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The Covid Gamechanger - Andrea Busfield
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world as we know it, at least for the time being.
There is barely a part of everyday life left untouched, from travel to public gatherings to the way our children are educated – and business is no exception to this new rule.
But while some firms have foundered, others have adapted or diversified, including Aqueos, which found itself in unusual territory with products no longer aimed solely at dogs and horses, but also people.
With a technological breakthrough that produces a water-based disinfectant capable of killing 99.99 per cent of known bacteria, fungi and viruses, Aqueos had already gained an enviable reputation for the standard of its shampoos and cleaning products. Containing less than 1% active ingredients, the big selling point for animal lovers has always been that their pets can return to treated areas immediately.
Other products, such as cleaning disinfectants for surfaces as well as stables, not only proved to carry on working after application but, more importantly in these Covid times, EN14476 testing proved the efficacy of them against coronavirus. In fact, all of Aqueos’s products passed that test.
All of which meant that with panic buying clearing shelves throughout the country, Aqueos boss Tracy knew she had the means to make a difference and she got to work.
As well as hand sanitisers, Tracy launched a number of new products including a 5-litre hand foam refill, a 5-litre disinfectant soap refill and face masks.
Demand went through the roof.
Turnover not only tripled, but Aqueos sold out of all stock within ten days of lock down starting. Of course, popularity comes with a price and the immediate challenge in the face of such ferocious demand, was to source bottles and trigger sprays to fulfil interest. Aqueos also needed to find a new warehouse, in the middle of lockdown, as the old warehouse service could no longer cope with the orders flying in from consumers.
Tracy said: “We saw such a rush of sales that supply became a very real challenge, especially when it came to sourcing bottles and trigger sprays. “Thankfully, once we got into our stride, we were able to fulfil demand and I’m happy to say we were able to help and give confidence to many new customers who are now re-ordering.”
The range of Aqueos shampoos for dogs and horses are all anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-viral and an effective deodoriser.
As readers to this blog will know, I use both products on my pets and the shampoo has been especially effective on my mare Mina’s troublesome, sweet-itch-prone legs. However, when the coronavirus struck, I found myself passing on links to the website not to like-minded equestrians but to member of my own family and friends, knowing they were struggling to find hand sanitisers – and knowing how vulnerable they were feeling.
In Cyprus, where I live, the pandemic hasn’t hit residents with the same force as in the UK, largely thanks to some fairly draconian restrictions which pretty much stopped the virus in its tracks. However, all my family live in the UK and I knew they were desperate to find hand sanitisers.
No surprise then, that joining Aqueos’s typical customers – such as horse and dog owners, dog groomers, dog boarders and walkers, vets, equine dentists, wholesalers, country stores, tack shops and pet shops – are ordinary men and women with no animals in their life.
“The demand for hand sanitiser and soap was amazing and it has remained constant and growing. Our face masks also really took off when we were told to wear them in retail situations.”
The Aqueos face mask is a three-layered, 100% cotton, face mask that helps filter the air and guard against droplets that enter or leave through the mouth and nose, which may reduce the chance of spreading airborne and droplet illnesses.
The masks are machine washable up to 100 times. The outer layer uses cotton nanotechnology for ultra-water resistance, and the inner layer is breathable, moisture-wicking muslin cloth.
As well as helping ordinary men and women cope with the hygiene demands of Covid-19, Tracy’s Aqueos products helped a number of Riding for the Disabled Groups get back to riding safely.
And though Tracy never set out with bulk buying in mind, she admits that the 5-litre bottles of refill soaps and sanitisers are “far better for the planet”.
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Disney’s streaming service’s result in Q2 kept analysts’ expectation low. However, Disney+ beats estimates and reports a surge in its subscribers in the third quarter.
According to Tech Crunch, Disney+ recorded over 100% year-over-year jump in its subscribers growth. In the third quarter, Disney’s paid subscribers reached 116 million, around 114.5 million higher than Wall Street’s estimate.
Disney also topped expectations across the board, with $17.02 billion in revenue versus the $16.76 billion expected, and earnings per share of 80 cents, above analysts’ expectations of 55 cents. Even Disney Parks were back in business.
This comes after Disney reported a lackluster second-quarter earnings. The economy’s re-opening impacted Disney+ numbers, as people finally had more to do than just sit at home, and vaccinations become more widely available. Then, Disney+ only reached 103.6 million subscribers, when analysts were expecting 109.3 million, and the stock slipped as a result.
Disney’s other streaming services, Hulu and ESPN+, also saw a significant rise in the business.
Hulu’s subscription video service jumped from $11.39 to $13.15 year-over-year and its Live TV service (+SVOD) grew from $68.11 to $84.09. ESPN+ also grew from $4.18 to $4.47.
Subscriber growth also increased across the services, with ESPN+ growing 75% year-over-year to reach 14.9 million customers and total Hulu subscribers growing 21% to reach 42.8 million.
“…Our direct-to-consumer business is performing very well, with a total of nearly 174 million subscriptions across Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu at the end of the quarter, and a host of new content coming to the platform,” noted Disney CEO Bob Chapek in a press release.
Across Disney’s direct-to-consumer business, revenues grew 57% to $4.3 billion and its operating loss declined from $0.6 billion to $0.3 billion, thanks to improved results from Hulu, including subscription growth and higher ad revenues.

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ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Burglars shattering glass and making off with cash, cigarettes or laptops are vexing local businesses — at least eight bars and restaurants in South City hit in the past month.
Among the recent break-ins, the Four Hands Brewery just south of downtown where owner Kevin Lemp says a man in a mask stole a 40 pound safe.
“The video that we saw, he looked fairly sophisticated,” Lemp said.
As a result, Lemp says the brewery is tightening its security procedures.
Also hit in recent days, the Gustine Neighborhood Market just south of Tower Grove Park.
Burglars smashed the front door, barged in and made off with no more than a few packs of cigarettes.
“We think it was just kids,” a clerk said, “They even left a few packs dropped on the floor.”
Also hit in Tower Grove area — Steve’s Hot Dogs and the adjoining Tick Tock Tavern.
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As the third most important Latin American and Caribbean supplying country to the US, Colombia, aims to cement its position as a “very solid and stable partnership with the US Agribusiness sector and Colombian exporters,” says Juliana Villegas Restrepo, Exports Vice President at ProColombia.
These comments come as they look forward to continuing Colombia’s participation at IFPA’s Global Produce Show taking place in Orlando from 26 to 29 October 2022.
“We have been seeing a very good increasing interest from US buyers in fresh Colombian produce. We have been participating since 2014. It’s a very important show where we make new connections and it presents a huge networking opportunity to reconnect with those with whom we may have lost contact after three years of the pandemic.
"Our country booth will showcase eight companies from different regions of Colombia. They all offer different products such as oranges, avocados, fresh herbs, mangoes, and limes. They will have one product per region that include baby bananas, limes, and golden berries. We want US buyers to see a variety of our good quality products and talk about bringing them over,” says Villegas Restrepo.
Due to the continued efforts by ProColombia over the last 10 years, producers as well as partners in the US, Colombia were able to increase the volume and value of a wide range of fresh products to this important market.
“Over the last few years, we’ve seen outstanding figures for avocados, blue and golden berries, Tahiti limes, and bananas to name a few. We entered the US five years ago and have seen 270% of export growth, in terms of tonnage in avocados alone. Colombia has huge potential, there are many opportunities to explore and take advantage of. We are ready to meet that market demand and are well prepared to follow the rules and quality requirements. Especially in the US, which is a very demanding market,” states Villegas Restrepo.
She says that this year, the Colombian avocado exports increased by more than 1,000% in value, passing from $3.7 million to $43.6 million. "Colombia is exporting more than Chile, which was in the past one of the most important suppliers to the US. Five years ago, we had just started exports to the U.S, last year we exported 6.6 million pounds of avocado and so far this year we have exported 33 million pounds of avocados. We expect that to increase to between 40-50 million pounds this season. We did not have Hass avocados in the past. It is amazing to see these figures, not only in the number of dollars but the volumes. We are not as huge as Mexico, and it is not our main objective to reach a very big amount. But we are planning to consistently and sustainably grow exports to the US. Our Tahiti limes only exported $2,2 million in 2017 growing to more than $15 million last year. This year (Jan to Aug) lime exports were over $34 million dollars. At the end of this year, we expect to have close to $40 million, we are already behind Mexico in limes export to the US.”
Restrepo says people might think these figures were reached overnight, but it really took a solid decade of hard work. “We have over 100 agricultural products that have the green light to enter the US market. That includes other products too like pineapples and mangoes. It is all about teamwork by both the private and public sectors working together, in Colombia and the US.
"We work under the Colombian Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Tourism, which works with all institutions. We have to learn about the market, it takes more than 10 years to get access to the market for avocados. Once prioritized, it took us more than five years to get the bell peppers that entered the US for the first time two weeks ago. We have some other products waiting in line, like passion fruit and others.
"We work as a team, to learn and know the rules. The big thing is to stay in the market. ProColombia is the promoting agency. We have an office in the US. Our Embassy helps a lot while the companies as suppliers are the main characters with the quality produce. We are one of the tropical countries. We have a big responsibility to ensure food safety internationally, we keep offering, increase numbers and thereby create employment. The different produce comes from regions, which are not that well known, and it brings great news, progress, and employment.”
The Colombian fruit and vegetable sector is highly labor-intensive, it is estimated to generate about 765,000 direct jobs and 1.8 million indirect jobs. “We have great things happening. Our bell peppers come from a small town with no more than 40 thousand people,” concludes Villegas Restrepo.
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Synthetic Turf International continues to be the designer and installer of choice for PGA Tour Superstore putting greens nationwide
Synthetic Turf International and PGA Tour Superstore are joining forces once again.
In April, the PGA TOUR Superstore announced three new store openings in 2014 and an ambitious growth strategy that will more than double its current retail footprint, adding one million square feet of new golf retail space over the next five years.
PGA TOUR Superstore currently has 19 retail stores ranging from 40,000 to 50,000 square feet per store. Each store has up to 14 custom fitting simulators and practice bays in every location. The retailer plans to have up to 50 locations by 2018.
“What’s different about PGA TOUR Superstore is we purposely design our stores with what the golfers want from an experience and product assortment point of view,” said PGA Tour Superstore CEO Dick Sullivan. “When it snows in Chicago or New York, golfers can putt on our 2,000 square-foot putting greens. This experiential format works, and we’re excited to roll it out to many more markets over the next several years.”
That’s where Synthetic Turf International comes in.
Bobby Baughn of STI Atlanta has played an integral part in helping to bring this experiential format to life. Baughn is a specialist in designing and installing synthetic turf putting greens, and has had a working relationship with PGA Tour Superstores, nationwide, going all the way back to their first store in 2006.
Every one of the PGA Tour Superstore putting greens was designed and installed by Baughn, using STI products.
One of Baughn’s putting greens made its national television debut today as a small part of the Fox and Friends U.S. Open Preview segment, when the popular morning show featured the PGA Tour Superstore’s club fitting technology.


