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Coimbatore, which has a fast-growing industrial sector, strong educational infrastructure, location advantage and neighbouring towns that have extensive international business exposure, is all set for a leap in the hospitality sector.
Le Meridien Coimbatore, a Rs. 300 crore project of Appu Hotels, is to open shortly. Palani G. Periasamy, Chairman of Appu Hotels, spoke to M. Soundariya Preetha on Saturday on Coimbatore's potential in the hospitality sector and the 256-room, five-star, deluxe hotel.
“Five years ago, when I contemplated the project here, I wanted to create supply.” A number of international visitors come here and several major and minor companies in this region have overseas contacts. Many of the foreign visitors who come to Tirupur, Karur and Erode, stay in Bangalore and Chennai.
In Chennai, five-star hotels are dependent mainly on multi-national companies, corporates and the affluent. In Coimbatore, the middle income segment is larger. They have the spending potential, ability and desire to spend. Now, they have limited avenues. More projects are likely to follow here in the hospitality sector. This will strengthen the market, he said.
Coimbatore has several engineering colleges and Universities, the Tidel park, etc. The city has a good mix of consumers and creation of such luxury products is the need of the hour. This is the second-tier development of hospitality sector. Development of this country is in the tier-two cities. Pune has emerged as a big business centre. “This is another Pune,” he said.
Le Meridien Coimbatore is spread across a 6.75 acre plot. It is a nine-storeyed hotel with a total built-up area of seven lakh sq.ft. It has a ball room with a seating capacity of more than 2000, an exclusive spa and health club of 30,000 sq.ft for the entire family, three restaurants (Italian, India and All Day dining), and a parking space for more than 500 cars. The nearly 40-metre high chandelier is imported from Italy and will be visible from outside. An entertainment centre is also planned. The hotel is service and quality-intensive. “We bring five star luxury, comfort and resources to Coimbatore population which I consider has a lot of spending potential. This is an urban resort,” he said.


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The number of notifications due to exceeding maximum residual levels caused by pesticides applied to local fresh produce destined to various export markets has reduced significantly over the last one year, a senior has said.
Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (Kephis) Managing director Theophilus Mutui said the agency in collaboration with other government authorities has managed to ensure proper documentation and tame interceptions reported at entry points of recipient countries.
“Aggressive implementation of phytosanitary measures such as introduction of electronic permits has led to reduction of interception of horticulture exports to various export destinations,” he stated.
For the last one year, Mutui disclosed, notifications have reduced by between 13 and 70 per cent on fresh produce exports intended for the European Union (EU) market.
Mutui spoke during the Kephis strategic plan (2023-2027) stakeholders’ validation workshop at a Nairobi hotel.
Josiah Syanda, Kephis acting deputy director in charge of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport station said notifications due to harmful organisms and diseases had decreased to three as at end of October 2023 compared to 10 the same period last year.
Warnings on fresh produce exports due to lack of proper documentation reduced by 13 per cent from 23 in 2022 to 20 as at the end of October 2023, he stated.
“This has led to increased confidence in our produce and maintaining competitiveness in the EU market,” said Syanda.
Kenya is the leading exporter of fresh produce to the EU market, for example, it controls 40 per cent of cut flowers exports.
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If you are looking for a VGA RTX 3080 or 3090 class from Nvidia, you will probably have to wait until 2021. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has announced a supply shortage of RTX 3080 and 3090 will last until 2021.
In a recent press interview, CEO Jensen Huang said: “I believe the demand of the market will exceed our supply until the end of 2020”.
Both the RTX 3080 and 3090 VGA were out of stock, minutes after opening pre-order. However, Mr. Huang said that the problem is not the supply, but the huge demand from users.
“Even when we had anticipated the huge demand in the market, we could not have expected it to grow so rapidly. We’re really stuck. The output is still very high, the products are shipped quickly, just how many products are sold out, ”said Nvidia CEO.
This year, Nvidia will continue to launch a new VGA in the RTX 3000 product line, which is the RTX 3070 at a very attractive price of only $ 499. Nvidia had to delay the launch of the RTX 3070 until October 29, in order to prepare a full supply. However, as expected, the launch of the RTX 3070 will be very chaotic like the RTX 3080 and 3090 before.
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With corona forcing most industries to shut down, condoms are a big shortage said an article from Reuters. Karex Bhd, a Malaysian condom manufacturing company hasn’t operated from past 10 days. Not a single condom is manufactured from its 3 factories in these days said a worker. Marketed globally in various names like Durex, the company sources say the back log of production is a shortage of 100 million condoms.
People would definitely not want to have children during this time. And hence the need and demand for condom is still good in market. The company is the largest condom manufacturer of the world and supplies largely to UK and other African countries through government and other health related programs.
This deficit is expected to hit African countries for months as it is mainly encouraged there as part of preventive measures for various STDs through various humanitarian programs by organizations. Hence, the company has decided to request the government to allow it to function at least half of its capacity like other essential commodities. Condom is also a necessity in times like these isn’t it? asks the employee.
With over 26 deaths, Malaysia is South east Asia’s worst affected country by corona virus. With demand even in times like these, the overall condom manufacturing industry might just turn out to be an essential commodity. People staying at home for weeks and doing nothing, well consequences are expected.


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Toyota will use a biosynthetic rubber called biohydrin in its engine and drive system hoses beginning in May 2016. Jointly developed by Toyota, biohydrin is a plant-based rubber with a 20-percent reduction in material lifecycle carbon emissions compared to petroleum-based rubber. Toyota plans to use the compound in even more components in the future, including brake and fuel line hoses. Read more from Toyota.
So far in 2016, only 27.5 percent of hybrids and EVs are traded in for another electrified vehicle, according to Edmunds. That's down from 38.5 percent in 2015. 33.8 percent of electrified vehicles are traded in for SUVs. Despite the trend of EV and hybrid owners switching back to traditionally powered vehicles, average fuel economy isn't suffering. "This is an economics trend, since today's low cost of gas no longer makes it worth paying the price premium of hybrids and EVs," says Edmunds Director of Industry Analysis Jessica Caldwell. "And there are so many fuel-efficient vehicles on the market today that environmental concerns weigh less than they might have in years past. When you're buying a vehicle that can get over 30 mpg, you can still say you're doing your part to help the environment." Read more from Edmunds.
Environmentally, electrified vehicles outperform their conventional combustion counterparts throughout their lifecycle. A study from the Automotive Science Group (ASG) finds that while production of advanced powertrains comes with a greater financial burden, most vehicles make up for it through efficiencies during their use phase. The ASG lists the 2016 Nissan Leaf as its best performer, with 47 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than the best-performing conventionally powered car, the Honda Fit. Rounding out the ASG's top five environmental performers are the Ford Focus Electric, Chevrolet Volt, Toyota Prius Two Eco, and Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid. As far as trucks go, the Ford F-150 beats the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel despite lower fuel economy, thanks to its lightweight aluminum design. Read more in the press release below.
Green tech gets real on Earth Day 2016
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21 April 2016 [Santa Rosa, CA] – As global leaders convene in New York to sign the landmark UN Climate Accord on Friday, we pause to reflect on our own choices that will surely affect generations that follow. And with our transportation desires now accounting for 31% of total U.S. carbon emissions (source: U.S. EPA), our car of choice has a lasting effect. But with so many choices in the auto marketplace, and a Dieselgate shadow that weighs heavy on consumer minds, what does a "green" car really look like in 2016?
In 2016, advanced vehicle technologies are no longer futuristic auto show charades, these technologies are now being deployed in real cars that are available to real buyers. Hybrid vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) are now more accessible than ever, and according to the Automotive Science Group's (ASG) 2016 Study, these advanced powertrains outperform their conventional combustion counterparts in life-cycle environmental performance on nearly every occasion. While advanced powertrains inherently come with higher environmental burdens at production, these production impacts are offset by most models through greatly improved operational efficiencies during the use phase, according to ASG 2016 Study.
ASG found the production impacts for hybrid vehicles to represent 9-14% of a vehicle's total life-cycle energy burden, PHEV's ranged from 15-21% and EVs had a range of 29-38% across model year 2016 offerings. This is significantly higher than the 5-9% production impact burden assessed for conventional powered vehicles in 2016. But taking a closer look at all 815 model year 2016 cars (all trim variants in the North American market), not a single vehicle with a conventional combustion engine configuration scored in the top 20 when measuring life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, meaning the higher production impacts for advanced powertrains are indeed offset during the use phase.
The number one vehicle on ASG's list – 2016 Nissan LEAF – produces 47% less life-cycle GHG emissions than the top ranking conventional combustion car – the Honda Fit – which falls off the list at #22. The top 5 green cars in ASG's assessment include the Nissan Leaf, Ford Focus Electric, Chevrolet Volt, Toyota Prius Two Eco and Hyundai Sonata Plug-in Hybrid. With 4 of the top 5 vehicles coming with an electric plug, its clear that car electrification is reducing life-cycle carbon emissions, and the environmental benefits only increase as the electricity mix across the U.S. grid gets cleaner year over year.
When assessing all 567 model year 2016 Crossover/SUVs (with trim variants), ASG found the 2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid to hold the smallest life-cycle carbon footprint of any model year 2016 SUV available in the North American market. The RAV4 Hybrid produces 16% less life-cycle GHG emissions than the #20 SUV, according to ASG's Study. Of the nine SUVs with hybrid and PHEV configurations, only five of these models held a top 20 spot with lowest measured life-cycle GHG emissions. The remaining 15 places were held by SUVs with conventional powertrains powered by unleaded gasoline. No diesel configurations made the list in 2016. The top 5 green Crossover/SUVs in ASG's assessment include the RAV4 Hybrid, Mazda CX-3, Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid, Honda HR-V and Mazda CX-5.
In the Full-size truck category, the RAM (3.0L Ecodiesel) offers the highest combined MPG rating at 23 MPG, however, the Ford F-150 (2.7L EcoBoost) with only a 1 MPG deficit actually delivers a life-cycle carbon footprint that is 8% smaller than the RAM's, a savings of nearly 20,000 pounds of CO2-e emissions, according to ASG. ASG found the 2016 F-150 to hold the smallest life-cycle carbon footprint of any full-size truck in the North American market.
The F-150 aluminum design is key to Ford's elevated performance, which not only reduces environmental burdens associated with raw material mining and processing, but with reduced vehicle weight, less power is required to physically move the vehicle, encouraging the use of the smaller fuel efficient engine found in the 2.7L EcoBoost.
In the Mid-size Truck segment, the Chevrolet Colorado (2.5L) gasoline powered truck leads the vehicle segment in environmental performance, outperforming the new and highly anticipated diesel configuration for the Colorado and GMC Canyon, along with the Toyota Tacoma and Nissan Frontier. With the GM 2.8L diesel gaining only 2 MPG (combined city/highway) over the 2.5L gasoline engine, while adding 440 pounds to its curb weight, the diesel fuel economy gains are not sufficient to offset the higher emission factor for diesel fuel, with the diesel option producing 4% more CO2-e emissions over the truck's life-cycle.
For the Best 20 Environmental Performance List and Best Environmental Performance models by class, please visit www.automotivescience.com.


