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Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker - April 2017
The PYMNTS Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker™, powered by LevelUp, serves as a monthly framework for the space, providing coverage of the most recent news and trends, along with a provider directory highlighting the key players contributing across the segments that comprise the mobile order-ahead ecosystem.
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- Kramer Johnson, head of digital experience for Chick-fil-A on using mobile order-ahead apps to give customers more control.
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Depending on the Costco location, however, its food court offerings vary. One Canadian shopper at the chain showed off a McFlurry “dupe” that got several commenters who responded to her video very excited.
TikToker V’s (@vdea) clip accrued over 991,000 views as of Saturday, which proudly displays the dessert.
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“Run to Costco right now,” the TikToker says directly into the camera. “They have McFlurries.”
The camera transitions to reveal a Costco food court menu, supporting her claim about the addition of the tasty dairy dessert being added to the menu.
“They have Oreo and Skor flavor,” she says, and sure enough, the Blizzard/McFlurry-esque desserts are shown, for sale, on Costco’s food court menu for $4.99 a-piece.
While this seems like a pretty steep price compared to Costco’s other offerings, when the clip transitions yet again, the TikToker reveals a massive mini-bucket of ice cream in her hand. She purchased the Oreo variety, and says, “Oh my God, amazing,” showing off the hunk of deliciousness.
V isn’t the only TikToker to brag about the tasty offering online, either. The @tasting2gether account dropped news of the menu item a few months back, but it looks like now more locations are giving customers the option of chowing down on a “McFlurry dupe” from the comfort of their own Costco.
If you haven’t seen these for sale at your local Costco, there may be a reason for that—it looks like they’re currently only being offered in Canada. Delishably covered @tasting2gether’s video, highlighting a comment from one user who said that USA’s Costco’s food courts are trying to keep up with the Great White North’s menu. The TikToker also wrote in several comments that the location was in Gloucester, near Ottawa.
Commenters who saw V’s clip, however, are hoping that these treats make their way stateside. One person sadly penned, “I thought this was Ontario California.”
While another remarked, “Canadian Costco food court is where it’s at. They don’t play.”
Someone tried finding consolation in the fact that Canucks never got to have a Cinnamon-flavored dessert, writing, “If it makes the Americans feel better Canada Costco has never had churros lol!!”
“It tastes really good!” one viewer said. “Better than mcFlurry but $5 compared to the cone. Also they got rid of the hot fudge/ caramel which makes me sad.”
It seems not all Canadian Costco locations have received the McFlurry Dupe drop yet. One user asked, “Is it in Vancouver yettttt,” while someone else wrote, “Was just there, didn’t see these…. haven’t come to BC yet.”
The Daily Dot has reached out to Costco via email and V via TikTok comment.

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Watch out for £50 renewal fee just to stick with the same motor policy
By Ruth Lythe
Insurance firms are hammering their most loyal customers with fees of more than £50 just to stick with the same motor policy.
For example, broker Hastings Direct now hits motor insurance customers with a £20 charge for renewing their policies. Last year, it levied just £5.
AutoDirect, which is owned by insurer Ageas, has been charging up to £52 as a ‘administration fee’, while 1st Central charges £50.
Keeping an eye out: Drivers should watch out for renewal fees charged just for staying on the same policy
A spokesman for Which? consumer group says: ‘Rather than being rewarded for loyalty, consumers are regularly hit with higher premiums at renewal and some are even charged these extra fees.
‘It can’t be said enough how people must compare prices and get more than one quote.’
Hastings Direct says: ‘We are completely transparent about this fee which is shown as a separate item on the renewal invitation.’
AutoDirect says less than 1 per cent of customers had been hit with the maximum £52 charge in the past 12 months. It said it was now cutting the charge to £30.
While 1st Central says it is clear about this fee and that it is included in the total cost.
It is estimated more than seven million drivers stick with their insurer at renewal time, with nearly a third not bothering to check whether they could save money elsewhere.


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A sales slowdown in China and the US at designer Hugo Boss was off-set by its success in dressing women in Europe, the German fashion group revealed today.
Hugo Boss, traditionally known for its menswear, recruited womenswear designer Jason Wu last year.
Wu, who counts the US first lady Michelle Obama as a fan, launched his first collection at the brand in February.
Demand for its womenswear helped the group report sales ahead 6 per cent for the first quarter in local currencies and up 3 per cent in euro terms to €613m.
Its European business was strongest with 8 per cent sales growth for the period while Asia sales were up 7 per cent in local currencies. Its US business suffered and sales fell 2 per cent.
Its wholesale business struggled and was down 6 per cent but the group said gross profit margin improved by 360 basis points to 65.4 per cent and overall net profit was flat for the period at €81.6 million.
The fashion group said it had reduced net debt by €97m to €27m in the period and will continue to expand this year. It plans around 50 new shops globally by the end of 2014.


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Google has been consistently coming out with a lot of new products that have met with a lot of success. One of the most ambitious Google projects to be unveiled to the public is Google Wallet, which could be considered a highly effective payment platform using smartphones. So how does Google Wallet work?
Google Wallet uses an embedded near-field communications or NFC chip that allows users to use their credit cards, debit cards, coupons, store loyalty cards and other payment or discount products without having to physically use the card. With the use of the NFC chip, all the user needs to do is to use their smartphone and tap it onto a payment receiver to initiate and complete the transaction. Bigtime brands like Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express have already thrown their support for Google Wallet and will become part of the whole Google Wallet system. [Read more…]
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The Puerto Rican government has reinvented its recently launched campaign for tourism to the island, changing last year’s “Just Think Puerto Rico” for “Just Think, Puerto Rican Rum” in new attempts to get consumers to drink the nation’s renowned spirit. continue reading »


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Mexicans are scrambling for gasoline amid long lines at gas stations and widespread shortages prompted by a change in distribution methods aimed at stemming fuel theft.
State oil company Petroleos Mexicanos said the use of more secure transportation methods has resulted in delays for fuel delivery to gas stations in the states of Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Mexico and Queretaro. It is urging consumers not to panic or hoard gasoline, promising that supply will soon stabilize.
Frantic consumers have made a run on the pumps and social media has been filled with images of gas station signs saying they are out of fuel, and consumers comparing the thin supplies to scarcity for basic goods like bread and milk that plagued Mexico during the 1970s.
The shortage has given ammunition to government critics, who say many of the new administration's policies and goals are throwbacks to past decades.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office on Dec. 1, said Sunday that complicity within Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, has allowed the fuel theft to blossom for years, growing from $500,000 a year more than a decade ago to roughly $3 billion in stolen fuel last year.
Lopez Obrador said overhauling the network requires taking on powerful and entrenched interests that have benefited from fuel theft for years. Without going into detail on tactics, the president said Mexico has reduced daily theft to 36 truckloads of fuel from an average of more than 1,000 truckloads a day.
Pemex is trying to stem billions of dollars in losses from criminal gangs that tap pipelines to steal gasoline by instead transporting the fuel via truck. Analysts say truck transport is more expensive, and less efficient.
Gasoline is a hot political issue in Mexico. Former President Enrique Pena Nieto's decision to hike gasoline prices in January 2017 sparked ire that many cite as leading to his party's eventual ouster.


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Microsoft has released a short video recap of this year’s MWC, putting special focus on the launch of Windows 10.
This year’s MWC will go down in history as being particularly conservative. The focus from many established firms, such as Samsung and HTC, was on the refinement of existing designs. As such, things could occasionally feel a little staid.
Microsoft continued in much the same fashion with its MWC event. Focusing on the potential of Windows 10 and new programs that were being delivered to businesses, along with the success of the Windows Insider program, those waiting for signs of a juicy flagship announcement were left wanting.
That isn’t to say that there was no meat on the bone. The event saw the announcement of the Lumia 640 and the 640 XL. Both are mid-rangers, sporting 720p screens and interesting camera set-ups, with the XL being touted as the more premium of the two. The two devices will come sporting attractive price tags and will do much to whet the appetites of impatient Windows Phone fans before the release of Windows 10 later in the year.
How do you feel Microsoft did at MWC? Let us know in the comments below.


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From Jan 29 to Feb 1, 2013, ISO/TC8/SC8/WG4 “air bag” work group meeting was held in ISO UK office. The meeting approved the ISO/CD17682 Ship and marine technology — Methodology of ship launching utilizing air bags. It’s released on May 1st, 2013.
ISO 17682:2013 specifies general guidelines for ship launching utilizing air bags, including the specification of the ship and facilities such as air bags, slipway, towing arrangements, the launching procedure, and safeguards during the ship launching.
ISO17682 and ISO14409 were drafted by Jinan Changlin Air Bag Container Co., Ltd. The approvals on the standards indicate that Jinan Changlin has been on the forefront of the world on ship launching air bag production and application. Jinan Changlin ship launching technology has reached world advanced level. They launched a DWT 82,000, dead weight 16,000T ship successfully in 2011.


