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Making a cheese statement
By Robert Digitale
North Bay dairies reinvent themselves and prosper as center of artisan movement
Just four years ago, Karen Bianchi-Moreda sat in the audience in Sonoma and listened to experts explain how to make it in the artisan cheese business.
Last week, she herself was a panel member at the Sonoma Valley Cheese conference, explaining how her Valley Ford farm is making and selling its Estero Gold cheese.
In her favor, Bianchi-Moreda has her farm's 440 Jersey cows to give her cheese a rich, buttery flavor. She also has the help of family: brother Steve Bianchi, father Paul Bianchi and now her son, Joe Moreda, a recent college graduate, fifth-generation farmer and a new cheese maker for their Valley Ford Cheese Co.
"You're going to see more diversification from all dairy families," said Bianchi-Moreda. Making cheese and other value-added dairy products will attract those families that "want to somehow stay" on the farm.
A decade ago, the New York Times heralded the emergence of the region's artisan cheese makers, calling Sonoma and Marin counties "a new Normandy, north of the Golden Gate." Since then, the industry has come of age, adding new companies, adding conferences and festivals and further bolstering the region's reputation as a place that produces fine food as well as fine wine.
"It puts a whole new ambience to agriculture," said Stephanie Larson, a UC Cooperative Extension adviser for Sonoma County.
Today the two counties have 22 commercial cheese plants. They include such stalwarts as Vella Cheese, Marin French Cheese, Laurel Chenel's Chevre, Redwood Hill Farm and Cowgirl Creamery. Four additional plants are about to open, according to a new UC study.
It's the largest concentration in California," said Ellie Rilla, author of the study.
The industry continues to attract new blood. A third of the businesses, including Valley Ford Cheese, have been making cheese for three years or less, Rilla said.
Eight years ago, only one company in California, Bellwether Farms of Valley Ford, had a sheep dairy and was producing cheeses from the milk. Today the two counties boast five sheep dairies for cheese making.
In a search for new niches, North Bay cheese makers are trying new recipes that blend goat and cow's milk — with plans soon to add water buffalo mozzarella, a cheese made for centuries in Italy.
Cheese-making classes began last fall at the College of Marin Indian Valley Campus. The short courses, which began last fall, can include a certificate and offer an alternative to classes taught at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and at colleges in other states.
The two counties now produce 8 million pounds of artisan cheese each year, with a retail value of $119 million, according to the study.
That remains a sliver compared with the 2 billion pounds of commodity cheese made in California each year, half of it mozzarella.
But the North Bay, with its sweeping coastal grasslands, today provides only 2 percent of the milk produced in California, according to the state Department of Food and Agriculture.
Huge dairies in the Central Valley are more economical at producing milk, a reality that has contributed to the closing of many dairies in the North Bay, the birthplace of the state dairy industry. Today, Sonoma County has 69 dairies, roughly a third of the number three decades ago. Marin County has 23 dairies.
Lure of organics
To bring in more money, many local dairies have converted to organic production and started making new products with their milk. Cheese making is becoming a common path chosen by such dairy farmers both here and elsewhere in the U.S.
"It's really been a terrific renaissance in small-batch, high-quality cheeses throughout the country in the last few years," said Marilyn Wilkinson of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.
Wilkinson, who was in Sonoma last week for the town's annual cheese conference, said California, Wisconsin and Vermont are among the states "leading the way."
Among those preparing to enter the cheese business are longtime dairy farmers like George McClelland and his daughter Jana. Their McClelland's Dairy near Two Rock outside Petaluma started producing organic butter nearly two years ago.
"Now that we have the butter kind of going, we're working on the cheese," said Jana McClelland.
Cheese, but no farm
Some of the new cheese makers don't have a farm but possess a passion for the craft.
Among them are Lisa Gottreich and Miriam Block, whose Bohemian Creamery near Sebastopol makes nine different cheeses.
"We invent cheeses," said Gottreich, whose creamery sold its first batch in the summer of 2008. Among their newest creation is HolyMolè, a sheep/cow blend infused with cacao nibs.
Another newcomer is Craig Ramini, who has about 10 adult water buffalo on a ranch near Tomales. He calls the animals "as affectionate as dogs" and says that within the next 18 months he plans to be the first buffalo mozzarella maker here.
"It really is a luxurious cheese," Ramini said. "There's no other word for it."
Tours and festival
Both Ramini and McClelland will be part of farm tours offered by the fifth annual artisan cheese festival March 25-28 in Petaluma.
Lynne Devereux, the festival executive director, said in the coming years she expects consumers to see more cheese varieties made here and to experience how the flavors of local milk are turned into products that define "what California tastes like."
Sheana Davis, the host and creator of the Sonoma Valley Cheese Conference and a cheese maker, said farmers like Bianchi-Moreda aren't just making great cheese. They're also finding a way for the next generation to stay in agriculture.
"She saw the future of her children being part of her business," Davis said.


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Tiago has become the preferred choice for youngsters who are looking for a stylish, feature-loaded and safe car, with more than 60 per cent of sales generated from first-time buyers
The launch commemorates the first anniversary of the introduction of the updated version of the Tiago model
The Tata Tiago facelift is likely to be a petrol-only offering considering the manufacturer’s plans to discontinue small diesel cars in the BS6 era
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Maruti’s dominance in the segment evident by its market share despite falling numbers
The Maruti Suzuki WagonR attracts a maximum waiting period of upto 6 months
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Stellantis Will Ship Fewer Cars to States with Strict Emissions Rules
Stellantis has announced it may begin limiting shipments of ICE vehicles to dealerships in states that have adopted strict emissions regulations, including:
- New Jersey
- New York
- Rhode Island
- Virginia, and
In a memo to its dealers, Stellantis said that as a result of the more stringent standards, it would be “compelled to allocate fewer conventional gasoline engine vehicles” to these regions.
The automaker also explained it “may choose not to advertise some trimlines” in these states.
So, what does all of this mean for your dealership? Well, if you are based in one of the impacted areas, you might not be able to “order or receive shipments of certain vehicles from time to time, including to fulfill sold orders.”


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O2, maker of a line of oxygenated recovery drinks, saw record growth in Q1 and Q2 driven by a community give-back strategy in the face of Covid-19, which shuttered many businesses in America, including O2’s core customer of wholesale gym retailers.
With nationwide shelter-in-place policies forcing gyms to close across the country, the team at O2 decided to focus on their online business but refused to let it come at the expense of the wholesale gym owners who helped build the brand. As part of the strategy, O2 launched a profit-sharing initiative that allowed gym members to donate 50% of the profits from their purchase on drinko2.com to their local gym owner. This idea, to empower members to support their gym owners in a time of crisis, resonated immediately within O2’s tight-knit fitness community and led O2 to exceed its highest online sales month ever in the first three days of the initiative. The company recorded a record Q1, up over 130% from the same period in 2019.
In April, O2 formed a coalition with other fitness-oriented brands to honor the same 50% profit-sharing commitment and extend the impact, which included well-known brands such as Born Primitive, Puori, Chomps, 2POOD, and Bear KompleX. The marketing impact of the partnerships resulted in O2 acquiring more new customers in April than all of 2019 without any meaningful ad spend, and by the end of the month the coalition had collectively generated over $230,000 to donate back to gyms.
In May, while the majority of O2’s gym retailers were still shutdown, the company created a retention-focused initiative called "Stay for May" to help gyms retain their members while shutdown, and as a result O2 subsequently recorded another record revenue month.
"Any business gets excited about growth, but to see ours come as a result of supporting our community in a time of crisis makes me incredibly proud of our team," said Dave Colina, CEO and founder of O2. "Not only did we avoid layoffs, furloughs, or salary/benefit cuts, but we moved quickly to repurpose team members and actually ended up hiring people. We’ve spent practically nothing on customer acquisition and have a clear line of sight to profitability in 2020, which is crazy to say out loud."
The momentum carried over into June, when O2 recorded yet another record revenue month overall and did more sales online in a single month than all of 2019 combined. That same month, the company donated over $17,000 in cash to non-profits and over $150,000 in product to gyms and first responders, further strengthening its bond with the community it serves.
Now more than ever, people are working out like elite athletes without taking the time to recover like the pros. O2 makes recovery more accessible, enjoyable, and convenient to help solve that problem. Developed by a physician and a CrossFit® trainer, O2 is a non-carbonated, keto-friendly recovery drink blending oxygenated water with electrolytes to help athletes accelerate their recovery without compromising their health. Spend less time recuperating and more time accomplishing. Check out drinko2.com for more info and follow @drinko2recovery on Instagram.


