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Total technology industry cross border venture financing deals worth $565.93m were announced in India in February 2021, led by $120.21m venture financing of ZetwerkLtd., according to GlobalData’s deals database.
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The value marked an increase of 44.9% over the previous month of $390.52m and a rise of 155.3% when compared with the last 12-month average of $221.65m.
India held a 12.07% share of the global technology industry cross border venture financing deal value that totalled $4.69bn in February 2021.
In terms of cross border venture financing deal activity, India recorded 28 deals during February 2021, marking an increase of 33.33% over the previous month and a rise of 64.71% over the 12-month average.
India technology industry cross border venture financing deals in February 2021: Top deals
The top five technology industry cross border venture financing deals accounted for 78.1% of the overall value during February 2021.
The combined value of the top five technology cross border venture financing deals stood at $442.21m, against the overall value of $565.93m recorded for the month.
The top five technology industry cross border venture financing deals of February 2021 tracked by GlobalData were:
1) Greenoaks Capital Management, Kae Capital ManagementLtd., Lightspeed Management Company and Sequoia Capital India’s $120.21m venture financing of ZetwerkLtd.
2) The $100m venture financing of Verse Innovation by Glade Brook Capital Partners and Qatar Investment Authority
3) Accel Partners (India), Evolvence India Fund II, Fundamental Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Sistema Asia Fund and Tiger Global Management’s $100m venture financing of Hella Infra Market
4) The $95m venture financing of Galactus Funware Technology by Base Partners, Composite Capital Management, Founders Circle Capital, Go-Ventures, Moore Strategic Ventures, Play Ventures, RTP Global – UK, SIG and Telstra Ventures
5) Bertelsmann India Investments, March Capital and Tribe Capital’s venture financing of Shiprocket for $27m.
Verdict deals analysis methodology
This analysis considers only announced and completed cloud-deals deals from the GlobalData financial deals database and excludes all terminated and rumoured deals. Country and industry are defined according to the headquarters and dominant industry of the target firm. The term ‘acquisition’ refers to both completed deals and those in the bidding stage.
GlobalData tracks real-time data concerning all merger and acquisition, private equity/venture capital and asset transaction activity around the world from thousands of company websites and other reliable sources.
More in-depth reports and analysis on all reported deals are available for subscribers to GlobalData’s deals database.


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25 August 2021
Information for sponsors regarding the supply of COVID-19 tests, including advice for those sponsors new to therapeutic goods regulation in Australia.
24 March 2021
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the TGA has expedited approvals for inclusion of COVID-19 tests in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG). The TGA has commenced validation reviews of serology-based COVID-19 point-of-care tests included in the ARTG.
11 March 2021
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the TGA has expedited the approval (with conditions) of COVID-19 tests including tests intended for laboratory use and those intended for use by specified health professionals at the point of care.
9 March 2021
Due to the unprecedented pressures COVID-19 has placed on the pharmaceutical industry, sponsors of listed medicines and registered over-the-counter (OTC) and complementary medicines (RCM) are eligible to request consent not to comply with TGO 92 labelling requirements for a limited time.
26 August 2020
Important information about the use of COVID-19 point-of-care tests.
26 August 2020
Dental board practitioners who are registered specialists in oral medicine have now been added to the list of specialist health practitioners who are permitted to initiate treatment using hydroxychloroquine
3 August 2020
Information on advertising of products related to COVID-19, GMP information for sponsors and manufacturers and access to coronavirus tests, medicines and vaccines, including medicine shortages
10 July 2020
The TGA has granted provisional approval to remdesivir ("Veklury", Gilead Sciences Pty Ltd) as the first treatment option for COVID-19.
1 July 2020
Pharmacies can return children's paracetamol liquid formulations to front-of-counter, but the one unit limit on sales remains in place.
3 June 2020
New modelling demonstrates that supply of critical medicines for ventilating patients supports a return to elective surgery.

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MS Explains WinFS, Releases Beta 1
Microsoft on Monday surprised MSDN subscribers with an unexpected download: WinFS Beta 1. The company also clarified its plans for the future relational file system technology, which has been the subject of much confusion since the feature was crossed off the list of additions to Windows Vista.
WinFS takes a SQL engine and marries it with NTFS, creating a "file system and relational database in one consistent storage engine," Quentin Clark, Director of Program Management for WinFS, explained to BetaNews. The technology stores metadata for all files on a system to facilitate organization and searching, as well as structured data such as contacts, calendars and more.
WinFS is not built directly on the SQL Server 2005 engine, but does utilize a subset of the same technology, which was then custom tailored for file storage.
The idea, says Clark, is to create a "sea of data" that abolishes the need for the standard file and folder hierarchy. For example, no longer would documents need to be stored in My Documents or images in My Pictures; instead, Windows would simply display the files associated with a particular request on demand.
But such a fundamental change to the structure of Windows requires much preparation, and Microsoft officials admit they bit off more than they could chew when announcing WinFS in 2003.
"We want to take longer to develop this technology," said Clark. "[WinFS] changes the developer platform forever, and we have to be careful about this."
The first beta release of WinFS was designed with that concern in mind. The bits only run on Windows XP in order to get the broadest developer audience possible. Microsoft wants to see developers start building applications and play with the WinFS storage model.
At this early stage, feedback is critical, says Clark. Although the long-term goals for WinFS will remain intact, the technology will be tweaked based on how developers respond. Microsoft plans to offer Windows schemas for storing all sorts of data types, along with synchronization and rich APIs. And those things will likely undergo the most modification as development progresses.
As expected, WinFS Beta 1 will be included in DVDs distributed to attendees at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference next month. "Strong developer feedback is how we get the technology right," said Clark.
Microsoft also confirmed that WinFS will still be in beta when Windows Vista ships in late 2006 and thus will not be built into the operating system. However, because WinFS is scheduled between major Windows releases, the technology will initially be distributed as an add-on - much like the .NET Framework is today.
That means Vista users -- and those still running XP -- can begin taking advantage of WinFS before the next major update to Windows. Clark says a unified data store like WinFS would eventually be an integral part of Windows, but Microsoft feels it is import to deliver the technology as soon as possible.


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Headline results for the third quarter:
- Prescription drug sales: $13 billion, up 13.8%
- Overall revenue: $23.3 billion (forecasts of $23.7 billion), up 10.7%
- Profit: $3.7 billion, up 3.2%
Note: All changes are versus the prior-year period unless otherwise stated
What the company said:
CEO Alex Gorky, who hands over the reins to Joaquin Duato in January, said "our third-quarter results demonstrate solid performance across [the company], driven by robust above-market results in pharmaceuticals…and strong growth in consumer health." Johnson & Johnson said quarterly sales were driven by Darzalex, Stelara, Tremfya, Erleada and Invega Sustenna/Xeplion/Invega Trinza/Trevicta and Opsumit. Also contributing was the company's COVID-19 vaccine Ad26.COV2.S, which recently won FDA advisory panel backing for booster doses. However, Johnson & Johnson said this growth was partially offset by declines in US sales of Remicade and Invokana.
Other quarterly results:
- Immunology product sales: $4.3 billion, up 12.2%
- Stelara: $2.4 billion, up 22.2%, driven by strong uptake in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
- Remicade: $761 million, down 17.4%, with revenues down due to biosimilar competition
- Tremfya: $537 million, up 64.1%, boosted by sales in psoriasis and uptake in psoriatic arthritis
- Oncology product sales: $3.7 billion, up 17.1%
- Darzalex: $1.6 billion, up 43.7%, with share gains in all regions and solid uptake of the subcutaneous formulation launched last year
- Imbruvica: $1.1 billion, up 3.5%, with gains offset by COVID-19-related market dynamics
- Zytiga: $548 million, down 7.2%
- Erleada: $344 million, up 66.7%
- Infectious diseases product sales: $1.4 billion, up 60.6%
- Prezista/Prezcobix/Rezolsta/Symtuza: $517 million, down 1.7%
- COVID-19 vaccine: $502 million – including $270 million in the US and $233 million in the international region – after pulling in global sales of $264 million in the first half
- Invega Sustenna/Xeplion/Invega Trinza/Trevicta: $1 billion, up 8.5%, lifted by new patient starts and persistency
- Pulmonary hypertension products: $868 million, up 15.9%, boosted by "strong sales" for Opsumit and Uptravi
- Xarelto: $636 million, up <1%
- Consumer health: $3.7 billion, up 5.3%, driven by increased paediatric fever incidences, category recovery for cough, cold and influenza
Johnson & Johnson lifted the lower end of its revenue forecast for the year from $93.8 billion previously to $94.1 billion, while maintaining the upper end of $94.6 billion. The outlook represents year-over-year growth of 13.9% to 14.5%. Meanwhile, earnings per share are forecast to be between $9.77 and $9.82, boosted from its July prediction of $9.60 and $9.70 per share.
The guidance includes revenue from its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine Ad26.COV2.S, which the company continues to expect will generate $2.5 billion this year. In July, Johnson & Johnson said it anticipates producing 500 million to 600 million doses of its vaccine in 2021, down from its goal to make 1 billion.
Meanwhile, analysts are calling for Johnson & Johnson to earn $9.71 a share on $94.3 billion in sales this year.