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This past week, Apple rejected yet another seemingly offensive iPhone app: Smuggle Truck. The app originally asked players to smuggle an immigrant-filled truck across the desert–a satiric take on the struggles of immigrants designed to raise awareness about immigration issues, according to the game’s developers. Apple didn’t get the joke, though, so the Smuggle Truck team changed the app’s name to “Snuggle Truck” and swapped out immigrants for “a group of cuddly creatures escaping the
wilderness for the comfort of the zoo, where they are provided plenty of
food, shelter, and state of the art health care.” The promised zoo, if you will.
The whole debacle got us thinking: is there actually some moral compass by which Apple decides apps are too offensive for the public to handle (besides what is written in the app store guidelines)? When does an app cross the line over to what Apple calls “offensive or mean-spirited commentary”? Below, we look at some other “offensive” banned iPhone apps for guideposts.
This one is pretty bad. The Baby Shaker app, which was approved and then quickly pulled from the app store in 2009, implores users to stop an on-screen baby from crying by shaking their iPhone until two red x’s cover the baby’s eyes. Simulating infanticide would have been almost guaranteed to incite riots against Apple if it hadn’t moved quickly to ban the app.
Me So Holy
This banned app allowed users to take a picture of themselves with the iPhone camera and then stick it on the face of different religious figures. Stupid? Yes. A waste of time? Sure. But so are plenty of things in an app store filled with fart generators. In the grand scheme of banned apps, this one is pretty harmless.
The Manhattan Declaration
It’s not as if Apple always sides with religious communities in its banning decisions. Last year, Apple banned the Manhattan Declaration, a recently released manifesto from Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christian leaders that “speaks in defense of the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and
religious liberty. It issues a clarion call to Christians to adhere
firmly to their convictions in these three areas.” The app does promote homophobia and pro-life sentiments–but it never suggests that pro-choice and gay rights advocates should be harmed. Is Apple pushing its own moral beliefs here?
This banned app from Florida-based Christian ministry Exodus International goes a step further than the Manhattan Declaration, attempting to help turn gay people straight through “biblical teaching.” It also received over 150,000 signatures from a petition asking Apple to ban it–a large enough number for Apple to realize that it might be in for some seriously bad press if it didn’t make a move.
This banning seems more arbitrary than anything else. The seemingly legitimate (but banned) Tawkon app analyzes the radiation given off by the iPhone during calls and notifies users when radiation levels spike to the high end of the spectrum. It’s not offensive–though it does promote fear. Assuming that it works, we can only guess that Apple banned it because it didn’t want users to have this kind of information available. It could make them think twice about spend so much time playing around with cell phones, after all. And ultimately, Apple just wants people to keep calling, even if tumors are growing in their heads. Which they might be. Or might not be. Hard to say at this point.
This isn’t a new complaint, of course. But in a world where everyone has a phone and every company and cause needs an app, shouldn’t we have free exercise of speech and religion in the place where most of the apps are bought and sold? Apple has complete control over the kind of information you can get on your phone, and it exercises that right seemingly capriciously. We fought a revolution about that (and some tax stuff, too). Instead of taking up arms, though, all you need to do is switch to Android.
We put in a request to Apple to ask them if they want have some secret logic that connects all their app banning, but they’re notoriously tight-lipped about what makes it into the app store.
If you’re looking to make sure that your proposed app doesn’t get banned, don’t look to Apple for any reasonable guidelines, but remember: Don’t get involved in religious or political debates, don’t try to discourage users from using cell phones, and never, ever shake a baby. Feel free to help people dodge DUI checkpoints, though. In the world of Apple, pretend-smuggling a group of immigrants across the border apparently is worse than implicitly encouraging users to drive drunk.
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What’s up with VW testing a version ogf the recently introduced Chinese “New Bora”???
Looks like they redesigned the front bumper too.
The New Bora seems a bit smaller than our Jetta.
Maybe that’s one of these US only models we keep hearing about.
Here is the actual thing as it will be sold in China.
Only the front bumper seems different.


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Consumers are getting comfy. Over the past few years, we’ve seen a shift in how consumers dress for both work and play. From casual tennis shoes and T-shirts at work to yoga pants at the local watering hole, fitness wear is moving beyond the gym and hitting the streets.
According to NPD Group, “athleisure” clothing sales generated almost $35 billion last year, which reflected 17 percent of the entire American clothing market. Men, women and children alike are buying into athleisure apparel, and brands are acting fast to give consumers what they want. And it’s not just traditional fitness clothing brands like Nike and lululemon that are taking advantage of the athleisure trend. Recently during New York Fashion Week, many high-style brands made their athleisure debut, including Tory Burch’s Tory Sport label.
With more entrants making their way into the market, how can your brand stand out? And will it be worth your time and investment?
Why You Should Invest in Athleisure: New Revenue Opportunities
Athleisure’s rise is largely connected to fitness-conscious consumers who integrate athletics into their everyday lifestyle. Activewear encourages a more active lifestyle. As more consumers started purchasing activewear, they came to love the versatility and comfort of this new clothing style.
Now, almost half of the people who buy activewear say it’s not for athletic purposes. This trend is sustained by business cultures becoming more casual. It’s increasingly common to see people wearing tennis shoes and yoga pants to meetings, something that disgusts “Project Runway” mentor Tim Gunn.
Further fueling this comfortable business attire trend, athleisure apparel has become more fashion-forward with elevated designs and expanded dress-up or dress-down capabilities. For instance, Alexander Wang graced shoppers with suits and dresses that fit every athleisure need, and several lines offer anything from stylish jackets and vests to staples like tees and tanks.
It isn’t just clothing that’s seen increased demand from the style trend. Athletic accessories are also rising in demand, and NPD noted that bag sales, especially sport equipment bags and handbags, rose 35 percent among men last year.
3 Paths to Capture the Athleisure Market
Companies can take a few different approaches in entering the athleisure market. For example, Dick’s Sporting Goods opened Chelsea Collective, and New Balance launched NB Women, both brands aimed at female consumers. These offerings were ground-up ventures, starting from scratch to tailor items for a specific group of shoppers that may or may not already be loyal to the brand.
A third route retailers have taken to help gain adoption is partnering with celebrities, but this is far different from the traditional promotional method of putting a celebrity’s face next to a product. Many celebrities have embraced athleisure as a lifestyle and want to share their take by designing their own lines, such as Carrie Underwood’s Calia by Carrie, with Dick’s Sporting Goods. It isn’t just a gimmick to drive sales; it’s a legitimate partnership. As the celebrity lines mature, the market will decide who the winners and losers will be, and that will take more than simple name recognition.
For any of the three options above, price will always weigh in heavily as more brands enter the arena — and the price range is already very wide. Kate Hudson’s Fabletics line offers your first outfit for only $25, while lululemon leverages its brand recognition to keep prices well north of $75, and some designer brands sell leggings for $400.
Pricing has always been a differentiator for retailers. Some customers prefer the accessibility of lower-priced items, and sometimes buying an entire outfit for $25 is pretty hard to pass up. However, some low-price options, like the Fabletics subscription model, may come with hidden drawbacks. Additionally, bundling multiple item types into a deal helps to expose the customer to a wider range of offerings. And yet other customers would rather pay for the designer label, even if it means sacrificing overall comfort, quality or modesty.
The bottom line to be successful in athleisure: appeal to consumers’ always-on-the-go lifestyles. Designing products that optimize quality, style and price is a sound formula for success.


