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Salmonella Outbreak Suspicion Falls on Mangoes
Aug 29, 2012 04:38 AM EDT | By Sharon Robinson
While the country is still reeling from one of the deadliest food poisoning outbreaks from contaminated cantaloupe, yet another fruit has been linked with a salmonella outbreak.
After consuming mangoes, 73 have fallen ill with Salmonella Braenderup. Six more in Washington and 22 in Canada have also fallen victims to Salmonella.
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Salmonella outbreaks have, for long, plagued the country. Every other week a food product or produce is recalled on the suspicion of salmonella contamination. The disease is known to be fatal. The elderly and children are the most likely to succumb to the disease. The disease is characterized by abdominal cramps and severe dehydration, which can last for a week.
Mangoes produced in Mexico are suspected to be the culprit this time, but the Centre for Disease Control in California is still investigating the outbreak. The investigators are trying to find out the species of mango which led to the outbreak, according to the Washington Post.
Food Safety News reports that, the link between the mangoes and the salmonella outbreak has so far been inconclusive. Centre for Disease Control spokeswoman, Lola Russell told Food Safety News that the FDA may soon take over the investigation from the CDC.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will be lending a hand.
Daniella mangoes may be at the top of the list of suspected mangoes. It is one of the fruits sold by Giant Foods Inc., which has issued a voluntary recall of the fruit. Giant Foods has warned consumers not to eat the mangoes bearing the sticker PLU 4959, according to a report by the FDA. It has also offered a refund to those who have purchased the fruit.
The Food Safety News report adds that Stop and Shop Supermarket and a produce distributor have also issued recalls for Daniella Mangoes.
Taco Bell Menu Gets Absurd With ‘Naked Crispy Chicken’ Taco, Tortilla’s Made From Fried Chicken Flatbread! [PHOTO]
Over the past few months, it seems like the Taco Bell menu has fully embraced the fast food chain's reputation for being the ultimate food for the munchies, as they're expanding on increasingly odder items - now including a taco that, instead of a tortilla, actually uses fried chicken!
It was then reported that sea food consumption of more than 8 ounces can aid in reducing the risk of death and other cardiovascular diseases. Additional studies have linked that regular consumption of fish could lower the risk of cognitive decline as we age.
No one will be sneaking into your Nutella jar anymore!
It is a well-known fact that fast food isn’t healthy, but every parent also knows that fast food meals cannot be avoided and will not be turned down by most, if not all kids, especially those which include toys. Because of this, a New York City council member proposed the "Healthy Happy Meals" bill based on a California ordinance with similar aims.
KitKat Recipe: Nestle Announces Japan’s Favorite Chocolate Will Only Use Ethically Responsible Cocoa, No Child Labor Involved
In the first move towards a more ethically aware chocolate industry in what has been considered a major cocoa crisis on Earth, the KitKat recipe is now officially changing its cocoa supplies, promising to phase out chocolate coming from child labor by 2016.
A new artificial sweetener was created which is twice as sweet than the regular sugar and can reduce your sugar consumption.


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Asserting that agriculture is an ‘incredibly important sector’ to this country, Prime Minister Allen Chastanet has said that his administration is ‘absolutely committed’ to the banana industry.
“We think that is an important crop in the mix of our economy,” Chastanet said Wednesday night.
He made the comments during Newsmaker Live, on DBS Television.
“We can sell more bananas than we produce,” the PM asserted.
However, he acknowledged that Saint Lucia’s production would be only a miniscule part of the global market share.
Nevertheless, he explained that Saint Lucia will be rolling out a massive advertising programme.
The programme will feature a new logo for locally grown bananas, while ensuring that all tourism industry workers wear it.
Chastanet explained that when hotels display bananas, they will feature the logo.
“We have had great meetings with Fyffes and also with Waitrose and Sainsbury and they have agreed to put our bananas with those logos,” Chastanet revealed.
But the former Tourism Minister said not everyone understands the synergy between tourism and agriculture.
“They go hand in hand,” Chastanet declared.
As a result, he asserted that the two industries do not compete against each other.
“The more successful your tourism product is, the more successful your farming products are,” the PM stated.
“Because there’s a ready market that we don’t have to export to,” Chastanet said.
And he described untimely payments to farmers by hotels as a thing of the past.
“We have distributors that are now setting up in the middle of the Ministry of Agriculture, now setting up an agriculture hub station, so we are absorbing that problem from the hoteliers and many of the hoteliers now are paying their bills on time,” Chastanet stated.
He acknowledged that payments have been a problem.
Nevertheless the PM said that more and more, hoteliers want ‘that local product’.
He also said the hoteliers understand the importance of buying local while paying farmers on time.

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Since the April 2015 announcement of $GE selling most GE Capital assets, GE Capital signed deals for sale of about $192Bil of businesses and closed about $172Bil of those deals. GE Capital plans to complete sales of about $200Bil of businesses by end 2016 and believes it is on track to deliver about $35Bil of dividends to $GE under this plan.
I haven’t seen a drop in banks like this in a long time. Looks like $WFC is still facing pressures from its sales practices scandal..!!
Helping President-elect's America first focus, $WMT set to create 10,000 retail jobs in the US in 2017.
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The Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has postponed a law, which requires several certificates regarding poultry product and egg imports, Turkey’s Economy Minister Çaglayan said. The regional government’s decision gives Turkish companies more time to comply with the code, which will go into effect by Jan. 1, 2013.
The northern Iraqi administration has postponed a demand requiring a group of certifications for poultry and egg imports, which is good news for Turkish producers, Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan said in a written statement.
The Kurdish Regional Government postponed a regulation that requires a certificate of plant health or veterinary certificate for food imports, as well as certification that they do not contain genetically modified organisms, melamine, dioxin or lard by January 1, 2013, said Çağlayan.
Iraq is the most important market for Turkey in terms of poultry meat and egg exports, Çağlayan said. Turkey sold US$192 million of poultry meat and US$163 million of eggs to Iraq in the first seven months of the year, a large portion of which went to the north of the country under Kurdish administration. Turkey’s total poultry products and egg exports were US$276 million and US$179 million respectively in the same period.
Respectively, this means that 70% of Turkey’s exports go to Iraq, and 91% of its eggs.
Turkey’s total exports to Iraq between January and July increased 37.2 % year-on-year reaching $5.96 billion, he said.
“Iraq is in third place in terms of Turkey’s largest export markets, according to the data.
“Turkish food exports to Iraq increased 36.8% to US$1.93 billion in the same period. This figure makes up nearly 23% of the total agricultural exports of Turkey, US$8.46 billion. Most of the food exports to Iraq go to northern Iraq. Work to prevent any possible difficulties in the Iraqi market, which has an important place in Turkey’s food product exports, is ongoing. All measures will be taken regarding the regulations that the Kurdish Regional Government plans to introduce in 2013 and the exporters will be informed accordingly,” Çağlayan said.
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New sensors a-go-go.
But is that imaging overkill?
In favour of wireless charging.
At an event in Brooklyn, New York City.
Will also have a greater wireless range.
According to the latest rumour.
Is the iris scanner for the chop?
Could next year’s models be powered by Samsung?
A year after it was first announced.
A slightly bigger iPhone X lookalike is in the works.


