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Intel unveils new chip for mobility healthcare delivery
Monday, November 17, 2014
World’s largest chip maker Intel Corporation has unveiled a new sensing platform for enabling mobile-based healthcare delivery to masses.
“Our new chip, combining hardware, mobility, analytics and cloud-based technology enables doctors and hospitals to provide affordable personal healthcare for masses,” the US-based company’s Indian subsidiary said in a statement here Monday.
The new sensing platform, showcased at the CeBIT India IT event here last week, has been designed to meet the specific consumer needs of India and other emerging markets and can also be used to create applications for different consumer segments.
The research and development centre of the US-based company’s Indian subsidiary in this tech hub has contributed in developing the new platform.


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A little over a decade ago, 50 Cent caught the eye of Eminem with the independent album Guess Who’s Back? 50 released mixtape after mixtape of himself and his G-Unit crew rapping over popular beats, raising his profile before he dropped his major label debut in 2003. Following the single “Wanksta” off the 8 Mile soundtrack, and complete with a Dr. Dre production credit when those still happened, 50 put out “In da Club” leading up to the release of Get Rich or Die Tryin’, his now 8x platinum album. But the record industry has changed since then, and it’s apparent as ever with the news that 50 Cent is leaving Shady/Aftermath and Interscope Records.
50 Cent has been falling from musical relevance since 2007, when his third major label record, Curtis, was released on the same day as Kanye West’s Graduation, as epitomized by the cover the two rappers shared on Rolling Stone magazine. Not coincidentally, the music business has been in a free fall since those records came out (as well as the larger economy), with CD sales dropping 15 percent from the previous year 2006, and pretty much everything trending downward since the invention of Napster. 50 has been versatile though, with his big Vitamin Water endorsement deal after his G-Unit Reebok sneakers made him a reported $80 million, and has recently been pushing his headphone company SMS Audio.
The last official album 50 Cent released was 2009’s Before I Self Destruct. It was originally due out in 2007, but got pushed to 2008 and eventually the following year before it finally hit shelves. Since then, 50 has put out quality mixtapes straight to the internet like The Big 10 and The Lost Tape with DJ Drama, as well as an independent album called 5 (Murder by Numbers). On top of that, he’s put out enough loosies to make up a surprisingly good compilation. As an individual who wasn’t a fan of 2005’s The Massacre, I think his best music has always been put out through ways other than major labels (besdies GRODT of course, and the soundtrack to the film of the same name).
In an interview with Forbes magazine since the split with Interscope, 50 insinuated he was more comfortable micro-managing his own career rather than leaving it up to suits. The article also indicates that 50 is still tied to Interscope for “distribution and support,” but it becomes clearer and clearer that the major label has nothing to offer an artist like 50 Cent. In the past year alone, Jay-Z has put out an album through a cell phone, Kanye used his own unheard-of minimal and maximal marketing, and Beyoncé silently put her album on iTunes with videos and all. Numerous artists are using Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want scale for albums, and with the 360° deals of companies owning everything an artist does being much worse than they originally seemed, there’s not much major labels can offer anymore. Look no further than the completely lackluster rollouts of albums by ScHoolboy Q and Rick Ross.
In an interview with Vlad TV last year, Nelly made a compelling case for Chief Keef, someone who became wildly popular without a major record label even being aware of him, to not sign with a label at all. He said that hypothetically the best thing for Keef to do is put out mixtapes, set up a deal with iTunes to drop singles himself, and tour. With venues for music like iTunes or Spotify netting artists either seven cents a download or thousandths of a penny for a stream, it makes much more sense for artists to own as much of their art as possible. Obviously each artist is different in the way they market themselves, but Twitter and Tumblr (and kind of Facebook) are the types of media that do much better when run by the artists themselves. Finding music blogs to post a song takes absolutely no effort if the fan base is already retweeting and reblogging, and any artist trying to get on Complex or Fader or whatever won’t bring enough clicks to make it worth it. A rapper faking a New York Times article pays bigger dividends than actually being featured in the New York Times.
Whether or not 50 has a great album in the tank is up in the air (I would probably bet against it if using my own money). But there’s very little use for major labels if an artist has an end game past getting a big advance check. Royalties, likeness, answering to someone else, and deciding when music drops should not be in Steve Berman’s hands when Interscope can’t do anything 50 already can. I would venture Dr. Dre, with all of his business savvy, would find another way to release Detox if he were indeed more interested in putting out music than selling headphones.
50 Cent has two upcoming albums. Animal Ambition is due out June 3 and Street King Immortal is due out later in the year.
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Subscribers to Sky's broadband TV bundles are being invited to join the 'Supertelly' revolution.
The broadband provider has announced that the Sky+ box set is being discontinued as a standalone product, with a new high definition (HD) version arriving in its place.
When signing up to a Sky broadband and TV package, customers will be provided with a Sky+ HD box.
A spokesperson for Sky stated: "We are all really excited about this move here at Sky as we all believe that HD is going to grow significantly in 2010.
"HD is a much better viewing experience than standard definition, especially when watching live sport."
The Sky+ service is continuing unaffected, but the announcement means all new satellite viewers will have the option of high-definition viewing.
Last month, the firm announced it would be launching its own 3D channel in April 2010.
The service, which will be available through the Sky+ HD box, will initially only be available to public houses.


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Final Fantasy VII favourite Cloud Strife is coming to Super Smash Bros on Wii U and 3DS.
The news was announced right at the end of the latest Nintendo Direct.
In fact, for a minute there it looked like Final Fantasy VII was coming to the Wii U.
Nintendo then surprised fans by revealing that Cloud would enter Super Smash Bros as a downloadable character.
Pricing and release dates are yet to be revealed, although fans should find out more during next month's special Super Smash Bros broadcast.
Nintendo also announced plans to release Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD on Wii U, and confirmed that the first original Zelda game on the console would launch next year.


