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Although hard-core players are expected to shun the iPad as a viable gaming platform, a number of studios are pushing ahead to develop casual titles for the tablet device.
For example, NGMoco of Eliminate and TouchPets fame, is currently re-developing (iPhone) App Store games for the iPad, while concurrently designing native titles from scratch.
“What the iPad does is, it gives Apple and everyone who publishes [for iPad] the ability to intersect with another area of what I call a person’s entertainment map – and that’s in the home,” NGMoco spokesperson Clive Downie told AdAge.
“Apple hasn’t really had that foothold in the house. It’s going to be a significant entertainment device; and gaming is a part of that.”
Mobclix co-founder Sunil Verma expressed similar sentiments.
“Its bigger screen, high resolution and better quality are more conducive to group type of games. You can imagine a family gathering around the iPad to play,” explained Verma.
“This time around it will be different than with the iPhone because the premium game publishers are developing for it right off the bat. You’ll see a lot of great big titles at launch.”
Meanwhile, Michael Cai, a video game analyst with Interpret, noted that Apple can most assuredly count on indie game developer support.
“If you asked people three or four years ago how they’d like to use their iPhones gaming probably wouldn’t have been high on the list. But Apple can bank on thousands of independent game developers and even traditional game developers and their creativity when it comes to iPad gaming,” added Cai.


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Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (ABG) Director Sells $99,240.00 in Stock
Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE:ABG) Director Juanita T. James sold 1,500 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $66.16, for a total value of $99,240.00. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink.
Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE:ABG) traded up $0.45 on Friday, hitting $66.25. The stock had a trading volume of 120,812 shares, compared to its average volume of 237,338. Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. has a 52 week low of $49.10 and a 52 week high of $71.00. The firm has a market capitalization of $1,358.35, a PE ratio of 10.52, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.17 and a beta of 1.55. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.60, a quick ratio of 0.38 and a current ratio of 1.25.
Asbury Automotive Group (NYSE:ABG) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October 24th. The company reported $1.48 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $1.57 by ($0.09). Asbury Automotive Group had a net margin of 2.54% and a return on equity of 42.24%. The business had revenue of $1.60 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.68 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.52 earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was down 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. analysts forecast that Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. will post 6.25 earnings per share for the current year.
Several research analysts recently commented on the company. Zacks Investment Research raised Asbury Automotive Group from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 17th. Jefferies Group reissued a “hold” rating and set a $61.00 price target on shares of Asbury Automotive Group in a research report on Thursday, October 12th. Finally, TheStreet raised Asbury Automotive Group from a “c+” rating to a “b-” rating in a research report on Wednesday, September 27th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, four have given a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Asbury Automotive Group has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $56.75.
Asbury Automotive Group Company Profile
Asbury Automotive Group, Inc is an automotive retailer in the United States. As of December 31, 2016, the Company owned and operated 93 new vehicle franchises, representing 28 brands of automobiles at 77 dealership locations, and 23 collision centers in the United States. In addition, as of December 31, 2016, it owned and operated two standalone used vehicle stores in Florida.
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Cybersecurity experts have issued a warning to the public regarding the growing arsenal of tools being used by hackers. You should think twice about asking strangers to borrow their charging cables.
Even though the cable might appear to be ordinary, cyberhackers have figured out how to implant charging cables with malware that can remotely hijack mobile devices and computers to steal your passwords and other sensitive information.
In an interview with Forbes, IBM Security Global Managing Partner Charles Henderson said, “Being careful about what you plug into your devices is just good tech hygiene.” He compared it to any other sensitive travel item. “If you were on a trip and realized you forgot to pack underwear, you wouldn’t ask all your co-travelers if you could borrow their underwear. You’d go to a store and buy new underwear.”
The cable was reportedly unveiled in Las Vegas earlier this month at DEF CON by a hacker known as MG. According to his blog, the prototypes are being sold for $200, and “there is no warranty or other guarantee behind them. But they have all been tested extensively (I only pass about 10-20% of the ones that I make). These are hand built, and take ~4hrs to make. But I wanted to get something out there for those who are eager to try them out and/or help support us.”
Henderson added, This kind of attack doesn’t scale real well, so if you saw it, it would be a very targeted attack.” The best way to keep your devices safe is to remain vigilant and avoid borrowing charging cables from untrusted sources.


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It was actually revealed that the new Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 in beta development stage would be made available to PlayStation 4 owners exclusively for limited time, and that too its a multipler gameplay.
It was also intitiated to launch in August, and the beta game was not revealed by Sony or the gameplay developers. Nevertheless, it has now been showed up thanks to those who attended the Black Ops 3 Zombies Escape Room Challenge, and they were issued a free swag bag that contained a PlayStation Plus card, revealing the Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 beta is a “PlayStation Exclusive” from 8.19.15 through to 8.23.15.
Providing that PlayStation 4 owners just five days to try and play the action before its hits the official consoles, platforms such as Microsoft’s Xbox One. But unfortunately there isn’t any time frame was announced confirming when the beta development stage would be starting on either PC or Xbox One.
Activision has stated that the dates for these platforms will be announced shortly. Here’s how to sign up for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 beta on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam for PC. Instructions involes pre-ordering the game and then registering the resulting code with Activision.


