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- Apple Smartphone May Be Called iPhone 6L
August 18 2014 10:39 AM
Amid the latest flood of Apple rumors is the purported name of its larger smartphone.
- iPhone 6’s Lightning Cable Could Be Reversible At Both Ends
August 18 2014 7:50 AM
Apple filed a patent with the USPTO in which it described “reversible or dual orientation USB plug connectors” for its future products.
- Motorola Moto 360 Priced At $250
August 17 2014 5:15 PM
A Best Buy product page shows a price and tech specs for the upcoming Moto 360 smartwatch.
- Signs Indicate a Mostly Metal Samsung Galaxy S6
August 17 2014 4:35 PM
The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6 may feature even more metal than the recently announced Samsung Galaxy Alpha.
- Windows 9 Preview Expected Late Next Month
August 17 2014 1:47 PM
The Microsoft Windows 9 operating system may make its first public appearance in September.
- Will Smartwatch Sales Struggle? Wearable Technology Under Fire
August 16 2014 7:04 AM
Are high expectations for smartwatch sales completely unfounded?
- Leaked Photos Purportedly Reveal iPhone 6 Secrets
August 16 2014 5:11 AM
The purported iPhone 6 parts, showed in the photos, included a display, a logic board and a battery.
- Survey: Sapphire Screen Most Desired New Feature Of iPhone 6
August 15 2014 5:01 PM
The rumored sapphire is among the most desired features for the iPhone 6 according to a new survey conducted by uSell.
- Apple iWatch Screen Cover To Use Sapphire
August 15 2014 3:26 PM
As sapphire panels roll off production lines, reports point to the rumored Apple iWatch using a sapphire screen cover.
- Microsoft's Windows Phone Loses More Market Share
August 15 2014 11:54 AM
Windows Phone continues to lag far behind Apple iOS and Google Android devices which continue to hold most of the mobile market.
- Apple Looks To iPhone 6 To Grow Market Share
August 15 2014 10:42 AM
With Apple iOS losing market share despite growing smartphone shipments, it looks to the iPhone 6 to stem its losses.
- Pricey Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Could Have Increased Memory
August 14 2014 1:54 PM
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 may cost well over $800.
- You Thought That App Was Off? Look Again
August 14 2014 11:26 AM
A growing number of smartphone apps are tracking your location — even when they're not being used. Here's how to turn them off.
- Apple Bans Two Toxic Chemicals From Manufacturing Process
August 14 2014 11:03 AM
Apple has banned the use of two toxic chemicals from being uses in its factories in China.
- T-Mobile Takes Aim At Data Hogs
August 14 2014 9:23 AM
A T-Mobile internal memo shows that the carrier intends to slow down data connections of users who abuse their unlimited 4G LTE data plans.
- The Samsung Galaxy Alpha May Be Pricey For A Mid-Range Device
August 13 2014 11:48 PM
Samsung's new Galaxy Alpha is a mid-range device that may have a high-end price tag.
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August 13 2014 11:17 PM
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- iPhone 6 On Track For Sept. Launch: Telecom Expert
August 13 2014 9:24 PM
The iPhone 6 is expected to soon enter mass production in time for a September launch.
- Benchmarks Suggest Specs For Nexus 6
August 13 2014 7:49 PM
Recent benchmarks reveal the first prospective internal specs for Google's Nexus 6 smartphone.
- Why Big Media Is Snapping Up YouTube Networks
August 13 2014 3:39 PM
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A Plymouth branding and clothing company is set for a huge expansion which will create dozens of jobs after its new American owners promised a US$10m investment.
American e-commerce giant Trevco has acquired Estover-based Mandarin International Brands, already the leading licensed branded apparel company in the UK, and has plans to grow the business even further adding another 30,000sq ft building to the five it already has in Estover, and open in central Europe too.
And the Sisna Park business, which has been renamed Trevco now it is part of the US company, will also be adding to its 130-strong city workforce.
It is recruiting now for 25 staff and anticipates needing another 50 in 2022, across all aspects of the business from designers to warehouse staff and factory production operatives.
“The business will grow in the UK and in central Europe,” said Trevco founder Trevor George, visiting the Plymouth facility with Trevco president Daniel Leach. “We have made a commitment of a US$10m investment for expansion in the UK and across Europe.
“There are five buildings in this area already and we are looking at additional space, and in the next 12 months have another 50 people here in Plymouth.
“One more building in the UK would be sufficient but we envisage a second facility in central Europe. We hope a proportion of that US$10m will be spent next year.”
Mr George said the Plymouth factory currently produces only branded apparel, but will now follow Trevco’s expansion into branded homeware, drinkware, accessories and sleepwear.
“We want to replicate all our non-apparel in the UK,” he said.
Mandarin has grown from humble origins as a surfwear business in a portable cabin on a construction site in Valletort Road. Begun in 1992 it moved to Estover in 2006.
Even as recently as 2011 it employed only 19 people on a three-day week shift pattern. But in the past decade it has undergone huge growth under the stewardship of owners David and Angela Gower.
Its garment decoration facility, which produces branded t-shirts and sweatshirts, produces 30,000 to 40,000 items of clothing a week for bulk orders to large household-name retailers.
And on top there is a print-on-demand facility, which creates single items, typically for customers who order online.
Customers include Vispring, FIFA, Team GB, the Eden Project, ASOS, Marston’s and Fuller’s, while brand partners also include Guinness, Universal, Pepsi, Ford, BSA and the bands Pink Floyd and AC/DC.
It can produce batches of 500 t-shirts a time for Disney and is the only factory producing Nike branded shirts in the UK, for example.
The firm works with brands to design garments and then manufactures and distributes them, with Matthew MacKay, sales director and general manager, saying this vertically integrated, turnkey solution for brand partners being a major part in the business’ success.
“We are the fastest to market and have grown 40% year on year,” he said. “Trevco has seen that and acceleration will now be incredible, and not just because of the finance from Trevco, but their experience too. It’s very exciting for the future.”
Mr Gower will stay on to ease the integration and said: “It’s very pleasing to see the growth - and sustainable growth. With Trevco backing the group we have the opportunity to grow across the UK and Europe.
Trevco started in business more than 30 years ago as a traditional licensed clothing company but became the first in the US to embrace print-on-demand in 2007.
Since then it has become the biggest e-commerce licensed product company in the USA, with about 300 people working at its location in Detroit and Salt Lake City. It has come to dominate the e-commerce market in the USA through its technology-driven innovation.
Trevco produces 300 types of product and five millions actual products for more than 1,200 licensing partners in sectors such as culture, entertainment, music, education, sports and esports.
These licensing partners include Disney, Showtime, 20 th Century Fox, Marvel, the US Army, Honda, Atari, Loony Tunes, Nickelodeon, NASA, CBS, NBC and entertainment household names including Jurassic World, Aliens, Star Trek, Batman, Star Wars, and rock acts Def Leppard and Kiss.
It also creates and power prints on demand for brand stores on Amazon, Walmart, and owned and operated sites for hundreds of brands.
It has an in-house digital agency called Blue Wheel Media, which employs more than 40 people and has enabled Trevco to become “an e-commerce powerhouse in the licensing industry”.
It was named by the Inc 5000 guide to America’s top companies as the nation’s fastest growing and Mr Leach said: “In the States we have scaled to unprecedented levels.”
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Mr George said that when Covid hit the USA it posed a problem for companies supplying bricks-and-mortar retailers, but provided an opportunity for e-commerce enterprises.
“We were one of the only companies that doubled in size,” he said. “That was because we served e-commerce.”
And when Mr and Mrs Gower were looking towards retirement Trevco bosses realised Mandarin was the perfect firm to invest in.
“When I became aware of Mandarin it was like deja vu,” said Mr George. “It reminded us of what we were five years ago when e-commerce was starting to build in the US.”

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But who is the collaborator? It’s a secret to anyone that the creator of Silent Hill and Gravity Rush, Keiichiro Toyama, works on a new
Konami uses NFTS to celebrate Castlevania’s birthday NFTs are a pretruverted subject in the world of video game. Many companies
Sony has registered a patent that might show us tap videos directly in our games. The technology is aimed at gamers without skill.
Read in Millenium: The fans do not seem like how the champion was represented in this new artwork of the League of Legends on mobiles published by Riot Games.
The mention of Silent Hill on TGA 2021 was a side wire on Konami, no allusion, says del Toro.


