Kids racking up big bills on phone and tablet app purchases TONY EASTLEY: More than 50 consumer protection agencies around the world are today launching a push against smartphone and tablet applications that mislead children into making unauthorised purchases. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says many apps claim to be free but when children begin playing the games‚ money is required to keep participating. The ACCC says disclosure must be improved and it hasn’t ruled out taking
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Jakarta-based XL Gained shareholder approval on Wednesday to acquire a 95 percent stake of Axis from Saudi Telecom Company for $ 865 million. To finance the acquisition‚ XL has secured $ 500 million in loans from parent company Axiata Group of Malaysia‚ and it will secure the remaining $ 365 million in loans from banks. Last year‚ it secured $ 300 million in debt from DBS Group Holdings; que mostly used it to finance its operation and partly to fund the acquisition. Hasnul Suhaimi‚ president
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settled by the French‚ ruled by the Spanish for over forty years‚ regained by the French‚ and later sold‚ in the Louisiana Purchase‚ to the United States. Whoever controlled this influential port also controlled the Mississippi River‚ and the United States wanted and needed it. After years of negotiations‚ talks of war‚ and treaties‚ the Americans bought the entire Louisiana Purchase‚ a territory that stretched from the tip of modern day Louisiana all the way into a small section of Canada. This was the
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Sports sponsorship and consumer purchase intention： From the perspective of consumer brand awareness 1.0 Introduction Sports sponsorship has long been crucial sources of funds for sports‚ literature and art as well as the social events. And after 30 year of development‚ sponsorship marketing has gradually become a global industry. It is widely acknowledged that sports sponsorship enhances the consumer’s perception of a brand via big events
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www.ccsenet.org/ijms International Journal of Marketing Studies Vol. 4‚ No. 3; June 2012 Korean TV Soap Operas in Taiwan: An Investigation of Consumers’ Clothing Purchase Behavior Hsiu-Ju Hsu Department of Fashion Design and Management‚ National Pingtung University of Science and Technology No. 1 Shuehfu Rd.‚ Neipu‚ Pingtung 912‚ Taiwan‚ R.O.C. E-mail: hsu@mail.npust.edu.tw Received: February 15‚ 2012 doi:10.5539/ijms.v4n3p16 Abstract In a recent trend‚ Korean TV soap operas have become extremely
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Task 4 Scenario 1 Mr Madison‚ council tenant he applied to purchase his own council house from the tenant and he also had a letter from the Edinburgh city council saying that they might be prepared to sell the house for 2180.00. Mr Madison said that the path to the house was in a bad state and questioned the price they had stated. Mr. Madison then learned from the council that the price cannot be changed as it has been fixed according to the condition of the property. Mr Madison wrote in to the
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Birth Control I believe that females should be able to get birth control without asking their parents for permission. If teens were able to do this it would reduce the number of teen pregnancies‚ teens will have a safer home life‚ and shows that they are responsible. Many things can happen when a teen is uneducated about safe sex for example‚ teens are less likely to use a condom properly‚ and condom slippage and leakage is higher in younger users. This means if girls were on Birth Control
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A Study on “To Understand Consumer Behaviour and Pre Purchase Decision making process for IFB Products” Submitted to the School of Management Studies University of Hyderabad In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Award of the Degree of Master of Business Administration Under the Guidance of Dr. SAPNA SINGH MBA‚ Ph.D Reader School of Management Studies University
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Magnetohydrodynamic free convection flow of a heat generating fluid past a semi-infinite vertical porous plate with variable suction Mutua‚ N.M 1*‚ Musyoki‚ I‚ N.M1‚ Kinyanjui‚ M.N2‚ Kwanza‚ J.K2 Taita Taveta University College Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology *Corresponding author E-mail: nicholasmuthama@ttuc.ac.ke 2 1 Abstract In this paper‚ a magnetohydrodynamic convection flow of an electrically conducting heat generating fluid past a semiinfinite vertical porous plate
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TN-AR-MS - E3 Services and Solutions Inc. (http://www.e3space.com) has acquired an equity position in Instant Water Technologies‚ LLC (IWT: www.nationswatertest.biz) which provides water reclamation technology. The same transaction included the purchase of marketing firm‚ Originare‚ which was also owned by Michael DelGrosso. E3 will work to develop and further commercialize key technologies created by IWT for water reclamation projects in the oil & gas industry‚ mining services and industrial
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