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BLACKPINK's Jennie provided direct instructions for her latest photo shoot. Jennie recently took a photo shoot with Vogue magazine promoting the spring and summer 2021 edition of Coco Crush jewelery.
Jennie participated directly in the photo shoot as the concept director, stylist, and model. According to Vogue, for this shoot, Jennie took inspiration from some of her favorite models and fashion icons.
Curious about what the results would be if Jennie got down directly in directing the shoot? You can see some of the snippets of the photos below! (www.onkpop.com)


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The researchers observed 48 participants sampling a variety of tomato juices with varying flavor profiles that ranged from sweet, bitter to salty. As the participants tasted the juices, the researchers turned up the noise levels and then had the participants rate the intensity of each of the juices’ flavors.
The team found that as noise levels increased, it became more difficult for the participants to be able to detect sweetness. Savory flavors, also called “umami,” were still able to be detected by the participants.
Robin Dando, assistant professor of food science at Cornell shared: “Our study confirmed that in an environment of loud noise, our sense of taste is compromised. Interestingly, this was specific to sweet and umami tastes, with sweet taste inhibited and umami taste significantly enhanced. The multi-sensory properties of the environment where we consume our food can alter our perception of the foods we eat.”
Dando added: “The multi-sensory nature of what we consider ‘flavor’ is undoubtedly underpinned by complex central and peripheral interactions. Our results characterize a novel sensory interaction, with intriguing implications for the effect of the environment in which we consume food.”


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SHOP OWNERS WILL FIGHT ON
DAWSON MALL PROPRIETORS CONTINUE TO DEAL WITH CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR
PLENTY of good is taking place to extinguish the bad reputation of Mt Druitt’s Dawson Mall and increase safety in the area.
But many concede there is still a long way to go.
The Standard headed out to chat to shoppers, community groups, business owners and those just hanging out during the Thursday night late trade.
There was singing and dancing, free food stalls and sausage sizzles, but behind it shop owners live with graffiti, shoplifters and bin fires – and make cleaning urine from their shopfronts part of their daily routine.
PUBLIC urination, graffiti, alcohol-fuelled antisocial behaviour and crime are still affecting Mt Druitt’s Dawson Mall.
The mall’s Hot Price variety stall owner Lisa Loiu said she can no longer obtain insurance for her business as her store is a constant target for vandals.
“The locks are always being damaged, I don’t know why – maybe by people trying to break in,” she said.
“The glass is always being covered in graffiti or broken.
“It costs $5000 per window to replace, and I have eight big windows. No one will insure me now because it happens all the time and is too expensive.”
Ms Loiu said whether opened or closed, her shop’s back door and entrance are constantly used as makeshift urinals, and rubbish bins are regularly set alight.
She said the worst behaviour she has seen in 14 years happened a few years ago, when she wouldn’t sell a lighter to two young teens as they were underage.
“They somehow snuck a lighter when I wasn’t looking, went to the candle aisle and started a fire in the shop.
“The police came but there was nothing they could do.”
Ms Loiu said shoplifting happened on a daily basis.
“Kids will come in, remove a tag from a jacket and put it on,” she said.
“When I ask them to put it back they say ‘this is my jacket’ and there is nothing I can do.
“I can’t grab it off them because I am not allowed to touch them – and they know it.”
Lawrence Bernal and his friends were walking through the mall towards the end of the late-night trade and said, while he felt safe there, other nights could be very different.
Mr Bernal said if Blacktown Council was to install a $1.6 million playground “there’d be a 50/50 chance it will get damaged”.
Mt Druitt acting crime manager Scott Houldin said proactive patrols of Dawson Mall and Mt Druitt station are now done on a daily basis.
Additional patrols are conducted by officers from Mt Druitt and the Police Transport Command.
“We have built strong re- lationships with local business owners and will continue to work closely to ensure the safety of the local community,” Insp Houldin said.
“Our approach to crime prevention in Dawson Mall focuses on a variety of different strategies which complement each other, rather than one being more effective than another.
“We will continue to work with specialist resources, including the Police Transport Command and Dog Unit, and conduct both overt and covert operations throughout Mt Druitt.”
Locals Lawrence Bernal (right), Matt Steele, Jeff Viray and Lowe Napalan (front) in the mall.
Hot Price owner Lisa Loiu says the outside of her shop is regularly used as a urinal.
Graffiti is a problem in the mall but police are on patrol(right).


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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Condos in the Mulberry at Bressi Ranch development in Carlsbad are going to begin selling for less than $200,000, but strings will be attached.
The city of Carlsbad will be selling the units as part of a new effort to keep existing affordable housing units from converting to market rate. Carlsbad is buying up the units as they come available, with plans to sell them to qualifying households.
Applications will open Nov. 19 for at least two 879-square foot, two-bedroom, one-bathroom units in Mulberry, a 100-unit affordable complex steps from the town square of the Bressi Ranch master plan.
"These home are meant for lower income households," said Nancy Melander, the city's program manager. "They're meant for families, single parents, for those that are seniors and looking for permanent housing."
Melander said the units would go to qualifying households and not real-estate investors, which happened in Encinitas earlier this year.
The Carlsbad condos are located in one of the region's most expensive areas, with the median priced attached home selling for $739,000 in September, according to CoreLogic. While the $200,000 price tag sounds like a bargain, it comes with a series of restrictions: The owner must live in the unit, may not be able to leave it to their heirs, and if they decide to sell, the city will have first right of refusal and can set the price.
Eligibility is based on household income, with a family of four eligible if earning up to $60,600 a year. Full eligibility requirements and the application are available here.


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Doughbies, an on-demand cookie delivery startup, closed down overnight after the business failed to cook up hot enough returns for its investors.
The brand wasn’t just popular, it was also profitable — Doughbies made 36% gross margins and 12% net profits. So why did they close?
It’s hard to run a bakery like a tech company
Daniel Conway, who co-founded Doughbies with Mariam Khan in 2014, left his venture capital firm to start the cookie company.
The duo launched the business like a tech startup, putting the company through the ‘500 Startups’ accelerator and raising $670k from investors. But several startup investors and advisors publicly questioned the company’s ability to scale.
Conway and Co. remained confident, insisting that “[compared to] cooking on stovetops, we can do thousands of cookies in one oven per hour.”
Cookies make profits, but not 10x returns
Doughbies’ revenue and cult following would have been a huge success for any other bakery — but hungry investors didn’t want bigger batches, they wanted broader business models.
The company created an app to boost sales, but it turned out that people only needed so many cookies a week.
Since the size and success of Instacart, Seamless, and other competitors made expansion into other types of food delivery nearly impossible, Doughbies execs chose to go out on top and “move on to something new.”


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Defend the big move
In 1999, the European Union (EU) passed the Laying Hens Directive, which laid down minimum standards for the treatment of egg-laying hens across the EU. From 1 January 2012, the use of barren battery cages in the EU, and the sale of EU eggs from those cages, will be illegal.
A potential threat to the ban
The egg industry has been given a generous 12 years to prepare for the ban. Now, with just one year to go until the ban comes into force, some egg producers across Europe are claiming that they still cannot be ready in time, and are requesting more time to comply with the new legislation.
What could this mean for hens?
This delay would mean egg-laying hens continuing to suffer in cramped, barren battery cages where they are denied recognition of their most basic behavioural needs – scratching for food, laying eggs in a nest, roosting, dustbathing, and even stretching their wings.


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Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) May 9, 2010
Mongoose Metrics, an enterprise call tracking solutions provider, today launched a comprehensive library of white papers to help educate businesses about how call tracking quantifies the offline impact for every form of advertising they buy. Its a fact: Forty-six percent of local online searchers contacted a business by telephone following their Web research (TMP Directional Marketing and comScore, summer 2009).
With so many consumers letting their fingers do the walking, online marketers must learn how to measure and analyze calls resulting from online searches. And, as nearly all consumers (97 percent) now use online media to shop locally (BIA/Kelsey and ConStat Survey, February 2010), tracking phone calls resulting from online searches is more imperative than at any time in history.
We truly believe in sharing our expertise and knowledge about call tracking with the masses, says Bradley Reynolds, chief executive officer for Mongoose Metrics. He adds, We realize our competitors will have access to our data as well but its really about the rising tide lifting all ships. Call tracking is a unique service that can make a huge difference sometimes a 20 to 30 percent increase in return-on-investment and we know that as the marketplace begins to better understand the impact call tracking can have on the bottom line, the industrys watershed moment wont be far behind.
To access Mongoose Metrics white paper library simply visit http://www.mongoosemetrics.com/mm_whitepapers.php and submit your e-mail address to receive a free download. Topics currently available include:


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Google have announced the unveiling of their new Chromebook – the same week Apple and Microsoft are set to release their own new products.
Google have announced the release of their new Chromebook – the same week as Microsoft’s Surface tablet, Windows 8 operating system, and the rumored unveiling of Apple’s iPad Mini.
In what is expected to be a huge week for technology news, three of the biggest companies in the industry are now vying for a slice of the Christmas market with new products.
Manufactured by Samsung and weighing in at just 2.5 pounds, the new Chromebooks are also going head to head with Microsoft and Apple as a competitor to the tablet market too. The screen size of the new model is now 11.6 inches, reduced from 12.1 seen on previous Chromebooks, however the resolution is slightly higher (1366×768) and now matches that used on most laptops.
So far, so similar to the iPad and Surface. Where the Chromebook could deal a real blow to these two products, however, is its pricing.
Instead of using an Intel processor, the new Chromebook is the first model to use Samsung’s dual-core Exynos 5 ARM processor. Usually found in devices like smartphones, tablets and mobile devices, swapping the Intel processor for an ARM chip means Google can afford to offer the Chromebook at a competitively low price of just $250.
This is a huge departure from previous Chromebooks, which have rivaled mainstream laptops in price. In context, the new Chromebook is cheaper than Microsoft’s Surface table and the Kindle HD. With rumors that Google have struggled to sell consumers on the concept of Chromebooks so far, it seems that this new price point is designed to position the devices as a direct rival to both laptops and tablets.
Google’s senior VP of Chrome and apps, Sundar Pichai, wrote in a blog post on Thursday:
“For families, it’s easy to use and share: for kids doing homework on the couch, parents catching up on emails at the kitchen counter and grandparents staying connected on video chat. There’s no need to worry about security updates and maintenance is easy; all you need to do is charge the battery. It just works.”
The Upcoming 2 Weeks: A Timeline
23rd October: Apple are, as usual, being cryptic about their latest showcase, to be held on this date. Whether a red herring tease aimed at those who are sure of the iPad Mini’s imminent release, or as an unsubtle hint at what the whole world already knows, invitations went out this week simply saying “We’ve got a little more to show you.” Some tech journalists also predict that Apple will unveil a refreshed 13-inch Macbook Pro with retina screen, plus a refreshed version of the existing iPad on this date.
25th October: The release date of Microsoft Surface, Microsoft’s first tablet and a direct rival to Apple’s iPad.
26th October: Microsoft will unveil the much-hyped (and much-feared) Windows 8 operating system to journalists. Set to be a radical departure from Windows operating systems as we know them, the new Windows 8 is designed to be more intuitive, using a tiled desktop rather than a start button.
29th October: Following on from the big 26th October release, Microsoft will unveil the Windows 8 phone operating system. A few hours before, however, Google have now announced that they will be unveiling their new Chromebooks. A bold move, indeed.


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IT management today is more complex, CA hopes to simplify it
By A. Asohan June 5, 2013
- Cloud, BYOD, Agile trends adding news layers of complexity to app development and IT management
- CA Technologies aims to simplify all this with a host of products to make life easier
THE enterprise IT world today is more applications-centric, driven by the adoption of cloud, BYOD (bring our own device) and mobility – which bring with them new layers of complexity and new headaches for the IT department.
CA Technologies hopes to simplify the management of this complex world and relieve part of the headache at least with its Application Performance Management (APM) suite and related management products.
The Islandia, New York-based Fortune 500 company is in fact minting business off the above technology trends. “The APM business is one of the fastest growing businesses for CA,” said Stephen Miles (pic above, left), vice president of service assurance, Asia Pacific and Japan, CA Technologies. “We’ve had a huge boom, especially in South-East Asia.”
“This currently happens to be one of CA’s largest business franchises, and one that we’re continuing to make investments in – it remains front and centre of our business,” he added at a recent interview with Digital News Asia (DNA).
In terms of uptake in the region, Miles declined to give actual numbers, but said that the company’s APM business in Asia Pacific was growing at around three times the market rate. The worldwide APM market is estimated to be worth US$2.2 billion according to the company’s estimate.
“We see a concurrency of spending from different industries here [in South-East Asia], including the telecoms and in particular banking and finance industries, which are spending huge amounts of money,” he said.
Scott Williamson (pic above, right), senior director of product management at CA Technologies, said that what was spurring on APM adoption was the fact that so much business and customer satisfaction was being driven through the web and other online channels today. Businesses have to manage all this proactively.
“Our APM product helps customers manage the end-user experience of their online channels, and if there are issues, help them triage and troubleshoot them,” he said.
Williamson noted that today’s systems are very complex and distributed. “As the cloud proliferates, these systems are being distributed away from the data centre and unto the cloud, and it gets harder to manage,” he said. “Yet, it’s more critical to do so.”
He claimed that CA Technologies’ APM product line is the market leader and has been growing rapidly over the years, with a market share a little above 13% according to Gartner, as well as other market research firms.
CA Technologies acquired the technology in 2006 by buying a company called Wily Technology for US$375 million.
There are two ways in which its APM product works. “Our customers want to know how their endusers are experiencing their applications,” Williamson said.
For instance, when a user logs in to a bank, that bank would want to know if the login transaction went smoothly, and that its customer was also being served well as an enduser.
But the other way the APM product works is when things don’t go so well.
“When this happens, it’s often very difficult to figure out what the problem is, and you’ll have to use very expensive and specialised resources to diagnose those issues,” said Williamson. These could include database, mainframe, server, applications server and portal server, administrators.
“There are any number of technologies under the hood that are serving up those transactions to the enduser, and it is difficult, expensive and time-consuming to troubleshoot those problems,” he said.
“That’s what our product does: It lets you know if there is an enduser problem, and if there is, helps you triage it,” he claimed.
Fire-fighting IT on the run
Williamson said there have been quite a number of times in which customers faced a critical issue that could have been dogging their systems for days, weeks or even months, causing transaction performance issues.
“They reach a point of pain that they can no longer tolerate, and they’ll call us in,” he said. “We’ll drop our product in, and within 15 minutes they’ll troubleshoot the problem. That’s the type of manpower you can save.”
In many cases, such problems are technical issues, like a memory-leak problem caused by sloppy coding, or a database call that was misconfigured and which thus taxes database resources, which can be an expensive proposition.
“Those are technical examples of problems we can uncover, but there are problems that come from the complexity of today’s application environments,” said Williamson.
Noting that the applications lifecycle includes stages such as development, testing, staging and production, he said that the more proactive customers apply APM across the entire lifecycle.
“This is so when an application goes into production and if there is an issue, you can quickly identify the source and get it back to the development team, which can then solve it,” he added.
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Telecommunications giant Verizon (VZ) reported its second-quarter results Tuesday, the last quarterly results under CEO Lowell McAdam who will be stepping down next month. The company’s shares made strong gains after the better-than-expected results triggered a stock rally.
In the second quarter, adjusted earnings were $1.20 per share, compared to $0.96 per share in the same period last year. Earnings came in above Wall Street expectations. The result included product realignment charges related to discontinuation of the company’s Go90 platform and associated content and acquisition and integration-related charges pertaining to media division Oath, which had a combined impact of $0.20 per share.
Meanwhile, net income attributable to the company, on an unadjusted basis, declined to $4.25 billion from last year’s $4.48 billion. Reported earnings per share dropped to $1.00 from $1.07.
Revenue advanced 5.4% annually to $32.2 billion, with strong contributions from the wireless business division, which registered a 15.5% growth. Meanwhile, revenues of the wireline division dropped 3.4%. The top-line surpassed analysts’ expectations.
At 0.75%, retail postpaid phone churn stayed at 0.80% or better for the fifth consecutive quarter, reflecting sustained customer loyalty. Net retail postpaid additions were 531,000.
“Verizon is extremely well-positioned for the future. Our financial and operating results for the first half of 2018 were strong, as evidenced by service revenue, earnings and operating cash flow growth delivered in a highly competitive marketplace,” said CEO Lowell McAdam.
Looking ahead, Verizon expects consolidated revenue to grow in low-to-mid single-digit percentage rates in fiscal 2018, benefitting from strong equipment revenue trends. Adjusted earnings, excluding the impact of tax reform and the revenue recognition standard, are estimated to grow in low single-digit percentage rates.
Earlier, the company had informed that senior executive Hans Vestberg will succeed outgoing CEO McAdam, who will be stepping down on August 1.
AT&T (T), Verizon’s main competitor, is scheduled to release its second-quarter results today after the market closes.
Verizon’s stock, which lost 5% since the beginning of the year, gained nearly 3% in premarket trading Tuesday following the earnings announcement.
The massive slowdown in the IPO market continued in the second half as the challenges posed by high inflation and interest rate hikes weighed on investor confidence. Meanwhile, there is
The automotive sector is one of the worst affected by the combination of high inflation and rising interest rates. Consumers have become more cautious and are prioritizing their purchases with
The IPO market has witnessed muted activity this year, and things don’t seem to have improved in the second half. The upcoming public listing of video game technology firm Ultimax


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VALDOSTA, GA (WALB) - Valdosta Mayor John Gayle is proclaiming this Saturday as Small Business Saturday.
In the proclamation, Gayle is asking residents of the community and across the country to shop with their nearby, small businesses on Saturday, November 24, and moving forward.
After Black Friday, this day is normally dedicated to supporting local small businesses.
On Tuesday, small business owners and other city officials gathered outside of a downtown Valdosta small business to hear the mayor read the proclamation.
In the proclamation, the mayor celebrates small businesses and acknowledges their impact on the community.
Small business owners that were in attendance shared their appreciation for the city’s support. Support that does not go unnoticed by the small business owners of the area.
We spoke to David Brooks who owns a small business in Downtown Valdosta that has been in his family for 40 years.
Valdosta resident, David Brooks, who owns a small business in Downtown Valdosta that has been in his family for 40 years, said he hopes the support from Small Business Saturday continues throughout the year.
“For us it’s Small Business Saturday every day," said Brooks, owner of Valdosta Furniture and Mattress.
Brooks appreciates all that comes with the day.
“It has progressively grown and gotten bigger. I think a big part of it is just bringing awareness to small businesses and hopefully it bleeds into the rest of the year as well," said Brooks.
Brooks said that those small businesses bring something that the larger or online stores can’t offer.
“How many times have you gone into a big store and wandered around and not been able to get any help or not been able to find something. I think it’s ultimately the personalization of dealing with a person one-on-one,” said Brooks.
And without the city pushing shopping local, things could be very different.
“They’re super supportive, creative, always trying to come up with some promotion to help businesses. That’s absolutely wonderful and quite honestly, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere other than downtown," said Brooks.
“The city is always going to support downtown and every small business in Valdosta. Our backbone, our local economy is 95 percent small businesses, so it’s really important for us to support those small businesses," said Main Street Director Ellen Hill.
And city officials said that your support should continue throughout the year.
“These people who have these businesses down here are your neighbors, they’re your friends, they’re your kids’ soccer coach. It’s really important to remember that their livelihoods depend on us supporting them. You want support from these businesses, but you need to come in and support them as well," said Hill.
City officials want to remind everyone that supporting these businesses supports the Valdosta economy.