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- Ford aims to reach an 8% to 10% operating margin from its EV business.
- Next year, Ford will start releasing financial data for its electric vehicle division.
- One approach to cut costs is to add value incrementally to already existing platforms.
What’s going on with Ford stock
After the company released its second-quarter earnings less than a week ago, Ford stock surged nearly 5% to start the week. Monday’s bounce didn’t come from the earnings themselves, but there was a mention of something addressed last week. As of the market close, Ford Motor Company’s (NYSE:F) stock had dropped some of its gains, but it remained 4.4% above Friday’s close.
Why we care
Ford announced today that it would release a new model of its popular Maverick pickup truck. Following last week’s talk about how Ford plans to boost profitability by investing in its electric vehicle range, the news saw excited greetings. The Maverick’s new package is one way Ford intends to achieve that.
The Ford Maverick is the company’s most basic pickup truck, with a starting price of around $21,000. However, on Monday, Ford announced that it would offer an off-road package for the hybrid vehicle. According to CNBC, the Tremor option will set you back approximately $3,000 and can be purchased beginning this fall.
The Maverick is attracting a new generation of buyers, many of whom are first-time Ford purchasers. In addition, the new option illustrates how Ford plans to use its existing platforms to boost profits. Last week, CEO Jim Farley said the firm will invest $50 billion to increase electric vehicle manufacturing to a yearly production rate of 600,000 by the end of 2023 and 2 million three years later.
It aims to make the difference with improved profitability from its existing range. Starting next year, Ford will disclose financial performance for its internal combustion and electric products to achieve 8% to 10% operating profit in its EV business. One approach to do so is by decreasing significant model changes and instead focusing on value-added improvements to existing platforms. Today’s news illustrates how it’s attempting to do so.


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Many thought that BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) would be acquired by a major player following the loss of market share and the success of its competitors. However, it has proven resilient, and will remain an individual player with the help of partnerships.
While the mobile provider has in the past received offers for an acquisition, CEO John Chen considers that there have been none in recent times and says he is looking for partnerships and not acquisition offers. Chen is an experienced CEO, having turned profits at Sybase, which had posted several years of losses before he took over. Indeed, he has raised his own estimates of BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) survival from 50% to 80% and seems confident of saving the company. The company has posted surprise profits of $23 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2015.
In addition, during an interview on Bloomberg, Mr. Chen said that he doesn’t want for the company to be sold, but he would rather prefer building more value around BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY)’s brand. However, he added, in case of an offer to take over the company, he would have to consider it as an obligation for the stakeholders of the company, but at the moment there haven’t been any offers.
Analysts are now of the opinion that the International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) – Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) partnership will open the market for a partnership for BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) too. Former analyst Chris Umiastowski, writing for CrackBerry, expounded this theory and said that this partnership spells more opportunity for BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) as it is a major player in the MDM market, and companies such as Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) or Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) should really look into partnerships with BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY). This will lead to acceptance of partnerships as a viable form of running the business for BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY).
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The Republic’s new food truck isn’t going by the pub’s name, and that’s intentional. Instead of craft beer, Red River Kitchen focuses on locally-sourced food, and could someday become a brick-and-mortar restaurant of its own.
It’s named after the Red River Trail, the 1850s-era oxcart trail between Winnipeg and St. Paul. Republic co-owner Matty O’Reilly said he wants to remind people of a time when local food ingredients were the only option.
“It’s better, it’s fresh, and it drove less miles to get to you,” he said.
A rotating menu will feature seasonal ingredients including Wild Acres turkey, brats by Chef Kevin Kvalsten and Fisher Farms pork and bacon.
Red River is one of three food trucks slated for the Linden Hills Farmers Market, and it will appear at the Excelsior Farmers’ Market all summer on Thursday afternoons. The food truck may also make lunchtime stops at corporate campuses.
“We could roll the truck up to the door,” O’Reilly said. “If there was a food truck 20 years ago when I had a day job, I would have eaten there every day.”
The truck will also appear at area tap rooms.
“We know every single brewer and owner of every brewery in town,” O’Reilly said. “The tap room scene is vibrant, and all they need is a food truck.”
O’Reilly said they decided to launch the truck as a way to retain their staff year-round. In Uptown, summer business slows down without a patio, he said.
“The only time we can use the food truck is the only time we’re slow in Uptown,” he said.
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Stop the Spread of Germs by DISINFECTING HIGH-TOUCH SURFACES!
Hand hygiene may get the most attention when it comes to the spread of illness, but don’t overlook the importance of surfaces. After all, hands most often become contaminated through the touching of high-touch surfaces such as door knobs and handrails. Bacteria and viruses spread quickly from those surfaces to hands and vice versa. Consider these facts:
of people wash their hands after sneezing or coughing.1
Some cold and flu viruses can survive on surfaces for
- 70% of restaurant chairs tested contained harmful bacteria3 according to testing done by microbiologist Philip Tierno, PhD
- University of Arizona microbiologist Charles Gerba, PhD found Office Phones were the “dirtiest” item in an office with 25,000+ bacteria units each of 60 types of bacteria3
- Office desks contain 21,000 bacteria units each3
- Refrigerator doors contain 327,000 colony-forming units per square inch – 18 times more than a pet toy and 4.5 times more than a shopping cart3 according to findings by EMLab P&K
Applying a disinfectant (not a cleaner or sanitizer) to these surfaces can eliminate these germs and should be used frequently throughout the day.
There are several options when it comes to disinfecting products, but the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a division of the National Institutes of Health, reports, “On high-touch surfaces, the use of disposable wipes… may represent a more effective alternative to standard cleaning and disinfection procedure… showing effectiveness in reducing microbial contamination and residual disinfection activity.”4
The major benefits of effectively eliminating germs on high-touch surfaces include:
- Reducing staff/employee illness and absenteeism
- Helping to keep customers/clients/guests safe and healthy
- Reducing costly health code violations or bad press
- Improved guest experience from a clean environment
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Currently, investors are facing heightened levels of risk. Even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, a closely-contested US Presidential election is making it even tougher to decide which stocks to buy for the long haul, and which to sell now.
But these worries are mostly for those who invest in equities for a quick profit. For buy-and-hold investors, with the goal of earning steadily increasing returns, this market volatility doesn’t mean much.
Such people carefully pick holdings for their durable competitive advantage and the ability to sustain economic and political shocks. The idea behind this strategy is to ensure that regular dividend payments will keep coming even if markets face turmoil, such as what occurred last March and is now taking place as the US presidential battle remains undecided.
The challenge: carefully selecting appropriate stocks. Luckily the guidelines are relatively simple—if a company has a dominant position in the industry, significant free cash flow and a history of solid dividend growth, chances are it will turn out to be a good long-term position.
We have two dividend-paying candidates worth considering:
With its massive scale, solid balance sheet and growing sales, mega retailer Walmart (NYSE:) can provide steadily growing income in both good and bad times.
The company has hiked its payout every year since it began paying dividends in March 1974, placing it in the elite club of 53 stocks dubbed “dividend aristocrats.” That’s the designation given to companies that have a record of boosting dividends regularly for 25 years or more.
During the pandemic, Walmart has proven that it’s one of the safest dividend stocks to own. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer continues to benefit from the many ways the pandemic has reshaped consumer needs and spending patterns.
In the , Walmart reported that US comparable sales rose 9.3% from a year earlier, far surpassing analysts’ estimates. The growth was powered by its e-commerce division, where sales jumped 97% from a year earlier, with both pickup and delivery options notching all-time high sales volumes.
These numbers show that Walmart is succeeding in countering the threat posed by the onslaught of e-commerce competitors. It could also provide long-term stability to investors in terms of dividend sustainability.
The stock now has an annual dividend yield of 1.56%; the company pays a quarterly dividend of $0.54 a share. Since Mar. 1, Walmart shares have posted a total gain, including distributions, of 31%. The stock closed at $141.96 on Wednesday.
If a leading technology stock is a good fit for your long-term dividend portfolio, then Microsoft (NASDAQ:) is the best bet. Since 2004, when the software and infrastructure giant first began offering a dividend, its payout has swelled six-fold. Microsoft’s current annual dividend yield is 1.11% with a quarterly payout of $0.56 per share.
The good news for new investors in MSFT stock is that the company is in a great position to sustain that kind of growth, supported by increasing free cash flows and a low payout ratio of 32.9. Shares closed at $216.39 on Wednesday.
In the , the Seattle-based company showed it continues to benefit from the pandemic as consumers shift to cloud-based connectivity and online subscriptions to its Office software, which comes with teleconferencing programs and work-from-home tools.
Microsoft’s earnings momentum will continue as it expands its market share in the cloud computing segment while maintaining its leading position with legacy software products such as Windows and Office.
This durable advantage will surely help the company achieve sustained, double-digit growth in revenue, earnings per share and free cash flow, making it a reliable tech stock to own over the long run.


