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Frequent price promotions threaten quality brands, study shows

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Frequent price cuts can have a major adverse effects on brand equity, even for well respected brands, according to a study published in a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).





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Tech toys over $100 that are worth every penny

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 5 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Picking a Christmas gift for the nerd in your life is never easy. In the holiday stampede, it's all too easy to pick an outdated gadget or obsolete program. And mistakes can be costly.


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A lightning strike in Africa helps take the pulse of the sun

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 5 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sunspots, which rotate around the sun's surface, tell us a great deal about our own planet. Scientists rely on them, for instance, to measure the sun's rotation or to prepare long-range forecasts of the Earth's ...


Aisle placements affect grocery sales, research shows

Other Sciences / Economics

created 6 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Supermarkets could increase their sales of related items, such as chips and soft drinks, by moving the items closer to each other in their stores, according to research by Ram Bezawada, assistant professor of marketing in ...


Web-based e-mail features come to desktop software

Technology / Internet

created 7 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- E-mail has taken a full circle. Over the years, Web-based e-mail services have gotten much better, sporting many features once available only with the e-mail programs that reside on the computer desktop.


Drug industry presses FDA to allow more online ads (AP)

Drug industry presses FDA to allow more online ads

Medicine & Health / Medications

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(AP) -- As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter ...


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New handbook for Google, Droid users

Technology / Other

created 8 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Before buying one of the new Google-powered "Droid" phones from Verizon Wireless, you may want to read the manual. Not the setup directions in the box.


Is neighbor's Wi-Fi signal free for me to use?

Technology / Telecom

created 9 hours ago | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Q. The other day, my Internet service went down as it does from time to time. But this particular time, I needed to check my e-mail for an important reply I was expecting. After some frustrating time passed, I happened to ...


90 percent of Africans are not protected by smoke-free laws

Medicine & Health / Health

created 15 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

As African nations are poised to undergo the highest increase in the rate of tobacco use among developing countries, nearly 90 percent of people on the continent remain without meaningful protection from secondhand smoke, ...


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Good food nation: Researchers think America's obesity epidemic can be reversed via 'foodsheds'

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the last three decades, childhood obesity in the United States has become a massive public-health problem. According to the Centers for Disease Control, between 1980 and 2006 the percentage ...


Yahoo CEO pledges to boost profit margins (AP)

Yahoo CEO pledges to boost profit margins

Technology / Business

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz promised Tuesday to turn around the struggling Internet company after this year's "terrible" performance.



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