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The Grower’s Box: Improved Global Logistics and the Procurement of Fresh Cut Flowers

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Winston-Salem, NC (PRWEB) August 31, 2012

As summer fades to fall, brides planning for fall and winter weddings will be able to draw from a larger selection of once out of season wholesale flowers and wedding flowers thanks largely in part to improved world-wide logistics.

The transportation of delicate, time-sensitive and perishable wholesale flowers and wedding flowers has seen significant improvements over the course of the last year. Where refrigerated express services were once limited to shipments leaving Colombia and Ecuador for the United States, refrigerated shipments are now available from growing regions around the world including Holland, Israel, Africa and Chile on an almost daily basis.

The ability to draw from growing regions around the world allows brides-to-be to choose from an ever-increasing selection of wholesale flowers and wedding flowers which would traditionally be labeled out of season.

Online retailers of wholesale flowers and wedding flowers like The Growers Box offer an ever-expanding catalog flowers from growing regions around the world. Strategic partnerships between cargo agencies, airlines and overnight couriers have made it possible for The Growers Box to deliver fresh cut flowers from flower farms around the world directly to consumers in as little as 2 to 3 days!

Brides-to-be no longer need to limit their flower selection to what is growing in the backyard. Traditional spring flowers including Hydrangea, Tulips, Peonies, Ranunculus and Anemones are blooming beautifully and are available throughout the fall and winter months.

Founded in 2004, The Growers Box, LLC is one of the leading online retailers of wedding flowers, wholesale flowers, and rose petals on the World Wide Web. The company employs state of the art technology and the most efficient shipping solutions to deliver world-class fresh floral directly from the flower farms to customers. The inseparable combination of world class customer service and superior product quality are distinguishing factors which place The Growers Box far ahead of their competition.

For more information on eco-friendly wholesale flowers and wedding flowers, visit The Growers Box online at http://www.growersbox.com.







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Blekko Debuts ROCKZi, the Visual Platform for Fresh Content Curation

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Redwood Shores, CA (PRWEB) July 12, 2012

blekko today unveiled the all new ROCKZi, a social environment that delivers the power of curation to the everyday internet user. ROCKZi brings communities of likeminded people together to discuss and comment on timely and relevant news.

The new curated social platform features news boards with popular topic categories like sports, politics, fashion, tech, recipes and more. Users simply click on one of the news boards to view timely, quality content from top sources on the Web in an easily digestible format. In addition, on the news boards ROCKZi users vote stories up, share articles and comments with friends and, in the process, collect their own favorite content. ROCKZi users can contribute relevant content from any place on the Web through an easy to use browser bookmark.

ROCKZis great content, its state of the art design, and its very intuitive, low touch set of tools, creates a social platform that brings curation to the masses, said Rich Skrenta, CEO of blekko. Everyone reading content from anywhere in the web can now also be curating it.

The site is launching today with an initial 33 news boards and plans to expand to several hundred in the next few weeks and thousands by the end of the year. ROCKZi users will eventually have the ability to create their own custom news boards which they can share with their Facebook network and the ROCKZi community.

ROCKZi is blekkos initial effort at taking a different tack on the social and search divide. Rather than the traditional approach of adding more social features to the search interface, ROCKZi creates an independent, low-touch social environment that utilizes search assets and allows users to engage in the content they care about most.

As the number of news boards expands and we introduce more customizable Boards, this has the very powerful potential to revolutionize the way we discover good content on the increasingly cluttered Web, added Skrenta.

Social signals generated by the ROCKZi user base will eventually translate into search signals that blekko can use to identify the highest quality content and curate search results while pushing spam to the bottom.

The introduction of ROCKZi comes as blekkos audience continues to grow. Blekko was founded in 2007 to seek innovations that would eventually eliminate spam from search. In 2010 the company introduced its search engine and unveiled slashtag technology that essentially allowed experts to create vertical search so that results were curated to focus on the best sources on the Web. Users created 100,000 plus slashtags on topics as diverse as college football to gluten free. In May 2012, blekko recorded 5.5 million unique visitors who made more than 110 million searches.

For more information, visit: http://www.rockzi.com

About blekko

Founded in 2007, blekko has pursued technology innovations that would eliminate spam in search results. The company’s investors and strategic partners are Yandex, MLC Private Equity, U.S. Venture Partners, CMEA Capital, PivotNorth Capital, and leading angel investors including Ron Conway, Mike Maples, Jeff Clavier, and Marc Andreessen. blekko has 44 employees, including former Google and Yahoo! Search engineers.







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Elementary Mail Deliver Totally Fresh Concept for Sending Mail

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(PRWEB UK) 5 July 2012

Only a few decades ago with the advent of Electronic Mail, the decline of the postal service seemed inevitable. But today it is well understood that the postal service plays a vital role in delivering the ever increasing amount of products users are buying online. According to a 2010 Connected Kingdom (BCG) report, in that year 62% of UK residents, or 31 million people bought goods and services online.

Elementary Mail is a new hybrid mail service that allows users to send letters, cards and gifts to any address in the world by doing nothing more than spending a few minutes at their computer.

The Company’s founder Henry Dudding explains why he believes that postal mail is still vital to 21st Century life:

“It could be argued that one factor in the decline of the letter has been the slow pace at which the postal system has adopted to change over recent years. It is no longer convenient or cost effective to buy stamps, stationery and envelopes and then hand deliver any finished item to the nearest post box. That’s why we moved the whole process of sending mail online, making it simple fast and affordable”

Elementary Mail put’s users back in the driving seat, giving them all the tools they need to create and edit Letters, Greetings Cards, Promotional material and much more. With a wide choice of designs users simply create each item to their liking and leave Elementary Mail to dispatch it the same day.

The company’s latest venture has been the creation of a somewhat eye catching and rather charming internet video. The video playfully explains all the key features and benefits the site has to offer, while at the same time remaining thoroughly entertaining to watch.

“While hybrid mail is a serious business, the aim of the video was to make something light hearted that people would enjoy” Explains Dudding.

The company has big plans for the future including the creation of a mobile phone APP which Dudding believes will make the whole process of sending mail even easier:

“A mobile phone application will allow users to send mail directly from their smart phone or digital device, potentially making trips to the high street for stamps or stationary a thing of the past” In the meantime Elementary Mail’s mobile friendly website already supports a wide range of web enabled devices for those on the move.

He continues, “The service isn’t just for UK residents, it offers a fast and convenient alternative compared with air mail for those looking to send postal mail into the UK”.

Elementary Mail is the perfect solution for expatriates looking to stay in contact with friends and loved ones, as well as holiday makers looking to send mail or even a last minute gift back into the UK while on their travels.

Users can also access a selection of letter templates ranging from CV’s to thank you letter’s, as well as an address book for keeping track of friends and contacts.

To send mail today, please visit: http://www.elementarymail.com

About Elementary Mail

Elementary Mail allows users to send letters, cards, gifts and many other postal items to any address in the world, without ever having to leave their home or workplace.

With guides, templates and examples on hand for a myriad of items, users simply create each document to their liking and leave Elementary Mail to dispatch it the very same day.

Elementary Mail Limited (UK) was founded in 2011 by the company’s director Henry Dudding, while studying at Hull University. For more information about Elementary Mail, please call +44(0) 0844 310 7092 or contact us by email at hello(at)elementarymail(dot)com