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Netflix is in a pickle. They’re in the middle of a titanic struggle to prevent AT&T and DirecTV from merging. If the merger were to happen, Netflix’s business will take a heavy hit.
Netflix defends it’s concerns. They said to the FCC, “If AT&T is able to slow the development of the OVD industry, either by foreclosing access to broadband customers or imposing discriminatory data caps, AT&T would be able to preserve its market advantage by slowing or even reversing the shift toward competitive online video offering and away from bundled video/broadband offerings.” In the past, AT&T has forced Netflix to pay them in order for Netflix to use their network. If Netflix didn’t pay, they would face lower speeds.
In response to Netflix, AT&T said to the FCC, “[I]t is clear that this transaction creates no economic incentive for the merged firm to harm OVDs. While Netflix mischaracterize[s] their commercial peering disputes as evidence of such an incentive, the record does not support those claims. As one network analyst has explained, ‘Netflix chose to create, and use paths that [it] knew were congested, simply because they were cheaper than using paths that were less congested.’ This strategy apparently overwhelmed Netflix’s chosen low price providers, causing congestion and impacting service quality for its customers.”
Even though Netflix appealed to the FCC on the grounds of net neutrality, the FCC will not place a ban. Instead, it will allow the companies to file complaints concerning the payment requests.
Should Netflix users be concerned? For now, it seems that the merger is in question. It was not too long ago when a similar merger almost happened between Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The FCC shut that one down. Will they make an effort in this situation? What do you think of this merger? Has AT&T been unfair? Let me know what you think in the comments.


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General Motors to Boost Investments to $27 Billion for the Development of New Electric Vehicles as the Company Transforms for the Future
【Summary】U.S. automaker General Motors (GM) is going all in on electrification in a bid to gain some ground on Tesla and other rival automakers with billions in new investments. The automaker’s total investments to develop new electric vehicles now totals $27 billion through 2025, which is more than half of GM's capital spending.
U.S. automaker General Motors (GM) is going all in on electrification in a bid to gain some ground on Tesla and other rival automakers with billions in new investments.
Speaking at the virtual 2020 Barclays Global Automotive Conference On Thursday, GM CEO Mary Barra and GM's executive vice president of Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain, Doug Parks, shared key elements of GM's new aggressive timeline to develop new electric vehicles.
The plans include boosting spending an additional $7 billion to develop new battery-powered models. GM's latest investment is on top of the $20 billion the automaker pledged earlier this year. The automaker's investment to develop new electric vehicles now totals $27 billion through 2025.
More than half of GM's capital spending and product development team will be devoted to electric and electric-autonomous vehicle programs, the company said.
GM plans to offer 30 all-electric models globally by mid-decade and said that 40% of its U.S. models will be battery electric vehicles by the end of 2025.
"Climate change is real, and we want to be part of the solution by putting everyone in an electric vehicle," said Barra. "We are transitioning to an all-electric portfolio from a position of strength and we're focused on growth. We can accelerate our EV plans because we are rapidly building a competitive advantage in batteries, software, vehicle integration, manufacturing and customer experience."
GM said that all of its brands will offer electric models, including Cadillac, GMC, Chevrolet and Buick. The electric models will be offered at all price points to make them more affordable.
The new EVs will be built on GM's Utium battery platform, which will serve as the foundation for GM's future battery-powered vehicles. GM unveiled its Utium batteries and EV architecture in March. The EV platform standardizes many of the electronics and components and will allow GM to build more cost efficient electric vehicles.
The Ultium family of powertrains includes five different units and three electric motors, which are configurable for rear wheel, front wheel and all-wheel-drive electric models and are collectively called "Ultium Drive." The electric motors are expected to offer industry-leading torque and power density across a wide spectrum of different vehicle types, GM said.
The automaker also announced that its Utium batteries will offer a longer range than previous estimates. Due to engineering advances, GM increased the previously stated estimated maximum range of Ultium-based vehicles from 400 up to 450 miles on a full charge. The company said its has already completed hundreds of test cycles on the prototypes for the next-generation Ultium cell chemistry.
GM's second-generation Ultium battery chemistry is expected to deliver twice the energy density at less than half the cost of current batteries. The automaker said its already prototype testing the new batteries. Which are expected to be available mid-decade.
The improvements include better integration between vehicles and their battery packs, enabling fewer cells and modules for each application. GM also will develop less expensive cathodes and electrolytes, as well as new lithium metal anodes.
The lower cost batteries are expected to lower the cost of GM's electric vehicles closer to or equal to that of combustion engine models.
The batteries for GM's future EVs will be manufactured in Ohio at GM's joint venture battery factory with South Korean battery maker LG Chem. The two companies are investing $2.3 billion in the new plant to produce the Utium battery cells.
"GM's EV development times are speeding up and costs are going down rapidly, so we expect our Ultium EV programs to be profitable from the first generation on," said Parks.
GM is doing most of the development work on the new battery cells at its Chemical and Materials Systems Lab, located at the Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.
Another big announcement today was that GM is speeding up its development timeline for its upcoming EV, including the Hummer EV and Cadillac Lyriq SUV. The Lyriq was unveiled in August and is poised to compete with the Tesla Model Y crossover and Ford's Mustang inspired Mach-E.
But during its reveal, GM initially said the Lyriq won't be available until late 2022. Now this timeline is being pushed up to the first quarter of 2022, nine months ahead of schedule.
The upcoming Hummer EV will also arrive sooner. The Hummer's development time was originally around 50 months, but now 26 months is the new benchmark, GM said.
The updated timeline was a result of using virtual development tools and lessons learned during the Hummer EV development process, allowing GM to bring EVs to market much faster than it had originally planned.
The Lyriq will be the first fully-electric model from GM's luxury brand Cadillac.
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Also in the works are three new GMC branded electric vehicles, including a fully-electric pickup truck. The Chevrolet brand will get four new EVs, including a pickup and compact crossover. Cadillac, which is being positioned to be an electric only luxury brand, will get four new models.
All of these new models will be built on GM's Utium-powered EV platform. Although many of GM's future EVs might look different on the outside, they will all share one of the five Ultium powertrains.
"Ultium is already changing the way customers – and investors – view our company," Barra said on Thursday. "We are resolved as a management team to move even faster to expedite the transition to EVs. The all-electric future we are building integrates all the things we do better than anybody else – so we can put everyone in an EV, generate profitable growth and create shareholder value."
GM's expedited push to introduce a new electric vehicle comes as GM's U.S. rival Tesla rose to become the world's most valuable automaker this past summer with a market cap of over $400 billion. Tesla achieved this just eight years after the Model S sedan was first introduced and now the company will be included in the S&P 500 in December along with GM.
Tesla's rapid growth as an electric automaker has put the entire auto industry on a path towards zero-emissions and electrification or risk being left behind. But GM's bold EV plans will help ensure that won't happen.
On Nov 9, GM announced that it's hiring 3,000 new employees through the first quarter of 2021 for high-tech roles in fields such as software engineering, IT and design. The new roles will contribute to GM's overall electrification strategy, including its work on autonomous driving and vehicle connectivity.
Originally hailing from New Jersey, Eric is a automotive & technology reporter covering the high-tech industry here in Silicon Valley. He has over 15 years of automotive experience and a bachelors degree in computer science. These skills, combined with technical writing and news reporting, allows him to fully understand and identify new and innovative technologies in the auto industry and beyond. He has worked at Uber on self-driving cars and as a technical writer, helping people to understand and work with technology.
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The working paper comes against the backdrop of the government’s Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, the mission towards making India self-reliant
The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has invited comments on the draft policy from stakeholders by July 9.
In a five-part series, Moneycontrol explains how various economic variables are interlinked, and how they impact the budget exercise and they affect our savings, spending and investments. Part one is on the COVID-spend variable. While the rich countries spent heavily on direct fiscal support, India announced packages that had minimal net fiscal impact.
Lexus India President PB Venugopal talks about the brand’s future plans, pumping-up localisation efforts and partaking in the electric vehicle revolution.
The affordable housing rental complex (AHRC) scheme acknowledges the needs of mobile workers who spend short periods of time in the city and do not seek permanent housing. Applying what we know about migrant work and the development sector will help India to realise AHRC's potential.
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Syska Led Lights may also explore a fund raise by selling a minority stake to PE funds, though according to reports this has been attempted once earlier.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi described it as a decision that would provide a huge impetus to Digital India and a massive step in its vision for Atmanirbhar Bharat.
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who holds portfolios including Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology and Communications along with Railway Minister Piyush Goyal are among the prominent names who have joined Koo.
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In the June quarter (Q1), India's current account surplus rsoe to $19.8 billion because of fall in imports. Even if, let's say subsequent quarters do not see that kind of performance, India will still have a current account surplus in FY21, said CEA Krishnamurthy Subramanian
BSNL observation on tenders highlights the perils of being obsessed with domestic manufacturing
MEA Secretary (CPV&OIA) Sanjay Bhattacharyya said new emerging technologies, especially in ICT, consultancy, fin-tech, logistics, edutech, healthtech, biotech.


