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HERE and Mitsubishi Motors help drivers steer clear of traffic and distractions
The service goes beyond the usual highway network, providing information on four times more roads than comparable products. By using HD technology, updates on real-time conditions delivered to the driver are ten times faster than the standard speed available in the market. Connected services from HERE provide a smarter, safer and more enjoyable driving experience every day through always up to date, real-time data, whether the driver is looking to avoid traffic jams and unsafe driving conditions due to weather or just looking for a gas station offering the best fuel prices.
The new offering will be available for the following Mitsubishi 2014 models: Lancer, Lancer Evolution, Lancer Sportback, Outlander, and Outlander Sport.
HERE Traffic can leverage a larger amount of rich location content, such as access to 100,000 gas stations in the U.S., than any other broadcast service on the market today by using HD technology, which has the bandwidth to transmit more data at a faster speed for Mitsubishi drivers. More than 330,000 miles of local roads now have real-time traffic information, and fresh weather updates are received every 30 seconds. All of this information is available through Mitsubishi Motors' infotainment system and can be easily accessed by using the controls in the steering wheel or on the viewing touchscreen.
"We were the first company to support the launch of in-car navigation in Mitsubishi's vehicles back in the late 1990s, and now we're offering real-time traffic, weather updates and fuel prices in HD in North America. Mitsubishi car drivers are again among the first to take advantage of the latest technology development," said Ogi Redzic, Vice President for Connected Driving at HERE. "Our expansion to HD emphasizes our deep commitment to improve the driver experience."
"Our commitment to bring the most innovative technologies to our drivers continues to move forward at an aggressive pace, and offering real-time traffic, weather and fuel prices by HD from HERE is another natural next step," said Bryan Arnett, Senior Manager of Product Planning, Mitsubishi Motors North America. "Mitsubishi owners will now experience a more enjoyable drive that will let them feel safer while driving on the road."
"The success of connected car systems will derive directly from their ability to deliver a consumer proposition with timely and daily relevance," said Roger C. Lanctot, associate director in the global automotive practice of Strategy Analytics. "Traffic and weather top the list of desired consumer content, and delivering more of that data faster via HD Radio connections is a market-changing offer."
* HD Radio(TM) technology is a broadcast solution for real-time information. It includes a digital encoder which offers a higher bandwidth when compared to the standard RDS analog systems. This enables more than four times the amount of content to be transmitted. HD is able to increase the speed of distribution by ten times over RDS, which translates to 30 second incremental updates - faster than any other broadcast format available in the market today.
About HERE and Nokia
HERE, a Nokia business, offers the world's best maps and location experiences across multiple screens and operating systems. HERE inspires a new generation of location services and devices helping more people to navigate their lives with ease and confidence. Built on more than 25 years of experience in cartography and drawing on more than 80,000 sources of data, HERE offers "Maps for Life" for more than 190 countries, voice guided navigation in 95 countries in more than 50 languages and live traffic information for 34 countries. To learn more about HERE, visit http://blog.here.com/.
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Nomitri Launches its Smartphone-Based Cashierless Checkout at a LÜNING Store in Germany
This is the first public partnership for Nomitri.
Nomitri announced today that its smartphone-based cashierless checkout system is now available for shoppers at the Edeka center LÜNING Rietberg, in Rietberg Germany. This is the first public retail partnership for Nomitri.
Customers just need to have a LÜNING card and download the Nomitri mobile app (and be at least 18 years old). The shopper places their phone in a special holder installed on the cart (with the camera facing down into the cart) and launches the Nomitri app. Items are placed in front of the phone camera where Nomitri scans the barcode to keep a tally of what’s put in the cart. The app also has computer vision to see if anything extra has been placed in the cart without scanning it first, to prevent theft. Once shopping is done, Nomitri adds up the bill and creates a barcode that is presented at a special checkout area where the customer is automatically charged.
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There are similar mobile phone-based scan-n-go type checkout solutions on the market from Skip and 7-Eleven. But the bigger hook with Nomitri is all the artificial intelligence brains it packs on the mobile device itself. Because it runs all of that computer vision and everything else on the app on the phone, a store doesn’t need to add any computing power on-site, Nomitri does not need network connectivity to work, and privacy is kept because video data doesn’t leave the device.
While there are a number of cashierless checkout solutions coming to market, Nomitri’s approach could be appealing to retailers because it doesn’t require much effort to get started. Unlike Grabango or Zippin or Trigo (which is working with REWE stores in Germany), Nomitri doesn’t require the rerofitting and installation of cameras and sensors in the store. And unlike smart cart solutions from players like Caper and Veeve, Nomitri only requires a phone holder be installed on existing carts. The tradeoff with this lightweight approach, however, is that Nomitri does require the shopper to do more “work” by scanning each item individually, instead of creating a true walk-in-grab-what-you-want-and-go experience.
The entire cashierless checkout space got a little bit of a boost this Fall when Instacart acquired Caper Labs for $350 million. With its huge network of retail partners, Instacart now has the ability to nudge cashierless checkout into more grocery stores across the country.
On a more dour note, adoption of cashierless checkout could accelerate as we go through more waves of the COVID pandemic. Retailers looking to protect both employees and shoppers by reducing human-to-human interaction could find these contactless, cashierless retail experiences more appealing.

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Heinz surpasses profit estimates despite softer volumes in Australia and US
Heinz overnight reported an 11% rise in profit for the third quarter on the back of their sound decision to hedge translation exposures on key currencies, and higher organic sales of brands such as Heinz Ketchup and soup, and Classico pasta sauces.
Excluding the impact of foreign exchange, the manufacturer, famous for ketchup and baked beans, reaped sales growth of 3.9% with organic sales growth of approximately 2%, driven by ketchup, infant nutrition and soup in the UK. Overall third-quarter sales of $2.41 billion declined 7.5% from the prior year due to the impact of foreign exchange, while lower volumes were blamed on price increases, a weak economic environment and the decision not to match deep discounts in certain categories.
For the third quarter, market prices for the Heinz commodity basket were up 11% from a year ago, led by packaging, potatoes, and tomatoes, the company reported.
“Heinz delivered solid third-quarter net income and strong cash flow in a challenging economic climate,” Heinz Chairman, President and CEO, William Johnson, said.
Globally, ketchup achieved 9% organic sales growth behind the success of top-down and fridge fit bottles in many markets, as well as the success of the “Grown Not Made” campaign in Europe, and the benefit of pricing.
Sales in the Asia/Pacific region decreased 8%, due to unfavourable foreign exchange translation rates of 17%. Organic sales decreased slightly, with net pricing up 7%, offset by an 8% volume decline. Sales were driven by gains in the infant nutrition business in India and pricing in Australia. Acquisitions in the third quarter, including Australia’s Golden Circle, boosted sales a further 9%, but operating income for the segment decreased 23%.
Sales for the entire nine months to January 28 rose 3% on the back of organic sales growth of 6%. Volume decreased 1%, as volume improvements in emerging markets were more than offset by declines in their US, Australian and New Zealand businesses, which have been more affected by the recessionary economic environment – Heinz advised.
“Our business remains fundamentally sound with strong cash flow and a balanced portfolio of leading brands that deliver good value to consumers,” Mr Johnson concluded, upon affirming organic sales growth targets of 6% for the financial year.
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Maersk to Reorganize Eliminating Brands and Consolidating Operations
Just weeks after announcing a significant increase in operating earnings and forecasting a quick rebound to pre-COVID-19 levels, shipping giant A.P. Moller – Maersk announced broad changes to its organization designed to speed the company’s transition to becoming an integrated container and logistics company. The plan calls for consolidating operations and eliminating brand which will also have a broad impact on the company’s workforce.
Saying that the initiatives would further improve customer service by providing end-to-end service delivery connecting and simplifying customers’ supply chains, the storied Safmarine brand will be merged into Maersk while the Damco brand’s Air and LCL (Less than Container Load) offering will be combined with Maersk’s logistics and services products.
Employing approximately 80,000 people worldwide, the restructuring initiatives are expected to impact as many as a third of all the company’s global employees. Maersk did not provide details on how many people might lose their jobs, but reports from the Danish stock exchange suggested that four percent of the workforce might lose their jobs or approximately 3,400 people. No specific timeline was offered other than to say the Safmarine and Damco brands will no longer be marketed by the end of 2020.
The company’s official announcement of the changes quoted Vincent Clerc, CEO of Ocean & Logistics, A.P. Moller – Maersk as saying, “Our customers are at the heart of our vision. Their evolving supply chain needs are increasing the demand for multiple modes of transport and to meet these needs, we’re bringing our company’s expertise and capabilities even closer together. Taking these steps are key to accelerating our transformation.”
Saying that the value propositions of Maersk and Safmarine have converged as the digital interactions with customers have increased, Safmarine’s announcement of the changes said that, “The integration will be a phased approach lasting throughout 2020 to minimize customer disruption and taking the best care of employees through the transition. As of October 2020, Safmarine teams will begin to integrate into the new Maersk organization, combining the strengths of both brands. The Safmarine brand will no longer be marketed by the end of 2020.”
Similarly, talking about the convergence with Damco, Maersk said, “it has become apparent through close customer engagements that the value proposition of Maersk can be greatly enhanced with the expansion of multiple modes of transport. Since 2018, Damco has focused on freight forwarding in the Air and Ocean LCL space. “The integration of Air and LCL into Maersk will help meet these needs and give businesses access to a simplified, connected, and agile experience under the Maersk brand, as well as to its scale. Maersk uses its own assets to offer unique value propositions, hence it will not pursue the Ocean FCL Multi-carrier product (NVOCC) as a general offering.”
In addition, Maersk said it will also simplify its organizational structure across its Ocean & Logistics operations globally to further improve customer service and efficiency. As part of this, the back offices of Maersk and Hamburg Süd, which Maersk acquired in 2016, will be coordinated into a single operation. Hamburg Süd said that the new structure would create more flexibility in responding to changing market trends as well as its agility and speed to market in the development of new products but emphasized that it would continue as an independent brand with no changes to its customer-facing operations.
The broad changes to the organization are seen both as a response to the pressures in the market created by the economic challenges of COVID-19 as well as in response to investors who were anxious for the company to accelerate its transition to realize the benefits of the size and scope of its operations.


