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Today's video focuses on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), recent reports about pricing negotiations between these two tech giants, and a closer look at TSMC's margins.
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) sells hundreds of millions of devices each year. For those supplying parts or services necessary to get those devices into consumers' hands, winning Apple's business is a huge deal. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) may be the only Apple supplier where the script is flipped.
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As thousands of Australian children sign up for summer sports programs, podiatrists warn many of them could be wearing shoes which permanently damage their feet.
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This year’s MLB season is off to a fast start in fact, thanks to the new pitch clock, almost 30 minutes faster per game. With less downtime between at-bats, fans have less time to grab concessions without missing the action. But no need to worry! New technologies like checkout-free concessions are rolling out across MLB stadiums, making the gameday experience even better. With checkout-free, fans can get snacks and drinks quickly and easily, so they can enjoy what really matters: the game.
Faster concessions are helping teams and venue operators alike. While some teams are extending beer sales into the eighth inning to make up for lost time, this approach isn’t without controversy. If more fans drink later into the game, that’s less time before they hit the road, raising potential safety concerns about an increase in drunk driving incidents. Checkout-free helps teams keep sales growing without fans incurring additional risks.
With faster games, game attendance is up 5% from last season. Longer lines and shorter games sound like a recipe for disaster. With traditional concessions, this could lead to fans missing the best plays of the game due to being stuck in long lines. But as the Sports Business Journal recently explained, “bigger crowds and shorter games mean a chance for fan-facing technology to shine.” Stadiums that have deployed checkout-free are seeing consistent per-caps and improved consumption patterns versus prior years. Fans aren’t being forced to choose between buying their peanuts and Cracker Jacks and staying in their seat so they don’t miss the next play. They can tap into a checkout-free store, grab what they want, and head back to their seat with no lines, no scanning, and no stopping at a kiosk.
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The geo-social company has partnered with Toms Shoes and AT&T to run a sweepstakes campaign to help Argentinian children.
Marketers have recently afforded location-based service users numerous self-serving incentives to check in, such as free food or drinks. A new campaign on Gowalla targets such consumer opportunism while also taking aim at the goodwill-minded. The geo-social brand has partnered with AT&T and the "One for One" initiative by Toms Shoes to help put shoes on the feet of needy Argentinian children.
Gowalla users who check in at various apparel stores and electronics shops from Aug. 16 through Aug. 23 will have the opportunity to enter a sweepstakes. Some will receive virtual prizes that can be redeemed for real products. The prize merchandise includes 1,000 pairs of Toms shoes, as well as 250 smartphones and five netbooks contributed by AT&T.
The One for One program donates a pair of shoes for every pair that's purchased. Therefore, the effort is meant to drive people into stores to buy shoes and propel donations for the Argentinian children. In addition, there will be a grand prize winner who will travel with a guest to Buenos Aires in September to celebrate the four-year-old program's 1 millionth donated pair of shoes.
For AT&T, in addition to the goodwill marketing appearance that many brands seek, it hopes the incentive to check in drives Gowalla users into electronics stores to pick up the brand's cell phones and wireless plans.
Meanwhile, the Santa Monica, CA-based Toms designs and sells lightweight shoes based on a Spanish design called alpargata. Since being founded by entrepreneur and former "The Amazing Race" reality TV star, Blake Mycoskie, the company has donated one pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair sold.
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Though Research in Motion still occupies a dominant position in the U.S. smartphone market, there are rumblings that the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry — a phone once so addictive to its predominantly corporate audience that it gained the nickname “CrackBerry” — is in danger of being overshadowed by its rivals.
As BlackBerry devices became a staple for corporate executives, managers and rank-and-file employees alike, Research in Motion reaped years of strong earnings and revenue growth. At the same time, the company’s devices helped to define the smartphone market with text messaging, personal digital assistants and e-mail features.
And then came Apple’s iPhone, which redefined the category by focusing on touch screens, mobile applications ranging from the popular “Angry Birds” game to business software, and an ecosystem of third party software developers to assure a continuous stream of new apps. To combat the iPhone, Google launched Android, an open source mobile operating system. Along the way, smartphones increasingly became a staple of users’ personal as well as professional lives, and RIM began to see some of its buzz start to fade. Now the company appears to be caught in the crossfire and losing market share. Can RIM innovate fast enough to entice corporations and consumers at the same time?
So far, the data isn’t going RIM’s way.
In a Nielsen poll released December 1, according to information collected in October, iPhone and Android were the most desired operating systems among consumers with smartphones looking to upgrade. The iPhone operating system, iOS, was given top marks by the largest number, or 30%, of respondents. Android was next with 28%, while the BlackBerry earned 13% of the vote. Meanwhile, September data from digital marketing firm ComScore showed that, while the BlackBerry platform is still No. 1 in the U.S., the iPhone and Android are beginning to catch up. Research in Motion controlled about 37% of the smartphone operating system market during the third quarter of 2010 — down 2.8% from the previous quarter. During the same period, Apple’s share of the sector held steady, ComScore reported, while increased adoption of the Android platform fueled a 6.5% jump in the platform’s market share (from 14.9% to 21.4%).
Among smartphone makers, market research firm IDC puts RIM at No. 3 in global market share in its third quarter 2010 scorecard, while Apple claimed the No. 2 spot. Globally, Nokia held first place with 39% of the smartphone market in 2009; that share is estimated to fall to about 34% in 2010, according to IDC data and Susquehanna Financial Group estimates. RIM had the No. 2 spot with a market share of 19.9% in 2009. However, RIM’s market share for 2010 is estimated to fall to 16.4%. Meanwhile, Apple is expected to claim 15.7% of the sector by the end of 2010, up from just 3% in 2007. A series of device makers that rely primarily on Android — including HTC, Motorola and Samsung — will likely round out the top five.
Many analysts say that RIM is facing challenges similar to Nokia, which is also a dominant mobile phone player that is in danger of being leapfrogged by more nimble competitors. Yet RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie remains upbeat. In September, Balsillie said the company is well positioned to address concerns about value added services and bandwidth consumption of wireless carriers and customers. “I think in terms of what BlackBerry does, it still has a tremendous number of attributes that really serve the market,” Balsillie said during an earnings conference call on September 16.
Despite Balsillie’s outlook, skepticism about RIM’s future abounds. “I think RIM did all the right things and is, unfortunately, a victim of its own success,” notes Kartik Hosanagar, an operations and information management professor at Wharton. “The enterprise route was the right route to approach the smartphone market…. RIM positioned the brand just right given the market it was going after. [But] Apple launched iPhone at the right time [following iPod’s phenomenal success]. Now that iPhone and Android have consumerized the smartphone, RIM needs to react.”
One way to do that, experts say, is to start setting the pace for the other competitors. RIM is still among the leaders in the sector, they note, and could withstand an assault from the iPhone and Android if the company can score big hits with a few devices. In the coming months, for example, RIM will introduce the PlayBook, its answer to Apple’s iPad. “It’s hard to imagine a company with such gifts failing to parlay it into an advantage,” Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader points out.
