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TORRANCE, Calif., Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota today announced the third set of 25 winners of the Toyota 100 Cars for Good program, which awards 100 vehicles over the course of 100 days to 100 deserving non-profits. Winners of the Toyota 100 Cars for Good program are determined based on voting from the public. Each day, five organizations are profiled on Toyota's Facebook page where the public is invited to show their support by voting to determine the winning nonprofit organization....
TORRANCE, Calif., June 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota today announced the second set of 25 winners of the Toyota 100 Cars for Good program, which awards 100 vehicles over the course of 100 days to 100 deserving non-profits. Winners of the Toyota 100 Cars for Good program are determined based on voting from the public. Each day, five organizations are profiled on Toyota's Facebook page where the public is invited to show their support by voting to determine the winning nonprofit...
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- After an improvement in the quality of newly launched models every year from 2007 to 2010, the initial quality of 2011 new model launches has declined considerably, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2011 U.S. Initial Quality Study(SM) (IQS) released today. The study has been conducted annually for the past 25 years. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110623/LA25181) (Logo:...
TORRANCE, Calif., June 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pay off your credit card? Support your favorite charity? Take your grandparents skydiving? Toyota Financial Services ("TFS") wants to know what recent college grads would do with an extra $1,000 cash in their pocket. To find out, TFS announced the launch of its on-line college essay contest in which eligible participants are asked to write an essay (of 100 words or less) describing how they might use the money.From June 16, 2011...
TORRANCE, Calif., June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota today announced the first 25 winners of the Toyota 100 Cars for Good program, which awards 100 vehicles over the course of 100 days to 100 deserving non-profits. Winners of the Toyota 100 Cars for Good program are determined based on voting from the public. Each day, five organizations are profiled on Toyota's Facebook page where the public is invited to show their support by voting to determine the winning non-profit organization....
TORRANCE, Calif., June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. (TMS), today announced that it will conduct a voluntary safety recall involving approximately 52,000 2001 through 2003 Prius vehicles sold in the U.S. to replace the electric power steering pinion shaft attachment nuts. This announcement is for U.S. vehicles included in Toyota Motor Corporation's global recall of 106,000 vehicles. If the steering wheel is repeatedly and strongly turned to the full-lock position,...
TOKYO, May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced its latest strategic investments in Japan. The goal of these investments is to drive the continued growth of Japan's Cloud 2 industry and accelerate the availability of locally developed social, mobile, and open cloud computing services. Salesforce.com will invest in a Tokyo data center scheduled to open in November of this year; further development of the Ruby programming...
REHOBOTH, Mass., May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Safety Record, Safety Research & Strategies' watchdog publication, published its new findings on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) reports on Toyota Unintended Acceleration. Following extensive review of those reports and previously unavailable documents recently released by NHTSA and interviews with numerous scientists and experts, the authors found...
TOKYO, May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM] and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) [NYSE: TM] announced today that they have formed a strategic alliance to build Toyota Friend, a private social network for Toyota customers and their cars. Toyota Friend will be powered by Salesforce Chatter, a private social network used by businesses, and will be offered, first in Japan, initially with Toyota's electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHV) due in 2012. (Logo:...
TORRANCE, Calif., May 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota today announced that public voting for its "100 Cars for Good" program is now open through August 16. The program will award 100 vehicles over the course of 100 days to 100 deserving nonprofit organizations based on votes from the public. Beginning today, five organizations per day will be profiled on Toyota's Facebook page where the public is invited to show their support by voting daily to help determine the winning nonprofit...