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With the laws on regulating shelved for the winter session of the Parliament, hypothesis is rife on the contours of the long run standing of the cryptocurrencies’ ecosystem in India. The RBI governor has made it amply clear that permitting personal cryptocurrencies (hereinafter known as bitcoin each within the metaphorical sense in addition to in the actual sense relying on the context) is fraught and therefore they must be banned.
RBI had in 2018 banned personal cryptocurrencies together with bitcoin which ban was revoked by the Apex Court docket. Thereafter a chastened RBI took a nuanced stand that it has no objection to folks investing in bitcoins however it might not get pleasure from legal-tender standing. Certainly solely El Salvador has granted bitcoin the authorized tender standing alongside the US greenback which it has adopted as its home forex. Elon Musk examined waters by mooting the thought of Tesla accepting bitcoins for its automobiles however shortly backed out sensing opposition from Federal Reserve and tax authorities within the US.
It isn’t as if the RBI was solely at odds with the Supreme Court docket. It has additionally been at loggerheads with the federal government which says robust laws reasonably than a peremptory ban is the best way ahead. In different phrases, the federal government worldview squares with the Apex Court docket view on the matter. RBI is now again to its previous stand—ban personal bitcoins.
RBI’s apprehensions should not far-fetched or exaggerated. It’s true that bitcoin’s stratospheric valuations are fully because of scarcity—only 21 million cash may be mined out of which 18.77 million have already been mined as of August 2021. There is no such thing as a one to underwrite it besides by the blockchain expertise. Whereas blockchain expertise makes hacking and faking tough, that’s not the identical as a central financial institution sanctifying it.
That mentioned, it’s curious that it’s heel-bent on providing an official or sovereign cryptocurrency as if to mollify those that have been stopped from savoring the forbidden fruit although it have to be conceded that RBI shouldn’t be alone on this seeming contradiction what with 80 p.c of central banks around the globe engaged on making a digital forex and 90 p.c of them being in rising markets.
China in January 2021 launched its official bitcoin Digital Forex Digital Cost (DCEP) that’s primarily based on blockchain expertise and designed to strengthen its forex Yuan.
Blockchain expertise certainly is the centerpiece of bitcoin which suggests it’s nameless, intangible, faceless and and not using a physique to kick or soul to rattling. It exists solely on the digital world and therefore is immune from manipulation in view of all transactions being routed by way of its distributed ledger however it’s this faceless character of bitcoins each personal and sovereign that makes them immune from laws as effectively. It’s for the RBI to ponder how it might straddle each the worlds—INR inside its oversight and the digital rupee eluding its oversight. RBI is apprehensive about personal bitcoins undermining the INR. It needs to be equally apprehensive about its personal official bitcoin undermining the INR.
RBI shouldn’t do something that will confuse the folks which a hermaphrodite forex can particularly in a rustic the place monetary illiteracy is rampant. The federal government and the Apex Court docket are right—let personal bitcoins be an funding avenue for these as is the case now. Nevertheless, an schooling marketing campaign needs to be launched to disabuse the notion that they’re authorized tender. The USA correctly taxes capital positive factors from bitcoins at the next price. We too should.
— S. Murlidharan is a CA by qualification and writes on financial points, fiscal and business legal guidelines. The views expressed within the article are his personal.
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Chicago-based agency Highdive is rounding out 2020 with a few wins under its belt.
The shop, founded in 2016 by former DDB creatives Mark Gross and Chad Broude, has been named agency of record for auto insurance company The General. It’s also been selected as creative agency of record by Airheads, a candy brand owned by confectionery company Perfetti Van Melle.
According to Highdive, which was named Adweek’s Fastest Growing Agency in 2020, The General most recently worked with creative agency Art Machine, while Airheads collaborated with Huge.
In addition to handling creative for Airheads, Highdive is helping Perfetti Van Melle launch Fruit-tella, a European candy brand that recently made its U.S.


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We know the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are far-reaching and will likely be long-lasting in communities around the world. But in Jericho, where tourism accounts for so much of our local economy, the financial impact is taking its toll on families.
Businesses were closed, taxis sat empty, even the government furloughed many departments for months. For many of our neighbors, their biggest concern quickly became keeping food on the table for their families. That’s where Seeds of Hope stepped in this week to provide relief.
Thanks to a generous donation from 12Stone Church, one of our incredible partners, we provided 250 families with coupons worth $60 USD to buy food. For families who were already getting by on narrow margins before the crisis hit, support like this means the world.
“I have not worked since April, so it is very hard for me and my sister to care for my mother. God willing this will be over soon but for now, this will bring us peace. We are so thankful.”
–Mariam, coupon recipient
Each coupon was redeemable at one of five local grocery stores where each person could shop for the items their family needed most. Plus, these local stores are all owned by individuals and families who are still feeling the financial effects of the lockdown. So not only did this project put food on the table of our most vulnerable neighbors, it also created much-needed income for local businesses.
We hope that this is the first of several projects addressing the financial impact this season is having on families in Jericho. In fact, as of Wednesday, we already have 70 families on our waiting list for next time.
We’re so grateful for the men, women, and organizations who invest in Seeds of Hope to make projects like this possible. Thanks to you, 250 families have food in the pantry and dinner on the table—maybe more than they’ve had in several months. Not only that, but 250 families have hope that there are better days ahead and they are not alone.


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By Alison Luke
German manufacturer Buderus and UK firm Ham Baker have set up a joint venture to serve the Middle East region.
German pipe manufacturer Buderus is entering the Middle East market under a joint venture with UK pipe-fittings firm Ham Baker.
The joint venture firm, Buderus Pipe Systems, will offer products from both firms to enable a one-stop-shop solution to clients. Edward Howard, group managing director of Ham Baker explained: "Buderus could sell pipes but had no access to fittings and Ham Baker manufactures fittings but not pipes. The two firms have worked together in Europe and they knew we had a presence [in Dubai] so we carried out discussions, which have resulted in this joint venture."
The firm will be based at South Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZ) and will serve the whole of the Middle East region. Products will continue to be manufactured in Europe and Asia before being collated and packaged in Dubai ready for distribution to clients. Existing tender bids in the region will be finalised under the new venture. "Several projects that we have been quoting on over a period of time will now become joint projects," confirmed Howard.
Ham Baker has had a presence in JAFZ for around three years; Buderus previously sold into the region directly from its base in Germany.
The joint venture was officially launched at WETEX 2007, the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority organised water, energy technology and environment exhibition.


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New York, which is in the US: On Sunday, the government of the Bahamas, which is a tax haven and where the headquarters of the struggling cryptocurrency platform FTX is located, said that they would look into the business. BitiCodes is a great resource for trading and investing.
On Friday, it was made public that FTX had filed for bankruptcy in the US to get away from its creditors. This is the latest part of a drama that has sent shockwaves through the digital currency industry.
In a statement posted on Facebook, the Bahamas police said, “In light of the collapse of FTX globally and the provisional liquidation of FTX Digital Markets Ltd., a team of financial investigators from the Financial Crimes Investigation Branch are working closely with the Bahamas Security Commission to find out if there was any criminal behavior.”
FTX went out of business worldwide, and FTX Digital Markets Ltd
The company’s new CEO, John Ray, said on Saturday that “every effort” was being made to protect all assets after illegal transactions that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. After what had just happened, John Ray said these things.
Elliptic, a company that researches cryptocurrencies, said in a study on Saturday, “$477 million is thought to have been stolen.” The FTX authorities should have said how many illegal transactions were made.
Elliptic said that “$663 million in various tokens” had been taken out of FTX’s wallets only 24 hours after the company filed for bankruptcy and that the rest “is thought to have been moved into secure storage by FTX itself.” FTX’s money was stolen just 24 hours after filing for bankruptcy.
Ray, an expert at turning around businesses, says that FTX US and FTX.com “continue to do everything they can to protect all assets, no matter where they are.”
Ten days ago, people thought that FTX was the second-largest platform for cryptocurrency in the world. It was worth $32 billion at one point.
FTX is a place to buy and sell cryptocurrency. It opened in 2019. Derivatives are its main business. The two groups that makeup FTX is FTX in the Bahamas and FTX in the United States. Both groups have similar management teams, but they handle money in different ways. Also, you can only trade on FTX US if you live in the United States.
The FTX platform gives users access to a wide range of trading products, like options, futures, volatility products, and tokens that can be used to borrow money. On top of that, the exchange lets you trade more than a hundred different cryptocurrency pairs on the spot market, such as BTC/USDT, ETH/USDT, XRP/USDT, and many more. There is also a free over-the-counter trading desk on the FTX platform, where about $30 million of trades happen daily.
FTX was started by Sam Bankman-Fried. He went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was an exchange-traded funds trader for Jane Street Capital.
How does FTX work?
The clawback problem was known to the FTX ecosystem, and a way to fix it was found. When someone can’t make their payments on time, the lender can take the money back and charge fees. We call this a “clawback.” FTX uses a three-tiered approach to liquidation to ensure enough money and avoid clawbacks. Also, the model uses a rate-limited order to close positions and keeps an insurance fund to ensure that customers don’t lose money.
Also, the FTX ecosystem takes care of collateral by keeping it all in a single stablecoin wallet for the whole world. Using margins or futures, people can also bet with more money than they have. Instead, the platform uses “leveraged tokens,” which mimic what it’s like to trade with leverage.


