At a time when pampering ourselves seems to be more of a necessity than a special treat, Ayanna Williams has put the fun back into the spa experience by selling a kid-friendly version, reports Business First of Buffalo. Williams created the business to pamper little girls, with all natural sweet treatments, from chocolate facials to […]
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As you recover from the long Thanksgiving weekend, you might be relieved to know that a new survey by Challenger, Gray & Christmas has found that companies who ditched holiday parties during the recession are ready to bring them back. The survey of 100 human resource professionals found that 68 percent are planning parties this
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According to Hacking Netflix, Redbox announced that a customer in Tampa rented Clash of the Titans and pushed them over the 1 billion rental mark. Redbox is celebrating with the “Thanks a Billion” contest with free rentals and a chance at prizes including 50 $500 gift cards, a home theater system or a trip to
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Ponder the difference between the comedian and the musician. Both create and perform works to entertain audiences, but they go about protecting that work in different ways. The notoriously litigious music industry often resorts to the legal system to protect itself from pirates and samplers. But comedians don’t. So why hasn’t the joke well gone
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If you have used a digital camera or any gadget that requires batteries, occasionally you insert the batteries the wrong way preventing the device from working till you switch them around. GadgetVenue reports that Microsoft has invented a new technology called InstaLoad that allows a device to be powered regardless of which way you put
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Unnerved by forecasts of grim holiday sales, malls are pulling out all the stops to try and get shoppers in the door. The Los Angeles Times reports at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, aerialists twirl 80 feet off the ground as escalator riders gawk. The mall has bumped it’s holiday marketing spending up one
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photo credit: chanchan222 Many are up in arms about the recent announcement of Disney buying out the long time favorite Marvel comics. Many wonder what this will forecast for Marvels many characters in the future. Will they change drastically, will they get rid of some of the characters that people love? One sure thing about
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Springwise: Digital greetings are all very well, but it seems there’s something about the tangible paper card that just can’t be replaced. We’ve written about talking gift tags and greeting cards with online attachments, and now there’s Burney Cards, combining an artist-designed, fold-out paper card with a burnable CD tucked inside. Created by Dutch firm
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 photo credit: aloshbennett Tim Berry recently posted an article suggesting that the age of newspapers is on it’s way out if not already out. However, I do still see many people today reading newspapers including myself. I think there is still a great deal of people who rely on the newspaper for their news,
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Read Write Web: According to the latest data from Hitwise, however, interest in eBooks continues to grow steadily. Looking at the data for the U.K., Hitwise’s Robin Goad concludes that searches for ‘ebooks’ doubled between January 2008 and 2009, with a clear peak around Christmas. As the Kindle isn’t available outside of the U.S. yet,
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