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. 0R0X Shorts for 2021 Who is shorting Tesla Ord Tesla has launched a pair of expensive shorts as a means for CEO Elon Musk to taunt short-sellers. Short sellers are people who borrow and then sell stock, with the intention to repurchase the..
Tesla's Short Shorts are emblematic of the firm: controversial, eye-catching, and unlike anything a traditional car maker would consider producin The shorts cost $69.420, the last three digits an apparent reference to Musk's infamous tweet in 2018 that he was considering taking Tesla private for $420 per share, with 420 also a code word for.. The shorts are part of a long-running joke aimed at Tesla shorters, that is, people who borrow and sell Tesla stock, hoping for a decline in price so they can buy it cheaper and make a profit Tesla Short Shorts. Size Waist Hip; X-S (0/1) 24 - 25: 33.5 - 34.5: S (3/5) 26 - 27: 35.5 - 36.5: M (7/9) 28 - 29: 37.5 - 38.5: L (11/13) 30 - 31.5: 39 - 41: X-L (15) 33: 43.5: Men's Corporate Jacket. Size Chest Hip Sleeve Length; S: 46 117 cm: 45 114 cm: 35 89 cm: M: 48 122 cm: 47 119 cm: 36 91 cm: L: 50 127 cm: 49 124 cm: 37 94 cm: XL: 52 132 cm: 51 130 cm: 38 97 cm: XXL: 54 137.
2020 was a particularly bad year for Tesla stock short-sellers and they lost billions as Tesla stock surged 740 percent. David Einhorn and Jim Chanos are among the best-known Tesla short-sellers... Tesla actually launched its own pair of short shorts, which started as a joke by Elon Musk. They are now for sale on the automaker's website and the internet went crazy for it Elon Musk has offered to send a pair of 'short shorts' to his biggest critic and Tesla short seller David Einhorn, after the hedgefund boss was forced to admit to his shareholders that he's lost.
Tesla Share Price ↓ Not all regulatory filings are boring. Michael Burry, of Big Short fame, on Monday revealed that his firm - Scion Asset Management - had a $534 million short on Tesla (ticker: TSLA) Michael Burry of 'The Big Short' reveals a $530 million bet against Tesla Published Mon, May 17 2021 2:20 PM EDT Updated Tue, May 18 2021 6:17 PM EDT Yun Li @YunLi62 Short selling TSLA is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from Tesla as its price is falling. Tesla's stock is trading down $5.63 today. To short Tesla stock, an investor borrows shares, sells them and buys the shares back on the public market later to return it to the lender. Short sellers are betting that Tesla will.
Short Shorts. Tesla's short interest ratio dropped to an all-time low in early 2020 and remains close to the bottom. Source: Bloomberg. Note: Short interest as a multiple of last 30 days' average. BERKELEY, California, May 17 (R) - The family office run by Big Short investor Michael Burry has disclosed a large bearish bet via options on Tesla Inc. Scion Asset Management said in a. And in 2020, when Tesla (TSLA) shares soared 743%, it resulted in unprecedented $40 billion in losses for those shorts, according to analysis by S3 Partners. But so far this year the Tesla shorts..
.4billion over the last seven months as the electronic car manufacturer's stock hit a record high and beat investor expectations. Short positions on.. Scion's Tesla short shouldn't come as a surprise - Burry has long expressed unease at the way the company makes money and is being managed. But the size of the position is interesting. At $534m (£377m), the Tesla put options are Scion's biggest single holding, accounting for roughly 40 per cent of the fund's portfolio
His latest move - satin-red short shorts with 'S3XY' stamped on the rear - appears to certainly be one of the most tongue-in-cheek. And in a nod to well-established but admittedly low-brow internet.. Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk announced Sunday that the automaker was selling a pair of red short shorts on its online store, which led to the item being sold off in minutes and the. (R) - After surpassing Toyota Motor Corp as the world's most valuable automaker and stunning with forecast-beating deliveries, Tesla Inc has taken time out to poke fun at the company's..
Tesla's short thesis is often anchored around a few compelling narratives. The first is that Tesla's present day fundamentals are poor—a $530 billion company delivered 139,300 vehicles in Q3'20 and turned a $331 million profit. That's after government subsidy programs Elon Musk digs at Tesla short sellers by selling short shorts for $69.420. Tesla's online store briefly went offline after the shorts were launched, apparently as a puerile jibe towards short sellers
PCMag UK Computers & Electronics Cars & Auto. Tesla Short Shorts Are Real and Nearly Sold Out Elon Musk launched a pair of red satin short shorts as a dig at Tesla stock shortsellers. By Stephanie. Meanwhile, the targets of Musk's short shorts mockery have had a brutal year, as Tesla shares have ridden a stock split and inclusion in the S&P 500 SPX, +0.18% to a six-fold return and a.
Elon Musk is celebrating Tesla's recent stock spike by releasing a new product. Over the weekend, he surprise dropped a pair of short shorts on Tesla's website, which led the online store to crash .97% short sellers, caught on the wrong end of a $38 billion hit in 2020, suffered the largest yearly mark-to-market loss Ihor Dusaniwsky of S3 Partners has ever seen In 2019, Tesla short interest was over 30%. Back then, the bears zeroed in on the company's high operating costs and $1 billion in losses. Musk's public behavior didn't help. There was a. Michael Burry. Getty Images/ Astrid Stawiarz. Michael Burry held put options on over 800,000 Tesla shares at the end of March. The Big Short investor has blasted Elon Musk's automaker's.
Fresh from backing Kanye West's dubious 2020 presidential campaign, Elon Musk turned his hand to dropping Tesla-branded short shorts. In doing so, he crashed the company website and they sold out. Only days after he was photographed alongside bestie Kanye West donning Yeezys, and voicing support for Kanye 2020, Elon Musk has released a limited-edition pair of Tesla-branded red satin short-shorts to celebrate the company's stock climbing.. Before you let that soak in, there's more: Musk - who recently changed his Twitter bio to budgie smuggler - priced the shorts at $69.420. Sporting a gold Tesla logo, the short shorts, as they are branded, were dreamt up by the carmaker's founder Elon Musk as a way to mock investors betting against the company's shares Tesla's 2020 showing has created an aftermath of reflection from bulls and bears alike. Despite the company coming off of a record year with a massive 500,000 vehicle delivery and production.
These short-sellers have not had a great year, it has to be said. Tesla short positions lost a combined US$1.6bn in a single day in November, according to data from Ortex Analytics. Overall, with. The Short Shorts on the Tesla shop website feature gold trim and S3XY in gold across the back, which also happens to be formed from Tesla model names. I bought a pair of XL, wrote Elon Musk. In fact, the losses endured by Tesla shorts were more than the short losses for the next nine companies -- combined. Losses on No. 2 Apple ( AAPL) in 2020 came to $6.7 billion, which is only. Elon Musk revealed that he has heard that Bill Gates had a big short position on Tesla (TSLA), and he might have lost a lot of money on it. Billionaires Musk and Gates don't always have good. Tesla short sellers down a billion on day one of 2021. Investors who have bet that Tesla's shares have risen far too high and far too fast have had a rough start to the new year after a.
The famed Big Short investor Michael Burry has placed a $534m bet against Elon Musk's electric car maker Tesla. His Scion Asset Management was the owner of puts against 800,100 Tesla shares at. TradingView UK. SHORT TESLA TO 709.00. Upgrade Upgrade now Start free trial Upgrade plan Pay nothing extra Upgrade early Get 6 months free Use last chance Get a month for $ Steve Eisman von 'Big Short' Fame Shorts Tesla Tesla Inc. (TSLA), die Aktie mit der höchsten Gewinnbeteiligung in den USA, hat einen weiteren bedeutenden Leerverkäufer aufgrund der Befürchtungen gewonnen, dass der Hersteller von Elektrofahrzeugen die Produktion seines neuen Massenmarktfahrzeugs nicht aufrechterhalten kann, ohne eine zusätzliche Erhöhung vorzunehmen Kasse After one of its biggest single-day jump in months, Tesla's (TSLA) stock jumped again in pre-market trading this morning to $900 a share as a massive short squeeze seems to be in full effect
Im Online-Shop von Tesla gibt es plötzlich rote Shorts zu kaufen. Für nur $69,420!!, wie Tesla-Chef Elon Musk twittert. Das Angebot hat einen ganz besonderen Grund. Und im Preis steckt. Tesla Inc. short sellers lost billions more on the electric-vehicle maker than any other company in 2020, as bears got severely burned by the stock's surge to new highs After Musk Tweet, Tesla Starts Selling Red and Gold S3XY Short Shorts for $69.420. It's always about reading between the lines with Musk. Or numbers, in this case. On Sunday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Short sellers lost a combined $245 billion last year, with Tesla costing shorts more than the next nine stocks combined. Image source: Tesla. That's according to Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director. Unprofitable Short. I've Ever Seen.'. is the widow-maker trade of 2020. On July 20, Tesla did something that no company had ever done before: It saw the volume of bets made by its haters. Short sellers lost $38bn (£28bn) betting against Tesla in 2020, higher losses than those triggered by any other company. Tesla's 730pc rise in its share price during 2020 caused the significant.
Tesla short sellers lost more than $40.1 billion 2020, nearly six times the losses they endured betting against any other stock in the market. Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) was a distant second, with. In 2018, he sent a box of short shorts to hedge fund manager David Einhorn, a vocal critic of Tesla, and offered to send him more last year. Last week, when the billionaire pitched the idea of selling fabulous short shorts in radiant red satin with gold trim, he promised to send some to the Shortseller Enrichment Commission, referring to the SEC, to comfort them through these. Tesla's market cap has gone down by more than $270 billion in just the last month. There are several possible reasons for the slide including short sellers and many more Musk has openly voiced distaste for short-sellers like Hothi and has rallied against the practice for years, even going so far as to sell Tesla-branded short shorts on the company's online store TOPLINE. Elon Musk has taken to selling short satin shorts in a jibe at short sellers, with the Tesla CEO unveiling a limited edition run of branded hotpants on the company's website and making.
Famed Tesla short seller, Citron Research's Andrew Left, has found a new target, Chinese electric vehicle startup Nio The latest Tesla stock insanity in the market has been a short squeeze that has taken hold in recent months. Here's some perspective on just how crazy Tesla has gotten. It took Tesla about three.
Tesla releases short shorts for $69.420 - Read our latest blog to find out the most recent news of the Tesla brand and how that infleunces your Tesla in the UK. Teslas Parts. Profile. More. About Contact FAQ Blog. Log out Sign up/ Sign in Add New. Tesla releases short shorts for $69.420 July 7, 2020 . Tesla has recently released its own satin red short shorts as a way of responding to Tesla. The Short Shorts on the Tesla shop website feature gold trim and S3XY in gold across the back, which also happens to be formed from Tesla model names. The shorts cost $69.420, the last three digits an apparent reference to Musk's infamous tweet in 2018 that he was considering taking Tesla private for $420 per share, with 420 also a code word for marijuana 'Big Short' hedge fund manager shorts Tesla: Michael Burry makes a £376m bet as he takes aim at Elon Musk. By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter. Published: 17:01 EDT, 18 May 2021 | Updated: 17.
Steve Eisman von 'Big Short' Fame Shorts Tesla Tesla Inc. (TSLA), die Aktie mit der höchsten Gewinnbeteiligung in den USA, hat einen weiteren bedeutenden Leerverkäufer aufgrund der Befürchtungen gewonnen, dass der Hersteller von Elektrofahrzeugen die Produktion seines neuen Massenmarktfahrzeugs nicht aufrechterhalten kann, ohne eine zusätzliche Erhöhung vorzunehmen Kasse Tesla bears are licking their wounds after the electric-car maker's stock skyrocketed last week. Oh damn, I got my butt kicked is a common sentiment among short-sellers, Robert Majteles told The.
Guess How Much Tesla Shorts Lost in 2020 Hint: It's more than one entire industry combined. Danny Vena (TMFLifeIsGood) Feb 2, 2021 at 9:00AM Author Bio. Daniel W. Vena, CPA, CGMA is a long-term. Thousands of items with free UK shipping Home › Men › Sale › Shorts; Men's Sale: Shorts ASOS DESIGN swim shorts with red based souvenir print short length. £16.00 £7.20. Adolescent Clothing Lounge unwind oversized shorts in green acid wash. RRP £22.00 £18.00. Night Addict plain shorts in cream. RRP £25.00 £16.00. Night Addict logo shorts in vintage purple. RRP £30.00 £18.00. Elon Musk's Tesla is giving short sellers a lift. The plunge in the electric-car company's shares on Thursday drove short sellers' profits this year to about $3.06 billion, a mark-to-market.
Shorts are desperate for the stock to tumble, but Tesla is not affording them the pleasure. The real kicker for short sellers is this: Tesla hit an all-time high today (again). If a stock hits an all-time high, it means that out of all of the accounts that actively short Tesla's stock, all of them have lost money Celebrate summer with Tesla Short Shorts. Run like the wind or entertain like Liberace with our red satin and gold trim design, the website says in the description of the new product Tesla Inc. shares ended at record on Friday, their third straight session of gains, and it is starting to look a lot like a rout for short sellers. Tesla TSLA, -0.89% shorts are down $1.16 billion. Tesla launches Tesla Energy Plan in the UK Full analysis and cost breakdown Update on Shanghai license plate restrictions and impact on Tesla
Tesla Has Shorts in a Bind, Could Be Huge for This ETF. Tom Lydon July 13, 2020. Tesla's seemingly undaunted rise is having profound effects in the world of ETFs. For example, the high-flying. Tesla Gigafactory permit faces objection in Germany. short by Aishwarya Awasthi / 07:00 am on 12 Jun 2021,Saturday. Environmental groups in Germany have filed an official objection to a provisional permit from the Brandenburg environmental authority for the construction of a Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin, R reported. Their objection. Finden Sie perfekte Stock-Fotos zum Thema Tesla Short Shorts sowie redaktionelle Newsbilder von Getty Images. Wählen Sie aus erstklassigen Inhalten zum Thema Tesla Short Shorts in höchster Qualität Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk took a swipe at short-sellers by listing short shorts on the company's website.. Musk has from time to time expressed dismay with investors who bet against his. Tesla recommends that you normally charge your battery at 90% (to prolong the life of the battery), which means for the regular version, your daily range would be 220*.9 = 198 miles. Also note that what Tesla advertised is based on optimal driving conditions, i.e., if you are driving at constant 50-60 mph, not driving uphill, regular size rims, not cold weather, etc
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Elon Musk poked some fun at short sellers with an offer that critics can chuckle about too. Tesla's limited-edition $69.420 short shorts are only available for a big markup Tesla (TSLA Stock): The 'new' big short [Video] The team talks about the latest news that Michael Burry is long puts against 800,100 shares of Tesla or $534 million. What's the rationale behind. Tesla short interest is $10.85 billion, 32.16 million shares shorted, 25.22% of float. Tesla is up over 1.5% in early morning trading and shorts are down another $136 million in mark-to-market losses. Shorts have covered 2.6 million shares, -7.42%, over the last week as the stock gained over 18%. Shorts were down $2.5 billion in mark-to-market losses in October, and are down $1.9 billion year. Elon Musk fired a warning shot across the bow of short sellers Sunday. Tesla Inc.'s ( TSLA) - Get Report CEO didn't mince words when he sent this tweet about shorts Sunday afternoon: Tesla remains.
Hier sollte eine Beschreibung angezeigt werden, diese Seite lässt dies jedoch nicht zu Tesla's second-quarter sales were also up a bit from the 88,400 cars it delivered in the first quarter. The cars are celebrated on the new Tesla shorts. The rear of the shorts features each of. Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk this week teased those betting against the stock by releasing a line of red satin short shorts on Tesla's online marketplace. The shorts retail for $69. Three years ago, Tesla's short-interest ratio was about 25%—one of every four shares was borrowed and sold by investors betting on price declines. That's high. The average for stocks in the.


