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A Business reputation is everything, it can help make or break a company, with the Internet your reputation (good or bad) can now spread like wild fire if your not on top of it. (reputationmanagementfor.com)

Drewary continues: “Some employers may believe the cost is not worth the investment. However, the catastrophic consequences are clear for all to see. Unfortunately, once things have reached that stage it is too late, as the damage to business reputation has been done and may never be reversed. Furthermore, the employer may be subject to criminal charges.” (hgvuk.com)

Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s leftist president, said his country has repaid a foreign loan for the first time since the oil-rich Andean nation first missed a payment 183 years ago, to ameliorate its reputation as a serial defaulter. (Financial Times)

Defamation—also calumny, vilification, and traducement—is the communication of a false statement that harms the reputation of an individual person, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation. Under common law, to constitute defamation, a claim must generally be false and must have been made to someone other than the person defamed. Some common law jurisdictions also distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel. (Wikipedia)