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Sometimes we lose our perspective. While rates on home loans have been increasing for the past few weeks, if you read the headlines, it seems like rates are really high right now. They are not. According to the Freddie Mac survey of home loans, the 30-year fixed loan averaged over 5.0% every year from 1975 until 2010, a period of 35 years. That is a generation in which rates have averaged over 7.0% in the long haul.
It is only since the financial crisis hit that rates averaged below 5.0% and for the past five years, the average has been a little over 4.0%. Yes, there were a few periods where rates dropped below 4.0%, including early this year. However, when you look at the difference between 7.0% and 4.0%, rates are over 40% below where they have been historically. This is why renting is more expensive than owning right now in most areas of the country.
There is another message here that we have been delivering for a while. These low rates are not expected to last forever. Every time rates increase as they have in the past few weeks, we ask ourselves–is this the end of the super low rates? We hope not. However, we keep cautioning our readers that rates are great right now and if you are thinking about purchasing a home, refinancing or even purchasing a car, now is an excellent time. You never know when this sale on money will end.
Updated May 15, 2015
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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) says that the adoption of new credit-scoring models could improve the ability of borrowers who lost their homes during the foreclosure crisis to buy again. Nearly 1 million of the 9.3 million homeowners who underwent a foreclosure, received a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure or sold their homes in a short sale between 2006 and 2014 have already purchased a home again, according to a new study by the NAR. Demand from so-called “boomerang” buyers will continue to bolster the housing market in the years ahead, with an additional 1.5 million consumers from the group analyzed by the NAR expected to become eligible for a home loan and purchase a home over the next five years, the NAR said. But damaged credit profiles and strict lending standards will continue to keep millions of would-be buyers on the sidelines. If lenders warm up to new credit-scoring models, however, many borrowers locked out of the housing market could re-enter it, according to the NAR. NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun pointed towards the Vantage Score 3.0 and FICO 9 as credit-scoring models that could improve some borrowers’ access to credit. Both models generally produce higher credit scores for borrowers with unpaid medical bills, and assign credit scores to some consumers who previously couldn’t get them. Vantage Score 3.0 also factors in a person’s rental payment history if such data is available. A FICO credit-scoring model currently being piloted by credit card issuers would hand even more credit scores to borrowers who previously couldn’t get them due to lack of recent credit history. Source: Inman NewsHome ownership may be worth putting off love, at least for millennials. Thirty-eight percent of American millennials (those aged 18-34) say they would – or have – delayed a wedding or honeymoon so they could afford to buy a home, according to a survey of more than 2,000 adults conducted by Harris Poll, on behalf of the real estate brokerage Redfin. Saving for a down payment may take precedence over saving for a wedding. Saving for a wedding has gotten pricier – recently hitting an all-time high of $29,858 last year, according to TheKnot.com. Many millennials say they’ll delay a marriage to lessen the financial burden of paying for a wedding and a home within the same year, says Clayton Jirak, a Redfin real estate professional in Chicago. “This is becoming a popular option for couples who are prioritizing home ownership over marriage,” he says. They may choose to commit to a home together before the walk down the aisle. Source: Redfin
Home owners are upbeat when it comes to the value of their homes. They’re willing to spend to preserve that value too. “Consumers are feeling better about their jobs, their wages, and certainly feeling better about the value of their home,” Lowe’s Chief Executive Officer Robert Niblock told Bloomberg. “They are re-engaging in projects that they have put off.” With these big box home-improvement stores, home values are key to growth, company officials say. That’s because when home owners feel good about the value of their home, they tend to be more willing to spend on repairs and remodels. And home prices have been on the rise: The median price of an existing single-family home in the past year rose in 86 percent of the 175 metro areas tracked, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Lowe’s, which surveys consumers every quarter, says that its most recent poll showed that 50 percent of the home owners surveyed reported that the value of their home is rising – marking a survey high (ever since Lowe’s began polling home owners in 2007). “That’s certainly good for their willingness to spend on the home,” Niblock says, adding that rising values of existing houses will be the single-biggest driver of Lowe’s business. Source: Bloomberg News


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If you follow Tesla, Elon Musk, and SpaceX, you probably watched the rocket launch this week. It would have marked the first time in years we've sent astronauts to space. However, as some anticipated, it was cancelled due to inclement weather.
Musk drives Tesla vehicles as his personal cars, so he needs to charge just like the rest of the owners. Following the cancelled launch, the CEO was seen waiting in line at a Tesla Supercharger in Palm Bay, Florida. He had his girlfriend Grimes and their new baby with him, along with a Tesla Model S and Model X. He was reportedly in high spirits, despite the cancelled launch.
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Musk actually got out of his vehicle and interacted with other Tesla owners while waiting in line to charge. He even posed for photos. We can only imagine that the CEO was extremely excited, anxious, and overwhelmed by the potential SpaceX launch. However, while he was probably disappointed it was cancelled, the situation could have easily lifted a huge weight. We can't speak for Musk, but if it were us, we'd be disappointed, but relieved and de-stressed at the same time.
Many Tesla owners posted images of Musk at the Supercharger, talking to fans, laughing, and posing for photos. Some said he was very friendly and actually spent 15 minutes chatting. Aside from all of this, the whole situation gave Musk an opportunity to experience the public charging situation just like the general public.
Later, he announced on Twitter that Tesla has been slow to add new Superchargers due to the production of the V3 technology. He said Tesla is now ramping up its efforts once again.


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When companies miss analysts’ financial forecasts, why is that the company’s fault rather than the analysts’? A question that emerged as Apple announced its fiscal Q3 financials last night, characterised as disappointing by analysts. That disappointment in full: revenues up 22.4% to $35bn for the quarter; net profit up 20.5% to $8.8bn; 26m iPhone sales (up 28%) and 17m iPad sales (up 84%); and cash reserves of more than $117bn. More stats: Apple has now sold 410m iOS devices, has 150m registered iCloud users, and has paid out $5.5bn to iOS app developers since the launch of its App Store in 2008. Must try harder.
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According to the World Population Prospects 2019 by the UN, the world population will grow by approximately 2 billion by 2050. During this period, global food demand is expected to increase by about 60%. With uneven distribution of resources and accelerating urbanization, the demand for food will surge. As the age structure changes, more diversified food demand will become the booster for the food industry.
The upgraded structure, concepts and patterns of consumers have created more room for imagination for the development of the food industry. How to seize the opportunity and take advantage of the trend will become the key. Against such a backdrop, the 22nd SIAL China is particularly pertinent. As the largest and most influential food industry exhibition in Asia, SIAL China has been following the trends of the food industry, and studying the rapidly changing global trends. Relying on strong capabilities of resource integration, it gathers both supply and demand, and promotes the global circulation of high-quality food through a multi-dimensional approach that combines online and offline channels.
This SIAL China consists of 7 themed exhibition halls across 200,000 m2, attracting 4,500 companies from more than 60 countries and regions. More than 123,000 professional visitors are expected to participate in the exhibition. Over 15 specialized events and forums on site will be held, shedding light on the direction of the food industry and the opportunities for development under the new economic situation.
There will be 21 categories of products on display this year by exhibitors from Chile, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, Canada, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, China, etc. Trade activities engage e-commerce platforms, retailers, importers and exporters, catering companies, etc., which diversifies the channels for high-quality food.
Meanwhile, more than 20 government departments and business associations participate, including the Foreign Economic Cooperation Center, MARA, P.R.China, Department of Commerce of Shandong Province, Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Zhejiang Province, Shanghai Municipal Committee of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Department of Commerce of Jilin Province, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Heilongjiang Provincial Committee, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Gansu Provincial Committee, Changchun Municipal Commerce Bureau, Ningbo Free Trade Zone, Yunnan Lincang High-tech Industrial Park, Xiamen Food Industry Association, and Jinjiang Food Industry Association. They actively offer policy benefits to facilitate industry connection.
In addition to typical exhibitions to showcase the richness and diversity of food, SIAL China works with XTC World Innovation to launch the SIAL Innovation Competition, where an international professional panel selects innovative products, providing valuable opportunities for publicity and exposure of exhibitors’ new products, and enhancing the added value of the award-winners. The food and beverages that are awarded each year have been sought after in the market.
It is worth noting that this SIAL China will continue to strengthen exhibition services through the Internet. Using live streaming and other latest communication methods, SIAL China will be more vigorous and updated. Facilitated by Online Marketplace, a platform built by SIAL China, and the special Match Me service, online and offline barriers are removed, resource allocation of all parties is coordinated based on digital intelligence, and innovation is achieved with big data, artificial intelligence, etc. as boosters.
For more than 20 years, SIAL China has been committed to facilitate trading and circulation of the world’s best, safest and unique food, creating opportunities for exhibitors to develop and discuss new ways and new strategies for industry expansion. The two decades have turned SIAL China into the largest food exhibition in Asia and the third largest in the world. Li Yue, Managing Director of Exposium-SIAL Exhibition Co., Ltd. said, “In the future, SIAL China will adhere to the primal intention of “inspire food business” and, as the world’s largest platform, empower the industry with digital intelligence by virtue of the large Chinese market, and create a new highland of ideas. We will unlock the potential value of SIAL China, generating business opportunities for exhibitors and visitors.”


