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07 Oct 2008
Retailers should ensure that digital money-off coupons are unique and linked to individual customers to avoid the losses that mass duplication of the vouchers could bring, the sales promotion industry body has said.
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07 Oct 2008
Nearly half of shops selling electrical goods are not supplying consumers with enough information about their extended warranty schemes, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said.
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06 Oct 2008
Website privacy policies take on average 10 minutes to read and sometimes run into thousands of words, researchers have found. While some are short, others would take over half an hour to read, researchers said.
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06 Oct 2008
A panel of US federal judges has rejected calls by music publishers to raise the royalty rates on music downloads. Digital music sellers like Apple and Amazon.com will continue to pay publishers nine cents per song downloaded.
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06 Oct 2008
Sienna Miller is suing the News of the World over the publication of pictures of her topless on holiday with her then-boyfriend, the married oil heir Balthazar Getty.
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06 Oct 2008
OPINION: In the current economic downturn, share plans might seem less than attractive as a way for companies to motivate their staff. But despite a weak stock market, share plans can be made to work, without having to pay cash incentives.
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03 Oct 2008
Ofcom has fined Britain's biggest credit card company Barclaycard £50,000 over silent phone calls made on behalf of the company. The telecoms regulator called Barclaycard's behaviour "the most serious" silent calls case it had ever investigated....
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03 Oct 2008
A man has been arrested and charged over a blog post detailing the imaginary kidnap, torture and murder of the members of Girls Aloud. He has been charged with the publishing of an obscene article, police said.
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03 Oct 2008
Retailers will have to change the wireless security they use for payment systems from April of next year. The body which sets the requirements for such systems has announced a mandatory improvement in wireless security.
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03 Oct 2008
Insurers must start planning for 2012, when the new European solvency regime known as Solvency II comes into force, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned.
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