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Cree, Inc. recently announced the launch of the XLamp XD16 LED, which is industry’s first Extreme Density LED, and delivers up to 5 ½ times higher lumen density than Cree’s previous high power LEDs. It is built on Cree’s pioneering NX Technology Platform; the XD16 LED combines innovative lumen density, low optical cross-talk, unparalleled thermal contact and ease of system manufacturing to allow innovative new designs for a broad spectrum of lighting applications, such as color-tuning, street, portable and industrial.
The XLamp XD16 LED supplies a lumen density of more than 284 lumens per square-millimeter that makes it the highest level achieved by a commercially available lighting-class LED.
“Cree’s new XD16 LED delivers an incredible amount of light output for such a tiny package,” said Joe Skrivan, senior technical director at Black Diamond Equipment. “The XD16 LED’s breakthrough lumen output and peak intensity is a game-changer for our climbing headlamp products because we can design better beam control and decrease the overall size and weight compared to existing designs.”
“Cree’s new Extreme Density LED demonstrates that true LED innovation improves our customers’ system performance without forcing compromise,” said Dave Emerson, Cree LEDs executive vice president and general manager. “The XD16 LED delivers unmatched lumen density without the design and manufacturing challenges associated with inferior LED technology approaches. Now, lighting manufacturers can easily achieve previously unattainable levels of light output and efficacy in their existing form factors.”