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Apple CEO Tim Cook has released a new video entitled “Better”, explaining how Apple will become a greener company that is better for the environment.
In line with Earth Day 2014, Cook and the Apple team have outlined how Apple’s environmental efforts are helping to reduce its emissions, energy footprint and reliance on fossil fuels.
Apple announced that as part of its environmentally friendly efforts, it will offer free product recycling around the world. If the device can still be reused, Apple will actually buy it off you in exchange for Apple store gift cards or offer free recycling if it can’t be reused.
The company even accepts PC desktop and notebooks with its recycling program, if you don’t have any Apple kit to recycle.
In fact, the majority of the kit Apple does recycle aren’t Apple branded products, 90 per cent are from other manufacturers.
“In 2010, we set out to achieve a worldwide recycling collection rate of 70 per cent of the total weight of the products we sold seven years earlier. Since then, we have consistently reached 85 per cent.”
The company also outlined its removal of any harmful toxins from the materials used to build its products like the iPhone 5S and has recycled more than 421 million pounds of electronic waste to date.
On the gigantic Apple Environment hub on the website, the company revealed the iPad Air is 31 per cent lighter than the original iPad, cutting down on material and therefore saving energy.
The iMac aluminium stand is made up of 30 per cent recycled content and the overall machine is 31 per cent lighter and had 40 per cent less volume than the previous model.
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Consumers in the United States had big shopping goals for this holiday season. Seventy-one percent said they planned to spend as much — if not more — on gifts this year as they did in 2020. As they manage these spending sprees, many consumers have also put a premium on flexibility and being able to stretch their dollars. This change has led them to value solutions such as buy now, pay later (BNPL), which enable them to pay off purchases in predetermined installments while receiving their items or services upfront.
Consumers’ reasons for seeking out BNPL plans for holiday purchases varied. Forty-two percent of those interested in the spending method said that doing so would allow them to treat a loved one to gifts that would otherwise be out of reach. Another 33% said they were facing pandemic-related financial uncertainty and appreciated the flexibility of BNPL, though they expected their outlooks to improve in the new year. Regardless of the motivation, consumers have realized that installment payments could help them treat themselves and their loved ones this season.
The December edition of the “Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker®” examines consumers’ spending plans this holiday and how BNPL options factored into their purchasing habits. It also outlines BNPL’s growing role in the retail space and beyond, and how consumers’ spending habits could evolve in the year ahead.
Around the Buy Now, Pay Later Space
Consumers have grown increasingly interested in BNPL plans in the past 21 months, but the 2021 holiday shopping season pushed this interest to new heights. Recent research found that 21% of adults planned to use BNPL options to make purchases during the holidays, with interest especially high among millennials and those earning more than $100,000 annually. Businesses that offer these spending plans can also see significant boosts, as consumers who use BNPL report spending 30% more on their purchases than those who lack access to them.
BNPL plans are also seeing increased uptake in new markets in Asia, and few are as hot as China. Installment payments are projected to grow more than 51% annually within the nation, and they could total more than $82 billion this year. FinTechs and so-called “super apps” like WeChat and Alipay have been instrumental in driving this increase, and the country’s consumers are also increasingly familiar with eCommerce marketplaces and digital shopping options that allow them to use BNPL.
For more on these and other stories, visit the Tracker’s News and Trends.
Skincare Brand Hivessence of Building Buzz and Business With BNPL Plans
When it comes to standing out in the eCommerce space, small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often have it rough. They can struggle to compete against more established players that have already cultivated strong customer bases, and many also offer premium products that come with bigger price tags — which could scare some consumers away. There is a way for these businesses to appeal to more potential customers and drive sales, however: BNPL plans.
In this month’s Feature Story, David Burrows, co-founder of skincare and personal care startup Hivessence, explains how providing BNPL options can give smaller businesses the resources they need to extend their reach, drive conversions and boost ticket sizes.
PYMNTS Intelligence: Holiday Spending Is Expected to Get a BNPL Boost
BNPL was a big help for many consumers eager to get a handle on their holiday spending this year, with many seeing the payment method as a valuable way to increase their purchasing power without taking on debt and potentially imperiling their finances.
This month, PYMNTS Intelligence examines how more consumers are using installment payment plans to purchase everything from plane tickets to holiday gifts, and considers what this trend means for the future of retail in the year ahead.


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Tina Maze Wears Rubber Underpants
Scandal recently erupted in the world of women's alpine skiing. Slovenian skier, Tina Maze, was accused of wearing an illegal ski-suit (or at least that's what I read at first) which had a plastic backing. Ski-suits are routinely tested by the FIS for breathablity. How much air passes through the fabric affects speed, so a standard is set and once the suit passes a test, a tag known as a "plomb" is attached.
It turns out that the "plastic ski-suit" was actually a rubber underpants! Maze was apparently wearing a one piece rubber "Long Johns" which some suggested was giving her an unfair aerodynamic advantage. She addressed this story after her run in this mornings Super G in Cortina d'Ampezzo with her "protest bra" pictured above.
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The vulnerability originated from the "view as" feature which can be used to let users see As a result, it said, Facebook was guilty of a second breach of the Data Protection Act. Facebook has a chance to respond to the Commissioner's Notice of Intent, after which a final decision will The Facebook breach – a GDPR test-case On 28 September, Facebook notified the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) about a massive data breach affecting more than 50 million of its users. By EDRi · October 10, 2018 Facebook could face potentially billions in fines under GDPR for the latest data breach which impacted roughly 50 million accounts. The security incident, revealed last week, was caused by a Facebook's first public estimation was that 50 million profiles had been affected in the breach.
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Tesco has started selling “green” satsumas in an effort to cut down on food waste.
Britain’s most popular supermarket will also stock green clementines, and says the fruit is perfectly ripe and sweet – even though it’s not orange in colour.
Tesco says that selling the fruit when it is green will mean an extra two days’ shelf life – hopefully cutting down on food that goes unsold and is wasted.
The green colour is a result of higher early season temperatures in Spain that has slowed the natural process by which the skin turns orange.
Debbie Lombard, Tesco citrus buyer, said: “At the moment, green easy peelers fall outside of the general quality specifications set by UK supermarkets but Tesco has made the leading move in order to cut down on food waste.
“As a result of this move to take out a handling stage in the journey from farm to fork shoppers will gain extra freshness for their satsumas and clementines.”
Green satsumas are already in store and the green clementines will follow in the coming weeks, in time for the Christmas season when sales usually peak.
Tesco’s “perfectly ripe early season satsumas” will be sold in a 600g net bag and cost the same (£1) as orange-coloured ones.
The chain sells nearly 15m 600g bags of satsumas and 75m bags of clementines each year.
Oranges, clementines and satsumas need cool nights to turn their skins from green to orange as they grow.
But the temperature in the Valencia region of Spain has been 3C degrees higher than the long-term average for the past few years, hampering the natural ripening process.


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In response to a lawsuit filed earlier this week against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by banking industry trade groups, California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC) Chief of Legal and Strategy Kevin Stein offered the following comment:
“Discrimination remains one of the most pervasive harms in the banking and financial services industries today. We applaud the Biden administration and the CFPB, under the direction of Rohit Chopra, for its commitment to ending discrimination in banking and financial services. The lawsuit filed against the CFPB by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Bankers Association, and the Consumer Bankers Association serves as a reminder that Wall Street and Big Banks will go to great lengths to stave off efforts to hold financial institutions accountable for discriminating.
“CRC stands in support of the CFPB, its commitment to advancing gender and racial equity in banking and financial services, and its central mission to enforce federal consumer financial laws and protect consumers against unfair practices, like discrimination.”


