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Cryptocurrency has gained acceptance as a legitimate form of currency over the past few years. In February, Elon Musk’s Tesla announced that it had purchased $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and that it would also begin accepting bitcoin as payment for products. Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency market in the U.S., went public last week.
If you’ve invested in a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, you might be wondering how that will impact your taxes this year. Cryptocurrency is treated like property by the IRS, which means that cryptocurrency owners will need to pay applicable capital gains taxes on the sale of cryptocurrencies.
If your cryptocurrency gains value from the time you bought and sold it, you owe capital gains taxes.
How cryptocurrencies are taxed
Since the tax deadline has been extended to May 17, 2021, you still have time to file with the correct cryptocurrency information. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are viewed as property by the IRS, so that’s how they are taxed. Basically, this means that you might owe capital gains taxes when you sell Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.
Just as with stocks you hold in your portfolio, cryptocurrency is taxed only upon the sale of that asset. CNBC reported that the tax amount you owe on cryptocurrency will depend on your income as well as the timing of when you bought and sold the cryptocurrency.
Be sure to report any income from cryptocurrency sales. Form 1040 asks specifically about cryptocurrency gains this year.
Here’s the capital gains tax rate based on annual income for individual filers:
- 0 percent if earning under $40,000
- 15 percent if earning $40,000 to $441,450
- 20 percent if earning above $441,450
If you hold your cryptocurrency for less than 12 months, you’ll pay the same as your regular tax rate.
Cryptocurrency losses can be beneficial tax-wise as well. If you sold cryptocurrency for a loss, you can write off that amount up to $3,000 for a couple or $1,500 for an individual filer. This lowers your taxable income for the year. If you lose above the write-off amount, you can carry over additional losses to the next year.
How to accept crypto payments
If you’re a business owner, you might be considering whether it’s time to start accepting cryptocurrency as payment for goods or services. It’s becoming more common to enable crypto payments. Some e-commerce sites have partnerships with crypto companies like Bitpay and Coinbase Commerce.
The IRS specifies the requirements for any taxpayer who receives payment for goods or services via virtual currency to follow. According to the IRS, you must, “in computing gross income, include the fair market value of the virtual currency, measured in U.S. dollars, as of the date that the virtual currency was received.”
Since the value of cryptocurrency fluctuates, business owners will need to be vigilant in keeping records of the value of cryptocurrency the day it's received and the day it's sold. Inc. notes that this can be very complicated, so small businesses should generally restrict cryptocurrency payments to larger, infrequent purchases.


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Cipla has acquired the exclusive rights to market skin care products of the country’s leading derma and cosmeceutical player Percos India.
Nykaa decks up to woo Indian beauty market with more products and services
The marketplace has tied up with spa and salon services in Mumbai, Pune and Bengaluru, and plans to feature cosmetology and wellness packages.
From a mother at 16 to the face of Indian beauty cosmetics, Shahnaz Husain's tale is inspiring
Husain started her herbal salon in 1971 at home after borrowing Rs 35,000 from her father.
Mankind Pharma to open manufacturing plant in US, invest Rs 300 crore
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Apollo’s clinic arm plans to raise up to Rs 500 crore from PE cos
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Drink water, eat fresh fruits and veggies, maintain personal hygiene and use sunscreens to have a happy summer.
Dr Amit Karkhani combined his two passions, technology and medicine, to launch Dr. Tvacha
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Livingstone is pleased to announce that AeroVision International, LLC has been acquired by LKQ Corporation (NasdaqGS:LKQ). AeroVision, headquartered in Muskegon, MI, is a provider of aftermarket, supply chain solutions for the regional commercial and business aviation segments by supplying serviceable aircraft, engines and related components. AeroVision serves a worldwide base of regional aircraft operators, MROs, fixed-base operators, corporate customers and other distributors.
Livingstone Managing Director Andrew Bozzelli commented, “We are pleased to announce the sale of AeroVision to LKQ. Founders Greg Van Boxel and Jeff Barnes, along with the rest of the AeroVision management team, built a differentiated offering which will be an ideal platform for LKQ to enter the aerospace industry. We are excited about the future for AeroVision as the LKQ transaction not only represents an outstanding outcome for the sellers, but also for the business moving forward.”
AeroVision continues Livingstone’s string of successful sales of middle market businesses to public companies including AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE:AME), Everbridge, Inc. (NasdaqGM: EVBG), Nxt-ID, Inc. (NasdaqCM:NXTD), and Unilever, N.V. (ENXTAM:UNA).
Livingstone acted as the exclusive financial advisor to AeroVision, and Vedder Price P.C. served as legal counsel to AeroVision.


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BMW chief executive Harald Krüger is in a race to catch up to Elon Musk, the founder of the U.S. electric car maker Telsa. And the going isn't easy.
Mr. Musk has his sights set on being the king of the road when it comes to electric cars, and the billionaire has the money to help make that happen.
In the fourth quarter of 2014, Tesla’s Model S was the second most popular electric car worldwide after the Nissan Leaf. BMW's compact i3 and the sports car i8 failed to make it into the top five.
Mr. Musk is the ultimate salesmen, pitching his energy storage system Powerwall as huge innovation, which remains to be seen.
"We see it as our duty as a serious manufacturer to observe this battery over the long term," said Julian Weber, head of innovative e-mobility projects at BMW, which offers a similar battery.
The company has also developed a scheme for recycling the used batteries. It heads a project in Hamburg's Hafen City district where thousands of old batteries have been wired together to be use as recharging stations and for solar energy storage.
But whether BMW can counter Tesla's appetite for risky bets and quick market entries in the nascent market for e-cars is unclear.
"In terms of how people perceive e-automobiles as a lifestyle product, Tesla is far ahead," said Konrad Wessner, chief financial officer at the Puls market research institute in Nuremberg. Customers spend more money on Tesla than on any other e-brand, he said.
Mr. Wessner isn't alone in that assessment. "Tesla's Model S has managed in just three years to become the most-bought luxury car in the United States," warned Martin Stemmler from the Korn Ferry consultancy.
That is why the development of BMW's i series is crucial, according to Mr. Wessner, who doesn't expect the i5 and i9 models to be ready before 2020 - which could be too late. "The influence of the i series on the BMW brand is enormous," he said.
Mr. Krüger faces a dilemma. Electronic cars are selling slowly, compaed to gas-guzzling SUVs, which are making big profits. But from 2020 onwards, cars in a manufacturers total lineup of modes can emit on average only 95 grams carbon dioxide per kilometer per vehicle in the European Union. Otherwise, manufactures face substantial penalties.
For now, Mr. Krüger may view the i3 and i8 models as mere investments in e-mobility and use that expertice for SUVs. But some experts he will have no choice but to bring out a flashy electric model to compete with Telsa, even if it doesn't make sense financially.
This article first appeared in Wirtschaftswoche. To contact the author: [email protected]


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Motorola has filed a lawsuit accusing China’s Huawei Technologies of alleged theft of trade secrets in cellular networking gear.
The complaint was filed in U.S. district court in Northern Illinois, claiming Huawei worked with former employees to get detailed confidential information. The employees named in the suit no longer work at Motorola, but they include one executive, Shaowei Pan, who is now listed as chief technology officer at Lemko, a defendant in the suit based in Motorola’s hometown of Schaumburg, Ill.
“Huawei, which has an agreement with Motorola allowing that company to resell Huawei’s wireless equipment, has only recently learned of the amended Motorola complaint,” Huawei said in a statement. “Based on our review of the complaint so far, the complaint is groundless and utterly without merit.”
Huawei says it has no relationship with Lemko, other than a reseller agreement. “Huawei will vigorously defend itself against baseless allegations,” the company said. “Moreover, as an active and significant player in global standards-setting bodies, Huawei has great respect for the rights of intellectual property holders, and will with equal vigor protect its own hard-earned intellectual property rights.”
Lemko released a statement saying it believes Motorola initiated the litigation against Lemko and its employees to financially weaken the company in an attempt to either stall the development of its software or to abscond with them outright.
“It is unfortunate that Motorola continues to define its success by the number of frivolous lawsuits it commences. This latest allegation is consistent with that. It appears the company is better at manufacturing lawsuits than products. Perhaps they should redirect their shrinking levels of talent to fill the pipelines with better goods than clogging up the courts with silly, misdirected litigation,” Lemko said in its statement.
The statement went on to say that Lemko and the individuals named have filed several counterclaims against Motorola and the court has dismissed at an early stage some of the claims against Lemko and its professionals. “While Lemko takes all litigation seriously, the Motorola litigation naming the corporation and its employees is a venomous nuisance. This is counterproductive in light of their prior relationship in which Lemko had various collaboration meetings with Motorola professionals. In fact, more than 100 Motorola staff members have visited Lemko’s office and been educated about the company’s innovative technology under multiple NDAs,” the company said.
The two companies entered into numerous mutual non-disclosure agreements to protect any and all confidential information that would or could be disclosed as part of their relationship, Lemko added.
Motorola said its policy is not to comment on pending litigation but it will vigorously protect its intellectual property. “This litigation is nothing more than a legal dispute between Motorola, Lemko and Huawei,” Motorola said in its statement, reinforcing its long-term commitment to China. “We have developed deep relationships with local partners, including government, customers, suppliers, and distributors, and will continue to grow our presence here. As a technology-driven company, Motorola has developed first-rate R&D forces in China to help stimulate innovation, foster talent and create new technologies. We look forward to continuing to develop relationships in China.”
Revelations of the lawsuit come after Motorola announced an agreement earlier this week to sell its Networks business to Nokia Siemens Networks. The acquisition will make Nokia Siemens the world’s No. 2 network equipment maker, displacing Huawei in that spot.
At the time, Yankee Group Principal Analyst Ken Rehbehn called the move a “blow” to Huawei, which has struggled for years to expand its footprint in North America. “While Huawei may have made expansion in the U.S. a strategic priority, this loss significantly limits its ultimate reach in the region’s mobile equipment market,” he said.