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After 10 years of transition and slow growth, Louisville’s Renaissance South Business Park finally seems to be living up to its name.
In recent months, three new projects — one by Dermody Properties LLC, one by Verus Partners LLC and another by Ground Freight Expeditors LLC — have been announced at the business park.
Those announcements came only a few months after Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc.’s UPS Supply Chain Solutions disclosed its plans for future development in the area.
Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford Motor Co. also is getting set to expand a staging lot it operates in the park.
The 450-acre Renaissance South Business Park is about two miles south of the end of the runways at Louisville International Airport.
It was designated as a business area after thousands of families living around the airport were relocated because of noise, following the airport expansion project two decades ago.
“After the relocation program got going, it was very apparent we were going to have a lot of land that had to be put back to use,” said Skip Miller, president of Louisville Renaissance Zone Corp., an agency formed to oversee development in the area.
The corporation was formed through an agreement between Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government, the state and the Louisville Regional Airport Authority. Miller is executive director of the airport authority.
Development of the property has been slower than anticipated, a reality that Miller chalks up to the recession in 2008 and 2009.
But he is hopeful that a thawing economy will continue to warm developers to the business park.
“As the economy improves, you’ll see more expansion of business,” he said. “We believe we’ll capture a portion of that because of where we’re at, what our location is.”
The home relocation program is voluntary, and about 20 homes remain within the business park, Miller said.
But despite the remaining residential properties, much has changed in the last decade or so.
The authority has invested $17 million in infrastructure at the park, mitigated wetlands and had the property rezoned for business use, Miller said.
The park’s biggest development came in 2008, when UPS opened a $68 million, 256,000-square-foot ground division sorting facility, Centennial Hub, on 60 acres it purchased there.
That operation, which has about 1,500 employees, dispatches about 150 brown package cars and about 150 tractor trailers each day, according to Nancy J. Barczak, Ohio Valley district communications supervisor for UPS Ground.
On an average day, more than 354,000 packages are processed there.
She said UPS chose the site because of its proximity to the airport, where the company’s UPS Airlines group operates its Worldport hub.
“Using areas around the airport gives us the latest possible (drop-off) times,” she said, so the company can offer more flexibility in terms of delivery options.
She noted that the drop box outside of Centennial Hub has a pick up time of 11:55 p.m., meaning customers can drop packages off at nearly midnight and still have it guaranteed for delivery the next morning, she said.
Future uses considered
About 350 acres remain for sale at the business park.
“It is premium property,” Miller said. “There isn’t anything remotely close in size or as flat that is readily accessible to the airport.”
Initial development of the park was slowed by the presence of houses on the property and the wetlands that needed to be mitigated, said Phil Charmoli, an industrial broker with Louisville real estate firm Commercial Kentucky Inc.
“It really wasn’t one big open area,” he said, noting that the Renaissance Zone corporation’s strategy of selling the land in small lots has increased development.
Moving forward, he said, the land likely will be more in demand as the economy recovers and industrial space becomes tighter in Jefferson County.
Kevin Grove, senior vice president and partner at CBRE/Louisville, a commercial real estate brokerage firm, has been involved in some of the recent deals at Renaissance South Business Park, including the Ford lease and the Dermody deal.
He said he believes the crunch for industrial space is about to get a lot worse in Jefferson County.
The vacancy rate for industrial space for the area was 4.4 percent last quarter, he said. By the end of this quarter, that could drop even lower, he said.
In Jefferson County, only a few speculative buildings are planned outside of those recently announced at the business park.
The market needs additional industrial space, Grove said, noting that Indianapolis has about six speculative building projects under way. “We should have spec buildings on the market right now.”
Large warehouses to be built on 84 acres at park
In late April, Louisville Renaissance Zone Corp. agreed to sell nearly 84 acres to Chicago-based Verus Partners LLC for $10.4 million, as Business First reported in its April 26 issue.
Verus is planning two 625,000-square-foot buildings, suitable for logistics and warehousing operations, Thomas K. Theobald, senior vice president, regional partner at Verus, told Business First at the time.
Tenants have not been identified for the buildings, he said. The buildings would be constructed one at a time, with the second one started after the first one is leased.
The buildings are among the largest to be announced in the Louisville area in recent years. The property is located east of a planned extension of Air Commerce Drive, west of Minors Lane, according to a letter of intent to purchase that was approved by the Renaissance Zone Corp.
It is near United Parcel Service Inc.’s Supply Chain Solutions campus and its ground-sorting operation, Centennial Hub.
UPS Supply Chain Solutions might expand at Renaissance South
Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc.’s warehousing arm, Supply Chain Solutions, is considering an expansion that could include as many as six warehouses at Renaissance South Business Park.
Last June, UPS purchased 117 acres at the business park for $9.4 million, according to Skip Miller, president of Louisville Renaissance Zone Corp. And a few months ago, the company submitted a development plan for the land with Louisville Metro Planning and Design Services, which laid out plans for the six new warehouses.
The warehouses would have a total of 1.8 million square feet. A parking lot able to support 1,400 employees was included in the plans as well. But there is no timetable for construction.
The company builds new warehouses based on customer need, said David Quintilio, vice president of operations for Supply Chain Solutions.
“You have to have the space built out and ready” before a deal to provide warehousing services can be signed, he said. “We certainly hope we need the space sooner rather than later.”
Supply Chain Solutions has had a campus in Louisville, just off Outer Loop, since 1996. Quintilio said it started providing warehouse services primarily for the retail and high-tech sectors in its first six Louisville buildings.
In 2005, it began focusing on health care clients with the construction of four additional buildings, giving the business a total of about 3.5 million square feet of warehousing space on the campus.
Quintilio said UPS chose to pursue health care industry clients because it can offer humidity-controlled and secure storage facilities.
Louisville made sense for that business because UPS Airlines’ largest hub, Worldport, is near the Supply Chain Solutions campus, providing quick access to the airport for efficient shipping.
Quintilio said the company has experienced more demand for time-critical shipments in the health care sector. But future growth could be across all sectors, not only health care.
Louisville has the largest UPS Supply Chain Solutions campus in the world, Quintilio said. Currently, about 3,800 workers are employed there.
Miller said Renaissance Zone officials are delighted with UPS’s proposed use for the land. “It is exactly what we had envisioned the property being used for.”
Ford adding to its staging lot
Ford Motor Co. plans to expand a convoy staging lot it operates at the Renaissance South Business Park.
The company currently leases 15 acres from Louisville Renaissance Zone Corp., which operates the business park, for about $163,000 per year, according to Skip Miller, corporation president.
Miller said the company is getting ready to expand onto an additional 3.8 acres there.
Ford uses the lot to park vehicles that are going to be shipped to dealers within 300 miles of Louisville, Miller said.
Land in the business park was chosen for that use because of its proximity to the Ford Louisville Assembly Plant, where the Escape is manufactured, said Becky Sanch, communications manager at Ford Land, a real estate subsidiary of Ford.
Warehousing, distribution, logistics space planned
A 300,000-square-foot speculative warehousing, distribution and logistics building is among the newest plans for Renaissance South Business Park, according to Skip Miller, president of the Louisville Renaissance Zone Corp., an agency formed to oversee development of the land.
Real estate firm Dermody Properties LLC recently signed a letter of intent to buy about 18.4 acres at the park for $2.3 million.
Dermody officials declined to comment about the project, other than to confirm the plans.
Miller said he expects construction of the building to begin this year.
Miller said he was not surprised to see a company interested in constructing a speculative building, explaining that many of the inquiries that the corporation has received have been related to spec space.
Ground Freight Expeditors plans move to Renaissance South Business Park
Kansas City, Mo.-based Ground Freight Expeditors, which operates out of leased space on Louisville Avenue, near Crittenden Drive, is planning a move to the Renaissance South Business Park.
The company plans to move 16 workers from its current operation to the new location.
The company plans to build a 56,000-square-foot logistics and distribution facility, investing about $4 million in land improvements, construction and equipment, according to Kevin Kennedy, a manager with Kansas City, Mo.-based accounting firm MarksNelson Vohland Campbell Radetic LLC, which represents Ground Freight Expeditors.
Through an affiliate, the company has a contract to purchase five acres of land there for $625,000.
The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority recently approved sales tax rebates of $100,000 for the company, based on the investment plans.
The company wanted to be near a major shipping hub because it saves transportation costs, Kennedy said, noting that United Parcel Service Inc. has facilities nearby.
Kennedy was unsure of a time frame for the project.
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VoIP provider Vyke has partnered with e-money network Ukash. This partnership was created to allow customers to use VoIP without needing to have a bank account, a credit card or to disclose personal details online.
“Ukash operates across a number of sectors and VoIP is a fast-growing market for us,” said Paul Coxhill, marketing director for Ukash.
“We are pleased to be partnering with Vyke as its business grows internationally and I am sure that our global distribution network and our customer base will be of significant benefit to Vyke,” he said.
Ukash’s e-money network has 420,000 global physical issuing points in 33 countries. They provide e-commerce solutions by allowing customers to shop, play and pay online using cash.
Vyke operates its VoIP services in Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia and Latin America.
This collaboration will now allow Vyke users to access an alternative to direct and card-based payments. Customers with a Vyke account can purchase a Ukash voucher from stores based in Dublin, Galway, Cork, Limerick, Belfast and Derry.
They can then enter the 19-digit Ukash voucher on Vyke’s homepage and call credit will be added to their account.
Tommy Jenson, CEO of Vyke, expressed the importance of alternative online payment options for their customers.
“It is vital in today’s competitive VoIP market to offer all users a flexible and safe way to purchase VoIP calling credit,” he said.
“We are therefore pleased to be partnering with market leader, Ukash, allowing us to bring our advanced mobile communication services to users who prefer to pay by cash globally.”


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If you're still visiting your usual air-conditioned departmental store to buy groceries, switching to an open shop might be a good idea.
A new model developed to study the behavior of aerosols in a " grocery store-like" environment by four Finnish research organisations shows that these small airborne particles emitted during coughing, sneezing, and talking are transported in the air and can stay and spread in this environment for several minutes
The experiment takes into account the centralized ventilation measures in such a store, which do not completely stop the spread of aerosols from one corner to another.
Scientists believe that these particles can carry pathogens such as viruses, including Covid-19. Researchers used the supercomputer provided by CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science Limited, and simulated 3D visualization of the results.
The simulation models a scenario where a person coughs in an aisle between shelves, very similar to an ordinary grocery store, and finds that aerosols still travel and remain in the air despite ventilation. The researchers modeled movement in the air from aerosol particles less than 20 micrometers, which is slightly larger than the usual aerosol emitted during a dry cough. " Extremely small particles of this size do not sink to the floor, but rather they move along air in the air currents or remain floating in the same place," a statement on these findings released by Aalto University reads.
Another study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Lydia Purwipa at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) confirmed the role of a " multiphase turbulent gas (a puff) cloud that entrains ambient air and traps and carries within it clusters of droplets" when a person coughs and sneezes. The paper concludes that "given different combinations of an individual patient’s physiology and environmental conditions such as humidity and temperature, the gas cloud can travel 23 to 27 feet (7-8 m)”.
Both the above experiments are largely based on the biophysics of droplets and use the behavior of known droplets that carry the lesser-known virus to analyze the possible limits of their reach.
Source: CBS News
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Oman Daily Observer, 5 February 2024: Oman’s Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion Ministry has announced the implementation of the e-commerce regulations has begun.
The regulations are contained in Oman Ministerial Decision No. 499/2023. The regulations stated that they would be implemented 90 days after they were published in the Official Gazette.
They have been introduced to align the Sultanate with international developments in this area.
They were introduced together with the Transport and Communications Ministry, Information Technology Ministry, the Royal Oman Police represented by the General Directorate of Customs, the Consumer Protection Authority, the Central Bank, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority Asyad Group and the ITHCA Group.
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Internet gambling May Be Reduce Off By Brand new Legislation
There is definitely a new regulation waiting to always be signed by Leader Bush which was presented to The legislature that is possessing the $12 million online gambling sector by a thread. It appears that Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, introduced the costs a prior weekend not too long ago by getting started with it to the particular Safe Port Work before Congress took its election break in November.
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Top Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Ltd said on Tuesday its full-year 2007 profit grew 340 percent, boosted by a buoyant Chinese economy, increasing Internet access in the country and healthy growth in the firm's number of paying members.
Alibaba, an online business-to-business site connecting companies looking to import and export Chinese goods, was founded in 1999 as a bulletin board for businesses to post trade leads.
Last year, Alibaba had a 57.3 percent share of China's 3.9 billion yuan business-to-business market, according to local data firm iResearch.
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Weekly Roundup is a McNair Center series compiling and summarizing the week’s most important Innovation and Entrepreneurship news.
Here is what you need to know about entrepreneurship this week:
The Associated Press
Entrepreneurs might expect policy shifts under a Trump presidency. Trump has released his plan for his first 100 days in office. However, much uncertainty over his policies and objectives remains. The battle over health care and immigration reform, taxes, regulation, the federal minimum wage, trade deals and federal contracts will be fought in a Republican-led congress that has not always agreed with the President-elect’s proposals.
David Levin, CEO of the American Sustainable Business Council, expressed the concern of many small business owners in the US: “What we don’t know is whether or not there is a sincere interest in supporting small and medium-size enterprises in this country — rebuilding Main Street, rebuilding manufacturing.”
Ruth Simon, Author, Wall Street Journal
With the uncertainty of the election partly resolved, some small business owners have said that they are ready to begin investing and hiring. According to a recent Vistage Worldwide poll of 380 small business owners, 49 percent of respondents said that the election of the outcome had improved their outlook for the economy. Nearly 20 percent stated that the election results encouraged them to increase their hiring or capital investment. Many point to the prospect of lower taxes and healthcare costs as sources for their optimism.
Not all business owners surveyed viewed the election’s outcome positively. 35 percent responded that their outlook for the economy had worsened. Roughly 20 percent planned on decreasing hiring and investment. Many are wary of Trump’s tough position on immigration, which could make the search for high-skilled workers more costly.
Ruth Simon and Paul Overberg, Authors, The Wall Street Journal
According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 Survey of Entrepreneurs, black entrepreneurs are less likely to ask for capital when they need it. When they do ask, black entrepreneurs are not as likely to receive the full amount that they requested.
Black entrepreneurs in 2014 were three times more likely than white entrepreneurs to say that they were in need of additional financing but opted not to apply for it. Compared with 74 percent of white entrepreneurs, only 46 percent of black entrepreneurs received the full amount of funding that they had requested.
Simon cites challenges in access to capital and funding as obstacles for black entrepreneurs who are trying to grow their businesses. According to Alicia Robb, a senior fellow from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, “Across the board, blacks have higher denial rates, even after controlling for credit and wealth.”
Jason Albanese, Contributor, Inc.
Jason Albanese, CEO and founder of Centric Digital, offers advice to startups looking to be the next Google or Facebook by redefining their industry. Revolutionary startups are often some of the most lucrative and successful in their field.
Market-shaking startups frequently fail to maximize their potential because market and operational disruptions often go hand in hand. Disruptive startups need to take time to grow at their own pace. Entrepreneurs cannot afford to rush the incubation period.
Most market ecosystems eventually find a new equilibrium; Airbnb and Uber recently experienced this within their industries. Albanese recommends that market-shifters foster and embrace change within company culture. Adaptivity, creativity and agility are instrumental in introducing and surviving a market disruption.
Sam Cohen, Contributor, Huffington Post
The life of a freelance entrepreneur is uncertain and irregular. For example, daily operations lack the typical structure and comfort level that most industry jobs offer. On the other hand, self-employed entrepreneurs get to set their own work schedules and define the rules and best practices for their companies.
Despite the obvious discrepancy between freelance entrepreneurship and corporate culture, Sam Cohen recommends that entrepreneurs borrow business practices, such as building up cash reserves and establishing a performance review process, from bigger industry players.