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Coral BeachCarl Mastronardi, president of Del Fresco Produce in Kingsville, Ontario, plans to begin harvesting by the end of February, with full production hitting around the third week of March in his greenhouses.LEAMINGTON, Ontario — Some greenhouse growers in Ontario were already harvesting cucumbers in January and several expect to have mature tomatoes and bell peppers as early as the first week of March.
Harvest in the southwest area of the province, along the north shore of Lake Erie, should be in full swing by mid-March for most commodities.
Slightly higher overall volumes are expected from the region in 2012 because of additional acres coming into production.
As for pricing, the weather in Florida and other growing regions in the Southern U.S. is the key determining factor for the Ontario growers.
The freeze in Florida in early January could mean more demand for Ontario greenhouse tomatoes.
However, Dino Dilaudo, salesman for Westmoreland Sales, said freezes down South can sometimes hurt the growers up North.
“If it happens at the wrong time they can replant and then we are in a surplus situation (with tomatoes),” he said.
Westmoreland’s cucumbers are a different story, though.
The company has year-round production in its Ontario greenhouses for regular and mini cukes. Dilaudo said the “really good volumes” begin in February and continue through November.
All of the Ontario growers keep an eye on the weather in Southern growing regions at this time of year, though.
“There’s no doubt our prices are linked to what is happening with the field-grown tomatoes in other regions,” Joe Spano, vice president of sales and marketing for Kingsville-based Mucci Farms, said on Jan. 17.
“Our harvest predictions are good and we are hoping for strong markets, but there’s no way to predict prices this early.”
Spano said Mucci ships about 100,000 cases of fresh greenhouse produce a week.
The 2011 summer heat wave had some negative effects on the company’s volumes, but Spano said additional acres coming online this year should help balance those kinds of unpredictable factors.
At Kingsville-based Del Fresco Produce Ltd. workers planted the 2012 tomato crop during the first week of December, said president Carl Mastronardi.
By the third week of January those plants were more than 4 feet tall and the fruit was already bigger than golf balls.
“In the old days we would have said ‘flip a coin’ at this time of year if you asked us about yield. But with modern greenhouses and growing techniques we can tell now that we are in good shape,” Mastronardi said.
Coral BeachJay Colasanti, of the sales and marketing staff at Nature Fresh Farms in Leamington, Ontario, expects tomato harvest to begin as early as the third week of February in some of the company's greenhouses, with full production anticipated by March 5.“Don’t ask about price, though. That’s still a coin flip. There are too many factors outside our control for us to know (in January) what prices will be like when we get into full harvest in March,” he said.


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six degrees-of-freedom 3-D navigation afforded by 3-D mice has typically been
reserved for highly specialized applications like those for engineering and
design. 3Dconnexion, a leader in the 3-D mice space, is aiming to
break that barrier with the introduction of a new driver platform that extends
the use of 3-D mice to any application, from Microsoft Office to web browsers
to media players and games.
The new 3DxWare 10 driver platform for PC and Mac lets users assign keyboard strokes and traditional mouse or joystick movements in any combination to any of 3Dconnexion's 3-D mouse models. As such, users can get the benefit of the flexible six degrees-of-freedom movement to, say, tilt the controller cap to scroll a Web page or twist the cap to adjust the volume in iTunes. Users can choose whatever application they want to support with the 3-D mouse and use the driver platform to assign the six axes and up to 31 function keys (it varies with the 3-D mouse model).
"The 3DxWare 10 driver platform represents a new era for our 3-D mice," says Dieter Neujahr, president of 3Dconnexion, in a prepared release. "Our customers have told us they want to be able to use their 3-D mice with everyday applications."
Here are some ways 3Dconnexion recommends using the 3DxWare 10 driver platform to put 3-D mice to work in everyday computing:
- Instead of using traditional mouse wheel navigation to search through documents, spreadsheets or Web pages, users can tilt a 3-D mouse cap to scroll the view up or down and twist the cap for zooming.
- While most PC gamers rely on a combination of a traditional mouse and keyboard to control their characters or camera view, a 3-D mouse can deliver more intuitive and comfortable control as well as emulate a joy stick or gamepad.
- Control your media player simply by twisting the cap to adjust volume, tilting the cap sideways to fast forward or rewind and tilting the cap back and forth to move between tracks in a play list.
- Professional users can take advantage of a new feature delivered by 3DxWare 10 that lets multiple 3-D mice be used on one workstation. This supports easier viewing of 3-D models, aiding in group design reviews and client presentations, 3Dconnexion officials say.


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The pandemic came for our vacations, our sports and our restaurants. And now, after weeks of speculation and guessing, analysts say it’s clear: Covid-19 has also claimed retail bellwether Black Friday.
“There’s definitely a pretty clear feeling that you don’t need to be out today,” Joseph Feldman, senior managing director at Telsey Advisory Group. “I think that was by design. Retailers didn’t want to create a frenzy.”
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Actor has previously spoken about being treated differently since weight loss
The Mayr Method, which was developed by Austrian physician Dr Franz Xaver Mayr, is based on the idea that “improving gut health is key to promoting weight loss,” according to Healthline. The weight loss plan focuses on eliminating certain foods from your diet to enhance digestive health, such as sugar, caffeine, gluten and dairy. It also encourages certain eating practices such as “chewing food thoroughly.”
“This was NEVER my diet, please stop writing this stuff,” Wilson wrote over a screenshot of the article. “Also have NEVER endorsed any diet pills or magic weight loss pills or crypto currency.”
Wilson instructed her fans to report weight loss advertisements claiming to be endorsed by her as a scam, unless she has shared the endorsement to her official and verified social media accounts.
“It’s really annoying when people use my image unlawfully or in misleading ways,og hvordan tilby hjelp når en ung person mister livet. “Do NOT want anyone to get scammed.”
De Bridesmaids actor has been documenting her health and fitness journey on social media after declaring 2020 a “year of health.” Since then, Wilson has lost more than 75 pund. I juli 2021, Wilson revealed that her decision to start a new fitness regime was in part due to improving her chances of getting pregnant, after previously being diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).
I et intervju med Mennesker, the 42-year-old actor and comedian detailed her high-protein diet, and shared that she used to eat 3,000 calories a day. “Before I was probably eating 3,000 calories most days, and because they were normally carbs, I would still be hungry,og hvordan tilby hjelp når en ung person mister livet.
"Så, I’ve really changed to eating a high-protein diet, which is challenging because I didn’t used to eat a lot of meat,”La hun til. “I eat fish, salmon, and chicken breast.”
Wilson has also spoken candidly about being treated differently by people since losing weight, with the actor describing encounters such as holding doors open for her or carrying her groceries.
“I like to think I looked good at all sizes and stuff and I’ve always been quite confident. So it wasn’t like I wasn’t confident and then now I’m, som, super confident,” she said during an appearance on The Morning Crew With Hughesy, Ed and Erin. “I think what’s been really interesting to me is how other people treat you.
“Sometimes being bigger, people didn’t necessarily look twice at you. And now that I’m in a good shape, som, people offer to carry my groceries to the car and hold doors open for you. jeg var som: ‘Is this what other people experienced all the time?'"
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What will Sony have for PlayStation 3 and PSP owners at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show? What will they have to show off beyond video games? We’ll find out at the PlayStation maker’s CES 2011 keynote.
Read on for Kotaku’s live blog of this year’s Sony electronics blowout, which is sure to span movies, music, 3D entertainment, and more, with folks like Sir Howard Stringer and PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai whipping the crowd into a personal electronics buying frenzy.
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Here’s something meta for you: Facebook is running a targeted ad campaign to promote the importance of … targeted advertising.
On Thursday, Facebook launched a national push that aims to demonstrate the value of personalized ads, especially for small businesses reeling from the ongoing pandemic.
The campaign, under the title “Good Ideas Deserve To Be Found,” will run across TV, radio and online digital channels, including on Facebook and Instagram, through the spring in the US. The TV spot will air across a bunch of different networks and shows, starting with Good Morning America, World News Tonight, Young Sheldon CBS, NCAA basketball and during the Golden Globes.
The purpose of the campaign is to highlight small businesses that have used personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram to find their audiences and grow their business, like Goat House Farm, a micro-farm in Florida that offers goat yoga classes.
Not addressed is the fact that organic reach on Facebook has been on the decline for years.
Although the context for this campaign is obviously related to Facebook’s ongoing war with Apple over the latter’s impending privacy changes on iOS 14, Andrew Stirk, Facebook’s head of brand strategy, demurs that this is the only reason behind the effort.
“We’re on record as a company saying we disagree with Apple’s position, but this initiative is part of much longer-term support for small businesses which extends far beyond personalized advertising.”
“Many millions, in fact the majority of small businesses, on our platform, use all of our free tools,” said Stirk, who leads the team that developed the campaign. “But there is a degree of urgency and that urgency is driven by the fact that small businesses are hurting right now.”
According to a recent Facebook survey of small businesses, 47% say they’re not sure if they’ll be able to survive the next six months.
Beyond the campaign, Facebook is also rolling out a few small business-related product updates, including making Ads Manager simpler to use and redesigning the dashboard that people see when they log in to show a quick snapshot of their campaign performance.
Facebook is also adding a new feature that allows restaurants to call out which types of dining experiences they have available, and to upload menus directly to their Pages.
On top of that, Facebook said it will continue to waive all transaction fees for businesses using the checkout function in Facebook Shops through June and all fees associated with the paid online events feature at least through August 2021.
When Facebook first announced paid online events in August of last year, it took the opportunity to throw some shade at Apple for refusing to forgo its customary 30% App Store fee on purchases made through Facebook’s app for live paid events. (Apple relented a bit in September by allowing online event fees to be processed via Facebook Pay through Dec. 31, thereby allowing businesses to temporarily avoid the 30% fee. This carveout didn’t apply to gaming creators.)
In terms of Facebook’s SMB-focused product road map for 2021, the main themes will continue to be making it easier for businesses to market themselves and facilitating their shift online.
“COVID has accelerated the trend toward ecommerce,” said Helen Ma, director of app monetization and advertising solutions at Facebook. “If you’re not online … you’d better be now.”


