Aspartame Consumer Safety Network confirms results of the latest scientific study showing aspartame in diet soft drinks can trigger serious adverse reactions like heart attacks, strokes and diabetes. 1 Aug 2007
Internet fraud is a growing threat as more and more consumers go online to buy everything from flowers to furniture. Internet bedroom furniture leader, Home-and-Bedroom.com, offers ten practical tips to ensure that your online furniture transactions are safe ones. 1 Aug 2007
Technalign has announced the launch of version 3.1 of it's CRM/Supply Chain Management application and is now available for download on a 30 day trial. The CRM provides on demand, real time statistics of the sales force, credit, and support teams. The new release includes many new functions including consignment orders, credit processing, and full invoicing capabilities. 1 Aug 2007
Top Dog Sales Secrets is a new book that teaches anyone who sells vital new skills. Edited by SalesDog.com founder Michael Dalton Johnson, Top Dog Sales Secrets serves up the selling secrets of 50 renowned sales wizards in doggie-treat-sized bites designed to supercharge sales performance. 1 Aug 2007
A global pashmina retailer has partnered with the International Breast Cancer Research Foundation to make a donation for every purchase in support of the Pink Ribbon campaign. To support the campaign for fundraising in the fight against breast cancer, part of the sale value for any order containing a pink pashmina will be given directly to cancer research. 1 Aug 2007
Strategic alliances can deliver true innovation, creating new categories, rejuvenating consumer interest and driving organic growth. Those alliances that are focused on powerfully branded, easy-to-experience innovations that are designed around the consumer allow for premium pricing and are drivers of growth. Being at the forefront of identifying shifts in consumer behaviour is essential to capitalising on that next great idea, selecting the right partner to turn that vision into value, as both Philips and Groupe SEB have done, joining forces with leading brewers to deliver the ideal home draft beer systems 31 Jul 2007
MarketConnect, a leading think tank in the marketing research professional services arena, have announced the launch of its MarketConnect web site; an industry portal to bring together marketing research providers with organisations that need to purchase marketing research services. 31 Jul 2007
Just over half of online new car buyers who answered an exclusive BuyingAdvice.com (http://www.buyingadvice.com) survey said that the length of the auto manufacturer's warranty was a factor in their decision to buy a particular vehicle. 31 Jul 2007
Snooth has announced that it's released the Snooth Facebook wine application, allowing Facebook users to interact with, and explore, Snooth's functionality from within their Facebook account. Using Facebook's API to access Snooth's database of millions of wine ratings across hundreds of thousands of wines, users can now rate and review wines, get recommendations and see what their friends are drinking as well as find retailers to purchase specific wines from. 31 Jul 2007
Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc., a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies, has announced that Buyers Laboratory, Inc. (BLI) has recognised the magicolor® 5550 as its 2007 'Pick of the Year' based upon its exceptional performance, diverse set of features and economic pricing. 31 Jul 2007
Virgin Active recently announced plans to invest an R1.2 billion in its South African operations over the next five years. R750 million of this sum will go into the total upgrade of all existing facilities over the next 36 months, including the supply of brand new state-of-the-art equipment, and the balance will be spent on an extensive new build programme that will see around forty new clubs developed over the next five years. 31 Jul 2007
Zimbabwe's economy may be crumbling, but it's business as usual in the branding business. 31 Jul 2007
IBM, whose 20th century employees were parodied as corporate cogs in matching navy suits, doesn't have an avatar dress code. However, guidelines suggest being "especially sensitive to the appropriateness of your avatar or persona's appearance when you are meeting with IBM clients or conducting IBM business." 31 Jul 2007
Openads has developed an open source adserver now used by over 20,000 publishers. 31 Jul 2007
South Africa's premier accolade for achievement by women went to Linda Olga Nghatsane, who was named the Shoprite Checkers/SABC 2 Woman of the Year for 2007, at the annual celebration of the women of South Africa, held in Cape Town on Thursday, 26 July 2007. 30 Jul 2007
USA - Koch Equipment LLC has announced the introduction of a new MADO frozen meat grinder for the meat and poultry industries that grinds fresh and frozen product at high levels of efficiency with minimal temperature rise, which reduces bacteria and contaminants. 30 Jul 2007
Safefreight has launched SecurityGuard™212 - a portable, wireless tracking and security device designed for shippers and carriers transporting refrigerated and frozen foods and other perishables. It will help them monitor temperature conditions of their trailers so that their perishable cargo won't be compromised. 30 Jul 2007
A new report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. says that scientifically backed nutritive and cancer-fighting capabilities of cocoa-rich chocolates are fueling the demand for cocoa. The cocoa market is thus projected to exceed 4 million metric tons by 2010. 30 Jul 2007
There is clearly concern that an individual's right to privacy is being steadily eroded by governments responsible for protecting citizens and by multi-national corporations, whose tremendous power and influence over political and legislative processes has become a given. 30 Jul 2007
Pick the moment, pick the wine, take the picture – and you could win a private boat party for you and 20 friends. 30 Jul 2007
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