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VIDEO: Cocoa Community Thrift Shop To Offer Great Deals For Shoppers On ‘Black Friday’
By Yvonne Martinez, Cocoa Police Department // November 26, 2015
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ABOVE VIDEO: As the masses hit the stores on “Black Friday” the Cocoa Police Department asks you to put its Cocoa Community First Thrift Shop on the list of places to shop.
BREVARD COUNTY • COCOA, FLORIDA – As the masses hit the stores on “Black Friday” the Cocoa Police Department asks you to put its Cocoa Community First Thrift Shop on the list of places to shop.
The shop will host its biggest sale featuring name brand clothing, some of which has been donated brand new, home décor, shoes and more at far below retail pricing.
Brand new jackets can be purchased for less than $10. Quality party dresses are available for as little as $5. Christmas décor, housewares, furniture and other items in superb condition are also available.
The Cocoa Community First Thrift Shop is located in Byrd Plaza, 801 Dixon Blvd.
It is open Tuesday through Friday 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The store will be closed on Thanksgiving.
“We have some really great items here, some with store tags still on them that have been given to us to help raise money for our local children,” said Holly Lightholder, a volunteer who manages the thrift shop.
“People really should come by and check it out. I promise you won’t be disappointed and what’s even better is it’s shopping for a good cause.”
All proceeds from the sale of items at the store benefit the Cocoa Community First non-profit which funds the police department’s youth outreach programs including the Police Athletic League programs, summer camp, Shop with a Cop and holiday toy drive.
For more information or to volunteer contact the Thrift Shop at 321-877-2892.


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Last year, on Thanksgiving Day, Holly Ellis took a trip up to Santa Barbara, where she framed and captured this photo of the Chromatic Gate.
The public piece of art was designed by Herbert Bayer and recently underwent an extensive restoration, which included a coat of bright paint. Originally intended to be a tribute to the artists of the "unique town," it garnered mixed reviews from the locals -- some arguing that it disrupted the beauty and fluidity of the shoreline.
The debate, of course, did not phase Ellis. "I love strong structure within an image -- combining the two was too good to pass up," she said.
The image was taken with an iPhone 5.

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NIS America Adds Kimi ni Todoke, 2011 Dororon Enma-kun
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NIS America (NISA), the American subsidiary of the Nippon Ichi Software game company, announced at its Anime Expo panel on Friday that it acquired the rights to the first Kimi ni Todoke television anime series and this year's Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera television anime series. Kimi ni Todoke will be released in 2 13-episode parts. The first part will ship in October, and the second part will ship "later." NIS America does not have release details for Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera yet, but the staff hopes to have more information by next year's Anime Expo.
The Kimi ni Todoke anime adapts Karuho Shiina's popular shōjo manga of the same name. The manga also inspired a second season earlier this year as well as a live-action film. NIS America's release will include My Memories, an art book featuring a look back at the first half of the series from Sawako's point of view. Viz Media publishes the original manga in North America.
Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera is the latest project from Gō Nagai's Dororon Enma-kun supernatural anime and manga franchise. In the series, Enma-kun, Yukiko Hime, and Kapaeru are members of a Demon Patrol who are sent to the human world to arrest demons. Kadokawa Shoten revealed plans for the new series last September, and it premiered this past April.
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StumbleUpon, founded in 2001, was one of the first sites to become wildly popular by helping people find amusing, weird, and useful things on the internet. Bored at work? Idle at home? By repeatedly clicking StumbleUpon’s simple "stumble" button, it’s possible to scan through hundreds of websites in one sitting, as its algorithm takes stabs at what you might like. Here’s a recipe for pasta pie. Here’s a video of a robot walking up some stairs. Here’s Anderson Cooper’s blog. It’s mindless, and it's brilliant.
According to StatCounter, StumbleUpon drove more traffic in 2009 than any other social media site in the US, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and Pinterest. But like other content discovery sites, StumbleUpon is having trouble turning diversion into a business — especially now that traffic has plummeted following a big redesign.
StumbleUpon has an interesting history. EBay swallowed up the company in 2007 when it was just a Firefox extension, albeit with 7.4 million users and some advertising revenue. But the auctionhouse couldn’t figure out what to do with its acquisition, so in 2009 cofounders Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith bought the site back with the help of investors for a reported $75 million. StumbleUpon ballooned from about 30 to 130 employees, about two-thirds of whom are developers. After spinning out, the company launched plug-ins for all the major browsers and started amassing traffic straight to StumbleUpon.com. It launched apps for iPhone and iPad, Android phones, and the Nook and Kindle e-readers.
In April, after three years as a "restartup," Camp proudly announced two milestones. StumbleUpon hit 25 million users, more than triple the number it had when it was owned by eBay. What’s more, those users were clicking the "stumble" button 1.2 billion times a month.
All seemed rosy. But behind the scenes, StumbleUpon's traffic was way down in the wake of its biggest redesign ever. StumbleUpon was always a big dumb firehose of traffic, which is why publishers loved it. But starting at the end of last year, StumbleUpon has been driving noticeably fewer hits — reminiscent of the fallout at rival aggregator Digg, where a big redesign drove users away.
In May, Camp stepped down as CEO. "After 10 years leading StumbleUpon, it’s time for a change," he wrote on the company blog. Camp, who also cofounded the car service Uber, now chairs StumbleUpon’s board. The company is still looking for a CEO. In the interim, three executives are making decisions as a committee.
StumbleUpon was always a big dumb firehose of traffic, which is why publishers loved it
StumbleUpon is about to be eclipsed by Pinterest as a source of web traffic
As part of a major overhaul in December, StumbleUpon tweaked its homepage to look more modern and "fresh," and tried to make the navigation more visual. At the same time, big changes were made to the algorithm that had the effect of distributing stumbles — pageviews originating from StumbleUpon — more widely across the web, so that users weren’t being sent to the same few sites over and over again. Around the same time, StumbleUpon started pushing its mobile apps, which now account for 25 percent of stumbles. Unfortunately, mobile users tend to spend less time on the site.
All this combined to significantly reduce StumbleUpon's footprint. Traffic to StumbleUpon.com dropped 25 percent from December to January, according to comScore, with no rebound yet. Traffic in June was down 24 percent compared to June of last year.
The traffic StumbleUpon sends to other sites is also down. According to StatCounter, StumbleUpon was the top social media site in the U.S. in early 2009, referring more traffic than any other social media site. But StumbleUpon’s traffic started falling rapidly even as its self-reported number of registered users grew. StumbleUpon’s referrals dipped below Facebook’s in the summer of 2009 and sank below YouTube’s in March of 2012. If the trends continue, StumbleUpon is about to be eclipsed by Pinterest as a source of web traffic.
For BuzzFeed, a competitor of StumbleUpon's, the number of organic referrals from StumbleUpon is down. A chart of BuzzFeed’s traffic shows a rapid rise after BuzzFeed came into existence, with referrals peaking in November of 2011. Then there is a precipitous drop from close to 11 million referrals in December, the month of the redesign, to 7.5 million in January. The StumbleUpon traffic is so bizarre-looking that Aswini Anburajan, author of BuzzFeed’s Social Intelligence Report, at first mistook StumbleUpon for a new site.
"StumbleUpon did experience a drop, but even with that drop, [it’s] a very significant referrer of traffic for us," Anburajan said in an email. Only Facebook and Twitter sent more traffic, with 60 million and 20 million monthly referrals respectively.
(Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Social Media Market Share)
Digg's infamous redesign flopped because users hated it. What happened at StumbleUpon was more subtle. Some small, isolated changes were not well received, and one user told The Verge that the new logo "looked like a snake cut in half." But that was the extent of the outcry. So what happened?
Change is good
Marc Leibowitz, VP of business development and marketing and one of the three executives calling the shots around StumbleUpon these days, acknowledged that traffic fell after the changes made in December. It’s a consequence of StumbleUpon’s efforts to improve the product, he said. "The amount of traffic that we drive around the web ultimately could continue to go down," he said. "In some ways we don’t actually worry about, ‘are we sending as much total stumble traffic?’ as we do, ‘are users spending a lot of time on the page?’"
Basically, StumbleUpon was trying to make its product better for users by tuning the algorithm and making sure the site looked good on mobile devices. But what's good for users doesn't necessarily please StumbleUpon's customers, which include mostly brands and publishers. StumbleUpon was in the habit of promising advertisers organic traffic in addition to paid traffic. Now the company has to explain that the traffic is smaller, but more targeted and therefore higher quality.
For many sites where traffic is a primary metric of success, that nuance can be hard to grasp. "We’ll continue to work with sites to help them better understand that," Leibowitz said. He bragged that StumbleUpon users are very engaged with the content, which is good for advertisers. "We really don’t hear from advertisers that we’re not giving them enough engaged users," Leibowitz said.
Instead, advertisers are asking for "more users," he said. Even as it ramps up its mobile offerings and tweaks the algorithm to keep stumblers sucked in for longer, StumbleUpon understands that it must increase traffic referrals in the U.S. and beyond. The company launched a U.K. version of the site a few weeks ago, with more countries planned for the coming months.
What's good for users doesn't necessarily please StumbleUpon's customers
How does StumbleUpon make money?
StumbleUpon is an "established company with a real business model," Leibowitz said. That business model consists of one product: Paid Discovery. Five percent of stumbles are reserved for advertisers, meaning users hit a sponsored page about every 20 stumbles. The sponsored pages are clearly but not obnoxiously marked with a green starburst and the word "Sponsored."
Advertisers pay StumbleUpon between $.05 and $.25 for the delivery of a visitor. Advertisers can filter by interest, location, and demographics; they can pay only for "engaged visitors," which StumbleUpon determines by a secret mix of clicks and time spent on the page. "We do use it and we love it," BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti told The Verge in an email. BuzzFeed, which is in a similar business of driving traffic to brands, uses StumbleUpon to boost traffic to its own sponsored posts. "When we notice a brand post that is doing well on StumbleUpon we often spend to add fuel to the fire."
BuzzFeed is the perfect StumbleUpon advertiser: Peretti and his team intuitively understand why paid discovery works. "There's lots more they could do to add to the product but it is pretty impressive how simple and powerful it is already," Peretti said. "It's advertising without ad units — pretty neat trick!"
StumbleUpon’s pitch is tough for other brands. Advertising with Paid Discovery is a bit more work than a search or banner ad. The entire page is the advertisement, meaning brands need to create a website that will appeal to someone who is in the middle of casually browsing the web.
Clicking through, The Verge saw a StumbleUpon house ad for every outside advertisement, suggesting a significant percentage of inventory remained unsold. In place of a sponsored stumble, we were encouraged to invite friends; 40 stumbles later, we were prompted to fill out our profile.
not the first to stumble
Why is it so tough for content discovery sites with loads of click-happy users to make money? Reddit spun out from parent company Conde Nast in September 2011 because the publisher couldn’t figure out how to monetize it. Tumblr recently relented on its anti-advertising stance after a series of creative money-making experiments failed. Digg’s fickle users abandoned it for Reddit, which is hugely popular but hasn’t proved itself yet as a sustainable going concern. Delicious was slowly squashed under Yahoo’s heel until it was sold to the two cofounders of YouTube. "I think the time [for Delicious] has passed, but maybe they'll do something cool with the name," founder Joshua Schachter told CNN in an interview at the time.
Even as content discovery sites seem to flounder, they remain hugely important to web publishers. Gawker publisher Nick Denton once nixed the so-called "share buttons," quick links on a post that encourage readers to share it. "These sites festooned with social media buttons—they look like primitive tribesmen clutching pathetically onto shiny baubles they believe to the symbols of modernity," he said at the time. The ban lasted one week. Gawker now prompts readers to share to five sites: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instapaper, and StumbleUpon.
Leibowitz says the site has 75,000 advertisers including Intuit, AOL, Arby’s, Paramount, Sony, and Heineken. "One of the things we say internally a lot of the time is, we worry about a lot of things but we don’t worry about the monetization side," he said.
(Image: Lawrence Yang via suckatlife.com)
StumbleUpon tells advertisers that if their content is good enough, they’ll garner free traffic on top of their paid traffic as StumbleUpon users are compelled to organically share the content. But it’s not easy to make something branded that will go viral on StumbleUpon. Consider that the only brand-centric page to organically break into the most popular stumbles in 2009 was the Pepsi Logo Response, a sketch by a web comic artist that made the new Pepsi logo into an obese soda drinker.
StumbleUpon recognizes that it needs to keep tweaking the service in order to retain current users and recruit new ones. Post-redesign, the product seems like it could use a little love. While browsing from the web, we hit two defunct pages; meaning that instead of serving up a funny or informative website, StumbleUpon took us to the placeholder page of text ads. The private message feature doesn't work. The site relies heavily on a survey users fill out when they register, coupled with behavior while using the service. In other words, it takes a lot of input to train StumbleUpon to give you good recommendations.
"I didn't really need yet another discovery method, on top of Reddit and Tumblr."
The experience is also somewhat isolating compared to other social media. "I didn't really need yet another discovery method, on top of Reddit and Tumblr," Nick Douglas, the editor of humor site Slacktory, said when asked if he uses StumbleUpon. "Both of those include decent discussion; they have an actual culture. [StumbleUpon] seemed like a toy I was using, alone."
BuzzFeed says stories that do well on StumbleUpon are the same ones that do well on Twitter and Facebook, an intimidating prospect as their popularity continues to soar. Digg’s relaunch at the hands of Betaworks also poses a potential threat. But really, StumbleUpon’s competitors include anything diversionary. StumbleUpon competes with the "random article" feature of Wikipedia. It competes with FarmVille. It competes with channel surfing. It competes with nice weather.
At ten years old, StumbleUpon could retire gracefully as one of web 2.0’s original gangsters. But Leibowitz and the other two top decision makers, CFO Mark Bartels and VP of engineering Japjit Tulsi, are doubling down on their bet that stumbling is still a desirable to way to peruse the web. "We know what our roadmap is," Leibowitz said. "We just need to execute on that."


