In the early 1900′s, the most valued customers of US businesses were issued paper ID cards that they could present in place of immediate payment, enabling goods to be bought on a credit arrangement.

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An update on the result of our non-executive director election and the outcomes of our AGM. Also as previously announced a Members’ Code has now been introduced.

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The new regulations relating to the Labelling and Advertising of Foodstuffs, No R 146 of the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972 (Act 54 of 1972), which was implemented on 1 March 2012, aims to create a specific standard for informing con…

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Software entrepreneur Aaron Greenspan claims not only to have been the original inventor of Facebook. He also claims to have been the original author of the story of Facebook, via his memoire, Authoritas: One Student’s Harvard Admissions and the Foun…

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Under Section 134 of the Patent Act of 1952, if a patent application is denied by the USPTO, the applicant may file an administrative appeal with the PTO’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, with appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal…

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