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Fiona Simmons May 25, 2022 2 min read
White Hat Gaming and Pariplay Focus on Content Distribution
White Hat Gaming has made headlines recently. The company most recently teamed up and agreed to provide products for DraftKings through its content arm, White Hat Studios. Now, the company has agreed to allow Aspire Global’s Pariplay igaming content to reach partner operators and their audiences.
Many Operators Waiting for Excellent Games
The interconnectivity of gaming companies has led to a new mutually-beneficial chapter in the igaming landscape which brings rival companies and pools their efforts when it comes to the distribution of products, leaving it down to players to pick which games they enjoy best. Pariplay will deploy its signature Fusion platform with 12,000 games that will now be able to reach White Hat Gaming’s own partners.
Fusion is an important addition as well as it will be deployed along with a number of tools that are built around retention and conversion of new players, and that offers a data-driven breakdown of what makes players stick with brands and what their preferred form of entertainment is.
White Hat Gaming in turn can provide a great casino and sportsbook experience that is based on modular and fully-customizable technology. The iGaming platform already has 3,000 games from across 120 providers. The deal is focused on the non-US operator partnerships with further expansion planned and Ontario is also part of the partnership. Pariplay VP sales Andrew Maclean welcomed the opportunity and congratulated White Hat Gaming’s expertise:
“White Hat Gaming has a similar business style to Pariplay. It is agile, fast-moving and expanding at a rapid rate in similar markets to us, with a strong core business in Europe and with similarly strong ambitions across regulated North America.”Pariplay VP sales Andrew Maclean
Pariplay Remains a Recognized Content Partner
Maclean revealed that the partnership has been negotiated during ICE London, one of the most prominent industry meetings. The partnership was welcomed by White Hat Gaming VP of commercial Michael Waterfield who added that Pariplay’s distinguished product portfolio and engagement tools were a “welcome boost” to the company’s existing offer.
In the meantime, Pariplay has grabbed headlines on several occasions this year. The company confirmed that it would be powering the PlayStar NJ offering earlier this month and agreed to provide content to Winpot.mx, a Wiztech’s subsidiary.
Although Fiona doesn't have a long-spanning background within the gambling industry, she is an incredibly skilled journalist who has built a strong interest in the constantly growing iGaming network. The team at GamblingNews.com is glad to have her on our roster to help deliver the best stories as soon as they hit. Aside from writing, she loves to dabble in online casino games such as slots and roulette, both for her own enjoyment and also as research to better improve her understanding of the industry.
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Video game commerce company Xsolla recently announced the launch of a new esports solution platform. The program allows developers, publishers, and event producers to create engaging experiences with safe and secure payment processing on a global scale. Xsolla will work with esports properties and build their esports platforms with streamlined payments and subscription services.
“It’s a great time for companies to engage with esports as the category continues to see major growth, with projections of over $1.1 billion in revenue and nearly 500 million viewers by the end of 2021,” said Berkley Egenes, the VP of Marketing – Game Commerce at Xsolla. “Xsolla’s new solution, which we’ll keep adding new tools to based on partner needs, is designed to help companies build or expand their esports presence and monetize their efforts.”
Xsolla will do several things to help the esports market grow. They promise to help create a fanbase for games and company brands. The organization also has plans to reward fans and monetize their experiences. Xsolla says it will manage all payment-based transactions safely and securely.
Xsolla is a payment services company that is tailored mostly towards the video game sector. Founded in 2005, they are now headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
(All information was provided by Business Wire and Xsolla)
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The Home Hub comes shortly after the second generation Amazon Echo Show was revealed and the Facebook's Portal, which is paired with Amazon's Alexa AI, was announced. Google'sSuper Res Zoomclaims to use a technique taken from astronomy in which a burst of photos with slight variations based on the movement of your hand are analysed by an algorithm.
The other major product announced was Google Home Hub, a device that's something of a hybrid between a smart speaker and a tablet, which is created to sit at the center of what Google repeatedly called "the thoughtful home" (it avoided use of the word "smart").
Google just announced this feature alongside the new Google Home Hub, a "smart display" like the Lenovo Smart Display.
The Home Hub is priced at $149 and pre-orders began at the Google store today. For special features, the Pixel Slate brings a UI that's been highly-optimized to suit a touchscreen. And since it's a tablet, Chrome OS has been optimized for touch.
However, not included with the tablet is the separately sold $199 Pixel Slate Keyboard.
The software is Android 9.0 Pie, which we're seeing on a bunch of other phones now, but some features are coming to these phones first. A separate stylus, the same one from the Pixelbook, is also available for $99. It is powered by 8th Gen Intel Core m3, i5 or i7 Processor, or Intel Celeron Processor and 8/16GB of RAM for your performance needs.
The company's Android software has gone from being an also-ran to the brains of most of the world's smartphones and Google topped Amazon.com Inc in smart speaker sales in recent quarters. The main camera is a 12.2-megapixel camera with Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS) and is capable of a few neat tricks, which we'll cover later on when we get to Google's machine learning announcements.
"I am between underwhelming and disappointed", Werner Goertz, an analyst at Gartner, a research and advisory company, told ABC News after the demonstration. It's still a $35 dongle.
Where Google has made a hardware change is on the front camera, or cameras. Finally, at the front, Google has added a dual camera which allows you to squeeze more of your scene in - 184% more than the iPhone Xs according to Google.
For photography, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL continues to sport a single lens at the rear which is a 12.2MP lens with wider f/1.8 aperture. The Pixel 3 sports a 5.5-inch OLED display (bigger than last year's), while the Pixel 3 XL comes equipped with a 6.3-inch OLED display (and a notch that's increased somewhat in size).
But the front of the devices could be very different this year.
Cute. Yes, we understand that cute is hardly a word to associate with smartphones but that's the first thing that strikes you about Google's new smartphone, the Pixel 3. The Pixel 3 has a 2,915mAh battery, while the XL's is 3,430mAh; both support wireless charging.
The Pixel 3 faces continued limited sales in the United States since Google again signed an exclusive distribution deal with wireless carrier Verizon Communications Inc that means the device will get little marketing from other carriers. The device is still a small, circular dongle that plugs into your TV's HDMI port, although now it's available in either black or white.
Something different from past year is the ability to wirelessly charge Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL.
But leaks from Fortnite dataminers have revealed that the Fortnite Skull Trooper will be making a big splash in Fortnite season 6. While the previously leaked Ghost Portal back bling will be unlockable through the Fortnite Skull Trooper challenges.
News channel 24 aired the video Wednesday, suggesting that Khashoggi was inside of the black Mercedes Vito. All we do know is he's disappeared, and that Turkish investigators will now search the consulate.
You'll begin with all equipment, incluing your White Sword, the Magical Shield, the Blue Ring, and even the Power Bracelet. The Big N also added a surprise entry into the mix: The Legend of Zelda: Living the Life of Luxury .
VATICAN CITY - The devil is alive and well and working overtime to undermine the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis says. He said the sanctions included a prohibition from traveling or lecturing for the church or celebrating Mass publicly.
Until Apple will provide specific steps and process of getting the issue fix, its bettery to leave the Watch and wait for the fix. Apparently, users who have their Infograph Modular face active on their watch face are facing the problem.
Tropical storm winds extended out 170 miles (275 kilometers), primarily to the northeast and southeast of the storm's center. Our state understands how serious tropical weather is and how devastating any hurricane or tropical storm can be .
It has been created to blend in with your home - the screen automatically adjusts to the level and type of light in the room. The move does however point to the tech industry's growing certainty that home hubs represent a huge market opportunity.
The weather agency, AEMET, said more heavy rainfall is expected Wednesday in eastern and southern parts of the Iberian peninsula. The flooding also affected phone communications, destroyed two bridges and forced the closure of 11 roads.
Draconid Meteor Shower Lights Up The Skies This October
The meteors slam into the planet's atmosphere at full speed, producing bright flashes of light and meteor streaks across the sky. This event has gotten its name as a result of its meteor appearing to originate from the Draco, the Dragon constellation.
Google Pixel 3 initial review
If you press that screen button, the Pixel's AI will answer and start asking questions of the caller on your behalf. Who needs a Google Home Hub when you have a Pixel 3? You don't have to manually categorize or share each photo.
Former Olympic skier welcomes baby boy to family
Beck, 31, was about five months pregnant with their son when Emeline died after falling into a neighbor's pool in June. Morgan Miller took to Instagram this summer to share her family's heartbreak, writing, "We are beyond devastated.
Taylor Swift Wins at AMAs, Encourages Fans to Vote
Swift was backed by more than a dozen dancers for the performance and a large snake hovered behind her onstage. Despite having the year's top-selling album and three No. 1 hits, Drake didn't win a single award.
Elderly doctor acquitted in ‘stolen babies’ case in Spain
The sinister political practice that began after the Spanish Civil War is believed to have continued as recently as the 1990s. The case of Eduardo Vela, 85, focused on Ines Madrigal who was abducted and illegally adopted in 1969.
Kenya Bus Crash Kills 51
Eight children are among the dead following the accident in the western town of Kericho, according to The Daily Nation newspaper. According to police, the bus was travelling from Nairobi to the western town of Kakamega and carrying 52 passengers.
Stardew Valley is coming to mobile this month, first on iOS
We're a little surprised it isn't available on mobile though, but you won't have to wait too long to farm on your smartphone. Publisher Chucklefish has just announced that Android and iOS users will be able to play their game starting this month.