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Embrace the dark side
By Lindsay Jones 18 August 2017 Share this story
Erin Ferguson’s handiwork nicely reflects the transformation of downtown Dartmouth.
Her Harbourside Designs’ hangings, ornaments and pocket mirrors celebrate Dartmouth as a hip, super-tight neighbourhood with a playful nod to the notion that it used to be a lesser place to live.
Ferguson makes the pieces, which sell at shops in downtown Dartmouth, from a hand-carved rubber stamp of the Tufts Cove smokestacks with cheeky remarks like “I would cross the bridge for you,” “Is my darkside showing?” and “Just a Dartmouth girl living in a Hali world.”
“It’s all in jest. When you live in Dartmouth you’ve got to develop a little bit of a thick skin because you’re referred to as the ‘dark side’ or you live in darkness,” says Ferguson, a mother of three from Crichton Park. “I think we all have the ability to laugh at that, especially because we’re seeing a lot of positive things happening in Dartmouth.”
Until recently, downtown Dartmouth didn’t have a great rep—there were few shops and restaurants, and no one was calling it a happening place to live or work. But the neighbourhood has evolved, a change Haligonians noticed when Two if By Sea café and bakery opened on Ochterloney Street in 2009. A community hub for coffee and croissants, and communal dinners by award-winning chef René Lavallé, downtown Dartmouth suddenly had something fresh and cool to offer. (It also sells Dartmouth-pride gear like T-shirts, toques, and mugs.)
Lavallé has expanded the business to larger digs and now offers brunch and dinner. Recently, some 10 new businesses opened in downtown Dartmouth. And a steady stream of young families and first-time homebuyers are choosing downtown Dartmouth over pricier peninsular Halifax.
The average price of homes sold in downtown Dartmouth so far this year is $246,000, whereas in Halifax, a home in the North End is $315,000 and the West End is just under $400,000. More space for their buck is a key attraction, with downtown Dartmouth homeowners paying $185 per square foot, versus $224 in North End Halifax and $238 in the West End in this quarter.
Claudia Chender, a self-described Dartmouth convert and NDP MLA for Dartmouth South, migrated from North End Halifax to Dahlia Street. After living there for a while with her husband and three kids, she decided it was poised to be the next Agricola Street. She and Biscuit General Store owner Wendy Friedman got in on the action, buying the old Fisher’s Stationary building on Portland Street which they rent to two small businesses: a yarn store and a yoga studio.
“There’s just a cool community of people here and there’s lots of young, interesting business owners who are really connected to the community and that’s totally inspiring for me,” says Chender.
Peter Burbridge and his wife Rozina Darvesh had a similar awakening. They needed a bigger home for their two young children and moved from West End Halifax over the bridge for a bigger, more affordable house. Now, the couple behind North Brewing Company also own a business in downtown Dartmouth: they co-own Battery Park Beer Bar & Eatery.
“We just fell in love with the neighbourhood around downtown Dartmouth,” Burbridge says. “I grew up in Halifax. I never really spent much time in Dartmouth, except for the occasional trip over to Mic Mac Mall or Burnside, so it’s kind of an eye opener. I would never move back to the peninsula because you have the best of everything within walking distance here.”
Longtime Dartmouth resident and realtor Mark Mullane says the Dartmouth migration is definitely a trend among young families and first-time homebuyers, with some even requesting it as a destination.
“I always used to call Dartmouth the new Brooklyn,” says Mullane, a father of one who lives on the edge of downtown Dartmouth. “It just makes sense to me that if Halifax is Manhattan, then Dartmouth is the cool other side of the water.”
“We were the underdogs for so long and there’s always somebody that wants to root for the underdog, and that just builds up more and more pride. People are just so proud. Everyone’s got Dartmouth posters on their wall. Everyone’s got something that says Dartmouth in their closet. It’s super cool to see.”
This story was originally published in Halifax Magazine.
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The primary reason for the lowered expectations was the problem of a shortage of passengers and cargo coupled with an overabundance of seats and space on its planes in its European and US business. That has led to a drop in prices on those routes, the airline said.
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In response, the airline will reduce its capacity in winter and step up a cost-cutting plan, which would allow it to double its operating profits in 2015, she said.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal wedding has only just been announced but already the souvenirs are in production.
British firm Emma Bridgewater revealed details of a commemorative mug celebrating the loved-up couple's engagement.
Within minutes of the impending nuptials being announced, the brand began making the handmade china in its Stoke-on-Trent factory to mark the occasion.
Priced at £19.95, the mug features a classic spongeware design applied by hand, with the words "Harry & Meghan are engaged" in pale blue surrounded by two red scrolls.
The other side of the piece displays the engagement announcement date "27th November 2017".
The mug is edged in small pale blue hearts and tiny red dots.
Designer Emma Bridgewater said: "We have been creating commemorative ware for nearly every royal occasion for the past 30 years.
"Britain has marked its national rites of passage in china for two centuries, mostly made in Stoke-on-Trent.
"We are proud to be part of that tradition and celebrate the most recent happy news."
The half-pint mug is available for pre-order at emmabridgewater.co.uk from December 8.