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Partnerships with Grab, the Philippine FoodBank Foundation and Gawad Kalinga will expand as part of its commitment to fight hunger
As the company marks its 25th year in the Philippines, Starbucks strengthened its commitment to positively impact the well-being of all who connect with Starbucks by supporting hunger relief in the market by expanding the reach of its partnerships with Grab, the Philippine FoodBank Foundation and Gawad Kalinga to help local communities and children facing hunger.
In celebration of its commitment to building a more sustainable future in the market and in support of Starbucks global people positive ambition to enhance the well-being of 1 billion people by 2030, Michael Conway, group president, Starbucks International and Channel Development, and Noey Lopez, president and ceo of Starbucks Philippines, announced that Starbucks Philippines will award a USD$25,000 grant to the Philippine FoodBank Foundation and another USD$25,000 grant to Gawad Kalinga. These grants will focus on expanding the ongoing Starbucks FoodShare and Gawad Kalinga’s Kusina ng Kalinga feeding programs.
“Starbucks has always been a different kind of company, one deep with purpose,” said Michael Conway, group president, Starbucks International and Channel Development. “Since we entered the Philippines 25 years ago, Starbucks now has more than 400 stores, and we are using our scale for good by creating meaningful impact for our partners, customers and communities. We’re proud of our green apron partners in the Philippines and the impact they are making to reduce hunger and support the well-being of their communities.”
“Much of the transformative work on our fight against hunger is possible because of the support of The Starbucks Foundation, and dedication of our community impact partners,” said Noey Lopez, president, Starbucks Philippines. “We are grateful to all organizations that help us implement our hunger relief programs. As we celebrate our 25th anniversary in the Philippines, we look towards expanding our social impact programs and reaching more communities.”
Addressing child hunger with Gawad Kalinga’s Kusina ng Kalinga
In April 2022, The Starbucks Foundation awarded a USD$50,000 Global Community Impact Grant to Gawad Kalinga to support the Kusina ng Kalinga, a food donation program that will reach more than 600 children. The program aims to bring children back to proper nutrition within 95 days.
The Kusina ng Kalinga program had started the implementation of the program in Gawad Kalinga communities in Toyota, Sta. Rosa Laguna and Tribuin, Batasan Hills since July 2022. Starbucks Philippines’ additional grant will help the Kusina ng Kalinga program reach more children and families, and Starbucks Philippines partners (employees) will also volunteer with the community kitchens to help with food preparation and distribution.
Helping communities in need through Starbucks FoodShare
Starbucks Philippines is the first market in Southeast Asia to pilot Starbucks FoodShare food donation program through its partnership with Philippine FoodBank Foundation and Grab. Since January 2022, participating Starbucks stores connect with Grab drivers to pick up food donations carefully prepared by partners daily and deliver them to the Philippine FoodBank Foundation. The food bank then distributes donations to communities in need of food assistance within Metro Manila.
Since the program launched in January 2022, the company has donated close to 200,000 food items to communities in need.
In celebration of its 25th year of creating connections through coffee in the Philippines, Starbucks will continue to drive meaningful change for local communities through social action.


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On November 23, 2022, the Aspen Institute Germany and Telefónica Germany hosted a Digital Dish on “Competition and Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets” with Andreas Mundt, President of the German Competition Authority, Michael König, Adviser Digital Markets Act, European Commission, Dr. Julia Pohle, Research Fellow in the group ‘Politics of Digitalization’, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Dennis Kaben, Legal Director Google Germany GmbH, and moderated by Dr. Stormy-Annika Mildner, Executive Director, Aspen Institute Germany.
The rise of big online platforms and digital transactions has profoundly changed the way we consume and interact. While customers benefit from new digital services and products, big tech platforms’ business models, including networks effects and their dependence on personal data, pose serious market power issues. Often seen as a standard-setter in privacy and data protection in the digital economy, the European Union now seeks to curb the power of big tech companies to ensure fair competition on the internet.
Following successful negotiations among the Council of the EU and the European Parliament, the European Council has formally adopted the “Regulation on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector” on July 18, 2022. Commonly known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the legislation sets the scene for a new era of European tech regulation to limit the market power of big online platforms. It aims to prevent so-called gatekeepers from abusing their power positions in blocking other companies’ access to online users. However, critics have already warned about discriminatory practices against U.S. American companies and potential privacy and security vulnerabilities.
How can we ensure complementarity between national competition law and the DMA? To what extent can the standard-setting powers of the EU ensure a future-proof regulation and even improve democratic legitimacy? Does the DMA adequality protect consumers from data exploitation? How can the transatlantic partners cooperate on industrial policy throughout the implementation of the DMA? Together with a small group of selected participants, the event discussed these and many more questions over a light lunch.