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Zong 4G, Pakistan’s leading cellular and digital services provider, hosted its Annual Business Conference 2022 virtually, with over 250 employees from throughout the company in attendance. The event, which was themed ‘Let’s Get Digital,’ which is also Zong’s new marketing statement, saw business management showcase annual accomplishments and milestones for the year 2021.
At the event, Zong’s commitment to Digital Pakistan was reaffirmed, and its various measures to bring the country up to speed with the rest of the world’s digital race were highlighted, with staff enthusiastic about their contributions. The firm’s employees’ persistent and tireless contributions to making the company the go-to provider of connectivity and high-end digital services were also highlighted and praised by top management.
The company’s aims for 2022 – as well as a broader vision for the future – were also highlighted at the event, with staff expressing their enthusiasm for the company’s ambitions. The executives also discussed how Zong is driving Pakistan’s digital transformation from the front, and how the company would continue to work hard to realise the Digital Pakistan vision.
Wang Hua, Zong Chairman & CEO, also addressed with the staff the company’s long-term core strategic direction, as well as Zong’s growth and development objectives for 2022. “I congratulate all Zong employees on making 2021 a year of numerous achievements,” Wang Hua said at the event. “Thanks to our loyal workers and customers, we were able to reach many milestones and create new industry benchmarks.”
“Each member of the team has given their all to create Zong Pakistan’s chosen connectivity and digital services provider, and to make Digital Pakistan a reality,” he continued.
He also emphasised Zong’s CSR activities, emphasising the company’s commitment to contributing value to Pakistani society. “Zong thinks that through digital and intelligent transformation, we can assist Pakistan in digitally transforming and enabling every citizen,” he added. Since March 2020, Zong has implemented the work-from-home model and effectively adapted the organisation for the new business model, keeping employee wellness as a top concern. This is the second time since the pandemic that Zong has held its Annual Business Conference online.
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Nod Designhas produced designs for two unusual superyacht concepts: the 96-metre Gardina and the 82-metre Horhor.
Designer Emre Yildirim says the most important feature of the Gardina concept is that despite her impressive size she doesn’t have complex lines. The design was inspired by the latest technology and design trends, he said.
The most unusual feature is perhaps an area named the “Loverdeck”. “The Loverdeck tender includes sea toys and garage of jetskis,” explained Yildirim. The concept also offers a helipad, Turkish baths, a meeting room and even a disco alongside its more traditional features.
Nod Design’s other concept is the 82-metre Horhor superyacht. “The most prominent exterior design feature is the name written in front at the yacht,” believes Yildirim.
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"Tesla China will soon push a major update to Autopilot," a well-known car blogger wrote on Weibo.
Tesla's assisted driving software is seen as a mediocre performer in China. Now, a rumor that has inspired a lot of anticipation.
"Tesla China will push a major update to Autopilot soon," auto blogger Zheng Xiaokang, who has 532,000 followers on Weibo, said today.
The blogger, a longtime Tesla China follower, didn't mention any more information, and some speculated in the comments section of the Weibo post that the update might be Tesla's vision-only V11 software.
In 2021, Tesla begins the transition to a vision-only Tesla Vision by removing radar from the Model 3 and Model Y, followed by the Model S and Model X in 2022.
On the Model 3 page of its China website, Tesla says the Tesla Vision processing system detects nearby vehicles to reduce the risk of collisions and assists in parking.
With a 360-degree field of view from the vehicle's front, side and rear cameras, the system has powerful vision processing capabilities and can detect distances of up to 250 meters, according to the text on the page.
Tesla has a factory in Shanghai that produces the Model 3 and Model Y.
Today, in most parts of the world, the Model 3 and Model Y are already based on the Tesla Vision solution, which relies only on cameras. But both models currently being delivered by Tesla in China still come with radar.
Earlier this month, multiple regulatory filings revealed that Tesla declared the Model Y without radar in China, which may mean that the SUV may be the first Tesla model to remove radar in China.
Tesla is one of the world's most capable automakers in terms of autonomous driving, though its assisted driving software in China pales in comparison to some of its local peers.
Several local car companies, including Xpeng (NYSE: XPEV) and Nio (NYSE: NIO), are fast-tracking testing of their advanced assisted driving software and are getting many positive reviews on social media.
On March 16, Xpeng announced that its P5 sedan will receive its seventh vehicle OTA upgrade, which will make its Tesla FSD-like City Navigation Guided Pilot (City NGP) feature available in Shenzhen after Guangzhou.
City NGP can achieve up to 90 percent of the efficiency of a human driver and can easily handle heavy traffic during peak commuting hours and complex road conditions, Xpeng said.
At the end of last month, Nio began allowing owners of all its NT 2.0 platform vehicles to apply for a trial of NOP (Navigate on Pilot) Plus assisted driving software, which enables a point-to-point assisted driving experience on highways and urban expressway scenarios.


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Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: DELL) shares moved up 1 11/16 to 44 13/16 Friday even though a Merrill Lynch analyst suggested the PC maker might miss analysts' estimates in its fourth quarter.
Analyst Steve Fortuna said higher component costs might have eroded profit margins in the quarter.
First Call consensus expects Dell to earn 21 cents a share in the quarter.
Fortuna is expecting a profit of 20 cents a share on sales of around $7.1 billion.
"The fact that Dell has not yet pre-announced to us does not suggest that the quarter is any safer than it was before," Fortuna said in a research note. "Dell continues to face an execution challenge in the fourth quarter due to generally higher component costs across the board."
Last quarter, Dell issued a profit warning before meeting analysts' reduced estimates and predicting a strong fourth quarter.
If Dell was to preannounce an earnings shortfall this time around, Fortuna speculated that the announcement would come in the third or the fourth week of January and not in the days preceding the February 10 earnings release.
Dell shares moved up to a 52-week high of 55 in February before slipping to a low of 31 3/8 in June.
Thirty-one of the 36 analysts tracking the stock maintain either a "buy" or "strong buy" recommendation.


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Wyoming’s first stand alone Chick-Fil-A restaurant opened today in Cheyenne. The 5,000 square foot restaurant will be one of largest for the chain.
Wyoming’s first Chick-Fil-A restaurant opened 34 years ago as an original tenant of Cheyenne’s Frontier Mall. Frachise owner Raymond Mefford hopes the new stand alone location will be the first of many in the Cowboy State.
During Chick-Fil-A’s grand opening, the restaurant will collect unused children’s books and donate them to the Boys and Girls Club of Cheyenne, one of many community outreach programs the restaurant is trying to achieve.
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In 1992, the NHL introduced the “instigator” rule, handing an extra two-minute minor penalty to a player who starts a fight. Here in 2014, many video game fans think the book should be thrown at video game maker Electronic Arts for their efforts on the latest version of their wildly popular NHL franchise.
But will EA’s reportedly awful effort on NHL 15 really cause its long-time fans to abandon ship?
Owing to time constraints imposed by developing the game for the next-generation PS4 and Xbox One consoles, EA simply left many of the now legacy features out of the new iteration of NHL 15. The company says that some of these will make their way back to the game in the form of updates, but that isn’t sitting well with hardcore sports gamers. Some of them say they may pass on the NHL series for the first time ever.
Popular features such as online team play, Season Mode, fantasy draft in GM mode, the ability to edit players or teams, plus a host of others, simply aren’t part of the new game and its fans have no assurances as to if and when they will be incorporated.
Been buying NHL every year since 96. This may be the first year I don’t pick it up. At least not until I hear something better about this game.
The decision has EA eating crow. In a blog post on August 19th, the company perhaps foresaw how the gaping hole in one of its best known games might sit with its longtime fans.
“Decisions like this are never easy, nor do we take them lightly,” said Producer Sean Ramjagsingh.”We know that there is a passionate group of fans that loves these modes and is no doubt disappointed with this news; but we also know that this same group of fans expects a high quality gameplay experience above anything else. We’re a franchise built on quality, so launching these modes without confidence in their quality wasn’t something that we were willing to do.”
But in an interview with The Globe and Mail Friday, Ramjagsingh deflected the criticism of the missing features, instead focusing on the gameplay, which he says feels “more organic and natural”.
Many fans, however, aren’t buying it. Type in “NHL” as a hashtag into Twitter and you might end up being prompted by #NHL15problems, a hashtag where many are filing their displeasure with the game.
On Reddit, there are several popular threads dedicated to the game, the most popular of which is called “NHL 15 for Next-Gen is a Scam”. A comment by user “SaintBlitzkreig” was typical of the majority of responses.
“The amount of content not available is a joke. Now, I was going to come to the defense of EA on this one, because when Madden first launched with their connected career mode, some of features we enjoy, weren’t available either, but they came in time. But seeing that in the past this series has had those various things, this is just not acceptable, and they should pull the product back. You have to wonder what the development team is saying to themselves as they keep cutting away at this game.”
Many early reviews of the game aren’t positive. Canada.com’s Patrick O’Rourke praised the gameplay, but says it is “impossible to ignore the extensive list of features EA has dropped from the NHL franchise.”
“I genuinely feel sorry for NHL 15’s development team, particularly the game’s producer, Sean Ramjagsingh, who’s worked on the series since 2008,” continued O’Rourke. “After interviewing Ramjagsingh a number of times it’s easy to tell he’s genuinely passionate about the NHL franchise and wants his team’s games to be great.
This is just not acceptable, and they should pull the product back. You have to wonder what the development team is saying to themselves as they keep cutting away at this game.
But the reviewer says the elephant in the room is just too big to ignore.
“Still, this is no excuse for the amount of missing features in NHL 15, particularly since the series took last year off on the Xbox One and PS4 in preparation for the jump to next-gen systems,” concluded O’Rourke.
Electronic Arts NHL Series launched in 1991, and has since been featured on platforms ranging from Sega Genesis, Gameboy and Nintendo 64. The game has sold tens of millions of copies and has earned a minor place in pop-culture with reference in the movies “Swingers” and “Mall Rats”.
The previous version in the NHL franchise, NHL 14, was roundly applauded, earning a score of 80 on Metacritic, a site that aggregates reviews. The game was also awarded “Best Sports Game” in the Game Critics Awards “Best of E3 2013”.
NHL is an important franchise for EA. In its first week alone, NHL 13 sold 491,500 copies, comparing favourably to Madden NFL 13, which sold 1.65-million copies.
So will the donnybrook over NHL 15 translate into lower sales for EA? It seems likely, although permanent damage to the franchise seems unlikely, especially considering the game’s only serious competitor, NHL 2K, folded in 2011. A price cut, a focus on getting updates out quickly and a legitimate apology will have long-time fans of the NHL franchise forgetting EA’s current offenses by the time NHL 16 rolls around next fall. EA’s problems with NHL 15 will go down as a minor penalty, not a major infraction.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- MetroPCS Communications (NYSE: PCS) has been downgraded by TheStreet Ratings from buy to hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income, poor profit margins and weak operating cash flow. Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 9.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 6.9%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.
- The gross profit margin for METROPCS COMMUNICATIONS INC is currently lower than what is desirable, coming in at 33.70%. It has decreased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 1.60% significantly trails the industry average.
- The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Wireless Telecommunication Services industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 62.7% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $56.38 million to $21.00 million.
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Tesla: Superchargers are now within 150-mile distance for 99% people in US
According to a recent statement by US electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors, the extensive deployment of Supercharger network by the company has resulted in a situation wherein “99% of the US population is within 150 miles of a Supercharger.”
With some early-2018 reports having revealed that Tesla is deploying its Supercharger network at a very brisk pace this year, the recent statement by the automaker implies that Superchargers are apparently playing a significant role in making it possible for the owners of electric vehicles (EVs) to easily recharge their vehicles each day.
According to the overall Supercharger deployment figures, Tesla is presently operating a total of 10,836 Superchargers at 1,339 stations worldwide.
In addition to the reported figures, Tesla has also revealed a new map for expanding its Supercharger deployment in 2018-2019, for supporting its growing EV fleet with the launch of the Model 3. The main objective behind Tesla’s plans to further expand its Supercharger network is to enable long-distance travel for Tesla owners.
Since all the EVs produced by Tesla offering at least 200-mile range on a single charge, the widespread deployment of Superchargers by the company is evidently aimed at ensuring that virtually all Tesla owner in the US can have access to a Supercharger while travelling between destinations.
The Boring Company has recently released the first image of the gantry which it is developing for the ‘Loop’ high-speed underground public transportation system in Chicago.
In a recent move, Tesla has marginally increased the price of its Powerwall home battery pack unit.
With electric powertrains increasingly being considered by several logistics firms worldwide for their delivery vehicles, Amazon is planning to go onboard with the purchase of an all-electric van fleet from German automaker Mercedes-Benz.
In a move which will enable Tesla Motors to commence the deliveries of its Model 3 Dual Motor and Performance versions to customers, the EPA has recently released its official ratings for the two versions.
US electric vehicle maker Tesla’s exports to China are possibly on the verge of a possible slowdown because of a recent move by the Chinese government to increase import duties from the current 25% to a significantly high 40%.
At an earlier-this-week ceremony at the University of California, Irvine, Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD unveiled the US’ first battery-powered, fully-electric bus fleet for the school campus.