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Adviser on Finance invites US businesses to benefit from investment opportunities in Pakistan
Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh said these views while attending roundtable discussion with senior executives of US-Pakistan Business Council in Washington.
Australia evinces keen interest for business in different sectors
The interest was shown by Australian Trade Commissioner Mark Morley during a meeting with business community in Lahore.
Japan to sign MoU with Pakistan to hire more skilled workers
Japan will hire skilled people from Pakistan & offer them working visas to counter growing decrease in its population.
European countries move to block Facebook's Libra digital currency
French Economy Minister announced that firm opposition from France, Italy and Germany added to the mounting resistance against Facebook's digital finance.
SECP introduces amendments in Credit Rating Companies Regulations, 2016
The amendments have been designed while considering the dynamics of local industry and international best practices.
Pakistan Stock Exchange shows bearish trend on Friday
The KSE-100 Index closed was at 33870.15 points.
Urdu website of FBR inaugurated to facilitate taxpayers
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Scientists are working to produce cheap, sustainable solar energy by imitating nature. Nanotechnology researchers like California Institute of Technology professor Nate Lewis are exploring nanoscale materials that mimic the architecture of grass and photosynthesis to capture and store the sun’s energy.
A new podcast looks at how Dr. Lewis and his CalTech research team are trying to imbed tiny nanoparticles into simple, inexpensive everyday products like house paint and roof tiles to revolutionize the way solar energy is produced.
“More energy from the sun hits the earth in an hour than all the energy consumed by human beings on our planet in an entire year. So, if we are going to find an efficient, environmentally-friendly substitute for fossil fuels, it makes sense to exploit the sun,” says Dr. Lewis. “Nanotechnology offers us a way, in principle, to make very cheap materials - like the paint you buy at Home Depot - act as solar cells and batteries.”
Ordinary-looking, nano-enabled house paint, roofs or shingles could replace today’s black, glasslike photovoltaic cells which are usually composed of crystalline silicon and are unwieldy, unsightly and very expensive to manufacture. In addition to homes, this innovative technology someday could power cell phones, laptops and even automobiles.
Listen to Dr. Lewis talk about his research in the latest episode of an exciting new series of podcasts, Trips to the NanoFrontier. Produced by the Wilson Center’s Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, these podcasts are available online at www.penmedia.org/podcast, or directly from Apple’s iTunes music store.


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The times they are a-changin. Before their official debut at the LA Auto Show on the 19th, both the 2010 Ford Fusion hybrid and the Fusion Sport will be performing duties as the official pace cars for the NASCAR Sprint Cup this Sunday. This will be the first time ever that a hybrid will be the NASCAR pace car, almost. The Fusion Hybrid will lead at the starting green flag, and the more powerful non-hybrid Fusion Sport will take over the rest of the pace car duties.
The stock Fusion hybrid is able to get up to 47 miles per hour using it’s electric motors alone, but the green flag lap will be a bit faster than that, so the hybrid fusion will be polluting at least a little bit. But the Homestead-Miami Speedway is 2.3 miles long, and the Fusion hybrid can go 700 miles one one tank of fuel, so the new Fusion could go over 300 laps without making a pit stop.
The hybrid Fusion will be all decked out in leafy-green for the race, but it’s still 100% stock under the hood. The Fusion Hybrid has a 2.5L Atkinson cycle four-cylinder engine paired to high-voltage electric motor. The all-new 2010 Ford Fusion will hit showrooms next spring, but stay tuned for more pricing and spec details as its November 19 debut nears.


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MOUNTAIN BROOK, Alabama -- Tonya Jones SalonSpa is adding a new location in Mountain Brook's English Village.
Set for an early fall opening, the new location in the 2410 Fairway Drive building will complement the current flagship site in Mountain Brook's Cahaba Village, Tonya Jones said.
The building is managed by Kahn Properties.
Jones, who founded her salon in 2009, said she had been looking at several possible expansion sites around the state. The Cahaba Village location has recently been expanded to include a full-service spa.
Tonya Jones SalonSpa is an Aveda Lifestyle SalonSpa, and it features that company's plant-based hair care and skin care products.


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New digital bank Masthaven launches first wave of savings accounts with the option to set your own personal fixed-term
New bank Masthaven has today officially launched after receiving the green light from the City watchdog in April.
The bank will focus on digital services much like other new recent challengers, such as Atom Bank, and has revealed its first tranche of competitive savings rates.
It has a one-year fix offering 1.35 per cent, a two-year fix at 1.53 per cent, a three-year at 1.61 per cent and a five-year deal at 2.01 per cent.
Masthaven Bank: The challenger has revealed its first tranche of savings deals
By comparison, the best one-year fix in the independent This is Money savings tables comes from Atom Bank and Ikano Bank at 1.4 per cent.
The top two-year fix is 1.6 per cent, while savers can also obtain a three-year rate at 1.63 per cent. The five year fix from the new bank is a best buy.
Savers can open the accounts with a minimum of £500 and maximum of £250,000.
Masthaven, based in London, has been a specialist lender since 2004. At launch, 80 per cent of its 100 employees are shareholders in the bank.
The bank is also offering personalised products. Its flexible term savings account allows savers to determine when their savings account matures to the day, of any period of time between six months and five years.
A slider tool on its website shows what rate they can obtain of the exact term they want. Masthaven says this is designed for customers looking to save for key events, such as a holiday or wedding.
Simon Kirby, economic secretary to the Treasury, hailed the arrival of the new bank. He said: 'We want our financial services industry to be the most competitive and innovative in the world, delivering greater choice and value for customers.
'New digital banks entering the market are a key part of this vision and help to cement the UK's leading position as a global fintech hub.
'I am delighted that Masthaven is now open for business and look forward to seeing it flourish as a new player in retail banking.'
Masthaven will also launch into the mortgage market in early 2017.
This will include bridging lending and development financing for self-builders.
The new bank is majority-owned by founder and majority shareholder Andrew Bloom.
He said: 'We are determined to help more people access financial products that will truly meet their needs.
'We have established a fantastic and dedicated team of experts to get the bank to launch and we are now very much looking forward to working with customers and brokers to show them what we have created.'
The bank is covered under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, meaning a £75,000 safety net for those who open an account.
The limit may change to £85,000 in the near future thanks to a sharp plunge in the pound, with the Prudential Regulation Authority currently having a consultation on the matter.
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Tinder has now fallen sufferer to an enormous data breach whenever 70,000 photo of consumers being released on an online forum for cybercrimes. But seems that just feminine users were targeted.
Based on Aaron DeVera, doing work for cyber sexual attack for the new york, they heard bout the photographs on a webpage for malware investing. IDs of 16,000 Tinder consumers also show up on your website, that will be the quantity of affected people.
It would appear that only feminine customers had been directed
So far, we as yet not known precisely why these photo is obtained nevertheless undeniable fact that they are provided on a market for cybercriminals enjoys brought up worry on top of the risk they could be abused for sick motives. Many purposes for the photographs is for producing artificial reports on more systems instabang automated cancel page or harassing the victims associated with facts breach.
The fb facts violation is still new in people’s mind therefore it is maybe not a shock why these incidents is given serious attention.
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How to defeat the ‘Ignition’ chips: How to win poker games with poker chips.
In the wake of the news that the chips will now be banned in the UK, a new app is promising to make poker poker more accessible to the masses.
The ‘ignitation’ poker app is a new poker app created by PokerStars that promises to make the game more accessible by bringing poker chips to life.
The poker chips can be used to make blindsides, chips that will turn on poker chips that are already in the chips to make them invisible to opponents.
The app can also help players to win blindside bets that would otherwise go to the opponent.
It’s also designed to work on smartphones and tablets.
The app was launched on Wednesday in Australia.
The PokerStars app will feature poker chips in the game, making the games more accessible for the masses, and will be available to download on Android and iOS from Thursday.
We’ve done a lot to change that.”
But there’s always a chance that if you’re a player, you might be playing on a chip and that’s a really bad idea.”
We’ve done a lot to change that.
We’ve been really clear about what it is we want to offer people in the market.
We want to bring the game to the mass market.
“We’re offering it on the go, we’re offering the best poker experience, we’ve been incredibly careful with the technology, and we’ve also made sure it works on all of our platforms.”
The Pokerstars app will be able to play poker online as well as in the real world, but the company has already said that it will not offer live streaming of its games.
In addition to the poker chips, PokerStars will offer a wide range of poker tips.
These will be displayed on the app as you go along.
“You can earn points for a wide variety of tips.
You can make an effort to play the game properly,” Hearn said.
“And if you want to earn a little bit more cash, you can buy chips.”
Poker stars poker chips will be made of aluminium, nickel, and titanium, and are a rarity in the world of poker.
The company will also be launching a range of new poker chips for the future, including ‘bronze’, ‘golden’, and ‘gold’ chips.
A number of new chips have been unveiled recently, including the ‘Brisbane’ chips, which will be launched later this year.
The chips have a copper base, and the aluminium alloy, which is used in the chip, is said to be ‘very light’.
The chips will have a diameter of 1.8mm and will come in five different colors: white, silver, gold, platinum, and white gold.
The launch of the ‘bros gold’ chips will come later this month.
Poke salad, which has already been approved in the US, is the latest in a number of poker apps to be launched in the country, with several others coming soon.