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The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has opened discussions with MTN to ensure successful electronic listing of the telecoms company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).
The Director-General of SEC, Mounir Gwarzo, made the disclosure at the Second Post-Capital Market Committee news conference on Wednesday in Lagos.
According to Mr. Gwarzo, the parties have been on the matter since the past two months.
He said that the NSE had provided needed ideas to MTN on ways to go about the issue in the interest of retail investors.
“MTN Nigeria is back and we are on course as regards its listing on NSE,” Mr. Gwarzo said.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the telecommunications firm in June said it would list its shares on the NSE this year.
Mr. Gwarzo said the application processes would be digitalised in a way that there would be minimal utilisation of paper, adding that the Nigerian Communications Commission and the NSE, among others, were in support of the plan.
The General Manager of MTN, Nikiwe Tsaagane, made the announcement when he visited the Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu.
Mr. Tsaagane said the listing would be one of the largest transactions in Africa.
“The listing will showcase Nigeria in the global economy if we can achieve it.
“MTN has over 62 million subscribers in Nigeria, which represents a significant percentage of the Nigerian population,” he said.


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Take a Sneak Peek of What Flying Economy Looks Like Post-Coronavirus Pandemic with New Cabin Designs Emerging
If you've ever wondered what the world of economic flights would look like during the time of the pandemic, well, here's a sneak peak! There have been a few designs that have recently emerged for two different post-coronavirus economy cabin concepts that are actually aimed at helping to prevent possible future pandemics.
The project is known as "Janus" and it actually takes inspiration from some sort of ancient two-faced roman god by installing a reversed center seat, while the other "Glassafe" concept actually sees each seat lifted with the use of a "hood."
The new seat design
These designs are made by a certain Italian firm called the Aviointeriors, which has already released certain renderings of both of these concepts. Aviointeriors have also said that this Janus seat will actually ensure the maximum isolation between the passengers even if they are seated next to one another.
While the passengers that are seated on the plane's side seats, aisle, and fuselage, they continue to face the direction of the travel while those passengers seated in the center face backwards.
Aviointeriors have also explained that aside from space, they will also be protected from those walking down the aisle and that a shield will be present to prevent breath propagation to different occupants of certain adjacent seats.
The design is also made to ensure easy cleaning as well as safe hygienic materials. Instead of just efficiency, these planes will be designed for safety without leaving out the comfort factor. The goal was also to make this design aesthetically light and in no way threatening.
The Aviointerior's concept
According to Aviointeriors' spokesperson, all of the national authorities worldwide are working together in order to block the pandemic through certain series of actions as well as recommendations and that they want to contribute their ideas along with their proposals in the interests of the entire community.
It is pretty obvious that the entire airplane industry has been affected as flights are being cancelled left and right in fear of the virus and this is why Aviointeriors have tried their best to factor in new designs that could be useful in stopping the virus from spreading even when passengers are on an airplane.
Although the design is still tentative and there has not yet been any final announcement as to when it will be officially deployed, the near future definitely calls for these kinds of designs that prioritize proper distancing as well as hygiene, sanitation, and also preventive measures to stop the virus from spreading.
The ongoing pandemic has deeply crippled the aviation industry as most people involved in this industry have already lost their jobs and careers due to people not flying on airplanes anymore. There is still no telling when aviation operations can once again continue at its full extent but it does not seem like any time soon. Aviointeriors have been able to think ahead and design something that could possibly be beneficial in the future.
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This Corporate News Compilation for the week ended January 20th, 2018 is brought to you by Bluechip Technology Ltd Nigeria.
- We start of this week’s big stories with some sports news. Not what you might consider news, but we thought it was interesting to learn that Dana Air signed a “multimillion naira” sponsorship deal last week with Heartland Football Club of Owerri. The team just newly got promoted to the Nigerian Premier League. This is actually an important deal when you consider that kit sponsorship deals are very rare in Nigerian football not to talk of other sports. Just 3yrs ago Guiness signed the endorsement deals with Eyimba and 3SC with Dubic Beer. The quintet of Lobi Stars, Sunshine Stars, Rangers, Heartland and Dolphins had Harp as their sponsors. BUA Group sponsored Kano Pillars, in one of the more successful deals while ULO Consultants sponsors Sunshine Stars. Heartland’s latest deal is perhaps connected with the State Air career deal between the Imo State Government and Dana Air, which we reported sometime last year. Last January, Dana Air announced a partnership with the Imo State Government to form Imo Air.
- Sticking with sports, Coca-Cola Nigeria and the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) announced a sponsorship deal for all the National Teams of Nigeria. The deal is reportedly worth around $4 million and is for a period of 5 years. Last September, the NFF signed a sponsorship deal with TGI Group, Tropical General Investments (TGI) Group, the parent company of WACOT Limited, Chi Limited and Hollandia Yoghurt as their Official Food Partner. The deal made WACOT Rice the official rice of the Super Eagles. They also signed a deal with PayPorte as the official online store partner of the NFF.
- Reports emerged last week that Airtel had pulled out of its bid to acquire 9mobile complaining that “many things are not too plain with the entire process” The report also suggests Globacom and Helios Investment Partners LLP submitted bids but did not make any financial offer. This leaves Teleology Holdings Limited and Smile Telecoms Holdings Ltd who submitted bids of about $500 million and $300 million respectively. Whoever wins this bid will still be on the hook to pay for the loans owed to the Nigerian Banking Consortium of lenders.
- Samsung revealed last week that it was not going to setup a manufacturing plant in Nigeria because its market share in the country is not big enough. This is despite being the company with the largest electronics products in Nigeria. The biggest smartphone maker in the world has a manufacturing plant in Vietnam, China, South Africa and Korea but none in Nigeria. It claims that of the 400 different components found in a mobile phone, none is available in Nigeria. Perhaps Samsung did not want to mention issues such as power, ease of doing business and government policy as major concerns.
- Nigerian drug maker, Swiss Pharma Nigeria Limited (Swipha) announced last weekend that it was shutting down its operations “to safeguard its property and prevent any form of hostility following the industrial action embarked on by its workers.” The Swiss company was acquired by Biogaran, a subsidiary of Servier, a French Pharmaceutical Group saving the company from an imminent collapse. However, they soon ran into labour troubles after a Lebanese and former executive of Jagal Ltd, Gaby El Khoury was appointed MD. According to Gaby, “Management decided to restructure the organisation to ensure efficiency by removing superfluous staff and eventually align the firm with global best practices. “However, some of these policies appear to be unacceptable to some members of staff who preferred to slow down, then to hinder operation and embarked on strike since mid-December 2017 while all efforts to make them have a rethink about a promising future proved abortive.” Union members on the other hand claimed that he imposed harsh working conditions that contravened labour laws. For example, they claimed that “he imposed a new condition of service that states that any staff who leaves the company either through termination or resignation must not work in another pharmaceutical company for a period of one year.” They also claimed that he slashed salaries and leave days and also brought in about over 50 Jagal staff without following due process to head the HR department, Finance, Purchasing, Clearing and Forwarding, and Project Departments. Takeovers are always brutal, and it is high time Nigerian employees start to realise this. It’s unfortunate but that’s just how capitalism functions.
- Nigeria’s football legend, Kany Nwankwo was in the news last week crying for help. He claimed that his hotel, Hardley Suites, which is located in Victoria Island was being earmarked for sale “under a secret arrangement”. The property was put under the temporary possession of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) by an ex-parte order on account of a purported indebtedness. According to reports, sometime between 2008 and 2011, Skye Bank lent the hotel about N520 million with three blocks of the hotel as collateral as well as the personal guarantee of Kanu Nwankwo and his partner Ayoola Gam-Ikon. However, the loan was unpaid ballooning to a total principal including unpaid interest of about N924m as at 2015. AMCON took over the loan from Skye Bank and is now poised to sell the hotel to recover its money. The hotel began operations in 2005 with about 55 rooms and was said to be valued at N3 billion as it made about N40 million monthly. However, bad management and a downturn in the hospitality industry ravaged the viability of the hotel leading to loss of customers and revenue. A few years ago, kanu accused his partner Ayoola of Stealing, misappropriation and outright fraud against The Hardley Apartments Ltd (which they both jointly owned). Ayoola however got judgement dismissing the claims. One wonders what it is about hotels that Nigerians can’t seem to manage on their own. I haven’t seen a Nigerian owned hotel, managed by a Nigerian that has lasted over 5 years retaining the standard or higher. Pls share if you know one and don’t mention Eko Hotel.
