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Law bans Web sale of tobacco to minors
In the on-going battle against teenage smoking, Rhode Island has made it a little tougher for minors to buy cigarettes.
The latest initiative targets the sale of tobacco products on the Internet, which state officials say is a fast-growing market that sells to underage smokers.
Under a new state law, Internet and mail-order distributors can be fined up to $1,000 if they sell cigarettes to a person under 18 years old.
At the State House yesterday, Goveronor Almond "ceremoniously" signed the law which took effect in June to draw attention to the new legislation, which state officials say is the first of its kind in the nation.
"This is just one more weapon in our arsenal," said Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty, who sponsored the bill in the House and Senate. "Young kids in particular know the system better than anyone and they know how to get tobacco products."
Under the law, tobacco distributors doing business on the Internet or through mail order must obtain proof that the customer is 18 years old before making the sale.
When the cigarettes are delivered, the customer must show a valid form of identification to receive the package. The tobacco distributor cannot instruct the courier to simply leave the package. The delivery company will not be held liable, Fogarty said.
State officials plan to catch most violators by conducting "virtual stings," Fogarty said. Since the law took effect in June, no stings have been carried out yet, he said.
Many of the companies that sell tobacco products over the Internet are located out of state, but if they do business in Rhode Island they can be prosecuted under the new law, said Jack McConnell, a Providence lawyer who advised Fogarty on drafting the legislation.
McConnell, whose firm represented a consortium of states in the nationwide tobacco settlement, said companies can sell cigarettes for less money on the Internet because there is no retail mark-up. The bargain prices are extremely appealing to minors, he said.
"It is a scary avenue for cigarettes to end up in kids' mouths," McConnell said.
According to a study by the Rhode Island Health Department, 85 percent of those who smoke started smoking before the age of 18. The Health Department also found that one in three teenagers in Rhode Island smokes.
The original version of the law would have raised the legal age to possess cigarettes in Rhode Island from 16 to 18. But that provision of the bill was dropped before it bacame law, said Fogarty's communications director, Susan Pegden.
While it is unclear how many teens buy their cigarettes off the Internet or through mail order, Fogarty and others said the state must make it as difficult as possible for minors to obtain tobacco.
"If you sell to minors in a store, over the Internet, by the mail or any other method, we will catch you and we will punish you to the full extent of the law," Fogarty said.


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Apple used to dislike questions about China, a politically sensitive example of a rare instance in which the company under-performed. Now that’s all changed as Apple announced Tuesday that China has officially passed the U.S. as Apple’s fastest growing iPhone market. It’s revenues were still slightly behind the U.S. market however.
Fiscal second quarter revenue in the country, which got a boost from the Chinese New Year in February, soared 70 percent to a record $16.8 billion from $9.84 billion a year ago.
China was the sole region detailed in Apple’s earnings report in which March sales topped those of the first quarter, though by a meager 4 percent. The country also surpassed Europe to become the second-biggest revenue generator overall after the Americas, which recorded $21.3 billion in sales.
Apple doesn’t actually break out iPhone sales in individual regions but Apple CEO Cook noted Monday during a conference call that iPhone sales jumped more than 70 percent in Greater China during the period.
While markets such as the U.S. tend to buy more devices for the holidays at the end of the calendar year, China tends to spend more around its New Year in February.
“It was an incredible quarter,” Cook said during the call with analysts. “I’ve never seen as many people coming into the middle class as they are in China, and that’s the bulk of our sales, and we’re really proud and continue to invest in the country.”
But smartphones sales in developed markets slow and so regions such as China become more important to the company. China became the world’s largest smartphone market in 2011 and now has almost 520 million smartphone users.
Apple has been working hard to gain market share in the country by reaching deals with major carriers in the region. It’s been willing, unlike Google, to make rights and values concessions to the Chinese communist party. Google does little business in China due to human rights and freedom on expression abuses.
An agreement with the world’s largest carrier, China Mobile, in January 2014 gave Apple access to more than 800 million subscribers though the cost to individual freedom remains to be seen.
China came close to passing the U.S. as Apple’s biggest iPhone market in the first quarter. The company generated $16.1 billion in revenue in China in the period, up 70 percent from the same time a year ago. Mainland China sales more than doubled from the previous year.
Analysts at Trefis wrote last week that Apple’s fiscal second quarter would “be all about China.”
“We believe that iPhone sales in Greater China will be the biggest driver of quarterly earnings given the Chinese New Year shopping season that occurred in February, China Mobile’s rapid 4G user additions and an improved supply-demand balance for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, both of which remained undersupplied over the previous quarter,” they said last week.
In 2011 Apple made $12.5 billion from China the entire year. The year prior, it made only $2.8 billion. China’s sales in the 2014 fiscal year totaled $29.8 billion.
Along with the iPhone, second-quarter Mac, iPad and Apple Store sales also were very strong in China. Mac sales jumped about 31 percent, the CEO said during the earnings call, while the App Store more than doubled to a record quarter.

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Adoriasoft attends AIBC Dubai’s First Expo
Members of the team from Adoriasoft attended the inaugural AIBC Summit in Dubai in May 2021; an international expo of emerging technologies. Running from 26th to 27th May 2021, the conference was attended by some of the leading lights of the blockchain, IoT, AI tech fields.
More than 4,500 people were at the conference, including representatives from Adoriasoft who had a booth on the conference floor. The first AIBC event outside of Europe was held at Dubai Festival City and was an engaging event packed with people working in the same sphere as us – it was refreshing to be surrounded by like-minded people.
Dubai is well-known as a tech innovation hot-spot, with smart city solutions and blockchain taking root across many sectors in the metropolis. As well a member of the Dubai ruling family, the CEO of the Dubai Blockchain Center, Dr. Marwan Alzarouni, and a range of founders and tech influencers from around the world were there to soak in the innovations.
We were in good company, with 23 percent of people at the AIBC summit working in the crypto payments sphere, 11 percent were developers, and ten percent working in the legal and regulatory area of these leading-edge tech fields.
Especially after a year of working from home, it can feel like our blockchain development boutique has been existing in a vacuum. At the conference, we had plenty of chance to talk to thought leaders in the blockchain and AI industry through our booth that was showcasing the work we do.
Discussing the innovations around blockchain, dApps, and information security helped us to see where the future trends are as well as affirm that we’re moving in the right direction with the innovations we’re working on.
By taking a booth, those walking the conference floor were able to come to us and learn about the work that Adoriasoft is innovating in the blockchain space. As well as learning from our conversations, we were able to shine new light on directions for research and fresh use cases for dApps.


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REDCOM EMS installs new high-speed line in NY
REDCOM EMS has installed a new high-speed production line at its manufacturing facility in Victor, N.Y., a move intended to keep up with customer demands brought about by recent double-digit growth.
While the company has offered electronic manufacturing services out of the company’s headquarters since 2012, including the manufacture of circuit boards, cable assemblies, and system assemblies for its own telecommunications systems, the vast majority of its business now comes from contract manufacturing for other OEMs. The factory previously had three SMT lines – two low volume and one high volume – inserting around 50,000 components per hour. With the addition of the new high-speed line and further workforce development, the company expects to triple these numbers, while enabling redundancy in the manufacturing line, according to a company press release. “With the growth that we’ve seen in the last couple of years, we knew it was time to invest in our manufacturing facility. This new equipment will allow us to meet our customer’s demands today while preparing us for future opportunities,” remarked Steve Husband, VP of Manufacturing, REDCOM and GM, REDCOM EMS. “We believe our new equipment will allow us to boost our production volumes by as much as 3x, which is critical as we expand into new markets such as aerospace and medical.” Other new additions to the facility include a high-precision conformal coating machine, an aqueous board wash system, new ESD flooring, a humidification system, and all necessary peripheral equipment for an advanced technology SMT line. The company also invested in a high-end 3D printer, for quick-build prototypes, fixtures, and small quantity parts. The overall investment in equipment was possible through the help of Empire State Development, which facilitated the company’s modernization effort with funding of up to USD 300,000. “After more than 41 years in business, REDCOM is stronger than ever,” said CEO Dinah Weisberg. “We are excited about the projected growth we see for our contract manufacturing business, and we look forward to contributing to the upstate NY economy as we continue to expand our electronics manufacturing capabilities.”