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The turmoil at Tiffany & Co. reached a climax on a Sunday in February, just hours before the launch of a new Super Bowl ad campaign featuring Lady Gaga.
Instead of congratulating Chief Executive Frederic Cumenal on his effort to update the face of the 180-year-old jeweler, the board of directors had surprising news -- he was out.
The Frenchman had been hired two years earlier to boost growth and refresh the company's image. But sales and profits fell two years in a row, and directors grew more concerned when Mr. Cumenal presented a three-year strategic plan in the fall of 2016 that didn't forecast much improvement, according to people familiar with the situation. Tiffany said it wanted a leader who could deliver results faster.
To make matters worse, the Friday before the Super Bowl, activist investor Jana Partners LLC alerted the company it had built up a 4.9% stake and wanted a meeting, according to the people.
At the root of the jeweler's tepid results is a stubborn perception: Tiffany has lost its cool and is struggling to get it back. "Audrey Hepburn versus Lady Gaga is a fine line to walk," said Citi analyst Paul Lejuez.
Mr. Cumenal's goal was to shift that image, but his job was made harder by a surprising statistic -- 45% of Tiffany's sales last year came from jewelry categories with an average price of $530 or less. Analysts say that could hurt its aura of exclusivity.
"You'd be hard pressed to find anything at Cartier for $500," said Robert Passikoff, president of market research firm Brand Keys.
Chairman Michael Kowalski, a 34-year Tiffany veteran serving as interim chief, defended the company's wide range of prices and styles. "We built a very large tent," he said. "That has been a great strength of the company, and also a great challenge."
Managing that challenge will fall to its next CEO, who is expected to be appointed soon, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Mr. Kowalski said Tiffany has struck the right balance between its high and low-end offerings and has elevated its entry-level categories in recent years by adding more gold items and raising prices. He said Tiffany's proprietary research showed it continues to be a "respected and highly desired brand."
Helena Cawley, a 38-year-old Manhattan entrepreneur, said she wore Tiffany jewelry in her teens and 20s, but now prefers pieces from Cartier or David Yurman, which she says are more sophisticated. "Tiffany lost a bit of its cachet," Ms. Cawley said. "Their styles haven't changed very much over the years."
Mr. Cumenal was working to update that image. He hired Grace Coddington, Vogue magazine's creative director at large, to conceive a new advertising campaign featuring celebrities, including teenage actress Elle Fanning. He also tapped Lady Gaga to star in Tiffany's first Super Bowl ad.
In the past, Tiffany's marketing spotlighted a piece of jewelry along with an anonymous couple caught in a romantic interlude. The new campaigns feature so-called style influencers.
"The recipe for marketing on social media, particularly to millennials, is to have an endorser who people believe in," said Simeon Siegel, an analyst at the brokerage firm Nomura Instinet.
Mr. Cumenal, 57 years old, widened Tiffany's reach beyond its 310 retail stores by making some designs available at edgy boutique Dover Street Market and at Net-a-Porter, a fashion website.
He upped the hip factor with a deal to sponsor the Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennial exhibitions. "All the cool kids" were at the opening party in March, according to a Vogue article, which noted that "revelers sipped Moët & Chandon through paper straws with a Tiffany-blue swirl."
The former CEO, in an interview, said he is pleased the board is continuing to pursue strategies he laid out.
But new designs represented less than 10% of jewelry sales last year, according to Mr. Kowalski. And two or more years can elapse between the launch of collections.
"They are still selling product lines that were introduced in the 1960s, " said Credit Suisse analyst Christian Buss. "Given that consumer purchases are driven by newness, updating legacy styles hasn't been adequate to drive demand."
The company's HardWear line, which made its debut this spring with the Lady Gaga ad, was its first new collection since Tiffany T was introduced in 2014.
Tiffany is playing catch-up in watches, which accounted for 1% of sales in the past two years, the company said. Other luxury brands can get as much as half their revenue from the category, according to Brian Tunic, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets. Tiffany launched a new watch line in 2015, after a failed partnership with Swatch ended in a lawsuit. In 2014, Tiffany paid Swatch $480 million in damages, but it has appealed the ruling.
Tiffany said it plans to launch a new home and accessories collection this fall that will include leather goods, flatware and silver objects designed by Reed Krakoff, the former creative director of Coach, who was hired earlier this year as Tiffany's chief artistic officer.
Mr. Kowalski, who groomed Mr. Cumenal to replace him after 16 years as CEO, said in an interview at the company's New York headquarters that some of the legacy styles, including collections by Jean Schlumberger and Elsa Peretti, continue to be best sellers. Ms. Peretti's designs accounted for 9% of Tiffany's sales last year, according to the company.
Mr. Cumenal tried to speed up the development of new lines by creating a research center near Tiffany's headquarters that will open later this year. The center is expected to shorten product cycles by having the design and production departments work together more closely from the outset. In the past, designers would first sketch their ideas and then pass them to the production team.
Charles Lewis Tiffany and a partner opened their first store in 1837 to sell parasols, scent bottles and other items imported from Europe and the Far East. By 1850, when Mr. Tiffany opened a branch in Paris, the company was selling the gemstones of European aristocrats to America's newly minted millionaires.
The brand entered the national zeitgeist with the 1958 publication of Truman Capote's novella, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," and the subsequent movie starring Audrey Hepburn, in which she declares of the company's Fifth Avenue store, "Nothing very bad could happen to you there."
Mr. Cumenal joined Tiffany in 2011 from LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, where he ran its wine and spirits business. He found initial success overseeing Tiffany's international operations, where sales rose about 20% during his tenure.
As CEO, Mr. Cumenal ruffled feathers by recruiting outsiders, including a former Cartier executive to head international operations and a former Saks Fifth Avenue executive to oversee the Americas, as well as Mr. Krakoff in the artistic post, according to people familiar with the situation.
He introduced a more formal structure to what had been, according to Mr. Kowalski, a "process light" company. Some senior executives balked at his requirement that they spend one week a month in New York to attend meetings, arguing they would be more effective in the field, visiting stores or working with their teams, the people said.
Other changes annoyed the rank and file, including a new hierarchical atmosphere that was a shift from the open-door, collegial tone fostered by the popular Mr. Kowalski, the people said.
Especially irksome was Mr. Cumenal's decision to dial back the use of Tiffany's signature blue, which he felt had become over used. Some Asian stores were using blue plate glass, and the company's print ads often consisted of an entire glossy magazine page printed in the robin's egg hue. Some believed the move indicated the new CEO lacked respect for Tiffany's heritage, the people said.
Mr. Kowalski, in the interview, said the use of the color was an issue the company wrestled with over the years. "There was legitimate concern over the wise use of such an important brand asset," he said.
Some board members were put off by Mr. Cumenal's management style, which they described as disdainful and aloof, other people familiar with the matter said.
Directors were perturbed when Mr. Cumenal didn't tell them he decided to name Mr. Krakoff, who had been working for the company as a consultant, to the chief artistic post until January, after the contract was signed, the people said.
Mr. Kowalski said he tried to help Mr. Cumenal navigate board relationships, but acknowledged there "was a natural ebb and flow of tensions around that."
Another point of contention was a push by Mr. Cumenal to add younger board members who had more fashion, digital and global experience, the people said.
The board, which included four directors age 70 or older, agreed it needed a refresh and had instructed an executive search firm last year to help it identify new candidates, one of the people said.
But it wanted to move at a more gradual pace, given that much of Tiffany's senior management had turned over during the previous three years. The board had already raised the retirement age to 74 from 72 in 2014, and there was talk of raising it again, to 75, the people said.
In February, after Mr. Cumenal's ouster, Tiffany reached an agreement with Jana Partners, the activist investor, to add three new directors, including a former CEO of luxury jeweler Bulgari and a co-CEO of fashion house Tory Burch LLC.
Tiffany also agreed to limit waivers for directors who exceeded its retirement age. One director didn't stand for re-election at the company's annual meeting in May, and Tiffany said two directors won't stand for re-election next year.
Mr. Kowalski said the board is attuned to the changes in luxury retailing, where opening new stores is no longer a recipe for success. "It recognizes that the growth strategies that proved successful a decade ago are not likely to drive financial success today," he said.
Tiffany's shares, which had sunk below $60 in June 2016, are now trading above $90. They are up nearly 17% since the company announced the CEO change on Feb. 5.
Jana Partners is pushing Tiffany to expand more overseas, particularly in the Middle East, and for growth in e-commerce, which accounts for about 6% of Tiffany's sales.
Some analysts and investors also say Tiffany should streamline its supply chain. The jeweler is rare in the business for owning processing and polishing operations. It also has agreements with diamond producers to purchase a minimum number of stones each year. The company said its rationale is to secure enough high quality supply to satisfy its production requirements.
Mr. Siegel, the Nomura Instinet analyst, said the strategy ties up working capital and creates a backlog of inventory. According to his estimates, inventory totaled 54% of sales in the most recent fiscal year, up from 39% in 2000. He said locking up supply wasn't as important now that monopolies no longer control the diamond trade and that prices, according to Rapaport-RapNet Diamond Trading Network, have declined from their 2011 peak.
Mr. Kowalski said the strategy is less costly and results in better quality products. He added Tiffany is working to manage its inventory more efficiently by editing down its offerings and by using new software to better predict demand.
--David Benoit contributed to this article.