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If new measures are introduced throughout the Netherlands to contain the coronavirus, the damage to the tourism and water sports sector could amount to 1 billion euros annually, estimates interest group HISWA-RECRON.
According to HISWA-RECRON, the sector has already lost 700 million euros in turnover compared to last year. Measured over the entire year, a revenue decline of more than 30 percent is likely.
Apart from the lost turnover, the tourism and water sports sector is still waiting for customers who, due to an earlier cancellation, still have to redeem vouchers for a total of 400 million euros.
Director Geert Dijks says that the sector is again facing massive cancellations and a decline in bookings due to the recently introduced regional measures. “The decline in bookings and cancellation claims will increase to 60 million euros in the seven provinces that are now affected by November.”
If the measures are not relaxed quickly, the Christmas holidays at holiday parks can be considered lost, according to Dijks.
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Barclays Raises Saleforce's Price Target To $89 Following Q1 Beat
Shares of salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM) rose 6 percent in Thursday's pre-market hours after the enterprise cloud computing company reported solid results. As a result, Barclays reiterating its Overweight rating and raised the price target on the stock by 1 percent to $89.
The target price of $89 implies an upside of 14 percent from Wednesday's close of $77.89.
Apart from the beat in EPS and revenue, Barclays said the 13 percent beat in billings is the main highlight of the results.
Salesforce.com's billings grew 31 percent to $1.632 billion, well ahead of consensus of $1.450 billion, as well as the company's own implied billings guidance. Deferred revenue also topped consensus and rose 32 percent to $4.007 billion.
"We believe that one of the most notable aspects of the company's recent performance has been the healthy growth achieved across multiple clouds, and the further reacceleration of the sales cloud was particularly impressive this quarter," analyst Raimo Lenschow wrote.
For the second quarter, salesforce.com sees revenue of about $2.005 billion to $2.015 billion, an increase of 23 percent year-over-year. The company expects non-GAAP diluted EPS of $0.24 to $0.25. The Street currently expects earnings of $0.25 a share on revenue of $1.98 billion.
Salesforce.com also raised FY17 revenue guidance to $8.16 billion to $8.20 billion, an increase of 22 to 23 percent from last year. Non-GAAP EPS is projected to be $1.00 to $1.02. The Street currently forecast earnings of $1.01 a share on revenue of $8.12 billion.
Lenschow said although "the implied margin guidance for the year translates to lower margins in the coming quarters," the analyst thinks this could be conservative. The analyst noted that the potential for margin expansion, billings growth and strong cash flow makes a strong investment case for salesforce.com.
"We believe Salesforce has ample runway to sustain its high growth trajectory given its combination of clouds that it continues to enhance through organic and inorganic innovation, which the company should also be able to augment with considerable improvement on the bottom line over the near-to-medium term," Lenschow added.
At time of writing, salesforce.com was up 4.22 percent at $81.16.
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Rs 9L watch stolen from flyer check
MUMBAI: The airport police are investigating a case where an unknown person had stolen a wristwatch worth nearly Rs 9 lakh from the check in baggage of an airline passenger. The police suspect the involvement of loaders in the case and are inquiring about it.
A Delhi based bus hollister clothing inessman, Jitendra Goyal, told the police that he had kept the watch in a bag that he had checked in at Mumbai airport on December 16, while returning to Delhi by a private airline. He found the bag zipper hollister clothing broken and the watch was missi hollister clothing ng when he collected his baggage at Delhi airport.
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LONDON--The U.K. economy in 2017 grew at the slowest pace in five years, highlighting how uncertainty linked to its looming departure from the European Union means Britain is not reaping the full benefits of the recent upsurge in global growth.
The U.K. economy expanded by 0.5% on the quarter in the final three months of 2017, an annualized rate of 2.0%, the Office for National Statistics said Friday.
That was the fastest quarterly rate of expansion for the year as a whole, and exceeded the expectations of economists polled by The Wall Street Journal, who forecast quarterly growth at 0.4%. But overall, the British economy grew by 1.8% last year, the slowest rate of expansion since 2012.
The slowdown in the British economy comes as the world's major economies are enjoying a rare spell of synchronized growth. The International Monetary Fund estimates that U.S. economic growth accelerated to 2.3% on the year in 2017, with the eurozone economy also speeding up, expanding by 2.4% annually.
Official estimates of fourth-quarter economic growth in the U.S. and the eurozone are due to be published later this month.
Still, growth in the U.K. last year was significantly above the prediction of economists and the Bank of England in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote in June 2016, who had expected the economy to grow by just 0.8%. The better-than-expected performance reflected unanticipated consumer resilience and a revival in manufacturing.
The economy's prospects for 2018 look mixed. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has said uncertainty surrounding Britain's future relationship with the EU, its largest trading partner, is weighing on business investment.
U.K. consumers, a key engine of growth for the largely domestic-driven economy, have seen their spending power eroded as inflation, spurred by the pound's steep depreciation in the wake of the 2016 referendum, has outpaced growth in wages, which is beginning to weigh on spending. In January, shares in the department-store company Debenhams PLC plunged after it said that like-for-like sales in its U.K. stores dropped by 2.6% in the final four months of the year, citing weaker demand in discretionary areas. More recently, shares in flooring retailer Carpetright PLC lost nearly half of their value after the company issued a profit warning, saying a drop in consumer confidence hurt sales.
Official figures showed that retail sales last year grew at the slowest pace since 2013. December saw the weakest monthly growth in sales since June 2016, the month Britons voted to leave the EU.
Britain is scheduled to leave the European bloc in March 2019, putting an end to more than four decades of economic and political integration. The ruling Conservatives say that once outside the EU, the U.K. will be able to cut unnecessary regulation and strike trade deals with the EU as well as a number of other economies.
Earlier this week, U.K. Treasury chief Philip Hammond said that he expects inflation to slow gradually over the coming months, easing pressure on consumers. The government is also looking to secure a post-Brexit transition arrangement with the EU to give businesses the clarity they need to press ahead with investment.