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Celebration to Include American LegacySPORTS Video Series on CBSsports.com
Press Release (ePRNews.com) - MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. - Sep 13, 2017 - American Legacy announced today that it will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its mobile truck exhibit with a special tour. Since February 2008 the mobile truck exhibit has visited school districts, colleges & universities, churches, and various African-American festivals and events. In February 2018 the mobile truck exhibit will visit 15 cities across America. In addition, American LegacySPORTS is producing a special video series celebrating the historical achievements of African-Americans in sports that will air on CBSsports.com throughout the month.
In making the announcement Rodney J. Reynolds American Legacy’s founder, stated, “We are certainly excited to reach this historical milestone with our mobile truck exhibit. For 10 years our mobile truck has provided thousands a look at African-American achievement as we’ve traveled across the country.”
American Legacy Magazine was founded in 1995 as a joint venture between Reynolds’ RJR Communications, Inc and Forbes Magazine. RJR Communications assumed full ownership of the magazine and all related assets of the joint venture in January 2009. Total readership of American Legacy was over 2 million when the print edition went on hiatus in 2011. The company launched an E-Newsletter in April 2013 and its mobile truck exhibit has continued to visit school districts, African-American festivals and colleges and universities across the country since 2008. For information on sponsorship opportunities contact Rodney J. Reynolds at firstname.lastname@example.org.
The mission of the American Legacy brand is to broaden and enhance the awareness of African-American history and to become a leading diversified media company through the use of educational products, mixed media, collaboration projects, the internet, broadcast media and special events. Visit www.americanlegacymag.com or American Legacy Network’s On Demand platform American LegacyXL at www.americanlegacyxl.com. Black History Made Every Day.
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Aspire Technology, the self-described “developer of the Aspire digital asset creation platform,” has revealed the closure of a $1.175 million equity round for its platform. On top of this, it has brought in a $1.23 million private token presale, totaling over $2.4 million in total capital, according to a press release.
This round was lead by Foeckersperger Ventures and GmbH, among other individual investors, the release notes. Speaking on the matter is Jim Blasko, the CEO of Aspire Technology, who said:
“Once consumers see how easy and inexpensive it is to create a digital asset with Aspire, everyone who has a social media presence, personal blog or small business will realize they want to have one. Follow me on Twitter will soon be replaced by ‘let me send you some tokens’ as loyalty programs, digital collectibles, fan clubs and 100 other use cases evolve using the low cost, trackability, international transaction capabilities and permanence of digital assets becomes mainstream.”
Aspire launched its network this July, and will be airdropping those who are interested in creating a token within the platform. “The Aspire platform consists of Aspire (ASP), which is currently only available through its airdrop campaign, with the first 10,000 users receiving sufficient Aspire and Aspire Gas (GASP) to create one full-fledged digital asset, each of which can comprise up to 92 billion tokens.”


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The iPhone is obviously the biggest key to Apple’s success over the past decade, but it has played a huge role in Samsung’s success in so many ways. Several of the company’s various subsidiaries are of course parts suppliers for Apple, and Samsung pulls in billions of dollars each year as a result. But looking back further to the early days of Samsung’s smartphone efforts, the company also has the iPhone to thank for the success of its own smartphone business. Samsung smartphones were a jumbled mess when the company first entered the market. But then it literally wrote the book on copying iPhones and modeled its own smartphones after Apple’s handsets. Then a bit further down the road, Samsung catapulted itself to the top of the market thanks in large part to marketing and advertising campaigns that mocked the iPhone and positioned its Galaxy phones as the cool alternative.
Samsung doesn’t copy iPhones anywhere near as often as it used to, and it has also dialed back its anti-Apple marketing efforts quite a bit. Old habits die hard, however, and Samsung still loves taking the opportunity to mock the iPhone. That’s exactly what Samsung did back in 2016 when Apple unveiled the iPhone 7 without a 3.5mm audio jack, and it has mocked Apple ruthlessly since then. Now, we’re hearing yet again that Samsung has built a next-generation Galaxy smartphone prototype that lacks a 3.5mm audio port.
In a Bloomberg report that we covered earlier this morning, the site rehashed a number of rumors we’ve been seeing for months about Samsung’s next-generation smartphone lineup. While there really wasn’t any new information to be found in Bloomberg’s report, it’s always nice to see more confirmation of the details surrounding the hotly anticipated Galaxy S10 and the upcoming new Galaxy F flagship phone with a foldable OLED display.
Among the details this new report rehashes is one in particular that is just brimming with irony. Samsung, which spent so much time ripping into Apple’s decision to ditch the dedicated headphone jack, is testing a version of the Galaxy S10 that has no dedicated headphone jack.
Now, this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. It was only a matter of time before Samsung followed Apple’s lead and ditched the 3.5mm headphone jack. This legacy port is considered by most to be a waste of space inside smartphones in this day and age since wireless headphones are now purchased by the majority of consumers. Space is at a premium inside modern smartphones, and the area occupied by the 3.5mm audio jack can be put to better use these days.
Samsung is said to be testing multiple Galaxy S10 prototypes and there’s no telling if a version with no dedicated headphone jack will make it to market this year. Eventually, however, this is a move Samsung will make just like every other major smartphone vendor.


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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Bangalore-based home rental startup City Synapse Information Pvt. Ltd, which runs Zenify.in, has raised about $900,000 (around Rs 6 crore) in pre-Series A funding from a group of high net-worth individuals (HNIs). The funds will be utilised to expand its range of services across India and to strengt...
One of the earliest online real estate classifieds businesses IndiaProperty.com has appointed bankers to raise as much as $50 million, while the company is also exploring other strategic options including a sale. Chennai-based India Property Online Private Ltd, which owns the portal, was spun o...
15 May, 2015 |
IndiaProperty.com, a real estate listing portal run by Chennai-based India Property Online Pvt Ltd, has launched an augmented reality-based mobile app called 3D Pano X. According to the firm, the app allows builders to add an extra dimension to their regular print collaterals like advertisements, br...
27 October, 2014 |
Chennai-based India Property Online Pvt Ltd, which runs IndiaProperty.com, an online platform for listing, buying and selling residential properties, has appointed former eBay exec Muralikrishnan B as its chief operating officer (COO). In his new role, Muralikrishnan will be responsible for end-to-e...
21 October, 2014 |
Chennai-based India Property Online Pvt Ltd, which runs IndiaProperty.com, an online platform for listing, buying and selling residential properties has raised $12 million in series B funding. The investment round was led by Bertelsmann India Investments, the investment arm of German media giant Ber...
20 December, 2013 |
Indiaproperty.com, an online platform listing residential properties for buying & selling and run by Chennai-based India Property Online Pvt Ltd, has come up with a subscription-based service called Assisted Property Search for end users. Currently launched in Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi, Pune and...
29 July, 2013 |
To call the recently concluded VCCircle India Angel Summit 2013 a success will be an understatement (not very modest are we!). Even the rain gods could not dampen the spirits of the delegates who turned up in large numbers—close to 300. In its new avatar, the fourth edition of the India Angel Summ...
19 July, 2013 |
Indiaproperty.com, an online platform listing residential properties for buying & selling and run by Chennai-based India Property Online Pvt Ltd, has been demerged from Matrimony.com Pvt Ltd (formerly Consim Info) and has raised $7 million (Rs 38 crore) from Canaan Partners and Mayfield Fund. Th...
9 May, 2013 |
Real estate classifieds site iProperty.com has announced a new section called NRI spaces that aims to offer audiences outside India options for property investment. Initially, the website will have projects available in over 14 metro cities and 1372 sub-locations from India. NRI Spaces will display...
20 March, 2012 |
The year 2011 may go down in history as a significant period that has witnessed some dynamic growth in the Internet business space – be it the investor frenzy in backing e-commerce start-ups, talk-of-the-town valuations (read: Flipkart courting financial investors with $1 billion tag), the biggest...
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Canada’s new front-of-pack food label
Canada has joined the ranks of countries with front-of-package food labels alerting customers to products high in salt, sugar, and saturated fat.
I learned about this in a press release from Kate Comeau, Communications Advisor, Mission, Canada | Heart & Stroke
The official announcement from Health Canada is here.
It comes with an explanatory Infographic.
I think the warning labels used in some Latin American countries work better, but this is a big step forward and is likely to cover the great majority of ultra-processed foods—and those are the ones that are best avoided.
Congratulations to Canadians who pushed for this. Progress!