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Representative Michael T. McCaul (TX-10) recently wrote a letter addressed to the GeoTech Commission to commemorate the launch of the landmark Report of the Commission of the Geopolitical Impacts of New Technologies and Data.
In the letter, Representative McCaul highlighted the Report’s May 26 launch as an “important step towards ensuring a future where technology is harnessed for good.” Citing the many recent cyberattacks from international adversaries, Representative McCaul advocated that cybersecurity be treated as a national security priority. His proposed Cyber Diplomacy Act promises to “work with our allies to create safe cyberspace and set the standard for normal, productive cyber behavior,” as well as establish the “US International Cyberspace Policy” and an “ambassador-at-large for cyber issues to promote a free internet.” Additionally, Representative McCaul thanked the Commission for referencing and supporting his CHIPS for America Act, which aims to increase the domestic production of semiconductor chips. This strategy would reduce the United States’ reliance on foreign supply chains and help it remain remain competitive in AI, quantum computing, and other cutting edge technology research. To read Representative McCaul’s letter, click on the attachment below.


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BEIJING, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- China's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) continued to rise to 51.2 percent in September from 50.9 percent in August, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) said Saturday.
The CFLP report said the 0.3 percentage-points rebound marks the PMI rising for two consecutive months, indicating the economic development is continuing to stabilize.
PMI is a gauge of manufacturing expansion. A reading below 50 indicates contraction from the previous month, while a reading above 50 indicates expansion. China's PMI had declined for four months in a row to a low of 50.7 percent in July before rebounding to 50.9 percent in August.
The manufacturing index from the logistics federation is based on a survey of purchasing managers in more than 820 companies in 20 industries.


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Boston, Massachusetts is coming into its own as a hub of advanced technologies, championed by an expanding array of strong businesses and fed into through a wealth of prestigious local institutions of higher education. 3D printing is, unsurprisingly, thriving in such an environment, and strongly featuring in this picture is high-strength 3D printing company Markforged, founded in 2013 by CEO Greg Mark. I recently enjoyed the opportunity to visit Mark and several members of the team at the company’s headquarters in Watertown to discuss technology on their turf rather than at 3D printing shows around the country.
The Watertown facility is new to Markforged — my visit was, in fact, just three days after the team moved into the 43,000-square-foot space. The move was necessary, as the young company has been growing quickly with some impressive recent upticks in business. Markforged, now 85 employees strong, outgrew its former 16,000-square-foot HQ in Cambridge, and is already working to fill the new capacity, with the team expected to expand beyond 100 members by the end of the year. The growth in space and personnel is supported by some serious business increases, as Markforged reports more than 300% growth since the start of 2017, which they note as being more than any previous year in the history of the company. Strong sales led to achieving profitability in the first half of 2017.


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Are you ready for the Expo?
Published on December 16, 2014
DUBAI The signs of Expo 2020, with the symbolic blue icon, are all around the UAE. In November 2013, a little more than a year ago, the Burj Khalifa set off in massive fireworks as the whole country celebrated Dubai’s winning bid over Russia, Turkey and Brazil to host the mammoth event.
The desire to win the bid was fierce, the first step was made — Dubai won, and now the whole journey lies ahead…
According to Sara Al Boom, one of the four Dubai Expo2020 Ambassadors, the level of support for Expo has been very rewarding. “It’s amazing how the people of the UAE have expressed great interest in the Expo. From the moment we submitted our bid, to the announcement of our win, people of this great nation have shown their support and will continue that level of passion and excitement till the end,” she said.
The Expo is a global fair where nations, international organisations and businesses will share knowledge and ideas, bringing innovations in various fields of human activity. The event will showcase cultural events, exhibits and pavilions that’ll display innumerable projects to visitors. Think Global Village, but with an educational touch.
It is the first time ever that an Expo will be will hosted in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region, making the Dubai-bid historically significant.
“The best investment this country ever made is in its people. Dubai has over 200 nationalities and that is something we cannot find everywhere. We will deliver an unforgettable Expo to the world and we will live up to the promise,” Sara added.
The first Expo started in London in 1851 in the famous Chrystal Palace that was built specifically to host the exhibition.
Among the other massive contributions, the Eiffel Tower was built as an archway entrance to the Paris Expo and the telephone and commercial typewriter were introduced to the world at the American Expo in 1876.
The theme of Dubai’s Expo is Connecting Minds, Creating Future, which springs from the city’s essence of being the spot connecting the East and West. The subtheme is Mobility, Sustainability and Opportunity focusing on smart logistics and transportation systems, lasting energy and water resources and new paths to economic development. The exhibition will stimulate the world to focus on the subtheme to bring new and creative solutions to these issues.
A one-of-a-kind 438-hectare venue will be built between Abu Dhabi and Dubai to host the event. It will have an on edge transportation to and from the site and a hospitality segment around it.
Construction will begin in 2015 and will be completed by 2019. The Expo will last for six months from October 20, 2020, to April 10, 2021. After the end of Expo, the site will be transformed into a world class exhibition centre.
Despite projects worth $705 billion (Dh2 trillion) already on the way over the next 10 years, the government of Dubai will additionally invest more than $8 billion (Dh29 billion) into development of new infrastructure for Expo.
According to HSBC, the total spending could mount up to a staggering $18.3 billion (Dh67 billion), including private sector projects.
Out of all the business in the UAE, trade will have the highest leap. According to Mahmoud Al Bastaki, CEO of Dubai Trade, foreign trade is expected to boost up to Dh4 trillion, while Dubai Chamber of Commerce data states that the city’s economy is expected to boost between one and two per cent between 2016 and 2020. The economic impact generated by Expo from now till 2021 is expected to be around €17.7 billion (Dh81 billion).
An economic report highlighted by the Expo official website predicts that due to Expo, around 277,000 jobs will be created around the region leading up to the event. Forty per cent will be in the travel and tourism industry. The majority of job opportunities will open from 2018 onwards to cater to the demand of the expected 25 million visitors to the exhibition.
“Expo will benefit the UAE and the region with a new level of innovation and connectivity which will improve our standards as a growing hub for change and creativity,” Sara said.
The Expo occurs every five years in different cities and attracts millions of visitors.


