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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is currently one of the most widely used background check services in the industry. While it is commendable that the company offers various options to accommodate different budgets, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

There’s really no excuse for going on a date in this day and age without knowing anything about the person — even if they’re a complete stranger. With so much information available about people online ...