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Microsoft to establish its R&D center in Shanghai
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Microsoft Corp. is establishing, in Shanghai, China, a center for research and development. The center will work on the company's MSN service. It will be Microsoft's first research and development center of this kind outside the U.S.
Microsoft decided to take this step because of several setbacks that occurred in its online services working in China. One of the company's setbacks concerns the resignation of Luo Chuan, who was Microsoft's top executive responsible for the Chinese Windows Live unit.
The company's new research and development center is to be established in Shanghai's Zizhu Science Park. At this location, where another giant, Intel Corp, already has its research office, Microsoft plans to develop Internet software.
The center is estimated to cost $ 20 million. It will have a special technical support team that will work on Microsoft's MSN Messenger. The company hopes to make its online communication tool popular among Chinese teenagers and young professionals.
Microsoft already has an R&D center in Beijing. However, the software giant lacks a facility to work with its well-known MSN service. Investing in its communication tool may strengthen the company's leading position on the Chinese market.
Setting up the MSN research and development center in Peoples Republic of China implies that Microsoft looks forward to taking advantage of the Chinese market, which represents a quite flexible environment. This statement was made by Doug Crets, who works at Media Partners Asia as a Hong-Kong-based analyst.
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- "Microsoft sets up MSN R&D center in China: sources" — , January 31, 2007


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The war of conquest – The cryptocurrency ecosystem has just been violently shaken since fall fTx. Not surprisingly, this crisis spread to other actors of the ecosystem. Thus, the company BlockFi is once again in turmoil. A boon for Curve who is considering an acquisition.
BlockFi: collateral damage from FTX
BlockFi is a so-called centralized finance company (CeFi). He specializes in cryptocurrency-backed loans. At the same time, it also has a crypto bank card servicein collaboration with VISA.
Unfortunately, we recently learned that the platform is heavily exposed to FTX. So, it would appear that BlockFi had $400 million exposure to FTX products. A dramatic situation in the context of the collapse of FTX.
Faced with this situation, BlockFi has decided to suspend withdrawalstrapping user funds.
This is the second time this year that the company has been in such a situation. In fact, it was also largely influenced by the fall of Terra Luna and the cryptocurrency market crash that followed.
A situation all the more Dantesque knowing that it was FTX which at the time offered to bail out BlockFi in a $400 million deal.
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BlockFi’s CBs at a standstill
Shortly after the withdrawal block was announced, many users notified it on Twitter their BlockFi credit card it also stopped working.
The BlockFi teams subsequently formalized the pause of the cards in an email to their users:
“Dear cardholder. In light of recent BlockFi developments, which are beyond our control, we are writing to inform you that the purchasing privileges on your BlockFi Rewards Visa® Signature Card are suspended until further notice. Therefore, you will not be able to make purchases with your card.
Curve, Binance – everyone wants to buy CB BlockFi
Obviously, other companies and protocols see an opportunity in this dramatic situation. Indeed, the 87,000 users make BlockFi’s credit card program attractive.
Therefore, many companies are said to be in talks with BlockFi to acquire this program.
For example, we learned that the protocol Curve Finance would be interested in the acquisition or a partnership with Deserve. As a reminder, Deserve is the bank card handling partner for BlockFi.
According to information disclosed by the Curve spokesperson, the platform would like to continue offering rewards in cryptocurrencies to BlockFi bank card users. However, Curve doesn’t want to push these users towards a new centralized solution.
” What sets our offering apart is that Curve is not a centralized exchange and has no commercial activity. We issue a credit card with cryptocurrency rewards and earn money from interchange revenue and interest; we are not trying to convert credit card customers into exchange customers. »
At the same time, rumors suggest so Coinbase and Binance US may also be interested in the acquisition The BlockFi CB service. One later denied by Coinbase and on which Binance has not yet pronounced itself. On the FTX side, the situation continues to escalate. Like this New revelations point to potential insider trading between Alameda Research and FTX.
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Taxes, Borrowing & Gaming At The Heart Of Pa. Budget ImpassePennsylvania has a new budget but still no plan to pay for it.
PLCB To Begin Accepting Tavern Gaming License ApplicationsThe Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board will begin accepting applications later this month for "tavern gaming licenses."
Pennsylvania Gaming Up, State Moves Into Second Place Behind NevadaForget the economy -- Pennsylvanians are playing the slots at record numbers, making 2012 the best year ever with nearly $2.5 billion in slots revenue.
Best Ways To Save During The Holiday Sales RushThe race is on to be first in line for this year's best deals on holiday gifts: Black Friday is almost here. Every year, the stores open earlier in the wee hours of the morning, some even open at midnight after Thanksgiving Day, while other stores start the Black Friday sales on Turkey Day itself. If you're going to get up that early (on a day off, no less), it is important to be prepared.
Where Is Pa. Gaming Revenue Really Going?It's a promise dating back to 2004. Gov. Ed Rendell promised that revenue from gaming would significantly reduce in your school property tax bill.
Lawrence Co. Casino Project Back On TrackThe Pennsylvania Harness Racing Commission has approved a new operator to take over a Lawrence County horse-racing track and casino project.
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Seattle, WA — This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Washington State Wine Commission. In 1987, the Washington State legislature created this government agency with the intent of giving a voice to every winery and wine grape grower, and to champion the marketing goals of the Washington State wine industry. The legislature had the foresight to recognize that “the production of wine grapes in the state is a new and important segment of Washington agriculture which has potential for greater contribution to the economy of the state if it undergoes healthy development.”
Since that tipping point, the state’s wine industry has seen tremendous growth in terms of numbers, sophistication, and setting standards of quality recognized globally, growing from around 40 wineries in the late 1980’s to nearly 750 licensed wineries today. The Commission will celebrate their 25-year milestone by honoring 25 members of the Washington State wine industry who have been in business for 25 years or more through a series of grower and vintner profiles. These essays aim to highlight a diverse cross-section of industry veterans that helped shape the past quarter century of Washington State wine. (Stay tuned for more about the honorees as the announcements are made public.)
The Commission has also announced an expanded campaign for Washington Wine Month and the Washington Wine Restaurant Awards to take place in March 2012. Washington Wine Month will have a dedicated website promoting the many and varied wine promotions going on in restaurants, retail outlets, and winery tasting rooms throughout the month.
Additionally, the Auction of Washington Wines will celebrate 25 years of charitable giving from the Washington wine industry. The Auction, overseen by The Commission and aided with contributions from scores of organizations and sponsors including Washington Tasting Room Magazine, is considered the region’s most prestigious charity wine event with over $26 million donated to uncompensated care at Seattle Children’s Hospital and an additional portion given to the Washington Wine Education Foundation.


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Autonomous Driving Update
This infographic highlights fully- and semi-autonomous driving, which is still a relatively new concept. While interest has risen slightly since last year, overall acceptance has room to grow. Drivers interested in fully- or semi-autonomous driving features want to have the latest technology, with the safety benefit being an added bonus. However, consumers still want the responsibility of driving their own vehicle until these technologies fully gain consumer confidence and trust.


