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Corey Williams recently purchased The Greenery on the Square from Judy Goldie and will reopen it as Pa Bunk’s Natural Market & Cafe on Dec. 2. (TMP/M. Hudgins)
During his studies at MTSU, Corey Williams lost 110 pounds by opting for a healthy lifestyle. That was eight years ago. Today, he’s hoping to bring the same healthy food choices to local residents and downtown shoppers.
He has plans to add Pa Bunk’s Natural Market & Café to Murfreesboro’s historic Square. Named after his grandfather, who raised a family of 12 on a farmer’s wages, Pa Bunk is a shortened version of Papa (which is what the kids called him) and Bunk (his nickname).
Williams embarks on this adventure with two sisters and their husbands – Shelia and Chris Ferrell and Karla and Russell Wood – along with best friend, Reid Bennett, and nephew Holden Wood, the latter of whom will help run the day-to-day operations.
After he graduated from MTSU with a degree in finance, the Carthage native joined the Army and moved back to Murfreesboro in July. Williams and his sister started researching stores like Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods.
“I wanted to get into that because I enjoyed how much healthier it made me,” he said. “I wanted to take the knowledge I’ve learned … and share it. I kept looking around, and Murfreesboro was untapped for that kind of store.”
When The Greenery on the Square opened its doors in early August, owner Judy Goldie provided Williams a chance to get his feet wet.
“I got involved right before she opened,” he said. “We hadn’t talked about me buying it then; that came into play a couple of weeks ago.”
The Greenery on the Square offered customers a variety of organic and many locally-produced options, such as Health Nut Sandwich Company, Just Love Coffee, Jolly Llama, Positiffitea.
She opened the store and learned that it needed more groceries and a café, Williams continued. That’s when talk of selling the business arose.
“Sarah (Claeys) and I have really built a wonderful foundation here … it needed to be taken to the next level with groceries,” Goldie said.
“Corey is the man for the job. He already had the idea, and we reached out to him. Pa Bunk’s is the first organic store in Murfreesboro, ever. And we’ll have it right down here on the Square.”
The Greenery on the Square served as a landmark on the timeline for Goldie and Claeys – both are going to continue excelling in their respective areas.
“At this point in the game, I’m going to focus on what I’ve been doing for 23 years – selling great quality clothing and accessories,” Goldie said.
Claeys will continue offering her Health Nut Sandwich Company products at Just Love Coffee Roasterie and the MAC, and they’ll be hitting vending machines across Middle Tennessee before long. Health Nut is also offered as a healthy lunch option at Providence Christian Academy. Additionally, she’s launching a retail food line to market to grocery stores.
In the meantime, Health Nut will maintain its presence at Pa Bunk’s, if only for a little while longer.
The new shop is going to offer what most supermarkets provide – on a smaller scale of course and with the exception of a meat department. That said, Williams has discussed with local meat suppliers about having some fresh options available in a cooler. He’ll also triple the amount of groceries currently available inside The Greenery.
“All that will be coming down the line before the first of the year,” he said. “We’re going to try to focus on a nice mix of gluten free, vegetarian, vegan and organic. I want it to be a healthy stop for eating. I’m not carrying any foods that have any genetically modified organisms or high fructose corn syrup.”
Pa Bunk’s will open on Dec. 2, just in time for the downtown Christmas tree lighting.
“We want to get (everything) done before we open, but there are so many moving parts, I don’t know if it will all fall into line just like I want to.”
Williams is referring to the oatmeal breakfast bar, complete with a caldron of oatmeal and various toppings, a juice bar and an espresso café, among others. He will also maintain relationships with local producers.
“We’re going to try and incorporate as much local as we can,” he said, adding that Jolly Llama and Positiffitea will continue to be available at Pa Bunk’s.
“As time goes by, we’ll learn about more local stuff and try to incorporate as much as we can. I feel that working together is what binds us all and makes us better. If we work together, it makes us stronger.”
He explained how the shop will offer a small selection of supplements, but not too many because that’s what Sunshine Nutrition Center offers.
“We’ll be complementing other businesses, not replacing them,” Williams continued. “We want to be a complement to everybody and pull stuff from around the region together where it’s in one location.”
This idea, he says, allows customers to do their shopping at one place instead of traveling to each individual store. By the first of next year, Pa Bunk’s will be open extended hours – from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1-6 p.m. on Sunday – to make it more accessible to shoppers.


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Online casino caught boosting Google rank with black hat cheats
There are countless ways to legitimately boost your standings in Google search results, but one online casino site affiliate has turned its back on hard work, choosing to employ sneaky ‘black hat’ techniques to boost up the rankings.
Google’s complex algorithm is generally able to pick the good sites from the bad, determining the “value” of a site by how many other sites are linking back to it. The more trusted the linking site is, the more the linked site benefits.
Some sites use ‘black hat’ techniques to cheat the system: the term refers to malicious efforts to exploit loopholes in Google’s search results. A high Google ranking is extremely lucrative, and can be the difference between success and failure for most websites. As such, some people try to cheat their way to the top.
One such site has been found out by Web marketing agency eTraffic, which published a report detailing an online casino affiliate’s sudden rise from the third and fourth pages of search results to the first, namely for high search volume keywords such as “real slots” and “play real money online slots”.
The site did this by hacking into websites for some of the world’s most renowned education institutions, including New York University, Dartmouth College, Duke University and Stanford University. Google values backlinks from .gov and .edu websites very highly, and so having your site linked at any of those domains can lead to an immediate boost in traffic, and, as affiliate site, probably some extra revenue.
The agency found 76 backlinks spread out across those domains, with the keywords stuffed into articles that had nothing to do with online casinos and slots. The words then linked back to the online casino affiliate, which helped it boost up Google rankings.
eTraffic didn’t identity the website, but it did reveal that it is an affiliate of mobileslotcash.com – for every sale made on MobileSlotCash that came via the affiliate site, the affiliate site receives a percentage of the sale.
Our take: Google has come under fire in the past from online marketers for failing the address black hat techniques such as malicious back-linking. Websites with backlinks on high-authority domains tend to get a boost in rankings and traffic, even if the link has no relevance to the website.
Now that the report’s out there, however, the online casino affiliate is sure to feel Google’s wrath, with a permanent ban from search results the likely outcome.
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Apple's iPhone X has now crossed the 60-million mark in cumulative shipments since its launch last year, according to the latest data from Counterpoint research. While the volume of shipments isn't too flattering, because of the high price, the iPhone X is reportedly on track to becoming the most successful revenue and profit generating iPhone ever. Apple has managed to rake in $62 billion in revenue from iPhone X sales in ten months, similar to the iPhone 6 revenue figures after ten months of sales. The iPhone 6 managed to break all sales and revenue records when it launched with a new design in 2014, and now the iPhone X looks to break the 'revenue super cycle' record this year.
The Counterpoint data notes that the iPhone 6 still remains on top in the 'volume super cycle' with 30 million more iPhone 6 units shipped than iPhone X during its first 10 months of sales. To clear the 60 million mark, the iPhone 6 took only six months, therefore volume-wise the iPhone 6 triumphs. But the iPhone X was launched at a time when the smartphone market was saturated, and sales weren't growing at a favourable pace. However, because of its high ASP, it managed to bring in more revenue for Apple. "However, iPhone X which drove a completely radical new design language helped Apple to command a significantly higher Average Selling Price (ASP) at a point when the overall smartphone market was beginning to saturate. So, while the fabled volume super-cycle has not materialised, Apple has actually delivered a revenue super-cycle, posting record iPhone revenues and Average Selling Prices (ASPs) since the iPhone X launch. Both iPhone 6 and iPhone X generated almost similar revenues of $62 billion (roughly Rs. 4,47,451 crores) across a similar period (first 10 months). iPhone X is therefore also a factor in Apple becoming the first trillion-dollar company," Counterpoint notes in its report.
The report also states that US, China, and Japan were major contributors to the iPhone X sales numbers, with two-third of the total iPhone X shipments coming from these three countries. For Apple, iPhone X contributed to almost one third of the total iPhone shipments and half of total iPhone revenues since launch. Notably, India contributed to just one percent of the total iPhone X shipments so far, hinting that an urgent need of a strategy rethink in emerging markets is needed if Apple wants to increase its user base. The report states that the revenue of iPhone X alone was higher than each of the top smartphone brands - Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi - in the past ten months.
Clearly, the iPhone X, even with its steep price, was a winner in Apple's scheme of things, and the report states that the company is looking to continue this trend with the new iPhones as well. Counterpoint predicts that expect Apple will command even higher average selling price (ASP) with the rumoured three new iPhone launches this time, and the cheap LCD variant and OLED variants will likely drive even more revenue for the company.