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Earlier today, Mr. Andy Oliver unleashed a tweet that has hypebeasts around the world thanking their based stars.
Oliver told sneaker enthusists to be on the look out for a Supreme x Nike SB x Jordan 1 collab in the future. With the extreme success of the recent AJ 1 SBs and the always popular Supreme x Nike combo, it makes sense that this would be the next step.
As far as design ideas go, maybe Supreme Dunk High meets Lance Mountain AJ 1? How about a matching box logo t-shirt, Kanye willing.
It’s all speculation as of now.
Check out the tweet here.


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In what marks a new record for the search engine giant, Google has rolled out 40 new upgrades to improve the search quality of its system. In its latest post – ‘40 changes for February’ – on Google’s official blogspot page, the search engine has cited changes that have been introduced to its search system.
In what can only be dubbed as a continuation of Google’s endeavour to improve the quality of search and make it more accurate and reliable, the latest in the series of upgrades that Google regularly rolls out are considerably directed at improving local search results and local rankings, and making regular search more accurate, fresh and credible. Some of the important upgrades include:
1. Panda 3.3 Upgrade: The latest upgrade to Google Panda – the search results ranking algorithm – is merely an act of refreshing the data in the Panda system and not so much about creating new or changing ranking signals. The upgrade, as noted by Google, is more about making Panda more accurate and more sensitive to recent changes on the web. The only inference that can be clearly drawn from this is that Panda has been more strongly interwoven into Google’s indexing system and this will make the search engine pickier and shrewd, if anything. This comes as nothing new, but then again, every time Panda seeks a mention in any of Google’s on-going endeavours, it catches the attention of even the weariest of search enthusiasts.
2. Link Evaluation: Search marketers have been caught in a little bit of an eerie situation because of the latest in Google’s link evaluation protocol. Google has noted that it is “turned-off” one of its link evaluation/analysis signal. Google, in its post, quoted, “We have changed the way in which we evaluate links; in particular, we are turning off a method of link analysis that we used for several years. We often re-architect or turn off parts of our scoring in order to keep our system maintainable, clean and understandable.” The best interpretation that stands to be drawn from this upgrade is that either Google is readying to come with a better way of measuring links or that something new altogether is being worked upon. Either way, it is not a grave concern for search marketers yet.
3. Improvement to local search: Lo-and-behold, local search, as predicated and avidly cited by many search marketers, will go on to take more precedence in Google. The search engine has launched a new system to find results from a user’s city more reliably. This will help detect, more accurately, queries and documents that are local to a user.
Other significant changes launched by Google include Improvements to freshness, Improvements to ranking for local search, more coverage for related searches, less duplication in expanded site links, more accurate detection of official pages and more locally relevant predication for You Tube, to name a few.Continue Reading...


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Accessibility Check: updated website – Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Government of India
We have noticed Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Government of India has re-designed their website and we took a quick look from accessibility prospective. Compare to the earlier website, new website has a better look, more usable....Read More →
#BESCOM make CAPTCHA accessible
Like many websites, Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) uses CAPTCHA to secure portal from fraudulent attempts. BESCOM uses CAPTCHA at several places including: New user registration Forgot the user ID Online Payment landing page CAPTCHA implemented currently is a...Read More →
White Cane enables people with vision impairment to walk independently, but what causes problem?
15th October is celebrated as International White Cane Safety Awareness Day. White Cane enable users with vision impairment to walk independently. It offers indication if there are any obstacles in front of them. There ae traditional white canes which...Read More →
Accessibility Courses and Certifications
It’s good to see there is increased interest to pursue career in the area of accessibility. There are also growing opportunities. It’s important to have more people with accessibility knowledge so that more products become accessible. Now that many...Read More →
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 – Final Draft is now available
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Talking OxiMeter is now available in India
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Upcoming live talk: Career in the area of Accessibility – getting started!
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2011 Geneva: Jaguar's XKR-S is the Fastest Cat Yet
Jaguar spent the majority of its press conference assuring the gathered press that it is in fact a separate entity from parent company, India's Tata. While Tata is well know for making the least expensive entry-level vehicle in the world, Jaguar would like to find its way back to the top of the premium segment once again.
Fifty years ago at the Geneva Motor Show, Jaguar launched the iconic E-Type, which changed the sports car world forever. For 2011, it not only brought out the original E-type show car from 1961, but a new car that will be the fastest production Jaguar ever produced, the XKR-S.
Designers have added a number of bespoke touches from head to toe, including an aggressive front fascia with a large lower air intake, sweeping air scoops on the front corners, and small, slender air ducts just beneath the hood's lower edge. XKR-S models eschew the XK's vertical fender vent in favor of a horizontal port. Flared side sills are much smoother than those used on both the XKR Speed Pack and the previous XKR-S. A flared rear valence, similar to that used on the Speed Pack, provides room for four exhaust tips, while a wild wing spoiler rests atop the decklid.
The new model receives some additional go along with all this show. The supercharged, direct-injection 5.0-liter V-8 is boosted to roughly 542 horsepower and 501 pound-feet of torque, a gain of 32 horsepower and 40 pound-feet of torque. Jaguar says the power allows the new XKR-S to sprint from 0-60 mph in a blistering 4.2 seconds, run from 0-100 mph in 8.6 seconds, and hit a top speed of 186 mph.
While this may be the fastest Jaguar in production, it is still very much a GT car assures Jaguar's global brand director, Adrian Hallmark. While performance was a major focus of the car, comfort and long distance cruising was still very much a priority, as it is with all of Jaguar's products.
For more on all the world debuts from Geneva, including more photos, videos and information, be sure to click over to our 2011 Geneva Motor Show coverage.


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PRØHBTD Building Cannabis Brands at the ICBC after $8M Raise
PRØHBTD, a media startup that has helped bring cannabis brands, and the culture overall, into the mainstream has just announced a successful $8 million fundraise to continue helping cannabis businesses while also producing its own original content. While PRØHBTD’s focus is the cannabis culture, the media company has expanded beyond just cannabis, creating unique cultural and lifestyle content that appeals to a wide swath of people, reaching millions of people every month. CEO Drake Sutton-Shearer will be sharing his expertise and helping qualified cannabis companies with an exclusive “Cannabis Brand Building 101” seminar for 50 attendees at the upcoming International Cannabis Business Conference in Vancouver this June 24th-25th. (Cick here to learn more and sign up.)
Yahoo Finance on PRØHBTD:
Sutton-Shearer said one of his priorities is forging “mainstream partnerships” like PRØHBTD’s deal with Advertising Week. The company also works with more than 60 cannabis brands — not just on branded videos and sponsorships, but more broadly on product development, design and marketing.
“We’ve seen every media opportunity in the cannabis industry but none of them compare to what the team at PRØHBTD has built,” said Serruya Private Equity’s Aaron Serruya in the funding announcement. “We expect great things from the company and we’re excited to support the team’s global vision.”
Speaking of that vision, Sutton-Shearer said PRØHBTD is exploring international opportunities, including in Canada, Australia and Latin America — In fact, the company says it has plans for a Canadian public offering.
And from MG Retailer:
Structurally, PRØHBTD is composed of three parts that interact organically with one another in the course of a day or a minute. As explained by Sutton-Shearer, “PRØHBTD Media creates branded content to help brands tell their stories about their products and services. PRØHBTD Studios tells native stories that are not paid for brands. And then we have PRØHBTD.com, which is our direct-to-consumer platform where we can put all our content.”
PRØHBTD Media is a vehicle to shine light on brands using storytelling, he added, clarifying, “Brands are our customers—our partners who enable us to produce great content the audience can enjoy, learn from, and share with their friends. Consumers are our audience in terms of the content we make.
“The majority of these brands want more awareness and a positive sentiment about their brand and their product and service, and most of all they want to drive sales,” he continued. “The one thing we do best as a leader in the content creation space is help people drive more awareness and sales.”
PRØHBTD has managed to create something unique, a quality online destination for the cannabis community, and like-minded folks, that covers art, music, travel, video, fashion, food, and culture that strikes against prohibition and other nonsensical cultural restraints. While creating its own premier website, the media company’s success helps build the brands that they work with, and vice versa. As the cannabis industry is swarming with tough competition and overly burdensome advertising restrictions, especially in the upcoming Canadian market, innovative branding will be even more important, making PRØHBTD and the knowledge that the company brings even more important.
Learn from, and network with, PRØHBTD’s CEO Drake Sutton-Shearer and many more influential industry experts at the upcoming International Cannabis Business Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada this June 24th-25th. This is the perfect time to learn about the cannabis industry and connect with top investors, entrepreneurs, and advocates from around the world, so get your tickets before the Vancouver ICBC sells out. After Vancouver, the ICBC will be traveling back to the United States, to beautiful Portland, Oregon, on September 27th-28th.