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VCAGuy writes "It appears that Intel has pantented a crystal-locking technology to lock processors to the processor's clock speed. The Inquirer has a story about it, and you can read the patent description from the USPTO. Let's hope AMD doesn't try to copy this..."
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SYDNEY-- KKR & Co. and Rhone Group LLC made a sweetened 3.38 billion Australian dollar (US$3.15 billion) takeover bid for Treasury Wine Estates Ltd., prompting the vintner to open up its books as it continues to grapple with poor U.S. sales and intense competition at home.
The U.S. private-equity firms jointly offered A$5.20 for each Treasury Wine share, 10.6% above an initial approach made by KKR in April of A$4.70 a share.
The Australian company, whose wines range from California's mass-market Beringer to premium local labels such as Penfolds, said it has granted KKR and Rhone the right to conduct due diligence on an nonexclusive basis. A KKR spokesman declined to comment on the size of Rhone's contribution to the bid, which is still being led by KKR.
"The price is getting more reasonable," said Jamie Nicol, Chief Investment Officer at Brisbane-based fund manager Dalton Nicol Reid, a small Treasury Wine shareholder. Mr. Nicol, however, said Treasury Wine should keep trying to canvass rival bids for either the entire company, or for its struggling U.S. business.
"Clearly there's still a return available for KKR at this price and ultimately they'll do the same thing: divest certain assets," Mr. Nicol said.
Shares in Treasury Wine rose as much as 4.6% in Sydney to A$5.18, just under the A$5.20 bid price, indicating many investors expect the latest bid will succeed. Still, Treasury Wine's decision not to grant exclusive due diligence suggests it remains hopeful that another bid could emerge. "They're still leaving the door open," said Ashkay Chopra, an investment analyst at Melbourne-based fund manager Karara Capital.
Treasury Wine's vulnerability to a takeover heightened in July last year, when lackluster sales of cheaper brands such as Beringer forced it to destroy thousands of gallons of wine that had passed its drink-by date and book a related A$155 million write-down. U.S. consumers have been developing a taste for more expensive wines, while the Australian dollar's strength has made the country's products less attractive compared with wines from rival regions such as South America.
In Australia, meanwhile, an attempt by Treasury Wine to raise prices before the Christmas holiday season backfired by scaring consumers away. Wine imports to Australia have also jumped in recent years, particularly from New Zealand, which produces white varietals such as Sauvignon Blanc that have steadily gained a reputation for quality and value.
In light of these challenges, Treasury Wine's board will need to assess whether the fresh takeover bid offers more value than the turnaround strategy proposed by the company's new Chief Executive Michael Clarke.
Mr. Clarke, who once steered Kraft Food Group Inc.'s European business and has held senior positions at Coca-Cola Co., joined Treasury Wine on March 31. His strategy involves focusing on Treasury Wine's most profitable brands and cutting costs: the company plans to shed 5% of its workforce, or around 175 jobs.
KKR in June came under pressure to raise its bid for Treasury Wine after Mr. Clarke doused some analysts' fears of yet another profit downgrade, saying that heavy promotional activity this year had boosted sales of some recently-released Penfolds labels.
If KKR succeeds, it will reverse a trend of failed Australian deals in recent years for the New York firm that included rejected bids for a fund manager and an underwear manufacturer. Private-equity firms including KKR, Blackstone Group L.P. and TPG Inc. are flush with cash after taking advantage of buoyant share markets to sell earlier investments worth hundreds of billions of dollars combined.
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blinkx launches TV API
February 2, 2011
blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, has confirmed the launch of a TV API (Application Programming Interface). The API is designed to provide partners in the fast-growing Connected TV ecosystem – from box makers and TV manufacturers, to app developers and game consoles – access to blinkx’s index of over 35 million hours of online video.
The TV API draws from the wealth of video content across the entire web – but automatically filters results based on the capabilities of the user’s device – such as the video formats it supports – so that the user is always offered compatible clips.


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Government subsidies and regulations are usually a mess. Each rule or payment might have its own laudable goal in a vacuum. But in many industries, aided by politics and corporate lobbying, the laws pile up on each other, twisting markets until economic logic seemingly doesn’t apply.
I was confused this week when I read that the White House announced plans to remove limits on selling gas containing 15 percent ethanol (E15). The government currently bans sales of E15 in summer months because of air pollution concerns; the move this week is to lift that ban and make E15 available year-round.
Has something changed since the mid-2000s, when the government notoriously mandated that all gasoline must contain at least 10 percent ethanol? Why would sellers who must be forced by law to keep ethanol content above 10 percent be itching to go up to 15 percent?
To understand what’s going on, we have to enter the regulatory black hole, where multiple rules collide and tear the very fabric of markets apart. Join me, if you’re brave enough.
From Farm to Fuel Tank
We have to start with corn, the key ingredient in ethanol. In addition to being a dietary staple and key feed crop for livestock, corn is the most heavily subsidized crop in the United States. Last year, the government handed over $5.2 billion in payments to corn growers, including subsidized crop insurance and payments to farmers if the national average price falls below a certain level.
While one hears lofty rhetoric about protecting small famers (though most payments go to agribusiness) and protecting the nation’s food supply, most observers see farm subsidies as pure political gamesmanship. Congresspersons in farm states, which are often also Midwestern swing states, fight hard for subsidies to keep their electorates happy. The result is that corn sells below its unregulated market price. The margin is likely significant, though estimating an exact amount is difficult.
If government subsidies artificially increase the supply of corn, government regulations on ethanol artificially increase its demand. As chart 1 shows, 38 percent of American-grown corn will go to ethanol this year, up from 6 percent in 2000.
Chart 1 – Ethanol versus other uses for U.S. corn (2000–2018)
Ethanol-based fuel has been around almost as long as automobiles. In small amounts (well under 10 percent), it is an effective additive to make gasoline burn more efficiently. But as the concentration increases toward 10 percent, it becomes more environmentally harmful, by many measures, than petroleum-based gas.
Ethanol is almost entirely responsible for the increase in the U.S. corn crop over the last two decades. The big changes were laws in 2005 and 2007, among other regulations, that created the rule that all gasoline sold must contain at least 10 percent ethanol. The spike in demand created by those laws is easily visible. The catchphrase “breaking our addiction to foreign oil” was in full bloom around the time of those laws, but the real motivation goes right back to those corn growers in swing states.
To take stock, we have subsidies that increase the supply of corn and regulations that increase its demand for use as ethanol. But where does a rule change about what season you can sell E15 fit in to all of this?
Escaping the Maize
My first guess about the easing of E15 regulations was that the price of ethanol has dipped relative to traditional gasoline, and instead of worrying that there isn’t enough ethanol in our tanks, we’re now worried there’s too much. Chart 2 shows that I was wrong.
Chart 2 – U.S. average gasoline and ethanol (E85) prices per gallon (2000–2018)
For the moment, focus on the red and green lines. Since about 2005, E85 (85 percent ethanol) has consistently tracked the price of regular gasoline but sold at a discount. This discount does not appear to have grown larger in recent years, rejecting my simple price hypothesis.
Another story emerged when I considered the blue line tracking the price of E85 not in terms of its (liquid) volume but in terms of its energy. It turns out a gallon of E85 only gets you about two-thirds as many miles as a gallon of regular gas. When we make the comparison mile-for-mile, the ethanol discount becomes an ethanol premium.
If petroleum-based gas and ethanol had the same energy content, there would be a single optimal mix based on the relative prices of the two. But what the government’s maze of regulations is really stifling is competition, product differentiation, and consumer choice. There may be room in the market for fuel with ethanol content below 10 percent and above 15 percent.
Without the dueling E10 and E15 rules, sellers could offer a range of products to consumers with different mixes of fuels. Well-informed consumers could pay less for fuel with lower mileage per gallon and more for higher mileage; expected usage on the highway versus the city would likely impact that calculus. Sellers could furthermore alter mixtures as the relative prices of the two fuels changed. And without that first layer of corn subsidies, we could find a more optimal mix of uses for our scarce land and other resources.
Here in Great Barrington, I base my gas station decisions primarily on the availability of iced coffee and Monster energy drinks. That’s because at the pump, our web of government subsidies and rules force sellers to provide nearly identical products. That needn’t be the case: in our ordinary, market-based universe, there would be more competition and consumer choice. But once industries are sucked into the regulatory black hole, it’s hard to escape.