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It seems as though Elon Musk has gone crazy with power, after becoming the world's richest man once again...
Elon musk has surpassed Jeff Bezos as the world's richest man for the second time, and he isn't going to let Bezos forget about it.
According to Forbes, the SpaceX CEO is now worth over $200 billion as of Tuesday, making him the 3rd person in the world to ever reach that milestone.
Bezos was officially the first person to reach $200 billion last year, as Amazon profits soared during the pandemic.
However, he was briefly surpassed by Bernard Arnault, the CEO of French luxury brands Moët Hennessy and Louis Vuitton, back in August, albeit only for a short amount of time.
Musk swiped the title from Bezos, who he has also been in competition with over their space exploration quests.
Now, as per Forbes, Musk plans to celebrate in the pettiest way possible: "I'm sending a giant statue of the digit '2' to Jeffrey B., along with a silver medal," Musk wrote in an email to the outlet.
This may have been a swipe at Bezos for his protest against NASA giving Space X a $2.9 billion contract in an effort to take humans on the moon.
“I think he should put more of his energy into getting into orbit rather than lawsuits...You can not sue your way to the moon," @elonmusk at #CodeCon talking to @karaswisher about his thoughts on Jeff Bezos contesting SpaceX's work with NASA. pic.twitter.com/hAljfhVYeE— Pivot Podcast (@PivotPod) September 28, 2021
In response to Bezos' protest at the time, Musk posted on Twitter, writing: "Can't get it up (to orbit) lol."
The pair have been in a constant battle over the title of the world's richest man and have each achieved the accolade multiple times.
However, Musk appears set on securing his position at the top of the billionaire leader board after announcing his "present" to Bezos.
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News outlets have been suffering a decline in ad revenue for decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened that situation as businesses close their doors when the public needs news the most.
Now, major advertisers are using keyword-blocking to prevent their content from appearing alongside COVID-19 content — at a time when the pandemic comprises the majority of news outlets’ coverage.
The result could be devastating.
On March 27, Buzzfeed reported that a major (unnamed) advertiser blocked more than two million of its ads from appearing on major news sites including the New York Times and Washington Post in the first three weeks of March.
Media advocates and digital media companies have been publicly asking advertisers not to do this, instead urging them to advertise as usual on trusted news sites.
U.K. ad verification company DoubleVerify’s COO Matt McLoughlin wrote in a public statement that the coronavirus will not simply “go away,” and that advertisers play a role in supporting news media during this time.
Joe Barone is the manager for brand safety in the Americas for media marketing company GroupM. He says many of GroupM’s clients are not purposefully avoiding being placed next to COVID-19 news stories, but keywords are automatically set up so that ads don’t appear next to stories about natural disasters and the like.
Ken Doctor, media analyst for Newsonomics, said this practice goes back to print — for example, newspapers would make sure there were no airline ads next to a story about an airplane crash.
However, he said these practices are meant for short-term disasters, not longer-term events like COVID-19. If advertisers continue to widely block COVID-19 content, “it’s a huge problem” for news outlets, he said.
In the United States, he estimates it could mean ad revenue losses of up to 50 per cent for daily newspapers. He said it’s safe to assume Canadian loss will be in the same range, as it is seeing similar closures.
“You have the odd irony that the story that is necessarily consuming everybody, and doubling the amount of digital news reading in general, is one that is not producing any additional ad revenue at a time when these news-producing companies badly need it.”
That’s why GroupM is encouraging its clients to stop using general keywords and come up with more specific keywords during the pandemic instead, said Barone. For example, they might not want their ads to appear next to negative stories about COVID-19, but could agree to have them appear next to stories about developing vaccines and recoveries.
“There’s neutral and positive-sentiment news around coronavirus that’s a perfectly reasonable place to advertise,” Barone said.
Barone said GroupM’s clients have been receptive to this, but some — such as travel clients — have been pulling back advertising across the board.
He said the company is also making sure its clients’ ads only appear on reputable news sites. It already has an exclusion list of more than 40,000 web domains that promote misinformation. Since the pandemic began, GroupM is seeing more and more such sites pop up, and is working daily to add them to that list, said Barone.
Identifying and avoiding sites that promote disinformation is “a big part of our process,” he said.
John Hinds, CEO of News Media Canada, said many advertisers are simply pulling their ads, either due to lost revenue or because “everything that’s going to sell is selling.”
However, he said advertisers worried about their ads appearing next to coronavirus content should actually read the content, which he said isn’t all “doom and gloom.”
Hinds said most outlets are running a huge variety of stories about topics including how to home-school your kids during a crisis. These pose an opportunity for advertisers, who should be continuing to support local media whenever possible, he said.
“There are real opportunities,” he said. “I’m not sure I understand the fear.”
Doctor said companies looking to advertise shouldn’t worry that their ads will forever be associated with COVID-19. However, he said companies should think about how to shift their message during the pandemic.
“There’s the question of whether to advertise ... and then, what message do you want to deliver in this time of crisis?


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AssamStartup – The Nest under the aegis of Industry and Commerce Department of theState Government, in the first year of its foundation has incubated 75Startups. These Startups with turnover of around 11 crore have generated 1690direct and over 40 thousand indirect employments so far.
ChiefMinister Sarbananda Sonowal called for innovation to add value to the traditionalproducts of the State to capture global market. The Chief Minister made thiscall while taking part as chief guest at "Udyam Assam – celebrating success,supporting Startup dreams", a celebratory event commemorating the success ofAssam Startup – The Nest at Ambari in Guwahati on Sunday.
Underliningthe uniqueness of traditional textiles, bell metal products etc. of the State,the Chief Minister said that these products have all the ingredients to drawpeople's attention. However, in view of changing consumer behaviour, there is aneed to be more innovative and IT enabled services would help in givingmarketing advantage to these products, he added.
ChiefMinister Sonowal on the occasion handed over cheques of first installment offinancial grants to 31 Startups incubated by the centre under the My AssamStartup ID. He also released the first edition of coffee table book 'AssamTrailblazers", which relates about the journey of Assam Startup along with thesuccessful startup stories. Besides, Sonowal launched a new initiative titled'Udyam – Youth Entrepreneurship programme' for the homecoming migrant workers.
Aspart of the event, Assam Startup – The Nest signed MoUs with 'The IndUS Entrepreneurs' (TiE), a Silicon Valley non-profit organizationand Bangalore based Sangam Ventures, a seed and early stage venture fund that invests toimprove access to sustainable energy and resource productivity solutions.


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Even as YouTube has focused on making itself a high-quality programming hub, YouTube's top 10 most viewed videos of 2011 proves that good old viral video still rules the Internet. Of the top 10 clips, only three are produced segments, while the rest fall under the classic do-it-yourself vids. Even though Youtube has made various moves to turn itself into more of a traditional content provider this past year, there's actually fewer professionally made clips on the service's most-viewed list: last year there were four.
Attempting to attract more advertising dollars from the gigantic television industry, in April the video service announced that it had set aside $100 million to invest in original content channels. By October it had launched 100 original content channels. And in November signed a deal with Disney.
But as YouTube has vamped up its efforts to produce higher quality content, the Internet has old-school YouTube loyalties. Most of 2011's popular videos are of that classic amateur genre, coming from novice video makers, as you can from this year's most watched videos below.
For those who don't recognize each thumbnail, Nos. 3 and 7 come from the Lonely Island comedy troupe (i.e. what Andy Sandberg did before he made it to Saturday Night Live). And No. 9 is that popular Darth Vader Volkswagen commercial that went viral even before it debuted during the Super Bowl. All the others come from the viral video category: Embarrassing amateur singers (1), impressive amateur singers (Numbers 6 and 8), cute animals (2 and 10) and babies (4).
YouTube grew by being the best place for people to show off their cute videos of cats and babies, and amateur uploaders are still its most reliable content producers. This is the Internet, after all. You can't manufacture stuff like this:


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Christmas markets are terrific for getting people into the festive spirit. From swigging mulled wine to stocking up on Christmas presents, markets are a staple over the winter. Tragically, coronavirus has taken its toll on big gatherings - so which Christmas markets are going ahead in the UK this year and which are cancelled?
Cardiff Christmas Market has already returned to the pedestrian streets of Cardiff City Centre.
The winter event is “subject to any COVID relevant legislation/guidelines current at the time from the Welsh Assembly and Cardiff Council respectively, in order to make your visit as safe and as enjoyable as possible,” said Cardiff Christmas Market.
The team previously said of the market: “We are planning another exciting and eclectic mix of both new and returning exhibitors to tempt you as their original, hand made work is the essence of what makes our market so different and special every year.”Insurance Loans Mortgage Attorney Credit LawyerSwansea
Swansea Christmas Market is still going ahead this year.
“Following the latest government advice and with daily on-site support, Swansea Christmas Market plans to deliver a festive and safe shopping experience for traders and customers!” said Swansea City Centre.
The dates are: Friday, November 27 – Monday, December 21, 2020.
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Christmas market 2020: Which Xmas markets are going ahead in the UK this year and which are not? (Image: Getty Images)
Christmas market 2020: Manchester’s Christmas market has been cancelled (Image: Getty Images)
York’s St Nicholas Fair will not be going ahead this year.
However, a virtual equivalent of the event is taking place so you can still emjoy the market's classic shops.Manchester
Manchester’s Christmas market has been cancelled.
Councillor Pat Karney, Manchester's Christmas spokesperson, previously said that even the proposed smaller markets did not meet public health approval and that the city council "could never take any risks" with people's wellbeing.Insurance Loans Mortgage Attorney Credit Lawyer
Manchester will still be lit up with Christmas lights and seasonal light installations, including the giant glowing Santa at Piccadilly Gardens.Liverpool
The Liverpool Christmas Market is cancelled for 2020.
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Impact of Bearish Chinese Economic Data on Global Oil Prices
In today’s interconnected world, the economic developments of China, the world’s second-largest economy, reverberate across the globe. The continuous flow of China’s economy news can sway markets and influence investment decisions. As an integral player in international trade, the effects of Chinese economic trends extend far beyond its borders.
This article delves into the recent dynamics of China’s economy, its implications on global markets, and the growing significance of buying from China and importing from China. Additionally, we will explore the intriguing realm of China chip news, which has emerged as a focal point of international attention.
China Economy News and Global Markets
Oil prices saw a slight uptick on Wednesday, with supply constraints resulting from production cuts in Saudi Arabia and Russia countering concerns about sluggish demand from China, a leading importer of crude, and a report revealing a surge in U.S. crude inventories.
Saudi Arabia’s cabinet reasserted its commitment to the precautionary measures advocated by the OPEC+. These measures aim to achieve market stability amidst the volatility in the oil sector.
The influence of Chinese data on commodities, currencies, and stocks is undeniable. A slowdown in China’s economic growth can ripple through supply chains, affecting businesses worldwide that rely on exporting to or importing from China. This highlights the significance of staying updated on the latest China economy news for investors, businesses, and policymakers alike.
The Implications of Chinese Economic Trends
China’s status as the world’s manufacturing hub has led to a surge in international trade, with many countries relying heavily on buying from China and importing from China to fuel their own economies.
Any shifts in China’s production capabilities, trade policies, or consumer demand can have far-reaching consequences. For instance, disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in global supply chains heavily reliant on Chinese manufacturing. As a result, many industries are now reconsidering their supply chain strategies to mitigate future risks.
Brent crude futures rose 22 cents, equivalent to a 0.3% increase, reaching $86.39 per barrel at 0806 GMT. Simultaneously, U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude recorded a gain of 19 cents, translating to a 0.2% rise, with prices reaching $83.11 per barrel. This surge follows a noteworthy increase of almost $1 per barrel for both contracts the preceding day.
Furthermore, the recent China chip news has captivated the technology sector. Semiconductors, often called chips, are the building blocks of modern electronics. China’s push to enhance its domestic chip production capabilities has garnered attention from tech giants to governments. The ability to manufacture cutting-edge chips fuels technological advancements and has implications for national security and geopolitical dynamics. As China makes strides in this arena, it raises questions about its potential to reshape the global tech landscape.
Navigating Uncertainty: Opportunities and Challenges
The market sentiment also received a boost from recent developments in Saudi Arabia and Russia. In a gesture of support for market stability, Saudi Arabia decided to extend its voluntary production cut of 1 million barrels per day. This cut, which was originally scheduled to expire earlier. However, it will now remain in effect until the end of September. In parallel, Russia announced its intention to curtail oil exports by 300,000 barrels per day for the month of September.
Shifts in Chinese economic trends can present challenges but also create opportunities. Businesses that depend on buying from China or importing from China can explore diversification strategies to mitigate risks associated with supply chain disruptions. This might involve exploring alternative sourcing options, renegotiating contracts, or investing in local production capabilities.
Similarly, the China chip news presents opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and strategic partnerships in the tech industry. As China endeavours to achieve self-sufficiency in chip production, international players can explore avenues for cooperation, knowledge exchange, and joint research and development.
Navigating Complex Oil Market Dynamics
The recent dynamics in the oil market highlight the intricate dance between supply and demand factors. Production cuts by Saudi Arabia and Russia provide a positive push to prices. However, concerns over sluggish demand from China and increasing U.S. crude inventories introduce uncertainties. As oil-producing nations continue their collaboration to stabilise the market, the global community will closely monitor how these multifaceted elements shape the trajectory of oil prices in the coming weeks.
In the dynamic realm of global economics, the influence of the economy news of China is undeniable. The intricate interplay between China’s economic indicators and global markets highlights the importance of staying informed about the latest developments. As businesses worldwide continue buying from China and importing from China, understanding the implications of Chinese economic trends becomes paramount. The captivating saga of China chip news adds an intriguing layer to this narrative, underscoring the evolving landscape of technology and geopolitics.
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Italy’s Maserati is one of a handful of luxury car makers that has been talking about jumping on the all-electric model bandwagon for a while now, but it looks like the Fiat Chrysler (FCA) brand is finally ready to commit. Maserati engineering head Roberto Fedeli told Car & Driver in an interview that they are planning to reveal their first EV by 2019 at the earliest, with production to start in 2020, and that the model would probably be a grand-touring coupe.
While Maserati is working to launch their electric model as soon as possible, Fedeli admitted that they would probably be one of the last luxury manufacturers to enter the EV market. However, they hope to use this opportunity to do “something different” from the competition.
That competition won’t necessarily be Tesla, seeing as how Maserati’s EV will be a low-volume coupe instead of a four-door sedan, but Fedeli still took the opportunity to throw shade at the current leader of the electric car market. He said that the “execution and quality of the products of Tesla are the same as a German OEM in the 1970s. Their solutions are not the best.”
Instead, Maserati’s goal is to focus on its trademarks like sporty design and driving experience, along with its engine sounds. This will obviously be a challenge for the car maker, seeing as how electric engines don’t make noise and the large batteries are known to add significant weight. While this is “inconsistent with the brand we are representing,” Fedeli said, it seems the company has no choice but to admit that EVs are here to stay.
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A mission to stem the flow of independent butchers from the industry in the face of supermarket dominance has begun in Australia.
In Queensland alone, the sector has seen butcher numbers drop from 960 to about 520 in the past decade.
Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) business development officer Glen Burke revealed the figures to about 40 beef producers in Brisbane during a tour of the city and its beef landmarks, including the JBS processing plant at outlying Dinmore, as well as retail and food service outlets and premium steakhouses across the central business district.
The Beyond the Farm Gate tour is part of a series of initiatives MLA is rolling out in a bid to "beef up" profits across the industry.
Spearheads of the campaign will be seven hand-picked butchers from across the country who will act as "ambassadors" to deliver cooking demonstrations and ideas on how to present red meat in a way that attracts more buyers and delivers more value to the retailer.
Nambour butcher Artie Vella, who gained noteriety on the television cooking show My Kitchen Rules, is one of the red meat ambassadors, and took beef producers through his steps to successful red meat retailing at the Black Pearl Cooking School in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley.
Mr. Vella is the owner of Nambour Plaza Meats, literally a stone's throw from Woolworths in a busy Sunshine Coast shopping complex. About 10 years ago, Mr Vella had a small butcher shop before being told to either "get big or get out" if he was going to compete with the soon-to-arrive supermarket giant on his doorstep.
Mr. Vella took the first approach and hasn't looked back, even though it has meant major changes to the way he does business. He says that within his shop he has 20 meters of display window with at least 11 of those meters occupied by value-added meat meals tailored to different customer demands, from convenience meals for time-stretched parents to fun creations to inspire children to eat meat.
Other tactics he employs include writing the cooking times on the items he sells.
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CES 2019: Qualcomm President Amon is convinced you’re going to be thrilled with 5G
Qualcomm's president, Cristiano Amon, took some time at the Consumer Electronics Show to discuss how 5G cellular will amaze consumers. He also reflected on how AI processing on smartphones will become more prevalent.
Cristiano Amon, a longtime veteran of chip giant Qualcomm and the company's president, is convinced you will see amazing things from 5G wireless technology, a cellular network upgrade being rolled out by AT&T and others that still remains something of a mystery to the average consumer. "Let's go for a trip down memory lane," he offered, in a chat with ZDNet inside the mammoth Qualcomm booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
"You will get a phone -- and there thirty models that have been announced that are going to be coming starting in Q2 -- that will have at least ten times the speed you have today, with instant response time. Things you take for granted today like storing music in the cloud, are going to spread to other areas. Video will be as easy to send and consume as music is today on a smartphone. The sports and news that you want will be instantly accessible.
"All the social network companies are very excited about it; you will be able to broadcast to your friends; instead of checking their tweets, you will have instant presence with your friends."
The second thing that comes with 5G is a lot more sophisticated partitioning of computing tasks, including artificial intelligence, he is convinced. Whereas today a little bit of machine learning is downloaded to a device, in future, says Amon, cloud computing servers and phones will work in tandem, back and forth, to process neural network models. "That server, with low latency response, is going to become a co-processor for your phone. Think of 5G as a network bus between your phone and the cloud."
It spreads to other areas beyond AI, he says. "Imagine having the capabilities of a $10,000 gaming PC on your phone. You do the rendering on the server, and the output of that is sent to the phone display. You will have on-demand capacity depending on the workloads you need."
Another area is storage: "This whole decision today about how much capacity should my phone have, how much storage, that's going to go away as you have access to everything when yo want it, in the cloud, over 5G."
Come the fall, maintains Amon, it's going to be somewhat hard not to buy a 5G phone. "You will walk into a carrier, you will say you want a new phone, and you might want to initially purchase a 4G phone, but you're going to have to really work for that," he says, meaning, store reps for the carriers are incentivized by the company to steer you toward a 5G device; they will do there best to convince you that 4G is not the way to go, for the kinds of reasons cited above.
Toward the end of the conversation, Amon was asked about the current confusion of AI on mobile. As a recent report by Facebook's AI researchers detailed, the situation of chipsets is something of a mess. Not only is the market highly fragmented between Qualcomm and its competitors, but the vast majority of chips running smartphone software in the wild is six years old or more. There seems to be a need for a more sophisticated level of support for neural networks.
Amon nodded his ascent, and indicated that machine learning will spread to many more parts of the Qualcomm portfolio. "The fastest growth area in silicon for Snapdragon [Qualcomm's mobile chipset brand] is machine learning. And one thing we are doing is bringing the capability across multiple tiers, because the use cases are becoming way more important."
"You will see it come to other parts of the smartphone market, the way you've seen capabilities move through the tiers of mobile."
"Over time, that will not be an issue. We have the 800 and the 700 and the 600 Series [of Snapdragon] today supporting machine learning with AI processing capabilities specifically. We can distribute neural networks across the neural net block, sometimes on the CPU, and sometimes on GPU."
"And for the rest of the portfolio, well, stay tuned."