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Martha on the Fly
Martha on the Fly opening this weekend in Tremont.
One year ago, Clevelanders were introduced to Martha on the Fly
, a weekend-only breakfast concept that operated alongside Good Company in Battery Park. On Saturday, April 23, the pop-up turned brick-and-mortar will open the doors to its “micro-diner” in Tremont. The location (2173 Professor Ave.) is the former Conforti and Freddie’s Sub space adjacent to Bar Oni.
Guests can look forward to “elevated, scratch-made breakfast fare” engineered for speedy turnaround. While customers will be encouraged to order ahead online for pick-up service, the restaurant can accommodate walk-in and a handful of dine-in customers.
In addition to the breakfast sandwiches perfected during the pop-up run, items like the Betty, Shirley and Doris egg sandwiches, Martha on the Fly will showcase new menu items.
“We cannot wait for our customers to try our made-to-order mini cake donuts, as well as our loaded Potato Crispies – our take on skillet hash browns: thick, golden and delicious,” says chef and co-owner Ryan Beck.
There will be vegan and vegetarian options, the weekly “Fly-By” sandwich-and-pie combo, additional beverage options and the full line of Guardian Coffee products.
While small, the new storefront manages to pay homage to the classic American diner through its neon signage, checkered tile flooring and counter seating.
Beck and partners Justin Carolyne, LT Magnotto and Joe Marino have been working towards this day since developing the concept in April 2020.
“The four of us have been all-hands-on-deck, every waking moment, for the past two years, to make our collective dream a reality,” says Magnotto. “To see our vision finally come to life, in Tremont, a neighborhood we love, is incredible.”
Martha on the Fly will be open 7 a.m.-noon Thursdays and Fridays, and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
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American Distillers Look to Rebuild Business in Europe
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
American whiskey producers raised a glass to celebrate a trans-Atlantic agreement to end retaliatory tariffs that sank their sales in Europe. Now comes the challenge of rebuilding brands that were stymied in those ultra-competitive markets during the lengthy trade dispute.
Tasked with ramping up distribution networks in some their industry’s largest overseas markets, producers of bourbon, Tennessee whiskey and rye whiskey also have to overcome problems in the global supply chain from the COVID-19 pandemic.
But whiskey producers sounded optimistic Monday about reviving growth strategies for European markets after the U.S. and European Union announced a weekend agreement to settle their diplomatic rift over Trump-era steel and aluminum tariffs. American whiskey became collateral damage when the EU slapped a retaliatory tariff on those spirits in mid-2018.
“This is an amazing reprieve -- nothing but happiness and jubilation,” Amir Peay, owner of the Lexington, Kentucky-based James E. Pepper Distillery, said. “There are some obstacles and problems that we will need to deal with, as will everybody. But that’s business.”
There’s plenty of lost market share to make up in the EU.
American whiskey exports to the EU plunged by 37%, from $702 million to $440 million, from 2018 to 2020, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States.
For Kentucky bourbon producers, sales to the EU plummeted by nearly 50% in 2020 alone, the Kentucky Distillers’ Association said. The EU accounted for 56% of all Kentucky whiskey exports in 2017 — the year before the tariffs hit — but its share shrank to about 40% by 2020.
In touting the agreement by President Joe Biden’s administration to settle the trade dispute, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said “this deal is good for Kentucky’s workers and the iconic Kentucky bourbon industry.”
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday that Raimondo “went to bat” for the state, pointing to their multiple conversations about how hard the EU tariff was hitting Kentucky’s distilling sector.
The EU targeted American whiskey and other U.S. products in response to then-President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminum.
Tariffs amount to a tax, which producers could either absorb in reduced profits, or pass along to customers through higher prices — and risk losing market share in competitive markets.
With the trade barrier coming down, Catoctin Creek Distillery in Virginia is looking to start reshipping its rye whiskey to EU markets, said Scott Harris, the distillery’s co-founder and general manager.
“We have a chance to go over to Europe now and compete fairly and bring our products back in at competitive prices,” he said. “This is what we’ve been waiting for the whole time.”
But it could take a few years to regain the lost European business, Harris said.
Distillers will have to decide how much of their finite whiskey supplies will ship to Europe. They can’t simply crank up production for immediate inventory bumps. Most bourbons typically age four to eight years before reaching market, getting their flavor and golden brown color during aging.
That patience will be necessary for American distillers in winning back space on EU liquor shelves, Peay said. His Kentucky distillery’s signature bourbon and rye brand is James E. Pepper 1776.
“It’s not easy to repair the damage that’s been done,” he said, adding recovery will be complicated further by supply chain woes brought on by the pandemic. And there’s still a lingering United Kingdom tariff on American whiskey owing to a separate trade dispute.
Nonetheless, he predicted a European comeback for U.S. spirits in the next few years, adding, “we are going to start seeing some serious mojo come back into Europe from the American whiskey space.”
Many employers across the country are pushing workers to return to the office.
This shift from remote work has triggered concerns among workers who are parents and caregivers. Who will watch their children and aging parents? Their loved one with a disability? How will they afford care workers?
Many Americans have put return-to-work plans on hold due to these concerns. According to the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, over 7.5 million respondents attribute caring for a child who was not in school or daycare as the main reason they were unemployed. Outside of retirement, that means child care is the No. 1 reason that Americans are not working today. An additional 1.9 million cited the lack of eldercare.
Our economy has made substantial progress in recovering from the pandemic. Since the president took office, we have added over 3 million jobs. But we are still missing over 7 million jobs from before the pandemic.
As workers think about what economic decisions make sense for them and their families in coming months, we need to pay attention to the lack of caregiving services, which has burdened workers throughout the pandemic. This is no small issue—unavailable and unaffordable care is an economic crisis driving current workforce challenges across the country. But in reality, too little attention has been paid to the sources of the problem.
Our “care infrastructure” is in tatters. Even before Covid-19, the lack of child care cost Americans $37 billion annually in lost income and $13 billion in lost productivity for employers.
Without adequate care services, we cannot expect everyone who is a parent or caregiver to fully participate in the workforce. Among leading economies, the U.S. has the most productive workforce in the world—when it can work.
There is an entire generation of Americans in their prime working years caught between their job and caring for their children, elderly relatives, or both. For this “sandwich generation,” the financial strains and time requirements of caregiving can be personally and professionally crippling.
I know personally how critical finding affordable, trustworthy care for my children was to my career. Even today, my ability to be in the office each day is dependent on the caregiving team that watches my 90-year-old mother.
In recent decades, the care economy enabled women to work and pursue careers. But the supply of care services has not kept up with demand. One study found that the cost of child care caused a 13% declinein the employment of working mothers with children under the age of 5 from 1990 to 2010.
The pandemic has amplified this issue, turning it into a full-blown crisis. Since February 2020, nearly two million women have left the workforce, resulting in the lowest women’s workforce participation in over 30 years.
To fix this crisis, we need to make sweeping investments in the care economy. First, we need to make care affordable. Child-care spending grew 2,000% over the past 40 years as more women entered the workforce, while child-care costs have grown twice as fast as inflation since the 1990s. As a result, many skilled mothers are driven out of the workforce.
Second, we need to start with our care workforce. Millions of women, primarily women of color, work all day, every day, in the care economy. In taxing jobs, they’re typically making poverty wages. For far too long, these women have been unseen, underpaid, and undervalued. Major investments can bring dignity back to these jobs by providing better wages, benefits, opportunities, and support.
Third, we need to address the lack of quality care facilities. Even before Covid-19, 43% of parents reported struggling to find an adequate child-care facility. This has only gotten worse as massive underenrollment triggered by the pandemic forced 1 in 10 child-care centers to close permanently.
President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda addresses these issues by making historic investments in the care economy. I’m proud to champion them in every conversation I have with members of Congress and the private sector.
I’ve spoken with dozens of CEOs. They recognize the return on investment. At a recent event, Dara Khosrowshahi told me how turnover at Uber, often caused by caregiving demands, costs $4,000 in lost productivity per employee. Businesses understand and support what the president’s investments are trying to achieve.
It’s time for our federal government to create a safety net that extends beyond the largest corporations and allows small businesses, restaurants, and even sole proprietors to access affordable, reliable care services. Doing so is not just the right thing to do for U.S. families, but it’s also good for business, and it’s good for the economy.
An analysis from the Council of Economic Advisers in 2014 found that every $1 invested in child-care and early-education spending returns $8.60 in societal benefits. And raising wages of care workers ultimately puts money back into the economy.
As we emerge from the pandemic, our economic priorities cannot be stuck in the past if we want to build a competitive economy for the future. It’s time for Congress to address our care crisis so that Americans can finally return to work. At the end of the day, care investments aren’t just good for American families. They’re vital for American businesses and critical to the recovery of the U.S. economy.