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Ready to buy a new iPhone 15? Here’s how to find the best contract deal
Doing a little homework before selecting a service provider for your new iPhone 15 can save thousands of dollars according to a new report
The latest iteration of Apple’s ubër popular cellphone, the iPhone 15, is set to go on sale Sept. 22 but choosing the right plan to go with the snazzy new device can save consumers thousands of dollars.
That’s according to a new report from WalletHub, which found that 2 in 5 U.S. mobile phone users plan to purchase the new iPhone 15 and can save up to almost $2,000 over two years by doing a little homework before choosing a provider.
“You can decrease the cost of wireless coverage by doing comparison shopping and holding off on buying a phone until you see a good promotional offer,” WalletHub analyst Jill Gonzalez said in comments released with the report. “Another money-saving tip is to purchase coverage from a ‘budget’ phone provider that uses the same network as one of the larger, name-brand providers.
“Budget providers can be a lot cheaper while having just about the same level of coverage, so it’s no surprise that 60% of Americans are willing to try them.”
Gonzalez also noted that further savings can be had by signing up for a group service plan and/or opting for automatic bill payment.
“You can also get discounts for bundling your phone coverage with family or friends and setting up autopay on your phone bills,” Gonzalez said. “If you are experiencing extreme financial hardship, you might be able to receive temporary relief on your bills from your service provider, though you’ll have to call and ask.”
WalletHub says it has also created an online Cell Phone Savings Calculator that lets users input their upfront and monthly costs to compare the true cost of two-year contracts, installment plans and no-contract plans from all of the major carriers. You can check out the calculator at https://wallethub.com/cell-phone-calculator/.
The biggest savings, however, are available to those who are able to resist new phone FOMO and instead look for a model that isn’t among the latest and greatest.
“The best way to save money on a cell phone is to buy a phone that’s at least one generation behind, rather than getting the latest model,” Gonzalez said. “There is relatively little difference in phones from one generation to the next, so waiting at least two years will be more cost effective and bring more dramatic improvements.
“You can cut your phone cost in half by getting a phone that’s a generation behind while still having almost the same user experience. Other good ways to save money include buying used phones in good condition or taking advantage of carrier discounts.”
Other data gathered by WalletHub suggests that even amid the widespread popularity of the iPhone, there’s plenty of Apple animus to be found.
In survey results released last month, WalletHub found that more than 1 in 3 Americans would categorize someone who always has the newest iPhone as wasteful, while 21% think of them as rich.
And nearly 3 in 4 people surveyed said they think the new iPhone is overrated.


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Economic Fallout of Covid-19
The cost of airfare is rising in China, signalling economic recovery. Ticket costs for the upcoming Qingming festival in early April are at 96% of 2019 prices.
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Unemployment in the US has fallen its the lowest point since the pandemic began.
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The pandemic pushed 131 million people into poverty across the globe in 2020. 75 millon were in India alone.


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Disney Plus Hires Former CEO of M'sian Production Company
Izham Omar will develop original programming.
Former Primeworks Studios chief executive officer Izham Omar from Malaysia has officially joined Walt Disney Southeast Asia as Disney Plus's executive director of content and creative.
In his new role, which comes into immediate effect, Izham is responsible for developing and producing original programming as well as acquiring content, said the company as reported by Variety today.
Besides ensuring end-to-end title launch readiness, Izham will also oversee the production of surround content for major sports and general entertainment programs. He will be based in Singapore, where he reports to Amit Malhotra, regional lead, emerging markets, The Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific.
To date, Disney Plus is not available in Southeast Asia except Indonesia, where Walt Disney struck up a partnership with local company Telkomsel and launched the streaming service as Disney Plus Hotstar. Since then, there have been no updates as to when Disney Plus would be rolled out regionally.
“Izham joins the team at an important juncture when Disney Plus is expanding its footprint in Southeast Asia, and his strategic vision, breadth of experience and outstanding leadership will be key in steering Disney’s creative engine and delighting subscribers with the magic of our storytelling,” said Malhotra in a statement.
Izham previously helped Primeworks Studios, one of the largest production companies in Malaysia. He began his career in media after launching the 8TV television channel in 2003
Omar was previously CEO of Primeworks Studios, Malaysia’s largest production company, and part of joins Disney from Media Prima. He began his media career in 2003 by launching the iconic 8TV before launching homegrown streaming service Tonton.
He is also an award-winning music producer, songwriter and musician who has worked with various established Malaysian artistes.


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Seven out of the top 10 exploits in 2014 were carried out using vulnerabilities in old code that have been left open.
Amazon hoping to ease the frustrations of tablet owners who still want to watch Flash video on mobile devices.
Android devices running Android 2.2, 2.3 or 3.0 will be able to download Flash 10.2 in beta form from the Android Market later today.
Adobe has clocked up 1 million downloads on the Android platform, with its 10.1 software proving popular on devices.
PDC 09Microsoft seems determined to give Adobe's all-conquering Flash framework a run for its money, with the unveiling at PDC of a Silverlight 4 beta.
MWC has already proven to be productive for Adobe, with Palm and Nokia joining the company's Open Screen Project that will see Flash 10 supported by a host of mobile handsets.


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Posted by Dale Buss on October 20, 2014 08:30 AM
Apple Pay rolls out today with iOS 8.1 update to an audience of more than 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners, with holes in the system and restaurants prepared to accept, though some retailers struggle with anonymity aspects. [Update: Apple also posted record quarterly revenue of $42.1 billion fueled by iPhone 6 sales.]
IBM sells chip unit for $1.5 billion as revenue drops again.
Microsoft "within weeks" of unveiling smartwatch as CEO Nadella promotes new cloud computing platform and clarifies comments on equal pay.
Oscar de la Renta, clothier to the stars (and Amal Clooney) has died at 82.
Reebok attracts $2.2 billion bid for owner adidas.Continue reading...
Posted by Dale Buss on October 1, 2014 09:28 AM
Amazon and Disney are back at peace.
American Express continues Everyday Moments campaign with Tina Fey (above).
Boeing must replace some pilot displays over worries about Wi-Fi interference.
General Mills announces more salaried job cuts as its CMO retires.
Microsoft promotes Windows 10 a game-changer.
News Corp. buys Move Inc.
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American Apparel may let founder Dov Charney stay in some capacity.
Apple Pay anticipation signals new era at cash register.Continue reading...
Posted by Sheila Shayon on September 19, 2014 11:23 AM
E-commerce is arguably one of the best things to happen to the retail world, but more brands than ever are trying to master an omnichannel approach that blends online and offline into the ideal customer experience. Now, American Express is stepping in to promote "Online's Day Off" on Saturday, September 20, to highlight the unique brick-and-mortar experiences of some of the hottest online brands.
American Express has partnered with Birchbox, Bonobos and Rent the Runway for the one-day shopping event that was previewd earlier this week with a panel of thought-leaders including Katia Beauchamp, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Birchbox, Jennifer Fleiss, Co-Founder and Head of Business Development of Rent the Runway, Steve Chien, EVP and GM of Shutl North America, and Andy Dunn, who spoke to trends of inter-connectedness in fashion, retail and e-commerce.
“Online’s Day Off, like many of the other small merchant-focused initiatives supported by American Express, was created to connect our small merchant partners to seasoned entrepreneurs and industry experts who can help them successfully navigate a changing business environment,” said Ed Jay, EVP, Merchant Services, Americas, American Express, in a press release. “Most importantly, we want to help small merchants and what better way to do that than to provide resources that enable them to grow their business.”Continue reading...
tech in the spotlight
Posted by Sheila Shayon on September 2, 2014 02:24 PM
Ahead of what will be a crucial week for the brand, Apple is under scrutiny after its iCloud reportedly played a big part in the massive leak of scandalous celebrity photos by hackers who gained access to personal iCloud accounts.
Originally suspected to have enabled the hack via a bug in its “Find My iPhone” app, Apple has denied it's at fault following an internal investigation. Earlier, a company spokesperson responded to the allegation by stating, “We take user privacy very seriously and are actively investigating this report,” while the FBI has also launched its own probe into the leak.
The #iCloudHack doubts cast on its ability to protect user data and privacy are poor timing, as Apple is preparing for its Sept. 9 iPhone event, where the brand is also expected to reveal its much anticipated "iWatch" (or iTime?) wearable.
But the iCloud leak also spells trouble for the brand's just-announced partnership with Visa, MasterCard and American Express on a mobile wallet, reportedly a cornerstone of its upcoming iPhone 6. If photos can be hacked from iCloud, what does that say for personal information and banking data?Continue reading...
Posted by Alicia Ciccone on September 1, 2014 09:53 AM
A&E buys 10 percent of Vice for $250 million.
Apple blocks developers from selling users' health data to marketers; bans hazardous chemicals following China investigation; reportedly strikes payments deal to make next iPhone a mobile wallet with American Express, Visa and MasterCard; sees iBeacon struggle with retailers; and grapples with possible iCloud (via “Find my iPhone”) hack that led to massive nude photo leak affecting Jennifer Lawrence and other actresses.
Nike re-signs (Under Armour-wooed) NBA star Kevin Durant to sneaker deal rumored to be worth $350 million.
Disney files patents for drone-controlled puppets as Google drones find better reception than Amazon tests.
P&G's Tide brand honors uniformed workers on Labor Day (above).
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Alibaba faces stiffer homegrown competition ahead of upcoming IPO.
Art Everywhere partnership brings culture to outdoor advertising.
Bayer brings “world’s hangover cure” Berocca to US.
BMW sees bomb-proof fleet get big buy-in from Australian government for G20 Summit.
Comcast acquisition of Time Warner Cable protested by entertainment giants.Continue reading...
sports in the spotlight
Posted by Sheila Shayon on August 25, 2014 04:33 PM
The US Open kicks off today in New York in what will be one of the most digitally-connected sporting events yet. With 700,000 people anticipated to attend, the Open's marketing partners and sponsors are set to activate on-site from the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
The tournament will function as a runway for Ralph Lauren, which is debuting its new wearable tech apparel collection created by Canadian company OMsignal, which is developing its own line of biometric smartwear.
Ralph Lauren's debut anti-microbial and moisture-wicking "Polo Tech" shirt has embedded biometric sensors that measure heart rate, breathing rate and depth, steps and calories burned, all of which can be transmitted via Bluetooth to an iPhone app.
As the official outfitter of the US Tennis Association, several ball boys and girls will be sporting the new tech tee on the courts.Continue reading...
Posted by Dale Buss on July 31, 2014 09:43 AM
Bloomberg Businessweek's new cover story hits Coca-Cola in the stomach over obesity.
Target hires PepsiCo veteran Brian Cornell as new CEO.
Apple reportedly plans to cut 200 jobs at Beats as $3B acquisition gets EU approval.
Budweiser features Jay Z and Rihanna in new campaign as MTV lands Beyonce solo for VMAs.
Whole Foods Markets lowers sales forecast and plans major marketing push to reverse "negative narrative."
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AMC, the Mad Men/Breaking Bad network, reportedly eyes stake in BBC America.
American Express pursues “first-ever” experiences for customers.
BlackBerry's new COO discusses his goals with WSJ.
BMW kicks the tires on Medium as its first advertiser.
Bud and Miller struggle to take on craft beer.
Chevrolet increases focus on China.Continue reading...
Posted by Mark J. Miller on July 17, 2014 03:04 PM
Visa has now got its own Innovation Center. It was opened in San Francisco Wednesday to try to bring the company’s software developers, clients, and other tech folks “to jointly develop the next generation of commerce applications," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The first product coming out of the Innovation Center is the Visa Checkout mobile payment system, which hopes to give PayPal, Isis and Google Wallet a run for the money, and replaces Visa's V.me brand that was introduced in the US in 2012.
"It's a recognition of the fact that the credit card is becoming a digital card, and innovations are occurring through digital means," said Jim McCarthy, the brand's senior vice president of innovation and strategic partnerships, to the Chronicle. "Basically, we're opening up our network to software developers to use our capabilities and assets, and to help consumers to take advantage of them."Continue reading...


