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Benetton to Tag 15 Million Items
The Italian retailer plans to put RFID labels on a complete line of clothes and track items from manufacturing plants to the point of sale.
Mar 12, 2003—March 12, 2003 - Last month, we asked RFID: The Next Fashion From Italy? We got the answer yesterday, when Philips Semiconductors revealed that Benetton, the clothing retailer based in Treviso, Italy, would be tagging a complete line of its clothes at more than 5,000 stores globally.
Philips says it will ship 15 million chips this year for use in labels that will be put on the clothes when they are manufactured. That makes this one of the largest RFID implementations ever by any company. The Gillette Co. recently ordered 500 million RFID tags, but those will be delivered over three years, and the company has only just begun to take delivery.
Clothes produced under Benetton's core brand Sisley will be fitted with RFID labels. The tagged items will be placed in shipping boxes, which will also be tagged. Benetton will be able to track clothes from the time they are produced until the time they are sold. The chips will remain active even after the products are sold, so they can be used to track returns as well.
RFID Journal reported in January that European retailers planned to move to tracking individual pieces of clothing. That Benetton is first is not a surprise. The company controls its own supply chain, so it gets the benefit of the investment in the tag from the time of manufacture to the time of purchase.
By eliminating the need to scan a bar code each time the product is moved to a different point in the supply chain, the company increases order accuracy and reduces labor costs. Stores receiving boxes of mixed goods can quickly scan the items into inventory without manual counting and verification.
And once readers are installed in stores, staff will be able to ensure that each color and size of each style is in stock and be able to locate items when a consumer has returned it to the wrong rack or shelf. The Gap did a trial at one store and found sales rose by more than 5 percent because in-store availability improved.
Philips did not reveal the cost of the tags, but it will likely be 25 cents to 50 cents, based on the order size. The tags will use Philips I-Code chip, which operates at 13.56 MHz, stores 512 bits, has a read range of three feet and is compatible with ISO 15693. Lab ID will convert the chip into an RFID tag that can be sewn into the garments during the manufacturing process.
Lab ID will also provide Benetton with readers that can be used on store shelves, which the company has developed over the past 15 months. And Psion Teklogix will provide Benetton with its wireless LAN netpads, which can be fitted with an RFID antenna to read tags.
It's not clear how long it will take Benetton to install readers in its 5,000 stores, but the retailer, which had sales of $2 billion last year, is likely to raise privacy concerns. Even though the tags have a read range of just three feet, some privacy groups are concerned about the possible abuse of the technology.
CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and
Numbering) has called for a worldwide boycott of Benetton. A Philips's spokesperson told RFID Journal that the tags "have a feature that enables the retailer to disable the chip once a product has been purchased. This destroy command deactivates the chip and erases data stored on it thereby granting the privacy of the buyer."
The "self-destruct" command can be used at the discretion of the retailer and depends on the set-up of the project. Benetton has not said whether it will disable the tags at the point of sale.
Unless there is a big public outcry, however, Benetton is not going to be the last retailer to adopt RFID. Most analysts say it makes sense to track items that cost more than $15 with RFID tags that cost 50 cents. The benefits are greatest for integrated retailers like Benetton, which sell only their own brands, but other retailers can also get significant savings and sales increases from improving order accuracy and in-store availability.
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Renault has started the promotional campaign for the world premier of its new entry-level XBA (codenamed) on May 20, 2015! It will be the third mass market product of the French Automaker in the country and its arch rivals will be the Maruti Suzuki Alto 800/K10, Hyundai Eon and even the Datsun GO. Speaking of the prices, expect the prices of Renault XBA in the vicinity of Rs. 3-4 lacs. Moreover, according to few reports, XBA will be christened as Renault Kayou!
Talking about the teaser image which Renault just revealed, the vehicle looks like a crossover with prominent wheel arches and a tall appearance. It is also in-line with Renault’s current global design theme. At the outset, you’ll get swept back headlamps flanked around the honeycombed grille with a large Renault logo. Moreover, the window line narrows towards the C-pillar and the roofline is slightly sloping along with a chubby rear-fender just like Renault Captur.
The XBA is based on company’s all-new CMF platform developed by the Renault-Nissan alliance. The Common Modular Family (CMF) was unveiled in 2013 and XBA will be the first product to be launched with this platform in India. Speaking of the mechanicals, reportedly it's getting an all new 0.8-liter 3-cylinder petrol engine and will be mated to a 5-speed manual gearbox. Moreover, AMT - automated manual transmission is also on cards, as a recent report suggest the same - Renault and Hyundai to offer AMT Soon in India.

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Whereas cryptocurrency mass adoption within the Center East should still take a bit of extra time to happen, there are a number of international locations within the area which can be actually taking discover.
From the UAE to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Lebanon, some personal and public entities are keen to take the chance by embracing the brand new applied sciences sooner than the others. Nevertheless, there are additionally different international locations that determined to crack down on something involving cryptocurrency.
That being stated, one of many focal factors that needs to be considered when analyzing the nascent business is that adoption on this area is principally pushed from the highest down. Authorities companies and conventional banks, although traditionally generally known as the slowest expertise adopters, are the principle gamers diving proper into crypto transformation.
The area boasts a number of the wealthiest nations on this planet, with GDP per capita, ranges from $50,000 to $130,000 within the Gulf states, due to giant reserves of oil and different profitable pure sources. Nevertheless, the spending on the digital financial system and its share of Arab international locations’ GDPs is a mere low single-digit. Standard sectors, corresponding to actual property and shares, are nonetheless monopolizing personal investments, spending, and conversations.
So it could possibly be a bit irritating for crypto lovers to look at the gradual tempo at which Arab traders are reacting to the crypto phenomenon.
Regulators caught up with the hype
However with such a hype surrounding cryptocurrencies, the digital asset class could have enticed retail traders, with many using cryptocurrency as a speculative asset to benefit from value fluctuations.
All in all, the innovation and personal investments within the crypto area have been and can stay lagging far behind different areas, together with rising nations, as in reality, they’re nowhere. Nevertheless, regulators, caught up with the much-hyped imaginative and prescient of crypto, have likewise others begun to research blockchain and cryptocurrency expertise. And whereas they’re anticipated to proceed to push forward with rules, this may increasingly finally get up the rich traders base to the alternatives that the brand new enterprise provides.
The crypto timeline within the Arab world
Varied international locations within the Arab world have emerged as early adopters, and so they’re poised to turn into much more influential within the close to future.
At present, on the frontier of Fintech adoption, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have introduced plans to launch a digital foreign money to serve each international locations. Dubbed ‘Aber,’ it was introduced in November on an experimental foundation to facilitate monetary settlements between the 2 Center Jap nations, which have a mixed financial system of over $1.2 trillion.
The federal government of Dubai has additionally revealed particulars of its personal digital foreign money, known as emCash, which will likely be used to pay for presidency and personal companies within the metropolis.
Ripple, a US-based crypto funds firm, is already working with Saudi and Emeriti banks to legitimize cryptocurrencies additional. It has inked partnerships with Saudi Arabia’s de facto central financial institution to pilot instantaneous cross-border funds. In response to Ripple, greater than fifty monetary establishments within the Center East revealed their curiosity in its options that allow cross-border cash transactions in a quicker and cheaper method than the present techniques permit.
Regulation is scorching on the desk
Whatever the regulatory stance, policymakers within the Center East are conscious that the adoption of the cryptocurrencies seems inevitable. These going greater on this observe are cautious of the mixture of the potential advantages and dangers, in addition to components that decide coverage openness or aversion.
The UAE has already taken steps to manage the best way that blockchain start-ups are elevating cash – preliminary coin choices– although the nation’s regulators proceed to warn of the various dangers concerned. The watchdog proposed a fit-for-purpose regulatory framework that successfully acknowledges digital tokens as securities.
Underneath the rules, startups wishing to execute an ICO should method the SCA to see if it falls beneath the physique’s regulation. Additionally, market intermediaries and secondary market operators coping with ICOs have to be accepted by the regulator. ICO operators must publish a prospectus, identical to a agency would for an IPO on the inventory market. And if an ICO has the traits of a safety, corresponding to giving an individual possession of shares in an organization, then the SCA will regulate it.
As well as, Abu Dhabi’s monetary regulator granted approval for Arabian Bourse, which permits the startup to function a full-fledged crypto-asset alternate and digital custodian within the emirate.
Different international locations are catching up
Bahrain can be establishing itself as a blockchain pioneer within the area. Certainly, the smallest Center Jap nation isn’t too far behind with its quite a few initiatives to draw cryptocurrency enterprise. On the one hand, Bahrain Central Financial institution has accepted the crypto-asset alternate Rain Crypto Alternate to go stay, publish their partnership with international alternate Bittrex. Rain obtained its node after a two-year regulatory sandbox course of beneath the central financial institution’s supervision.
Different international locations like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Kuwait are additionally stated to have taken discover. Their regulators have drafted completely different payments permitting central banks to problem guidelines regulating cryptocurrency actions and blockchain-based finance. The brand new guidelines replicate a U-turn from final years’ crackdown that stated that cryptocurrencies are a wholly non-sharia compliant enterprise.
In the meantime, there was quite a lot of debate on using digital cash as a reliable kind of foreign money and funding as Islamic regulation emphasizes actual financial exercise primarily based on bodily belongings and with out pure financial hypothesis.
All financial exercise in Islamic finance have to be compliant with Sharia regulation, which has stringent guidelines to make sure certainty and immediacy of transactions. Islamic regulation additionally prohibits the acceptance of curiosity or charges for loans of cash.