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* Salespeople earned more for recruiting than selling
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WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Federal and state regulators on Monday shut down direct-sales company Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing following complaints that the company was operating a pyramid scheme.
Fortune Hi-Tech, which promoted itself as a way for average people to achieve financial independence, had recruited people to sell products made by Dish Network, certain cellphone providers and Frontpoint Home Security, the Federal Trade Commission said. It also sold a range of health and beauty products.
The company’s distributors earned very little for selling goods and services and made more for signing up additional sales people, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway said after a raid on its Lexington, Kentucky, offices.
“Legitimate firms work the other way,” he said. “This is a classic pyramid scheme in every sense of the word.”
Law enforcement estimated that 100,000 people across the United States had been affected by the scheme. In some areas, including Chicago, the scheme targeted Spanish-speaking consumers.
Most paid $100 to $300 in annual fees and some paid additional money to be eligible for sales commissions and recruiting bonuses.
The FTC and the states of Illinois, Kentucky and North Carolina filed a complaint against Fortune Hi-tech Marketing on Thursday. A judge granted a temporary restraining order requiring the company to be shut down.
At a press conference in Lexington, Steve Baker, director of the FTC’s Midwest regional office, declined to comment on whether the move against Fortune Hi-Tech means the agency is making a more aggressive push against direct marketers.
No one answered the telephone at Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing on Monday. Callers reached a recorded message in which an unidentified man explained the closure and said the company expected to be “vindicated.”
“We are confident that our side of the story will be heard and we are already making positive strides toward re-opening,” the message said.
The company’s website () was still functional on Monday afternoon.
Another direct sales company in the spotlight recently is weight-loss and nutritional products company Herbalife Ltd , which has been in a battle with activist hedge fund manager William Ackman.
Ackman in December revealed a short position in the stock, describing the multi-level marketer as a “pyramid scheme” because distributors earn more than 10 times as much from recruitment as from selling the company’s products. Shares in Herbalife, which has denied Ackman’s charge, fell more than 8 percent on Monday.
The FTC’s Baker declined to comment on Herbalife specifically or whether the agency is making a bigger push against direct marketers in general.
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FACEBOOK SAYS IT CAN READ THOUGHTS WITH MIND-READING DEVICE
Facebook is working on a headset that can transfer a person’s thoughts directly onto a computer screen using a brain-machine interface.
A paper describing the technology, published in Nature Communications, reveals how the headset is able to decode brain activity to instantly transcribe what a person is saying into text on a computer screen.
The algorithm that decodes the activity is currently only able to recognise a small set of words and phrases but the technology giant said that its non-invasive, wearable device could one day allow people with paralysis to communicate.
The technology could also transform the utility of augmented reality glasses and virtual reality headsets through thought-based controls.
“Being able to recognise even a handful of imagined commands, like ‘home’, ‘select’, and ‘delete’ would provide entirely new ways of interacting with today’s VR systems – and tomorrow’s AR glasses,” Facebook wrote in ablog post describing the brain-computer interface device.
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Steve Schussler, creator of the Rainforest Cafe, opened his first T-Rex in the new center in 2006. T-Rex, at 1847 Village West Parkway, featured animatronic dinosaurs, cascading waterfalls, bubbling geysers, an interactive fossil dig site, an ice cave and a 5,000-gallon shark tank.
At the time, Landry’s Restaurants Inc., which had 80 percent ownership with Schussler Creative Inc.’s 20 percent, said the Legends Outlets was expected to be the largest single tourism draw in Kansas — 12 million to 15 million visitors a year — and the area was a hotbed of paleontological history so was the “perfect location to marry the whimsicality and reality of the dinosaur era.”
The cafe offered soups, salads, burgers and entrees such as the Tar Pit Fried Shrimp and fire-roasted rotisserie chicken. Its retail shop featured a Build-A-Dino by Build-A-Bear.
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A T-Rex Cafe later opened in Orlando’s Downtown Disney Marketplace.
Officials with the Legends Outlets confirmed the closing.
In a statement, Keith Beitler, senior vice president and COO, specialty restaurant and amusement divisions and international franchising for Landry's Inc., said: “The T-Rex Cafe in Kansas City closed its doors on Saturday, August 12. The landlord opted not to renew our lease causing the closure of our restaurant. We value our employees, their work experience and dedication to our company; and are working to relocate them.”
Landry’s also operates McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant on the Country Club Plaza
In other Legends Outlets news:
▪ Cavender’s recently relocated to a 16,650-square-foot space at 1867 Village West Parkway, Suite D-105. It will have a grand opening event Friday and Saturday.
▪ Under Armour Factory House plans to relocate and nearly double in size in the former Cavender’s space. The new 12,000-square-foot store is scheduled to open this fall.
▪ H&M plans a late October opening.
▪ HomeGoods plans a 2018 opening.
The Legends also recently announced a new parklike addition dubbed “the Lawn.” It will have green space and shaded areas with tables and chairs, along with interactive elements including a jumbo outdoor LED screen. A late fall opening is scheduled.


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Huawei ships 200M smartphone units for 2019 in record time
As Huawei Consumer Business Group announced that it has shipped 200 million smartphones around the globe to date in 2019, which is 64 days earlier than the same shipment milestone last year, George Li takes the opportunity to thank the Philippine market for its continuous support for Huawei. "We're thankful for the support of Filipinos and for contributing to the massive success of the company. Huawei has been helping to shape and navigate Philippines’ digital future ever since. And we are grateful that we’ve grown alongside our consumers and partners making it possible for us to achieve a record-high 200 million shipments,” Li said.


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The future of publishing will be shaped by those who dare push the boundaries, and Apple has made this into an art. Great ideas together with the power of technology has opened doors no one has thought of. That’s why the launch of iPad on 28th January 2010 is such a significant event. It is not just about some cool looking device but what it portends for the future of publishing, and what it would look like even a year from today. Both the naysayers and stargazers will have their say on this. My take? Apple’s business model will take off.
Apple’s vision will impact the publishing industry, no doubt about that. Based on liberty and sharing of revenue through a harvest model, it is very similar to Scribd’s. The two elements that Apple has incorporated into their business model for content providers are:
1. Apple allows publishers to set pricing
2. Apple takes a 30 per cent cut of sales of books
Consumers of Apple products have been trained to pay for online content. They happily fork out their dollars because they get what they want for a fee that doesn’t hurt their pocket at the push of a button. How easy is that? Real easy. The success of Apps is a testament to this. Media companies better start looking from the readers perspective of things if they want to catch this gravy train. Hachette, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster have already signed up with Apple for the iBooks application.


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Less than a quarter of people aged in between 23 and 38 (so-called millennials) can accurately define the phrase “ransomware”, much more than a single-fifth of Brits really don’t know how to modify their Wi-Fi safety settings, one-third of Aussies “don’t really feel the need” to ever use a VPN, 30% of Individuals feel “malware” is some thing used to increase the array of a Wi-Fi router, and 50% of individuals who consider a function product residence have enable their friends and household use it.
These ended up just some of the more intriguing conclusions in Proofpoint’s sixth annual Point out of the Phish report, which highlighted the scale of ignorance among close-people when it comes to cyber security, the scale of the obstacle struggling with safety gurus, and the scale of the stability industry’s failure to teach.
In a environment exactly where 90% of international organisations surveyed mentioned they had been qualified by organization electronic mail compromise (BEC) and spear phishing assaults, Proofpoint assembled knowledge from virtually 50 million simulated phishing attacks, 3rd-bash survey responses by security professionals in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the Uk and the US, and 3,500 functioning adults.
It observed that the bulk of men and women in basic unsuccessful to notice the standard rules of cyber stability hygiene. For instance, 45% admitted to password reuse, much more than 50% did not password shield their residence networks, 32% had been unfamiliar with VPNs, and 90% made use of their operate PCs and smartphones for personalized things to do.
Recognition of frequent protection phrases, this sort of as malware, phishing and ransomware, was also discovered to be missing. Only 61% could effectively outline phishing, and only 31% malware, exposing both equally a knowledge gap and a language barrier for stability educators. Recognition also assorted wildly in between age groups. Millennials tended to underperform in security recognition, reflecting other recent experiments on the very same topic, despite the fact that it is not obvious why this ought to be.
“Effective security consciousness teaching have to focus on the problems and behaviours that issue most to an organisation’s mission,” claimed Joe Ferrara, senior vice-president and normal manager of safety consciousness schooling at Proofpoint.
“We recommend having a people-centric method to cyber stability by blending organisation-vast awareness training initiatives with focused, menace-pushed education and learning. The objective is to empower buyers to recognise and report assaults.”
The place acceptable stability awareness teaching was carried out, the outcomes had been noticeable, with 78% of surveyed organisations stating they had observed “measurable reductions” in phishing susceptibility as a outcome.
Advancement in conclusion-person electronic mail reporting, which is a crucial metric when it arrives to understanding and gauging favourable behaviours, was a different optimistic development picked out by the report. Much more than 9 million suspicious emails were reported in 2019 – up 67% from 2018.
Proofpoint said this was a very good indication due to the fact it suggested stop-end users had been becoming extra vigilant and superior ready to determine threats – a valuable ability offered the pointed out pattern to a lot more focused and personalised forms of assault.
Altogether, 5% of the organisations surveyed stated they had dealt with 1 thriving phishing assault previous calendar year, and safety execs documented higher volumes of social engineering makes an attempt. A complete of 88% explained they experienced found spear-phishing tries, 86% documented BEC attacks, 84% SMS/textual content phishing or smishing, 83% voice phishing or vishing, and 81% malicious USB drops.
A apparent majority of organisations also noted that they were now getting corrective motion against consumers who make recurring mistakes associated to phishing assaults, with quite a few respondents saying personnel recognition enhanced vastly if people had been made to bear the implications. The British isles was the country most likely to impose some financial penalty on recurring victims, even though organisations in France were being most probably to fire them.
The report also showed that 65% of surveyed experts reported that their organisation experienced seasoned a ransomware infection in 2019. Of these, 33% opted to fork out up in opposition to all guidance, when 32% held firm. Of those people that negotiated, 9% found they were extorted for even further payments, and 22% in no way bought accessibility to their facts.