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Digital TV News: Altech Multimedia
Altech Multimedia selects Ekioh's Twin Engine UI Browser
Sep 8, 2015 – Ekioh and Altech Multimedia have announced that Altech Multimedia has selected Ekioh's Twin Engine UI Browser for their high end DTR9401 IPTV set top box. The set top box has already been selected by a Middle Eastern network operator.
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Pay TV STB market contracts for the first time in 12 years
Jun 29, 2015 – Pay TV operators purchased $15.3 billion worth of set-top boxes (STBs) in 2014, down from $15.9 billion in 2013. This decline represents the first contraction in the market since 2002, according to IHS (NYSE: IHS).
News categories: IHS Inc, Daniel Simmons, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Worldwide
Altech selects DivX HEVC Ultra HD and DivX Plus HD for STBs
Jan 20, 2015 – DivX and Altech have announced an agreement to license and integrate DivX Plus HD and DivX HEVC technology into Altech's upcoming set-top boxes. The devices will be made available to consumers through retail and operator channels.
News categories: DivX, Altech, Dr. Kanaan Jemili, Marco Caputo, Digital TV, Media Player, OTT, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, South Africa, Worldwide
Altech to offer HTML5 apps via the Opera TV Store
Sep 23, 2014 – Altech Multimedia and Opera Software are extending their partnership to bring the Opera TV Store application platform on board selected Altech set-top boxes, kicking off in Australia before rolling out internationally.
News categories: Opera Software, Altech Multimedia, Aneesh Rajaram, Russell Futter, Apps, Australia, Digital TV, HbbTV, HTML5, Set Top Box
Octoshape and Altech partner for OTT/IPTV in the Middle-East and Africa
Jul 30, 2014 – Octoshape and Altech Multimedia have announced that they have entered into a partnership to offer video contribution and distribution solutions to major broadcasters and operators in the Middle East and Africa.
News categories: Octoshape, Altech Multimedia, Michael Koehn Milland, Paulo Caldeira, Africa, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middle-East, OTT, Set Top Box
Altech UEC manufactures 20 millionth set-top box
Mar 6, 2014 – South Africa's Altech UEC has celebrated the production of its twenty millionth set-top box in February 2014. The biggest market for Altech UEC at the moment is the rest of Africa due to the roll-out of DTT.
News categories: Altech UEC, Danie du Toit, Africa, Market Research, Set Top Box, Terrestrial
Ghana publishes conformance procedure for Digital TV logos
Jan 31, 2014 – Ghana's National Communications Authority (NCA) has published the procedure for the award of the Conformance Logos for Digital TV sets and decoders.
News categories: National Communications Authority, Digital TV, Ghana, QoE, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial
Altech Multimedia and 'yes' Israel extend partnership
Nov 13, 2013 – Altech Multimedia and DBS Satellite Services ('YES') have signed an agreement for the provision of a new generation of set-top boxes to the Israeli satellite pay-TV provider. The set-top boxes are based Broadcom chipsets.
News categories: Altech Multimedia, 'yes', Ron Eilon, Bartolomeo Caputo, Digital TV, Israel, Satellite, Set Top Box
Digiturk and Altech Multimedia to launch hybrid HD set-top-box
Sep 17, 2013 – Digiturk has launched a next generation hybrid set-top box developed by its partner Altech Multimedia. The new line of set-tops integrates TeleIDEA's Smartware with Irdeto Conditional Access to secure Digiturk's broadcast content.
News categories: Altech, Digiturk, TeleIDEA, Irdeto, Taylan Özsipahi, Bartolomeo Caputo, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IBC, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Turkey
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Louis Navellier is hoping for just one more rate hike … are Fed members misleading us? … more signs of consumer weakness … another warning from Jeff Bezos
On Monday, Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard told Wall Street what it wanted to hear:
I think it will probably be appropriate soon to move to a slower pace of rate increases.
As to that additional work, she echoed the idea that it will be dependent upon the data:
It’s really going to be an exercise on watching the data carefully and trying to assess how much restraint there is and how much additional restraint is going to be necessary, and sustained for how long, and those are the kinds of judgments that lie ahead for us.
Well, yesterday’s cooler producer price index (PPI) number would appear to be the exact data that Brainard is watching. And sure enough, Wall Street connected the dots and climbed on the day.
The softer inflation print increases the odds that the Fed’s next rate hike in December will be a smaller 50-basis-point increase.
Legendary investor Louis Navellier is now wondering if that will be the last rate hike we’ll see.
From yesterday’s Platinum Growth Club Market Update podcast:
[Yesterday’s PPI] was wonderful…
Service costs fell one-tenth of a percent. It’s the first time service costs have fallen since November 2020.
So, it looks like inflation is starting to decelerate on a wholesale level although we do have food and energy inflation…
Everybody is expecting a 50-basis-point rate increase in December. And that will get the Fed very close to what we call “neutral” or “parity.”
We hope and pray that that’s the last Fed rate-hike and then the market rallies from there.
While I hope Louis is correct, if the Fed does end its rate-hike campaign in December, then several Fed members have been skillfully misleading us
I write this based on the difference between “slowing rate hikes” and “the eventual rate at which the Fed will stop hiking rates.”
These things aren’t mutually exclusive. Clearly, the Fed can slow rate hikes, while continuing to hike rates to levels that are higher than previously anticipated.
In recent weeks, various Fed members have spoken directly to these related-yet-different outcomes.
We just heard Lael Brainard discussing slowing down rate hikes. As to their eventual high-point, here’s Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell from his press conference earlier this month:
We may ultimately move to higher levels than we thought at the time of the September meeting.
The incoming data since our last meeting suggests the ultimate level of interest rates will be higher than previously expected.
More recently, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller had this to say on Monday:
These rates are going to stay — keep going up — and they’re going to stay high for a while until we see this inflation get down closer to our target.
We’ve still got a ways to go. This isn’t ending in the next meeting or two.
So, if the Fed will, in fact, be done with hikes after December, we’re seeing some very convincing poker-faces.
But perhaps that’s the point. As our hypergrowth expert Luke Lango has recently suggested, the Fed has to remain hawkish in appearance otherwise no one would take them at their word – which would undercut the Fed’s efforts.
So, perhaps this is all part of the Fed’s chess match with investors. In any case, only a 50-basis-point increase in December is appearing increasingly likely.
But as we applaud softer PPI data, let’s remember that the same tailwind in the fight to curb inflation is a headwind for U.S. consumers
And yesterday, we received another piece of data illustrating the impact of this headwind.
Household debt is climbing at the fastest pace in 15 years.
Total debt jumped by $351 billion for the July-to-September period, the largest nominal quarterly increase since 2007, bringing the collective household IOU in the U.S. to a fresh record $16.5 trillion, up 2.2% from the previous quarter and 8.3% from a year ago.
The increase follows a $310 billion jump in the second quarter and represents a $1.27 trillion annual increase.
Part of this debt increase comes from mortgages. Now, one can argue that mortgage debt is “good” debt because it shows a consumer healthy enough to buy a home. Plus, a home mortgage is a sort of “forced savings account” because the homeowner is building equity as opposed to renting.
So, when looking at this overall debt number, let’s focus on credit card debt, which is more representative of consumer health and monthly family budget spending.
Back to CNBC:
The credit card balance collectively rose more than 15% from the same period in 2021, the largest annual jump in more than 20 years, according to the New York Fed, which released the report.
The increase “towers over the last eighteen years of data,” a group of Fed researchers said in a blog post on the central bank site.
New York Fed researchers attributed the credit card growth to “very robust” consumption, rising prices and consumers using substantial levels of savings that remain on accounts.
Along with the rise in balances has come an increase in delinquencies.
The description of “very robust” consumption catches my eye
On one hand, this is good news. After all, a U.S. consumer who remains willing to open their wallet is a positive for our economy.
And in fact, additional news this morning reveals the U.S. consumer is all-too-happy to continue buying today. (Even if that buying is done with credit cards, which is not all that healthy.)
According to the Census Bureau, U.S. retail sales rose 1.3% in October from September. Economists had expected a gain of just 1%.
But this good news for consumer spending is bad news for the Fed’s efforts on inflation. After all, the more that shoppers buy at today’s inflation-elevated prices, the more support there is underneath those inflationary prices.
This leaves investors in a predicament…
Should we root for strong consumer spending…at the risk of elevated, persistent inflation?
Or do we want lower prices and softer inflation…at the expense of a U.S. consumer who no longer has the economic might to prop up the economy?
Now, you can argue that these options aren’t mutually exclusive. I saw a headline a few days ago claiming that a “soft landing” was back on the table. In other words, the Fed would be able to kill inflation without causing a recession. The best of both worlds.
While anything is possible, even Powell isn’t giving that outcome generous odds.
Speaking to the window of opportunity for an economic soft landing at his post-FOMC press conference, Powell said:
Has it narrowed? Yes.
Is it still possible? Yes.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos is betting on that window being closed.
If the Amazon founder is right, consumers need to put away their wallets right now to prepare for tougher economic conditions in the coming months
From CNN Business:
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently warned consumers and businesses they should consider postponing large purchases in the coming months as the global economy contends with a downturn and faces a possible recession…
Bezos urged people to put off expenditures for big-ticket items such as new cars, televisions and appliances, noting that delaying big purchases is the surest way to keep some “dry powder” in the event of a prolonged economic downturn.
Meanwhile, small businesses may want to avoid making large capital expenditures or acquisitions during this uncertain time, Bezos added.
You may recall that last month, Bezos tweeted that his followers should “batten down the hatches.”
On a related note, Amazon announced Monday that it is laying off 10,000 workers, the largest reduction in the company’s history.
So, where does all of this leave us?
Well, big picture, yesterday’s inflation data was good news. As we assemble all the various pieces of data into a collage to get a broad sense of the economy and investment environment, yesterday’s PPI number is exactly what we’re looking for.
But we’d be wise to be even-tempered and not declare victory too soon. After all, there’s still “more work to do.”
On that note, here’s Reuters:
Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic said on Tuesday he sees little evidence that the U.S. central bank’s aggressive monetary policy tightening is slowing inflation, and borrowing costs will have to rise further for that to happen.
“Tighter money has not yet constrained business activity enough to seriously dent inflation,” Bostic said in an essay posted on the Atlanta Fed’s website.
“I anticipate that more rate hikes will be needed” to get policy sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to the Fed’s 2% target, he said.
But even if this is just a masterful poker face from Bostic and a rate pause is right around the corner, remember, the real issue is the economy and earnings. And we’re only beginning to experience the first few waves of economic pain that are headed our way – that’s due to the lag time between rate-hikes and when they’re felt in the economy.
Economically, things will get worse before they get better. As we noted in the Digest last week, some analysts are now calling for zero earnings growth for the S&P in 2023.
To what extent are Wall Street bulls ignoring this, or simply looking beyond it? That’s what we’ll be tracking here in the Digest.
The level of interest rates is one of the main drivers in how this unknown will play out. We’ll get the next puzzle piece about one month from today when the Fed convenes its December meeting on the 14th.
We’ll keep you updated.
Have a good evening,