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Ford workers ratify new deal opening door to ‘single biggest investment in Canadian auto industry in years’
Unifor negotiates $1.95-billion to go mostly to plants in Oakville, Windsor. Next up, Fiat
Ford Motor Co. workers represented by Unifor have ratified a new contract with the automaker, setting the stage for negotiations between the union and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. over their collective agreement and the future of vehicle production at the company’s plants in Ontario.
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Approximately $148 million in investment is earmarked for Ford’s Windsor, Ont., engine plant, the union says. Yet the majority of the funds, $1.8 billion, will flow to Ford’s Oakville, Ont. plant, which is to be converted into an electric-vehicle factory starting in 2024, after production of the Ford Edge SUV there is phased out.
The number of jobs at the Oakville plant would shrink to around 3,000 by 2027, according to a Unifor summary of the deal, down from the approximately 3,400 people working there today. Dias, however, has suggested that there are a fair number of union members at the facility who are eligible for retirement.
Unifor’s freshly approved deal with Ford also frees up the union to try for a new agreement with Fiat Chrysler, the next member of the Detroit Three automakers with which it will negotiate, starting Thursday, Dias said in an interview. There are approximately 9,000 Fiat Chrysler workers represented by Unifor, Canada’s biggest private-sector union, at several of the company’s facilities.
While the Ford announcement is “huge” for its Oakville assembly, as there was no publicly identified product for it past 2023, the challenge now is negotiating deals with automakers whose plants may not be suited for similar investments, said Kristin Dziczek, vice-president of industry, labour and economics at the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Center for Automotive Research.
Fiat Chrysler cut a third shift at its Windsor assembly plant this past summer, eliminating around 1,375 jobs. Workers at the facility build the Chrysler Voyager and Chrysler Pacifica minivans, including the hybrid-electric version of the latter, but FCA said its reason for the downsizing at the plant was to better align production with demand.
Dias said the Canadian facilities of Ford and Fiat Chrysler are different, and that the requirements for them are different. FCA also spent approximately $2 billion retooling its Windsor assembly plant five years ago.
“The bottom line is we need one or two vehicles right now in order to get back the third shift in Windsor,” Dias said. “And we also need … a vehicle in Brampton in order to solidify that footprint.”


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Gucci To Launch Multicultural Scholarship Program After Blackface Controversies
Gucci has just announced its new Gucci Changemakers initiative to promote diversity and inclusivity in the fashion industry. The fashion design house recently hired a multitude of activists from different industries and backgrounds to come together and enact change in the industry from within . . .
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This week's giveaway offers a chance to win two cool Joby case/stands for the iPad 2, one geared at recreational users and one at mobile professionals.
The iPad now has its own choice of Gorillapod, the brilliantly simple camera tripod that grips anywhere.
Feeling flexible? Joby's new iPad cases transform into some bizarre shapes.
We get up-close and superflexible with Joby's multipurpose, funky iPad cases.
Nice try by Jerry Yang and his team to forestall the inevitable, but they're running out of options--fast.
Warner Bros. Entertainment is now offering rentals for another handful of films on the social network, including "Inception" and "Yogi Bear."
The Yogi brings Joby's ball-and-socket flexible legs to the job of holding iPads, and the Oni is slim but also can prop up the tablet.
This story initially misreported the cost of the Joby products due to incorrect information published on the Joby Web site. The Ori costs $79.95 in the U.S. and 69.95 pounds in the U.K. The Yogi is $49.95 in the U.S. and 39.95 pounds in the U.K.
The Salesforce.com CEO admonishes Apple, as well as the movies and books about Steve Jobs' life, for failing to understand and honor the spiritual aspect of Jobs' personality.
This flexible iPad case can twist into more positions than a yoga guru.


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Franklin, Tenn. – The growth of new mobile device shipments is expected to grow 95% worldwide and more than double (108%) in North America during 2014. According to IHL Group's Mobile POS Vendor Database, 47% of total mobile POS shipments in 2013 Worldwide were iOS devices, with Android at 33% and Windows 8 at 12%.
IHL analysis shows the differences are in growth rates. iOS is expected to grow slower than the overall market for 2014 (due to tough comparisons) while Android (+104.6%) and Windows 8 (128.4%) are expected to grow at a much higher rate worldwide. Further, in North America, Windows 8 devices are projected to grow 183.9%.
Some other key highlights include the following:
• Apple has a dominant share in mobile POS today at 39.9% installed worldwide, but Motorola Solutions, Hewlett Packard, and Micros are showing the greatest shipment growth potential in 2014, in some cases tripling the growth rate. Nowhere is this greater than North America.
• 64% of current mobile POS devices are in a form factor of less than five inches in screen (phones). The move in 2014 is much more to the phablet and tablet size. In North America, 64.6% of all new mobile POS will be on phablet or larger screens in 2014.
• Both consumer grade and rugged devices are seeing strong growth worldwide, but price and device lifetime expectations vary widely by retail segments.
"The move to mobile POS in certain segments is radically changing the face of retail and hospitality, particularly mall-based retailers," said Greg Buzek, president of IHL Group. "The number of devices used by department stores, apparel and shoe stores in particular will nearly triple this year."


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Demand for Warehousing Space Reaches Record-Setting Levels
Industrial markets absorbed 63.6 million square feet (MSF) of space in the final quarter of 2016, which propelled net absorption for the year to a record-setting 282.9 MSF.
The current industrial expansion is one for the record books, as reported by Cushman & Wakefield. As of January 2017, the industrial sector has registered 27 consecutive quarters of net occupancy gains, placing this expansion among the longest ever.
It is also among the strongest, with net absorption for the past three years (825.5 MSF) surpassing the strongest period of occupancy growth in the prior cycle, 726.8 MSF from 1997-1999.
The national industrial vacancy rate for all product types continued to decline in the fourth quarter, falling 30 basis points (bps) from the prior quarter and 100 bps from the prior year to 5.5%. Over the past year, logistics-related warehouse vacancy has declined 130 bps, from 6.9% to 5.6%, despite the delivery of 156.8 MSF of new speculative product.
Looking at 2017, Jason Tolliver, head of Industrial Research for the Americas at Cushman & Wakefield, says the U.S. industrial market I well positioned heading for this year. He notes that economic data reflect an increasingly confident consumer, and given solid labor markets and firmer wage growth, consumer spending should power industrial absorption, particularly for warehouse.
“When consumers are confident the industrial market benefits, and consumers ended the year upbeat with multiple measures of consumer confidence reaching cyclical highs,” Tolliver says. “Considering that consumer spending is a dominant driver of industrial demand, an optimistic U.S. consumer will be a boon to industrial leasing. It’s also worth noting that other important industrial-related indicators, such as containerized traffic flows, manufacturing indices, and business inventories demonstrate that the industrial market remains on a promising path.”