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franchise, casting Domo as characters from the film, namely Slimer and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
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The limited edition line will include collectibles and plush and will arrive on shelves this fall.
“Ghostbusters is one of the most influential and instantly recognizable pop culture icons of all-time,” says Rich Collins, president and chief executive officer, Big Tent Entertainment. “This mash-up bridges the generation gap between pop culture fandom and blends
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Jacks aka Tesco Supermarket products review & bill opening day 20sep18
This supermarket has just joined Tesco in axing the tampon tax
And it’s about time.
It’s safe to say we’ve all had enough of paying tax on our tampons, with sanitary items seen as luxuries not necessities, unlike bread and razors which are both free of VAT.
There has been decades of protesting around the issue with men and women across the UK deeming it unfair that the female population is forced to pay 5% tax for buying something that is actually a healthcare necessity.
Last year marked the 2019 tampon tax war, with pressure on the government to scrap the tax completely but instead they decided to compromise, putting the money raised from the tax towards women’s charities. Sadly the charities in question weren’t actually that female-friendly, with £250,000 reportedly going to an anti-abortion charity.
With news like this emerging, it’s easy to think that little to no progress has been made towards axing the tampon tax in the UK.
We’re paying the Tampon Tax so you don’t have to. Watch how we let our customers know. #TescoTamponTaxoff pic.twitter.com/0FC6B2V3yE
— Tesco (@Tesco) July 28, 2019
Luckily, last week Tesco proved us wrong, becoming the first retailer to waive the tampon tax, absorbing the tax for its customers and paying the 5% rate themselves.
This reduced costing will apply to almost 100 products in Tesco’s range – including both branded items and products from the supermarket’s own label, making them more affordable.
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Waverton makes key marketing hire to support business growth
Waverton Investment Management has today announced the appointment of Sasha Dabliz as Head of
Dabliz joins the firm this week from Schroders, and follows on from a series of strategic hires to position the business for future growth.
As part of her role as Head of Marketing, Dabliz will build the brand and work on different parts of Waverton’s business proposition, including private clients, charities, intermediaries and institutional clients.
Her established background in wealth management includes working at Rothschild, Canaccord Genuity and Brewin Dolphin.
Nick Tucker, Waverton Investment Management chief executive, said: “As Waverton continues on its path of growth, we believe that now is the time for us to invest in further marketing expertise. Sasha has a great deal of valuable insight which I know will be a key ingredient in helping us reach our goals.”
“Waverton is such an exciting opportunity as the business has a very bright future and I am thrilled to be joining the team,” Sasha Dabliz said. “With a truly client-focused approach and impressive investment engine, we can connect with clients and enhance how we deliver value in so many ways.”


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Cameroonian pop star and businesswoman who hosted US entertainer Blac Chyna at the launch of a cream in has hit back at people describing the product, Whitenicious, as a bleaching cream.
Dencia, who is based in Nigeria, in response to a critical tweet wrote: “It’s brightening and lightening not bleaching and it’s a luxury not a necessity.”
It’s brightening and lightening not bleaching and it’s a luxury not s necessity https://t.co/csoDxiDYEa— Dencia (@IamDencia) November 26, 2018
Some Nigerians online were furious at a beauty product launch scheduled for the commercial capital, Lagos. Despite the furore that greeted news last week that Blac Chyna was due in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, for the launch, the event took place as scheduled.
Reports indicate that there was a pool party in Abuja before the launch of the product in Lagos. According to Dencia, the product had the requisite registration to be on the market.
Despite its bleaching tag, manufacturers describe it as an “illuminating and brightening cream” that “lightens without bleaching skin out.” “Whitenicious has NAFDAC number,” she tweeted at the height of the backlash last week.
NAFDAC is the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, is a Nigerian federal agency under the Ministry of Health that is responsible for regulating and controlling the manufacture, importation, exportation, advertisement, distribution, sale and use of food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices etc.
The controversial product was launched in 2014 with the company stressing that it is meant to be used for conditions like hyper-pigmentation, when people have dark spots on their skin.


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Self-driving cars are already on public roads in some U.S. states, if only for testing. Some of the world’s largest companies including Uber and Google are heavily investing in autonomous vehicles as they race to be the first to figure out this technology. The idea that we will someday ride in passenger cars that drive themselves is becoming a reality. The only question is when?
But fully autonomous cars may not be the first passenger vehicles to move from human drivers to autonomy. Experts say that autonomous trucking is a far more likely target.
Long-haul trucking is an expensive and dangerous profession. Drivers often push themselves to cover as many miles a day as they can, which can lead to crashes — and consequently, heavy labor regulations. Fuel costs continually rise. But as shipping volumes grow, carriers have need more trucks and long-haul truckers, leading to an acute labor shortage.
Autonomous trucking could change all of that. They don’t get tired, so they only have to stop for gas. They don’t collect wages. That will make shipping significantly cheaper and more efficient for carriers—even though it eliminates hundreds of thousands of trucking jobs for human truck drivers.
Self-driving trucks don’t truly drive themselves. Think of them like airplanes: they effectively steer, accelerate and decelerate and navigate, but they still need pilots to ensure that nothing goes wrong. Emergency buttons allow those human drivers to take over the steering wheel and the driver’s seat at any time. But ensuring that a autonomous truck drives itself is much less intense work than driving itself, so fewer drivers can work longer shifts more safely.
It’s an enormous change that will have complex impacts. Here’s what we expect—and what we’ll have to find out as we go.
Advancements in Autonomous Technology in The Trucking Industry
Self-driving car technology is a crowded, competitive field. Google parent company, Alphabet owns Waymo, which is actively working toward a self-driving car project. Uber recently acquired a start-up called Otto, and has tested self-driving cars on public roads and the highway. Tesla too has tested autonomous cars on the road. Its long-term goal is to increase efficiency by creating autonomous trucks that “platoon.” Truck platooning technology allows a whole line of trucks follow a single driver in the lead vehicle.
Working specifically on trucks is Daimler, the owner of Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner Trucks, which has been testing driverless trucks since 2014. Founded in 2016 in San Francisco, Embark is working to allow truck drivers to spend less time actually driving, which will allow them to deliver more each day.
Chinese company, TuSimple is developing self-driving commercial trucks in Tucson. It plans to hire 500 people in the U.S., including at its San Diego headquarters over the next two years.
How Autonomous Driving Would Make Shipping More Efficient
In Tesla’s model, self-driving trucks can closely trail one another in a convoy. The first car is the lead, which needs a human driver to monitor the autopilot system, but the trucks following behind can be empty. This truck platooning technology would make the logistics industry and transportation incredibly effective.
First, this dramatically reduces labor costs. If a convoy of five trucks only needs one person piloting it, that only costs 20 percent of the cost of five drivers in five trucks.
Second, driverless trucks can cover more distance in less time. They can maintain steady speeds without taking breaks except to refuel. They can re-route around construction and closed roads without stopping to check maps. That eliminates much of the uncertainty around delivery times and helps carriers know exactly when packages will arrive.
Alongside trucks, several major carriers (including Amazon) are testing drone delivery in urban areas. Drones meet a very different need than trucks do. Trucks travel hundreds of miles a day, moving from warehouse to warehouse, while drones are far more valuable in dense urban settings that trucks struggle to reach.
Those dense urban settings can be hugely inefficient for carriers. Individuals have to park their trucks, walk packages to doors and sometimes negotiate with locked doors and security staff. But drones can drop package after package at doorsteps without getting tired or worrying about parking.
How Self-Driving Vehicles Will Affect Shippers and Supply Chain
As carriers move toward autonomous vehicles, they promote decreased costs and increased profits for shareholders. But they’re also facing pushback from employees.
UPS, whose workforce is unionized, recently signed a new collective bargaining agreement with its employees. The company has to give workers six months’ notice before implementing technology that could eliminate jobs including autonomous technology.
UPS has tested drone delivery. FedEx is exploring driverless delivery trucks in small neighborhoods, and partnered with Peleoton Technology on a semi-autonomous platoon system. Fully automated trucks are in the company’s long-term plans.
Amazon is exploring both avenues. The company has a team working on self-driving trucks, and has already named its drone program Amazon Prime Air, which is in trials in the United Kingdom.
The industry will continue to evolve faster as these new technologies advance, first to on-the-road testing and eventually to implementation. Reveel will be here to help you keep up.