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Aisle411, the in-store navigation app developer based in St. Louis, has completed a $6.3 million Series A funding round led by local venture capital firm Cultivation Capital, aisle411 officials said Wednesday.
The capital campaign is one of the largest a St. Louis tech company has seen in years.
The amount of money each investor contributed was not made public.
Aisle411 is an in-store mobile app that allows shoppers to find what they’re looking for on a map of the store. The company boasts retail giants such as Home Depot and Walgreens as partners, along with other stores such as Schnucks and Shop ‘n Save.
The money will allow aisle411 to build out new products and scale to meet new customer and partner demand, aisle411 CEO Nathan Pettyjohn said.
Those new products, Pettyjohn said, would likely mean aisle411 could go after stores of all sizes — not just the heavy hitters.
Pettyjohn said he hopes the company will be in another 3,000 retail locations by the end of the year, which would bring the company’s store count to around 12,000.
The company has now raised more than $10 million since being founded in 2008.
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It was a sad day when revolutionary pizza purveyor 800 Degrees closed up shop in its flagship location at 10899 Lindbrook Drive in Westwood. Now, according to window paper, a new “neighborhood pizza eatery” is moving into the spot. According to this article in Daily Bruin, Pizzari will differentiate itself from the myriad of other Westwood pie joints by offering “organic, healthy pizza”.
Ultra-popular Neapolitan pizza chain 800 Degrees is making headway on its Santa Monica location. Signs recently went up in the windows of 120 Wilshire Blvd. (corner of 2nd, across from Hillstone’s) announcing applications for beer and wine at the upcoming 116 seat restaurant. If the Westwood original is any indication, this corner, just steps from the famously phallic statue of Saint Monica, is about to become a very busy intersection indeed. 800degreespizza.com


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Floppy disks may soon be history
The popularity of e-mail and giant hard drives with facilities of swapping is said to be the cause of the shrinking sales of floppies.india Updated: Jan 31, 2007 13:07 IST
The floppy disk, which revolutionised home computing in the late 20th century, seems to be on the verge of becoming history itself, with British computer stores chain PC World deciding not to sell the diskettes after their current stock is sold out.
The fears of their disappearance from the shelves are due to a new generation of technology, which have made the floppy disk obsolete.
Data from the Recording Media Industries Association of Japan show that more than two billion 3.5in disks were sold worldwide in 1998, while their sales have plunged to 700 million units now.
The popularity of e-mail and giant hard drives with facilities of swapping and storing data is said to be the cause of rapidly shrinking sales of the floppies.
Some people, however, feel that despite being a part of technological history, the floppy disk have failed to earn the affection of computer users.
"Floppy disks are the computing equivalent of cassette tapes. They were part of our lives but I don't suppose they have captured the imagination in the same way as vinyl records. They have been just a temporary technology, a means of storing data until such time as more efficient systems came on the market. They have no intrinsic value," the Scotsman quoted technology writer Nick Clayton as saying.
"The only ones who might lament the passing of floppy disks will be film directors, because action movies like Matrix always seem to feature a special disk that contains some sort of vital information," he added.
The floppy was invented in 1971 by IBM engineers in California led by Alan Shugart and replaced old-fashioned punch-cards, which made computer systems too vast to be used by all but the largest of businesses.
Apple was the first major mass-market manufacturer to drop the floppy drive from a computer model altogether, with the release of the iMac in 1998, while Dell made the floppy drive optional in 2003.
"The sound of a computer's floppy disk drive will be as closely associated with 20th century computing as the sound of a computer dialling in to the internet," said Bryan Magrath, commercial director of PC World.
"The pace of technological change is relentless and it is now increasingly standard for computer users to transfer data via the internet or with USB memory sticks, some of which will store the equivalent of 1,000 times the capacity of floppy disk. With that amount of memory available in such a small and convenient device, the floppy disk looks increasingly quaint and simply isn't able to compete," he added.
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The great saturated fat delusion: 80% of Britons have no idea how much they should be eating
- 84% of Britons don't know that men should eat a maximum of 30g of saturated fat a day and that women should eat no more than 20g a day
- One in five adults think all types of fat are bad for one's health
- 66% of people admit they are confused about the different types of fat
- Almost half of food manufacturers in the UK have now pledged to cut the amount of saturated fat in their products
The vast majority of adults have no idea how much saturated fat they should eat every day, a poll suggests.
Some 84 per cent of adults do not know that men should eat no more than 30g of saturated fat each day and women should eat no more than 20g, the survey found.
The poll, conducted by supermarket Sainsbury’s, also found that one in five adults think that all types of fat are bad for one’s health.
Some 84 per cent of adults do not know that men should eat no more than 30g of saturated fat each day and women should eat no more than 20g
And 66 per cent of the 2,000 UK adults surveyed admitted they were confused by different types of fat.
The news comes as health officials announced that almost half of the food manufacturing and retail industry in the UK has signed up to a pledge to reduce the amount of saturated fat in their products.
A number of companies, including Sainsbury’s, have pledged to change their recipes to reduce saturated fat levels.
Nestle has promised to change the recipe of its Kit Kat chocolate bars, Mondelez International is to ‘reformulate products across its portfolio’, including Oreos, and a number of supermarkets, including Tesco and Morrisons, will also reduce saturated fat in a number of products, a Department of Health spokeswoman said.
If the nation could cut the amount of saturated fat it eats by 15 per cent around 2,600 premature deaths from heart diseases could be prevented every year, she added.
The pledge is part of the Government’s ‘Responsibility Deal’ with the food industry which aims to curb the rising tide of obesity across the country by encouraging producers and retailers to reduce artificial trans fat, calories and salt in foods.
But Tam Fry, trustee of the National Obesity Forum, said that ministers must consider proper regulation instead of working with the industry on a voluntary basis.
‘It is a small step in the right direction but it is only a small step,’ he said.
Nestle has promised to change the recipe of its Kit Kat chocolate bars and Mondelez International is to 'reformulate products across its portfolio', including Oreos, to reduce saturated fat content
‘This latest piece of hype from the Department of Health will mean over 50 per cent of food will still have extreme levels of saturated fat.
‘The much vaunted voluntary Responsibility Deal will never succeed until the Government takes a grip and makes everybody sign up to it.’
Public Health Minister Jane Ellison said: ‘One in six male deaths and one in nine female deaths are from coronary heart disease - this is why it’s critical that we challenge the way we eat and that we all make changes where we can.
‘It’s hugely encouraging that companies providing almost half of the food available on the UK market have committed to this new Responsibility Deal pledge and they are leading the way to give their customers healthier products and lower fat alternatives.’
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LEVERKUSEN, GERMANY (Sept. 12, 11:45 a.m. ET) — Materials supplier Lanxess AG has purchased Bond-Laminates GmbH, a German company that supplies custom plastic composite sheets, including glass-fiber-reinforced sheet.
Leverkusen-based Lanxess said the deal strengthens its portfolio of lightweight materials for the automotive industry.
Terms were not disclosed.
Bond-Laminates is a 15-year-old company based in Brilon, Germany. The company employs about 80 and posted 2011 sales of 16 million euros ($20 million). The firm has worked with Lanxess since 2006 on automotive industry projects.
“We see tremendous potential for this composite technology as it spreads from the premium automotive segment to the wider market,” Lanxess Chairman Axel Heitmann said in a news release.
Bond-Laminates will be part of the Lanxess' High Performance Materials business unit, headed by Michael Zobel.
High Performance Materials is part of the Performance Polymers segment, which generated 5.1 billion euros ($6.6 billion) in total sales in fiscal year 2011.