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HERNDON, Va. (AP) -- GeoEye Inc.'s shares jumped Tuesday after the company said it struck a six-figure deal with the government of India.
THE SPARK: GeoEye said that it will sell imaging products for the government to use in the planning and development of two high-speed freight railway corridors. The company will provide stereo imagery products, which it says is the highest satellite imagery commercially available worldwide.
THE BIG PICTURE: GeoEye, based in Herndon, Va., provides high-resolution images from satellites and other products to clients in the defense, intelligence, public safety, energy and infrastructure markets.
Competing imaging company DigitalGlobe announced in July that it is buying GeoEye in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $453 million.
SHARE ACTION: GeoEye's shares rose 71 cents, or 2.2 percent, to $33.39 in afternoon trading. Earlier they hit a 52-week high $34.52.
DigitalGlobe Inc. shares gained 2.6 percent at $26.96 in afternoon trading. They also hit a 52-week high, at $27.84, earlier in the session.


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TikTok may reach beyond Trump's executive order ban on Sep 20 to reach an agreement with the US government.
TikTok's parent company ByteDance is discussing possible solutions with the United States government, which will allow the company to avoid a full sale of social media operations of the US business, according to Wall Street Journal.
People familiar with the matter said that, after China's new regulations complicated negotiations with bidders Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp., ByteDance is increasingly likely to miss the Trump administration's deadline to sell its US-based TikTok business.
The White House previously set the deadline for ByteDance on September 20 to announce plans to sell TikTok's US business to a US company. Otherwise, it will face a shut down by September 29. Any such transactions must be completed by November 12.
After Trump's ban, China officials introduced new restrictions on technology exports of artificial intelligence technologies on August 30. New restrictions included speech recognition and techniques for personalizing content.
The company has been negotiating with Microsoft to sell TikTok's US operations in partnership with Walmart, or Oracle.


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Posted the 17 January 2020
ONCF organised on Friday January 17Th 2019, at the Rabat Agdal station, the award ceremony for the winners of the competition launched in December 2019 to celebrate the first anniversary of the high-speed train 'Al Boraq '.
Ten winners were awarded season tickets that would allow them to travel, first class, between Casablanca and Tangier:
- 2 "Al Boraq DIMA" season tickets valid for one year
- 3 "Al Boraq DIMA" season tickets valid for 6 months
- 5 "Al Boraq FIFTY" season tickets valid for one year.
The festive and friendly ceremony was an opportunity to look back at Al Boraq’s first year, during which this icon of sustainable mobility has attracted 3,003,467 customers. More than 8,600 trains were taken over the year, with a daily average of 8,300 passengers who have all enjoyed a new travel experience.
This success was not achieved by accident, but rather the result of the customer benefits offered by Al Boraq: unbeatable journey times, traffic frequency in constant improvement (28 return trips / day), punctuality close to 97%, enhanced comfort, high added value services in-station and on-board, carefully developed subscription packages (Dima Card, Fifty Card), as well as flexible and accessible to all pricing. Not to mention the attractive introductory price point of Al Boraq PROMO, available for booking in advance :
- Tangier- Casablanca in 2h10: 99 dhs
- Tangier-Rabat in 1h20: 89 dhs
- Tangier-Kenitra in 50 min: 79 dhs
Thanks to all of these strengths, Al Boraq, which continues to gain adherents, has a 98% customer satisfaction rate. It is committed to further developing its offer to still provide its passengers with new experiences !


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OHIO – During a State-wide address this yesterday, Governor Mike DeWine announced that Ohio remains in a state of emergency as we are at the most crucial phase of the pandemic and in our third surge of the virus.
A vaccine could be here as early as December and the state will be ready to distribute it to essential workers and then the general population. But until a vaccine is widely available, the Governor announced that Ohio’s facial covering order is now reissued with three additions:
1: All businesses must post a facial covering requirement sign at entrances.
2: Each store will be responsible for ensuring all customers and employees are wearing masks at all times.
3: A newly formed Retail Compliance Unit will be inspecting complaints to ensure compliance of the mask order.
Today Dewine made available new posters that can be printed out that reminds people to wear masks in public here they are below.
He reminded us that gatherings are currently limited to 10 people or less and this applies to public events and private gatherings. A new order will be released in the next few days that will place further restrictions on social activities.
To avoid additional risk by not hosting or attending gatherings the current trend of the increase in cases continues, DeWine announced that restaurants, bars, and gyms could be forced to close once again. A decision will be made after the data is analyzed again one week from today.
“What you do in your life impacts all of us – our communities, our schools, nursing homes, hospitals, and businesses, said Gov Dewine in News Conference.


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Recently, Congressmen Joe Baca (D-Calif) and Frank Wolf (R-Va) decided to turn back time with a controversial bill that would slap the equivalent of a Surgeon General’s warning on games and not just on ones like first-person shooters.
All of them, even if that included Pokemon.
Only games that were rated EC (Early Childhood) by the ESRB would escape this fate. Games like Reader Rabbit Math, or Sesame Street: Let’s Go To Preschool. Everything else, like Angry Birds Space or Journey on the PS3, might frighten you enough to build your own doomsday bunker away from the world.
And according to GamePolitics, this is why, because those games would be labeled with the following:
“WARNING: Exposure to violent video games has been linked to aggressive behavior.”
Has it been linked to aggressive behavior? According to the Entertainment Consumers Association, they say it’s all bullshit and actually cite a study that says otherwise – which the bill apparently doesn’t.
We’ve been through this dance before. Doesn’t have Congress have anything better to do? Some might call out “but it’s a bipartisan bill”. You know what else is bipartisan? Having a double chocolate and vanilla ice cream cone. The difference is that it’s also a lot more satisfying.
It’s remarkable that something like this would even actually come up in Congress at all. It’s a retread of the same kind of fear mongering and short sighted, election campaign chest thumping that tried to associate Dungeons & Dragons with Satanism in the eighties and had attacked games in the early nineties which, incidentally, led to the formation of the ESRB. Before that happened, a witch hunt ensued around a number of titles like Doom. And Night Trap.
Night Trap came out for the Sega CD in ’92 and aroused a lot of controversy over what some people thought was a game that enabled players to victimize women. The reality was that you used a series of cameras to watch over a slumber party in an eerily voyeuristic manner to “trap” monsters that tried to wipe them out. You were PROTECTING them. Not attacking them.
But at the time, if you showed a nighty in a game and mention monsters, certain members of Congress such as Joe Lieberman might think that it’s an invitation to film a porn snuff film. “Some” people turned out to be politicians with connections and time was wasted on Capitol Hill in a small bout of McCarthyism that attempted to villainize certain titles and the people that made them.
One good thing did come out of this, though, which was the ESRB. Unfortunately, even with the ESRB trying to fend off things like the bill above, leave it to ignorant parents to pave the way for more sensationalist garbage. Though things are getting better as more people realize how stupid it is to blame Angry Birds on stealing someone’s milkshake.
As a game, Night Trap was notable for having a fairly famous star (Dana Plato) appear in one of the first FMV games. The CD-ROM standard was all the rage and people were talking up how awesome it would be to merge Hollywood with Silicon Valley, creating a flood of awful FMV games and experiments. The porn industry loved the idea as some of the back pages to CGW began to demonstrate.
There were a few good titles that used FMV, not all of them were cheap plastic, but so much were that FMV has earned something of a stigma among gamers that lives on even today.
Night Trap also wasn’t that great a game. It wasn’t even scary. Yet its claim to fame as one of the poster children that spurred the industry to try and regulate itself, as well a another example of Congress not fully understanding something that they wanted to prosecute in their hearings, has tattooed its reputation on the history of gaming.
Yet even with an example like that, here we are again staring down another bill slipped into the Congressional agenda. So here’s a reminder that the more things change, the more that they stay the same regardless of who is in office.
This two page ad, which ran in ’95 for its PC and Mac release, jabs Congress over the controversy that had pulled it from shelves earlier in the decade. It also mentions the “Dangerous Times” CD that was now included with the game telling Digital Pictures’ side of the controversy.