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Microsoft will unveil Scorpio on June 11: Here's what we'd like to see
Microsoft will unveil the Xbox Scorpio on June 11 at E3. Here's what we're hoping to see and the features we think will help MS close the gap with Sony.
Leaked PDF sheds light on Microsoft's Project Scorpio, 4K gaming plans
A leaked Microsoft document sheds light on the Xbox Scorpio's upcoming capabilities, 4K rendering options, and technical details. It's shaping up to be a beast of a console.
AMD reveals new Radeon GPU architecture, codenamed Vega
AMD has released new details on its Vega architecture. Will AMD's upcoming next-generation GPU deliver the punch the company needs?
Apple CEO promises fresh Mac hardware, as report shows Apple is ignoring its desktops, macOS
A brand new report from Bloomberg offers an interesting counterweight to Tim Cook's confidence. According to that investigation, Apple has made a number of strategic decisions that took emphasis away from the Mac design teams.
AMD's new Radeon Chill feature manages frame rate to cut power consumption, boost responsiveness
AMD debuted a new feature last week, dubbed Radeon Chill, to both lower GPU power consumption and improve game responsiveness. Early tests suggests it does both.
Some AMD RX 460s can be modded to unlock missing cores, additional performance
If you picked up an RX 460 on the cheap or are considering doing so, you can squeeze a bit more performance out of the card if you're willing to modify it.
AMD launches Radeon Instinct GPUs to tackle deep learning, artificial intelligence
AMD is throwing its own hat into the deep learning and AI markets, with a new lineup of Radeon Instinct GPUs. It's a mix of older and newer architectures -- and a new Vega part as well.
GPU sales surged in 2016 on strong demand for high-end desktop, laptop gaming
AMD and Nvidia are both benefiting from strong unit shipments and a recovering market for GPUs, even as PCs continue to contract, but the gains aren't being spread evenly between the two companies.
EVGA GTX 1080s and 1070s allegedly exploding due to improper VRM cooling
EVGA's GTX 1070 and 1080's are suffering unusual failures and the company is offering thermal pads to customers that want to deploy them.
Apple unveils new MacBook Pros, but skips the iMac and Mac Pro
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GameTrust is the name of the new publishing label that is being started by GameStop, which is looking to shake up the business of the massive gaming giant. The first studios announced to have signed with GameTrust are Ready at Dawn, the creators of The Order: 1886, Frozenbyte who have made the Trine games, and Tequilla Works, the studio behind Deadlight. These three join Insomniac Games, who had already announced a deal with GameStop to release Song of the Deep prior to this announcement, but it seemed more of a one-off kind of deal. Now we know that GameStop has much bigger things in store for this new publishing label.
GameStop has stated that GameTrust will be a platform for smaller studios to get their games out into the world, and they will have full control over the creative process. The role of GameTrust is to get these games into the physical and digital marketplaces, by not only offering the games in their physical stores but also through digital marketplaces like PSN, XBL, and even Steam. They are even looking at branching their published titles into other mediums, such as Song of the Deep which will have a book release through Barnes & Noble in the United States, and a potential for television and movie deals.
So far GameTrust has the four named studios signed up for publishing, but plan to release the names of even more studios soon. It is a smart move by GameStop that mirrors their purchasing of ThinkGeek last summer, a move that helped diversify their earning potential and not rely solely on just physical games. Now by starting their own publishing label they are increasing their exclusive offerings which can also lead further into more digital sales and a more prominent digital marketplace. This is a very interesting move and one that makes a lot of sense, and it will be interesting to see what other developers sign up with them.


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Digipower is featured in the February issue of Sema News
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA VOTES ARE IN
Best 2018 SEMA Show New Products Debuted for Global Enthusiasts
The SEMA Show is an increasingly international platform for companies to display their latest products and promote their brand awareness to not only the U.S. audience but also to buyers and media from 135 countries. In recognition of that global trend, a select group of 30 leading enthusiast media from 19 countries served as Global Media Awards (GMA) judges.
The GMA are now in their 12th year. Each of the panelists selected 10 products from the 3,000 entries in the New Products Showcase that they believe would resonate best with their readers back home. After the dust settled and the 2018 SEMA Show was in the books, 170 companies returned home with prestigious global awards.
Since its humble beginnings in the 60’s, the SEMA Show has evolved and developed, not only multiplying many times over in size and in the vast range of products and from 100 booths to 2,500 but also (perhaps most striking of all) in how global the Show has become, and exhibitors are increasingly taking advantage of its international reach.
Of the 2019 GMA-winning companies, 23 were first-time exhibitors. Journalists from Brazil and Canada selected three of first-time exhibitor Digipower’s products for the prestigious awards.


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LEESBURG, Va. — The Composite Panel Association has selected Elliott Savage, president and CEO of Seemac Inc., as the 2019 Brock R. Landry Industry Leadership Award recipient. The Landry Award is given annually to an industry leader in recognition of his or her outstanding contributions to the composite panel industry.
LEESBURG, Va. - Despite a drop in November, year-to-date shipments of particleboard and MDF are up 2% to 5.267 BSF, compared to the same period in 2017, according to industry data reports from the Composite Panel Association. Composite panels are used in a variety of products, including cabinetry, furniture, retail fixtures, closet systems and flooring.
This month the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a series of proposed technical amendments to the TSCA Title VI Formaldehyde Emissions Standards for Composite Wood Products rule. These proposed amendments, when finalized, will ensure greater alignment with the existing California Air Resources Board formaldehyde regulation’s (CARB 2) certification and testing procedures and, in some instances, provide greater clarity on the application of requirements. This is good news for composite wood panel manufacturers and companies that use the panels to make components and finished goo
WASHINGTON, DC - The Environmental Protection Agency has amended the testing methods for the Formaldehyde Emission Standards for Composite Wood Products to allow for small chamber testing. The update on the small chamber correlations was published in the Feb. 7 Federal Register and is effective immediately.


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On this episode of Digital Developments Dwell, DT senior author Parker Corridor joins host Greg Nibler to debate the highest tech tales of the day, together with the U.S. declaring a nationwide emergency that successfully bans Huawei, Comcast’s sale of its Hulu shares to Disney, a $500 price ticket prediction for the PlayStation 5, flying taxis, and extra.
Later Nibler, is joined by Dr. Malcolm Thompson, govt director of NextFlex, to debate versatile electronics boards and the way forward for wearable expertise that may bend, flex, and cling to pores and skin.
Felicia Miranda, DT’s New York-based gaming editor, welcomes Tim Willits, studio director of Bethesda and id Software program, to speak about Rage 2 and the event course of behind the brand new, open-world first-person shooter.
Nibler then talks with Beverly Harzog, bank card skilled at U.S. Information & World Studies, about getting one of the best journey bang in your buck, and cashing in in your bank card rewards.
Lastly, Jon Heim, TiVo’s senior director of product administration, voice options, discusses the evolution of voice recognition, and the way TiVo is leveraging machine studying and A.I. for a wiser, extra environment friendly person expertise.


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Financial institution of New York Mellon is becoming a member of a brand new cryptocurrency initiative by providing its custody assist to a brand new crypto change backed by the American financial institution State Avenue.
In line with a Wednesday report by the Monetary Instances, BNY Mellon has joined a consortium of six banks behind the launch of London-based Pure Digital, a brand new crypto buying and selling platform enterprise that’s scheduled to execute its first Bitcoin (BTC) commerce within the close to future.
The upcoming crypto enterprise got here beneath the business’s highlight in April, with State Avenue asserting plans to supply its buying and selling infrastructure to Pure Digital change by means of its overseas change expertise subsidiary Currenex. The institutional-grade platform is predicted to be a completely automated over-the-counter marketplace for cryptocurrencies, that includes bodily supply and financial institution custody.
In line with the report, BNY Mellon and State Avenue, alongside different unnamed banks behind Pure Digital, will create a money cryptocurrency buying and selling venue in a bid to compete in opposition to bigger business gamers. “We’ve got spoken to all of the top-tier banks however we predict custody banks have been among the first to see demand, so they’re now extra superior,” Pure Digital CEO Lauren Kiley stated.
Pure Digital co-founder Campbell Adams reportedly famous that the agency expects to roll out buying and selling “inside per week,” with the primary commerce tentatively involving a Bitcoin commerce. The exec additionally stated that Pure Digital just isn’t nervous about collaborating with banking establishments, expressing confidence that the financial institution’s contribution is essential for the business’s adoption. “The crypto market wants banks, I don’t assume it will possibly scale with out them,” he acknowledged.
Associated: Goldman Sachs’ crypto buying and selling desk expands to Ether
The most recent information marks one other milestone for cryptocurrency adoption by monetary establishments in america, with each BNY Mellon and State Avenue turning into more and more engaged within the business. After asserting crypto custody plans in February, BNY Mellon continued shifting into crypto, final week turning into an exchange-traded fund service supplier for main crypto asset supervisor Grayscale Investments.
State Avenue is thought for its digital foreign money collaboration with Winklevoss’ Bitcoin change Gemini. Final month, the financial institution launched a devoted digital finance division specializing in cryptocurrency, blockchain expertise and central financial institution digital currencies.