- A South African Company is yet again in the eye of the storm in corporate Nigeria. This time it is Shoprite, the Leading retail store chain in Nigeria. Now, this is an interesting short story. Nigerian firm, AIC Limited was awarded $10 million as damages against Shoprite Checkers (PTY), Limited and its Nigerian subsidiary, Retail Supermarkets Nigeria Limited for a breach of contract. The award was contained in a judgment delivered by Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of a Lagos High Court, Igbosere. AIC is owned by Chief Harry Akande. According to the excerpts of the case, AIC claimed that sometime in 1997, it conceived of the business idea of developing and establishing mega stores/ retail supermarkets in Nigeria similar to Shoprite Chain Store Supermarket in South Africa and Sainsbury Supermarket of the United Kingdom. According to AIC, this culminated into several meetings in Nigeria and in South Africa spanning 1997 and 1999 between both parties. AIC claimed they eventually signed a JV with Shoprite to exclusively operate and manage the first defendant’s Shoprite brand in Nigeria and elsewhere in the coast of West Africa except Ghana. Well, as we all know, Shoprite set up shop in Nigeria in 2005 under a different arrangement and with different partners and is now one of the largest supermarket chains. This is one case I will be following closely as it could impact heavily on future potential JVs and Technical Partnerships with foreign owned brands. South African firms have learnt a lot of lessons investing in Nigeria and I hope we are also learning too.
- Spar, a rival supermarket chain to Shoprite, announced last week that its customers can now have free Internet services in its stores nationwide. The project will begin in its Ilupeju branch and will be implemented across stores nationwide in the coming weeks. Apparently, the free Wifi service is being rolled out using KonneXion Wifi engine in partnership with Internet Solutions Nigeria Limited (ISN) and Melvic Gold Communications (MGC) who have ensured that service will be available to any shoppers using a smartphone, tablet or a laptop that has built-in Wi-Fi. In case you want to use this, it comes free for just 30 minutes and will require that you drop your email address and other personal information. Don’t be surprised if you are sent “unsolicited messages” from the supermarket
- Africa focused investment bank, Atlas Mara has upped its stake in tier two lender Union Bank to 48%. Prior to the rights issue, Atlas had a 42% stake. Union Bank recently concluded a N50 billion rights issue, which is 20% over subscribed. At 48% there is rising expectations that Atlas Mara may soon launch a takeover bid for the bank. Proceeds will be used to bolster its capital base and provide loans for emerging areas in the Nigerian economy. The bank’s share price is up 3.2% Year to date and is one of the weaker performers in the banking sector this year. A takeover bid may lead to a rally of its share price.
- First Bank announced last week that it has upgraded its internet banking website Firstonline. The website now has a new feel and allows its users to have tools such as self-verification for intercepted transactions, statement download in different file formats, multiple transactions with a single token entry, bills payment, creation and cancellation of standing orders or recurring transfers. First Bank just recently hit 10 million card users, only the second bank in Africa to hit that milestone.
- Ecobank Nigeria announced an increase in the maximum daily limit of its naira debit cards abroad “depending on the type of card held by its customers”. According to what we heard, customers with naira debit cards can now pay “up to $4,000 and $5,000 per day on online channels and point of sale (PoS) terminals respectively across the world.” I had to read that twice too. The report also added that foreign currency debit card holders can spend up to $5,000 daily from their domiciliary accounts. For Ecobank Premier Customers with Platinum Credit Cards, daily transaction limits of $15,000.00 apply. The only caveat we saw was that the limits were also subject to the Central Bank’s annual spending limits on naira and foreign currency denominated cards.
- In good news to the new fathers out there, especially those who work in Access Bank, they can now have one week full of paternity leave. The bank announced this last week, indicating that fathers one-week leave will be a paid leave allowing fathers to spend time with their wives and new born child. However, the aspect of the news that surprised us was the part that mentioned surrogacy. According to the bank’s new policy, surrogacy or adoptive leave will attract full pay for three calendar months for female employees of the bank. “Furthermore, a pregnant employee who has been in the bank’s employment for 12 consecutive months also has the option of six calendar months’ maternity leave with two-thirds of full month pay, while the surrogacy or adoptive leave period is three calendar months with full pay or six calendar months leave with two-thirds of full month pay.” I understand unlike in some countries, Surrogacy is not illegal in Nigeria neither is it legacy as there are no laws or regulations around how it works.
- FCMB confirmed last week, that it was funded the new Radisson Blu hotel located in GRA Ikeja. The hotel, which was previous called Renaissance hotel is owned by the Avalon Intercontinental Hotel Group, who also own Protea Hotel Ikeja, Protea Hotel Victoria Island and Avalon Hotel, Offa, Kwara state. It is interesting to note that Executive Director, Avalon Intercontinental Nigeria Limited, Kazeem Tajudeen; Director Legal, Avalon Intercontinental Nigeria Limited, Olaitan Tajudeen; and Director of Projects Avalon Intercontinental Nigeria Limited, Ahmed Tajudeen are all members of the same family and are actively involved in the operations of the hotel.
- The Edo State Government announced last week that it has commenced discussion with the Nigerian Bottling Company about a power purchase agreement from the company’s Benin plant. According to its Governor, Godwin Obaseki, the deal will see NBC power government buildings and streets across Benin metropolis. NBC reportedly has about 6MW of installed power generating capacity and has an excess of about 2MW that it can sell to Edo State Government. Lagos State Government has a similar arrangement and has been off grid for years now, relying on the State’s IPP to power its offices and public utilities. ICYDK, major roads like the Third Mainland Bridge has steady power from street lights on the back of the states IPP.
- Sticking with Edo State, they also reached a deal with Sahara Energy to power public utilities in the state with flared gas. They plan to use the electricity generated from this deal to power street lights, schools and hospitals. The deal with require Sahara Energy to convert some of the gas being flared daily in the state into electricity. Sahara Group are also the owners of Nigeria’s largest power plant, Egnin Power Plant.
- Russian Oil firm, Lukoil has indicated interest in acquiring Petrobras stake in Nigeria’s oil fields in Akpo and Agbami. Petrobras owns 16% stake in the Akpo field and a 13% stake in the Agbami field. Akpo and Agbami are already producing fields. Petrobras announced last year that it was looking to sell its holdings in Petrobras Africa which has stakes in the two major Joint Ventures (JV) Akpo and Agbami. Two other shareholders of the African unit, Helios Investments and Grupo BTG Pactual E and P (a subsidiary of investment bank Grupo BTG Pactual SA) are also selling their stake. Petrobras is selling the stake as part of a wider asset divestment programme to reduce its debts.
- Last week, reports emerged that Phase3 Telecom company and Alheri Engineering limited were indebted to the federal government to the tune of N27.18 billion over a concession agreement with Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). Alhaji Aliko Dagote has interest in Alheru Engineering Limited. Phase 3 and Alheri have expectedly denied the claims contained in a letter purportedly sent to the Presidency by the office of the Minister of Power. Another report by Premium Times, also claimed that there was evidence of conflict of interest in the deal between Alheri and Phase 3 telecom. According to the online paper, “the concession agreements were entered into under circumstances of conflict of interest because Phase 3 is owned and managed by one Stanley Jegede, son-in-law to Mr. Adebayo, one time Nigerian minister of communications. Mr. Adebayo was in office as communications minister when the company obtained the long distance license.” It also reported that “Joseph Makoju who signed the agreement on behalf of NEPA (TCN) as its then Managing Director is now an executive officer in Dangote Group, owners of Alheri Engineering Company. He has equally signed letters on behalf of Alheri on the concession agreement. ” “Again, the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, ICRC, mediated between the TCN and the two concessionaires when issues of non-payment of fees arose. “ The former Director General of the commission, one Aminu Diko, was for several years an employee of Dangote group before he was appointed DG of the ICRC.” Do you see a conflict of interest in here or is this all just coincidence?
