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Logistics make life better UPS Mail Innovations Opens State-of-the-Art Processing Center near Phoenix from Market Watch, Nov 30, 2010 UPS Mail Innovations has opened a new mail processing centre in Tolleson, Ariz. The diagram below illustrate the how the UPS mail system helps improve delivery efficiency. “UPS Mail Innovations serves customers that have opted to […]

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Use of social media in business is certainly the one most discussed topics in news nowadays. Recently, SmartBrief and Summus released a report – The State of Social Media for Business 2010 to help business in different fields determine the potential opportunities in developing social media marketing strategy. The report points out that businesses which […]

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Electric cars ‘may be costlier than petrol vehicles’ (by Brian Milligan, BBC News, 27, August, 2010) According to the figures produced by  Mitsubishia, Japanese car-maker, driving electric cars might not be practical for many people at the moment due to the high cost. High purchase and battery prices, as well as rapid depreciation are what […]

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Aims at developing an image as a modern lifestyle dessert oasis that specializes in fresh yogurt and fresh fruit, Qoola a local privately owned Vancouver start-up, tries to eradicate two stereotypes. First, its delicious dessert proves that not all healthy food tastes awful. Second, it will prove that it is not too expensive for a […]

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Barbie with diamond choker sells for record price Last week, in an auction in New York, a Barbie was sold for $302,500 (USD) to an anonymous bidder and the proceeds will go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. This broke the previous  world auction record – $17,091, for a Barbie in 2006. Stefano Canturi, an […]

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For the Love of Cardborad Amazon has been trying to persuade its suppliers to get rid of those “annoying, hard-to-open” plastic packaging and put consumer goods in simple cardboard boxes instead. Based on the data provided by the New York Times, companies which have switched into the use of cardboard boxes, have resulted in 73% […]

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Each year in Canada, there are 40,000 lightning-related insurance claims, totalling between $500 million and $1 billion. Insurers find the need to verify past strikes from a trustworthy source instead of relying on the adjusters to “recreate events that literally happened in the blink of an eye”. Here’s the good news to the insurers. The […]

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Launched last year with initial $27.5-million-investment from Sprott Resource Corp., One Earth Farms now administrates 93,000 acres of farmland in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It aims at creating the biggest farms in the world by building stable long-term relationship with the First Nations who control 2 millions acres of land in three provinces. Image 1 […]

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Toyota to launch six new hybrid cars While Detroit’s Big Three car makers are still struggling with with their health care costs and employee pension, the Japanese auto makers have already started to seize the clean-energy car market. Nissan and Honda are ready to surprise the consumers with their electric cars later this year and […]

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Some brands are very successful in tying its brand to its product. For example, Kleenex is almost equal to tissues. Similarly, Starbucks has also established its superior status in the coffee industry. However, unlike Kleenex, which produces its products (i.e. tissues) in their own pulp manufacturing mills, Starbucks, on the other hands, imports most of […]

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