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Here's what you can watch now and what's on the way.
Apple's streaming TV ambitions continue to expand its reach.
Virtual surround is coming soon to Apple's smart speaker.
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I guess it's time for YouTube to step up its support on Apple devices.
Record gameplay, snooze notifications, and save battery with built-in gaming functions. Oh, and Samsung says it's the first to ship with Vulkan support, too.
Valve and HTC's VR headset finally has a price. And it's not cheap.
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26 Aug 2019 s Houston division have begun the sale of hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) topical products. Kroger said yesterday that CBD lotions, balms, 29 Jul 2019 Kroger becomes the fifth mass retailer to carry Charlotte's Web CBD sales are projected to grow to nearly $24 billion in the U.S. by 2023, 4 Oct 2019 CBD manufacturer Charlotte's Web grew sales by 45% in Q2, with more than half from brick-and-mortar stores such as Kroger and CVS. 30 Jul 2019 Charlotte's Web stock is getting a push now that the US's largets retailer, Kroger, has begun selling Charlotte's Web Holdings CBD products in 11 Jun 2019 You could soon buy CBD oil at Kentucky Kroger stores, according to the Cincinnati-based grocery giant, but you will have to wait to buy it in 25 Jun 2019 CV Sciences Inc. (OTCQB:CVSI) just announced further expansion of its industry-dominating Plus CBD Oil brand with The Kroger Co. 20 Dec 2019 Kroger and PBFA Test Plant-based Offerings in Meat Section plant-based meats comprise $878 million in annual sales, which is still much smaller than the $90 Federal Spending Bill Funds CBD Research and Regulation.
CBD Retail Boom Expands With The Kroger Co.
Charlotte’s Web stock is on the rise. Shares are trading up over 10%, and it’s not exactly surprising as to why; the US’s largest grocery retailer, Kroger (NYSE:KR), has begun selling the company’s topical cannabidiol (CBD) products as of yesterday, and shares are spiking on the news. Grocery chain Kroger adds CBD topicals in stores - Hemp
Kroger to Sell Charlotte's Web's Hemp-Based CBD Products The grocery giant says it expects to roll out the brand's cannabidiol items to more than 1,300 stores.
Kroger To Bring CBD Products To Stores | PYMNTS.com To tap into one of the hottest emerging consumer trends, Kroger will sell CBD in almost 1,000 stores. The grocer will sell topical CBD products derived from hemp such as balms, oils and creams in Kroger to carry CBD products at 945 stores | Supermarket News Kroger to carry CBD products at 945 stores Russell Redman 1 | Jun 11, 2019 The Kroger Co. confirmed that it plans to roll out cannabidiol (CBD) topical products to stores in 17 states. Kroger to start selling CBD products - Cincinnati Business 12.06.2019 · Kroger doesn't plan to initially sell CBD products in Ohio. But Indiana and Kentucky are on the list of 17 states where it's launching sales of the products. Ohio lawmakers are moving to legalize Kroger is high on the CBD sales opportunity – RetailWire
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Kroger will sell CBD products in Tennessee and other states When will CBD products hit Kroger shelves in Knoxville? The creams and oils will be displayed on a rack in the pharmacy section, she said. The brand names and specific products were not CBD-infused products to roll out at metro Detroit Kroger stores CBD-infused products arriving at Kroger stores this week. Kroger stores in Michigan and other states will sell CBD-infused topical products starting this week.


