DETROIT (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T) plans to recall 204,361 vehicles from its 2007 and 2008 model years in the United States due to the possibility that a passenger side airbag could fail to deploy properly in an accident. The voluntary recall covers 2007 and 2008 Nissan Altima, Altima Coupe, 350Z, Murano and [...]

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Excerpted from an article on nwsource.com, by Bob Keefe: Got an idea how to make the world a better place? Tell Google about it, and you could win a couple of million bucks to help put it into action. As part of its 10th birthday celebration, Google launched a $10 million project Wednesday to solicit [...]

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Excerpted from Consumers Pick Up Clip of Coupons, by Anjali Cordeiro for wsj.com: After years of ignoring coupons that offer rebates on daily household products, cash-strapped consumers are showing more of an appetite for these small discounts. Last year was the first time in 15 years that coupon redemptions didn’t decline, research shows. Individual companies [...]

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Excerpted from seattlepi.nwsource.com: In its strategy to present a healthy menu, Starbucks Corp. has whittled down 200 potential breakfast options to five, which will be sold for the first time Wednesday morning. The choices are: hot oatmeal; a protein plate with a cage-free hardboiled egg and a whole-wheat bagel; apple bran muffins; a chewy fruit [...]

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Excerpted from “Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers” (WashingtonPost.com) Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health “credit report” drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans. Collecting and analyzing personal health information in commercial databases is [...]

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After months of analyzing confidential information from 44 major food and beverage marketers, the Federal Trade Commission has released a set of recommendations to be followed when marketing to children. The report (based on 2006 data) looks at both traditional advertising and promotional marketing, including packaging, in-store advertising, sweepstakes, internet promotions, event sponsorship, and promotions [...]

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