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Hudson’s Bay says ‘Yes’ to deal with Kleinfeld Bridal
Hudson’s Bay announces exclusive deal with Kleinfeld Bridal in Canada. It plans to open a 20,000 square foot store at Queen St. location.
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Hudson’s Bay is moving into the luxury wedding gown business after saying yes to a union with New York’s Kleinfeld Bridal.
The licensing deal gives the department store chain exclusive rights to the brand in Canada, with plans to open a 20,000 sq. ft. Kleinfeld boutique in April 2014 at the Queen St. location in Toronto.
“Without question, they are the best in class in the wedding dress business. They are the destination for brides in the United States,” said Mary Turner, vice-president of private brands and global sourcing for Hudson’s Bay.
Canadian brides are also making the trek to the 35,000 sq ft Kleinfeld salon in Chelsea, N.Y., made famous by the reality television series, Say Yes to the Dress, where brides struggle to find their dream gown.
Some are depicted as picky and difficult. Others are aiming to please loved ones or desperately trying to stay within their budgets. But the show usually ends with soon-to-be brides in tears as they say “yes” to their dress.
Kleinfeld’s co-owner Ronald Rothstein said the show’s success has drawn several thousand Canadian brides a year to make the trip to New York and he thinks there are many more potential customers here.
“The customer that comes to Kleinfeld’s from Canada is a phenomenal customer – a high percentage purchase from us, and they come back for fittings,” he said. “Nobody in Canada can offer the experience, the depth of inventory, the patience level.”
Rothstein said gowns will probably start at $1,500, though most will probably range from $2,500 to $7,500. With 60 designers, prices can go as high as $30,000.
“We’re selling the experience, the dress is the souvenir,” he said, noting the Hudson’s Bay popular wedding registry service is another draw, combining all of the bride’s needs.
The move also ties into Hudson’s Bay’s strategy to move into the upscale market, having just launched a new logo, as well as other partnerships, particularly with popular brands like Topshop and TOPMAN stores.
Jessica Coleby of Interstatics Consultants in Toronto, said the decision to bring in Kleinfeld bridal gowns to Hudson’s Bay will help set it apart from other retailers.
“It will bring more traffic to the store, but whether it will bring in the sales, we’ll have to wait and see,” she said.
Industry figures estimate Kleinfeld’s does about $1,000 of sales per square foot. By contrast, Hudson’s Bay generated $133 per square foot in 2011.
As for whether the Queen St. store might be the scene for future episodes of Say Yes to the Dress, Turner said: “We would certainly love that, but I can’t comment on anything right now.”
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Written by Lucy Denyer, for The Sunday Times on July 29th 2012
Overseas buyers are pushing London prices sky high - we look at the top new properties that are likely to sell for extraordinary amounts.
From Usain Bolt to Victoria Pendleton, the world’s finest athletes are bidding to win gold and set new standards at London 2012. Yet it’s not just the Olympics where records are expected to be broken — prime property prices in the capital have been soaring, bolstered by an influx of international wealth, and homes are being marketed at the highest ever price per square foot.
Take the penthouse flat in the Bulgari Hotel, Knightsbridge. Details of the designer residential development have been kept firmly under wraps, but estate agents say the penthouse recently sold for close to £8,000 per sq ft. To put that into perspective, the average price per sq ft in London is £941, according to Lonres, the online database that tracks all sales in the capital. The Halifax reports that the national average for England and Wales is £158.
It’s a similar story throughout prime central London. At One Hyde Park, the Knightsbridge development aimed at oligarchs and Middle Eastern oil barons, and overseen by the Candy brothers, a penthouse sold for £7,250 per sq ft last November. The previous record was £6,000 per sq ft, at the same development when it was launched in 2010.
“If a place offers the discretion and service that the super-rich want, I can see some people paying up to 40% more,” says Robert Bailey, a top-end buying agent. He adds that the record will be broken not by wealthy homegrown buyers, but by overseas purchasers.
Savills estate agency predicts that the annual supply of new residential properties selling for more than £5m is set to more than double to 100 sales in 2014. Last year, there were twice as many transactions in this market as in 2006. Forthcoming launches include the Shard, at London Bridge, where penthouses are expected to cost £5,000 per sq ft; Glebe Place, a development of houses and flats in Chelsea; De Vere Gardens, in Kensington; and Trafalgar One, the first residential project on the landmark square.
For individual houses, the price per sq ft is almost always lower than for luxury flats. Most high-end London sales tend to hover around £2,000-£3,000 per sq ft, bar a few exceptions: the most notable is the house on Kensington Palace Gardens that Lakshmi Mittal, the steel tycoon and the man behind the Orbit Tower in the Olympic Park, bought in 2008 for £117m — or a world-record £8,500 per sq ft.
Of the house sales coming up in the autumn, one of the most anticipated is the latest project from the developer Mike Spink in Knightsbridge. Last year, he sold the most expensive country house on record, for £119m. Now he has finished knocking together two houses in Cottage Place, off Brompton Road, and he will be selling them privately in September.
Knight Frank, the instructed agent, says a valuation has not been carried out, but experts suggest that the house could sell for more than £6,000 per sq ft. The mansion will be perfect for the “international high-end buyer, because of its location, use of space and high spec,” says Charles McDowell, a local agent. But will it have what it takes to make the property podium?
Not everyone who is in London for the Games is there just to watch sport. One group of visitors has another competitive endeavour in mind: shopping for property.
“We have seen a number of international clients with Olympic tickets who are tagging a property search onto their trip,” says Charlie Bubear, director at Savills’ Chelsea office. He has already agreed three sales to buyers in London for the Games. As ever with the overseas market, this is mostly big-bucks stuff; his clients have between £1.3m and £3m to spend.
Karelia Scott-Daniels, managing director at Manse & Garret Property Search, has already organised several tours for visitors keen to invest while they are here. They range from an Indian buyer with £30m to splash out on a portfolio of flats to an American couple able to spend up to £4m and looking for a family home.


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Is 5G dangerous?
There's little credible evidence that 5G networks pose a serious health risk.
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For as long as we've had mobile phones, people have had understandable concerns about whether mobile phone usage is actually safe. Specifically, there's a concern that the radio frequencies used in mobile devices and our proximity to those radio transmitting sources could be a health risk over a long period of time.
With the incoming arrival of 5G networks, that kind of concern has intensified, and it's not entirely hard to see why. The frequencies used by 5G networks don't travel as far compared to 3G or 4G networks. That means that in order to provide wider coverage, telcos need to put up more towers, which does rather make you think about all that extra radio frequency radiation pinging around our everyday work and home spaces.
Earlier this year, you may have seen theories surface online surrounding the safety of 5G, with people linking the mobile technology to being a possible cause of coronavirus. Scientists have come out to say that it is "biologically impossible" for a mobile technology to lower your immune system the way the virus does.
The broad consensus is that while it's still worthwhile to continue research into the effects of the frequencies used by 5G,
There's very little credible evidence to suggest a serious health threat of any kind, and some evidence that might even suggest that 5G's lower penetration characteristics could be safer than existing mobile networks.
Are there any real health risks in relation to 5G?
The Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research (ACEBR) at the University of Wollongong notes that "no indication of any health impacts from exposures at the intensities related to mobile communications have been observed" to date, and that includes the currently utilised 5G frequencies.
It also notes that the added effect of more 5G base stations could well be offset by the gradual decommissioning of older radio networks. We've already seen that here in Australia with all 2G networks now offline and telcos already talking up their plans to reach the end of life for 3G as well.
Speaking to MedicalXpress, Professor Andrew Wood from ACEBR stated that, "There are also concerns that there could be more subtle effects, such as links between long-term exposure and certain types of cancer, but while there is some evidence from epidemiological and animal studies, these remain controversial."
"The major hurdle is that the power levels involved in mobile and wireless telecommunications are incredibly low, which, at most, produce temperature rises in tissue of a few tenths of a degree."
While exposure to radiation is generally seen as a no-no, it's worth knowing that the kind of radio frequencies used by mobile devices are at what's called "non-ionising" frequencies.
That means that it's radiation at an energy level so low that it can't affect the underlying atomic structures of whatever it passes through in the way that ionising radiation can. More invasive and higher power radiation can definitely cause cancerous effects, but that's on a scale that is immensely higher than that used by 5G radios.
Non-ionising radiation can, at most, warm up your skin if you're exposed to very high levels, but again, that's higher than you'd see out of a 5G mobile device. To date, the studies that have even started to show any kind of radio frequency/cancer links have done so at exposure rates many times higher than those ever used by mobile devices, and even their results are, as Professor Wood states, highly contentious.
Do the increased numbers of 5G radio towers pose any health risks?
5G implementations worldwide will differ slightly depending on the spectrum available to carriers, but testing undertaken by Telstra indicates that its 3.5Ghz base stations emit the same levels of electromagnetic energy (EME) as existing 3G and 4G networks, well below the currently accepted safety limits.
If you're concerned about EME limits in your area, you can actually check them via the mandatory reporting that all Australian telcos submit to the Radio Frequency National Site Archive.
This tells me, for example, that the closest group of mobile towers to Finder's Sydney offices operate at a calculated maximum of 1.19% of the public exposure limit – and often much lower. That's from a report dated mid-April 2019, and there's little doubt that Telstra is busy implementing 5G in this critical area of Sydney's CBD.
You might be concerned that the new status of 5G technologies might not be accounted for in the safety standards. However, bear in mind that at those rates, they would have to literally be 98.81% out of step already to pose a particularly credible health risk. As we've seen, there's no existing link that would support such an assertion.
So, is 5G considered safe?
While 5G itself is a new technology, these frequencies aren't a new invention, having been used for applications such as radar for decades now, again with no evidence of actual risk.
Over decades, countless studies around the world on existing mobile frequencies – where both the power levels and ability to pass through solid objects is much higher – have failed to show any causal link between mobile usage and increased cancer rates. It's been a long-held fear, but the research simply doesn't suggest an existing or future concern to speak of.
So in other words, while research is continuing, there's very little evidence over time of a real-world risk likely due to the adoption of 5G networks. The frequencies don't support it, the power levels used are so low to make it negligible and you get a much bigger blast of radiation from the sun stepping outside every day in any case.
Slapping on some good quality sunscreen is a wise precaution there, but there's little to worry about with 5G networks and devices.
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An Australian driver has written off his Maserati sports car thanks to a can of paint and a dog.
The driver swerved to avoid a dog, causing a can on the back seat of his car to open and cover the plush interior of the vehicle in paint, reports the Mirror.
The paint caused more than $60,000 of damage and the car is a write-off, said insurers.
Claims manager Hayley Cain said: "As the tin flew around the car like a mini tornado, the leather interior and windscreen were liberally splashed with a thick coat of white paint.
"Fortunately the driver was fine, but given the extent of damage to the interior, our insurance assessors declared it a write-off."
The unnamed driver settled the claim for almost $70,000.