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OLPC XO-3 tablet to be built on Marvell Moby tablet platform
Marvell has just officially partnered with the One Laptop per Child Foundation, and will be providing it with $5.6 million to help further the development of a new tablet computer. Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind OLPC, says: “Their money is a grant to the OLPC Foundation to develop a tablet or tablets based on their chip.”
Called the XO 3 tablet as it represents the third generation of the XO laptop, the new tablet will be based on the Armada System-on-Chip (SoC) that will be provided by Marvell, feature a Pixel Qi low power display that is also flexible, and is slated for a 2012 release. Marvell and OLPC will also be showing another tablet at CES 2011, one meant for children of the developed world, which will not feature the OLPC brand name.
OLPC’s take on computing systems targeted at developing nations have forced many to re-think their notion of designing computers. After having tasted success with their ‘One Laptop Per Child’ project, OLPC has now turned their attention to test waters in the fast emerging Tablet PC segment. And for this, they have entered into a partnership with Marvell to develop a Tablet PC that has been named OLPC XO-3 in a bid to speed up the process. Though initial reports are however pointing towards a device that would be a far cry from the sci-fi tablet that it was promised to be and is more based on reality.
It was in December last when the world first got to know of the XO-3 and back then, it was conceptualized as a tablet pc with some dream features. Like it would have a super thin frame with a touchscreen display measuring 8.5 x 11 inches. The tablet will also be encased within a water resistant layer and will boast of an inductive charging system. The new tablets are touted to be based on Marvell’s Moby platform that was unveiled in March though whether it will be able to live up to the lofty goals is anybody’s guess. Well, the doubt factors has its root in the fact that the Moby platform is more conventional in its approach and might not end up delivering all that has been fancied.
What OLPC has revealed till now is that the new tablet will have the facility for video input and will have multi-touch interfaces along with USB support for, what the company claims as ‘traditional and non-traditional peripherals.’
Moby also comes with other niceties such as HDMI out, an integrated camera, compatibility with Flash, along with its ability to support operating systems like Android, WinMo and Linux. Moby too is able to deliver 1080p HD video encode/decode though it may not be a necessity for the specific purpose that the tablet has been envisaged for. On the other hand, it’s a rather longish battery life that might be called upon more along with advanced connectivity options like WiFi, Bluetooth, FM or maybe even GPS. OLPC has pegged power consumptions to be around 1 watt by the time the tablet is ready, which takes care of its intended far flung areas of operation. Also, Marvell’s OLPC XO-3 has a 1 GHz, Marvell ARMADA™ 610 application processor.
The company aims to price the tablet around the $100 ballpark and was initially expected slated for a 2012 release. But the latest that we have indicate development work has been pushed up and an all out effort is currently on to bring in the tablet this year itself.
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has partnered with hardware component maker Marvell to create a new tablet device, and a prototype based on a Marvell reference design is expected to arrive next year. OLPC says that the new tablet will consume significantly less power than its current XO laptop.
OLPC was launched with the aim of bringing low-cost portable computers and constructivist education to students in developing countries. The project has been plagued with problems and declined in relevance as cheap netbooks and alternatives like Intel’s Classmate PC reached the market. OLPC suffered from rising costs, production delays, manufacturing defects, deployment failures, logistical issues, and leadership challenges.
The organization made significant staff cuts last year after its “Give 1 Get 1” program collapsed, discontinued development of its software platform, and gave up on its plans to develop a new dual-touchscreen model that was supposed to look like a book.
Former OLPC software chief Walter Bender split from the group and founded Sugar Labs to continue independently advancing the OLPC software platform. The efforts of his group have brought OLPC’s Sugar learning environment to a broader audience and attracted new contributors.
OLPC itself has largely remained quiet over the past year, but founder Nicholas Negroponte has spoken on several occasions about the possibility of moving the organization’s mission forward by building a low-cost tablet. Partnering with a Marvell and building on an existing reference design will likely simplify the process of getting a finished product out the door.
“Today’s learning environments require robust platforms for computation, content creation and experimentation—and all that at a very low cost,” Negroponte said in a statement. “Through our partnership with Marvell, OLPC will continue our focus on designing computers that enable children in the developing world to learn through collaboration, as well as providing connectivity to the world’s body of knowledge.”
OLPC has also apparently softened its stance on a few other issues. For example, the group is no longer insisting its hardware partners work solely with it if they were pursuing similar projects, an untenable position that was largely responsible for its falling out with Intel. According to Marvell, several commercial hardware vendors will be building their own similar tablets based on the same reference design.
Marvell has launched a new initiative called Mobylize to draw attention to the e-learning potential of its “Moby” reference design. The Mobylize Web site touts classroom-based apps, electronic textbooks, and digital lesson plans as the future of education.


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“The first thing you’ll notice about the new Mac mini is its box. Or, more specifically, how small that box is—60 percent of the size of the previous container. Open the box, and you’ll immediately see why: the new Mac mini, while wider than the previous model, is only 1.4 inches thick. And something else is missing—the power supply,” Dan Frakes reports for Macworld. “Instead of the heavy, bulky, white power brick that’s shipped with every mini since the line was introduced, the newest mini comes with only a thin power cord and a video adapter. In the process of redesigning the Mac mini’s enclosure, Apple was able to shrink down the power supply and fit it inside the mini itself.”
“The mini’s visual redesign takes its cues from two other Apple products. The new enclosure is made of a single piece of aluminum, a la Apple’s unibody laptops—gone is the plastic top of previous models, making the new mini feel rock-solid. But the shape is closer to that of the Apple TV—thinner and wider than the previous Mac mini models,” Frakes reports. “In fact, the new mini is almost exactly the same size as an Apple TV, just with rounder corners.”
Frakes reports, “The new mini drops the previous model’s mini-DVI port in favor of an HDMI output—a nod to the fact that many Mac mini owners use the computer in home-theater systems and for other AV uses. In fact, Apple has even updated the Displays pane of System Preferences for the new mini to let you tweak video underscan—useful when connecting the mini to a TV.”
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Yesterday morning we got up early and instead of going back to CES, Paul from Drone U and I went to an area right outside the controlled airspace of Las Vegas to fly the all-new Autel EVO 2 with the 8K camera. Here are our first impressions. Keep in mind that we were flying this foldable quadcopter with a beta version of the app. Autel Robotics told us that they will keep updating both the software and firmware before launching this drone by the end of January for $1,445. expand full story
Autel Evo 2 Stories January 9
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As expected, Autel Robotics launched their new Autel EVO 2 drone at CES this morning. It comes in three different variations that include up to 8K video and a thermal camera option. Read almost all the details, we’re still waiting for pricing and availability, of this exciting new drone below. The ball is now in DJI’s court and we’ll see what they come out with when they’re ready to launch the DJI Mavic 3 Pro.
Autel Evo 2 Stories January 6
The Autel Evo 2 has made its way onto the FCC’s test bench with what looks to be some standout features for a drone of its size. Along with the Evo 2, we are expecting to see DJI’s Mavic 3 line of drones to be launched early this year. Let’s take a look at what we know about these two drones and what we would love to see in them.
Autel Evo 2 Stories December 30, 2019
A little more than a month ago, we reported on the Autel Evo 2 and the amazing specs this new drone is expected to have. Then we reported that Autel would make an official announcement during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (CES). However, as some of our readers rightfully pointed out, Autel was not among the exhibitors listed to appear at CES.
And even now, when you go to the exhibitors’ list on the CES website, you won’t find Autel Robotics. However, an announcement on Instagram tells a different story. Autel Robotics will indeed be at CES. Maybe they’ll be unveiling the new Autel Evo 2?
Autel Evo 2 Stories November 28, 2019
The specs of Autel’s new drone are mind-boggling and they got many drone pilots very, very excited. We’ve even heard that when the specifications became public, they caused a bit of an earthquake at the DJI consumer drone division. Now, of course, the most urgent question on everybody’s mind is when will we be able to get our hands on one. Well, we have some good news for you. You won’t have to wait long as the Autel Evo 2 will be released in January of 2020 and the official announcement will take place at CES. Expect the Evo 2 to be available soon thereafter at retailers such as DroneNerds, B&H, Adorama, BestBuy, and Amazon.
Autel Evo 2 Stories November 27, 2019
With Skydio shipping the first orders of their autonomous Skydio 2 drone and yesterday’s news from Autel Robotics and their new Autel Evo 2 drone, it seems that DJI is finally facing some serious competition. According to a person familiar with the situation, the sudden and serious competition from Autel has hit the DJI consumer division “like an earthquake”. It left many DJI employees shaking their heads as they had no idea that the Autel Evo 2 was coming.


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5 Free Apps Perfect For The Holiday Rush
Here is a list of iOs and Android apps you can download for free on your mobile device to help guide you through the holiday rush.
PayPal Ends Mobile App Support for Windows Phone, Blackberry & Amazon's Fire OS
PayPal will discontinue its mobile app service for Blackberry, Microsoft Phone and Amazon OS users . On the other hand, the e-payment company will upgrade its mobile app for Apple iOS and Google Android devices.
Apple launches new budget iPod Touch
Apple has launched a budget iPod touch with 16GB internal storage and without iSight camera.
iPad, iPhone, And Macs Go Touchless? Apple May Rip Off Samsung Galaxy S4 Air Gesture
Apple, and more specifically Jony Ive, have been meeting with major gesture-control companies to bring touchless gestures to OS X and iOS, reports say.
NHTSA Releases SaferCar iOS App
The SaferCar app for iPhones and the iPod Touch will let users file vehicle safety complaints and subscribe to automatic notices about vehicle recalls.
Apple's Newest Patent Allows Devices To Perform Functions Before You Tell Them
'Situational awareness module' anticipates users' needs based on environment.
Seven Million Devices Running iOS 6.1 Already JailBroken
The Evad3rs Jailbreak Team released their evasi0n untethered jailbreak tool four days ago and now, 7 million iOS devices have already been busted wide open.
Sony’s Music Unlimited Now On iPhone And iPod Touch
Sony, on Tuesday, announced the release of its Music Unlimited app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The new app is slated to be launched on this Friday, May 25. There are a few rumors circulating on the web saying that an iPad app is also in development.


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Large and small businesses find themselves in the same markets, even if they’re not always direct competitors because of their size. And sometimes they’re set up as opposing forces, not working alongside or helping each other. Here are a few recent instances that cover the former, as well as the latter.
talk small, hear small, eat, sleep and breathe small. Because when you’re trying to connect with a small business, you must understand everything about those who run them.
Small businesses have been feeling the pressure of online retailers, like Amazon, for some time now. So why haven’t they crumbled? Most small businesses can’t afford to drop prices as low as big box stores, or even develop websites for online ordering and processing.
A generation or two ago, if someone said they were dining on food delivered to their door they were almost certainly eating nondescript pizza or so-called Chinese food.
Now, the convergence of technology and demand for convenient indulgence has created an extraordinary revolution in the restaurant industry: home delivery of fine dining from small, chic restaurants via behemoth brands like Uber, Amazon and Google.