Going beyond ‘Apple Envy’
Fader was upbeat about RIM’s prospects, noting that “I look at my 18-year-old daughter, and all of her friends have a BlackBerry. The BlackBerry has importance in that group.” But he suggests that the company has thus far failed to produce a strong marketing campaign that plays to its strengths and its core customers, namely “people who primarily use the phone for communication — texting, talking and e-mailing. It’s a big segment.” Instead of targeting that group, RIM has “Apple envy,” Fader notes, with products that incorporate features that Apple pioneered, such as touch screens and mobile apps. “RIM is spending too much time chasing Apple,” he adds. “RIM will never be Apple. It’s not a fight RIM can win.”
According to Fader, RIM should focus on its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application, which integrates various communication systems, such as instant messaging, text messages, e-mail and phone calls. “In most cases, companies use advertising to gloss over functional shortcomings. RIM has functional advantages and doesn’t advertise them. The BlackBerry has a unique place in the market.” RIM has to redefine a mobile productivity message that has thus far been tailored to corporations, Fader notes. BlackBerry productivity, if described correctly, could just as easily appeal to a mother trying to schedule soccer practices or a group of teens planning a party. “BBM me” should be the company’s primary marketing message, according to Fader.
Meanwhile, RIM has been circulating videos on YouTube comparing the PlayBook tablet with Apple’s iPad, while RIM co-CEO Balsillie and Apple CEO Steve Jobs have publicly derided each other’s products. During an October 18 earnings call, for example, Jobs noted that Apple shipped more iPhones during the third quarter of 2010 than RIM shipped BlackBerries. “We’ve now passed RIM, and I don’t see them catching up with us in the foreseeable future. They must move beyond their area of strength and comfort into the unfamiliar territory of trying to become a software platform company,” Jobs said. “RIM has a high mountain ahead of them to climb.” The next day, Balsillie questioned Jobs’ figures on unit shipments as well as the Apple CEO’s comments about 7-inch tablets (the size of the RIM’s PlayBook) which Jobs claimed were “dead on arrival.” “We think many customers are getting tired of being told what to think by Apple,” Balsillie wrote in an October 19 blog post.
Protecting the Corporate Niche
As RIM tries to expand its customer base, the company also has to make sure it retains the business-focused users that helped the BlackBerry gain a dominant market position. The BlackBerry is a corporate staple, but that lead may not exist forever. Why is RIM’s corporate market share so important? Experts at Wharton say that corporate customers don’t transition to new devices that quickly and they tend to be less price sensitive than the average consumer, which means that corporate customers are more immune to turnover. “The first job for RIM should be to expand its viability in the enterprise market,” notes Wharton marketing professor Eric Bradlow. “Companies will be the next target for Apple.”
While some analysts say RIM should focus more on corporations and retreat from the consumer market, Wharton director of new media Kendall Whitehouse maintains that the company needs to master both markets to stay relevant. “RIM can focus on the business market, but it has to at least take a stab at embracing features that many consumers find compelling,” because, he says, people don’t want to carry multiple devices. “RIM has to attract consumers without abandoning the characteristics that made it a leader in its core business market.”
Indeed, the challenge for RIM is a trend experts refer to as the “consumerization” of information technology. The days where companies handed out free BlackBerries to every employee are over and, as a result, workers are more likely to use their Android devices and iPhones for work. As companies begin to support those new devices, the appeal of the BlackBerry may diminish, experts suggest.
According to Andrea Matwyshyn, a Wharton professor of legal studies and business ethics, RIM must create new products that retain the features — such as information security systems — that made its devices so appealing to business users. She says that RIM can lock down the corporate market by providing just enough applications and features to satisfy workers who want to blend their personal lives with work.
“RIM’s big advantage in the last decade was the integration of a mobile device with enterprise mail, a calendar and hardware really dialed in for typing and reading e-mail,” notes Karl Ulrich, a Wharton professor of operations and information management. But both of those advantages have waned in recent years, he adds. First, the original “push” e-mail technology, in which new messages automatically pop up on the BlackBerry at the same time that they are delivered to a user’s e-mail inbox, is not really necessary anymore. “The iPhone and Android platforms have e-mail clients that work quite well with conventional mail servers,” Ulrich says. “Second, the cost and performance of touch-screen displays have improved so significantly that many people prefer a large, bright display for use with a variety of applications over a QWERTY keyboard and a [smaller] display.”
Jennifer Fritzsche, an analyst at Wells Fargo, agrees. “RIM is known for its foothold in the enterprise segment. This has proved to be a very lucrative segment for RIM,” she wrote in a research note. “As a result, every competitor from Apple to Android to [Microsoft’s] Windows Phone 7 wants a piece of the enterprise business.”
Closing the Software Gap
RIM recently launched a new operating system, BlackBerry OS 6, but experts say that the company merely narrowed a sizeable gap with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Ulrich maintains that RIM missed the curve on software innovation. While Apple was focused on building an application ecosystem, RIM was focused on keyboards and hardware. “The unanticipated vulnerability for RIM in my opinion has been the importance of the app ecosystem,” Ulrich says. “Apple got that mostly right. My guess is that Android will be at least as successful as the iPhone operating system. I don’t think there is room for a third operating system.”
But Matwyshyn suggests that RIM doesn’t have to match the Apple or Android platforms on diversity of apps and features, but instead needs to identify the software programs that matter most to users. “Some people only need five to 10 apps on a regular basis,” she points out. “RIM needs to figure out what those apps are and really focus on them.”
RIM executives have said that the company is addressing its software issues. In addition to rolling out BlackBerry OS 6.0, the company is also touting QNX, an operating system it acquired in April through the purchase of QNX Software Systems from another firm. Some analysts say that QNX, which will make its RIM debut as the operating system for the PlayBook tablet, could be a game changer for RIM. Peter Misek, an analyst at brokerage firm Jefferies, recently upgraded shares of RIM and described QNX as “better and earlier than expected.” Misek argued that RIM can solve its software issues with QNX.
Meanwhile, RIM is also buying companies to improve its software. On December 2, the company acquired The Astonishing Tribe, which focuses on creating easy user interfaces for software. That purchase follows the acquisitions of QNX Software Systems and Torch Mobile, which specializes in mobile browsers.
Others argue that RIM should punt on software and perhaps adopt Android. After all, RIM’s core competency is hardware. “If I were to do things differently, I would also launch an Android line of [RIM] products,” Hosanagar says. “It’s the right hedging strategy in my opinion. Let the Blackberry [OS] remain, but nurture an internal competitor with RIM’s hardware and Android OS.” Bradlow agrees that RIM should consider an open-source operating system to cultivate a developer ecosystem, noting that “Android is certainly one strong possibility.”
Getting the Job Done
Concerns about RIM could dissipate quickly if the company generated a must-have device that appeals to a business audience and the mass market.
One of RIM’s current attempts at a hit is the BlackBerry Torch. Launched in August, the phone combines a touch screen with apps, web browsing and RIM’s well-known keyboard. The Torch is available through AT&T and now sells for $99.99 with a two-year contract, down from $199.99 when the device launched. It is unclear how many BlackBerry Torch devices were sold in the most recent quarter. RIM reports its third quarter earnings on December 16 and that release may shed light on the Torch’s sales. For Whitehouse, the Torch represents “the right approach” because “RIM has taken a stab at trying to embrace the features many consumers find compelling without abandoning the characteristics that keep the core [business] market happy.”