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Desktop virtualization solutions maker Teradici and chipmaker Texas Instruments will be showcasing their technology in a joint booth this week at CES 2012 in Las Vegas.
In the TI Wireless booth, North Hall, MR N116, the two companies will demonstrate how the Teradici PCoIP protocol runs VMware View on the OMAP4460 mobile chip by Texas Instruments. The demo is serving several purposes, highlighting the value proposition behind both of the solutions the companies are presenting.
“By collaborating with TI on the OMAP 4 platform, we are expanding our portfolio of optimized solutions to provide mobile and enterprise customers with multimedia-rich virtual desktop performance,” said Dan Cordingley, president and chief executive officer. “Teradici’s continuing innovations in hardware, software and protocol deliver even greater flexibility for workers to access their VDI environments remotely and use new client form factors such as tablets and phone devices.”
The last time we heard from Teradici was back in early December, when they updated a couple of their products: PCoIP Firmware Release 3.5.0 and PCoIP Management Console 1.7. The firmware received most of the buzz thanks to the fact it introduced several key improvements, such as more scale and enhanced security. VDI is yet another industry when security has become a big deal, which is not surprising considering the need to store data outside the enterprise is one of the key barriers stopping companies from adopting the cloud. At the same time it’s also a huge attraction, both in the consumer space and among business users.
VMware also had an update recently. In late December EMC’s virtualization unit released three new View clients for Mac, Linux and even one dedicated to the Kindle Fire. When added up with the sales figures, Amazon and its tablet undoubtedly had a very happy holiday season.


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OGDEN -- Ogden Christian Fellowship is having a rummage sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at 789 2nd St.
There will be sound equipment, tools, some furniture and lots of miscellaneous items for sale. Also, a chance for a handmade quilt. The event will take place rain or shine.
According to a church news release, proceeds from this sale will go toward purchasing a wheelchair-accessible van for Tammy Roe.


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Midwest drought boosts demand for West Coast vegetables
Drought-ravaged fruit and vegetable production in Midwest and East growing areas is boosting demand and prices for West Coast vegetable marketers, The Packer reports this week.
“With this whole local marketing issue being used, a lot of retailers have been encouraging these small farmers to increase acreage so they will be able to handle the local programs,” Dick Spezzano, president of Spezzano Consulting Service, Monrovia, Calif., told the trade newspaper. If yields are below average - which they are, thanks to the drought - retailers are forced to lean more heavily on West Coast suppliers, he said.
Spezzano said he has talked to many shippers in California who have told him that they are getting a lot of demand for the Midwest and East this summer that they normally do not get.
Meanwhile, grain farmers in areas less troubled by drought conditions also stand to benefit, American Public Media's Marketplace reported. Think Minnesota and the Dakotas.
"In some of the places, they've just gotten excellent rains right when they needed them," Iowa State economist Mike Duffy told reporter Dan Gorenstein. "We always talk about a million-dollar rain, because that's how much grain it will generate."
Duffy said corn prices have nearly doubled, and could keep rising.


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Just a quick heads up that Apple has made the first season of its original series For All Mankind available for free for a limited time. The series is well-reviewed with a 91% fresh score on Rotten Tomato and a 7.9 star rating on IMDb. The series depicts the events of an alternative version of 1969 where the Soviet Union beat the United States to the Moon and the space race continued on for decades. You don’t need to sign up for a trial to watch the series, but you do need to log into the Apple TV app with a free Apple account before watching. The entire 10-episode first season is free to watch and the series just debuted its third season this week.
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Apple has updated its Apple TV app for Android TV and Google TV devices this week and has removed the ability to make purchases within the app. While all content within the app is still available, trying to purchase, rent, or subscribe to anything now informs you to make the transaction on a mobile device first. According to John Gruber on Daring Fireball, this change is due to the expiration of a special exemption given by Google to Apple to bypass in-app purchase fees. Read more ›
A recent update has brought support for Dolby Atmos surround sound audio to the Apple TV app on Fire TV devices. Reddit user TFLK reports the discovery and notes that the Japanese listing for the Fire TV Stick 4K Max now mentions Dolby Atmos supported on the Apple TV app. When the Apple TV app first launched on Fire TV devices in 2019, it did so without support for Dolby Atmos or Dolby Vision. Support for Dolby Vision was added about a year ago and now it’s finally being rounded out with support for Dolby Atmos. I don’t currently have an Apple TV account to verify the claim, so please help others by commenting below if Atmos works in the Apple TV app and on which Fire TV model.
Nvidia has announced that the Apple TV app is now available on Shield TV devices. Taking a look through my assortment of Android TV devices shows that it’s available on all of them, including the Tivo Stream 4K, Walmart Onn UHD Streaming Device, and Mi Box, so, it seems like the app is now widely available on most Android TV devices. Google announced last year that the Apple TV app would be coming to Android TV devices, starting with the 2020 Chromecast. The Chromecast received the app in February and now others have received it. Read more ›
Google’s streaming platform has gained a few notable apps during the last week. An Amazon Music app is now available on multiple Android TV / Google TV devices, including the NVIDIA Shield TV and the 2020 Google Chromecast. IMDb TV and Apple TV apps have also recently arrived but, unfortunately, those apps are only available on a very limited set of devices. The new Chromecast with Google TV is compatible with both apps, but popular Android TV devices, like the Shield TV, are not compatible yet. Google did say that the Apple TV app would be coming to “more devices powered by Android TV OS in the future” so the app is not going to be exclusive to the Chromecast. There’s no word on whether IMDb TV will be available on more devices in the future.
‘Tis the season for streaming services to make deals with streaming device manufacturers. Roku has announced that they’ve finally made an agreement with HBO to bring the HBO Max app to Roku devices. The app will arrive in the Roku Channel Store tomorrow, Dec 17. Similarly, Google has announced that an Apple TV app will be coming to the Chromecast with Google TV “early next year.” They also said that “more devices powered by Android TV” will be getting the app “in the future.” Now, if only Amazon would cut a deal with NBC to bring the Peacock TV app to Fire TV devices.
At an event that focused mostly on TV, Apple announced a new TV app that is coming to 3rd-party devices, like the Amazon Fire TV, as well as several new streaming services with both new and existing content. In a sense, Apple has packed their new Apple TV interface into an upcoming app that will make it possible to access Apple’s television offerings without buying their hardware. While most of what Apple announced isn’t new to the streaming industry a whole, it does give Fire TV owners a new way to access content, so it’s worth understanding. Here’s a breakdown of what we know about the upcoming Apple TV app. Read more ›