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This may not be something that many people consider when it comes to divorce, but what happens with the family pet? It may seem like a trivial matter, or that the pet should just be treated like a piece of property. But in reality, it is far more complex than that. Many couples think of their pet as a member of their family. And in some cases, the pet may represent the child that the spouses never had. The family pet is a major aspect to many divorces nowadays.
But how do you deal with the family pet? What pieces of evidence can be used by the spouses to support their claim that they deserve custody — if not full custody, then a very large piece of the custody pie?
Well, certain pieces of evidence can help. Testimony of people who know the couple could go far in establishing who took care of the pet. Receipts can also establish some important financial information. Ultimately, though, pet custody is something that requires discussion and negotiation between the spouses and their lawyers.
It is entirely possible for the splitting spouses to establish a custody agreement in similar fashion to what a child custody agreement would look like. The spouses can establish a custody schedule; they can outline who is in charge of certain financial obligations; they can even draw up provisions for paying for dog walkers and how often the dog will be walked.
Pet custody issues are very real, and they matter more in the world of divorce today than ever before.
Source: New York Post, “Dogs are the new kids in NYC custody battles,” Lindsay Putnam, April 7, 2015


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Clia’s annual cruise review reveals record numbers of UK passengers, Natasha Salmon looks at cruise’s growing popularity among package holidaymakers
Cruises can offer an alternative to package holidays as customers focus on inclusivity and revisit favoured destinations, industry experts say.
New figures show one in nine cruise customers in 2016 were former package holidaymakers and 53% chose destination as one of the top three priorities when booking a cruise.
Following Clia’s annual cruise review, Giles Hawke, chief executive of Cosmos Tours and Avalon Waterways, said cruise could be the new ‘package alternative’.
He said: “In the past few years package numbers have stayed the same but there will now be a shift to cruise.
“Cruise agents and operators are creating options for customers, allowing them to have a cruise as part of a wider holiday.”
Andy Harmer, Clia’s senior vice-president for membership and director for UK and Ireland, said it was also about customers wanting ‘personalised’ experiences.
“People want their needs and party sizes met, as well as the peace of mind that once the holiday is booked it includes spending budget,” he said.
Clia’s review revealed customers’ top three reasons for choosing a cruise were destination or itinerary (53%), a previous sailing with the line (42%) and value (34%).
Phil Nuttall, managing director of The Cruise Village, said: “There is a package element to cruising as people look to inclusivity, but for most customers it is about their favourite destinations and ships.”
First-time cruisers were down 2% on last year to 31%, but Clia chairman Stuart Leven said agents were “hitting the mark” by finding customers’ best options as repeat business rises.
Leven, vice-president of Europe, Middle East and Africa for Royal Caribbean Cruises, said: “People who have cruised once want to cruise again, but it’s the travel trade that is getting the cruise choice right to begin with.”
Fly-cruises remain the most popular, but ex-UK itineraries hit a record high with 48.3% of passengers choosing to sail from one of the UK’s 19 ports.
Harmer said ex-UK has grown “dramatically” in the past five years as people seek to start holidays closer to home.
Hawke said an increase in ocean lines sailing from UK ports was a “great sign” and the competition has “driven huge innovation”.
Nuttall said agents had driven UK customers to book earlier, with many doing so up to two years in advance. Clia figures found 48% of passengers booked between six months to more than a year ahead of their cruise.
River cruise was actively sold by 80% of travel agents in 2016, an 11% increase on 2015.
Harmer said this was “incredibly exciting” and that he has seen growing confidence and knowledge among agents, while Leven said river cruising remains a “few years behind” but will catch up as agents’ understanding improves.
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As Apple brings the Apple Vision Pro to market, its first major product category in nine years, the absence of key streaming apps and unconventional design choices cast shadows over its debut.
Apple Inc.’s upcoming mixed-reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro, is poised to make waves. It lets you see and interact with virtual worlds using artificial intelligence, voice and gesture control, plus spatial audio.
Despite all of those cool features, it’s facing a significant challenge. The world’s leading video and music streaming services, including Google’s YouTube, Spotify and Netflix, are noticeably absent from the device’s lineup of supported applications.
YouTube, Spotify and Netflix shun Apple’s new device
The decision by these streaming giants to steer clear of Apple’s latest offering signals a notable shift in the digital entertainment landscape. YouTube, a pivotal player in the video streaming sector, announced it has no plans to launch a new app for the Apple Vision Pro.
Instead, YouTube suggests its users turn to the Safari web browser to access its content on the new device. This mirrors Netflix’s approach of avoiding a dedicated app for Apple’s newest product, forcing Vision Pro users to the web for access.
Spotify, another key player in the music streaming industry, follows suit. The company is not developing a new app for the Vision Pro’s operating system, visionOS, nor will it adapt its existing iPad app for the headset.
Despite this, Spotify’s services will likely remain accessible via a web browser. This strategic decision by Spotify aligns with Netflix and YouTube’s approach, marking a collective pivot away from traditional app-based integration for Apple’s new device.
Apple faces content gap at Vision Pro launch
The absence of these popular streaming apps at the launch of the Vision Pro, scheduled for Feb. 2, is particularly striking. Apple has been marketing the headset as a hub for video, gaming and entertainment, but the lack of support from these major content providers could impact its reception in the market.
The Vision Pro is set to include Apple’s own apps for music and podcasts, which directly compete with Spotify’s offerings. Yet, the omission of YouTube is especially notable, considering YouTube was a preinstalled app on Apple’s original iPad in 2010.
YouTube and Spotify keep their apps on other Apple devices
Despite their decision to opt out of dedicated app support for the Vision Pro, YouTube and Spotify continue to maintain popular apps for other Apple devices, like the iPhone and iPad. This situation could have facilitated an easier transition to support Vision Pro. However, developers with existing iPad software in the App Store need to actively choose to make their apps available in the Vision Pro store, a step these companies have decided against.
We reached out to Apple for a better understanding of this industry fallout and uncharacteristically did not hear back from a corporate representative by publishing time.
Meta apps also missing from the Vision Pro ecosystem
Moreover, additional searches suggest that apps from Meta, such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, may also be unavailable on the Vision Pro. While these major streaming services are stepping back, other entertainment apps like Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, ESPN and Amazon Prime Video are participating in the Vision Pro ecosystem. Apple anticipates that the headset’s App Store will support over 1 million titles.
Vision Pro’s design raises questions about Apple’s innovation
This challenge is compounded by the design of the Apple Vision Pro itself. The device, which resembles bulky ski goggles, features an umbilical cord emerging from the side, leading to a separate battery pack. The multipart aesthetic of Vision Pro shows the glaring absence of former lead designer Jony Ive and the meticulous oversight of the late Steve Jobs. This unconventional design might raise practicality and aesthetic concerns among potential users, contrasting with the sleek, wireless aesthetics typically associated with Apple products.
Apple Vision Pro now available
Orders for the $3,499 strap-on Vision Pro headset are now available online from Apple. The umbilical cord cable that connects to the separated battery pack for power is included. Extra batteries will cost $199 each.
Kurt’s key takeaways
The Apple Vision Pro is a bold attempt to enter the mixed-reality market, but it faces some serious hurdles after Apple’s long nine years since a major product innovation. The lack of support from key streaming apps, such as YouTube, Spotify and Netflix, could limit its appeal to users who want to enjoy their favorite content on the device.
The design of the headset, which requires a separate battery pack and a cord, could also raise questions about its practicality and aesthetics. Apple has a reputation for innovation and quality, but will the Vision Pro live up to its expectations?
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Scilex Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company working on new pain medications, raised $5 million in a private stock sale, according to documents filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
The flagship product under development at the privately held Malvern, Pa., company is Ztlido, a lidocaine patch formulated a single layered analgesic tape.
"It's so thin — it's like a Band-Aid, only it has lidocaine in it," said Anthony Mack, the CEO and co-founder of Scilex.
Mack said the company licensed the technology used for Ztlido from an established Japanese pharmaceutical developer, whose identity is being kept confidential.
Ztlido is in clinical testing as a potential treatments for post-herpetic neuralgia, which is pain associated with the shingles virus.
The drug, if approved, would compete in a market expected to open up with next year’s patent expiration of Lidoderm, a lidocaine patch developed and marketed by Endo. Endo (NASDAQ: ENDP), based in Dublin, Ireland, has its U.S. headquarters in Malvern.
Mack said the drug-delivery system technology they are using allows for Ztlido to be formulated with just a fraction of the dose of lidocaine found in Lidoderm.
The company's plan is to complete clinical testing of Ztildo later this year, file a new drug application for the product with the Food and Drug Administration at the start of next year, and — if regulatory approval is secured — launch the product as soon as late 2015.
Mack is also the founder ProSolus Pharmaceuticals, a Miami company that specialize in transdermal patch research, development and manufacturing. He founded Scilex with William Pedranti, who serves as the company's chief operating officer. Pedranti was previously vice president and general counsel for Spectrum Pharmaceuticals.
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Online peddler of books and things, Amazon is deep in discussions with book publishers about building a online subscription-based library of digital books.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the response to Amazon's overtures has so far been mixed, as publishers mull the implications for their revenue streams. Amazon reportedly wants to offer a book-rental service initially as part of its Prime scheme, which offers subscribers two-day shipping and access to the its streamed digital movie and TV collection.
Customers would pay an annual fee to access a library of content,in the manner of online movie service Netflix the report states.
Amazon is said to be waving “substantial” rewards to publishers in a bid to bring a subscription-based book-club model to its successful Kindle ebook reader range.