While reviews of the Torch were solid, the device failed to generate the buzz associated with the iPhone or the latest Android handset. “Despite RIM’s dominant position, its products don’t seem to really thrill people,” Matwyshyn notes. That lack of enthusiasm could change with the launch of RIM’s PlayBook. When the PlayBook was announced on September 27, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said the 7-inch tablet would appeal to corporations and consumers and could function as a multi-purpose utility. The tablet will start at $499.99 to match the iPad’s pricing.
Aside from demonstration videos, however, the PlayBook largely remains a mystery. According to Matwyshyn, RIM could take on the iPad with Playbook if it can court the business market. “The PlayBook would be a natural choice for businesses,” she notes, adding that if RIM can create a tablet with an integrated phone and communication tools, it could carve a profitable market niche. Jeffrey Fidacaro, an analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group, said RIM is expected to ship 10 million PlayBooks for the fiscal year ending February 28, 2012. Given the competition — there are roughly 80 tablets set to launch through 2011 — RIM may have trouble selling that many units, experts warn.
Can RIM be functional and cool? Maybe it doesn’t have to be, Matwyshyn suggests. “I’m not sure that RIM needs to be too cool. It needs to be reliable and meet business needs,” she says. “RIM products have to be functional. Do you want the cool kid or the boring nerdy kid that gets the job done? Many people will take the nerdy kid.”


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Vast quantities of data improve banks’ capacity to support customers, however financial establishments must know how to use it. Hello pals and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and enterprise capital news in a single package. A Mysterious Satellite Hack Has Victims Far Beyond UkraineThe largest hack since Russia’s warfare started knocked thousands of individuals offline.
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Even because it fitfully embraces modernity, India stays a rustic of perpetual myth-making. For the previous few years, the sector of e-commerce and web start-u.s.a.story-telling business international the place projections of never-ending exponential enlargement take priority over revenues and running income that uninteresting old-world corporations will have to reside via—has been grafted onto India’s reward for tall tales. The breathless protection of unicorns turning into decacorns captures headlines, whilst the cash-burn or price destruction of $2.five billion via Indian e-commerce final yr and the truth that Facebook derived a single-digit proportion of its revenues from India stay footnotes. As a Goldman Sachs July document observes, “Low Source of revenue ranges lead to consumers being very worth delicate. The largest query stays how, if ever, will India’s web transform increasingly more monetized.”
Months of deal-making and rumors of deal-making of Reliance Retail was once thus sure to compete with Paatal Lok as probably the most emblematic Indian serial of 2020.
Fresh from the purchase of Future, Reliance Retail gained a $1 billion funding from Silver Lake in early September for a 1.75% stake. Carlyle is now reportedly poised to make a $2 billion funding. Unconfirmed reviews final week that Amazon may pay $20 billion for a 40% proportion within the corporate-led me to invite Arvind Singhal, who heads Technopak, India’s main retail control consulting and analysis company, why the sector’s biggest e-commerce corporate would search a passive stake in a competitor. “It is unnecessary to me in any respect,” mentioned Singhal. Given the repeated coverage interventions of the Narendra Modi executive within the e-commerce sector to forestall, say, deep discounting via international corporations, Wal-Mart, which has an erratic global file, is a much more likely candidate to hedge its bets on Flipkart, he mentioned. The Economic Times reported that during the second quarter, Amazon handed Wal-Mart’s Flipkart in cell phone gross sales, an essential section for e-commerce in India, for the primary time.
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance staff is surely exhausting to wager towards, given its observe file of agile deal-making this yr on my own with Facebook, Google, and a bunch of international non-public fairness traders. Telepathy for the worries of New Delhi is helping as smartly. Just final yr, Ambani mentioned at a business summit in Gujarat that India’s information will have to be owned and regulated “via Indian other people and now not via corporates, particularly international companies”. In April, after securing $5.7 billion from Facebook for a 10% stake in Reliance Jio, “Mr. Ambani struck a warmer tone as he welcomed one such global corporation, a ‘friend’ of the Indian people: Facebook,” the Financial Times wryly reported. Remarkably, Reliance Jio is each winning and has 400 million subscribers paying a median of $2 a month and signed up for the least pricey information on this planet.
Whether this file of ambition and execution in telecom is a cast basis for the e-commerce good fortune of Jio Mart and widely of Reliance Retail continues to be noticed. Reliance Retail each dwarfs its nearest brick-and-mortar competitor, Dmart, and is rising a lot quicker. But, its massive proportion of the rustic’s arranged retail marketplace signifies that Reliance Retail’s enlargement is in part dependent at the Indian center magnificence and India’s financial system rising as speedy as in earlier many years. As I had argued on this paper in October earlier than the pandemic tipped India’s financial system into one thing comparable to despair, with the source of revenue shocks for nearly everybody with the exception of the very wealthy, the Indian center magnificence isn’t rising.
Reports overdue final month that JioMart’s corner-shop Kirana companions higher-order flow to 4 instances in their pre-lockdown numbers, on a base this is tiny within the context of India’s unorganized retail industry, is a part of an international pattern. Amazon in the second one quarter of 2020 noticed its web source of revenue upward push 100%, however nonetheless stays closely depending on internet products and services for its income. Significantly, Silver Lake’s funding in JioMart coincided with the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy reporting that 21 million salaried jobs had been misplaced after India’s late-March lockdown.
Reliance’s good fortune hitherto has additionally in large part been in companies that serve different massive entities, quite than customers—or in telecom, the place provider expectancies are low. As Ok Vaitheeswaran, creator of Failing to Succeed, his account of co-founding India’s first e-commerce business in 1999, issues out, “The provider ranges in telecom are modest. E-commerce is other.” Vaitheeswaran, who is now a co-founder of a firm marketing a health drink, Again, tried JioMart some weeks ago. A couple of items were old or had expired, he reports: “It’s almost a month. It remains unresolved. I have moved on.”
Grocery stays extremely fragmented in India, is a lot more complicated on-line than promoting books or garments, and is “hyper-local” says Ok. Ganesh, a promoter of Big Basket. Even codecs like supermarkets have only a fraction of India’s general grocery spend. Once the pandemic is at the back of us, conversion to on-line grocery gross sales would possibly stall as a result of Indian customers choose taking a look at fruits and vegetables intently earlier than they purchase.
In a way more tech-savvy China, conventional markets account for above two-thirds of all grocery gross sales. With 75% of Indian customers having an annual source of revenue of lower than $2,500, in line with Goldman Sachs, and the possibilities of elevating earning taking a look bleak, the projected on-line bonanza for Reliance would possibly turn out a tall order.
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‘Christmas is probably off’: Norfolk’s pubs plan for critical winter months
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Pubs across the county have begun drafting plans for how to keep up revenue without Eat Out to Help Out or warm summer weather driving the public through their doors.
