M-Dot Network to Assist Retailers in Technologic Change (PRWeb Mar 4, 2010)

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) March 4, 2010 -- Hastings Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAST) announced today that March starts the countdown toward the biggest release week that gamers and vampire reading enthusiasts have seen since the 2009 releases of HALO 3 ODST and Twilight on DVD.

Hastings Entertainment

No matter what fans like to sink their teeth into, Hastings customers are gearing up for exciting spring break Midnight Release parties for God of War III and the Twilight: The Graphic Novel on Monday, March 15, 2010 as well as New Moon DVD/Blu-ray on Friday, March 19, 2010.

) March 4, 2010 -- When it comes to social networking, knowing too much can be a dangerous thing for recruiting professionals and potential employers.

That's the premise of a new white paper from EmployeeScreenIQ that examines the risks of judging job candidates by their profiles on Facebook and similar sites. Titled "Recruiting with Social Networking Sites: What You DO Know can Hurt You," it's available for immediate download from the background screening company.

) March 4, 2010 -- As a premier Digital Marketing Agency, ymarketing is excited to be presenting at the SMX West 2010 in the Analytics Action Plans for PPC & SEO session. SEO Guru Ryan Lash and other ymarketing executives have collaborated to deliver an abbreviated version of its 4 week in-depth PPC audit. The result is a Top 20 Paid Search Scorecard or paid search “fitness plan” that will help benchmark the health of any PPC campaign in the top tier search engines.

) March 4, 2010 -- ChipStart Inc, a semiconductor intellectual property solutions provider, announced that Landshut Silicon Foundry GmbH (LFoundry) has selected ChipStart LLC for foundry services representation globally. With it’s 200mm fab and current core technology on 150nm, LFoundry provides very flexible, high quality, cost effective mixed-signal foundry services for semiconductor company’s worldwide.

ChipStart Expands Along with LFoundry

) March 4, 2010 -- Loyalty Lab, Inc. announced its 2010 Client Summit Series, an expansion of its successful event in 2009. The series includes three separate sessions in New York on April 8, 2010; Chicago on May 13, 2010; and San Francisco on July 22, 2010. The sessions are intended for experienced marketers seeking to learn more about advanced loyalty marketing topics like social influence, lift measurement, non-transactional behavior, and multi-channel interaction.

Loyalty Lab Logo

) March 4, 2010 -- HiSoftware Inc. (www.hisoftware.com), a leading provider of Web content and social media compliance solutions, and Korean distributor Trust Line Information and Communications Co., LTD (TLInC; www.tlinc.co.kr) today announced the company’s solution HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff® has been selected across multiple government ministries in Korea.

) March 4, 2010 -- Commercial Investigations, LLC (CI)—a leading provider of accurate, timely and cost effective background investigations — has realized a 70.2% reduction in candidate screening time after deploying Chequed.com’s Predictive Employee Performance™ tool. Chequed’s software as a service (SaaS) platform offers personality assessment and automated reference checking technology. Chequed.com delivers critical job-fit data to hiring managers early in the selection process, allowing them to focus time and attention on only the highest-potential candidates. Chequed’s software as a service (SaaS) platform offers personality assessment and automated reference checking technology.

) March 4, 2010 -- iCIMS, the second largest provider of talent acquisition solutions, announced today the addition of Mike Dutter to the iCIMS executive team as the new Vice President of Sales. In this role, Dutter will lead direct and indirect sales operations in order to facilitate iCIMS' 2010 initiatives, which include overall financial growth in the U.S. and International markets.

) March 4, 2010 -- Patient Placement Systems (PPS) announced today the publication of a new eBook that helps multi-location nursing home operators better understand how to measure and achieve excellence in marketing and census performance. This eBook, "Keeping You Occupied: What One More Patient a Month is Worth to Your SNFs," is available immediately at www.patientplacement.com/occupied.

School-age programs and childcare centers can now securely access EZ-CARE2 online from anywhere, anytime while receiving automatic server backups, virus protection and system updates. (PRWeb Mar 4, 2010)

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GamersFirst’s Premier FPS Named #1 Action Game (PRWeb Mar 4, 2010)

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) March 4, 2010 -- PharmacyChecker.com, the leading independent online pharmacy verification company, has launched a blog to help the public understand and recognize the forces affecting their access to safe and affordable medication. The new blog is called the Online Pharmacy And Prescription Drug Review and can also be found at www.PharmacyChecker.com/blog.

) March 4, 2010 -- WiFiRV, an 8-year-old wireless Internet service provider (WISP), announced a new outreach program designed to help RV park, resort, and campground owners understand the difference between "free" vs. "for fee" WiFi options for their properties -- and the impact of each on their bottom line.

Wireless RV Internet

) March 4, 2010 -- Cardinal Buses has now implemented the technology of wireless Internet and electrical outlets into their coaches. By adding Internet and electrical outlets onto their coaches, charter bus trips are now an easier and more customizable ride. The outlets will allow riders to plug in their laptop computers, personal DVD players, cell phone chargers or other personal devices that help make a long trip easier and more productive.

Indiana Charter Bus

) March 4, 2010 -- To help hotels and resorts stay on top of mentions, chats or general dialogue that might be happening about their properties, Screen Pilot, a bleeding edge digital marketing firm, have compiled a Top 5 list of free tools that can be used right now to keep tabs on the social media-verse.

-Social Mention (socialmention.com) is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user generated content from across the social universe into a single stream of information. Social Mention monitors more than a hundred social media properties.