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Linking buyers with suppliers of surplus food
ANTI-FOOD-WASTE company Yume provides an online marketplace connecting food suppliers with buyers, enabling them to list and sell their surplus products at a discount.
Basically it connects manufacturers, primary producers and importers with industrial caterers, wholesalers, manufacturers, hotels, event centres and other food service businesses.
The two-year-old company will be featured next month on television’s ABC War on Waste, focusing on Yume’s role in tackling food waste.
The episode on August 7 will follow a live deal on the Yume platform. A consignment of Mondelez cream cheese is sold via Yume to a dip manufacturer and traders at Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Markets.
Sodexo Australia deal
Food services, catering and facilities management company, Sodexo Australia, last week announced it will buy food and produce from Yume and use it at Sodexo sites across the country.
So far Sodexo has purchased 9920 kilograms of food from Yume, including 500kg of Australian feta cheese, more than five tonnes of crushed tomatoes, and a range of poultry products including coated chicken fillets and southern style chicken portions.
Yume’s founder and CEO Katy Barfield says the company recently helped an Australian company left stranded with 27 tonnes of yellow-fin tuna after a large supermarket cancelled their order at the last minute.
“Via the Yume platform the supplier was able to find a buyer. We’re urgently calling for all food manufacturers and primary producers to join Yume, so that we can help prevent this food, which takes time, money and valuable resources to grow, pick, pack and distribute, from going to waste,” Ms Barfield said.
The Yume marketplace is operational Australia-wide and has buyers in New Zealand and Europe.
Consumers greatest wasters
It is estimated that a massive 3.9 million tonnes of food goes to waste annually in the commercial sector in Australia. Though fellow food waste warriors at OzHarvest, in their Look, Buy, Store, Cook campaign, say consumers are the greatest wasters of food, more than supermarkets, restaurants, manufacturers and farms combined.
Back at Yume though they are working on the commercial sector.
Its founder and CEO Katy Barfield says food rescue organisations collect and re-distribute approximately 44,300 tonnes of surplus food per annum.
“This is just 2 per cent of the total commercial and industrial food waste in Australia,” Ms Barfield says.
“A scalable and economical model is needed if we are to tackle the food waste mountain in front of us. It’s still early days but all signs are positive.
“To date, Yume has returned $1.4 million back to Australian farmers and manufacturers and prevented over 300,000kg of top quality products from going to waste.
“Environmentally, this equates to 600 tonnes of CO2 prevented and 20.7 million litres of water saved.”
In this edition of Australian Food News
- Research into supply chain damage to bananas
- Here’s why people bring the love for ALDI
- Costco colossus set to open new warehouse
International wholesaling colossus Costco will next month in Melbourne open its tenth warehouse in A...
Australian wine brand, Yellow Tail, has made a successful debut today into Super Bowl advertising, p...
Melbourne based The Confectionery House has hit the ground running in 2020 with release of a new&nb...
Coopers has launched its 2016 Vintage Ale.
Patties Foods, the owner of Four’N Twenty Pies, has increased its profits after selling its Creative...
Bidfood Australia Limited, one of the country’s leading foodservice distributors has acquired the bu...
British beverage giant, Diageo, has acquired George Clooney’s tequila range, Casamigos.
Coles supermarket has been forced to recall some of its chicken wings.


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The Indian government recently launched a digital airstrike on China by imposing a ban on TikTok. Following this ban from India, the United States also started to do the same for their nation. Moreover, the Chinese hackers planned to hack user accounts by launching the new TikTok Pro app which is nothing but a new Android malware.
TikTok users are searching for a potent video creating an application and to fill this desire Instagram has launched its Reels features. With Instagram Reels feature allows you to create and watch short videos just like TikTok. TikTok users are glad to have a substitute in the form of Instagram reels.
The power of joy can’t stop, won’t stop.
— Instagram (@instagram) July 10, 2020
TikTok replacement Instagram reels launch in India
Instagram Reels feature is currently under testing and soon the feature will be available for everyone. Official release date is still under rocks but smartphone users will be able to try it after updating the Instagram app.
Instagram Reels functions in a way where users can create 15 seconds short videos with popular music tracks. Instagram is looking forward to making Instagram Reels a platform like TikTok where users can participate in different challenges and trends. This is the best form of aggressive marketing that one can see in our world.
The most important part of Instagram Reels vs TikTok is how to create Instagram Reels. The Reels highlight can be gotten to a similar way Boomerangs or Instagram Lives, through alternatives at the base of your screen in Instagram’s camera include. By tapping or holding down the hover at the base of the screen, clients will have the option to begin recording their 15-second recordings with choices like speed, impacts, AR channels, and a clock accessible to them. Reels enable you to utilize your own unique sound too and afterward share that sound with different users for their own Reels.
Let us know what you have to say about this new feature from Instagram in the comments section below! Also, don’t forget to join us on our Telegram Channel for more such latest updates and discussions.


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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of important decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a publication crafted to convey you important developments during the last week.
Uniswap, one of many main decentralized change platforms, is integrating debit and bank card help for its customers. It can permit Uniswap customers to purchase cryptocurrency instantly with their playing cards.
An ex-employee triggered Ankr protocol’s latest $5 million hack. The DeFi protocol alerted related authorities and is searching for to prosecute the attacker whereas shoring up its safety practices.
A Web3 developer has claimed that many crypto ecosystem initiatives would reasonably get hacked than pay bounties. After reporting and serving to patch a wise contract vulnerability, the developer claims that the initiatives he helped began to disregard him. Nevertheless, regardless of a tumultuous 12 months, DeFi, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and blockchain video games drove decentralized utility (DApp) utilization throughout the trade, in keeping with DappRadar’s 2022 report.
The highest 100 DeFi tokens had a bearish week, with practically the entire tokens buying and selling in purple on the weekly charts.
Uniswap to permit customers to purchase cryptocurrency utilizing debit and bank cards
Decentralized change Uniswap has partnered with fintech firm Moonpay to permit customers to purchase cryptocurrency on its net app utilizing debit playing cards, bank cards, and financial institution transfers. The financial institution switch possibility is being rolled out for customers inside most United States states, Brazil, the UK, and the Single Euro Funds Space, also referred to as SEPA.
Within the announcement made on Dec. 20, Uniswap shared that its customers will now be capable of convert fiat to cryptocurrency on the Ethereum mainnet, Polygon, Optimism and Artibrum in a matter of minutes.
Initiatives would reasonably get hacked than pay bounties, Web3 developer claims
As hacks and exploits proceed to be rampant throughout the crypto trade, discovering vulnerabilities to stop potential losses is of utmost significance. Nevertheless, a Web3 developer highlighted that doing so will not be rewarding.
In a tweet, a Web3 developer claimed that he discovered a vulnerability in a Solana good contract that may have affected a number of initiatives and round $30 million in funds. In line with the dev, he reported and helped patch the vulnerabilities. Nevertheless, when it was time to ask for a reward, the initiatives simply began to disregard him.
Ankr says ex-employee triggered $5M exploit, vows to enhance safety
A $5 million hack of the Ankr protocol on Dec. 1 was brought on by a former staff member, in keeping with a Dec. 20 announcement from the Ankr staff.
The ex-employee performed a “provide chain assault” by placing malicious code right into a package deal of future updates to the staff’s inner software program. As soon as this software program was up to date, the malicious code created a safety vulnerability that allowed the attacker to steal the staff’s deployer key from the corporate’s server.
DeFi, NFT, blockchain video games: Key takeaways from DappRadar’s 2022 evaluate
2022 will go down as a difficult 12 months for the cryptocurrency and blockchain house, however the adversity confronted has been sprinkled with loads of positives within the DApp ecosystem.
DappRadar has launched its yearly report on the trade, specializing in challenges confronted alongside notable technological achievements and rising each day customers.
DeFi market overview
Analytical knowledge reveals that DeFi’s complete market worth dipped beneath $40 billion this previous week, buying and selling at about $38.1 billion on the time of writing. Information from Cointelegraph Markets Professional and TradingView, present that DeFi’s prime 100 tokens by market capitalization had a unstable and bearish week, with practically the entire tokens buying and selling within the purple.
Thanks for studying our abstract of this week’s most impactful DeFi developments. Be part of us subsequent Friday for extra tales, insights and schooling on this dynamically advancing house.