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The end is near.
Or already here, for some pretty decent American cars.
Death notices have been published this year for the Chevrolet Monte Carlo, the Ford Ranger, the Chrysler PT Cruiser Convertible and the Dodge Magnum. [A Wall Street Journal ($) report also suggested that the entire PT Cruiser model line might be scrapped after the 2009 model year.] There are other models going to that Big Crusher in the Sky, of course, but like most American made cars of our current era, they will be unmourned in their passing.
But before the models cited here are laid to rest, I think they deserve a few words to honor their respective memories.
First, they died too young. Second, it shouldn’t have ended this way. And finally, their causes of death are downright ridiculous. Enough said? Not quite.
The Ranger is being killed in 2009 because Ford doesn’t have enough money to redesign it. Really, folks, if you can’t ante up, you shouldn’t be in the poker game. Toyota rules this class with its Tacoma — a truck that continues to sell in good numbers because, get this: It is re-designed regularly. The Ranger, around since 1983, has been a long-running success for Ford in the once-formidable small pickup truck class (at least seven manufacturers once had entries here). But the Ranger has been redesigned just three times in its 25 years of existence. Read more…


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With so many high profile hackings, cyber security has become a hot space with numerous acquisitions
(Updated with comment from Microsoft)
With at least one new big cyber security hack happening at least once a year now, be it Target, Sony Pictures or Ashley Madison, to name just a few, its no wonder there have been a rash of security companies both raising funding and being acquired. It's the hot new trend, and for good reason.
While no financial details of the deal were disclosed, TechCrunch is pegging it at $250 million, which is lower than the $320 million price that some outlets had reported when this news was first reported back in July of this year. A Microsoft spokesperson declined to
A number of Adallom employees, including co-founder and CEO Assaf Rappaport, as well as "other key member of the leadership team, including the co-founders are joining Microsoft, and we expect a high percentage of the Adallom workforce to join Microsoft," a spokesperson said.
Adallom, whose name means "last line of defense" in Hebrew, provides security for SaaS applications and cloud services by monitoring all activity, detecting unauthorized access and protecting users in real time.
For example, if an employee who is leaving the company decides to download the company's entire database and take it with them, Adallom will be able to detect it, as opposed to pre-existing defense mechanisms, which would never know it happened in the first place.
Adallom will also alert the company if someone tries to access the network from infected device, another problem that would have gone unnoticed with current security measures.
The company works with popular cloud applications including Salesforce, Box, Dropbox, ServiceNow, Ariba, and Office 365.
"Adallom expands on Microsoft’s existing identity assets, and delivers a cloud access security broker, to give customers visibility and control over application access as well as their critical company data stored across cloud services," Takeshi Numoto, Corporate Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post.
"As a cloud-delivered, security-as-a-service solution, Adallom will complement existing offerings that Microsoft makes available today as part of Office 365 and the Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS), including our recent Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics release."
While Adallom will become part of Microsoft, it will continue to operate, at least for the time being.
"We will continue to sell Adallom’s products directly post-acquisition while working on integration plans. We will share more about the roadmap in the future," the Microsoft spokesperson told me.
"When we launched Adallom, we had a vision to make it easy to keep your data safe in the cloud. We have delivered on that vision with visibility, governance and protection for the most popular cloud applications used by businesses worldwide and now, by joining Microsoft, we will have the opportunity to help many more customers take advantage of cloud applications without compromising security," the company wrote in a note on its homepage on Tuesday.
"We will continue to sell the Adallom solution and support our customers while we complete the integration into Microsoft."
The acquisition of Microsoft comes as the world is going cloud first, and mobile first, which means that identity is becoming increasingly important as well.
"To date Microsoft has invested heavily in supporting our customers with leading identity and access management capabilities in the cloud with Azure Active Directory. Adallom now adds leading identity-driven security capabilities that help customers secure their data as it resides in cloud applications. Adallom provides visibility into employee login events and data usage, as well as governance policies and proactive protection. Adallom does this for popular SaaS applications as well as for custom applications and IaaS environments," the Microsoft spokesperson said.
"Together with Microsoft’s strength and scale in both on-premises and cloud directory with Active Directory and Microsoft Azure Active Directory, we believe that Adallom will provide a very powerful combination for our customers to protect their company data in the cloud."
Founded in 2012, Adallom had raised just under $50 million in funding, most recently a $30 million roundin April of this year. Investors have included Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Hewlett Packard Ventures and Rembrandt Venture Partners.
This is acquisition number 12 for Microsoft so far this year.
It purchased Equivio, a provider of machine learning technologies for eDiscovery and information governance, and then bought Revolution Analytics, a provider of software and support for the open source R statistics language, in January.
Microsoft also acquired calendar app Sunrise; the technology of N-trig, the company behind the Surface Pen; collaboration toolmaker LiveLoop; mobile business intelligence company Datazen; 6Wunderkinder, the creator of to-do list app, Wunderlist; BlueStripe Software, a provider of application management technology; and FieldOne, a provider of field service management solutions.
Its two most recent acquisitions were FantasySalesTeam, a software platform that allows sales leaders to run more sales contests modeled on fantasy sports; and VoloMetrix, an enterprise analytics company focused on improving organizational effectiveness and knowledge worker productivity.
Others in the security space to be acquired this year include Israeli Internet of Things security platform Sansa Security, which was bought by superchip designer ARM; AtHoc, a provider of secure, networked crisis communication, was purchased by BlackBerry; Caspida, a machine learning and behavioral analytics company, was acquired by Splunk, a provider of a software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, to create a security analytics solution; and OpenDNS, a privately held security company, was bought by Cisco.
Those were the deals from just the last couple of months.
VatorNews has reached out to Adallom for further information about the company's future. We will update this story if and when we learn more.
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Adallom helps organizations extend visibility, control and compliance to SaaS and cloud services by providing a single interface for defining policies, auditing user activities, and preventing attacks. By correlating attack information, Adallom detects and prevents insider threats and application-specific attacks automatically without the need for complex rules and configurations.
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Over $100bn was wiped off the value of Tesla after its boss Elon Musk struck a deal to buy Twitter. Amid mounting fears the audacious takeover of the social media platform would prove a distraction for the 50-year-old tycoon, the electric car maker’s shares tumbled 12 per cent in New York.
It also reduced the value of Musk’s 16.7 per cent stake by $21bn – though it was still worth $150bn.
The slump came as the $44bn takeover of Twitter continued to send shockwaves through Wall Street and Silicon Valley and attracted the attention of global regulators.
Musk, who is said to have a fortune of around $250bn – already runs Tesla as well as rocket company Space X.
He also founded and is heavily involved in brain-chip start-up Neuralink and tunnelling venture the Boring Company.
Analysts warned the takeover could be damaging for Tesla shareholders as Musk implements his plan to unlock Twitter’s “tremendous potential”.
There are also concerns that Musk is part-funding the takeover with a loan secured against $15bn of his shares in the electric car maker.
Edward Moya, an analyst at investment platform Oanda, said: “Tesla shareholders can’t be happy that Musk will have to divert even more attention away from winning the electric vehicle race”.
A fund manager with a significant holding in Tesla, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters: “I fear this is going to be a distraction. He’s juggling supply chains and factory delays and the expansion of the energy storage business and this doesn’t fit at all”.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is in line to pocket nearly $1billion from the sale of the social media site to Elon Musk. The 45-year-old will receive a $978mn pay out after Musk agreed to buy the site Dorsey created in a $44bn deal.
Dorsey owns 18m shares which is equivalent to 2.4 per cent of the company – which Musk will buy for $54.20 each. Dorsey, who sits on the board, has long declined a salary from Twitter – instead taking the minimum allowed of $1.40 a year.
Others in line to make a fortune include chief executive Parag Agrawal, who has only been boss for five months. Agrawal has history with Musk and many believe he will not survive under the new owner.
Tesla has lost more than a fifth of its value since Musk first disclosed his over 9 per cent stake in Twitter in early April. His move to buy Twitter has raised concerns about the depth of executive talent at Tesla.
Tesla feels very much like a start-up despite it being a trillion dollar company, said Tesla investor Ross Gerber, chief executive of wealth management firm Gerber Kawasaki. It’s as big or bigger than the biggest companies in the world, but it doesn’t have the management infrastructure like other companies.
Tesla is racing to boost production at new plants in Texas and Berlin amid supply-chain snarls and higher raw materials costs, as well as get work at its biggest factory in Shanghai back on track during a spike in Covid-19 cases there.
Despite those problems, Tesla last week posted record quarterly results as demand for its electric cars boomed.
The company reported revenues of £14.3billion for the first three months of 2022 – up 81 per cent on a year earlier – while profits rose 147 per cent to £4.2billion.