As winter looms pubs are beginning to look at investing in outdoor storage heaters and gazebos in a bid to keep using outdoor space.
Victoria MacDonald, who runs the Cellar House at Eaton and the Old Ram Inn at Tivetshall Saint Mary alongside husband Graeme, said that “everything was being monitored daily”.
MORE: Chapelfield shopping centre could change its name“We’re hanging in there. This week we have started looking at what we can do to keep giving people a reason to come in this winter, so we’re looking at things like storage heaters but we’ve also had a gazebo up since August,” she said.
“We’re also looking at introducing a cocktail menus and some socially-distanced music events. We’ve also got to start looking at Christmas and at the moment it’s looking like it’s probably off. It’ll be the first time for the Cellar House that it hasn’t been open on Christmas day but there are always so many people mingling and wanting to chat on that day of the year that we can’t risk it.”
The story is similar at The Falcon in Pulham Market near Diss, with landlady Tina Foster saying she and her husband had used personal funds to buy gazebos and outdoor storage heaters.
“It’s set us back a fair amount but we didn’t have much choice when it came to looking ahead to the winter months. Plus it’s an added benefit for smokers if we’re not using it for food.”
She added: “We have released a Christmas day menu which will be the first one we’ve ever done – we only started serving food in January. But we’ll be doing it in two sittings and obviously taking no bookings of more than six. I think it’s unlikely we’ll take Christmas party bookings. “It has been difficult, we only started doing food in January and it felt like we were just getting the ball rolling and then we were ordered to close.”


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Ice tea brand reveals plan for big summer spend
THE company behind ice tea brand Lipton is bringing a ray of sunshine to TV screens this summer with a major new ad campaign.
The £3 million Sunshine Makes It Better campaign is set to run for seven weeks, with a five-week run for the brand’s new TV ad, and includes digital activity, sampling and promotions within venues.
Brand owner Britvic claims ice tea is the fastest growing category in soft drinks, expanding at a rate of 37%.
Rachel Phillips, out of home commercial director at Britvic, said: “Given that every £7 in £10 spent on ice tea is spent on Lipton Ice Tea, we are confident we can command this space in the foodservice channel.
“Five million UK consumers are already buying ice tea and penetration is at 10%, so make sure you display the Lipton Ice Tea core range clearly in chillers to appeal to existing and new consumers looking for a healthier alternative without compromising on taste.”
She added that the campaign should “help licensees capitalise on vital summer soft drink sales – a period when the category thrives”.
Britvic advised operators to keep ice tea in chillers for best serve and Phillips pointed out that the Lipton portfolio is low in calories and falls below the sugar levy, with no artificial colours or preservatives, which she said makes it suitable to help meet the rising health trend amongst consumers.
The Lipton core range includes Peach, Lemon, Mango and Raspberry flavours with an RRP of £1.39 for a 500ml bottle.
Lipton is promoting a range of serves using its ice tea products as a base.
These alcohol-free drinks include Mint Tea Juleps (mixing Lipton’s green tea with fresh mint and orange juice), Pina Tea-La da (the brand’s lemon flavour, mixed with pineapple juice and cream of coconut), White Citrus Sangria (the lemon variant with white grape juice and orange juice) and Triple Lemon Drop (the lemon ice tea mixed with lemonade).


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The government is to call in the army “imminently” to help with the HGV driver shortage, it has been reported. Sources at the Daily Mail and other media claim that around 2,000 HGV drivers from the Royal Logistics Corps and other regimments have been put on five-day notice to distribute food and other essentials as the crisis deepens. It is understood that the government has sent messages to all army personnel with HGV qualifications as RHA chairman Moreton Cullimore puts […]
DHL Supply Chain remains committed to client KFC, despite the fast food chain stripping it of a significant portion of its work.
Wincanton has extended its relationship with B&Q, in a deal that sees it handling inbound container logistics as well as planning deliveries across the DIY chain’s national network. The operator, which has managed B&Q’s horticulture distribution for several years, became its sole UK ports-to-distribution centre provider earlier this year. It will handle 15,000 containers a year for B&Q as a result, and by moving a quarter by rail, estimates a CO2 saving of 3,400 tonnes year. Wincanton has also since […]
Driver licence checking service Licence Bureau is calling for businesses to empower their drivers to make more safety conscious decisions rather than heap more work-related stresses on them.


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Written by Vishesh Raisinghani at The Motley Fool Canada
The transition to cleaner energy is already gaining steam. And the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is a key part of this trillion-dollar transition. Across the world, millions of customers are either ditching their traditional cars for EVs or planning to do so in the near future. Meanwhile, governments are rolling out incentives to boost EV production and exports.
This is an undeniable tailwind for long-term growth investors. Here are the top two Canadian EV stocks that should be on your radar.
Canadian EV stock #1
Magna International (TSX:MGA) doesn’t seem like the most obvious candidate for a bet on revolutionary technology. But if you dig deeper, you can see why Magna has the most favourable position in this sector right now.
Magna is the world’s largest auto-parts supplier and contract manufacturer. That means car brands work with the company to create new parts and assemble them in different countries. According to industry analysts, Magna already has key EV intellectual property that makes it a preferred partner. Meanwhile, EVs require more auto parts with higher margins.
Simply put, Magna is supplying shovels in the EV gold rush. Meanwhile, tech and growth investors have completely overlooked this undervalued stock. It’s trading at a price-to-earnings ratio of just 34.7 and offers a dividend yield of 3.5%.
In fact, the management team has been consistently buying back shares for years. That’s a clear green flag for any investor seeking a rare bargain in this overheated sector.
Canadian EV stock #2
The green transition hinges on the availability of key commodities. Lithium, in particular, is essential for the car batteries in EVs.
A typical mainstream EV has about 62.6 kilograms of lithium. Unfortunately, this key metal is in short supply. Right now, only six or seven million EVs are sold annually, but to reach global net-zero targets, we need two billion EVs on the road, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). That means demand for lithium is likely to triple by 2025, but supply will fail to keep up.
Lithium Americas (TSX:LAC) is likely to benefit from the lithium shortage ahead. The company’s operations are spread across America and Argentina. Recently, the firm has been expanding its footprint in the U.S., which should help it stabilize its supply.
The upcoming project in Nevada is backed by GM. The auto giant poured US$650 million into the mining site, which gives the company an unparalleled advantage. Meanwhile, incentives announced by the Biden administration should help miners, EV manufacturers and buyers across the supply chain.
Simply put, Lithium America is an excellent pure-play stock that should be on your radar if you’re trying to bet on the EV transition continuing.
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Apple ‘The Dog’ Of Wall Street As Value Crashes $103 Billion
Apple is no longer the darling of Wall Street with investors describing them as the dog that bite them.
The Company who are witnessing a massive sales slump as consumers desert the once glamorous brand, have very little in the pipeline that will generate the revenues that investors have come to expect.
More than $103 Billion has been wiped off the value of Apple recently, with analysts tipping more problems ahead.
Bespoke Investment Group notes that Monday’s negative close marks eight straight sessions in the red for Apple—something that last happened in July 1998, and has now happened only four times in the company’s history.