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Vringo, a provider of software platforms
for mobile social and video applications, and Mobango, an
independent app store, announced the launch of Vringo’s Facetones app on the
Mobango App Store, which has a major presence in India, the United States, UK
Vringo’s Facetones app integrates with
Facebook and generates an automatic, visually exciting slideshow of pictures
and social content each time a user makes or receives a phone call. Facetones
will be offered to Mobango users through the free independent app store as an
We are excited to be working with
Mobango as we continue to expand the global footprint of our Facetones app,”
said Andrew Perlman, president, Vringo.
As one of the world’s largest
independent app stores, Mobango is well-known as the service to find free
resources and content for all mobile phones, not only smartphones. Mobango
allows users to share apps and content with friends through social networks,
which has allowed viral marketing to work fantastically well,” Perlman added.
Mobango’s Pay per Promoted Downloads
(PPD) platform enables application owners to only pay for the number of
downloads by users, which Mobango believes is five to 20 times more effective
than traditional promotion methods for applications.
Vringo’s Facetones service provides an
innovative way for users to experience mobile social connections. Playing a
unique auto-generated slideshow of a friend’s latest pictures on Facebook when
a user makes or receives calls is a great way to harness the best of mobile
social technology. We believe the Facetones application will be well-received
by Mobango’s global user-base,” said Badri Sanjeevi, COO at Mobango.
Vringo’s Facetones product creates an
automated video slideshow using friends’ photos from social media web sites and
then plays this video slideshow each time the user makes or receives a mobile
call. Facetones initially connects with Facebook providing for a significantly
enhanced mobile experience for users of social media. Vringo expects to
integrate Facetones with other social media networks and photo sites in the
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IBM pronounced it will offer a latest Nvidia GPU, a Tesla P100, in a IBM Cloud as it aims to squeeze synthetic intelligence, appurtenance learning, and high opening computing workloads.
Big Blue pronounced it is among a initial to offer Nvidia’s latest processors. The dual companies are pivotal partners on mixed fronts given 2014.
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Nvidia is increasingly apropos a information core actor as graphics processors take a bigger purpose in analytics workloads. IBM, Nvidia, Google and a brood of others are partners in a OpenPower group, that aims to offer as a counterweight to Intel.
IBM Cloud business can supply Bluemix unclothed steel servers with dual Nvidia Tesla P100 accelerator cards. The Tesla P100 has 50 times a opening of a Tesla K80.
The Tesla P100 will be accessible on IBM Cloud in May.
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Some think the Chinese currency can become a global currency for trade settlement by 2015 and be fully convertible in five years. By then it could be one of the world's most traded currencies and on a par with the U.S. dollar and euro.


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‘The art of buying crap’: The Guardian wants publishers to unite to clean up programmatic
The Guardian is in talks with European media owners Axel Springer and Schibsted over how to throttle ad fraud and other opaque practices occurring in the programmatic advertising supply chain.
Speaking at Digiday’s Publishing Summit Europe in Berlin this week, Danny Spears, programmatic director at the Guardian, appealed to publishers to challenge the status quo in which buyers invest in high volumes of cheap inventory through secondary markets like ad exchanges. The “audience-buying narrative” results in advertisers and publishers becoming exposed to unknown tech fees and ad fraud.
Over the last six months, the Guardian has discussed with Axel Springer and Schibsted how to address these issues. Spears stressed that the aim is not to form any kind of official publisher consortium but to discuss together what meaningful action can be taken to ensure everyone in the digital ad supply ecosystem is accountable for the role they play.
“Our shared vision is to redefine digital advertising, to catalyze its evolution from a fractured, opaque and inefficient marketplace to a competitive ecosystem that delivers unparalleled value to advertisers and publishers alike,” Spears added.
The Guardian has staked out a vocal and assertive position on the side of premium publishers fighting back against what it sees as unfair treatment in programmatic. In 2016, the publisher ran an investigation on its own inventory and found it only received 30 pence for every pound an advertiser spent with it programmatically. Data merchants were siphoning off the rest. In March, that culminated in the Guardian suing former vendor partner Rubicon Project for allegedly not disclosing its fees — an ongoing lawsuit.
“Buying from a secondary market is high-risk and a Russian-roulette approach to media buying,” said Spears. In short, he said, programmatic advertising has spawned “the art of buying crap,” which has shown up in the array of brand misplacement disasters over the last year, including advertisers like BMW appearing on so-called hate-speech sites like Breitbart and others finding their ads next to extremist content on YouTube.
“Today, ad tech wants to control our ad stack, while competing for our customers’ ad spend,” he said. “In short, publishers are being eaten alive from the inside out. Our belief is media sales is our prerogative, and technology should be a mere enabler. Publishers need to restore control of their supply chain and ensure sovereignty over their revenue decisioning.”
The Guardian has been working with its customers to pull its transaction data and map its shared supply chain. That’s helped it overcome some of the market opacity, identify unnecessary costs and friction in the supply chain and allowed it to introduce more pricing rules to create tax-efficient routes for buyers. This has increased its customers’ working media by 30 percent, according to Spears.
The Guardian has also developed a standardized approach to its ad tech contracts that lays out all its terms of engagement for vendors, leading to increased transparency and stronger partnerships. That in turn has converted directly to higher yields and media revenue, unlocking 10 percent incremental net programmatic revenue over the past 10 months, Spears said.
“Despite fraud being derided, we’re yet to hear any real cries of zero tolerance from the middle of the market — I suspect because that will cost volume and margin. But we need to be clear with partners on zero tolerance to fraud. Publishers need change, and so do advertisers,” said Spears. “Publishers must collaborate to build a vision that we are proud to be a part of. That’s where programmatic can finally deliver on its promise.”
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Set up in 1964 by Alan Rayner to sell freezer bags from his Windermere garage, the range of this mail-order kitchenware company now comprises over 4,000 articles, from cleaning products to garden equipment. Goods are sold online and from 79 stores, including seven in the Middle East and three in India. In January next year, former BP retail director Catherine Nunn, 46, will take over as chief executive from Sam Rayner, 63, the founder’s son, who will become chairman.
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Verari Systems, which appeared to be on its last legs a month ago when it shut down most operations and laid off the bulk of its workforce, is being brought back to life by a group of investors led by former CEO David Driggers.
The group led by Driggers bought most of troubled systems maker’s assets at auction earlier this month, and has changed the company’s name to Verari Technologies.
The new name is now on the company’s Web site, and the management page lists Driggers as chairman and CEO. On its home page, below the new name, is a quick message that says “Same technology. Better company.”
In a statement released Jan. 19, Driggers said the company will focus on blade-based high-performance computing offerings and storage devices, as well as the modular containerized data center, named Forest.
He said the investment group he led bought all of Verari’s inventory, equipment and technologies, such as Verari’s patented Vertical Cooling Technology, BladeRack architecture and modular data center patents.
Driggers said the company will be customer-focused that will look to leverage its patents and technologies.
“We have the opportunity to go back to our roots of being a consulting company that heavily partners to deliver custom solutions for our customers,” Driggers said in a statement. “You’re going to see a concerted effort on our part to license and promote these unique technologies. With the ever increasing compute and storage issues our customers are facing today, I believe we are going to be well positioned to help them solve even the most demanding challenges.”
Verari, which makes energy-efficient servers, some storage devices and the Forest containerized data center product, started shuttering its business Dec. 11, a month after rumors of its financial troubles began circulating after the company failed to appear at the Supercomputer 2009 show.
Verari laid off most of its employees-there were about 225 at the time-though some executives remained at the San Diego, Calif., headquarters to figure out the company’s future and handle customer orders.
At the time, then-CEO David Wright said the company was restructuring, though he was unclear what form that restructuring would take.
Later that month, a notice appeared on Verari’s site announcing an auction of the company’s assets by a firm called Credit Management Association, with a bid deadline of Jan. 7.
With the sale to Driggers, the company was able to avoid bankruptcy.
Some competitors, including SGI, announced it would support Verari customers and their products, and a number of former employees have found jobs elsewhere, according to statements on an employee networking site, VerariAlumni.com.
A statement on that site posted Jan. 18 reads:
“Well, the rumors are true. … David Driggers, the original Founder of Verari Systems, will announce tomorrow the successful acquisition of substantially all of Verari Systems’ corporate and intellectual property assets by an Investment Group led by Driggers. With the purchase of substantially all of the assets, Mr. Driggers is re-starting the Verari engine this week. The new company, Verari Technologies, will focus on blade-based high-performance computing solutions, modular containerized data centers and blade-based storage development efforts. In addition, the Investment Group purchased all of Verari’s inventory, equipment and technologies and is offering immediate support to past Verari Systems’ customers.“
Driggers was CEO of the company he founded until 2006, when Wright was brought in from storage giant EMC to take over.


