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Petrie’s Mitre 10 plans to open a new trade centre in Fitzroy Street, Dubbo in August after detecting a gap in the local market regarding trade supplies and pick-up.
Established in the region of Dubbo for just over two years, the Petrie’s group believes that it cannot efficiently service the local trade market from its current store in town, a Dubbo Photo News report has found.
Dubbo Branch Manager, Brad Petrie, said he and his team believe that a new local trade store is needed because the pickup function at Petrie’s Mitre 10 on Macquarie Street is a small space and cannot properly service local trade customers.
“We are opening a trade centre to offer a wider range of products and provide more efficiency with easier access for builders to be able to pick up what they need. The main intention is for builders to pull up before they go to work in the mornings, or throughout the day, and pick up the stock they need,” Mr Petrie said.
Trading hours are yet to be confirmed, but it is anticipated the centre will open at 6.30am from Monday to Friday and 8.30am on Saturdays, and it will also feature a sales hub for specialised orders and delivery options.
“We know builders need their stocks or products as soon as possible without much preparation or planning, so our role is to be able to supply to multiple builders and get the job done.”
“We are very grateful to be here and have a successful business, the team have truly become our family,” he told Dubbo Photo News.


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United States And South Korea Negotiate On FTA
By James A. Morrissey, Washington Correspondent
Textiles and apparel are expected to be among some of the most contentious issues. While US textile manufacturers would rather not have an agreement at all, they say that if an agreement is pursued, it should have a yarn forward rule of origin, an effective short supply mechanism, no tariff preference levels and no cumulation that would allow inputs from countries that have FTAs with the United States.
Textile importers, on the other hand, are seeking flexibility that would encourage more trade not only with South Korea, but also with other countries. Julia Hughes, vice president for international trade and government relations for the New York City-based United States Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel, said the Korean agreement presents an opportunity to develop a network between Korea and other countries that have FTAs with the United States, and those linkages would result in more trade in areas where the United States is committed to encouraging trade.
Cutler said the progress to date is “encouraging,” and she feels it will be possible to meet the December goal for completing the agreement. That date is important because US trade negotiators want to win congressional approval before the President’s Trade Promotion Authority expires next July.
Another round of negotiations is scheduled July 10 in Seoul, and other talks will continue throughout the summer and fall.
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Major Swiss stock exchange SIX will trial blockchain integration for a planned digital exchange platform in the second half this year, according to a report from Cointelegraph. In an interview with Cointelegraph, SIX CEO Jos Dijsselhof explained the exchange's interest in blockchain tech as a means of making transactions faster and more secure.
"The fact is, it takes two days for the buyer of a stock to become the owner. The trade itself only takes a fraction of a second, but after that payments have to be settled and titles transferred. If we put it all on our digital exchange, then the whole process takes only a few seconds. This makes the market more efficient, but at the same time also takes risks out of the system. "
Forbes reports that Ripple has added 11 new universities to its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) including: Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Duke University, Georgetown University, University of Kansas, University of Michigan, Morgan State University, National University of Singapore, Northeastern University, University of Sao Paulo, Institute for Fintech Research at Tsinghua University. The piece quotes Eric van Miltenburg, SVP of Global Operations at Ripple:
"We launched UBRI back in June of 2018 to provide support for 17 different universities around the world to help progress their study of blockchain technology, cryptography, digital assets and fintech. Blockchain is an incredibly transformational technology and helping advance the best minds in the world, who are already showing interest in this field, is sure to benefit the entire ecosystem. We've added 11 new universities this time around and now have 29 schools involved with the program. Expanding the ecosystem to a more global, diversified network of UBRI partners will only continue to enrich these projects."
The Bank of Korea (BOK) recently published a report which found that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could undermine financial stability, according to a report from South Korean outlet Yonhap News. Kwon Oh-ik, an author of the report, explained that people may erroneously put trust into the CBDC at the expense of traditional banks.
"The CBDC is a kind of a BOK-issued bank account. People trust it more than one in a commercial bank. Demand deposits are one of the biggest sources of loans by banks. When people pull out their money, banks raise rates, or lower the reserve ratio, to secure more funds."
TrustNodes reports that bitcoin (BTC) trading has reached new highs in Venezuela amid political turmoil and social upheaval. The report cites data from peer-to-peer exchange Local Bitcoins, which shows trading volume in excess of 2000 bitcoins (just under $7 million USD) in the first week of February.
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The launch of the New Payments Platform will transform the banking experience for everyday Australians and put an end to the inconvenience of the ‘three day wait’.
Splitting a bill at a restaurant, paying a tradesperson or even transferring money to one’s kids will all happen in real time, thanks to this new state of the art system which has been driven, funded and implemented by Australia’s banking and financial services industry.
Australian Bankers’ Association CEO Anna Bligh said that the New Payments Platform was a major win for customers who would revel in the ability to make payments in real time with no delay.
“This is the biggest thing to happen in the industry since the inception of internet banking 10 years ago. It’s a great example of Australian banks leading the way for their customers,” Ms Bligh said.
“The New Payments Platform is a $1 billion investment to deliver a better service to Australian customers, primarily funded and driven by banks.
“When fully up and running this brand new, cutting-edge system will mean that Australians who want to pay a tradesperson, split a bill at a restaurant or sell a piece of furniture online can make and receive payments instantly.
“We are among the first nations in the world to have such a system, with ours learning from others to create cutting-edge technology.
“Customers have long told banks that the old system of delayed payments between banks was a hindrance and inefficient in a digital world where everything is expected to occur instantly.
“This new system will transform the way people bank by abolishing the three days wait for transfers between accounts of different banks.
“Customers can rest assured that this new innovation is safe, with banks as always taking strong measures to protect personal information.
“The new PayID, launched over the weekend, will mean that remembering your BSB and account number will be a relic of the past with a simple identifier such as a mobile phone number able to be used to receive payments into your account,” she said.
It’s important to note the New Payments Platform will be implemented in a staged approach over the course of the year. For more information, and to find out if your bank is participating, visit nppa.com.au.
Contact: Rory Grant 0475 741 007
“The Australian Banking Association (ABA) welcomes the agreement reached today on the proposed safeguard mechanism reforms, given it paves the way for the passing of a critical piece of legislation for Australia.
“This is about engaging with the entire banking ecosystem in order to ensure the accessibility of the sector’s services are best serving our diverse community now, and into the future.”
“What is underpinning this bank failure is a number of things, but not least of all, it’s a very niche bank with high exposure to one part of the economy. And that’s the part of the economy that’s been quite volatile and troubled”


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The UK will introduce a digital services tax starting in April 2020, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond announced as part of the rollout of the UK’s 2018 Budget.
The 2% tax will be imposed on the UK revenues of companies, including social media platforms, search engines, and online marketplaces, that make money on digital services such as advertising. Online sales will not be subject to the tax.
In introducing the budget to Parliament, Hammond called it “clearly not sustainable, or fair, that digital platform businesses can generate substantial value in the UK without paying tax here in respect of that business”. He said the UK has been a been a leader in attempting “corporate tax reform for the digital age”.
He also said the tax would be “narrowly targeted”, focusing on UK revenues from specific digital platform business models, and would be aimed at “established tech giants” rather than startups.
The tax will be imposed on profitable companies that generate at least £500 million ($640 million) in annual global revenues from the business lines targeted by the tax. The tax is expected to generate more than £400 million ($512 million) in annual tax revenue.
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Using the popular Geekbench 2 programmes to produce an independent measure of smartphone speed, John Poole of Primate Labs compared the relative performance of various phones. He found the S4 scored 3163, beating the new HTC One’s 2687 as well as the Google Nexus 4 and the previous Galaxy model, the S3.
The website Android Authority ran Geekbench 2 last week and posted the results on YouTube.
Mr Poole added that the high speeds could raise their own problems, saying “What's not clear is how the Galaxy S 4 will handle the increased power and cooling requirements that generally come with faster processors.” He also raised the prospect of a dramatic improvement in the iPhone’s performance, based on previous jumps in processing power. “Apple has improved performance dramatically in the past (there was 2.5x increase in performance from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone 5),” he said. “Will they be able to make a similar improvement for the next iPhone?”
The new Samsung Galaxy S4 has been benchmarked as the fastest phone ever
By contrast the Z10 from BlackBerry, which was released this year, offers processing speeds similar only to last year’s handsets, the benchmarks found.
Samsung will also release the S4 with an Exynos 5 Octa chip, as well as the tested Qualcomm Snapdragon 600. The company has said it does not anticipate noticeable differences in performance.
Both Samsung and HTC use the latest Snapdragon 600 for their respective flagships, the S4 and the One. Samsung, however, run their model at 1.9GHz using a newer version of Android, compared to HTC’s 1.7GHz.
Research from SellMyMobile.com, a price comparison site for selling second-hand mobile phones often used by those hoping to upgrade, indicated a 35 per cent rise in traffic overall after the launch of the S4. It also found an 82 per cent rise in HTC trade-ins and a 56 per cent rise for BlackBerry. Previous research from analysts incidated that approximately 70 per cent of Samsung users, by contrast, intended to stay loyal to the Samsung brand for their next phone.


