| Topshop brings forward Moss launch date
Topshop has brought forward the launch date for the much-anticipated Kate Moss range and will hold a special launch event at its Oxford Circus flagship on Monday April 30.
The store will close early at 5.30pm and reopen at 8pm with the windows redressed to unveil the collection. Every 150 people in the queue will be given a different coloured wrist band and each colour group will be entitled to 20 minutes shopping time (excluding time at the tills). Purchases will be limited to five items per person. A goody bag and shopping bag will also be thrown in.
Topshop expects to keep the store open until midnight and reopen again at 7am. The collection will also be available on the web site from 6am on May 1.
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Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Launches Sprig.com
WASHINGTON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (WPNI), a leading publisher of award-winning news and information Web sites and a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) , today announced the launch of Sprig (http://www.sprig.com/), the company's new property for the sophisticated and stylish woman who also aims to integrate environmentally- friendly choices into her life. As green moves into the mainstream, Sprig caters to a consumer who wants to combine demanding taste-in fashion, beauty, home, food and lifestyle-with first-rate products and services that are LESS demanding on the environment. Sprig's original content and fresh and convenient ideas enable readers who want the best for themselves and their families to easily make choices that are beautiful, stylish and eco-friendly.
Search Engine Strategies New York 2007 Profiles
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Search Engine Strategies New York 2007 takes place Apr. 10-13 at the Hilton New York. For in-depth information about the event, visit http://searchenginestrategies.com/sew/ny07/ . Below are profiles from Search Engine Strategies New York exhibitors. Business Wire is the official news wire for Search Engine Strategies New York 2007. Breaking news releases and photos are available at Tradeshownews.com, Business Wire's trade show, conference, and event news resource. .
Dig Into Data Mining
Some stores, especially online retailers, don't have to ask. They already have the answers they're looking for, helping them sell more products. They know what you buy, in what amount, at what price, how you pay, and when you are most likely to come back to restock your supplies. Moreover, they know who you are, the best ways to deliver advertising to you, and they know what else you are likely to buy at the same time you buy toilet paper or deodorant. While the specific examples above may not cause envy among law enforcement, the fact that retailers have better analytical capacities than most law enforcement agencies should. This fact frustrates Colleen "Kelly" McCue, a senior research scientist at RTI International, a non-profit research institute.
Lake Camanche starts month-long charity trout derby
Friday was the start of the nnual Charity Trout Derby, a five week event benefiting the American Cancer Society. The big fish caught at Lake Camanche since Friday was a beautiful rainbow trout, weighing 6.93 pounds. It was caught by Mike Kaufman, from Manteca. He was fishing in the main lake, with Power Bait. The second biggest fish was caught by Jim Morris, from Turlock. His fish was 3.86 pounds, caught in the main lake, with Power Bait. The third biggest fish was caught by Charlie Morris, from Ceres. His fish was 2.79 pounds, caught in the main lake with Power Bait.
Fishing at the Day Use Point at North Shore continues to be very good for many anglers. Alan Mayberry, from Florin, and Tom Howe, from Twentynine Palms, caught two big trout this week. The first was a huge 8.85-pound rainbow, and the second was 4.5 pounds.
Springfield firm looks to make online shopping more secure
Springfield software developer McMurtrey/Whitaker & Associates Inc. has teamed with Arlington, Va.-based BuySafe Inc. to increase confidence in online shopping. A partnership reached this month allows the Springfield firm to offer surety bonding for its online merchant clients. The top product of McMurtrey/Whitaker & Associates, which works from 333 Park Central East, Ste. 601, is Web-based shopping cart software Cart32. About 22,000 worldwide online merchants including Fuddruckers and the Harlem Globetrotters use Cart32 for their virtual shopping cart interfaces. BuySafe conducts background checks on online merchants before granting its services. If deemed reliable, BuySafe, with the help of insurance companies including Liberty Mutual, issues a bond for each bonded transaction.
Server Virtualization Firm, SWsoft, Adds MIVA Support to Plesk ...
Herndon, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - April 2, 2007 - Server virtualization firm, SWsoft, has added MIVA Small Business Solutions support to its Plesk Control Panel application, in an effort to afford service providers the ability to offer customers a development, maintainenance and growth tool. XThrough an agreement between the two companies, SWsoft will resell MIVA Merchant e-commerce software and will deliver integrated support for MIVA in the SWsoft Plesk control panel. SWsoft is offering two versions of MIVA Merchant software with Plesk: MIVA Merchant 5 for small-to medium-size businesses and MIVA Merchant Fast Track for smaller and start-up businesses. By adding MIVA support to Plesk, hosting providers will benefit from patented technology in Plesk that will allow them to automate a large number of tasks and lower the cost of offering MIVA software to their customers.
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