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Being one with the United Nation World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Malaysia is celebrating the World Tourism Day which announced on 27 September each year to show the importance of tourism in global economy.
This years celebration is themed 1Billion Tourists, 1Billion Opportunities aimed to foster awareness of the importance of tourism and its contribution to social, cultural, political and economic value.
Adding colours to the World Tourism Day 2015 celebration, Ministry of Tourism and Culture Malaysia through Malaysia Tourism Centre (MaTiC) is organising #Kolektif1 which is a photography exhibition consists of a total of 78 beautiful pictures taken by 28 professional local photographers starting from 26 September until 30 October 2015.
Below is some of the masterpieces from professional local photographers
A man with masculine cows
A bull by the river with two boys
A picture of two generations
Other exciting activities during the celebration include the Fuji Global Photo Walk; Photography Talk; Hop on Hop off (HOHO) World Tourism Day 2015 Bus Launch and also the Media City Tour.
Works Tourism Day Bus Launch
Media City Tour on HOHO
A lot is happening for this year World Tourism day 2015 celebration as the Ministry is also collaborating with Taylors University for an institutional level World Tourism Day celebration on 29 September 2015 through the National Blue Ocean Strategy (NBOS). More than 3,000 participants including students, lecturers, representatives from various tourism agencies as well as industry players such as Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and Tourism Educators Association of Malaysia (TEAM) are expected to join the celebration.
Among the activities are the Cultural Stalls, Orang Asal Demonstration, Cultural Performances, 1Billion Tourists, 1Billion Opportunities Tourism Talk and many more. It is hoped that this collaboration will help to increase awareness, knowledge and opportunities especially among students about tourism diversification to national development and a key-driver to socio-economic progress.
To support the local tourism industry as well as heighten up the celebration, public are encourage to upload photos of their visits to local tourist destinations with hashtag, #MYWorldTourismDay. Globally, UNWTO also invites everyone to join them showcasing the power of travel and tourism sector in global conversation using hashtags #1billiontourists and #WTD2015 in social media.
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Face ID is the iPhone X’s new touted security feature which is said to be more secure than fingerprints and harder to fool. In fact Apple made a pretty big deal about it by claiming to have worked with makeup artists, mask makers, and others to ensure that all the ways that one could trick Face ID would be covered.
However it seems that a recent video is making its rounds on the internet showing how a pair of siblings, who aren’t identical twins, manage to successfully “trick” Face ID into unlocking the iPhone X. Now while this does sound controversial, Rene Ritchie over at iMore points out that this isn’t actually a flaw of Face ID. In fact it seems to be a feature of Face ID and its neural networks that are designed to adapt to changes to your face as you get older, grow a beard, wear a hat, get fatter/thinner, and so on.
In a white paper Apple released on Face ID back in September, it mentions, “If Face ID fails to recognize you, but the match quality is higher than a certain threshold and you immediately follow the failure by entering your passcode, Face ID takes another capture and augments its enrolled Face ID data with the newly calculated mathematical representation.”
That is pretty much what the siblings were doing, where the one attempting to bypass Face ID kept re-entering the passcode whenever it failed, prompting Face ID to register his face as an authorized user. So like we said, this isn’t so much a flaw of Face ID but part of its learning feature. If someone already had your passcode, any protection fingerprint or facial recognition would already be moot, so it’s something to take into consideration before jumping to any conclusions about the success or failures of the iPhone X or Face ID. The original video can be found embedded on the Reddit thread, while the follow-up video can be seen above.

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More ono grinds in Honolulu! Rainbow Drive-In opened up a new location with some of your other local top picks.
Hawaii's Favorite Kitchens had its grand opening at 10 a.m. Thursday.
The drive-in partnered with Poke Stop, KC waffle Dogs and Hoku BBQ Chicken opening a new combined to-go restaurant right next door on Kapahulu Avenue.
"We were driving by. We were going to Safeway," said Maria Wilkins, a customer. "I said there's flippin' chicken in the parking lot. There's flippin' chicken we got to go."
"Coming to Honolulu, people have been wanting this for a long time, so we are excited," said Elmer Guzman of Poke Stop.
The options include healthier choices that are not served at the drive-in from steamed vegetables to brown rice. You can also buy T-shirts with iconic landmarks from the past.
"For several years I had an idea to get different restaurants together, not just their food but the restaurants, chefs and people preparing their food and this location gave us an opportunity to do that," said Jim Gusukuma of Rainbow Drive-In.
Some of the staple names such as KC waffle dogs don't have a retail space. Now customers know where they can get the food every day.
For 50 years Rainbow Drive-In has served their well-known chili and white rice, but there will be a bit of a change with brown rice and steamed vegetables.
"The concept here is a little more healthier, smaller portion and it's easier to go and take out and eat at home and reheat it. Whatever it may be," said Hiroshi Fukui of Rainbow Drive-In.
The restaurant will be open for now from 7 days a week from 9 am to 7 p.m.
You can also buy t-shirts with iconic landmarks from the past at the location.


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US Senator Elizabeth Warren has sent a letter encouraging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate Tesla and its Board of Directors. The official’s letter cited possible “conflicts of interest, misappropriation of corporate assets, and other negative impacts to Tesla shareholders” related to Elon Musk’s acquisition of social media platform Twitter.
Warren’s nine-page letter, which was sent to SEC Chair Gary Gensler on Monday, mentioned the Tesla board’s “apparent lack of independence” from the CEO. It also cited “inaction and incomplete disclosures,” as well as “questions about possible violations of securities laws and exchange rules which fall under SEC’s jurisdiction.”
When Elon Musk took over Twitter last year, he implemented a number of changes to the social media platform. These included cutting off a large portion of Twitter’s headcount, as well as the rapid rollout of new features. Musk also brought over workers from his other companies to help the social media platform function with a much more optimized workforce.
Warren, for her part, wrote that “possible violations of state and federal labor law” might have happened when Musk brought over Tesla employees to temporarily work on Twitter. She also argued that the Tesla board had not informed shareholders about how the electric vehicle maker and Twitter have worked together, or how they may work together, as noted in a CNBC report.
Despite advertising veteran Linda Yaccarino being appointed as Twitter’s new CEO, Warren noted in her letter that Musk is still left in charge of the social media platform. Musk, after all, still serves as Twitter’s CTO and executive chairman.
“Despite hiring Ms. Yaccarino, he is likely to retain ‘significant control’ over the company1 and intends to continue overseeing core functions of the business.2 Given the concerns about the actions by Mr. Musk and the Board, I ask that the SEC conduct a review to determine if they have complied with relevant securities laws,” Warren wrote.
The US Senator also reiterated concerns that were raised in an earlier communication with Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm last December. As per a spokesperson from the SEC’s Office of Public Affairs, Gentler will “respond to Members of Congress directly.”
Warren’s letter can be viewed below.
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The iCloud Keychain password manager built into iOS and macOS is reportedly getting support for two-factor authentication. This is a feature now only available in third-party password managers like Dashlane. It would make storing and using passwords more secure.
One fantastic new feature of iOS 12 is that password manager apps can integrate into the built-in password autofill. You know how when you tap a password field in Safari, and it offers to fill the password in from your iCloud Keychain? It’s pretty handy right?
Now it can also serve up passwords form third-party apps like Dashlane and 1Password. And that’s not all.
One of the biggest password managers for iOS and Mac will not be acquired by Apple, despite rumors to the contrary.
1Password issued a response this morning to a report that Apple is in talks to acquire it saying the rumor is “completely false.” AgileBits, the developer studio behind 1Password, has been independent since its inception and the firm says it plans to remain so indefinitely.
Nobody likes having to type a password every time they need to sign in to a website or service. iCloud Keychain is Apple’s take on simplifying password management across the Mac, iPhone and iPad. It securely stores your user names, passwords, and credit and debit card details, then auto-fills fields when required. It can also generate strong passwords and sync Wi-Fi credentials.
If you’re deep into the Apple ecosystem, it might be a good idea to start using this handy feature. Before we dive in to use it, let’s have a look at all the features of iCloud Keychain.
Apple gave hackers an inside look at how it keeps iOS 10 secure during a recent Black Hat conference keynote that has now been made available to view online.
The keynote by Apple security expert Ivan Krstic discusses three iOS security mechanisms (HomeKit, Auto Unlock and iCloud Keychain) in unprecedented detail, showing key elements of Apple’s cryptographic design. If you’ve ever been curious how Apple keeps all your private data safe, it’s well worth watching.
By now you’ve heard all about the catastrophic Heartbleed bug and how it has siphoned passwords, credit card numbers, emails and other data to the vampires who would drain all of us dry. From your love life (OKCupid) to your tax returns, there’s a lot at stake.
Since 66% of web servers are vulnerable to the bug, that means you’re faced with only task more fun than decluttering the garage: changing your passwords.
To help you on your password resetting chores, we’ve compiled the best tools to make the process as quick and painless as possible. Also, they’ll sync your new passwords to your iPhone — all in under 10 minutes. Leaving you time to watch Silicon Valley again. You’re welcome.
iOS users that long for something other than Safari will be delighted to know that Google has released a free update for Chrome for iOS.
The new updated includes an Autofill feature that lets users complete forms with just a few clicks, similar to the autofill feature Apple introduced in iOS 7 with iCloud Keychain. Along with some stability enhancements and bug fixes, Google has also improved image searches by adding the ability to long press on an image to search for related images.
The big iPad event might be over, but take heart fellow Apple fans, there are still plenty of great Apple stories to chat about on our all-new CultCast. This episode: the iPhone stops giving motion sickness to the pukers; some of your favorite Apple apps get big redesigns; the new Macbook Pro gets benchmarked; Apple puts your passwords in the iCloud; and more!


