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    Insite Software Customers Exceed Seven Million Transactions During 2010 Holiday Season

    Insite Software Customers Exceed Seven Million Transactions During 2010 Holiday Season Minneapolis, MN (Vocus/PRWEB) January 13, 2011 Insite Software, a leading B2B and B2C ecommerce platform and provider of shipping solutions, today announced that its offerings aided Insite’s customers to successfully manage more than seven million ecommerce and shipping transactions during the final six weeks of 2010. For FY2010, Insite enabled more than 45 million B2B and B2C transactions. “We are very pleased with the performance of our ecommerce site built by Insite Software,” said Kenneth C. Natori, Vice President of Finance at The Natori…

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    Agoda Orchestrates Great Rates For the BBC Proms 2010

    Royal Albert Hall (PRWEB) July 15, 2010 Agoda.com, Asia’s global hotel booking site and part of Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN), is helping make the BBC Proms 2010 an even more memorable event with a range of fantastic hotel rates across London. The Proms is the world’s largest classical music festival with events taking place at Royal Albert Hall over several weeks. This year it runs from July 16 to September 11. “‘Proms” is short for “promenade concert”, where audience members, rather than being seated, stand or walk around the auditorium while a performance is in session. The Proms began in 1895 as a way…

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    Dohop Shortlisted for 2010 Budgies Awards

    Dohop Shortlisted for 2010 Budgies Awards (PRWeb UK) September 24, 2010 Cheap flights search engine Dohop.com has been shortlisted for the 2010 Budgies, in the category “Best Sales and Distribution Innovation”. The Budgies are the World Low-Cost Airline Awards and were created to generate public recognition of the efforts, accomplishments and positive contributions of companies and individuals in the low cost airline industry. Since its foundation, Dohop has always been low-cost airline friendly, and originally showed only low-cost airlines in their search results. Although Dohop has grown to include every scheduled flight in the…

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    Latest News – My Favorite Things, 2010

    My Favorite Things, 2010 This is an updated repost of a piece I wrote on my favorite books almost one year ago. Since then I’ve read more interesting books to add to my list below — mainly Japanese classics going back approximately 100 to 150 years. Two books I particularly enjoyed were old Japanese fiction: Mistress Oriku , a tale of the liberal (for the Meiji era especially!) owner of the Shigure Teahouse in Tokyo … Extracted from: Read more on Travelife Magazine Huge Blizzard Snarls Travel and Transit in the Northeast The monster storm swirled over the New York region and the Northeast, disrupting air, rail and highway travel.…

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    The Ultimate Christmas Gift Guide 2010: part 1

    If you’re anything like us, when the consumer countdown to Christmas began in, ooh, 1066, you just put your fingers in your ears and went ‘la la la, October is not nearly Christmas time’. But now you’ve suddenly realised that Hallowe’en been and gone, that Thanksgiving has also, and that the big event is technically next week, and you’re quietly panicking about (a) the unwritten cards, (b) that unplanned festive feast, and (c) those unbought Christmas gifts. Well, we can’t write the cards for you, or order your bird, but, as we did last year in our great Christmas gift guide, we can (*cue jingle bells, rosy-faced choristers, roasted chestnuts…