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Social Responsibility's Strategic Benefits
December 15, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Ed Granger-Happ, CIO of Save the Children, for a discussion of how creating an organization that is socially responsible improves staffing, retention, leadership development and overall corporate health.
Working With and Communicating to Your Board of Directors
January 13, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
CIO panelists who will share tips and experiences working with their boards: Twila Day of SYSCO; Jeff O'Hare, West Corp.; Marc West, formerly with H&R Block.
IT's Role in Growing Mid-Market Companies
January 14, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET (GMT-5)
Mid-market Council members will share their companies' stories and challenges in driving or coping with growth. Panelists represent Veterinary Pet Insurance, Medicis Pharmaceutical, and Intrax Cultural Exchange.
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New Microsoft Cashback Deal Follows Outage
Microsoft is making payback quicker on its Cashback program after the service suffered an outage Friday and failed to give some people discounts they were eligible for.
December 01, 2008 — IDG News Service —
Microsoft is making payback quicker on its Cashback program after the service suffered an outage Friday and failed to give some people discounts they were eligible for.
Cashback is a Microsoft Live Search offering that gives money back to people who search for and buy products from retailers that participate in the program.
The new "instant cashback" feature delivers rebates to eBay shoppers immediately, rather than after 60 days. It works for people who buy products through the cashback program and pay for them using PayPal. The feature is only available to certain "eligible" users, as determined by eBay, according to a spokeswoman with Microsoft's public relations firm.
The instant feature, announced Monday on the Live Search blog, follows a rough day for the service on Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year in the U.S. The Cashback site was down for several hours on Friday, Microsoft said.
The downtime happened while Microsoft investigated a problem and rebuilt the databases that support Cashback, the company said.
In addition, some people hoping to take advantage of a promotion that offered a 40 percent discount on some Hewlett-Packard products purchased through Cashback reported getting much smaller discounts instead. In a statement, Microsoft did not directly address why that happened but said people who completed the purchase of an HP item and should have gotten the 40 percent discount should contact Microsoft support. Those buyers will have to provide their order number and the e-mail address they provided during the buying process.
Microsoft said the problems had been fixed by Monday.
Copyright © 2008 IDG News Service. All rights reserved. IDG News Service is a trademark of International Data Group, Inc.
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