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By Stephen Nellis
(Reuters) – Apple Inc rolled out a new virtual fitness service and a bundle of all its subscriptions, Apple One, focusing a holiday-season product launch on services that are the backbone of Apple’s growth strategy and that cater to customers working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apple also introduced a new Apple Watch Series 6 that monitors blood oxygen and will cost $399 and a more basic Apple Watch SE for $279.
But the bevy of incremental updates to existing hardware and subscription price tinkering disappointed investors, with Apple shares closing up 0.2%.
The Apple One bundle will cost $15 per month for an individual plan or $20 per month for a family plan and include television, music and games. Apple is also offering a bundle for $30 per month that adds news, the fitness service and more storage.
“It’s a lot more aggressive pricing than I thought,” said Ben Bajarin, principal analyst for consumer market intelligence at research firm Creative Strategies, adding that Apple customers already paying $15 a month for family plans to some of the company’s content servers would likely find the largest bundle a “no-brainer.”
Apple’s top streaming music rival Spotify Technology criticized the bundle, saying Apple was abusing its dominant market position to favor Apple Music. Spotify, which is pursuing an antitrust case against Apple in the European Union and has spoken with U.S. authorities probing the iPhone maker, charges $10 a month for its streaming service that competes with Apple but will not be eligible for Apple’s bundle.
In a statement responding to Spotify’s criticism, Apple said the bundle was aimed at existing users of its services and that “customers can discover and enjoy alternatives to every one of Apple’s services.”
Apple said both new watches and a new eighth-generation iPad can be pre-ordered starting Tuesday and will be available on Friday. Apple also introduced the Apple Fitness+ service, powered by its watches, that will deliver virtual workouts for $10 per month or $80 per year and be available before the end of the year.
Apple’s fitness service puts it closer to competition with Peloton Interactive Inc , which makes connected exercise gear and sells subscriptions to online fitness classes. Apple said that most of its workouts were designed to be conducted with either no equipment or minimal gear such as a set of dumbbells. Peloton’s workouts typically require either a bike or a treadmill. Shares of Peloton closed up 4%. The ability of the Apple Watch to monitor blood oxygen seeks to beat a similar feature already available on watches from rival Fitbit Inc , which Alphabet Inc’s Google is buying for $2.1 billion. Apple said its watch will be able to take absolute blood oxygen measurements on-demand while the user is still, while Fitbit’s devices currently show either variations in blood oxygen levels or a set of measurements taken while the user is sleeping.
Apple also for the first time offered a way to use an Apple Watch without pairing it one-to-one with an iPhone, offering what it calls “Family Setup.”
FASTER IPAD CHIP
Apple added a faster chip to its base model iPad, which it priced at $329 for consumers and $299 for education customers. Apple’s new iPad Air will cost $599 and look more like its iPad Pro models and a new A14 processor chip that Apple says will be the first to use a 5-nanometer chip manufacturing process.
An update of Apple’s biggest seller – the iPhone – is expected to be announced next month after executives have said its launch will be delayed by several weeks because of pandemic-related disruptions.
Apple said flu investigators in Washington state will study heart rate and blood oxygen data from Apple Watch for potential early signs of respiratory conditions like influenza and COVID-19.
Doctors in India and other countries have used pulse oximeters to remotely check on COVID-19 patients and ensure their oxygen saturation level does not fall too low.
Apple shares have soared this year even as the virus has crippled economies around the world, thanks in large part to booming sales of work-from-home items.
Apple shares gave up gains to trade flat on Tuesday after climbing more than 50% for the year, well ahead of the 23% gain for the Nasdaq. Even though Apple stock has fallen from a record high earlier this month, it remains near a $2-trillion stock market valuation.
(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Nick Zieminski)
Video: Apple Launch showcases Fitness+ service and powerful A14 bionic chip (Sky News Australia)


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WARWICKSHIRE Police’s Commercial Vehicle Unit has been named as a finalist in the Public Service Operator of the Year category in the UK Logistics Awards 2020.
The awards, now in their fourth year, celebrate the companies and individuals who have made a significant contribution to the logistics and supply chain sectors.
The Commercial Vehicle Unit works with commercial vehicles across the county, ensuring HGV drivers are taking the appropriate breaks, paying the HGV levy, securing their loads and adhering to regulations.
Sergeant Carl Stafford from the unit said: “We are delighted to be named as a finalist. As a relatively new and small team, it is a huge honour to be selected as one of the ‘best of the best’.
“We are grateful to the officers and staff including specials that support our many road safety operations on Warwickshire’s roads, to Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner Philip Seccombe who has supported us through funding, and to the many partners we work with, in particular Highways England, who provide the HGV supercab for Operation Tramline.”
David Wells, Chief Executive of Logistics UK, said: “During the Covid-19 pandemic, our industry has been recognised by government – quite rightfully – as key to the ongoing success of the British economy and our 2020 awards will provide the ideal opportunity to acknowledge the extraordinary achievements of those working in our sector.
“These finalists represent the ‘best of the best’ of our sector – the businesses and individuals determined to keep Britain trading, both at home and overseas.
“They have been selected for their outstanding commitment, knowledge and expertise, and represent a wide range of UK companies across transport modes and business sectors.
“They should be justly proud of the contribution they are making to both the logistics sector and wider UK economy.”
Warwickshire Police’s entry will be judged by members of the Logistics UK Board, which includes representatives from some of the sector’s most influential businesses.
The winners will be announced at a celebratory reception and gala dinner at Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London on Thursday December 10, hosted by BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker. Visit https://logistics.org.uk/events/logistics-awards for more information.


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Apple’s decision to focus more on upmarket iPhones has looked inevitable for some time and should not be a surprise to many in the industry. There has been a creaking sound between operating systems across the industry as Apple has maintained its top level prices, and now with its latest XS models, gone ‘upwardly mobile’ higher above the thousand dollar threshold, all the while as what you get for your money with Android has increased.
In the last couple of years Apple has not only kept some older models in production but has sought to increase its reach into selected emerging markets through encouraging the sale of refurbishment of models in its CPO – certified pre-owned — scheme. This made sense to begin with, for one simple reason in the evolution of the modern smartphone, screen size. The latest models at that moment had bigger screens, giving an obvious logic why a CPO small screen phone should cost a lot less than the latest model. But in the more recent iterations of the bigger 4.7 inch display, it has become less obvious why a consumer would want to pay the extra for the latest iPhone version when the first big screen phones, the 6 and 6S, were already a big jump forward over the smaller formats, and Apple has been faced with a clear potential cannibalization of sales of new models by offering refurbished older ones. Now against the latest Android models the entry level smaller screen SE looks old and inadequate, and Apple is not in the business of selling things that look old and inadequate.
According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the average price paid for an Android phone in Western Europe and the US is not much less than half that of a median iPhone XR, now the company’s most popular model, but the multiple is more than five times in India and more than three times in China.
The Chinese figure still amounted to nearly $32 billion at retail prices before sales tax, a figure which made it Apple’s second biggest market for the iPhone and worth more than Apple’s total sales across Western Europe.
While it may also not be so obvious in the predominantly middle class environment of developed markets, and with their prevalence of postpaid packages, but the choice of Apple in emerging markets is less about taste and more about prestige. Though the amount of bling inherent in the smartphone has gone down a lot overall, it still is important in poorer countries. And by definition to have status a product can’t be in too many hands.
Services are a growing part of Apple’s revenues, if not really a major motor of growth. A retrenchment to the top end of the market will crimp the potential reach of the iOS ecosystem, and leave it heavily orientated towards richer countries. But then again, the middle class is limited in much of the poorer parts of the world, many of whose countries have a small but very wealthy elite and then a long gap to the masses below. Even with smaller sales in these countries, Apple will still maintain a link to much of the wealthiest strata of society around the world.
Apple’s decision not to lean further to bring its products down across that yawning gap looks very logical, perhaps even a bit slow to take place. There are no official figures on what proportion of the profitability of the smartphone industry accrues to Apple, but most estimates are astounding and stand at above 90% of total profitability (according to the IDC Tracker, the iPhone in 2017 accounted for 36% ($165 billion) of the retail value revenue of smartphone globally on less than 15% of the unit sales). No wonder the iPhone is among the most successful consumer products in history.
Yet the financial community punished Apple shares on the news that it would no longer publish totals for the iPhone, by far the company’s most important product. After rising fast in the early part of the year, the Apple share price has fallen by a quarter since Apple announced it would no longer give out volume figures on iPhone sales.
But in concentrating on volume the financial community was focusing on the wrong metric, perhaps because the developed country based financial community did not take in to what extent Apple could not maintain unit growth in other parts of the world without compromising the premium nature of its products.
The retreat from the lower part of the market makes Apple even more dependent on its existing customer base, and on its willingness to buy every new iteration of the Apple product line. As the smartphone market matures, and innovation slows, that is becoming more and more of a challenge, and one on which Apple will have to more and more concentrate.
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Webkinz Afghan Hound is Coming to Webkinz World!
Yet another pet was added to the Webkinz World system with this morning's update -- The Webkinz Afghan Hound! We're very surprised to find that this is going to be a virtual-only pet from the Ganz eStore. The new pet will come with Stylish Salon Seating as a PSI and Chowlow as a PSF. We can't give you an estimate as to when this pet will be available, but we believe that it will arrive at the eStore some time in April, 2010.
There are currently 10 users and 370 guests online.
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More Retail Store Openings Scheduled for El Paso, Texas and Bologna, Italy
Just yesterday, we noted that Apple was planning two retail store openings for this week, with the Stratford City store in London opening today and the Jungfernstieg store in Hamburg, Germany following suit on Saturday. Apple has now announced two additional store openings for this Saturday, continuing its third quarter retail push to bring dozens of new stores online ahead of the holiday shopping period.
Cielo Vista Mall retail store in El Paso, Texas (Source: Rudy Gutierrez/El Paso Times)
- Cielo Vista Mall (El Paso, Texas): Apple's first Texas store west of San Antonio, the Cielo Vista Mall location will fill a significant hole in Apple's retail store coverage. The nearest existing store is over 250 miles north in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The nearest store to the west lies over 300 miles away in Tucson, Arizona, while the San Antonio stores are over 500 miles to the east.
Via Rizzoli retail store in Bologna, Italy (Thanks, Dimitris!)
- Via Rizzoli (Bologna, Italy): Apple's eighth Italian store is the company's first in Bologna and is located about 60 miles from the Florence store that opened just over a month ago. The standalone store is the company's first in Italy to not be located inside a shopping mall.