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It’s settling in a treat. Especially in this hot weather. And last Saturday, when we popped down to take these pictures of the new Queen’s Crescent antique market, we noticed that the stalls were buzzing with a real positivity.
The market is located in front of Matt Townsend’s elegant shop, which is open daily, itself packed with everything from an original 1960s oils to Victorian prints and 18th century occasional tables.
“I started business in Camden Lock/Portobello markets in 1970s,” he says, “before running Townsends architectural antiques and fireplaces from Abbey Road until 2005. By that point Chinese copies and a drift to minimalism had left many antique dealers bankrupt and in the doldrums”.
So what attracted him to the Crescent? “I love its cultural diversity, but have sadly watched its market slip into decline over many years. However, the tenacity and devotion of local people have, at last, wrenched control from the council and the future looks brighter. Queen’s Crescent must again become the destination of choice and I believe there is now an opportunity to make it happen.”
And it seems other traders agree with him as they’ve all joined forces for the Saturday antiques market. So let’s support Matt, James, Barry, Heather and Jackie (who used to be up in Flash Walk, Hampstead) in their efforts to run an intriguing new weekly K-Town event, selling everything from paperbacks and retro sunglasses to crockery sets and “junktique” furniture.
“This will be the next Portobello,” reckons Matt, “so if you’re into antiques or deal come and stall out while pitches are available. People love digging around old stuff: there are some seriously beautiful things here – and after all, bits and pieces like this bind us together and make us what we are.”
For a report and more pictures on how the rest of Queen’s Crescent market is doing, head to our Pinboard today here.


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After what has been a solid month for equities and bond investors, month end flows have probably play their part in the price action overnight, US equities have lost momentum, UST have led a rise in core global bond yields and the USD is stronger. US and European inflation releases favoured the notion the Fed and ECB are done with their respective tightening cycles.
NAB Economics Data Insights, 20 June 2020
NAB’s consumption spending index points to a levelling off in spending.
The key message from our latest Data Insights is the recovery in consumption spending is levelling off, with NAB’s consumption spending index lower than at the same time last year and basically flat since the start of the year (pre-COVID 19). Payment inflows data also continues to slow. Although still mildly positive, the latest read is the slowest this year. The slowdown is particularly evident among Corporates.
- NAB’s consumption spending index points to a levelling off in spending. Over the week ending June 20, consumption spending was just 0.3% higher in 4-week moving average terms than at the start of the year, and 2.7% lower than at the same time last year.
- Relative to the start of 2020, spending is higher in just 5 states, led by the NT and QLD (but the rate of growth rate is tapering off in both states). Spending remains lowest in the ACT (by some margin), WA and VIC (but is improving as restrictions are slowly relaxed). Relative to last year, spending is lower in all states bar the NT and QLD (flat).
- By industry, the recovery in Hospitality spend is continuing, with positive signs in all industry sub-sectors. But spending is still down 31% since the start of the year and among the worst performers, along with Admin & Support (-73%) and Transport, Postage & Warehousing (-43%). Construction (39%), Professional & Tech Services (25%) and Retail (12%) have recorded the highest growth since the start of 2020, but appears to be levelling off in all 3 sectors. Healthcare is among the big improvers, with spend now up some 4% since the start of the year.
- The softening in consumer spend is further evident in the fact that spending growth over the year is now positive in just 13 of 45 industry sub-sectors (16 in our last report) – led by Gambling (105%) and Residential Care Services (38%). Heavy falls are still being reported for Motion Picture & Sound Recording (-95%), Air & Space Transport (-85%), Rail Transport (-80%) and Admin & Support (-77%).
- Payment Inflows into NAB merchants are also slowing, with the latest data showing inflows now just 2.1% higher in year on year terms in the week ending in June 20 – the weakest result this year. Inflows are down most for small firms, but the rate of decline has levelled off in recent weeks, while accelerating for mid-sized firms. Corporates are still positive and out-performing, but inflows are slowing quickly.
- Inflows were strongest into Other Services (34%), Mining (18%), Manufacturing (14%) and Construction (13%), and weakest in Hospitality (-30%), and Transport Postal & Warehousing (-15.9%).
For further details, please see NAB Data Insights 20 June 2020 Report.
During these extraordinary times we have taken the decision to publish aggregated customer data categorised by industry segment with the view to helping provide clarity around which segments of the economy have been most affected by the broader macroeconomic trends at play. NAB takes data privacy very seriously. All customer transaction data has been aggregated and no individual’s data is specifically identified or analysed as part of this process. The data used in this report will not be sold or made publicly available, but insights from the data will be shared with the Australian people.


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For years the craft brewers in the US have been battling Anheuser Busch.
And AB has been fighting back, sometimes on the edges of the law, like when they told their distributors not to carry craft beers.
Now, the craft Brewers Association has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise $2.13 Billion to buy AB (and shut them down?).
As their site says, it will only take “$653.37 from every US resident.” And $2.3 million has been pledged so far.
No money is being collected now and all pledges get some swag. AB says it can take a joke, but it’s not clear that the campaign is one.


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Cooplands of Doncaster has warned staff that jobs are now at risk, as it enters a consultation period with a restructuring company.
The bakery chain employs 550 staff across its 88 Yorkshire branches, as well as a further 200 at its Doncaster head office in Wharf Road. Cooplands produces fresh bread, sandwiches, savouries and confectionery every day for the retail stores, Bap Vans and for some wholesale customers. The company was founded in 1932.
The company is now being run by ReSolve, a London-based corporate restructuring specialist, according to the Sheffield Star.
British Baker contacted the company this morning and a spokesperson, who would not give their name, said the company was now in “consultation” and had been told that more information would be provided at the end of the week.
He added: “They have just said there will be job losses across the whole estate, but they haven’t made any specifics in departments or areas.
“I’ve been told it will probably affect over 100 people, I get the impression it won’t be everyone, but it will definitely have a big impact.
“The shareholders have been keeping everything to themselves, and have said they will inform us when they are ready to tell us what is happening. It’s quite concerning for most of us, but in general the atmosphere here is better than you would expect.
“It’s not very good for Doncaster at all - we’ve already lost 200 jobs at Tesco, so it’s bad news. Plus, business has not really picked up around here anyway; hence we are in the situation we are in.”
British Baker has also contacted ReSolve and is awaiting a response.
Last week, the Sheffield Star claimed staff at the bakery chain had received a letter saying the company lost money last year and has continued to see a decline in sales.
The letter said: “We have all worked hard over the last 12 months to try and stem the losses, but unfortunately everybody’s efforts have been in vain.
“Unfortunately the result of this is that the business cannot sustain its current cost base and this has an impact on the number of employees that we can employ in the foreseeable future.
“Regrettably we now therefore have to consider the loss of job roles across all areas of the business.”


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Amazon Game Studios has fired off many employees and has shelved many games that were unannounced.
For those unaware, Amazon does have their own video game studio that focuses on mobile games. They’ve fired dozens of employees, as reported by Kotaku.
Amazon told these employees to look for new positions within the company in 60 days, or else they get the banhammer.
Some projects that were possibly in development have also been canceled.
One was a particular fantasy sports game that the company first announced back in 2016 and then canceled two years later.
Amazon isn’t the only company doing this though. EA has also fired many employees, followed by Daybreak Studios, and Telltale even shut down completely.
This was Amazon statement on the matter:
“We’re working closely with all employees affected by these changes to assist them in finding new roles within Amazon. Amazon is deeply committed to games and continues to invest heavily in Amazon Game Studios, Twitch, Twitch Prime, AWS, our retail business, and other areas within Amazon.
Amazon Game Studios is reorganizing some of our teams to allow us to prioritize development of New World, Crucible, and new unannounced projects we’re excited to reveal in the future. These moves are the result of regular business planning cycles where we align resources to match evolving, long-range priorities. ”


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Prepare Your Supply Chain for the Automotive RESTART: Mexico Perspective
Thursday, April 30, 10:00 AM EST/9:00 AM CST
Duration: 40 minutes
U.S. government officials are working toward developing a plan to reopen the economy, however, in Mexico, businesses are facing stricter guidelines for operating during the COVID-19 outbreak.
A successful automotive industry RESTART depends on how well coordinated Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. are during the reopening phase. Supply chains in this industry are so interconnected that if Mexico doesn’t open at the same time, production lines in the U.S. will be unable to run.
In this webinar, Manuel Montoya, Managing Director of the Automotive Cluster of Nuevo Leon will discuss the latest status of Mexico’s OEMs, Tier1 and Tier2 Suppliers and how to prepare your supply chain for the international challenges.