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Fashion legend Andre Leon Talley has died aged 73.
The former editor-in-chief of American Vogue died on Tuesday (18.01.22) at White Plains Hospital, reports TMZ.
The cause of death is not known at this time.
The influential fashion journalist and stylist was known for his larger than life personality and strong personal style.
After stints at Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine and Women’s Wear Daily, Andre quickly rose through the ranks of Vogue’s fashion bible, rising from director of fashion information from 1983 to 1987, to first African-American creative director from 1988 to 1995.
Andre was nominated by Vogue icon Anna Wintour.
In 2020 he published his memoir, ‘The Chiffon Trenches’, in which he told stories about famous fashion personalities, including 72-year-old Anna and the late Karl Lagerfeld, whom he said he ‘could have decimate my reputation in fashion”. “
Anna and Andre had a falling out in 2018 when she replaced him with a YouTube star for Met Gala red carpet interviews and he was still hurt by the snub years later.
He said: “If Anna had called and said, ‘André, we are thinking of going in another direction [for the Met ball], it’s important for our brand’, I would have said, ‘Very good. It’s awesome.’ And I would have come in my Tom Ford cape – I always wear Tom Ford – and enjoyed my dinner.
“I felt like I was thrown under the bus. It hurt!”
Designer Diane von Furstenberg was among those who paid tribute to Andre.
She wrote: “Goodbye my dear André.
“No one has seen the world in a more elegant and glamorous way than you.
“No one was more moving and grander than you were…the world will be less joyous now. I have loved you and laughed with you for 45 years…Your loud cries and faithful friendship will miss me… love you so much. (sic)”


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Apple has registered three trademark names that will likely be used for its first augmented reality headset.
Apple continues to lay the groundwork for the arrival of its first-ever mixed reality headset. According Bloombergis suggested by the filing of three brand names – “Reality One”, “Reality Pro” and “Reality Processor” – registered in the name of Apple in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica and Uruguay.
The specialized media reports that these names could be used by the Cupertino company to designate its future mixed reality headset, whispered for early next year. To cover their tracks, the company headed by Tim Cook did not directly register these trademarks, but commissioned law firms to carry out this task. A process frequently used by Apple: in early June, trademark filings were also entered for the name “realityOS”.
A release scheduled for early 2023
For its part, Apple declined to comment on the registration of these trademarks which has not yet been approved. For the moment, there is no guarantee that future products will bear the names mentioned. Apple, which has not entered a new market sector since the release of the Apple Watch in 2015, intends to launch its first mixed reality headset early 2023.
According analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, it will be the most complex product ever created by the Californian company. The project is expected to disrupt the virtual reality industry. The high-end device will combine virtual reality and augmented reality technologies and should allow the Cupertino company to compete with Meta and his Quest Pro headset which is scheduled for release in early October 2022.
The most powerful virtual reality headset on the market
Apple’s headset should also focus its use on the consumption of multimedia content such as the broadcasting of sporting events (of which Apple has acquired several rights via its Apple TV + platform), virtual reality films and of course video games. Apple’s latest trademarks also hint that the device may have health-related functions.
According to Bloomberg, Samsung and other Apple rivals are also working on their own virtual and augmented reality systems. But Apple’s unisex headphones should nevertheless be, when launched, one of the most powerful and expensive models on the market. We are waiting for a homemade chip to match what Apple offers on its smartphones, Mac computers or even its latest tablets. Products that display a higher power than the rest of the market.


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The 235-acre mixed use development in Fayetteville formerly known as Pinewood Forest has added new retailers.
Town Centre at Trilith announced earlier this week that stationery business Archer Paper Goods and The Collective, the manufacturer of handcrafted items, will open in 2021.
“Both tenants promise to bring creative tools, fun gifts and fresh fashions to our growing list of retailers in Town Centre, and we’re thrilled to welcome them into our creative vision,” said Rob Parker, president of the Town at Trilith.
“These new retailers add to an exciting line-up and will occupy storefronts in our Town Centre next year as the multi-family units of Premiere Lofts are completed above the retail spaces,” he said.
Pinewood Forest announced in October it was changing its name to Trilith along with Pinewood Studios -- the home of Marvel Studios films “Black Panther” and “Avengers” -- across the street from the development. The mixed-use property includes homes, medical facilities and retail stores and restaurants. There also are plans for a movie theater and hotel properties at the development.
Archer is described as a stationery and gift retailer specializing in gift items, books, home goods and greeting cards. It has stores in Athens, Dallas, Charlotte and at Ponce City Market.
The Collective is a store for curated goods and handcrafted items by local makers. It includes nine retail stalls for fashion and unique merchandise.