- The GMD of NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru revealed last week that it was in talks to engage the services of the guys who built the Kaduna, Warri and PH Refinery to help turnaround the refineries. He also inaugurated eight committees (yes, 8) charged with the express directive to return the refineries to their nameplate capacities by 2019. Here is Baru explaining the plan. “For a start, the corporation has gone back to the original refineries’ builders, which are the JGC Corporation of Japan for Port Harcourt Refinery, Italy-based Snamprogetti (owned by Saipem), for Warri Refinery and Japan-based Chyoda, for Kaduna Refinery.” Baru. Just in case, JGC and Chyoda posted an annual revenue of $7b and $6b in 2016. Please when will the government sell-off NNPC. That corporation is a disgrace.
- European oil trading company Vitol, has reportedly reached a $530 million deal with Nigeria’s Shoreline to finance an oilfield in exchange for access to some of the 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil it produces. Shoreline is owned by Nigeria’s Kola kareem. Reports indicate that the agreement with Shoreline will provide the company with cash to refinance existing debt and further develop OML 30 in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta region. The field currently produces 50,000 bpd and has an estimated 1 billion barrels of oil reserves. Shoreline has a 45 percent interest in the field. Kola Kareem had in 2016 revealed that his company will now be raising funds via bonds, until oil price was above $60 and the unrest in the Nigeria Delta recedes.
- Dangote Industries Ltd announced that it had signed a deal with Mammoet, a Netherlands-based engineered heavy lifting and transport specialist. The Dutch company will be transporting, lifting, and installing all over-dimensional components for Dangote’s 650,000 bpd multi-billion-dollar refinery being built by the Dangote Group of Companies. It will be interesting to see the list of consultants, professionals, contractors both foreign and local working on this huge project. Anyone thinks Dangote Group’s website needs a makeover? That website is not befitting. You developers should send them a proposal.
Unilever announces the completion of its Group legal structure
Unilever PLC has announced the completion of the unification of its Group legal structure
Unilever, the parent company of Unilever Nigeria Plc, has announced the completion of the unification of its Group legal structure under a single parent company, Unilever Plc.
According to the press release issued by the company, from today, 30th November 2020 and for the first time in its history, Unilever now trades with one market capitalisation, one class of shares, and one global pool of liquidity, whilst also maintaining the Group’s listings on the Amsterdam, London, and New York stock exchanges.
What they are saying
Nils Andersen, Chairman of Unilever, said: “This is an important day for Unilever and we would like to thank our shareholders for their strong support of our Unification proposals, which gives us greater flexibility for strategic portfolio change, remove complexity, and further improve governance.
“There will be no change to the operations, locations, activities or staffing levels in either the Netherlands or the United Kingdom as a result of Unification. The headquarters of Unilever’s Foods & Refreshment Division will continue to be based in Rotterdam and the Home Care and Beauty & Personal Care Divisions will continue to be headquartered in the United Kingdom.”
What to expect
This development has no impact on the going concern of Unilever Nigeria Plc, the shareholding structure, as well as the free float shares of the company on NSE, which totals 1,491,985,247 — representing 25.97% of the ordinary shares of the company issued and fully paid for by investors.
However, upon the completion of the unification of the Group’s Legal Structure, Unilever overseas under this structure remains in control of the 74.03% ordinary shares of the Nigerian subsidiary.
What you should know
- For investors on the London Stock Exchange, Euronext Amsterdam, and the New York Stock Exchange, dealings in new Unilever Plc shares commenced today, as the new Unilever Plc shares will be admitted to the Premium Listing segment of the Official List of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) and to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market for listed securities, with the ticker “ULVR”.
- Unilever Plc shares will also be admitted to listing and to trading on Euronext in Amsterdam under the ticker “UNA” today. It is expected that Unilever Plc ADSs will be admitted to trading on the New York Stock Exchange this afternoon.
- Following the issue and allotment of 1,460,713,122 new Unilever Plc shares pursuant to Unification, which represent 55.56% of the total number of Plc shares, Unilever Plc’s total issued ordinary share capital today consists of 2,629,243,772 ordinary shares of 3 1/9 pence each.
- As part of Unification, Unilever NV ceased to exist yesterday, 29 November 2020, which means there has been no dealings and there will be no further dealings in any Unilever NV securities (including Unilever NV shares on Euronext in Amsterdam).
Flour Mills GMD purchased additional shares worth N209.29 million in 3 days
Paul Miyonmide Gbedebo acquired 7,486,719 additional shares of Flour Mills, worth ₦209.3 million in 3 days.
The Group Managing Director of Flour Mills Nigeria Plc (FMN), Paul Miyonmide Gbededo, purchased a total of 7,486,719 additional shares of the company, worth ₦209.29 million.
According to the notifications issued between 17th and 19th of November by the company’s Secretary, Mr Joseph Umolu, the GMD purchased the ordinary shares of Flour Mills Nigeria in this order:
- On 17th November, 1,949,839 additional shares worth N54.59 million, at a price of N28.00 per share.
- On 18th November, 4,200,852 additional shares worth N117.62 million, at a price of N28.00 per share.
- On 19th November, 1,336,028 additional shares worth N37.07 million, at a price of N27.75 per share.
This brings the total number of shares of Flour Mills Nigeria Plc purchased by the GMD to 7,486,719. The total consideration for these shares is put at N209.29 million.
What you should know
In line with the information contained in the financial statements of the company, as of 30th September 2020, Mr. Gbedebo had a direct shareholding of 2,720,109 shares.
Hence, with the 7,486,719 additional units acquired, his total shareholding now stands at 10,206,828 shares, which is worth N285.79 million at the current share price of N28.00.
What this means
The purchase of the shares of Flour Mills Nigeria Plc further cements Mr. Paul Gbedebo’s position as one of its majority shareholders.
ValuAlliance distributes value fund of N10 per unit for H1, 2020
ValuAlliance Value Fund has declared the distribution to unit holders, the sum of N10.00/unit for the financial year ended June 30, 2020.
ValuAlliance Value Fund (“Value Fund” or the “Fund”), formerly called the SIM Capital Alliance Value Fund, has declared the distribution to unit holders, the sum of N10.00/unit for the financial year ended June 30, 2020.
This is according to a notification by the firm, sent to the Nigerian Stock Exchange market and seen by Nairametrics.
The latest distribution indicates a decline of N1/unit when compared to its distribution in the corresponding period last year.
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The key highlights of the recent notification include:
- Annual General Meeting Date: 21st December 2020
- AGM Venue: 33A Alfred Rewane (Kingsway) Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
- Proposed Distribution: ₦10/unit
- Qualification Date: 9th December 2020
- Closure of Register Date: 10th December 2020
- Payment Date: 23rd December 2020
What you should know
- The Value Fund is a closed-end Fund registered and regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), whose units are listed on the main board of the NSE.
- The Value Fund for the year ended June 30, 2020 achieved a growth of 2.83% Year-on-Year, with a cumulative return of 125.32% since inception, which translates to a 9-year Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 12.06%.
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Rural market offers good opportunities for retail
Vietnam’s retail market will continue to grow strongly this year, with lots of opportunities to develop modern retail systems in rural areas, according to Phan Lan Chi, deputy director of supermarket chain Lan Chi Mart.
The Nielsen market research company reported the demand for consumer products has continued to increase sharply in Vietnamese rural areas with purchasing power of more than USD 20 billion per year.
Many businesses have shifted investment to building supermarket chains and convenience stores in rural residential areas.
Vingroup, for example, has opened more than 1,500 Vinmart+ convenience stores across 30 cities and provinces since March 2017.
In the northern region, Lan Chi Mart has expanded its distribution system in rural areas with 25 supermarkets in suburban areas of Hanoi and some provinces.
After 11 years of investing in supermarkets and Hapromart convenience stores, the retail network of Hanoi Trade Corporation (Hapro) has reached Thai Binh, Quang Ninh and Thanh Hoa provinces, in addition to Hanoi.
Residents in Hanoi’s suburban areas such as Thuong Tin, Dan Phuong, Hoai Duc, Phuc Tho, Thanh Oai and Chuong My districts have said the presence of Lan Chi Mart, Vinmart and Hapromart has enabled them to buy various kinds of high quality products.
Director of the Northern Region Nielsen Vietnam Dang Thuy Ha said apart from ensuring the quality of products, an important factor to attract rural customers is reasonable prices.
To develop the market in suburban areas, the Hanoi Department of Industry and trade has mobilised enterprises to organise about 200 mobile sales trips to remote districts, communes and industrial parks.