According to Bloomberg, the company’s heavy weighting in major sector and benchmark indexes, coupled with the stock’s terrible two-week stretch, has made $US4 billion in assets of exchange-traded funds evaporate over this stretch.
“Two of the three eight-day streaks saw the stock fall on day nine as well, but the stock has never experienced a losing streak longer than nine trading days,” Bespoke writes.
Last night Apple revealed its first drop in revenue in 13 years and a decline in iPhone sales, MacBook sales are already down 21%.
At the same time, Twitter shares dived by 12.3 per cent after the social media site reported revenue of US$594.5millon, against expectations of around $607million (£415m).
The company also disappointed investors by forecasting lower revenue than expected for the second quarter of 2016.
Apple recently reported revenues of $50.6billion for the first three months of the year, tumbling by 13 per cent from the year before.
Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown said the firm’s “tremendous growth record has finally been brought to an end”.
He added: “In the first quarter the tech giant was hit by economic weakness in key markets, Asia in particular, and the absence of a new iPhone launch to drive sales.
“The end of such a prodigious period of uninterrupted growth will inevitably lead investors to question whether this is a turning point for Apple.”


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Swiss Chalet announces Canadians can use Google Assistant to re-order their favourite meals
“Hey Google, order Swiss Chalet.”
Written By Jordana Colomby
Say goodbye to tap payments and credit card swipes, because Swiss Chalet Rotisserie & Grill just blasted the food service industry even further into the future. That’s right, the Google Assistant app can now reorder your favourite meal on your behalf from one of Swiss Chalet’s 200+ locations. The company announced this morning that they would be offering an even quicker and easier way for customers to get their rotisserie fix by pairing up with the voice automated app for takeout and delivery Canadians just have to link their Swiss Chalet account to their Google Assistant and then simply tell Google Assistant their order. The popular Canadian chain is the first in the country to adopt Google Assistant into their mobile platform.
David Colebrook, vice-president of marketing at CARA, Swiss Chalet’s restaurant brand, says, “Canadians are constantly on-the-go so being able to offer the convenience of voice-enabled ordering is an exciting advancement in our ongoing commitment to enhancing out guest’s ordering experience.”


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The Kindle Wi-Fi is certainly priced to sell at £111 (the price went up by £2 as a result of the recent VAT increase) and although Amazon has so far been pretty vague about sales figures, its recent financial results report does fill in a few details.
Amazon still isn’t letting on precisely how many Kindles it has sold since its launch in September last year, but it has announced that the number is measured in “millions” and it’s the best-selling product in the online retailer’s history. More to the point, Kindle ebooks outsold paperbacks by 15% in the US over the course of 2010 and hardbacks by 200%.
When it comes to the range of ebooks available, Amazon reckons that it has 810,000 available in its US store and 670,000 cost less than $10. It neglects to mention that some ebooks are still priced higher than both their paperback and hardback editions, though this is no fault of its own — unlike with print editions, publishers control ebook pricing.
Incidentally, the expert estimation is that the $189 Kindle Wi-Fi (£111 in the UK) amounts to around $156 in parts. Add in the estimated costs for manufacturing and other sundry items, and the Kindle 3 looks like it sells for less than it costs Amazon to make. With ebook sales figures like these though, it looks like this is a model for success — it works for the likes of Gillette, after all…


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Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) today unveiled a series of innovations that help companies create, manage and deliver highly personalized mobile app experiences to their customers and prospects in real-time. The new capabilities build on Adobe’s market leadership in mobile and deliver against the entire spectrum of mobile marketing including developing dynamic mobile apps, managing and marketing content for apps across all major app stores, measuring mobile marketing campaigns, and engaging users of apps near Apple iBeacons.
“Developers can now create and deliver mobile apps while marketers manage, measure and monetize the content, all from within Adobe Marketing Cloud,” said Brad Rencher, senior vice president and general manager, Digital Marketing Business, Adobe. “Adobe Marketing Cloud is the industry’s most complete, integrated solution for marketers, and today’s announcement further cements our leadership in mobile app marketing.”
Adobe Marketing Cloud enables deep analysis of user engagement with mobile experiences across devices as well as powerful optimization tools for delivering location-based content in real time. Marketers can now significantly grow the return on their investment (ROI) by effectively acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers who use mobile apps and websites. Easy-to-use and integrated workflows across Adobe Marketing Cloud reduce the complexity of managing, analyzing, and optimizing experiences across app stores. The new mobile capabilities include:
- App development made easy with PhoneGap Enterprise: Adobe introduced a new offering, PhoneGap Enterprise, a robust set of tools that transform mobile app development by empowering both marketers and developers. Developers can build apps across platforms, meet aggressive time-to-market demands, and support third party integrations. Marketers can easily update app content, optimize the app post launch and manage app reviews and variations without the need for app development skills. The unique drag and drop functionality ensures that marketers can easily change and preview app content including images, videos, interactive and text based content. Updates appear instantly across platforms including iOS and Android. Mobile apps built with PhoneGap Enterprise can be natively integrated with Adobe Experience Manager to ensure consistent content management across any app, mobile site or website. Marketers can manage content across hybrid and native apps without having to worry about multiple app stores, fragmented operating systems, and different device sizes.
- Content management for Digital Publishing Suite (DPS): Adobe Experience Manager already integrates with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) allowing marketers and commercial publishers to create, publish and measure content-centric apps.
- Measurement of mobile marketing campaigns: With Adobe Mobile Services 2.0, marketers can measure which campaigns are driving mobile app downloads across the leading marketplaces including the Apple App Store and Google Play. Marketers can also measure a broad set of user behaviors after the app is downloaded including launch events, user engagement, content sharing across social, and product purchases, giving them deep insights into the lifetime value of users. By tracking the effectiveness of paid, owned, and earned marketing campaigns for mobile apps, companies can now accurately track ROI and fully optimize their spend.
- Support for Apple iBeacons: Adobe is the first mobile provider to measure and respond to user engagement in mobile apps connected to iBeacons in sports stadiums, retail stories and other external venues. Adobe Mobile Services 2.0 allows companies to analyze and act on the users’ location near iBeacons including dwell time, entering or exiting an iBeacon area, navigation of mobile users around iBeacons and more. Marketers can also easily deliver local notifications based on the proximity to an iBeacon. In addition, companies are able to tie app interactions to all other app engagement data in Adobe Analytics.
- Re-engagement of customers across mobile apps: With the integration of Adobe Campaign and Adobe Mobile Services 2.0, marketers are now able to re-engage loyal customers with push notifications across mobile applications. Using the Adobe Campaign UI, companies can deliver breaking news, credit balance details, flight departure details and more in an instant and consistently across devices.
Additional mobile capabilities that were introduced across other Adobe Marketing Cloud Solutions today include Adobe Target Premium, which offers A/B testing capabilities of in-app content and targeted experiences based on the users’ location and lifecycle data to make app experiences more impactful.