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Feb 8, 2021
Valmet has received Bronze Class distinction in SAM Sustainability Yearbook 2021 for excellent sustainability performance. Sustainability Yearbook is a comprehensive publication providing in-depth analysis on corporate sustainability. This year's report includes more than 7,000 companies.
"SAM Sustainability Yearbook lists the world’s best performing companies in sustainability, and we are extremely happy to be included. I am very proud of our employees who develop and provide solutions that respond to sustainable development challenges,” says Laura Puustjärvi, Head of Sustainability, Valmet.
Every year since 2004, the Sustainability Yearbook has showcased the sustainability performance of the world’s largest companies in each industry as determined by their score in the annual SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). The CSA is an analysis of economic, environmental and social performance of the world’s leading companies, assessing issues covering climate change strategies, supply chain standards, labour practices, corporate governance and risk management. The companies are ranked as gold, silver or bronze class on the basis of their performance.
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So you’ve incorporated or formed an LLC for your business. What’s next? After spending time and energy deciding which business structure to form and when to do it, you now have another set of questions to answer.
As the baby boomers hit – and pass – the (formerly) standard retirement age, the global workforce will need to continue absorbing the dramatic rise in employees over 65 for the next 10 to 20 years. A company in South Korea has found the solution to that problem; EverYoung, a technology services firm, only employs those over 55 years’ old.
Digital marketing evolves every day and companies often fizzle out because they either couldn’t or didn’t want to keep up with changes in marketing. For startups, digital marketing is even more essential to a successful business.
Working in a startup environment, life is – by nature – a little unsettled. Casual small-talk questions like ‘how are things going?’ or ‘how’s work’, can often lead to doubting success, personal or professional. With startups, these are often one and the same.
The Flash took favorable note of recent U.S. Census Bureau data showing that, although the growth rate of new businesses overall has stalled, the share of women-owned small businesses has climbed. Indeed, the number of women-owned businesses grew at a 27% clip between 2007 and 2012 – during which time the total number of U.S. businesses grew by only 2%. This is very encouraging in light of the challenges the startup community has faced in boosting the number of companies founded by women entrepreneurs.
Google last week announced its formation as an entirely new company, called Alphabet. It’s a corporate maneuver in which Google will become part of Alphabet. Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page will step down from the top post at Google proper and become CEO of Alphabet. Fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin will become Alphabet’s president. Longtime Google executive Sundar Pichai is now Google’s CEO.
The Flash certainly took interest when benchmarking firm Compass, last week, released its global ranking report on startup ecosystems. The ranking of global regions is based on how well areas nurture top tech talent, host profitable businesses and expand into foreign markets. Silicon Valley continues to be the leading region for tech startups, but other cities are quickly climbing the ranks. New York City jumped three spots to take second place and Tel Aviv, also jumping three spots, moved into the top five. The Flash is interested to see if other regions will be able to give Silicon Valley a run for its money in the near future.
The Flash also checks in with Buffer, the social media management company that is on a quest to create a self-managed workplace culture. A $7 million startup with zero managers? Talk about transparency…
These and more in this week’s edition of The Flash!
- The Best Place for Tech Startups: Still Silicon Valley…For Now (ReadWrite)
- Behalf Lands Credit, Equity as Funding for Lending Startups Hits Record (WSJ)
- Uber faces UK lawsuit as union threatens to sue over working conditions (Bloomberg)
- Buffer, the social media management company, is on a quest to create a self-managed workplace culture. Talk about transparency (Inc)
- Amazon CTO: ‘We still consider ourselves a startup’ (Entrepreneur)
- Why is Elon Musk worried about killer robots? (Slate)
Here comes the All-Around Entertaining App! The on-demand subscription music service Spotify first won our hearts by giving us access to all the tunes we wanted. Now it’s looking to take on bigger competitors (we’re looking at you, Apple), and is rolling out a new app that seeks to make the company an unlimited source of video and podcasts. The Flash certainly took note of this aggressive move. We also applauded the re-entry of Scott McNealy to the entrepreneurial ring – the former Sun Microsystems CEO (and tech/SV rock star) announced this week that he’s taking the reins at Wayin, a social marketing startup he co-founded five years ago.
The Flash looks at these and other stories. Check it out!
- Spotify wants to be your endless source for video and podcasts, too. (Gizmodo)
- Scott McNealy is back in the game – this time heading up social marketing startup Wayin. (Fortune)
- Why are small businesses around the country rushing to have an IPO? Easy: it’s easy! (Washington Post)
- 38 new emojis come out next month – look for ‘bacon’ and ‘drooling face’ (Entrepreneur)
- The world’s largest startup accelerator – MassChallenge – announces plans to expand globally. (PandoDaily)
- Retail brands that failed can get new lives online as entrepreneurs launch them anew on the web. (Wall Street Journal)
- MuleSoft hits a valuation of more than $1.5 billion for its startup that helps firms organize their data. (Bloomberg Business)
Uber Technologies, the SF-based ride-sharing company, is looking to raise between $1.5B and $2 billion in new funding. What’s the company valuation for that ambitious funding, you ask? Try $50 B-,B-,B- Billion … that’s a lot of unicorns…What will Uber do with all that money? Poach talent, for starters: Google’s PR chief received an offer she couldn’t refuse.
The Flash also kicks back with some longer reads, checking out The New Yorker profile of Silicon Valley giant Marc Andreessen and the California Sunday look at the slew of high school entrepreneurs/dropouts descending on San Francisco.
Check out these stories and more in The Flash!
- Uber briefs investors on plans to raise up to $2B – based on a funding valuation of $50B or higher (Wall Street Journal)
- What to do with piles of cash? Poach PR talent to manage the CEO’s image do-over, Uber decides (Wall Street Journal)
- Longform: Marc Andreessen has a vision for the future of venture capital and his firm Andreessen Horowitz – not to mention The World (New Yorker)
- Longform: Tech-savvy teens are dropping out across the U.S. and heading to SF to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams (California Sunday)
- SV payments company Square is expanding its lending efforts to small businesses by raising funds for Square Capital, its loan-making section (Fortune)
- America’s transportation infrastructure would benefit from an influx of entrepreneurs (Harvard Business Review)
- Plenty of billion-dollar startups, but so far no billion-dollar entrepreneurs (Venture Beat)
Online crafts seller Etsy debuted on Wall Street last week, and The Flash certainly took notice. In addition to the company’s volatile stock movement, The Flash learned a few interesting tidbits about this hot company: Etsy is the largest B-Corp to go through the IPO process, and the company has NEVER turned a profit (and may never do so…). The JOBS Act – a long-time FWB fave for its potential to help emerging growth companies – continues getting favorable coverage for crowdfunding and other programs. We also check in with leading VC firm Andreessen Horowitz after its recent hiring of Facebook’s former GC, who will help startups with regulatory and legal challenges.
Get these and more in The Flash!