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When covid hit Alaska, some of the changes to the seafood industry were immediate for those in the throes of seasons that were underway. Cod and other winter-spring fisheries suffered immediate blows to product flow while others like the salmon industry had time to construct industry protocols before the onslaught of fish returned to the nearshore waters.
While the pandemic disrupted the harvest and processing sectors of the fishing industry, the ripples it sent to consumers can’t hurt seafood in the long run.
“The milk dumping and the closing of slaughterhouses prompted the question: ‘Where does my food come from?’” says Garret Evridge, a fisheries economist with McKinley Research, formerly McDowell Group, in Anchorage.
As for the product forms, shelf-stable items like frozen fish sticks made from pollock and canned salmon found high demand Meanwhile, markets for other species such as herring, blackcod, red king crab and groundfish fell subject to dynamics that usurped the pandemic. Fishermen who’d done the groundwork in self-marketing ventures before covid hit found high demand and substantially higher prices for their value-added products.
“Covid came along, and the market just skyrocketed,” says Evridge.
“Going into the season, even before covid, the canned salmon market was hot,” says Evridge.
By March the world had revved into the full swing of hoarding toilet paper, staple foods and other commodities.
In the fishery, establishing protocols for the upcoming season began at the community level to prevent spreading of the virus as seasonal, transient processing crews began assembling in California and elsewhere along the West Coast. Community action plans varied, and many fishermen found themselves living aboard, offshore from seaports and other areas of possible close contact.
In Bristol Bay, the onslaught of sockeyes arrived whether communities and processing crews were ready or not. Though major fish plants had strict protocols in place, there were some glitches that translated to catch limits to the fleet. An unfortunate side effect of a lot of fish in a short amount of time, a “compression of the harvest,” as managers call it, is that the majority of sockeyes went to market in frozen H & G form where in other years processors have set up additional value added operations in the plants.
Canned salmon saw high demand, as did many frozen products. Base prices from major processor started at 70 cents with incentives for refrigeration and bleeding that put ex-vessel averages above 90 cents.
Though the fleet was hopeful of retroactive price adjustments, depending on profits from the processors and their upline distributors, self-marketers like Grant Niver, saw a huge leap in demand by customers wanting to buy sockeye fillets from the family company, Surrender Salmon.
Niver began operating the business in Minneapolis, Minn., in 2013, and sales have doubled since then. Niver says orders for the salmon, which are packaged in individual portions, account for 10 percent of their Bristol Bay catch.
“We get a lot of feedback about the convenience of our salmon,” says Niver. “And also the ease of having it delivered to their front door. We were able to bring the world’s best salmon to people’s homes during a time when they were trying to avoid trips to the grocery store.”
With the widespread closure of restaurants across the United States came a surge in sales of shelf-stable or frozen seafood entrees. Alaska single frozen pollock fillets had already been enjoying widespread success in domestic markets and in Europe, but when protocols for home-schooling and working from home fell into place the season of fish sticks ensued. The beauty of the fish sticks, according to the marketing folks at Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers, in Seattle, was that consumers could depend on a reliable source of protein that was easy to cook. As it turned out, an appreciable sector of the country was not familiar with cooking their own meals, but they could manage to toss the fish sticks onto a pan, set their ovens for 425 degrees and turn out a great meal.
For Alaska’s geoduck divers the pandemic’s patterns actually provided perfect timing in Chinese markets. When restaurants initially closed down in March and April, the geoducks were testing high for PSP. When restaurants reopened in summer, Chinese buyers needed product, and the fleet went fishing.
Though a summer harvest was unprecedented in the history of the fishery, the PSP levels were low, and divers nearly harvested the entire GHL of 700,000 pounds.
Halibut longliners left 31 percent of the allocated 11.81 million-pound IFQ harvest swimming in the ocean for 2020, which was close to the same amount of uncaught quota in 2019. Declining biomass and lower allocations in poundage per IFQ holder had driven ex-vessel prices had driven up ex-vessel prices in years past; however, it appears that with the overall shortage of halibut consumers have switched to substitute species.
The good news for halibut is that when covid crimped the pipeline to restaurants, the retail market absorbed the volume and the expectations are that the 2021 season will begin with scant frozen holdover inventories.


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BOULDER, CO – According to a new report from Pike Research, more than 1.5 million locations to charge electric vehicles will be available in the United States by 2017, with a total of 7.7 million locations worldwide.
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Energy announced more than $7 million to fund four projects in California, Washington and Oregon to advance hydrogen storage technologies to be used in fuel-cell electric vehicles.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The fleet division for the city of Norman, Okla., and convenience store operator OnCue Express last week both won 2011 Zach D. Taylor Jr. Clean Cities Vision Awards for Regional Alternative Fuel Leadership.
DALLAS – BAF Technologies said it has received California Air Resources Board (CARB) certification – in the form of an executive order -- for the 2012 model-year dedicated Ford Transit Connect CNG.
VESTAVIA HILLS, AL -- The city of Vestavia Hills, Ala., on Dec. 8 officially unveiled its propane-fueled police vehicles and fueling station, the Birmingham News reported.
ROLLE, SWITZERLAND -- FedEx Express and Nissan are launching a two-month trial to evaluate how a NV200 electric vehicle (EV) prototype copes with the rigors of daily delivery duties on the streets of London.
BOULDER, CO – According to a new report from Pike Research, hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) combined will represent 3.1 percent of worldwide auto sales by 2017. And because of higher penetration rates in the United States, the study projects, HEVs and PEVs will account for 5.1 percent of total U.S. vehicle sales in 2017.
BERLIN, GERMANY – Daimler AG said it will soon test wireless inductive charging on a modified Mercedes-Benz A-Class E-CELL. The electric car will be fitted with a special charging coil that can be positioned over a charging coil in the ground to start the charging process automatically, with no need for cable contact.
FRANKLIN, TN – Nissan North America said it is expanding availability of the 2012 model-year Nissan Leaf, and the automaker is now taking orders from the general public in Delaware, Indiana, Louisiana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Oklahoma City’s fleet maintenance complex has added a new fast-fill compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station. The city has 89 CNG vehicles.
SACRAMENTO, CA -- The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a package of staff-proposed Advanced Clean Car regulations, which the board will consider for adoption on Jan. 26, 2012.
KINGSTON, PA – The Luzerne County Transportation Authority (LCTA) in Pennsylvania is in discussions with UGI Penn Natural Gas to build a compressed natural gas refueling station in Forty Fort to fuel a fleet of about 60 CNG vans, the Times Leader reported.
WYTHEVILLE, VA -- Evatran, a developer of wireless charging systems for electric vehicles, announced it has signed contracts with six high-profile commercial participants to outfit their Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf models with pre-production Plugless Power wireless charging systems.
TOKYO, JAPAN – Toyota Motor Corp. and BMW Group said they have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on green technologies, including next-generation lithium-ion battery development.
SEATTLE – Fleet managers test-drove bi-fuel autogas vehicles and heard presentations outlining alt-fuel options during a Nov. 30 workshop at McKinstry Innovation Center in Seattle. EnterpriseSeattle and the Washington Clean Technology Alliance sponsored the event.
CYPRESS, CA – Mitsubishi Motors North America said it will make its first delivery of a 2012 model-year Mitsubishi i electric vehicle to a fleet customer on Thursday, Dec. 8. The customer is City CarShare, a San Francisco Bay-area nonprofit car-sharing group.
ARLINGTON, VA -- 350Green, a developer of electric vehicle charging station networks, and Simon Property Group, a retail real estate developer, officially launched 350Green's public EV charging network in Baltimore and the D.C. metro area.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Infrastructure Developments Corp. announced that it has begun compressed natural gas (CNG) generator conversion operations in Thailand and that its partner has entered into letters of intent to stage CNG vehicle conversion operation in Arizona.
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TOKYO, JAPAN -- Nismo, the motorsports arm of Nissan Motor Co., at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show revealed its second road car concept– a sportier version of the Nissan Leaf electric vehicle.
GREEN BAY, WI – Paper Transport Inc., a Wisconsin-headquartered truckload carrier, said it has put into service two tractors with 12-liter prototype CNG engines produced by Cummins.
HOUSTON – The Natural Gas Vehicle Infrastructure Conference and Exhibition is scheduled for Jan. 24-25 in Houston.
CHICAGO -- I-GO Car Sharing, a nonprofit car-sharing organization in Chicago, has launched a $2.5 million electric vehicle project that will add 36 all-electric vehicles to its fleet and 18 solar charging stations that will be publicly accessible.
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Tony Fadell, a former engineer at Apple who designed the iPod, has teamed up with French startup Ledger to create a new hardware wallet that allows users to securely store their cryptocurrency.
This product was unveiled at the Ledger Op3n event last Tuesday.
When confidence in centralized digital currency platforms was declining due to FTX’s failure, which had been the second-largest asset manager following Binance, this launch occurred.
Ledger Stax, which looks like a small smartphone and measures 85 millimeters long and 54 millimeters wide, was created by the security company.
With this hardware wallet, individuals can manage different tokens such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Cardano (ADA), Solana (SOL), and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Moreover, it can be linked to a laptop through a USB cable or to a phone via Bluetooth.


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South Korean automobile manufacturer Kia is working on an India-centric electric vehicle and plans to begin the local production of its electric vehicles in India by 2025.
Kia on Thursday (2 June) launched the Kia EV6, the Korean carmaker’s first all-electric crossover in India, at a starting price of Rs 59.95 lakh for the RWD variant, going up to Rs 64.95 lakh for the AWD version.
The company has reportedly received a good response for the EV6, registering 355 bookings for the premium EV, over 3.5 times the number of the cars that company planned to sell in India this year.
Looking at the demand, Kia is working on trying to bring more units for India and is still taking bookings for the EV6.
"We are starting with EV6 because we want to show the global best to Indian customers. We are working on an India-centric EV," Kia India MD Tae-Jin Park said in an interview with Economic Times.
"We are planning local manufacturing in 2025. As we already mentioned, we are developing the 14 BEVs globally (for launch by 2027). Among those, we are looking for the best options for the Indian market," he added.
"We are approaching the market, from premium to mass (ends). We are not confident (now as to) which model is the best for India; so, we are discussing with our headquarters. It will depend on Indian infrastructure/charging systems, mindset of the customers, competitors and also on localisation status in stocks in India," Park said.