About Adobe Marketing Cloud
Now there’s a place that puts everything digital marketers need in one spot. It’s called the Adobe Marketing Cloud. It includes a complete set of analytics, social, advertising, targeting, Web and app experience management and cross-channel campaign management solutions as well as core services and mobile capabilities that bring together everything marketers need to know about their campaigns. So marketers can get from data to insights to action, faster and smarter than ever.
- PhoneGap Enterprise
- Mobile services for Adobe Marketing Cloud
- Location-based Marketing Series on CMO.com
- Adobe Experience Mobile App
- Content management for Digital Publishing Suite (DPS)
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Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.
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With an estimated 50 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, several industries will begin to expand their capabilities for retaining end point data at the edge to better utilize the range of data types and sheer volume of M2M data generated by the Internet of Things. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Don DeLoach, CEO and President of Infobright, will discuss the infrastructures businesses will need to implement to handle this explosion of data by providing specific use cases for filte...
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More and more companies are looking to microservices as an architectural pattern for breaking apart applications into more manageable pieces so that agile teams can deliver new features quicker and more effectively. What this pattern has done more than anything to date is spark organizational transformations, setting the foundation for future application development. In practice, however, there are a number of considerations to make that go beyond simply “build, ship, and run,” which changes ho...
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Kairos founder alleges pressure to sell facial recognition to law enforcement, files counter-suit
Kairos founder Brian Brackeen has counter-sued the company he started and its interim CEO Melissa Doval, alleging that Steve O’Hara, chairman of the company’s board of directors, did not share Brackeen’s prioritization of avoiding bias, and pressured him to change his position against selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement agencies. Brackeen alleges that he was denied 34 weeks of salary payment to improve the company’s cash flow, according to TechCrunch, and is seeking $10 million in damages.
That conflict resulted in O’Hara, Doval and others at Kairos “intentionally destroying his reputation and livelihood through fraudulent conduct, the publication of malicious falsehoods, and the commission of illegal corporate acts,” according to the counter-suit.
Kairos raised $0.5 million in emergency capital with a share offering which valued the company at $1.5 million, or $0.01153 per share. Kairos has previously been valued at $120 million, with a memo to shareholders obtained by TechCrunch stating that the lower price is due to the company’s precarious financial situation. The offering was fully subscribed, and decreased Brackeen’s ownership stake by 90 percent, and included a condition that the Kairos board of directors be reconstituted with only O’Hara, Doval, and Director Mike Gardner as members. At a shareholder meeting, originally scheduled for last week, but now expected to occur in the near future, Brackeen hopes to force a vote on whether he should be reinstated as CEO, and the board removed.
“We’ve come to expect this behavior on his behalf,” Doval told TechCrunch in an email. “We stand firmly with our original complaint and the courts will rule in our favor once they are presented with the evidence for the case. Our fiduciary duty is to our stakeholders, and we remain dedicated to doing right by them.”
O’Hara told TechCrunch that the company is not attempting to sell its technology to law enforcement that he is aware of, and that it does not plan to do so before resolving any issues related to bias and privacy.
The memo to shareholders suggests that the emergency capital will keep it afloat through Q1 2019, at which point new sales or fund-raising are expected to stabilize it. For his part, Brackeen has received an offer of $3.5 million in investment from Beyond Capital Markets, contingent on him being returned as CEO, and the resignation of the board. He hopes to raise a further $1.5 million in venture capital.
Brackeen recently told Biometric Update that the legal conflict contains a lesson for founders like himself about protecting themselves as their company grows.


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More powerful batteries could help electric cars achieve a considerably larger range and thus a breakthrough on the market.
They provide power for electric cars, electric bicycles, smartphones and laptops; nowadays, rechargeable lithium ion batteries are the storage media of choice when it comes to supplying a large amount of energy in a small space and light weight. All over the world, scientists are currently researching a new generation of such batteries with an improved performance. Scientists headed by Maksym Kovalenko from the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry at ETH Zurich and Empa have now developed a nanomaterial which enables considerably more power to be stored in lithium ion batteries.
The nanomaterial is composed of tiny tin crystals, which are to be deployed at the minus pole of the batteries (anode). When charging the batteries, lithium ions are absorbed at this electrode; while discharging, they are released again (see box). “The more lithium ions the electrodes can absorb and release – the better they can breathe, as it were – the more energy can be stored in a battery,” explains Kovalenko.
The element tin is ideal for this: every tin atom can absorb at least four lithium ions. However, the challenge is to deal with the volume change of tin electrodes: tin crystal becomes up to three times bigger if it absorbs a lot of lithium ions and shrinks again when it releases them back. The scientists thus resorted to nanotechnology: they produced the tiniest tin nanocrystals and embedded a large number of them in a porous, conductive permeable carbon matrix. Much like how a sponge can suck up water and release it again, an electrode constructed in this way can absorb lithium ions while charging and release them when discharging. If the electrode were made of a compact tin block, this would practically be impossible.
During the development of the nanomaterial, the issue of the ideal size for the nanocrystals arose, which also carries the challenge of producing uniform crystals. “The trick here was to separate the two basic steps in the formation of the crystals – the formation of as small as a crystal nucleus as possible on the one hand and its subsequent growth on the other,” explains Kovalenko. By influencing the time and temperature of the growth phase, the scientists were able to control the size of the crystals. “We are the first to produce such small tin crystals with such precision,” says the scientist.
Larger cycle stability
Using uniform tin nanocrystals, carbon, and binding agents, the scientists produced different test electrodes for batteries. “This enables twice as much power to be stored compared to conventional electrodes,” says Kovalenko. The size of the nanocrystals did not affect the storage capacity during the initial charging and discharging cycle. After a few charging and discharging cycles, however, differences caused by the crystal size became apparent: batteries with ten-nanometre crystals in the electrodes were able to store considerably more energy than ones with twice the diameter. The scientists assume that the smaller crystals perform better because they can absorb and release lithium ions more effectively. “Ten-nanometre tin crystals thus seem to be just the ticket for lithium ion batteries,” says Kovalenko.
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Activision reveals new Bond title 007 Legends
Activision has announced their contribution to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Bond franchise with 007 Legends.
007 Legends is something of a 'best of' game featuring a storyline that arches over six classic Bond movies concluding with Daniel Craig's next outing as Britain's top secret agent Skyfall.
The game will also feature the same strong multiplayer features that Activision brought back with GoldenEye 007 Reloaded and the highly popular single player MI6 Ops Missions featuring a range of challenges over stealth and gadget based gameplay as well as online leaderboards.
Activision Publishing VP, David Oxford said, "To honor 50 years of the world's top secret agent, 007 Legends offers a collection of his most famed moments in the smartest and most treacherous Bond game yet. Creating a video game storyline that ties together six popular, yet very different, Bond movie narratives can be challenging, but together with EON Productions, our developer Eurocom, has pulled it off to create an homage that we think will be a unique and highly entertaining Bond video game."
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On Friday, Sony Corporation for the first time announced a share buyback worth 100 billion yen (approximately $90 million) which benefited its stock to recover from the shock it received at the beginning of the week when the technology company published its grey earnings.
During this week, it was the second significant buyback of Japan that was marked after the announcement when the technology investor SoftBank Group Corp on Wednesday mentioned that it is going to buy around 600 billion yen worth of stock which send its share prices high.
