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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Investment Weekly News -- Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:MXIM) reported net revenue of $555 million for its third quarter of fiscal 2016 ended March 26, 2016, a 9% increase from the $511 million revenue recorded in the prior quarter, and a 4% decrease from the same quarter of last year.
Tunc Doluca, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "Our third quarter financial performance was in line with our expectations, and we achieved additional milestones in our $180 million cost reduction plan." Mr. Doluca continued, "In our June quarter, we expect seasonal growth in Automotive and core Industrial, and a modest increase in Communications and Data Center. We are pleased with our design win momentum in high-performance power management and differentiated analog products, benefitting from our focused product portfolio."
Fiscal Year 2016 Third Quarter Results
Based on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), diluted earnings per share in the March quarter was a $0.48 profit. The results were affected by pre-tax special items which primarily consisted of a $59 million gain on sale of a business, $14 million in charges related to acquisitions, and $10 million in charges related to restructuring activities. GAAP earnings per share, excluding special items was $0.41. An analysis of GAAP versus GAAP excluding special items is provided in the last table of this press release.
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‘Severely Involved And Firmly Oppose’: Chinese language Embassy Objects to Ban on Nation’s 59 Apps in India
New Delhi: A day after India banned 59 Chinese language apps together with TikTok and UC Browser on account of ‘nationwide safety considerations’, the Chinese language embassy in India on Tuesday mentioned that it was ‘severely involved with and firmly opposed’ to such an motion, including that the grounds for banning the apps have been ‘ambiguous and far-fetched’. Additionally Learn – Closing Blow! TikTok Stops Working for Customers in India After Govt Bans the App, Customers Say ‘It is Finish of An Period’
In a press release at present, Ji Rong, spokesperson of the Chinese language embassy in New Delhi, mentioned that the Chinese language facet was severely involved with and firmly against such an motion. Additionally Learn – Apps Ban: Residents Rush to Obtain Chingari, A Desi Various to Chinese language TikTok; Hits 25 Lakh Downloads
“India’s measure, selectively and discriminatorily goals at sure Chinese language apps on ambiguous and far-fetched grounds, runs in opposition to honest and clear process necessities, abuses nationwide safety exceptions and suspects of violating World Commerce Organisation (WTO) guidelines”, the spokesperson added. Additionally Learn – #RIPTiktok: As India Bans 59 Chinese language Apps, Hilarious Memes Take Over Twitter; Netizens Say ‘Maza Aa Gaya’
“It additionally goes in opposition to the final pattern of worldwide commerce and e-commerce, and isn’t conducive to client pursuits and the market competitors in India”, the spokesperson concluded.
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Hey, Neville here: I got invited to speak at this thing called HustleCon in San Francisco. Overall it went off really well, met some cool people, and got a free trip to SanFran. What’s even more impressive is that the organizer was a 25 year old named Sam Parr who walked away from the conference […]
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UK consumer price inflation slowed more than expected to a 15-month low in June, strengthening the case for a quarter point rate hike from the Bank of England rather than an aggressive half a percentage point increase at the August meeting.
The consumer price index, or CPI, posted an annual increase of 7.9 percent in June, which was slower than the 8.7 percent rise in May, the Office for National Statistics reported Wednesday. This was the weakest rate since March 2022 and also below economists’ forecast of 8.2 percent.
The slowdown reflected downward contribution from the transport division, especially motor fuels. There were notable downward effects from food and non-alcoholic beverages, furniture and household goods and restaurants and hotels.
Monthly consumer price inflation also eased more than expected to 0.1 percent from 0.7 percent in May. The expected rate was 0.4 percent.
The core CPI that excludes energy, food, alcohol and tobacco rose 6.9 percent annually in June, which was slower than the 7.1 percent rise in May. That was the highest rate since March 1992.
“The August Bank of England meeting is going to be a close call, but we think this latest data makes a 25bp hike more likely than a repeat 50bp increase,” ING economist James Smith said.
Capital Economics economist Paul Dales said wage growth and services CPI inflation are both currently stronger than the BoE had projected in May and give enough evidence of “more persistent pressures” to prompt the central bank to lift rates a little bit further than previously thought.
Still the interest rates are more likely to peak between 5 percent and 6 percent than between 6 percent and 7 percent, Dales added.
The BoE has lifted the benchmark rate over the last thirteen consecutive policy sessions, taking it to the current 5.00 percent, which was the highest since 2008. The next announcement is due on August 3.
Another report from the ONS showed that output prices registered the slowest annual growth since December 2020. Factory gate prices edged up 0.1 percent, following May’s 2.7 percent increase. The rate was expected to ease to 0.5 percent.
Output prices slid 0.3 percent in June after falling 0.6 percent in May. Prices were forecast to drop 0.3 percent.
Input prices declined the most since August 2020, down 2.7 percent from a year ago, in contrast to the 0.4 percent rise in May. Prices were forecast to drop moderately by 1.6 percent.
Month-on-month, input prices decreased 1.3 percent following a 1.2 percent drop in May.
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New car-sharing service launching in Montreal
Next month, a new Bixi-style car-sharing service will being service in Montreal.
It's called car2go — a concept that was launched in Germany in 2008 and which has since spread to 24 cities around the world, including Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.
It will make its debut in Montreal on Nov. 2 with an initial fleet of 250 Fortwo two-seater cars.
It's being billed as "a convenient, easy and fun way to get around and explore the city from a new perspective."
Users would sign up for the service at montreal.car2go.com. They'll be charged 38 cents per minute to rent one of the cars, which can be picked up and then parked on the street — unlike the Bixi service, which requires users to return their bikes to designated areas.
Available cars can be located online, or through a smartphone app.
For the moment, the service will operate in three boroughs — Cote des Neiges-NDG, Rosemont-Petite Patrie, and Plateau Mont-Royal — though in the downtown area, users would have to return cars to a designated parking area.
'This service is perfectly complimentary with other alternative means of transportation," said Jérémi Lavoie, the location manager of car2go Montreal. "It is really helpful for what is called the transportation chain."
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In years prior, the company has used I/O, its annual confab for developers, as a stage for splashy announcements, including showing off its mobile operating system Android in 2008 and its futuristic headset, Google Glass, in 2012—the latter famously demonstrated live by skydivers (video).
For Google, its biggest event of the year helps showcase its innovation and indicate its direction, in hopes of enticing developers to build for its many platforms. This year’s conference, which will take place Thursday May 28 and Friday May 29 in San Francisco, promises more of the same. The official schedule, along with rumors and leaks, point to some big themes: the internet of things, TV, payments, and more.
Android M will be the next major release of Google’s mobile operating system. Right now, there are a lot of floating theories about what M stands for—Milkshake, M&M, Macadamia Nut Cookie?—but Google might not reveal the name until after the conference, as it did last year.
Though some manufacturers, such as Samsung, have built fingerprint readers into their Android phones, Google is expected to add fingerprint authentication more widely in Android M. Reportedly, Google almost put a reader in the Nexus 6, but the source code revealed it was ultimately removed, likely because it wasn’t ready for primetime.
