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Company Enlists Cellphones in Charity's Text Campaign

The Pepsi Bottling Group is putting its cellphones to work to help recover missing children.

The Somers, N.Y., corporation enrolled more than 27,000 company-owned cellphones in the Wireless Amber Alert program, which sends text messages to participants when a child is abducted in their area. The messages include...

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