Arben Kryeziu » Spy http://www.kryeziu.com Captain Obvious Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:04:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Spy on your competition – is this legal? http://www.kryeziu.com/2008/05/23/spy-on-your-competition-is-this-legal/ http://www.kryeziu.com/2008/05/23/spy-on-your-competition-is-this-legal/#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 03:09:19 +0000 Arben Kryeziu http://www.kryeziu.com/?p=180
Imagine a site that allows you to search through the database that contains every shipment entering the United States, allowing any business to access high value contact information for each of their competitor’s overseas suppliers. And it is as easy as buying a monthly subscription. WoW.

By ImportGenius.com

Since mid-March, Apple Inc. and its logistics partners have imported 188 ocean containers of a product type never before declared on its shipping manifests. [...] On March 19 Quanta delivered 20 ocean containers of merchandise, described on the Bills of Lading as "electric computers," to Apple, Inc. Neither Apple, Quanta, nor any other company has ever used this product description for any shipments to the U.S. [...] Over the last few months shipments of "desktop computers" and other devices did not fall off, indicating that these "electric computers" represent a new product for the company rather than a simple renaming for their Customs declarations.

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