Google may have had a head start in mobile payments, but Google Wallet has mostly languished since its introduction in 2011. Now that Apple, Samsung, and PayPal are crowding the field, Google is getting ready to debut Android Pay, which reportedly will allow retailers to accept tap-to-pay transactions in-store.
“It’s a very, very important form of data,” says Forrester analyst Michael Facemire. “Not only do they want customers using it, they want to make it incredibly easy for developers to add to their apps as well.”
It’s still unclear if Android Pay will replace or supplement Google Wallet, which in February got the blessing of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile—the very wireless carries that blocked the app from their phones—while acquiring intellectual property from the carriers’ joint mobile wallet venture Softcard.
Google has reportedly been building a new platform for connected hardware. Codenamed Brillo, the software can run on low-powered devices, as well as larger appliances such as smart fridges, according to The Information. With Brillo, devices would be able to communicate with Google’s Nest products, which include a smart thermostat, smoke detector, and home security cameras from Dropcam.
“Now with Nest taking a much more visible role, you can probably expect something on the smart home front from Google at I/O,” says Gartner analyst Mark Hung. “Especially with Apple shipping its first HomeKit product next month, I think Google will need to respond.”
Chromecast, Google’s smart TV operating system packed into a dongle, quickly gained traction thanks to its $35 price tag. Within a year and a half of its launch, it became America’s second favorite streaming device, beating out Apple TV and coming in behind Roku.
Android TV (and before that Google TV) never took off in the same way. Google TV devices “are selling fairly well, but they’re being returned,” Andrej Kostresevic, CEO of mobile engineering company Nomads, says, citing conversations he has had with TV sales reps. “If you look at some of the remotes…they look like a flight control dashboard. They’re very, very complicated.” Judging by the schedule, it also appears Chromecast will get updated and rebranded as Google Cast.
With senior vice president Sundar Pichai now overseeing Chrome, Google Apps, and Android, there’s much speculation that the company will reconcile its two operating systems: Android and Chrome OS. A former Google employee tells Quartz there have been many internal discussions around the topic, and we might begin to understand the company’s vision for its two OSes at the conference.
Google is reportedly planning to separate and reboot the photo service from its social network Google Plus. Bloomberg reports that the tool, which people can use to store and share photos, can post images directly to Facebook and Twitter.
When Google debuted its virtual-reality headset made of cardboard last year, it seemed like a total gimmick. But it’s plausible Cardboard will make a repeat showing at I/O this year, given the recent attention on Oculus at Facebook’s F8 conference and HoloLens at Microsoft’s Build conference. Google recently moved Jon Wiley, the former lead designer of search, over to Cardboard, giving the project some real legs.
Kostresevic estimates it’ll take five to 10 years before any of these headsets see “meaningful adoption,” so he sees any moves in virtual reality and augmented reality as “a race for media coverage at this point.”
Earlier this year, Google more or less admitted the failure of Glass as a consumer product. In addition to halting consumer sales, the company put the unit under the purview of Nest chief Tony Fadell. Many people are hoping this means Google Glass 2.0 will make an appearance at the show. Perhaps Google’s fashion partners, including Luxottica, can transform Glass into an accessory people would actually want to wear in public.
Google has been reportedly working on bringing Android Wear to Apple’s iOS. But one of the big challenges there will be getting Apple’s stamp of approval. It’s pretty routine for the App Store to reject apps with Android in the name or description.
Apple’s China strategy has paid off tremendously, and it appears Google is hoping for the same. The search giant has largely maintained its distance from the People’s Republic, due to conflicts over censorship. Google has also accused the Chinese government of hacking into its servers.
The Information reported in November, however, that Google is now trying to get into the country, though it’s unclear what compromises it’ll have to make. Currently, Android phones sold in China don’t come preloaded with Google apps.
Last week, Google along with 17 other companies received a certification for logging in with methods other than typing in a password. A developer on Google’s security team tells Quartz that security will be a theme at the conference, and the company will discuss new ways to authenticate.
Google doesn’t typically use I/O to plug its cloud services, but it might this year as a reaction to Amazon and Microsoft. In April, Amazon revealed for the first time the size of its cloud business: $5.2 billion in sales over the last four quarters. At Microsoft’s recent Build conference, the company touted major improvements to lure developers over to its competing service, Azure.
Google hasn’t been sitting idly by: It introduced big price cuts to the Google Cloud Platform last week. With competition heating up, it’s possible Google will use this opportunity to woo developers over to its cloud.


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MOSCOW, August 07. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian federal veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor plans to increase the number of accredited Chilean food importers, the service said following chief Sergey Dankvert’s meeting with Chilean Ambassador Juan Eduardo Eguiguren.
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Apple released iOS 11 barely a month ago, but emoji lovers are eagerly awaiting its first major update. Apple revealed a bunch of new emoji that will come to iOS devices with the release of iOS 11.1. The new characters are adaptations from Unicode 10, which added 56 new emoji.A quick look into Apple's new emojis shows a triad of new "genderless" emoji with various skin colors and age differences. The release also brings a group of new clothing emoji, which include a hat, scarf, gloves, and trench coat.
New food icons include broccoli, dim sum, pie, and a traditional "takeout" container. There's also a selection of new mythical characters, including a fairy, mermaid, vampire, and wizard, for those of us who would rather live in a fantasy world whenever possible. Apple will also include some emoji announced on World Emoji Day (July 17), like Woman with Headscarf, Bearded Person, and Breastfeeding.
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The news about the terrible working conditions and low wages at the factories in China where Apple products are being manufactured has continued to escalate. Now the folks over at the Times have gotten a statement from a current unidentified Apple executive that is further bad publicity for the Cupertino based company:
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After the calorie overload of the holiday season, January is the time when many – particularly in the Western world – rethink diets.
Since 2014, UK not-for-profit Veganuary has been encouraging people to switch to a vegan diet for the month – cutting out meat, dairy products and eggs to improve personal and planetary health.
Whether vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian, there’s one thing you can start doing to improve your health now – eating more fruit and vegetables
It’s nothing new – the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization have been recommending five portions a day for 20 years to reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases, such as heart disease, stroke and some forms of cancer.
But people in many European countries are still not eating enough, with just one in 10 getting their five-a-day and more than half eating only between one and four portions.
Perhaps most alarming is that in 2019, a third of people in the EU said they weren’t eating any fruit and vegetables at all, according to Eurostat.
Some countries had a much higher intake of fruit and vegetables than others, with around a third of people in Ireland and the Netherlands getting their five-a-day.
There’s also a gender split among fruit and veg consumers, with women on average having a higher daily intake – 58% of women reported eating one to four portions, compared with 51% of men.
Why should we eat more fruit and vegetables?
1. Better health outcomes
Besides reducing the risk of non-communicable diseases, eating your five-a-day can help to maintain a healthy body weight and balance energy, according to WHO Europe. Fruit and veg are a source of essential vitamins and minerals, as well as providing dietary fibre, which keeps your digestive system healthy.