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We adore reading stories about 3D printing is impacting people around the world. We want to share with you a few of our favorites from the previous month now. From how 3D printing is changing a market to (literally) constructing bridges, this is exactly what captured our attention recently.
Within this guide, Rick Smith dives into how 3D printing is changing the way we think about manufacturing. We’ve talked about the way we would like to redefine the way products are created and advertising in a world where anybody can find the goods they need, and changing manufacturing is a massive part of this. As Rick says, “…now, industrial 3D printing has reached its tipping point, and is going to go mainstream in a way that will revolutionize the market.”
Car lovers, this one is for you! Andrew Tarantola composed about “Blade,” the first ever additively manufactured car. Developed by Divergent Microfactories in San Francisco, this car weighs approximately 1,400 pounds and runs on both the gasoline and CNG (compressed natural gas).
And we think Miniatures are small! Within this piece, Lulu Chang writes about a new 3D printer that can print microscopic objects. According to the material science and technology scientist leading the project, Park Jang-ung, they “believe the technology has established a new paradigm for study utilizing 3D printing and wearable devices.”
As if 3D printed homes were not cool enough, Amsterdam will now boast a 3D printed bridge. Michelle Star details this trendy new robot which could “draw” in the atmosphere and will publish the bridge from steel. The robot will print its own supports so that it can operate 16, since it goes.
Okay — this is narrative but it’s too fun to wait for to discuss! Darren Quick writes about Dubai’s plans to build a 3D printing construction. It will be published. The building will serve as the workplace for staff members of the “Museum of the Future” (so fitting, right?) And is the first key initiative of the museum.


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New at Lincoln Square “It has shaped our lives and our relationships to one another, but time has caught up with us,” he said. “As our family has grown and spread across the country, we’ve lost the cohesiveness and focus that previously enabled us to transition leadership from one generation to the next.” Jalyece Carter has opened her makeup studio, The Glitter Boxx, at Lincoln Square, Urbana.
Edwardsville-based R.P. Lumber has 55 locations in Illinois. It opened its first store in 1977, and also has locations in Missouri, Iowa and Wyoming. “We are working hard to retain as many Alexander Lumber employees as possible, and are excited to continue serving the Champaign-Urbana community from a single location.”
Alexander Lumber, based in Aurora, has seven locations in Illinois. Board Chair Watt Alexander said the company has been his family’s identity for five generations. In terms of how the sale will impact the two stores in Champaign, the company declined to provide details but did send this statement:
Visitors parking in the deck for longer than two hours will get a two-hour discount off the fee. Parking in the deck and at metered spaces remains free on city holidays and on Saturdays and Sundays. To help encourage more shopping and dining in downtown Champaign, the city is offering up to two hours of free parking in its Hill Street parking deck at the corner of Hill and Randolph streets for the entire month of December.
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Many of us have watched with awe as Amazon’s Prime Day has gone from a new holiday conjured from thin air in 2015 to one of the largest annual ecommerce shopping events in the U.S. This year’s 48-hour Prime Day, which wrapped up last Tuesday, generated over $11 billion in total U.S. ecommerce sales (including the revenues captured by Amazon and the many other major retailers who now host their own competing sales over the same timeframe), according to Adobe Analytics. This is larger than last year’s Cyber Monday, which was the busiest ecommerce sales day on record at the time (of course, Cyber Monday is only 24 hours). However, analysts pointed out last week that this year’s Prime Day announcement from Amazon appeared muted compared to the event’s explosive growth in 2020. While Amazon has never disclosed total Prime Day sales, it usually touts the holiday as its “biggest day ever” or its largest “event in Amazon history,” but it did not make any such claims this year. It also chose not to report the amount that its third-party sellers sold this year, while it had announced that number last year ($3.5 billion). Given the absence of these disclosures, among other factors, Bank of America ecommerce analysts Justin Post and Michael McGovern wrote in a note to investors “we believe this was a relatively lower growth Prime Day vs. prior years.” Why might Prime Day have registered softer growth this year? And does this mean anything for the future of Prime Day, Prime, or Amazon in general? There are a number of reasons why Prime Day likely grew more slowly this year. Most of those reasons likely do not indicate anything meaningful or worrisome for Amazon over the long term, but a couple factors might.
Four possible reasons why Prime Day growth likely wasn’t as explosive this year that shouldn’t worry Amazon are the timing of the event, the global supply chain, and participating countries. First, during Prime Day in 2020, many more physical retail stores were closed or otherwise limited due to COVID-19, which reduced the event’s competition and helped fuel its estimated 54% jump in gross merchandise volume. With such performance in 2020, slowing growth was probable in the first place. The timing of the event was likely another factor mitigating Prime Day’s growth this year. Last year, the event was held in October, which gave consumers a reason to begin shopping for the Holidays early. This year’s event in June may have been too early even to effectively tap into back-to-school shopping. Additionally, current disruptions in the global supply chain likely interfered with at least some sellers’ ability to secure inventory this year, limiting their ability to offer deep discounts and drive volume. Lastly, Canada and India did not participate in the event this year due to Covid. In the future, each of these factors should either return to normalcy or can be planned for.
However, there may be other factors that could weigh on Prime Day’s growth in the future. First, Amazon has long used Prime Day as a way to attract new subscribers to the Prime program, and those new subscribers have made lots of purchases. Unfortunately (or fortunately) for Amazon, the program has been so successful in adding members that there are fewer potential new subscribers to add these days. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimated that there were 147 million Prime members in the U.S. as of April. With nearly half of all Americans already subscribed, Amazon may have attracted fewer new Prime members this year than it has in the past, and this may be a building challenge going forward as even more of the country’s population joins. And, new members may not be as affluent and thus as productive purchasers as those that came into the program in the beginning.
Adding to that point, certain analysts expect Amazon to hike membership fees for Prime in the future as a way to deliver more revenue. In a recent note to investors, J.P. Morgan analysts Christopher Horvers and Doug Anmuth predicted that Amazon could raise Prime prices as soon as the second half of this year to offset investments in grocery, one-day shipping, and fulfillment centers. If Prime membership becomes more expensive (it is currently $119/year), it would make it even harder for lower income Americans to join the program. Amazon currently offers discounted Prime membership for people receiving government assistance, but such consumers have lower spending power by definition.
One last datapoint that may hint at Amazon’s limitations going forward is unrelated to Prime Day, but was also in the headlines this past week. A Change.Org petition to not allow Jeff Bezos to return to earth when he goes to space in late July on board a Blue Origin rocket ship had acquired over 125,000 signatures as of this past weekend. The petition is a joke, of course, but it underscores the fact that many people plainly do not like Amazon and its sprawling apparatus of consumerism. It’s funny to wonder how many of those 125,000 signees may also be Prime members, but nevertheless, the point stands: Prime may have a harder time attracting its next 140 million members than it had attracting its first.
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Martha Lane-Fox is to lead a call for Britain's 'digital heroes' as part of a scheme that is being run by internet service provider TalkTalk.
The UK's Digital Inclusion Champion will help search for 12 individuals from across the UK who are bringing about positive social change through the use of technology such as broadband.
Each of the winners will be awarded £5,000 to put towards their projects and a free 18-month broadband package from TalkTalk. One overall winner will be selected to receive a grand prize of £10,000.
Ms Lane-Fox said: "It is these heroes, who strive to make digital technology more accessible, relevant and fun for the people in their local communities, that the TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards aim to celebrate and reward and I am delighted to offer my ongoing support of the initiative."
TalkTalk is the UK's biggest internet service provider with more than 4.25 million customers through its various subsidiaries including Tiscali, which was acquired earlier this month.
Earlier this week, the broadband provider revealed that it had attracted 47,000 new customers during the three-month period finishing June 30th.


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Growers will need to produce niche varieties and maximize production efficiency, marketers say.
Washington state’s apple production will continue to expand, with a fresh crop of 200 million boxes possible in the future, two top marketers predicted during the Washington State Horticultural Association’s annual meeting in December.
Robert Kershaw, president of Kershaw Fruit Company in Yakima, said when he predicted a decade ago that Washington would some day produce 120 million boxes, he was laughed out of the room.
But production has surpassed that volume. The 2014 Washington apple crop is estimated at an unprecedented 155 million boxes, up from 115 million boxes last year—a 35 percent increase.
Washington is one of the few apple growing regions of the world that has increased both apple acreage and production per acre, Kershaw said. “We will continue to grow and produce larger and larger crops.”
Mike Taylor, marketing director at Stemilt Growers in Wenatchee, also believes the industry will grow in leaps and bounds.
“The rate of change is going to blow your mind,” he said. “I think this industry is going to move 200 million boxes of fresh apples—not in the next five years, but in the future for sure.”