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An accelerated move to digital has seen consumer expectations dramatically heighten, leaving many businesses to re-evaluate commerce models and put a renewed focus on the customer experience.
The global pandemic’s mass disruption to the way society shops and interacts with brands has catapulted the world of commerce further into the digital abyss than it has ever been before. And now there is no turning back.
Worldwide retail ecommerce sales grew 27.6% during 2020, for a total of US$4.280 trillion, according to eMarketer’s “Global Ecommerce Update 2021” report. Meanwhile, total worldwide retail sales declined by 3%, to US$23.839 trillion.
While ecommerce growth is still expected to slow this year after an abnormal year last year, growth is still on the agenda. The forecast for worldwide ecommerce growth in 2021 is pegged at 14.3%.
Groups that were still not avid online shoppers have been converted, and businesses that relied on traditional bricks and mortar stores have had to rethink their models.
At beauty retailer Mecca, a business that had an online store but also relied on its traditional bricks and mortar, the focus on digital was accelerated dramatically.
“We have heavily accelerated our focus on digital over the past 18 months concentrating on improving engagement through amplified content, live-streaming and enhanced live chat options; developing a stronger omni-channel offering with click-and-collect and an exciting new digital product (that’s still a secret!) coming to market soon to bridge the gap between digital and physical experiences; and doubling down on personalisation and relevance across all touchpoints for the customer, to make shopping with us on any channel as seamless as possible,” Mecca Brands chief digital officer Sam Bain tells AdNews.
Customer experience (CX) has been spotlighted among businesses across every sector as consumers become more dubious of where they purchase from. With anyone now able to set up shop online, competition is at an all-time high, making the experience of shopping with your brand one of the most important components to consider.
AKQA Sydney managing director Rakesh Rachamalla tells AdNews COVID-19 has led to a “seismic shift” in consumer adoption of new technologies.
“[They’re] adopting whole new customer behaviours, and this is not just in traditional early adopters — we’re talking the majority of Australians,” says Rachamalla.
“What we’re seeing is a good majority of customers — if not all customers — have formed habits that are likely to remain for the foreseeable future, and this presents further evidence for the fact that brands need to continue to invest in CX because consumer expectations have increased further.”
Standards and differentiators
After years of sitting on the backburner, CX was propelled into the list of top priorities for brands. The meteoric rise of consumers interacting with businesses online has set new benchmarks, leading to CX’s renewed importance.
“CX is becoming a huge part of the business portfolio,” says Tim Lavelle, senior director, CX apps, JAPAC at Oracle.
“When you think about CX, it’s not the marketing platform or a content platform, but customer experience as its true format is making sure we’re having the right conversation with the customer at the right time, in whatever channel they want to have it on.”
The spotlight on CX comes as research continues to point to its link with revenue growth. According to research by Forrester and commissioned by Sitecore, each one-point improvement in a firm’s CX score drives millions of dollars of incremental revenue.
Adobe’s Digital Trends Report also points to CX leaders as having the ability to prove the value of marketing through real-time customer insights and attribution.
“In many ways, the pandemic proved the customer experience proposition,” says Adobe vice-president of marketing APAC Duncan Egan.
“Companies that were already exploring and investing in new tools and processes for optimising customer experience prior to the pandemic were in a more advantageous position than those who hadn’t. They were able to adapt more quickly to remote work and digital service delivery and rapidly innovate to redesign the customer journey.”
The experience customers have is key to their retention and many are even willing to pay more for it. The CX Trends Report 2021 from Zendesk revealed that 75% of customers are willing to spend more to buy from companies that give them a good customer experience.
As the on-demand economy continues to grow, fast and friendly service is now expected by customers when shopping online, with 65% of customers wanting to buy from companies that offer quick and easy online transactions.
Beyond that, they want a brand to show empathy, know their tastes and preferences and also align with their values. For example, 63% want to buy from companies that are socially responsible and more than half (54%) want to buy from companies that prioritise diversity, equity and inclusion in their communities and workplaces.
Egan says empathy and trust are central to the next evolution of CX in a post-COVID-19 world.
“Today, empathy is an underutilised differentiator, but it is accessible by understanding the areas of friction in the customer journey and customers’ motivations to improve the experience,” he says.
Getting the foundations right
Just like anything being built, foundations are the core stabiliser that hold it together. Without them, everything can come crashing down.
“CX is a first step to simplify how we engage with customers in whatever channel that they choose to engage with,” says Rachamalla.
“To do truly great CX, you need to be looking at what the brand stands for. Now the baseline for CX is shifted up higher. So, of course, now every brand has a good digital storefront. Every brand has the ability to engage with customers digitally for customer service and enquiries.”
He says the brand experience is a key differentiator for those looking to remain competitive in the market. To move into this next phase, though, means brands need to have all the foundations in place.
In this new world of CX and commerce, and with the impending deprecation of third-party cookies, customer data platforms (CDPs) are becoming more important than ever for marketers to house their own first-party data and build out personalised experiences in privacy-compliant ways.
“If you don’t already have a customer data platform, it may be time to invest — a CDP enables brands to create and then execute from aunified customer profile,” says Egan.
“Brands that don’t already have much first-party customer data should focus on creating a robust first-party data strategy that includes obtaining durable customer IDs with marketing
“To obtain these, brands need to offer something of value in return. This could be compelling content, personalised recommendations, discounts or gamified features.”
Sitecore president, commerce, Mark Johnson says with increasing consumer expectations and demands, the onus is on brands to deliver personalised experiences.
Integrating CDPs, customer relationship management (CRM) software and other components of marketing technology stacks into the digital platforms of a company will all help with delivering a personalised experience for customers. But this is easier said than done.
“Brands require massive amounts of data, technology, and expertise if they are to support marketing and IT teams to continuously build easy, effective and seamless digital experiences,” says Johnson.
“This requires executive support to connect the data silos and empower or recruit the right people.
“Marketers who have relied too heavily on third-party platforms to optimise in the acquisition phase need to be educated about the first-party data they have, and how it connects to their own platforms, to find the quick wins.”
A new supply and retail model
Ecommerce has been completely transformed during the past year. The focus has shifted to having an omni-channel approach in order to connect with customers wherever they choose to shop.
Peter Davias, senior manager — digital strategy lead at Accenture Interactive ANZ, coins this as “headless commerce”.
“You need to think about shopping being embedded in every single touchpoint,” he says.
“The idea of just opening up a laptop and shopping on a website is ancient. Shopping is everywhere and has to be plugged in everywhere.
“This headless commerce experience that we’re talking to clients about now is around how do they move from this state of really pieced together architecture and breaking that apart and creating a front end on top of their commerce that allows them to plug into all of these channels.”
Meanwhile, in the back end of the ecommerce world, the supply paths in which brands are taking to sell their product are also dramatically changing. More brands are choosing to sell direct-to-consumer (D2C).
Davias says the trend towards D2C has been influenced by the ease of setting up a shop and proliferation of channels a brand can sell through direct to the customer.
“Previously there was a proxy in between, which is a retailer or a wholesaler, but nowadays the brand and the manufacturer are now dealing with the customer,” he says.
Dealing directly with the consumer is one reason Alpha Digital commercial director Tobey Bower sees CX as becoming more important for many brands. D2C presents the opportunity to get to know the customer and what they want even more than they previously did, and with bigger margins.
As a result of this trend, he says the role of the retailer has come into question. He points to other trends that also question this role such as brands opting to sell through influencers across social media.
“When an influencer can stock in their store a range of products from different brands, I’m not sure what the distinction between an influencer and a retailer is,” says Bower.
“They become a retailer. They have a brand and they sell a range of products from other brands.”
Ultimately though, Bower says the decision to supply direct or through an influencer or retailer comes down to the brand’s strategy.
The shopping mall’s makeover
The proliferation of channels for brands to sell their products in has seen a new iteration of the shopping mall. The rise in marketplace options and social commerce have become ways for consumers to browse and “window shop”.
With every business able to become a commerce business — even those that weren’t traditionally considered to be — Davias says marketplaces have become popular choices. They alleviate many of the back-of-house pressures that come with having one’s own ecommerce store.
For Davias, social commerce further plays into the notion of headless commerce.
“If you’re leading ecommerce in an organisation and you’re focusing on your website, your mobile, your mobile app, it’s just another channel that you need to light up,” he says.
All of the social media and tech giants have begun to ramp up and invest more in their commerce offerings.
Facebook just announced an expansion of products which will soon be made available under Shops. This includes the expansion of Shops into its other channels such as WhatsApp and Marketplace, the introduction of “Drops” and live-shopping events. Augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) are being trialled to give options for customers to “try-on” products virtually and use visual search to find similar products. Ads will also become shoppable with product tags and Facebook will use its knowledge of the shopper to send them to where it thinks they are most likely to make a purchase.
The announcement of these new products come as Facebook says it has more than 300 million monthly Shops visitors and more than 1.2 million monthly active Shops. Facebook expects this trend to grow, with 32% of shoppers globally saying they plan to spend less time in-store after the pandemic.
Kate Box, director, global business group, retail ANZ for Facebook, says brands are no longer just fighting for discretionary dollars, but also discretionary time.
“That discretionary time is harder,” she says. “They want to win one of the 10 x 10-minute shops that we now do on our mobile phone.”
Facebook’s move to spend more on its shopping features is moving the social media giant and its other brands into a new era for social media. Box compares the move to becoming the “Westfield” of the digital world.
“Pre-pandemic, you still had boards and C-suites thinking of online as purely about convenience, the shopper knows what they want, we want to make it easy for them to find,” she says.
“What Shops has helped do is for them to realise it’s too reductive to think about online purely as a place for people who already know what they want.”
Similarly, Pinterest has expanded its shopping features and made more of them available in different markets. It recently brought some of the features Down Under, allowing users to shop from Pins, on boards, from search, and through the Lens camera search. Users will also be able to get inspiration from Shopping Spotlights which showcase expert recommendations and trends from fashion and home influencers and publishers.
The expansion comes as Pinterest reports that the number of users engaging with shopping surfaces on the app grew more than 200% during the past year.
Pinterest head of shopping product Dan Lurie says the move was a natural progression for the platform which has always been a source of inspiration for customers looking to buy a product. He says the new features make Pinterest a lot like a traditional marketplace.
“On the merchant side of the house, we’ve rolled out the verified merchant program internationally which hand vets merchants to ensure they’re going to provide a good experience for our shoppers,” he says.
“We want to start from a place of trust so we made sure they need criteria for things such as a clear shipping policy, clear return policy and that they’re selling what they actually say they’re selling.”
Once through the process, Pinterest helps brands set up a “storefront”. Brands can upload their “catalogue” of products to be displayed throughout all of Pinterest’s various shopping surfaces.
The features for brands are completely free to use and purchasing doesn’t happen within Pinterest. It instead directs shoppers back to the brand’s own channel with Pinterest not taking a cut.
“Our users have a very upper funnel inspiration mindset,” says Lurie. “Our goal has been to connect them to the products to help bring that inspiration to life. We’ve started to make it easier to compare and evaluate those products [to] make sure you’re finding the one that’s right for you. But ultimately then we send that traffic to our merchant partners and the checkout happens on a retailer’s page.”
If a brand wishes to increase its reach on the platform, this then becomes a paid feature which Pinterest offers through setting up a campaign.
Traditional meets technology
Brands are finding use cases for technology such as AI and AR in the shopping experiences they deliver on their own channels.
Oracle’s Lavelle uses Kmart as an example of a brand using AR well through its online store. The retailer has been using the technology to place products in situ so shoppers can view it within the home.
When it comes to using different technology in an ecommerce strategy, Lavelle says it is all about context. Conversational commerce has quickly found its place in the CX world with chatbots becoming introduced as a means to scale customer service.
While Lavelle believes voice channels are set to take off, Davias believes the technology is best left for basic macro tasks for the moment.
“I think all these technologies, they all come in and everyone jumps on them because it’s the new hot thing,” says Davias.
“Everyone wants to have the first Instagram Shop and to have the first shopping experience on an Alexa device. Then all the brands try it, and realise that’s not actually the new revenue stream they hoped for.”
He says it will be a few years before these new technologies mature and become embedded in consumers’ lives enough to see any financial benefit to using them.
Even as the world goes back to some shred of normalcy, digital purchasing behaviours are here to stay. This leaves brands with an offline presence needing to find ways to connect it with their online presence in order to deliver the personalised experience customers now expect.
While the jury is out on which brands have done this well, most point to the tech giants and the banking and financial services industry as leaders in the space.
Things such as loyalty programs that offer a meaningful value exchange and click-and-collect services are some ways brands are making a connection. The resurgence of QR codes also continues to present new and creative opportunities to connect the online and offline worlds.
“Marketers should investigate how they can use these and other methods to connect their offline experiences such as in-store POS (point-of-sale) materials to their main digital channel,” says Sitecore’s Johnson.
“Always be looking for ways to draw the customer back to your site at key points in their journey.”
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Police claim that a California couple was caught on camera as they stole goods valued at $17,000 from two Target stores in Orange County, California, and have charged them with theft.
According to Fox News, Analu Gonzalez, 25, and Alexis De Jesus Garcia, 22, according to the Irvine Police Department, have been accused of stealing from Target stores in Costa Mesa on March 3 and Irvine on April 2.
The couple that was caught on camera appears to show the alleged thefts were also made public by the police department.
According to police, who shared the video caught on camera on social media, “Bowser and his partner in crime, Buzzy Beatle, collected baby formula from stores across Orange County like Mario and Luigi collect coins.”
The couple was caught on camera and as seen in the video pushing a cart toward an aisle with expensive baby formula at the Costa Mesa store. It is possible to see a child seated in the cart seat.
Then they appear to grab whatever they want off the shelf and throw it into a big tote bag.
The video caught on camera appears to show that a Target employee tries to stop them as they leave the store, but the unfazed couple leaves with the merchandise.
The police statement continued, “Their high score reached $17,000 in stolen goods when our Detectives located them at a motel in Buena Park yesterday. They weren’t stealing the formula to feed their Koopalings, in case you were wondering.
The couple appeared to use a similar tactic during the theft in Irvine as they casually rolled a cart to the baby formula aisle. After that, they started tossing items from the shelves into their cart.
According to police, the couple stole goods from Irvine worth about $3,000 in total.
According to the police, Gonzalez and Garcia were detained on Thursday for grand theft and organized retail theft.