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A RIVERFRONT home in Annandale has recorded the biggest sale in the suburb in nearly a year.
4 Elderslie St (pictured) sold last week for $705,000 after the property was listed for sale asking for offers over $700,000.
It’s the most expensive home sold in Annandale since May last year when 15 Nowranie Court in Annandale sold for $775,000.
Elite Properties Townsville principal Glenda Worrall, who sold 4 Elderslie St, said the buyers were won over by the home’s location.
“The people who bought it already lived in Annandale and they were going to renovate their house when they saw this property in the paper and came to the open house,” she said.
“They fell in love with the location because it has river views.
“The living area, family room, kitchen and master bedroom all look out to the amazing views.”
The home has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, two car spaces and an in-ground swimming pool.
There is parkland between the home and the river offering privacy.
The home also has luxury features including a spa bath in the ensuite.


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Toyota customers can order a host of products, including car care essentials, engine oil, tyre and battery, at home through the new 'Door Delivery' option.
Updated : June 16, 2021, 7:27 pm
Toyota Kirloskar Motor's manufacturing unit in Bidadi, near Bengaluru, is spread across 432 acres of land and boasts of a couple of plants.
Updated : June 15, 2021, 3:06 pm
Hyundai i20 price in India ranges from Rs 6.85 lakh to Rs 11.34 lakh (ex-showroom).
Updated : June 15, 2021, 2:14 pm
Maruti Suzuki Baleno, Hyundai i20, Tata Altroz, Volkswagen Polo and Toyota Glanza were the top five selling premium hatchbacks in May 2021.
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The new Volkswagen Polo Comfortline 1.0 TSI AT gets an exclusive 7-inch Blaupunkt touchscreen music system with Bluetooth connectivity.
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The automaker currently sells models like Toyota Fortuner, Toyota Innova Crysta, Toyota Glanza, Toyota Urban Cruiser, Toyota Yaris, Toyota Camry and Toyota Vellfire.
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Mahindra & Mahindra currently sells utility vehicles like the Bolero, XUV300, Scorpio, Thar, XUV500, Marazzo, Alturas G4 and KUV100 NXT, in India.
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We spotted the Maruti Suzuki Wagon R EV fully clad a few days back. Now there is a new visual of the same car unclad. We give you all the available details.
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Hero MotoCorp commenced single shift production at three of its plants in Gurugram, Dharuhera in Haryana and Haridwar in the northern hill state of Uttarakhand on May 17.
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Toyota Kirloskar Motor's product portfolio includes Fortuner, Innova Crysta, Glanza, Urban Cruiser, Yaris, Camry and Vellfire.
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The Maruti Suzuki Baleno, Tata Altroz, Hyundai i20, Toyota Glanza and Volkswagen Polo were the five best-selling premium hatchbacks in April 2021.
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Toyota Kirloskar Motor's product portfolio currently includes Innova Crysta, Fortuner, Fortuner Legender, Glanza, Urban Cruiser, Yaris, Camry and Vellfire.
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The Treo Zor has become India's largest-selling electric cargo in merely six months, claimed Mahindra & Mahindra.
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The prices of the new Toyota Fortuner have shot up by Rs 36,000, while the Toyota Fortuner Legender has received a price hike of Rs 72,000.
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The Maruti Suzuki Baleno, Hyundai i20, Tata Altroz, Toyota Glanza and Volkswagen Polo were the top five best-selling premium hatchbacks in March 2021.
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Contactless technology is going mainstream, and it’s not just about placing an order online, but also about paying with a smartphone, smartwatch or smartcard via an app or touchless device.
New payment technologies have been slowly gaining momentum within the global restaurant industry, but this trend has accelerated with the pandemic. It’s estimated that contactless payments will triple from $2 trillion to $6 trillion worldwide by 2024, and having such options are reportedly extremely important for 34% of customers.
With no cash hand, no human contact is required – more hygienic and safer – and it’s quick, instant and convenient. From a cash flow point of view, it’s also more efficient. If restaurants don’t want to be left behind in the coming year, those who haven’t yet done so better invest and plan for a mobile and digital payment strategy.


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Forbes' most overpaid actors of 2013
Here's a look at Kim Basinger through the years
The 2014 Grammy nominations are announced.
Rain didn't keep a crowd from showing up at the annual National Christmas Tree lighting across from the White House.
See who has been nominated for the music industry's biggest awards.
Stars were out to help light the traditional Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The nation's first full face transplant patients are doing well two years after their surgeries.
A model turn actress turned host, Tyra Banks is a force to be reconed with. She turns 40 on December 4, 2013. Here's a look back at her career.
Photos: Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating People of 2013
Every year, Facebook profiles start filling up with friends' ideas for their elves that keep track of the kids for Santa. But coming up with 24 or more ideas for the elf to be posed in can get a little daunting. Here are a few ideas.
Monarch butterflies have migrated to the eucalyptus grove of Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz this fall with numbers officials haven't seen in years.
The Seattle Seahawks host the pesky Saints in a Monday night showdown at Century Link Field. Which team's all-pro player will lead their team to victory?
Tech brands dominate an annual marketing industry report on the top 100 global brands.
Photos: Britney Spears through the years
Here are a few suggestions for the athlete on your holiday gift list.
Here are a few suggestions that men may want this holiday.
"Fast & Furious" actor Paul Walker passed away in a car crash in southern California on Nov. 30, 2013.
Celebrities post Thanksgiving pics to Instagram


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New Delhi: There has been a 60 percent increase in the number of cosmetic surgeries by the youth across the country in the last one month ahead of the Valentine’s Day on February 14, doctors said on Friday.
They said the surge is mostly due to the youth’s propensity for easy ways out to look better and also the availability of cosmetic surgeries at a reasonable price.
“The sudden increase of cosmetic surgeries by the youth especially during the Valentine Day’s month is a surprise .Women in their early twenties are looking for breast implants (with permission from their parents).
“Having a good cleavage is the most common aesthetic end point today for the young women,” said Mohan Thomas, senior cosmetic surgeon at Cosmetic Surgery Institute and Breach Candy Hospital.
According to the doctors, the need for cosmetic results have arisen because of the fast results sought by the young, who otherwise are reluctant to adopt health lifestyle that can fulfil their wish naturally.
“There are requests for breast augmentation, liposuction and sometimes both. We need to cater to these requests. The trend currently is photo rejuvenation, where in just one sitting of 15-20 minutes you can find yourself glowing like never before,” said Vinod Vij, cosmetic surgeon at Clinique Asthetica and Fortis hospital.
Currently, the cosmetic surgeries relating to skin and several other minor procedures cost around Rs.8,000-9,000 only.
” The demand for cosmetic surgeries increases around the Valentine’s Day, especially due to discounts of up to 15-20 percent on offer. The trend is seen not just in women, but men too are equally feeling the need to look better,” said Aamod Rao, another cosmetic surgeon.
According to Rao, six-pack abs among men and Botox injections among women are commonly requested procedures.
“Women go for injectable treatments because of lack of time. Injectables like Botox and Juvederm have become popular among women. These fillers are just injected into the area that needs uplift or treat wrinkles, which show better and fast results,” said Rao, who is working with Get Enhanced Clinic.


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Auto racing is not an Olympic sport, but then again, neither are any esports. However, a “roadmap” produced by an IOC panel in February of recommendations for the next several years included sections on growing digital engagement and on encouraging the development of virtual sports. It appears the IOC is intent on doing just that, but it will start with something of a toe-dip into the virtual waters.
“The Olympic Virtual Series is a new, unique Olympic digital experience that aims to grow direct engagement with new audiences in the field of virtual sports,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in a statement. “It encourages sports participation and promotes the Olympic values, with a special focus on youth.”
According to the IOC, each OVS event is being run via coordination between a given sport’s IOC-recognized international federation and a corresponding gaming publisher. In the case of auto racing, contestants will play Gran Turismo, as agreed upon by manufacturer and Sony subsidiary Polyphony Digital and the International Automobile Federation (FIA).
The World Baseball Softball Confederation and Konami Digital Entertainment are teaming up to offer eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020, and the International Cycling Union (UCI) is working with Zwift Inc. to use its popular program, Zwift.
World Sailing has already developed a partnership with Virtual Regatta SAS for the latter’s Virtual Regatta simulator. For the World Rowing Federation’s entry, the IOC’s initial announcement listed, “Open format.”
The announcement did not say whether winners will receive any form of Olympic medals. The Washington Post has learned there will be prizes of some sort awarded for the OVS events. Organizers promise that many more details will be announced in the days ahead.
“The OVS is an exciting step forward for the virtual sports world and the Olympic Movement,” IOC official David Lappartient said in a statement.
The head of the organization’s Gaming Liaison Group (ELG), Lappartient informed international federations in October (per Inside the Games) that the IOC would not be recognizing any of the groups that have been created with the intention of serving as esports governing bodies. The IOC suggested in its announcement that it might be looking to establish its recognized international federations as esports governing bodies.
The OVS “supports the [federations] in further establishing virtual and simulated forms of sports as a discipline within their regulations and strategies,” the IOC stated.
Other sports federations that have expressed an interest in future OVS installments, per the IOC, include FIFA, as well as bodies that oversee basketball, tennis and taekwondo.
Helping produce and market the OVS will be DreamHack Sports Games, a Denmark-based company that runs sports simulation games. Previous DreamHack partners on virtual offerings include the NHL and golf’s European Tour.
IOC officials have been mulling the inclusion of video games at least as far back as 2017. In the meantime, real-life sports added in recent years with an eye toward attracting a younger audience include skateboarding, surfing and, debuting in 2024′s Paris Games, break dancing.
This year’s Summer Games, which will take place from July 23 to Aug. 8, are still officially called Tokyo 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic caused their postponement last year. The OVS is scheduled to unfold from May 13 to June 23.