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In operation for more than two years, AstroLabs was created by entrepreneurs to nurture the growing technology startup ecosystem in the Middle East and North Africa. The organization hit a new milestone this October with the opening of its first collaborative workspace in the Jumeirah Lakes Towers neighborhood of Dubai. AstroLabs aims to address some of the main hurdles to entrepreneurship in the Middle East, especially in terms of education. The new space provides a physical location for entrepreneurs to share ideas and learn from each other while building a stronger sense of community. While the Middle East’s startup culture has grown wildly in the past few years, it is still in its nascent phase and its survival depends largely on the creation of such communities.
Creating Opportunity through Google for Entrepreneurs
AstroLabs is one of the few tech hubs in the Middle East with a Google partnership. Through Google for Entrepreneurs, AstroLabs can offer fledgling companies some incredible resources and opportunities for growth, including the following:
Mobile Device Development Lab: This in-house resource allows developers to experiment with and troubleshoot their mobile apps. Engineers can make changes and see the results displayed across multiple screens at once.
Google Dubai Access: AstroLabs members can attend workshops and other educational programs at the Google office in Dubai. In addition, they can contact Google employees to inquire about mentorship opportunities and meet with Google professionals during their scheduled office hours.
Passport Program: Google for Entrepreneurs partners with more than 20 tech hubs and technology development campuses around the world. AstroLabs provides Middle Eastern entrepreneurs with access to all of these campuses, where they can make international partnerships and engage in even more collaboration.
Silicon Valley Blackbox Connect: AstroLabs members can take advantage of this two-week residential program in Silicon Valley, which allows international innovators to make use of the Valley’s resources, mentors, and expansive business network.
Google has become increasingly interested in the Middle East as its potential to become a major global startup hub has grown. Dubai in particular offers a good environment for business growth; earlier this year, for example, HSBC’s Expat Explorer named the Emirate the second-best market for expatriates hoping to start a business. In addition, while the Middle East faces many hurdles, a lack of talent is not one of them. Google recognizes this truth, and its partnership with AstroLabs is a key part of its efforts to create denser startup clusters in the region, in order to encourage the creation of innovative new technologies and products.
Of course, the Google and AstroLabs partnership looks beyond developing entrepreneurship in the Middle East alone. As a senior partnerships manager at Google for Entrepreneurs explained, Google’s partnership with AstroLabs encourages Dubai innovators to think globally, not just locally, and to develop products that can easily cross national lines in the Middle East and, eventually, other parts of the world.
The New AstroLabs Space in Dubai
While the new space in Dubai opened less than a month ago, more than 40 startups already call themselves members. These members have access to incredible resources, from specialized labs to dedicated rooms for coding, training, and holding meetings. Of course, at the center of AstroLabs is a large space created for collaboration and camaraderie. The entire building was designed to encourage interaction and discourage isolation. AstroLabs also boasts a café where people can relax and chat more candidly while exchanging ideas. The café is open to the general public, which could spark more interest in entrepreneurship in general.
When AstroLabs was building the space, it endeavored to keep it as open as possible to the local and international communities. Many of the workshops and educational opportunities that take place in the space are open to anyone who wishes to attend. The organization also teamed with the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre to offer a Free Zone program that makes company registration extremely easy. People from abroad can establish residency and set up a bank account and a registered company quickly, which encourages entrepreneurs to come to Dubai to start their businesses.
The Impressive AstroLabs Innovation Community
Since its inception, AstroLabs has trained more than 150 startups in a variety of different industries, guiding them to success. The organization’s current member companies include some of the most promising names in the future of Middle East entrepreneurship, such as Beneple and Exclusive Tables. Beneple has engineered a simple human resources (HR) platform that allows business owners to streamline tasks related to benefits administration and other functions. Exclusive Tables offers a mobile app for making reservations at nightclubs, lounges, and restaurants and has already broken into international markets. Another notable AstroLabs member is Lovin Dubai, an up-and-coming online lifestyle publication.


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Bosch Tech Compass 2023 conducted again by GIM foresight
GIM foresight - the GIM think tank for strategic future issues - has again been commissioned by Robert Bosch GmbH to conduct the Bosch Tech Compass. In this year's study, the Compass focuses on the key issue of sustainability.
The study was first presented by Robert Bosch GmbH on January 4 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Key findings of the "Bosch Tech Compass 2023" show: Three out of four people worldwide believe that technology makes the world a better place. 83% are convinced that technological progress will play a key role in combating climate change in the future.
For the study, people aged 18 and over were surveyed online in seven countries (Brazil, China, Germany, France, India, the UK and the USA). The samples are representative of the respective countries in terms of region, gender and age.
The complete study has also been published and can be downloaded as a pdf file by clicking on the button below.
You can find more information about GIM foresight here.
The press release of the study can be found here.


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WINDSOR, Ontario — Big V Drug Stores cofounder Tony Crncich passed away October 18. He was 87.
Crncich is being remembered for his storied career as builder of one of the largest retail pharmacy chains in Ontario. The chain he helped launch in 1962 grew to encompass 135 stores. Big V — at the time Canada’s fourth-largest retail pharmacy chain — was sold to Shoppers Drug Mart in 1996.
Crncich is also remembered for his service on community boards and personal contributions to community and business. He began his career as a pharmacist in Windsor. After he and partner Mahlon Dyer accumulated four stores, they decided to form a group of independent pharmacies that would give them buying power to compete with chains, according to the Windsor Star, which said the partners picked the name because they liked its simplicity, and they inspired by Winston Churchill’s V for victory gesture.
Crncich opened his first pharmacy (Lakeview Pharmacy) in Tecumseh, Ontario, in 1956. Like many of the Big V drug stores, the pharmacy served residents of a small town in southern Ontario. Crncich relocated the company headquarters, along with his family, to London, Ontario, in 1977.
The only child of Croatian immigrants, Crncich was born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, in 1930, according to the Star. His early years were spent on the family’s farm near Leamington, Ontario, near the southernmost point of mainland Canada.
Gifted in math and science, Crncich studied pharmacy at the University of Toronto.
Crncich was married for more than six decades to Joanne, and the couple had six children (four daughters and two sons) and 19 grandchildren.


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UPI: India launches its digital payments system in Sri Lanka and Mauritius
New Delhi: India’s Unified Payment Interface (UPI) services were on Monday rolled out in neighboring Sri Lanka and Mauritius, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi describing it as linking historic ties with modern digital technology.
India’s RuPay card services were also launched in Mauritius at a virtual ceremony attended by PM Modi, his Mauritian counterpart Pravind Jugnauth, and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Speaking on the occasion, PM Modi expressed the hope the new financial technology (fintech) services would help the two nations and said the UPI is implementing “new responsibilities of uniting partners with India.”
“Today is a special day for the three friendly countries of the Indian Ocean Region as we are linking our historic ties with modern digital technology,” he said.
“I believe that Sri Lanka and Mauritius will benefit from the UPI system,” he said.
PM Modi said digital public infrastructure has brought about a revolutionary change in India. He also highlighted India’s focus on its “neighborhood first policy.”
“Be it a natural disaster, health-related, economic or supporting on the international stage, India has been the first responder, and will continue to be so,” he said.
The launch of the Indian services in Sri Lanka and Mauritius came amid New Delhi’s increasing bilateral economic ties with the two countries.
The move enables the availability of UPI settlement services for Indian nationals traveling to Sri Lanka and Mauritius as well as for Mauritian nationals traveling to India.
Developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), UPI is an instant real-time payment system to facilitate inter-bank transactions through mobile phones. RuPay is a global card payment network from India, with wide acceptance at shops, ATMs, and online.
Dozens of countries have evinced interest in adopting India’s UPI which has revolutionized digital payment systems. France embraced it on February 2, 2024, following India and Bhutan. NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) and Lyra announced UPI adoption in France.
The UPI has gained global traction with initiatives in Bhutan, UAE, Malaysia, Singapore, and other countries. UPI collaborations extend to regions like Europe, Japan, and the US, fostering cross-border transactions.