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No time for napping in the hospital bed market
Recent Medicare billing data from CMS shows standard hospital bed provision maintaining a static level while other categories, such as respiratory, wheelchairs and orthotic supplies are growing steadily. Various factors, such as eligibility and reimbursement levels could account for the lethargy, but bed and support surface manufacturers say it also could be that providers aren’t fully exploring the product’s potential.
“Providers need to decide if they want to specialize in beds or just offer a product that is an adjunct to their existing business,” said Abbey Daniels, CEO of Sentech Medical Systems, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “If they want to specialize in beds, they need to make informed decisions about how to differentiate themselves from others in the market. They need to talk to multiple manufacturers and educate themselves on each product’s therapeutic differences. Once they understand as much as possible and have selected a product they feel offers the greatest therapeutic advantage, selling to referral sources becomes easy.”
Learning the distinctions between therapeutic surfaces is admittedly not an easy task, Daniels said. There are major differences in support surfaces and it is complicated by the fact that there are no performance standards or common language for terms such as low air loss and alternating pressure. Even so, knowledge is a valuable commodity in the bed market and providers who take the time to learn will be successful, she said.
Providers should also establish themselves as experts in bed safety, said Duwayne Kramer, president of Kansas City, Kan.-based Burke Tri-Flex. A strict new FDA bed certification standard in 2004 suggests institutional demand for consultants will be high.
“When standard UL 2601 comes out Jan.1, no one will meet it,” Kramer said. “There will be a lot changes for mattresses, side rails and gap spacing specifications. Institutions such as hospitals and nursing homes will be clamoring for help.”
The home care market will reportedly not be affected by the new FDA rules.
Tom Tucker, vice president of sales for DME and respiratory for Mundelein, Ill.-based Medline Industries, speculates that changing demographics could also be partly responsible for a sluggish bed market.
“Patients are healthier and more active than they used to be,” he said. “They’re not spending as much time in bed.”
Still, beds are a valuable tool in helping prevent decubitus ulcers and providers serving the wound care market should be emphasizing that point to referral sources, Tucker noted.
“Talk with physicians and home nursing agencies about how proper skin care prevents the wound,” he said. “Used together as a complete system, incontinence garments, skin creams and beds with alternating pressure pads promote strong, healthy skin.”
To be sure, decubitus ulcer patients are a primary market, but general consumers seeking comfort should also be a sales priority because “there’s a lot of poor quality out there,” said John Asturias, director of healthcare sales for Federal Foam Technologies, Minneapolis.
A lot of attention is being paid to support surface materials, Asturias said, with latex and visco elastic foam making significant sales inroads. Although latex “has been a taboo word in the medical industry” because of the proliferation of latex allergies, he said the substance has found a new purpose in the bedding market.
“There is a new process that allows it to be 99.9% allergen-free,” he said. “It’s a completely new product – one that should remove the stigma that has surrounded latex in the past few years.”
Temperature sensitive, visco elastic foam warms and softens at the points of greatest interface pressure. It also stays compressed for a certain amount of time before returning to its original position.
Although it has been on the market for more than a decade, visco elastic foam has only gained popularity recently because mass production has driven prices downward, Asturias said.
Category: Beds and Support Surfaces
Key Referral Sources:
Physicians (general practice, internal medicine, dermatologists, spinal cord specialists, chiropractors), physical therapists, occupational therapists, wound care nurses, registered dieticians, hospital discharge planners, home health agencies, hospice agencies, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, social service agencies.
Effective Marketing Techniques:
- Become a bed specialist by studying the market and learning about the therapeutic differences in support surfaces.
- Likewise, become an expert in bed safety and serve as a consultant to institutions needing compliance help with the FDA’s UL 2601 bed certification standard.
- Promote support surfaces as a complete skin care system together with incontinence garments and skin care products.
- Consider handling new support surface materials, such as latex and visco elastic foam, and heavy-duty beds for bariatric patients.


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Jumia Ecommerce Downsizing Continues With Staff Layoff In Kenya
Following the suspension of its e-commerce operations in both Cameroon and Tanzania within a few days of each other, the African e-commerce giant, Jumia, has continued what looks like a rapid downsizing of its e-commerce business.
This time around, it’s Jumia Kenya that is getting the chop as reports have emerged that the company has severed ties with approximately 6 percent of its workforce in Kenya by laying off up to 30 employees in its Kenyan office.
Sources who spoke to Gadgets-Africa hinted that the development is tied to a move by Jumia’s backers to cut down on the loss-making company’s running costs and arrest a deluge that has seen Jumia’s losses hit the threshold of a billion dollars since launching in 2012.
In last month’s earnings call, Jumia reported yet more losses despite increased revenues and users. The company also hinted at a fintech-esque restructuring effort following the impressive numbers done by its in-house payment gateway, Jumia Pay, during the period under review.
After the recent earnings call, it was widely speculated that Jumia may have to close shop in some of its African markets to arrest its losses and it didn’t take long before the company suspended operations in two African countries. And now, it appears the downsizing campaign has reached Kenya.
Jumia Kenya has, indeed, confirmed the layoffs in its Kenyan office to Gadgets-Africa, though the company says that they are working with the affected employees to find suitable placements for them.
Before the recent trimming, Jumia had been attempting to build a giant e-commerce platform that spans several African countries. But it appears the company is having a rethink following a botched IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) which has since seen the company lose its unicorn status with share price currently hovering around single digits.
At the moment, Jumia seems committed to cutting down on its running costs and it is likely that the downsizing will affect a few other markets.


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(IDAHO FALLS, ID) – The United Potato Growers of America has been named in a lawsuit by a U.S. wholesale grocer for allegedly running an illegal price-fixing cartel for nearly a decade. The Associated Wholesale Grocers also named Idaho State Rep. Dell Raybould of Rexburg in the suit. The group alleges that spud farmers banded together in 2004 to illegally inflate prices by reducing the number of acres planted and destroying potatoes, all to restrict availability and drive up prices. Raybould counters that farmers haven’t violated any anti-trust laws.
Nate Sunderland, EastIdahoNews.com
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Letang, NB - Staffers at the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association (ACFFA) will kick off their 3nd Annual Five Easy Pieces fashion challenge tomorrow to raise money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
ACFFA staffers will pick only five pieces of clothing each to wear to work for the month of April. They’ll collect pledges to raise funds for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
“Every seven minutes in Canada, someone dies from heart disease or stroke. Heart and stroke are two of the leading causes of death in Canada,” says Pamela Parker, Executive Director of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association. “The Heart and Stroke Foundation is a cause near and dear to our hearts. We’ve all been touched in some manner by heart and stroke.”
Over the past two years, the ACFFA and its members have raised about $6,000 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. The idea originated from the BC Salmon Farmers Association who created and launched this successful initiative in 2011. They invited the ACFFA to take up the challenge, help raise funds for Heart and Stroke and spread heart-healthy messages from coast to coast.
“Atlantic salmon is one of the most nutritious foods you can eat. It’s one of the world’s best sources of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids. It’s also high in protein, low in saturated fat and loaded with vitamin D and E,” says Parker. “This challenge is a terrific opportunity to educate people about the benefits of seafood, and particularly salmon, and to raise money for a good cause too.”
Parker says she and her staff choose their five clothing pieces wisely because they’ll have to make those items work for events ranging from farm tours to business meetings to receptions. Staffers will be able to spice up their chosen outfits with different shoes, scarves and jewelry, but they will stick to their basic five core pieces for the month.
“We’ll be doing a lot of laundry,” she says.
For more information or if you want to get involved by pledging a donation, please email: email@example.com or call us at (506) 755-3526.
The Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association (ACFFA) is an industry-funded association working on behalf of the salmon farming industry in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The ACFFA represents salmon producers in addition to a wide range of supporting companies and organizations. Salmon farming employs over 3,000 people in our region and generates over $330 million to our provincial economies.
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New App Reserves Parking, Guides Users In TrafficAutomaker Ford is working to have a customer relationship that goes beyond buying a car and develops with industry changes like car-sharing.
Ford Expands Drivers Air Bag Recall NationwideAutomaker Ford is expanding a driver's side air bag inflator recall to the entire U.S. in order to meet government demands.
Ford Starts Production Of New Aluminum F-150Aluminum isn't new to the auto industry, but this is the first time it will cover the entire body of such a high-volume vehicle.
Ford Recalling More Than 160,000 Vehicles Ford issued a recall for at least 160,000 vehicles in the U.S.
Lions Owner William Clay Ford Dies At 88William Clay Ford, the last surviving grandchild of automotive pioneer Henry Ford and owner of the Detroit Lions, has died. He was 88.
Ford To Recall More Than 20,000 Trucks, SUVsSouth Florida Ford owners should be aware of a recall affecting pickup trucks and SUVs.
Ford Recalls More Than A Million F-150sIf you’re driving around in an older model Ford F-150 truck you may soon be getting a recall notice in the mail.


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Adidas, Puma take advantage of new ecommerce FDI rule
Global sports brands, Puma and Adidas aim to be among the first major foreign brands to set up their own ecommerce operations in India, after applying to the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) for the necessary clearance.
Last year,Adidas had spoken of its omni-channelambitions. Puma is also looking to expand rapidly. It is hoped this will create more job opportunities.
Single brand foreign companies can now sell through:
“It has been decided that a manufacturer will be permitted to sell its product through wholesale and/or retail, including through e-commerce without government approval,”the DIPP had said.
The new FDI rule allows single-brand overseas players to conduct online selling of their goods for the first time. The rule came into affect in November 2015, as foreign companies requested greater clarity. The new rule will help single brand retailers improve areas such as logistics, replenishing stock and procuring goods.
“Based on the new regulation on single-brand retail, we have sought approval for Puma Sports India to do retail and e-commerce. The same entity was originally allowed to do wholesale of Puma products. It’s a very progressive approach from the government. Once our approval comes through, it will make business much smoother for us,”stated Abhishek Ganguly, managing director of Puma India.