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Drugstore operator Walgreen 1st-quarter profit falls 4.5 percent with slow start to flu season
NEW YORK (AP) ' Drugstore operator Walgreen Co. says its fiscal first quarter profit fell more than 4 percent due in part to a slow flu season and its decision to leave the Express Scripts Inc. pharmacy network next month..
The nation's largest drugstore chain says profit fell to $554 million, or 63 cents per share, from $580 million, or 62 cents per share, a year ago, when it had more shares outstanding. Revenue grew 4.7 percent to $18.16 billion.
Analysts forecast a profit of 67 cents per share and $18.24 billion in revenue.
The company reported no progress in negotiations with the pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts. Walgreen stands to lose billions of dollars in annual sales if it stops doing business with the company on Jan. 1.


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HTC's latest phone has improved processors, increased memory, and a selfie-specific camera
People are waiting for weeks outside Apple's flagship store for the iPhone 6
Sophisticated eel farms are the latest addition to the Internet of Things
Pepper will reach the US next year after a debut in Japan in February.
Reddit launches first official app devoted to the popular interview community Ask Me Anything (AMA)
President Rouhani is fighting religious conservatives to expand internet access and stop social media censorship.
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) and several other technology firms have long been on the lookout for great talent in science and engineering. There have been stories of some employees moving from one tech company to another. however, has there been some poaching going on? Or have some of these tech companies – like Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG) – colluded to not poach each other’s workers?
According to a ruling sent out early Friday morning in California, there could be – but a class-action suit can’t go froward … at least not yet. Judge Lucy Koh – yep, the one who presided over the Apple v. Samsung patent infringement case last summer that produced a $1 billion damage award to Apple – ruled that class-action status for a number of former tech employees cannot go forward without demonstrated harm against them due to anti-poaching agreements reached between several tech companies.
Not only are Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) implicated in the anti-poaching deals, but supposedly are Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU), Lucasfilm and Pixar. There has been mounting evidence, Koh said in her decision, that support the notion that the seven companies in questions had reached secret collusive agreements not to hire away each other’s employees, but unless and until some actual harm could be demonstrated by the group of former employees, Koh could not grant class-action status to the case. At this point, this means that each of the employees would have to enter their individual cases for judgment against the individual companies for which they worked.
Because the tech industry is articular sensitive about trade secrets and patented property, it seems sensible that the companies would discourage this type of hiring – and certainly would discourage rival companies like Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) from hiring employees away in the hopes of learning insider secrets and patents. So what is the big deal here?


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retailer shelves padded bikini bras for kids
Page tabloids reported that the company sold for 7-year-olds.
Bikini has angered children\'s advocates and candidates in Britain\'s upcoming elections, saying it is another product that makes children sexy and encourages them to grow too fast.
\"It\'s a shame that it was put on the shelves in the first place,\" says Justin Roberts, founder of Mumsnet, a parenting site that attracts a large number of outspoken viewers.
Still, she praised the decision to remove it from the shelves.
Primark, a popular discount chain, is not the first retailer to be criticized for providing padded bras for kids under 10,, more and more companies are committed to supporting Mumsnet\'s \"make girls a girl\" campaign.
The Hottest Online Forum says the dress tells girls that sex is the most important quality, and it \"encourages a culture in which children are seen as sex available.
Primark announced the immediate withdrawal of the product and promised to donate any profits obtained from the product to the children\'s charity.
The company added that the product line is \"relatively small in quantity.
\"Retailers took action within hours of the front line.
An article in The Sun condemned the product as \"paedo bikini \".
Politicians quickly joined the call.
\"It\'s totally shameful,\" Conservative leader David Cameron said of the bikini . \"
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Angry at the early commercialism and sexuality of our children, but companies should stop doing so and they should take some responsibility.
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Researchers such as Penny Nichols of the Children\'s Association, a charity that works to protect children in the UK, believe that their research shows that the commercial pressure of premature sexualization and unprincipled advertising is harming children\'s health. being.
Primark is owned by United UK food, with 138 stores in the UK, 38 Penneys stores in Ireland, and stores in Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.