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Full coverage of CSPs 2013 Convenience Retailing University.
Some people say life is a series of learning experiences. And wasn’t that the truth at Convenience Retailing University (CRU) 2013? More than 500 retailers and suppliers convened in Glendale, Ariz., in late January for four days of opening their minds to new ideas, sharing their experiences with friends, and coming together in generosity to the CARRE Foundation’s featured charity, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). Read on for our coverage of the event, and check out our CRU Photo Album for a recap of networking, bowling, partying and opening their hearts for a great cause.
Unifying marketing, operational efforts made food business sense for QuickChek
In describing QuickChek’s mission of how providing a great place to work leads to a great place to shop, which ultimately leads to a great place to invest, John Schaninger portrayed a perfect circle—something that perpetually rejuvenates itself.
But the process isn’t always so perfect. Speaking before about 75 attendees at a breakout session, Schaninger, vice president of sales and marketing for the 132-store, Whitehouse Station, N.J.-based chain, said communicating how store-level goals tie back to marketing strategies is an ongoing and pervasive task.
“We like meetings,” Schaninger said, explaining how periodic meetings involving cross-departmental teams help develop budgets, goals and tactics. “Communication is vital.”
He described a culture of open and honest communication, which leads to high levels of execution and then a point of celebration. The whole process, Schaninger said, started with budgets.
The chain’s budget process begins annually with meetings between vendor and his six-person (five category managers and a foodservice manager)marketing team. They work together to review supplier statistics and trends on a national and local level. Schaninger said he prefers local numbers over national, often encouraging vendor-accompanied trips to the company’s stores, competing c-stores and even cross-channel retailers.
For each category, QuickCheck designates a vendor as a category captain for the chain. That person works with the chain to help determine the potential opportunity for the entire category. Those results go to the company’s senior management.
After initial feedback, the marketing team revises numbers, then presents the new budgets to everyone from the senior team down to district leaders.
“You have to be ready for them,” he said. “Talk about being open and honest.”Sometimes numbers will be skewed because of a warm summer that extends vacation traffic, or a storm that might depress final sales figures. All those are taken into account. Budgets also circulate back, meaning that marketing initially works from budgets first developed at the store level. Store personnel meet with district managers to create budgets that flow back up to the top.“What’s accomplished is a level of buy-in from those who then have to execute,” he said.
When asked who gets the final say, Schaninger said, “It really is everyone together—operations, marketing and vendors. We’ve got to get to these numbers,” he says. “We’ve got to come to an agreement, so when you ask who owns it, we all own it.”
At the end of the day, they all have to report to a board of directors. “And it’s not fun to go to them not having hit that number,” he said.
C-Stores Set the Pace for New Products
“You guys are truly a great catalyst in bringing new products to market.”
This was the central theme of Larry Levin’s session, “Making Stars Shine Bright in C-Stores: The Channel’s Importance in New Product Launches.” Levin, SymphonyIRI Group Inc.’s executive general manager of consumer insights, would later dub the c-store industry a “rock star” for innovation.
SymphonyIRI Pacesetters report clearly shows the important role c-stores play in successful product launches. For 13 years, the Chicago-based market research company has tracked the most successful launches of new or extended brands—those with at least a 30% distribution and $7.5 million in first-year sales. During those 13 years, c-stores have accounted for approximately $2.5 billion of the Pacesetter new product sales, which is more than two-thirds of all Pacesetter dollars.
“C-stores are a great laboratory to breed successful launches, especially in alcohol, tobacco, sports and energy drinks,” Levin said. Not surprisingly, of the top 10 c-store product launches over the past 13 years (representing a whopping $1.4 billion in sales), all the products fell into those four segments. Perhaps more impressive is the fact that out of those products, four saw 99% or 100% of their sales dollars from the c-store channel:
- Monster Nitrous had $55 million in sales during its first year, 100% of which were in c-stores.
- Muscle Milk had $86 million year one sales, with 99% c-store.
- Camel Snus clocked in at $90.8 million, 99% c-store.
- The No. 1 first-year new c-store product was Camel Crush with $375 million in sales, and 100% from c-stores.
“As you think about these top 10 products, it really helps you see the importance that you folks play in gaining the trial, gaining the repeat and sustaining the distribution for these manufacturers as they release these important products,” said Levin.
And though SymphonyIRI had yet to release its 2012 Pacesetters report, it was another strong year for c-store staples, with new offerings from Rockstar Energy and Dr Pepper leading the pack, according to Levin.
Of course, new product successes are not just about what happens in the first year. Levin warned retailers that it is equally crucial to continue support in year two.
“Trial doesn’t only happen in year one,” Levin said. “The worst thing that can happen is if consumers want.
CRU attendees curious about QuickChek’s foray into self checkout stations got an update from John Schaninger, the chain’s vice president of sales and marketing.
In use at 18 stores for more than four years, self-checkout is most effective at high-volume locations. He’s seen sites that needed four cashiers at peak times fall to two. It didn’t cut labor because the company decided to put the extra cashiers out onto the sales floor to more directly serve customers.
As far as theft, he said a lot of shrink occurs through the back door vs. the front, meaning that internal theft and other suspicious activity happens where shoppers aren’t present.“Shrink goes down when we put in self-serve,” he said.“Eighty percent of it is a team member.
How to Cater to the Empowered Consumer
“Consumers are now in charge. They have more power today than ever.”
That statement, made by Michael Sansolo, president of Sansolo Solutions, gets to the heart of what retail is today.“Every day you have to give[your customers] a reason to come to you,” he said. Long gone are the days of simply putting up a store and watching customers walk through the doors. If you’re doing business the way you were in 2008, you’re not relevant any more, he said. “Now more than ever, consumers can beat a path awayfrom your door.”Sansolo, who spent 13 years as vice president of FMI and is a former editor of Progressive Grocer, urged retailer attendees of his general session to figure out who they are as retailers and what makes them special. “In looking at your competition, how do you blow them away? The more defined your niche is, and if that niche is properly served, the happier your customers are.”
Sansolo cited an example from overseas. Despite the company’s retail woes in the United States, Tesco has a strategy that works well in England: It builds different types of stores tailored to different areas. A store near a highway or touristy area looks much different from a Tesco supercenter.“They want to make sure they have the right store for you,” Sansolo said.
On the other side of the retail coin is Best Buy, a retailer with beautiful stores that is becoming merely a retail showroom, having fallen victim to the stark reality that consumers have more information than ever before at their fingertips. Consumers do their shopping for a new TV at a Best Buy, then go online and shop for the best price.
Another unfortunate example: Tata built a $2,300 vehicle for consumers in India, many of whom could not otherwise afford a car—but the vehicle was found to “occasionally” burst into flames. Competing auto companies are using that fact to market themselves as the best value for the money.
Metro Petro, U-Gas and Parker’s take home CSP’s Convenience Retailing Awards of Excellence
Innovative store design, unique branding and giving back to the community straight out of gasoline margin: These are the three attributes honored in CSP’s annual Convenience Retailing Awards of Excellence.
Meeting Community Needs
A 40-year-old c-store with three automobile service bays initially presented a challenge for Clay and Mia Lambert. With no experience in the c-store industry, the Lamberts bought the Minneapolis site in 2003—and quickly turned that challenge into an opportunity.
Loc a t e d on the outskirts of the University of Minnesota, the Lamberts’ site was profitable, but they knew they could do better, and a unique store design was the way to do it.
“Once we cleaned the place up … we started busting at the seams with new business,” co-owner Mia Lambert says.“So we knew that we had some opportunity that we weren’t capitalizing on in the old structure.”
The result is Metro Petro, a 3,500-square-foot store that’s designed to appeal to female customers with a unique color scheme and materials, and an overall focus on safety and security. The couple purposely chose a female architect and other consultants with little experience in the c-store industry to ensure that their two-story store stood out from the pack.
Since opening the rebuilt store in 2009, Clay and Mia have seen a marked improvement in sales and store traffic. And more boosts are expected when the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium—located just down the street—becomes the home field for the Minnesota Vikings for at least a few years.
A Foodservice Destination
The U-Gas site in Barnhart, Mo., is part c-store and part upscale QSR, with an innovative use of dual names.
The 5,300-square-foot site opened in 2008. U-Gas created a second brand—Gigi’s—that set the restaurant apart from the well-known local c-store brand. The name comes from the “nickname for the maternal grandmother of the founder of the company,” says Perry Cheatham, COO of U-Gas. “So when we needed a name for this place, we decided to keep it in the family, and it gave it a folksy, homemade feel.”
Outside, Gigi’s Fresh Café stands out for its stone façade and classic restaurant color scheme. Inside, the café is set off from the main c-store by a short hallway, providing a separate atmosphere while remaining contiguous with the main store. The offering is a collection of comfort foods and down-home favorites, such as flatbread pizza, oven-baked sandwiches, fresh salads, Panini’s and more.
To date, only one of the 19 U-Gas locations includes a Gigi’s Fresh Café, but the separate branding has taken on a second life as Gig’s Fresh Express, the chain’s commissary-foodservice offering that brings packaged hoagies, salads, fresh fruit, chicken tenders, burgers and more to the c-stores.
Fueling the Community
The Parker Cos. is giving away its gasoline margins—well, some of it.
The Savannah, Ga.-based chain of 27 c-stores is in the second year of its Fueling the Community program, which, on the first Wednesday of every month, donates to local schools a penny for every gallon of gas pumped. CEO Greg Parker says the program lets the communities know that Parker’s is interested in their well-being.
“We live in an age of empathy; customers want to support companies that are giving back,” Parker says. “So we think it’s really important that we’re going back in a profound way to the communities that are supporting us.”
Launched in April 2011, Fueling the Community works in conjunction with Parker’s Pump Pal loyalty program, which drops the price of gasoline at the pump. While a donation is made for every gasoline customer, regardless of whether they’re a loyalty-card holder, only those with a Pump Pal card can log onto the Fueling the Community website and choose the school they’d like the funding to go to.
“We’re giving the power to the people. We’re letting the people decide how the money is allocated,” Parker said. “We don’t restrict anything with the schools; the schools can spend the money any way that they want.”
So far the program has raised about $50,000, donated to numerous school districts in Georgia and South Carolina.