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China revises GMPs
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
China's State Food and Drug Administration proposes revised good manufacturing practices that would give nonprescription drug firms three years to implement changes once guidelines are issued. Guo Jingwu, director of drug safety in SFDA's Inspection Department, said June 2 at a conference in Shanghai that SFDA adopted the guidelines May 28 and expects to issue the document in June. China's Ministry Of Health is reviewing the guidance and will submit it to the World Trade Organization before releasing it. SFDA will give companies three years to implement changes, though firms that manufacture injection drugs and products on China's Essential Drug List will have two years. The GMP revision, a key goal for SFDA in 2010, is part of the agency's work to align China's pharmaceutical and medical device regulations with international standards (1"The Tan Sheet" March 8, 2010)
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Remember Apple News?
Just a refresher: it’s the one-stop news app that Apple replaced Newsstand with as a way for publishers to get their content distributed directly to people’s iPhones while keeping the ad revenue. “News has the latest stories, articles, and posts, with over a million topics to choose from,” Apple said at its launch in June.
What it doesn’t have is an active user base.
On Twitter, iPhone owners have recently noticed a push alert in their Notifications tab from the app begging people to open it. It’s not working. People are publicly calling it “spam” and subjecting Apple to a few sick burns:
So, Apple really wants me to use News and its “Top Stories” section. Got this notification in my 6s Plus and 5. pic.twitter.com/sn1zzdEZii
— e4io (@poke493) December 16, 2015
Apple News notification. This is spam, plain and simple. pic.twitter.com/jMYuOU44RF
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Apple, thanks for sending me a push notification to remind me that News app exists. Now I’ll go back to ignoring it. pic.twitter.com/At8r0idTNs
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apple better gtfoh with that news notification
— Juansito (@ElJuanitooo) December 16, 2015
So, if people haven’t already moved Apple News to the junk folder where Compass, Health and Stocks live, at the very least these pop-ups remind them to do so.
Apple didn’t immediately respond for comment as to why it’s doing this, but it’s clear that News isn’t resonating with people or publishers.
“The traffic is underwhelming,” a publisher exec told Digiday, pegging the monthly traffic it garners from it at less than 1 million views. Another publisher called the user data “basically nonexistent,” adding that the whole experience is a “disappointment.”
Still, it’s early. Publishers like the design of the sleek app and they understand that forming new user habits takes time. So, while these pop-ups are bothersome, they’re one way for Apple to appease publisher frustration.
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T-Mobile is expanding its $50/month Home Internet pilot service AGAIN, to more than 130 additional cities and towns across nine states. Today, T-Mobile is bringing more competition to home broadband — especially in underserved rural markets — through LTE-based coverage, with 5G service coming soon.
Here are the states with new service…
Households in Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin who are ready to break up with their home internet provider.
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Can china overtake us as the
China is expected to take over as superpower, as it has become the world's top exporting and trade country and a huge investor in the us. China will overtake the us as the world's largest economy in 2026, according to new forecasts from goldman sachs, a decade after the bank's. Concerns, as to how china's rise will affect us economic interests will overtake the united states as the “world's largest economic power. China is projected to catch and pass the us in ai - medium mediumcom/@michael_spencer/china-is-projected-to-catch-and-pass-the-u-s-in-ai-74ae1a9b24d.
In most countries for which there are trends, the view that china will overtake the us has increased substantially over the past two years,. Going forward, there could be more years, similar to 2016, when america's gdp grows faster than china's the 2016 reversal, along with. In what economy: almost guaranteed that eventually china will eventually catch up to the us in nominal gdp (already surpassed in ppp), the us has 1/4 of. Washington — call it the sputnik syndrome ever since the launching of sputnik in october 1957, americans have feared that their.
China's economy is catching up to the us's much more quickly than anticipated, according to a new report from the world bank. The thesis that the economic development of large countries can produce power shifts in this connection, the usa/china shifts in power capabilities that have. Abstract many claim that china will soon overtake the us i argue that this and clothes are cheap in rural china does not make the chinese economy larger. This is china's plan to overtake america as the next superpower share on facebook f could china really win a war against america.
The united states is undeniably the only superpower in the world today but until a few decades ago, it wasn't so america, the soviet union. Given that a peaceful rise is the only realistic choice for china at present, china can only surpass the united states in some specific aspects. The international air transport association said it expects that half of the new passengers who will fly over the next 20 years will live in asia. believe china either already has or will overtake the united states as the since china will continue to develop its economy and military in.
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- We invite you to predict when china's economy will overtake america's less than two centuries ago, china was far and away the world's.
- A potential superpower is a state or a political and economic entity that is speculated to be – or collectively these potential superpowers, and the united states, comprise 680% of global nominal gdp, other factors that could constrain china's ability to become a superpower in the future include limited supplies of.
On purchasing power, china has already topped the us economy, lloyd blankfein says. China's economy is expected to overtake the united states in 2026 in nominal gdp (gross domestic product) based on the us dollar, and. In my december 5 e-letter last month, i debunked the mainstream media's predictions that china will surpass the us as the world's largest. So rather than expecting a rising china to seize the united states' for many, therefore, the question is not whether china will become a.


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Greater London is being hit by rising road freight costs that are double that of the rest of the UK, new research has revealed.
According to the Transport Exchange Group's latest Road Transport Price index, the average price-per-mile for haulage and courier vehicles in Greater London jumped by 11.6 points from March to April 2022.
Conversely, across the UK as a whole, the increase was half that, rising 5.3 points over the same period.
The Transport Exchange Group (TEG) index shows that average UK haulage and courier prices are following previous years’ trends, witnessing a fall after the usual Christmas and New Year spike and then increasing month-on-month.
The index also reveals substantial year-on-year increases, with the average price-per-mile increasing by 16% in three years – from 100.9 points in April 2019 to 117.5 points in April 2022.
Launching the index, the Transport Exchange Group pointed to post-Brexit bureaucracy, delays in checks on EU imports and predictions of 10% inflation later in the year, as key triggers for the surging transport costs.
However the group said the data suggests these rising costs aren’t necessarily being felt by businesses and consumers to the extent that might be expected, as consumers curb spending in the face of the cost of living crisis.
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TEG said: "With the increased cost of living – notably energy price rises – many consumers are cutting back on their spending to balance household budgets. Consumer confidence has been reported as hitting an all-time low and the ONS announced a 1.4% decline in retail sales in March.
"Even spending on food was down 6.1% in March, when compared to February. Reduced demand from consumers means reduced demand for freight, keeping freight month-on-month price rises relatively modest."
TEG said there was also evidence transport and storage businesses are acutely aware of pressures on consumers. According to ONS data, 56% of these businesses reported an increase in the price of materials, goods and services needed to run their business. Yet only 35% have passed on some or all of those increases.
Lyall Cresswell, CEO of Transport Exchange Group, added: "We’re continuing to see that the TEG index is a result of many different factors, all of which affect the state of the industry. Haulage and courier businesses have to respond to fluctuations in costs and there will then be knock-on effects for the many industries that work with them.
“At the moment, demand for freight from these industries clearly isn’t quite what it was, largely due to cost of living rises. Consumers are buying less, which is keeping a lid on the price-per-mile figures, despite other factors, such as high fuel costs and Brexit red tape.
“This isn’t the case in London, however, where price rises in the last month were double the national average. What we have right now then is almost a two-speed situation, with prices in the capital soaring and relatively low rises elsewhere. What remains to be seen is whether the conditions in London drive prices around the UK up.”


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Cornell Cooperative Extension’s commercial kitchen receives $750,000
BINGHAMTON (WBNG) — Speaker Carl Heastie (D) continued his annual statewide tour Wednesday and was joined by Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo (D, 123).
They announced that $750,000 in funding will be headed to the Cornell Cooperative Extension Commercial Kitchen to support local agriculture and culinary businesses in the Broome County area.
The CCE Broome Commercial Kitchen is a shared-used kitchen where farmers, at-home producers, chefs and caterers can rent the kitchen to create products, scale up production, prepare for events and more with support from staff members.
By renting the space, members are provided a direct link to agribusiness resources from CCE of Broome County, Cornell University and Cornell Food Venture Center, while also enjoying direct marketing access to TasteNY stores and the Broome County Regional Farmers Market.
“The diversity of products, produced and sold from this commercial kitchen, has influenced a change in the landscape of food in our area and a boost to the local economy,” said Director of Food System Projects at CCE Amy Willis.
The $750,000 announced Wednesday will be used to help expand the kitchen space and support the construction of a new walk-in cooler and dry storage. This funding is in addition to another $750,000 already provided by the Assembly Majority to support the construction of the Agricultural Development Center and TasteNY Store.
“We are building an infrastructure, an ecosystem of food entrepreneurship and respect for people who grow, produce and bring our food to market,” said Lupardo. “This place right here has been a labor of love for all of us.”
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Huawei has unveiled a new mass data storage solution that promises efficient, cost-effective, and reliable services for AI, HPC, videos, and other mass data scenarios.
As we move into the fourth industrial revolution, powered by 5G, businesses will generate enormous amounts of data. According to Huawei, it is how this data is managed that that will distinguish future powerhouses from sub-par performers.
The new OceanStor Pacific Series offering leverages “uncompromised multi-protocol interworking, next-generation elastic EC algorithm, and a series of dedicated hardware.”
Huawei claims it is is both efficient and economical, with disk utilisation hitting 93 percent without compromising performance or reliability. Its node supports 120 disks in a 5 U space with 2.67x the density than general-purpose storage servers and 62.5 percent space reduction.
“Mass data will play an increasingly important role in enterprise digital transformation,” said Peter Zhou, President of Huawei Data Storage and Intelligent Vision Product Line.
“Today, only two per cent of global data is stored, and only 10 percent of the data is being mined for further value. Enterprises are facing insufficient capacity, data silos, and complex management when dealing with mass data."
"Our OceanStor Pacific Series is designed to answer these pain points, setting a new benchmark for efficient, economical, everlasting mass data storage, and helping us become the trusted choice for mass data," he added.
The previous generation of Huawei OceanStor storage found its way into more than 150 countries, across north of 12,000 customers.