2. Better for the planet
The “planetary health diet” was designed by 37 experts as part of the EAT-Lancet Commission to answer the question of how we’re going to feed a projected global population of 10 billion by 2050 without destroying the planet. While the diet is flexible, it advocates that half of meals be made up of fruit and veg, while the other half is mainly whole grains, plant proteins such as beans and nuts, modest amounts of meat and dairy and some starchy vegetables such as potatoes, which don’t count as one of your five-a-day. The EAT-Lancet report found that moving to a healthy diet could prevent around 11 million deaths a year, as well as reduce the environmental impacts from food production.
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3. Could save money
At a time when steepening inflation is making food more expensive in some countries, eating more fruit and vegetables could be a way to cut the cost of your shopping, according to new research. Marco Springmann and his team at the University of Oxford found that opting for a healthier and more sustainable diet could take a third off food bills in high-income countries, including the US and parts of Europe.
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Mondelez International Inc. on Tuesday agreed to buy paleo chocolate-bar maker Hu Master Holdings, the latest move by an established food company to tap into growing demand for healthier snacks.
The snack-food giant, which took a minority stake in Hu in 2019, is buying the rest in a transaction that values Hu at around $340 million, according to people familiar with the matter. The Wall Street Journal first reported Monday the two companies were nearing a deal.
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What started as a LinkedIn message has turned into a major investment for Sweetfin, a Los Angeles-based poke concept.
Seth Cohen, the 14-unit fast casual’s president and co-founder, said he received a message from the CEO of Poke House, a 75-unit poke chain based in Italy, about a year ago “to talk shop.”
Several months of Zoom calls later and Cohen and Poke House’s Matteo Pichi agreed on a joint venture structure in which Sweetfin retains full control of its brand with Poke House as its largest single investor.
“We’ve always grown cautiously and carefully,” Cohen said. The undisclosed investment will allow his concept to add units in its homebase of Southern California but also in states such as Arizona, Texas and Florida.
The money will also allow Sweetfin to add to its executive team, he said, with the goal of tripling its store count over the next three years.
Sweetfin debuted in 2015, an early entrant into what became a crowed fast-casual poke concept market several years later. The chain’s menu is entirely gluten-free and everything (sauces, toppings, lemonades and more) is made in-house. The brand has partnered with a number of well-known chefs over the years and has a menu that borrows from international cuisine, Cohen said.
“We’ve always focused on differentiating ourselves from day one,” he said.
Even before the pandemic, Sweetfin had a digital focus. Today, more than 80% of all orders come in through digital channels. The typical Sweetfin unit is about 1,000-square-feet, with a largely off-premise operation.
Poke House has restaurants in Italy, France, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. It had more than $50 million in total revenue in 2021 and has 80 additional restaurant openings planed in 2022.
“We are thrilled to enter the American market in partnership with an iconic and beloved brand that has made California-inspired poke a true institution,” Pichi said in a statement.
Like Sweetfin, Poke House is tech-focused, with a proprietary CRM platform that allows it to track consumer trends.
There is a possibility, Cohen said, that the two concepts could combine into one in the coming years.
“It would have to be agreed upon,” he said. “That’s not predetermined.”
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Hispanic business leaders are calling on the Tampa-St. Petersburg area’s congressional representatives to include help for micro-entrepreneurs in the next round of Covid-19 financial aid.
Latinx entrepreneurs are resilient but that’s not enough, said Elizabeth Gutierrez, founder and CEO of Enterprising Latinas, on a conference call hosted by Rep. Charlie Crist, D-St. Petersburg, and Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa.
“From our perspective one of the things we’ve been disappointed about is that the CARES Act funding hasn’t gone deep enough,” Gutierrez said. “I hope it would go to the very small micro-entrepreneurs who are the engine of our economy locally.”
Crist and Castor hosted the call to hear the concerns and needs of Hispanic small businesses, who have been disproportionately impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Castor cited a study that showed the number of active small businesses in the United States plummeted by 3.3 million, or 22 percent, between February and April. African-American businesses were hit especially hard experiencing a 41 percent drop. Latinx business owners fell by 32 percent, and Asian business owners dropped by 26 percent according to the study.
That has a big impact locally, said Crist. He said Hispanic American entrepreneurs are one of the forces behind the small business boom in the area, creating jobs and economic growth.
One of those entrepreneurs, Felicia “Phe” Lacalle, said she was blindsided at the outset of the pandemic. Her restaurant, Kuba, inside Armature Works in Tampa, had to pivot, adding curbside takeout with a scaled-back menu.
“For myself, it was good as a businesswoman to look at other things in my business and not just be a chef, but to be an entrepreneur and pivot and see what else I could do to bring the community back in. and it’s been very successful,” Lacalle said.
She said a Paycheck Protection Program loan let her retain all of her staff, and she’s now even planning to open a second location at the beach in about five weeks.
Lacalle was able to figure out what she needed to do, but many small business owners don’t know about those resources or how to access them, said Cesar Hernandez, president of the Tampa Bay Latin Chamber.
“Almost 65 percent of our membership did receive some form of PPP and it was very necessary. They are restaurateurs and also within the professional services sector. They are attorneys, they are publicists, they are marketers and they have that access. But the deciding factor is they might be second or third-generation and understand how to navigate the laws a little better, “ Hernandez said. “What we need is to make sure that we are inclusive so newer entrepreneurs who are first generation and just starting out that are not at a disadvantage”
In addition to more support for micro-entrepreneurs, those with 10 or fewer workers, more support also is needed for organizations such as Emerging Latinas in Wimauma, which provides outreach and education to small business owner, Gutierrez said.
Crist said President Trump’s announcement that he would not support continued talks on Covid-19 pandemic relief funding until after the election leaves small business owners “holding the bag.” Crist encouraged other business owners to speak out.
“Congresswoman Castor and I know that small business owners can’t afford to wait,” Crist said. “Washington needs to hear from our small business owners on the front line of this crisis working to keep up with public health guidelines while protecting the livelihoods of their employees.”


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Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAOI)
Texas-based Applied Optoelectronics has revised its third-quarter revenue guidance downward because of a problem identified with its 25G lasers. The company said it had temporarily halted shipments of some transceivers equipped with the affected lasers.
However, only less than 1% of the lasers were found to have the issue, according to a statement released by the company on Friday morning. The company has since solved the problem and began shipping the products again.
The firm, which designs and manufactures optical communications products, now projects revenue in the range of $55 million to $58 million for its third quarter. Its previous outlook was in the range of $82 million to $92 million, while analysts had estimated of $88.3 million.
Shares of the company went down as much as 22% before markets opened for regular trading on Friday.
Applied Optoelectronics CEO Comments
Dr. Thompson Lin, the president and chief executive officer said, “During the third quarter, we identified an issue with a small percentage of 25G lasers within a specific customer environment. Consistent with AOI’s commitment to supreme product quality and customer support, we mutually agreed with the customer to temporarily suspend shipments of certain transceivers utilizing these lasers while we worked to gain a deeper understanding of the scope of the issue and implement a solution. We have since determined that less than one percent of these lasers were subject to this issue, we have enacted a solution and with the agreement of the customer, resumed shipments.”