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According to a study performed by Tel Aviv University, “environmentally friendly” cutlery like utensils and plates made with bioplastics are actually posing a threat to marine species.
Previously, it was thought that disposable tableware made out of bioplastics was much better for the environment than normal plastic because it would decompose quicker and pose fewer risks to fish, birds, and other sea creatures.
Now, this study from Tel Aviv University claims that bioplastics decompose at a similar rate to traditional plastics, negating any huge environmental benefit.
What’s worse, is that these bioplastics pose the most severe threat to marine life with how they are disposed of. Ocean critters are already under threat from enough plastic debris and overfishing.
“At least in the short term, both types of plastic have a similar detrimental effect, Prof. Shenkar says. ‘Bioplastics are made of natural materials and, in that sense, they are more beneficial environmentally speaking. But they may also contain toxins just like regular plastic dishes and they do not biodegrade quickly in the aquatic habitat. In fact, the standard appearing on the label is dated. It doesn’t refer at all to different kinds of plastic additives and speaks of biodegrading within 180 days, but that is specifically under conditions available only in industrial composting settings.’”
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PS4 is still alive and kicking, but Sony has already revealed the first details of PlayStation 5. We know about its backward compatibility with PS4 games, SSD storage and PSVR support. But what about PS5's price, release date and game lineup? While Sony does not yet have many of these details, it has offered some tracks.
Before continuing, it is worth noting that we do not yet know the final title of the next PlayStation console. We use PlayStation 5 as a short title, because well surely the convention dictates that it will be the device name – but Sony could always "pull a Vita" on us and call it something different. In fact, PS5's system administrator, Mark Cerny, has refused to explicitly call the PlayStation 5 console at present, rather than simply referring to it as Sony's "next-gen console". Right, with the disclaimer out of the way, let's turn on.
PS5 Release Date
This is definitely the question of everyone's lips: when does PS5 come out? Sony, as you expect, is tight in the case, but in May 201
Again , Sony has not set how much the new console will cost, but recently said that PS5's price will be attractive to players. "I think we will be able to release it on a SRP [suggested retail price] that will appeal to players in the light of its advanced feature set," said Mark Cerny, PS4's leading architect who is currently working on his successor. 19659002] Of course, you wouldn't expect Sony to say anything else, but you get the feel that the company has learned from PS3's exorbitant price tag – and the console's subsequent battle – and PS4's more reasonable cost and subsequent successes .
Will PS5 be backward compatible with PS4 games?
Cerny also confirmed that the PS5 will be backward compatible with PS4 games, as the two consoles are built on similar internal architectures. This will be welcome news for those who were disappointed with PS4's lack of compatibility with PS3, PS2 and PS1.
In even more welcome news, PS4 games will even run faster than they do on your current console, in part, because the PS5 will include a solid state drive, as opposed to hard drives that the current consoles send. Cerny has demonstrated a load monitor from Insomniacs Spider-Man that takes less than a second on a PS5 development kit compared to 15 seconds on a PS4 Pro.
This is where Sony has been surprisingly fair with new information. The company has confirmed that PlayStation 5 will include an AMD chip that has a CPU based on third-generation Ryzen. It will have eight zen nanometer Zen 2 microchip cores. The console will also support 8K gameplay, but of course it will depend on TVs.
Graphics will be powered by a custom version of the Radeon Navi line. This graphics chip will support beam tracking, which is starting to become popular in movies and video games. Although traditionally considered a lighting technique, Cerny says that this technique could also improve gaming sound. In fact, PS5 will fully support 3D audio.
The aforementioned SSD is also a great detail, as it means games will load faster and be able to handle multiple items on the screen at one time than the current HDD powered consoles. Signs and cameras could move faster through game worlds, as environments could load much faster than they are at the moment.
As a final detail, we know that the PS5 does not go to the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition route, which does not include a disk drive. Instead, PS5 will include a disk drive, so be sure you can still buy physical games. We do not yet know what kind of discs the console will support. It is possible that it could handle 4K UHD Blu-Rays, which can carry about twice as much data as standard Blu-Ray discs.
Will PS5 support PSVR?
The current PSVR will actually be supported by PS5, as it will PlayStation Move controllers. "I don't want to go into the details of our VR strategy," says Cerny, "noting that VR is very important to us and that the current PSVR headset is compatible with the new console." The system architect stopped briefly to say if a new PSVR device ever comes out.


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Shopping event: Hampton Roads Academy hosts fundraiser sale
The Hampton Roads Academy is hosting a large vendor shopping event on Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5. More than 30 vendors will gather from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, including Discovery Toys, Stella and Dot and Sisters Unique.
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Twitter gaming account Wario64 shared screens of reports that Amazon UK just sprouted that ton of PS5 game entries, from developers such as Konami, Rockstar, 2K and Koch. The names of the games, though, are missing.
- All of the PS5 games we know about
- PS5 vs. Xbox Series X: Which new console will win?
- Plus: PS5 price allegedly leaked on Amazon — and it's crazy expensive
Many of the pages have since been taken down, but at the time of publishing, we did find some untitled PS5 game listings on Amazon, such as one titled "2020 Dummy ASIN Take 2 (2k) Game 1 PS5." It costs £69.99, which is pretty pricey.
There are also PS5 game listings on Amazon UK, games from Konami, Rockstar, 2K, Koch. Rockstar listing is delisted but can confirm it's on AmazonKonami: https://t.co/q7tN3MKku1Rockstar (delisted): https://t.co/iMpR81HP0n2K: https://t.co/3XrzRwthRPKoch: https://t.co/juWwifaK50 pic.twitter.com/TA1PobS96QJune 10, 2020
Other publishers with listed games include Konami, Bethesda, Namco Bandaii, EA, Microsoft, Sony (naturally), Warner and SEGA.
Don't expect more than 100 announced games at tomorrow's PS5 event, though. Not only would it be incredibly difficult to share details about that many games in the typical launch event, Twitter's @Nibellion questioned the accuracy of these leaks:
Someone who claims to be a vendor on Amazon says there are 118 PS5 listings in totalAlso, those two PlayStation 5 console listings that have been floating around are probably inaccurate..and PLEASE do not expect 118 games to be announced tomorrowhttps://t.co/nErOyhrKu2 pic.twitter.com/HVVzMkFjdyJune 10, 2020
None of these games have a release date listed, with most saying "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock."
The fact that they're still live in this half-baked state, though, makes us wonder what they'll be filled with. We've never listed anything on Amazon, and wonder what the process is like to make sure a product is available at a certain time.
Tune back to Tom's Guide tomorrow (June 11), as we'll be tuning into the afternoon live stream and giving it our full-court press.


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Looking for Work? Amazon Looks to Hire 700 Employees in Gloucester County
Amazon is looking to help you out by looking for help of their own.
If you've been down on your luck as of late and find it difficult to land a job don't fear because Amazon is looking for employees in South Jersey.
Today, the company is holding a hiring event from 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. at its fulfillment center. All are encouraged to apply. The fulfillment center is located in Logan Township. Amazon plans on hiring 700 employees, all ranging from full-time, part-time, and seasonal positions.
Amazon is looking ahead to the holiday season, where they expect to see an increase in orders starting around the biggest shopping day of the year, Black Friday.
If you can't attend the hiring event, you can always apply online here.
Amazon's Logan Township Fulfillment Center is located at 2651 Oldmans Creeks Road, Logan Township, NJ 08085. Amazon's Fulfillment Center is one of the largest in South Jersey.
And as an added bonus Amazon is raising its minimum wage to $15/hour starting November 1.


