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Abercrombie & Fitch Offers The Situation Money Not to Wear Their Products

They say any kind of publicity is good publicity but, as far as Abercrombie & Fitch is concerned, the saying doesn’t always apply. After Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was repeatedly pictured wearing A&F clothing, the company offered him money to stop doing that. While other brands would pay excell...

18 August 2011
14:01 GMT

Happy Employees Successful Companies

The way that employees perceive work conditions has a big impact on the organization they work for, says a new study carried out by psychological scientist James K. Harter of Gallup, Inc. and his colleagues, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.For...

14 August 2010
05:56 GMT

Tamara Mellon to Sell Jimmy Choo, Will Walk with £100 Million

Tamara Mellon may not be a name that rings a bell with many but that doesn’t change the fact that she is one of the most powerful and influential women in fashion and showbiz today. Co-founder of Jimmy Choo with the designer that came to personify the brand, she was among the first to dress celebrities for the ...

9 August 2010
16:31 GMT

Virgin Atlantic Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Dita Von Teese

Dita Von Teese can sell absolutely anything, from alcoholic beverages to books and luxury lingerie, and the figures speak for themselves. For the 10th anniversary of flights from and to London and Las Vegas, Teese wing walked and posed for pictures with Sir Richard Branson, after being immortalized on the side of a p...

16 June 2010
16:21 GMT

Activision: 30 Years in the Game Sure Says a Lot

Activision was born on October the 1st, 1979, and has turned into a leader in the game industry. Its titles are expected by gamers all over the world and, as soon as launched, they spread with the speed of a tsunami. Its games are probably also the most pirated of all in the world and plenty of them are known even to...

2 October 2009
15:41 GMT

The Top 100 Tech Media Companies for Investors

An advisory panel formed by representatives from PricewaterhouseCoopers (financial consultancy), Kemp Little (legal consultancy for tech companies) and British newspaper The Guardian has comprised a list of the top 100 best investment opportunities in the British tech media sector. The list is dominated by online com...

8 September 2009
04:30 GMT

Google Summer of Code 2009 Wraps Up

The Google Summer of Code global program that offers young developers financial conditions to write and develope code for open source projects has come to an end this week. Students around the world have worked in 150 companies accepted in the program interacting with industry veterans and experienced mentors.The Sum...

27 August 2009
09:57 GMT

Companies Introduce ‘Botox Leave’ Especially for Female Employees

Not long ago, getting Botox injections before some fancy party was an activity that most women performed on the hush-hush because they knew people would judge them for it. That is about to change as of now, as an increasingly number of companies have started to include what is known as a “Botox leave,” gi...

14 January 2009
06:23 GMT

Recession Sees Increase in Number of Avon Representatives

While most major brands in the cosmetics industry are just beginning to feel the effects of the international financial recession and are announcing lower sales for 2009, Avon is one company for which things are truly looking up. Ever since before Christmas, the number of representatives has started to increase, and ...

12 January 2009
03:35 GMT

Motorola Opens Finance Company in China

Motorola will fully own from now on a finance company in China. Its name will be Motorola (China) Finance Limited (MCFL) and will provide financial services for Motorola's subsidiaries, joint ventures and affiliates in this country.Just how did Motorola end up having its own finance company in China is rather un...

9 November 2007
10:03 GMT

Almost 60% of Companies - Virus Infected

Computers make work a lot easier, that's for sure. But what about when computers don't work the way they should? That's when things start getting slower. But what about when they have viruses? Well, that's when your business might be in danger. Some viruses compromise files and make them unreadabl...

14 September 2007
06:58 GMT

Dell Virtualizes The SMBs

A new expression is floating around the computer industry for sometime now and it started to stir some pretty strong waves. The said expression is "virtualization" and it refers to both a concept and a practical technology. Using this technology a single physical server can assume the role of many "virtual machines" ...

8 September 2007
06:15 GMT

Being a Geek Is not Enough to Enforce Security

If you are really tech-savvy and really love computers and all that, you might have a safe connection at home, but the same thing does not go when you're trying to secure a corporation's network. Sure, you may have knowledge of UTMs and firewalls and anti-viruses but that just doesn't cut it anymore.Wh...

7 September 2007
06:30 GMT

Lite-On's Expansion Plans

Lite-On Technology announced its plans of expansion by acquiring the largest independent handset casing company, Perlos, who is a Finland based firm and has shares listed and traded at the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki. Lite-On plans to offer a public cash tender with a price of 5.20 Euro for every Perlos share in cas...

14 August 2007
05:32 GMT

Sun Microsystems Lets Workers Go

Sun Microsystems is going to fire a massive part of its current 34,219 employees as the first stage of a restructuring plan that will be rolled out by the middle of the year 2008. The company expects to pay an estimated $100 million to $150 million on severance packages for its fired workers, but declined to specify ...

8 August 2007
06:54 GMT

Dell to Recycle Old Computers

Dell announced that it recovered nearly 40000 tons of damaged, defective or broken computer hardware parts from its customers last year, which would mean a 93% increase over 2006, with a much more ambitious goal of 125000 tons by 2009. According to the company, the amount of hardware parts collected and recycled equa...

20 July 2007
07:05 GMT

HP Is Doing Better, Not Great

"I would give us a good grade on improvement. I think we are better incrementally. I think we are still poor absolutely," Hurd said in an on-stage interview last week at Fortune magazine's annual technology conference in San Francisco and was cited by the news site zdnet.com. Mark Hurd joined the HP company over...

16 July 2007
11:00 GMT

Google: We Know It Already, We're A Very Powerful Company!

Google recently debuted a new blog, Public Policy, used by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, as the proper moment to praise the company's efforts, achievement and plans. Although he was speaking about the Mountain View giant, the Google employee didn't avoid mentioning tha...

18 June 2007
10:26 GMT

Ignorance? No, Google Is Working On It!

Many of you believe that Google is such a big company that doesn't have enough time to answer all the messages sent to its inbox so it's obvious to ignore some of them. Others sustain that Google is not doing many things to improve its solutions unless the users report problems or wants to evolve the curren...

8 June 2007
12:41 GMT

Company of Heroes - DirectX 10 Patch Download and Comparison Trailer

Company of Heroes is a WWII based RTS game coming from Relic Entertainment, that brings back to life the journey of the Able Company and its brave men, as they fight across Europe in the worst conflagration in history.The video we have provided HERE for you shows slight, but significant differences between identical ...

1 June 2007
04:30 GMT

How to Create Your Own Mobile Phone Company

Sonopia company offers anyone the possibility of creating a mobile community online. This makes the user play the role of an actual mobile phone organization, as it has its own subscribers and receives fees for the time that they spend talking on the mobile phone.The users of Sonopia that wish to start a mobile phone...

29 May 2007
12:34 GMT

Please Keep In Mind: Google Is The Most Powerful Company!

Google is the most powerful company in the entire world, not only on the Internet, for multiple reasons. The main reason is that it owns the best search engine, used by millions of visitors and implemented in numerous pages on the Internet. Recently, Google received the award for the most powerful brand in 2006, the ...

9 May 2007
15:26 GMT

What Is Mobbing?

In the European Union, 10 % of the employees go to work as if they were going to a concentration camp. Mobbing is rampant and is steadily increasing. But only half of the harassed employees will suffer psychological or physical sequels, like depression, ulcer, skin problems, insomnia, post-traumatic stress. That'...

29 March 2007
11:15 GMT


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