Lin continued, “We hold ourselves to a very high standard at AOI and the measures we took this quarter reflect our strong commitment to our customers. We believe that our customers appreciate our willingness to thoroughly resolve any issues, even at the expense of a delay in our revenue, and we believe that we continue to have strong relationships with our customers. Outside of the temporary delay in shipments that impacted our third quarter revenue, sales and shipments as well as the pricing environment were consistent with our prior expectations.”
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc Company Profile
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells various fiber-optic networking products worldwide. It offers optical modules, lasers, transmitters and transceivers, and turn-key equipment, as well as headend, node, and distribution equipment.
The company sells its products to Internet data center operators, cable television and telecommunications equipment manufacturers, and Internet service providers through its direct and indirect sales channels.
The company competes with Finisar Corporation, Oclaro, Inc., Foxconn Interconnect Technology Ltd., EMCORE Corporation, Lumentum Holding, Inc., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi, Molex, LLC, Source Photonics.
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas. – Yahoo Finance


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Lights ... camera ... escarole! PBS's "Ciao Italia" films segment at UNH Organic Garden
By Beth Potier, Media Relations
July 25, 2007
Wearing frilly frocks of deep emerald green, their feet covered with
mud, the escarole plants at the UNH Organic Garden got star treatment
on the morning of July 16 when PBS’s “Ciao Italia” taped
them for an upcoming segment about ways to cook the tasty salad green.
“We’re doing a grand tour of escarole – ‘scarolla’ in
Italian,” said host Mary Ann Esposito, who shot the segment with
UNH senior Cormac Griffin, president of the UNH Organic Gardening Club.
Griffin introduced Esposito, a UNH alum and Durham resident, to the four
types of escarole he and garden manager Diana Laurentitis had grown on
OGC’s two-acre plot on Spinney Lane.
While Esposito tapes several “Ciao Italia” segments in her
own garden, she admitted that she hadn’t had luck growing escarole.
So she and producer Paul Lally contacted the OGC via the Office of Sustainability
early this spring to “commission” a row of escarole. Griffin
happily obliged, then consulted with Cooperative Extension associate
professor of plant biology Becky Grube to ensure that the escarole would
be ready for its television close-up.
Which it was. “This escarole is beautiful!” Esposito gushed.
As Lally crouched behind the camera, Griffin and Esposito swapped gardening
tips and tales for what will be a three-minute segment. “I remember
my grandmother just going along and picking this on the roadside,” said
Esposito of one type of escarole.
“I guess one person’s weed is another’s gourmet meal,” said
Esposito explained that UNH’s organic garden exemplifies a principal
of Italian food. “We’re trying to get people to think globally
and eat locally. Italians always eat what’s in season,” she
And shooting part of a show at the organic garden was a homecoming of
sorts for Esposito: “I got my start right here on New Hampshire
Public Television,” she said, motioning across Main St. to the
Although the UNH escarole won’t come to public television until
spring or summer of 2008, it will be available for purchase at the OGC’s
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American Express (NYSE: AXP) today announced the release of its first Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report, which outlines the company’s approach to responsibly back its colleagues, customers and communities. The report is an evolution of American Express’ Corporate Social Responsibility report and includes updated and enhanced disclosures on a number of key topics, such as the diversity of the company’s workforce, its efforts to support its various stakeholders through the COVID-19 pandemic, continued progress toward its environmental sustainability goals and philanthropic initiatives.
“At American Express, we believe the fundamental purpose of a corporation is to serve the needs of society and that backing our colleagues, customers and communities so they can thrive is critical to our success,” said Stephen J. Squeri, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “These beliefs have been our North Star for 170 years and through many challenging times, and they continue to guide us today in the face of the current global health crisis. Moving forward, we remain committed to implementing strong ESG policies and practices and delivering on our refreshed priorities detailed in our ESG report.”
The report’s publication follows an analysis of opportunities and risks as it relates to American Express’ ESG strategy to better understand the expectations of internal and external stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, colleagues, business partners, regulators, suppliers, community organizations and others. Based on these valuable insights, the company developed a refreshed ESG framework and set of priorities that will drive its strategy moving forward. To further facilitate the execution of its ESG priorities, the company established a new ESG Steering Committee, comprised of senior leaders from across the business, which will be responsible for driving the development of new ESG goals and metrics.
Report highlights include:
BACKING OUR COLLEAGUES
American Express is committed to delivering a great colleague experience, growing the best talent and developing new ways of working to unlock enterprise value. The company’s focus includes:
BACKING OUR CUSTOMERS
American Express has taken a number of steps to help its customers – including consumers, small businesses, corporate clients and merchants – navigate the financial disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as:
BACKING OUR COMMUNITIES
The ESG report outlines how American Express is working to help address the most pressing societal issues in the communities it serves around the world. Throughout 2019 and to date this year, the company has leveraged its philanthropic and civic engagement initiatives to further empower the people and organizations on the front lines addressing society’s most complex challenges, including:
American Express’ ESG report responds to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) reporting guidelines. To learn more about American Express’ approach to corporate responsibility and ESG, visit https://about.americanexpress.com/corporate-responsibility/default.aspx.
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American Express is a globally integrated payments company, providing customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Learn more at americanexpress.com and connect with us on facebook.com/americanexpress, instagram.com/americanexpress, linkedin.com/company/american-express, twitter.com/americanexpress, and youtube.com/americanexpress.
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Puns are great. Working in the creative field, you've got to love a good pun.
But sometimes, they just don't turn out the way you hoped they would. Maki-San, a restaurant that allows patrons to design their own sushi and Japanese-inspired salad, has recently been shoved into the spotlight for a pun which unfortunately didn't sit well with the public.
To commemorate this year's National Day theme #OneNationTogether, Maki-San unveiled its latest chicken char siew sushi roll, the "Maki-Kita". The sushi roll was part of a collaboration with Spectra Secondary School and was meant to reflect the "cheeky and playful side" of Maki-San and was a "tongue-in-cheek" take on the first two words of the national anthem.
While there were good intentions behind the pun, netizens quickly pointed out that the phrase "Maki Kita" meant "Curse us" in Malay. In an Instagram post that has since been deleted, some netizens jokingly cursed the restaurant while others ridiculed at the error. Others called out Maki-San for its lack of cultural diversity in the office.
Since then the restaurant has apologised "sincerely" for any offense caused on Facebook and Instagram, and changed the name of the sushi roll from "Maki-Kita" to "Harmony Kita" to be "more sensitive to the culture of [its] Malay consumers".
We do acknowledge the diversity of culture of our consumers and the people living in Singapore. We listened to the pulse and insights driven from our valued consumers. With this, our team has decided to change the name of the product, to be more sensitive to the culture of our Malay consumers. While we only meant well for this, our deepest respect goes to all our friends. We sincerely apologise if this has offended any of you. #makisan #rollwithmakisan
Marketing has reached out to Maki-San for further comment.
Maki-San is not the only brand to have found itself in a sticky situation. Giordano also recently drew flak for the lack of ethnic representation in its National Day advertisement. The ad features a family with two Caucasian adults, a Caucasian boy and an Asian girl. The reaction to the shirts online were negative, with netizens criticising the ad for not only the lack of ethnic representation, but also the poor use of photoshop.