) March 4, 2010 -- MSExchange.org, the leading Microsoft Exchange Server resource site, today issued its prestigious Gold Award in the Microsoft Exchange Email Archive and Storage category and a “perfect five star rating” to the InBoxer Anti-Risk Appliance. The award was issued simultaneously with an InBoxer Anti-Risk Appliance review written by, Brian M. Posey, six time winner of Microsoft’s MVP award and recognized Microsoft Exchange expert.

InBoxer Anti-Risk Appliance wins top award for Microsoft Exchange email archiving, discovery and policy management.

) March 4, 2010 -- Texas trucking insurance and operating authority company, Your Authority Service has seen incredible success over the past year it's offered services directed towards Texas Dot Regulations. It has proved to be a helpful success due to the fact that their clients do not have to go to numerous locations online and in person to get the requirements needed to make interstate and Texas intrastate deliveries.

Your Authority Service - Texas Trucking

) March 4, 2010 -- 1020 Placecast, the first location-based platform designed to use digital marketing to drive consumers into physical environments, was awarded a gold 2010 Racie Award in the Mobile/Apps Category. Judged by an industry panel of seasoned professionals, Placecast has been presented with a gold award for their unique opt-in, location-based mobile marketing service, ShopAlerts. Racie Awards honor the very best marketing campaigns in the retail industry and are distributed by the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association (RAMA). RAMA is a division of the National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade association.

) March 4, 2010 -- PennyLane Reports, LLC today announces the release of their new free web resource designed to provide penny stock investors with powerful new tools and real-time information to radically increase their profit opportunities. PennyLaneReports.com combines a dynamic website, insightful newsletter, and numerous news and investing tools with an advanced web application, creating an environment where information is distributed instantly and investors can personalize their own space in ways previously unavailable.

Real-time Dashboard

) March 4, 2010 -- Laplink Software, Inc. and Enterprise Integration, Inc. today officially announced a partnership to provide Windows 7 upgrade services to enterprise clients throughout North America. Using PCmover’s Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant technology licensed from Laplink, Enterprise Integration will now be able to quickly and easily assist their corporate clients in upgrading to Windows 7 regardless of their current operating system.

Laplink Ultimate Partner Kit

) March 4, 2010 -- Climate change is one of the most daunting threats facing our world today. Creative solutions will be the key to changing the tides of the biggest fight of humanity. EverythingLongBeach.com will begin using Mokugift’s tree-planting rewards as prizes for the Great Green Ideas contest.

EverythingLongBeach.com green section

As of March 4th, 2010, EverythingLongBeach.com has proudly planted 100 trees. These trees will absorb an average total of 500 lbs of carbon per year.

EverythingLongBeach.com actively supports green activities by promoting events that help the environment such as neighborhood tree-plantings and beach cleanups.

) March 4, 2010 -- Cause marketing helps nonprofits increase their revenue and businesses broaden their customer base. But it's a partnership between different cultures. Both sides need to be clear about the ground rules for implementing such a marketing campaign.

Venureneer's latest free webinar, Cause Marketing Partnerships: Crafting the Ask will guide nonprofit leaders, small business owners, and corporate social responsibility professionals in the steps needed after the decision is made to try a cause-marketing partnership.

) March 4, 2010 -- Maintaining a safe clean environment is one of the biggest challenges facing our world today. Creative solutions is the key to making positive and effective changes to our environment. To take action, HG Laboratories, LLC ,Brightly Green & Harmony Eco–Friendly Household Cleaners as well as our Eco-Friendly Industrial Cleaners has joined Mokugift’s 1,000 Ways To Plant A Tree campaign and will plant a tree for every new order.

Harmony eco-friendly household cleaners

) March 3, 2010 -- On March 17, the Global Harvest Initiative (GHI), a not-for-profit group whose mission is to sustainably double agricultural output and improve storage and distribution to eliminate the global productivity gap, will host a symposium in Washington, D.C. to discuss the group’s science-based blueprint for meeting long-term increases in global demand for agricultural products. The blueprint, a four-chapter study, was commissioned to provide groundwork to shape the policies necessary to sustainably close the projected gap between agricultural supplies and demands.

) March 3, 2010 -- BuskerLabel announced today the public availability of its crowd-funding platform for releasing music albums online under Creative Commons license.

The juggling "busker" in the logo symbolizes crowdfunding
BuskerLabel, a self-funded startup based in Rome, offers an innovative platform to the music business by focusing on the excitement and anticipation that precedes an album's release.

) March 3, 2010 -- The old adage that “you get what you pay for” may lead you astray when choosing email marketing software. A new study of 19 web-based email marketing solutions revealed major pricing differences that are not justified by quality or functionality, according to Software Shortlist, an online comparison and review site for business software.

Comparison of average price versus product star rating for email marketing software

) March 3, 2010 -- PRWeb, the online news distribution service of Vocus (NASDAQ: VOCS), announced today it will host a free Webinar titled, “7 Steps to Small Business Success.”

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) March 4, 2010 -- If you're one of the four million Americans writing a painfully large check to the IRS this tax day thanks to the alternative minimum tax (AMT), there's a new free resource that can help.

“It’s bad enough that the alternative minimum tax takes taxpayers completely by surprise each April, forcing them to pay thousands more than expected,” said George Bauernfeind, one of the founders of AMTIndividual. “But then no one—including all the tax software programs, the IRS ‘calculator’ and virtually all tax preparers—can even tell them why they have to pay AMT. That’s just insane.”

) March 4, 2010 -- Thwapr (www.thwapr.com), the mobile video sharing platform, announces the appearance of Duncan Kennedy at the Video 2.0 program to be held this weekend (March 4 -7, 2010) at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. Kennedy, Thwapr’s chief operations officer, will be discussing hardware and software products related to short-length video production.