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EthHub Weekly #94
Vitalik proposes new eth1 <> eth2 merger, KeeperDAO introduced, MetaMask Android client removed from play store and much more!
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🎄 Happy New Year!
Well that’s it - the year and decade are done! Hopefully this means the end of the brutal 2 year crypto bear market, right?
To celebrate the end of the year, I put together a Twitter thread breaking down the biggest and most important Ethereum-related events for 2019 (spoiler: its a huge list). Head here to check it out (or here for the Chinese version).
Also, obviously this is bad timing, but the Ethereum network will be undergoing its Muir Glacier network upgrade on January 2nd. The only change in this upgrade is an update to the difficulty bomb (ice age) which pushes it back by roughly 2 years. Please head here for detailed information about the upgrade and instructions on how to update your node. Head here to monitor the status of the overall network.
Have a great new year everyone!
News of the Week
Coinbase Wallet, Coinbase's mobile cryptocurrency wallet, may soon remove its DApp browsing feature according to a message appearing in the app. According to Coinbase, it is removing the DApp browser functionality "in order to comply with App Store policy."
Users can still access DApps through Coinbase Wallet on their desktop devices using its WalletLink feature. In a Reddit post, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong suggests that "Apple seems to be eliminating usage of Dapps from the App Store."
Tencent, the Chinese internet giant and owner of WeChat, is reportedly forming a team to explore possible new use cases for cryptocurrencies.
According to reports by Chinese media, Tencent issued an internal notice informing employees it was searching for someone to head a new cryptocurrency research unit, which will form part of the company's payments wing.
The new team will look at how to use digital currencies in its payments platform as well as explore other possible business applications. It will also consider how cryptocurrencies could be used within existing and future regulatory regimes.
The research team will reportedly support government initiatives in the area. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) is said to view Tencent as a prospective issuer for the digital yuan under development, according to reports in Quartz and CNBC. Reports suggest the new Tencent unit will work on developing the government's pilot digital currency plan in the city of Shenzhen.
Maker closes out the year on a very high note thanks to the successful launch of MCD and fresh funding from leading VCs. The team goes over all the details in this blog post.
Vitalik outlines a proposal that would move the eth1 chain into the eth2 system (as shard 0) on a more accelerate schedule.
KeeperDAO is an on-chain liquidity underwriter for decentralized finance, built on top of the Ethereum blockchain.
The ETH 20 Day MA Crossover Yield Set (ETHMACOAPY) supercharges the existing ETH20SMACO Set by swapping out USDC for cUSDC — an interest-bearing stablecoin.
cDAI, cUSDC, USDC and USDT are now available to use within Tornado Cash along with higher amounts of ETH (100) and USDT ($100k).
This new release, for the first time, allows “secret node” runners to begin connecting to Enigma’s Discovery testnet and staking their own testENG. Be sure to read the full blog post for all the details.
InstaDApp had a big year in 2019 and in this post the team goes through everything they shipped this year.
The DeFiZap website gets a fresh UI update and a new cDAI Unipool that alows users to add liquidity to the cDAI/ETH pool on Uniswap in just 1 click (and by just using ETH).
Google cited their policy that bans mining on mobile, which MetaMask doesn’t do. Unfortunately, the teams appeal was also rejected.
A new rDAI token has been deployed that now supports Multi-Collateral Dai.
Community Member Spotlight
This week we’re highlighting the great work of James Hancock!
James is heavily involved within the Ethereum community as he is the current ‘Hard Fork Coordinator’ for Eth1.x and spends a lot of time in various circles within Ethereum such as the Ethereum Magicians.
Keep up the great work James!
Camila Russo and David Hoffman on the 2020 DeFi Outlook - The Breakdown Podcast
Value in Gods Unchained with CTO Alex Connolly - POV Crypto
Meme of the Week
Looking for Work?
Top jobs listed on Cryptocurrency Jobs this week:
Senior Mobile Developer - MetaMask
Community Manager - Gitcoin
Backend Engineer - Numerai
iOS Engineer - Gnosis
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On Thursday, Aphria (TSX:APHA)(NYSE:APHA) will report its financial results for its fiscal year 2019 as well as its fourth quarter — the three months ending May 31, 2019. Here are some things to watch out for when this controversial company reports its numbers.
The headlining figure for the upcoming report will be the total kilos that Aphria sold in Q4, particularly on the recreational side. Q3’s sale volumes came in well below estimates, with 1,329 and 1,274 kilos (and equivalents) sold in the recreational and medical segments, respectively, compared to 1,947 and 1,444 in Q2. In terms of market share, Q3 saw Aphria’s rec-use market share fall to 8.3% for Canada-wide sales from December to March compared to 19.7% during September to December’s operations.
The poor performance was attributed to supply shortages, as the company transitioned growing methods during the fall and winter months, as well as temporary packaging and distribution challenges. For Q4, I anticipate that Aphria will have worked through most of its supply chain bottlenecks and we will see a rebound in sales. I am forecasting 2,454 kilos and 1,423 kilos sold in the recreational and medical segments, respectively, implying ~49% more volumes than the weak third quarter.
Another factor behind Q3’s underperformance was the decrease in average price per grams sold for recreational usage to $5.14/gram compared to $6.32/ gram in Q2, as the company revamped its product mix for smaller sizes to maximize SKU assortment and shelf space. I anticipate the average price realized to remain below $6/gram in Q4, as the company continues to experiment with different SKU combinations.
On the medical side of things, I am focusing on percentage of sales from oils, as these represent higher-margin offerings than dried flower. Furthermore, I will also be looking for any colour on the average prices realized for sales from Aphria’s marquee brand: Broken Coast.
International revenues and writedowns
Aphria’s management has forecast a run rate of calendar year 2020 revenues to hit the $1 billion mark. A large portion of this growth is expected to come from international channels. In that regard, I am keeping my eye on the performance of CC Pharma — Aphria’s primary international acquisition and leading distributor of pharmaceutical products and medical cannabis to 13,000 pharmacies in Germany and the rest of Europe.
In Q4, I anticipate distribution revenues from CC to come in at $62 million, up from the $56 million in Q3. On the other side of coin, Aphria conducts its annual impairment tests in Q4, and there is a very good possibility that the company will report further writedowns of its underperforming LATAM assets.
In summation, kilograms sold will be headlining figure, followed by average selling price per gram and international sales as well as write-downs. This coming quarter will be a pivotal one, as it will reflect the success (or failure) of Aphria’s 90-day turnaround plan, product mix, and progress on its supply chain woes.
If you want to know why I believe Aphria is a buy at these levels, please see my previous article here.


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"I wish to buy iPhone X for two million won (1,778 US dollars). Please text me if you wish to sell it."
In South Korea's online secondhand markets, hundreds of similar posts have been left by fans searching for iPhone X, Apple's to-be-released flagship smartphone.
"Junggonara", the country's largest online secondhand market, has been flooded with such inquiries since last week when Apple started to receive pre-orders in the United States and Japan, not in South Korea. Suggested average prices were about two million won ($1,778) compared to the official price of $999. At one point the price soared to more than three million won.
The fuss came after Apple left South Korea out of the first 55 countries which would release iPhone X on November 3. On the contrary, Apple's iPhone 8 has received a lukewarm response from South Korean fans. iPhone X has better specs than iPhone 8 as it has excellent features such as dual 12-megapixel cameras, a Super AMOLED display and a user face recognition system.
"I've bought every iPhone since 2010 but I will skip the 8th version to buy iPhone X," Minsokchon, a user from Asamo, South Korea's largest Apple fan community, said in his post, supported by dozens of other users. Some users shared know-how on how to buy iPhone X through peddlers while others grouped to hire middlemen.
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NEW YORK (CBS 2) — Food safety groups were calling it “Frankenfish,” genetically-engineered salmon that a high-tech company wants to sell in the U.S.
AquaBounty Technologies claims its technique, using growth hormone and genetically altered eggs, can grow full, market-size salmon in half the time as wild salmon.
Company officials said the engineered fish were perfectly safe, and were asking the FDA for approval.
“We can bring an industry back to the United States and provide Americans a safe and sustainable high quality seafood food material,” said Ron Stotish, CEO of AquaBounty Technologies. “We think that the FDA hasn’t done all of its homework yet and the company hasn’t done all it’s homework yet.”
The FDA has not said when it will make its decision about the fish.
The agency already allows genetically-modified plants, such as corn and soybeans.


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Items for sale will include clothing, furniture, baby items, housewares and a motorized cart.
The sale will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
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Just kidding about that second thing, I guess, because on Thursday the St. Louis Fed's new Center for Household Financial Stability said that, in fact, "Average household wealth in real terms, contrary to recent headlines, has not fully recovered; indeed it is only about halfway back to prerecession levels."
By which they mean less than halfway back: The average household is still only 45 percent as wealthy as it was before the crash, according to the data.
How can there be such a disparity between the two reports, just a few months apart? It seems the first conclusion took into account neither inflation nor population growth. So even though, by the last quarter of 2012, Americans had regained $14.7 trillion of the $16 trillion lost to the recession, the number of U.S. households increased by 3.8 million during the same period. And inflation, though it has averaged a modest two percent over the past five years, hasn't helped either. More people dividing up wealth with even slightly less purchasing power leads to a significantly dimmer economic picture.
And of course the recovery has been far from egalitarian. $9.1 trillion of the $14.7 trillion recovery -- 62 percent -- was due to higher stock-market wealth. "Stock wealth is unevenly held," the authors explain, "with the vast majority of stocks owned by a relatively small number of wealthy families. Thus, most families have recovered much less than the average amount." For another perspective on our unequal, stock market-driven recovery, see a recent study by Pew which found that from 2009 to 2011, the mean net worth of the top seven percent of households grew by 28 percent, while the lower 93 percent lost four percent of their average wealth.
Home values, not stocks, are the lion's share of wealth for middle- and lower-income households, and home prices are still down about 30 percent, "even after jumping nearly 11 percent in the past year," the new report says. Those who had higher-than-average concentrations of their wealth in housing -- younger, less-educated, African-American and Hispanic families -- took the biggest hit in percentage terms; these groups were also more vulnerable because of higher debt-to-asset ratios.
The report explains that damage to household balance sheets carries ominous implications for college outcomes, economic mobility, financial stability, and consumer spending. But since the wealthy do spend somewhat disproportionately -- roughly speaking, 40 percent of U.S. spending is done by 20 percent of Americans -- higher stock prices should lead to increased consumption.
9 Numbers That'll Tell You How the Economy's Really Doing
Americans Have Only Recovered <i>How</i> Much Wealth Since Recession?
The gross domestic product measures the level of economic activity within a country. To figure the number, the Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the total consumption of goods and services by private individuals and businesses; the total investment in capital for producing goods and services; the total amount spent and consumed by federal, state, and local government entities; and total net exports. It's important, because it serves as the primary gauge of whether the economy is growing or not. Most economists define a recession as two or more consecutive quarters of shrinking GDP.
The CPI measures current price levels for the goods and services that Americans buy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics collects price data on a basket of different items, ranging from necessities like food, clothing and housing to more discretionary expenses like eating out and entertainment. The resulting figure is then compared to those of previous months to determine the inflation rate, which is used in a variety of ways, including cost-of-living increases for Social Security and other government benefits.
The unemployment rate measures the percentage of workers within the total labor force who don't have a job, but who have looked for work in the past four weeks, and who are available to work. Those temporarily laid off from their jobs are also included as unemployed. Yet as critical as the figure is as a measure of how many people are out of work and therefore suffering financial hardship from a lack of a paycheck, one key item to note about the unemployment rate is that the number does not reflect workers who have stopped looking for work entirely. It's therefore important to look beyond the headline numbers to see whether the overall workforce is growing or shrinking.
The trade deficit measures the difference between the value of a nation's imported and exported goods. When exports exceed imports, a country runs a trade surplus. But in the U.S., imports have exceeded exports consistently for decades. The figure is important as a measure of U.S. competitiveness in the global market, as well as the nation's dependence on foreign countries.
Each month, the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures changes in the total amount of income that the U.S. population earns, as well as the total amount they spend on goods and services. But there's a reason we've combined them on one slide: In addition to being useful statistics separately for gauging Americans' earning power and spending activity, looking at those numbers in combination gives you a sense of how much people are saving for their future.
Consumers play a vital role in powering the overall economy, and so measures of how confident they are about the economy's prospects are important in predicting its future health. The Conference Board does a survey asking consumers to give their assessment of both current and future economic conditions, with questions about business and employment conditions as well as expected future family income.
The health of the housing market is closely tied to the overall direction of the broader economy. The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, named for economists Karl Case and Robert Shiller, provides a way to measure home prices, allowing comparisons not just across time but also among different markets in cities and regions of the nation. The number is important not just to home builders and home buyers, but to the millions of people with jobs related to housing and construction.
Most economic data provides a backward-looking view of what has already happened to the economy. But the Conference Board's Leading Economic Index attempts to gauge the future. To do so, the index looks at data on employment, manufacturing, home construction, consumer sentiment, and the stock and bond markets to put together a complete picture of expected economic conditions ahead.