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What will be the top star trends in ecommerce marketing in 21xx? What will be the top five or ten business categories that will dominate the future of ecommerce? What will be the new trends that will be in vogue by then? What will be the top ten consumer electronics? And what will be the new trends that will emerge for the new year?
In all likelihood, these will be the hot topics of discussion at the World Internet Conference in Las Vegas. This is the confabulation arena for businesses, governments, and entrepreneurs to come up with countermeasures to cope with some of the challenges that may arise from the coming decade. No one can predict what the future holds. But everyone can predict what the top trends will be. Let's take a look at some possibilities.
It has been an accepted fact that the mobile internet market will expand to reach a staggering 2.4 billion consumers. The smart phone with internet access will be the biggest growth area. There will probably be two smartphones and a smartphone app on the market by then. The biggest challenge will be for service providers to provide good services to these un-tech savvy users. No one wants to be paying for unnecessary roaming charges, or unnecessary spending hours on hold just to find out what the latest mobile phone status is.
One of the biggest challenges will be in monetizing the mobile web market. The three largest players in the smartphone market, Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson, have all recently presented their platforms to the world. They are attempting to give a personalized experience to their users through an app. Everyone knows a bad app can do serious damage to a company's reputation. That is why marketers must be very careful when choosing the platform on which they develop their application.
Another thing that is predicted to happen is that more companies will go to ecommerce to stay competitive. Ecommerce already has a huge installed base of users. The challenge will be for marketers to find new ways to make money online without having to spend too much on advertising. Some believe this is already happening with companies like Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, and McDonald's. Ecommerce trends are already changing how people buy. The competition between stores such as Amazon and Ebay will also increase consumer interest in shopping on the web.
The birth of the social network is also expected to be one of the top trends in the markets. Facebook is trying to get into the smart phone's market. They recently purchased the mapping service called Sidewalk. With this service you can now locate places using your location data. With more stores adding these locations to their apps we should start to see many changes in the future.
Finally there is one area that marketers should pay close attention to. Trends do not just appear in a matter of time. Trends take a lot of planning and research. Marketers should make sure that they do enough research before they start marketing anything. No one wants to start promoting something and then find out it is a total disaster.
What will be the top trends in technology in 2021? This subject is still up for debate. There will probably be plenty of changes that come from all of the new gadgets that hit the market. It is impossible to predict exactly which gadgets will be popular. It will be interesting to follow the development and see what the future holds.
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What will be the top trends in relationships in twenty years? These are questions that have been asked before, but they remain as relevant today as they did years ago. Both men and women want meaningful relationships, and they want to know that their partner will be with them long-term. What will be the top trends in relationships in twenty years?
The future will bring with it many changes. What will be the top trends in technology for the next decade? Everyone has a favorite tech that they use on a daily basis. Maybe some of them will become extinct, while others will thrive and become mainstream.
Trends are important. They influence our behavior and help us decide what will be the top trends in relationships in the future. Marketing experts agree that if you want to be successful in this business you need to understand this concept. Learning about what will be the top trends in relationships is just as important as understanding your market.


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Jitrois: On Fashion’s Fringe
PARIS — Weeks after he opened his first shop in Saint-Tropez 20 years ago, French designer Jean-Claude Jitrois got a unexpected visit from Princess Stephanie of Monaco. Strolling incognito in the seaside Riviera town, she arrived unannounced to...


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When the Rockettes start hoofing through their annual Radio City holiday show on Friday, with up to six performances a day, all of their audio will be routed through speakers and soundboards made by Harman International. But Manhattan’s holiday crowds won’t know that—and in the past they wouldn’t have had a store nearby to browse for a piece of the Rockettes’ sound system.
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Following an annual global survey on casual gaming, Macrovision has claimed to identify a general acceptance of ‘advertising, online trials and cross-game promotion.’
Of the 400 gamers surveyed, 83 per cent were willing to view a 30 second advert in order to play a game for free, 53 per cent were willing to buy a game after they had played with a trial version, and 34 per cent relied on promotional emails for information on new games.
This year’s survey highlights that advertising is now an increasing revenue option and trials are a must in marketing to casual gamers,” said Michael Buccheim, executive vice president and general manager of the distribution and commerce business unit at Macrovision. Gamers are now turning to advertising and promotional materials to help them make their decisions on which games to play and the purchase. The facts revealed in this year’s survey will help the industry to better understand and influence casual gaming purchasing habits.”
Last year’s report also claimed that 28 per cent of casual gamers play more than nine sessions per week, with 32 per cent of those lasting at least an hour.


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The back-and-forth on the macro-economic situation just won't end, but despite the two steps forward, one step back we continue to see, the trajectory is still forward. The positive sentiment seems to be more pervasive though, iSuppli reports there are positive inventory increases for some products from upstream (it's not that people are not buying, rather upstream is feeling more confident about production); there is a new onslaught of consumer electronic (CE) devices hitting the market and set to continue through the industry's traditional peak 3Q; and the reports of fab spending continue to be released.
According to Manufacturing.net, "Samsung Electronics Co. said it is spending $1.9 billion to build a new logic chip factory in South Korea to capitalize on demand for mobile devices." The line is scheduled to be in operation before the end of 2013, according to the same report.
On the larger scale, SEMI recently released its end-of-May 2012 report on global fab equipment spending which happily required an upward revision from the original forecast of 0% growth to 2% growth, US $39.5 billion, year-over-year (YoY) for 2012 fab spending. Consider also April 2012's book-to-bill data for semi equipment purchases, as contextualized in our recent Commentary post.
2013, however, holds even greater growth prospects, and is presently on track, based on CAPEX statements and in progress investments, to reach a record level of US$46.3 billion, or 17% YoY growth from 2012, assuming no intervening macro-economic events, as SEMI rightfully points out.
SEMI also breaks down the regional and product divisions comprising the forecasted increase, showing South Korea to lead in the number and financial amount of investments in 2013, followed by the US, Taiwan, Japan, and China. On the product side, SEMI offers the following summary (see SEMI's report for a detailed discussion):
All product types are increasing equipment spending in 2012. The largest increase seen in 2012 is for Memory and Foundry. Some of the System LSI is moving from Logic/IDM to Foundry which causes spending for Logic/IDM to taper off a bit. Although Intel plans historic high capex in 2012, Front End equipment spending for MPU is not expected to increase much in 2012.
In summary, we expect 2012 to be a much better year for fab equipment spending with most product segments to begin to move into positive growth rates. With many new fabs beginning construction, equipment spending for 2013 is expected to be an all-time record year. Growth rate of capacity is slowing below 4 percent in 2012, but is expected to pick up to about 7 percent in 2013 as newly installed capacity comes online.
Downstream, SIA also released their semiconductor sales data for April, showing a 3.4% month-over-month (MoM) increase in global sales on a three month moving average (3MMA), which SIA notes is the largest MoM increase since May 2010. However, SIA notes that the YoY comparisons show a 5.9% decrease from the same period last year. Despite this YoY decline, and with the caveat of barring negative macro-economic events, the build up of sales moves the forecast for 2013 and 2014 global semiconductor sales well into positive territory, 7.2% for 2013 and 4.4% for 2014, citing the WSTS report:
Beyond 2012, the industry is expected to grow at a significantly faster pace across all regions, according to the WSTS forecast. WSTS predicts 7.2 percent growth globally for 2013 ($322 billion in total sales) and 4.4 percent growth for 2014 ($337 billion).
In sum, between the individual data bits that we are seeing from various fabs, OEMs, manufacturers and hubs, while 2012 continues the bumpy ride, overall, we are continuing to move forward and with enough momentum that upward revisions for 2012 growth in volume and sales are real news. Importantly, we are on the climb uphill for growth for at least the next couple of years, as further confirmed by global data sets with historical depth, such as those from SEMI and SIA in conjunction with industry and financial analysts' reports. This is good news as we head into a busy product summer for automotive (see our post last week), ultrabooks, tablets/phablets and new smartphones.