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NRF projects holiday retail sales to rise 4.1%
October 4, 2012,
The National Retail Federation is projecting holiday retail sales will increase 4.1% to $586.1 billion this year, citing signs of improving consumer confidence.
NRF called the forecast its most optimistic since the recession. It's higher that the 10-year average holiday sales increase of 3.5% but lower than 2011 actual holiday sales, which were up 5.6% from 2010.
"In spite of the uncertainties that exist in our economy and among consumers, we believe we'll see solid holiday sales growth this year," NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay, said in a release.
"Variables including an upcoming presidential election, confusion surrounding the ‘fiscal cliff' and concern relating to future economic growth could all combine to affect consumers' spending plans, but overall we are optimistic that retailers promotions will hit the right chord with holiday shoppers," Shay said.
NRF said recent government data shows mixed indicators that could impact holiday sales, including weak job and income growth and a stagnant unemployment rate but also increases in consumer confidence and home prices.
"While moderate compared to what we experienced the last two holiday seasons, the forecast is a very pragmatic look at what to expect this year given the current rate of economic growth," said NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz.
"There's still some general anxiety amongst consumers when it comes to how the state of the economy is impacting their spending plans, but retailers can expect to see excitement around their promotions and plenty of bargain hunters both online and in stores in the coming months."
NRF's forecast is based on a model using indicators such as consumer confidence, consumer credit, disposable personal income, and previous monthly retail sales releases. It includes non-store direct-to-consumer, kiosks and online sales.
Shop.org, NRF's digital division, projected online holiday sales will grow 12% percent over last year to as much as $96 billion.
The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates total 2011 fourth quarter e-commerce sales increased 15% from the year before. Both NRF and Shop.org define the holiday season as sales in November and December.
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What exactly just happened at JCPenney?
Background: In November 2011, JCPenney fired its CEO and poached the redoubtable Ron Johnson away from Apple. Ron Johnson, the genius behind the Apple Store, proposed a visionary idea for JCPenney, remaking “Penney’s” into a department store version of the Apple store. JCPenney would thrive because it has so many more locations than Apple, and such larger stores.
You see, Johnson’s plan was so exciting, and so obviously visionary, that he decided to remake the entire Penney’s chain in this new image, immediately. Every store. Now. No market testing. And the JCPenney Board let him do it.
For the year ended February 2, 2013, JCPenney’s revenues dropped to $12.985 billion, from $17.26 billion the prior year. That’s a drop of $4.4 billion dollars. For the same period, the company reported a $1.3 billion operating loss. And yet… Johnson managed to hang on for two more months past year end, getting fired on April 8.
- Why did JCPenney’s board allow Johnson to bet all its chips on such a risky strategy? Why didn’t Penney’s test the new look in a few stores, fine tune it, and then roll it out into the rest of the chain?
- Why didn’t JCPenney’s board fire Johnson sooner?
Corporate greed is a deceptively obvious answer. However, the object of greed is to make money. Here, Johnson and his buddies lost money.
Another possibility is a culture of groupthink, where brilliant and successful people work together to create an unspeakable failure, like the Edsel, Ishtar, or Charlie Weis. What makes this unplausible in the case of JCPenney is that this plan failed from the outset, was continuously failing for well over a year, and, even after the results were in, the Board continued to support Johnson for another two months. It’s as if the Star Wars Holiday Special bombed on TV, and then, as if to add insult to injury, CBS and LucasFilm made a general release of the TV show in the theatres, to empty houses, for 16 months. Sure, groupthink leads to failure, but a group of yes-men working on a bad idea can only get so far.
A more likely possibility is that Johnson and the Board figured that time was running short. They had nothing to lose. JCPenney was getting squeezed between upscale department stores, inexpensive discount stores, and the internet. The company was headed for oblivion. Management might as well try a quick but risky plan that had the potential to pay off big time, and save the company. If the plan worked, they’d save the company. And if it failed, well, JC Penney was inevitably going to fail anyway. They will have done everyone a service by expediting the matter.
This theory partially explains why the board stood by Johnson for so long. It is also possible that, after the February results came out, the board had trouble finding a replacement for Johnson, a job akin to recruiting a new captain for the Titanic, after it hit the iceberg. Ultimately, the board had to eat crow by rehiring the former CEO Mike Ullman.


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Below we highlight few companies whose shares are actively trading in Tuesday's session.
Shares of Limelight Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLNW) surged more than 5% after the company announced that it has received USPTO patent for flux controlled management.
GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR) jumped more than 7% after the company announced an improved outlook for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 ending July 2, 2011, reiterated its full year fiscal 2012 guidance and revised upward its backlog outlook for fiscal 2012. The company had previously indicated on its last earnings conference call on May 24 that it expected revenues between $140 million to $150 million, EPS fully-diluted in the range of $0.08 to $0.11 and gross margin of approximately 37% for first quarter fiscal 2012. The company now expects first quarter fiscal 2012 revenue of approximately $225 million based on sooner than expected completion of DSS(TM)650 upgrades in Q1, allowing for Q1 revenue recognition for certain PV orders which had been previously expected in Q2. The fully-diluted EPS for Q1 is now expected to be approximately $0.30, and gross margin for Q1 is now expected to be approximately 43% to 44%. The company reiterated its full fiscal year 2012 guidance provided on May 24, 2011, which includes: revenue in the range of $1 billion to $1.1 billion; earnings per share of $1.55 to $1.85; gross margin between 42 to 44 percent; operating expenses between $115 million to $125 million; capital expenditures of approximately $25 million to $30 million; and an effective tax rate of approximately 33 percent. In addition, given the significant number of orders it has received thus far in the first quarter of fiscal 2012, the company now expects its backlog at the end of fiscal 2012 to be at least $1.6 billion. Previously, it had estimated its backlog would be above $1 billion at the end of fiscal 2012.
Hertz Global Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HTZ) soared mor than 8% after rival Avis Budget Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR) agreed to acquire Avis Europe Plc for $1 billion. Avis, the car-rental company, is competing for rival Dollar Thrifty with Hertz Global Holdings Inc., which rejoined the hunt for Dollar Thrifty last month. Hertz, another car-rental company, bid more than $2 billion, compared with Avis's more than $1.7 billion bid. Avis' bid to buy Avis Europe raises questions as to whether it will continue to pursue Dollar.
SIGA Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIGA) plunged more than 7% following a report that Congress plans to investigate the company's recent receipt of a government contract worth up to $2.8 billion. CNBC reported late Monday that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is looking into whether the political connections of financier Ron Perelman were a factor in SIGA receiving the no-bid contract, as Perelman's MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings investment business owns a 26% stake in SIGA.
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Nov 30, 20212021 Arctic apple harvest done, includes first Arctic Fuji crop
Okanagan Specialty Fruits announced Nov. 30 it has completed the harvest of its 2021 Arctic apple crop. Arctic apple varieties, which stay orchard fresh longer, are developed and grown by the company on its orchards located in Washington state. Arctic Golden, Arctic Granny and Arctic Fuji varieties were all harvested throughout the 1,350 acres of planted trees.
“This was a monumental harvest for Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF), and our largest ever,” Don Westcott, vice president of operations, sales and marketing for OSF, said in a news release. “It also marks the first harvest of our Arctic Fuji variety. The Arctic Fuji’s picked this year will be used for product testing and customer sampling. There’s been lots of anticipation from our customers to add a red-skinned apple to our product portfolio and we are extremely excited to bring the Fuji to market.”
Approximately 20,000 bins of Arctic Golden and Arctic Granny were harvested this season, or 17 million pounds. The Arctic apple crop came in at estimate and is of excellent quality, even with the unprecedented heat experienced this past summer.
“Our harvest wouldn’t be possible without our great orchard staff,” said Tony DiMaria, OSF’s orchard operations manager. “Harvest is always a favorite time of year, as we finally get to watch a year of hard work come to fruition.”
Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF) is a vertically integrated company specializing in the development, growing, processing, and marketing of novel tree fruit varieties developed through bioengineering. Based in Summerland, British Columbia, Canada, OSF was founded in 1996 and acquired by an affiliate of Third Security, LLC in 2020. OSF’s flagship product is its Arctic apple varieties. Arctic apples provide a sustainable solution to less food waste and improved apple consumption.