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DALLAS — Buyers shopping the International Apparel Mart in Dallas last week seemed tuned in to a single thought: The best way to lure hesitant women to shop is to offer them something so enticing they just can’t resist it.
From the retro garb The Beatles wore on the “Sgt. Pepper” album cover to David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust to Britney Spears’ naughty — and nearly nude — ensembles, we offer up some of the most memorable rock outfits.
Designers and musicians alike are tuned into each other’s scenes. The result? Concert sponsorships, endorsements, music-inspired collections, and a slew of other projects that straddle both creative worlds.
Supermodel @helenachristensen teamed up with longtime friend and designer @camillastaerk on a joint @paredeyewear collaboration. The lineup features three styles and 11 offerings, all of which embody a vintage feel. Get all the details on how they celebrated the collab on WWD.com. #wwdaccessories #wwdeye (📷: @slovekinpics)
“It’s a hard industry to keep motivated, as well, so finding different subjects and people is what makes it worth it – when you’re like, oh, I’ve met great people, I feel like I’ve done something good, and I feel proud of having done this,” said French actress Stacy Martin on being grateful for the variety of roles she’s take on. Read @ktauer’s full interview with Martin on her her latest film “Godard Mon Amour.” #wwdeye (📷: @danieldorsa)
After showing in front of the Eiffel Tower for his last two women’s ready-to-wear collection, it looks like @anthonyvaccarello may be heading to the Big Apple. Sources say the designer will stage his next @ysl show in NYC on June 6. Get all the details on WWD.com. #wwdnews #wwdfashion (📷: @aitorrosasphoto)
EXCLUSIVE: Two and half months after John Targon, cofounder and codesigner of Baja East, was hired as creative director of the contemporary division at Marc Jacobs, he has left the company, WWD has learned. Marc Jacobs International, which is owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, confirmed Targon’s departure in a statement: “John Targon is a talented designer and we appreciate the work he has done here. Ultimately working together did not make sense for the brand and we wish him the best.” Read the story by @jessiredale, link in bio. #wwdnews
@theluxurycollection is officially launching a collection, tapping Sofia Sanchez de Betak for the capsule. Over 30 styles will be featured in the Chufy x The Luxury Collection, debuting next month at Bergdorf Goodman, The Webster, FiveStory and more. De Betak, known as “@chufy,” drew inspiration for the collection from her trips to Japan in the past year #wwdfashion
@lhd, founder and CEO of @thewebster, has teamed up with @lebonmarcherivegauche for the European launch of her ready-to-wear line, LHD. The launch will come with an exclusive pop-up opening today that’s set to run through May 20. Located on the second floor, it carries her debut Miami-themed resort collection, launched in November as see-now-buy-now. #wwdfashion


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The rise in consumer prices of staple groceries will pinch the less disposable income households the most, pushing them towards discount stores like Aldi and Lidl triggering the price wars with the big four (Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons) supermarkets.
Add to this mix of uncertainty, the increasingly health conscious consumer expectations for a healthy lifestyle who demand more options at a lower price. The direct result is that shoppers are now spoilt for choices from both the discounters and supermarkets.
Shoppers influence pricing wars
The mood among shoppers has turned from range to convenience with value more important than ever. The fact is that the continuing income squeeze is altering the retail grocery market even if economic growth is sustained post-Brexit.
While the Big Four are still the market leaders in the retail grocery market, they were completely unprepared for the price wars started by the German “discount” store chains – Aldi and Lidl. According to the Kantar Worldpanel figures, Aldi and Lidl are gaining market share while the cumulative market share of the big four has changed little since 2008.
A similar scenario is being played out with the US – China trade wars. The US tariff imposition of nearly $200 billion on Chinese goods will impact both retailers and consumers. With a mass producer like China, establishing relationships is a long term goal to get quality control right, to make sure the logistics work. Cheap products, labor and manufacturing costs all have a significant role in the trade relationships.
But it’s the small retailers who are likely to go out of business as a result of these tariffs because they can’t absorb the cost, and can’t easily pass it on to consumers.
All this will change as the discounters have low prices built into their business models from the beginning, emphasizing bulk over brand and price over range. The big supermarkets have no option but to either shut their less profitable stores to shore up their balance sheets, or use technology to boost their profits.
Technology-based shopping experience
The differentiating factor for the supermarkets over the discount chains is the quality perception for the consumer, offering fresh foods, introducing new ranges, exciting deals, or selling white label alternatives to established branded stuff.
Only by understanding the customers shopping experiences, needs and expectations, can the retailers figure out where to focus on and what to invest in. They can win the price war with personalization to get the shopping experience right.
For online shoppers, the convenience and time savings is the biggest factor over traditional brick and mortar shopping to pick their own products. They would shop online if they got a more personalized and relevant experience leading to higher baskets values for the retailers.
Digital transformation is not just a new tech for retailers. The focus is on the entire customer experience journey by capturing the right data, processing at the right speed and taking appropriate action. This implies a major shift in the way analytics store, process and generates actionable insights for the retail managers to act on.
Next-Gen retail technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning can help accurately test and measure the customer response and adjust the results to reflect in their bottom line.
Some of the ways we are helping America’s top retailers distinguish themselves from the competition are:
- Provide a 360-degree view of each customer using our proprietary Big Data frameworks
- Plan and deliver for optimized marketing initiatives in real time using deep learning algorithms
- Maintain an optimized logistics and supply chain by delivering Cloud-based systems to reduce time to market and help scale the applications
- Enable dynamic pricing to maximize sales using AI to increase the basket value
- Detect retail related frauds and maintain transparency across the retail value chain using Blockchain
It is clear that there are opportunities for those grocery retailers willing to invest in the right technology to get the customer confidence, behaviors and expectations, competition and right business model.


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Beond, the world’s first proclaimed premium leisure airline, has announced a new perk featuring Apple Vision Pro. Starting in July 2024, select passengers on Beond’s flights to the Maldives will have the exclusive opportunity to experience Apple’s Vision Pro headset, creating a truly immersive inflight entertainment experience.
Apple Vision Pro boasts cutting-edge technology designed to redefine how we consume content. Beond passengers will be able to enjoy their existing inflight entertainment options, including a vast library of movies and games, in a whole new way. Additionally, Beond is collaborating with Maldivian partners to curate stunning footage showcasing the best resorts and activities the island nation has to offer. This immersive content will allow passengers to virtually explore their destination before even landing, further enhancing their travel experience.
The Apple Vision Pro will transform the inflight entertainment experience, and we will be the first to offer it to select passengers. In addition to our existing content library, we will showcase stunning resort destinations and activities in the Maldives. The inflight experience will build anticipation for passengers before they arrive, and offering the Apple Vision Pro is another step in our vision of delivering a premium travel experience from start to finish. We’re proud to be the first airline to deploy this innovative technology.
Tero Taskila, Beond Chairman and CEO
This announcement comes on the heels of Beond’s successful launch of commercial passenger services in 2023, connecting travelers from Munich, Zurich, and Riyadh to Malé, Maldives. The airline is set to expand its network further in mid-2024, launching new routes from Milan, Dubai, and Bangkok, all featuring their signature all-lay flat seating configuration for ultimate comfort.
Beond’s announcement signifies a commitment to pushing the boundaries of inflight entertainment and offering passengers an unparalleled travel experience. By embracing cutting-edge technology and collaborating with leading brands, Beond is poised to redefine premium leisure travel for the modern adventurer.


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The Department of Justice announced that a regulatory affairs specialist for a medical device manufacturer was sentenced to prison for his role in distributing devices that lacked FDA clearance.
The actions led to the illegal sale of two medical devices in the U.S., amounting to tens of thousands of dollars.
The sentence follows last year’s guilty plea by the individual, Peter Stoll III, to one felony count of violating the Federal, Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. He had been charged with causing the introduction of misbranded and adulterated medical devices into interstate commerce.
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Court documents stated that Stoll’s role with his company, which was not named in the DOJ release, was to submit the necessary documentation to the FDA for the sale of its devices.
However, Stoll admitted that, in 2017, he made a pair of false letters that claimed the FDA had granted clearance for sales of two medical devices. According to the court documents, the devices in question were the ELAN-4 Air Drill, used for high-speed surgical procedures like bone sawing, drilling and cutting, and the JS Series SterilContainer S2, a reusable sterilization container for medical instruments.
Stoll was supposed to guide the devices through the FDA’s 510(k) clearance process but admitted he never submitted any required documents for either device. Instead, he made fake letters for both devices with the FDA letterhead and a forged digital signature of an FDA official stating that the devices had been cleared.
Stoll was sentenced to 12 months in prison with an additional year of supervised release.