Before the announcements, both stocks were under pressure which was considering the investor’s concern over the outlook regarding the global technology industry due to the downfall of demand in China.
There is an improvement in our financial condition, and that is sufficient for us to manage the repurchase, spokesman of Sony stated, further adding that the latest share prices were also the reason for the decision.
Senior Analyst Hiroyasu Nishikawa at IwaiCosmo Securities informed that the buyback reflected how much Sony has transformed over the years while replying to the shareholders.
Few years before, Sony was battling with huge losses due to loss of market share to Asian competitor of its consumer electronics business. From then onwards, Sony has redesigned itself as an entertainment company along with consistent revenue especially from the gaming industry and from music content.
This week the shares of Sony dropped by 14 percent which is the lowest in more than a year since the time the company announced a lower profit than expectation because of the collapse of its pervious successful gaming business, although due to its one-time gain to its EMI achievements has forced the results of quarterly to a record high.
The profit outlook for its imaging sensors is also dropped down by Sony, reasoning due to failing global smartphone market.
Due to increasing calls for higher shareholder return, the Japanese companies are thinking of increasing share repurchase. While in the last week Yamaha Corp, the maker of the instrument and Itochu Corp the trading house also declared buybacks in addition to their quarterly earnings.
The shareholder returns have been increased regularly by Sony via higher dividends over the recent years. 7.09 percent of Sony’s profit was paid in-terms of dividend during the last fiscal year, in comparison to 22.5 percent at U.S tech giant Apple Inc.


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Team Bondi Struggling With L.A. Noire Size Issues?
More than a few developers have complained about the lack of space available on a DVD as compared to a Blu-Ray disc. And now, L.A. Noire developer Team Bondi appears to be running into a standard multiplatform conundrum.
According to Go Fanboy, Rockstar's Jeronimo Barrera has been asked by Take-Two (the dev's parent company) to "calm the situation at Team Bondi over the size limitations." Compression for a typical HDD installation is a possible answer, of course, but we're hoping this need to "calm" things down doesn't delay the project further. The game is already in the midst of a lengthy development process and Take-Two previously hinted that one of their highly anticipated 2010 titles might not make it until 2011. Perhaps they were aware of this issue at Team Bondi... We're hoping that's not the case and the game will still make its estimated release date of September, but at this point, it's tough to predict. It's incredibly unlikely that L.A. Noire will return to being a PS3 exclusive; after all this dev time, they're going to need a very large return on their investment. Perhaps that new motion capture tech is causing the problems...?
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B.C.-based auctioneer offers drone’s-eye view
March 15, 2016 By Matt Jones
Vancouver-based heavy equipment auctioneer Ritchie Bros. has posted a video on the company website taken from a drone swooping over its 200-acre auction site in Orlando, Fla.
The video, shot in advance of an auction that took place in February, shows aerial scenes of more that 10,000 items that were going on the block.
“Yellow, green, red and chrome as far as the eye can see—and it’s all available to the highest bidders,” said a news release from Ritchie Bros.
The drone also swoops up close to various pieces of equipment, such as a Grove GMK 4085 all-terrain hydraulic crane and a Krupp KMK-5110 mobile crane, as well as darting under the booms of a line of Caterpillar excavators.
Equipment for sale at the auction included more than 115 cranes and more than 115 mechanics trucks. Other major brands on sale included Volvo, John Deere, Komatsu, Terex, JLG, Kenworth, Peterbilt, Freightliner, and International.
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“Over the past year, Apple’s iBeacon has gained a lot of media attention and developer traction,” Evan Niu writes for The Motley Fool. “Quietly introduced at Worldwide Developers Conference 2013, iBeacon’s micro-location capabilities have incredible potential in retail and can also help facilitate the Internet of Things. Google wants in on the action.”
“Android Police reports that Google is preparing to introduce a new ‘Nearby’ feature that replicates some of iBeacon’s functionality,” Niu writes. “When activated, an Android device could automatically turn on its microphone, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or other functions in order to tap into various Google services based on location.”
“For all of the same reasons why iBeacon is a big deal, Nearby will be a critical piece of the mobile puzzle. Retailers are looking forward to location-based offers and other opportunities to appeal to iPhone owners, and soon Android may do likewise,” Niu writes. “Location will also have obvious use cases as the connected home trend continues. As rumored, Apple launched its HomeKit platform for smart appliances throughout the home. Google has no such centralized smart home platform yet, even though it did acquire Nest earlier this year.”
MacDailyNews Take: How many magic mushrooms do you have to consume to come anywhere near to equating overpaying for a company that immediately had to recall 440,000 faulty smoke alarms with providing the tools that soon will allow hundreds of millions of iOS users users to control everything there is to control?
Niu continues, “Google I/O is now just weeks away, which could potentially be when investors hear more about Nearby.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Wait, Google wants to try to poorly copy something that Apple’s already patented in myriad ways? For some reason, that sounds vaguely familiar.
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Google = Evil
Don’t they have more vaporware for Glassholes and those too lazy to drive a fscking car? The dumbasses are an advertising company and they’re late to the party with this?
Another classic take! Made my evening.. I don’t know how these shady googlers take themselves seriously.
Wait, why would I want to walk by a device that can turn on my microphone and wifi? That sounds like the NSA or Anonymous?
I can just imagine how many nefarious people and apps will take advantage of google’s attempt at replicating the iBeacon experience.
…yeah, and half- baked attempt!
Mo better spyware, coming soon. Creepy frat boy party crashers going through your dresser drawers, following you up the street, helpfully keeping track of your visits, noting your purchases and recommending like products every time you turn around. My gawd, were’t eyeballs enough? Shades of Minority Report.
Minority Report didn’t have any creepy frat boys (or any frat boys). I think you are watching too many spoof movies.
It had eyeballs. Conspicuously so.
Google’s Android owns you!
Yet another way for google to suck out people’s personal info to sell to advertisers and to get advertisers to flog stuff you do t want.
Jesus when will this company stop killing privacy and human rights???
Remember, if you haven’t done anything wrong, you don’t need privacy or human rights.
Hope you forgot the /S. Normally you are one the saner voices here
Yes, I agree with you 100%!!!
Please post your financial records, medical records (specifically, your hemmorhoid exam + anal wart photos and the number of miscarriages your wife had), your kids’ photos, where they go to school, what time you leave your home empty, when you’ll be on vacation, your porn viewing habits, your bank account balances, account numbers, passwords, etc., etc…
Remember, you haven’t done anything wrong so you have absolutely no need need any privacy or human rights.
Laugh of the day, thank you 🙂
And if you still haven’t done anything wrong, we’ll change the rules so that you have. Oh wait, did I say that out loud? Damn. Delete! Delete!!
It going to come to a point when google will know stuff about you before you do.
And when that happens the human race is fucked big time.
Roll on the next extinction because that’s the only thing that’s gonna stop google.
Google/Android is going to bury Apple. The only place Apple rates is in the US.
… which sucks for Apple, because the USA is only the world’s biggest economy.
Btw that’s Khrushchev you’re sorta quoting. Give that a think.
