Grouple is a social network which helps families share and organise caring for a relative with dementia, while Trading Times is an online service which helps carers find part-time work by matching them up with local businesses.
But if you do buy online, it helps if you can see the piece in person first.
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The most money is usually spent on kitchens, bathrooms and flooring, according to BDX, the marketing-services and technology company behind the Envision online design center that helps customers select options.
Many firms and educators were starting to use Second Life as an online collaboration space that helps them work together like they do in the real world but to which is added the malleability of a wholly digital space.
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Saying an old e-mail or your online photo album should have the same privacy protection from police as your home filing cabinet, Google, Microsoft and others said Tuesday they will ask Congress to overhaul a 24-year-old federal law that helps define online and mobile phone privacy.
That news comes from a 2, 017-person survey funded by the online security software maker McAfee, which is pushing a product that helps parents monitor their kids online.
At OSI pharmaceuticals, an online Cancer Access Network program helps employees with cancer choose a physician, access resources and participate in clinical trials.
Today, Fox is the founder of "Jane and Robot, " which helps Web site developers ensure their sites can be found by potential customers, and "Nine By Blue, " which helps businesses use online data to better understand their customers.
Based in Sunnyvale, California, IronKey helps prevent fraud in online, mobile and cloud-related applications and devices.
But "DoubleClick has set a benchmark, " says Gurbaksh Chahal, co-founder and CEO of the privately-owned Blue Lithium, which helps advertisers manage their online campaigns.
But "DoubleClick has set a benchmark, " says Gurbaksh Chahal, co-founder and CEO of the privately owned Blue Lithium, which helps advertisers manage their online campaigns.
Whether people are looking to find their soul mate or just to have some fun, Lawson said it helps to go into online dating with a sense of humor.
The MGM deal, which is contingent on a regulatory regime being established for online poker on either the federal or state level, helps define the competitive landscape as casino companies get ready to enter the online gambling business in the U.S. Boyd Gaming also announced on Monday that it has entered into an online poker alliance with Bwin.party.
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All three have been acquisitive: In June, Constant Contact acquired SinglePlatform, a startup that helps local businesses enhance their online presence.
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Best is chairman of Academic Partnerships, a five-year-old company based in Dallas that helps public universities move their courses online.
Michael Fertik owns ReputationDefender, a start-up company that helps individuals and companies manage their online reputation--essentially a Web-centric crisis PR firm.
Industry special pleading helps square legislators' hostility to online betting with their willingness to allow online state lotteries and online betting on horse racing.
With over 100 million reviews and opinions, TripAdvisor is a leading online platform for travel-related reviews that helps its users make more informed travel decisions.
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"Google Wallet allows us to harness the power of mobile technology to enhance our in-store shopping experience and helps bridge the gap between our online and in-store consumer interactions, " said Martine Reardon, executive vice-president of marketing and advertising, Macy's.
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"Shoppers are spoiled, " says Mark Goldstein, president of Loyalty Lab, a company that helps retailers build rewards programs for their online businesses.
For both sectors, data is the content that helps us to decide what to buy online, when we buy it and where we can source it.
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This tactic doesn't just let parents keep Web browsing safe and open, it also helps parents limit the time kids spend online and encourages offline activities like sports or socializing.
Parr expects Google to sell more hardware that helps consumers get on the Web and stay online longer, because that's where Google displays its ads and that's how it makes money.
This means that the initiative to take a free online course on programming can be the key element that helps an art history major be a more viable candidate for a position at a tech company possibly even as a programmer.
Online Dashboard: stores and reviews your eating-related data and helps you track your progress meal after meal.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have discovered that the loopy font also helps to get people to let down their privacy guard online.
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After founding customer-focused online shoe company Zappos, Nick Swinmurn has started RNKD, which helps consumers get rewards for the clothing they buy.
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This is a tricky situation for the company, and it will be interesting to see if the new service helps it gain subscription revenues with little impact on its online advertising revenues.
Solve Media helps brands like Toyota and Expedialift their awareness through precisely targeted online ads, delivering massive results that translate into offline sales.
That fact helps explain why, as more and more shopping has moved online over the past ten years, sales tax revenue has declined dramatically.
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