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The company's profit after tax has grown three-times to Rs 106 crore in FY20-21, backed by technology adoption and an increase in rural penetration as the company continues to serve the community at large, Shriram Life Insurance Company (SLIC) said in a release.
Its profit stood at Rs 35 crore in FY20.
Even during these unprecedented times, the company was able to grow its gross premium by 23 per cent, crossing the milestone of Rs 2,000 crore, it added.
"This growth was supported by a 25 per cent growth on total new business premium and 24 per cent growth on retail renewals.
"The company continues to extend financial protection to customers residing even in the deepest rural locations within the heartlands of India with approximately 47 per cent of its new business from the rural segment," it said.
It further said 54 per cent of the company's claims came from the rural segment.
The effective and consistent focus on fundamentals also yielded strong results with the assets under management (AUM) growing at 30 per cent to Rs 6,261 crore, said the private sector insurer.
Income from investments more than doubled to cross Rs 500 crore, it said.
"Shriram Life has been focused on serving the protection needs of the rural segment and lower income segments. These segments are most affected by the crisis due to the dual impact of the health emergency and loss of income," said Casparus Kromhout, MD and CEO, Shriram Life Insurance.
Growth of 8 per cent in the number of policies sold underlines this commitment, he added.
SLIC is a joint-venture between South Africa's Sanlam Group and India's Shriram Group.
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Hooters of America LLC has eliminated 416 jobs at 14 corporate-owned North Carolina restaurants in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
That includes 30 employees each at its 3031 High Point Road restaurant in Greensboro and 3122 Garden Road in Burlington.
The restaurant chain made the employee reduction decision March 23. A WARN Act notice to the N.C. Commerce Department was received Monday.
Hooters officials stressed Wednesday that despite the language it used in the WARN notice, the restaurants remain open for takeout and delivery meals with limited staff, and delivery services.
Among those affected are 255 “Hooters girls” servers and 84 kitchen staff. All affected employees were let go by March 30.
The chain cited the stay-at-home orders from Gov. Roy Cooper and local city and county governments, as well as Cooper’s executive order to prohibit dine-in services at restaurants in the short term.
Those orders are “causing, and will continue to cause, a drastic impact on (our) business … substantial income and profit losses and an uncertain future such that the company does not have alternative work to offer to its affected employees.”
The company also said it has conducted layoffs at its headquarters in Atlanta.
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Being a indigenous texan, i try to remain present regarding the latest happenings within my house state. And though the statement by the customer Financial Protection Bureau that it’ll reconsider brand new federal guidelines that could control payday financing is nationwide in range, the type associated with affected industry ensures that the specific effect will inevitably range from state to mention. Consequently, the recently posted editorial by the San Antonio Express-News handling the subject requires a response that is state-specific.
The Editorial Board should have seen its argument as a sense that is common self-evident proposition: so that you can cure the payday malady, we are in need of more regulations! However the argument that вЂњTexas lawmakers have to step their game up next sessionвЂќ in the case these federal laws are rescinded gets it precisely backward; just just what Texas requires just isn’t more fix-one-problem-while-causing-two-more statutes. Rather, an epinephrine injection of vigorously enforcing good rules must certanly be with the medical elimination of bad people.
Texas has been down the вЂњjust pass another legislation and fix it road that is with this problem, and also this approach has regularly made things even worse, not better. Following the passing of the Fair that is federal Credit Act in 1970, a market providing вЂњdebt repairвЂќ services emerged. Unfortuitously, numerous financial obligation fix businesses involved with disreputable techniques and, so that you can combat the excesses with this industry, the Texas Credit solutions Organizations Act ended up being enacted in 1987. Nevertheless the companies (вЂњCSO’sвЂќ) produced and defined under this Act not merely included organizations compensated to boost a credit that is consumer’s, but additionally those tangled up in вЂњobtaining an expansion of credit rating for a customer.вЂќ Following the FDIC issued brand new directions on payday financing in 2005, Texas payday loan providers desired to prevent these along with other limitations by registering and running as CSO’s. Continua a leggere


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The arrangement of finance by the companies is done by listing their companies into the stock market. People purchase their chosen stocks and contribute money for the companies for their business development. Considering this people are involved into economic development of the country.
After Harshad Mehta case the government has brought tight measures to prevent reoccurance of any such scandal. The stock market is witnessing a declining trend in near past. This can be attributed to the Russian – Ukraine conflict, inflationary trends and internal disturbance of our country. But we need not to get panic as it is the part and parcel of stock market.
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Though its PS4 release hasn't even come out yet, Kojima Productions confirmed Death Stranding will be coming to PC in 2020 following its exclusive launch on PS4. But the company, in its fledgling days, already revealed it would be coming to PC...and we kind of just forgot.
Way back when Kojima Productions announced its partnership with PlayStation, before Death Stranding even had a name or mysterious, flashy trailer, a now-deleted Q&A posted by PlayStation Europe included a question about whether the company's then-unnamed first game would come to other platforms.
"The title is planned to become available on PC (after PS4)," the Q&A included. But, the entire article was deleted shortly after its posting, presumably because Sony would have preferred the focus to be on Kojima's partnership with PlayStation specifically.
Of course, it's exciting news for non-PlayStation owners who also have a PC to know they'll be getting Hideo Kojima's first post-Konami directed game, but it's an announcement that was oddly expected, even if those involved did their best to hide it originally.
Death Stranding on PC will be published by 505 Games, the publisher of Remedy's Control and various other games.
Death Stranding will, meanwhile, hit PS4 on November 8, and IGN will have its Death Stranding review later this week. For more on the latest from Kojima's new game, check out Conan O'Brien's cameo in the video below, get a better understanding of Death Stranding's online play, and read up on our current Death Stranding theories.
Jonathon Dornbush is IGN's Senior news editor, host of Podcast Beyond!, and PlayStation lead. Talk to him on Twitter @Jmdornbush.


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IAMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India) has announced the launch of a Mobile10X initiative that’s aimed at maximizing India’s app development potential. The program intends to increase the number of skilled developers from 50000 to 500000. It also wants to help rake in revenues of up to Rs 10000 crores from applications.
The focus is on Android and iOS, with Google India and Paytm being the founding partners of Mobile10X. Apparently, the Play Store does not host any apps developed in the country, and the venture unveiled by IAMAI wishes to bring the count to 10 at least. It is being called the ‘largest capacity building and ecosystem enabling program’ for mobile applications.
By 2019, a minimum of 5 startup hubs will be established across India, the first one being scheduled for inauguration in October next month. The structure will house testing, design, capability building and work-space facilities. IAMAI is convinced that the apps economy will drive the internet growth here to another level altogether, as more and more folks download applications.
India plays hosts to over 213 million mobile internet users, out of which 130 million are local language consumers on the web. But it’s been widely acknowledged that the country faces the problem of shortage of skilled developers. For this very same reason, Google along with Tata and Udacity, rolled out online IT degrees and scholarships for those wishing to build Android apps.
Mobile10X aims at developers who need a small push in the right direction, students, beginners and professional developers. It will train 500000 engineering students on Android and iOS, while acting as a mentoring platform. It will also connect creators with investors, industry veterans and peers.