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IDC Press Release
Framingham, MA – IDC Retail Insights today revealed the ground breaking results of a new survey report, “Business Strategy: At Hand Versus In Hand — Will Consumers Have the Upper Hand in the 2012 Holiday Showroom Showdown?” (Document #GRI237839). Based on the survey of 1000 online consumers and prior IDC and IDC Retail Insights research, the new report revealed that some 48 million shoppers — about 20% of the U.S. adult population will “showroom” or use their smartphones in some manner while they shop in stores during the upcoming winter holiday season. This represents a 134% increase from 2011 when 20.5 million shoppers showroomed. IDC Retail Insights forecasts that the number of showrooming shoppers will grow to 59 million next year, 69 million in 2014, and 78 million in 2015. This year, according to the new research, showrooming behaviors will influence $0.7 to $1.7 billion in holiday retail purchases.
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IDC Press Release
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. AND FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – Onavo and International Data Corporation (IDC) have released a joint report – http://blog.onavo.com/2012/08/onavo-idc-mobile-commerce – finding dramatically different usage patterns in the mobile commerce app category between comparison apps that compare prices across different retailers and retail apps that are specific to a single major retailer. The analysis was performed on Onavo Insights data, aggregated from anonymized U.S. iPhone usage data for the months of June and July. Comparison pricing apps analyzed included BarCode Reader, PriceCheck by Amazon, RedLaser by eBay, and ShopSavvy. Retail brand apps analyzed included Best Buy, Target, Walgreens, and Walmart.
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IDC Insights News Release, 12/15/10
New Research Provides Essential Guidance on Technology Investments Across Energy, Financial Services, Government, Health, Manufacturing and Retail
Leading industry analysts from the IDC Insights businesses will join forces to present a series of complimentary Web conferences announcing the Top 10 Predictions for 2011 for executives in energy, financial services, government, health, manufacturing and retail.


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Two hours into Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook's testimony before the United States Congress this week, he had an exchange with senator John Cornyn, who wanted to know what happens to one's data when they delete their accounts. He responded that the company deletes their data, but then was asked a follow up question.
“How about third parties that you have contracted with to use some of that underlying information, perhaps to target advertising for themselves?” This must have been annoying for Zuckerberg, who spent the whole time in questioning explaining Facebook doesn't sell data to advertisers — doing so would let other companies build ad products that rival his own.
It soon became incredibly clear that many of the people supposed to asking the questions didn't even know what Facebook does. Early in the questions Orrin Hatch asked Zuckerberg why the company doesn't have a subscription model: "How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?” The CEO, once again, had to explain that the company makes money by running ads.
Though the hearings could be considered a utter disaster when you take into account he fact that most people asking the questions were ill-informed, unprepared and just stupid. But in the same sense the purpose of the hearings was to provide some clarity of how the company operates, and in the process the value of Facebook rose more than $17 billion.
Facebook stock prices during the testimony
The public had the chance to learn quite a few things about how its data is stored, used and distributed throughout the two days. Many times Zuckerberg found himself stumbling on how to answer questions about how the business — his business that he created himself — collects users data and how it operates in general. Speculation has it that this is because Zuckerberg is much more interested in the engineering and product design than the actual business aspects of, well, running a business.
He was stumped on what data the company collects about people and whether Facebook tracks users across all their devices and offline. In all, he promised to follow up on 43 questions, including how many fake accounts the company has removed, if Messenger collects data from minors for account syncing and if Facebook could "please bring some fiber" to West Virginia, in reference to the ultra-fast fiber internet being slowly rolled out across the country.
We did learn a few things about the company, including how it allows advertisers to target people on a micro-level. For instance, a hotel company could target a 32-year-old Torontonian dad with two children who's going on a business trip to Montreal but doesn't have a hotel room booked yet.
The company recently announced it will stop working with offline data brokers, like credit card companies, which allowed it to target ads based on purchase history and credit scores.
Lawmakers tried to come up with a definition of what Facebook actually is in hopes of better regulating it. Is it a communications service, similar to a telephone? Should it be forced to break up into smaller companies, or is it a media company? Zuckerberg rejected these suggestions, saying it's a technology company that is in the business of writing code.
It came up that the service does in fact track users when they've logged out of their accounts, with Zuckerberg being grilled on this but saying his team will follow up with an answer.
Facebook uses data provided by users to help advertisers target them based on factors like location, interests and age, but users can opt out of this and the advertising company never sees the data about the user.
After all this, Facebook has rolled out an updated interface for people to find and manage settings related to their own personal data. The controls should be easier to understand and find instead of being buried deep in the settings menu.


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LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) - WPP, the world's biggest advertising company, said net sales fell 3.3% in the first quarter, with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic dragging it down by 7.9% in March alone, prompting it to cut more costs.
It said it expected the impact from COVID-19 to increase in the short term, but could not say by how much.
The owner of the Ogilvy, Grey and Hill+Knowlton agencies has already set out steps to cut around 2 billion pounds in 2020 to see it through a downturn in client spending, including pulling the dividend and a share buyback.
It said on Wednesday it could still not predict the scale of the outcome but said it could flex costs against a range of scenarios to manage profit and cash flow. (Reporting by Kate Holton; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)


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Star Wars fans and sci-fi geeks are going to love this. Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) is going to be rolling out special editions of its 787-9 Dreamliner to promote the upcoming release of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’.
There first airplane design is a giant R2-D2 and it looks amazing!. It will be part of a bigger 5 year Star Wars Project. For more information head here.


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Supergroup, Promethean and EMIS bosses reap their floating fortunes
The stock market is set to produce another generation of millionaires as a series of firms announced plans to take their companies public.
Entrepreneurs from the three different companies will together hold shares worth as much as £700m if an intense period of marketing is successful.
Yesterday Promethean - an educational technology firm, and fashion retailer Supergroup - owner of the Superdry label, said they would push ahead with float plans despite a number of high profile firms pulling the plug on similar arrangements last week.
Stock market style: Superdry has a celebrity following
The pair were joined by EMIS, which provides software for doctors' surgeries, and is listing on the Alternative Investment Market.
Last week Madame Tussaud's owner Merlin, and discount retailer New Look both delayed their stock market debuts as did travel technology firm Travelport.
They claimed the markets have been spooked by the economic crisis in Greece and fears of a double-dip recession. But bankers say investor appetite for the right companies is still strong.
Promethean, which makes electronic whiteboards for schools, could be valued at as much as £500m.
Nearly 900 staff will benefit from the launch, which is likely to leave around 15pc of the company in the hands of employees.
This means that each one could land a windfall of £83,000.
Owners of the three firms could make up to £700 in total
But this is dwarfed by the value of founder Tony Cann's 55pc, which could be worth as much as £275m.
Supergroup - whose designer jackets and T-shirts have been worn by celebrities including David Beckham and Leonardo DiCaprio - plans to issue shares worth £125m, valuing the firm at around £400m.
Founder Julian Dunkerton has a 53.1pc stake worth £208m while colleagues James Holder and Theo Karpathios each own 19.8pc worth £79m.
The firm started life on a market stall in Cheltenham 20 years ago and now has 40 stores and 54 concessions.
EMIS, which was set up by two doctors, Peter Fowerby and David Stables, is seeking to raise £50m and is likely to achieve a £200m value.
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After you search for martini recipes this year, try checking Stolichnaya Elit's Instagram page to see pictures of what the drinks look like.
In June, the brand's premium Elit vodka line started analyzing Google Trends data to zero in on online chatter and use it to crank out stylized posts of bottles, martini glasses and recipes. For the holidays this year when searches for martinis and vodka cocktails spike, the brand is enlisting such data to inform an Instagram campaign called Elit Live Social Lab.