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Despite growth of the web over the past seven years, the employment of fee phone numbers in tv advertising continues to grow, indicating that the phonephone remains a current response tool, in line with a recent study.
The 2005 fee Numbers in tv Advertising study, commissioned by 800response, terminated that thirty five p.c of all tv commercials feature phone numbers, and eighty two p.c of these phone numbers ar fee. what is more, seventy four p.c of the fee numbers in tv ads use the 800 prefix. Of the 800 numbers, sixty one p.c ar “vanity” numbers, which means they spell out a word or name.
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Another week, another startlingly bad choice by a luxury brand. Burberry sent a model out into the runway in a hoodie with drawstrings that resembled a noose. After criticism, Burberry apologized and pulled the item, CNN reports. "We are deeply sorry for the distress caused by one of the products that featured in our A/W 2019 runway collection," Marco Gobbetti, Burberry chief executive officer, said in a statement to CNN. The brand added that the knot had been meant to nod at a nautical theme in the collection. The apology came after model Liz Kennedy, who appeared in the runway show, made her concerns public on social media: "It is beyond me how you could let a look resembling a noose hanging from a neck out on the runway," she wrote. Her Instagram post mentioned rising suicide rates, and she added: "Let's not forget about the horrifying history of lynching either." The backlash comes after Prada and Gucci made designs that reminded people of blackface. When does this end?
The tweet: Comedian Wanda Sykes retweeted an article about the Burberry design and commented: "Ok, did you a--holes get together and ask, 'How can we make this THE worst Black History Month ever? I mean let's really f--- it up."
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There have been a lot of culturally insensitive screw-ups from brands over the past year, in terms of both products and ads. (Remember a year ago, when Heineken's "Sometimes Lighter Is Better" ads outraged people for seeming to suggest that lighter skin is better?) Ad Age examined how brands end up making such poor choices--and how marketers can do better. One basic tip: "Brands need to ensure that decision makers, whether in product development or marketing, represent a diverse set of groups, including different genders, ages, ethnicities and geographical locations," Ad Age's Adrianne Pasquarelli writes.
On that note
Carol H. Williams, the iconic adwoman, has amazing stories that show the need for diversity in creative teams and in commercials. A natural storyteller, she shared some memories with Ad Age's Judann Pollack about life as a black woman in advertising. There was that time years ago when she cast African-Americans in Secret commercials and one of her bosses told her the work probably wouldn't make it on the air. But "P&G put it on the air and that antiperspirant went from No. 9 to No. 1 in six months," she says.
Another time, Williams was a woman in a room full of men who thought it was a good idea to make an ad about an anthropomorphized feminine hygiene pad, with big red lips and heels. Her response: "First of all, women do not want to be personified as a sanitary pad." The team ignored her advice and tested the concept. It bombed.
Also: Tarana Burke, founder of the Me Too movement, talked to Ad Age's I-Hsien Sherwood about PSAs and the future of the movement. Check that Q&A out here.
And also: Ad Age's E.J. Schultz looks at how Boston's pro sports teams got together to tackle racism head-on after racist taunts broke out in Fenway Park.
In-house: Walmart is taking its website ad sales and related analytics work in-house; the move is a big blow to WPP's Triad, which has handled the work. The change affects hundreds of jobs. Read more by Ad Age's Jack Neff.
Moving on: "White House deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters, who regularly defended the administration's economic policies, plans to leave in April to work for Edelman Public Relations," Bloomberg News reports.
Golden arches: "Delivery is a high priority for McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook, and a big worry for franchisees," Crain's Chicago Business reports. "Franchisees grumble that delivery costs put more pressure on their tight profit margins."
Upfronts calendar: Bookmark this link. It's Ad Age's continuously updated calendar for the dates when TV networks and digital publishers will make their annual pitches to media buyers and marketers. Jeanine Poggi is keeping track of it all.
YouTube conspiracy theories: "What if stemming the tide of misinformation on YouTube means punishing some of the platform's biggest stars?" The New York Times asks.
Political ad watch: Senator Bernie Sanders launched his presidential campaign and debuted a "stirring, nearly two-minute ad released on social media that ticks off key elements of his platform, including universal healthcare, free college tuition, combating climate change, campaign finance reform and more," Ad Age's Simon Dumenco writes.
A parting thought: Karl Lagerfeld, the iconic Chanel designer, has died, his fashion house says. (He was believed to be 85; there was some fuzziness about his date of birth, reports say). The Washington Post writes this about him: "The important thing was the constant striving toward something new and invigorating. Fashion, for him, was a constant evolution, an endless series of tweaks. He aimed for the best, but sometimes the only way to get there was through rocky and jarring terrain. If there was fear, it was of obsolescence."
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Oyster, the eBook subscription service whose high-profile launch we covered on this blog last year, has been in the press this week talking about how user analytics are driving its development as a business. In an interview with FastCo, Oyster's co- founder and the chief product officer Willem Van Lancker, has given some broad hints towards what its data is telling the company about how users consume written content.
For example, Oyster claims to have discovered for definite that reading is a night-time business, seeing most activity and most enquiries from users between 8pm and 2am (US Eastern Time). This insight, Lancker added, has led Oyster to remodel the way it delivers customer service so that it has more people available to answer questions and resolve issues out of standard office hours . Similarly, Oyster also exclaimed surprise at the number of queries it got from customers who wanted to gift an Oyster subscription.
There are two ways of looking at this particular insight. Either than an eBook subscription service like Oyster is irresistible to gift-givers looking for a present for friends and family who are heavy readers, or Oyster is merely benefiting from launching a service into an environment where virtual gift-giving is now well-understood. Numerous eBook retailers and audiobook subscribers launched their own gifting services in the latter part of 2013. And although none of these retailers has released sales numbers for gifted content (more on this point later), the fact Oyster entered the market at the same time as businesses such as Audible and Sainsbury's suggest it is less of a leader than it would have us believe. There are also lasting questions as to whether the heavy service user (who hasn't paid for their own subscription if it's a gift) is a blessing or a curse for a business like Oyster. This more general New York Times article about eBook subscription published at the end of 2013, warned that the all-you-can-eat model put forward by Oyster and its competitor Scribd could prove unsustainable.
Throughout the Fast Co article, Lancker alludes to data points that support Oyster's business decisions to date, but apparently refuses to be drawn on the data itself. We learn, for example, that users in Atlanta are 30 times more likely than the average to to read a romance, but there is no indication of how this average is defined. whether this average is US or international nor (most importantly) how big is the pool of data from which these conclusions are drawn. Without this context, Oyster's insights start to feel less driven by large data sets and more anecdotal, which is in itself underlined by the quote that ends the piece.
"The most exciting thing for us is taking someone who isn't a reader and reintroducing them to books," he says, citing subscriber feedback. "They weren't reading books at all, and now Oyster has brought them back into it, and now they're reading a book a month."
Reading this one can't help but be reminded by the economist Roger Brinner's now legendary warning against drawing authoritative conclusions from partial information: "the plural of anecdote is not data". Oyster may well want us to think it is sitting on a goldmine of user insights, but the selective way in which it uses data points, coupled with the youth of the service and Lancker's care to stress that curation also plays an important role in its business model suggests otherwise. There are also two ways of interpreting this. The first is that Oyster does not yet have sufficient user data to make statistically valid claims about reader behaviour and is falling back on anecdote as a way to bridge that gap. The second is that for all its claims about wanting to help the book business to develop by providing data-driven insight, it still wants to keep the data itself in an Amazon style 'black box'.