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Adobe has released its Digital Video Benchmark for the U.S. for 2012, wherein the Digital Index team shows what it learned monitoring video performance throughout the year across digital platforms. The study compiles data from Adobe Marketing Cloud customers, scoring viewing habits and also monitoring ad performance. 2012 saw a massive increase in mobile viewership, according to Adobe’s numbers, though desktop still dominates when it comes to online video.
Overall, digital video saw growth across all platforms, with an increase of 30 percent year over year in Q4 2012 versus the same time in 2012. TV and sports content was responsible for a large chunk of that new viewership, and streaming video available has grown 50 percent between Q1 2011 and Q4 2012. Smartphones and tablets were both among the biggest growth categories in terms of devices, and now account for more than 10 percent of all video starts combined, the first time they’ve reached that high of a share. Though both smartphone and tablet views have increased over the past couple of years, tablet viewing is accelerating at a faster rate and has already begun to pull away from phones.
Tablet viewers are also much more likely to complete a video than viewers on a smartphone, or a PC, which is good news for content producers hoping for an attentive mobile audience. One of the challenges, however, comes in getting mobile viewers to engage with online ads, which will admittedly take some re-strategizing vs. approaches that have worked on the desktop.
“There are two types of challenges with an increase in mobile viewing,” Adobe Senior Manager of Digital Index Tamara Gaffney explained in an interview. “One of them is a technology challenge, with enabling broadcasters and the media world to handle all the different platforms and formats and the ability to drive buying cycles around their inventory has been less developed up until now. That’s an area Adobe is working to fix.”
The other challenge comes in what kind of ad to present. Pre-roll ads are less likely to be successful on mobile platforms, especially for shorter video. Mid-roll and post-roll (which offers a click-through opportunity that can be very useful on mobile) look to present new opportunities, but there’s still probably some adapting to do in terms of finding a format that works best on tablets and smartphone devices, particularly for video clips that are under two minutes long.
A big opportunity for digital video in general comes from social channels, Adobe found. Social engagement jumped from 42 percent to 70 percent in terms of how likely referrals on networks like Facebook were to prompt a video viewing completion. Gaffney says that all media properties that employ video should be looking at ways to make better use of their social media channels, to offer video content to their followers and fans as much as possible to drive better video viewing engagement.
Another area that Adobe monitors is authenticated streams, which it provides publishers through its TV Everywhere service. This allows publishers to gate access to their content to paying subscribers only. Adobe found that 71 percent of this access came from mobile devices, in a reversal of the situation with traditional digital video streams. The Xbox and iOS devices represent the highest engagement for this kind of content, with around 14 plays per unique visitor on both, with Android coming up third with just 8.2 plays per user.
Mobile is a fast-growing opportunity in digital video, and the good news for content providers is that viewers seem quite open to subscription-based models of video distribution on smartphones and tablets. Mobile is likely to become more, not less important to digital video, so it’ll be interesting to see how ad strategies change to reflect the growing impact of portable platforms.


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TouchDraw for Android Launches Using Xamarin Popular iPad Vector-Drawing App now available for Android, initially launched exclusively with Samsung
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Xamarin, the company empowering over 195,000 developers to build rich, native iOS and Android apps, today announced that software and development consulting company, Elevenworks, has introduced TouchDraw for Android.
Jon Lipsky, founder of Elevenworks, chose Xamarin's platform for the iPad app, which launched in mid-2010, because of Xamarin's ability to deliver a high-performance, responsive native user interface, which is key to the success of a drawing app. He also knew that Xamarin's code-sharing capabilities across device platforms would help him reach users beyond iOS. The Android version was developed in less than four months, and shares more than 70 percent of source code with the iOS version.
"I've built my mobile app business on Xamarin's platform and it was the best decision I made," said Lipsky. "The ability to quickly get to market with an Android version that is as native and performant as the iOS app means significantly more reach and revenue without any compromises to the user experience."
TouchDraw for Android will initially be available exclusively for Samsung tablets, including support at launch for Samsung's S Pen-enabled devices. Support for the Galaxy S2 and S3 and phones will follow by the end of the year. In mid-2013, the app will be compatible with all major Android tablets.
Over 60 percent of TouchDraw's users use the app to create content for business purposes - technical drawings, professional design work and digital artwork - making stylus support a critical part of the app's functionality. Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, introduced native stylus support to the Android platform. Thanks to Xamarin's complete support for native APIs, Lipsky had everything he needed. He was also able to share stylus code he had written for the iPad version.
"Tablets are increasingly being used for content creation, not just consumption," said Nat Friedman, CEO of Xamarin. "Content creation apps, like TouchDraw, are mission critical to users in the field. Xamarin's goal is to make it fast, easy and fun for developers like Jon to deliver responsive, feature-rich, high-precision native apps."
Xamarin's mission is to make it fast, easy and fun to build amazing, native mobile apps using C#. Xamarin's cross-platform mobile development software allows developers to use their existing skills, code and tools to build fully native apps for iOS and Android that can share code with Windows apps. Developers get to market quickly with native apps while sharing up to 90 percent of source code across device platforms. From indie developers to consulting firms to enterprise organizations, businesses of all sizes use Xamarin to accelerate and simplify the creation of high-performance, native consumer, corporate and gaming apps. This year, Xamarin's worldwide customer and developer community will meet for the first Xamarin Evolve event, April 8-11, 2013 in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit http://xamarin.com/ or https://twitter.com/xamarinhq.
Elevenworks LLC is a software development and consulting company based in the Kansas City, Missouri area focused on building mobile and cloud based applications for iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows 8. For more information, visit http://elevenworks.com/.
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Conventional wisdom and Apple spin have long held Macs to be more reliable and more secure than PCs. But after reports of installation bugs, along with data loss and other problems in Mac OS X Leopard, some are beginning to ask: how much more reliable? How much more secure? Especially now that Apple has confirmed that OSX.RSPlug.A, a malicious new Trojan found on several pornography Web sites, can indeed compromise Macs running Mac OS X.
“We’ve been made aware that a small number of Web sites attempt to trick Mac OS X users to install malicious software on their Macs,” said Apple spokeswoman Lynn Fox. “Apple has a great track record for keeping Mac OS X users secure, and as always, we encourage people to install software only from trusted sources.”
And be sure to stay away from porn sites that require you to install software to view them.
So is OSX.RSPlug.A an anomaly or a harbinger of things to come? Security researcher Gadi Evron says it’s the latter. “Apple’s day has finally come, and Apple users are going to get hit hard,” Evron told Wired. “OS X is the new Windows 98. … It’s Mac season. The next two years will be interesting.”


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MUMBAI: Maruti Suzuki India is likely to operate just one shift at all its plants, with demand for cars slumping to multi-decade lows across the country and causing inventory to bloat ahead of the traditional festive season.
The carmaker that sells one in two cars running on Indian roads might slash one shift even at the Manesar plant, which will now likely join the Gurugram & Gujarat facilities in operating below capacity, multiple people aware of the move told ET.
The Manesar plant has an annual capacity of 750,000 units, and it makes Ertiga, Wagon-R, Swift, Dzire and Baleno cars.
Production cuts at the maker of Swift and Baleno have meant hundreds of job losses for contractual staff. With all plants likely to move to a single shift, some more jobs are at risk, sources told ET.
Maruti didn’t respond to ET’s query on realignment of production schedules at its plants and the likely impact on sales volumes and jobs.
Late last month, Nissan announced a global layoff affecting 12,500 jobs, and about a seventh of those positions were likely to be shed in India.
Passenger car sales in India have declined continuously, with July witnessing the worst shrinkage in about two decades.
Monthly car sales have shrunk for nine months in a row, dropping in 12 of the previous 13 months.
Kotak Institutional Equities cut the earnings forecast for Maruti Suzuki by 10-18% over FY20-22, mainly driven by 6-9% cut in volume estimates. The brokerage believes that volume growth for the industry is likely to remain challenging in FY20 due to the broader slowdown and the significant increase in car prices from regulatory changes (new safety and emission norms). Similarly, Credit Suisse cut volume and margins estimates for FY20 and FY21, translating into 15% and 9% EPS cuts, respectively.
Maruti Suzuki has been taking periodic shutdowns at plants to adjust production. In August, the month just before Onam and Ganesh Chaturthi festivals, there are at least three days of shutdown planned, and these cuts were not in the original output schedule, said people in the know. In FY20 so far, Maruti Suzuki has cut production by 10%.
Under the agreement, the homegrown automaker will pay over INR 725 crore and the acquisition includes entire land & buildings, Vehicle Manufacturing Plant along with machinery and equipment situated therein; and (iii) transfer of all eligible employees of FIPL’s vehicle manufacturing operations at Sanand.
The company will stop producing Jazz after October 2022 while the crossover WR-V will not be produced beyond March 2023. The carmaker will also stop the production and sale of the 4th Generation Honda City by December 2022 in the country. However, the 5th generation of the sedan will continue to be available in the market, a source in the know of things told ETAuto.