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Business fair encourages graduates to “start out in start-ups”
A new business fair for students and graduates is seeking to showcase the opportunities of working for a start-up.
The Startup Career Launchpad, hosted by the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE), will take place at Google’s new Silicon Roundabout start-up incubator on May 4.
Designed to target the contemporary youth unemployment crisis, the seven-hour event will comprise a range of workshops, talks and panel discussions by start-up founders and their newest recruits.
There will also be ‘start-up simulators’ – workshops mimicking the demands of working for a disruptive new business – where graduates can put their own talents to the test.
Explaining the inspiration for the event, Hushpreet Dhaliwal, CEO at NACUE, said:
“We cannot ignore the fact that start-ups and small businesses now employ more than 90% of all people in the UK.
“We want to show students and grads that there are some great alternative career paths out there, and that working for a small business can afford a wealth of opportunity that is often overlooked or considered too risky.
“This one-day event will expose and debunk many of the myths and ideas young people have about the start-up world, and it could not come at a better time. Let’s get more young people starting out in start-ups!”


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A developer who had been told his game could not be classified as such on the iOS App Store has said the decision has been reversed.
Just happening: Apple reconsider its decision, they will publish Liyla as a Game,” creator Rasheed Abueideh said. Thanks to all of you.”
The Liyla and The Shadows of War creator Rasheed Abueideh last week revealed on Twitter that Apple had told him they felt his title could not be classified as a game due to its political meanings.
Please revise the app category for your append remove it from Games, since we found that your app is not appropriate in the Games category,” Apple said. It would be more appropriate to categorize your app in News or Reference for example. In addition, please revise the marketing text for your app to remove references to your app being a game.”
The ruling riled parts of the community, who rightly argued that games have just as much right to be political as other content such as films or books. The issue was further muddied by the fact that a game from the other side of the political divide, Israeli Heroes, remained available on the App Store.
Just happening: Apple reconsider its decision, they will publish Liyla as a Game.
Thanks to all of you.
— Rasheed Abueideh (@RasheedAbueideh) May 22, 2016


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Per the April report from Triangle MLS:
"As the rising costs of homeownership force many Americans to adjust their budgets, an increasing number of buyers are hoping to help offset the costs by moving from bigger, more expensive cities to smaller areas that offer a more affordable cost of living.
Inventory remains low, with only 2 months supply at present, and home prices continue to rise, with the median existing home at $373,500, a 15% increase from this time last year. Homes are still selling quickly, however, and multiple offers are common in many markets."
In Chatham County, there was a 22.7% decrease in new listings in April. The number of closed sales decreased between 2021 and 2022, dropping from 475 to 381. Median sales prices also increased by 29.0 percent. In April, Chatham County median sales price was slightly higher than the median sales price for all MLS listings.
In Durham County, closed sales have decreased 6.8 percent year to date. Median sales price has increased 30.3 percent when compared to April last year, moving from $308,500 to $402,000. Average sales price increased by 23.2% year to date. In April, the Durham County median sales price was higher compared to the median sales price of all MLS listings.
The number of listings in Orange County has decreased by 21.0 percent, from 781 new listings year to date last year to 617 new listings this year. There was a 1.6 percent decrease in closed sales. Additionally, median sales price increased by 16.2 percent, from $372,000 to $432,140. In April, Orange County median sales price were below the median sales price for all MLS listings.
The number of listings in Person County has increased by 2.4 percent, from 167 new listings year to date last year to 171 new listings this year. There was a 2.7 percent decrease in closed sales. Additionally, median sales price increased by 10.7 percent, from $215,000 to $238,000. In April, Person County median sales price was below the median sales price for all MLS listings.
In Wake County, there was a decrease of 13.5 percent in the number of new listings year to date compared to last year. The number of closed sales decreased 11.4 percent. Median sales prices increased by 24.3 percent year to date, rising to $450,000. Compared to the median sales price for all MLS listings, Wake County median sales price were on par for April.
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Warning knocks stuffing out of Pace
SHARES in Pace Micro crashed 21p to 79p on a shock warning just as the stock market closed. They are likely to fall further today. The maker of set-top boxes for pay-TV predicts a second-half loss and must cut costs to cope. It employs 950.
The crisis at pay-TV companies ITV Digital and NTL is turning away customers. Pace sells few decoders for ITV Digital, whose highly public disaster has hammered the launch of its own, unrelated product. It is selling a £100 off-the-shelf decoder that gives access to free digital channels such as BBC News 24.
Pace has halved to 50,000 the number it aims to sell by the May year-end. It may also write off up to £40m in goodwill from acquisitions. Chief executive Malcolm Miller said: 'We tried to get the news out earlier, but getting the exact wording correct is always difficult.'
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Fast fashion still has a long way to go when it comes to sustainability. In fact, the nature of fast fashion – the intense turnaround times for new ranges and products – almost makes it impossible for fast fashion to ever truly be sustainable.
According to the United Nations (UN), the textile industry is the second-most polluting industry coming in right behind big oil. The precise negative environmental impact of the fashion industry remains unknown, but it is sizeable. The industry’s boundaries spread globally and its multitiered supply chain remains complex and opaque.
The fashion industry not only produces 10% of global carbon emissions but also contributes 20% of wastewater production.
Speaking of the textile industry, it is alone producing more carbon emissions in comparison to the aviation and shipping industry combined. If the industry maintains its course, an increase of 50% in greenhouse gas emissions is expected within a decade. Fast Fashion might offer consumers the most affordable cost but to the environment, it is going off the charts.
The numbers are astronomical: You will be surprised to know to make one pair of jeans, it takes close to 8,000 litres of water—the amount a person drinks over seven years. Even a simple cotton shirt requires close to 3,000 litres of water. Within 10 uses, these jeans and shirts will be discarded for newer, trendier items, contributing to the 21 billion tons of textiles sent to landfills per year, according to the UN Economic Commission for Europe.
Today’s “fast fashion” is largely to blame for the unsustainable state of the industry. Fast fashion is inexpensive yet stylish, cheaply produced and soon discarded, replaced by newer styles. It is not only putting our natural resources at risk but also impacting many human rights areas where their industries are exploiting cheap labour and violating environmental laws on a daily basis.
According to Media reports, back in 2012, Many leading brands were able to design, produce and deliver a new garment in a few weeks. Today, a new generation of ‘ultra-fast fashion brands can add as many as 7,000 new styles to their website in a week. With less inventory and no brick-and-mortar stores, these brands emerged relatively unscathed from the pandemic, leveraging data-driven insights into consumer behaviour faster and more effectively than their predecessors.
By analysing the root causes of the problem, the next steps are easier to understand as we can connect the dots and create solutions. Fashion Industries need a model that doesn’t compromise on ethical, social and environmental values and involves customers, rather than encouraging them to binge buy ever-changing trends.
How Can Fashion Be More Sustainable?
Many designers, brands, and scientists including students in Columbia University’s Environmental Science and Policy program are exploring ways to make fashion more sustainable and circular.
80 to 90 per cent of the sustainability of a clothing item is determined by decisions made during its design stage, new strategies can do away with waste from the get-go. To eliminate the 15 per cent of a fabric that usually ends up on the cutting room floor in the making of a garment, zero waste pattern cutting is used to arrange pattern pieces on fabric like a Tetris puzzle. 3D virtual sampling can eliminate the need for physical samples of material. A finished garment can sometimes require up to 20 samples. A digital fashion house The Fabricant replaces actual garments with digital samples in the design and development stage and claims this can reduce a brand’s carbon footprint by 30 per cent. Some clothing can be designed to be taken apart at the end of its life; designing for disassembly makes it easier for the parts to be recycled or upcycled into another garment.
Some apparel companies had bucked up with new trends by joining initiatives to cut back on textile pollution and grow cotton more sustainably. The idea of sustainability cannot completely rely on industries but can be influenced by the choices of consumers.
Another way to reduce waste is to eliminate inventory. On-demand product fulfilment companies like Printful enable designers to sync their custom designs to the company’s clothing products.
A lot of brands are using textiles made from natural materials such as hemp, ramie or bamboo instead of cotton. Bamboo has been touted as a sustainable fabric because it is fast-growing and doesn’t require much water or pesticides; however, some old-growth forests are being cut down to make way for bamboo plantations. Moreover, to make most bamboo fabrics soft, they are subjected to chemical processing whose toxins can harm the environment and human health.
In 2016, Theanne Schiros, a principal investigator at Columbia University’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and assistant professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), mentored a group of FIT students who created a bio-design award-winning material from algae. Kelp, its main ingredient, is fast-growing, absorbs Carbon dioxide and nitrogen from agricultural runoff, and helps increase biodiversity.
The Need For Transparency
In order to ensure fashion’s sustainability and achieve a circular fashion industry, it must be possible to track all the elements of a product from the materials used, chemicals added, production practices, and product use, to the end of life, as well as the social and environmental conditions under which it was made. Blockchain technology can do this by recording each phase of a garment’s life in a decentralized tamper-proof common ledger.
Transparency is also important because it enables consumers to identify greenwashing when they encounter it. Greenwashing is when companies intentionally deceive consumers or oversell their efforts to be sustainable.


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Time changes everything…
No such thing as free time any more…
The gang’s all here… and this looks dark as heck!
Nevermind Batman, now you have Fatman!
But isn’t it always the other way around?
Its, em, it’s a way to waste a bit of time we suppose…
The Galaxy just got much bigger… by getting much smaller!
Heroes, heroes, everywhere…
Line of Sight is a variant of Rush
No word on a release date yet though
It has to be better than the last movie, right? Right?
Bayformers Vs G1?! At last, we’ll know for sure who is best!
EA chief Blake Jorgensen also told an investor’s conference that the next Battlefront game will be “much bigger”
Well, this could be something special…
This will be the first major update since the game’s release last month
The news comes just a month out from the Rogue One: Scraif DLC release
Despite the release of the Playstation VR, Sony are still struggling against Microsoft
We knew it was next year but this news is a little more precise
Because sometimes the real thing is just too much hassle…
Those of you who haven’t purchased it will be able to either defend of destroy the Empire’s ultimate weapon between November 28-30


