Reuters:
TORONTO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Canadians who expected to start new jobs in call centers and retail stores during the holiday shopping season are instead manning food banks and soup kitchens with blessing of their new employer.
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ABC News: Health:
Doctors tell patients to ignore the guidelines as cancer call centers light up.
Cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Organizations - United States. (Read More)
MarketWatch.com - Top Stories:
Citigroup agreed to sell its 93.5% holding in Bellsystem24, the Japanese operator of call centers, for 93.5 billion yen ($1 billion) to an affiliate of the private-equity firm Bain Capital.
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The Guardian:
Kebab shops come under attack as the Northern League demands bans on foreign dishesOn a cold, foggy lunchtime in Turin, Demir Ergulu is slicing hot wedges of glistening meat into oven-fresh pitta bread as hungry office workers queue up. "This is local veal, bathed in milk and minced onion, then grilled with a touch of added (Read More)
CNET News.com:
Apple has changed music links in its iTunes software to deliver users to a new page called iTunes Preview, which features song information in the browser. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Technology:
The arrival of Orange as the second network in the UK able to sell the iPhone has not dented sales of the Apple handset through its original UK partner, O2.But Matthew Key, chairman and chief executive of Telefónica Europe - the group which owns O2 UK - has admitted that the wider availability of the iPhone will have an imp (Read More)
New York Times:
Entrepreneurs are experimenting with taking outsourcing jobs to corners of India far from its buzzing call centers and pristine tech company campuses.
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guardian.co.uk Society:
SimplySwitch founder Karen Darby's call centre company plans to get people back to work and 'bag some cash'After his first couple of months out of work, Karlton Ramsey felt his confidence start to slide. The 23-year-old had worked at Woolworths in Peckham, south London, for six years, joining pretty much straight out of sch (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Our democracy hangs by a thread. One way to claw back some respect is to insist on open primariesWe have a long tradition of satire in Britain: for most of us, political parties and politicians have always been a bit of a joke. But until recently the gags have been gentle – along the lines of "they're not much use and they' (Read More)
Neuromarketing:
Neuromarketing firm Emsense has raised $9 million in additional capital. The new round was led by an investment from Technology Partners with existing investor the Foundry Group also participating.
This funding will allow EmSense to continue its global expansion in support of its many market research partners. (Read More)
Times Online:
The Beatles are the holy grail of music licensing. The tracks are available of course on the bit torrent sites but they are illegal and not to be encouraged. But now it emerges that an apparently legitimate site called BlueBeat.com,... (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The first commercial release of the avant-garde soundtrack to the 1979 David Attenborough nature blockbuster Life On Earth shows how pivotal it was to that programme's era-defining impactBritish composer Edward Williams's orchestral piece The Sex Life of the Fern is perhaps not going to trouble this year's Christmas No1 spo (Read More)
The Guardian:
• We do not need their customers or brand, says Tesco • Supermarket's bank network will ignore high streetTesco ruled itself out of the bidding to take control of the Northern Rock "good bank" today as it outlined its plans to build a new full-service bank offering current accounts, mortgages and, in time, small business b (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Dave Goldberg and Bob Roback, formerly VP and GM of Yahoo Music, respectively, have teamed up again to launch Dashbox, an online music licensing exchange. The goal is to help advertisers, movie studios, and other companies that need to buy music, keep track of which record labels and artists they need to pay. It’s a busines (Read More)