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Poco has announced that it won't act as sub-brand of Xiaomi any longer. The company is now considered as a independent brand itself
Poco's latest versus the Micromax's latest. Let's put them against each other and see which one takes the lead.
Poco M3 comes in Power Black, Cool Blue and Poco Yellow colours.
Poco M3 leaked renders show a device that has a camera module similar to the OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk Edition.
Poco has confirmed through its global Twitter account that the newest device in Poco lineup will be launching on 24th November.
The Poco X3 which was launched a while back had some great specifications at a very reasonable price. The device was made to crush its competitors in the same price range, but was it successful in doing that? Let's take a look
Dozens of mobile phones are getting launched around the globe. We have already seen a lot of smartphones launches in July month in India itself. Let’s check out some of the best upcoming smartphones launching in India next month with expected specs. Most of them are from Samsung as Samsung is all set to host its Galaxy Unpacked event on August 5. The event will include the launch of its flagship smartphones that will also be launched in India. So, without further ado, here’s the list of the expected upcoming smartphones in August 2020.


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Zong and LUMS have entered into a strategic partnership through an MoU for the development of a state-of-the-art 4G research lab at the varsity.
Infinix Mobility has launched Infinix Zero 3 in Pakistan for Rs. 20,899/- with 6GB free data for 6 months from Zong 4G. It's packed with 3GB RAM and Helio X10 chipset. 20MP camera with dual LED flash and 5M front-camera also with LED flash.
Zong brings consumer-friendly offer called "Double Everything" to give 100 percent or 2 times of all the prepaid bundles for which you pay once.
Warid Telecom joined hands with United World Colleges for an event that aimed to bring parents together to share their thoughts on their children who are studying on scholarships at leading colleges and universities around the globe.
Mmost extreme selfie-takers are driven by the appreciation – or most probably the “validation”, of their friends and followers on social media.
Huawei Honor 5X is now available in Pakistan for the price of Rs. 29,799/- to be exact with 6GB free 3G internet from Mobilink for 6 months. Honor 5X's price in Pakistan is 50% higher than for which it's sold globally
Cheezmall soon to launch Lenovo ZUK Z1 in Pakistan with free smartwatch and 6 months free internet, both worth over Rs. 7,000/- It's the high-end Android smartphone running on CyanogenMod 12.1 based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop.
Huawei has launched a Pro version of its Y6 mid-range smartphone. The phone comes with a 5" touchscreen display with a resolution of 720 pixels by 1280 pixels
In a recent announcement Huawei Technologies has revealed that Huawei P8 Lite has recorded a history of shipment across the globe.
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has said that international business community’s confidence to invest in Pakistan has been restored, while meeting Mr. Jean Yves Charlier, CEO - VimpelCom.
If you own an iPhone with 16GB storage, you may probably get that upgraded to 128GB for just $60, that too in 30 minutes only.
Infinix once again surprised its consumer base with the news that their new software update based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow is soon going to hit their latest Note 2 smartphone.


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Analogue mobile TV will boom
While seemingly the whole world is switching to digital TV and abandoning analogue broadcasting it is worth remembering that for much of the planet analogue transmission will remain in place for years to come. One study suggests that 85% of the world’s population will be locked into analogue for several more years. “Which,” says In-Stat,” is why the analogue mobile TV format has proved so successful in many developing markets”. One growth area is in free-to-air mobile TV.
Analysts at In-Stat estimate that 54m analogue-TV-enabled phones will be in the hands of consumers by the end of 2009, rising to a massive 300m by 2012. Much of the raw data for the research was provided by Telegent Systems, which has shipped 20m units of its own mobile TV feature into major markets across Asia Pacific, Latin America and Turkey. Mobile operators in Latin America including Telefonica have also adopted Telegent’s mobile TV solution. Consumer adoption has been significant because the service is free, and it allows users to access terrestrial TV programmes that they are already familiar with.
This kind of take-up, numbering in the tens of millions, is in complete contrast to the mobile TV industry in Europe where consumer adoption has been very slow.
“The adoption of analogue mobile TV handsets has been driven by the most powerful force in the mobile industry: consumers,” said Frank Dickson, VP of research at In-Stat. “Analogue mobile TV has two very fundamental and compelling advantages – cost and availability. The infrastructure is already in place, there are no new standards that need to be enacted and the service is free to consumers – a very powerful combination.”
“In-Stat’s research findings help to validate our statement to the marketplace that analogue mobile TV is a very compelling content offering to a wireless operator’s subscriber base and to consumers,” said Telegent CEO Weijie Yun. “The success of free-to-air mobile TV is the result of two primary drivers, one is the fact that the content that consumers view is the same broadcast as what they watch on conventional TV, and the other is the universal coverage enabling consumers to watch it in almost every corner around the world.”


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Icecream vans may return to beaches
Andrew Potts | 01:05pm February 4, 2013
Ashleigh Terry, Tamika Willison and Mia Blackburn cool off at The Spit. Pic: Mike Batterham
The council's Community and Cultural Services committee is investigating changes to bylaws governing icecream vans, which at present prevent them selling their wares within 500m of shops with "similar products".
Mudgeeraba councillor Glenn Tozer has several trucks based in his division and said the bylaw was "not in the spirit" of the council.
"We want to free up the regulations on trucks while still keeping some protection for retail operators," he said.
"Vendors must be able to access local parks, beaches and other locations with nearby shops to conduct their business because the definition of similar product is incredibly vague and generally does not mean things such as soft-serves.
"Getting an icecream from a truck has been a big part of Australian life for more than 50 years and the idea of not being able to sell within 500m of a shop prevents operators from going where they are likely to find customers."
The council is seeking clarification as to what the definition of "similar products" can include before it makes a decision.
The bylaw was introduced in the late 1990s after a rise in the number of mobile food-traders prompted complaints from businesses.
Trucks previously caught trading near shops have been slugged with $300 fines by the council.
Mark Foreman has operated Mr Supersoft Ice Cream Vans for more than 20 years and said relaxed laws would boost business.
"We all sell soft-serve icecream while shops mostly have iceblocks, which are totally different," he said.
"Our trade is severely restricted because we cannot go near shops serving similar products, which rules out almost all beaches and many parks.
"Almost 95 per cent of our business is done on the street, so we would be in favour of the council changing the laws to give us greater trade."
Seaway Jetty and Kiosk operator Ray Balkin slammed the move and said a change in the regulations would damage his business.
"Icecream sales make up 15 per cent of my trade and, if we were to lose it through these vans gaining greater access, I would be forced to put off at least one member of staff," he said.
"The council must look out for small businesses before making a decision," he said.


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Reports on the death of TV advertising have been exaggerated, according to officials at PricewaterhouseCoopers, speaking at the company’s annual Outlook for the Entertainment & Media Industry conference.
But clearly, panelists at the event saw major growing pains ahead as both advertisers and media outlets adjust to paradigm shifts in media usage.
According to PWC, U.S. cable and broadcast networks will reap $73.2 billion in advertising, subscription fees and other forms of consumer spending by 2009, at a compounded annual growth rate of 6.4%. And pure ad spending in the sector will be $44.8 billion in 2009, at a compounded annual growth rate of 5.9%.
But prognosticators at the PWC panel sessions noted that the growth won’t come without some winces.
Jack Myers, editor and publisher of the Jack Myers Report, noted that for the first time in history, the broadcast networks’ upfront was down two years in a row, saying, “If you look back 20 years, every five years, the ratings have plateaued and then dropped off precipitously. Last year was the fifth year in the 20-year cycle.”
Tim Hanlon, senior vice president of Starcom MediaVest Group, added, “This is the first year that there’s clear evidence that the unbundling of television is under way.” He noted that marketers are starting to put their money into broadband video and the Internet.
Broadband video changed over the past 18 months from a “negligible business to -- going into this year’s upfront -- well over $100 million-$150 million of historically TV money,” Hanlon said. “The bleeding of linear television has already started.”


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News & Reviews: Garmin
Apr 05, 2021
Garmin Malaysia has announced that the Garmin Enduro is now available in the local market, and it’s available at the price of RM3699. The watch will be available for purchase from platforms such as Lazada, Shopee, AECO e-Store, as well as any authorized retailers available nationwide.
Jan 18, 2021
Yup, you read that right. New case studies are saying that smartwatches may have a key to detect a COVID-19 virus. According to research from Mount Sinai Health System, Stanford University and other reputable medical and academic institutions, smartwatches such as Apple Watch, Garmin and Fitbit can detect infections before the symptoms start appearing up to 7 days.
Here are some of the deals to lookout for during the 11.11 sale with more than 50% off selected products!Nov 09, 2020
With the 11.11 Sale happening in just a few days, brands such as Acer, Xiaomi, 1MORE, Garmin, Samsung, and more will be offering a bunch of discounts and free gifts on 11 November 2020. Not only will there be discounts, but the brands will also be offering a bunch of free gifts as depending on the product you purchased.
Jul 28, 2020
If you're a Garmin user and have been experiencing issues from their servers and services, you're not alone. It turned out that the company was under cyber attack for a week since 23 July and this affected their website, customer support, apps and others. Today, Garmin Malaysia just tweeted that their server systems are back to operation (but not all, though).
Oct 09, 2019
Garmin has announced that they will be hosting the Garmin Venu Roadshow in Midvalley East Atrium, from 9 October until 13 October 2019. In terms of the available colours and pricing, the Venu is available in Black and Rose Gold and it is priced at RM1799 at launch.
Oct 07, 2019
Earlier today, Garmin recently released the Garmin Venu GPS smartwatch in Malaysia priced at RM1799. The watch is mainly marketed towards users who are more fitness aware, as it comes with dozens of features such as all-day stress tracking, Body Battery energy monitor, activity tracker, and more.
Aug 30, 2019
Earlier this morning, Garmin has announced that they have officially released the Garmin Fenix 6 series premium multisport GPS watch starting from the price of RM2999. The Fenix 6 series will have three different variants including the Pro from RM2999, Sapphire from RM3950 as well as the most expensive variant, Pro Solar from the price of RM5699.
May 29, 2017
Good news guys! Health, fitness, and wellness tracking are now made more accessible for users of all ages thanks to Garmin's three new models - Vivosmart® 3, Vivofit® jr., and the Forerunner 935.
Jan 09, 2015
Garmin is a world renowned company specializing in GPS navigation products. The company is now shifting its focus to a hot new industry – wearables, as it recently announced three new smartwatches at CES 2015 in Las Vegas. First in the lot is the Garmin Vivoactive, which is also the company's first dedicated smartwatch. It comes with a square design like the LG G Watch and features the company's first app market called as the Connect IQ. The Vivoactive can display a number of information right on its small touchscreen display like emails, texts, social media interactions, calendar, reminders and missed calls. It can track distance as well as speed, thanks to the in-built GPS radio. The onboard battery typically lasts for three weeks…


