Food labels multiply, some confuse consumers The Oklahoman | By GOSIA WOZNIACKA | email | FRESNO, Calif. — Want to avoid pesticides and antibiotics in your produce, meat, and dairy foods? Prefer to pay more to make sure farm animals were treated humanely, farmworkers got their lunch breaks, bees or birds were protected by the farmer and that ranche...
20m Indian students pledge never to consume tobacco Gulf News | Patna: About 20 million school students in Bihar on Wednesday took a pledge that they would never consume tobacco or related products, and would encourage their family and friends to do the same, an official said. | “Over 20 million students of around 220,000 government and private schools v...
Consumer Reports: Best quick stuffing Hartford Courant | For many people, Thanksgiving dinner isn't complete without stuffing. But it also isn't complete without the pressure of cooking a huge meal, to say nothing of entertaining Aunt Mavis and Uncle Arnold. As a result, making stuffing from scratch may ...
Direct-to-consumer advertising found beneficial for certain meds PhysOrg | Noting that age can serve as a surrogate marker of appropriateness of AI therapy, Gregory A. Abel, M.D., M.P.H., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and colleagues examined the impact of DTCA on the number and appropriateness of prescrip...
Consumer Reports warns against online tracking, then does it themselves The Examiner Related topics | BusinessAdvertisingconsumer reportsdo not track | Advertisement | Both in print and online, Consumer Reports says it's "the most trusted source for product buying advice and ratings." | But when it comes to their own marketing, there...
StarWatch Consumer | More admit to driving while browsing Internet, study says Kansas City Star | Almost half of drivers from ages 18 to 29 use the internet behind the wheel, as more people buy smart phones, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. said. Forty-eight percent of motorists in that age group access the web while driving, up from ...
Consumers Hesitant To Switch to Windows 8 Newsfactor Most Windows users in the U.S. know about Windows 8 but few have immediate plans to upgrade to Microsoft's newest operating system. What's more, a third of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP users who are ready to buy a new personal say they int...
The Number: 57% That's the percentage of consumers who said in a study that they ... The Daily Beast | That's the percentage of consumers who said in a study that they would buy American products over Chinese regardless of higher price. In today's installment of The Number, global business editor Daniel Gross talks to Hal Sirkin, senior partner at B...
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Samsung's Galaxy S3 beats Apple's iPhone in 3Q sales BBC News South Korean electronics firm Samsung's Galaxy S3 has outsold Apple's iPhone 4S for the first time, becoming the world's best-selling smartphone, says research firm ...
Huawei India eyes $350 mn revenue from consumer products in 2012 The Times Of India MUMBAI: Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei's consumer products division is targeting a 20 per cent jump in revenue from India to USD 350 million in 2012. | This will involve a ...
What Inflation Means to You: Inside the Consumer Price Index Seeking Alpha | Note from dshort: The charts in this commentary have been updated to include the November Consumer Price Index news release for the October data. | The Fed justified a previous round of quantitative easing "to promote a stronger pace of econom...