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With snow flurries falling from a chilled, leaden grey sky, the Progress M-13M (45P) cargo craft and its Soyuz-U booster rolled out to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8 p.m. CDT on Thursday, Oct. 27 (7 a.m. Friday, Oct. 28 Baikonur time) for liftoff Sunday, Oct. 30 at 5:11 a.m. CDT to the International Space Station.
The unmanned cargo vehicle is stocked with 2.9 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the space station's crew, including 1,653 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen, 926 pounds of water, and 3,108 pounds of maintenance gear, spare parts and experiment hardware.
The ship's cargo also includes two Apple iPads
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M-13M's launch will mark the return to flight for the supply ship and its Soyuz-U booster, after the previous vehicle was lost during a launch failure


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Well, it seems that one of the ingredients in the Primatene is ephedrine which speeds up the metabolism and that could induce some weight loss. But you are taking it for far more severe problem than couple of extra kilos. And also, people that use this drug because of that effect, might end up with severe heart problems. Loading...Is Primatene Mist still available?
Yes, Primatene Mist (epinephrine) is still available. The FDA took it off the market back in 2011 because the inhaler contained a propellant that harms the earth's ozone layer. There's a newer version of Primatene Mist (epinephrine) available now that uses a different propellant.How much is Primatene Mist?
Primatene Mist is available at most drugstores, including national chains like CVS and Walgreens. It retails for about $30. A prescription is not needed. When to see a doctor Asthma is a condition...


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There is less and less launch of the new iPhones. But what will they be called? A document raises doubts about it
By and do di Apple, the highlight of the year is approaching: the presentation of the new iPhones. The second half of September will in fact be the useful period for the Keynote launch of the iPhone by and by fans. they are no longer in the skin.
Lots of rumors and indiscretions running after them about it. In addition to the features at the software and hardware level, there are also those who wonder about a fundamental question: what will the new Apple devices be called? A document raises doubts.
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Apple is allowing social-media app Parler to return to its App Store again amid a heated debate on the use of free speech.
In January, Parler was pulled from the app store after far-right pro-Trump supporters, used the application to distribute misinformation and hateful content.
Apple’s director of government affairs, Timothy Powderly, said Parler had violated its guidelines – including hosting posts that “encouraged violence, denigrated various ethnic groups, races and religions,” and even posts that “glorified Nazism.”
In a letter to Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, Apple doubled down on its initial decision to remove Parler from the app.
Buck hailed the decision as a “huge win” for free speech.
Apple said it removed Parler because the app violated guidelines around violent content. It reiterated that the ban was never permanent and only a suspension and could be “cured” if Parler added moderation and removed violent content.
Parler has vowed to do better in the future.
“We have worked to put in place systems that will better detect unlawful speech and allow users to filter content undesirable to them, while maintaining our strict prohibition against content moderation based on viewpoint,” Parler interim CEO Mark Meckler said in a statement.
Apple also asserted that over 30,000 apps had been removed in 2020 for issues with objectionable user-generated content.
“The App Review Team has informed Parler as of April 14, 2021 that its proposed updated app will be approved for reinstatement to the App Store,” the letter said.
Parler was also removed from Google’s app stores and Amazon Web Services, which had been hosting the company’s product. In February, Parler CEO John Matze was terminated by the board of directors.
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Retailers will be announcing June same-store sales this week, and industry research firm Retail Metrics is now predicting sales growth of just 1% for the month. The past weekend’s storms on the East Coast and the impact of tropical storm Debby in Florida had marginal impact on the month’s sales, which were already expected to be soft. The most recent projection is down from an earlier forecast of 1.1% growth
Excluding the effects of Walgreen Co.’s (NYSE: WAG) of its Express Scripts Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) prescription drug business, projections for department store sales have dropped by 0.6% since the beginning of June to an expected growth of 1.7%. The forecast for Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS) dropped to -2.5%, while Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M) is expected to post growth of 2.4% and Nordstrom Inc. (NYSE: JWN) is expected to improve by 0.2% from earlier expectations.
The TJX Companies Inc. (NYSE: TJX) and Ross Stores Inc. (NASDAQ: ROST) forecasts improved by 20 basis points since the end of last week. Other retailers helping to prop up the sector are Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: KORS) and Zumiez Inc. (NASDAQ: ZUMZ).


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American dairy exports to Canada have increased over the past five years, despite vocal complaints from U.S. dairy lobby groups who insist Canada’s policies are impeding international trade.
American dairy farmers and processors have written to the White House and state governors insisting Canada’s “protectionist” dairy policies are blocking American access to Canada’s dairy markets. They want Canada’s dairy market included in any proposed renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
U.S. dairy groups have also urged state governors to consider challenging a yet-to-be-enforced industry ingredient strategy at the World Trade Organization because of impeded trade.
However, Statistics Canada data on dairy imports tell a different story.
The United States is the number one exporter of dairy goods into Canada.
In 2015, the United States exported $474,770,480 (149,312,542 kg) in dairy goods to Canada – a 54 per cent increase from the $306,783,020 (99,974,456 kg) worth of goods shipped north in 2012, federal data show. Data for 2016 have not yet been released.
The most noticeable increase in imports is in the milk protein substance category that includes imports of diafiltered milk – a contentious file that made its way onto Ottawa’s radar repeatedly in 2015 and 2016. Diafiltered milk is primarily used in cheesemaking.
The Canadian Border Services Agency considers diafiltered milk a protein ingredient, while the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says diafiltered milk is milk. According to federal law, all cheese sold in Canada must be made with a minimum percentage of actual milk.
American processors and producers are not subject to a Canadian tariff rate quota that caps most global imports of milk proteins at 10,000 tonnes because of the North American Free Trade Agreement. That exception gives the Americans unfettered access to the Canadian market for those products.
In 2012, U.S. exports in the milk protein substance category, which captures most imports of diafiltered milk, amounted to 8,087,087 tonnes. By 2015, those imports had jumped to 27,052,166 tonnes – a 234 per cent increase in just four years.
Canadian officials aren’t the only ones capturing the rise in U.S. dairy imports headed north. A 2015 report on the Canadian dairy market compiled by U.S. Department of Agriculture staff posted at the American embassy in Ottawa notes milk protein trade into Canada “continues to grow year over year.”
American milk protein imports into Canada were valued at $172 million 2014, the report noted. From January to August 2015, the USDA said data showed import volumes had “already exceeded the levels reached at the end of 2014.”
“The need to gain efficiencies through lowering production costs will keep imports of U.S. origin milk protein substances strong,” the report reads.
Even data from U.S. dairy lobby groups, who have written the new administration demanding more access to Canadian markets, show Canadian market access for American dairy goods is on the rise.
The most recent export data collected by the U.S. Dairy Export Council found Canadian market access for total U.S. dairy exports in December had increased 30 per cent compared to the year before.
Despite this, Canada’s dairy market continues to be on the Council’s radar.
“U.S. Canada trade cannot be a one-way street, with Canada expecting to enjoy the benefits of exporting its products of interest to our market while denying a sector accounting for hundreds of thousands of jobs in rural America reliable access to the Canadian market, ” the lobby group said in a January 30 press release.
That release accompanied a letter signed by 17 American dairy groups to 25 state governors that warned a proposed national ingredient strategy currently being considered by Canada’s dairy industry would impede dairy trade.
A similar letter was sent by 37 American dairy groups to the White House in early January.
Milk protein isn’t the only dairy good which has seen imports surge in value in recent years. U.S. cheese exports have jumped from $67,364,512 in 2012 to $87,492,660 in 2015, an increase of more than $20 million in four years.
Meanwhile, Statistics Canada notes butterfat and other milk-related oil imports have nearly tripled in value, from $5,639,467 in 2012 to $15,236,134 in 2015. Butterfat is used to make butter. It’s likely some of that increase is driven by the 2015 pre-Christmas butter shortage.
In addition to increased butter imports from the United States, the butter shortfall forced the Canadian Dairy Commission to issue a supplementary quota order for 4,000 tonnes of butterfat from New Zealand, Uruguay, Ireland and Belgium, the equivalent of about 8.8 million pounds of butter.
Even so, the increase in American dairy imports doesn’t surprise Ottawa’s former agriculture minister Gerry Ritz. In an interview with iPolitics, Ritz said the American claim that Canada is impeding U.S. dairy trade “is absolutely not true.”
“Their exports from them to us are going up and up and up. Ours back to them, not so much. It’s a hollow threat,” said Ritz, who now sits as the Conservative party’s trade critic.
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, who is also responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, has pledged to “strongly defend” Canadian interests, including the dairy sector.