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Renault sales buck Europe slump, gain in emerging markets
PARIS (Reuters) - Renault's (RENA.PA) global sales rose 3.1 percent to 2.63 million vehicles in 2013, the French carmaker said on Tuesday, buoyed by gains in Russia and emerging markets.
The company, based in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, said deliveries rose a more modest 2.4 percent in Europe, increasing its share of a shrinking market for cars and light trucks.
Renault also posted a 10.7 percent sales increase in Russia and advances in other emerging markets, powered by new low-cost models for its budget Dacia brand.
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Ipswich: Christmas 2013 wish for Tesco store in Grafton Way
IPSWICH: The new Tesco supermarket to be built on Grafton Way should be open by Christmas next year if planning permission is granted later this year.
The retail giant has submitted a new proposal which would see a foodstore built rather than a superstore – and proposals for flats have been scaled down to become a number of town houses.
Councillors are expected to approve the new plans when they are considered by the borough’s planning and development committee in the autumn.
They were concerned about the scale of the previous development – but the new proposal is not seen as a great threat to the traditional shopping centre.
If permission is granted, Tesco expects to start construction work on the first phase of the project in the early summer – allowing the foodstore to be open by Christmas.
The second phase will start shortly after the first, allowing much of that to be completed by the end of next year as well.
That will see 17 town houses built, along with a hotel and a number of small shop units.
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The third phase of the development – with a second hotel – is expected to follow within the next three years.
It is understood that hotel groups have already been signed up – but their identity will not be revealed until nearer their opening.


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ALAMEDA COUNTY, CA — As Gov. Gavin Newsom outlined steps for restaurants to reopen in California, health officials in Alameda County reported 3 new coronavirus deaths on Tuesday. There were also an additional 32 cases officially diagnosed.
The total number of deaths in the county since coronavirus has been tracked is 74, while a total of 2,133 cases have been confirmed.
The big news for coronavirus in the Golden State on Tuesday is Newsom's announcement that offices unable to do remote work can now reopen statewide to employees, while shopping malls and restaurants that reopen in certain areas will need to abide by a new set of guidelines.
Various other businesses including car washes, pet grooming and dog walking can resume work — also with modifications, Newsom said at Tuesday afternoon's news conference.
However, as always, it is up to county health officers to make local decisions and, so far, Alameda County has been part of a united front to keep the Bay Area locked down.
Alameda County's strict stay-at-home order boiled over into rebellion on Monday when Elon Musk defiantly reopened the Tesla assembly plant in Fremont. That left many small business owners openly asking why they can't reopen as well. Tesla has sued the county in federal court over the shutdown. Musk received support from the White House on Tuesday.
California should let Tesla & @elonmusk open the plant, NOW. It can be done Fast & Safely!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2020
Tesla and the county continue discussions on compliance and reopening issues.
Meanwhile, Tesla's move is expected to bea topic of discussion at the Fremont City Council Meeting on Tuesday.
Musk has received both cheers and jeers over his audacious move to reopen the plant, Fremont biggest employer. Some openly support getting the economy moving again, while others accuse him of being a spoiled billionair who doesn't play by the rules.
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Ever sat down to play Mortal Kombat and thought that it needed a little bit more darkness? Did you think that adding the likes of the Xenomorph, Leatherface and Jason Voorhees to the previous instalment’s roster was mere lip-service? Well, this Halloween Mortal Kombat 11 is handing out seasonal in-game treats to all of those who rang their bell– no tricks necessary!
NetherRealm Studios announced that Mortal Kombat 11 would be receiving some new skins, Bosses, and Brutalities on October 25th, and lasting until November 1st (along with an update to be released on October 18th that will bring with it Team Raid battles). There will be a total of 4 new Bosses against whom players can test their mettle, and each of which will be clad in one of the new Halloween-themed costumes.
There are costumes which can be purchased immediately for those who don’t want to wait until October 25th to dress up. Entitled “The Masquerade skin pack”, it’s comprised of “Wicked Witch Jade”, the “Psycho Killer Kabal” and the “Calavera Liu Kang”, each of which can be seen in action in the trailer below.
The Team Raid battles that are coming as part of the update will feature new Towers that require multiple players to work together towards a common goal while sharing 5 lives between them and culminating in a Boss battle that NetherRealm insists will be on the “Very Hard” difficulty setting. However, if your team can power through it, you will all receive a boost.
On top of this, the T-800 was just added to the roster recently and Sindel is set to scream her way into the tournament on November 26th. After that there is still Spawn and the Joker to come, so there will be plenty more bone-crunching brutality to be had in the coming weeks and months. The Halloween event will be available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Are you excited for the Halloween event? Does the Team Raid battle feature appeal to you? Why or why not? Let us know in the comments! For more gaming news you can keep up to date at Informed Pixel. Want to speak to the team and interact with other gamers? You can do so over on the Informed Pixel Facebook page or on the Informed Pixel Twitter account.


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NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 27 – An Irish investment company ION Equity has launched an e-health innovation facility dubbed MyDawa.
ION Equity Chairman and Chief Executive Neil O’Leary says his company has invested US$5 million, equivalent to Sh514.2 million, in the platform that is a first of its kind for the company and in Kenya.
The innovation will enable Kenyans to purchase quality medicine from the convenience of their smartphones by simply taking a picture of their prescription and sending it via the app.
The company will package the requested medicine and drop it off at a pharmacy of the customer’s choice.
“MyDawa innovation really is about convenience as customers will no longer need to hang around a chemist or a hospital as his or her medicine is being fetched. It really cuts on time wasted,” O’Leary said.
The company has collaborated with 150 pharmacies in Nairobi where drop offs can be made.
Apart from convenience, the innovation also works on ensuring the customer accesses quality medicine, something that is hardly ensured in the medicine supply chain.
“The innovation also counters counterfeit medicine, and works on ensuring a customer access properly stored medicine, something that is a bigger issue than people may actually care to acknowledge,” MyDawa Managing Director, Tony Wood said.
According to Wood, improper storage of medicine is one of the biggest challenges that the innovation seeks to address.
“The ease of getting products these days has meant that goods move around too much. In the instance of medicine, this moving around can compromise on the quality of medicine.”
Additionally, the app will cut the cost of MyDawa branded medicine by up to 40 percent while also ensuring the medicine are of good quality. Medicine by other companies will, however, have market prices.
Customers will have to wait for only 4 hours to get their medicine. The service is therefore not recommended for emergency cases.
“Kenya has managed to distinguish itself with matters mobile based technologies. One only need to look at the success of M-Pesa,” O’Leary said.
He adds that the innovation was best to launch in Kenya based on the culture by Kenyans of being independent. “You really cannot convince a Kenyan on something, they either want it or not,” he explains.
“You really cannot convince a Kenyan on something, they either want it or not,” he explains.
The app will be available on app store with plans to introduce it on feature phones in the near future.


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We’re indebted to Oregon Emergency Management for spreading the word on an app for disaster management at the iTunes store – Disaster Readiness 2011. While the app was released originally last March, there’s an updated version for this year.
For ninety-nine cents, you can arm your iPhone with instructions on dealing with everything from a tornado to chemical emergencies and nuclear blasts, including maintaining a disaster supply kit and an emergency checklist.
Would that such gear wasn’t necessary, or at least advisable. But since it is, it’s good for security-conscious folks to know “There’s an app for that!” This one was developed by Phoneflips, which also has one for emergency first aid. (And another for babysitting – isn’t creativity wonderful?)