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CARACAS, Oct 9 (Businesshala) – Venezuela’s inflation slowed to 7.1% in September compared with the previous month, when it closed at 19.8%, the country’s central bank said on Saturday, delaying three months to publish inflation data. said after.
September’s rise in consumer prices pushes Venezuela’s annual inflation to 1,945.9%, according to calculations by Businesshala, based on data released by the country’s Monetary Policy Authority, influencing citizens’ earnings and driving poverty.
Inflation slowed in September as the exchange rate with the US dollar stabilized, the Venezuelan Finance Observatory said in its monthly report published this week.
Venezuela, a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), has been hit by an economic crisis and four years of hyperinflation, leading to increased use of foreign currency for routine purchases at supermarkets and pharmacies.
President Nicolas Maduro’s government, which blames economic difficulties on US sanctions, has eased rules and indicated that transactions made with foreign currency are “escape valves”.
Critics argue that rising prices in Venezuela are due to the government printing more money to cover its budget deficit.
As per official data, inflation has stood at 531.2% in the last nine months.
According to data published by the central bank, the biggest inflation growth was seen in education, which grew by 13.5 percent and domestic supply grew by 11.6%. (Reporting by Myla Armas Writing by Oliver Griffin Editing by Vivian Sequeira and Chris Reese)


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A multinational company will invest tens of millions of dollars in its Jefferson City facility to add a line for a new health and wellness drink.
Unilever's Jefferson City director, Michael Whelan, said the company plans to invest $80 million to expand its Jefferson City plan to make the drink Liquid I.V., which promises to help with rehydration. Gov. Mike Parson was among the dignitaries to appear at the Tuesday morning announcement at Unilever's Truman Boulevard facility.
The Liquid I.V. brand was acquired by British-based Unilever, which makes consumer goods such as soaps.
The company already employs 450 people locally. Whelan said its too soon to know whether this will create more jobs, but there will be new skillsets needed and the company has current job openings.
"We are adding incremental headcount to these different investments," Whelan said. "What other things may happen a year from now, two years from now, this is business. So I think until we get those details finalized, it's kind of a little bit premature for me to make any comment on what that exact number is and what that's going to be."
This investment in a Mid-Missouri economy comes at a time when some Missouri companies are laying off employees and shuttering doors, like Tyson which laid off thousands of employees last year. Missouri Department of Economic Development Michelle Hataway said current unemployment levels are low, leading to many job opportunities in the state.
"Unfortunately, sometimes business decisions have to be made, but at the state, we're always looking for opportunities to make sure that we're able and allowing those companies to continue to grow here in Missouri," Hataway said.
Unilever last month sought property tax incentives to build a warehouse in Jefferson City. That was a $25 million investment, Jefferson City Mayor Ron Fitzwater said Tuesday.
This investment was made possible because of some tax breaks Jefferson City promised Unilever. At last Monday's meeting, the Jefferson City Council approved a Chapter 100 bond for IUnilever. This type of bond allows for breaks on property taxes.
Fitzwater said these 75% tax breaks are part of what drew Unilever to make this $80 million investment. There was competition from some other cities for this investment.
Fitzwater said the support offered by the city is worth it for the investment the company has in the community.
"Well, they help and they obviously are invested in our community," Fitzwater said. "They live here. Their kids go to school here, they go to church, they shop in our stores. We want to continue that. Yes. We put a big focus in Jefferson City on 'We're open for business.' We're trying to do the things to attract businesses to our community."


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‘Pokemon Go’ Apple Watch App: How To Catch Pokemon, Features And Limitations
With “Pokemon Go” Apple Watch App, one spin PokeStops and hatch eggs all without opening their mobile phones!Advertisement
Isn’t it time-consuming to open your phone and check the “Pokemon Go” app every time you are out hunting Pokemon or walking to cover enough distance to hatch one of your eggs? With “Pokemon Go” Apple Watch App, one can do all this without having to rely on their mobile phones.
Niantic Labs CEO John Hanke announced during Apple’s keynote on September 7 that the Apple Watch, which already works as a heath app for people, informing about how many steps they have walked in a day, is going to additionally record how much distance someone has covered in order to hatch eggs on “Pokemon Go”.
There a number of other features that can be included on the Apple Watch, if one downloads the “Pokemon Go” Apple Watch App, reports Heavy:
- Alerting the player of the availability of a wild Pokemon nearby.
- 3 nearest Pokemon that are on the top of the “Sightings” list will get featured on the Apple Watch screen.
- The Player will be notified of any nearby PokeStops or if one happens to pass one by.
- Swiping the Apple Watch screen will let the player collect items from the PokeStop.
- One might even be able to train one’s Pokemon once the “Pokemon Go” Buddy system launches, reports Forbes.
“Pokemon Go” Apple Watch App Limitations
However, there are a number of limitations of “Pokemon Go” Apple Watch App. There are aspects of the game that cannot be handled by the Apple Watch and one has to physically access the game on one’s mobile phone to accomplish them:
- One cannot really capture a Pokemon by throwing a Pokeball on Apple Watch.
- One cannot select an egg for hatching it without opening the app on one’s phone.
- Fighting and taking over Pokemon Gyms is exclusive to mobiles only.
- Evolving a Pokemon cannot be done without one’s mobile devices.
In addition to these, one also needs to access the “Pokemon Go” app on one’s mobile in order to install any new updates or versions of the app.
However, not having to open the app to check every little alert or notification for the game will surely save a lot of phone battery, allowing players to venture out more and play for longer hours.
For the latest ‘Pokemon Go’ News please stay tuned in to this site.


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Globally acclaimed smartphone brand, TECNO, has collaborated with TitTok for its #CamonShow challenge. Its goal is to boost the profile of newly launched Camon 15. It caused a stir on social media sites, receiving over 20 million views in just 3 days of its Grand Launch.
TECNO’s brand ambassador, Mehwish Hayat, gave a first go to the challenge. It later went popular among famous TikTokers, nationwide. Ms.Hayat’s challenge encouraged the fans to showcase their acting skills and hidden potential.
Various TitTok influencers have uploaded their Mimic & Act videos, going viral on social media. However, videos of Haris Ali, Kanwal Aftab, Fashion Icon Dolly, Asad, and Nimra, Areek Haq have set a new trend on TikTok. TECNO fans are going to the limits of creativity to showcase their talent for the exciting “Camon Show Challenge”.
General Manager, Creek Ma, upon his excitement said, “TikTok is widely used amongst millennials. However, TECNO with its customized product ideas has always tried to develop a connection with them. This alliance is yet another effort to engage the youth and provide them with the best quality products.”
TECNO, being a trendsetter, has a history of having successful collaborations with TikTok giving its users various platforms to unleash their hidden talents. #CamonShow has proved to be a popular successor from the previous TECNO campaigns initiated for Spark 4, Spark go and Camon 12. The likes of this campaign are predicating its success ratio and buzz amongst its rivals. Stay tuned with TECNO for more updates.


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Ubisoft Will Announce A New AAA Game At E3 2018
What are you hoping to see?
Ubisoft will announce another new AAA game soon. The Assassin's Creed publisher announced today that it will have three AAA games coming in the current fiscal year (which ends on March 31, 2019) including The Crew 2 and The Division 2, as well as an unannounced game.
Ubisoft said it expects the games to combine to sell 19 million units, which compares to to its previous forecast of 23 million unit sales across four AAA games. One of those games, Skull & Bones, has been delayed to the next fiscal year, which explains the downturn in sales projections.
Ubisoft provided no further details on what the "unannounced franchise" is, including whether or not it is a completely brand-new IP or a sequel in an established franchise.
If it is a sequel, there are plenty of possibilities, but one seems more likely than the rest: Splinter Cell. Ubisoft has been teasing a new Splinter Cell for a while now, most recently by adding Sam Fisher to Ghost Recon: Wildlands.
During an earnings call, Ubisoft CFO Alain Martinez said Ubisoft will announce the new game at E3 2018. Ubisoft's E3 2018 briefing is slated for the afternoon of Monday, June 11. What are you hoping that the unannounced franchise is? Let us know in the comments below!


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Among the various interesting budget proposals introduced by the Finance Minister 2nd February 2017 in parliament, certain key considerations were given to the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector.
With the use of analytics, the Finance Minister made an interesting observation that the effective tax rate of MSME is much higher than that of larger companies. This,in spite of the fact that these companies contribute immensely towards economic growth and employment generation. To give a big boost to the MSMEs to thrive in a competitive environment, Mr. Jaitley has proposed to reduce the tax rate of MSMEs reporting turnover of less than ₹50 crore to 25% from the existing 30%. He also made an assertion that this benefit covers 96% of the total companies in India that are filing tax returns.
Also, in a drive to promote digital way of doing business, a lower rate of 6% from the existing 8% has been proposed to small companies having turnover less than ₹2 crore to the extent their sale proceeds are realised through banking channels. Similarly, the threshold for mandatory tax audit compliance has been raised to ₹2 crore, which would ease the compliance burden.
All of these measures suggest that with Budget 2017, the government has sought to reward those honest and compliant tax payers – whether the common man or MSMEs – to ensure inclusive growth and development.
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AI based solutions provider ArtuData’s AI is now pre-configured with Predictive Lead-Scoring technology in Singapore-based back-office CRM SaaS provider Backpack.
Using ArtuData’s AI powered Predictive Lead-Scoring technology, WOW TRADER’s clients can now predict who of their many thousands of leads is likely to deposit, and in the near future, predict customer lifetime value, churn risk, and affiliates quality, before anyone contacts the leads. Brokers can provide a faster level of service, unique offers, dedicated team and more calling attempts to value generating leads while spending fewer valuable resources servicing leads with low likelihood to convert.
By focusing on quality leads, brokers are seeing 10-20% increase in conversion rates, 30% increase in productivity per sales agent and shorter sales cycles.
Yoni Avital, CEO at Backpack, said:
We believe artificial intelligence will change our industry in the near future and we provide integrated AI tools to make sales managers more efficient. CFD market leaders like Plus500 are already using AI and we all see how they are doing. We believe that partnering with ArtuData who is specialized in AI for acquisition for business of our profile and we are happy to partner with them and explore this fascinating new world together.
Tal Zohar, CEO at ArtuData, commented:
We love helping companies to grow using tailor made artificial intelligence tools. In the previous decade companies needed a website to grow, this decade businesses built mobile Apps to remain relevant. Today it is clear that in the next decade business will be expected to user AI to meet market standards. The largest companies in the world are already using AI intensively to build their competitive edge and we are fortunate to be able to bring this incredibly powerful tool to many wonderful businesses around the world. We are especially excited today to join forces with Backpack who is already a market leader in the CFD Technology market and build together the tools which will help many more brokers achieve their future vision.
Backpack is a Singapore based back-office provider for retail CFD and FX brokers that offers a full broker’s operational turn key solution. It’s currently deeply integrated to two trading platforms: WOW TRADER Platform (by Tradesmarter) and MT5 Platform (by MetaQuotes). Backpack’s back-office solution can be integrated within minutes by using widgets technology or simplified API for client onboarding.
ArtuData is a London based tech start-up developing artificial intelligence patented technology to accelerate sales performance with a range of CRMs, by predicting which of the leads would deposit in high accuracy which increases conversion rates. ArtuData’s also offers AI marketing tools which are creating super targeted campaigns in Google Ads so brands buy smarter and reduce CPAs. Among ArtuData’s clients are Lemonade Insurance (US), Union Insurance (UK), Phoenix Insurance (IL), numerous undisclosed CFD brokers and several gaming and eCommerce companies.


