MyPourPal, LLC has launched what is expected to be one of the beverage world's hottest apps: MyPourPal , Linking Bartenders to Their Regulars. This "first of its type" app creates a social link between bartenders and their regular ...
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Australian-produced app Roamz is reaching out to the retail sector with analytics that will tell a store what customers are saying in real time. Developed in Sydney by entrepreneur Jonathan Barouch, Roamz uses the number-crunching ...
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Kandy Magazine announced today that it is now available as a free iPhone App in iTunes. The Kandy magazine iPhone app follows Kandy's hugely successful iPad app. Kandy's iPad app has been the number 1 ranked Men's Interest iPad app in ...
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Toys R Us' Jerry Storch will step down as CEO after seven years at the helm, but will remain Chairman of the Board. He will also remain CEO while the retailer looks for his successor. Storch, 56, joined the company in February 2006 ...
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Members of the GMB union are staging a number of demonstrations across nine Amazon UK depots today (Wednesday, February 13th). The dispute concerns staff wages, which are £6.20 an hour - one penny above the UK minimum wage, ...
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Aurora World is producing a new Garfield plush range. The Garfield cartoon was first introduced in 1978 and is now featured in over 2,100 newspapers across the globe, holding the Guinness World Record for the most syndicated cartoon ...
Kids, parents and members of the toy industry are being urged to "Do something funny with Jelly" for charity. The In Thing has teamed up Izziwizzi kids to donate Gelli Baff and launch the campaign in aid of Comic relief. This will ...
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Harrods has pulled two children's books labelled "sexist" from sale and has apologised for any offence caused. A Twitter photo of the two "non gender neutral" 'How to be' books was posted on Twitter by TV journalist and former Harrods ...
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PicSlinger, an addictive new iPhone application, combines pictures with a word game for friends to play together. Players give it their best shot by choosing a word from three choices and snapping a photo to represent that word. Player A ...
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Buyers of Windows 8 smartphones need to check that apps that offer vital functionality on their iPhone and Android devices are available for their new Microsoft-inspired handset. Apps can be either missing, of relatively poor quality ...
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Broadcast live on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards opened with the Taittinger Moment Champagne red carpet toast. Vitalie Taittinger, Global Ambassador and Artistic Director of the historic Champagne house, ...
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LeapFrog is the fastest-growing top ten toy manufacturer in the UK, according to full-year 2012 NPD data. The company says it grew by 26 per cent last year, when it became the eighth biggest toy manufacturer in the UK. The LeapPad kids' ...
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Fresh Kimmidoll Junior doll ranges have been revealed in the US. The half-inch plush beanbag dolls ($12 each) are targeting children aged 0+, while the standard Kimmidoll Junior dolls ($13 each) are aimed at those aged over three years ...
Tags: US, New Kimmidoll Junior Collection, Toys
Too much drama, boredom and scads of irrelevant information are just some of the reasons why Facebook users take a break from the world's biggest social networking site for weeks at a time, according to a new study. A report from the Pew ...
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A group of US lawmakers have proposed a bill that would make it illegal for employers or schools to require the disclosure of passwords for social networks such as Facebook. The bipartisan proposal comes after reports that some firms have ...