, I found out that Angie’s List has a membership Bill of Rights. You can get back 110% of what you paid if you are dissatisfied with your membership. Considering Angie’s List’s CEO does not want Christians’ business and has contempt for people of faith, I’d suggest you might be dissatisfied with your membership.

“Angie’s List is open to all and discriminates against none,” Oesterle said, “and we are hugely disappointed in what this bill represents.”

The whole point of the popular website Angie’s List is that it is supposed to provide ratings and reviews of contractors, mechanics, dentists and the like based purely on customer experience, referring to itself in the company membership agreement as a “passive conduit.” But according to one Philadelphia woman, Angie’s List is anything but.

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/03/26/angies-list-class-action-lawsuit/

Add Angie's List to the roster of companies and business interests taking a stand against Indiana's new anti-gay law.

Last week, in a Fairfax, Virginia courtroom, a jury announced it had determined a homeowner's Yelp "review" of a local general contractor was in fact old-fashioned slander. It started in 2011, when Jane Perez posted a review that alleged contractor Dietz Development LLC had not only performed shoddy and destructive work on her home without a license, but also that a member of Christopher Dietz's crew had stolen her jewelry. So Dietz sued for defamation, to the tune of $750,000 in damages, which he may have been awarded had he not responded on the social network with what the jury...

Angie's List, which compiles and makes available consumer reports on local businesses, has bought into Al Gore's global warming hysteria lock, stock and oil barrel. April's Angie's List magazine is devoted to "green" issues. Although the magazine's only about five-dozen pages, it manages to squeeze in two pictures of profoundly loopy former president Jimmy Carter, who "installed solar panels on the White House roof," something that apparently is to be applauded. But not by anyone who paid attention. An April, 1979 Associated Press story began: "A new solar water-heating system being installed at the White House costs thousands of dollars...