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In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, social media stocks continue to play a critical role in capturing the attention of savvy investors. These stocks, representing platforms where millions converge daily, offer a unique blend of innovation and cultural impact.
With the spotlight on the top social media stocks, investors continue to observe this dynamic where user engagement translates into substantial revenue streams. Moreover, in gauging the best social media stocks requires more than a cursory glance; it demands a deep dive into the companies, reshaping how we connect and communicate.
These stocks are not just about likes and shares; they are fundamentally altering the business and advertising worlds. As we plough through this exciting terrain, we discover opportunities ripe for investment where innovation meets profitability. This journey into the world of social media stocks is not just an exploration of financial potential but a glimpse into the future of global communication.
Meta Platforms (META)
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) is experiencing a powerful resurgence, with its stock price surging more than 170%, a robust recovery from its slump in 2022. Its emphatic comeback highlights the firm’s strategic pivot towards AI, a move renewing confidence among analysts and investors alike.
With a suite of new products and robust earnings, Meta is regaining its status as a top-tier tech powerhouse. September was an incredibly important month for the business, marked by the Quest 3 virtual reality headset launch. Adding to its innovative streak, Meta introduced generative AI chatbots and a new iteration of Ray-Ban mixed reality smart glasses.
Moreover, the company’s financial performance underscores this positive trajectory. Meta reported a 23% jump in third quarter revenue, its fastest growth in the past couple of years, buoyed by the rebounding online advertising market. This resurgence reflects Meta’s successful adaptation to market trends and consumer preferences, positioning it for sustained growth.
Popular social media platform Pinterest (NYSE:PINS) is another top comeback tech stock. After blowing past Wall Street forecasts in its third quarter results, PINS stock leaped by almost 20%, bringing its year-to-date gain to an impressive 31%. This resurgence is a significant turnaround for Pinterest, which had soared during the pandemic, facing setbacks in the 2022 bear market.
In a robust financial showing, Pinterest’s third quarter EPS hit 28 cents, eclipsing the expected 20 cents. This upward trend was bolstered by an 11% year-over-year revenue increase to $763.2 million, surpassing the expected $743.5 million. The platform’s evolving user base is a key driver of this success, with global monthly active users jumping 8% to 482 million in the third quarter, higher than the 473 million analysts predicted.
Additionally, the average revenue per user, at $1.61, comfortably exceeded expectations. Pinterest’s recovery, marked by solid financial performance and evolving user engagement, positioned it as a top tech stock with renewed potential for growth.
Since its inception in 2015, women-centric dating app Bumble (NASDAQ:BMBL) Incorporated has evolved as a beacon in the digital dating world. Its financial health remains robust, with projected sales of $1.019 billion, marking a notable 16.5% increase on a year-over-year basis, outperforming the broader market with aplomb. On top of that, its EBITDA margins are expected to reach a record 26.17%, signaling a shift towards profitability after a couple of years of consecutive losses.
The dating application market is on a trajectory for robust growth, anticipated to reach a staggering $14.42 billion by 2030, propelled by a 7.2% CAGR. Amidst this expansion, the app’s unique approach, empowering female users to initiate conversations, is likely to add another layer in terms of competitive dynamics for its users. As Bumble navigates these dynamics, its strong financial position and growing market potential make it a noteworthy player in the evolving online dating world.
In blending the realms of eCommerce and social media, Etsy (NASDAQ:ETSY) has created a unique online marketplace. Here, more than 7.5 million sellers of vintage and handmade items connect with a massive base of 96 million buyers each month. This interaction has efficiently positioned Etsy as one of the world’s largest social media platforms, attracting a myriad of consumers ready to make purchases.
In its solid third quarter, Etsy revealed a 16% year-over-year increase in services revenue, reaching $175.4 million, largely fueled by a major bump in ad sales. Additionally, the company’s overall EBITDA, excluding specific items, saw an 8.6% year-over-year increase, amounting to a substantial $182.2 million.
Beyond these impressive numbers, Etsy is actively working to enhance its platform. This includes acquiring and integrating Reverb, a vintage music equipment reseller, and Depop, a popular used apparel marketplace with millions of users worldwide. These strategic moves are a testament to Etsy’s commitment to diversifying its offerings and improving the user experience.
Bilibili (NASDAQ:BILI), a Chinese social media innovator, is capturing attention with its unique platform where users can submit and overlay comments on videos and engage with comics, games, and animation. This format has resonated immensely with China and internationally.
Demonstrating remarkable resilience in a challenging economic climate, Bilibili has exceeded expectations with improved operational performance and accelerated sales and profit growth. This growth is largely driven by effective monetization strategies, mainly in advertising, and a strong connection with the youth demographic.
Despite challenges like China’s stringent gaming regulations and rising youth unemployment, Bilibili’s focus on AI and user-generated content gives it a unique edge. Its expanding user engagement suggests room for increased market share. Although the company has revised its revenue guidance downward, its overall positive trajectory is a testament to its adaptive strategies and potential for long-term expansion.
In the dynamic tech sector, Nextdoor (NYSE:KIND) stands out with its hyperlocal social networking focus. Despite building a unique niche, KIND’s shares dipped following its third quarter revenue shortfall and a less optimistic fourth quarter forecast, noting a negative turn in sales, weekly active users, and EBITDA.
The firm anticipates EBITDA losses to plateau in the year’s second half rather than drop steadily. They pointed to a value proposition that might not be compelling enough to expand the community and challenges in the advertising sector. KIND’s revenue streams are considered experimental and subject to cyclical pressures.
Nextdoor’s guided fourth quarter revenue is falling in the $50 million and $52 million range, following a third quarter revenue of $56 million which missed expectations. Despite these challenges, the consensus for fourth quarter sales remains at $60.87 million. Amidst these financial headwinds, Nextdoor announced a workforce reduction of 25% as part of its cost-cutting measures, underscoring the company’s focus on navigating a turbulent market.
Match Group (MTCH)
Match Group (NASDAQ:MTCH) is another top social media stock, showcasing robust performances of late, particularly at Tinder, with enhanced user monetization despite a slight drop in paying users. Hinge, another of its products, continued to exhibit solid growth, breaking into new markets and boosting revenue. Despite this, MTCH’s fourth quarter revenue guidance fell short, primarily due to currency fluctuations, but its core business demonstrates resilience. The company is forging a robust path for Tinder while foreseeing sustained expansion from Hinge, especially in European markets.
The company’s overall revenue climbed by 9% to $881.6 million during the third quarter, slightly exceeding the expected $880.5 million. Significant gains led to this growth in Hinge and the European region. Match Group’s management acknowledges the ongoing efforts to maintain this momentum amidst a relatively challenging environment.
For the fourth quarter, Match Group forecasts sales between $855 million and $865 million, impacted by greater foreign-exchange headwinds than initially expected. However, the projected adjusted operating income of $305 million to $310 million, up 7% to 9% year-over-year, and a 36% margin at the midpoint, signals a strong financial footing.
On the date of publication, Muslim Farooque did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines


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Ashton-Tate, the Torrance software publisher, is expected to announce Monday that it will develop a version of its top-selling dBase database management program for Digital Equipment Corp.'s computers, industry sources said.
The deal marks Ashton-Tate’s second attempt to extend its popular dBase program beyond personal computers and underscores the company’s continuing efforts to expand its software operations.
“This is a plus for Ashton-Tate, and it could be very significant for the company,” said William Shattuck, an analyst with the San Francisco brokerage Montgomery Securities. “This moves the company into an area where they haven’t been before.”
A version of dBase, which organizes lists of information on personal computers, has already been developed for a mid-size IBM computer. But the latest deal marks the first time the program will be offered on Digital’s hot-selling mid-range VAX computers.
Ashton-Tate was the ninth most actively traded stock Thursday in the over-the-counter market. On a trading volume of 1,085,600 shares, it closed at $26, up $1.
For Marlboro, Mass.-based Digital, the pact with Ashton-Tate would be one of several it has forged recently with other major players in the computer industry. Earlier this month the company announced that it had agreed to sell under its own label personal computers made by Tandy Corp. Previously, Digital reached an agreement with Apple Computer to develop ways to link Digital’s VAX machines with Apple’s Macintosh personal computers.


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What was originally introduced as a step lower than the flagship Galaxy S Series, Samsung’s Galaxy A Series has now been promoted to flagship status for having features usually found in Samsung’s high end Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series.
“The difference with this is that [the 2018 edition of the A series] caters to a younger market,” Nico Gonzales, Samsung Electronics Philippines Corp.’s marketing manager for core smartphones, told the media shortly after the launch on Jan. 18 in the Penthouse 8747 in Makati City.
The Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) and A8+ (2018) both sport a dual front camera (16MP+8MP f1.9) with live focus and adjustable blur for those “bokeh shots” and a 16MP f1.7 rear shooter. The display — dubbed the “Infinity Display” — features an 18:5:9 display ratio for a “cinematic viewing experience,” according to the company release.
Both phones are dual-sim capable, have ROMs expandable up to 256GB and has a face recognition feature. These also come with Samsung’s virtual assistant Bixby though the phones comes sans a dedicated Bixby button present in Galaxy S8.
The phones are available in either gold or black.
Another feature of note is that the A8 and A8+ are water- and dust-resistant, which means the phones are virtually unfazed even when submerged in up to 1.5 meters of freshwater for up to 30 minutes and can withstand sweat, rain, sand and dust.
Aside from the cosmetic differences between the two phones — the A8 stands at 5.6 inches and 172 grams while A8+ is at 6 inches and 191 grams — the A8+ also contains a larger battery capacity of 3,500 mAh compared to A8’s 3000 mAh.
A8+’s RAM is also bigger at 6 GB and internal memory is at 64GB while A8 has a not-too-shabby 4 GB RAM and 32 GB internal memory.
All these features come with a price tag of P26,990 for the A8 and P32,990 for the A8+. In comparison, last year’s flagship, the S8 is now sold online (as of this writing) in Lazada for P31,990 for the 64GB model and the S8+ 64GB model is at P34,890.
So what makes A8/A8+ preferable over last year’s flagship which is only a couple thousand pesos more than the new launches?
Well, it all comes down to its target market, said Mr. Gonzales as the A8 is targeted towards millennials who want a phone “that can experience everything along with them and capture those moments.”
“What we envision with this is you get all the flagship features but still have enough to experience other things,” he said.
Compared to the launch price of the S8 (P39,990) and S8+ (P45,990), it is certainly cheaper and once the S9 rolls out this year, A8 will a cheaper alternative, though not by much.
And in terms of A8’s entry into the dual camera selfie market — of which Chinese brands such as OPPO (F3), Vivo (V5 Plus) and Huawei (Nova 2i), among others, currently reign supreme–this isn’t because they wanted to compete in this segment, Mr. Gonzales said but is a reaction to “the clamor from the target market for better selfies.”
“We thought it was about time we release our own version of a dual front camera,” he said.
Whether other phones from the Korean company will sport this feature, Mr. Gonzales is keeping mum.
Both phones will be available late January. For more details on where to buy the Galaxy A* and A8+, visit Samsung PH’s Facebook page or its website at samsung.com/ph. — Zsarlene B. Chua