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In case you missed it, Audioboom bought Triton Digital in February of 2018 for $185 million dollars. This was done as a reverse takeover – which is defined as a takeover of a public company by a smaller company. InsideRadio described this situation as “a major shakeup in the digital audio industry.”
Audioboom is a podcasting platform. They have a team to help podcasters make the most of their content. Audioboom builds tools to host, monetize, and distribute a podcaster’s show. Triton Digital is the global technology and services leader to the digital audio and podcast industry.
InsideRadio reported on February 13, 2018, that Audioboom was buying Triton Digital in a reverse takeover. Under the proposed deal, Audioboom will buy the share capital of Triton Digital’s parent company, Triton Digital Canada, Inc., for $185 million. The combined company will be renamed Triton Digital Group.
Triton CEO Neal Schore will be named president and CEO of the combined company, while Audioboom CEO Robert Proctor is named executive director. Triton CEO Mark Rosenbaum will become executive VP and CFO.
The purchase is subject to shareholder approval. It is also contingent upon Audioboom raising around $215 million in new shares to fund the deal, and on executing a share purchase agreement. I assume that if the deal falls apart, we will likely see news of that somewhere online.


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49 Square Miles, maker of laidback-luxe handbags and accessories we’ve coveted for years, has given us a stylish reason to head south. Now open on the ground level of its South San Francisco headquarters, the new 49 Square Miles retail shop offers a chance to peruse the latest from the four-year-old Bay Area accessories line.
Launched by Lisa Rissetto in 2007, the company is known for roomy leather hobos in rich hues and has expanded in recent years to offer jewelry, scarves and a line of outfit-making leather belts. Until now, fans have had to either shop online or hunt down the label at its stockists (locally, the list includes Nest and Carrots). But the new shop – open for now on Fridays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and by appointment – means a chance to view a large number of items from the brand in one place.
Along with regularly-priced merch, we hear the shop will also offer marked-down styles from previous seasons, samples and one-of-a kind prototypes in a 1,000-square-foot space outfitted with vintage display pieces.
Want to see it for yourself? Head to 160 S. Linden Avenue #200, South San Francisco. For appointments, call 415-904-0690 ext 20.


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By : Erik Gruenwedel | Posted: 27 Jan 2010
Inception Media Group, the upstart home entertainment distribution company co-founded by former Image Entertainment senior executive David Borshell, Jan. 27 said it had acquired digital distributor Trinidad Media Services.
Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close in February, were not disclosed.
Trinidad provides digital encoding, electronic packaging and high-speed content delivery across all major online, broadcast media and video-on-demand (VOD) platforms.
The Los Angeles-based company claims its platforms enable content owners to deliver digital media to more than 20 retailers and broadcasters, including iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox, CinemaNow, InDemand, Comcast, Echostar, Blockbuster, Hulu and Vudu.
Erik St. Anthony Pence, CEO of Trinidad, will serve as president of Inception, helping the Santa Monica, Calif.-based distributor expand the technology-driven services side of the business, according to Borshell.
Borshell, who was the former president of Image, is well versed in packaged media acquisitions, marketing and distribution.
“It is essential that we establish revenue streams that will significantly contribute toward building a secure, growing and diversified business,” Borshell said “Trinidad brings a direct pipeline into the largest online entertainment retailers and VOD providers, enabling our partners to fully exploit and maximize all digital distribution revenue opportunities.”


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The Volkswagen ID.3 is meant to herald an age of affordable, zero-emission mobility. One thing it will definitely herald, however, is substantial savings for the German automaker…
Significant Cost Reductions
This month, Volkswagen announced that it had started production of the ID.3 at a factory in Zwickau; the facility has been converted soley for the assembly of all-electric models. During an investor event the company’s Chief Executive, Herbert Diess, stated that the new, all-electric model would be significantly cheaper to build than the e-Golf. He said, “if you focus on an electric platform, all in all it accounts for a 40% reduction against the predecessor electric Golf. Most of it from cells and the battery system. Around 5-10% comes from dedicating an entire plant to electric vehicles”.
The e-Golf itself was simply a conversion from the Golf. Whereas the ID.3 has been built from the ground up on an electric platform. In this case, it’s the MEB platform which has been made for all of the company’s upcoming EVs. It’s also worth considering that the e-Golf was only ever made in small numbers, whereas the ID.3 has always been intended for volume production. As Diess mentioned, a game-changer is having facilities entirely dedicated to electric powertrains.
Diess’ announcement is somewhat curious. Only a year ago he emphasised that EVs were, and would remain, significantly more expensive than petrols. On bringing EVs to market he explained, “the burden for our company, such as the cost of bringing to market electric cars, will be higher than expected. This is particularly so since some of our competitors have been making more progress”. There are a number of things to consider. The first is the creation of infrastructure and facilities dedicated to EVs; a year ago, VW was relying on partially converted plants and factories. The second is that the manufacturing technology is improving at a rapid pace.
Volkswagen claims that it’s paying $100 for the batteries used in its EVs. It’s also looking to build its own batteries via a new gigafactory. Even more intriguingly, it’s announced plans to create a sub-£20,000 electric vehicle by 2023. In short, the company is becoming more confident as its new supply-chain, model range and manufacturing infrastructure begin to stake shape. Automakers have mixed feelings about EVs. They know that on a legislative level, they’re a necessity, but in terms of demand things are still exceptionally embryonic. For a time, it was sensible for them to offer a middling, public perspective. Now, it seems, they’re going all in; at least in Volkswagen’s case…
Volkswagen: Electric Cars Are ‘Nearly’ As Cheap As Petrols – https://autoserve.co.uk/motoring-news/volkswagen-electric-cars-cheap-petrols/
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March 5 – BLiTZ. China can use giant port cranes for espionage. This fear was voiced by the American authorities. The Wall Street Journal writes about it.
According to the publication, cranes manufactured by ZPMC can be a “Trojan horse”. The reason for this is sensors that can determine the origin and destination of reloaded containers.
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“PRC may receive information about materials that are imported into the United States, exported from the country to support US military operations around the world,” the publication says.
Similar cranes operate in seaports across the country, including those used by the military.
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Having decided to refocus its brand on mobile and video after losing ground in the search engine market, Yahoo unveiled its new messing app, Livetext, on Wednesday. The tech giant hopes it will prove a worthy rival to WhatsApp, Snapchat and others.
Livetext features peer-to-peer text, emoticons and videos, but without audio, making it perfect for communicating with friends who have loud or annoying voices. It’s available now for iOS and Android devices in the U.S., U.K,, Canada, France and Germany.
“We wanted to create a new way to communicate, blending the simplicity of texting with the emotion and immediacy of live video, to make your experience spontaneous and real,” Yahoo’s Adam Cahan said at Livetext’s media launch event in New York City.
So if Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook messenger, Google hangouts, GroupMe, Facetime, iMessage, Skype, Blackberry messenger (yes, it’s back), texting and phone calls aren’t for you, there’s no better time to give Livetext a whirl.
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Sales go cold for Aga as fewer households refitting kitchens
Daisy Lowe in Aga advert: Sales not so hot
Fewer households moving or refitting their kitchens led to cooler revenues at Aga Rangemaster.
Shares slumped 7pc after the group said its annual sales would be 2pc lower than the previous year.
The firm blamed currency movements, both in the US and in its Irish operations, as well as poor consumer markets.
But it stressed that profits for the year would be up, in spite of tough trading conditions.
Aga – whose ovens are especially
popular with celebrities including model Daisy Lowe, pictured – said it
will continue slashing costs during the year to try and drive
improvements in its tepid Irish and US divisions.
‘Prospects are now somewhat better,’ said chief executive William McGrath.
‘We will be investing in our key brands to make sure 2013 is a more progressive year.’
Analysts said the group’s fortunes would not revive until the housing market picked up – because people are more likely to fork out for an Aga when moving into their new home.
Shares fell 1.75p to 83p.
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Choosing to pay for another customer’s order can make someone’s day. But that simple gesture can easily go wrong. That’s what a Taco Bell customer with a sizable order total found out after being accused of being part of a “pay it forward” scam.
In the video, TikTok user Meredith Donovan explains what happened. “So, I just got screamed at in the Taco Bell drive-thru,” says Donovan, who is known by username meredith.donovan.
During a recent trip to the Mexican fast food chain, Donovan’s order totaled a whopping $60. As Donovan waited in the drive thru line, she noticed a woman exiting the car directly ahead of her. “The lady had gotten out of her car in front of me and is running towards my car, screaming her head off,” Donovan said.
Excuse how busted i look, i just needed my taco bell okay♬ original sound – meredith d
Alarmed, Donovan rolled up her windows and locked her car doors. But she could hear the other customer say the word “scam.” Donovan learned that the car in front of the woman had paid for her meal as a random act of kindness. The woman attempted to pay the favor forward, but became suspicious after learning the next order totaled $60.
Although the two eventually deescalated the situation, Donovan admits “I did almost sh*t my pants.”
The video has accumulated over 36,000 views as of Aug. 13. Many viewers speculated about what Donovan could have ordered to reach a $60 total.
“Did you get 55 tacos?” one viewer asked.
“55 tacos 55 Crunchwraps 100 cheese roll ups,” a second commenter suggested.
Additionally, other users revealed their thoughts about the “pay it forward” concept.
“people are wild. I’m not paying for no ones food. idgaf who you are,” one user wrote.
“that’s the chance u take when u do it..lol,” a second joked.
This isn’t the first time a “pay it forward” gesture turned into someone else’s regret. A TikTok creator went viral in 2021 calling the concept a scam after she paid a $30 Starbucks tab for the person in line behind her. Her own order, which was paid by the car ahead of her, cost just $10.
The Daily Dot reached out to Donovan via Instagram and TikTok for comment.