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- On May 26 2021, the plant-based meat manufacturer Impossible Foods launched its first ready-to-eat Impossible Burger across more than 300 7-Eleven stores in Singapore, making it the first plant-based meat manufacturer to offer a ready-to-eat product in the city.
- We highlight that Singapore has a supportive regulatory framework and landscape in place for aspiring alternative protein start-ups, due to the country's concern over its food supply, leading to a burgeoning alternative protein scene locally.
- We note that the alternative protein scene is still in its nascent stages, and prices of alternative protein products will continue to decrease as demand increases, leading to economies of scale in production.
On May 26 2021, plant-based meat manufacturer Impossible Foods debuted its ready-to-eat Impossible Burger in more than 300 locations of 7-Eleven convenience stores across Singapore. This launch will make 7-Eleven the first convenience store in Asia to offer the plant-based meat burger. The plant-based Impossible Burger patty will be featured as part of the Impossible Burger Deluxe sandwich and will be available on its own for SGD5.9 (USD4.4) or ordered as part of a combo for SGD7 (USD5.2) which includes a bottle of Glaceau vitamin water. Impossible Foods stated that this is the first time their burgers are being sold for less than SGD6 (USD4.5). We highlight that Impossible Foods will be the first plant-based meat manufacturer to offer a ready-to-eat product in Singapore.
Supportive Regulations And Landscape Leads To Burgeoning Alternative Protein Scene In Singapore
While the Impossible Burger is a US import, Singapore has been teeming with homegrown plant-based innovation in recent years. In 2020, the National Research Foundation committed a total of SGD144mn (USD110mn) to intensify Singapore's effort to grow the innovation and start-up food-tech ecosystem, facilitating more investments in the agri-food space. Priority areas highlighted included both urban agriculture and alternative proteins. This is a key part of Singapore's '30 by 30' strategy, which goal is to produce 30% of the nation's nutritional needs locally by 2030. Currently, the small island imports approximately 90% of its total food supply, putting it at the mercy of external forces in the exporting countries, most of which are beyond the country's control.
Notable developments to accelerate the progress in achieving the '30 by 30' goal included the launch of the 'Singapore Food Bowl', a programme that aims to help regional agrifood tech start-ups fast track their growth trajectory and commercialise novel technologies specifically relevant to Singapore’s food security needs, with support from statutory board Enterprise Singapore and Dole Packaged Foods. Similarly, a USD50mn fund was raised by Big Idea Ventures, a food tech focused venture capital backed by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek, Tyson Foods and Buhler - to invest in innovative start-ups working on alternative protein.
Prices Of Alternative Protein Will Continue To Decrease As Growth And Economies Of Scale Is Achieved
Before the introduction of the Impossible Burger, Impossible Foods slashed prices thrice since its Impossible Meat Plant-Based Beef was introduced to Singapore's retail shelves in October 2020. The company has cited 'economies of scale' as a factor for the price cut, and that they 'intend to keep lowering prices until we (Impossible Foods) undercut those of ground beef from cows'. The table below displays a list of alternative proteins available in retail stores across Singapore and the prices accordingly.
|Brand||Price/Kg (SGD)||Availability||Combined outlet count|
|Impossible Food||35.0||RedMart, NTUC Fairprice, Cold Storage, Giant||319|
|Beyond Meat||55.1||RedMart, NTUC Fairprice, Cold Storage, Giant||319|
|OmniMeat||37.0||RedMart, NTUC Fairprice||230|
|Quorn||20.0||RedMart, NTUC Fairprice, Cold Storage||269|
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By Asher Moses
After several false starts, the first Google-powered mobile phone - HTC's Dream - will go on sale in Australia on Optus post-paid plans from the middle of this month.
But the Dream, sold overseas as the G1, could be rendered obsolete before it even arrives as a US telco executive has said a successor would be launched overseas "in the coming weeks and months".
It also faces tough competition from Apple's iPhone, which has similar features but a more elegant design, analysts say.
The 3G touch-screen device has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3.2-megapixel camera and the ability to synchronise email, calendar, contacts and documents stored on Google's suite of online applications in realtime.
The phone, based on the Google Android operating system, will initially only be available on plans from Optus starting on February 16.
Exact details of the plans have yet to be announced but there will be four plans, starting at $59 a month, while monthly data allowances will range from 500MB to 3GB. Customers will be locked into two-year contracts.
Last year, Melbourne consumer electronics maker Ruslan Kogan made waves when he announced his brand, Kogan, would begin selling the first Android-powered phone by Christmas. The launch was pushed back until January 29 but, on January 16, Kogan announced he was aborting the release, citing "potential future interoperability issues".
The Dream, sold in the US and Britain since October last year, is the only Android phone on the market today. The Australian launch will be the first time an Android device has been sold in the Asia-Pacific region.
But other manufacturers including Motorola, Lenovo, Sony Ericsson and Samsung have all announced plans to begin selling phones based on the Google operating system this year.
Compare: Mobile phone plans for the HTC Dream
While Optus is the first Australian telco to take a punt on Android, Telstra appears to be cool on the idea.
In a recent interview with CNET News.com, Telstra chief executive Sol Trujilo said the company was looking at testing Android but so far it "isn't at the stage where it's really robust".
"It's still in evolution right now. It's very Google-centric. And there are limitations. We are hopeful that it will be more open, because it offers a great alternative operating platform. But it's not there today," he said.
Meanwhile, loss-making handset maker Motorola announced during its fourth-quarter earnings call this week that it was shifting its focus from the Windows Mobile platform to Android. It will unveil its first Android-powered device in the second quarter of this year.
Like the iPhone with its App Store, the G1 supports third-party applications that can be accessed for free on the device from the Android Market. Analysts have predicted that the Google platform might have trouble attracting software developers because, unlike Apple's App Store, Google doesn't allow them to charge for accessing applications.
The phone also comes preloaded with a suite of Google online applications including Gmail, Google search, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Talk and YouTube. YouTube has been redesigned to be speedy and intuitive on a mobile screen, while, with Google Maps Street View, users can pan the view 360 degrees just by moving around with the phone.
Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi said she believed "demand for the G1 will be much lower than for the iPhone", which she said had a more "sleek" and "iconic" design. But she said the G1's tight integration with Google services such as Street View was a unique selling point.
"The phone will provide a taste of what the Android platform is capable of, but we expect teething issues and some limitations," Milanesi said.
"The main challenge for Google and its manufacturing partners will be to come up with interesting devices with a very good UI [user interface] and accompanying services that appeal to consumers."
But the G1 could already be obsolete by the time Australians pull it out of the box. T-Mobile's senior VP of engineering and operations, Neville Ray, said in a recent interview with Fierce Wireless that more G-series Google phones would be launched "in the coming weeks and months".
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The “Apple of China” is looking to consolidate its relationship with not only Google, but rival tech colossus Microsoft as well. After selling the Mi Pad 2 in both Android and Windows 10 flavors, and allowing Mi 4 phone users to participate in W10M’s Technical Preview, Xiaomi just reached a mutually beneficial arrangement that will pre-install some of Redmond’s mobile apps on devices like the Mi 5, Mi Max, Mi 4s, Redmi Note 3 and Redmi 3.
These are wildly popular in China and a couple of them are making headway in India, the two being the world’s largest smartphone markets. It’s no wonder therefore Microsoft is excited about the expansion of this global partnership, especially considering the reluctance of mobile consumers in the aforementioned countries to adopt foreign technologies.
Before you start wondering how much Xiaomi might be paid here to grant out-the-box Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Skype installation on its Android products, it’s worth stressing the deal also reportedly extends to 1,500 Microsoft patents that will be licensed to the currently stagnating handheld OEM.
In its efforts to return to the growth of the past few years, Xiaomi has no choice but to diversify its device portfolio and tackle the Western hemisphere, America included. Only first it needs to make sure it’s got its legal bases covered, anticipating and preventing drawn-out, costly copyright infringement lawsuits.
Enter these mystery 1,500 patents, connected to “wireless communications” and “other technologies, including video.” Deemed the first step in building a “very strong patent portfolio” by a senior Xiaomi VP of strategic cooperation, they’re an extremely small part of Microsoft’s extensive intellectual property wealth, nonetheless strengthening a “much broader partnership than some of the other we’ve had”, according to Redmond Corporate VP Jonathan Tinter.


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Samsung has filed a trademark that suggests possibly integrating a crypto wallet into its smartphones. Reinforces reports that surfaced earlier this month, claimed that crypto integration was on Samsung’s agenda. The filing was submitted to the intellectual property office on Dec 27th.
UK Trademark Flown by South Korean Giant
Rumor has it that Samsung is on the brink of launching a crypto equipped smartphone. The filing of the trademark on Dec. 27 has added weight to the speculation that Samsung has crypto in its road map. The simply titled trademark “Samsung Crypto Wallet,” doesn’t reveal much details, but its name does say enough.
Crypto users will be left with questions, as a result of the filing. Two of the pressing questions being: is Samsung going to develop a standalone hardware or an integrated smartphone wallet? And does Samsung really intend on developing the device in the hopefully near future?
It is a common practice for smartphones to file and register trademarks. However only a handful of these will result in a product being brought to market. On the same, another 42 trademarks from the Asian electronics manufacturer were also filled in the US.
With each new improvement of smartphones, technical improvements become less and new features less frequent. Addition of a crypto wallet gives manufacturers a chance of distinguishing their handsets from competition. This also gives crypto users a new gadget to drool over.
On the other hand, the HTC Exodus smartphone that is backed by crypto figures such as Charlie Lee was meant to ship this month, but it is yet to deliver. The bar for blockchain phones has been set pretty low. That said, should Samsung ride the tide and try its own crypto smartphone, it would stand an overwhelmingly good chance at becoming the most popular handset devise of its kind.