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With the S&P 500 pressing on to all-time highs, is the stock market too good to be true? Are we — shudder — approaching a bubble?
One way to gauge the risk is to look at the number of S&P 500 industries with nosebleed price-earnings ratios when the market bubble burst in March 2000. A P-E ratio of 30 or higher is often looked at as unsustainably high for most companies.
"Many investors think the market is overly expensive because they hear about it hitting a new high," said Jeff Kleintop, chief market strategist for LPL Financial, the nation's fourth largest broker-dealer and largest independent broker-dealer. "And there are some (recent) highflying names like Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and Tesla Motors (TSLA). Biotech was hot too. But there just aren't that many bubbly industries."
As the bubble was bursting 14 years ago, 16 of the S&P 500's 62 industries had P-E ratios topping 30. That accounted for 70% of S&P 500 companies' total market value.
Of course, the market doesn't need to be in a bubble the size of 2000's to portend a big sell-off, but the absence of a bubble reduces the risk of a market blowoff.
Just four industries had P-Es over 30 as of March 28, 2014. They accounted for less than 4% of the benchmark's market value.
The four hot-and-sweaty segments this time are health care technology, REITs, Internet and catalog retail, and construction materials.
Below the 30 P-E bubble threshold, industrials are a segment whose prospects Kleintop likes.
"Those are companies that create capital goods used by other businesses," he said. "I like the segment because business spending is rising." Many names in that space — and other nonfrothy industries — are badly beaten down due to anemic spending last year.
General Electric (GE) is one likely beneficiary, Kleintop says. "Transportation and railroad equipment has been in high demand," he said.
Illinois Tool Works (ITW) should benefit from the manufacturing renaissance, he says. They make goods used to expand or revamp factories.
Tech hardware is a second segment that should gain from increased capital goods spending. Business hiring in general is climbing. That should boost hardware and services revenues for IBM (IBM), Kleintop says.
Regional banks are a third segment Kleintop likes. PNC (PNC) and Wells Fargo (WFC) stand to gain from more borrowing as the economy warms. Also, rising rates make lending more profitable. PNC has IBD's Composite Rating of 91.
In the consumer discretionary segment, some brick-and-mortar retailers are positioned to benefit from rising consumer spending because their valuations are low and their fundamentals are promising.


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“With cloud computing, many fear losing control. True, supply chains may be complex … However, users can retain control in cloud computing—depending,” writes cloud computing expert Kuan Hon in this Privacy Tracker post. Using examples of the evolution of the EU Data Protection Directive and cases from the EU Court of Justice and the Danish Data Protection Agency, Hon outlines reasons the data export restriction and the “transfer to a third country” provisions are antiquated in today’s technological environment. “Nowadays, physically confining data to the EEA does not equate to or guarantee data protection. Yet vast amounts of time and resources are poured into compliance with the restriction, which could be better spent on improving information security,” Hon writes.
Privacy laws are being considered in nations across the globe, and this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup has updates on many of them. Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies has passed the Internet bill of rights—without its controversial local data storage provision; India has exempted government intelligence agencies from its draft law; Australia’s Senate is looking at a mandatory breach notification bill, and in Ireland, a bill intending to give adopted children identity rights is raising questions over parental privacy rights. In the U.S., Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has proposed an updated version of his location privacy bill, and states continue to discuss issues surrounding student privacy and breach notification, among others.
While U.S. federal lawmakers struggle to find the right balance on data breach notification, state legislators are offering up bills to protect consumers from tracking through cellphones, smart meters and license plates, and one company is pushing back against Utah’s license-plate privacy law, saying it infringes on First Amendment rights. This Privacy Tracker weekly roundup covers all this and more, including the FTC, G29 and APEC announcement of a cross-border data transfer tool at the IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit last week and the Mexican DPA’s warning of an “abundance” of fines to come.
While industry leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, called for new rules surrounding data protection, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear two cases involving warrantless searches by law enforcement of suspects’ cellphones. And, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced settlements with 12 companies over false claims of alignment with Safe Harbor rules. In this Privacy Tracker roundup, learn about these as well as bills being considered by U.S. state legislatures, how Obama’s NSA plans may affect EU law and more.
In the U.S., FTC v. Wyndham will decide whether the company’s “failure to safeguard personal information caused substantial consumer injury” and whether the FTC even has the authority to regulate data security; the GAO is pushing for comprehensive federal law governing the collection, use and sale of personal data by businesses, and Sen. Franken is calling for regulation over biometric data before the horse leaves the barn. In the EU, the debate over Safe Harbor continues, with Albrecht and Reding saying EU residents need to be able take data privacy complaints to U.S. courts. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has released the final set of Australian Privacy Principles that cover access to and correction of personal information, and in Canada learn about Alberta’s need to create a new Privacy Act and why Bill C-30 is back in the news. All this and more, in this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup.
In the U.S., guidelines and court rulings have offered insight on everything from drone use to workplace audio recordings, while, internationally, questions still loom about the future of Safe Harbor and national leaders have presented an Internet privacy resolution to the UN. Kazakhstan’s privacy law is scheduled to come into effect this month, and Indonesia is looking into consolidating its sectoral coverage into an overarching law. Also in this week’s roundup is analysis of India’s privacy bill, California’s spate of privacy laws and insight from the FTC and the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office on how to avoid the wrath of regulators.
While much of the news was focused on the EU Data Protection Regulation this week, a few other things of note happened in the legal realm as well. For example, the EU Parliament adopted a resolution to suspend SWIFT based on allegations that the U.S. NSA had access to EU citizen’s bank data; the FTC reached a settlement with Aaron’s, Inc., over the company’s consumer spying regime, and in Ecuador there are concerns that a new penal code could violate citizens’ online privacy. These are just a few of the stories—in addition to information on the LIBE vote and the future of Safe Harbor and the EU regulation—in this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup.
Since the revelation of the NSA’s mass e-surveillance program in June, and in conjunction with the progress of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Brussels, European institutions have been actively reconsidering the terms on which personal data is permitted to cross European borders. One proposal, which has raised a ripple effect of concern through the industry, includes...
This week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup highlights changing privacy laws from the U.S. to Bahrain. Revisions to the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act went into effect last week; the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs will vote today on amendments to the proposed regulation and directive—including one that would see U.S. companies seeking permission from EU officials before complying with government access requests to EU data, and the Bahrain cabinet has preliminarily approved a data protection law. Meanwhile, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office is considering jail time for breaches at the same time as justifying its fining practices.
Last week saw a new law in South Africa, new guidelines from the Australian privacy commissioner, a new breach notification requirement in effect in the EU and U.S. states tackling big issues like e-mail and location privacy in the absence of forward motion on a federal level. Also, a series of cases in Minnesota questions the liability of government agencies when an employee violates the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act.


text: Brinker International ( EAT) owns or franchises more than 1,500 casual dining restaurants spread across the globe under the Chili's, Maggiano's Little Italy banners. The vast majority of Brinker's locations are Chili's restaurants, but upscale Maggiano's is the more lucrative of the two -- the average check is approximately twice as high as you'd see at Chili's. As casual dining gains some demand in 2012, that should provide an opportunity to build out the brand more. Brinker dramatically changed its operations in the last few years, selling off most of its restaurant brands in the wake of the recession. While reducing exposure to chains most threatened by the recession was wise, the timing was less than perfect and left Brinker with its flagship Chili's restaurants on the lower end of the price scale and a bigger-ticket chain in Maggiano's that lacks the geographic footprint at this point to make a more material impact on sales. With competition still fierce in the casual dining space, Brinker may see its margins get even more squeezed as a result. International expansion looks like one of the biggest growth avenues for Brinker and the Chili's brand. The firm already has an admirable international footprint right now -- but there's still plenty of room for the firm to boost its operations in places where a burgeoning middle class population is looking for American-style restaurant options. We're betting on shares of EAT this week. To see all of this week's Rocket Stocks in action, check out the Rocket Stocks portfolio at Stockpickr. -- Written by Jonas Elmerraji in Baltimore.


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The Kardashian/Jenner family have found themselves at the center of cultural appropriation controversies more than a few times, and the latest instance involves Kendall Jenner's hairstyling for a recent photo shoot.
The photos in question are part of a series that ran in the Vogue November issue and online to honor the 15th anniversary of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. Two pictures from the series were recently posted to the brand's Instagram and feature Kendall Jenner wearing an afro. Many unhappy followers have voiced their concern in the comments.
"Why did you use a white celebrity for this shoot instead of a person of color who rocks this hair naturally," one Instagram user wrote.
"African Americans were forced to straighten their f$$ing hair in America in order to get jobs," one follower wrote in the comments. "If you wore your hair natural it had to be cut short. Hell, the military only allowed dreads two years ago. So GTFOH with 'Blacks straighten their hair'. If we weren’t forced to, I can only hope we wouldn’t! It’s appropriation! Period!"
"Now that Black Women are getting praised for their natural locks and seen a beautiful, white women are trying to high jack as usual," wrote another.
In addition to being rightfully upset, followers are also confused as hell as to why the stylists decided to switch the hair textures of Kendall and the other model from the shoot. Imaan Hammam, a Dutch model of Moroccan and Egyptian descent, has a naturally curly texture but is shown in the photos with her hair straightened.
"The creative director can do as they please, but why not just leave Imaan hair out natural instead of straightening it?, so then there's no need to give Kendall the Afro?" one commenter wrote.
"But why didn't you just use an ethnic model with that hair naturally," wrote another.
"vogue: okay we want to do a shoot with a model who has an afro and freckles
vogue staff: let’s book kendall again she’s the perfect fit if we just tease her hair and draw on some freckles
the rest of vogue: wow!!!! your mind!!!! let’s do it!!!!!" wrote another.
According to Fashionista, Vogue has since made a statement about the photo series, which reads as follows:
"The image is meant to be an update of the romantic Edwardian/Gibson Girl hair which suits the period feel of the Brock Collection, and also the big hair of the 60s and the early 70s, that puffed-out, teased-out look of those eras. We apologize if it came across differently than intended, and did not mean to offend anyone by it."
Kendall Jenner has not yet responded to the controversy.