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New Relic, Inc., provider of real-time insights for software-driven businesses, announced that Andrew Lawson has joined the company as executive vice president and general manager of Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Based in London, Lawson will lead the company’s growth and business strategy across the region.
Lawson joins New Relic from Salesforce, where he led both UKI and EMEA teams through a phenomenal period of growth. He led Salesforce to its 2nd Best Place to Work in the UK Great Places to Work ranking and 5th Best UK Employer in the Glassdoor ranking, among many other prominent distinctions.
Prior to Salesforce, Lawson spent 14 years with Oracle Corporation where he held a number of leadership positions.
Andrew Lawson said: “Developers, operations, and CTOs at companies across EMEA are recognising that instrumenting their digital business is their greatest opportunity for competitive advantage. New Relic delivers a platform to help modern enterprises deliver more software to their customers, and I look forward to helping the company through its next phase of growth.”
Erica Schultz, chief revenue officer at New Relic, said: “New Relic has helped companies across EMEA, including Delivery Hero SE, Orbit Showtime Network (OSN), Porsche AG, and Telenor to create best-in-class digital experiences. Andrew is the ideal leader to expand our presence across the region by fostering deeper relationships with our customers and partners.”
Research firm IDC predicts SaaS and cloud software revenue in EMEA will reach $60.5 billion by 2022. New Relic serves the region via offices in Barcelona, Dublin, London, Munich, Paris, Tel-Aviv, and Zurich. In addition, the company recently opened its European Region in Frankfurt, Germany.


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This is pretty concerning. Intas Pharmaceuticals ltd manufactures at least some of the rapamycin products out of India.
The US Department of Defense entered an agreement with Valisure, an independent lab that’s spotted dangerous chemicals in a variety of widely used pharma and consumer products, to test medications amid surging concerns about generic drug quality and shortages.
Under a multi-year agreement, Valisure will test dozens of drugs for dangerous chemicals and rate manufacturers’ quality to help the department weed out potentially substandard treatments, according to a statement from the Connecticut-based laboratory. The partnership is a cooperative research and development agreement to exchange information, and the Pentagon will not pay Valisure.
Nine out of 10 drugs consumed by Americans are generic, low-cost copies of innovative medications whose patents have expired. Concerns about the generics industry — largely based in India and China — have exploded as the US encounters shortages affecting drugs such as life-saving cancer therapies made at a plant in India found to have major quality shortfalls.
After Covid-19 revealed the US’s dependence on other nations to provide crucial treatments, Congress directed the Defense Department to assess risks to its pharmaceutical supply chain. Bloomberg first reported on the department’s talks with Valisure in June. Drug shortages are at a nine-year high as manufacturers deal with quality issues, difficulty getting supplies and rising demand for certain drugs.
Valisure has gained attention for finding cancer-causing chemicals in drugs and personal-care products such as sunscreen, hand sanitizer and dry shampoo. The heartburn pill Zantac was taken off the market after the lab found a carcinogen in pills in 2019.
Kaiser Permanente, a California-based health system serving 12.7 million Americans, started working with Valisure on additional drug quality checks more than two years ago. However, US regulators at the Food and Drug Administration have pushed back against such independent drug testing, saying that some labs aren’t trustworthy and may spark unwarranted shortages.
The FDA has said that 62% of drug shortages are caused by quality issues stemming from poor manufacturing practices. A current shortage of two drugs, carboplatin and cisplatin, that are used to fight a variety of cancers is linked to a production plant in India operated by Intas Pharmaceuticals Ltd. The company’s plant shut down manufacturing after FDA inspectors found a truckload of shredded documents related to drug quality during a visit late last year.
“Our country’s reliance on active pharmaceutical ingredients and medicines manufactured abroad in China and India has come at significant cost of safety,” US Representative Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat, said in the statement from Valisure.
Valisure’s ratings will rely on a scoring system Light helped develop along with other drug safety and shortages experts that was published in March in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. The system takes into account the outcomes of FDA inspections and testing of drugs for correct dosage as well as any carcinogens or other toxic compounds.


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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire DVD is finally out in the U.S. Fans around the country have attended midnight release parties including three Walmart locations where cast members turned up to sign autographs.
Willow Shields met fans at the Walmart in Orange, CA. Stephanie Leigh Schlund (Cashmere) and Lynn Cohen (Mags) were at the midnight release party at the Walmart Supercenter in Secaucus, NJ while Bruno Gunn, who plays Brutus was at Elgin, Illinois.
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The theft, which occurred in 2008, went undetected for almost a decade. It value Motorola $252 million in misplaced earnings, the Justice Division claims.
Gee Siong Kok, who labored in Motorola’s design middle in Penang, Malaysia, was extradited in August and pleaded responsible as we speak to a cost of conspiracy to commit theft of commerce secrets and techniques. He faces a sentence of as much as 10 years and can forfeit $1 million.
Motorola received a civil case of trade-secret and copyright infringement towards Hytera in U.S. District Courtroom in Chicago almost three years in the past and was awarded $765 million. The judgment later was lowered to $545 million.
Hytera and 7 former Motorola workers had been indicted earlier this yr on felony costs of stealing commerce secrets and techniques and conspiracy to commit theft of commerce secrets and techniques.
In response to courtroom filings, Kok recruited different Motorola engineers to Hytera, and so they stole supply code and greater than 11,000 paperwork from Motorola.
Hytera, which beforehand had been a distributor of Motorola merchandise, developed its personal two-way radios, in keeping with courtroom filings. However when two-way radios within the U.S. and Europe had been required to modify from analog to digital know-how in 2013, Hytera wanted to catch up, and it recruited Kok, prosecutors say.
Motorola launched its digital two-way radios in 2007, and Hytera started promoting digital radios within the U.S. in 2010. Kok, who joined Hytera as director of analysis and improvement, finally turned a member of its board of administrators.
Hytera and different defendants may go to trial subsequent yr, however a date has not been set. If discovered responsible, Hytera faces a possible positive of thrice the worth of the stolen commerce secrets and techniques, together with the prices it prevented.
The date Kok pleaded responsible has been corrected on this up to date story.