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With Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruling that Microsoft is an illegal monopoly and Microsoft’s stock taking a beating, this is a time for gloating by Mac users, especially those who have prided themselves on being anti-Microsoft rebels.
While I use and appreciate most Microsoft’s Mac products (except for Word 6, of course), I sympathize with those who are gleefully applauding Microsoft’s black eye. After all, this is the company that has foisted Windows on much of the computing world, making the masses believe that computers are fundamentally hard to use and unreliable.
But for me, the best part of the Microsoft ruling is that in reacting to the verdict, Microsoft has once again exposed its true arrogance for all the world to see. It’s more than just arrogance, too — it’s delusion.
My favorite piece on the Microsoft verdict came from the Los Angeles Times , which described Bill Gates as believing that “way down deep, he doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong.”
Oh, to be the richest man in the world, surrounded by Microsoft flunkies who say “That’s Right, Mister Gates” day and night. To descend into a fantasy world where everything you do is right and where everyone who disagrees with you is just envious.
That’s the world Bill Gates lives in. And even when faced with the potential destruction of his empire by the forces of the U.S. government, he can’t bear to alter that world-view in any way by admitting wrongdoing. It would just be too painful.
But here’s the best part of that Times report, the part that spells out just how clueless Microsoft is about the state of affairs in the computing world: “[Gates] deeply believes his company benefits the world in general and everyone who uses its products in particular.”
In other words, Microsoft is curing cancer here, and who are you to stop them? Without Windows, the world would be a sad place without technology, without an Internet, without anything of value in terms of computer technology.
Come on. Life without Windows? It’s a little like contemplating life without Wal-Mart.
This is something that Mac users have known all along, just by looking at the various versions of Windows over the years. Windows is not a product developed by an organization that’s in touch with reality. It’s probably wise that Microsoft has created an atmosphere of denial up in Redmond, because it would be no fun to work at a company knowing you were creating second-rate products.
The fact is, Windows is a massive success (in terms of market share) because people are cheapskates. Windows, bundled with cheap PC clones, was a cheaper option than buying a Mac. The computer-buying public, not readily able to discriminate between the Mac interface and Windows, took one look at the price tags and bought Windows. And the snowball began to roll, picking up steam until most of the computer world had invested heavily in a second-rate knock-off.
But it’s hard to pump up your work force at company meetings by explaining that your company’s mission is to provide substandard products at discount prices.
Mac users may be a bit overzealous at times, but they sure know the score when it comes to Microsoft. Still, it was refreshing to hear a mainstream publication like the L.A. Times say it, albeit couched in the language of objectivity: “It is far from universally accepted that Microsoft’s domination of the market… has inevitably produced the best products without stifling competition. Windows is widely decried as bug-prone, for example.”
For too long, the general public and the mass media have swallowed Microsoft’s brilliant PR — that Microsoft makes the world a better place, that Bill Gates is some kind of genius inventor who actually deserved to appear on A&E’s “Top 100 People of the Millennium” special.
And as loath as I am to watch the news media pile on a new victim, it is awfully fun to see Microsoft play the whipping boy. Frankly, they deserve it.
Macworld.com editor JASON SNELL has been using Macs since 1989 and writing about the Mac since 1993.
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More than 100 street vendors and business owners on Khao San Road have laid down their own regulations to keep street vending under control on the famous street.
The Association of Khao San Road Vendors President, Mrs. Yada Pornphetrumpha, said Khao San Road vendors and business representatives have come up with a set of regulations during their meeting to keep street vendors organized as they fear allowing the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to handle the matter would affect local tourism.
Some of the rules include determining the size of space each vendor is allowed to set up their booths and making footpaths more accessible to pedestrians. Mrs. Yada also called on the BMA to be in constant communication with the vendors, claiming that vendors have not been informed of any of the BMA’s plans.
Cultural Council of Phra Nakhon district Chairman Wisut Kittiweechoti said he agreed with the move particularly when it comes to the sale of alcohol, noise pollution and illegal migrants selling items on the street. He also said it would have significant impact on businesses and tourism if the street vending was only allowed on Thursdays, Fridays and the weekends.


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Coming February: ICE Totally Gaming 2016Published October 24, 2015 by Sol FH
Campaign for the highly anticipated ICE Totally Gaming conference in London has been launched.
The 2016 ICE Totally Gaming conference will be held at London's ExCel Centre on February 2nd, 3rd and 4th. The campaign leading up to the highly anticipated conference began last week in Las Vegas, Nevada and is a very creative. Set in a surreal, virtual gaming city of the future, industry professionals, gamers and anyone interested in attending will be able to see the latest and greatest innovations in the iGaming world and solutions to, 'Enter the Gaming Technopolis', as the campaign suggests.
Jo Mayer, Marketing Director in charge of the ICE Totally Gaming campaign is one of the forward-thinkers that helped come up with the idea. "We know from the visitor research that we conduct after each edition of ICE that the single most important reason that thousands and thousands of industry professionals travel vast distances to be in London each year, is the opportunity that ICE delivers to see the very latest innovations and advances in gaming technology. Such is the case that many of our 500+ exhibitor's timetable product launches around the dates for ICE. Our campaign for ICE 2015, which was named AEO Marketing Campaign of the Year, asked attendees to discover the World of Gaming and for 2016 our invitation is to Enter the Gaming Technopolis."
The 2015 edition of the conference was the most successful of all time and Mayer hopes for a record-breaking event in 2016. "Whilst we have just experienced the most successful edition of ICE in the event's distinguished history, the team is fully aware that reputations count for very little and that we have to work extremely hard to earn the custom of the 25,000+ attendees that we want and expect to welcome to London in February.
The ICE conference will feature many new initiatives and activities for all guests and as is expected, international gaming professionals from around the world, as well as local UK participants will all be at the event.


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French sporting goods retailer Decathlon is the latest company to shut down operations in Russia following the country’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
The move comes after several international brands, including McDonald’s, Starbucks and Shell, pulled out of Russia amid mounting sanctions against the country.
In a statement, Decathlon said it would pause its operations in the country due to supply chain difficulties.
The company said: “In strict compliance with international sanctions, Decathlon finds that the terms of delivery are no longer met to continue its activities in Russia. Decathlon must stop operating its stores.”
The retailer added that it will continue to offer support to its 2,500 employees in Russia, some of whom have worked for the company for more than 15 years.
In addition, its Solidarity Unit in Poland is consolidating €2.6 million ($2.9 million) worth of equipment and essential supplies for local non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Decathlon imports most of the products it sells in Russia, according to a Reuters report.
The retailer currently operates 60 stores in the country.
Founded in 1976, Decathlon has more than 1,600 stores in 69 countries. The company’s product portfolio includes sportswear, apparel and sports equipment.
It is owned by the Mulliez family, which also has a stake in grocery retailer Auchan.
This week, Auchan said it would continue to operate in Russia despite the current circumstances. The retailer currently has 231 stores in the country.
Yves Claude, CEO of Auchan, said the retailer feared losing assets or exposing local managers to potential legal troubles if it shut down operations in the country.
The company was criticized for this attitude by the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj.
Earlier this month, Amazon temporarily suspended shipping retail products to Russia and Belarus.
The e-commerce giant has also stopped accepting new Amazon Web Service (AWS) customers and third-party Amazon suppliers from Russia.