What do you think of Maki-San's latest marketing tactic?
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CSSA Signatory Partner of Canada Plastics PactNews posted on January 27, 2021
Our national partner, Canadian Stewardship Services Alliance Inc. (CSSA), is a Signatory Partner of the Canada Plastics Pact, working towards a common vision of a circular economy for plastic in which it never becomes waste or pollution.
Launching today, the Canada Plastics Pact is a collaborative initiative that unifies businesses, NGOs, and government across Canada’s plastics value chain in a significant step toward a circular economy for plastics. CSSA is also a proud endorsers of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment, and they will further collaborate with Canadian businesses and others to realize the vision of a circular economy for plastics.
Collectively, CSSA’s client-recycling programs, including Multi-Material Stewardship Western, managed over 142,000 tonnes of plastic packaging in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario in 2019. We will continue to work closely with CSSA to support the circular economy for plastic.
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President Bush Signs Internet Tax Freedom Act
The previous three-year moratorium on imposing state and local taxes on the Internet was set to expire today.
President Bush has extended the moratorium on state and local government Internet access taxes.
Bush signed H.R. 3678, the "Internet Tax Freedom Act Amendment Acts of 2007," into law this week. The law prohibits multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce until Nov. 1, 2014.
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Lawmakers first placed a moratorium on charging taxes for Internet access or applying multiple taxes to a single online transaction in 1998. They extended it in 2004. The moratorium prohibits tax schemes that would discriminate against online business. The previous three-year moratorium was set to expire Thursday.
Congress voted unanimously in favor of the extension Tuesday. Bush signed it into law Wednesday. The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) praised the last-minute move.
"The president's signing of the Internet Tax Freedom Act today represents a historic victory for small businesses, consumers, and all American taxpayers," Roger Cochetti, group director of U.S. Public Policy for CompTIA, said in a statement.
"Congress' decision to extend the moratorium on Internet access taxes and multiple or discriminatory taxes on internet sales for an unprecedented seven years signals this Congress' firm belief that the Internet is priceless engine for economic, social and civic advancement in the United States that must not be burdened with discriminatory and abusive tax schemes," Cochetti said.
Wireless companies, Internet service providers, and online businesses support the extension, which now encompasses forms of e-commerce other than Web access and online shopping. They include e-mail, voice and video messaging, and personal storage. Many want a permanent ban.


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According to the reports, the tech giant Facebook, led by Mark Zuckerberg, is currently focusing on many different things in different areas, and one of the things is basically an application which the company thinks could win the attention of the teens back to Facebook. This app that is being built by Facebook is said to be a standalone product, in a way. In this app, the users can not only record themselves, but can also share the videos on it, while lip syncing to some popular dialogues or songs from a movie or a TV show, as per the information that was obtained by some of the employees of Facebook.
This app which is expected to be launched by the company soon is said to be launched with a strong intention to compete the popular app Musically, which was a strong hit with many teens across the world. This app which later became a 60 million monthly user product was eventually acquired by ByteDance, a Chinese company, for a whooping amount of nearly $1 billion, and it has now been rolled into another app of the company named TikTok.
According to some reports, the company Facebook has not abruptly taken the decision to enter this space of teen music app, but it has rather been investigating the same since the past couple of years and it seems that the company has finally found something strong to go forward with. Back in 2016, the company Facebook had also started a research, mainly to look into the music apps including Musically. Now that the company is finally coming up with something to compete with the same, it would be very interesting to see how things turn up for Facebook, which has lost the popularity by a significant margin in the recent past, and has been trying to catch up ever since.


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Xbox Is Seeing "Phenomenal Growth" In Japan
Microsoft shares an update on how Xbox is performing in Japan.
The Xbox platform has historically struggled in Japan, but that seems to be changing. Xbox's business boss for Asia, Jeremy Hinton, recently said that Japan is actually the "fastest growing market worldwide" for Xbox, repeating something Xbox boss Phil Spencer said in 2020.
Hinton told IGN Japan (translated by IGN US) that the Xbox platform overall has seen "phenomenal growth" in the past 12 months in Japan across console and PC.
"That's new people coming into our ecosystem, that's people signing up for Game Pass, that's people buying accessories or games on PC. So we're seeing really phenomenal growth coming out of Japan to be top of that list for us," he said.
Hinton went on to say that he is observing a "really high percentage" of Xbox consoles sold in Japan to people who have never owned an Xbox before. "And the next segment of consumers buying consoles are upgrading from Xbox 360, which was quite a successful generation for us in Japan. So we're seeing strong leading indicators in terms of us reaching new people. Demand is certainly higher, we see stock sell out within minutes," he said.
Also in the interview, Hinton said the Xbox Series S model is seeing stronger demand than the Series X and that more new Japanese game content is being made now than ever before in Xbox's history.
Microsoft has one wholly owned game development studio in Japan, which is Tango Gameworks, the developer of Ghostwire: Tokyo and The Evil Within. Microsoft assumed ownership of the studio following its acquisition of ZeniMax/Bethesda.
"I think we have more development kits with independent developers in Japan than we've ever had in our history before, and there's a lot of talent and a growing independent scene in Japan," Hinton said.
It's been a big week for Xbox, which held its E3 2021 briefing on June 13 with big news on Halo Infinite, Starfield, Redfall, Sea of Thieves, and more.
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Tyson Foods seems to have learned its lesson in the alternative protein space: Blended burgers are not the way, vegan products are.
The Springdale-based company on Monday debuted its first plant-based burgers and sausages ahead of the summer grilling season, heating up competition with Beyond Meat as it releases an
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Growing Synergy, LLC, aims to Connect Local Ranchers / Farmers with Restaurants, Hotels, Chefs
Growing Synergy is a new company with a noble mission:connect quality-minded Florida restaurants, hotels and chefs in Orlando, Tampa and South Florida with local food growers who offer fresher, healthier beef, lamb, veal, poultry, dairy and eggs.
Strawn’s roots in the Florida cattle industry go back to the 19th century. She was raised around her family’s Deep Creek Ranch in West Volusia County, which raises Angus and South Poll cattle and Katahdin sheep. Long an advocate of locally grown foods, Strawn teamed up with Rebecca Reis-Miller as founder of Slow Food Orlando, to launch Growing Synergy at the UCF Business Incubator in St. Cloud.
“Demand for locally grown foods in rapidly expanding and growing. Synergy provides the distribution link to connect small Florida farms with Florida restaurants, hotels, and chefs, Strawn said.
Growing Synergy will focus on farm-raised proteins —typically the most expensive items on a menu —and hopes to expand eventually to include farm products produce and even specialty products such as cheeses, herbs and wines, Strawn added.
“We’re focusing on the area where we can have the biggest impact,” said Reis-Miller.
“The giant food processors aren’t going to go away and processed food will remain the largest part of the American diet,” she said, “But there is a large and growing demand for more sustainable foods that don’t require so much energy to produce, process, store, and truck to market.”
And there are big gaps in America’s food production chain, Reis-Miller added.
“If we can reduce the steps that go into food production and distribution, we can make food at the grocery store — and on the restaurant table — fresher, healthier and better for the world,” she explained.