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Bangladesh is a fast growing aviation market with annual growth rate much more than that of global average. Emirates always consider Bangladesh as one of the most important destinations in its global network.
DHAKA: US-Bangla Airlines, leading private airlines in Bangladesh will resume flight operations to Bangkok from February 1. The airlines will add fifth flight from March 31.
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Mumbai: The management of Jet Airways said is in a “continuous dialogue” with the pilots and other teams to discuss and resolve the ongoing issues including the disbursement of their salaries.
Meanwhile, the airli..
Dhaka: Bangladesh and UAE share close people‑to‑people bond, similar national realities andcomplementary development goals. Saed Mohammed ALMheiri, UAE Ambassador to Bangladesh, said this while addressing a reception..
Rabat: Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX Certified Four Star Global Airline has won 2018 Best Airlines in Africa Award for the seventh year in a row from African Airlines Association (A..
London : Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAUDIA) the national flag carrier of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, revealed a new exhibition stand at the World's Largest Travel Trade Fair - the World Travel Market (WTM) in London.
Dhaka : Emirates made a clean sweep last week with award wins across multiple countries - from Russia and Belgium to the UAE - a testament to the airline's consistent delivery of industry-leading travel experiences for i..
Dhaka : Before take-off, all aircrafts of US-Bangla Airlines must go through strict compliance technical checking thrice. Foreign engineers check the aircraft at night a day before the flights and then it is checked by l..
Dhaka : The second Boeing Dreamliner 787-8 will join Biman fleet on December 1.
"The second Boeing 787-8, known as the Dreamliner, will land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city at 4:30 pm on December..
DHAKA: An Emiratis Food Festival and cultural show began on December 4 at the Hotel Sarina in collaboration with the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dhaka.
The festival “Ultimate Dubai @Hotel Sarina: #Vis..
Dhaka: Deloitte, the largest professional services firm in the world with its presence in 150+ countries has stepped in to Bangladesh market with the launch of Deloitte Bangladesh at a city hotel today, December 1.
Dhaka : BRAC Bank and bKash partnered with WorldRemit for bank and mobile money transfers to Bangladesh.
New strategic partnership allows customers of WorldRemit, a leading digital money transfer company in over 50 co..
Dhaka : The digital service providing company Banglalink aims to use their resources tactically in a bid to bring up a revolution in the market, much like what they did 12 years ago, when they made people from limited in..
Dhaka : The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has waived the Value Added Tax (VAT) the travel agents had to pay on their commission earnings from sales of air tickets.
The 15 per cent VAT was imposed in Fiscal Year (FY)..
Dhaka : The air transport sector worldwide supports 65.5 million jobs and US$2.7 trillion in global economic activity, according to new research released most recently by the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG).
A J M Nasir Uddin, Mayor of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) inaugurated the 3-day tourism fair in Chattogram this morning. Mahbubul Alam, President, Chattogram Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), Md. Jahangir Hossain, CEO Bangladesh Tourism Board and and Kazi Wahidul Alam, Editor, The Bangladesh Monitor were present among others on the occasion.


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OECD: Covid-19 Effect on Tourism to Last Throughout 2020
The impact of the coronavirus health emergency on global tourism is expected to last throughout the year, according to a study released this week by the OECD Center for Entrepreneurship.
Global tourism will be hard hit throughout 2020 and perhaps beyond, even if the deadly virus is contained, OECD analysts note, adding that estimated international arrivals in 2020 are set to drop by 263 million or by up to 17.9 percent against 2019 figures.
The OECD report, which cites World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) data, says that global travel may be impacted by up to 25 percent in 2020, leading to the potential loss of up to 50 million sector-related jobs.
Small and medium sized businesses, which make up a large part of the tourism and travel industry, are faced with the biggest challenge as they have less resilience and flexibility to cope with the emerging costs of the health crisis, limited resources, and restricted access to capital.
Mostly impacted by the Covid-19 outbreak are holiday resorts, restaurants, business travel, culture and entertainment, tourist guide services, the short-term platform economy, and transport services providers including cruises, ferries, aviation, and railways.
According to the OECD, the implied coronavirus-related shock could amount to a 45-70 percent decline in the international tourism economy in 2020, depending on the duration of the crisis and the speed with which travel and tourism rebounds.
More specifically, and based on a baseline assumption that tourism flows will remain shut down up to June and on international tourism arrivals for the OECD area, analysts foresee the following two scenarios: if international tourism arrivals start to recover in July, and strengthen progressively in the second half of the year, then global tourism economy losses will come to around 45 percent.
In the second scenario however, the decline in the international tourism economy may reach 70 percent, if global tourism arrivals start to pick up in September, gaining ground progressively in the final quarter of the year.
OECD on Greece
Relying in large part on travel and tourism, which accounts for approximately 10 percent of all jobs, Greece immediately activated a Crisis Management Committee to respond to the crisis aiming to minimize the potential damage to the country’s reputation and visibility as well as to protect travelers and maintain trust, the OECD said.
The Greek tourism ministry also opened a communication hotline for tourism operators, businesses and market representatives to address emerging issues.