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What banks accept bitcoin
A bitcoin ATM is an internet machine that allows a person to exchange bitcoins and cash. Some Bitcoin ATMs offer bi-directional functionality enabling both the purchase of Bitcoin as well as the redemption of Bitcoin for cash. In some cases, Bitcoin ATM providers require users to have an existing account to transact on the Oct 26, 2017 Bitcoins (BTC on tickers) can be exchanged for other currencies, products, or services. Many merchant and vendors accept bitcoin as payment. As Bitcoin increases in popularity, bitcoin ATMs and exchanges are popping up across the United States. These businesses allow individuals to convert bitcoin into Sep 7, 2016 What is bitcoin? Bitcoin is a virtual currency. In comparison with traditional currencies, bitcoin is not controlled by any central authority (e.g., a central bank). New bitcoins are generated by a decentralized process called mining. It involves the processing of bitcoin transactions by using specialized hardware.
Jul 17, 2015 Ayyash started accepting Bitcoin in early June to offer his customers more payment options as well as to “make customers happy.” “If people ask for a new way to spend their money, we'll be more than willing to attract them,” he said. The Bitcoin, launched in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto, is worth nearly $300 Sep 26, 2017 Among other things, he said that NBU will not accept Bitcoin as a fully-fledged currency and unlike Japan, cryptocurrency payments will not be accepted in Ukraine. Regional editorial office of FinClub has accessed information in which clerk of the central bank has issued following statement: We can fully Jan 9, 2014 For Byrne, a rather opinionated libertarian who's unafraid to take his company places others fear to tread, embracing the cryptocurrency is as much a political statement as a business decision. Like so many others, he believes bitcoin can free the world from the control of big banks and big government.
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Jul 6, 2017 Bitcoin has also benefited from a growing acceptance of the currency by countries, industries, and businesses. Japan declared the cryptocurrency legal tender earlier this year, while some retailers within the marijuana industry have been using bitcoin as a bridge currency between bank-issued debit and Jun 3, 2013 If there is a clear and present danger to the status quo banking system, it exists in the form of digital crypto-currencies like Bitcoin. bitcoin-logo. Unlike today's national Apple is not yet keen to accept Bitcoin wallets in its App Store because of the still unclear legal boundaries. That leaves iPhone users to arm miner bitcoin pro apk Ukrainian Shipping Company to Accept Bitcoin? – B2L-CargoCare buy bitcoin asic Central banks hop on the virtual currencies bandwagon - Tech in Asia bitcoin cash price forum Beepi Becomes First Peer-to-Peer Marketplace to Accept Bitcoin Sep 1, 2015 Barclays, one of the the UK's largest banks, will begin to accept Bitcoin later this year. Unless another high street bank rushes to accept Bitcoin, Barclays is set to become the first major bank in the UK, US, and Europe to accept Bitcoin. At the time of publishing, one bitcoin (BTC) is worth about £150 or €204.
Sep 11, 2017 Governments are uncertain about Bitcoin as a currency, but Central Banks have made it clear that bloc. Now investors need to understand that even if Bitcoin is pushed to the side, blockchain isn't going away because Central Banks love it. Therefore, you will want Does The Government Accept Bitcoin?Aug 30, 2017 We have the longest list of exchange companies that accept payments by bank accounts. You may buy with bank transfers, wire transfers, and debit cards. Here is how you buy bitcoin with a bank account. bitcoin and litecoin price Bitcoin's jump to $1,100 in 2013 pushed merchants like Microsoft, NewEgg, TigerDirect, and Dell to accept Bitcoin payments online. . And those are very important, our investors, because it helps keep credibility in working with large corporations like Microsoft and large banking partnerships that we need to create all bitcoin argentina Australian banks oppose bitcoin exchanges - SC Magazine UK bitcoin solar power May 10, 2016 In a world first, the Swiss town of Zug in central Switzerland will begin accepting the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as payment for government services . The programme is designed to be decentralised, allowing transactions to take place between users without the need for third parties such as banks, or a central BE FORWARD accepts payments by Bank Wire Transfer and Bitcoin.
Jan 5, 2015 For me you can see I've added four different bank accounts that I accept Bitcoin deposits to. The bulk of my deposits I've had came through Chase because I've had that account there the longest and Chase is the largest bank in the USA so it has branches everywhere. I just put my regions account up and I Jan 11, 2016 I am personally aware that all major Canadian exchanges have had at least one account closed down by the banks. One of the accounts that was shut down had almost never been used: there was only one transfer from another Bitcoin company. It's not like we were accepting 3rd party cash deposits or bitcoin 2017 crash Aug 30, 2017 Bitcoin -- the largest and best-known digital currency -- and its peers pose a threat to the established money system by effectively circumventing it. Money as we know it depends on the authority of the state for credibility, with central banks typically managing its price and/or quantity. Cryptocurrencies skirt all 800 bitcoin May 2, 2013 Does that mean that instant payments are impossible with bitcoins? Certainly not, there are several schemes that let you accept instant payments without using instant transfers, the same way that when you pay with a debit or credit card, the merchant does not receive the money immediately on its bank how to buy 1 bitcoin Dec 9, 2017 Bitcoin is a new kind of money; Cryptocurrency Bitcoin is the first decentralized digital currency; A sign reading We accept Bitcoins is displayed in a Parisian retail store window in December; Everything you need to know about Bitcoin; Bitcoin prices recently hit a new all-time high, with one unit of the; Like all Jun 29, 2015 With bank doors slammed shut, frantic Greeks are turning to online trading platforms to see if the digital money Bitcoin is a better bet than the euro. The world's According to one publicly maintained registry, BitcoinMaps, there are only half a dozen spots in Athens that accept Bitcoin as payment. Among
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Dec 24, 2017 Before you're ready to ride the bitcoin rollercoaster, you'll need to establish an account with one of the major exchanges (like Coinbase or CEX), connect a bank account or credit card and transfer money over. That process, which we break down below, should take roughly 10 minutes or so. Unless, of 5 Reasons To Accept Bitcoin Today - Moblized bitcoin china chart Bitcoin surge leads to expansion for Sherwood Park business owner bitcoin investing guide Dec 9, 2017 Here's a primer that might help demystify the new phenomenon of bitcoin for you investor types. jp morgan and bitcoin The Rise of Bitcoin: Should You Accept It? - TorqueMany virtual and physical stores are now accepting Bitcoins and more pop up every day. You can save it in your Bitcoin wallet for safe keeping or a rainy day. Bitcoin is great for saving because there are no banks involved. You are you own bank, banker and customer. However, there is a third option, you can deposit it.
Jan 7, 2018 Coinbase will no longer be accepting deposits from Nationwide bank. The move comes due to the bank's SEPA processing being handled by German bank Commerzbank, who has a new companywide policy of not dealing with money related to Bitcoin.Mar 14, 2016 ities; that is, whether banks issue bank notes or take callable deposits. I assume that they do so under the Bitcoin standard, and that, as was the case under the gold standard, these callable liabilities are not fully backed. These callable liabilities of banks are the third media of exchange I assume exist under exchange skrill to bitcoin Jun 2, 2017 If you sell in Bitcoin then you can be 100% certain that your bank isn't going to claw back payments if the purchase was made using a stolen card, which is what happens to online retailers who accept 'cardholder not present' credit card payments. I find the whole concept extremely interesting, not just precio del bitcoin tiempo real Jan 8, 2017 For now, Bitcoin transactions and investments remain untaxed, and the currency is safer to keep compared to cash or funds in bank accounts. But the real kicker is lower transaction costs. Right now, over 100,000 merchants in Nigeria accept Bitcoin payments for products and services. Despite this positive bitcoin btc reddit Peering into the future: why we now accept Bitcoin - GuerillascopeTech Minute: Should Small Businesses Accept Bitcoin?
Barclays broke new ground this week by becoming the first bank to accept bitcoin. But don't get too excited, the UK bank is only taking baby steps. Under a pi.6 reasons to accept bitcoin as a means of payment. Bitcoin increases publicity of your shop and therefore helps to boost sales. The integration is simple, quick and free. No currency exchange necessary – your customers simply pay with their smart-phone. You don't need to bring cash to your bank because your bitcoins. bitcoin cash trend Jul 17, 2014 Starting today, PayFast sellers can start accepting Bitcoin payments from local and international buyers. this different from most Bitcoin platforms/transactions, is that while buyers will make a Bitcoin payment, sellers will receive South African rand in their PayFast accounts (and then, bank accounts). how to deposit bitcoins Aug 18, 2016 With bank's inefficient services and remittance outlet's expensive fees, Filipino workers began to search for other alternative payment networks to send money across the country. As this interest widely spread throughout the country, Bitcoin became extremely popular amongst workers, employees, and cool things to buy with bitcoin When making payments via bank, it can take a couple of days, especially if you're doing so on a weekend, as banks in most countries remain shut on weekends. The payments are quick and can be instantly liquidated by selling it off to a Bitcoin exchange. No Risk of Fraud Another characteristic feature of cryptocurrencies, OpenIP accept BitCoin as Payment Method
May 28, 2017 With many companies accepting the change and others getting ready to, bitcoins are an extremely fast-spreading currency. Here is a list of the biggest (and some smaller) names who accepts bitcoins as a currencySingapore's first merchant to accept bitcoin: Artistry - CIO-Asia how bitcoin will change the world Jul 26, 2017 CVS, -4.37% are among U.S. enterprises accepting bitcoin. Returns. Unlike reserve currencies, bitcoin does not have an interest rate that is set by a central bank so it is difficult to quantify its returns. It also does not offer much in the way of diversification given its lack of correlation to other major currencies, 10000 dollar bitcoin Comments on One bitcoin is worth twice as much as an ounce of ben bernanke bitcoin Dec 14, 2017 BY NOW we all know about Bitcoin and its very good year. It has gone up around 2000 per cent and at the time of writing a single Bitcoin was trading for more than $US17,000 ($22500).Davis Polk discusses The Failure of Mt. Gox and Other Recent
Jul 3, 2017 Have you noticed that more and more online businesses seem to state that they will accept Bitcoin as payment? This is cryptocurrency in actionMar 9, 2015 Bitcoin also creates a decentralized transaction ledger. While Ripple enables banks to engage in peer-to-peer payments, in principle Bitcoin allows anyone to engage in their own cross-border banking by transferring funds to a seller that accepts Bitcoin. This functionality is important because most how do you mine bitcoin cash Apr 21, 2017 DEPOSIT Fund your wallet with bitcoin, your bank account, or use cash by visiting an Abra Teller in your area. SEND Use the Abra app to send or receive money worldwide with no sending fees. Buy things online wherever Abra or bitcoin is accepted. WITHDRAW Use the app to transfer funds to your bank bitcoin video crash course Colocation Data Center to Accept Bitcoin - The Data Center Journal bitcoin acceptance by country Central Banks Looking 'Very Intensively' Into Bitcoin: Swiss Banking Bitcoin Investment Trust - SEC.gov
Bitcoin is a new kind of payment network and currency, using peer-to-peer technology and operating with no central authority or bank. Transaction management and issuing of bitcoins is done collectively by the network, which is open-source, public, and owned by nodiv. Anyone can take part in bitcoin, and use it in ways Are You Ready To Accept Bitcoin? | MarketPowerPRO avatrade bitcoin Jan 23, 2018 For a regular Bitcoin transaction, a fee of tens of U.S. dollars is common, making Bitcoin transactions about as expensive as bank wires. Because of this, we've seen the desire from our customers to accept Bitcoin decrease. And of the businesses that are accepting Bitcoin on Stripe, we've seen their bitcoin cash lite wallet SpectroCoin offers bitcoin exchange, bitcoin wallet, bitcoin debit card, and bitcoin payment processing services. Buy and sell bitcoins through SEPA, international and local bank transfers, or credit and debit cards. double your bitcoin in 24 hours Get Paid in Bitcoin with no Risk. It's the easiest payment flow you've ever experienced. With a single click of the mouse or QR scan from your smartphone, you'll receive quick, simple BTC payments with next-day business day bank transfers. Show demo payment: Nov 6, 2017 Crypto-currencies may be one of the most intriguing subjects in the world of finance right now but they have failed to impress India's central bank. In a fairly definitive expression of its stance, a director of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has signalled that virtual currencies like bitcoin won't be allowed in the
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Jul 23, 2016 You can use this financial service to transfer your bitcoins for free. If you want to sell your digital currency, you will need to pay the service fee depending on what payout method you chose: 1%-2% for a U.S. bank account, 1% for a Coinbase USD wallet, and 3.75% for PayPal. BitBargain. As for this service, For example, bitcoin prices plummeted following the Mt. Gox incident—and earlier when the Chinese central bank banned banks from accepting bitcoins. Other factors that affect digital currency prices include supply and demand, rumors and even where bitcoins are traded (since prices are far from uniform from one bitcoin p2p bitcoin exchange May 3, 2013 - 9 minTalking about privacycould the tax evaders and money launderers use bitcoins transactions bitcoin core review Jul 12, 2017 Wealthy clients of Swiss private bank Falcon will be able to store and trade bitcoins via their cash holdings with the bank from Wednesday, a move that signals the traction the virtual currency is gaining even in slow-changing asset management. bitcoin 2000 Dec 13, 2017 More than eight years since the birth of bitcoin, central banks around the world are increasingly recognising the potential upsides and downsides of digital currencies.Dec 6, 2017 You can now buy and hold cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin in your Revolut app, following an announcement from the UK challenger bank.
Jan 12, 2018 But in order to accept cryptocurrency-derived deposits, banks said they would require extensive audit trails and proof of identification that many bitcoin investors do not possess. Many early adopters do not have extensive proof of purchase and sale and the digital ledger means identifying users is difficult.Aug 18, 2014 Bitcoin processor: A company that accepts bitcoins and processes the transaction, usually saving the bitcoins to your wallet or converting them and transferring them to your bank account. Blockchain: A chronological ledger of transactions that is shared on a distributed digital network. The network can be hashcash bitcoin The State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) has indicated that it will start accepting Bitcoin and Ethereum as collateral for loans. This new move is a result of the Bank's collaboration with FinTech Company SALT. SALT stands for Secured Automated Lending Technology – they have developed a lending platform which allows people buy watches with bitcoin Apr 25, 2017 As these FinTech companies gain more transactions and more control, they will begin to act more like banks charging ever increasing fees. I expect the cost to send money over Bitcoin to hit $30 in the next few years. Add to this the fact that Bitcoin is highly volatile and not accepted by the vast majority of how to understand bitcoin What The World's Biggest Banks Are Learning from Bitcoin | BillProLeading free software friendly computer vendor ThinkPenguin announced today that they will begin accepting the cryptographic currency Bitcoin as a payment option. Bitoin is a new online currency catching on worldwide for its simplicity and decentralized nature. With Bitcoins there are no banks or intermediaries required
May 22, 2017 So, the combination of online banking, fintech services and open APIs point to a blurring of boundaries between traditional and alternative finance. New banking institutions such as Skandiabanken, are taking steps towards accepting bitcoin and its altcoins as credible assets. Should this trend continue, Falcon Private Bank has become the first Swiss bank to offer customers bitcoin and crypto asset management services… by talkatives. how to turn a bitcoin into cash Nov 25, 2014 An overview of what Bitcoin is and how to accept Bitcoin as payment. Costs less to use. Without the overhead of a bank, there are little to no processing fees with Bitcoin. Merchant service providers work with businesses to accept Bitcoin payment, convert it, and deposit it into designated bank accounts. bitcoin price chart analysis Aug 8, 2016 In recent years major banking institutions have explored this new currency system. As recently as this year The Bank of England announced their initiative to create their own cryptocurrency. They've named it RSCoin. This new digital currency shares many characteristics of the famous Bitcoin. Similarly auto software bitcoin Nov 1, 2017 Clearly, crypto- and blockchain startups are an interesting new client segment for Swiss banks: bitcoin firms traditional banking services as well as access Banks usually have little trouble accepting these funds, because they are from known and reputable market participants who can fulfill the KYC rules.Aug 11, 2017 But actually allowing clients to trade bitcoin? That could take some time for the nation's largest financial institutions. Even as bigger investors step into the bitcoin arena, regulations across the world are inconsistent, observers say. Access to an exchange where someone can trade bitcoin depends on
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HONDA MOTORS is on track for its strongest earnings in three years after raising its outlook above market expectations thanks to a recovery in the US, where improving profitability is countering a strong yen and sliding Japanese sales.
Robust sales growth in emerging markets has helped global automakers weather a fall in mature markets such as Europe, and Honda has especially benefited from its lucrative and dominant motorcycle business in developing countries such as India.
But a convincing recovery in the US car market – Honda’s biggest – is the main factor that has stoked optimism among investors, sending its shares up nearly a fifth over the past three months.
Honda, which fell behind Nissan Motors to become Japan’s third-biggest automaker last year, raised its operating profit forecast for the year to 31 March to 620bn yen (£4.7bn) from 500bn yen. A survey of 20 analysts by forecasts profit of 594bn yen.
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VAUGHAN, Ontario, Aug. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Electronics repair franchise uBreakiFix is now open in the RioCan Colossus Centre in Woodbridge, offering repairs on smartphones, tablets, computers, and more. The new store joins existing locations in Thornhill, Etobicoke, and several others across Toronto and Mississauga.
“For many, the pandemic has increased screen time as a means of staying connected to work, school, loved ones and more while distancing,” said Joe Becerra, uBreakiFix territory manager. “Technology has been a lifeline, and we know that a broken phone, tablet, or laptop is more than just inconvenient right now. We’re open and ready to serve, with stringent measures in place to keep the experience as safe and seamless as possible.”
Health and safety measures include high-frequency handwashing and cleaning of all workspaces, minimal person-to-person contact, limited store capacity to align with social distancing recommendations, and thorough sanitation of all devices upon receipt and return.
While common devices include smartphones, tablets, and computers, uBreakiFix offers repair service on anything with a power button, including drones, hoverboards, game consoles, and everything in between. The store offers support for most technical problems on any electronic device, regardless of make or model.
“Our repair services are more critical than ever before—and also more rewarding,” Becerra said. “It has always been gratifying to help get a customer’s day back on track after a cracked screen or other tech issue, but we know the stakes are higher right now while people are even more reliant on their devices. There’s enough to stress about these days; a broken phone shouldn’t compound that.”
uBreakiFix was founded in 2009 by millennial entrepreneurs Justin Wetherill and David Reiff to fill a gap in the market for affordable, high-quality phone repair. The duo soon partnered with Eddie Trujillo to transition their Internet-based repair brand to a brick-and-mortar model. uBreakiFix began franchising in 2013 and currently operates more than 585 locations across the U.S. and Canada.
“At uBreakiFix, our story has been shaped by an unwavering commitment to continually improving the repair experience for customers,” Wetherill said. “We founded this company to fill a need for high-quality, convenient repair with great service at a fair price. We always say we’re a customer service company first, and a tech company second. As we expand into Woodbridge, we look forward to sharing the care and credibility that define the uBreakiFix experience.”
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Founded in 2009, uBreakiFix specializes in the repair of small electronics, ranging from smartphones, game consoles, tablets, computers, and everything in between. Cracked screens, software issues, camera issues, and most other problems can be repaired by visiting uBreakiFix stores across the U.S. and Canada. Since 2016, uBreakiFix has served as the exclusive walk-in repair partner for Google Pixel customers. In 2018, uBreakiFix became a Samsung Care authorized service provider offering same-day, in-person support for Samsung Galaxy customers across the U.S. In 2019, uBreakiFix joined the Asurion family and now operates as a subsidiary of the tech care company while still maintaining the uBreakiFix brand, leadership, and franchise model. For more information, visit ubreakifix.com.
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ITC’s 4QFY20 results were lower than the brokerage expectations. While the brokerage checks suggest that cigarette volumes have returned to near-normalcy now, the possibility of further GST increase is fairly high over the next few months. While valuations appear inexpensive at 15.1 times FY22E EPS, the narrative on ITC has changed over the past year with ESG concerns over cigarettes increasing worldwide. Consequently, global tobacco peers have witnessed sharp contraction in their multiples. For ITC, 85 per cent of EBIT came from cigarettes in FY20. The brokerage maintains neutral rating as ITC’s overall profitability is highly dependent on cigarettes and there is a risk to the already weak earnings growth projections over FY20-22E due to overhang of GST hike.
The brokerage has cut FY21/FY22E EPS by 11.1 per cent/5.7 per cent due to (a) weak 4QFY20 earnings, (b) sharp impact on 1QFY21 business due to the lockdown, and (c) hazy outlook. (a) Persistent global ESG concerns on cigarettes (85 per cent of EBIT in FY20), (b) overhang of further GST increase on cigarettes, (c) ITC’s valuation premium to global tobacco majors like Philip Morris (trading at 13.9 times one-year forward P/E) and BAT (at 9.4 times), (d) continuance of weak earnings trajectory (6.6 per cent PBT CAGR in the last 5 years), outweigh the apparent relief of cigarette sales bouncing back to near pre-COVID levels and the dividend yield of 5-6 per cent over the next 2 years. The stock is trading at 15.1 times FY22 EPS. The brokerage values ITC at 14 times Jun’22 EPS (20 per cent premium to global peers average multiple) to arrive at a target price of Rs 190.
For the quarter ended March 31, 2020, the company reported consolidated sales of Rs 11677.97 crore, down -12.25 per cent from last quarter sales of Rs 13307.54 crore and down -10.71 per cent from last year's same quarter sales of Rs 13078.09 crore. The company reported net profit after tax of Rs 3926.46 crore in the latest quarter.
FIIs held 14.65 per cent stake in the company as of March 31, 2020 while DIIs held 42.46 per cent and public & others 42.89 per cent.
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Ranir, a global leader in private label consumer oral care products, has today announced the appointment of Scott Huff, former executive vice president of consumables and health and wellness, and Richelle Parham, most recently the chief marketing officer for eBay, to the company's board of directors.
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Xerox Corp. unveiled a new strategic initiative to address the digital workflow, including enhancing the integration of its systems with third-party solutions. The company says it plans to offer a simplified set of workflow solutions under the new FreeFlow Digital Workflow Collection umbrella. This effort reportedly will be complemented by the adoption of an open, standards-based development platform—the Xerox Workflow Framework.
FreeFlow workflow solutions will be tailored to four major industry segments: service bureaus and corporate data centers, in-plants and corporate reprographic centers, quick printers and commercial printers. The collection will integrate the company's various existing workflow components, including the DocuSP production printer controller, DigiPath production software for scanning and document management, VIPP variable information technology and EOMS printing management.
In addition, Xerox says Creo Inc., EFI and Adobe Inc. are among the expanding group of its strategic workflow partners.
At On Demand, EFI and Xerox announced a "significant expansion" of their current collaboration on workflow solutions for the digital print market. Providing a glimpse of things to come was the introduction of EFI's Fiery Q4500 server as a new front end for the Xerox DocuColor iGen3 digital color press.
At the same time, Creo Inc. showcased the integration of its Spire color server technology with the Xerox workflow. Spire color servers are available to drive the Xerox DocuColor 2000 series, DocuColor 6060 and iGen3 digital color production presses.
Building on this relationship, Xerox announced it has become a partner in Networked Graphic Production (NGP). NGP is a Creo strategic initiative designed to provide a smooth flow of data and enhanced digital collaboration between printers and their customers. The companies will focus on building integrated workflow processes for offset and digital printing.
EFI and Canon USA also teamed up at the exposition to introduce the ColorPASS-Z5400 server to drive Canon's CLC 5000+ and CLC 3900+ color printer/copier systems. The server is powered by EFI's new Fiery Q4000 technology and Fiery System 5 software.


