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AARP Urges People to Check on Elderly Family, Friends & Neighbors in Wake of Disaster NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sandy has come and gone in New York, leaving a trail of disaster behind, and few know this better than elderly residents in impacted areas. With often times limited mobility, delayed reaction, and reliance on prescriptions for their health, when disaster strikes, the elderly are left struggling. AARP New York is urging people to check in on...
Nearly a Third of Americans Expect Holiday Season to be Less Cheerful if Their Candidate Loses YONKERS, N.Y., Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Next week's U.S. presidential election could have lingering effects on the 2012 holiday shopping season, according to a new poll by Consumer Reports. Thirty-one percent of Americans said that the election would have at least some impact on how much they spent during the holiday season--including 17 percent who said their spending would...
Watch out for Rip-off Repairmen Offering Help When You Need it Most - AARP Offers Tips to Avoid Common Contractor Scams NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the aftermath of Sandy, along with repairs and clean up, comes rip-off repairmen, looking to cause a disaster of their own...on your finances. The scam artists are often called "storm chasers," as they descend almost immediately upon areas hit hard by natural disasters. Today, AARP New York is warning consumers...
NEWTON, Mass., Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TripAdvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIP) announced today that it will postpone the release of its third quarter 2012 financial results and earnings conference call, which was previously scheduled for Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 5 p.m. ET, due to the expected severe weather conditions associated with Hurricane Sandy. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080902/TRIPADVISORLOGO ) The earnings call has been rescheduled until after market...
CHICAGO, Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Users of Windows 8 will have a trove of reliable information to go with their new software, in the form of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, now available in an app developed for Microsoft Corp.'s new operating system. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/britannica-launches-app-for-windows-8-175859311.html The Encyclopaedia Britannica App, available in the Windows Store,...
Jennifer Stockburger named Director of Operations, Consumer Reports Auto Test Center YONKERS, N.Y., Oct. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Reports has promoted one of its senior engineers, Jake Fisher, to run all the vehicle testing operations at its national Auto Test Center in Connecticut. As director of auto testing, Mr. Fisher will oversee the team of personnel who evaluate and rate some 80 cars and trucks annually for the organization. He has worked for Consumer...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Yelp knows you paid for that review, and now they’re going to tell everyone about it. The social networking/business review service allows users to leave reviews for their favorite businesses. Others on the service are then able to see these reviews, and many decide to dine at or dash away from a particular establishment based on these reviews. In fact, recent studies have found that for every half-star in a 5-star system that a...
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects people with great local businesses, announced today that it will be taking additional steps to protect consumers from biased reviews. The company will place a consumer alert message on a business's profile page when it determines that there have been significant efforts to purchase fake reviews to mislead consumers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050511/SFW134LOGO) "Yelp...
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, today announced that it will issue its financial results for third quarter ended September 30, 2012 after the market close on Thursday , November 1, 2012. Yelp will host a conference call to discuss the results at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time) on the same day. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050511/SFW134LOGO) To access...
NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As online review sites gain in power and influence, the number of fraudulent reviews also increases. A recent Ad Age article highlights the efforts that sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp.com are making to weed out fake reviews, but, as the article notes, it is an "inexact science," and false reviews will always slip through the cracks. This ever-increasing rate of misleading reviews stands to hurt the consumers who place so much trust in these...