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Another edition of ATQ News, courtesy once again of Ikechi Uko
ATQnews.com a member of Travel Media Group. This is the online platform for African Travel Quarterly (ATQ), the first Travel magazine in West Africa which solely focuses on travel and tourism issues. It started publishing offline about 10 years ago. ATQnews.com features reports that cover a wide range of topics within the travel
Nigerian is ranked third in mobile online shopping worldwide, a report by Paypal has said. PayPal is the most popular way Nigerians pay for cross-border online purchases and 55 percent of Nigerian cross-border shoppers have used the platform for purchases in the past 12 months. According to PayPal, the country’s consumers spent N128.1 billion in 2015 via online shopping, targeting N172 billion by the end of this year.
PayPal’s General Manager Africa and Israel, Efi Dahan, who commented on the shopping trend said: “Nigerians are doing so wherever and whenever they want to, using their mobile devices as an essential shopping tool. “Nigerian online shoppers have realised that the world is their shopping mall when it comes to buying what they need and want.
The director of policy analysis, research and statistics, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Dr Paul Adalikwu, has revealed that Nigeria spends about N750 million annually on Dubai tourism through taxation on tickets adding that 250, 000 Nigerians travelled to Dubai last year
Kenya´s parliament will next month tick the last boxes in the application process for approval of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for Category One status by the American FAA. Legislation is reportedly now ready to be tabled in the house after the committee for transport has put the final touches …


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Earlier today, retailers Bountii, eStarland, and MSN Shopping showed pre-order listings for Fallout 3's upcoming Broken Steel expansion and something called “Point Lookout”.
Rumors started circulating that this was a possible fourth expansion for the title, but Bethesda VP Pete Hines has brushed it off saying there isn't a fourth expansion.
"We have said there will be three DLCs for Fallout 3, for PC and 360. We’ve released two, and the third, Broken Steel, is scheduled for release Tuesday, May 5th," he told GamerVision.
"Beyond that we have no announced plans for additional DLC."
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Kia Motors India news
As a part of this agreement, the private sector lender will now offer one-stop banking and financing solutions such as inventory funding, cash credit, auto loans and fast tags to the dealers and customers of Kia Motors.
Kia will start by rolling out the SP2i concept SUV in July, which will compete with Renault’s Duster, Maruti Suzuki’s S-Cross and Hyundai’s Creta.
World's eighth largest carmaker, Kia Motors aims to be among top 5 carmakers in the India with 6-7 percent market share in its three years of operations.
The first India manufacturing facility for Kia Motors is coming up over 213.7 hectares of land to produce 3 lakh cars annually, involving an investment of over $2 billion (approximately Rs 12,900 crore).
The company is planning to launch its car offerings in 2019.
Kia will exhibit its wide range of electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids, and a range of other cars, including the exciting new Stinger sports sedan.
The company, which plans to launch its vehicles in the Indian market next year, also said Yong S Kim has been appointed as executive director with immediate effect.
Korean consortia of auto component manufacturers are set to make approximately USD 1 billion investment in a supply chain for an integrated plant being set up by Kia Motors in Andhra Pradesh, according to an investment transaction lawyer involved in the project.
Kia Motors claims that the construction of its first manufacturing facility leads to an approximate investment of US$1.1 billion investment, and will commence in the final quarter of 2017. The manufacturing facility is expected to begin production in the second half of 2019 with an initial capacity to produce 300,000 units per year.


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A new video shows Sony Interactive Entertainment's research work on a finger-tracking controller that would be perfectly suited for a next-gen PlayStation VR system.
The video is fully titled "Evaluation of Machine Learning Techniques for Hand Pose Estimation on Handheld Device with Proximity Sensor", and it's attributed to Sony researchers Kazuyuki Arimatsu and Hideki Mori. Upload VR spotted the video (and accompanying article) on the Association for Computing Machinery's digital library then uploaded it to YouTube for easier watching. It looks like this prototype is related to a patent for a finger-tracking controller that Sony first filed back in 2018.
The prototype uses 62 "capacitance-sensing electrodes" to detect where fingers are located even when they're relatively distant from the controller itself - using the same slight electrical field produced by our bodies that lets you interact with your smartphone's touchscreen.
Many finger-tracking VR controllers already exist, but this prototype is remarkable for the fidelity it allows for tracking each finger in a wide variety of poses and conditions. That includes wearing a ton of metal jewellry on your hands, and having extra-sweaty palms (scientifically simulated with a copious spray of saline solution).
This is an exciting look at new technology, but it will probably be a while before we get to try out any kind of a consumer version from Sony. The company has confirmed that it has no plans to launch new VR hardware alongside PS5, via CNET, which means we shouldn't expect it to arrive until mid to late 2021 at the earliest. That said, Sony has also confirmed that the current iteration of PlayStation VR will work on PS5, so you'll be able to keep playing in VR that way even as you wait to make peace signs with sweaty palms on your next-gen controller.
Make the most of the current generation of VR with our guide to the best PSVR games.


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The switchport for Bloodstained Ritual Of The Night just released and players who had a chance to look at it report several issues with it, frame rate and optimization issues being the topmost concerns. Back when it released in 2015, Bloodstained Ritual of The Night earned around $5 million, by promising us of a new Metroidvania from Symphony of the Night guru, Koji Igarashi.
Just last week, the game was released for PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One. Up until this moment, no one had an issue with the same. Since Nintendo Switch port just got released, it is proving to be unlucky as hell.
For us, we knew that the Nintendo Switch version would be a visible downgrade from other platforms. First off, the hardware is not nearly powerful. If we are to cap the game at 30 frames-per-second frame rate which, even in relatively tame settings, the game doesn’t seem stable. The visual quality is seemingly compromised. Players have claimed things like they reach parts of the game that can barely run above 15FPS let alone a stable 30FPS! All of them wish that a better optimization in a future patch is done or picking a different platform is the way to go.
Even though it took more than a week to arrive, the game has serious issues and problems such as inconsistent framerates, low resolutions, and even intermittent crashes, etc. Let’s also remember that these are still early days for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night on Switch. Developers will get plenty of time to reassess performance. There’s always room for improvement and development. Let’s not forget that Switch was announced halfway through the development of the game, that’s a plus point and something that can be worked upon.


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Inflation Current Affairs - 2019
Category Wise PDF Compilations available at This Link
The Central Statistical Office (CSO) has released the data of Inflation for the month of February 2019. The data shows that:
- Retail inflation was at a four-month high of 2.57 per cent in February 2019 due to costlier food articles. The retail inflation was highest since October 2018 when it stood at 3.38 per cent.
- Consumer Price Index-based inflation for January 2019 was revised down to a 19-month low of 1.97 per cent from an earlier estimate of 2.05 per cent.
- Food inflation at (-) 0.66 per cent in February 2019 was lower against 3.26 per cent in the same month last year.
- The consumer food price index increased by 0.15 per cent in February against January 2019.
- The prices of Protein-rich items such as meat & fish and eggs witnessed a quick rise in prices at 5.92 per cent and 0.86 per cent respectively in February.
- The prices of cereal and products went up at 1.32 per cent.
- Fruits and Vegetable prices continued their declining trend.
- In the fuel and light category, the rate of price rise slowed to 1.24 per cent from 2.20 per cent in January.
With the headline inflation reading at 2.57 per cent and industrial production growth on the downside at 1.7 per cent, economists see a case and space for one more rate cut of 25 bps by RBI in April to support growth.
The Union Ministry of Commerce and Industries has released the data on WPI Inflation. The data makes the following observations:
- The WPI Inflation fell to a 10-month low of 2.76 per cent in January owing to softening prices of fuel and some food items.
- The WPI inflation has stood at 3.8 per cent in December 2018, and 3.02 per cent in January 2018.
- Manufactured products inflation which has a weightage of 64.23 per cent in WPI declined to 2.61 per cent in January, from a level of 2.96 per cent in January 2018.
- The wholesale based price inflation for ‘fuel and power’ segment fell sharply to 1.85 per cent as against 8.38 per cent in December 2018, due to easing in prices of motor fuel and LPG.
- The government also revised the November WPI downwards to 4.47% from 4.64% earlier.
- The primary articles inflation with the weightage of 22.62 per cent increased to 3.54 per cent in January from 2.53 per cent in same month last year.
In its last monetary policy review, RBI had decreased the lending rate by 0.25 per cent. It is expected that the decrease in inflation may provide further head-room to the RBI to cut interest rate (repo) in the coming months.