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UK-based financial services provider Barclays has launched two new features within its mobile app, Barclays Pingit. ‘Mobile Checkout’ is a payment feature for quick and easy purchases from a mobile web or app checkout page, and ‘Buy It’ bridges the gap between advertising and sales by enabling consumers to purchase advertised goods and services immediately.
The new mobile payment features have been included to enable retailers to offer their customers a fast, easy and secure way to pay for goods and services.
The ‘mobile checkout’ feature is optimised for a mobile experience, with a few clicks required to make an instant settlement via a ‘Pay with Barclays Pingit’ button, instead of the need for the entry of long or large amounts of personal details.
The ‘buy it’ feature enables instant purchases from traditional advertising collateral. By logging onto Barclays Pingit, consumers can buy products direct from an advert and other marketing collateral by scanning a Quick Response (QR) code. Barclays Pingit displays the product information – price, merchant information, delivery information and stock levels. Confirming these details enables a Barclays Pingit user to initiate an instant purchase, which can be delivered to a chosen address. Once confirmed, the customer receives a confirmatory SMS and email.
According to Barclays, this process can transform adverts into a highly accessible and convenient sales channel. Additionally, it increases the value of the existing assets of businesses, for example, by enabling people to buy from window displays, or from unmanned display stands, 24×7. Businesses can also encourage immediate sale of items with marketing incentives such as limited time offers, offers on new products and limited stock offers. The feature can also help businesses evaluate the effectiveness of an advertising campaign by tracking adverts that are driving sales.
“For mobile enabled businesses, this is a great way to increase sales conversion by reducing payment input errors and increased consumer assurance at checkout. For new players to the market, it is an easy, low risk way to enter into mobile commerce,” says Mike Walters, head of UK corporate payments at Barclays.
“Mobile commerce has grown more than 250% over the last two years and it is important that businesses provide consumers with a convenient and easy payment method through this channel. ‘Mobile checkout’ and ‘buy it’, can also play a significant role in increasing sales by improving the mobile customer experience, encouraging customers to complete their sale transaction,” adds Walters.
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- After suddenly focusing on the US market for planned production and sales, EV startup Arrival has announced plans to lay off 50% of its staff to cut costs.
- The company has canceled plans for all models except the electric van, for which 10,000 have been ordered from UPS.
- Many EV startups currently face an uncertain future. This is due in part to post-pandemic capital shortages, rising costs, and supply issues.
Just three months after announcing plans to focus all of its energy on the U.S. market, Arrival is set to make further downsizings after significantly reducing its fleet plans in early 2022. The company laid off his 50% of its workforce this week to cut costs and is expected to eventually have about 800 employees.
Last year, the company dropped plans for bus and passenger car models and focused on electric vans, planning a UPS fleet that would be built in one of Arrival’s microfactories. The EV startup, which already has its US headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, has announced plans for his second microfactory in South Carolina after the first microfactory opened in South Carolina. In the meantime, the company, based in Bicester, England, has made considerable progress in its production plans for a large coach bus and has also obtained model certification.
Arrival will soon become a much smaller company dedicated to electric vans, a purpose-built model for logistics companies and other businesses.
This week, the company appointed a new CEO and maintains plans to begin assembling vans in South Carolina in 2024, but “we need to raise additional funding.” , is cutting costs and cutting hundreds of employees just months after laying off nearly all of its UK staff. At the end of 2022, the company still had $205 million in cash.
“Combined with other cost savings in real estate and third-party spending, the company expects to halve its ongoing cash costs of operating its business to approximately $30 million per quarter,” the company said. I’m here.
In November, Arrival cited the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which is expected to provide tax credits of $7,500 to $40,000, as a motivation for moving to the states.
But even in a more favorable situation from a tax perspective, Arrival faces many of the same problems, including many of its competitors such as BrightDrop and Rivian. Note that both of these competitors have already started producing their respective electric vans.
If it feels like many EV startups just getting close to production are trying to cut costs by cutting a large portion of their workforce, that’s why even those that have already started production, including Rivian, Because that’s actually the trend at the moment. Arrival is the latest startup facing increasing pressure as it nears statewide production launch amid growing skepticism in the tech sector regarding EV startups.