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Original title: The tide wind is in the wind, the new bureau, the front sea tide, a vibrant. Promoting the development and opening up of Qi Nai, General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned, personally deployed, and personally promoted major initiatives. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the General Secretary visited Shenzhen, came to the Queen Sea, made a series of important instructions. On October 14, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping was attended the 40th anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in Qihai, which explicitly proposed "to deepen the reform and opening up of the modern service industry cooperation area former Hai-Shenzhen". This is the General Secretary. Three came to this "SAR in the SAR". On September 6 this year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, the National Service Cooperative Reform and Opening Plan (hereinafter referred to as "Qianhai Program") officially released, and set out to the reform and opening up for the front Sea. A new picture. Under the Central Central Committee of Xi Jinping as the core, the development of the Qianhai development date is different, and it is also made to show greater as the new reform and opening up process. Tightly connect Hong Kong, achieve complementary and win-win, the advantages of the front seas deepen the reform and opening up, also shoulder the historical mission of supporting Hong Kong’s economic and social development, improve the Historical mission of Guangdong and Hong Kong and Macao cooperation, and accelerate the "six districts in the six districts of the two districts Town Shuanggang "Construction. In a global shopping experience in the Qianhai Cooperative District, the shelves are filled with foreign countries and foreign goods, attracting a large number of customers to save the purchase. This tax-free, bonded, cross-border e-commerce "one store polymorphism" reform pilot is just a micro-shadow in the front seas.
On September 14 this year, as the "Six Town" took the lead, the first demonstration project, the former sea commercial logistics town was officially unveiled. Up to now, 23 companies including Lifeng, Kerry, and China Harbor have signed a contract, including 16 Hong Kong companies, and the agglomeration effects of Shenzhen cooperation have been initially appeared. He Zhirong, which was in charge of the company’s representative of Kerry Logistics, said that as the first batch of enterprises in the town, the company will integrate all aspects into the top-sea construction, which contributes for the overall benefits of the former semi-commercial logistics industry. The "Qianhai Program" is clearly suggested that the total area of ??the former sea cooperation area is extended from square kilometers to square kilometers.
This is not a simple increase in space, but the advantages of reform, development advantages, industrial advantages, will further expand the breadth and depth of Shenzhen-Hong Kong cooperation, enrich the new era of "one country and two systems".
"The new front sea will be included in the coastal area of ??Baoan, and the sea and land and ports are all in the port. The whole function is more perfect, the industry’s drive effect is very obvious, bringing bigger opportunities to Hong Kong and Macao youth and enterprises.
"CEO of Harbor Innovation Co., Ltd. believes that this is the gold opportunity of Hong Kong and Macao youth to achieve personal career, integrating the national development of gold opportunities. According to Zhou Yarong, Director, Director of the Provincial Bureau of Health, as of August this year, the front sea cooperation area accumulated Wanjia in Hong Kong, the registered capital is trillion yuan, its industrial layout is based on finance, modern logistics, information, technology, and fully exerts Hong Kong’s financial and other professional services and basic scientific research advantages and Shenzhen market, talent and institutional strength advantages. Realize mutual benefit and win-win. Standing at the new starting point, join hands to open a new bureau.
The rules are connected, the elements are circulating, and the Qianhai Symphony of Talents is about to usher in a more exciting Huacai chapter.
Optimizing the business environment, perfect service system "The front sea office efficiency is really high!" The person in charge of Hong Kong Sheng Teng Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. said that the company registered in "Qianhai E-station", just log in to the platform It can easily apply for a range of business such as declaration of business licenses. This is beneficial to the new model of "a mouth acceptance, one approval, one network service, a seal" in the Qianhai Cooperation Zone, which gives full play to the high-level advantages of policies and markets, and escorts the market entity.
The business environment is the key competitiveness of the city. As the forerunner of the business environment, the Qianhai Cooperation Area continues to deepen the reform, improve the service system, and create an exception of the first-class international business environment.
- Implement enterprise registration registration "One Code" Introducing former National Treatment + Negative List "management mechanism, realizing foreign-funded enterprises registered the fastest and domestic enterprises to set up a day. ………… "The housing is a bit, the consumption is low, the pressure is small." Hong Kong youth in the Qanghai is a good news, the Qianhai provides employment subsidies, transportation subsidies, talent houses and other welfare policies, good entrepreneurial innovation atmosphere It brings an unlimited development opportunity.
A series of optimized business environments, perfecting the service system has remarkable effectiveness, the standpoint is higher, the pattern is large, the horizon is wider, but also provides experience demonstration in other parts of the country, "SAR" attributes in the "Special Economic Zone" attributes constantly highlight. According to reports, as of now, the former sea has launched 645 institutional innovation results, promoting 65 national promotions, and promotes 82 projects in the province, and the city promotes 203 items. The reform is not stopped, and the struggle is endless. "Establish and improve the modern service industry development system mechanism of China Unicom Hong Kong and Macao and the international service industry.
"Promoting the convenience of cross-border government services with Hong Kong and Macao, strengthening the intersection of transportation, communications, information, payment and other areas of Hong Kong and Macao standards and rules. "…" Qihai Program "further deepens the reforms in the Queen Sea, adding powerful driving force to the outside.
Activate innovation power, increase development vitality through artificial intelligence, block chain, cloud computing, big data, etc. Provide world-leading supply chain financial science and technology solutions for enterprises and financial institutions, Shenzhen Lian Yulin The Technology Group is impressive.
"Technology innovation helps customers solve the real problem, we use line-up, scene, data, and realize the digitalization of supply chain finance, effectively help small and micro enterprises to resolve the difficult financing.
"Joint Yubi Chief Financial Officer Zhao Yu introduced. In the front sea, all kinds of scientific and technological innovation companies have a lot. Shapes such as lithium iron phosphate car batteries of the blade, can sing 20 degrees Celsius, can sing, good dance, The embarrassing robot … numerous artificial intelligence, energy-saving and environmental protection, etc.
Innovation is the first motivation to lead the development. The "Qianhai Program" clearly proposed "Accelerating the Reform and Innovation of Science and Technology Development System Mechanism", in order to further promote the technological innovation of the former sea cooperative district, release development kinetic energy, painting a new prospect. Protecting intellectual property is to protect innovation. Qianhai is the "Shenzhen Special Offices" provisions stipulated in the Intellectual Property Protection Work Demonstration Zone, all kinds of intellectual property judicials, administration, arbitration, notary, etc., intellectual property protection full-ecological system, to deepen innovation drive development The strategy provides a powerful guarantee.
"The former sea will insist on innovation and lead development, with the huge potential of institutional innovation, and constantly support for the high quality development of Qihai high-quality development." Huang Xiaopeng, deputy secretary of the Quality Development of the Qianhai Cooperation District, Zhou Huang Peng . (Editor: Zhang Chen Mu, Chen Yizhuang) Share let more people see.


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The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) has released its latest GBTA BTI Outlook report on Brazil as part of its semi-annual series.
The report indicates that strengthening domestic and global economies will place Brazil on a strong growth path in 2013, with the index increasing by over 40 points.
Brazilian total business travel spending is expected to grow 14.3 per cent in 2013 to $34.5 billion.
While domestic business travel spending has grown 8.3 per cent a year over the last 12 years, and is forecast to grow 12.9 per cent to $27 billion in 2013.
International outbound travel spending is on target to expand by 20.2 per cent in 2013, reaching $7.1 billion
Brazil currently ranks 8th in the business travel global rankings, and is on track to surpass Italy, France and the UK over the next two years.
Thew country’s business travel spending has continued to grow at an impressive rate, and has nearly tripled since 2000.
From an estimated $11 billion in 2000 travel spend expanded at an average rate of 8 per cent per year to over $30 billion in 2012.
Wellington Costa, President of GBTA Brazil commented: “Brazil has shown remarkable economic resilience and we see this reflected in the latest GBTA business travel data. Although business travel spending slowed toward the end of 2012, growth rates for both travel spend and the economy are now rising again.
“The major challenge facing the Brazilian business travel market is whether the country’s travel infrastructure and supply can keep pace with its growing demand.”
After posting a weak 0.9 per cent GDP in 2012, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has implemented a series of measures to boost growth.
Rousseff announced the elimination of the 9.25 per cent PIS/Cofins taxes on staple foods on March 9.
The Brazilian central bank had eased reserve requirements on large banks in December last year.


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As summer approaches, it seems like a good time to talk about the complete and utter travesty of most grocery store produce sections.
How do we live in a state known for agriculture and we can’t get that locally grown produce in our stores? I know there are great tomatoes being grown within an hour’s drive of my house, but we’re mostly stuck with tomatoes that were picked before they were ripe in a different state or country and trucked over long miles to disappoint our taste buds.
That’s the problem Matt Burch and Chelsea Simpson, co-owners of Urban Agrarian, are solving every day. And they could use your help with the next step.
Urban Agrarian isn’t only raising money through Kickstarter, but the money they’re raising there is vital to its future.
Urban Agrarian is opening a second retail location, this time in downtown Edmond (1 E. Main St.). They are continuing to run a food hub in the Farmers Market District — a place where they bring produce from local farms to be sold to consumers. They run a certified kitchen there.
These are conduits from farm to table that are rarely seen anywhere in the country. And while farmers markets are wonderful, they are also impractical. Farmers need more than one day a week to earn money for their crops. And they also need to be on the farm, doing the work to grow and harvest the next batch of produce.
Consumers need more than one day to buy locally grown produce. And if the day they’re shopping isn’t a farmers market day, they’re going to turn to that same disappointing batch of grocery store produce.
Urban Agrarian acts as both a retail shop and a clearinghouse. Farmers don’t have to stand and sell all day. Customers don’t have to plan their shopping around the farmers’ schedules, nor walk around paying several different people instead of checking out once.
That said, of course it’s expensive to set all of this up. The Kickstarter is addressing some unexpected costs that are hard to find investors to cover. So, since this is a store dedicated to bringing people close to their food, it makes sense to ask them to buy-in and take some ownership of the store.
“There’s been so much community interest and support and people who want to help” that creating a Kickstarter just made sense, Simpson said.
“When we nearly shut down last year, we heard from the community how important Urban Agrarian is, not just customers, but to farmers across the state,” she said.
This is an economic engine for Oklahoma, sustaining farmers with good prices for their crops and providing the best in locally grown produce and meat to the people who desperately want it.
The perks for the Kickstarter are bonkers, by the way. You’re getting a lot for what you’re putting in: boxes of seasonal produce, tickets to the Farm to Table dinners (one of my favorite local events), a sampler of local grass-fed lamb or beef, all the way up to a dinner party catered by Urban Agrarian with fresh, local, seasonal, exceptionally awesome produce.
It’s a lot, but there’s four days left to raise about $10,000. I’m scraping together my pennies to help out. You might want to do the same.