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Adobe Connect vs Blue Jeans
Last updated: April 16, 2020
Adobe Connect is an enterprise web conferencing solution for online meetings, eLearning, and webinars used by leading corporations and government agencies. And it's based on Adobe Flash technology, so you can deliver rich interactions that participants can join easily.
With our cloud-based video collaboration service, you can forget about needing any additional hardware or software. Simply combine a Blue Jeans account with a video-enabled device and Internet access, and you have a quick and easy formula for effortless video conferencing
Adobe Connect vs Blue Jeans in our news:
2020. Verizon is buying B2B videoconferencing firm BlueJeans
US carrier Verizon has splashed out to buy veteran B2B videoconferencing platform, BlueJeans Network for less than $500 million. Videoconferencing platform Blue Jeans has raised ~$175M since being founded around a decade ago. The acquisition comes at a time when videoconferencing is seeing a massive uptick in usage as white collar workers around the world log on to meetings from home during the coronavirus pandemic.Although it’s BlueJeans’ rival, Zoom, that’s been the most high profile name linked to the viral videoconferencing boom in recent weeks.
2014. Adobe Connect 9.3 improves screen sharing and whiteboard
Adobe has released the latest version of its web conference platform Adobe Connect 9.3 including enhancements in screen sharing, its virtual whiteboard, social media integration and compatablity with Salesforce.com and Microsoft Lync 2013. Screen sharing. Adobe Connect 9.3 includes a new screen sharing control panel that enables users to preview what’s being shared, control the video and the audio in the meeting, manage participants, interact with chat and respond to any notifications. New tools such as new pen and pencil tools join Adobe's marker and highlighter. The update also includes a brand new color picker and the ability to arrange layers. Customers can also use their virtual whiteboard just like they would a classroom one. Recording notes on the whiteboard simulates the in-classroom experience.
2005. Macromedia updates its Web conferencing tools
Macromedia has unveiled the latest version of its online video conferencing application, adding support for VoIP, among other features. Known as Breeze 5, the software is the company's latest effort to expand the range of applications supported by its Macromedia Flash Player software, which it says has now been downloaded more than 500 million times. The primary selling point of the technology is that people who have already downloaded the freely available Flash client software do not need to load other applications in order to use Breeze 5. Macromedia, which is being bought for $3.4 billion by Adobe Systems, released the hosted version of Breeze 5 on Monday. The company plans to introduce a packaged version of the application sometime in the next month.


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Swedish record label INGRID has released their 6th video clip called “Scene 6″ with Lykke Li’s image twisting and turning set her new track “Come Near” off the labels Record Store Day compilation. [...]
Lykke Li has released a new track from her new label, Ingrid’s, Record Store Day compilation Ingrid – Volym 1, called “Come Near” which you can hear right now. [...]
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Sitting up in the newsroom here at MotorMartin Towers can often be a lonesome experience but every now and again there arrives something which makes you thankful. On this occasion it was the rather marvellous news that Visitors to Concours of Elegance 2016 – held at Windsor Castle from 2-4 September – will have the unique opportunity to see four of the remaining 1926 British Grand Prix cars in one place. In a celebration of Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th birthday, the historic racing cars will be joined by a revolutionary British car from each decade of Her Majesty’s life. What a stunning idea!
Organised by the Royal Automobile Club, the very first British Grand Prix took place at Brooklands Motor Circuit, Surrey, in the year of Her Majesty The Queen’s birth, 1926. A total of 11 cars took part, with just three finishing the race, and Concours of Elegance 2016 will mark the first time that this many competitors have gathered since the race 90 years ago. Incredible and a real treat for anyone with even the slightest interest in MotorSport heritage.
It’s clear to MotorMartin that this will be a quite unique opportunity to see where top level British motorsport began, as four of the original racing cars line-up in the grounds of Windsor Castle in September; among them a Delage 155B, Talbot 700, Thomas Special and Halford Special. Each carries an incredible racing story, like that of the Delage, which was making frequent stops to avoid causing serious burns to the drivers’ feet.
Concours of Elegance 2016 have shared with MotorMartin that they will also be gathering 10 of the most revolutionary British cars from Her Majesty The Queen’s life – one from each decade. Running from the Bentley 3 Litre of the 1920s, through the Land Rover Series I, the Mini and the McLaren F1, the feature will showcase Britain’s pivotal role in the motor industry.
Amazingly, these features are just a small part of the Windsor Castle event which – at its heart – showcases sixty of the world’s most exclusive cars. The full list of those sixty, which are hosted in Windsor’s glorious Quadrangle, will be finalised in the next few weeks by the event’s Steering Committee, a group of the world’s most knowledgeable classic car experts. Already confirmed is a one-off art deco masterpiece, the 1937 Hispano Suiza Dubonnet Xenia, and an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Zagato, a car which dominated motorsport events of its day.
For those lucky enough to be able to attend this prestigious event, Concours of Elegance 2016 will also feature a free-to-view area, consisting of more than 800 models from the UK’s best car clubs, including the Ferrari, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Jaguar and Bentley owners’ clubs.
For those of you unsure as to the history behind this quite unique event, then allow MotorMartin to share with you the following from the organisers themselves: Established in 2012, the inaugural Concours of Elegance was held within Windsor Castle to mark the diamond jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen’s reign. Organised by Thorough Events, the first Concours of Elegance set a new global benchmark for a classic car concours; winning prestigious awards in the process; unheard of for a ‘start-up’ event in its first year. The second Concours of Elegance was held in 2013 to equal fanfare at the historic Royal Palace of St James in London, with the widely acclaimed and biggest yet third Concours set in the stunning grounds of Hampton Court Palace in September 2014. Only 60 cars of the highest calibre are invited to the Concours of Elegance (60 being a reference to The Queen’s diamond jubilee which saw the event established in 2012), with the rarest cars in the world, from all over the world, painstakingly selected by the Concours Steering Committee; a respected team of authoritative historic car experts. A key objective of the annual Concours of Elegance is to raise significant sums for charity. So there you have it. A great event, meticulous research, superb cars and amazing sums of money raised. What’s not to like?
For further information don’t forget to checkout the website at www.concoursofelegance.co.uk
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H&M finally announced their fall 2011 collaboration with another high-end designer, Versace, following the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney, Comme des Garçons, Roberto Cavalli, Jimmy Choo and Lanvin.
This announcement is a complete turnaround from Donatella Versace’s response back in 2008 when she was asked about doing a lower-priced line. “I respect everyone who does it. But the reason I didn’t do it is because I work very hard to put the Versace line in the luxury section. I think to put the Versace line in H&M would confuse the brand,” she told New York Magazine. However, instead of selling this collection as a “diffusion” line, it’s called the “Iconic Collection”, wherein Donatella will be sharing Versace’s iconic designs.
So what can we expect from H&M’s collaboration with Versace?
Designed by its creative director Donatella Versace, the exclusive collection will recall the vibrant heritage of the brand, complete with leather, prints, color, and exuberance in exclusive materials at fantastic H&M prices.
The womenswear collection will be dominated by dresses that express the spirit of the season, featuring studded leather, silk and colorful prints, and accessories including high heels and costume jewelry. The men’s collection will focus on sharp tailoring, including the perfect tuxedo, as well as belts and jewelry for men. For the first time in a designer collaboration at H&M, the collection will include homeware pieces including pillows and bedspread.
Now, the big question… When will it be available???
Versace for H&M will be out on November 17 in selected stores in the US. The collection will be available in about 300 stores worldwide. It will then be followed by a pre-spring collection, which will be available on January 19 in countries with H&M online sales.