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Conference on second day of ICCS focuses on agriculture, food & retail
Lucy Fernandes and Shraddha Joshi, Mumbai
The conference on the second day of the India Cold Chain Show (ICCS) focused on such sectors as agriculture, food and retail, along with technical knowledge sharing on cold chain technologies, innovations and solutions.
The day started with panel discussion on cold chain innovation in the dairy industry.
P Prasad, group executive vice-president, Yes Bank Ltd, said, “There are many innovations taking place in dairy segment. Dairy is currently a key sector contributing to the temperature-controlled storage and transportation industry in India.”
“Dairy products constitute approximately 1.6 million metric tonnes within the storage segment, which accounts for 20 per cent of the volume of the multipurpose storage system in India. It also contributes to 25 per cent of the temperature-controlled transportation segment, amounting to Rs 3.8 billion,” he added.
Prasad stated, “On the occasion of ICCS, Yes Bank is pleased to present a knowledge report titled Innovation in Cold Chain: The Dairy Value Chain Perspective. It provides an in-depth overview of the Indian dairy market, dairy supply chain structure and key innovations in this space.”
Pankaj Mehta, country head and director, Carrier Transicold India, said, “India is the largest producer of milk and dairy products. Cold chain in the dairy sector are divided into two sectors – frozen and chilled.”
“Items like ice cream, frozen meat, seafood and processed food come under the frozen sector, whereas products like milk and dairy products, fruits and vegetables, confectionery and chocolates come under the chilled sector,” he added.
“Chilled products face a number of challenges during transportation, as they need controlled temperatures. Thus, innovations in reefer trucks are necessary for the proper distribution of the product,” Mehta stated.
Deep Khira, chief executive officer, Sub Zero Insulation Technology Pvt Ltd, said, “India is the largest producer of milk in the world, but the per animal milk production is much lower than that of many western countries.”
“The Indian dairy industry is worth Rs 4 lakh crore. Of that, the organised sector accounts for 30 per cent. Value-added products like yoghurt and cheese are growing at over 20 per cent per annum,” he added.
The panel discussion was followed by a presentation titled A complete solution for transport refrigerator from Thermo King by Srinivasan G K, head, product development and marketing, Thermo King.
He said, “Cold storage transport distribution is of two types. One is primary, which includes self-powered units, and the other is secondary, which comprises vehicle-powered units. At ICCS, we have launched the Thermo truck, a complete telemmatic solution which helps in vehicle, reefer and temperature management.”
There was another presentation on phase change material- (PCM) based solutions for passive temperature control for storage and transport of food products by Samit Jain, managing director, Pluss Advanced Technologies Pvt Ltd.
He said, “PCM stands for phase change material. It is also called passive cooling material. It releases and absorbs heat at constant temperatures. The market opportunity for passive cooling enables the development of new products that rely on less continuous power.”
“The application of PCM in freezers and coolers is that it provides 12 to 16 hours of back-up with a longer shelf life of the product due to its non-corrosiveness. It helps to maintain a temperature of minus 19 degree Celsius for 16 hours,” Jain added.
“PCM reduces the dependency of power and acts as back-up for critical temperature applications. Each PCM reefer trucks safely consume over 3,600 litres of fuel annually,” he added.
The event also witnessed a panel discussion on Evaluation impact of e-retail on fleet procurement; Supply chain: Overcoming challenges and tapping opportunity; How reefer transport companies are gearing up for the impact of GST (which was focused on logistics, one of the biggest benefactors of GST implementation); How transport companies are gearing up to adapt to the biggest reform in recent past and What are the required changes in the fleet to maximise benefits from this tax reform?
The event showcased complete a range of cold chain technologies and solutions under one roof.
“Innovation plays an important part, especially when handling dairy and dairy products. Proper training and hygiene is one of the most important things to keep in mind while dealing with the dairy segment,” Khira said.
This year, it intended to bring in a whole range of new buyers from different industries with focus on agriculture, food and retail companies which are growing substantially and are emerging as potential buyers of cold storage, cold transport and supply chain.
With new sectors, new geographies and new content, the event promised the industry an altogether new experience.


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X The tech-heavy Nasdaq once again outperformed with a 0.5% gain. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrials followed up with rises of 0.3% and 0.2%, respectively, as they continue to fight around their 50-day moving average lines.
Within the Dow industrials, Walmart (WMT) extended losses early Wednesday, falling an additional 1% after Tuesday's earnings-related 10% rout. The stock pierced its 50-day line in heavy volume and closed right at its lows, indicating a slew of sellers.
Elsewhere, Apple (AAPL) padded its gain above its 50-day line, as it rose 0.7%. The stock is looking to form a brand-new base after its previous breakout sputtered and failed.
FANG stock Amazon.com (AMZN) advanced about 1% after MKM Partners raised its price target on the e-commerce giant from 1,350 to 1,750 — a near-30% increase and a 19% premium to Tuesday's closing price. The stock has been a stalwart even during the market's recent sell-off, as it found support at the 50-day line and rallied back to its highs.
Meanwhile, fellow FANG Netflix (NFLX) traded around 1% higher, as it approached a new 52-week high. The stock is just 2% off a new high. Piper Jaffray raised its price target from 281 to 315 on the video streamer, saying international subscribers are less likely to leave Netflix if it were to raise prices again.
Among companies reporting earnings, steakhouse Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) beat top- and bottom-line estimates late Tuesday, but shares still fell 3%. The stock has fallen back below its 50-day moving average line, but is still maintaining modest gains from a 52.75 cup-with-handle buy point.
After the closing bell, highflying recent issue Roku (ROKU) will announce its Q4 earnings. Analysts expect the company to lose 11 cents per share on revenue of $183 million. Shares traded about 0.5% lower. The stock is forming the right side of a potential deep cup base. Shares have been volatile, as the sit about 13% away from the 58.90 entry.
Inside the IBD 50, Alibaba (BABA) rose about 2%, as it looked to extend gains above its 50-day line. The China-based retail giant is shaping a new base after a breakout above a 191.85 cup-base buy point failed.


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Samsung is rumoured to announce the ‘Fan Edition’ – also known as FE – of its Galaxy S21 later this year, succeeding the Galaxy S20 FE.
The Galaxy S20 FE is a fantastic device, offering many of the great features of the Galaxy S20 but for a lower price thanks to a couple of compromises, and there have been several rumours suggesting the S21 FE will follow in those footsteps.
How is the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE expected to compare to the Galaxy S20 FE though? We’ve put the rumoured specifications for the S21 FE up against the S20 FE so you can see.
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Real estate developer Orco Property Group has announced details of its first multifunctional project in the centre of Bratislava in a press release.
The City Gate project is located in the heart of the city on SNP Square. The building was originally designed in the functionalist style of the 1940’s by renowned architects. The company has decided to transform the building into a modern multifunctional project combining luxurious housing with a shopping gallery.
The new City Gate will house a shopping gallery offering a total of approximately 4,000 square meters in retail space.
The facility will also feature 46 luxury apartments, covering cca. 5,100 square meters.
The reconstruction of City Gate started in January this year and completion is planned for
December 2008. Total investment costs are estimated at €42 million.
“We could hardly find a better place for a project of this kind. SNP Square is one of the
busiest and most popular places in Bratislava and, thanks to our City Gate project, we can
share in the shaping of its future and atmosphere for years to come,” said Lucia Švecová,
Director of Orco Property Group Slovakia. (press release)


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We knew that we would get great nails for this month’s cover when Alisha Sale signed up as the cover tech. As last year’s top-ranked competitor, Alisha’s pink-and-whites were always showstoppers, and this time was no exception.
The 27-year –old nail tech has been doing nails for six years, but only began competing seriously last year. After coming in first her first full year of competing, Alisha is not slowing down. “I am hoping to get to at least 10 shows this year to compete,” says the Green Island, N.Y.-based nail tech. Alisha competes on the Odyssey Nail Systems (Longwood, Fla.) team, which also includes company owner and top competitor Trang Nguyen.
On this month’s cover model Alisha used Odyssey acrylics (Competition Pink and Competition White) and buffed the nails to a high shine before applying the Diamond Bindi (Santa Mocica, Calif.) nail bindis.
“One of my highlights of competing was when some-one saw some nails that I had done and said ‘Wow, those nails look just like the ones in the magazine,” she says. “I was just so excited.” Well Alisha, now your nails are the ones in the magazine!
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Market Value pricing is pricing right in line with the comparable sold properties in your area.
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If people eventually get comparable jobs, then the revenue loss is only temporary.It’s time to rethink the legal treatment of robots|Emily Luong|October 22, 2020|MIT Technology Review
To be sure, bodies comparable to the Supreme Court exist in most democracies, yet their political power is rarely as significant as in the US.
It takes them 125 years to complete a full orbit around each other, at a distance comparable to the size of our Solar System, according to a press release.This pair of dancing stars will one day collide and explode|María Paula Rubiano A.|October 16, 2020|Popular-Science