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NEW YORK — Small business owners may be closer to losing an advantage they've enjoyed during the e-commerce boom — being exempt from collecting sales tax in states where they're not located. And they're worried they will have to spend more money in the process.
Under federal law, a state or local government cannot force a company to collect sales tax on a purchase unless the business has a physical presence in that state. The physical presence could range from an actual store to an office, warehouse or distribution center. The sale could be conducted online, over the phone or through mail order.
The arrangement saves money for shoppers who use price comparison sites or apps, and those who spend time surfing for the best overall deal.
But Washington lawmakers currently have several bills in the works that would end all that by forcing companies to collect the tax.
Businesses are split
On one side are small retailers who say they wouldn't be able to bear the costs of collecting the tax and filing reports and tax returns the states and local governments require. They worry they'll have to buy software, hire staffers and deal with the continual hassle of keeping up with collecting tax from states and thousands of municipalities.
Headsets.com, for instance, might have to hire two staffers to handle the administrative work if what's called remote tax collection becomes law, says CEO Mike Faith. The company has operations in California and Tennessee, but sells to all 50 states. Currently, federal law only requires the company to collect tax in those two states.
Faith expects the law would force him to hire workers to help his San Francisco-based company comply with it.
On the other side are in-state sellers and larger retailers with physical locations dotted across the country who sometimes lose business to competitors who don't have to collect the tax. Even if two retailers charge the same price for an item, many shoppers choose the seller that doesn't collect taxes, so to reduce their cost.
“It's a problem that needs to be addressed. It's an un-level playing field,” says David French, a lobbyist for the National Retail Federation.
And on yet another side, are the state and local governments, which stand to collect billions if a bill makes it through Congress. States have wanted the tax money for decades and are particularly eager for it now because their tax revenue is down following the recession and the housing crisis. The payoff could be substantial. In 2012, there was much as $11.4 billion in uncollected taxes on Internet sales alone, according to an estimate by University of Tennessee researchers.
A thorny issue
State and local government officials have wanted to change the law for years, even before the catalog boom of the 1980s and the Internet boom of the '90s.
Small business owners have resisted along the way. They argue that the burden of keeping up with the estimated 15,000 different sales tax rates charged by the 7,500 to 9,600 jurisdictions made up of states, counties, cities and towns, is just too much.
They have a point. Knowing how much to tax, and where, can be complicated. What is taxed also varies widely.
The effort to change the law intensified as the growth of the Internet increased and companies' out-of-state sales volume swelled. Many sellers felt protected by a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that states could not force out-of-state sellers to collect sales tax. But the court, in effect, invited Congress to create a law that would give the states the authority to require that taxes be collected.
Three separate bills were introduced in the last Congress that would authorize states to require remote sellers to collect taxes. In the Senate, the Marketplace Fairness Act had bipartisan support but did not come to a vote. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., one of the bill's sponsors, has told The Associated Press the bill was tabled because of concerns by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., about the burdens tax collection would place on companies in his state, where there is no sales tax.
But the burden small business owners fear may not be as bad as they think. The government would likely require that states make the process easier for small companies. And the smallest of these businesses are expected to be exempt. The proposed Marketplace Fairness Act exempts businesses that have $500,000 or less in sales from remote states. But Durbin says that number is open to negotiation.


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Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING), global leader in seamless payment, is pursuing the development of its Telium Tetra offer and announcing today the launch of its first hackathon for innovation. Participants will be invited to develop HTML5 applications enabling merchants to offer value-added services to their customers from their terminal (marketing campaigns, omnichannel, customer loyalty, couponing, upselling, cross-selling, etc.).
Collaboration provides Kiev Metro passengers with innovative MasterCard contactless payment directly at turnstiles.
Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING), the global leader in seamless payment, today announced the appointment of Grégory Lambertie as VP Strategy and M&A.
Today, Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING), the global leader in seamless payment, announced the launch of its tokenization solution for Picard Surgelés, the French market leader in frozen food. As part of the Group's cross-channel offer, this solution opens windows of opportunity to build customer loyalty.
According to the latest Nilson Report, Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING) increased 10 percentage points of market share to 27% in the United States in 2014. The United States is now Ingenico Group’s second largest market, where the Group now serves three times more SMBs than in January 2014, showing its ability to rapidly conquer new territories.
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There has been an insane amount of excitement for the Golf Masters this year. Capitalizing on this, the Brady brand has come forward with its newest collection.
The Brady brand has always been a pioneer in fashion. They had gone on to release some amazing fashion apparel while collaborating with young fashion designers.
However, this time they’ve come up with some intriguing new fashion apparel that capitalizes on the greatness of Tom Brady in the NFL. The Brady Brand came up with a brilliant way to keep the legacy of Tom Brady going. This time, they’ve gone into the sport of golf to bring on some amazing but limited editions for golf pros, amateurs, and golfing fans.
The golfing world as well as the NFL world is colliding with the brilliance of the Brady Brand.
The new launch of Tom Brady’s sport
With one of the biggest golfing events during the year, the Brady brand seems to have made a brilliant operational choice.
With fans from all over the world tuning in to see exemplary golf being played, the Brady brand has launched a limited edition golfing apparel. The launch went on to become viral on Instagram.
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Interestingly, the Brady brand’s new launch is capitalizing on Brady’s excellence in the Super Bowl. One of the biggest selling points of the golf apparel has been the fact that Brady has won 7 Super Bowl championships. The name of this limited edition is the Seven Rings Golf Club.
It showcases an interesting tagline that says, “Greatness Lasts Forever.” Furthermore, this is not the first time the Brady brand has capitalized on the quarterback’s wins.


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Once upon a time there was the “Christmas Season,” that time from the day after Halloween until after Christmas where family, thankfulness and the spirit of giving are supposed to fill the air. However, has commercialism gone too far? Have we as a society lost those feelings?
Sears in the Millcreek Mall has been set up for Christmas since Sept. 14, when Christmas decorations were set and Christmas trees were up for purchase. Stores then began following suit come October and especially closer to Halloween. What has caused this spike in Christmas urgency? Why has the retail world become so incredibly obsessed with Christmas coming so soon?
I understand the concept of business and marketing; it’s vital for the success of the season and for the store. Sure I get it. Still, by taking any sort of religion out of the season, isn’t it supposed to be about giving?
With all of the disaster that has happened in the last week with Hurricane Sandy, you would think that people would take a little break from their “crucial” shopping season to help the individuals that were hit by the storm.
But no. Instead, we have hundreds of people still without heat, let alone electricity. A hypothermia warning is what New Yorkers have to deal with. Having to put your life back together is hard enough, but trying to think about how to afford to do that, plus buying Christmas presents for everyone in your life, now that seems borderline ridiculous.
U-Haul, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, JP Morgan Chase, the NFL, CVS and Kohls, along with others are making donations and taking action to aid in helping Sandy victims. Some giant corporations that are in their prime advertising and market seasons are donating, giving back to their consumers, so that we can get the east coast back up and running. Maybe that might be so that they can get back out and start shopping again, or maybe it’s so that these individuals can get back to living their lives, either way, efforts are being made.
As for how “average” Americans can help: First, taking into consideration that we’re all “broke college students,” there are still ways to help.
One way to help is by donating to the Red Cross. All donations will provide shelter, food, emotional support and other assistance to those affected by the storm. To donate, visit www.redcross.org or call 800-Red-Cross. By doing so, you are able to choose the amount you donate.
If you’re more “phone savvy” you can text the word “Redcross” to 90999. This allows you to make an automatic $10 donation, which is added to your phone bill.
Now I’m about to sound like Sarah McLaughlin in the PETA commercials: Every bit helps. Think about all of your friends and family that could have been (or were) affected. Give back during the season of giving.


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The US District Court for the Northern District of California blocked the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA) on Monday. Judge Beth Labson Freeman granted NetChoice‘s request for a preliminary injunction, claiming CAADCA was unconstitutional for violating the First Amendment, violating the Dormant Commerce Clause of the US Constitution by regulating activity outside of California, and ignoring the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
The district court found that “although the stated purpose of the Act—protecting children when they are online—clearly is important,” NetChoice is likely to succeed on their First Amendment claim. Due to this reasoning, the court found that the preliminary junction was appropriate.
CAADCA “declares that children should be afforded protections not only by online products and services specifically directed at them but by all online products and services they are likely to access.” The law also requires online providers to create reports showing how each online product poses “any risk of material detriment to children arising from the provider’s data management practices.” Unlike CAADCA, the federal COPPA only focuses on children under 13 and regulates online services targeted towards children.
NetChoice claimed that the requirements imposed sought to replace “parental oversight with government control.” They also asserted that, “Parents and guardians are best suited to guide the online experience for their children.” NetChoice is a national trade association of businesses that represent companies such as Google, Amazon, TikTok, and more.
The CAADCA passed last year and is expected to go into effect July 2024 but will not be enforced while the case proceeds.


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BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (PRWEB) March 23, 2018
In 2016, the Town of Breckenridge collected a total of $29.8 million in excise tax. Of that total, $8.7 million came from short-term rentals. The Breckenridge Tourism Office also reported that in 2016, vacation visitors contributed $313 million — almost a 1/3 of a billion dollars — to the Breckenridge economy between lodging and other purchases. The total tax collected on this amount was $14 million.
This means that in 2016:
- 29.4 percent, or nearly one-third of all city taxes, came directly from short-term rentals.
- 46 percent of tax collected by the Town of Breckenridge can be attributed to the lodging industry and the businesses that rely on visitor spending.
As Summit County debates how to regulate short-term rentals, lodging industry experts remind officials to bear in mind that lodging brings in more tax revenue than any other business segment and contributes greatly to the economic stability of the area.
“We fully support healthy guidelines that promote harmonious relationships between locals and visitors,” said Mary Waldman, owner of Summit Mountain Rentals, a property management company based in Breckenridge. “In fact, we’d love to be part of the conversation. We believe our input could assist in crafting constructive, fair regulations for vacation rentals.”
This information comes amid reports that the short-term rental market continues to grow in Colorado and Breckenridge in particular. Airbnb recently released data showing Breckenridge as its second-highest home-sharing market in Colorado behind Denver. The report shows that in 2017, 89,000 Airbnb guests visited Breckenridge and paid $16.5 million in rent.
Breckenridge is the only municipality in Summit County with existing regulations for short-term rentals. A recent audit of the Town’s short-term rentals found that 98% of vacation-rental properties are in compliance with all regulations.
“Professional property managers such as Summit Mountain Rentals have been welcoming visitors to the area for decades,” said David Burden, Regional Manager with Airbnb. “They are partners in promoting responsible tourism to the communities they serve and are committed to playing a vital role in the local economy."
Summit Mountain Rentals’ offices are located at 111 Ski Hill Road in Breckenridge. For more information, call Summit Mountain Rentals at 1-800-383-7382 or visit http://www.summitrentals.com.
About Summit Mountain Rentals
Summit Mountain Rentals, voted “Best Property Management Company” in Summit County seven times, offers Summit County visitors more than 200 lodging choices in Breckenridge and Frisco, from luxurious mountain homes (with sleeping for up to 22 guests) to boutique condominiums. For reservations or additional information, call Summit Mountain Rentals at 1-800-383-7382 or visit http://www.summitrentals.com