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The deal with Arianespace, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin will see 83 rockets carrying satellites launched into space
From the enormous scale of Elon Musk’s Starlink deployment to the meteoric recovery of OneWeb from bankruptcy to billion-dollar investment, low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are one the hottest topics in the international telecoms sector.
Able to provide broad geographic coverage in areas typically hard to reach by conventional methods, as well as providing lower latency and higher bandwidth that their geostationary counterparts, LEO satellites are becoming an increasingly viable alternative to terrestrial communications infrastructure.
Amazon has been working on its own LEO initiative, Project Kuiper, for many years now.
The Kuiper System received an operating licence from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) back in July 2020, aiming to launch 3,236 satellites in total, with more to follow if successful. As per the terms of its licence, Amazon must launch at least half of its constellation into orbit by July 2026, but until now it has been unclear when the first launches would begin to take place.
Now, Amazon has announced new procurement deals with Arianespace, ULA, and Blue Origin for the launch of 83 rockets,
Financial details of the deals were not revealed, but Amazon says they are investing “billions of dollars” across the three deals.
Arianespace, perhaps most recently in the news for aiding in the launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, will reportedly provide 18 rockets for the project over three years. According to Arianespace’s CEO, Stéphane Israël, to deal is by far the largest it has ever struck, at least double that of its second largest contract.
ULA will provide 38 launches via its Vulcan Centaur vehicle, while Blue Origin has committed to 12 launches using its New Glenn rocket, with the option of launching 15 more.
“Securing launch capacity from multiple providers has been a key part of our strategy from day one,” said Rajeev Badyal, vice-president of technology for Project Kuiper. “This approach reduces risk associated with launch vehicle stand-downs and supports competitive long-term pricing for Amazon, producing cost savings that we can pass on to our customers.”
“These large, heavy-lift rockets also mean we can deploy more of our constellation with fewer launches, helping simplify our launch and deployment schedule.”
The full constellation is set to have been launched by mid-2029 at the latest.
Project Kuiper will have some considerable catching up to do to meet the deployments of rivals OneWeb and Starlink, but it is undeniable that this deal – believed to be the largest commercial procurement of space launch vehicles in history – is a good start.
In related news, Elon Musk’s Starlink has faced a setback this week, with French telecoms regulator Arcep revoking its licence.
The regulator had granted the company the right to operate on two frequencies within French territory back in February 2021. Now, however, following appeals by a pair of activist groups, Arcep admits it has made a legal misjudgement.
Starlink’s operation "could impact the market of access to high-bandwidth internet and affect the interests of end users,” according to the regulator, and would therefore require public hearings to take place before the licence can be granted.
It is unclear how long it will take for these hearings to be conducted, but could cause delays to
This is not the only market that Starlink is facing regulatory hurdles. At the start of this year, the Indian government notably told SpaceX to refund the pre-orders the company had recorded throughout 2021, telling the company it could not take money from Indian consumers when it had yet to receive a licence and thus the launch of its services was far from certain.
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Country Insight: Egypt
The Egyptian economic recovery is struggling to gain traction following a robust performance in 2020. We expect the economy to expand by just over 3% in 2021, with a softening in consumer demand following a remarkable, policy-induced performance over the past two years. However, Egypt is still host to some of the continent’s brightest consumer spending hotspots and has seen an improvement in its investment environment due to favourable reforms.
What you will learn from this report:
- Cairo is by far Africa’s largest city consumer market while Mahalla el-Kubra is estimated to have the highest spending per capita in North Africa.
- While we expect tourism spending to increase by around 46% this year, the sector is only expected to recover to 2019 levels by 2024.
- Political rights issues will not materially affect Egypt’s relationship with major Western partners as Cairo remains a major purchaser of arms from these countries.
UK: Sterling’s woes, Kwarteng’s vows, Bailey in the middle
The negative market reaction to last week's fiscal announcements appears to be a function of doubts over the credibility of the UK government's long-term fiscal plans. Though we think the structural position is not as bad as last Friday's drop in asset prices implies, it's clear the government will struggle to retain credibility if it fails to engage with market concerns.Find Out More
BoJ to look through a temporary decline in monetary base
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) left monetary policy unchanged at today's (22nd Sep) meeting, maintaining current short- and long-term interest rates, despite another wave of yen weakening and upward pressures on JGB yields.Find Out More


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The European Union has implemented new laws tailored to digital asset companies, making it a favorable destination for cryptocurrency firms. The US’s lack of federal standards is hindering innovation, but EOS’s decentralized platform could be a solution. EOS allows for secure and transparent decentralized applications, secure cross-chain transactions, and community-driven decision-making. EOS could offer a potential solution to the regulatory challenges facing the cryptocurrency industry in the US, providing a secure and transparent environment for digital asset companies to operate. While at the same time, providing customer security, trust and transparency, in a unique way, that isn’t overburdensome, and intrusive.
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Safe deposit boxes, a longtime fixture at banks worldwide, will soon be a thing of the past at one major banking chain.
The report said that if a Chase branch closes, the boxes will close with it, with box-holders unable to rent a new box at a new location.
“We made a business decision to stop offering new safe deposit boxes as of December 2021, but that doesn’t affect current customers who have boxes,” said bank spokesman Tom Kelly.
The move comes at a time when 67% of consumers in the U.S. are accessing their bank via digital channels, whether that means checking their balances, paying bills, or monitoring transaction alerts. And Bank of America CEO Bryan Moynihan said recently that 85% of deposits are carried out digitally, with just 15% even involving a teller.
This shift is happening in commercial banking as well, PYMNTS has reported. Because small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) now show a strong leaning toward digital solutions, the desire for in-branch banking has decreased.
A report from EY, for example, showed that nearly 70% of SMBs are seeking to manage as many aspects of their businesses through digital touch points as possible, and of 12 factors that SMBs consider when choosing a financial services provider, having a physical presence in the form of an office or branch came in last in terms of importance.
The reduced focus on in-branch banking is shown in the share of SMBs reporting visits to their financial institutions’ physical branches. The EY report found that in the last year, there was a 38% decline in SMBs visiting their FIs’ physical branches and a 24% drop in ATM usage.
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jüSTa Hotels is set to open a five-star property—jüSTa Sajjangarh Udaipur with 63 keys and has plans to open another property in Delhi in 2018.
jüSTa Hotels witnessed a slow start to the first quarter of 2017 but from the second quarter onwards, business picked up well for the company. “We have witnessed 12-15 per cent increase in occupancy and ADRs rose by `300-400, making RevPar healthier,” informs Rohit Katyal, National Sales Director, jüSTa Hotels & Resorts. He points out that after many years, the hotel saw a surge in hospitality requirements and 2018 looks to be a better year than 2017 in terms of ADRs.
“Our upcoming five-star property will be operational in a couple of weeks. We are hoping to open another property in Rajasthan and one more in Delhi-NCR in 2018. jüSTa Sajjangarh Udaipur will have 63 keys with live kitchen concept, spa, open sky bar and lounge with stunning views of the Sajjangarh Palace. This property is situated opposite to 200 acres of a biodiversity park in Udaipur,” explains Katyal.
“Further by January 2018, Rajputana Udaipur will have state-of-the-art pillar less banqueting space along with three lawns, making it as a preferred MICE and wedding location”
Recently, the hotel also launched outdoor catering services from The Jehan and enhanced the banqueting facility at its Delhi hotels in Greater Kailash and Panshcheel. The hotel is also targeting the corporate segment of travellers and thus, has refurbished its existing properties. Katyal informs, “Further by January 2018, Rajputana Udaipur will have state-of-the-art pillar less banqueting space of 11000 sq ft with 17 ft ceiling height along with three lawns, making it as a preferred location for MICE and weddings.” In 2018, digital marketing will remain the key focus for the hotel and the company is in the midst of restructuring its corporate set up.


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Burstly Skyrocket shutting down?
Barely 48 hours after I released my first (and only) app using Skyrocket, the news broke that Apple had purchased Burstly.
It was immediately obvious that Apple wasn’t going to let Burstly continue to support Android.
Sure enough, today I received an email that SkyRocket’s services will be withdrawn in 90 days.
Oh well, back to Mopub… maybe they’ve fixed all the problems?
That’s assuming that their new owner, Twitter doesn’t decide to shut them down too…


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Joey King is back to go over all the latest news. More crypto FUD plus thoughts on the Lightning Network, Stablecoins and more.
“What is Bitcoin?” one of the most trending searches of 2018
Allianz global investors CEO wants cryptocurrencies to be banned
Mark Karpeles could face 10 years in jail
The Lightning Network (LN) is not close to ready for commercial use
The taxi driver who sells cryptocurrencies to passengers
What's going on with the Basis stablecoin?


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Wisconsin-based Saris Cycling Group would like to clarify information recently released by the Consumer Products Safety Commission regarding its voluntary recall of some CycleOps trainers. Most importantly, this is not a new recall and most trainers affected by the recall have already been returned to the company.
“Saris Cycling Group identified this problem in November 2008 and proactively informed the Consumer Products Safety Commission and its customer base to cease use and return the recalled product to us,” said company spokesperson Maggie Waltz. “The CPSC released information pertaining to this over two months later. This is not a new recall notice.”
Waltz elaborated on the specifics of the recall.
“2,248 trainers are affected by this recall notice,” she added. “They are CycleOps model numbers 9331, 9460, 9014, 9321 and 9322. To date 1,954 trainers have been returned. This represents 90 percent of the effected units.”
These trainers were sold in October 2008 and November 2008 at Independent Bicycle Dealers (IBDs) nationwide. A technical advisory on this issue is posted at www.cycleops.com.