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Friday, 22 November 2013
Kings of Leon's star Jared Followill nearly got arrested this week after security staff at Dubai Airport caught him carrying an e-cig. The bassist tweeted:
"Just had the life scared out of me at security in Dubai. Apparently it's not just my bros (brothers) who think e-cigs (sic) are uncool. Almost locked up abroad."
Poor old Jared. This brings an important message to us mere mortals - CHECK TO SEE IF THE COUNTRY YOU ARE FLYING TO ALLOW ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES. These laws can change frequently along with regulations, so we can't really give you a comprehensive list, because it might be different by the time you go on holiday.
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
But we'd like to doubly congratulate one impressive man who has just completed the 26.2 miles of the New York Marathon whilst puffing on an electronic cigarette as he ran.
Jim Oliver was spotted using his e-cig throughout the race and discussing it with other runners. Before he started Oliver stated he was 'running for the vape' to bring awareness about the health impact switching from standard cigarettes could make. He finished in just five hours.
Feel free to share any of your own 'running-whilst-vaping' stories with us...
Friday, 15 November 2013
A sweeping generalisation for us to make. And we realise we’re not travel agents. But we are kindly thinking of all you electronic cigarette smokers, as the latter countries we listed have banned their use entirely.
Why Italy? Why obviously it’s got amazing food, beautiful countryside and the latest draw is their health minister has just found a loophole in the law that will allow the use of e-cigs in public. This hadn’t been allowed previously, but this is now to be overruled. Read the full story here if you want to know the finer detail.
But this basically means you can vape in cafes, bars and train stations to your heart’s content. Don’t forget to send us a postcard!
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
The report came from Westfield shopping centre in London and asked members of the public what they thought of a woman vaping in a public place. There was of course a few 'I don't like it', but there were more 'good on them' from shoppers happy for others trying to quit smoking.
It also pointed out the confusion of where and where you can't use them. For instance you can't vape in the open-air shopping centre's Starbucks. But you can when you cross over the line where it becomes Westfield again.
When asked by BBC Breakfast: "Would you feel uncomfortable if someone used an e-cigarette near you are your family?" 75 % said no.
And asked if e-cigarettes should be banned in public places, 34% said yes - but 62% said no.
The debate continues! Read the BBC’s full article about electronic cigarettes here>>
Thursday, 7 November 2013
So how did you do this October? We've heard lots of brilliant stories from our customers who didn't smoke a single ciggie. Someone even said that he felt guilty for 'cheating' by using OK instead as it wasn't really 'that difficult'!
We hope that everyone who quit last month will keep it up. And if you do, the cheapest way to make the switch is with one of our OK E-Cigarette Starter Packs rather than continuously buying disposables.
What you get in a pack: A rechargeable cigarette, plus a refill - equivalent to 200 standard cigarettes - a car charger and a wall charger. Buying this way together will save you 30% than if you got them all separately.
You can use the savings towards that big event coming up in December. Begins with a capital ‘C’, yes we know it’s too early to mention the word yet, so we’re kindly staying quiet…
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
The anonymous - we know he's based in London, so keep your eye out - business man commissioned this vaping masterpiece which is covered in 246 two-carat crystal diamonds, in a bid to get his girlfriend to stay away from smoking and use this instead.
Would a bling OK cigarette work for you? We have no current intentions of sticking diamonds on our products, but we welcome any sparkling design ideas you might have.
Friday, 4 October 2013
Pretty impressive. Why so many? This government initiative - more un-fun sounding words - puts its success to having the encouragement and support from so many others all taking up the challenge together. It also helps with a quitting pack, mobile app and text support.
If you're going for it this year, turn Stoptober into Swaptober and switch from your regular brand to OK e cigarettes. It might feel like you're cheating because it'll be so much easier, but you're only inhaling water vapour, so everyone's a winner!
We'd love to hear how you get on this month. And whether you manage to keep away from the ciggies when we roll into November. Good luck!
Friday, 14 June 2013
Au revoir to electronic cigarettes?
France, the land of romance, good food and let’s face it – loads of people smoking. It just seems to be part of the culture to be elegantly sipping on a glass of red wine and puffing on a Gauloises.
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that the French smoking ban took place in 2007 as you’ll still find people openly flouting this rule and lighting up in bars, cafes and restaurants. And these bans certainly haven’t succeeded in making the nation cut down. The number of smokers rose from 31% to 33% in the last five years. Currently there are around 73,000 tobacco-related deaths reported in France each year.
Famous French icons including Catherine Deneuve and Michel Houellebecq have managed to swap tobacco for electronic cigarettes, and so far about a million people in the country are using them too. But this week the French government have decided to announce a ban on electronic cigarette from all public places sparking outrage from users.
Surely in a country with such a high smoking rate they should be more encouraging to a healthier alternative?
Posted by Anonymous at 04:55
Friday, 24 May 2013
Why did Manchester City Turn Their Backs on E-Cigarettes?
E cigarettes hit the headlines recently after a football fan was escorted and banned from matches after he was found to be using an electronic cigarette.
The lifelong City supporter was banned from the Etihad Stadium after stewards spotted the man having a drink and using the device during half time. He was escorted out of the grounds by police and the head of security wrote to him announcing his season card was suspended.
It’s also worth taking into account that Manchester City FC and several other Premier League clubs advertise e-cigarettes at their stadiums. But not all football clubs ban electronic cigarettes, some like Burnley embrace them as they know their supporters are users.
Our favourite comment was from a caller on Talksport who moaned:
Fan gets his season ticket removed, losing a major part of a season, for the use of an electronic cigarette which poses no harm to anyone nearby through second hand vapour... yet Suarez gets a 10 match ban for going cannibal... what a world.
What’s your view on this incident?
Posted by Anonymous at 11:47
Thursday, 16 May 2013
"If all the smokers in Britain stopped smoking cigarettes and started smoking e-cigarettes we would save 5 million deaths in people who are alive today”
Says Professor John Britton of the Royal College of Physicians. Yet countries, organisations and governments continue to ban their use.
Yes, electronic cigarettes contain nicotine, but this itself is not hazardous. In fact, you can compare nicotine on a par with caffeine. Is someone who drinks five cups of tea a day frowned upon? No, but despite the health benefits of helping smokers away from tobacco, e-cigarette users have found themselves under attack from new banning rules.
When e-cigarettes first reached the public in 2007 there were condemned as 'substitutes would merely increase smokers' nicotine intake' and accused of just a way to sidestep the smoking bans.
Six years later we can show this isn't so. Britain is expected to hit 1 million users by the end of 2013. And 86 per cent of these users hadn't smoked since starting to use the device.
So why are e-cigarettes being banned from an increasing number of public places?
Posted by Anonymous at 05:10
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
So how have you felt since swapping to electronic cigarettes?
Like with any new products, it’s difficult to know for definite what the long term effects will be – but there have been no harmful ones discovered for electronic cigarette users so far. Hurrah. In fact, we’ve been swamped with people wanting to tell us how much better they’ve felt since swapping to OK’s.
Some of the health benefits you might not have even considered, but these just a few positives we’ve been informed of:
- Better sleep
- Improved senses
- No more coughing
- More energy
- Less snoring
- Feeling of control
Yes we know we’re a little biased, but there have been loads of scientific top bods who agree that electronic cigarettes can be helpful to your health. Don’t take our word for it; here are a few recent snippets:
Dr. Konstantino E. Farsalinos, from Clinical Medicine Insights, 25 Jan 2013
This case showed a patient with bad health - he had elevated white blood cells - who couldn’t stop smoking. He managed to quit tobacco thanks to electronic cigarettes and his blood cells went back to normal.
British Medical Journal, 2013
“…By allowing these products to be sold in the UK, the government's Cabinet Office seems to be taking the approach with the greatest potential for public health benefits”
And here what the British public currently using e cigarettes are saying about how they are feeling after switching:
When I first started inhaling vapor I coughed.. but it was because I was directly inhaling to my lungs like I did with a cig. Now I draw the vapor in my mouth first with a few puffs, and then inhale. Much better.
When i first started it was the habits that made it hard, like not being out in the back yard everyday right after eating, before going to bed, first thing in the morning. the clock work like habits are just as hard to fight. Now I'm ver happy with my e-cigarette
I'm 71 & smoked for almost 50 yrs. I've been vaping for 10 months & just love it!
I just celebrated my one year vapeversary!! I smoked for nearly 40 years, knew I had to quit. I had been lucky for too long, no smoker's cough, no breathing trouble, no discernable problems. I hope my luck holds out... The day I picked up an ecig was the day I had my last ciggie
So how have you felt since swapping to electronic cigarettes?
Posted by Anonymous at 15:49
Friday, 26 April 2013
Electronic cigarettes. Get Real!
Too realistic for their own good?
The anti-smoking law that appeared in the UK in 2007 warned us: 'It's an offence to be in possession of lit tobacco in enclosed public places'. So surely good news for electronic cigarette smokers as, a) they aren't lit b) they contain no tobacco.
Well it should be good news, but as ever with anything, there’s small print, and this states: 'It is at the discretion of individual institutions to decide whether electronic cigarettes should be banned'. And a few organisations have grabbed onto this small print to ban e cigarettes from their watchful eyes.
Recently some universities have been stamping out the use of electronic cigarettes. Nottingham Trent University sent round a memo to staff explaining that e-cigs were 'potentially disruptive' as they can be a 'distraction as appear to be real cigarettes'. Students and teachers could only smoke them outside in designated areas.
They're not the only ones with this reason either. Good old JD Wetherspoons not only bans music, but it also now bans e cigarettes. The spokesperson for the pub chain says, 'We have experienced customers attempting to pass real cigarettes off as an electronic cigarettes’.
So electronic cigarettes do zero harm to anyone around them, don’t smell and are totally inoffensive - but it looks like they’ve become a victim of their success to offer a real smoking experience! Surely in the olden days (circa 2007) when they looked like a chunky mouth organ no one would have banned them as it was obvious they weren’t real. How annoying.
Have you ever been told to ‘put out’ your electronic cigarette?
Posted by Anonymous at 01:43
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Today marks a year since one of us in the OK team gave up 'normal cigarettes'. 365 days of being 'fag free'. Hurrah to Oli!
To celebrate this special anniversary, we got the calculator out. Whatever money he had saved we were going to make him spend on an over the top prize to reward himself.
So Oli - previous smoker of 10 light strength cigarettes a day, now partial to OK Light e-cigarettes instead - here is your sum:
One box of 10 tobacco cigarettes (circa 2011) = £3.80 x 7 x 52 = £1383.20 per year
Uses Refill Tips x 3 (same as 120 cigarettes) which last him for about one month = £9.98 x 12 = £119.76 per year
So the saving (1383.20 - 119.76) = £1263.44
When questioned, Oli has revealed that he would like to spend this on a month away living it up in Argentina, but in reality it would probably go towards fixing his leaky roof.
So what will you spend your money on?
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IT’S time to take a deep breath and book your spot for the Breathe Easy cocktail party tomorrow night.
VIP tickets for the August 12 event have already sold-out but there are still general admission tickets available although they are selling fast.
The woman behind the event, Echuca’s Shari Butcher — who suffers from cystic fibrosis — is encouraging people to support the CF event.
‘‘It’s going to be a great night. There’s so much planned,’’ she said.
It will kick off at Radcliffe’s from 7pm and everyone who attends will be doing their part to help find a cure for CF.
So far Shari has raised almost $60,000 for its research and with another event tomorrow she’s on the way to doing so much more.
General tickets for the party cost $110 and include drinks, entry, entertainment from Essence Duo, finger food, a massive silent auction and more.
For information visit Breathe Easy on Facebook, and to purchase your tickets visit stickytickets.com.au/53106/breathe—easy—cocktail—party—2017.aspx