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Check out the latest teaser trailer from The Sandbox team
Having clocked nearly 300,000 view so far, check out The Sandbox’s new teaser trailer
Out of many of the blockchain game titles that are out there, The Sandbox has certainly made efforts to stand out. One of the ways is through the core mechanics of its gameplay – which places a special emphasis on content creation.
We get to see just a percentage of this through its recently released teaser trailer. According to both Arthur Madrid and Sebastien Borget, the trailer has, thus far, managed to generate nearly 300,000 views. Collaborating with the Animoca Brands team, and a pretty dedicated community will likely have helped.
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Innovative Startup Flaamy Unveils a Culinary Masterpiece That Blends Italian Craftsmanship with Cutting edge Technology
Cosenza, Calabria Sep 14, 2023 (Issuewire.com) – Flaamy, the pioneering startup dedicated to creating innovative and sustainable cooking and heating solutions, has proudly announced the launch of its Kickstarter campaign for its revolutionary product, the Flaamy Equo. As the world’s first portable combustion eco-oven, Flaamy Equo represents a groundbreaking fusion of cutting-edge technology and environmental responsibility.
Founded with a mission to combine innovation and sustainability, Flaamy has set a Kickstarter goal of $27,173 to be reached by September 28, 2023. By embracing a circular economy approach and advocating for open innovation, Flaamy aims to revolutionize the cooking and heating industry while contributing to a greener and more sustainable future.
Flaamy’s co-founders express their excitement about the campaign: “Flaamy Equo is more than just an oven; it’s a cooking revolution. We’ve designed it deeply committed to our planet’s well-being, offering a compact, portable solution that generates exceptional culinary experiences while minimizing its carbon footprint.”
Flaamy Equo boasts an array of exceptional features, including an EASY-FLAME burner for precise and efficient cooking, a 90% reduction in fine dust emissions, and ceramic fiber insulation that eliminates the risk of contact burns. Crafted with precision, Equo features a spacious 43 cm x 43 cm cooking chamber and boasts a remarkable maximum temperature of 500 degrees Celsius. Weighing under 30 kg and equipped with a detachable cart, this portable pellet oven guarantees delicious meals whether the user is camping, picnicking, or hosting a gathering.
“Flaamy Equo embodies our dedication to both the environment and culinary excellence,” says Giuseppe Mandaglio, the Co-Founder and Production Manager. “By choosing Equo, you’re getting a versatile cooking companion and contributing to a more sustainable world.”
Flaamy’s Kickstarter campaign offers backers a range of enticing perks that cater to various preferences and budgets. Early supporters can secure their Flaamy Equo at a discounted rate, ranging from the Super Early Bird option at 780 to the Kickstarter Special Bundle at 1,988. Each reward tier has unique offerings, including Flaamy T-shirts, bundle deals, and substantial discounts off the retail price.
“We wanted to provide backers with perks that reflect our gratitude for their support,” explains Biagio Mandaglio, Co-Founder and Brand Manager. “These exclusive rewards allow backers to experience the magic of Flaamy Equo at an exceptional value.”
Flaamy invites backers and cooking enthusiasts to join their Kickstarter campaign and participate in this innovative movement. By pledging support, backers will secure their very own Flaamy Equo and become an integral part of the Flaamy community, sharing a passion for both culinary excellence and sustainable solutions.
“Flaamy Equo represents a fusion of tradition and innovation, with Italian craftsmanship meeting cutting-edge technology,” says Michelangelo Rosarno, Co-Founder and Business Advisor. “Join us in transforming the way we cook and embracing a greener, more flavorful future.”
To learn more about Flaamy Equo and support the Kickstarter campaign, please visit the Flaamy Equo Kickstarter page.
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Japanese Transport Company K-Line Agrees to Settlement in Alleged Price-Fixing Scheme
NEWARK, N.J. – Attorneys representing a group of consumers and auto and truck and equipment dealerships in antitrust claims against more than a dozen international shipping firms have reached a settlement with Japan’s Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., known as K-Line.
The plaintiffs include the indirect purchasers of millions of vehicles transported to the United States. They claim that Tokyo-based K-Line and other maritime carriers have unlawfully conspired to rig bids, fix prices and overcharge for their services. The lawsuit notes that the market for transporting new vehicles for sale in the U.S. is almost $1 billion annually.
“We are delighted to announce the first major settlement in the vehicle carriers case with K-Line,” says Dallas attorney Warren T. Burns of Burns Charest LLP, interim co-lead counsel for the end-payor plaintiffs. “This is a very significant and substantial first step to assure that American consumers are compensated for the conspiracy to fix the price of international car-shipping services. We expect to make the dollar amount public very soon as we file for preliminary approval of the class settlement.”
The settlement with K-Line was announced today, during a hearing before Judge Esther Salas of the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark. The court also heard arguments from other maritime company defendants seeking to dismiss the claims by arguing that the 1984 Shipping Act, which regulates ocean shipping companies, preempts state antitrust laws that protect indirect purchasers against price-fixing.
Mr. Burns countered with the argument that state antitrust laws complement the Shipping Act, and that Congress in no way intended to bar such state claims.
The other defendants include among others Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line) and Compania Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV), both of which previously pled guilty to participating in the conspiracy that is still being investigated by the federal government.
The case is In Re: Vehicle Carrier Services Antitrust Litigation, No. 13-cv-3306 (MDL No. 2471).
Burns Charest is a Dallas and New Orleans-based trial law firm with a national practice representing consumers and businesses. The firm represents clients in large, complex class actions; antitrust claims; oil and gas royalty disputes; environmental pollution cases; and asbestos exposure claims. To learn more, visit http://www.burnscharest.com.


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Med-tech firm lands $2M in financing for cardiac arrest device
Medical-device maker Advanced Circulatory has received $2 million in bridge financing to fund the launch of a device that treats cardiac arrest.
The Roseville-based company is seeking regulatory approval to sell its ResQCPR system, which helps keep blood flowing to a trauma patient's heart and brain during cardiac arrest. Advanced Circulatory will use the financing to commercialize that product once it lands Food and Drug Administration approval, the firm said in a press statement.
The company also will use funds to ramp up marketing for its ResQPOD and ResQGard devices.
ResQPOD connects to face masks used during CPR. It limits the amount of air that flows into a patient's chest, increasing blood flow to the brain and heart. (The device was credited with helping revive a Minneapolis paramedic who went without a pulse for 68 minutes after suffering cardiac arrest.)
ResQGARD increases blood pressure in patients who have gone into hemorrhagic shock.
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The third week of February 2018 may even be conceived as the “Blockchain Week” in India, what with PM Trudeau’s India visit propitiously coinciding with WCIT-NILF 2018, which has occasioned the spotlight being turned on the said technology.
Blockchain applications in India are at a stage where major breakthroughs are awaited, but the potential is tremendous and its expanse way beyond financial services alone. Though at present, timely evangelization is required if its power is to be leveraged optimally. It is a common enough challenge that subsidies and DBT don’t reach the intended beneficiaries due to leakages, corrupt practices and duplication. Insofar, blockchain promises to address these issues and bridge gaps in a secured manner.
Right now, the infra is almost non-existent and it isn’t a simple case of Plug n Play either. The MoU that NASSCOM signed with Blockchain Research Institute (at the flagship event) should prove to be a catalytic approach. Don Tapscott – the great Blockchain evangelizer and a speaker at WCIT-NILF – classifies awareness levels rather interestingly. Level 1 – What is it? Level 2 – Sparse knowledge; Level 3 – Expert knowledge and finally, Level 4 – It’s my world! In the US, the level is between Level 2 – 3, whereas in India it’s seen between 1 – 2.
The institute (BRI) will aim to get companies and the government in its fold to use blockchain, which can then be presented as used cases for wider evangelization. The media’s role will be to bring these stories to the masses including the under-privileged. In the next stage, one might even think of building fully-equipped CoEs in Blockchain in India which will focus on prototyping, R&D to assist companies in rapid adoption. Inasmuch, it is most encouraging that even the FinMin during his Budget speech this year, made a special mention of Blockchain to pave the way for future adoption.
Right now BRI is focused on 75 high-end projects which are led by experts, and now with the MoU firmly in place, India will have access to deep minds in these areas. We have led in global outsourcing and if blockchain is adopted as envisaged, we might even witness the second wave in future – Outsourcing 2.0, if you will!
Raman Roy, the NASSCOM Chairman drew an interesting analogy. Just as toys are likened to China, that day may not be too far when the Indian outsourcing industry takes lead in blockchain implementation & deployment, across industries and geographies.
Finally. To misquote Parkinson’s Law: Work will expand to meet money and earn millions for India to render Internet of Value.


