Promotions.com, New York, was acquired by ePrize, Pleasant Ridge, Mich., which helps companies operate sweepstakes, contests and promotions.
The adult entertainment and publishing company will operate its contest, called the Playboy Shorts Series, viaTalenthouse.com, a social networking site that aims to foster artistic collaboration.
In the New York City area, it operates the contest in association with the Burger King Children's Charities of Metro New York and the New York Yankees.
Already, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is operating under -- and contesting the interpretation of -- a federal court consent decree that could require it to buy hundreds of new buses to improve its aging and crowded fleet.
Project name: CASMI Project home page: http://www.casmi-contest.org/ Operating system(s): Platform independent Programming language: Various License: N/A Any restrictions to use by non-academics: none.
The company differentiates itself from most of the major fantasy sports leagues out there, however, by operating a series of daily contests that its users can log in and join.
He pleaded no contest to illegally operating an off-road vehicle in a game refuge in 2002, and that year was charged with failing to stop for a red light.
Under changes introduced in Napa, the public was invited to observe how the contest operated.
Gary Markley has submitted his screenplay, "Legacy Costs," which is about the steel mills, to an annual contest operated by Project Greenlight, an arm of the production company created by the actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
The contest operates on a sliding scale, so the more entries submitted, the bigger the award gets.
