The French agency Agence Vu stands for contemporary photographers and renowned award winners from all over the world. It was founded in 1986 by Christian Caujolle and Zina Rouabah. Unlike other picture agencies, the agency differentiates itself explicitly through its photographers and not through the picture itself.
Lonely Planet not only stands for travel and language guides, but also offers a comprehensive archive of photographs from all over the world. The Lonely Planet collection captures the diversity of the world's major cities and countries. Not only popular destinations, but also everyday scenes and places away from the tourist hype complement the Australian agency's world of images.

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For purchases in the Veer Marketplace, customers are covered up to a sum of 10,000 dollars. This claim can be used for legal costs in the event of a legal dispute regarding an image, for example. With this insurance, the Corbis company wants to live up to its responsibility to ensure that image material purchased from Veer Marketplace and used within the scope of the Veer Marketplace license terms does not violate copyright or data protection regulations.
We make sure that all images from our carefully selected photographers meet the highest quality standards, have been approved by the models and rights holders and that there are no copyright issues, says Aaron Booth, Senior Director Creative Content at Veer.
Veer Marketplace is one of the safest online sources for licensed images, according to a Corbis press release. Veer employs teams that vet images from the community to the highest standards to ensure that extensive legal and ethical requirements are met. The new customer protection offered by Veer Marketplace provides security when licensing images from the large selection, which includes hundreds of images from as little as one dollar.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the device is set to be unveiled at the end of January. The keyboardless tablet will have a touch-sensitive screen with a diagonal of around 25 to 28 centimetres, according to an article on the industry portal Wuv.de. The purchase price of the device is likely to be between 700 and 1,000 dollars.

The approximately 500 works and more than 3,000 images from 2009 are available in the categories Advertising, Editorial Photography, Fine Arts and Free. The works have been anonymized and prepared for the Swiss Photo Award judging process. The photo prize is endowed with the Ewz.selection-award of CHF 15,000 and category prizes of CHF 5,000 each.
Preview Day:
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 5 to 10 p.m.
Thursday, February 11, 2010, 12 to 9 p.m.
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Opening Night: Friday, May 7, 2010, 8 p.m.
Exhibition: May 8 to 16, 2010, 12 to 9 p.m.

The Valaisan will go on air twice a month, as RSR announced on Tuesday. The program will not deal with current political issues, it added. Pascal Couchepin will address various topics in a relaxed manner. At the beginning of his career, the former Minister of the Interior worked for radio in French-speaking Switzerland.

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The first issue of the magazine for the approximately 11,000 employees will be published in February 2010. The agency's service package includes the creative development, implementation, editorial preparation of topics and management of the e-magazine in five languages. Dufry operates over 1,000 duty-free and duty-paid stores in 42 countries on four continents at airports, on cruise ships, in seaports, train stations, city centers, airplanes, on ferries and at border crossings.

Rico Brazerol and Rolf Leeb have already worked together intensively at various newspapers, projects and agencies over the past 15 years and bring with them over 50 years of experience in the media industry. Among other things, they have worked as Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Director, Media Manager, Head of Sports or Head of Business.

Tom Brühwiler has been running the blog BloggingTom for around five years. At Hostpoint, the 40-year-old will be responsible for the planning and implementation of all social media activities. The company has around 110,000 hosted websites and 125,000 managed domains (as of December 2009). Founded in Rapperswil-Jona in 2001, the company is now also active in Austria, Germany and Spain.

Market observers estimate the company's advertising expenditure around last year's Super Bowl at around 15 million US dollars. Some of the savings are now being invested in social media activities, above all in the "Pepsi Refresh" project, as reported by the industry service Horizont.net. The corresponding website is to be launched in mid-January. According to the Wall Street Journal, Pepsi wants to transfer donations to community projects selected by consumers. 20 million US dollars have been earmarked for this. At the same time, the manufacturer wants to increase its spending on online advertising by 60 percent this year. Pepsi justifies the move towards the web by saying that this is the best way to appeal to younger target groups.

New customers include the Fricktal Health Centre with hospitals in Rheinfelden and Laufenburg, Bitplane in Zurich, an international company specializing in scientific 3D visualizations, Pharmapan in Möhlin, RGS Bahnsicherheitstechnik in Aarau and Swissbau in the area of corporate publishing. The collaboration with Klinik SGM Langenthal was not renewed in 2010.

In the commercial, however, the family dines in a posh dining room and eats fillet of beef. Everything is fine until the father, played by Werner Biermeier, drops a bombshell: "We have to save money now". The 30-second commercial was created in collaboration with Martin Fuchs, The Washing Line, St. Gallen and director Mike Huber. Stephan Christen from Addictive Productions, Zurich, was responsible as producer. The TV commercial will be broadcast immediately.

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