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Shrimp harvest dips but prices climb
The Louisiana shrimp harvest was slightly down in January and February compared to historic averages, but the price per pound was much higher, according to preliminary National Marine Fisheries Service data.
Consumers should see price relief later in the spring when the shrimp catch typically is much higher.
Larger shrimp - 15 or fewer per pound - sold for about $9.25 per pound in February, compared to $6.45 in the same month last year, according to the federal data.
The year's first two months typically account for only about 5 percent of Louisiana's annual shrimp harvest. Landings usually surge in May and June with the start of brown shrimp season.
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Muslims around the world are for the first time set to enjoy reindeer meat, after an abattoir in Norway started slaughtering reindeer according to halal meat standards.
Harry Dyrstad, who owns the Vilteksperten abattoir, has employed a certified halal butcherto slaughter 100 reindeer and distribute them as far as places like Dubai.
The Islamic Council of Norway granted their approval after visiting the abattoir, which will begin by giving Muslims in Norway the opportunity to eat reindeer ham, which is very popular in Norway.
‘It is going to be exciting to see how Muslims receive the novelty of reindeer. This is a completely new halal product that Muslims have not had access till before,' Mehtab Afsar, General Secretary of the Islamic Council of Norway, told Adresseavisen
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'Future is pretty bright': Sask. farmers celebrate China's move to lift canola ban
With spring seeding in Saskatchewan well underway, farmers are beginning the growing season with some added assurance.
After three years, China has lifted the ban on Canadian canola.
Last week, China reinstated market access for two Canadian grain trading companies – Richardson International Ltd. and Viterra Inc., ending a three year diplomatic dispute.
“China has always been an important customer of Canada and Saskatchewan, and unfortunately, when they put the policy in place it definitely hurt the price of canola especially two, three years ago,” Agriculture Producers Association of Saskatchewan second vice president Todd Lewis said.
“At this point, we have great demand for canola and canola products and this is just going to increase that demand. So it is good news.”
According to figures from Canola Council of Canada, seed exports to China have fallen from $2.8 billion in 2018 before the restrictions, to $800 million in 2019, $1.4 billion in 2020 and $1.8 billion in 2021.
The council said the Chinese ban cost the industry between $1.54 and $2.35 billion from lost sales and lower prices between March 2019 and August 2020 alone.
“This is a positive step forward, restoring full trade in canola with China and ensuring that all Canadian exporters are treated equally by the Chinese administration,” Jim Everson, president of the Canola Council of Canada, said on the group’s website.
Canada is the world’s largest producer of canola, with Saskatchewan playing a major part in that.
“Well, Saskatchewan is the world leader in canola,” Lewis said. “The future is pretty bright this year for those producers that can grow some canola, especially after last year's weather-related issues.”
Jim Wickett farms in the Rosetown area. While he didn’t grow canola last year, he said he certainly felt the pinch created by China’s ban.
“I think every farmer was directly impacted. It certainly affected some of the other oil seeds. (It’s) just the nature of the market. The prices go down or are in some kind of relation to the oil complex. That artificially held the price down, (then) we had a large drought last year, and that certainly set the stage for prices to climb,” he said.
While he can’t determine what will happen to the market in the coming months, he doesn’t imagine the ban being lifted will greatly impact canola prices this spring and summer.
However, Lewis thinks having one more place for farmers to market their canola and therefore creating more competition in the marketplace should be beneficial for the provincial economy.
“We're going through a stage now where food is being seen as more and more important, and we're fortunate here in Saskatchewan. We have an abundance of production and we export so much of our crop and it really is a major driver in the economy here in the province,” he said.
One concern for all producers is the rising costs of getting seed in the ground. With inflation sending fuel prices to record highs, having any export bans lifted on Saskatchewan’s most notable crop is welcome news for producers.
“Probably the most expensive crop we're ever going to put into the ground between diesel fuel prices and fertilizer prices and other inputs as well,” Lewis said.
“So, it's important that we have good canola prices, and it's really gonna help the viability of the industry here in the province.”


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Toyota Motor Corp. is launching a big data service in Japan for local governments and businesses using live traffic information collected remotely from its vehicles.
The Japan Times reports that Toyota is collecting data from 700,000 vehicles on roads across Japan and processing the information for use by its clients. The new service is priced at 200,000 yen ($1,976) per month and will begin on June 3.
The company has not said whether it plans to expand the service to other markets.
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African nations sign agreement to unify main trade blocs, but the question is will it work?
June 17, 2015 On the 11th of June in Egypt, representatives from 25 African nations signed an initial agreement known as the Tripartite Free Trade Area to create a free-trade zone linking three economic blocs that would unite 57 percent of the continent’s population.
The deal aims to merge the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the South African Development Community, and the East African Community. It will ease the free movement of goods across member countries, reducing trade barriers that will in turn bring down prices and boost economic activity between African countries.
Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi at the signing said, “We are trying to put a set date plan to execute all points of the agreement. What we accomplished today will remain in our minds as a historic day and a decisive point to continue our hopes and ambitions of becoming regionally merged,”
This laudable project have analysts skeptical about its success however, as it will require negotiations and ratification by national parliaments, and because of the exclusion of Nigeria, which already has 35 percent of Africa’s GDP. Other factors such as language barriers, and poor infrastructure have also come up. These analysts rather recommend strengthening the smaller regional trade blocs already in existence, before adopting larger agreements which present far more challenging issues.


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Quick Extender Pro Earns TRUSTe Certification
Customers purchasing Quick Extender Pro from the company's online store can now do so with the confidence their personal information is being protected. Quick Extender Pro is now certified by TRUSTe for demonstrating and maintaining privacy policies that meet or exceed program guidelines.
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NEW YORK, April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Privacy concerns are always at the forefront of consumer's minds when they shop online. To help mitigate that concern, Quick Extender Pro has earned TRUSTe certification as a means of demonstrating to customers their commitment to privacy and security. The TRUSTe logo now appears at the bottom of the Quick Extender Pro website where it will remain as long as the company continues to comply with TRUSTe standards.
TRUSTe certifies companies based on high standards of online privacy. The goal of certification is to give customers the assurance that companies they do business with online are protecting their personal information by any and all means necessary. Certification includes compliance with EU Safe Harbor rules, the COPPA rule for protecting minor children, and Federal Trade Commission guidelines. TRUSTe recommends all web users read the privacy policies of any website they purchase from.
Quick Extender Pro is happy to earn TRUSTe certification because of its commitment to its customers. The company provides America's best-selling penis extender device which is proven to be 100% safe and effective. Quick Extender Pro's many satisfied customers and excellent business reputation testify to the quality of both their company and their products. Those interested in safe and effective penis enlargement at an affordable price should visit the company today at www.quickextenderpro.com.
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More deets have emerged on Kinfolk's cool concept shop that was first set to open at the historic Eastern Columbia building in fall 2014. The debut date was pushed to last spring and then put on pause, and we can now confirm that the NYC lifestyle brand's menswear boutique/bar/bike shop has moved to a new Downtown nabe altogether. (Hat tip to a very involved DTLA resident, who sent us word of the relocation.)
Kinfolk tells us that its first LA flagship has relocated to 7th Street in Arts District and is expected to (finally!) debut this year. Docs from a DTLA Neighborhood Council meeting last month reveal that the 5,948-square-foot space (a little over half the size of Kinfolk's original planned shop) will house a store of about 2,000 square feet and an approximately 300-seat resto and coffee bar in the remainder of the space.
It's landing next door to printastic LA label Black Milk's shop and an exact opening date has yet to be nailed down.