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Roku capped a transformative 2020 with another boffo quarter, finishing the last three months of the year with a record $649.9 million of total revenue, up 58% year over year.
Roku also saw a 58% revenue bump for the full pandemic year, taking in $1.778 billion. That surpassed the $1.6 billion guidance the company stated at the beginning of 2020.
Roku reported a $65.2 million net profit for the quarter--Wall Street had expected a loss.
The Silicon Valley giant’s market capitalization now stands at nearly $57.5 billion, having transformed itself from hardware/software technology company into an emerging giant in OTT advertising.
The “platform revenue” half of its value equation, driven mainly by ad sales on the fast-expanding Roku Channel, grew by 71% in 2020, reaching $1.268 billion. In the fourth quarter alone, platform revenue increased by 81% to $471.2 million.
Also read: Roku Staffs Up to Produce Original Shows
Roku’s ad-supported business whizzed past the company’s legacy technology segment back in 2019. Selling players, streaming sticks and smart speakers, as well as the operating system that powers them, is still a big business for Roku, generating $178.7 million in the fourth quarter, up 18% year over year.
The company also said that 38% of the smart TV’s sold in the U.S. are powered by its OS.
Roku already leaked a major Q4 milestone back in January—it finished the year with 51.2 million active accounts. Notably, during its teleconference with investment analysts Thursday, Roku noted that its user reach is more than double the size of the biggest U.S. pay TV operators. That's true--the biggest U.S. pay TV company, Comcast, now has just under 20 million video customers.
According to Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood, the Roku Channel now reaches 63 million viewers across its households in the U.S., Canada and the UK.
"Our primary impediment to growth at this point is the behavior of TV buyers," he said, noting that most TV dollars still go to linear networks.
Advertisers spent $65 billion on linear TV last year, Roku noted, even though linear viewership cratered another 21%. The three biggest broadcast networks have a median age of older than 60 now, while 18-34-year-old viewers are streaming more than half the TV they watch.
On Thursday, it also touted a major increased in average revenue per user—up $5.62 year over year to $28.76 for 2020.
Hours spent streaming on the Roku platform increased massively during the pandemic year, the company added—up 20.9 billion hours over 2019 to 58.7 billion.
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We have just received a hot tip about the upcoming Nokia Ace, confirming the leaked specs and also adding LTE to the mix.
The phone will apparently Nokiaâ€™s first LTE device, and the first they will be marketing in USA â€“ sorry Lumia 710.
According to our tipster the hardware is ready to go, and the device is just waiting for the Tango OS. Nokia is pushing for a late-January release, while a mid-March release is more likely.
AT&T is guaranteed the device, but apparently Verizon is also pushing hard to be a launch partner.
The specs is as leaked earlier – 4.3" screen, 8megapixel camera, 16gb storage, Windows Phone Tango OS , 1.4Ghz CPU, LTE support.
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JOHANNESBURG – African mining companies stand to win big from the growing lithium-ion battery market, says Kenneth Ozoemena, chief scientist and research group leader at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
A key component of lithium-ion batteries are metal oxides which range from aluminium to cobalt, manganese, nickel and titanium.
Ozoemena told delegates at the 2016 Power & Electricity World Africa conference that Africa’s abundance of such natural resources could prove a boon not only for lithium miners but for associated raw material oxides as well.
He said that South Africa’s status as the world’s top producer of manganese oxide and titanium oxide gives the country a competitive advantage. “If we can find a way of using manganese oxide to make lithium-ion batteries that would be a big winner,” he said. Titanium oxide, a component of lithium-titanite batteries, speeds up the recharging time of said batteries.
And with the battery said to be the next disruptive technology, after digital cameras and cellphones, he said the continent has the potential to build its own thriving battery industry.
“We are the greatest consumer of lithium-ion battery products yet we don’t have an industry that makes lithium-ion products… It doesn’t make sense,” he said referring to proliferation of cellphones across the continent.
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On February 22, while returning from his morning run, Kiran Jonnalagadda, a technologist, went to buy a coffee from a cafe in Indiranagar in Bengaluru. When the cashier asked him for his phone number while billing, Jonnalagadda refused. However, after making the payment, he was surprised that he got a message on his number from the merchant’s bank, thanking him for making the payment.
The reason? Jonnalagadda had made the payment using Unified Payments Interface, a real-time payment system developed by the National Payments Corporation of India. Since its launch in 2016, it has become widely used across India.
This experience made him question the design of UPI and the long-standing concerns about how it is not privacy-friendly. “Despite the fact that I had no intention of sharing my phone number, the merchant got my phone number,” he told Scroll.
Several privacy experts have pointed out that this data sharing is part of UPI’s architecture, which is premised on collecting huge amounts of data from users and sharing it with multiple participants involved in a particular transaction. Being data-centric is one of the reasons, they say, UPI can sustain without any fees, as opposed to other digital payments, such as card transactions, which cost money.
Sharing of numbers
This was not the first time Jonnalagadda got a message acknowledging a payment he made without sharing his phone number. “Earlier, I made a payment using Paytm Bank and I got an acknowledgement from HDFC Bank SmartHub Vyapar, which should not have had my number in the first place,” he explained.
He said that there was no connection between what he was using to pay, and HDFC Bank. “Either my UPI app or my bank shared the phone number as part of the transaction data,” he explained.
Jonnalgadda continued, “I have used payments from two different phone numbers, and both times they got the correct number,” he added.
There are other users who have also complained of getting messages from HDFC Bank SmartHub Vyapar, a payment solution system for businesses having an HDFC account.
On March 4, a Twitter user, Pratyush, with the handle @pratyushpmhptr also tweeted that his UPI service provider shared his phone number with the point of sale machine and the merchant after he made the payment.
“Can someone tell me why @PhonePe and @UPI_NPCI send my phone number to the PoS operator and the merchant after I scan and pay?” he wrote. “Share my VPA [virtual payment address] if you need to keep a record.” [The virtual payment address is the UPI ID to which one can make a payment, such as 98*****21@paytm.]
Apart from these instances, even the author of this piece got a message from HDFC Bank SmartHub Vyapar on his phone after making a UPI payment, despite not sharing his phone number and not using an HDFC Bank UPI.
How did the data get shared?
Jonnalagadda, who is the founder of a tech collaboration organisation Hasgeek believes that the UPI system allowed the sharing of his phone number when he makes the payment.
“I have verified from industry sources that UPI specification requires the sender side [which is making the payment] to send a phone number,” he said. “The app itself requires the phone number to be added when you send the payment.”
Jonnalagadda believes this specification was not brought under the first version of UPI introduced in 2016, but was added in its later updates. “Sharing of numbers is a part of UPI 2.0,” he said. UPI 2.0 was the second version of the payment interface introduced in 2018, and included several new features, such as recurring payments.
As part of UPI, all the parties involved in the transaction get a copy of a person’s payment address and phone number. “Everybody gets a copy of this data. That is how the system works,” he said.
Srikanth Lakshmanan, a member of Cashless Consumer, a collective working on digital payment awareness in India also believed that the number was shared as part of the UPI specification. “Often, your phone number is part of your virtual payment address, because of which, one could argue, the number was shared. But in Jonnalagadda’s example, this was not the case,” he said.