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News Release, Maryland Department of Health
Baltimore, MD – The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) is investigating an increase in reported Cyclospora infections from multiple jurisdictions across the state. Thirty-seven of the 42 lab-confirmed cases reported between Jan.1 and July 20 have been reported over the last two weeks, part of an overall recent rise in reported cyclosporiasis cases in other parts of the U.S. MDH is working with local, state and federal health officials to investigate the increase.
No specific source for these cases has been identified.
Cyclosporiasis is an intestinal illness caused by a microscopic parasite. People can become infected by consuming food or water contaminated with feces or stool that contain the parasite. Illness occurs most often in tropical and subtropical regions.
Symptoms of cyclosporiasis may include the following:
- Watery diarrhea
- Loss of appetite
- Weight loss
- Increased gas
If a person ill from cyclosporiasis is not treated, symptoms can persist for several weeks to a month or more. Anyone experiencing symptoms of cyclosporiasis should contact their health care provider. They can test for Cyclospora and prescribe the correct treatment.
In the U.S., foodborne outbreaks of cyclosporiasis have been linked to various types of imported fresh produce, such as raspberries, basil, snow peas, mesclun lettuce, and cilantro. No commercially frozen or canned produce has been implicated to date.
Consumers and retailers should always follow safe fruit and vegetable handling recommendations:
- Wash: Wash hands with soap and warm water before and after handling or preparing fruits and vegetables. Wash cutting boards, dishes, utensils and countertops with soap and hot water between the preparation of raw meat, poultry and seafood products and the preparation of fruits and vegetables that will not be cooked
- Prepare: Wash all fruits and vegetables thoroughly under running water before eating, cutting or cooking. Scrub firm fruits and vegetables, such as melons and cucumbers, with a clean produce brush. Cut away any damaged or bruised areas on fruits and vegetables before preparing and eating
- Store: Refrigerate cut, peeled or cooked fruits and vegetables as soon as possible, or within two hours. Store fruits and vegetables away from raw meat, poultry, and seafood
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Local shopping urged for small business Saturday
Shopping is a series of choices, some harder than others — but it all starts with choosing where to buy.
With the amount of options available, this can be the most difficult choice of all, but one day on the calendar seeks to make this decision simpler by encouraging shoppers to, that day, exclusively patronize small, community-based business. It’s called Small Business Saturday, set this year for Saturday, Nov. 30.
“I think it’s a great thing,” said AJ Shear, the communications manager at the Finger Lakes Visitors Connection, based in Canandaigua. “Anytime people are encouraged to shop locally is a great thing.”
Recent history has seen two big days for holiday shopping: Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving; and Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving. Big-box stores took over Black Friday, and massive e-commerce websites took over Cyber Monday. This just left every other business stuck in the middle during the holiday shopping season and left many with the question of what to do.
In 2010, this question was answered by American Express, which came up with Small Business Saturday to support the many small businesses across the country. According to the American Express website, in the first year — using social networking to spread awareness about the project — Small Business Saturday received positive feedback from more than 1 million people. By last year, consumer spending on the day at small, independent businesses reached above $5 billion, according to the website, citing a study that asked people what they spent at such businesses.
“As a society, I think people are becoming more community-minded,” said Shear. Not only do people want to support their local shops more, he said, but they are also seeing that truly unique items can only be purchased in unique places. Shop owners also realize this and see that their unique qualities attract unique customers.
“When I go to the market and look to buy things for my store, I think of the community,” said Michele McElheny, owner of the Country Ewe in Canandaigua. “I personally shop for my customers with a few people in mind.”
Small Business Saturday is about bolstering this interrelationship, because what is spent locally goes back into the community, said McElheny. Local businesses support the local economy and, in turn, are supported by the local population. This gives shoppers a chance to be a part of something, said Shear, adding, “One of the ways they can do this is by helping out a small business.”


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Top Bitcoin exchange MtGox goes offline - BBC News
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Bitcoin: $64m in cryptocurrency stolen in 'sophisticated' hack, exchange says
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 64%. (I'm a bot)
Nearly $64m in bitcoin has been stolen by hackers who broke into Slovenian-based bitcoin mining marketplace NiceHash. Bitcoin can only be used as a medium of exchange and in practice has been far more important for the dark economy than it has for most legitimate uses. NiceHash is a digital currency marketplace that matches people looking to sell processing time on their computers for so called miners to verify bitcoin users' transactions in exchange for the bitcoin. The price of bitcoin has surged to more than $14,668, gaining around $2,000 of value in a day according to bitcoin monitor CoinDesk. Online security is a vital concern for cryptocurrency marketplaces and exchanges, with bitcoins contained within digital wallets that have increasingly become a target for hackers as the number of bitcoins stored and their value has skyrocketed over the last year. In Japan, following the failure of bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, new laws were enacted to regulate bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies.
@NBCNews: Tokyo court hands founder of the now-defunct Mt. Gox bitcoin currency exchange a 2.5-year suspended sentence for his role in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins and cash, Kyodo news agency reports. https://t.co/ibltbgykp0
The CEO of MT.Gox, on of the largest Bitcoin exchanges, resigns from Bitcoin foundation. Tune it to see whether this is good news or not.
Ok, IT'S ACTUALLY GOOD NEWS. To provide a little background, anyone following Bitcoin has probably heard about the problems Mt.Gox has been having with their site. Several days ago they halted all transactions. Apparently there is a problem with their code, but Mt.Gox has blamed problems in the Bitcoin protocol. This has led to some pretty hilarious protests. Last night it was announced that the CEO of Mt.Gox is resigning from the Bitcoin foundation. Many suspect this is going to precede some bad news about Mt.Gox. It's 8:30am EST so that news might be coming soon. Anyway, let's see what Reddit's reaction to this is:
This is actually good news. I applaud Mark and the MtGox team for making the right decision as I had to do the same. Speaking very lengthy to Mark and the team over the weekend, I see good news on the horizon for people who have funds stuck in MtGox (I also have funds in MtGox stuck) - Charlie +161
Last night I saw this thread and I left it open to maybe write a CB post this morning. At the time, several of the top posts were people saying "this is actually good news!" sarcastically. I was wondering if /bitcoin was becoming a little self aware! Well, I guess not, the 2nd top post is a genuine "this is actually good news" post. What's also notable is that this post is from Charlie Shrem, who was recently arrested for being involved with Silk Road. He's also the "bitcoin gonna topple gubmits revolution is coming" types.
This is actually good news +61
In all seriousness, it is ... Remember: Bitcoin is a honey badger. This will not kill Bitcoin, it will make it stronger. The demise of poorly run institutions such as Gox will have a negative short term effect upon the economy, but such Darwinism will be good for us in the long term. +30
There's the sarcastic post I was talking about. What's notable is that the top reply to it is serious.
Once again, who had the bad news before the rest of us? Who knew to dump? +28
Inside trader worries are floating around. It's fun to watch Bitcoin invent financial regulation piece by piece, as they discover what each piece is for.
Thanks to everyone who signed the petition. Really pleased with the result today.
How will MtGox removing a few thousand "Dear Customer blah blah" tweets in any way whatsoever help their legal defence?
...Someone in that cluster fck of a company said to underlings "SHRED IT, SHRED IT ALL!!! AND DELETE ALL THOSE FCKING TWEETS!" Or something like that, we don't know. We do know, however, that the tweets are gone. And I can think of very very few legit reasons to issue that order. So yeah, it raises some eyebrows. It's not sensationalism, it's deductive reasoning. It might be wrong, but you can bet there is some reason we are not aware of that they did this.
le genius redditor using le deductive reasoning :o) I wonder if he considered that deleting tweets as an effort to get rid of evidence would be laughable, since it's pretty certain that twitter retains a copy that could be subpoenaed. Or, you know, since it's been publicly displayed it has certainly been archived elsewhere. And that plenty of users probably retweeted them...
Makes me think that they deleted the tweets to make it more difficult for anybody to mount a legal case against them when this shit hits the fan. By removing the public tweets, the only way to get them is by a court ordered request to twitter which takes time and resources. Time that Gox can use to build a defence or flee. This move was probably done on advice from a lawyer.
Bad law is all over this thread
They're absolute masters at market manipulation, just see the mad panic sells and buys every time Gox farts.
This is actually just an epic ruse to manipulate the market even further!
It'll be ok... unless you are so overexposed that short term price shocks can hurt you. (or if you had all your coins in MtGox... which is really silly). I feel like a war-torn veteran.
Since bitcoin is going to the moon in the longterm, this doesn't really matter.
Has anybody saved their tweets and public statements?
Just google the first few lines - the resulting link has no paywall. [Gilded]
Guess it cool to steal WSJ articles because they don't take magic internet money.
This is good news. Less duty in the foundation allows for focusing on Mt.Gox - like Roger Ver said.
This is actually bad news. MTGox withdrawing from the bitcoin community? -11
How is this bad news? All they have done is shit on the Bitcoin protocol for weeks, and I can't think of any good they have done. +6
LOL, Jesus Christ /bitcoin. Anyone that thinks a piece of bad news is actually bad news gets downvoted into the fucking dirt. POSITIVE INTERPRETATIONS OF BITCOIN NEWS ONLY! That's about it for now. Some big Mt.Gox news is sure to break soon. It's going to be catastrophic, so GOOD NEWS!
@technology: RT @crypto: Bitcoin investors are eyeing Nobuaki Kobayashi for helping push Bitcoin below $10,000 this week—as news emerged he’s been liquidating cryptocurrencies on behalf of creditors in the now-defunct Mt. Gox exchange https://t.co/Q5n7a5cZjk https://t.co/akIp39qZv5
Popular Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox has been having performance issues. It's unclear as to what the issue is and the company is yet to post any relevant info Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash amounts will be paid to crypto exchanges. Other cryptocurrencies will be converted to fiat. Mt. Gox was once the biggest Bitcoin exchange. By 2014, it was handling more than 70% of global Bitcoin trading volume. It closed down in February 2014 after suffering an extended hack of 650,000 Bitcoin—worth $4.3 billion today. Welcome to our Mt Gox news page. Here you'll find some of our featured Mt. Gox exchange's content pieces as well as all our latest Mt. Gox Bitcoin posts. Reddit Burner Account User Attempts to Unveil One of the world's biggest Bitcoin exchanges, MtGox, goes offline amid technical problems, dealing a blow to efforts for greater adoption. Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox disappears from web after massive losses ONE of the world’s largest bitcoin exchanges has seemingly disappeared, delivering a severe blow to the virtual currency as it ...
This is a brief history of the Mt. Gox exchange. Its history, hacks and impact on Bitcoin and the crypto world. Contact me about crypto business ventures at [email protected] Items That I ... The infamous Mt Gox Bitcoin Exchange has had another sell off in May of 2018. This time, 24,000 Bitcoin (Approx $225M) has been sold sending the price of Bitcoin plummeting under $9,000 USD. -----2015 Update----- This video was made 7 months before the collapse of MTGOX. At that time, MTGOX was experi... Learn more at Coinsumm.it Nejc Kodric, Bitstamp, Bobby Lee, BTCChina, Jesse Powell, Kraken Moderated by Dan Morehead, Pantera Capital Management This is a walkthrough on how to send some bitcoins over to anyone. The example I use is the Mt. Gox exchange. If you have any questions or comments, don't be shy. For donations ...