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2018 13.3-Inch MacBook Air With Retina Display, Touch ID Specs, Price, Release Date Announced
Great news for macOS lovers who don’t need the power and versatility of a high-end, mega-expensive Mac. During today’s media event in New York, Apple’s executive team has announced a brand new 2018 MacBook Air that will act as an entry-level device for would-be Mac owners.
A growing number of consumers have been taking the opportunity over the last few years to replace their entry-level MacBook Air with an iPad, large-screen smartphone, or even a laptop on a competing platform, such as an affordable Windows machine, or even a Chromebook that doesn’t offer all of the bells and whistles but just gets the job done for those who need an occasional machine.
That kind of buying mentality, mixed with the fact that Apple hasn’t provided a significant updated to MacBook Air for a while, has meant that sales have declined recently. Apple will be hoping that this refresh will change that and start to show a rise.
With this announcement, Apple is essentially replacing the aging MacBook Air with this brand new 2018 MacBook Air model. Rather than attempting to entirely reinvent the wheel and entirely overhaul the machine, Apple has instead opted for familiar changes from its current 12-inch MacBook line to push the model forward.
This new machine comes with a higher-resolution 13.3-inch Retina Display panel with a slim design, meaning that it still keeps the portability that made the MacBook Air so popular when it was originally introduced by Steve Jobs while giving it much better display and internals. That display will also be surrounded by slimmer bezels – as is the trend at the moment – to ensure that the screen is the focal point and that it isn’t dominated by any unnecessary non-screen real estate.
There are is no Touch Bar on this thing, as expected, but we now have Touch ID making up for a biometric security, powered by Apple’s T2 security chip. The keyboard on the new MacBook Air is now the same one as found on the latest gen of MacBook Pros. The new gen. Force Touch trackpad, is now 20% larger than the one found on the earlier MacBook Air.
Connectivity options include two Thunderbolt 3 ports, HDMI, VGA, and DisplayPort. The machine is able to output 5K to external displays, and also comes supporting eGPUs.
At the heart of the machine, is an 8th Intel dual-core CPU, and supports RAM up to 16GB, with storage topping out at 1.5TB SSD. As for the battery life, Apple’s giving us different numbers; 13 hours of iTunes movie playback, but 12 hours for web browsing.
For those interested in this latest MacBook Air announcement, Apple will start selling the hardware from November 7 at a starting cost of $ $1,199 which packs 8GB RAM, 1.6GHz Core i5, and 128GB SSD.


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Nissan's new NV200 taxi made its debut in New York City in late 2013 following a few regulatory bumps in the road, and is now widely available. The taxi arrives with NV200 guts, as well as added rear seating for four passengers, side windows, and a Lexan partition to shield drivers from rowdy revelers. Read our driving impressions of the 2014 NV200 Taxi here. Photos by Vince Taroc.
Nissan Releases More Specs for NV200 Taxi
Nissan has released additional specifications for its NV200 taxi that went into service in New York City in December amid legal controversy that it had been given preferential treatment by the city's taxi commission.


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Temerlin McClain Lays Off 60 Staffers
DALLAS—Sixty employees were dismissed earlier this month at Temerlin McClain in Irving, Texas, sources said. The layoffs represented 5-10 percent of the agency's workforce, although the shop declined to confirm specific numbers. Temerlin president David Lyon indicated the reduction was related to a restructuring of the agency's business activities, adding that new hires in specific fields such as relationship marketing, interactive, database and direct marketing equalled the number of employees let go in other, traditional areas. "Our business is transforming," Lyon said. "Our clients are asking us to deliver in those areas and it more than offset what happened last week."
Marketing Chief Resigns at J.C. Penney
DALLAS—J.C. Penney's chief marketing officer, Stephen Farley, has resigned in the wake of poor third-quarter financial results. Farley joined Penney last summer from Payless ShoeSource. He was responsible for firing Penney's previous agency, Temerlin McClain, and managing a review which awarded the retailer's advertising account to DDB Worldwide in Chicago. A spokesperson for the company said management is pleased with the new advertising campaign and that Farley's resignation does not affect its relationship with DDB. Mike Boylson, the No. 2 marketing executive at the Plano, Texas-based merchant, will manage the department until a new chief marketing officer is named.
Southwest Bank Appoints 4 Finalists
DALLAS—Southwest Bank of Texas has confirmed four finalists in the review for its $2-4 million account. Vying for the Houston-based banking concern are incumbent Sachnowitz & Co., Bates Southwest, BBDO and Fogarty Klein Monroe, all in Houston. A decision is expected in December. The client, which operates 26 branches, bills itself as the largest independent bank in the area.
AdForce to Sell Ads for BigFatWow
DALLAS—BigFatWow has signed an agreement making AdForce its exclusive representative to sell online advertising nationwide. Irving, Texas-based BigFatWow delivers advertising on its large plasma screen "Wow Centers" in shopping centers. AdForce is located in Cupertino, Calif.
Agency Drops Out of Sub-Zero Review
CHICAGO—Carmichael Lynch has withdrawn from the review for Sub-Zero's $8-10 million account, citing a conflict with public relations client Maytag/Jenn-Air. Remaining in the hunt for the Madison, Wis.-based business are incumbent Kerker and fellow Minneapolis sh op Martin/Williams, The Richards Group in Dallas and The Martin Agency in Richmond, Va. A decision is expected by year's end. Carmichael Lynch is based in Minneapolis.
For the Record
Jeanne Prejeane was incorrectly identified as the source of two quotes in "Berry-Brown to Close in Dallas" [Adweek, Nov. 20]. An agency employee who asked not to be identified was the source of "Everyone is in shock" and "A significant amount of money is missing."Robbie Caponetto


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While the coverage has at all times been in place, it is solely now being enforced in India. This will have an effect on courting, training, video and music-on-demand, and different apps that depend on in-app purchases however not these for bodily deliveries comparable to ecommerce.
‘30% is Tax, Not Commission’
The startups say it is unfair exploitation of the Play Store’s monopoly that stems from the dominance of Google’s Android working system. “It will badly affect us – 30% is tax, cannot be called commission!” stated Snehil Khanor, CEO of TrulyMadly, a courting app. “They say we provide an ecosystem but we get the downloads through ads. For many small companies, it can be an existential threat.”
Google stated builders can use web sites to transact with shoppers or go for different app shops out there.
“Let me clarify. There are other ways in which they can go find the subscription,” stated Purnima Kochikar, director, enterprise growth, video games and purposes, Google India.
“They have multiple store options… multiple ways to sell the subscription option. There are several Indian developers who have websites where they sell subscriptions. There are people who are using multi-platform ways where they’re selling. All of that is possible.” She stated the coverage will solely impression 3% of the apps on the Play Store.
Razorpay co-founder and CEO Harshil Mathur stated the fee would make issues robust.
“A 30% commission on in-app payments is exorbitant and could kill so many businesses in India,” he stated. “While an Indian app store is a logical alternative, India requires a broader policy framework to find a more permanent resolution.”
Google has management over many layers between prospects and their service suppliers as greater than 90% use Android telephones, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) stated in a launch.
“The Indian founders’ community is on fire at the announcement of the policy. IAMAI is seeking a meeting with its founder members to understand their concerns and to resolve them,” the foyer group stated.
Enforcement of the brand new coverage is opposite to Indian legal guidelines, in line with Vishwas Patel, chairman, Payments Council of India.
“Just because Google owns the gate and the gateway to the digital ecosystem… they should not reject Indian apps who are using RBI-recognised payment aggregators and payment gateways,” he stated. “Google should not use a dominant position, rather (it should) allow a level playing field for everyone in the ecosystem.”
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The launch of an Apple product is usually met with fanfare and tears of joy from nerds, but this latest apple product for iPad Pro has been uncharacteristically knocked back.
The $99 Apple ‘Pencil’ stylus is the latest accessory for the new iPad Pro. The stylus is a piece of technology which the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once described as ‘yuck’ and declared that ‘nobody would want it.’
Back in 2007 Jobs said that if a company made a stylus for a tablet, then ‘they blew it’.
“We’re going to use a pointing device that we’re all born with – born with ten of them. We’re going to use our fingers. We’re going to touch [the iPhone] with our fingers,” Jobs said.
Flash forward to 2015 and Apple has just announced its own version of a stylus:
Looks like Apple might have forgotten Job’s wise words, but the internet never forgets:
Apple Pencil me like one of your French girls pic.twitter.com/7A19PnN2nC
— Amber Gordon (@missambear) September 9, 2015
— Daddy (@LifeisSavage) September 9, 2015
See if you can pick out the exact moment the Apple Pencil was introduced. pic.twitter.com/BpJQjwqz47
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) September 9, 2015
Totally buying a $100 Apple pencil. NOT
— steven (@stevenferazo) September 10, 2015
I can’t wait to rewind some cassette tapes with the Apple Pencil. — Matthew Santoro (@MatthewSantoro) September 10, 2015
@midnight what about the apple eraser for the apple pencil?
— Stephen (@st33b0) September 10, 2015
The Apple Pencil is Apple proving to everyone that they can put their logo on anything and people will buy it. — Brandon Gebhardt (@bwgebhardt) September 10, 2015
I give it 12 hours after launch before some dumbass puts the “Apple Pencil” in a pencil sharpener.
— Marco Price (@Primar13) September 10, 2015
Free TV has welcomed the federal government’s ongoing commitment to ensuring that all Australians can access their local free television services on connected TVs through the introduction of legislation to implement a prominence framework in coming days. Free TV CEO Bridget Fair (lead image) said: “Right now, Australian viewers are being steered in the direction […]