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With a new addition to their FinePix S5 Pro digital series, Fujifilm announced their new IS Pro, a UVIR compatible DSLR camera. The IS will feature a 12.3 megapixel CCD sensor, as well as Real Photo Pro technology.
The IS Pro is expected for release in August for the USA, and will cost a bank breaking $2,600, for only the camera’s base. Fujifilm will accept cash, credit, the blood of your first born, a signed deal with the devil, or your sister’s hymen. — Andrew Dobrow


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Rising Stars Reveal Growth Secrets
In the first-ever Rising Stars list, 25 integrators reveal how they are growing revenues. Hint: There is no set-in-stone formula.
How They Did It: Making connections with his alma mater has helped owner Wes Bradshaw grow the business. “We got involved with the University of Georgia alumni and have been voted as one of the Fastest Growing Top 100 Companies the past two years. The connections, networking and marketing around that event and award have really helped target potential clients around the Atlanta and Athens area,” he says.
Meanwhile, the switch to architectural speakers without bezels has been fruitful from a quality and profit standpoint. “We also became SpeakerCraft dealers and the lifetime warranty has helped close a few more deals,” he adds. The company’s home theater business has grown primarily due to an upgraded showroom that showcases motorization, namely shades and film screens. So far this year, Sunbelt’s home theater business is up 40 percent.
Regarding IT, Bradshaw says, “We finally took the plunge on offering networks to all our clients and selling more Apple-based systems,” he says.
2013 Growth Rate: 30%
2010 Revenues: $957,261
2011 Revenues: $1,226,505
2012 Revenues: $1,511,322
Years in Business: 6
2012 Installations: 100 residential; 10 commercial
Highest Growth Categories: IT (50%); Control (100%); Security (25%); Recurring Revenue (25%)


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August 07, 2013
In a typical year, potato growers who start digging their crop too soon give up some of their potential yield by harvesting immature spuds. But growers who wait this year may miss out on unheard-of prices.
August 07, 2013
The Council of Agriculture and Water of the Spanish Region of Murcia estimates this year's potato production to reach 100,027 tonnes;an increase of 27% compared to the previous campaign.
June 13, 2013
Greenvale, the UK’s leading potato supplier, will be celebrating the return of this season’s British Gems baby new potatoes in Sainsbury’s with a marketing campaign heralding the great British summer and a season jam-packed with iconic British events.
May 21, 2013
As north Florida begins spring volume up to two weeks late, buyers can expect lower red potato supplies to keep demand high and prices above normal.
February 19, 2013
Some of Florida's potato crops (Hastings and East Palatka) took a hit when freezing temperatures moved through the area Sunday night and Monday morning.
November 12, 2012
At the inaugural auction of new season baby potatoes recently, bidding reached an impressive $3000. This was for 15kgs so that means the potatoes actually sold for $200,000 per tonne! Mr Tom Penna of Elders transferred his highly regarded auctioneering...
October 18, 2012
The start of the annual harvest highlights the success of the potato industry which is providing an economic bonanza in South Australia, becoming the success story of the state's $2.5 billion horticulture sector in the past decade.
May 02, 2012
Despite suffering a downward trend in recent years and the general crisis, the sector of the Andalusian Early Potato, encompassed in Asociafruit, expects a fruitful campaign. Although the reduction in area slows down to around 10-15% over last season...
April 12, 2012
Florida potato grower-shippers reported strong demand in early April, but an early start to the northern Florida deal could yield sluggish red potato markets in May. The week of April 9, all production in the Sunshine State was coming from the souther...


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The 2nd quarter 2007 home prices are now available for Salt Lake County, Utah County and Davis County. On the surface everything looks OK with the vast majority of zip codes seeing their home prices showing double digit increases compared to prices in the 2nd quarter 2006.
That is until the look at the underlying data. Take the number of homes sold, in June 2007 1,366 homes were sold in Salt Lake County while June 2006 saw 1,931 sales. That’s a drop of nearly 30%. In Utah County things are the same with 532 home sales in 2007 and 726 in 2006 (a fall of nearly 27%).
OK so maybe fewer people are listing their home and that’s why we have fewer sales? Not so there are actually more homes being listed, in Utah County for June 2007 523 homes were listed for sale and in June 2006 403. For Salt Lake County there were 1041 new listings in June 2007 and in June 2006 881.
So what does this mean? It means we are in a transitional market, going from a very strong sellers market to more of a buyers market. Homes are sitting on the market longer, inventory is increasing and sellers are having to drop their asking price.


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The PCI-SIG standards body has ratified version 0.9 of the PCIe 5.0 connection specification, which could have implications for future Macs, particularly the upcoming modular Mac Pro.
The standard supports bandwidth up to 128 gigabytes per second, and clock speeds up to 32 gigahertz, PCI-SIG says. That's twice the performance of PCIe 4.0, but since 4.0 was only launched in 2017, the organization expects both standards to remain around for some time. PCIe 5.0 will be backwards-compatible with earlier hardware.
A final specification is due to be ratified later in the first calendar quarter of 2019. Manufacturers frequently begin design work well before that point though, making it probable that the first PCIe 5.0 products will ship to end-users at some point in mid-2019.
The cost of stepping up to PCIe 5.0 may make its first adopters businesses like data centers, researchers, render farms, and high-end "server-grade" equipment. Many desktops and laptops will hold on to PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 for the foreseeable future.
The 2019 Mac Pro is slated to be "modular" but what that term means at present isn't exactly clear. PCIe encompasses more than just expansion slots, but offering PCIe 5.0 slots out of the box would help future-proof the computer, and potentially prove to the professional community that it's serious about meeting its needs.
Apple is also sometimes a vanguard of new connection technologies, being an early backer of USB, FireWire, and Thunderbolt.
Less likely is PCIe 5.0 showing up in other Macs such as the iMac 4K or iMac 5K lines any time soon — and expansion slots for the pair certainly won't materialize. The company is already under fire for the growing cost of its products, which is hurting profits in markets like China.


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LONDON, 8 JULY 2019: Starling, the leading digital bank, has partnered with CreditLadder, the UK’s largest rent recognition platform, in a move that will help thousands of Starling customers improve their credit score and get on to the property ladder.
CreditLadder will enable Starling customers to use their monthly rental payments to help build their credit history. By proving to lenders and credit reference agencies that they can pay their rent both reliably and on time, those using the service could gain access to better rates on a range of financial products – such as mortgages, loans, credit cards and mobile phones.
The first-of-its-kind integration allows Starling customers to use the service directly through Starling’s Marketplace feature. In a compelling example of Open Banking in action, the service will be providing faster and more convenient access to the benefits CreditLadder’s service offers without the need to navigate away from Starling’s app.
CreditLadder becomes the latest partner to join Starling’s in-app Marketplace, which launched in February 2018, harnessing Open Banking to offer customers direct access to a range of financial services and products securely on their phone. Starling already has existing partnerships with pension provider PensionBee, digital investing services Wealthsimple and Wealthify, mortgage broker Habito, insurance provider Churchill Insurance and loyalty partner Flux.
Anne Boden, Founder and CEO of Starling Bank said: “Our Marketplace is designed to help customers make the most of their finances. CreditLadder shares this vision and is giving people a much-needed advantage in today’s tough property and credit climate."
Sheraz Dar, CEO of CreditLadder.co.uk, says: “Being added to Starling Bank’s Marketplace is a major milestone for us and a huge opportunity to help Starling Bank’s customers improve their credit position for free, should they wish to do so. We want to see every tenant in the UK report their rent and see the benefits it can bring - this is a great step in realising that ambition.”
Launched in 2016, CreditLadder has so far read rents totalling over £75 million. The platform, a member of the government-backed Tech Nation initiative, recently won approval from the Financial Conduct Authority to grow its suite of services. Last year, it was awarded £600,000 from HM Treasury to help develop its tech, business development and product.
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About Starling Bank
Starling is a leading digital bank, founded in 2014 and voted Best British Bank in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Its retail banking app offers personal, business and joint current accounts on Android and iOS. The Starling Marketplace allows customers in-app access to a curated selection of third-party financial services. Starling also offers groundbreaking B2B banking and payments services.
Starling is a fintech business with a banking licence, fully regulated by the FCA and PRA. It is directly connected to major payment schemes, including Faster Payments, SEPA, Bacs and MasterCard.
FCA approved CreditLadder is the UK’s first and biggest rent recognition platform that enables renters to add their rent payments to their credit history.
Tenants have their rent payments read by CreditLadder using Open Banking enabled APIs. This allows the tenant to have their rental payment track record added to their credit file, and ultimately help improve their credit history.
CreditLadder works with leading credit reference agency Experian and since launch has reported over £70 million in rent. Recently, the company was announced as a final stage winner of both the HM Treasury’s Rent Recognition Challenge and became one of 20 companies chosen from nearly 100 applicants to join the HM Treasury-supported Tech Nation programme.
CEO Sheraz Dar has worked at and invested in many of the UK’s leading digital businesses including; PrimeLocation, Quidco and OpenRent, the latter being the UK’s biggest letting agent by volume.


