| Banks cashing in on border crossers
The big banks must be loving the recent surge in cross-border shopping.Almost every time you buy something in the United States, your bank makes a few bucks in fees of one sort or another. Expect to pay far more in fees than if you bought something here at home. While the Canadian dollar had a bad day yesterday, it's high enough compared to the U.S. dollar that people are pouring across the border to shop. .
The Art of Shaving Taps NetSuite to Help Company Grow
SAN MATEO, Calif., and MIAMI, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N) , a vendor of on-demand, integrated business management application suites that provide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Ecommerce functionality for small and medium-sized businesses and divisions of large companies, today announced that The Art of Shaving, a top-selling brand of men's premium shaving products and accessories at high-end department stores, with 25+ locations in the U.S., has realized substantial companywide sales growth -- 62 percent growth in 2007 -- with minimal increases in back-office costs, since it moved to NetSuite's One System Architecture to help it sell via multiple sales channels, including retail, wholesale and the Internet. One key to this multi-channel approach has been NetSuite's integration with The Art of Shaving's 25+ point-of-sale (POS) retail locations -- for easier management of merchant services.
Reader comments: Mitt deflects questions about faith, finances
Bury your head if you want, but the fact that Mitt makes INFORMED decisions...is willing to CHANGE HIS MIND (BIG difference between that and flip-flopping...look into it and you can find the reasons)...and has the experience that matters (as in REAL WORLD, not east coast hollywoood...er..washington experience) tells me he is the best candidate right now. .
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