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Nine West Boots Target Breast Cancer

Nine West is helping to raise awareness and funds for the fight against breast cancer during September’s Fashion Week in New York City. It’s a project called “Runway Relief.”

New Mac Pro Review

With up to 12 processor cores of raw power, and an easy access interior for simple expansion, the new Mac Pro announced today by Apple is the most powerful and configurable Mac they’ve ever made.

Gillette Fusion ProGlide Review

The new Gillette Fusion ProGlide shaving system is coming this Sunday, May 30th, and it promises to be a significant advancement in shaving performance and comfort.

Match.com Partners With Yahoo!

Match.com is becoming the exclusive online dating site on Yahoo!. “Match.com on Yahoo!” is available starting today. The long-term arrangement provides that Match.com will be the service that comes up when you click on the Personals navigation link on the Yahoo! homepage.

PETCO Helps St. Louis Animal Rescue

According to a report from the St. Louis Business Journal, national pet store chain PETCO plans to donate $200,000 to build an education center at the new downtown headquarters of Stray Rescue of St. Louis. The PETCO Foundation partners with over 6,200 non-profit animal welfare groups to provide the resources that will help them continue to make a difference in the lives of animals.

Avis Still #1 in Customer Loyalty

Avis has once again been named the leading car rental company in customer loyalty by the Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index. This is the eleventh year in a row that Avis has been awarded the number one spot in the car rental category.

Health Focus: The Wonders of Vitamin D

As part of our commitment to bring you information and offers that support good health, we’ll be blogging, from time to time, about some of the latest studies and issues concerning health, nutrition and fitness. This time around we take a look at “The Sunshine Vitamin” – Vitamin D.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Coming Soon

The fifth major release of Adobe’s Creative Suite, CS5, is coming on April 12th, and it will significantly streamline work for creative professionals with powerful new features including “content aware fill.” Here are just a few of the reported advances.

EPA Cautions on Pet Meds for Fleas and Ticks

As a responsible pet owner it’s important to protect our pets from the many dangers imposed by fleas and ticks, but it is also essential to do so in a way that poses the least risk to our pets and families. Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a news release concerning the safety of spot-on pesticide products for flea and tick control for cats and dogs. Here’s what you need to know.

Dollar Thrifty Adds Diversity to the Fleet

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc has announced that it will be making fewer 2010 car rental purchases from Chrysler in an effort to diversify its fleet. Ford Motor Company will become the largest part of the fleet with 34 percent of purchases in 2010.

Celebrating Halloween On A Budget

Last year Americans spent an estimated $6.9 billion on Halloween, making it the country’s second largest commercial holiday, but the National Retail Federation released a survey this week saying that consumers intend to spend less in 2009 because of economic conditions, with total spending expected to reach only $4.75 billion. On average, the 2009 Halloween [...]

No More Smoking In Some Rental Cars

Come October 1st, Avis and Budget will become the first major rental-car companies to completely ban smoking throughout their entire North American fleets. Cars will undergo an inspection upon return and customers who ignore the ban and smoke in the vehicles will face a cleaning fee of up to $250.

Albums Are Still Alive on eMusic

To borrow a phrase from Mark Twain, reports of the death of the long play album have been greatly exaggerated, at least when it comes to leading digital music retailer eMusic. eMusic announced last week that full album downloads accounted for 72% of their worldwide sales over the past year, and over the past few [...]

Squarespace Goes (Even More) Green

Web publishing provider Squarespace has announced that all of the electricity they buy is Green-e certified renewable and they are now a TerraPass certified carbon-balanced business. Squarespace has long had a commitment to reduced environmental impact, designing their product to minimize the number of servers required, achieving more than 20 times the efficiency of most custom hosting solutions.

Orlando Welcomes Back Thrifty and Other Major Car Firms

If you’ve ever flown into Orlando International Airport and rented a car from there, you might have been surprised to learn that your car was a lengthy shuttle bus ride away in a remote location. Between now and next April, those shuttles will become a thing of the past. The Greater Orlando Airport Authority is [...]

Voice Capabilities Coming To eHarmony and Match.com

Matches on dating sites are used to communicating with text chats or private messaging before meeting face to face. Now members at both Match.com and eHarmony will be able to experience voice chats in real time…

GoDaddy Set For Another Super Bowl

For the sixth year in a row, Go Daddy will be a part of the Super Bowl. The domain registration and web hosting company will sponsor two 30-second slots in the 2010 Super Bowl to be broadcast February 7th on the CBS television network. Although many other companies are cutting their sports marketing budgets during [...]

LifeLock Speaker Series Educates About Identity Theft

Nearly 10 million people in the United States fall victim to identity theft each year, making it the nation’s number one crime. Altogether, it adds up to fraud in an amount of tens of billions of dollars annually. Yet many of us don’t know the first thing about how our personal data can be compromised [...]

eHarmony Uses Science To Make Successful Matches

According to eHarmony, on average 236 of its successful matches result in marriage every day in the United States alone. That’s nearly 2% of all the marriages made nationwide.