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Facebook exchange units can deliver an ROI comparable to other search and direct response channels, but that’s more likely to be the case for dynamic than static units.
Click-through rates for news feed ads were an impressive 21 times higher than for standard web retargeting, and 49 times higher than for sidebar ads.
After falling by 40% between Q2 and Q3, the cost of advertising on Facebook in the US dropped by another 37% in Q4.
Mobile newsfeed ads achieved a considerable clickthrough rate of 3.38%.
While ads in the sidebar performed poorly, garnering only a 0.04% clickthrough rate among high-value Facebook users, page post ads in the newsfeed saw a clickthrough rate more than 46 times higher, at 1.87%.


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The FDA has rejected 800,000 NTN product purposes and accepted over 350.
Artificial nicotine vaping merchandise, had till not too long ago been exempt from FDA laws as a result of they include nicotine made in a lab, quite than extracted from a tobacco leaf. Nevertheless, following a laws enacted on March fifteenth, the FDA has been granted the authority to control tobacco merchandise containing nicotine from any supply, which has led to an alleged ban on artificial nicotine.
The March laws required artificial nicotine producers to submit premarket purposes by Could 14, 2022, and any model which had not submitted these paperwork could be thought of unlawful. Nevertheless this was not enforced, resulting in the FDA being on the receiving finish of countless criticism.
Lastly, on July thirteenth the FDA introduced that it had despatched two warning letters to producers advertising and marketing non-authorized artificial nicotine merchandise or non-tobacco nicotine (NTN) and over 100 warning letters to retailers who bought artificial nicotine merchandise to minors.
85% of artificial nicotine purposes have been reviewed
The FDA has now reported it has issued new warning letters to 102 retailers for illegally promoting NTN merchandise to underage consumers. The company additionally revealed it has obtained almost 1 million NTN purposes from over 200 firms, with all purposes submitted by Could 14 having been processed, and over 85% reviewed.
The FDA stated that it has rejected 800,000 NTN product purposes and accepted over 350. “Accepted purposes will enter additional overview, which ensures sure standards are met for purposes to proceed with additional overview,” wrote the FDA.
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___Renowned US-based cotton expert, Bill Dunavant Jnr, has provided a positive outlook for future world cotton prices, consumption, stocks and carryover, in a bullish address to the annual Beltwide Conference in the United States._
His comments have been captured in the In Season Comments > Beltwide Briefings, http://www.csd.net.au/inseasoncomments.asp?doc=887)
Pictured right: Bill Dunavant Jnr addresses the recent Beltwide Conference in the USA.
Mr Dunavant said world cotton production this year was forecast to reach 87.5 million bales, while consumption would rise to 95.4 million bales, leaving a carryover of 38.8 million bales, a fall of 8.1 million bales on the previous year.
He forecast that world production would rise 8 per cent next year due to price incentives, rising to 94.5 million bales, while consumption would rise to 97 million bales, leaving carryover stocks at 36.3 million bales, which would be a “price friendly result.”
Mr Dunavant said this year’s US crop would reach only 17.1 million bales (should have been 19 million bales with normal weather), while domestic consumption would fall to 7.5 million bales and exports would reach 10.8 million bales, leaving US domestic carryover about one million bales lower at 6.4 million bales.
He forecast a US crop next year of 17.5 million bales, domestic consumption at 7.3 million bales, exports at 10.9 million bales, and carryover down further at 5.4 million bales, hence a drop of 2 million bales in two years.
Mr Dunavant told the Beltwide conference that Australia would be lucky to produce 1.6 million bales this year, down from 3.2 million last year, and predicted that if water continued to be limited the cotton crop next season would be less than 1 million bales.
He praised the quality of Australian cotton, noting its good grade, staple, strength and micronaire, and its freedom from contamination, all qualities that help generate significant price premiums on world markets.
Mr Dunavant highlighted recent developments in China, noting production this year of 21.5 million bales, with domestic consumption reaching 27 million bales, and its carryover dropping from 13.6 to 9.4 million bales this marketing year, which would require imports of around 2 million bales.
He said China had better textile technology than most other developing countries and for this reason would continue to capture market share. He expects China’s domestic consumption of cotton to expand by 2.5 per cent a year for the next three years, reaching 29 million bales annually in three years’ time.
While not identifying any individual country, Mr Dunavant said there was instances of cheating and illegal imports of cotton textiles in the US, making a plea for tighter monitoring and control of textile imports.
He expressed dismay at the demise of the cotton textile industry in the US, where throughput had diminished from 11.5 million bales five years ago to 7.5 million bales this year, with projections that it may go as low as 5.5 million bales over the next five years.
He expressed support for modest US Government assistance to cotton producers, manufacturers, merchants and exporters, arguing that the decay of the textile industry cannot be allowed to spread to other industry segments.
While warning that competition from man-made fibres would continue in both volume and value, Mr Dunavant was bullish on world cotton prices in the shorter term, commenting that lower world and US carryover, rising world consumption and short supplies of high grade cotton, would underpin and expand recent price gains.
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The increasingly hectic lifestyle of the new generation of Malaysian consumers is making going cashless far more attractive, especially now that Boost, Malaysia’s homegrown e-wallet, has just made it easier to shop without cash at Watsons.
Homegrown e-wallet, Boost, announced that users can enjoy a cashless shopping experience at Watsons, the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer, in more than 450 outlets across Malaysia.
This long-awaited collaboration is aimed at contributing towards Malaysia’s aspirations of becoming a cashless society while offering convenience at its best.
“Boost has seen over five times (5X) growth in users since a year ago. The adoption rate is very encouraging and today we have over 3.5 million users in Malaysia who have chosen to go cashless with our e-wallet,” said Mohd Khairil Abdullah, Chief Executive Officer of Axiata Digital Services, parent company to Boost.
“At the same time, we also continue to partner other strong brands like Watsons to bring more convenience and a richer customer experience for users who are increasingly embracing a digital lifestyle. Today, we have over 60,000 online and offline merchant touchpoints nationwide where customers can use their Boost e-wallets,” he continued.
“Watsons is extremely excited to be partnering up with Boost to provide our customers with the ease of walking into any of our Watsons outlets without having to worry about having physical cash when paying. Furthermore, Boost is also an available payment option when shopping at Watsons online store too.” said Caryn Loh, Managing Director of Watsons Malaysia.
She added, “Being the largest health and beauty retailer in Malaysia and Asia, we constantly aim to lead a step ahead in order to enhance customer experience at Watsons both in-store and online.”
Alongside officiating this partnership, Boost and Watsons also jointly announced huge loyalty point rewards for customers during the upcoming Chinese New Year period. From 15 January until 4 March, customers who shop with Boost at Watsons outlets and online store will earn extra 8x Watsons points.
This reward comes on top of Boost’s signature Shake cashback reward that customers enjoy every time they pay with their e-wallet.
Boost is a lifestyle application that offers its users various services, from buying prepaid top ups and digital vouchers that can also be gifted, to free cash transfers and also a unique split-bills feature that allows users to “Go Dutch”.
In addition, Boost users get to pay their utility bills and street parking within Kuala Lumpur and that’s not all – users are also able to get rewards with instant cashback via Boost’s signature “Shake” reward feature.
Boost has also successfully established a strong presence in Malaysia at the locals’ favourite hot spots such as pasar malams, food trucks, major F&B outlets, cinemas and even online shopping platforms.