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One of the biggest debates in the banking sector over the last couple of years has been about the decline in cash, with some commentators starting to speculate that it’s a case of when, rather than if, society will eventually become cashless.
Those who advocate for this can point to some recent figures from Australia that seem to back up the notion that the use of cash is falling. But while it may be true that alternative payment methods are gaining acceptance around the world, the idea that cash is in danger of going extinct in places like Australia is a long way from the truth.
ATM market in Australia to remain positive
As of the end of 2016, there were some 31,550 ATMs installed in Australia, and figures from Retail Banking Research suggest the market will support around 4,000 market shipments a year. Of these, around three-quarters will be off-site and the majority will be replacement for older hardware. This indicates that banks still recognize the value of a strong cash distribution network and are keen to upgrade their offerings in order to take advantage of new functionality. Financial inclusion and the right for consumers to choose how they pay for goods and services remain of importance also.
By 2021, there are expected to be some 575 million ATM withdrawals in Australia, with each ATM expected to process 1,600 transactions per month. In 2015, a total of $106 billion was withdrawn from ATMs – working out to over $12 million every hour. Hardly a crisis for cash.
Regal Funds Management bank analyst Omkar Joshi also noted that it is unlikely that Australia will experience any great drop in the number of ATMs or bank branches, as there’s still widespread demand from consumers for these solutions.
“You would not want to be the first bank to scrap [ATMs] and have customers at your store protesting,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Instead, we can expect cash to retain its place for many years to come, albeit as just one of a wider range of payment methods that will be used as consumers embrace choice and select whatever method is most convenient for them in any given situation. This will undoubtedly include cash, so any suggestions that this payment method is dying in Australia – or anywhere else – are wide of the mark.
Cash declines, but doesn’t disappear
Figures released by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) show that the number of cash withdrawals made from ATMs in the country in January this year dropped by 7.7 percent compared with the same period in 2016. At the same time, the total value of withdrawals fell by 3.9 percent.
This marked a drop in the country for ATM withdrawals, and comes as the RBA prepares to roll out a new real-time payments platform later this year that aims to simplify digital payments and allow consumers and businesses to transfer funds much faster than at present.
But while cash may no longer be the dominant payment force in payments that it once was, it is highly unlikely to disappear from our wallets altogether any time soon. Indeed, the volume of cash being withdrawn still remains incredibly high in Australia.


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The Free and Not So Free World should be happy that Mrs. POTUS wore Tom Browne and that the President did not. Browne’s women’s collection is elegant with a truly modern, sculptural edge that was a surprising but sophisticated choice for the First Lady.
Brown’s menswear (especially his Bar Mitzvah Boy Outgrew His Pants- Inspired suits) have a deliberate and comical Pink Lee vibe. (For those too young to remember, Lee’s kids show was the lead-in to Howdy Doody in the early 1950’s.) Happily, the President did not follow suit and choose Hickey Freeman instead.
“A former design director for Ralph Lauren’s Club Monaco and an award-winning designer who — distressed by the disheveled mess that was men’s wear in the aftermath of business casual — took a pronounced taste for a geek version of the 1960s ”Mad Men” style, and also a pair of scissors, to the traditional suit. Having decided that the American male uniform of jeans and a T-shirt had lapsed into a form of dreary establishment dressing, Mr. Browne set about reviving the suit, a costume that once defined the establishment. Slashing away with abandon, he arrived at a silhouette that was lean and shrunken, with trousers lopped off well north of the ankle,”–NY Times
“Mrs. Obama wore a navy-silk, checkered-pattered coat and dress by Browne that were inspired by a menswear necktie. The outfit was specifically designed for the first lady, but Browne said he wasn’t 100 percent sure she was going to wear it until she came out with it on Inauguration Day.
“I am proud and humbled,” he told The Associated Press.”–USA Today
And Presidental fashion watchers everywhere are relieved that Browne kept his mitts (No, not Romney) off the Big Guy on January 21, 2013.


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Hamleys expands in Italy with new flagship store in Rome
Toy retailer Hamleys has expanded its presence in Italy with the opening of a second store.
Working in partnership with Giochi Preziosi, Italy’s leading player in toy production and distribution, the retailer has launched a shop in Galleria Alberto Sordi on Rome’s Via del Corso.
The move follows the recent opening of a flagship Hamleys shop in Milan at Corso Vittorio Emanuele.
Sumeet Yadav, chief executive of Hamleys Global, said: “Our expansion into Rome marks a significant milestone in our global journey, as we continue to enrich iconic cities worldwide with the timeless magic of Hamleys.
“Each new market brings our storied history to life, reaffirming our commitment to being the world’s finest toy shop in the world.”
Spanning 1,360 square metres, the new store is spread over two levels and a mezzanine and is decorated in Hamleys’ signature colours of red and white. Its brand sections include space for popular toy brands such as Lego, Nerf and Barbie, as well as Build-A-Bear which has an exclusive corner. The shop also sells Hamleys’ proprietary line and vendor-branded merchandise.
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Nokia will buy Alcatel-Lucent in a $16.6 billion deal that has been years in the making and promises to create a significant player in a rapidly evolving networking market dealing with such fast-moving trends as mobile computing, the cloud, the Internet of things and software-defined networking.
Talk about Nokia possibly acquiring Alcatel-Lucent began at least two years ago, after Nokia bought out Siemens’ half of the companies’ joint venture and had agreed to sell its struggling handset business to Microsoft. The announcement of the deal comes less than 24 hours after officials with both vendors said they were in advanced negotiations, though they had cautioned that an agreement wasn’t certain.
The melding of the two vendors will create a company that in 2014 had a combined $27.5 billion in sales and $2.45 billion in profit, more than $5 billion in R&D (including funding for Bell Labs and Nokia’s FutureWorks program) and net cash of almost $7.9 billion. Nokia will see its addressable market increase by 50 percent, to more than $138 billion, officials said.
The boards of directors of both firms have approved the deal, and it now needs Nokia shareholder approval as well as the go-ahead from government regulators. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2016.
Executives with both Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent said the new company—which will be named Nokia Corp. and will be headquartered in Finland—will be strong and broad enough to address customer demands for seamless connectivity (both wired and wireless) and to challenge such competitors as Chinese vendors Huawei Technologies and ZTE in Europe and Asia and Cisco Systems in the United States.
“We have hugely complementary technologies and the comprehensive portfolio necessary to enable the Internet of things and transition to the cloud,” Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri—who will take over the CEO post in the new company—said in a statement. “We will have a strong presence in every part of the world, including leading positions in the United States and China. Together, we expect to have the scale to lead in every area in which we choose to compete, drive profitable growth, meet the needs of global customers, develop new technologies, build on our successful intellectual property licensing and create value for our shareholders.”
The deal could create a realignment of the competitive playing field in networking, according to Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst at ZK Research.
“It’s a big move for the industry,” Kerravala told eWEEK. “Both ALU and Nokia [combined] create a conceptual end-to-end network provider. … The only place customers could go to get [a complete network environment] is either Huawei or ZTE. There’s really not a credible alternative from a European or U.S. company, and this really creates one.”
The problem has been that for many of these vendors—including Ericsson, Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent—they have been trying to adapt to the new communications demands being put on networks while also trying to protect their legacy PBX businesses, he said. Meanwhile, Chinese vendors like Huawei and ZTE had no legacy business to worry about, enabling them to concentrate on creating new IP portfolios.
Alcatel-Lucent CEO Michel Combes, who has overseen an extensive restructuring of the company under his Shift Plan, said that will change with the new Nokia Corp.
“A combination of Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent will offer a unique opportunity to create a European champion and global leader in ultra-broadband, IP networking and cloud applications,” Combes said in a statement. “This transaction comes at the right time to strengthen the European technology industry. We believe our customers will benefit from our improved innovation capability and incomparable R&D engine under the Bell Labs brand. The global scale and footprint of the new company will reinforce its presence in the United States and China.”
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The deal—which will create a company with a combined market value of about $40 billion, large enough to challenge market leader Ericsson and others—also could help drive down prices by heating up competition in the space and could lead to more consolidation as other vendors look to strengthen their positions.
The acquisition is squarely focused on the telecommunications space, ZK Research’s Kerravala said, noting that Alcatel-Lucent sold its enterprise business last year. Telecoms and communications service providers are under increasing pressure to provide a seamless wired and wireless experience to end users who want connectivity anywhere they are, on any device and at any time. Service providers are turning to such technologies as software-defined networking (SDN) and network-functions virtualization (NFV) to create more flexible, agile and programmable networks to address those demands.
While touting the size and strength of the new company, officials for both vendors also talked about savings that will come with the merger, from $212 million in interest savings by 2017 to $957 million in operational expenses reductions by 2019.
Kerravala said a challenge with any such large acquisition is integrating the two companies together, from the cultures and employees to the product portfolios.
“These are very, very complementary companies,” he said. “There’s obviously some overlap, though it’s small, and if you look at where they do overlap, one company will have one product that is clearly superior to the other.”
Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent officials made sure to stress that the new company will have a strong presence in Alcatel-Lucent’s home base of France, where government officials reportedly want assurances that the country would continue to have an influence over Nokia Corp. In a statement April 15, the vendors said France “will be a vibrant center of the combined company. Nokia intends to be an important contributor to the overall development of the broader technology ecosystem and a driver of innovation in France.”
That includes housing research centers around 5G, small cells and cyber-security in France, as well as continuing the work of Bell Labs in the country. In addition, Nokia will create a $106 million investment fund to fuel startups in France that focus on the Internet of things and the industrial Internet.