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At a time when the supply of high-end sponsorship inventory exceeds demand by an unhealthy amount, the Magic seem to be defying those odds.
Magic CEO Alex Martins told me last week that he’s expecting a new naming-rights sponsor -- before the end of the year -- for what has been Amway Center since it opened in 2010, replacing the old Amway Arena. Naming rights to the new building have been on the market for around a year.
“There’s competition even within Florida, and overall, the market is flooded with [sports sponsorship] assets," said Martins prior to speaking at SBJ’s Media Innovators conference in NYC. “I feel good in telling you we’re happy about where we are. We’re going to end up in a really good place with our entitlement, probably within 60 days.”
Naturally, Martins didn’t yet reveal who was on the line. Whichever brand it is will gain the benefit, including foot traffic, from the mixed-use development planned for across the street from Amway Center, with construction expected to be begin next year. The development will include a 3,500-seat venue for music, along with a hotel, 270 residential units, retail and office space. It’s being developed with JMA Ventures, which also built Downtown Commons, a mixed-use development next to the Kings' Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.


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People are flocking to the UK to buy the first paper towels and there is no shortage of them, with millions of bags and bins available to be scooped up.
A recent survey by UK company Wigan Paper found that people spent a whopping £6.9bn on vanity paper in the first six months of the year, compared to the same period last year.
Wigan’s research found that customers were more than twice as likely to use their towels to make a home decor gift or to make sure their pets’ bowls and beds are clean.
“We’re seeing more and more people taking advantage of this opportunity,” said Mark Taylor, head of research and innovation at Wigan.
“It’s a really big opportunity.”
It’s not just a British issue Mr Taylor said the surge in demand for paper towels in Australia was a “global phenomenon”.
In Australia, there are about 20 million paper towels to sell each year, according to the Australian Paper Products Association (APPA).
It says that number will likely increase in the months leading up to the Games, and that there is a growing demand for more paper towels for people who are already using paper towels.
Wigmore, the Australian paper towel manufacturer, has produced about 15 million towels in the last five years, and says the demand is growing at a rapid rate.
“Australia has always been a strong market for paper towel and we have a great opportunity to be the first to market,” said Wigless CEO Robyn McEwan.
“The demand for vanity paper is expected to continue to increase and this will allow us to offer the highest quality paper towels.”
Australian company Wigies has seen an increase in orders over the past six months, with the firm reporting a 4 per cent rise in the number of towels it delivered in the second half of this year compared to March.
The APPA also reports that paper towels have become popular as a “health and wellbeing product” in the United States.
“Wigies is excited to be bringing the world’s first direct-to-consumer vanity paper to market in Australia,” said CEO Peter Bowers.
“This is a great addition to our growing range of health and wellbeing products including massage oils, lotions and other personal care products.”
“It is a fantastic opportunity to bring a whole new market into the industry,” he said.
“Our business is already a key component of the UK’s paper towel industry, so this move is an exciting one for us and will give us an opportunity to extend our footprint further afield.”
Australia’s paper towels could be worth up to £100bn a year to British businesses, but many consumers are not as keen to use them as they used to, and many are choosing to throw them away.
While there is still a lot of demand for their use, the popularity of paper towels is expected go down as more Australians turn away from the traditional paper towel after the Games.
The popularity of the paper towel is expected have a knock-on effect in the global market.
A number of other paper towel brands have also recently entered the market, including Wiglies, Woolworths and Kogan.
In the United Kingdom, Wig’s is among the biggest sellers of paper towel bags and paper towels on Amazon.
The company is also the largest paper towel supplier in the UK.
Wrigley’s also has an extensive online store, but unlike Wigly, it only sells the company’s products.


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Nigerian artists are now increasing their net worth by leveraging the art world’s lucrative pivot to non-fungible tokens (NFT). According to reports, this move to NFTs is happening despite the Nigerian central bank’s renewed anti-crypto stance.
NFT Bubble Concerns
As a recent CNN report explains, growing interest in NFTs from Nigerian artists comes alongside warnings of a potential downturn in sales. For instance, Bitcoin.com News has already reported that NFTs sales plummeted by 90% since the market’s record sales on May 3. The same report also revealed that the number of active NFT wallets dropped from 12,000 per day to 3,900, which is a loss of close to 70%.
Similarly, Bitcoin.com News has reported extensively on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s renewed drive against cryptocurrencies that started after it issued an order directing financial institutions to end business relationships with crypto entities.
Still, in spite of these concerns, some Nigerian artists insist that NFTs have become an important part of the art scene. For instance, Osinachi, who according to CNN is a former librarian and one of Nigeria’s most bankable digital artists, explained how NFT markets have picked up since 2019. Osinachi said:
I went in and explored the marketplaces and it wasn’t until 2019 that the markets picked up and we saw the boom. The pandemic helped because collectors couldn’t go to physical galleries, so a lot of them discovered the NFT space. And then (from) 2020 to 2021, the Christie’s auction happened and everybody’s screaming NFTs.
Osinachi now says “he can command up to five figures for his NFT works” and he suggests that his ability to “put my work in a place where many people would see it” is helping to drive up his earnings.
Not Everyone Is Optimistic
NFT excitement notwithstanding, not everyone shares Osinachi’s optimism. Ferdy ‘Ladi Adimefe, the founder and CEO of Magic Carpet Studios, believes many artists cannot enter this space as they still face many economic barriers. He explained:
I think African artists are fast embracing the NFT space and getting on board, but let’s not also forget that the continent has quite a number of people who are still not within the data economy.
Another artist, Kenyan Rich Allela, laments the fees on NFT trading platforms and lack of technical know-how as the other key barriers to entry.
In the meantime, Adimefe says he is now creating workshops and platforms “where we can help traditional artists to start acquiring the digital tools through which they can now digitize and monetize their art.” It remains to be seen, however, if such workshops can lead to increased NFT participation by African artists.
Do you agree with the assertion that NFTs are a bubble? Tell us what you think in the comments section below.


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With the country still recovering from hard cash and demonetisation in effect, it is obvious that instances of card fraud would be on the rise in the coming months.
First and foremost, remain alert. And do NOT ever ignore text messages from your bank
Hit by an unprecedented ATM security breach, several public and private sector banks have recalled or blocked over 32 lakh debit cards to safeguard their customers from any financial fraud, while the government has sought from them details of all necessary safety measures.
The payment processing company Visa will roll out a new feature this spring that will allow its cardholders to inform their banks where they are automatically, using the location function found in nearly every smartphone.


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April 18, 2021 10:28:48 pm
Taking note of repeated violation of Covid-19 guidelines, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to allow essential shops excluding medical stores to run for only four hours in a day in Bhandup and nearby areas.
Officials said the decision was taken after public representatives from the areas complained that there was no change in people’s behaviour and crowds were seen at many places despite the strict guidelines.
The BMC’s S ward, which covers Bhandup, Kanjurmarg and Powai areas, issued orders on April 17 allowing essential shops to remain open between 8 am and 12 pm. The order will be in effect from Monday for a month, said BMC officials.
“In S ward, people are coming out in huge numbers for purchases, which is causing increase in Covid-19 infection. To control the crowd from April 18, all essential shops selling groceries and fruit vendors can be opened between 8 am and 12 pm. Only medical stores are allowed to remain open,” reads an order issued by Vibhas Acharekar, Assistant Municipal Commissioner of S ward.
According to guidelines issued under the Break the Chain order, the state government has allowed essential shops to run between 7 am and 8 pm. However, local urban bodies are empowered to take action based on specific conditions.
“Many complaints have come from local representatives about no change in situation in markets selling essential commodities. We have also appealed that between 8 am and 12 pm, all shops should prefer home delivery. We are hoping this will help in controlling the spread,” said Acharekar. “The restrictions will be in effect for the next one month.”
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MAC Engineering welcomes lead-acid battery equipment expert Jimmy Stewart (formerly of Exide Technologies) as vice president of sales and marketing.
Stewart will be responsible for communicating with customers in the US and Canada in relation to sales, service and support. He will also support global agents, Sorfin Yoshimura, and all of their customers throughout the rest of the world.
Stewart told BEST: “I have been a customer of MAC for most of those years so I know I can stand behind the MAC product line. With this experience and knowing the competition this opportunity makes a perfect fit. My goals are to work with the customer and MAC to move into the next generation of products that the manufacturers can use to produce cost-effective, higher-quality batteries to stay competitive in the lead-acid business while lithium is nipping at the heels.”
Stewart was at Exide for 45 years, rising from assembly line technical assistant to senior director of global equipment, facility and tooling engineering.
In the latest position at Exide, he purchased and led the installation of $60 million of equipment for OEM and military batteries, in two industrial battery production facilities, and led the installation of $35 million of equipment for round cell production in an automotive facility.