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After 15 years of product development, Sisley Paris is launching Sisleÿa L’Integral Anti-Age La Cure.
The intensive treatment is the 12th product in the current Sisleÿa range, which specifically targets aging. La Cure — as in “the cure” for aging — is a four-week intensive treatment program. Each week employs a different treatment meant to target specific aspects of the aging process. The brand recommends using the full four-week treatment twice a year.
President Philippe d’Ornano said the product employs a formula of active botanicals, like ginkgo biloba and peony extract, that aim to restart the cell cycle and renew the skin. Asked about the long product development timeline, D’Ornano said the product formulation is complex and required extensive research, and that the brand was committed to launching the product only when it felt it was ready.
For Sisley, launching La Cure amid the coronavirus pandemic required a shift in strategy, according to U.S. president Jim Maki. Typically, the brand would conduct in-person facials, but it is now moving toward a more digital approach.
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“We’ve been doing just so much digital with our customers in the stores and our e-commerce. They’ve actually been doing even digital facials with customers, taking them through the product and then explaining where La Cure would go into it,” Maki said.
Maki also noted that while the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down in-store shopping, foot traffic is slowly increasing. The brand has increased sampling and digital experiences for consumers, including facials and masterclasses.
La Cure is expected to do $12 million in sales its first year, according to industry sources.
The new treatment retails for $1,200 and is available on Sisley-Paris.com and will be available at retailers including Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman and select Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom locations starting Sept. 10.
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Are Tesla investors losing touch with reality? Elon Musk apology enough to send stock skyrocketing
Financial results are what normally concern investors. But not when it comes to Tesla. Despite record losses, a mere apology from CEO Elon Musk is enough for its stock to appreciate by $5 billion.
“I would like to apologize for being impolite on the prior call. Honestly, I think there is really no excuse for bad manners. I was kind of violating my own rule in that regard,” Musk said in a Tesla conference call on Wednesday. Just a month before, Musk called questions to him “boring” and “boneheaded,” and refused to answer them.
Tesla reported a record $717.5-million loss in the quarter from April to June, double last year’s losses. However, Musk’s apology helped Tesla gain almost 10 percent in pre-market trading, which is more than $5 billion.
Analysts are saying that Tesla stock is now almost only about Musk’s public behavior. “Elon’s tone was generally improved vs. last quarter, which may seem trivial, but TESLA stock has become somewhat of an Elon sentiment gauge,” RBC analysts said. So, Tesla earned a sum which is more than Montenegro’s yearly economic output, despite having never turned a profit.
With $55 billion market capitalization, Tesla is evaluated higher than Ford’s $40 billion. Elon Musk’s dream is to produce 7,000 cars a week – a number which Ford covers in four hours.
During his latest conference call, Musk again took a swipe at traditional automakers. Their cars, he said, are “built by the marketing department, the finance department.” They possess “no soul.” In June, Tesla said it is laying off about nine percent of its employees in an effort to cut costs and eliminate redundancies. Many of those fired have told media they were given no advance notice.
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As we are all grabbing the edge of our seats eyeing Google’s unveiling Pixel 6 and 6 Pro later today, the recent information suggests that we should rather be more excited than what we already are as the company really believes their flagship models will capture the market’s smartphone share. Nikkei reports that the Alphabet owned company has asked its suppliers to produce more than 7 million units, which is about the double of all the Pixel shipments from last year. According to IDC, Google shipped around 3.7mil phones last year. Putting things into perspective, even the Pixel 5a 5G which was launched earlier this year is predicted to surpass that range as Google has tasked its suppliers with 5 million units of those.
Google looks to be attempting to make smartphones as one of its influential verticals owing to the recent consistent comments about Pixel successors and over how it is the only United States based smartphone creator with an Android base if we don’t count Motorola (which is owned by Lenovo). Google will also try to pick up the global market share of Huawei.
The custom Tensor chip introduced by Google is also set to be the key difference that’d push Google’s market share. Along with the US, Google are also aiming for market share in the likes of Japan, India, and Europe.
Google wanted to move its Pixel 6 productions to Vietnam but pandemic put a halt to those plans. These Pixels look like the last ones that will be made in China as the production for Pixel 5a 5G is already moved to Vietnam.


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Séance will launch the latest album release DARK FLOW with a live gig at Mascotte Club in Zürich on Sept. 24.
Séance has announced the title of a new album. DARK FLOW will be released in September of 2023. A tour is scheduled to start in Switzerland.
After concerts in Bern and Baden, Séance is preparing more concerts for the fall/winter 2022.
Included in the rerelease of BDB are two remixes that just got finished by Chris Corner (Blue Dolphin Blue) and Johan Baeckström (My Room). Available in the digital release of the album.
Just in time for the holidays, Séance went back to the archive and is releasing the holiday single "Le Jour Viendra" from 1987 for the first time in digital form. The track will be available beginning of December.
After a Covid-forced hiatus, the band is getting ready to play the first concerts in the spring of 2022. More details to follow.
PARADISE WASTED was released today as second single from the album WHERE WE CAME FROM.
Only digital release.
30 years after their last release, the Swiss electronic pioneers are back. "Where We Came From" is the name of the new album. The title is both a statement and musical reference. The album was recorded in Antibes and London with producer David M Allen (The Cure, Depeche Mode, Sisters Of Mercy) on Conny Plank's legendary mixing desk. Digitally, the album can be found in most stores like iTunes and on Amazon and Spotify. CD and vinyl versions are also available through the music tab on this page.
Séance is currently in the studio in London with producer David M Allen (The Cure, Sisters Of Mercy, Depeche Mode) recording the album WHERE WE CAME FROM to be released March 2020.
Séance soon back in the studio.
Recording of the album Where We Came From will start in November in London with Dave Allen (The Cure, Sisters Of Mercy, The Human League) at the desk. Not just any desk, but the legendary mixing console by producer Conny Plank. release is scheduled for end of March 2020.


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Buenos Aires — A decade ago, Maximiliano Minoli and Damián Pardal decided to open a bicycle shop in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Urquiza. Installed in a former vegetable store of 35 m2, they saw how the demand and the popularity of that means of transport was growing, and over time they were able to annex an adjacent store to continue growing the business.
But at the same time, in their heads they were thinking of an ambitious business plan that consisted of turning that first store into a chain of bicycle shops. Years went by and the idea became more and more established. But it was the pandemic and bicycles’ surge in popularity as a means of transportation that brought a boom, and their dream began to take shape.
“The pandemic was crazy, with the demand for bicycles and the need for bike shops. People started to become aware of having a balanced, healthy life, and safe transportation with respect to Covid-19,″ Cristian Ceccherini, marketing manager of Goldenbike, says.
“We had only two stores of our own, but even before the pandemic we had the idea of franchising the brand, and the pandemic gave us the necessary push.”
In mid-lockdown, after franchising the first store, everything began to ‘pedal’ very fast, with the company opening one store after another. Today, a year and a half later, there are already 30 franchises of the brand.
The same happened with the company. “The company grew as the demand grew and made the human resources part of the company increase a lot, which today already has more than 100 employees in total,” says the executive.
Although he acknowledges, “without the pandemic, I don’t know if we would have had that explosion. The pandemic helped to sell the first franchises and then continue with a rhythm of growth”.
The Business Model
Goldenbike currently operates throughout Buenos Aires. Each franchise has a cost of $20,000, and the investment in which is recovered after the first year of operation.
The company estimates that the average annual turnover is $100 million per store, revenues that correspond to 80% bicycle sales and the remaining 20% to the workshop and repair segment. In terms of total turnover, its latest results show some $1.5 billion.
But as well as the increase in demand, there has been a large increase in the prices of bicycles. Ceccherini says the company’s advantage is that it buys in large volumes for all the franchisees, which allows it to have competitive prices compared to the rest of the market, generating a win-win situation for buyers and business partners.
In addition, the company emphasizes that all franchises must comply with strict quality and aesthetic protocols, from the products they sell to their display.
“In this city alone, 405,000 bicycle trips were registered in 2020, so we believe that in 2021 that figure will have doubled; this shows us the huge potential,” Ceccherini says, adding that they are also testing their own bicycle brand.
For both Minoli and Pardal, there is still a long way to go, but they are not slowing down. For this year, they plan to grow 300% annually with a very strong expansion strategy: 60 stores in a conservative scenario, and 100 in a slightly more aggressive one.
At the same time, while already present in Buenos Aires (in La Plata, Olavarría) and in Mendoza, they plan to open stores in Santa Fe, Mar del Plata, Tandil and Córdoba, in addition to expansion to other countries, especially Uruguay and Chile, although the first big step outside the country will be taken in Miami.


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Jeep has its sights set firmly on becoming a bona-fide rival to Mercedes-Benz and BMW in Australia.
“We feel like we can compete with German luxury brands,” a Stellantis spokesperson told media.
Pricing for the new Grand Cherokee kicks off at $77,950 before on-roads, aligning it with a base BMW X3 sDrive20i, while the range-topper is nudging $105,000 before on-roads with a full suite of options, putting it in line with the likes of the Volvo XC90 B6 Ultimate.
A more expensive Summit Reserve model is coming later in 2023 with a plug-in hybrid powertrain, and a steeper price tag.
The most expensive Jeep in Australia is currently the Grand Cherokee L Summit Reserve, priced at $119,450 before on-road costs.
Jeep is aware the higher price – along with the fact there’s no diesel this time around – means the Grand Cherokee is unlikely to reach the sales heights of its predecessor, which at its peak in 2014 found more than 16,500 homes.
“When you look at how sales were going back then, it’s a completely different landscape. The Australian dollar was much stronger than the US dollar, that’s what we buy against, so that right there throws us completely out of whack,” the spokesperson said of pricing on the new model.
“We always have aspirations of a volume we used to be at,” the spokesperson confirmed, but said “we want to just be focused on providing the right amount of quality, getting it right with our dealers, getting the service right, and then we’ll see how the sales go”.
Beyond the new, more premium Grand Cherokee line-up, the Jeep range is gradually being overhauled in Australia.