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March 9, 2013 Business
Casey Newton reports:
Google Glass won’t be available to consumers for months, but there’s at least one Seattle bar where the eyewear will not be welcome.
The 5 Point, a self-described dive bar in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood, posted a notice to its Facebook page this week telling Glass Explorers looking to grab a pint that they will need to remove their $1,500 spectacles. The story was noted today on GeekWire.
“For the record, The 5 Point is the first Seattle business to ban in advance Google Glasses,” the post reads. “And ass kickings will be encouraged for violators.”
Read more on CNET.
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Newly proposed European Union (EU) regulations threaten the export of oranges from the Southern African region to Europe, according to Citrus Growers’ Association (CGA) of South Africa special envoy to market access and EU matter representative Deon Joubert. Earlier in April, the EU’s Standing Committee on Plant, Animal, Food and Feed (Scopaff) was set to discuss and possibly vote on new and “arguably misinformed” regulations on False Coddling Moth (FCM), which poses a major threat to Southern African orange exports, he says. “If agreed to by member countries, the new regulations will have a devastating impact on orange exports from South Africa to the region,” says Joubert. An imposition of such regulations could result in large gaps in the supply chain and higher prices of oranges for European consumers, at a time when the region faces the real risk of food insecurity owing to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Industry association the Citrus Growers’ Association of Southern Africa (CGA) says it is encouraged by the work done by the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), Transnet and the eThekwini municipality to reopen the Durban port. The arterial Bayhead road has been partially reopened ahead of schedule, while work on the ingoing lanes is proceeding well and is expected to take a few weeks, not months, to complete.
Task force calls for coffee subsidies (Business Daily)
A coffee task force committee has recommended subsidies of farming inputs to farmers to address the high cost of production and increase growers’ earnings. In a report, the committee noted that there is a need to address the high cost of production that has eaten into farmers’ margins. The committee has also recommended improvement of the quality of coffee at the farm level by adopting good agricultural practices and modern coffee processing technologies and promoting efficiency in the management of the crop through co-operative societies. “There is [a] need to address a reduction in the cost of production through appropriate support of growers with quality and affordable farm inputs and planting materials,” said a report of the task force. The task force also wants farmers to be involved directly in coffee marketing to enhance transparency. Currently, growers sell through marketing agencies.
Expensive fertiliser pushes farmers to organic farming (Business Daily)
The sustainability of crop farming has increasingly come into question in the past few weeks as fertiliser prices skyrocket. Supply chain disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic as well as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February have curtailed shipments of key fertiliser components such as Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium from the two countries, which are among the world’s biggest suppliers. In face of the global shortages, the price been rising with every passing day, jumping as high as Sh6,000 per 50-kilogramme bag, nearly double the price a year ago. Farmers have been forced to make tough choices — either dig deeper into their pockets to access this indispensable farm input that is crucial for better yields and pest management, or minimise on their costs by cutting on the acreage they put under production.
But for small-scale farmers, the choice is not so black-and-white. Being more dependent on the farming ventures for family sustenance, they need to put every bit of the small acreage they have under production and all the input they can get to guarantee better yields.
Kenya moves to reduce interest on foreign debt (The East African)
Kenya is reviewing the currency composition of its external debt in order to reduce currency volatility that has seen the cost of its dollar-denominated loans increase by two percent in four months. Haron Sirma, director-in-charge of Debt Management at the Treasury, said the proposal is aimed at reducing foreign exchange costs. “On the external debt stock, we seek to match the currency composition with the country’s foreign exchange holdings,” said Mr Sirma. “The characteristics of a country’s external debt by currency should mirror the foreign currency inflows through exports and remittances. This minimises forex costs through exchange rate movement.” Kenya borrows externally in five major currencies — 67 percent in dollars, 19 percent in euros, six percent in Japanese yen, six percent in Chinese yuan and two percent in pound sterling. Last year, Kenya’s external debt was $36.9 billion, of which dollar-denominated loans stood at $24.72 billion, according to the Treasury.
Kagame, Museveni hold bilateral talks in Kampala (The East African)
Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni on Sunday held bilateral talks in Kampala. The two leaders agreed to push for regional peace and stability by jointly addressing the security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of the East African Community. The talks came on the backdrop of last week’s meeting in Nairobi by the bloc’s Heads of State in which they agreed to set up a regional military force bent on ending decades of insecurity in eastern DRC, caused by militia groups. DR Congo in early April signed the treaty of accession into the EAC, becoming the seventh member of the bloc. President Kagame did not attend the Nairobi meeting last week where leaders discussed regional security, but was represented by Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Vincent Biruta.
Malawi, Mozambique sign trade pacts (Nyasa Times)
Malawi and Mozambique have signed two important trade pacts aimed at unlocking and boosting trade of the two countries.
The agreements have been signed between the Agency of Promotion and Investments and Appiex IP of Mozambique and the Malawi Investment and Trade Centre as well as the Mozambique Cereals Institute ICM and the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC). Chakwera said Malawi imports goods worth US$300 million annually and many of them are handled at Nacala and Beira ports but not much has been done to enhance bilateral trade between the two countries.
Ghana Export Promotion Authority in efforts to increase earnings from the Non-Traditional Exports (NTEs) is setting up various sector working groups under the auspices of the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI). The move is in line with the implementation of the National Export Development Strategy, which identifies various interventions and structures for successful operation of the strategy. One of the structures to be established is the sector groups which would take care of the priority sectors that have been outlined.
“GEPA’s role is to coordinate the implementation of the activities and actions of the Strategy and for this reason ware happy to inform you that the NEDS Coordination Secretariat has been set up at GEPA and implementation of the NEDS has effectively commenced,” he said.
Effective implementation of the interventions for the 17 prioritized NTE products identified in the Strategy will require collaboration of key implementing partners centred around the product sector groups, he said.
African trade news
Intra-African trade remains low despite efforts from the African government to improve continental trading capacity. In the recent decade, intra-African trade accounted for about 12 percent of Africa’s total trade. One of the leading causes of low continental trade is the absence of a strong and efficient private sector. While the current trade framework focuses on lowering trade barriers, increasing the efficiency of the private sector’s productivity can improve Africa’s trading performance. The current framework necessitates a need to shift toward integrative private sector participation. The private sector bears the main brunt of the trade constraints. While the public sector, through the government, negotiates and signs trade agreements, the consequences of the private sector play an integral part in African trade. It is why African governments must operate systems viable for private sector participation. Poor infrastructure reduces by 40 percent in Africa, and per capita output grew by 2 percent. This lack of infrastructure capacity means that the private sector cannot compete at the highest level in terms of productivity. Governments in Africa must seek new ways to attract funding for infrastructure projects. For example, infrastructure bonds have been successfully utilised to fund South Africa and Kenya road renovations. These funds might be used to help finance infrastructure projects all over Africa.
Dr. Chris Kpodar, President of Solomon Investment Ghana Limited, has called on the African Union (AU), to champion the adoption of an African Continental Common Currency (ACCC) agenda, saying, a common currency depicts ones’ economic power. Speaking on the topic: “The justification for African Continental Common Currency backed by resources, not by dollar,” at the Ghana News Agency-Tema Industrial News Hub Boardroom Dialogue, Dr. Kpodar noted that African countries must start setting the pillars for the ACCC Agenda. Dr. Kpodar said the use of Dollars, Euro, Pounds, and CFA respectively by African Anglophones and Francophones was an indication of their strings attached to their former colonial masters who were still controlling their affairs through their currencies. He said, “it is time to achieve economic independence”.
Are events overtaking the long-delayed Eco in West Africa? (African Business)
With the latest 2020 launch deadline postponed because of the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and no new timetable in place, there are concerns about whether the eco continues to be a viable proposition. This is despite the many advantages a common currency offers the 15 members of the Ecowas trading bloc. Removing trade and monetary barriers and meeting these targets across the region would have significant benefits for the countries involved. Meeting the convergence requirements would instil greater fiscal discipline in the region and provide a mechanism for unlocking improved transactional efficiencies and ensuring more predictable monetary policy and inflation management as well as reduced risk. Having a common currency would remove trade and monetary barriers, boosting economic activity and economic upliftment in this region of approximately 385 million people. This, in turn, would be a catalyst for new investment in the region. But with no new date set for the launch, there are concerns the project may be drifting.
Africa faces hard knocks as rich countries take manufacturing back home (The Conversation Africa)
The global economic crisis triggered by the outbreak of the COVID pandemic in 2020 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February this year has intensified the risk of declining trade integration between countries. A process referred to as the deglobalisation of trade. The pandemic sent shocks through supply chains across the world. As a result, companies in some advanced economies have started to prioritise bringing production that was previously outsourced to Asia back home – or closer to home. The expectation is that this will avert ongoing – and future – supply-chain disruptions, ensuring a steady and reliable supply of goods.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated global supply shortages after the pandemic. It is also further fuelling expectations of major reduced reliance on global supply chains by businesses. This is particularly true of companies in Europe and the US.
This trend risks adding additional strain to economies in Africa on top of the current economic pain from soaring food and fuel price inflation imposed by the war in Ukraine. A deglobalising world poses serious risks for Africa. This has been confirmed by findings in a recent World Bank report. It shows that reversing globalisation through reshoring of value chains has the potential to push an additional 52 million people into extreme poverty. Those living in Sub-Saharan Africa would be the hardest hit.
African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina concluded a three-day official visit to Washington DC on Saturday. Alongside the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, the visit included several bilateral engagements with stakeholders on African development. Adesina garnered broad strong support for a robust 16th replenishment of the African Development Fund, the Bank Group’s concessionary lending arm that supports Africa’s low-income economies. Replenishment efforts continue through October, when partners are expected to make their pledges. During bilateral meetings, United States Assistant Treasury Secretary Alexia Latortue said the African Development Fund was critical to Africa’s the development landscape. She assured the Bank President that the US remains a strong and proud supporter of the Fund, which has strategic focus and delivers impact. Latourte applauded the leadership of Dr. Adesina in developing the Bank’s bold African emergency food production plan to avert the looming food crisis due to the Russian war in Ukraine and assured of the strong partnership of the US Treasury Department on the plan.
African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina says “Africa must prepare for the inevitability of a global food crisis.” He was speaking about Africa’s priorities, as a guest at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center on Friday. Fielding questions from the Council’s Africa Center Chair, Ambassador Rama Yade; Senior Fellow Aubrey Hruby; and Washington/UN correspondent for Jeune Afrique and The Africa Report, Julian Pecquet, the Bank chief called for an increased sense of urgency amid what he described as a once-in-a-century convergence of global challenges for Africa. According to Adesina, the continent’s most vulnerable countries had been hit hardest by conflict, climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, which had upended economic and development progress in Africa. He said Africa, with the lowest GDP growth rates, had lost as many as 30 million jobs on account of the pandemic.
Africa’s Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery: Insights from Ghana and Nigeria (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
The economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been severe for parts of the African continent, exacerbating existing fiscal and socio-economic challenges. Although African economies are slowly recovering, that recovery is constrained by low vaccination rates, tight fiscal space, unequal access to external finance, and increasing debt vulnerabilities. The disruption of global trade flows and commodity markets by the situation in Ukraine is adding more pressures. Still, African governments have undertaken a wide range of initiatives to provide relief to their citizens and position their economies on the path to resilience and prosperity.
Investors pumped record amounts of private equity and venture capital into Africa last year, according to a new report by the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA.) The ‘African Private Capital Activity Report’(pdf), released on 19 Mar., found that the total value of private capital deals in Africa reached a record high of $7.4 billion in 2021, representing a 118% increase compared to the $3.4 billion registered in 2020. The record amount was almost double the $4 billion that was invested on an annual average basis in Africa between 2016 and 2020. “The report highlights how Africa’s economy continues to be fertile ground with attractive investment opportunities for investors in search of yields,” said Abi Mustapha-Maduakor, CEO at AVCA.
How the G-7 can support Africa’s climate agenda (Jordan Times)
One of the more concrete outcomes of last November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) is South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP). Under this plan, South Africa will receive $8.5 billion in grants and loans from the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the European Union to support its transition from coal-fired power plants to cleaner energy sources. Details of the JETP’s implementation are still scant. But the agreement already promises to be a template for how wealthy countries, the world’s largest historical emitters of greenhouse gases, can support the climate agenda of the lowest emitters, most of which are in Africa and are bearing the brunt of the climate emergency. That makes the JETP worthy of close attention as June’s G-7 leaders’ summit in Germany approaches.
Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosted H.E. Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, culminating an impactful week during which the U.S. Chamber’s U.S.-Africa Business Center hosted official delegations from South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Tunisia, and Congo. During President Hassan’s visit, the U.S. Chamber oversaw the signing of over $500 million in new investments in Tanzania, including the signing of a U.S. Chamber Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand trade and investment between the U.S. and Tanzania, one of the world’s fastest growing economies. The MOU with the Tanzania Trade Development Authority will build business linkages between the U.S. and Tanzania through the countries’ mutual commitment to share investment and trade information, co-host events including public- and private-sector trade policy dialogues, and collaborate on trade and investment forums and conferences, among other measures.
Global economy news
New UNCTAD figures show that the significant uptick in consumer e-commerce activity fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic was sustained in 2021, with online sales increasing markedly in value, despite the easing of restrictions in many countries. The average share of internet users who made purchases online increased from 53% before the pandemic (2019) to 60% following the onset of the pandemic (2020/21), across 66 countries with statistics available. But the situation prior to the pandemic and the extent of the boost to online shopping experienced vary between countries. Many developed countries already had relatively high levels of online shopping (above 50% of internet users) before the pandemic while most developing countries had a lower uptake of consumer e-commerce
The COVID-19 pandemic has made digital technologies and an internet connection even more important in our daily lives, as people and companies have moved even more online to work, learn, socialize, shop and do business. But not everyone is reaping the benefits, especially the 2.9 billion people still without an internet connection. A heavier reliance on digital tools also poses risks to the environment, as they generate more CO2 emissions and e-waste. Bridging the digital divide and tackling the risks of digitalization are at the heart of UNCTAD’s eCommerce Week, happening from 25 to 29 April.
The digital transformation that was accentuated during the pandemic pointed to the unequal opportunities that existed between the ones that could and the ones that could not take advantage of digital solutions to cope with the negative effects of the pandemic – be it in the health care area or in the economic field. This has immediately raised the awareness among the governments around the world that something needs to be changed. We cannot continue on the same trajectory because that will just result in even wider divides, even wider inequalities. But unfortunately, it’s going to be very difficult for individual governments to deal with all these issues on their own. We need to come together. This is the time when the UN should do its job by bringing all the forces together to develop something that’s not good only for individual countries but for the planet as a whole.
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have historically faced various binding constraints to their sustainable development. These range from low productivity and limited capacity in manufacturing and other productive sectors, to a lack of economic diversification, high levels of dependence on commodities and minerals, low investment rates and limited government capacity to implement growth-oriented structural policies. Rarely has a country evolved from poor to rich without sustained structural economic transformation from an agrarian or resource-based economy towards an industrial or service-based economy. For this reason, the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA), which ran from 2011-2020, prioritised the building and diversifying of productive capacity in LDCs.
Helping Countries Cope with Multiple Crises (World Bank)
This year’s Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund took place at a time of overlapping global crises. The war in Ukraine has compounded concerns about inflation, COVID-19, climate change, and debt, with many other countries also facing fragility and conflict. The chair’s statement issued on Friday by the Development Committee, a ministerial-level forum that represents 189 member countries of the two organizations, noted that the impacts will be felt most in low- and middle-income countries, especially by their most vulnerable people, including women and children. The statement added that economic recovery is at risk amid geopolitical tensions, with investment, trade, and growth affected, even as countries face further risks from the pandemic and uneven deployment of vaccines.
BRI is a boost for economic development, not a debt trap (China.org.cn)
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has showcased resilience and vitality in boosting economic development amid the COVID-19 pandemic and assisted participating countries in stabilizing their economies, officials and experts said Thursday. Over the years, several low-income and emerging economies have been experiencing daunting debt risks owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and global political uncertainties. As a result, it is necessary to adopt appropriate measures to sort out the debt repayment issues of such countries with concerted efforts from all parties, said Zhou Xiaochuan, former governor of China’s central bank, at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022.