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‘Going fully digital ensured operations’
Full digitisation has helped employee benefit solutions firm Sodexo BRS India to increase its market share, a top company executive said.
“Digitisation has helped reimagine benefits with new clients and new consumers increasing our market share successfully,” said CEO Anish Sarkar. Since the time it went fully digital in 2016, Sodexo had introduced an array of digital solutions for employee benefits such as meals, fuel, telecom, learning and development, health and wellness through its multi-benefits pass.
“Digital cards and digitisation have helped clients navigate crises in the last one year,” Mr. Sarkar said.
Digitisation also ensured introduction of new benefits in a remote work set-up for better employee experience, Mr. Sarkar said.
He said the company would continue its growth in the Indian market despite the COVID-19 outbreak.
“I see business sentiment turning positive, and growth coming back. Organisations will continue to invest in digitisation and better employee experience to manage human capital,” Mr. Sarkar said.
“Our solutions are trusted by over 11,000 clients across public and private companies and that reinforces our vision to design solutions that improve everyday quality of life of our clients, consumers and merchants,” the CEO asserted.
In calendar 2020, the company had ensured complete continuity of operations. “This can be attributed to the fully-digital business model and delivery of digital cards during the pandemic,” he said.
“The business continued to stay resilient due to all four stakeholders, namely employees, clients, consumers, and merchants, going fully digital and adapting rapidly to the changing times,” Mr. Sarkar added.
The CEO said the firm’s digital solutions were being used by its 3.5-million consumer base spread across more than 1,700 cities in India working with more than 11,000 clients across sectors.
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Lindsey Ford, manager of communications and events for Rheem visited the Informa booth during 2018 AHR Expo.
Ford said that this year, the message from Rheem was "unity," in that the team was displaying all brands together at one event: Rheem, Emax, HTPG and Raypak.
"All of those brands are showing new commercial products, so it's an exciting renaissance for Rheem, to have new commercial products available to customers across our entire family of brands," Ford said.
"One is Triton, a new, high efficiency commercial water heater. It's designed for easy retrofits, and has many smart features and very high quality materials built into it."
Ford said Rheem's smart product innovations must be very approachable for HVAC contractor and plumber customers.
"That's why our Innovation Learning Centers include virtual reality training and tablets," she explained. "We are updating our contractor app with more features so that contractors can understand the products from their side and learn about it in an app format, and we hope that makes them make them more comfortable when they're selling smart products to consumers who want to be able to use more technology."
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Fundbox has partnered with Visa as it looks to strengthen digital payment offerings within its embedded working capital platform.
The first stage of the new collaboration centres around the launch of the Fundbox Flex Visa Debit Card, issued by Pathward N.A., which the firm says will help small businesses better manage their cash outflows.
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The pair will also work together over the coming months to introduce a series of new payment products, which will include a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) solution for flexible payment options, and a push-to-card transfer option for instant fund disbursement through Visa Direct.
“Small businesses that embrace digital tools tend to be more resilient and better able to compete,” explained Jack Forestell, Visa Chief Product Officer, in an announcement.
“As Visa continues to work towards digitally enabling 50 million small businesses by 2023, we’re excited to be teaming up with Fundbox to bring a range of new, digital offerings to the market from cards to instalments to disbursement.”
Fundbox’s Flex Pay solution focuses on spend management and is designed to help business owners manage payables while also offering flexibility around expenses. The platform has achieved strong growth and quick adoption since its release, with the firm reporting payment volume increasing over 80% quarter-over-quarter.
Fundbox says the strong performance of Flex Play has contributed to the growth of its working capital platform, with the company now having crossed $160 million in annual revenue run rate.
Now, the Fundbox Flex Visa Debit Card adds Flex Pay to card-accepting merchants to help enable convenient payments for expenses such as travel, supplies, and incidentals.
“We’ve seen our working capital solutions become more embedded within our customers' cash flow cycles as small businesses adopt digital payments to drive growth and operational efficiency,” commented Prashant Fuloria, CEO of Fundbox.
“In order to accelerate the flow of funds to our customers, it’s critical for us to continue enhancing our core payment capabilities, and our partnership with Visa is a significant step towards that vision.”
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