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DUBAI- September 28, 2017: After the successful launch of the first edition of the Best Healthcare Brands in India in 2016, The Economic Times announced the Asian edition of the book in Dubai, UAE. It was at the recently concluded Economic Times India-UAE Strategic Conclave held at Westin Dubai that insightful discussions on the opportunities and challenges for Asian healthcare brands came to light.
The ET Best Asian Healthcare Brands 2017 was unveiled by H.E. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, UAE's Cabinet Member and Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development.The initiative was based on an extensive survey conducted with their Knowledge Partner, Mena Research Partners, and shortlisted top brands under various segments of healthcare after considering several parameters. These brands were eventually felicitated and featured in the coffee table book which was launched at this summit. During the summit, The Economic Times unraveled the DNA of success of these brands, and what makes these brands worthy of emulation in the healthcare Industry.
The Asian healthcare market is expected to grow from $1835 billion in 2016 to over $2660 billion by 2020. This is mainly due to improved access to healthcare facilities amid increased government and private investments in addition to government initiatives that promote medical insurance and foreign investment. Cumulatively, this has seen a rise in the demand for healthcare services and pharmaceutical products.
Commenting on the significance of the summit, Deepak Lamba, President, Times Strategic Solutions, said, "The huge population, large economy, and advances in technology make Asia an attractive market for healthcare services. We are excited to explore the dynamic Healthcare sector and analyse its strengths and the challenges on its way."
Talking about the opportunities for collaboration in the Healthcare Sector between India and UAE, Dr. Naresh Trehan, Chairman and Managing Director of Medanta, highlighted the advances in healthcare services offered to consumer, also underscoring the growth of medical tourism in India by stating that 15% of his patients hail from overseas at any given time.
Padmashri Dr. B R Shetty, Founder & Vice Chairman, NMC Healthcare delivered the special address and said, "India is one of the largest capital markets and is very lucrative for investments. We are planning to open up medical universities and hospitals in the urban, rural and tribal areas of the country. We are starting with institutions for Medical, Ayurveda, Siddha and Yuana in Amravati, Delhi, Noida and Varanasi. We are also opening up an American university here in UAE." Dr. Shetty also encouraged the delegates to invest in UAE.
Some eye-opening statics on Nutrition & Healthcare in Asia were shared by Mr. Anshu Budhraj, CEO, Amway India, who elaborated on the benefits of a smart healthcare approach. Highlighting that UAE stood at 84 but India came in at 143 on the UN's Sustainable Healthcare Index, he said, "These statistics raise many questions as we are a nation that is achieving 8-9 percent growth rate every year. Clearly, economic growth and healthcare index may or may not go together. There have to be specific policies, specific investments, and focused approach for this sector to grow. If we increase the life expectancy of one person by 10 percent it would lead to an economic growth of 0.5 percent. That's how healthcare impacts the economic prosperity of a country".
The Asian healthcare brands were felicitated by H.E. Abdullah Al Darmaki, CEO, Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development; H.E Navdeep Singh Suri, Indian High Commissioner to UAE; Suhail Muhammad Ansari, Executive Director, Mubadala Healthcare and H.E Saif Jamal Al Jarwan, Secretary General, UAE International Investors Council in a gala ceremony. Those recognized for their excellence and covered in this year's research and coffee table book included:
1. Advance Cells
2. Akums Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
3. Amarantha Ayurveda
4. Asian Institute of Medical Sciences
5. AyurVAID Hospitals
6. Beximco Pharma
7. BigMuscles Nutrition
8. Burjeel Hospital (Abu Dhabi)
9. CIMS Hospital
11. CryoViva Biotech
13. Diagno Labs
14. Dr. Batra's Healthcare
15. Dr. Reddy's
16. Dr. Tvacha
17. Dynamic Techno Medicals
18. Envision Scientific
19. Eris Lifesciences
20. FineCure Pharmaceuticals
21. Gleneagles Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
22. Health Assure
23. Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital (Hong Kong)
24. Hoya Surgical Optics
25. Johnson & Johnson
26. Kayam Churna - Sheth Brothers
27. Kovai Medical Center and Hospital
28. Mitra Keluarga Hospital (Indonesia)
29. Mount Elizabeth Hospitals (Singapore)
30. Narayana Health
31. Natural Remedies
32. NMC Healthcare (Dubai)
33. Nobel Biocare
35. Oasis Centre for Reproductive Medicine
36. OPTM Healthcare
37. Parvathy Hospital
38. Sahajanand Medical Technologies
39. Sahyadri Hospitals
40. Singapore General Hospital (Singapore)
41. Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
42. St. Lukes Medical Center (Philippines)
43. Sun Pharmaceutical
44. The Birth Place
45. The University of Tokyo Hospital (Japan)
46. Translumina Therapeutics LLP
47. Trichur Surgicals (Trisco)
48. Vital Imaging Centre
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Three major EDM industry players have joined forces to provide a new all-in-one record label on the Las Vegas Strip.
Formed in a partnership between Drai’s Entertainment, Turn First Artists and Capitol Records, the new After Hours label will draw on each business’ strengths in offering signees a recording contract and a nightclub residency, as well as comprehensive artist development and A&R consultancy.
“The artists who work with us will be developed with a unique opportunity to DJ as a resident at one of the most exciting clubs in the world,” says Turn First CEO Sarah Stennett. “These artists will be able to release through a label that has the clout of a major and the bespoke services of a fast moving independent dance label.”
Stennett says the idea of the joint label venture first came together over a series of conversations with Victor Drai, the entertainment mogul behind Vegas hotspots like Drai’s Beach Club & Nightclub, After Hours and Liaison. Drai was interested in developing the label brand, which he hailed as “the next logical step” for his company.
“We all share a unique vision to launch the first dance label on the strip in Vegas,” says Stennett. “We wanted to do something that hadn’t been done before. Obviously having a platform like Drai’s and the ability to tap in on the club level made us think ‘OK, we’ve got this platform, how can we make this into a unique collaboration?’”
After fleshing out the collaborative concept, Stennett says involving Capitol Records Chairman & CEO Steve Barnett and veteran label manager Duncan King were natural next steps for the partnership.
“The idea is to tie in the label with the development arm, which felt like a really natural approach,” says Stennett. “It made sense to all involved.”
“With Drai’s providing our joint venture with an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind nightclub venue in Las Vegas, we have an exciting platform from which to accelerate the careers of artists in the EDM realm and share their talents with audiences around the world,” says Barnett.
Stennett says After Hours will employ a two-prong stylistic approach with a sub-label aimed at showcasing underground sounds alongside the main label’s more commercial dance music fare.
“We want to have a cutting edge label concept to pick up on underground sounds within this fast-paced scene,” says Stennett. “We may focus more on what’s happening here with the deep house sound, but it could be anything from trap to tech house. It’s open.”
In addition to Las Vegas, After Hours will also boast offices in London, New York and Los Angeles, offering the label global reach and representation. Looking forward, Stennett says the label is already preparing for its initial artist signings.
“We’re just really excited about where dance music is at the moment,” says Stennett. “It’s such an open time and there are so many labels nurturing great talent and music. We’re excited to be in the mix.”


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Apple Sued for Deceptive MacBook and MacBook Pro Advertising
May 18, 2007 2:00 PM
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Lawsuit claims LCD screens on Apple's current notebooks are not capable of millions of colors
Apple Inc. has been in and out of the courtroom a number of times
this year for patent infringements
mostly to defend its iPhone
. This week, Apple finds itself in the courtroom again, this time facing a class action lawsuit alleging the
LCD screens on its MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops are substandard
. The claim also alleges Apple advertised its screens as being superior, but knowingly shipped screens that did not meet its original claims.
The class action lawsuit points out the glossy screens Apple introduced with the launched of its MacBook last year. Apple advertised that the new glossy screens provided users with deeper blacks and whites that are more vibrant. However, many customers experienced graininess and sparkling effects common to dithering techniques, according to the lawsuit.
According to the complaint:
Many such dissatisfied purchasers were chastised by Apple agents and employees for being too picky about their assessments of the quality of the display. Other dissatisfied purchasers were told that they were imagining the complained about defects.
The complaint also points out that many of the disgruntled customers posted messages on Apple's own forums only later to have their posts moderated or completely removed by Apple forum administrators.
"It appears that Apple has engaged in substantial editing of the posts on the discussion forum," the lawsuit indicates.
The lawsuit alleges Apple uses dithering techniques to create an illusion of colors that don't actually exist. In fact, the lawsuit claims if a MacBook or MacBook Pro users installs Windows XP, they will notice superior image quality in areas such as gradients. The test seems to indicate Apple is using some sort of software at work in OS X.
"The displays are only capable of displaying the illusion of millions of colors through the use of a software technique referred to as 'dithering'," the lawsuit claims.
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RE: I call BS
5/18/2007 3:12:36 PM
They are accused of the screens being substandard to what was advertised. Almost sounds like a shill from Apple made the above post.
RE: I call BS
5/21/2007 3:02:23 AM
I'm not a shill from Apple. I've never worked for them and NEVER will. I could never bow to their stupid reality distortion. Period. Implying that I'm a shill from Apple is just plain stupid.
Apple buys screens from the same companies that virtually every other personal computer manufacturer does. Dell buys from the same companies. HP buys from the same companies. Lenovo buys from the same companies.
To state that Apple's screens are inferior to those of other personal computer manufacturers is pure BS.
This sounds too much like the lawsuit brought against Apple years ago about CRTs when the manufacturers and every PC maker was selling 21" monitors. Apple got sued because the viewable area within the bezel was only 20". That was just as stupid as this one is. However Apple will have to spend a fair amount of money fighting this one too.
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WTO cuts 2016 World Trade growth forecast to 2.8%
World Trade Organization (WTO) predicts that the global trade will rise by 2.8% in 2016, just as in 2015. WTO economists expect the global trade growth to rise by 3.6% in 2017, well below the yearly average of 5% since 1990. According to the WTO estimates, developed countries will see increased export volume by 2.6% in 2015, as developing countries will see growth by 2.7%. Imports will grow by 4.5% in developed countries, and by 0.2% in emerging economies.