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Welcome to the world's largest duty free shop! China opens £500m mall with Chanel on tap ... but there's an £800 spending limit
- Haitang Bay duty free shopping centre is located in south-eastern China
- Thousands rushed through its doors when it officially opened this week
- The mall features more than 300 international brands, including Prada and Chanel
A coastal city in south-eastern China has opened the world’s largest duty free shop to lure tourists and luxury shoppers who are prepared to drop fistfuls of cash.
With a footprint of nearly one million square feet, the gigantic Haitang Bay shopping centre in downtown Sanya is like a duty free shop on steroids.
Thousands of shoppers flocked to the mall, which has stores spread over three levels and a glass cavernous atrium, when it officially opened its doors on Monday.
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Impressive: The Haitang Bay duty free shopping centre is the largest in the world at nearly one million square feet
Opening day: Thousands of shoppers flocked to the shopping centre when it opened its doors on Monday
Luxury brands: The shopping centre haven for holidaymakers whose tastes include high-end fashion
Say cheese: Haitang Bay replaces a duty free shop that was just one seventh of the new building's size
The shopping centre on the island province of Hainan is a haven for holidaymakers whose tastes include high-end fashion, expensive jewellery, designer perfume, fancy sweets or imported liquor.
With nearly 300 international brands under one roof, it is the first time that several of them, including Prada, Rolex and Giorgio Armani, have been included in a duty free shop on mainland China, the country’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
Operated by the China Duty Free Group, the colossal shopping paradise cost nearly £500m to build and it replaces an overcrowded shop that was just one seventh of the new building's size.
It’s part of an effort to transform Hainan Island into a world-class tourist destination by the end of the decade.
High-end shopping: The duty free mall brings nearly 300 international brands under one roof
Operated by the China Duty Free Group, the colossal shopping centre cost nearly £500m to build
Tourists are allowed to make duty free purchases twice a year, but they face an £800 spending limit
It is the first time that several luxury brands have been included in a duty free shop on mainland China
For well-to-do locals, the shopping centre is promising competitive prices to convince them to spend their money at home instead of the luxury shopping mecca of Hong Kong.
Duty free shopping is relatively new in Hainan. The island opened two shops in April 2011 as part of a trial program that was authorised by China’s State Council.
Tourists are allowed to make duty free purchases twice a year when leaving the island, but they face a spending limit of just under £800, Xinhua News Agency said.
The Hainan Tourism Development Commission is expecting 40 million overnight tourists in 2014. The average visitor spent almost £300 in 2013.
Take your pick: The shopping centre features luxury brands such as Prada, Rolex, Giorgio Armani and Gucci
Haitang Bay is promising competitive prices to keep locals away from the luxury shopping mecca of Hong Kong
Open for business: With shops spread over three levels, the complex is like a duty free shop on steroids
The shopping centre is part of an effort to transform Hainan Island into a world-class tourist destination
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A little over a year ago the media wrote about a Chinese company using a giant 3D printer to print out ten houses in one day. Soon after that, a Finnish company said they were starting to 3D print building elements in concrete. Even a human heart has been 3D printed.
“Industrial 3D printing has come a long way. The prototypes, tools, and even manufacturing the end products are already a reality. Companies are using more and more 3D printing in research, product development, and manufacturing,” says one of the owners of Grano, Risto Ojala.
Grano is among the trendsetters of 3D printing. According to Ojala, the technology can bring added value to the manufacturing industry, design, and sales promotion. 3D printing brings a virtual model to life.
“The 3D images we used to scroll on the screen become real objects that you can touch, test, and look at from different angles in a way that’s completely different from just seeing it on the screen. 3D printing allows us to entirely renew the way we think about different structures.”
Ojala, like many other 3D experts, is somewhat annoyed by the 3D excitement on the consumer market. People think 3D printing is about everyone having a 3D printer at home and being able to print out whatever they want. This is still far from being a reality. Developing usable consumer printers will take years, agrees research company Gartner.
Equipment, support, materials
Grano’s 3D printing services produce, among other things, prototypes, master castings and moulds, as well as various models for marketing, sales, and exhibition purposes. The company also has the competence for printing demanding objects where particular durability for heat or chemicals is required.
“We offer the device, support, and materials, meaning that we also sell the 3D printer to the customer to utilise once they become familiar with the idea of 3D printing.”
To make the customer succeed
Gartner estimates that within a few years, over 13 billion dollars will be used on a global level on 3D printers and printing materials. Already last year the sum was over one billion dollars. The possibilities of 3D printing seem endless.
“We have been involved in the 3D projects of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Aalto University for a few years now, which has allowed us to familiarise ourselves with the experts and technologies in the field and thus gain a good understanding of the state and needs of the 3D printing industry. The possibilities for development are amazing, and Grano is running steadily in the foreground of the development. This, like all our other services, is all about wanting to advance the business operations of our customers.”
Text: Sirkka-Liisa Aaltonen
Read more about the possibilities predicted for 3D printing by the ADDlab of the Aalto University.


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We reported last month that China-based photo app firm Kuaishou is gearing up for an IPO inside the U.S. later this yr. Properly the company, which moreover presents live-streaming video in its service, has stopped to refuel its tanks first after it raised $350 million in current funding led by Chinese language language internet large Tencent.
Tencent, Asia’s highest valued tech agency, confirmed to TechCrunch that it led the financing as a model new investor. It didn’t, however, disclose whether or not or not current backers — which embody Baidu, Sequoia and DCM — moreover participated inside the spherical, which was first reported by Bloomberg. In our earlier report we said the company’s valuation had reached $three billion, nonetheless neither it nor its consumers are commenting on that decide.
Kuaishou was based mostly in 2011 and it began life as a trip spot for image sharing on cell. That side of its enterprise has picked up 400 million clients nonetheless, like other Chinese tech firms and even Western image apps like Instagram, it has ventured into live-streaming with some success. Kuaishou claims to have reached 50 million on daily basis clients, with 5 million motion pictures uploaded to its service on daily basis.
Following the funding, Kuaishou said it could work with Tencent and Baidu on product, tech and distribution. It plans to utilize the capital to spend cash on artificial intelligence and completely different R&D to extra develop its product.
Whereas it doesn’t compete straight with Snapchat or Instagram in China — Kuaishou does provide an international product — its key dwelling rivals embody Miaopai, backed by Twitter-like company Weibo, and relationship service Momo, which is gaining some serious steam with its live-streaming product.


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Italian financial services provider Agos Ducato is piloting microSD-based NFC payments in partnership with Visa Europe. The 1,000 participants in the trial are able to make payments at contactless-enabled merchant locations across the Milan and Monza areas.
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Riot Games is the publisher and videogame developer behind League of Legends, Valorant and Valorant. It has announced that it will not release game patches until its environment for development was restored.
LA-based game publisher, Game Publishers Inc. disclosed the matter in a Twitter thread Friday night. He promised to keep his customers informed of any developments.
The company stated that “earlier this week, systems within our development environment were compromised by a social engineering attack.”
We don’t know all the details right now but wanted to let you know that we have no evidence of player data or any personal information being obtained.
Riot Games stated that Riot Games was unable to post patches for their games because of the breach.
This has caused us to be unable to publish content temporarily. Riot Games stated that while our teams work hard to find a solution, this will impact the upcoming patch cycle across multiple games.
This has caused us to be unable to publish content temporarily. Our teams have been working diligently to find a solution, but this could impact the upcoming patches across many games.
Riot Games (@riotgames).
On Friday, the League of Legends multiplayer online battle arena (LoL), and Teamfight Tactics auto-battler games (TFT) confirmed that the incident occurred.
In addition, the tweets acknowledged that there may be delays in implementing changes to the game as well as towards the release of the next major update.
This could impact the delivery date of Patch 13.2. “This may impact our delivery date for Patch 13.2,” the League team .
We’ll be keeping you informed as we go through the process.
The TFT team .
Andrei van Roon (head of League Studio) stated that there would not be any changes to the LoL Patch 13.2 release plan.
We might have to relocate things that aren’t possible to be fixed (e.g. van Roon that art modifications may be made at a later time.
After 2K Games (another major publisher of video games), stated , that their help desk had been hacked in order to infect its customers with malware.
2K sent users an email a month later to inform them that their data had been stolen. following the September security breach.
BleepingComputer reached out to Riot Games earlier today but a spokesperson for the company was unavailable.


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Marketing partnerships, key co-branding efforts and favorable regional media coverage have propelled the National Basketball Association to success in Latin America, Commissioner David Stern told attendees at the Marketing 2020 Advertising Conference of the Americas in Miami on Thursday. The brand's success results from its allure with the public, which transcends borders and countries, Mr. Stern said. ``I call the NBA the self-actualizing, self-effectuating business,'' he told the more than 350 people at the conference, sponsored by Advertising Age International
and the International Advertising Association. ``This business travels internationally as well as any other.'' Others speakers at the one-day conference included representatives of IBM, Federal Express, Americatel and several ad agencies.