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When Echelon Chief Technology Officer John Santo developed the company’s app-connected exercise bike, it was far from glamorous.
In fact, Santo and a developer once met at a Wawa gas station at 10:30 p.m. The pair worked on a circuit board, which Santo says “looked like a bomb,” in the parking lot, with cords running inside the Wawa to plug into outlets. A few months later, however, the finished exercise bike appeared on shopping network QVC and orders began to pour in. Read more here.


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Dominant Firms To Lead Earnings As Inflation Picks Up, Ambit’s Saurabh Mukherjea Says
Companies that can squeeze margins out of suppliers will do well as inflation rises.
Companies that dominate their markets—be it a large or a medium cap—will lead earnings growth over the next two years as inflationary pressures rise, said Saurabh Mukherjea, chief executive officer at Ambit Capital.
Companies with better market positions will be able to squeeze suppliers to protect their margins as inflation picks up in the coming 12 months, he said in an interview with BloombergQuint. Smaller companies will find it difficult to maintain their capital and cash flow as rising inflation leads to higher interest rates, he said.
While consumer inflation eased from a 17-month high to 4.4 percent in February, rising oil prices and consumption-driven demand will take inflation close to the upper limit of the Reserve Bank of India's range, he said. “The reason why financial year 2018-19 will see double-digit earnings growth, after five years of single-digit expansion, is inflation coming through strongly.”
India's economy is poised for a consumption driven GDP recovery. Cement and auto sales, and jobs data already show a pick-up. This should be aided by government spending in rural India ahead of the 2019 elections, Mukherjea said. The government has also promised 1.5 times of the cost of crops to farmers in the kharif harvesting season.
The elections, however, will not affect the markets. “It’s reasonably clear that underlying economic drivers of India have very little to do with what our politicians do,” he said. If the market does correct by 10-15 percent, it will only be a buying opportunity given that there is an economic recovery underway, Mukherjea said.
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Amid the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Finland's National Emergency Supply Agency (Nesa) is making preparations by shoring up supplies, according to the agency's director, Jaakko Pekki.
He told Yle on Tuesday that Finland was particularly prepared in terms of food production, as the country produces about 80 percent of food that is consumed.
"People in Finland eat an exceptional amount of domestic food, which is a good thing, in terms of preparedness. We are not that dependent on other countries," Pekki explained.
"In order to be able to continue to produce food domestically, we store, for example raw materials for fertiliser, as well as grains which can be used to grow food in a crisis situation," he said, adding that the amount of stored grain corresponds to about six months' worth of normal consumption.
Finland's fuel stockpile situation is "exceptionally good," according to Pekki.
Oil prices have skyrocketed since Russia's attack, and if sanctions further restrict the country's ability to export petroleum products, prices will continue to rise. Pekki said Finland's fuel stockpile is equivalent to five months of normal use and that alternate sources of oil and fuel were being sought elsewhere.
"The emergency supplies are not meant to last 10 years," he said, noting that the stockpiles are meant to serve as a buffer while other sources for goods are arranged.
Finland's supply of pharmaceuticals is also very good, Pekki said.
"Importers or manufacturers of medicines in Finland are obligated to maintain a certain amount for the emergency supply," he explained, adding that depending on the medication, the pharmaceutical products in the stockpile are equivalent to 3-10 months of normal consumption.
The stockpile agency director also said that it was important for people to ensure they are also prepared for exceptional circumstances.
"There have been minor crises in the past, like ones related to payment systems or weather conditions. People have also been unable to go to the shop because they had Covid. This is why it is a good idea to keep a supply of needed items at home that would last 72 hours," Pekki recommended.


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Economy shows signs of pick-up
The rise in collection of VAT and imports of capital machinery and industrial raw materials in the first six months this fiscal year showed clear signs that increased trade and commerce and investments are helping domestic economy pick up, officials say.
Data shows July-December earnings from value-added tax have marked 24 percent growth, while opening of letters of credit for the imports of capital machinery has grown by 28 percent and raw materials by 22 percent. However, these indicators were negative a month back.
This latest macroeconomic situation comes up for review today at a high-profile meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, according to a finance ministry official.
The ministry will also report it to parliament later.
“There are clear signs that Bangladesh economy is picking up,” the official told The Daily Star, pointing to the necessity of adequate supply of gas and power to make such trends sustainable.
Meantime, revenue recorded 18 percent growth against the overall target of 15 percent.
According to the tax administration, increased VAT collection is the major contributor to such growth, which also indicates brisk economic activities.
Private sector credit, another indicator of the economy, posted 16.73 percent growth in November last. The June growth was 14.62 percent.
Today's review meeting will also be informed that gross domestic product growth will be between 5.5 and 6 percent, despite global recession fallout.
Also, the finance ministry apprise the crucial sitting of the contributions of the sectors like agriculture, industries and services to the GDP.
The government expects that average inflation will not cross 6.6 percent, although it marked a slight upward trend in recent times.


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Cannabis industry flocks to New York for the Cannabis World Congress and Expo
On Wednesday, the cannabis industry descended upon New York City for one of the most anticipated events of the year, the 6th Annual Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition. A cornucopia of cannabis industry titans, the event is one of the largest of its kind, bringing together giants from the space such as Canopy Growth Corporation (CGC) and Harvest Health & Recreation (HRVSF), along with more controversial names like MedMen (MMEN) and Medical Marijuana, Inc. (MJNA).
PotNetwork News spoke with Geg Marco, President of Leading Edge Expositions which is the organization responsible for putting together the expo each year. Marco discussed the growth of the event, talked about some of the highlights that attendees could expect this year, and spoke in general about booming nature of the cannabis industry in general.
“The first year we did it we had 20 booths, 20 10x10 booths,” Marco told PotNetwork News. “Now we have 176 companies with thousands upon thousands of square feet of exhibit space.”


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Here’s How Wearing Orange Can Help Stop Gun Violence
Did you know that by simply wearing the color orange you can help stop gun violence? Friday, June 2nd marked National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and many people honored the day bringing awareness to the issue that many have been affected by, by wearing orange.
The color orange become synonymous with gun violence two years after the fatal shooting and death of 15-year-old high school Hadiya Pendleton on Jan. 29, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois. The honor student and drum majorette’s untimely death sparked the Wear Orange campaign, as her friends decided to not only celebrate her life but bring awareness to gun violence by wearing orange.
To date, the campaign has quickly grown, bringing awareness and support across the globe. They’ve even gotten support from celebrities and major American fashion brands such as Donna Karan, Tom Ford and Zac Posen.
Click here to find out more about the initiative and shop Wear Orange products with every purchase helping them build awareness of and advance solutions to gun violence in America.


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Forsaken Worlds has been hard at work pounding out all the issues with the game during its closed beta. The game was originally scheduled to enter its open beta launch on March 23rd, but the team over at Perfect World Entertainment was so happy with how well the game has come along that they decided to launch it a full two weeks ahead of schedule. Players are now welcome to sign up and join the game to earn new shiny loot and even acquire their own floating guild halls. Head over to the Forsaken Worlds website to get started.
To read the latest guides, news, and features you can visit our Forsaken World Game Page.


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Magazine for boating professionals
All the news with BoatIndustry.com
Boat shows: Between cancellations and confirmations, the big international gap
The 2020 Calendar of BtoB boat shows post Covid19
Anemomind : An open-source initiative in boating
Windbag: Ocean racing software wants to open up to enlightened boaters
In a Word
Boating life: BigShip, Fischer Panda, METS Trade, Cosmetiboat...
2020 calendar of BtoB boat and yachting industry trade fairs
Kara Technology: "We want to objectify the use of recreational boats"
Garmin and Navico tied for their electric motors
Technical equipment of the boat
Actisense: How to communicate electronics on board the boat?
2018 BtoB yachting and marine trade shows calendar
Cummins relies on accessories to simplify the life of the shipyard and the yachtsman
In a Word
Boating life: iFLY Sail, Tiwal, Nanni, NMEA, AFPA Lorient, Future Fibres
PST:"We must maintain our image as a specialist in electronics and the NMEA network"
TenSeaZy, measuring forces on the rigging
Actisense SBN, the simplified NMEA 2000 network
Nauticoncept, an app for nautical maintenance professionals
Cristec, connected battery chargers
NMEA 2000, a certification centre in Rennes
Vesselview, Mercury launches its latest products in France