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Tesla Motors Stock Soars After Analyst Upgrades Price Targethttp://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/02/25/tesla-motors-inc-soars-another-15-after-analyst-up.aspx Daniel Miller
February 25, 2014
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) was down 13 points at 3 p.m. EST on an up-and-down day left the major indices mixed in late-afternoon trading. Investors are taking note of a decline in the Conference Board's latest reading on consumer confidence, which for February fell to 78.1 from a revised 79.4 in January. Although the overall index declined, two of its internal factors are split.
"This [split] suggests that consumers believe the economy has improved, but they do not foresee it gaining considerable momentum in the months ahead," said Lynn Franco, Conference Board director of economic indicators, according to Morningstar.
Amid the decline in consumer confidence and lack of direction from the market, here are companies making headlines today.
While Boeing (NYSE: BA) led the Dow higher throughout 2013, the stock is dragging the index down so far this year and has dropped another 2% today. The company is having a difficult time finding buyers for 11 of its earliest 787 Dreamliners. The planes, now sitting at Boeing's Everett, Wash., plant are valued at roughly $1.1 billion, according to Bloomberg.
The reason that buyers are hard to find is that the planes are heavier and can't fly as far as newer production versions of the Dreamliner. The company still hopes it can find bargain-hunting airlines that will scoop up the early production planes and help Boeing offset some of their production costs, as well as lower its inventory level.
One reason investors are eying the situation is because in 2009 the company wrote off $2.7 billion worth of research and development expenses due to some of the early planes requiring too much rework. Finding a suitable buyer for some of these remaining planes would remove concerns that the company will have to


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Daimler, Renault-Nissan to build $1.4-billion Mexico plant
June 27, 2014
By The Associated Press
Automakers Daimler and Renault-Nissan say they will build a $1.36-billion plant in Mexico to manufacture Infiniti and Mercedes-Benz brand compact vehicles.
The companies announced Friday that construction on the plant would begin in 2015 in the northern state of Aguascalientes.
They called it the most ambitious project to date for the joint venture the firms launched in 2010. They said it would produce as many as 300,000 cars a year, with Infiniti production beginning in 2017 and Mercedes in 2018.
The plant is expected to employ 5,700 people.
Automakers are increasingly moving car manufacturing to Mexico due to its access to the U.S., low labour costs and free-trade deals with more than 30 countries.
- U.S. economy shrank last quarter, worst since recession, before recovering
- U.S. factory orders slide 0.5 per cent in May


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By Alexandra Burlacu | Aug 03, 2013 03:51 AM EDT
Verizon is yet to announce its HTC One launch, but a new report claims the smartphone will join Big Red's lineup soon in a stylish blue flavor.
The HTC One has been available for a good while on other carriers, but Verizon customers are still waiting for it. As it turns out, Verizon may get a special color version of the HTC One when it finally starts offering the smartphone.
The news comes from an exclusive Phone Arena report. The publication claims to have learned from an unnamed source that Verizon's inventory system now includes a new stock keeping unit (SKU) code for the HTC One: HTC6500LVWBLU, along with a concise description: "HTC One in Blue." The marketing name of the specific shade of blue is not available yet but the description leaves little room for interpretation.
Verizon promised to bring the HTC One to its network, but it did not provide any exact launch date. Previous reports suggested that Aug. 1 would be the big day, but now it appears that Verizon pushed back the HTC One launch to Aug. 15.
News of the purported Aug. 15 launch date first surfaced from Droid Life, which received documentation from its sources. With Aug. 1 come and gone and still no HTC One launch on Verizon, the new Droid Life report seems plausible. Aug. 15 is not confirmed either, which means that nothing is certain just yet.
On the other hand, Verizon is already very late to the HTC One party and a launch should be imminent. The new HTC flagship proved to be in high demand when it launched but now, several months later, other new smartphones such as the Moto X are making their debut and that great interest for the HTC One may fade.
Verizon may be trying to rekindle that demand by offering a special color version of the handset. Sprint has already scored the red model of the HTC One, so it would make sense for Verizon to get its own color version.
It's all in the rumor state for now but if the latest reports prove to be accurate, a blue HTC One will come waltzing in on Verizon's network in just a couple of weeks.
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The arrest of MtGox boss Mark Karpeles finally sheds some light on what may have happened when hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoins – a digital currency — disappeared from the now defunct company last year.
Authorities issued a fresh arrest warrant for Karpeles on Friday for allegedly stealing millions of dollars from clients, including $48,000 reportedly spent on a luxury bed, reports Yahoo News.
The thirty-year-old was taken into custody early this month and has been held, without formal charges brought against him, for three weeks; which is allowed under Japanese law. Karpeles continues to deny the allegations.
The recent warrant allows the police to “reset the clock” on how long Karpeles can be held and questioned about the missing Bitcoins.
The self-described computer geek has been accused of manipulating data resulting in the theft of a fraction of the 850,000 coins – worth $387 million — that went missing last year.
Initially MtGox filed for bankruptcy protection when the Bitcoins disappeared, claiming hackers stole the cyber-money.
Karpeles later claimed to have found some of the lost coins in a storage device. The whereabouts of the money and how much involvement Karpeles had in the disappearance is still an unsolved mystery.
If Karpeles is guilty of fraud, “he should be held accountable,” says Kim Nilsson, a Bitcoin investor.
If there were instances of mismanagement or fraud like this carried out by mark Karpeles, then he should be held accountable. [But] if these charges against [him] don’t adequately explain where all the Bitcoin money went, then there are still unresolved questions, quite possibly additional crimes and criminals, that must be investigated further.
In March, two Federal agents were charged with stealing more than $33 million worth of the cyber coins during an investigation into the Silk Road, an online “underground” black market for drugs and other illegal items.


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Mar 12, 2012
Dr. Amy Vanderbilt was honored by The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies as a Senior Fellow.
Jan 10, 2012
Dr. Amy Vanderbilt has been asked to moderate a panel at the 3rd Future of Money and Technology Summit.
Nov 14, 2011
Trend POV takes the month of November to consider how all of your business trends affect each other.
Sep 12, 2011
Dr. Amy Vanderbilt will be attending the annual Paul Reed Smith Guitars “Experience” on September 22-24, 2011 in Annapolis, MD.
Aug 08, 2011
The Trend POV Show celebrated its second anniversary with a special episode filmed on site as host and Trend POV Chief Strategist Dr. Amy Vanderbilt analyzed what makes Harley-Davidson the iconic brand that it is.
Jul 18, 2011
The Trend POV Show aired its 100th episode on July 8th.
Jul 04, 2011
This month, TrendPOV.com unveiled its newly redesigned website.
Jun 21, 2011
The Trend POV Show publicizes their first ever call for guests and will be booking guests for shows through the end of the year.
May 09, 2011
Dr. V. has just returned from judging at the Conrad Foundation’s Innovation Summit where young technology entrepreneurs vie for seed funding.
Apr 11, 2011
Dr. Amy Vanderbilt has been chosen to be a panel judge for EIC’s Science Engineering and Technology awards.