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Hidden City Games has named Microsoft veteran Joshua Howard senior VP of Bella Sara Online, a horse-themed online world for girls which boasts over 1.6 million registered users.
Howard has 15 years of experience at Microsoft where he was most recently group manager for Carbonated Games, the casual games studio he started at the company. Prior to that, he was lead program manager for MSN Games/Zone.com.
"Joshua Howard, with his experience running a casual games studio and perspective as a father of two girls, is a clear choice to lead the evolution of BellaSara.com," said Hidden City Games CEO Peter Adkison.
"BellaSara.com captures the magic of the brand in a safe and engaging experience, and Howard will expand it into a robust online destination rich in features and fun."
Adkison helped launch the PokÃ®mon and Magic: The Gathering trading card phenomena and founded Wizards of the Coast, which he sold to Hasbro in 1999 for nearly USD 500 million.
Bella Sara, a set of horse-themed trading cards, was developed by Danish social worker Gitte Odder BrÃ¦ndgaard. Each card is now imprinted with a code that unlocks a virtual version of that horse on the web site.


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People from all walks of life are being targeted by scams.
There seems to be no hiding place with scams being sent to your email, phones or social networking sites. They even come in a phone call or a knock at the door.
We are seeing increasingly specific scams which target people looking for jobs or training courses – recently this seems to be targeting younger people who are most likely to be out of work or looking for training.
There are hundreds of scams – fake lotteries and prize draws, bogus health cures, dodgy investment schemes, pyramid selling, phishing – to name a few. These may change as more people become aware of them and as scammers attempt to keep one step ahead.
It is estimated that nearly half of the people in the UK (48 per cent) have been targeted by a scam and that £3.5 billion is lost to scams every year.
This month Birmingham City Council’s Trading Standards team and Citizen’s Advice are joining forces to crackdown on the fraudsters in a scam awareness initiative throughout May.
To help tackle scams there are a number of things that consumers can do.
Never give out contact details like your name, phone number or bank details to strangers or to people who should have this information already.
Shred anything with your personal or bank details on – don’t just throw it away. And never respond to unsolicited messages.
To reduce scam texts you need to forward the text to your service provider – Everything Everywhere and O2 customers can text 7726; Three customers can text 37726; and Vodafone customers can text 87726.
Most importantly help tackle scams by telling others. Warning friends, family and neighbours can help people avoid scams.
If you or anybody you know has been the victim of a scam you should contact Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or visit www.actionfraud.police.uk . You should also seek advice through Citizens Advice Consumer Service on 08454 04 05 06.
For further information please visit our website at www.birmingham.gov.uk/scams or follow us on Twitter at @bhamts.


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'The data says it can happen': Some shops to reopen this week
An announcement by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday that California is making progress toward phase 2 reopening is welcome news to businesses that have been deeply affected by closures during the state's stay-at-home order.
For G. Rossi Florist, the oldest florist in Sacramento, business has been anything but "usual" since about mid-March.
"Heeding all the warnings, we just wanted our employees to be safe, our customers to be safe and we closed our doors and hunkered down," said owner Michele Porter.
Porter did do some no-contact deliveries and curbside pickup for her customers over the last several weeks, but a huge boost for G. Rossi's business will come this week when, according to Newsom, shops like G. Rossi can start to reopen.
"We will allow retail to restart across the spectrum. We will allow regional variation, but only after self-certification," Newsom said during his daily briefing. "This is a very positive sign and it's happened only for one reason: The data says it can happen."
The announcement that the state is moving into phase 2 business openings means retailers like bookstores, clothing stores, florists and sporting goods stores can reopen -- with modifications.
"That means we want to make sure the workers and customers are safe in these settings," said Dr. Sonia Angell, California Department of Public Health director. "There will be modifications to ensure physical distancing and making sure that the unique circumstances at those workplaces will be addressed."
G. Rossi Florist is still figuring out its back-to-business/opening logistics. They're working on a plan now for how many customers can be in the shop safely at one time and how payments will be taken, among other new ways of functioning in the time of coronavirus.
"It's really challenging us to think of following the rules and also being very optimistic that we can open our doors and help people that way too," Porter said.
With one of their busiest times of year, Mother's Day, happening this week, being open for business couldn't have come at a better time.
"Most people haven't seen their mom in a couple months!" said Porter. "It's really great news at a really great time."
The governor said some counties can move more quickly through phase 2 if they meet certain criteria and submit a readiness plan.
Offices, seated dining at restaurants and shopping malls are not included in phase 2. The governor's full announcement can be read here.


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What happens when a public company announces they could soon have millions of new customers? Its stock goes through the roof, of course. Such is the case for Apple, one day after announcing an iPhone deal with China Mobile. At midday, shares of Apple are up over 3 percent. In the last month, the stock is up nearly 9 percent. On Sunday, Apple and China Mobile announced a multi-year deal that will bring the iPhone to the world’s largest carrier for the very first time. Beginning Jan. 17, China Mobile’s 780 million subscribers will have a chance to purchase the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Preregistration from the company’s official website begins on Wednesday, Dec. 25. In announcing the news, Apple CEO Tim Cook notes:
Apple has enormous respect for China Mobile and we are excited to begin working together. China is an extremely important market for Apple and our partnership with China Mobile presents us the opportunity to bring iPhone to the customers of the world’s largest network … … iPhone customers in China are an enthusiastic and rapidly growing group, and we can’t think of a better way to welcome in the Chinese New Year than getting an iPhone into the hands of every China Mobile customer who wants one.China Mobile has over 1.2 million 2G/GSM, 3G/TD-SCDMA, 4G/TD-LTE base stations and over 4.2 million Wi-Fi access points. By the end of 2013, the company’s 4G services will be available in 16 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. By the end of next year, China Mobile plans to complete the rollout of more than 500,000 4G base stations, which will cover more than 340 cities with 4G service.