Too bad most Android users are a bunch of cheapskates. Good luck monetizing that, Google.
First thing I thought of, too. If I had a business, would I want iPhone users or “I want everything free” droids?
Microphone? Did they say it’ll turn on its MICROPHONE?
GOOGLE can access the MIC at will? Just to ‘check for location data I’m sure!
This really isn’t anything surprising. iBeacons transmit a code. Any modern mobile platform can tune into the signal, get the code and pass it on to an application that does what it’s enabled to do with the code.
In other words, iBeacons are inherently cross-platform from the start. It’s all client side development to deal with the iBeacon and most of that is on the 3rd party app side.
An old bull and a young bull are standing around in a field doing what bulls do when the young bull notices a big herd of cows over in the adjacent field. He sidles up to the old bull and says, “Let’s run down to the other field and do a couple of cows.”
The old bull eyes the field of cows, turns to his companion and says, “Nah! Let’s stroll down and do the lot!”
In other words, you can be first to market which really only gives you bragging rights and generally leads to a half-arsed implementation, or you can take your time and do it properly.
And yet Google ripped off the iPhone and iOS.
You obviously never saw android before the iPhone came out.
Get your history right.


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The number of phishing attacks targeting users of Mac computers, iOS-based mobile devices, and the associated web services ecosystem to lure them into fraudulent schemes has reached 1.6 million in the first half of 2019. This figure is around nine percent greater than the attacks experienced in the whole of 2018. The growing number of users of popular digital devices is clearly attracting more and more cybercriminals. This is one of key finding of Kaspersky’s Threats to Mac Users Report 2019.
While the volume of malicious software threatening users of macOS and the iOS mobile platform is much lower than that threating user of Windows and Android platforms, when it comes to phishing – a platform-agnostic cyberthreat – things are quite different. As they rely on social engineering, most phishing attacks have nothing to do with software. As Kaspersky’s recent research showed, the number of cases where users faced fraudulent web pages utilizing the Apple brand as a decoy has increased significantly in the first six months of the year, reaching 1.6 million. This figure is nine percent higher than during the whole of 2018, when Kaspersky security solutions prevented more than 1.49 million attempts to access Apple-themed phishing pages. The research is based on threat statistics voluntarily shared by users of Kaspersky Security Network – a global cloud infrastructure designed for immediate response to emerging cyber threats.
Among the most frequent fraud schemes are those designed to resemble the iCloud service interface and to steal credentials to Apple ID accounts. Links to such services usually come from spam emails which pose as emails from technical support. They often threaten to block user accounts should they not click the link.


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Apple has cut orders for its new HomePod smart speaker from suppliers following disappointing sales.
According to Bloomberg, the £319 device hasn’t been as popular as the tech giant had expected, despite grabbing a third of the smart speaker market when pre-orders opened at the end of January.
Although initial sales were “demonstrably good”, orders for the HomePod “tanked” when the device arrived in shops the following month, the news site says. It now account for around just 10% of the smart speaker market.
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The news site blames the poor sales on the speaker’s high price tag and lacklustre connectivity options, and on Apple’s failure to bring it to the market in time for the Christmas rush.
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Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi has introduced a range of products under its budget sub-brand Redmi. In particular, the company has released a brand reasonable column XiaoAI Touch Screen Speaker.
What is interesting
Smart column got an 8-inch IPS display with HD resolution. Also, the device equipped with a camera for video calls.
In addition, the firmware of the gadget integrates a number of applications of stamenkovich audio and video services.
The device can be operated using gestures or by using voice command virtual assistant XiaoAI.
XiaoAI Touch Screen Speaker can control your smart home / 4pda
Smart column can be a kind of center control other devices. For example, it can help to connect and manage intelligent doorbells and CCTV cameras. When you activate child mode, the novelty will filter the content when detection of the identity of the child, and parents can limit the time of its operation.
Redmi XiaoAI Touch Screen Speaker already on sale in the Chinese market. Its price is 50 USD (1400 UAH).
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"The urea shortfall has been a boon for some of the dealers and traders who have indulged in black marketing this product. Depending on the market, urea is being sold at more than double its official price, thereby creating a money making racket for a handful of dealers and traders while the government is burdened with a huge subsidy payout," said an industry official on condition of anonymity.
Farmers have reported black marketing of urea during the crucial phase of applying basal dose to rabi wheat crop.
Ajit Belhekar, a farmer from Kalevadi village in Junnar taluka of Pune district, whose group sells vegetables directly to consumers in Mumbai and Pune, said, "We felt the shortage of urea in November and December. The 50-kg urea bag was being sold for Rs 450 as against its MRP of Rs 350." Urea is the Indian agriculture’s most important input with annual consumption of 30 million tonne. The domestic production is around 22-22.5 million tonne while nearly 8 million tonne are imported. The government imports urea through three state owned trading companies — Indian Potash, MMTC and STC.
The fertiliser import data for April-December 2014 showed that India’s urea imports were down 4.3% year-on-year to 6.3 million tonnes. The shortfall was as high as 35% in April-October 2014, with a spurt in imports in November and December.
The domestic production of urea has been hampered by the government’s unwillingness to continue subsidising naphtha-based urea production. "Mangalore Chemicals, SPIC and Madras Fertiliser plants were shut down for the past three months as the government stopped paying subsidy to naphtha-based urea plants," said Satish Chandar, director general of Fertiliser Association of India.
"This is bound to affect domestic urea production," he added. According to industry estimates, 0.4-0.5 million tonne of production was lost due to this. MCFL restarted its plant on January 7 after the government agreed to resume subsidies.
The fertiliser firms have also pointed to their inability to move fertilisers to certain places, citing inadequate transport subsidy by the central government, which could be the reason behind regional shortages. Though the urea shortage is more severe in the Gangetic belt, Maharashtra, one of the top producers of sugar, soyabean, cotton and horticultural crops too had to deal with it. The output of wheat, sugarcane and vegetables in the ongoing rabi season is expected to suffer due to this shortage.
"The urea supply from the Union government pply from the Union government was short by about 20% to 25% in December," confirmed Jayant Deshmukh, director, inputs and quality control, agriculture department, gov ernment of Maharashtra. "We had also faced some shortage during August-September in the kharif season," he added.
Fertiliser dealers, however, downplay the urea shortage woes. "We did not feel urea shortage because the rainfall was less in the state. The over all demand for fertilisers has been less due to non-remunerative prices of most of the commodities," said Kailas Thole, president, Maharashtra State Fertiliser Dealers Association.
Urea, being highly subsidised, is the cheapest, and hence the most preferred fertiliser. For example, one tonne of urea is sold at Rs 5,360, as against Rs 22,800 for a tonne of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP). This huge price gap has encouraged urea's excessive usage, even at the risk of adversely impacting the soil. "The situation highlights the need to change the urea subsidy mechanism at the earliest," said the industry official mentioned above.
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Chandra Sekhar2237 days ago
T%his shortage seems to be artificially created to help the small businessmen who are the main supporters of BJP. Pay back time by BJP for the rewards in the elections of 2014 may. Nothing comes free in this world