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Epic Games claims that Google considered buying out the studio as part of an attempt to snuff out competition.
The lawsuit between Epic Games and Apple may have been what dominated headlines for a while (mainly because of all the confidential information it leaked), but it’s not the only one Epic is embroiled in.
Since Google removed Fortnite from its Google Play app store for the same reasons Apple did, Epic filed a lawsuit against it as well. Recently, Epic amended the suit to further support its case after it was linked to another lawsuit filed by multiple states against the Google Play store over antitrust violations.
According to newly unredacted complaints within the lawsuit, Epic claims that Google considered outright buying Epic Games, either by purchasing Tencent’s shares (Tencent owns a 40% stake in Epic Games) or teaming up with it to buy out Epic entirely.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, in a Twitter statement, openly called it a hostile takeover attempt in response to Fortnite launching outside of the Google Play store, ‘Rather than competing by giving developers a better deal than 30%, they wanted to collude to crush Epic instead.’
According to Google’s own internal documents, it sounds like the program was a big success for the company. By the end of 2020, it had signed deals with the vast majority of the developers it had targeted.
And in a statement to The Verge, a Google spokesperson pretty much defended programs such as this, saying that they’re a sign of healthy competition.
‘Google Play competes with other app stores on Android devices and on rival operating systems for developer attention and business. We’ve long had programs in place that support best-in-class developers with enhanced resources and investments to help them reach more customers across Google Play. These programs are a sign of healthy competition between operating systems and app stores and benefit developers tremendously.’
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In October 2018, the Mexican government approved a law that will legalize and tax the rental of vehicles owned by private drivers.
The legislation will cost about $1,600 per month and allows owners of such vehicles to rent them out for a nominal fee of $5 per month.
The law does not address the car rental problem in Tijuana.
While a majority of Mexicans own a car, nearly one-third of Tijuana’s 1.2 million inhabitants own no vehicles, according to a 2016 survey by the National Statistics Institute.
It’s not clear how many of these vehicles were rented to private drivers, or whether these were driven off the streets.
There is no law regulating the rental sector in Tula, the capital of the state of Morelos.
“There’s no regulation or law to regulate the rental industry, so people have to figure out how to work around the rules,” said Ricardo de la Cruz, the state’s tourism director.
“I see people coming in from Tijuana with a rented car that they rent out to a couple of friends.”
De la Cruz is concerned that Tula’s new laws will allow illegal car rental operators to keep making money off their illegal operations.
In February 2019, the Interior Ministry announced a $4 million fund to crack down on illegal rentals.
De la Candre, however, said that many illegal rental operators are not registered to operate in Tuba and are thus not subject to the new law.
He also said that a crackdown is not imminent.
“Tuba is not a big area, so we are waiting for the regulations to be published,” he said.
“If there are some regulations, we will work with them.
But for the moment, I don’t see it.”
De La Cruz said that he is concerned about the safety of drivers who rent out their vehicles.
“In Mexico, the car owners are the ones who are driving the cars,” he told the Associated Press.
“That’s why we’re having this discussion.”
In March 2019, a federal judge ruled in favor of the owners of a vehicle owned by a car rental company in Tulucan.
The judge ruled that the company could not be held responsible for the rental because the car owner had not registered himself as a private driver.
The ruling also ordered the car’s owner to pay the rental company’s legal fees and $3,000 in restitution to the owner.
The case is being appealed to the Supreme Court.


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Alison Jones, senior vice president of circular economy at Stellantis, has won Autocar’s Great Women in the British Car Industry 2022 initiative, organized in partnership with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Coach Great Women of the British Motor Industry 2022
Jones also came top of Autocar’s Executive category, alongside 11 other category winners who are recognized as the most influential women in the UK automotive industry today. Outstanding figures across all categories, including marketing, sales, vehicle development and manufacturing, celebrate their achievements today at a live event in London.
Autocar also named five other Hall of Fame inductees in 2022. Joining Linda Jackson, the first Hall of Fame inductees from 2020, are: Danella Bagnall, Director of Vehicle Program Quality at Jaguar Land Rover; Josephine Payne, Craiova site manager for Ford Motor Company; Michelle Roberts, Marketing Director at BMW Group UK; Angela Shepherd, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Retail Group; and Sue Slaughter, Global Purchasing Director, Supply Chain Sustainability, Ford of Europe.
An Apprentice category, also recognized today, celebrates rising stars at the start of their careers in the automotive industry.
Jones’ rise through the ranks of Stellantis has been impressive, even to people familiar with his skills. In February 2019, she was appointed Group Managing Director of Peugeot, Citroën and DS Automobiles in the United Kingdom and Senior Vice President of the PSA Group. Then, following the merger of these brands under the Stellantis umbrella, Jones was given a pivotal role in 2021, as she was named UK country manager and senior vice-president for Peugeot, Citroën, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Fiat Professional, Abarth, Jeep and Alfa Romeo. A year later, she was given the global role of Stellantis as Senior Vice President of Circular Economy. In addition, she is president of the SMMT.
Autocar Editor Mark Tisshaw said: “Alison Jones continues to build on her impressive track record in the industry and distinguished career to date, and is a worthy two-time winner of our initiative. Her recent promotion to a global role with Stellantis demonstrates precisely why she is so highly valued within this most influential organization, and her success, influence and profile show no signs of abating.
Jones said, “I am so honored to receive this award, as the Autocar team and these awards demonstrate the breadth of incredible talent and jobs we have in our industry. We all continue to work collectively to improve the diversity and inclusion of our teams in all its forms. Our workforce should reflect our communities and our customers, and our industry is so exciting and changing that it should and can be attractive to everyone.


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Georgia, the country, is planning to revive a multi-billion-dollar deep-sea port project at Anaklia on the Black Sea three years after it dropped the scheme over problems with finance, website civil.ge reports.
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced in parliament yesterday that the port would be built “with the co-participation of the state”. He said the government would take a 51% share of the completed asset, and would issue “an international call” for the remainder of the finance, and for “partner companies”.
Now the effect of the Ukraine war on trade patterns in the Black Sea has made the port a more attractive proposition.
The Eurasianet website notes that the shippers are diverting cargoes that used to pass through Russia and Ukraine to the “Middle Corridor” that passes through Georgia, Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea and Kazakhstan. As a result the country “desperately needs a deep-sea port to take advantage of the opportunity”.
Levan Davitashvili, Georgia’s economics minister, told reporters yesterday that meetings had already been held with port operators and logistics companies who are interested in participating in the renewed scheme.
“We hope that we will complete the selection process in January next year … so that by 2023 we can start construction works and port development,” he said.


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In an effort to save money, today’s recession-shocked shoppers continue to evolve their retail tactics.
Since 2008, the sports drink category has grown to include more than 650 UPCs, explained Susan Viamari, editor of Chicago-based SymphonyIRI Group’s Times & Trends, during the market research firm’s “Merchandising Trends” webinar in February.
Consumer product goods (CPG) manufacturers continue to navigate the whims of undecided consumers, some of whom feel more optimistic about the economy while a similar-sized group expect continued deterioration of economic and personal financial health, according to Susan Viamari, editor of SymphonyIRI’s Times and Trends report. The Chicago-based market research firm released its “CPG 2011 Year in Review: The Search for Footing in an Evolving Marketplace” report that finds that consumers plan to continue their current path of frugality and conservatism this year.


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The welcomed return of the Dodge Durango brought with it several awards from many well-respected industry groups, such as MotorWeek and the American Automobile Association (AAA). For 2012, the Durango receives even more features and refinements, allowing Dodge's versatile SUV to raise the bar once again for value in its class.
With its four-wheel independent suspension and responsive steering and handling, Durango has driving dynamics unlike what you typically find in any Sport Utility Vehicle. No other SUV on the road compares with the all-new Durango's distinctive bold Dodge design that craftily houses a spacious three-row, seven-passenger functional, flexible, and premium interior. The thoughtfully designed Durango also features more than 30 storage areas, 28 seating configurations, and a rear cargo area of nearly 85 cubic feet that can swallow a 10-foot ladder with the front passenger seat folded flat.
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