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On beauty, believing in oneself, and being othered.
She tells it like it is.
“To me, it’s about healing the narrative.”
Which is exactly why she’s meant for every industry she’s in.
Jeff Parshley didn’t mean to be a global activist… but it happened. Now, he’s using his platform to advocate equality for all.
Laura Kraber, you have inspired me to turn my life into a beauty wonderland — with a mission, of course.
The full conversation between Fluide founder Laura Kraber and QUILL Editor-in-Chief Tess Aurore.
HiBAR co-founder Nora Schaper sat down with QUILL Editor-in-Chief Tess for a conversation regarding how four people came together, gender-neutral haircare, and making the world plastic-free.
Editor-in-Chief Tess Aurore spoke with Odele co-founder Lindsay Holden about the moment she and her co-founders knew they’d struck gold, why gender isn’t a priority to the brand, and what her hopes are for the future.
QUILL’s Editor-in-Chief, Tess, sat down with TooD founder Shari Siadat to talk about the brand, the beauty industry’s performative inclusivity, and Siadat’s thoughts on being the leader of a movement.


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Crypto Market Overview June 28th | Dex-Trade
BTC Whales Prey On “Small Fish”: Comments by Peter Schiff
The head and founder of Euro Pacific Capital and SchiffGold, economist, wealth manager and podcaster Peter Schiff tweeted that Bitcoin whales are selling off their assets despite the rise in BTC, as they profit from its fall and are likely to expect a massive collapse before four-digit sums. Schiff, for example, believes that Bitcoin should fall to $8,000 in the near future. In his opinion, the current “dead cat bounce” is nothing more than a maneuver planned by the whales aimed at a short-term price boost to stimulate purchases of the flagship by the “small fish”, after which the currency should fall again, and the whales should accumulate new reserves at an attractive price. Approximately two weeks ago, one of the prominent Bitcoin evangelists, YouTuber Davinci Jeremy, asked Schiff to predict the price of Bitcoin in the foreseeable future. Schiff said at the time that he believes the leading digital currency will definitely never be worth $200,000, but a price around $2,000 is a realistic prediction for BTC. Recall that even earlier price forecasts for Bitcoin and Ethereum from a skeptical economist, which he announced at the beginning of this year, set the price of crypto gold to $20,000, and crypto silver to $1,000. Apparently, Schiff is guided by the situation and somehow does not take into account the fact that if whales can synthetically raise the price of BTC by thousands of dollars, then it would certainly be easier for them to make money on this.
Hackers Launder Stolen ETH Through Tornado Cash
According to blockchain security analyst PeckShield, the hacker group that hacked into the Harmony protocol and stole $100 million in altcoins from Horizon Bridge has begun money laundering and has already made three transactions totaling approximately 30,000 ETH (about $36 million) from the address exposed in the attack. June 23, to the Tornado Cash mixing service. At the same time, $64 million still remains in the wallet of hackers. At the moment, there are Wrapped Ethereum (WETH), AAVE, SUSHI, DAI, Tether and USD Coin (USDC) that were withdrawn using Harmony. However, the creators of the protocol claim that they have not recorded “evidence in any breaches of smart contract codes nor vulnerabilities on the Horizon platform.” Notably, Harmony Protocol announced this Saturday that it will pay out a $1 million reward in exchange for a safe return of $1 million in bridge money. However, today this proposal has disappeared from the information agenda of the company. After the incident, Harmony assured its customers that the theft did not affect its BTC bridge. Company representatives also announced the deployment of additional security measures in the ecosystem and cooperation with forensic experts and national authorities in order to find criminals and return money.
HTC Presented a New Crypto Smartphone
No matter how loud it sounds, but HTC introduced the Desire 22 Pro smartphone, which comes with a pre-installed Viverse application in the basic package, which provides navigation through the metaverse, as well as management of the owner’s cryptocurrency and NFT savings. The Viverse application in this model allows you to buy and sell NFTs in digital markets. In addition, users will be able to "create their own virtual space" and edit it in real time. Like previous HTC crypto backgrounds, the Desire 22 Pro also comes with a built-in crypto wallet for Ethereum and Polygon-based assets. The new gadget is optimized to work with the lightweight HTC Vive Flow VR headset with HDCP 2.2 connectivity, which can stream content wirelessly to the VR headset. In addition to this, the Vive Manager app allows you to set up and manage your virtual reality equipment. HTC has been actively promoting cryptography in smartphones since 2018, when the Exodus 1 was released — the first model with a built-in hardware crypto wallet and the ability to run a full Bbitcoin node. And now, just 4 years later, we plunged into deep VR…


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The home-grown bookstore chain that started nearly six years ago with great expectations opened the doors to all four of its Baltimore-area stores yesterday for the beginning of the end.
There were no large going-out-of-business signs. No banners announcing discounted prices on the first day of a 90-day liquidation sale.
Just a steady flow of loyal customers who read the bankruptcy notices posted on the doors, shook their heads and wondered aloud where they would go now that Bibelot was closing.
As books, compact discs and magazines flew off the shelves, attorneys for Baltimore's largest independent book and music seller won court permission for its bookstores to honor thousands of dollars in gift certificates purchased before last Friday's bankruptcy filing.
It was a victory for disgruntled customers, who were turned away from redeeming gift certificates over the past five days, and for Brian D. Weese and his wife, Elizabeth, the owners of Bibelot, who had sought permission to redeem them.
"I'm glad that these certificates are going to be honored," said Judge James F. Schneider, presiding over the Bibelot case in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Baltimore. "It's really a question of how people feel about the business. This was a business that depended on the good will of customers. It was the basis for its past success.
"Unfortunately, it didn't have the kind of success we all hoped it would have."
Bibelot will lay off about 100 employees and close its stores in Canton, Cross Keys, Timonium and Pikesville within three months.
The company, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy under its corporate name, Bloomsbury Group, owes $15 million to $18 million but has assets of $10 million to $15 million.
The honoring of book certificates yesterday was part of a deal with a creditor, Bank of America Corp. The gift certificates - which are considered debts by the bankruptcy court - will continue to be honored until the close of business April 5. Cash refunds are prohibited. Bank of America is trying to recover a $17 million loan to Bibelot.
Bibelot attorneys from the law firm of Shapiro, Sher and Guinot are unsure how many certificates are outstanding, but their value is estimated to be $100,000 to $200,000.
After the sale ends, liquidator Schottenstein/Bernstein Capital Group will sell off the wood shelves, plush armchairs and display tables from each store. Keen Realty Consultants Inc. of New York has been hired to market Bibelot's leases.
Upon hearing the news about the gift certificates yesterday, Alfred Rosenstein headed straight for the Woodholme Shopping Center in Pikesville, where the first Bibelot opened in April 1995.
Rosenstein walked in with $130 in gift certificates and came out with two bags of CDs and books.
"We're very sorry to see it close, but I was very upset the other day when they wouldn't take my certificates," said the 60-year-old Pikesville resident, who has frequented the store several times a week since it opened.
He wasn't the only one. Several angry certificate holders became agitated enough over the past several days that security guards were posted in each store yesterday.
But the scene at the Pikesville Bibelot was far from unruly, even though all merchandise had a 25 percent discount.
Children hopped around the romper room. Adults in comfy chairs browsed through books, music and magazines. And friends gathered for lunch at Donna's, which hopes to keep operating its coffee bars at all four sites.
While some customers came mainly to check out the sales, many were surprised by the bankruptcy notices on the door that said, "All events and community meetings have been canceled" and "All Sales Final. No Exchanges. No refunds."
"I looked and saw the `All Sales Final' sign and walked in," said Gloria Avidor, 66, a Baltimore resident.
"I have a routine three times a week. I go to the Bibelot, then I go to [a nearby] Starbucks to read the book I bought and then I go to the spa across the street. I don't know what I'm going to do now.
"I'm going to miss this place."


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Architizer, one of the most popular architecture and design blogs on the web, has re-invented itself with an exciting new platform designed to empower design professionals. The new site collates even more detailed information about each uploaded project, right down to the products used, allowing architects and designers to make the most informed decisions about the materials and technology they incorporate into their own work.
Marc Kushner, a founding member of Architizer, calls the new platform a 21st century catalog that makes it easier for architects to source the products necessary to build better buildings.
“Thanks to sites like Yelp, today’s architects and designers know more about the $5 sandwich they eat for lunch than they do about the million-dollar window systems they specify for their designs,” says Kushner. “By harnessing the industry’s shared knowledge Architizer becomes a recommendation engine at the scale of skyscrapers and multi-million-dollar libraries.”
Every uploaded project image, which comprises the core of this new platform, is tagged extensively to facilitate easy searches for new materials. It is also possible to collect a portfolio of products for use in design presentations, and an online forum allows for extended discussion between professionals.
“Architects chose more than $200 billion worth of products a year in the United States alone,” Kushner said in a recent press release. “Knowing what products their colleagues have used, and what they thought of them, empowers architects to make more informed choices, revolutionizing how they do their work.”