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How do you Tiger-proof an entire corporation? At Accenture, you start by telling employees to tear down all the posters that say, now somewhat awkwardly, that “we know what it takes to be a Tiger.”
For six years, Tiger Woods was the advertising face for Accenture , the big consulting firm. But now that Mr. Woods has confessed to infidelities amid an assault of media coverage, Accenture wants him to disappear.
On Sunday, hours after Accenture ended its sponsorship deal, the golfer’s face was replaced by an anonymous skier on the company’s home page. His name was scrubbed almost completely from the rest of the Web site. The company’s advertising campaign is about “high performance,” and Mr. Woods “just wasn’t a metaphor for high performance anymore,” a spokesman for Accenture, Fred Hawrysh, said.
By Monday afternoon, Accenture staffers had swept through the company’s New York office and removed any visible Tiger posters. The next day, marketing and communications employees around the world were asked to turn in any remaining Tiger-emblazoned posters and other materials. Accenture marketing employees did not respond to requests for comment about the Tiger purge on Wednesday.
Accenture said it did not tell all of its 177,000 worldwide employees to toss their Tiger T-shirts, caps and tchotchkes away. But when asked about branded merchandise, Mr. Hawrysh said, “Our intention is to ensure we are no longer using it internally or externally.”
But it takes time to erase the golfer’s identity completely. Accenture spent $50 million on advertising in the United States last year, and Mr. Woods appeared in 83 percent of the company’s ads — far more than for any of his other major sponsors — according to TNS Media Intelligence.
The remaining billboards and ads, now outdated, inspire smirks and jokes. In ads at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, Tiger is seen crouching on the green, studying a golf ball’s trajectory and endorsing outsourcing. In Atlanta, he is posed as The Thinker, adorned with a Nike hat, promoting management consulting. At Dulles International outside Washington, he is peering into the distance, dark clouds on the horizon. That ad, forebodingly, says it is “tougher than ever to be a Tiger.”
“The Accenture ads with Tiger finally make sense,” Quentin George, the chief digital officer for Interpublic Mediabrands, an advertising holding company, remarked on Twitter Wednesday.
Mr. Woods provided a big boost to Accenture when he became the company’s worldwide public face in 2003. At the time, the Accenture name was less than three years old, and was still regularly called by its old name, Andersen Consulting. The campaign’s initial theme was “Go on. Be a Tiger.”
Mr. Woods “was a powerful device for our advertising, there’s no doubt about it,” Mr. Hawrysh said.
But as allegations of Mr. Woods’s extramarital affairs spread in recent weeks, the titan of golf was transformed into a distraction. In the early days of the media frenzy, Mr. Woods still greeted visitors to Accenture’s Web site next to the words, “It’s What You Do Next That Counts.” Then on Sunday, the company proclaimed that Mr. Woods was “no longer the right representative” for its advertising and began scrubbing his name and face away.
On Tuesday, that meant telling staff members in an e-mail message to review their sales pitches and slide shows to ensure that they “no longer include Tiger Woods.” In New York, employees were asked to bring posters and other physical assets to the company’s front desk for disposal. The company would not comment on exactly how they would be disposed of.
They may be trying to avoid having the materials recast as collectors’ items. Already, some Accenture magazine ads and memorabilia, including an Accenture Match Play Tiger Woods Caddy Bib, are on eBay (Asking price for the bib: $175.)
Mr. Woods’s private life remains a daily topic on TV talk shows and Web sites, but some of his sponsors, including Nike, have stayed by his side. Nike’s chairman, Phil Knight, told The Sports Business Journal last week that when Mr. Woods’s career “is over, you’ll look back on these indiscretions as a minor blip.”
Accenture, however, is already preparing a new ad campaign. Jon Swallen, a senior vice president for research for TNS Media Intelligence, said it seemed notable that the consulting firm chose not to hide under a no-comment cloak or hire a new celebrity spokesman; instead, it separated from Mr. Woods publicly and swiftly.
“It struck me that they were taking him to the woodshed,” Mr. Swallen said.


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For years, we’ve been fed the idea that if we give up carbs altogether, it will boost weight loss But as anyone who has attempted to go completely cold turkey knows, avoiding all carbohydrates is difficult and usually ends up backfiring. We end up starving, then binging on bad foods, and thus the vicious cycle recommences.
Most accredited dietitians and nutritionists will tell us that we don’t need to give up carbs in order to lose weight — in fact, it’s better that you don’t!
Our brains need carbs to function, and while vegetables and fruits contain lots of the carbs we need, most of us still need a little extra carbohydrate boost from wholegrains and legumes, says nutritionist Dr. Joanna McMillan.
“The trend at the moment has been this shift away from bagging out carbs,” Dr. McMillan told Good Health.
“There’s a huge trend towards plant-based diets and by nature of this way of eating, if you’re going to go more plant-based and eat lots of plant foods, you’re going to eat more carbs,” she said.
“Wholegrains and legumes [foods like chickpeas and lentils] are going to be these superfoods that we incorporate into our diets more.”
Eating these sorts of foods keeps us fuller for longer, meaning we’re less likely to snack on unhealthy and sugary treats, derailing our weight loss progress. Plus, eating wholegrains has loads of other health benefits, including improving our gut health.
“I’ve always been a fan of using wholegrains because the evidence is so strong … they’re our major source of fibre and have an excellent impact on gut health. They contain lots of antioxidants and they help prevent colon cancer,” she said.
But of course, not all carbs are created equally. When we talk about eating carbs, we don’t mean processed white breads, pastas, or sweet treats like cakes and biscuits.
We asked Dr. McMillan for the five best types of carbohydrates we can eat and still lose weight, or maintain a healthy lifestyle:
1. Whole Grain Rice, Brown, or Black rice
“You can buy these in microwave-friendly packets from the supermarket and often they contain a blend of grains, which is great for variety,” she said.
2. Rolled Oats
“Make porridge with oats or add a few spoonfuls into your morning smoothie for an added wholegrain carbohydrate boost,” she said.
3. Wholegrain Breakfast Cereal
“Nothing is wrong with wholegrain breakfast cereal,” she said. “We’ve had this sense that these are highly processed foods for so long, but brands have come a long way to improving their formulas. Just check the ingredients carefully and choose a wholegrain, low sugar option.”
4. Ancient Grains
“I am a big fan of quinoa and ancient grains like barley, because they’re cheap and versatile. Use them in salads for an added boost,” Dr. McMillan said.
5. Whole Grain Bread
“People often think that supermarket breads are bad, but they’re not. Look for wholemeal and wholegrain breads, anything where you can see grainy bits in the bread,” she said.
“Sourdough is also a good choice because it tends to reduce the GI levels of the bread, making it easier for some people to digest.”
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- Will there be a MFP payment in 2020?
- Will there be a MFP payment in January 2020?
- How is MFP payment calculated?
- What are FSA payments?
- What is the farm program for corn?
- Are market facilitation payments taxable?
- Will farmers get the last MFP payment?
- How much will each farmers get from bailout?
- What is MFP in farming?
- Do farmers still get subsidies?
- Will there be a November MFP payment?
- Will farmers get payments in 2019?
- What is MFP payment?
Will there be a MFP payment in 2020?
Federal aid in the form of Market Facilitation Program (MFP) and Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) payments have increased returns and the financial stability of grain farms in 2018, 2019, and likely in 2020..
Will there be a MFP payment in January 2020?
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue says he expects a third and final round of the 2019 MFP to be paid in the coming months, but nothing new for 2020.
How is MFP payment calculated?
USDA’s MFP methodology shows that it determined the MFP county-level payment rates by adding within each county each crop’s 2015-2018 average planted acres multiplied by the 2015-2017 average yield and the MFP crop rate, and then dividing by the county’s 2015-2018 average planted acres.
What are FSA payments?
A Flexible Spending Account (also known as a flexible spending arrangement) is a special account you put money into that you use to pay for certain out-of-pocket health care costs. You don’t pay taxes on this money. … Employers may make contributions to your FSA, but aren’t required to.
What is the farm program for corn?
What is the farm program for corn? A government subsidy for growing corn. From the movie, King Corn.
Are market facilitation payments taxable?
Market Facilitation Program payments are government subsidies paid to compensate farmers of specified crops for lost profits. There is currently no legislation excluding these payments from gross income. Thus, under the caselaw and IRS guidance, MFP payments are includible in gross income.
Will farmers get the last MFP payment?
The final installment of the Market Facilitation Program 2.0 will be disseminated to farmers soon. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue confirmed the last 25-percent of the trade aid would be made but is not announcing a release date.
How much will each farmers get from bailout?
But whereas most families received only a $1,200 stimulus check for each adult and $500 for each child, the largest farmers can now get up to $250,000 per person from the new Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, with farm corporations receiving up to $750,000.
What is MFP in farming?
The Market Facilitation Program (MFP) provides assistance to farmers and ranchers with commodities directly impacted by unjustified foreign retaliatory tariffs, resulting in the loss of traditional export markets.
Do farmers still get subsidies?
The government spent about ₹2.56-lakh crore on various subsidies for the farm sector in 2018-19, a jump of 43 per cent over the previous year thanks to higher MSP on crops. For 2019-20, farm subsidies are set to balloon further to ₹2.77-lakh crore. However, on the ground, there has not been much cheer for farmers.
Will there be a November MFP payment?
MFP payments for 2019 are being made in up to three batches. … For producers who received payments in the first round, their second-round payments were 25 percent of their calculated payments and were issued November 18-28, 2019. The third and final round of payments were announced on February 3, 2020.
Will farmers get payments in 2019?
Farmers got more than $22 billion in government payments in 2019. It’s the highest level of farm subsidies in 14 years. In 2019, the federal government delivered an extraordinary financial aid package to America’s farmers. … That’s when the government stepped in.
What is MFP payment?
MFP payments are limited to a combined $250,000 for non-specialty crops per person or legal entity. MFP payments are also limited to a combined $250,000 for dairy and hog producers and a combined $250,000 for specialty crop producers. However, no applicant can receive more than $500,000.