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PARIS — A Paris commercial court has placed Gerard Darel into receivership as private equity firm Advent International searches for a buyer for the struggling French fashion firm, according to a source familiar with the matter.
A French commercial court late on Monday granted the firm’s request for bankruptcy protection, with an observation period of four months. This follows the collapse of talks with a potential acquirer.
“It makes the company more attractive for an investor,” the source said. “There have been several signs of interest in the last few weeks.”
Officials at Gerard Darel had no comment on the court decision.
The company struck an agreement with creditors last July to reschedule its debt, estimated at around 100 million euros, or $135 million. All dollar rates are calculated at average exchange for the period concerned.
This was part of a wide-ranging effort to turn around the business under chief executive officer Sandrine Lilienfeld, who took over in August 2013. However, the economic environment has remained unfavorable and the company is again struggling to honor its financial commitments, the source said.
Advent International acquired Gerard Darel in 2008.


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India is currently the world’s second-largest telecommunications market with a subscriber base of 1.05 billion and has registered strong growth in the past decade and a half. The Indian mobile economy is growing rapidly and will contribute substantially to India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to report prepared by GSM Association (GSMA) in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The country is the fourth largest app economy in the world.
The liberal and reformist policies of the Government of India have been instrumental along with strong consumer demand in the rapid growth in the Indian telecom sector. The government has enabled easy market access to telecom equipment and a fair and proactive regulatory framework that has ensured availability of telecom services to the consumer at affordable prices. The deregulation of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms has made the sector one of the fastest growing and a top five employment opportunity generator in the country. The industry has attracted FDI worth US$ 30.03 billion during the period April 2000 to September 2017, according to the data released by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).
The Indian telecom sector is expected to generate four million direct and indirect jobs over the next five years according to estimates by Randstad India. ( Most probably indirect as The competition among telecom operators and Mergers and Acquisitions making the sector difficult to generate direct employment. Payment banks and Tower business may change the fate of sector). The employment opportunities are expected to be created due to the combination of government’s efforts to increase penetration in rural areas and the rapid increase in smartphone sales and rising internet usage.
Data usage on Indian telecom operators’ networks (excluding Reliance Jio), doubled in six months to 359 petabytes or 3.7 million gigabytes per month as 4G data usage share increased to 34 percent by the end of June 2017$. According to a report by leading research firm Market Research Store, the Indian telecommunication services market will likely grow by 10.3 percent year-on-year to reach US$ 103.9 billion by 2020.
The Government of India is working to digitally connect the rural and remote regions in the country and has decided a new affordable tariff structure with the principle of more you use, less you pay. The changes will soon be reflected in tariff changes by service providers in the country.
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Gage Roads are looking to step up their presence on the East Coast with the construction of a brewery and venue in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Redfern. It will be the second production facility for the Western Australian brewery and is expected to be completed in early 2020.
The 578 square metre site will feature a small production facility as well as a 250-person hospitality venue, with Gage Roads expected to invest $3 million in the project.
National marketing executive Miles Hull told The Crafty Pint: "This Redfern site is one that presented itself quite quickly to us an opportunity. We really love the history and culture that’s evolved over the years of Redfern. It’s certainly an emerging inner-city area with a define cultural feel.
"It has a real mix and diverse population in the area which we really love. It has a really creative spirit and free spirit which we think works really well to provide a home for our brewery."
The development of the Regent Street site in Redfern aligns with Gage Roads' 2016 "returning to craft" strategy announced in 2016. Since then, the publicly listed company has bought back Woolworths' 25 percent stake in the brewery, won Champion Australian Beer at the 2016 Australian International Beer Awards for Little Dove, secured a number of high profile partnerships, including pouring rights for the Optus Stadium in Perth, and started exporting beer overseas. Following the acquisition of Matso's brewing company, Gage Roads also launched Good Drinks, a new banner for the sales and marketing team now responsible for all of the company's brands, including Alby lagers and Hello Sunshine cider.
According to Miles, the Redfern brewery will be involved in launching new brands and other East Coast projects.
“We are looking to the future and looking for ways that we can build up our own brand and launch new brands," he says. "Part of our growth strategy is about growing in the East Coast of the market and we recognise that being local and having a local element is really important and also having a place where consumers can come an interact with the brand is important as well.
“We have a strategy on the East Coast to looking at potentially a number of breweries with production a capacity but also a taproom attached to it where you can connect to the local market where people can experience and taste your products."
Of the Redfern site, he says: "From a hospitality component and brewery taproom, it really works. We’re quite excited by this being an inner-city, urban space and it will actually launch a new brand for us and will be the home for that brand. It will be a new product sitting slightly separate to Gage Roads but will be distributed by our sales and marketing arm, Good Drinks."
Miles says the brand that will be based in the Sydney will be launched in the coming months – before the brewery and taproom are open – and, beyond that, the intention is to continue to broaden their portfolio of brands. While details of the new beers are yet to be released, he said they will be available in cans; to date, the only Gage Roads beer to be released in cans has been a limited release of Single Fin.
“Having Single Fin in a can has opened up the opportunity for us to supply a lot of events where a can is required," Miles says. "It provides an opportunity for on-premise sales in a loose 24 pack that eliminates the need for inner packaging.
"We know that a lot of hospitality outlets and small bars are really loving cans. We’re about to bring Alby in WA out in cans and we’ve moved Hello Sunshine, our cider, out of bottle and exclusively into cans.”
While the lease has been signed, the specifics of the Redfern brewery are still in the design phase, with much contingent on council and liquor licensing approvals.
“The building itself is an old warehouse, which obviously lends itself quite nicely to a brewery," Miles says. "It will have a production facility feel to it so you’ll be able to see, smell and talk about the products that are made there."
The size of the warehouse means the new setup won't feature a large-scale production facility, but will give them capacity to brew a number of limited releases available through the venue itself.
"Part of the plan is that we have the core range of beers and that we have a range of limited releases that we’re selling in the taproom that allows consumers to come in and there’s always something new on for them to try," Miles says. "It also allows us to keg draught beer for the local market as well.
"We are certainly open to having a small pack line on site and we might do some limited release packaging from there. It will continue to work in partnership with our Palmyra based brewery from a production point of view."
Sydney is just part of a grander plan for the East Coast. He says they are "equally interested in the Queensland and Victorian markets as well, and are actively looking", while the company has brought in Stew Wheeler as general manager of hospitality. His most recent experience includes developing Little Creatures venues throughout Asia, London and San Diego for Lion.
Despite ongoing market speculation, Miles was quick to quash talk of future acquisitions.
“We’re not actively looking for other brewery acquisitions. Matso's was a really great, organic opportunity that was presented to us, having made Matso's for the family that previously owned it for near on ten years," he says.
"The Good Drinks platform does allow us to have other brands but we’re not on an active hunt. It’s not part of the immediate plan, nor are we seeking acquisitions. If something presents itself and it lines up to our strategy then terrific in terms of acquisitions but it’s not something that we are actively seeking."
And, despite entering the export market, he says their main focus remains on the Australian market.
“As opportunities arise and there is opportunity for us to send beer overseas then it’s a nice thing to do but it’s not something that we’re pushing hard on," he says. "I think you can see a number of craft breweries from Australia doing a bit more internationally. We’re happy to look at those opportunities where we have a good distribution partner, if and when they come up in particular markets but we’re not we’re not out there pounding the international footpaths at this stage.
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He believes that profit is vanity, sale is sanity and cash is reality. Steering the Godrej group with such sound business beliefs, Chairman Adi Godrej has led the empire to new heights. Godrej spoke to Saurabh Turakhia on future growth drivers, inflation, the group’s new ventures and global pursuits.
What are your global ambitions for the group?
We already have manufacturing and R&D operations in 13 countries and would like to expand further. The current expansion has been through both greenfield ventures and acquisitions. Today, roughly 20 per cent of our group’s turnover comes from outside India.
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FMCG, retail and real estate are all independent businesses. The property business should develop property and then sell it or lease it out. Retail has to buy property or lease property and then have a retail model. FMCG should concentrate on its brand building. Aadhar, Nature’s Basket and Godrej Lifespace are our three retail models. We figured that Aadhaar would require logistical support and hence went in for a joint venture, where 30 per cent is owned by us and the rest by the Future Group. They will provide the logistics, technology and retail knowledge, while we will provide our knowledge of the agri-businesses.
You unveiled a new brand identity some time back. How important was this for the Godrej Group?
About two years back we identified that with changes coming about in India and among Indian consumers, we needed to revisit our brand identity and our brand positioning. So we set up an internal team. Over a period of 18 months, the team evolved a programme for our new brand look and brand positioning and we launched it in a meeting with about 8,000 of our employees in the middle of April. Then we took it public.
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