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Its not often you get to hear a CEO say boo-yah, which makes the video of this interview such a treat. The CEO in question is Frank C. Sullivan of coatings company RPM International Inc. of Medina. The interviewer is CNBCs madcap Jim Cramer, who of late has been singing RPMs praises. On a recent show, Mr. Cramer had a suggestion for RPM: If they called themselves Rust-Oleum (a key RPM brand), you'd have a $34 stock, instead of a mid-20s stock. Mr. Sullivan, a self-described fan of Mr. Cramers show, starts the interview by saying, Big boo-yah from snowy Cleveland. (If youve never watched Mr. Cramer, boo-yah is a favorite phrase on his show.) The CEO is relaxed and funny throughout the three-minute interview, and hes gracious in accepting Mr. Cramers praise and advice. But he also points out that much of RPMs growth comes through acquisitions, and a big part of making those acquisitions successful is retaining the brand names and management teams that made the brands strong. (RPM is a holding company with more than 100 brands under its belt.) Mr. Cramer is impressed by RPMs ability to hit its numbers consistently, telling Mr. Sullivan, You are money, my friend, and noting that for investors, RPM has never let us down. Good publicity, to be sure. (Unless youre one of the folks who reads this story from Slate.com, Pay no attention to that crazy man on TV.
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Pre Brands, a provider of 100 percent grass-fed and grass-finished beef, continues its expansion drive with the launch to Lowes Foods in the Southeast.
“Pre Brands was founded with an inspiring, uncompromising vision to deliver what consumers want in beef, including great taste, transparency, health and humanely treated animals,” said Pre Brands CEO Kevin Ponticelli. “Pre has delivered on this mission and is category-leading growth, basket size and loyalty due to our exceptional product quality and strong consumer and customer investments.”
The most recent Nielsen syndicated data demonstrates significant dollar consumption growth from Pre grass-fed and finished beef, up 94 percent vs. a year ago, the company says.
“We are honored to open up the Southeast region with the highly respected Lowe’s Foods,” said Pre Brands Chief Sales Officer David Meltzer. “We believe Pre’s proven ability to drive better-for-you beef segment growth and incrementally at retail and through click and collect, with world-class customer service levels.”
“Pre, like Lowes Foods, continues to have the focus on the consumer,” said Wes Doub, Lowes Foods Beef Shoppe category manager. “The unmet need of case-ready, 100 percent grass-fed and finished steaks and ground beef is why Pre will be a great fit with Lowes Foods.”
Pre’s assortment of steaks and ground beef are Non-GMO Project Verified, Whole30 Approved, Keto and Paleo Certified. They offer high-quality 100 percent grass-fed and finished beef which comes from animals raised ethically and sustainably on pasture year-round with no added antibiotics or hormones. Pre’s grass-fed beef is up to 62 percent leaner and has 37 percent fewer calories than USDA Choice.
If customers are not completely satisfied with Pre Brands products, they can get their money back. For more information, visit eatpre.com/tasteguarantee.
Grocery shoppers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia can now find Pre Brands at Lowes Foods.
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Is high-speed Internet access creating a society that has the collective attention span of a flea? Several News.com stories in the past have touched on this concern, such as “At Demo, it’s speed dating for products” and “Internet users judge Web sites in less than a blink.” Hurry up, get that information, moving right along… after all, everyone has places to go, people to see, projects to complete, etc.
What does this mean for your organization? For starters, you don’t have much time to capture the attention of your customers. What’s even more important is that once you’ve got their attention, there has to be some sort of plan in place to keep it! According to this recent news story, there’s a tech conference in San Diego–O’Reilly’s ETech Emerging Technology Conference–that concentrates on tackling this particular issue: “Techies ponder how to cut through info overload.”
“Focusing on what the confab has labeled ‘The Attention Economy,’ speakers on Tuesday repeatedly called on Internet executives and technologists to figure out what it now takes to draw consumers’ focus. Sounding a bit like academics, tech executives offered deep thoughts on–and new business approaches to–overstimulated consumers… There’s even a name for the attention deficit disorder some fret the tech industry has created. ‘Continuous partial attention,’ as they’re calling it, is an adaptive behavior pattern many consumers have adopted to cope with the need to multitask and boost productivity in the digital age.”
Multitask… boost productivity… both of those are $$$ words on a resume, aren’t they? In fact, being able to multitask and be productive are valued in just about every area of life, not just your occupation. So, how do you stop and smell the roses (or get sucked into someone’s marketing plan) after such vigorous conditioning? I’d be extremely interested in hearing what kinds of ideas were presented at the O’Reilly’s ETech Emerging Technology Conference. I have a vision of clowns juggling while riding unicycles, but I think public schools have already tried to capture kids’ attention with that one (unsuccessfully, I might add).
How does your organization maintain customers attention in today’s gadget-jammed, sensory-overloaded culture?


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What alcohol coming to corner stores means when you're an alcoholic
PC MPP's Twitter campaign signals trying times for people with addictions, says David Brace
Two years, six months and four days.
That's how long David Brace has been sober.
It's been a long road, but he's making progress. Happiness is now tangible in a way it never was when he was drinking.
But the newfound stability in his life was shaken last weekend, when Progressive Conservative MPPs launched a Twitter campaign extolling support for expanding beer and wine sales to convenience stores in Ontario.
When you're a recovering alcoholic, Brace says, that campaign is a harbinger of just how much your life is about to change.
"Suddenly my feed is being blanketed with these photos and a prepared script," he said.
"Walking into the local variety store now becomes a minefield — emotionally, and for resolve."
We are giving the people of Newmarket—Aurora choice and convenience when buying beer and wine to enjoy responsibly. Ontarians should be able to support local businesses by buying beer and wine from convenience stores like Andrew’s Convenience. pic.twitter.com/LMSBwqcVk1—@celliottability
An integral part of Brace's recovery was to alter his "engrained geography." Once, it was second nature to walk from his former art gallery on James Street North to the bar, or the nearest liquor store.
"I had to create new paths," he said. That meant avoiding places where he could easily purchase alcohol as much as possible.
The first weak spot in those defences appeared when the previous Liberal government introduced beer sales in grocery stores. "So I started avoiding a whole end of Fortinos," Brace said.
"Now, more of the walls and doors that provide me support are gone," he said. "I realized my geography has closed off even more."
Opposition calls campaign 'a gimmick'
This weekend's Twitter campaign follows legislation introduced last week that would allow the province to rip up a 10-year contract with The Beer Store signed by the previous Liberal government. The deal permitted an expansion of beer and wine sales to hundreds of grocery stores, but also gave a coalition of big brewers considerable control over the rollout.
To put beer and wine in corner stores, the province has to break an agreement signed with Beer Store co-owners Molson, Labatt and Sleeman. The Beer Store has already indicated it plans to file a legal challenge over the termination.
That feeling when you can't get some cold beer at your corner store. pic.twitter.com/9vppTidlqm—@DaveSmithPtbo
Ontario NDP finance critic Sandy Shaw called the campaign "unfortunate" and pointed to a significant number of critical replies coming from Twitter users.
"It looks like a gimmick. It's not a good look on them to be talking about beer and wine in corner stores when everyday Ontarians have other concerns," Shaw said in a previous interview.
Ivana Yelich, spokesperson for the premier's office, said in a statement that the PCs made a campaign promise to bring "more choice" to people in Ontario.
"The fact that the government is moving ahead with its plan to expand the sale of beer and wine for Ontario consumers should come as no surprise to anyone," Yelich said.
Brace says Ontarians aren't hurting for choice. "We don't have a booze desert."
Not a partisan issue
Brace is also quick to point out this isn't about political parties, in his mind. "This isn't an issue of partisanship, or one party," he explained. "I don't want to be part of a political noise … this thing is happening, I don't care who is doing it."
He's also cognizant that other provinces allow alcohol sales in corner stores, and that people will say their right to choice shouldn't be trumped by his recovery.
Minister @PBethlenfalvy and I agree, Ontarians should be able to buy beer and wine at local stores here in #Durham and across the province. Why should multi-national companies be the only ones to sell beer? We want to give people choice & convenience when buying beer and wine! pic.twitter.com/ju86ZWpW3m—@RodPhillips01
Instead, he's imploring for a measured response — pilot projects, increased funding for mental health and addictions services, and for more consultation with medical professionals on how this move might affect people with addictions.
"[MPPs] all have constituents who are battling these issues, and they should be representing them, too."
With files from Muriel Draaisma


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Apple Honors Veterans Day With Website Banner, Activity Challenge on Apple Watch, and More
Monday, 11 November 2019 Today is Veterans Day in the United States and, as usual, Apple CEO Tim Cook has thanked veterans around the world for their service.
"Never was so much owed by so many to so few." — Winston Churchill. To the Veterans in my family, at Apple, and all around the world — we appreciate your service and sacrifice. 🇺🇸 #VeteransDay
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) November 11, 2019Apple is also showing its support for Veterans Day with a short message on its website: "Here's to the brave ones. We're proud to honor America's veterans and service members this Veterans Day and every day."
As noted by Kyle Seth Gray, Apple Watch users can earn a special Veterans Day badge in the Activity app today by completing any workout for 11 minutes or longer. The annual Activity Challenge, limited to the United States, also awards users with a Veterans Day sticker for use in the Messages app.
This Veterans Day, November 11th, earn a special award by doing any workout of 11 minutes or more. #CloseYourRings pic.twitter.com/liyLfyGOxf
— Kyle Seth Gray (@kylesethgray) October 30, 2019Last, Apple has highlighted how iPhone app Healium AR is helping veterans manage anxiety. The augmented reality app was created by former TV journalist Sarah Hill, who is profiled in the Apple Newsroom story.
November 11 also marks similar Remembrance Day or Armistice Day commemorations in many other countries.Tags: Tim Cook, Activity Challenge, Veterans Day
This article, "Apple Honors Veterans Day With Website Banner, Activity Challenge on Apple Watch, and More" first appeared on MacRumors.com
Veterans Day is typically recognized as time to thank our vets for their service. However, Washington County is one of more than a dozen communities across the country taking the day to bring awareness to veteran suicide.