“The merchant got the number through the transaction, and then used it to send a message, which a user never consented to,” he added.
Scroll sent questions to the National Payments Corporation of India, the organisation responsible for regulating UPI, but did not receive a response at the time of writing the story.
Further, the data-sharing policies of UPI are not available to the public. Therefore, it is unclear whether this number which the HDFC app got also shared with the retailer using these services.
UPI data leaks
Jonnalagadda uses two separate numbers. One number is for public purposes and the other he does not share with anyone, except his bank and his UPI app. However, even the private number has been “leaked” to spammers, he believes.
“I have also been getting spam calls on my number, which only my bank and my UPI app are supposed to know,” he said.
In a UPI transaction, there are at least seven parties involved, Jonnalgadda had earlier explained in a conference. There are the UPI apps of both the sender and the receiver, the banks linked to the UPI IDs, the banks processing payments for UPI apps and the National Payments Corporation of India.
“All these parties get a slice of the transaction data,” Lakhsmanan said. “This is built into the UPI system, which works on the model of ‘data maximisation’ – collecting and sharing as much data as possible.”
He continued, “Therefore since there are so many parties involved, it is difficult to pinpoint how Jonnalagadda’s number, which is supposed to be private, got into the spam network.”
The amount of data shared on the digital spending habits of consumers is significantly more in UPI as compared to traditional forms of digital transactions. “In a card payment system, such as credit cards, there are fewer parties,” Lakshmanan explained. “Further, the data stored is not identifiable, since it stores credit card numbers, that too in a redacted fashion.”
There are also strict guidelines about how this data is stored under traditional digital payment system. For example, credit card systems around the world follow a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, or PCI DSS, a global standard for storing data. “However, UPI does not have any such standards,” he said.
Further, the entire UPI ecosystem is based on a person’s phone number, which is easy to obtain, Lakshmanan said. This he believed poses privacy risks and allows for large-scale data mining to analyse the income and spending patterns of users. “And since India does not have a vibrant data protection law, how this data is processed and stored is not properly monitored,” he said.
UPI’s data maximisation model could be the reason why the service is still free. Presently, the government has a “zero-charge mandate” for UPI, which means that platforms cannot levy a fee for users and merchants.
“The government could have various incentives in mind, to promote UPI,” said Lakshmanan. “Such as expanding and deepening formal credit and making the population dependent on credit to have ‘economic growth’. It can also have other unstated goals.”
Even Nandan Nilekani, the Infosys co-founder, who has been closely involved in developing UPI, has emphasised the use of UPI data to expand the lending market.
Only selected services, such as mobile recharges or payment for utilities are charged and the government has a Rs 1,5000 crore budget to promote UPI. However, according to The Ken, several stakeholders want to charge fees to foot the bill for UPI, since these revenue sources are not enough.
But since that is not happening, companies may have to resort to other ways to make money. Said Jonnalagadda, “The lack of merchant discount rate [charges for processing debit and credit card payments] is a disincentive to all middle parties in the transaction – banks and apps, so they are forced to cope by upselling other services or collecting data and looking for data monetisation opportunities.”
Srinivas Kodali, a researcher with the Free Software Movement of India, said that the UPI specification itself pushes for large data collection which is used both for fraud detection and also for profiling the consumer. In 2018, Paytm alleged that Google Pay was sharing data with its group companies and third parties, and for advertising purposes.
“This can then be used to provide loans at higher interest rates,” he explained.
Sometimes loan companies may collect extensive data which could lead to the invasion of a user’s privacy. Kodali pointed out that it has started happening that a loan company uses contacts list data to harass people for recovery.


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From the rising popularity of extended stay properties for business travelers to a look at the most annoying hotel guests, this week's travel industry research provided an array of insights into how travelers view hotels.
48 Percent of U.S. Business Travelers Use Extended Stay Accommodations
Nearly half (48 percent) of all U.S. business travelers have used an extended stay accommodation in the past 12 months when traveling internationally for business, according to new research from the GBTA Foundation, the education and research arm of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA).
The study, Extended Stay Accommodations: Awareness, Supply and Demand, produced in partnership with WWStay, also revealed differences across age groups when it comes to extended stay accommodations. Millennials (18-34) use extended stay accommodations more than any other group, with 72 percent staying at one for international business travel in the past year. Only 48 percent of Gen Xers (35-54) and an even smaller 26 percent of Baby Boomers (55+) used an extended stay accommodation during the same time period.
In addition, 60 percent of business travelers who use extended stay accommodations book it themselves with many of that group booking through an online travel site (41 percent) or directly on the extended stay website (38 percent). Booking outside of a company tool could potentially mean the traveler is not compliant with company travel policy. More importantly, the company may not be able to locate their traveler if an emergency occurs.
The top reasons business travelers said they prefer extended stay accommodations are fully equipped kitchens (45 percent), amenities (40 percent) and the residential feel (36 percent). However many U.S.-based international business travelers note that they have challenges booking their own extended stay accommodations with minimum stay requirements (29 percent), limited number of accommodations (21 percent) and lack of reviews from previous guests (20 percent) topping the list of woes.
67 Percent Say Inattentive Parents Are Most Aggravating Hotel Guests
Expedia has released the results of its inaugural Expedia 2015 Hotel Etiquette Study, which asked 1,022 Americans to rank frustrating behavior exhibited by their fellow hotel guests. The study was commissioned by Expedia and conducted by GfK, an independent global market research company.
By a slight margin, "Inattentive Parents" – parents who let their kids run wild – are the most aggravating hotel guests, having been called out by 67 percent of Americans. 64 percent of Americans are frustrated by "Hallway Hellraisers," while 54 percent of Americans complained about "The Complainers," or guests who berate hotel staff over minor inconveniences.
Americans are divided on hotel tipping habits. A full 27 percent report that they "do not tip" hotel employees at all. 3 percent have attempted to tip a hotel employee to secure a room upgrade. 51 percent of Americans tip their housekeepers (who are tipped more than any other employee). 40 percent tip for room service deliveries. 31 percent tip the valet. 21 percent tip the porter, just 10 percent tip the concierge and 7 percent tip cabana attendants.
Americans may be split on whether to tip the housekeeper in part because of personal organizational habits. 80 percent of Americans profess that they keep their hotel room "tidy," versus 20 percent of guests who rely entirely on housekeeping.
87 Percent of Travelers Don't Buy Device Protection While Traveling
According to the new Traveling with Tech survey by protection plan provider Protect Your Bubble, 87 percent of smartphone users do not use a more protective case or buy a protection plan for their smartphone prior to traveling for both business and leisure, even though 50 percent of users worry about malfunctions with their devices while traveling.
The online survey, which was presented to more than 780 people across the U.S. during August 2015, examines the lengths travelers do (and don't) go to in order to protect their technology on the road.
The survey showed that, while 29 percent of people are concerned about water damage to their devices, 58 percent brought devices during activities like jet skiing, deep sea fishing, and snorkeling.