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Whilst Apple may have captured the early buzz with the tablet market when they introduced the original iPad, it seems their share of the tablet market has begun to fade according to research released by Canalys.
With a tablets now accounting for 31% of worldwide PC shipments, Canalys estimate that 68 per cent of tablets shipped in the second quarter had a screen size smaller than 9 inches and that small tablet manufactures like Samsung, Amazon, Lenovo, Acer and others saw hefty year-on-year gains in shipments during the second quarter, ranging from 228 per cent (Acer) to 317 per cent (Lenovo).
The basis of the report from Canalys is displayed in this table:
The report states that Apples share of the overall tablet market dropped by 14 percent year over year, leading to suggestions that Apples domination of the tablet market is, if not over, then well and truly on the decline. This could be attributed to the lack of recent refreshes to their iPad line, as noted by James Wang from Canalys, who stated that:
Apple’s decline in shipments and share has been partly attributed to its ageing portfolio. when Apple does decide to refresh its iPad … it will not experience the buzz of previous launches.
Mr Wang also notes that even a refresh of their iPad line may not have as big an impact as it has previously with many consumers tending to vote with their wallets preferring the smaller screened and cheaper Android tablets.
Canalys did have this to say about Apple profitability versus the rest of the pack:
While it is true that Apple is losing its stranglehold on the tablet market in terms of volume, it will remain its most profitable vendor for years to come
Samsung which has the largest share of the tablet market within the Android ecosphere, saw shipments jump 295 per cent which makes it the second-largest share with 1.867 million units shipped in the 2nd quarter.
Androids Tablet app eco-system, or lack thereof is somewhat contributing to the slower pickup of Android tablets, however recent focus by Google on Tablet specific Apps is slowly increasing availability of apps as noted by senior Canalys analyst, Tim Shepherd :
Despite its 53 per cent share, Android still lags far behind iOS in the availability of fully optimised tablet apps, and tablet app downloads from the Apple App Store dwarf those from Google Play. But Android is expected to continue to close the ecosystem lead iOS has in tablets, and increase share in coming quarters. Developers can and will quickly switch their priorities as different opportunities evolve and improve.
The tablet market has been heavily dominated by Apple, and with good reason so far. The tablet apps offered on iOS has been far superior to that offered by Android developers who have seen no substantial reason to update their apps for larger screen devices, until now. Increases in Android Tablet sales as demonstrated by this reports means that developers have a lot more reason to update their apps along with more users who are now requesting tablet versions of their apps.
So what do you think about this report and the numbers? What is your preferred tablet size 7″, 10″ or something larger or inbetween?


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|By Marketwired .||
|November 10, 2012 01:00 AM EST||
LEEDS, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 11/10/12 -- Credit card fraud is serious, damaging and a potentially expensive crime that everyone hopes to never experience. Asda Money looks at ways to help avoid credit card fraud.
According to the European Central Bank, which looked at 17 national banks in the euro area, credit card fraud has been in decline since 2007(i). This is largely down to technological advances such as the introduction of Chip and PIN, which has helped to increase the security of these types of transactions.
The research also highlighted that credit card fraud has shifted and predominately occurs online. Whilst credit card fraud is in decline, it is an international organised activity over the internet and by taking a few measures you could reduce your risk of becoming a credit card fraud victim.
Top tips to avoid credit card fraud
Know your PIN
It might be an obvious choice, but make sure you're the only one who knows your Personal Identification Number (PIN). Worryingly, 33% of people do not cover up their PIN number when paying for goods in shops or at an ATM machine. A further 17% have confessed to not destroying the written confirmation of a PIN number when they get new debit or credit cards.(ii) You should never give your PIN number away to anyone.
Online banking fraud increased by a massive 14% between 2009 and 2008 as criminals became increasingly tech savvy.(iii) Whilst you cannot ever be certain that you will never be a victim of online fraud, you could take matters into your own hands. You can reduce the risk of online fraud by never giving over your bank details unless the website is trusted and well known. Merchants such as Visa and MasterCard offer a SecureCode verification payment system, which account holders can sign up to in order to complete a transaction.
You might not be aware if you are a victim of fraud so it could be advisable to thoroughly review your credit and debit card bank statements to see if smaller unknown payments have slipped through the net. You should also take steps to cover you tracks and shred any documents with sensitive information such as your bank details.
Notes to editors
(i) Source: European Central Bank First ECB report on card fraud shows chips have increased the security of physical transactions 26/07/12
(ii) Source: Esure Password perils 01/02/12
(iii) Source: The UK Cards Association New Card and Banking Fraud Figures 10/03/12
About Asda Money Credit Card
-- 1% cashback on Asda shopping -- 1% cashback at Asda filling stations -- 0.5% cashback at all other shops -- 0% balance transfers for 12 months(i) Representative example: Standard Purchases: 14.9% p.a. variable. Representative APR: 14.9% variable. Total amount of credit: GBP 1200. This is for illustrative purposes only and actual total amount of credit may differ.
(i)Balance Transfer Terms and Conditions: Balance Transfer fee of 2.9% (minimum fee GBP 3 per transaction) will be charged in respect of each Balance Transfer. Subject to account status. Account Terms and Conditions apply. You can Balance Transfer up to 80% of the available credit limit within the first 90 days of account opening. Balance Transfers from existing storecard accounts and loans issued by Creation Financial Services Ltd or Creation Consumer Finance Ltd and credit card accounts issued by Sygma Bank UK are not permitted. Minimum value for Balance Transfer is GBP 50. At the end of the promotional period you will be charged the Standard Rates of Interest in accordance to your Account.
Asda Money is a trading name of Asda Stores Limited. Asda Stores Limited uses a selection of companies to provide its products and services. Please refer to www.ASDA.com/money for details of our product partners and the relevant terms and conditions for each of our products and services.
Subject to status. Applicants must be aged 18 or over and UK resident (including Isle of Man and Channel Islands). The Asda Money Credit Card is issued by Sygma Bank UK, a Creation Group company, Chadwick House, Blenheim Court, Solihull B91 2AA.
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New Player Software Adds to DVD-Web Interaction26 Sep, 2002 By: Holly J. Wagner
New features in a PC-based software media player could unleash new potential in DVD consumption, but the technology must overcome certain obstacles that hold back existing DVD-ROM technology.InterActual's enhanced DVD playback technology is the next step in DVD-Web interaction, offering consumers the opportunity to navigate online for constantly updated information.
The folks at PC media player software company InterActual are no strangers to the studios. The company has collaborated with several suppliers on producing some of the best-loved DVD-ROM features on titles like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. So it's little surprise that Warner, New Line and Buena Vista have just announced their enthusiastic support for InterActual's player technology.
“Our focus is to put the controls into the content provider's hands in terms of features,” said InterActual president and CEO Todd Collert.
The HTML-based technology lets the consumer search scenes for specific content using terms like a typical Internet search. At a demonstration of the technology, Collert searched The Matrix for the words “kung fu”and it returned a navigable index of scene thumbnails of all scenes with kung fu action.“I wanted to make it more of a campfire story that you can retell in different ways,” said InterActual founder and creative director Chris Brown. “There's this huge opportunity for interactivity.”
What's more, Collert said, InterActual's process lets studios update content on their existing inventory of recorded discs so they need not repress a title from scratch.
Online, studios could update features like cast bios and filmographies. That would extend the life of a release so consumers watching a disc with an Internet connection years later could see what the talent didafter the feature release, constantly adding value to the disc. The system also offers opportunities to target preference-based marketing to consumers, Collert said. For example, a studio could update trailers ona disc.
“If you are able to update the disc via the Internet, it's really a living, breathing thing,” said Mike Mulvihill, New Line Home Entertainment's VP of content development. “We have ROM material on titles going back to 1998. When this arrives, we will already have several updatable titles.”
While the features offer truly amazing opportunities, they also require widespread Internet connections to the DVD players or computer-to-TV connections in consumer households. At present, that can only be accomplished by home networking a PC Internet connection through the TV and using a PC-based player.
Collert said he's waiting for the DVD Forum to establish a standard for set-top technology before approaching player manufacturers to incorporate Interactual's player in their boxes. Meanwhile, the companyis licensing its technology to computer component companies like LSI Logic and Cirrus Logic.
Interactual's software can run on a dial-up connection, but consumers are typically loathe to tie-up the phone line so broadband adoption seems key. Internet analyst Emarketer estimates broadband adoption atjust 17 percent of Internet-wired homes in the United States.
Another holdup could be consumer preferences. In a recent consumer study of 600 DVD households conducted by Video Store Magazine market research, 70 percent of households said Web links were not important DVD features.


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The game Pokemon was a big craze, there have been few games that were given such magnanimous reception. There were cases of a driver running into pedestrians while playing Pokemon go behind the wheels. The global hunt for the Pokemon was ecstatic and even despite the game not been officially launched in Nigeria, some Lagosians were already enjoying it.
Fast forward to the present, it is true the rave about the game is dying as growth seem to be winding down in pace. But then this doesn’t mean the game Pokemon is very close to its coffins yet. The game in its very right is still breaking some records now. The latest record the game has broken has been confirmed by the reputable market research firm App Annie which revealed that Pokemon Go has ascended to the position of fastest game to skyrocket to $600 million in revenues.
Going by this data published by the firm, the game had jumped up to this milestone in just 3 months. This greatly beats other very famous games in the likes of popular games like Puzzle & Dragons, Candy Crush Saga, and Clash of Clans which take took 400, 200 and 500 days, respectively, in reaching this same gargantuan revenue figure.
Th data released by the firm also confirmed that over 43% of the accumulated time exhausted on Android games in the US in Q3 for the year 2016 was spent playing Pokemon Go.