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Mt Gox: The geschreven reign of bitcoin s top exchange, Reuters
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(Reuters) – The collapse of Mt. Gox might show up unexpected, but bitcoin insiders say its downfall began almost a year ago spil the supuesto currency exchange tangled with regulators, split from former business playmates and grappled with cyber attacks.
Mt. Gox&rsquo,s fall lays nude the difficulties the bitcoin community faces spil it attempts to square its freewheeling, libertarian ideals with the rigorous regulation required ter financial services and customers&rsquo, needs for reliable service.
Merienda the world&rsquo,s thickest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox on Friday filed for bankruptcy protection, telling it may have lost almost half a billion dollars worth of the potencial coins due to hacking into its faulty pc system. How it managed to lose so much so quickly is still unclear.
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U.S. federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Tokyo-based Mt. Gox – and other bitcoin businesses – to seek information on a latest spate of disruptive cyber attacks that shocked some exchanges and compelled them to suspend withdrawals. Mt. Gox never recovered, whereas rivals such spil Slovenia-based Bitstamp have since resumed operations.
&ldquo,The very first wave of entrepreneurs were evangelists for the technology, but low on quality,&rdquo, said Nick Shalek, an investor at Ribbit Renta, which has backed bitcoin companies including digital-wallet Coinbase. Now, he said, a more serious group of entrepreneurs is attempting to build more serious infrastructure around bitcoin.
Bitcoin is a digital currency that, unlike conventional money, is bought and sold on a peer-to-peer network independent of central control. Its value has soared ter the last year, and the total worth of bit coins minted is now about $7 billion.
Mt. Gox&rsquo,s decline, ironically, embarked just spil bitcoin wasgoed hitting a fresh level of notoriety ter the broader public. Proponents include vooraanstaand Silicon Valley venture capitalists who talked up a supuesto currency system free of government intervention or control.
THE FACE OF BITCOIN
Founded ter 2009 by American software hacker Jed McCaleb, Mt. Gox wasgoed originally a webpagina for people to trade cards for a spel called &ldquo,Magic: The Gathering.&rdquo, (Mt. Gox is brief for &ldquo,Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange&rdquo,)
McCaleb turned the webpagina into a bitcoin exchange and sold the fledgling business ter 2011 to Mark Karpeles. Under the Frenchman, Mt. Gox became the face of bitcoin – where investors regularly checked the price of the digital currency and where the largest volume of trades occurred.
Spil regulators embarked to take notice of the bitcoin market, Karpeles became a vocal champ. He described Mt. Gox spil &ldquo,the main exchange&rdquo, and argued for bitcoin&rsquo,s legitimacy while attempting to distance it from criminals using the digital currency for money laundering or drug-related activities.
Karpeles said Mt. Gox had no rente ter helping criminals launder funds, and shoved back against claims that bitcoin transactions were entirely anonymous, noting that while the system wasgoed designed for privacy, it wasgoed effortless to track bitcoin across the network.
If authorities found a way to shut down Mt. Gox, &ldquo,the likely result will be more exchanges popping up all overheen, with methods much stiffer to track, and who will be much less likely to agree to help with any investigation,&rdquo, Karpeles said te a 2011 email to a reporter for the Compliance Finish service of Thomson Reuters Accelus.
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&ldquo,Wij want (authorities) to understand that the problem is not bitcoin itself, but what some people do with those,&rdquo, he said te the message, one of numerous emailed exchanges overheen the years.
Ter 2011, bitcoin wasgoed slightly trading at $1, but volumes were picking up at Mt. Gox, which routinely eyed more than 20,000 transactions daily, more than dual those te late 2010.
Karpeles said Mt. Gox had servers ter the United States but little ter the way of money. It used Iowa-based online payment processor Dwolla Inc to make U.S. customer transactions lighter.
RISE Ter POPULARITY
Bitcoin&rsquo,s popularity enhanced incrementally, similar to its price. On April 1, 2013, it topped $100 for the very first time, and trading volumes were enlargening.
Around this time, a regulatory shove intensified. The U.S. Treasury Department&rsquo,s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced bitcoin exchanges to be money transmitters, requiring them to register, enact formal anti-money laundering programs, and report suspicious activity.
Shortly after that, a bitcoin exchange known spil bitfloor wasgoed shuttered after its U.S. canap account wasgoed closed because it had not decently registered with regulators.
Concerns that regulatory act would cause customer funds to be trapped resulted ter a acute plunge ter bitcoin, falling from $230 on April Ten to a low of $68.49 on April 17 – a period of time that turned out to be the peak te terms of dollar-denominated trading on Mt. Gox, according to Bitcoincharts.
Spil volumes hopped that month – on two separate days, there were more than 500,000 dollar-denominated transactions on Mt. Gox – the exchange said it wasgoed perplexed by the volumes, and it wasgoed working to upgrade its systems.
Karpeles said ter an April 13 email that bitfloor&rsquo,s closure wasgoed a fate that would not befall Mt. Gox. &ldquo,Wij apply very rigorous AML (anti-money laundering) procedures to avoid exactly this kleintje of punt. Wij have very good relationships with our banking vrouwen and making sure everything is run spil good spil possible.&rdquo,
On April Legal, Karpeles clarified that Dwolla wasgoed the company&rsquo,s only transaction provider. &ldquo,Wij do not use any U.S. bankgebouw,&rdquo, he said via email.
Mt. Gox did not instantly register with FinCEN – a misstep that would ter part lead to its demise.
Te May 2013, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security froze an account that Dwolla held at Veridian Credit Union ter the name of Mutum Sigillum LLC, a Mt. Gox subsidiary incorporated te Delaware.
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A related court document said another account at Wells Fargo had bot seized earlier that month. The Department of Homeland Security justified the seizures by accusing Mt. Gox of failing to register with Treasury spil demanded by FinCEN. (It eventually registered ter June.)
Karpeles has declined to comment on the seizures, but this complicated the capability of Mt. Gox to permit U.S. customers to liquidate existing investments. Dwolla eventually ended its relationship with Mt. Gox, te a suck to the exchange.
&ldquo,Most professional users moved away from Mt. Gox months ago, leaving April 2013 or thereabouts. By June 2013, the final pound wasgoed te the coffin for U.S. users,&rdquo, said one of bitcoin&rsquo,s core developers, who requested anonymity.
This ter turn caused bitcoin&rsquo,s prices on Mt. Gox to surge.
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&ldquo,What happened then is because you couldn&rsquo,t withdraw dollars, there became a major premium for bitcoin on Mt. Gox,&rdquo, said Jacob Dienelt, a maker of bitcoin paper wallets te Fresh York.
The rise te bitcoin&rsquo,s value talent it more cachet with the genérico public, even tho’ most people were still uninformed about exactly what bitcoin wasgoed.
Dollar trading volumes commenced to diminish on Mt. Gox then – from about 66,770 transactions daily te May to a little overheen 14,000 te September. Volumes surged for a few months, but dropped to about 9,000 daily by January, according to bitcoincharts.
Those ter the industry said Mt. Gox ceased to be the exchange of choice about nine months ago spil competitors such spil Bitstamp gained prominence. By the begin of this year, Mt. Gox wasgoed considered a diminished player due to concerns about its technology and safety.
&ldquo,It wasgoed evident there wasgoed something truly bad going on there for almost a year. They were processing withdrawals very leisurely and generally being very opaque about what wasgoed going on,&rdquo, said Mike Hearn, a bitcoin developer based te Switzerland.
Mt. Gox&rsquo,s problems earlier this month stemmed from &ldquo,distributed denial of service&rdquo, attacks, where hackers sent thousands of phantom transactions to the exchange to slow its operations. Other exchanges experienced this problem spil well, but were able to restore service more quickly.
The hackers exploited a process used by some bitcoin exchanges that introduced &ldquo,malleability&rdquo, into the code governing transactions, experts said. Simply waterput, this permitted hackers to slightly alter the details of codes to create thousands of copies of transactions. Thesis copies slowed the exchanges to a crawl, forcing them to independently verify each transaction to determine what wasgoed existente and what wasgoed fake.
&ldquo,It wasgoed a well-known punt that every major exchange ter the bitcoin community knew about and had solutions for. Mt. Gox did not,&rdquo, said Jordan Kelley, chief executive of Robocoin, the world&rsquo,s very first bitcoin ATM maker.
Mt. Gox said on Friday that it had lost 750,000 of its users&rsquo, bitcoins and 100,000 of its own. At the current bitcoin price of about $565, that would total some $480 million – indicating about 7 procent of the estimated universal total of bitcoins.
&ldquo,There could be issues with security, with theft and so on, and there could be issues with the way things were implemented, where there&rsquo,s just some negligence and just some accidents and poor management of the exchange,&rdquo, said Moshe Cohen, assistant professor at Columbia Business Schoolgebouw ter Fresh York.
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Mt. Gox said there wasgoed a discrepancy of Two.8 billion yen ($27.Four million) ter its handelsbank accounts when it checked on Monday.
It had 127,000 creditors ter bankruptcy, just overheen 1,000 of whom are Japanese.
&ldquo,Very first of all, I&rsquo,m very sorry,&rdquo, Karpeles, wearing a suit instead of his customary T-shirt, told a news conference te Tokyo on Friday. &ldquo,The bitcoin industry is healthy and it is growing. It will proceed, and reducing the influence is the most significant point.&rdquo,
Reporting by Brett Wolf of the Compliance Finish service of Thomson Reuters Accelus ter St. Louis and Emily Flitter ter Fresh York, Extra reporting by Jim Finkle ter Boston and Sarah McBride ter San Francisco, Writing by David Gaffen, Editing by Tiffany Wu