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Angela Alban, president and CEO of SIMETRI, Inc. has accepted an invitation to serve a two-year term on a newly formed advisory board at the University of Central Florida (UCF).
Published in 2019 and now available in hard copy on Amazon, the first volume of INNOVATE Orlando features SIMETRI! It's exciting to be included with so many well-known innovation organizations.
SIMETRI, Inc., announced it has been awarded a business grant by Prospera, an economic development, non-profit organization that offers a variety of services especially designed for Hispanic small business owners.
(ORLANDO, FL) December 14, 2019—The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Orlando (HCCMO) and Prospera co-hosted the twenty-second Don Quijote
SIMETRI, Inc., is honored to have been selected as a finalist in the Hispanic Business of the Year, More than Five Years category. Angela Albán, CEO and president, was recognized as a finalist at a press conference on Nov. 7.
In 2016, SIMETRI and the U.S. Army Futures Command introduced the development of an innovative and state-of-the-art lower extremity fasciotomy part task trainer. A fasciotomy is performed to treat compartment syndrome, an extremely dangerous condition caused by swelling in the extremities.


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The images of Catherine McNeil for Versace’s Fall 2007/08 campaign has surfaced a week after Kate Moss’ images landed on the web. Sporting auburn locks, the Australian model and a platinum blonde Moss was phographed by Mario Testino.
What do you think of the campaign?
Check out the other images from the campaign a Supermodel.nl.
In other Versace news, the Italian fashion house is planning on opening a new boutique in the world’s tallest tower in Taipei’s Taipei 101 mall. This is just the first of a series of Versace store openings in Asia.
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He said the SMEs will be selected at the upcoming Halfest to be held in October in Kuala Lumpur.
“We will be working with companies from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States to invest in local companies that are export-ready, and at the same time they will have a stake in those companies,” he told reporters at a briefing on the World Halal Summit 2015 here Friday.
While Halfest is a platform for local companies to showcase halal-certified goods and services, MIHAS aims to facilitate the sourcing and selling of quality halal products and services globally.
On the MIHAS 2015 being held from April 1 to 4 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Mohd Shukri said the organiser has repositioned and rebranded the annual event, breaking it up into programmes for certifiers, academics and businesses.
“We want to engage the minds of the world’s halal community to come here and understand what we are doing,” he said, adding the company will add new segments next year including halal tourism.


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Meizu Technology India just added yet another smartphone under the label Meizu MX5 today. Initially launched in China, few months back this device boasts premium metal body with sleek look. Further, this device comes with the mTouch 2.0 technology fingerprint sensor along with the mPay wallet feature.
Meizu MX5 - Key Specifications
Speaking of the display, the Meizu MX5 sports a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED full HD display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels, which is translated to 401ppi.
Further, it is powered by a 2.2GHz 64-bit MediaTek Octa-Core processor along with PowerVR G6200 GPU, besides 3GB RAM running under the hood.
Meizu comes with a thickness of 7.6mm and weighs around 149grams.Talking of the memory, the MX5 comes with a 16GB/32GB/64GB of built-in memory, with an expansion option of up to 128GB via microSD card slot. According to the company, performance has been boosted by 25% when compared to its predecessor.
The phone features 20.7MP rear camera with a Sony sensor which is capable of recording 2160p video recording, laser autofocus which helps in camera to focus in 0.2 seconds and a 5MP front camera with 1080p video recording.
Also, the FotoNation 2.0 intelligent beautification is now included in combination with the already existing Face AE facial exposure strengthening technology.
MX5 is equipped with a brand-new fingerprint identification system: mTouch 2.0. The new fingerprint sensor makes identification faster and the appearance smoother and elegant. The whole process only last 0.48s.
Further, the MX5 supports 4G LTE connectivity, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi and more. In terms of software, the MX5 will be shipped with Android 5.0 on top of FlymeOS. This device is powered by a high capacity 3150mAh battery on board.
The Meizu MX5 comes at a price of Rs. 19,999 and will be available on the e-commerce store Snapdeal


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How hard can it be to make a fully-automated warehouse?
Well, so far it has stumped Amazon and Google.
To be fair, it depends on what exactly you’ll be doing in the warehouse. There are lights-out warehouses in use today. But widespread adoption remains elusive, always just about to take over the industry thanks to the latest technology somebody is selling. Despite what Business Insider called an “army of robots” in Walmart warehouses, there is still an army of people, too. Amazon is in a similar situation, with a growing human workforce despite acquiring Kiva Systems.
Google is also trying to solve automation of material handling. Just look at the effort they have put into it so far:
- At the end of 2013, Google had Andy Rubin in charge of a collection of seven robotics companies. Rubin was credited with the success of the Android mobile operating system. For robotics, he saw “clear opportunities” in “both manufacturing and logistics,” intending to “sell products sooner rather than later” according to the NY Times. But Rubin left a little less than a year later, with Google brushing off questions about competing with Amazon.
- Nevertheless, in 2015 Google filed for patent, granted about a year later, pertaining to automated vehicles working in a warehouse.
- Another patent granted in 2016 deals with coordination between flying and wheeled delivery robots.
- Google had a keynote presentation at the 2014 annual conference of the Material Handling Industry trade association.
- In March 2016, Google unveiled efforts to train a robotic picking arm. Not coincidentally, Amazon has for three years running been sponsoring a robotics challenge for picking.
- Speaking of training a learning algorithm to pick parts, Google Glass is now used in factories and warehouses.
- Google also has a long-running and slowly growing delivery service, Google Express. Partnering with retailers like Target and Walmart helps the traditional retailers compete with Amazon.
While the evidence suggests Google is gearing up to enter warehousing, material handling and logistics, as yet no specific products or services have been announced. If the business vision is to provide an open platform logistics service, a low-key approach makes sense; the last thing existing retailers need in their battle against Amazon is another Amazon under a Google brand.
Also, much as is the case with their autonomous car division Waymo, Google has nothing distinctive to offer until their warehouse robots are really autonomous. There are a plethora of warehouse automation products in the market today, and the only thing they all have in common is a failure to fully replace human workers.
Google’s failure to bring any warehouse solutions to market could be taken by incumbents as sign that they are safe – the challenge is just too great for Google to handle. Or it could just be a matter of time before Google Search is returning real, tangible results in the warehouses of retailers around the world, competing with Amazon’s “walled garden” with an “open platform” that resembles the competitive position Google took to compete with Apple’s iPhone. Incumbent players in the warehousing solutions industry should look at the long list of phone manufacturers who did not survive the clash of the titans, and adjust their strategies accordingly.


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Quang Ngai province organised a festival in Mo Duc district, on April 21, to honour the wet rice. The festival recreated the image of a rural village with a bumper harvest of wet rice and specialties of farmers in their homeland.
More than 200 students and farmers participated in activities, such as traditional rice harvesting, rice plucking, shaping scarecrows, singing children’s songs, playing folk games in the field.
According to Tran Van Man, Chairman of Mo Duc District People's Committee, the wet rice civilization of Vietnamese people has existed for a long time. The festival is expected to help more people understand the traditional craft, the products of farmers and the traditional beauty of the homeland.
For the first time, children can experience "One day as a farmer". The experience helps children to understand more about rice culture and the hardship of farmers when producing rice grains.
Children experience the activities of farmers, such as sieving rice and drying straw.
Scarecrow - familiar image on Vietnamese rice fields. Farmers use straw or dried banana leaves to form the frame of a man. The scarecrow is placed on the fields to drive away birds and mice to protect the crops.
After the harvest season, the rice grains are pureed and processed into rice paper, a typical product of some rural areas in the Central region. Traditional village products from rice help farmers earn more income after each crop.
In the cultural space of the crop, children’s songs are resounded. Anyone, even those who’ve been away from their home country for years, can find their childhood.
The festival attracts many tourists and visitors.
The festival is expected to develop into an agricultural community tourism product in Quang Ngai. The activities not only help farmers to sell agricultural products at higher prices but also agricultural tourism products to increase income for the farmers.