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Apple Prices Their New AirPod Max Headphones At $549 USD and Google Gets Ready to Allow Political Ads on Its Platform Once Again
Apple just announced the launch of its new AirPod Max headphones just in time for the holiday season and people are not happy with its mega price tag. The AirPod Max headphones will cost you $549 USD if you are looking to snag yourself a pair before Christmas.
You can pre-order the AirPods as of now but won’t be able to get your hands on a pair until it’s December 15th release date. The over-the-ear, noise cancelling, and wireless headphones are said to bring a movie like experience to sound for your ears. Will you be grabbing a pair?
It’s been a month since the presidential election in the U.S. With that being said, Google is now planning to lift its temporary ban on election-related advertising next Thursday.
This decision was enacted to prevent potential exploitation and misinformation from ads as it was already expected that election results were going to be delayed. This will allow citizens and companies to run Google ads around the elections for both of Georgia’s senate seats. Should online political ads be banned in general? Or is it more about finding the right sweet spot?
I am not a financial advisor and my comments should never be taken as financial advice. Investments come with risk, so always do your research and analysis beforehand.


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You probably didn’t count on this hidden cost on your shopping bill: In July 2010, laboratory tests commissioned by the EWG found high levels of BPA on 40 percent of thermal paper receipts (the kind that change color when you scratch them) sampled from major U.S. businesses and services. In some cases, the amount of BPA measured was as much as 1,000 times greater than that found in common sources of BPA, such as canned foods and infant formula. Although most research has focused on BPA levels from ingested sources, a study published in July 2011 found that BPA transfers readily from receipts and can penetrate the skin to such a depth that it can’t be washed off. Obviously this poses problems for shoppers, but it’s even more of a risk for the 7.6 million people who work as retail salespeople and cashiers—the occupations with the highest employment, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. “A typical employee running a register could handle hundreds of contaminated receipts in a single day,” notes Houlihan.
Smart solutions Fortunately many retailers use receipt paper without BPA, and the EWG has called on the companies whose receipts tested positive for BPA to change to BPA-free receipt paper. Until that happens, be sure to wear gloves if your job requires you to handle thermal paper frequently, only take receipts when you need them (some stores now offer to email them to you) and scrub your hands well after contact with the thermal ones.
You know that many automobiles are bad for the environment, but they can be just as hazardous to your health when you’re sitting inside of them—and the stronger that “new car smell,” the worse off you could be. According to research from the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Ecology Center, the average American spends more than 1 1⁄2 hours in a car daily, breathing in chemicals including hazardous flame retardants, plasticizers, lead and heavy metals that off-gas from such interior parts as the armrests, dashboard, seats and steering wheel. The health problems that have been associated with these chemicals include allergies, birth defects, impaired learning, liver toxicity and cancer. “Since these chemicals are not regulated, consumers have no way of knowing the dangers they face,” says Jeff Gearhart, the Ecology Center’s research director. The good news is that many automobile manufacturers are taking steps to make their interiors safer; 17 percent of new vehicles now have interiors free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and 60 percent are produced without brominated flame retardants, according to the Ecology Center.
Smart solutions Vacuum the interior of your vehicle regularly to reduce toxic dust, and open windows and/ or doors for five minutes before getting into your vehicle, Gearhart advises. Then, while driving, keep windows closed to prevent exposure to engine and roadway pollutants and crank the A/C (sans outside air intake). “Using recirculation ventilation settings can reduce levels of interior chemicals by up to 2 1⁄2 times,” Gearhart explains. “Higher fan settings reduce levels more quickly.” There’s another reason to keep your car interior cool, too: “High levels of ultraviolet rays and heat can cause chemicals to break down into more hazardous chemicals,” Gearhart says. So park in shaded areas or garages whenever possible and use sunscreens to help deflect the rays and reduce interior temps. If you’re in the market for a new car, check out the Ecology Center’s consumer guide to toxic chemicals in cars at healthystuff .org. Topping the list of safest picks in 2012: The Honda Civic, Toyota Prius and Honda CR-Z.


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The promise was made as the first Range Rover Evoque rolled of the production line at Halewood this week, marking a £1.5 billion programme to upgrade both Jaguar and Land Rover cars.
Jaguar Land Rover says 40 changes will be made to the two British-based companies, including new cars such as the Evoque, new engines and other technology.
Exact details of new models have not been revealed, but an estate version of the Jaguar XF is a possibility and production of the C-X75 hybrid supercar is expected to begin within the next five years.
Both brands are also testing electric technology, with Land Rover revealing the electric Range Rover Sport concept at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year.
The changes will be put in place over the next five years, says Jaguar Land Rover, whose Range Rover Evoque will go on sale in September in the UK.
Models built at the Halewood plant will also be exported to 170 countries and create up to £2 billion for the UK economy because of the number of UK suppliers delivering parts for the new luxury SUV.
Jaguar Land Rover’s CEO, Ralf Speth said: “It is a groundbreaking product, a Range Rover with concept car looks, lightweight technologies and the capability to deliver 50mpg fuel economy. At the same time it’s still a true Range Rover that’s agile, nimble, designed to survive in the urban jungle and capable of tackling the toughest climates and terrains thanks to Land Rover’s legendary all-wheel drive expertise.”
The promise of further investment in the UK will delight the 19,000 UK employees of the Tata-owned brands, whose jobs have been secured thanks to the new line of successful cars such as the Jaguar XJ and the Range Rover Evoque.


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One by one, the number of states where Amazon does not collect sales tax continues to shrink. New Jersey Governer Chris Christie has announced that the e-tail giant will not only begin collecting sales tax in the Garden State, but will also open a distribution center there.
According to the Newark Star-Ledger, Amazon won’t begin the collection of NJ sales taxes until July 1, 2013, so everyone in the state has a year to keep track of their Amazon purchases to make sure they are paying taxes on them when they file their return next spring.
Amazon and the state have already been in talks about working together to construct two 1.2 million sq. ft warehouses in NJ, most likely in the central New Jersey counties of Middlesex or Mercer.
“That’s OK, but it doesn’t mean a lot unless it actually happens,” said one skeptical lawmaker.
The New Jersey deal isn’t dissimilar to the one Amazon made with Texas. There, the company said it would make about $200 million worth of capital investments and create about 2,500 jobs.


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Fairer Finance, a London-based research and ratings agency, appoints Tim Hogg as director to bolster its expertise in the UK’s Consumer Duty and enhance support for financial firms in regulatory compliance.
- Fairer Finance, a London-based research and ratings agency, appoints Tim Hogg as director.
- Hogg will lead the agency’s behavioral and data science team, leveraging a decade of experience in advising public and private sectors on regulation.
- He will focus on scrutinizing the impact of the Consumer Duty introduced by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in July to ensure consumer protection in financial services.
- Hogg’s role involves assessing the duty’s impact on business models, product innovation, pricing dynamics, and consumer communications.
- James Daley, the agency’s managing director, sees the Consumer Duty as a significant regulatory change and expects Hogg’s appointment to enhance support for firms through data science and behavioral economics.
- Hogg views compliance with the duty as a multifaceted obligation that can benefit from behavioral and data science to prioritize consumers in business models.
- Hogg joins Fairer Finance from Oxera, where he led the company’s behavioral economics practice for over four years.


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The Kia Sedona is the subject of its second recall notice in three months because of potential problems with a throttle cable that could lead to a crash.
Kia Motors America Inc. said Thursday it was recalling more than 118,000 Sedonas from the 2003-2005 model years because the throttle cable may stick, especially in cold climates with freezing conditions.
The throttle cable connects the gas pedal and the throttle body in the engine. Kia said if water seeped into the throttle cable prior to freezing conditions, it could lead to the cable freezing.
Under these conditions, when the driver takes his foot off the gas pedal, the cable could stick and the vehicle's speed could be maintained, potentially leading to a crash.
Kia said in a statement it began the recall "during the warm summer months to resolve the issue before the affected vehicles are subjected to cold weather conditions later this year."
The recall is expected to begin in September. Dealers will modify a protective sleeve around the throttle cable to prevent water from entering it. Owners will not be charged for the repairs and will be notified by mail. They can contact Kia at 800-333-4542.
In May, the company said it was recalling more than 37,000 of the minivans from the 2003-2005 model years because of potential damage to a rear wheel bearing that could cause a crash. Owners were notified last month and dealers are in the process of inspecting and, if necessary, making repairs.
Kia Motors Corp., South Korea's second-largest automaker, is the parent company of the Irvine, Calif.-based Kia Motors America.
Kia sold 61,149 Sedonas in the United States in 2004, a 20 percent increase from the more than 50,000 minivans sold in 2003, according to Autodata Corp.