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During the holiday season, there is an inevitable increase in the volume of photos people post on the Internet. Large numbers of family and travel pictures are shared on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google+, and other online platforms. Tracking patterns of user-generated digital content, the Digital Future studies have registered a constant upward trend in the willingness of Americans to post their pictures on the Web.
In 2010, 66 percent of Internet users confirmed that they displayed photos online. Across all age groups (under 18, 18 to 34, 35 to 54, and over 55), the percentages reported that year were the highest registered in the study so far.
Younger Americans were particularly likely to share photos online: 77 percent of Internet users under age 18 and 80 percent of those aged 18 to 34 reported posting pictures on the Web. Among online respondents above 55 years of age, less than a third (32 percent) reported displaying photos on the Internet, but this was up from 25 percent in the previous year.
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New Delhi, India -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/30/2013 -- Phonenews.co expects sales of more than 2 billion phones by the end of 2013, out of which 1 billion will be smartphones. Analysts predict that by 2018, there will be more phones than people living on Earth.
More than 7 billion mobile phones will be sold by the end of 2018, according to the Phonenews.co's market forecast, published today, and more than two-thirds will be smartphones - phones that run operating system. In the first five months of 2013, shipments of smartphones were more than feature-phones for the first time ever. Such sales have been due to newer, and cheaper devices in developing nations.
Growth of these intelligent phones in Europe and North America will reach its saturation levels by 2016. In fact, more than fifty percent of the phones in use are smartphones. Phonenews.co predicts that by 2018, the total number of these devices will exceed the total world population. There is no room for complacency, despite the immense growth. Even the top mobile operating system, iOS and Android will face strong competition. Kamaldeep Singh, editor-in-chief of PhoneNews.co comments: "In the coming years, Äpple will continue to struggle in keeping up with the Android and fast-growing Windows Phone OS, which is slated to mingle with Windows RT in couple of years. Apple will be forced to choose between cutting off its profit margin, and holding its market share."
Kamaldeep continues: "On the other side of the coin, Android is still highly dependent on Samsung, and as profit margins decrease, Google will have to ensure that its OS is preferred over rival's OS by other phone manufactures like LG and HTC."
Phonenews.co points out that other companies would not stand still. Kamaldeep comments: "LG, with the launch of G2 aims is of capturing 10% market share of the Smartphone category by the end of 2014. LG Mobiles has already earmarked 16 million dollars for marketing and strengthening the retail and channel expansion."
Phonenews.co anticipates sales of 4G broadband devices to grow 8 fold by 2016, to 500 million units as more and more people rely on their smartphones every day to be their news channel, email inbox, social network and music player. Mobile phone network operators are investing boat-loads in 4G wireless technology, and are pushing people hard to 4G-enabled devices.
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Erase your mistakes: One of Google Pixel’s best photo editing features, “Magic Eraser”, is now making its way to other Android and iOS devices. But it won’t be free. This week, Google announced that the popular tool, which uses AI to remove unwanted content from images, will be available to Google One subscribers and existing Pixel owners. Google One subscribers also receive a handful of other editing tools, such as a new HDR video effect, exclusive collage styles, and more.
Facebook Prison: Sarah reports that Meta will reform its fines system based on the recommendations of the Oversight Board, the independent body of experts, academics, civic leaders and lawyers who now weigh in on Meta’s appeal decisions. The social network says it will reshape its system to focus less on penalizing users by limiting their ability to post and more on explaining the reasoning behind content removal, which the social network says will be fairer and more effective. way will be to moderate content on its platform.
TikTok in cars: TikTok is making its way into vehicles, starting with the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class coming to market in fall 2023. The car’s recently updated MBUX infotainment system, which will have a “superscreen” spanning the entire dashboard, will allow drivers to click on the TikTok app and watch videos when the vehicle is parked. How’s that for TikTok overload?
AI in my Spotify: Spotify launched a new AI feature called “DJ” this week to better personalize the music listening experience for its users. Similar to a radio DJ, Spotify’s DJ feature delivers a curated selection of music alongside AI-powered spoken commentary about the songs and artists you like, using what Spotify says is a “stunningly realistic voice.” Neat!
price drop: Netflix has slashed its subscription fees in more than 100 territories over the past week as customers continue to consider which streaming services to keep amid price hikes. The company has come under fire lately after rolling out password sharing rules to Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain, but another possible reason for the price drop is to outperform competitors like Paramount+, Apple TV+ , Disney+ and Hulu.
Military Secrets: On Monday, the US Department of Defense secured an exposed server that had been distributing internal US military emails to the open internet for the past two weeks. The server was hosted on Microsoft’s Azure government cloud for Department of Defense customers, which uses servers that are physically separate from other commercial customers and as such can be used to share sensitive but unclassified government data.
Calculate by OpenAI: OpenAI is quietly launching a new developer platform that allows customers to run the company’s newer machine learning models, such as GPT-3.5, on dedicated capacity. In screenshots of documentation posted to Twitter by early access users, OpenAI describes its forthcoming offering, called Foundry, as “designed for advanced customers with larger workloads.”
YouTube becomes multilingual: YouTube announced this week that it is rolling out support for multilingual audio tracks, allowing creators to add dubbing to their new and existing videos, helping them reach international audiences. The company says the technology to support multilingual audio tracks was built in-house at YouTube, but creators must work directly with third-party dubbing providers to create their audio tracks.
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If used to sign in to Apple to find vulnerabilities in the company’s gadgets was only possible by special invitation, and the amount of compensation does not exceed $200 thousand, but now the situation has changed, reports CBS. The head of Apple’s security Ivan krstić announced new details at a conference in Las Vegas.
First, Apple now offers to practice breaking all of their platforms — iOS, iCloud, tvOS, iPadOS, watchOS and macOS. Secondly, the amount of the maximum reward is increased to $1 million third, this bonus can only count one who will be able to hack the iPhone.
Ivan krstić said that Apple is ready to provide experts in the field of security pre-production from the point of view of software iPhone that hack is easier than commodity instances. If someone will be able to obtain full control of the smartphone without the owner of the gadget, it will pay $1 million
Recall program by Apple to encourage finding bugs and vulnerabilities in their products were launched in 2016. Since then, external experts were identified and fixed 50 serious errors in the production of American company.
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