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The drive for cheap food has been at the root of many farming and rural problems over the last decade and the lifting of commodity prices to more sustainable levels will be good news, according to NFU president Peter Kendall.
During his speech at the Royal Welsh Show, at Builth Wells on Sunday, Mr Kendall will say that it is vital that farmgate prices in the livestock and dairy sectors increase to reflect the substantial rise in cereals and oilseeds prices and other inputs of production.
“The era of cheap food at any cost is over and I, for one, will not be missing it,” said Mr. Kendall.
“We are witnessing a sea-change in world commodity markets and this should be reflected at the farm level – otherwise, it will be all too clear that the supply chain is not working properly.
“For too long farmgate prices have lagged behind rises in production costs and in the cost of living; even for sectors that have experienced increases in recent months, like dairy and cereals, farmgate prices are still lower than they had been ten years ago.
“Rising farmgate prices are long overdue and they cannot come at a better time for cereal growers and dairy and livestock farmers, for whom this dismal summer might otherwise have been the last straw.
“Food has never been cheaper, with consumers spending less than 9% of their income on food, compared with more than 22% just forty years ago. Food price increases are both affordable and needed.
“Many of the problems that have made farming so difficult for the past 20 years can ultimately be traced to the drive for cheap food at any cost, not only in Britain, but around the world. It is about time that the trend reverses and we do not need to apologise for it”, said Mr. Kendall.
Do you agree that consumers have had it too good, for too long? Discuss the issue with other farmers on the forums?


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German police have arrested Markus Braun, the former chief executive of the Munich-based fintech company Wirecard, for fraud, prosecutors in Munich said on Tuesday.
Braun turned himself in to German authorities on the same day Wirecard admitted that $2.1 billion the company had reported on its balance sheet did not exist. He has since been released on €5 million bail.
That revelation came three days after Braun resigned as the chief executive of the company he led for more than a decade, and four days after Wirecard announced that auditors from Ernst & Young had discovered the $2.1 billion hole in its balance sheet.
Publicly traded since 2005, when it listed on the German stock exchange through a reverse merger with the Berlin-based company InfoGenie, Wirecard was one of the highest-flying fintech companies in Germany. The company managed to attract a $1 billion investment from SoftBank in April 2019 to finance Wirecard’s expansion into Asian markets — even as publications like the Financial Times called the company’s Asian business into question.
Now, as the company’s supervisory board deals with addressing the fact “that the bank trust account balances in the amount of €1.9 billion ($2.1 billion) do not exist” within the company’s coffers, SoftBank is being dragged into yet another scandal of someone else’s making.
Wirecard has already fired its chief operating officer, Jan Marsalek, and Braun, who worked at Wirecard since 2002 and served as the company’s chief technology officer and chief executive.
Wirecard’s troubles have been in the spotlight since the Financial Times began its reporting, and last Thursday marks the fourth time that the payments processing company said it would not be able to publish its financials for the 2019 fiscal year after auditors at Ernst & Young revealed accounting irregularities and an independent audit investigation by KPMG also came back inconclusive.
Wirecard’s operations include an Asian business unit based in Singapore, which is what SoftBank’s capital was intended to expand, and U.S. operations through the acquisition of Citigroup’s prepaid card services.
That expansion ballooned the value of Wirecard’s share price and made it a darling of the German tech industry, but unfortunately the paper profits Wirecard reported were more like a work of literary fiction than actual facts.
The company inflated its results by round-tripping transactions, where potentially fraudulent transactions are made across borders to avoid the scrutiny of local auditors and make them appear legitimate. The company also inflated sales and profits at subsidiaries in Dubai and Dublin, according to the Financial Times’ reporting.
All of these revelations have brought the company’s high-flying valuation crashing down. Wirecard, which was once worth as much as $27 billion, is now trading at roughly $1.8 billion on Tuesday.
The collapse of Wirecard is also another blow to the reputation of SoftBank and its leader Masayoshi Son. Although the investment in Wirecard was structured as a convertible note, financed by SoftBank employees and the Abu Dhabi-owned sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, the losses are another misstep for the company.
“Everything about that deal is not what you would call textbook corporate governance,” Justin Tang, head of Asian research at United First Partners in Singapore, told Bloomberg last week. “This is the last thing Son needs now as he deals with the fallout from Vision Fund losses.”


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Somebody call Justin Timberlake because Apple needs to get its sexy back, according to investors.
Shares have taken a serious slide down the stock market over the past few months, and investors fear that the iPhone is losing its luster in the eyes of consumers.
In early September, Apple stock traded at $705, but shares have since fallen by 35 percent.Â That means that the stock is valued at $430 billion, dropping nearly $230 billion. The company’s surprising decline is leaving some scratching their heads. Last year, the company was considered the most valuable publicly traded company, usurping Exxon Mobil from its spot.
Experts expect for Apple’s net income to drop $10.1 billion this quarter down from $11.6 billion in Q1 2012. This news doesn’t mean that all is lost for the tech company, which has arguably left an indelible mark on society and culture stateside and abroad. AT&T recently announced that it sold 8.6 million phones during 4Q 2012.
Still, there are other companies waiting in the wings to dethrone Apple. Samsung made an impressive showing with the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 2.
“Sure, Apple had a record quarter. But this horserace has changed,” said Oracle analyst Laurence Balter told CNN Money. “It used to be Apple’s game to win, now its Samsung’s game to win.”


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PCCW <1186.HK>, Hikari chairmen in share
HONG KONG, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Pacific Century
CyberWorks Ltd (PCCW) said on Friday its chairman
Richard Li and Hikari Tsushin Inc <9435.T> president
Yasumitsu Shigeta had agreed to a US$1 billion swap
involving shares of the two companies.
Pacific Century Group Holdings Ltd (PCGH), owned by Li, who also has a controlling
stake in PCCW, had agreed to sell to Shigeta 332.53 million PCCW shares or about 3.5
percent of the Internet firm, PCCW said in a statement.
PCGH had also agreed to buy from Shigeta, Hikari's controlling shareholder, 510,200
Hikari shares, representing about 1.65 percent of the Japanese Internet firm. Based on
Thursday's stock closing prices, the PCCW shares and Hikari shares involved in the deal
had the same approximate value of US$1 billion, the statement said. "The agreement will
deepen the strategic relationship between the two companies, helping PCCW to identify
business opportunities in Japan and Hikari to strengthen its position in Asia Pacific beyond
Japan," PCCW said. PCCW will be a strategic shareholder in Hikari's intended flagship in
Hong Kong, Golden Power International Holdings Ltd <0603.HK>, to be renamed Hikari
Tsushin International Ltd. PCCW and Hikari said in January they would team up to take
control of Golden Power, a battery maker that will serve as the flagship for Hikari's
Internet investments outside Japan. Hikari had agreed to take a 51 percent stake in Golden
Power and PCCW a 20 percent stake in Golden Power's enlarged share capital.
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Wann sehen wir bei PCCW denn Kurse wie bei CMGI ?
Was meint IHR ?
3 Monate, 6 Monate, 1-3 Jahre, oder nie ???
Schön wär's ja.


