TurboTax Releases Its Eighth Annual List of Top 10 Tax Procrastinating Cities; San Francisco Takes Top Honors
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–It’s the 50 yard dash to the April 15 tax deadline and Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU), the maker of TurboTax® tax software products, has once again tallied last-minute online tax filings to find out which cities across the country are the biggest procrastinators when it comes to filing federal income tax returns.
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<Online Campaign Created by The Visionaire Group Helps Drive Record Opening Weekend Ticket Sales
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that the online campaign for Universal Pictures’ Fast & Furious, created with Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 software, helped drive ticket sales. According to Universal Pictures, record breaking traffic on the Fast & Furious Web site contributed to the movie reaching the top position at the box office in its opening weekend at $70.9 million. Fans who bought tickets online from the movie’s Web site received a free song download from iTunes.
Universal Pictures hired The Visionaire Group to design and execute the powerful campaign that gives fans an emotional connection to the movie, promotes ticket sales, and enables fans to purchase limited edition DVDs. Using Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium software and the Adobe Flash® Platform, The Visionaire Group created the online campaign in half the expected development time.
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The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), released the 2008 Annual Report on the number of Internet crime complaints received.
The 2008 Annual Report states that complaints of online crime hit a record high in 2008. IC3 received a total of 275,284 complaints, a 33.1% increase over the previous year. The total dollar loss linked to online fraud was $265 million, about $25 million more than in 2007. The average individual loss amounted to $931.
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