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In what could become France's biggest wine scandal in decades, one of Bordeaux's most prestigious wine properties, Chateau Giscours, has been charged with fraudulent winemaking practices.
One of the current winemakers and a former managing director of the chateau's wine operations have been indicted for fraud by a Bordeaux magistrate.
According to the charges, disclosed on Monday, cheap wine from another district was added to the chateau's wine, wine from two different vintages were blended together, excess sugar was added to the wine to raise the alcohol content, and wood chips were used to give some of the chateau's wine the taste and smell of wine that had been aged in oak barrels.
Giscours, one of the largest estates in the Medoc, was one of the 61 chateaus -- out of thousands in Bordeaux -- that were included in the 1855 classification that remains the standard by which prestige Bordeaux wines are known.
The investigation leading to Monday's announcement had been under way since 1996, when a disgruntled former employee at the chateau told investigators from the Government agency know as the Service de Fraud that cheap wine had been mixed with the chateau's prestige vintage wine and that sugar, water and certain acids had been added to some vats of the 1995 vintage, then in the chateau's cellars.Continue reading the main story
The investigation stemming from those charges took more than two years because, according to the Bordeaux prosecutors, experts had to establish whether these practices were a one-time affair or standard procedure at Giscours.
According to a report in the Bordeaux newspaper Sud-Ouest, the experts concluded that fraudulent techniques had been used over a period of years. It was while investigating the charges that Giscours had put oak chips or staves in its wine -- to fake the taste of barrel-aging -- that other irregularities were discovered, according to press reports in Paris. The fraud investigators informed the prosecutor's office in Bordeaux, which handed down the indictments.
In recent years Giscours had loomed larger than many of its peers in Bordeaux, in part because of its size -- it is one of the largest wine properties in the region -- and in part because its wines were usually of good quality and reasonable price, and because of the tireless promotional efforts of its owner in the 1970's and 80's, Pierre Tari.
Mr. Tari, dynamic and articulate, traveled the world selling his wine, headed various professional organizations in Bordeaux, and even fielded his own polo team at Giscours. He much preferred to be photographed with a polo mallet than a glass of wine.
The charges against Chateau Giscours came at what could be a critical time for Bordeaux. Prices for its wines have reached levels undreamed of a decade ago, prompting accusations of greed and arrogance against the chateau owners and the exporters who serve as middlemen for much of Bordeaux's most expensive wines.
Citing the Giscours affair, several French wine commentators noted that when one property is accused of fraud, suspicion quickly falls on the entire region. They recalled the scandals of 1972 and 1973 in which one of the most famous exporters, the Cruse firm, was found guilty of offenses similar to those with which Giscours is charged. In the aftermath, the entire Bordeaux market collapsed. Chateaus were shuttered or sold, and the wine business did not recover until the end of the decade.
The Tari family came to Bordeaux in 1952 from Algiers where they had made a fortune in winemaking. When they bought Giscours that year, it had been neglected for years. Only about 20 of its 750 acres were still planted in vines. They improved the property and produced some excellent wines.
Because of longstanding family disputes, the quality of the wine suffered in the late 1980's and early 1990's, and the family sold the vineyards in 1995 to a Dutch investor, retaining the chateau.
Both the elder Mr. Tari and his daughter, Nicole, who succeeded him as head of Giscours, opposed the sale and have retained the chateau and part of the estate.
The new owner, Eric Albada Jelgersma, was said to know little about wine and rarely came to Bordeaux. He is said to have talked to the examining magistrate in Bordeaux, the equivalent of a prosecutor in the United States, but was not charged.
Chateau Giscours wines are generally respected by critics, both in France and in the United States, but they have not been singled out for exceptional praise for many years.
Commenting on the 1996 vintage, which is now on the market, the critic Robert M. Parker Jr. wrote last year: ''A commercial style of winemaking has resulted in a deep ruby-colored 1996 Giscours that is forward, soft and fruity but lacking class, complexity and depth.''Continue reading the main story


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I had been eating mostly Soviet food for six months in 1990 when news broke that McDonald’s was coming to Moscow.
I was excited for a number of reasons — the chance to swap kolbasa for a Big Mac, to see if the Soviets could pull it off and to show a Russian friend of mine at Moscow State University, where I was studying, a piece of America.
Arkady was from Russia’s Far East, Sakhalin Island. He asked if there was fish on the menu.
“Yes,” I told him. “Filet-o-Fish.”
“What kind of fish is it?” he asked.
I paused. I had no idea.
“That’s OK,” he said. “I will be able to tell by the eyes.”
Arkady, like many of the 30,000 who lined up on opening day, was in for a surprise. Color, bright lights, smiling cashiers. Soon Big Macs were being bought and resold, scalped at a nearby subway station. The plastic serving trays and some toilet seats disappeared. Cashiers got married.
And McDonald’s grew. Eight hundred restaurants and 60,000 employees in Russia. Boris Yeltsin stopped by and pushed off the top bun of a plain hamburger to eat it Russian style — buterbrody. McDonald’s Russia was consistent, reliable, delicious, a thrill of sugar and salt in a gray world.
Over the next few years, I saw the Soviet Union fall apart. I saw protestors — ordinary men and women — gain courage and take risks. There were real elections and TV shows that mocked the president and that criticized the conduct of the war in Chechnya. Russia, I thought, was on track for free speech, democracy, a market economy.
I was wrong. All that disappeared. And now, the Big Mac is gone too.
Corporate headquarters said doing business in Russia “was not consistent with McDonald’s values.”
The Russian government had become too disgusting for American fast food.
Some restaurants reopened this weekend with a Russian owner and a new Russian name, “Tasty.”
Unconfirmed reports say the Big Mac is off the menu as the sauce is proprietary, but I doubt sauce infringement will be enforced during war.
The war has also shut down the McDonald’s franchises in Ukraine, collateral damage. I stood outside one in Odesa this morning. I looked at the golden arches and the shining windows. It was empty inside.
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Africa Prudentials Grows Profit by 14%…I’m Loving It
Africa Prudential Plc released its half year results showing an 18% increase in revenue to N1billion (2013 H1:N915m). Pre-tax profit also increased 14% to N702million compared to N614milion a year earlier. Earnings per share for the period was 27kobo compared to 24kobo posted a year earlier. Operating expense as a percentage gross profit rose slightly during the period.
A key indicator for me is return on equity. ROE was 13% for the period and if it keeps up with this trend may beat late year’s 21%
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With car shoppers turning towards their mobile to get real-time advice and conduct research, the automotive industry needs to increase their online presence more than ever. It’s no surprise that, when it comes to car shopping, social media is one of the top places that car shoppers will visit to read reviews from other clients and to find the latest deal on the car they are interested in. Social media marketing can help car dealerships identify their target audience and improve their sales funnel.
The reality is that social media plays an important role in the digital marketing process to drive car shoppers to purchase. In fact, 83% of the car shoppers are on Facebook and 24% of them used Facebook as a resource for purchasing their last vehicle. Also, a 2015 report on social media trends for the automotive industry from Digital Air Strike rank social media as more important than a dealer’s website when consumers choose a dealership to visit. In fact:
- 75% car buyers say that social media and review sites were keys to helping them select a car dealership.
- 66% of car buyers who have seen a Facebook advert say they have clicked on it, up from 33% in 2014.
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Texarkana has a new pizza restaurant! Home Slice Pizza is located off Hwy 82 East in the former Dugout building. Indoor dining is not open for business yet but Take-out Pizza is now available through their drive-thru window.
Underground Pizza in Texarkana is moving above ground, no pun intended, into a food truck. Tyler Traut a local resident who has been perfecting his pizza business for months in his home is ready to take the next step in his lifelong dream.
Another Texarkana restaurant has closed its doors U.S. Pizza Company. This comes less than a week ago when a longtime establishment Fiesta House closed its business. No other details are available at this time.
Everyone wants a good deal right? Well, right now you can get a great deal, thanks to Seize The Deal. You can get one Large One-Topping Pizza from Cici's Pizza in Texarkana for only $3.20. (Value:$8.00) Wow, now that's a deal!
Have you heard there 's going to be a new crave in Texarkana soon! This Thursday, Feb. 22, the new Crave Pizza will be opening on mall drive. Crave Pizza is going to be unlike any other pizza experience in the area.


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General Motors isn't the only manufacturer that gets to issue a recall today, as Nissan is set to announce a voluntary recall of the 2011 to 2013 Juke due to a fault with the timing chain. 104,439 units are affected by this recall. The timing chain in some Jukes could deteriorate over time, leading to a warning light in the instrument cluster. In extreme cases, the chain could snap.
Owners of affected vehicles are being notified, and will need to report to their local dealership. The free repairs will replace the timing chain, chain guides and crank sprocket.
Take a look below for a short statement to Autoblog from Nissan.
Getting its semi-autonomous Leaf legalized in Japan was just the first step. Now, Nissan is giving demonstrations of what its fully autonomous car is capable of at this year's Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC) show - Japan's equivalent to America's Consumer Electronics Show. To show off the possibilities of its technologies, Nissan had an oval track set up at the show giving rides in an autonomous Leaf to the media. Even Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn and Toyota CEO Akio Toyodo caught a ride.
Nissan has since released a couple videos of its CEATEC demos, with one designed to look like a news report. In this video, you can watch the car go around the track and navigate intersections and road hazards. The second video shows Ghosn riding in the car, and he hints that Nissan's goal of having an autonomous vehicle in production by 2020 might be more of a worst-case scenario. Watch both videos and read through Nissan's official press release below.
PickupTrucks.com has gone and thrown the latest batch of half-ton pickups into a cage match to see who would come out on top. The site put the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, GMC Sierra 1500, 2013 Ford F-150, Ram 1500, Toyota Tundra and Nissan Titan through a battery of tests. Those included 0-60 miles per hour acceleration, 60-0 mph deceleration, fuel economy, a hill climb, and payload and towing. They even threw the rigs on an autocross course to evaluate overall handling. Each truck was given points based on how it scored in each evaluation.
Who came out on top? Somewhat surprisingly, the 2013 Ford F-150 walked away with the gold, though fewer than 50 points separated first and fourth place. Head over to PickupTrucks.com to read the full evaluation and the final results. You may be shocked to see exactly where some of the segment's newest additions placed. You can also watch a video on the test below.