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Thursday, November 2, 2017, 11:12 AM ET|Posted by Will Richmond
Late last week Videology announced DETVgo, a free product that allows ad buyers to begin using data-enabled TV advertising to target specific audiences and then build and optimize media plans. Stacy Daft, Videology’s GM, Enterprise Business Development, told me in a briefing that DETVgo gives ad buyers a low barrier path for trying data-enabled TV ad buying.
All of the major TV networks are investing heavily in data enablement of their ad inventory to help buyers more precisely target audiences. This is a critical step as big digital players, including Google and Facebook, have ramped up their video initiatives to grab a share of TV ad spending.
DETVgo users can build their target audiences by tapping into over 60K data segments. When the audience has been identified, DETVgo creates a TV media plan based on specified parameters and available, verified inventory. Key performance indicators include total impression delivery, total reach or audience composition. If the ad buyer chooses to proceed, they sign an insertion order and the campaign runs.
Because DETVgo runs on Videology’s enterprise platform the UI and experience is comparable, although certain advanced enterprise features aren’t fully enabled. In addition to the targeting and workflow benefits, DETVgo is also a path toward programmatic transactions for TV advertising.
Stacy said there’s been substantial interest in trying DETVgo from agencies of all sizes. The company has been providing the first set of logins this week and will be ramping going forward. Stacy said that as buyers begin using DETVgo, it gives Videology an opportunity to engage them and learn more about their objectives with an eye toward potentially upgrading to the enterprise platform.
DETVgo seems like a really smart approach to getting data-enabled technology into buyers’ hands with no commitment required. Although TV networks are eager to roll out improved targeting, things can only move at the pace of buyer adoption. As DETVgo is more widely used, the advanced advertising market should accelerate, a positive step for the TV ecosystem which is striving to remain competitive.
(Note: Videology’s CEO and Founder Scott Ferber will be participating in our 3rd annual SHIFT // Programmatic Video & TV Ad Summit on Nov. 29th where TV networks’ data initiatives will be a key topic of conversation. Register now and save!)


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Financial institution of America, JP Morgan, and Wells Fargo may very well be amongst seven mega international banks that would quickly workforce as much as launch a digital pockets now that digital property have begun to see adoption in several components of the world. The purpose behind this potential initiative is to compete with different funds platforms like Apple Pay and PayPal. Wells Fargo, Truist, Capital One, PNC Financial institution, and the US Financial institution are amongst different lenders which are reportedly lined as much as be part of this undertaking.
The entire named banks, collectively personal a digital funds community referred to as Zelle. As per a report by Bitcoin.com, the digital pockets will function individually from Zelle.
Zelle in itself, is managed by the fintech agency Early Warning System (EWS) that provides threat administration options to monetary companies. EWS will even be tasked with the accountability to handle the digital pockets, as soon as it launches.
The banks concerned on this undertaking wish to stop dropping prospects, who’re accustomed to utilizing on the spot on-line fee providers and digital wallets.
Final 12 months, a report quoting figures from Juniper Analysis had estimated that the variety of individuals utilizing digital pockets providers around the globe would surpass the mark of 5.2 million by 2026.
Opponents within the sector like Apple Pay, crypto-friendly PayPal, and Google Pay have already established themselves lately.
As for now, it stays unclear if this unnamed digital pockets will assist cryptocurrencies and different digital digital property.
Readability on the topic is anticipated within the months to come back. The pockets may very well be rolled out between July and December 2023, the Bitcoin.com report famous.
Mastercard and Visa, each of which have been taking a number of pro-crypto steps in latest occasions, will even reportedly be a part of the undertaking.
The already concerned contributors have additionally reportedly been attempting to onboard different fintech companies to collaborate and add their respective playing cards to this pockets.
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Apple News Tutorials
Sony XB950B1 Extra Bass Wireless Headphones On Sale for $88 [Deal]
Posted 23 hours ago
Sony's XB950B1 Extra Bass Wireless Headphones are on sale today for $88.
Getting Featured on the iOS 11 App Store Can Boost Downloads by Up to 800% [Chart]
Posted April 21, 2018 at 6:54pm
iPhone apps receive download boosts of up to 800 percent by being featured on the iOS 11 App Store, according to a report from Sensor Tower.
Roku Streaming Devices On Sale for Up to 36% Off [Deal]
Posted April 21, 2018 at 2:00pm
Get up to 36% off Roku streaming media players today.
Apple Announces Battery Replacement Program for 13-inch MacBook Pro (Non Touch Bar)
Posted April 21, 2018 at 12:05am
Apple today announced a battery replacement program for the 13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar).
MacBook Drops to 7th in LAPTOP's 2018 Rankings [Chart]
Posted April 20, 2018 at 9:20pm
Apple has dropped to seventh place in LAPTOP's recent ranking of 'Best & Worst Laptop Brands' for 2018.
AT&T to Launch New 'AT&T Watch' Streaming Service Without Sports for $15/Month
Posted April 20, 2018 at 7:51pm
AT&T is planning to launch a 'skinny bundle' of streaming TV channels without sports for $15/month.
Apple to Release iPhone SE 2 Next Month With A10 Fusion Chip, No Headphone Jack [Report]
Posted April 20, 2018 at 4:30pm
Apple is reportedly preparing to launch an updated iPhone SE next month with an A10 Fusion chip and no headphone jack.
AT&T Launches 5G Evolution Technology in 117 New Markets, LTE-AAA in 3 New Markets
Posted April 20, 2018 at 3:05pm
AT&T has announced that its 5G Evolution technology is launching in parts of 117 new markets today, bringing the total to 141.
LG Struggling With Production of OLED Displays for New iPhones [Report]
Posted April 20, 2018 at 2:32pm
LG Display is reportedly struggling to produce OLED panels for the next generation iPhone.
Save 35% on a Refurbished 12-inch MacBook [Deal]
Posted April 19, 2018 at 11:56pm
Save 35% on a refurbished 12-inch MacBook with a Retina display, 256GB SSD, and 8GB of RAM.
Apple Releases 2018 Environmental Responsibility Report
Posted April 19, 2018 at 8:38pm
Apple has released its 2018 Environmental Responsibility Report detailing the progress made in meeting its environmental objectives.
Apple Open Sources FoundationDB
Posted April 19, 2018 at 6:27pm
Apple has open sourced FoundationDB, a distributed database it acquired back in 2015.
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