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Merger Arbitrage and Microsoft
Microsoft announced on January 18th, 2022 that it would acquire video game company Activision Blizzard for 69 billion dollars, or $95 per share. It would be one of the largest tech acquisitions to date. Microsoft is demonstrating it’s continued endeavor to expand their influence over the video game market after a long string of acquisitions in the space, including ZeniMax Media, Smash.gg, Obsidian, and many others. Activision, on the opposite side of the deal, is demonstrating it’s need for new leadership after a host of internal problems. The deal is expected to go through by July of 2023.
With ticker ATVI now trading at 77.84 as of Friday at close, there is an alarmingly large gap between the proposed share price, and the current price driven by market sentiment. Alternative strategies to buy-and-hold are definitely nothing to scoff at in the current broad market environment, and if the deal goes through, the 22% upside is incredibly attractive.
If the deal goes through.
That’s the big issue in these situations. Whether it gets blocked by regulatory committees or doesn’t pass approval by the board, there are hurdles to take on before finalization. However, the board approved the sale of Activision Blizzard in late April, so what is the real risk of regulatory issues, and is this risk greater than the current 22% upside?
One way we can assess this differential is through looking at the comparative risk of other merger arbitrage plays.
Elon Musk’s bid on Twitter, for example, puts the stock at $54.20 per share, and the stock is trading at a discount of only 8%, as compared to Activision’s discount of 22%, displaying investor’s comparative confidence in the Twitter acquisition. So why are investors so much more confident in Musk’s flippant-yet-passionate Twitter bid as compared to Microsoft’s purchase of Activision?
One reason could be fear (and lack thereof) of monopolization, which is one of the largest characteristics of deals looked at by regulatory commissions. Microsoft’s buying spree of video game companies has led it to a large market share in a relatively short amount of time, and this even larger purchase has presented anti-trust concerns among investors. This fear is absent in Musk’s purchase attempt, and is reflected in the stock price.
FTC chair Lina Khan has been quoted as saying that they will only bring on cases “in which [enforcement] could really change the dynamic in the entire market,” implying that if a merger doesn’t have significant implications for how consumers and providers operate in the future, they are unlikely to take much action in the way of blocking it. However, Lina Khan has been very active in enforcing laws with big tech mergers — NVIDIA’s acquisition of Arm Ltd got blocked last year, and she’s reopened cases against larger tech companies such as Meta.
While I’m no M&A lawyer, I don’t believe the implied market share increase from 6.5% to 10.7% is enough to persuade the DOJ and FTC to block the deal. The $69 billion price tag brings up red flags, and warns of anti-trust action, but the price tag is not necessarily reflective of the actual effect this purchase will have on the market. The video gaming market in the US is not only influenced by domestic companies. The U.S. consumer market is still dominated by foreign companies such as Sony and Tencent, and an increase in the capabilities of Microsoft through this purchase could put the U.S. at a competitive advantage in the global marketplace.
It’s absolutely true that the deal would further solidify Microsoft’s gaming branch as a giant in the space, but they will remain in the third place spot behind both Sony and Tencent when comparing revenue. Another incredibly important aspect of the deal is that Activision Blizzard performs a completely different function to the rest of Microsoft’s gaming branch, a fact seemingly overlooked by market sentiment. Yes, they both operate in the same industry, but Activision often acts as a downstream supplier of games for Microsoft’s consoles, not as a direct competitor to Microsoft. If Microsoft were to buy a competitor such as Sony, the nature of the purchase would be completely different. Most of the value that Microsoft adds to the industry has nothing to do with creating games — their largest revenue driver is still in the hardware space. Nearly all of the value creation from Activision Blizzard is in the game development space, and an attempt at vertical integration has little legal grounds to be blocked.
But again, I’m definitely not an M&A lawyer.
People way more qualified than me feel the same way. 17 of 21 analysts looking at Activision have it’s price target set to $95, showing analytical confidence that the deal will go through. I don’t anticipate the acquisition to have a significant affect on the domestic market, and while the deal certainly could still get blocked, as you can never perfectly predict the actions of the FTC, I think the upside is far worth the slight risk.
Plus, Warren Buffet is betting on it too. Never inverse Warren Buffet.
This article is not intended to be financial advice.


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Animal agriculture may soon have to pay market rates for animal feed as the “human inedible” argument for using some food side stream products for animal feed continues to lose ground. For example we now have;
· Japanese researchers at Yamagata University are producing protein from defatted rice bran.
I’ve been pointing out for some years that there’s no such thing as “human inedible” products. There’s only products “not yet edible by humans”. New technologies continue to turn these “human inedible” products into human edible food ingredients.
This obviously won’t happen overnight but the companies producing these “human inedible” byproducts have powerful incentives to maximise their value chain. We already have the world’s biggest brewer, AB InBev, investing USD100million in EverGrain who opened its first 7,000 ton protein isolate facility in July this year. The facility was adjacent to an AB InBev brewery; the days of brewers spent grain as a cheap animal feed are numbered.
Some animal agriculture may be faced with ever increasing costs as the free, or nearly free, sources of feed dry up. This will push meat costs up even further, making alternatives even more competitive. This will drive alternative volumes up, driving their costs down. In decades to come this could create a perfect storm for some animal agriculture segments.


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A new study shows most shoppers use coupons at the grocery store.
According to the 2017 Coupon Intelligence Report, nine out of 10 shoppers said they use coupons when they buy groceries.
15% of shoppers said they always use coupons. That’s up from 10% in 2016.
More than half of shoppers — 64% — said they use coupons “very often” or “sometimes.” That’s about the same as the year before.
Fewer people said they “rarely” or “never” use coupons.
According to the report, millennials are most likely to use coupons. 94% said they use coupons. That’s up 6% from the year earlier.
Most people prefer to get their coupons in the mail or newspaper. Smartphones are the least favorite way to get coupons.
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Coop Denmark has allocated set delivery times for elderly or infirm shoppers, in the face of growing demand for its Coop.dk MAD service due to the coronavirus.
The group said that it will allocate the period between 1pm and 4pm to this select group of shoppers, initially in the Greater Copenhagen region.
“We are in a very special situation right now," commented Coop Denmark's executive vice president Jan Madsen.
"We are receiving many inquiries from people who cannot leave their homes, and can't understand why we are unable to deliver to them faster. To assist them, we have reserved some selected delivery times for them."
Since the coronavirus outbreak took hold, Coop.dk MAD has doubled its number of consumers, Coop said.
Last week, its terminal in Vallensbæk was expanded with 50 new employees, and 'night teams' have also been established.
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
In a surprising turn of events, Warner Music Group has dropped its lawsuit against the popular playlist sharing site, imeem. Instead, Warner is licensing its entire music catalog for imeem users to stream free of charge in exchange for a piece of imeem's ad revenue.
You can now listen legally to Warner artists like Depeche Mode, Linkin Park, Madonna, Green Day, and R.E.M. The best part is that you can embed playlist widgets that let you play songs directly on your blog, MySpace profile, or website.
More free, legal music listening services can be found here.


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Leading the way in the travel industry with blockchain solutions this investment will assist in Travala.com’s global expansion
London, United Kingdom –– December 19th, 2019 –– Following the recent announcement of a strategic partnership with Booking.com, Travala.com, the leading blockchain-based accommodation booking platform, has just announced an investment from Yellow Capital Fund, the investment arm of leading Blockchain Incubator Yellow. Aimed at propelling real-world use-cases, the Yellow Capital investment will assist in the international expansion of Travala.com.
Commenting on the announcement, Matthew Luczynski, CEO, and Co-Founder of Travala.com said, “It’s a real pleasure to welcome a new partner with such a commitment to the future of blockchain technology and mass crypto adoption. From January to November of this year, Travala.com has seen an increase in the number of room nights booked of over 800%. With this backing from Yellow Capital, we can now focus on the next phase of growth for Travala.com.”
Enabling blockchain startups with capital, mentorship, software solutions, physical hubs and advisory as their core offerings, Yellow aims to replicate the metaphor of the famous blockchain related DCS triangle: Decentralized-Consistent-Scale and it has positioned itself as one of the leading brands in the blockchain technology space.
Commenting on the announcement, Alexis Sirkia, Founder of Yellow said, “We want every dollar we invest to make a lasting difference in the world, so our primary focus is on projects who are aiming for mass-adoption of blockchain technology and Travala.com is a perfect example. We want to help find the next Booking.com in blockchain.”
Yellow Capital joins previous investors NEO EcoFund from China and Crowdcube from the United Kingdom
The Travala.com platform currently offers over 2,000,000 hotels and accommodations covering 90,124 destinations in 230 countries. With prices up to 40% cheaper than mainstream travel booking platforms, travellers can save money and use 21 different cryptocurrencies to pay for accommodation bookings on the website, while earning AVA rewards with every booking.
Travala.com is the world’s leading cryptocurrency-friendly hotel and accommodation booking service with 2,000,000+ hotels and accommodations in 230 countries and a champion of cryptocurrency adoption, accepting over 20 leading cryptocurrencies in addition to traditional payment methods. The Travala.com value proposition is bolstered by AVA. As the native cryptocurrency of the platform, AVA can be used for payments, receiving and redeeming loyalty rewards, refunds, and as a store of value, among several other use cases.
For more information, visit: https://www.travala.com
Yellow is building the future of Blockchain with seed investments, mentorship, advisory (STOs, token economics, legal, banking, marketing, fundraising and listing) and software solutions as core offerings. Yellow also enriches the Blockchain community through physical hubs (co-working spaces), live events (conferences and meetups), and original news and entertainment.
For more information, visit: https://www.incubator.yellow.com