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Twitter's New Verification Service Available To Some Users In India For Rs. 719
Twitter's paid verification service has made its way to India, but only for a few users. Verification is offered as part of Twitter's paid subscription service called Twitter Blue.
While Elon Musk said just last week that India will receive the service in about a month, it appears that some users are receiving prompts to subscribe to Twitter Blue.
In the United States, Twitter Blue costs $8 per month. In India, the service will cost Rs. 719 per month.
Getting verified in India
Some users from India took to Twitter to share the prompts they've received while using the app, but it seems that only a select few iPhone users have the option to subscribe to Twitter Blue at the moment, NDTV reported.
The cost is not really pocket friendly, especially given what Musk had claimed earlier:
Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
#TwitterBlue verification rolled out in #India to cost Rs 719 per month .— Santa Dheeraj (@Dheeraj_santa) November 11, 2022
On November 1,Musk said that the Twitter verification pack would be 'adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity '. pic.twitter.com/1bRrSoR7Jd
If you subscribe to Twitter Blue, the company will give you a blue tick - implying verification... without undergoing any verification. Confusing, right? Don't worry, Elon Musk agrees. He teased earlier that the company will experiment with features in months to come.
Twitter Blue subscribers will get other perks too - like priority on feed and replies. Even then, users are torn on the use value of this. For starters, verification was seen as a badge of honour - that you've made it on Twitter - but with a paid mechanism in place, that allure is largely lost.
#TwitterBlue Tick > #Netflix & #disneyplusHotstar in India— TheMoviesBuff🍿 (@TheMoviesBuff) November 10, 2022
Twitter blue checkmark will cost the users Rs 719 per month. Netflix Rs 649 plan offers 4K+ HDR streaming & allows streaming on 4 diff screens, Amazon Prime is also available for just Rs 1499 per year.
Elon Musk has also fired half of Twitter's global staff. In addition, many of its top security, safety, and privacy executives resigned from the company on Thursday, leaving a trail of mystery.
Most of Twitter India's workforce was also let go, as part of Musk's plans to maximise profits for the company while limiting expenditure. Twitter Blue is not officially available in India yet, but if these prompts are to be trusted, the rollout should begin anytime soon.
NDTV News Desk. (2022, November 10). Twitter Rolls Out Paid Verification Service In India. Cost: Rs 719 A Month. NDTV.com. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/twitter-blue-arrives-in-india-but-only-for-select-users-price-rs-719-a-month-3509556


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Summer broke records, beyond temperatures, that is. These feverish numbers have also made their way to the real estate market.
In the past few months alone, the most expensive vacant lot ever sold on Casey Key has been scooped up in a $6.5 million cash purchase and the most expensive listing in all of Sarasota County has landed on the market for $25 million. Today, Manatee County has its own remarkable transaction. We wrote about this home when it was listed for $12.9 million late last year. It recently sold for $8.55 million in cash, making it the highest ever sale of a single-family residence in mainland Manatee County. (This Anna Maria Island home fetched $16 million, also in cash, earlier this year.)
Featured in Florida architecture magazine, the house, built in 1991, is the antithesis of the modern rectangular giants we’ve seen rise in recent times. Indeed, the 7000 Riverview Blvd. is all illuminated with rare granite, wood mosaic floors, cypress wood walls and generous 20 foot beamed ceilings. Lots of glass frames a fairytale landscape design by Jim Talley, which includes koi ponds, walkways, waterfalls, walking paths, and tropical gardens.
The seller, Sandra Robinson, bought the property in 1991 with her husband, HL “Penny” Robinson, who in 1960 founded Robby’s Sporting Goods in Bradenton. Robby’s grew into a chain of 45 stores in the southeast. It was sold and renamed Fields Sports in 1988. Now that the children have all grown up, Robinson has sold to downsize the sprawling nearly 6,000 square foot home that spans nearly five acres.
Michael James of Michael Saunders & Company represented the buyer, while Jay and Christy Travis of RE/MAX Alliance Group represented the seller.


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For six years now DSA has helped coordinate the donation of millions of dollars in products and cash to the TODAY Show Holiday Gift Drive. This year 25 DSA member companies donated a total of more than $15.7 million, with a cummulative six-year total exceeding $52 million!
I’ve been fortunate enough to have gone to New York each of the past six years to present the donation live on the TODAY Show. Each year has been a great experience personally and professionally, but most of all, it’s just really rewarding to know that you’ve made a difference.
So how did it start? The Monday after Thanksgiving in 2004 I was cheerily chewing my Cheerios one morning when I saw someone being interviewed on the show about their donation to the Toy Drive. Something clicked in my head as a remembered a conversation I’d had just the week before with one of our members looking for a company that could come to their warehouse to remove and destroy dozens of pallets of merchandise from the previous season’s catalog. “What a shame and a waste of perfectly good merchandise!” I had thought. Bingo! If one company had all that perfectly usable inventory they wished would vanish – so must other companies. That very morning I put out a call to our companies with a goal of collecting $1 million in products. Before the week was over, I had collected more than $2 million in donations.
And every year since then, more and more companies have participated in the drive, donating everything from a single product to more than 300,000 of a single item – all distributed to more than 200 organizations around the country that will see to it that the products get into the hands of people in need of a bit of cheer during the holidays.
The win-win-win this program creates is obvious, but I have to say, it’s also really exciting to get to be part of the fun on the TODAY Show. Sitting on “the couch” inside the studio this year was great (I’ve been interviewed out on the plaza the previous five years) and the chance to interact with the hosts of the show and the production staff makes it clear why they always look like they’re having such a great time – because they are!
Throughout the next month at least nine other direct selling companies will be on-air to present their donations. Each and every one of them should be proud of the difference they’re making just by doing a little housekeeping in their warehouses!


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- Tram Ho
Apple, a company that has long been proud of the security of its devices, recently joined the Fido Alliance (Fido Alliance) as a member of the Board of Directors.
Fido Alliance is an open industry group whose mission is to create ” authentic standards to help reduce the world’s dependence on cryptography”. If you hear this group name a bit strange, then you’ve probably heard of one of its three authentication protocols: Fido Universal Second Factor (FIDO U2F), FIDO Universal Authentication Framework (FIDO UAF), and FIDO2. And even if you’ve never heard of them, the board members of this group include some of the world’s famous industrial giants like Amazon, ARM, American Express, Facebook, and Google. , Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Paypal, Samsung, Visa, Mastercard, and latest Apple.
This news was first revealed last week by the French website MacG, which cited a tweet (now deleted) that included a photo from a Fido conference presentation with the Apple logo and The content is “New Board Member” (New Board Member). However, this tweet was quickly deleted until today, when Fido officially updated its website to include the Apple name.
So in the end, what does joining Apple Fido Alliance bring?
Part of Fido’s job is to look for alternatives to cryptography. Specifically, this group will create standards for technologies such as biometric authentication as well as physical security keys. Apple has already applied some of such technology – for example, Face ID, or using an Apple Watch to unlock a compatible MacBook. Apple sometimes requires users to authenticate their identities on a laptop by licensing them on an iPhone. These types of two-factor authentication in the future will no longer be restricted to Apple products. Joining Fido Alliance can be a big step in making it a reality across platforms, not just within the Apple ecosystem.
Through this event, we more or less see what Apple is planning on the security field in the future. The company has been working on integrating U2F for a while now, and has supported the FIDO2 security key on iOS 13.3 and Safari 13. Of course, we’ll have to wait a while longer before it can be completely. Say goodbye to password.
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Nintendo believes that this will not be a nuisance for the Nintendo Switch stock in this Christmas.
Reggie Fils-Aim, president of Nintendo of America, talked about the busy time zone of Nintendo based on Pokmon: Let & # 39; s Go and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – believe in those who want to find a key in stores.
In the same interview he talked about pre-sale of Pokmon: Go Go, the best of a Switch game talked about the importance of assurance in consoles at stores in Fils-Aim.
"We have enough console, enough accessories, we're working hard to make sure we have enough games."
There is always a chance to escape from a game or package, but the NOA head is quite positive with the important little Natalcia.
This last three months is extremely important for Nintendo. Because according to Fils-Aim, they produce more than half of their income in this period.
"High trust. October, November and December are an incredible amount of sales on a global level. Here in the Americas, it represents more than 60% of our revenue, so the size of big, big sales"In another interview, Fils-Aim said.
If this significant sales volume allows Nintendo to reach the desired numbers, we will have to wait and see, but Nintendo will continue to be optimistic.