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LinkedIn has a new way for professionals to connect with ‘Live’ video broadcasts for conference and announcements
LinkedIn is today rolling out a new live video feature which lets people and organizations alike to have real-time live video to other users or organizations within LinkedIn, or the entire LinkedIn network itself.
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Not even a week after being requested to pull The New York Times app from the Chinese Apple App Store, both Apple and Google will have to pull the LinkedIn app from their respective app stores. According to The New York Times, the removal comes after a court ruled that LinkedIn had violated Russia’s data protection laws.


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A vandal wanted for piercing the tyres of more than two dozen cars in a quiet UK town has been revealed as a dog.
For more than six months, many locals from the Cumbrian village of Brampton complained to police that their cars were being targeted.
"(My tyre) went flat whilst I was driving – it felt like I had square wheels," victim Annie Taylor told the BBC.
"It was irreparable because the damage was to the side wheels so I had to buy a new tyre every time."
Fed-up with the attacks, she set up a CCTV camera with the intention of catching the cunning culprit.
Instead, what Ms Taylor ended up catching was a very perky border collie with a penchant for popping tyres.
"It seems to have a thing against cars," Ms Taylor told the BBC.
Known as Jess, the dog's owners say they had no idea their pet was behind the mystery and have vowed to keep her on a leash in the future.
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Youtube star Emma Chamberlain has sold her Los Angeles home after living there for just 12 months. According to Dirt, Emma sold the home to a longtime director at Snapchat, Petr Sandell. He reportedly paid $200,000 over the asking price. The sale closed a few weeks ago.
The social media star bought the home at the age of 18 for $3.9 million. Back then, Emma purchased the property from Andrew Modlin, co-founder of cannabis dispensary MadMen.
The gated mansion, which was built in 2016, boasts over 4,000 square feet of living space. It features four bedrooms and five bathrooms. The two-story home also offers glass-filled interiors that open directly to the backyard area.
Other amenities include a huge walk-in closet, a home office, spa-like bath with a freestanding tub & shower. The smart home also features a state-of-the-art security system, automated window coverings, and the Crestron Smart System.
The backyard area features a swimming pool.
Casey Winchell Napolitano had the listing.


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One of the more exciting — and potentially underrated — announcements out of Microsoft’s 2016 WinHEC conference was upcoming Windows 10 support for ARM processors. While the original Windows-on-ARM experiment, otherwise known as Windows RT, was Microsoft’s first Surface iteration, Microsoft’s future efforts will be more aggressive and likely successful.
Apparently, Microsoft’s OEM partners believe that the company will be more successful this time around and also less exclusive. According to industry supply channels, a number of companies are planning to create ARM-based notebooks and tablets running Windows 10, Digitimes reports.
The reports don’t have any meat to them and so they deserve a strong rumor caveat, but they make sense. Microsoft seriously gimped Windows 10 running on ARM with the first Surfaces, limiting them to running only Windows 8 apps — equivalent to today’s Universal Windows Platform, or
That means that while ARM-based Surface devices were limited to a relatively small selection of Windows 8 apps and Office, future ARM-based devices will run any of the more feature-rich Windows desktop apps that so many individuals and organizations rely upon. And, they will run them on machines that enjoy the power management benefits of ARM processors.
So far, it’s looking like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 is the first candidate to receive Windows 10 in 2017, likely starting with the Redstone 3 release expected in late 2017. Microsoft did show off this version of
It’s likely that Windows 10 support for ARM processors will represent one of the bigger stories in computing in 2017 and could represent the basis for the much-anticipated Surface Phone initiative. In the meantime, Windows fans should be excited to know that there are already rumors of serious OEM support for ARM-based
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The new line of washing machines will be available across all retail partners in India, including Samsung's official online shop Samsung Shops, as well as channel partners Amazon and Flipkart, starting at Rs 41,600.
Samsung, India’s largest and most trusted consumer electronics brand, announced the debut of its bilingual AI EcoBubble fully automatic front load washing machines in India, which are powered by artificial intelligence. First washing machine in India which will learn user’s behaviour.
Samsung claimed in a statement that the 2022 model line-up has intelligent features like as AI wash, air wash technology, and super speed cycle.
"AI EcoBubble is India's first washing machine that learns user behaviour and proposes the most favoured wash cycle, reducing the need to juggle various alternatives," Samsung stated.
This smart Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled washing machine line can be linked to Samsung smart devices including Galaxy smartphones, Samsung smart TVs, and family hub refrigerators, as well as voice assistants like Alexa and Google Home, according to the company. "AI EcoBubble washing machines deliver ideal wash options based on 2.8 million big data points when connected to the Samsung SmartThings App," it added.
Its AI wash employs sensors to detect the weight and level of soiling in the laundry, then uses machine learning to optimise the amount of water, detergent, and rinse time. Its air wash method deodorises and sanitises clothes without the need of water. It uses only hot air to remove 99.9% of bacteria and bad odours, leaving your clothing feeling like they were recently dry-cleaned. The super speed cycle, on the other hand, substantially lowers laundry time by reducing rinsing time with speed spray and increasing spin speed to quickly spin-dry garments.
Mohandeep Singh, Samsung India's Senior Vice President of Consumer Electronics Business, said: "Our new AI-enabled bilingual washing machine line is a game-changing innovation that takes advantage of recent advances in machine learning to provide consumers with simple, intelligent, and personalized laundry solutions. We are certain that the new line will improve consumer lifestyles even more and will be widely adopted across the country." LG Electronics, a competitor from South Korea, released a new line of smart appliances with AI technology last month. AI Direct Drive washing machines were also released.
Price And Exciting offer
The new line of washing machines will be available across all retail partners in India, including Samsung's official online shop Samsung Shops, as well as channel partners Amazon and Flipkart, starting at Rs 41,600italic text
With this launch, Samsung has introduced a limited-time The Big Laundry Offer, which offers customers who purchase Samsung AI EcoBubbleTM washing machines in capacities of 7 kg, 8 kg, and 9 kg an exciting opportunity to save up to 25%. Consumers would also receive an additional rebate of up to 17.5 percent on models weighing 8 kg and 9 kg, and up to 12.5 percent for models weighing 7 kg. This promotion is valid until June 10, 2022 at all retail locations.
AI EcoBubbleTM washing machines come with a three-year warranty.
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Lidl is to remove black plastic from its fruit & veg lines in a move it says will prevent 50 tonnes going to landfill each year.
The non-recyclable plastic will be removed from products including mushrooms, baby sweetcorn, asparagus, broccoli and cauliflower and will be completed this month, Lidl said.
The discounter has also pledged to remove black plastic from its fresh meat, fish and poultry ranges by August 2019.
The move follows a pledge by Lidl in March this year to reduce own brand plastic packaging by 20% by 2022.
Earlier this week Iceland said it was on course to have eliminated 2,000 tonnes of plastic packaging annually by early 2019, while Asda today announced it had slashed 3,100 tonnes since February.
A Lidl spokeswoman said the supermarket was testing and trialling more loose fruit & veg across its fresh produce range, including removing packaging from onions, cabbages and lettuces.
“This significant move away from black plastic demonstrates our dedication to tackling this important topic,” said Lidl’s commercial board director Ryan McDonnell.
“We recognise the current challenge that black plastic presents to the recycling industry, which is why we have made it our priority to remove it from our fresh ranges.
“As part of our commitment to achieving our ambitious targets, we are continually exploring opportunities to cut our packaging, and where packaging is necessary to protect food and minimise food waste we will ensure that it is reusable, refillable or recyclable.”


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Posted by Sue Kidd on November 21, 2014
Along a 1-mile stretch of Meridian — from River Road to the Washington State Fairgrounds — diners have three new reasons to head to downtown Puyallup: ramen, a salsa and tequila bar, and fresh pasta.
If you haven’t been paying attention, downtown Puyallup has transformed itself in the last half decade from a sleepy business district of antique stores to a food-and-beverage hub.
Posted by Sue Kidd on November 14, 2014
Find soup, handmade ravioli, a vegan mushroom spread and even mushroom poutine on Tacoma menus.
Posted by Sue Kidd on November 4, 2014
A tour of pizzerias that offer something we don’t have much of here: pizza by the slice.
Posted by Sue Kidd on October 31, 2014
A tour of pumpkin dessert creators, including Celebrity Cake Studio and Corina Bakery.
Posted by Sue Kidd on October 24, 2014
Happy Belly and Viva Tacoma join Marrow and Quickie Too in making meat-free dining easier.
Posted by Sue Kidd on October 16, 2014
The restaurant comes from Indochine on Pearl owners Hong Ngov and Sean Yean, who are expanding their family tree of restaurants in Tacoma once again.