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Thetutorpages.com teams up with Nextshoot to create video ads

Thetutorpages.com has teamed up with Nextshoot, one of the UK’s leading web video production companies, to create the UK’s first online video ads for private tutors. A wide range of education specialists – from piano and singing teachers to maths and French tutors – can now commission a tutor video to showcase their expertise. The videos, which are shot by

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HPI Warns Santa Dont Get Caught Out by the Used Car Criminals

Christmas is well known as the season of giving, and for a lucky few in the UK, Santa will be delivering their gift to the garage or driveway. But as generous loved ones play their role in the season of goodwill and look for that used car Christmas bargain, vehicle information expert HPI is warning them to avoid last-minute panic

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Manic Monday goes mobile as british use smartphones to shop

One in ten Brits will do their online Christmas shopping using their mobile phone rather than a computer this year, according to new research findings from Tesco Direct. The trend of using mobile phones for online shopping emerged in a study of 4,000 consumers. This comes as Tesco Direct gets ready to face its busiest online shopping day of the

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Christmas Gifts 2010: No sextoys please, we’re British

Twenga, a comprehensive shopping search engine, asked Internet users about Christmas gifts they don’t want to receive. The results show that 42% of British consumers would be disappointed with a sextoy as their gift, and 38% would not like a scented candle. The sextoy is indeed the least popular item in Europe, especially for the French, 47% of whom wouldn’t

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Internet Shopping Could Cost British Businesses Dearly this Christmas

UK Employers Stand to Lose £300 Million a Week in Lost Productivity Bloxx, an innovator in web and email filtering, today warned the forecasted increase in Internet shopping could end up costing the UK economy millions of pounds in lost business productivity in the run up to Christmas. Online retail industry group IMRG and consultants Capgemini recently stated that they expected

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Case-mates Crazy Commercials: Telepathic Monoliths and Severed Appendiges

Case-mate, maker of cell phone and Apple cases and accessories, has a new video series circulating on the web via YouTube.  Their first straight-to-web effort, these new clips range from eerie to “Dear, Me!”  First up, Kung Fu Hustle meets Stanley Kubrick – to make a custom iPhone Case, you can make your own iPhone 3GS and soon for iPhone 4 case

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Brits warm to taking laptops on holiday

Although one in ten men (9 per cent) admits to working on holiday, the vast majority of Britons (92 per cent) believe that taking a laptop on vacation would not cause arguments with their partner or family. This is a chief finding of a nationwide survey unveiled today into Britons’ use of technology on holiday. The online study of more

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Organise your weblife with Gemsta.com!

Not quite sure why Prime plc, a company who funds, designs, constructs and maintains buildings is launching Gemsta, a social networking site which lets you quickly and easily FIND, SAVE and SHARE things you find online whether that be for shopping, travel or work. But I guess it just goes to show you any business can have a go! Here’s a press