Tikatok.com, a leading online children’s book community, announced today that they have teamed up with Build-A-Bear Workshop® to help children create their own Build-A-Story(TM) allowing children to become published authors of stories about their favorite furry stuffed animals.
Children and parents simply visit www.tikatok.com/build-a-bear, register for free on the site and choose from special Tikatok StorySparks(TM), [...]

FareCompare, a popular airfare comparison shopping site, has partnered with ITA Software, a proven B2B technology partner for airline suppliers and travel intermediaries, to enhance its robust airfare search and to improve online airfare shopping for consumers. This partnership will enhance FareCompare’s recently re-launched website, providing improved accessibility for online shoppers. Shoppers looking for the [...]

A123Systems, a developer and manufacturer of advanced Nanophosphate™ lithium-ion batteries and battery systems, announced the delivery and installation of its first Hybrid Ancillary Power Units (H-APU) with AES Energy Storage, LLC, a subsidiary of The AES Corporation one of the world’s largest global power companies. The H-APU is designed to create another way for [...]

Greenbuild International Conference and Expo Booth 416 — North American lighting leader OSRAM SYLVANIA and Greenwala, the green social network, today launched an online competition at www.greenwala.com/campaigns to find the greenest people in the United States. To celebrate the introduction of Greenwala.com and OSRAM SYLVANIA’s sustainability commitment, the campaign invites entrants to submit a video [...]

Brunswick Bowling & Billiards, a unit of Brunswick Corporation announced it has named Austin Rothbard, 37, president - Brunswick Billiards, including the Valley-Dynamo business. He will report to Warren Hardie, president Brunswick Bowling & Billiards.
Rothbard replaces Sean Cummings, who recently left the post to join a privately held company in Milwaukee. Rothbard, who most [...]

Suzanne’s Files, a website that provides savvy perspective on quality lifestyle, warns consumers against taking information they read at face value. Oftentimes, the hype found on travel websites and magazines does not portray the whole truth behind a property’s appeal, which can lead to costly disappointment of both time and money. The truth is the [...]

Exercise equipment leader Life Fitness will be carried through 15 new specialty retailers beginning this month, in a move to extend its reach in advance of the all-important holiday shopping season and beyond. The new relationships increase the presence for Life Fitness within key markets in the Northeast, Northwest, Southwest, Southern California, Colorado and Alaska.
The [...]

Zola, producer and marketer of the world’s first Açaí juice, announced today that Zola’s Brazilian Superfruit Açaí Juices and new line of functional Brazilian Superfruit Smoothies were given top honors by BEVNET at the 24th annual Natural Products EXPO East in Boston, MA, taking home “Best in Show” out of more than 100 beverage exhibitors. [...]

Morgans Hotel Group Co., the groundbreaking innovator that introduced the world to iconic brands such as Delano in South Beach, Royalton in New York City and Sanderson in London, is set to unveil Mondrian in South Beach, with the first reservations set for December 1. With over 80 percent of the property sold, limited ownership [...]

A developer who wants to build an office and condo complex within the Middlesex Fells Reservation is taking an unusual bypass around a stubborn bottleneck in the environmental review process: The Gutierrez Co. is saying it reduced the project so much to satisfy public concerns that it no longer needs state permits to build it.
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Single-family home sales rose slightly in July, marking the second time this year that monthly sales have risen. Year-to-date sales and median prices, however, are still down, according to a report released today by The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman.
Sales rose 1.5 percent from 5,151 in July 2006 to 5,229 this year. Single-family [...]

Would you like a shiatsu massage with your new condo? How about a bone-density test?
Arizona’s Canyon Ranch, regarded as the most glittering brand in the $10 billion spa industry, has branched into real estate, and on Wednesday will roll out a marketing campaign for the 67-story condo-hotel at Huron and Rush Streets that will bear [...]