70 Percent of Frequent Travelers Have TSA Precheck
70 percent of frequent travelers (those who fly five or more times per year) have TSA Precheck, according to surveys by GO Airport Express and GO Airport Shuttle.
TSA Precheck is an expedited security screening process for those departing the U.S., which allows users to be processed without being subjected to long security lines or the indignity of shoe and clothing removal. The fee starts at $85 and is valid for five years.
Keep visiting www.travelagentcentral.com for the latest travel industry statistics, trends and research.


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Sony announced today that it will be abandoning its proprietary e-book format and DRM in favor of Adobe’s Digital Editions platform and the standard ePub file format. Sony’s Reader e-book devices have supported the Adobe platform for a while, but by the end of this year, they will support it exclusively.
This is a win for Adobe, as the Sony Reader family is widely acknowledged to be the second most popular e-book device, after the Amazon Kindle. But it equally indicates the uphill climb that Adobe has in front of it in order to remain a contender in the e-book market.
It’s classic technology market behavior: to use the terminology of tech marketing guru Geoffrey Moore, the chimps and monkeys in a market typically band together to try to compete with the gorilla. Technology markets tend to have one, two, or at the outside, three gorillas. Right now, Amazon is the first gorilla of e-books. Barnes and Noble, together with its eReader acquisition, may become the second.
But is there room for a third? And if so, who will it be? Some are pointing to Apple’s pending entry into the e-book market via its heavily rumored tablet device combined with iTunes as the retail platform. Others are waiting for Borders, the only serious competitor to Barnes & Noble in the brick-and-mortar book retail market, to announce its technology dance partner and launch its own e-book strategy (beyond selling devices within retail stores).
Adobe risks a future in which it becomes to e-books what Microsoft became to digital music: a software supplier to a bunch of chimps — i.e., also-ran consumer electronics makers. By offering technology components into an early market where consumers wanted end-to-end solutions, Microsoft got the timing wrong.
Adobe’s platform is not currently used by any retailers of significant size. That’s a big problem. Yet there are a couple of ways in which Adobe could prevail in e-books yet. First is the possibility that Apple licenses Digital Editions for use in its forthcoming tablet device. Given Apple’s existing DRM technology and history of in-house development, this seems unlikely.
The more promising strategy is for Adobe to work with the next generation of e-book reading devices — thinner, lighter, faster, cheaper, with color displays, more memory, and so on — and promote interoperability among all of them. This could drive a growing number of consumers away from the less-interoperable Amazon ecosystem. Then if the Adobe-based devices prove popular enough, Amazon may capitulate and support them after all, especially if Amazon finds that more of its profits are going to come from sales of e-books than from e-book readers.
But to reach that point, Adobe and its partners still need a sufficient retail presence. Wireless delivery of e-books directly into the device, which the Kindles support now, will help avoid dependence on established retailers. Adobe will also continue to benefit through its ability to support public library e-book lending through the service provider Overdrive, which just announced a joint marketing agreement with Sony.
With several e-book reader vendors poised to announce new devices with Adobe support, the probability of Adobe’s success will become more apparent in the next several months.


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"That's the sound of New York, baby!" announces Vinnie Stigma while walking through the cacophony of the city's busy streets.
That statement can also be applied to guitarist Stigma and vocalist Roger Miret's long-running hardcore-punk band, Agnostic Front, which is the subject of an in-depth and intensely personal documentary The Godfathers of Hardcore that will premiere at this year's DOCNYC Festival on November 11th.
Through rare and previously unreleased archival footage, exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to the band members and their families, director Ian McFarland has crafted the definitive account of Miret and Stigma's gritty underground rise — a dramatic, 35-year journey from basement-storming LES rabble-rousers, to hometown heroes, to world-renowned ambassadors of New York's iconic hardcore scene — as well as their monumental impact on punk rock writ large.
"We are a product of New York," says Miret. "We hung out in the Lower East Side when it was the most dangerous time, ever … shootings, muggings, gangs all around us. That danger created something great."
While rooted in Miret and Stigma's hardscrabble past, McFarland's documentary also delves deep into the personal and creative challenges that have faced the two musicians in recent years: parenthood, health issues and the struggle to grow up while still staying in touch with their punk identity and roots.
"How do you grow out of a culture?" Stigma asks. "It's not like you're growing out of a shirt, or shoes ... You're a band, you know what that means? Once you're in, you can't get out."


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ISLAND PARK, ID (BRAIN) — Gaining winter access to national parks for fat bikes is a goal of advocates meeting at January's Fat Bike Winter Summit and Festival, to be held at the Sawtelle Mountain Resort here.
The second annual event has been expanded from one to three days, January 25-27, and will include product demos, races, group rides, and a Saturday-evening celebration for fat-bike enthusiasts.
"Our goal with the summit and festival is to continue our work to gain access for fat bikes in national parks," said Gary Sjoquist, advocacy director for QBP, an event sponsor and co-host.
The festival was created by retailer Scott Fitzgerald, founder of Fitzgerald's Bicycles in Victor, Idaho. Last year's summit educated land managers from local, state and federal agencies about the growing popularity of winter fat biking—also known as snow biking.
"There are endless opportunities for single and multi-day riding on groomed trails, complete with frequent directional kiosks and a well-marked trail system throughout," said Fitzgerald.
Jay and Tracey Petervary, nationally recognized fat bike experts and endurance riders, will lend their expertise for clinics, group rides and land management meetings. Additionally, representatives from Grand Targhee Resort, the first ski resort in the U.S. to promote fat biking on their Nordic trails system, will discuss how fat biking fits in their winter business plan.
More information: www.FatBikeSummit.com. ￼


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Iran To Open Another Border Route For Trade
Iran has agreed to open another border trade route with Pakistan to increase bilateral trade with the neighbour in a bid to increase its exports to the country as it struggles to send goods due to the US-led sanctions.
The agreement to open up another trade with Pakistan was made during a visit of Iran’s Foreign Minister Jawed Zarif’s visit to Islamabad where he met with Pakistan’s FM Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Jawed Bajwa.
Zarif was on a two-day visit to Pakistan, leading a senior delegation comprising political and economic experts — his fourth such visit to Pakistan since PTI came into power.
Relations between the two neighbours have increased in the recent years as both look to expand bilateral as well as political ties.
Iran exports crude, petroleum, dry fruits, edible foods, nuts, citrus fruits, melons, plastics and other items to Pakistan. It was agreed during the meeting that the quantum of exports between the two countries will be increased as Iran would open the Rimdan crossing point.
The Rimdan point is located around 130km away from Chabahar Port in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province. The trade route will be opened next week.
Zarif, while appreciating Pakistan’s efforts to increase trade with Iran said that Islamabad will also open their side of the border — Gabd — for trade promotion.
The Rimdan crossing is crucially located for import and export of fruits, livestock, construction material, and petroleum products between the two countries.
Iran has equipped the border with modern communication systems, livestock and vegetable quarantine and other required facilities for import of mango and livestock.
Among other matters, the two sides also discussed border management and improved security along the 959-km border. The security situation along the Iran border has been weak over the years as movement of militias and terror outfits has been regularly reported along the area since 2001.


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