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Volkswagen (VW) has become the latest Western car company to invest aggressively in electric vehicles in China, following China’s announcement in September that it would ramp up new energy vehicle (NEV) quotas and completely phase out gas-powered cars in a matter of decades.
- The German manufacturer will spend $12 billion by 2025 to introduce 40 locally produced vehicles, Bloomberg reports.
- This follows an earlier commitment, worth $24 billion, by the company to “build electric versions of all 300 models in the 12-brand group’s lineup.”
- VW has multiple partners in China that will build the vehicles, but a significant one is the state-owned Anhui Jianghuai, with which a joint venture agreement was greenlighted by the government in May.
- Ford last week made a $753 million investment with its partner Anhui Zotye Automobile to “make and sell small electric cars in China.”
- In October, Tesla also negotiated its way into building a wholly owned factory in Shanghai for its own electric vehicles for the Chinese market.
As China pushes the electric vehicle market forward, drawing in these massive foreign investments, the Trump administration is ironically driving backward on electric vehicles, the New York Times reports (paywall). As part of the Republican Party–led tax bill, representatives are “pushing a repeal of the electric car tax credit, which could equate to about $200 million in the coming years,” the Times notes. China is “far ahead” on innovating in electric cars, one industry observer said, while General Motors’ president affirmed his belief that “ultimately…the whole world will go” in the direction of electric vehicles.
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“At Bank of Taizhou Co., trainees are pushed to count money with lightning speed, toughened up by ex-instructors from the People’s Liberation Army and mobilized to go after delinquent borrowers with the subtlety of an infantry battalion.”
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Weak gaming performance sees NetEase profits drop 7.8% / Caixin
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Qualcomm invests in nine china startups, including Sensetime, Mobike / Caixin
“The financial details have yet to be disclosed, but the company said the deals are part of its $150-million China Venture Fund, which was announced in 2014 and spans big data, AI and the ‘internet of things,’ among other areas.”
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Axa Insurance issued an apology for faking the Tesla battery fire today. A few days ago, the company was on a mission to prove that Tesla batteries can catch on fire and simulated a test on public streets. The test involved a Tesla Model S, pyrotechnics but did not involve the batteries, the main object they were trying to prove would catch on fire.
Today, Axa published an apology letter stating that it regretted that this year’s edition of the crash tests “may have conveyed a bad impression of electromobility or created misunderstandings.”
Axa said that it’s been committed to improving road safety for over 40 years and that its crash tests are part of its prevention work to educate the general public. The company then said that its statistics show that owners of EVs are “ responsible for 50% more collisions causing damage to their own vehicle,” compared with drivers of traditional combustion vehicles.
“They also show that drivers of powerful electric vehicles are more likely to cause damage to their own vehicle or to third-party vehicles. It is to these statistical results that we wanted to draw attention during this year’s crash tests while presenting the dangers that can arise in accidents involving electric cars,” Axa said.
The company said that it realized that these particular tests could have misled the public especially anyone who wasn’t on-site during the tests and who could not attend the testing at is various stages.
“During the simulation of an accident in which an electric car catches fire, we had to take measures to ensure the safety of the public. Thus, the test car had no battery and the fire was started remotely. In addition, the crash test carried out with a model of the Tesla brand did not cause damage to the underbody of the car likely to trigger a battery fire, contrary to what the recorded images might suggest. This test, therefore, did not confirm this accident scenario. We should have explicitly mentioned this fact in the communication following the test, in particular in the press release and in the images provided.”
“In retrospect, this test intended to illustrate a supposed risk should have been designed differently. We made it clear in our press release that, according to statistics from AXA Switzerland, electric cars are no more prone to fire than conventional combustion vehicles. Nevertheless, we must recognize that the published images give a different impression when taken out of context.”
“We regret any misunderstandings caused and apologize. We will re-analyze this year’s crash tests in detail, learn from them and use them to strengthen our commitment to road safety in the future.”
It’s good that Axa is taking ownership, here, but I find it strange they are only doing so after being called out by various media outlets for faking the battery fire. My questions still remain unanswered, however.
How is it legal for any company to openly test a vehicle in this manner on public roads? If they were worried about safety, they shouldn’t be testing and setting cars on fire in places where innocent people could get hurt. Did they have a permit or some type of agency approval for testing? Perhaps they do things differently in Europe. I’m not an expert at crash tests. I would assume that the NHTSA would have its own testing facility that is away from the public. Perhaps I’m wrong.
If they want to do these tests the right way then they need to find a safe location that doesn’t give the public access and test the EVs there–with the batteries in the vehicle.
Note: Johnna is a Tesla shareholder and supports its mission.


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General Electric Co. believes China's economy will slow this year slightly more than the company originally forecast.
Chinese economic growth may drop below 8%, according to GE Vice Chairman John Rice, who oversees the multinational firm’s international operations.
“The growth rate in China is going to be a little bit lower than we thought a year ago. But still a very manageable, healthy if you will, 8%," he told Reuters. "If it does drop below 8% for a while, that's not the end of the world either."
China’s economy cooled to a 9.5% growth rate last year after three decades averaging 10% annual growth in GDP.
GE still expects to garner double-digit revenue growth in China, Rice said. GE generates about 60% of its revenue overseas.


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Phone Doctors offer free Nokia smartphone repairs to all telecom subscribers at Lagos Gloworlds
Globacom has introduced a new service for all telephone subscribers, irrespective of their network of choice, to repair their smartphones free at the various Gloworld shops in the country.
The first phase of the scheme known as Phone Doctor, which was concluded in Lagos recently, saw the telecoms company, in partnership with Nokia, bringing in handset technicians who carried out free repairs of customers’ smartphones.
The company also offered ten percent discount on all Nokia smartphones purchased, while it gave away Nokia and Glo freebies including 200 free mobile apps.
The Phone Doctors visited the Gloworld shop on Victoria Island, and then moved to other shops in Lekki, Ikeja Mall, Apapa, Surulere and ended in Yaba Gloworld last weekend.
The Phone Doctor project will proceed to other Gloworld shops in the country on dates to be announced in the second phase of the project.
According to Globacom’s Head of Gloworld, Brenda Akhigbe, the Phone Doctor services were opened to all customers irrespective of the networks they subscribed to. She disclosed that bundled SIMs with free data plans were given out to consumers who buy devices during the exercise.
Akhigbe said that Globacom was reaching out to mobile phone users in order to deepen their telephone experience. “We consider this service very important to our esteemed customers who would have thrown away their handsets due to minor, reparable faults. Today, we have ‘phone doctors’ who have restored those handsets to live,” Akhigbe said.
One of the Phone Doctors, Mr. Ahmed Usman from Nokia Care revealed that they were able to repair, update and install new software for customers’ Nokia handsets. Asked how much the customers paid for the services, he said “…no, this is a free service to Nokia customers, sponsored by Globacom.”
Usman commended Globacom’s initiative, saying that the Phone Doctor Scheme has given real free service to Nigerians.
“The customers also were excited because they were able to get their phones repaired immediately as compared to other situations that they would need to drop their devices till another day after the repairs,” Usman said.
One of the customers, Toyin Adebayo, was so delighted that she suggested that Globacom should take the scheme to other locations.


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is updating its brand. The organization unveiled its new brand identity at its
International Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 17th 2011.
As part of the rebranding effort, the organization has updated its logo, colors, fonts, imagery and messaging to make Toastmasters' identity clearer, increase awareness of its impact around the world and focus more on leadership.