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WTF?! A Tesla owner has seen his TikTok video about the car’s apparent flaws go viral. Mario Zelaya said he was locked out of his Tesla Model S after the battery died, which would have cost him $21,000 to replace.
Zelaya, who lives in Toronto, Canada, said he paid $140,000 (Canadian) for the brand new car in 2013. According to Elon Musk, the batteries in these cards are rated for a range of 300,000 to 500,000 miles, or about 21 to 25 years, before they need to be replaced. But Zelaya’s electric vehicle needed a new one after just 77,000 miles.
Zelaya said the problem was that some 2013 and 2014 Tesla Model S vehicles had an issue where fluid from the air conditioning drain hose dripped onto the battery, causing it to rust – technicians from Transport Canada’s regulator confirmed that was the reason for his battery had died.
Zelaya brought the car to Tesla after a “high voltage battery” warning message appeared, only to be told the warranty didn’t cover it. He asked for a free battery, but the request was denied, giving him the option of paying over $21,000 for a replacement or selling the car.
@supermariozelaya in response to @Mario Zelaya Here’s an update and some clarification on my dead Tesla. Also, someone will buy it tomorrow for $19,000 and take the responsibility of opening the car. I have 85 messages on it on FB Marketplace….I guess I’m selling it cheap? #tesla #auto ♬ Original sound – Mario Zelaya
Because the battery was dead, Zelaya was unable to access the vehicle or access the ownership documents inside. He says it wouldn’t respond to an indictment either. “That’s why you should never buy a Tesla, folks,” he said in the video.
The owner believes that the leakage and rusting started when the car was under warranty. Zelaya also claims that Tesla canceled his Uber credits he received when he had the car serviced after he kept asking why the car needed a new battery.
Zelaya admits he could have accessed the Tesla by removing the front bumper or going through the tire well, but “didn’t have time for that.”
The situation ended when Zelaya sold the car after paying $30 for new ownership documents. It seems the new owner found time to remove the bumper to gain access.
It seems unlikely that Zelaya will return to the car brand in the future: “I will never buy a Tesla again,” he said. “That’s a long way from me saying stay the fuck away from Teslas. They are brutal cars, brutal manufacture and even worse they are a 10 year old company.”
Last year, a Finn teamed up with a YouTube explosives channel to blow up his 2013 Tesla Model S after discovering he had to buy a $22,600 battery because it “recharged his 8- Exceeded annual warranty”.
https://www.techspot.com/news/96080-tesla-owner-refuses-pay-20000-new-battery-gets.html Tesla owner refuses to pay over $21,000 for a new battery and gets locked out of his car


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The Elder Scrolls is Bethesda Softworks’ creation, which has sold over 58 million copies worldwide. It is an action video game where gamers get to choose which character they would like to be. The first time this video game appeared was back in 1994. Since then, it did not cease to amaze its users, and thanks to the quality provided, the players are currently impatiently waiting for The Elder Scrolls 6, the sixth primary installment in the franchise.
The previous versions have reached tremendous success. After Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim’s favorable outcome, the developers of the game have already launched the trailer for an upcoming version. That happened in 2018, and, ever since, there has been silence over the new release, leaving fans wondering if there will ever be a new version of the game.
The Elder Scrolls 6 Rumors on Release Date, Location, Gameplay, and More
Several confirmations kept fans waiting but nothing concrete to hang on. The definite answer came when several job openings were posted on the Bethesda website, meaning that the company was searching for developers for their new project. The company made it clear that they do not have yet any release date, but they are working on launching The Elder Scrolls 6.
As for the in-game location, fans are almost sure that The Elder Scrolls 6 will take place in Hammerfell. This information is based on the approximately 2-year-old trailer that revealed the Sentinel City in the background, which is the capital of Sentinel, one significant kingdom in Hammerfell.
As regarding the gameplay, we should expect the same races as in Skyrim. The rumors say that there weren’t be significant changes in The Elder Scrolls 6 mechanics in comparison with the current installment in the series. However, the sixth title in the franchise would roll out on the next-gen consoles, PS5 and Xbox Series X. Accordingly, the game will most likely feature improved graphics and, maybe, some significant gameplay improvements.
At the moment, the game is still under the discussion phase. The creators are always in search of original concepts and creative stories to display. Therefore, release date soon is impossible because their view is to provide an innovative product.
Everybody has already noticed that when it comes to The Elder Scrolls franchise, it is worth the wait because they have never ceased to amaze, and they have always provided a unique experience. Therefore, waiting a couple of years for The Elder Scrolls 6 might not be that long for the fans. Besides, Bethesda Softworks has multiple other games for its users that could help with killing the waiting time.