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President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. favored Filipino farmers over his economic team as he rejected the proposal to lower the tariffs on imported rice for price of local rice to remain stable.
Earlier, President Marcos’ economic team led by Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno proposed to lower the tariff or tax on imported rice from 35 percent to 10 percent.
But the President stressed that it is only the rice importers and not Filipino farmers who will benefit from the proposal of his economic team.
Rosendo So, chairman of Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG), said President Marcos’ decision ultimately favors local farmers as rice harvest season was underway.
With the President’s directive, So said price of local rice will remain stable and the collection of tariffs will greatly benefit Filipino farmers.
“Magandang development po ito dahil nag-aanihan na tayo. Ang presyo ng palay ay mananatiling stable, hindi na po ito babagsak,” the leader of the farmers’ group said.
During a sectoral meeting at Malacañang on Tuesday, September 26, President Marcos stressed that it was not the right time to lower tariffs as it was already expected that the cost of rice will eventually decline in the world market.
The President has also assured the public that the government will remain determined to end smuggling and hoarding of rice, stressing that an “iron hand” is needed against smugglers and hoarders.
He also stressed supply of rice was enough, and that smugglers and hoarders have been manipulating the prices of agricultural products in the local markets.


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Creatively speaking, says David Caruso, he’s not much of an artist. In fact, he says, he can barely “draw a stick figure.” But he does know artistic talent when he sees it, as well as how to surround himself with creative types who help inspire him to craft interesting ideas — skills that serve him well in his role as co-founder and president of Acme Brand Content Co.
One of his most recent — not to mention highest-profile — ideas is Tag Records, a hip-hop music label co-created and owned by Procter & Gamble for its Tag Body Spray product. Its first song, “On a Mission,” was released on iTunes earlier this month. When P&G execs asked Acme to engage younger urbanites with the brand, Caruso says they realized that “urban music was the common thread. It’s a place where [this demo] looks for cues and trends — and inspiration.”
The label, which wants to foster emerging talent as well as be a positive voice in the hip-hop community, is a partnership with Island Def Jam Music Group. “On a Mission” is from Q Da Kid and features rapper Jermaine Dupri, president of both Tag Records and Island Urban (part of the Island Def Jam network). Acme works closely with both Tag’s and Island Def Jam’s advertising, media, interactive and public relations agencies to ensure that Tag Records and Tag Body Spray have synergy across platforms.
Building a label backed by a marketer “is not an easy road [to take],” says Caruso, whose company’s first-year anniversary was Oct. 1. “The easier one would have been to attach ourselves to one of the hot hip-hop stars out there today. But we’re hoping ours is a more sustainable road [to] building the brand.”
Other Acme clients include Avon’s boutique beauty brand, Mark, for which the company formed a partnership with reality TV star and fashion designer Lauren Conrad (The Hills). The result is a co-branded line of accessories, Lauren Conrad for Mark. For the Sean Kimerling Testicular Cancer Foundation, Acme is working on a campaign for early ’09 to raise awareness of the disease. It’s also working with European luxury bed brand Hastens for a campaign set to break in the first half of ’09. Caruso says the details of both campaigns are still under wraps.
A native of Bristol, R.I., Caruso, 33, was, he says, “all about sports and entertainment” when he was growing up. He played soccer religiously from age 5 to 18, but realizing his chances of becoming a professional soccer star were slim, decided to focus instead on business. He attended American University and then worked briefly at now-defunct Landis Lombardi, an entertainment promotions company in Rhode Island.
Caruso says he enjoyed the job, but missed the intellectual and strategic aspects of marketing integral to brand building. So in 1999, Caruso, then 23, moved to New York and landed a job as an account exec with Grey Entertainment (a now-defunct division of Grey Advertising ). “I was still in a space that I was passionate about,” he says, “but now had the chance to do more strategic branding.”
He was promoted to account supervisor and then, in 2000, moved to Grey’s new sister shop, Alliance, as senior development director. Caruso says he was intrigued by its mission: the creation of unions between brands and entertainment. “It was the infancy of branded entertainment when it wasn’t even called that,” he says. Grey, he adds, was one of the first big agencies to recognize the importance of branding through nontraditional efforts. He made Grey his home for eight years before setting off on his own — though not before rounding out his tenure at Alliance as COO.


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Inflation bounce-back after historic decline
Consumer price index
Inflation: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) – the main measure of inflation in Australia – rose by 1.6 per cent in the September quarter (consensus: +1.4 per cent). The result follows the 1.9 per cent decline in the CPI in the June quarter – the biggest quarterly decline in 89 years. The June quarter result had been affected by the Federal Government decision to provide free child care and a 19.3 per cent fall in the cost of petrol. The temporary child care benefit has since ended while petrol prices rebounded over the September quarter.
Annual rate of inflation: In the year to September, the CPI rose by 0.7 per cent after falling 0.3 per cent in the year to June (consensus: +0.6 per cent).
Main changes: The most significant price rises in the September quarter were: were child care; automotive fuel (+9.4 per cent); preschool and primary education (+11.1 per cent); furniture (+6.4 per cent); major appliances (+5.3 per cent); and small appliances (+5.8 per cent). Notable price falls in the September quarter were: water & sewerage (down 2.7 per cent); other non-durable household products (down 4.1 per cent); personal care products (down 3.0 per cent); telco equipment (down 0.8 per cent); urban transport fares (down 3.5 per cent); pharmaceutical products (down 2.1 per cent); ‘other food products (down 3.5 per cent); cakes and biscuits (down 1.4 per cent); takeaway and fast foods (down 0.7 per cent); and ‘other’ cereal products (down 4.3 per cent).
Underlying measures: The Reserve Bank monitors three measures to derive the underlying inflation rate. The trimmed mean rose 0.4 per cent in the September quarter (1.2 per cent annual); the weighted median rose by 0.3 per cent (1.3 per cent annual) and the CPI less volatile items rose by 1.3 per cent (0.9 per cent annual). Overall, underlying inflation was 0.4 per cent in the quarter and rose by around 1.25 per cent over the year. Market goods and services less volatile items rose by 0.5 per cent in the quarter to be up 1.7 per cent on the year.
What does it all mean?
• The June quarter CPI figures were historic. The last time consumer prices fell by 1.9 per cent over a quarter – that is, over a three month period – was in 1931. The September quarter CPI marks a partial return to ‘normality’. However we will only get a true sense of inflation and where prices are headed in 2021.
• Prices rebounded in the September quarter for a number of reasons – the end of subsidised child care and the rebound in petrol prices. But the best guide to underlying prices is the ‘trimmed mean’. This measure shows prices up 0.4 per cent in the quarter to be up 1.2 per cent over the year. So low annual inflation rules, not deflation.
• Inflation is likely to remain below the Reserve Bank’s 2-3 per cent target band for a few years. As a result the Reserve Bank commits to not increasing the cash rate for three years. In fact today’s inflation result doesn’t stand in the way of a further easing of monetary policy. On Melbourne Cup day the Reserve Bank is likely to cut the target rates for cash and 3-year bond yields from 25 basis points (quarter of a per cent) to 10 basis points. The RBA is also likely to commit to purchases of 5-10 year bond yields with the intention of driving longer-term yields lower.
• The economic recovery is underway. But with unemployment rate likely to hold near 6-7 per cent, wage growth should remain modest, as should inflation. The RBA would be hoping that further monetary policy easing – combined with fiscal stimulus – being applied in a recovering economy would have added stimulatory effect.
Published by Craig James, Chief Economist, CommSec