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The Thomson-Reuters Foundation unveiled its new international pro bono project to a group of big firm lawyers and representatives from nongovernmental organizations in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Dubbed TrustLaw , the effort is designed to provide a new online market for pro bono projects around the world, connecting NGOs and nonprofits in need of free legal services with law firms looking to help. The project's Web site, Trustlaw.org, will launch in mid-April and function like a Match.com for pro b

We do the background checks to make sure they're not the mafia or al-Qaida   -Monique Villa

 

NEW YORK , March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Senior HR and work life experts will discuss how employers and employees can thrive in the new economy at the 2010 Work Life Conference . This meeting, held by The Conference Board and the Families and Work Institute, is March 25-26 at the Renaissance M Street Hotel in Washington, D.C. Participating organizations include Deloitte LLP, IBM, Accenture, Best Buy, Marriott, GlaxoSmithKline, KPMG and many others. "Our goal is to serve both as a magnifying glass for

Our goal is to serve both as a magnifying glass for understanding 'the new normal' and often confusing trends that are swirling all around us, and as binoculars for seeing what is ahead on the horizon   -Ellen Galinsky

 

KARLSRUHE , Germany , March 18, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Rebates are a Huge Worldwide Business - Rebate Delivery is the First Global Rebate Service for Online Sales, Operating the Consumer Portal GetMyRebate.com asknet AG, recently ranked as one of Germany's fastest-growing technology companies in Deloitte's "Technology Fast 50" report, announced Rebate Delivery as its partner for worldwide purchase incentives/mail-in rebates.

Adding the best-in-class on-line rebate provider Rebate Delivery to our portfolio of eMarketing services empowers our customers with even more innovative online marketing and proven sales enablement tools. Now software vendors partnering with asknet can use rebates as a discounting solution that yields the same kind of positive sales results retailers have been experiencing for years   -Mark R

 

Integrien Corporation : , the leader in real-time performance analytics, today announced that it has expanded its Technology Advisory Board. Including members who have run some of the largest IT infrastructures in the world, as well as leading IT software industry executives, the Technology Advisory Board helps Integrien evolve both product and company strategy to support growth initiatives. member of the Technology Advisory Board is Carol Rizzo, a seasoned Operations and Technology executive with over 2

Integrien has a huge play in the Cloud   -Tom Fisher

 

The Hotel began construction during the Great Depression, and was conceived originally as a project to keep many of the townspeople employed. It took three years to build, and was opened in 1933. But age and history often darkens what they touch, and so it was with many dimensions of the grand, old Hotel.  

The year is 2012. The London Olympics are in full swing, mayor Ken Livingstone is back on his throne at City Hall, and over at Westminster David Cameron isn't looking quite so youthful any more. Meanwhile, here in the insurance world, Towergate, Giles, Oval and Hyperion are finally preparing for their long-awaited flotations and, following the merger of the century, AXA/RSA is riding high at the top of the insurers' list.

The investment world is pretty agnostic as to whether it is Giles, Oval or Towergate, or some widget manufacturer or anyone else. So actually, the real hurdle when these businesses float is that they are going to be in a market where a lot of other business are also seeking to float. They are going to be competing for capital with much broader structures.   -Ian Clark

 

Sherry has a bit of an image problem, it's seen as a drink from the past rather than a drink for the future. Last year I wrote about the campaign from The Sherry Council of America to get younger people interested in drinking sherry. Now sherry is getting a boost in London with the opening of the city's first sherry bar on Friday.  

As the employment picture stabilizes and the stock market posts moderate gains, consumers that have denied themselves all indulgences for the past two years are starting to come back into stores, new data suggests. When the ICSC published its February same-store sales figures earlier this month, the 3.7 percent gain marked the third month in a row that sales were up from last year's levels. No doubt the improving statistics are partly due to the fact that the comparisons are to one of the worst sales ye

If jobs are viewed as being more plentiful, even people who have jobs will probably be able to exhale and feel less insecure and go out and spend   -Bob Bach

 

It's a bit later than the originally promised February release date, but iLuv has just announced that its iMM190 App Station iPhone / iPod touch dock is now available for $89.99. As we saw first-hand at CES , this one stands out from pack of iPhone / iPod docks somewhat by employing a custom iLuv app, which the company says will be frequently updated with new features. Of course, you can also use any other app you like (in both portrait or landscape mode), and the device will charge your iPhone or iPod tou  

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology. Throughout the histories of Windows Mobile and Android, many handset developers have talked the talk of supporting these mobile operating systems, dribbling out a couple of handsets per year as they focused on other priorities. But not HTC.