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Is compound interest preventing you from paying down your credit card debt? 

Would a card with a super-long 0% intro APR period on both purchases and balance transfers get your attention?

I’m sure it would because zero APR credit cards is a great way to pay down the balance by simply transferring it from your high interest card to a new 0 percent interest card.

But you want to make sure that you pay off the balance before the introductory rate ends. Many of the offers you’ll see range from 3 to 6 months which may not be enough time.

So let’s review some of the top credit cards in the market right now offering a 0% introductory rate:

Discover More Card

This card offers the best of both worlds because you have a zero percent APR on both transfers and purchases for 15 months. Even i

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EVANSVILLE — Richard Deer, an engineer, entrepreneur and University of Evansville alumnus, has been named director of UE’s new Center for Innovation Engineering.

The program is part of UE’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, and university of officials say it aims to instill an entrepreneurial mindset in engineering students.

Deer has founded and operated a number of small businesses over the past 25 years. He most recently led a group of technology infrastructure companies in the Southwest, according to UE.

He has collaborated in product design and development with partners in Qatar, Czech Republic, India, and South Korea as well as the United States.

“I look forward to adding value gained from my experience in a number of private ventures to an already robust and feature-rich educational experience here at UE,” Deer said.

Deer graduated from UE in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Management. I

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Search giants Google, Bing and Yahoo announced Wednesday a new joint initiative schema.org to create and support a common vocabulary for structured data on web pages. The new site will be a valuable resource for site owners and developers looking to learn more about structured data and improve how their sites appear in major search engines. Schema.org will assist webmasters who are looking to add markup to their pages.

For years search engines have been working separately to support structured markup. Google introduced rich snippets to its search in 2009 to help people find better summaries of reviews and people, and since that time expanded to new kinds of rich snippets.

Schema.org will include all existing types of rich snippets together with schemas for 100 new categories including movies, music, organizations, TV shows, products, places that webmaster can use to markup their pages and improve the way they appear in search results.

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Consumer behavior & attitudes towards “Social Commerce” is examined in this report on popularity of “Group-Buying” Sites & “Location-Based” Apps-

Shoppers are willing to interact with retailers through a variety of social networks and retailers have limitless opportunities to capitalize on the momentum, according to the 2011 Social Commerce Study. The report, which evaluates shopping directly influenced by social media, polled 1787 adult online shoppers in April 2011.

“As these sites gain momentum and spread to more cities around the country, retailers have an opportunity to experiment not only with established sites but also group-buy promotions on their own Facebook pages and websites.”

According to the survey, 42 percent of online consumers have “followed” a retailer proactively through Facebook, Twitter or a retailer’s blog, and the average person follows about six retailers. While shoppers’ reaso

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The American dream is the goal of many immigrants from all over the world, and one way to achieve this is by using the diversity lottery operated by the US State Department. There are other ways to get a lawful permanent residency card, but the costs and waiting times with these other methods can be prohibitive. The diversity lottery allows for fifty thousand greencards to be given out each year, and these are intended for immigrants coming to the United States from countries that have been determined to be eligible. Since there is no charge to enter the lottery or be chosen this can be a great opportunity for immigrants who come from eligible countries. Read more…

Billing service providers come in many different shapes and sizes. At one end of the scale are large practice management companies, with an extensive support network but sometimes inflexible and costly. At the other end are small home businesses. With programs increasingly offered by local colleges, mail order and online home-based businesses are popping up everywhere. Somewhere amid these two extremes is what we will see that professional medical billing. When considering your options, it is important to understand what each type of provider of medical billing has to offer and which is best for you. Guide To Medical Billing describes these common types of health billing service providers and some of the services they offer. Read more…

In 2010, we’ve seen a significant expansion of cloud computing as the adoption rate increased and cloud became the computing model of choice for organizations across various industries. Cloud computing had a lot of presence in the media and numerous studies and articles outlined cloud computing as the biggest trend in technology that will change the way IT services are delivered. As the new year is approaching, studies from research firms are coming out to support the notion that in 2010 there has been an increase in cloud adoption among businesses of all size.

In his recent blog, Forrester analyst James Staten wrote how 2011 could be a landmark year for Infrastructure as a Service as foundations were laid in 2010 by variety of cloud providers. H

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A pharmacy has reopened just a week after being severely damaged by fire.

The temporary pharmacy building opened outside the Boots store in Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne this morning at 8am.

Around 80 firefighters battled to put out the fire which gutted the Boots store at The Crumbles retail park in Pevensey Bay Road, Eastbourne on Saturday December 11.

East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service believe arsonists were responsible for the blaze.

Simon South, East Sussex area manager for Boots, said: “It’s really positive news that we have managed to get the pharmacy back in place in a week and patients have not been too badly affected.

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Is your company listed with the major business credit bureaus?

Do you know that there are over 30 business credit reporting agencies in America?

With so many companies in the business of collecting commercial information it can be quite a challenge deciding which ones are most important for your company to get listed with.

For starters you should focus on getting listed with the top three business credit reporting agencies which are Dun and Bradstreet, Corporate Experian, and Small Business Equifax.

It’s important to realize that hundreds of thousands of companies, lenders, suppliers, and creditors rely on these particular agencies to provide them with reports which they use to assess the credit worthiness of a company.

If you apply for credit with a lender or supplier and your company is not listed then you’ll most likely be denied credit or be required to furnish a personal credit check and personal guarantee.

So how do you get listed?

Dun and Bradstreet

First, let’s cover the leader in the industry which is Dun and Bradstreet. With

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