Tag: Holidays

Amazon Hiring 50,000 People for the Holiday Season
With the holiday season fast approaching, retailers need to reinforce their workforce to handle the increased business that comes with the period. This year, Amazon has just annou...
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Best Buy Plans To Price-Match Internet Competitors This Holiday Season
In order to stop the growing trend of people exclusively using the internet for their holiday shopping needs (and hopefully draw some straying customers back in), Best Buy is plann...
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Walmart Offers Same-Day Delivery, but Only as a Test
Good news for impatient holiday shoppers: retail giant Walmart is in the middle of launching same-day delivery of thousands of products. Bad news: it's only a test going off in se...
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YouTube Turns An Eye To Mecca, Debuts New Ramadan Channel
Today begins the holy month of Ramadan, Islam's period of fasting, prayer, and charity. For the next 30 days, millions of Muslims around the word will participate in sawm, zakat &...
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Holocaust Remembrance Day: Watch The Incredibly Moving Highway Tribute In Israel
In 1953, Israel signed into law the celebration of Yom HaShoah, or as it is known in English, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Now...
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St. Patrick’s Day Google Doodle And The Google St. Patty’s Day Vibe
Today, Saturday, March 17, 2012, is St. Patrick's Day, and Google has a doodle, of course (pictured above). As they often do,...
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Pi Day Sweeps The Internet: Anybody Hungry For Math?
On behalf of math geeks, science lovers, and purveyors of questionable "holidays" everywhere, I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Pi Day. Pi Day is celebrated once a year, on Ma...
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Mardi Gras 2012 Takes Over The Twitterverse
For all of Mardi Gras' religious implications, it always winds up being one of the best parties of the year. And not just Fat Tuesday, of course - that's just when we stuff oursel...
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Presidents Day Gets Cool Theme From Bing
Today the United States is celebrating Presidents Day, the holiday that celebrates our first president, George Washington, or George Washington & Abraham Lincoln, or all the leader...
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Valentine’s Day Infographic Shows How Expensive Love Is
Whether you're doing your Valentine's Day shopping online or off, it's going to cost you. If you're in the right business, it's a good time to profit from the love (or at least aff...
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“Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day” From Twitter
Ah, Twitter. The tool of revolutions. Did you know it today was Squirrel Appreciation Day? If not, you must not be on Twitter. If you were, you'd surely have noticed some tweet...
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New Year’s Resolutions Heavy Among Search Trends, According to Yahoo
New Year’s has come and gone, and it’s got to be close to time to stop talking about it, but Yahoo has...
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New Year’s Eve in Times Square: An Infographic History
CityPass.com has put together an interesting infographic looking at the history of New Year’s Even in Times Square, with a timeline dating back to 1900. While it doesn’t includ...
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Free Skype WiFi For NYC New Year’s Eve Celebrations
Skype offered free Skype WiFi in airports around the U.S. from December 21 through December 27. Now, they’re...
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