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ANYONE at SMK Sri Utama, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, can tell you how much their principal loves singing. So for Rita Shanthini D Jayaratnam’s retirement, students, as well as teachers, went all out to prepare an amazing array of songs and performances.
PENAMPANG: SM St Michael here has successfully made it to the Malaysia Book of Records (MBOR) for an amazing 10th time for making the most number of pots from recycled materials.
PENAMPANG: SM St Michael here made it into the Malaysia Book of Records (MBR) for a 10th time with the most number of multipurpose pots (1,588) made from recycled detergent bottles.
BASED on the newest syllabus guidelines published by the Education Ministry, it is confirmed that the portion on khat will not be graded, Sin Chew Daily reported.
Intel Corp says it will publicly release employee pay data, broken down by race and gender later this year.
HO CHI MINH CITY/HONG KONG/SINGAPORE: Just next to Ho Chi Minh City's financial district, two dozen street vendors' stalls display colourful adverts for e-wallets backed by private equity firm Warburg Pincus, ride-hailing firm Grab and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC, among others.
The creator of League Of Legends said it’s working on six new games. They include Wild Rift, a version of its flagship title for mobile and console devices that will debut next year, and Legends Of Runeterra, an online card game featuring the company’s universe of characters.
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To meet consumers’ evolving preferences for nourishing snacks, the Kellogg’s Convenience team introduces new Special K Snack Bars in three unique flavors: Berry Medley, Salted Caramel Chocolate and Salted Pretzel Chocolate. All three varieties are made with appealing ingredients that consumers want, recognize and feel good about eating. With fruit, chocolate pieces, oats, rice crisps, pretzels, and other ingredients consumers can see and taste, Special K Snack Bars deliver a light, yet satisfying texture; the perfect combination of chewy and crispy.As a $1.2B brand in the U.S., Special K is well positioned to grow the snack bar category beyond the morning day part. Morning snacking has increased from 22% in 2010 to 37% in 2014, opening the door for retailers to capitalize on this daypart while expanding into the all-day occasion.
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Don't-Miss Security Software Stories
Cyberespionage groups could easily exploit vulnerabilities in antivirus programs to break into corporate networks, according to vulnerability researchers who have analyzed such products in recent years.
Avast launches Avast 2016 for PCs as well as Avast Mobile Security. Both include a ton of free features: Avast 2016 adds a free password manager ad an updated SafeZone browser.
The Saudi Arabian government came close to buying control of Italian surveillance software company Hacking Team, notorious for selling its product to undemocratic regimes, according to hacked emails posted by WikiLeaks.
To avoid leaving legitimate users behind, the anti-malware vendor hands out free licenses for faulty keys.
Several independent testing firms claim the accused companies submitted programs specially tuned to ace the benchmarks.
An anti-virus firm was left scrambling for a solution after it locks some users out of their own PCs.


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E-Scooter companies race to deploy in Kelowna
Another major scooter-sharing company has set its sights on Kelowna.
California-based Bird has announced plans to bring their dockless electric scooters to a number of Canadian cities with Kelowna near the top of the list.
"For Kelowna to be ahead of a whole bunch of other Canadian cities is really, really nice in that way and it's a testament to what we've built." said Active Transportation Coordinator Matt Worona.
According to the company's website, Bird is currently operating in over 100 cities around the globe. Kelowna is now reviewing a permit application from Bird to join the three other scooter-sharing companies that have received city approval.
Since overhauling the city's bike-share framework, Kelowna has granted permits to three different companies looking to deploy their own fleets of e-scooters. San Francisco's Spin was the first to secure a permit to deploy 400 scooters locally. Kelowna-based OGO and Ontario's Zip Dockless have also been approved to launch their own scooter share programs.
"You're getting some of the biggest market players being interested as well as some of the smaller players and we really want it to be flexible."
While the scooters can reach speeds up to 45 kilometres per hour, they are currently banned from public roads. The BC Government has signalled it intends to update provincial traffic laws to allow for e-scooters but it's unclear when those changes will be implemented.


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HONG KONG/SHANGHAI: China’s Ant Group may raise as much as $17.three billion within the Shanghai leg of the seemingly $35 billion twin itemizing, the world’s largest ever, after some giant traders submitted bids within the vary of 68-69 yuan per share, folks with data of the matter stated.
The simultaneous itemizing in Hong Kong and Shanghai of the Chinese monetary expertise large, backed by e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, would beat the earlier largest IPO, Saudi Aramco’s $29.four billion float final December.
The pricing for the Shanghai tranche of the preliminary public providing was selected Friday, Alibaba founder Jack Ma stated on Saturday, with out disclosing the price.
“It’s the first time that the pricing of such a big listing – the largest in human history – has been determined outside New York City,” he advised the Bund Summit within the japanese monetary hub of Shanghai, referring to Ant’s float as a “miracle”.
Later on Saturday, an individual with direct data of the matter advised Reuters many giant Chinese fund managers had bid for Ant shares within the itemizing on the Nasdaq-style STAR Market in Shanghai at near 69 yuan ($10.32) apiece.
At 69 yuan per share, Ant may raise as much as 115.three billion yuan ($17.three billion) within the Shanghai tranche, valuing the corporate as an entire at as much as 2.1 trillion yuan ($314 billion), earlier than a 15% greenshoe or over-allotment choice is exercised.
Under native market guidelines, the ultimate price for the IPO, which might even be the primary dual-listing in Hong Kong and on the year-old STAR, relies on steering from giant traders.
The folks declined to be named as they weren’t authorised to talk to the media. Ant declined to touch upon the pricing.
The IPO would burnish the Shanghai-based exchange’s standing as a fast-growing capital markets heart, at a time when rising Sino-U.S. tensions have triggered considerations in regards to the prospects of itemizing of Chinese corporations in New York.
Ant has chosen the stock code 688688 for its Shanghai itemizing, which for Chinese audio system combines two of the luckiest or most auspicious numbers, collectively symbolizing long-lasting prosperity and success in Chinese tradition.
Books for the Shanghai leg of the float will open for someday on Oct. 29.
Ant plans to promote as much as 1.67 billion shares within the Shanghai float, which is ready to be the largest IPO in China, eclipsing the record set by Agricultural Bank of China’s $10.1 billion Shanghai float in 2010, in accordance with Refinitiv data.
Strategic traders, whose investments in Ant’s STAR IPO shall be locked up for at the least 12 months, will account for 80% of the Shanghai float.
Among them are Zhejiang Tmall Technology, a unit of Alibaba, which has dedicated to buy 44% of the Shanghai float, in accordance with Ant’s up to date prospectus.
Ant goals to separate the share sale evenly between Hong Kong and Shanghai, promoting as much as 11% of its enlarged share capital.
For the Hong Kong leg, Ant plans to open order books as quickly as Monday and price the providing in coming days, separate sources have stated.
Ant didn’t instantly reply to request for touch upon the Hong Kong timetable late on Saturday.
Its shares are more likely to begin buying and selling a number of days after the U.S. presidential election, which may gasoline a spike in market volatility.


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Shari's Berries International sold
- Kelly Johnson
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A San Diego online retailer has purchased the assets of Shari's Berries International Inc., and will maintain the gourmet dipped strawberries company and its employees in Roseville.
Provide Commerce Inc. said it signed an agreement Thursday to buy the assets of Shari's Berries International, but disclosed few details.
The deal does not affect the four Sacramento-area stores, which are owned and operated by Shari Fitzpatrick. She founded the original company, Shari's Berries Inc.
"We are excited about this important milestone for Shari's Berries and are ecstatic that we will remain headquartered here in our hometown of Sacramento," said Kevin Beresford, president of Shari's Berries International. "We believe this merger will provide tremendous opportunity for our continued success and our people."
Provide Commerce has worked with Shari's Berries International since November as a supplier to the San Diego company's Secret Spoon Sweets brand. The berries have the potential to be the "cornerstone of its sweets business," Provide Commerce said in a news release.
Provide Commerce operates online sellers of perishable goods, including flowers through ProFlowers, and fresh fruit, gourmet chocolates and sweets, and steaks through Cherry Moon Farms, Secret Spoon Sweets and Uptown Prime.
"We believe that by partnering together and combining our teams, we can leverage each other's strengths to bring the product to more people at a better value while helping our respective businesses fulfill their potential," Bill Strauss, Provide Commerce CEO, said in a news release.
Provide Commerce is owned by Colorado-based Liberty Interactive Group (Nasdaq GM: LINTA)., which is a part of Liberty Media Corp. Liberty Media operates and owns interests in video, online, media, communications and entertainment companies.
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