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Europa West, the lush deli and French dining room, closed last winter. It has reopened as the expansive Bainbridge Island branch of Heart, a specialty women's clothing store that started in Silverdale.
Then Blue Water Diner closed during the summer. Al Packard's renovated diner is vacant.
Sound Brewery and Smokehouse closed for business in November. The owners of The Pavilion are looking for a suitable restaurant replacement.
Each restaurant had a different history and filled a different niche.
* The Blue Water Diner was a long time in the making. Packard, an island resident, bought the derelict East Coast diner, shipped it in pieces and renovated it to its original 1948 condition.
It opened in the fall of 1997 with fanfare as part of Pack-ard's 1940s-style auto complex. After serving traditional American diner food for three years, it closed.
* Just up Madison Avenue from the diner, Sound Brewery and Smokehouse opened in July 1999. It had the premiere spot in Bainbridge Pavilion, a new movie and retail complex.
John and Pam Henderson had ambitious plans for their first restaurant - a microbrewery, smokehouse and sit-down eatery. The offerings included in-house smoked meats and cheese, fresh seafood from an on-site tank, wood-fired pizza, a rotating list of five on-tap ales and an underwater-themed decor.
The 80 seats were divided among an all-age restaurant, 21-and-older bar and outdoor areas.
The Pavilion owners are looking for a new restaurant to fill the 3,000-square-foot space.
""The type of restaurant we feel would be ideal would be family-oriented with a varied menu, fun atmosphere, ability to get (customers) in and out quickly and affordable prices,"" said Pavilion co-owner Jeff Brein.
""Bainbridge Island is a tough market for restaurants,"" he said. ""People here are demanding of good food and good service, but they're also looking for a good price. People think expensive gourmet restaurants will thrive, and they don't necessarily.""
* Europa West started out as a Euro-style gourmet deli when it opened two years ago on Winslow Way. One year later, it added a high-end French restaurant in a converted storefront next door. The owners were Eastside residents Jason and Susan Weisser.
""What I wanted was something that was really elegant, French country with a fireplace, white tablecloths, crystal and the best menu that would change every three months based on seasonality,"" Jason Weisser told The Sun. The average dinner tab was $20 to $25.
The whole operation closed in February, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal.
Weisser, a psychologist with no previous restaurant experience, invested $1.5 million in a second Europa West in Kirkland's Waterfront Market development, the publication said. It closed after five months.


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By The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – The parent company of GoDaddy.com, a top registrar of Internet domain names, has been sold to a group of private investment firms for $2.25 billion, a person familiar with the transaction told The Associated Press.
Go Daddy Group Inc.’s sale to KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures comes as the company expects to top $1.1 billion in revenue this year because expanding Internet use has fueled the creation of more websites and the “domains” needed to help find them. Go Daddy announced the sale late Friday.
A person close to the transaction, who asked to remain anonymous because of not being authorized to speak publicly, told the AP the sale price.
A fact sheet accompanying the release indicated that Go Daddy’s revenue has grown by more than 20 percent in each of the past several years.
The Go Daddy Group Inc. was founded in 1997 by Bob Parsons, who continues to serve as its CEO. The company, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., manages more than 48 million domain names, and sells other Internet-related technologies.
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After Microsoft finally admitted that Windows Phone is no longer going to be supported with new features and updates, it begs the question on the ‘confirmed’ Surface Phone. Even after the company’s executive has said that it is not going to be backing out of the Surface hardware business, there has not been any mention of the rumored Surface Phone so does that mean the death of Windows Phone has brought about the death of the Surface Phone alongside it?
Satya Nadella Revealed That Microsoft Will Be Making Phones, but They Will Not Look Anything Like Modern-Day Smartphones Look
Back in May, CEO Satya Nadella stated that Microsoft is committed to making phones, but added that the phones the company will be working on will not look like anything of today’s generation. Well, Nadella could not have predicted that phones will have reduced bezels but that’s besides the point.
This provides somewhat of a foreshadowing that the CEO might be looking work on a whole new product in mind and not providing support for Windows Phone could mean the company might have shifted its mobile division to work on a completely new platform from scratch. I understand that this is wishful thinking but remember, countless rumors were fluttering around suggesting that the Surface Phone will have several models, with one of them being catered for enterprise users.
We cannot tell with complete certainty what the new operating system (if there is any) will look like from Windows 10 Mobile but an aesthetic blend of desktop and mobile apps might do the trick for the Surface Phone. Believe it or not, the weight of the ‘Surface’ brand name also carries a ton of significance because when you think of a 2-in-1, the majority of you will eventually land on a Surface Pro, irrespective of whether you complain about its price tag and refuse to buy one or not.
We still believe that the Surface Phone will be geared up for a launch in the future, but with Windows Phone receiving no new updates and features from hereon, starting an operating system from the beginning is going to be an uphill battle.
Do you think the dream of seeing a Surface Phone still stands in 2017? Tell us down in the comments.


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Although other game studios have released remastered titles for a while now, EA has been relatively quiet. If you are fan of older EA titles, you would be glad to know that the company is working on remastering some of the some of the most beloved titles. Interestingly, during a Q2 2020 earnings call with investors, EA revealed that it has plans to release “exciting remasters of fan favorites.”
This latest news comes after Niko Partners Senior Analyst, Daniel Ahmad turned to Twitter to reveal information regarding the upcoming titles. He noted that while the next installment in the Battlefield franchise will be released in 2021, fans will get some of the most popular remasters throughout next year.
EA pipeline for FY2021 which starts April 2020 and ends March 2021.
Next gen Battlefield will launch after April 2021. pic.twitter.com/g61rUVZIRC
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) October 29, 2019
According to the Tweet, EA will start with releasing remastered titles with Command & Conquer. However, it’s unclear how the company will move forward following the release. Despite that, it won’t be surprising if the publisher sets its eyes on other popular titles from the original Mass Effect trilogy, Dead Space trilogy and Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic. Given these titles are highly expected by fans, it will be disappointing if EA decides not to bring these titles when it starts releasing remastered titles.
During the earnings call, EA noted that it is planning on releasing next installment in Battlefield in 2021 as mentioned earlier. However, given the success of Apex Legends, it’s highly unlikely that we will get any release in Titanfall franchise in the coming years. As we move into the next year, we should hear more about the upcoming remasters from the company.


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NANUET, NY – The construction on the new Shake Shack and Chipotle in the Rockland Plaza in Nanuet nears completion. Many Clarkstown residents remember the location as the site of the Michael’s Tuxedo.
In March, we reached out to Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann to confirm what businesses would be moving into the location.
“We are delighted to welcome Shake Shack and Chipotle to Clarkstown and the Nanuet area. We take great pride in our town and to have both of these new and popular businesses move to Nanuet is a great sign of growth and confirms that business in Clarkstown is good. We can’t wait for them to open!”
The construction was set to be completed by late summer but due to the COVID-19 shutdown, the scheduled opening date has been pushed back. We are told they are looking to open in November or early December.
This will be the first Shake Shack location in Rockland County.
Construction Almost Completed on Shake Shack and Chipotle in Nanuet.
All photos by rocklandreport and taken on September 8, 2020
ShopRite Supermarket in Tallman Closing After 43 Years
TALLMAN, NY – For weeks rumors have been circulating on social media of the closure of the ShopRite in Tallman. Lohud has now confirmed that they will be closing at the end of September.
“After 43 years, ShopRite of Tallman, NY located at 250 Rte. 59 has made the very difficult decision to close the store in late September of this year,” Wakefern Food Corporations spokesman Daniel Emmer said Friday. “The Inserra Family owners and operators of the ShopRite of Tallman appreciates the loyalty of our customers and the dedication of our store associates who have worked hard to serve the community for the past four decades.”
Workers would be offered transfers from the ShopRite of Tallman to positions in other nearby Inserra ShopRite Stores.
Long Lines for Grand Opening of Playa Bowls Nanuet
NANUET, NY – Huge Lines Await the Opening of Playa Bowls Nanuet
Over 200 people are on line at the new Playa Bowls location at the Shops at Nanuet. We are told people have been waiting on line since 8am. Town of Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann held a ribbon cutting ceremony this morning.
The shop offers an extensive menu of smoothie bowls, fresh-squeezed juices, smoothies and oatmeal. The superfoods listed on the menu include acai berries, pitaya, coconut, banana, kale and spinach.
As of 11 am on Saturday, the store is now open!


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Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, delivered the following statement at a full Committee hybrid hearing entitled, “Consumers First: Semi-Annual Report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”
Today, we welcome Mr. Rohit Chopra, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to our Committee. I would like to take a moment to highlight just how important the CFPB has been in the past year. Under Director Chopra’s leadership, the CFPB has been combatting redlining, housing discrimination, illegal evictions and foreclosures, and has worked tirelessly to root out appraisal bias. I commend the CFPB for its announced plans to create an online registry of companies which have violated consumer financial protection laws, which will certainly support CFPB’s current efforts to hold repeat offenders accountable and ensure consumers get the relief they are owed.
CFPB has also put pressure on the credit bureaus to make overdue policy changes to relieve the burden of medical debt on consumer credit reports, highlighted financial institutions’ excessive overdraft fees, helped small businesses get the access to capital they need to thrive, and closely monitored the impact that fintech products and crypto-assets have had on consumers.
And so, Committee Democrats applaud the CFPB for once again putting all of our consumers first with these critical wins, and we remain committed to fighting against any and all efforts to thwart this progress. We are also closely monitoring the deeply flawed ruling from the Fifth Circuit that, while focused on the CFPB’s funding, would disrupt the entire federal government, harm the economy, and leave consumers with fewer protections than the predatory pre-financial crisis days. Democrats support the Justice Department’s and CFPB’s appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn this absurd ruling, and we stand ready to support the CFPB as much as we possibly can.
At one point yesterday, the Ranking Member mentioned that we often times work together, we’ve been able to work together on any number of issues, and we will continue to try and do that. There’s a lot that I can say about my displeasure with the way my Republican colleagues have dealt with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but I’m going to eliminate the criticisms that I have, in an effort today, not only to recognize that this is our last hearing and that I’m looking forward to working with the Ranking Member. And also, I want to give the opposite side of the aisle the opportunity to at least identify what they like and appreciate about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And so, in an effort to end on a good foot, I will yield back the balance of my time.


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Ray-Ban’s Iconic Aviators Are 50% Off
If you’re a fan of Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses but have been waiting for a sale to invest in a pair, Amazon’s Prime Day has a deal for you. The iconic Italian-made shades are now 50 percent off and cost just $84. Featuring metal frames and standard non-polarized lenses, they’re strikingly similar to the original mid-century ‘Anti-Glares’ that Bausch and Lomb produced for the US military. To take advantage of the deal, sign in to your Amazon Prime account (or get one here) and shop today — they won’t be discounted for long.
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The indestructible Twinkie appears to be one step closer to a comeback.
Hostess Brands is close to announcing that it has picked two investment firms — C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. and Apollo Global Management — as the lead bidders for its Twinkies and other snack cakes, according to a source close to the situation.
The joint “stalking horse” bid would set the floor for an auction process that lets competitors make better offers. A judge would have to approve any final sale.
After years of management turmoil and turnover, Hostess declared it was going out of business and selling its brands in November.
Hostess has already picked separate lead bidders its Drake’s cakes and breads, which include Wonder.
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Dublin-based customer experience solution, EdgeTier is using AI to improve customer experience in call centres. Its SaaS solution gives real-time insights on customer conversational data using natural language processing to monitor customer conversations across all channels, 24/7, in multilingual environments.
EdgeTier has raised €6 million in Series A funding which will lead to the creation of nearly 50 jobs, as it expands its team from 22 to 70, between Spain and Ireland, over the next two years. The round was led by Smedvig Capital and includes Episode 1 and Act Venture Capital.
Hiring will be seen across product, commercial, and operations functions.
“Companies will simply not be able to compete without AI and machine learning augmenting their ability to understand and support their customers at scale. We want to help more contact centres and customer experience professionals recover the missed insights in their conversations, react faster to changes, and have the data they need at their fingertips to make decisions. Over the fundraise, we've been really impressed with the Smedvig team; Joe and Maeve are already bringing great value to the business and I'm really excited to partner with them now on the journey ahead,” says Dr. Shane Lynn, CEO and co-founder of EdgeTier.
The company was founded in 2015 by Lynn, Dr. Bart Lehane, and Ciarán Tobin, and last year it says it saw 3.5X growth. It also counts Zendesk, Kustomer, Intercom, Salesforce, LivePerson among its client roster.
“We’ve been impressed with EdgeTier from day one. The company has achieved an extraordinary rate of growth on very little capital. The quality of its team is key to this; the founders have the AI expertise and commercial acumen needed to continue landing new clients and leading the way on product innovation. We’re at the beginning of a wave of AI-enabled improvements to customer service, and EdgeTier is well positioned to lead this category to become the de facto data solution for contact centres. The fact that EdgeTier has not lost a single customer to date and has an upsell rate of 150% is evidence that innovative and customer-centric brands are embracing the solution and unlocking tangible value from AI right now,” says Joe Knowles, Partner at Smedvig Capital.
Main image: Ciarán Tobin, Dr. Bart Lehane, Dr. Shane Lynn


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Gold prices increase in Pakistan
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The gold prices with an increase of Rs200 and reached Rs112,900 per tola in inter-bank on the first day of the trading week, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
According to the Sindh Barter Association, the price of 22-carat gold per tola in Pakistan has reached Rs 103,491 while 21-carat of gold per tola traded at Rs. 98,787, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
The TV channel reported the price of silver per tola further is being traded at Rs1,160 per tola.


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In an effort to streamline its supply chain network and accelerate the deconstruction of the nation’s zero-COVID policy, China announced on Saturday that it would cease screening ship captains and truck drivers who transport products nationally for COVID-19.
This week, the nation made a major turn toward economic recovery by easing significant COVID policy provisions. The decision was well-received by the public, but it is now raising worries that infection rates may rise and cause additional problems.
Beijing is also focusing on making sure there are enough supplies of medicines and fortifying the nation’s healthcare system, which experts warn could be soon swamped. Beijing is also requiring less testing and allowing others with mild symptoms to remain at home. The government changed course in response to widespread demonstrations, instilling dread in a nation with a low vaccination rate where people had been conditioned to fear the sickness. People in Beijing were anxious for Beijing to start to match with the rest of the globe, which has mostly opened up in an effort to live alongside COVID, three years after the coronavirus first appeared in central China.
According to authorities, eliminating those restrictions seeks to ensure the uninterrupted supply of commodities like antigen kits and medications. Much of China’s supply chain network was disrupted earlier this year during widespread shutdowns because people transporting commodities were required to present negative COVID test results or health codes at checkpoints.
China’s transport ministry issued a warning saying that “no effort should be spared to ensure smooth delivery of medical supplies.”
In many cities, long waiting lines started to form outside pharmacies by people who have to buy medicines for cough, flu drugs, and face masks, however, the state market regulator has cautioned the price for Covid battling products might go up and, to control the online sale of medications, masks, antigen testing supplies, and food, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation established recommendations. It specifically warned internet enterprises not to “benefit from the pandemic.”
The Chinese foreign ministry announced on Friday that China had agreed to allow Germany to give German nationals living there the COVID vaccine made by BioNTech. Beijing has up until this point insisted that only vaccines made locally be administered.


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Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) has replaced three senior executives, including the head of its mobile phone division. And it plans to reduce payroll by up to 10,000 as it struggles to restore profitability and improve its competitive position against companies like Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea: SEC).
In a press release today, Nokia announced the appointment of Juha Putkiranta as head of operations, Chris Weber as vice president of sales and marketing, and Timo Toikkanen as head of the mobile phone division, replacing Mary McDowell. The company also announced the departure of Jerri DeVard, its head of marketing, and Niklas Savander, its executive vice president of markets.
Nokia has been restructuring operations for more than a year as it has lost wireless handset marketshare. The losses deepened as consumers flocked to smartphones, abandoning the plain feature phones that helped to make Nokia the market leader. It has since lost that position to Samsung, and it posted four consecutive quarters of net losses starting in the first quarter of 2011. The losses have been compounded by one-time charges associated with the restructuring.
"We intend to pursue an even more focused effort on Lumia, continued innovation around our feature phones, while placing increased emphasis on our location-based services," Stephen Elop, president and CEO of Nokia, said in the release. "However, we must reshape our operating model and ensure that we create a structure that can support our competitive ambitions."
The latest reorganization will result in the closing of facilities in Canada and Germany, along with other steps to reduce its factory footprint. "These planned reductions are a difficult consequence of the intended actions we believe we must take to ensure Nokia's long-term competitive strength," Elop said.
The company also announced the sale of its luxury phone business today to the European private equity firm EQT VI, and it said it "will closely assess the future of certain non-core assets." Nokia expects to cut operating expenses in the devices and services business to 3 billion (approximately $3.8 billion) by 2013 from 5.35 billion ($6.7 billion) in 2010. The company said it has recorded savings of 700 million as of the end of the first quarter and is seeking about 1.6 billion of additional cost cuts by the end of next year.
Here are further changes planned by Nokia:
- Reductions within certain research and development projects, resulting in the planned closure of its facilities in Ulm, Germany and Burnaby, Canada;
- Consolidation of certain manufacturing operations, resulting in the planned closure of its manufacturing facility in Salo, Finland. Research and Development efforts in Salo to continue;
- Focusing of marketing and sales activities, including prioritizing key markets;
- Streamlining of IT, corporate and support functions; and
- Reductions related to non-core assets, including possible divestments.


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PETA Kills Animals, So Of Course It Accepts Celebrity Hypocrisy
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) thinks animals are “people,” and therefore the group harasses people who eat and wear animal products and those who conduct lifesaving medical research on animals. But PETA has no qualms killing roughly 2,000 dogs and cats every year, even those that its staff classifies as “adorable” and “perfect,” as our Senior Research Analyst reminded readers of PETA’s hometown newspaper.
You might say PETA has a deadly habit of hypocrisy. And since PETA’s hypocrisy excuses the group’s own animal killing, it should not shock anybody that PETA’s celebrity endorsers are excused from PETA’s proscriptions against eating or using animal products.
The latest celebrity to strip for PETA while wearing animal products in his real life is rock musician Dave Navarro. While Navarro lent himself to PETA’s anti-fur and anti-cosmetics campaigns, a leather designer in Los Angeles is quite happy to promote that Navarro wears his stuff. Indeed, leather is the singer’s signature look, and apparently it’s the real McCoy.
It is a longstanding tradition for PETA endorsers to join the self-described “total press sluts” in advertisements while refusing to follow the PETA lifestyle. Pamela Anderson, who appeared in countless PETA ads, even opened an omnivorous restaurant in 2006. Given the chance, PETA would ban meat, cheese, and even dairy creamer (for the rest of us, at least).
However, some prominent entertainers see through PETA. Jennifer Lawrence of The Hunger Games fame said “Screw PETA” in a recent interview. By their deeds (if not their pin-ups), many PETA celebrities agree.