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Tigers fans can bring home the magic of baseball thanks to a new collection of jewelry from Rebel Nell made from material sourced from the team’s home dugout.
“The Dugout Collection,” produced in collaboration with the Detroit Tigers, includes items such as tie bars, cufflinks, earrings, necklaces and wine stoppers. Every item is made of materials that have seen two World Series, one All-Star Game and countless concerts and events, ensuring a bit of history in each piece. Proceeds from this collection benefit the Detroit Tigers Foundation, an affiliate of Ilitch Charities.
“We are excited to partner with the Detroit Tigers on this special collection to preserve a piece of baseball history and to bring a part of the game to the incredible fans of our iconic baseball team. The collection will support the Detroit Tigers Foundation and also create jobs for many women in Detroit through our mission at Rebel Nell,” said Amy Peterson, founder of Rebel Nell.
Rebel Nell began in 2013 with the mission to employ women facing barriers to employment in Detroit, educate them on financial management, life wellness and entrepreneurship, and empower them to transition to a life of independence. The brand previously partnered with the Detroit Red Wings Foundation for “The Joe Collection,” a limited line of hand-made pieces created from paint fragments outside historic Joe Louis Arena.


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6 in 10 UK shoppers won't buy clothing online unless returns are free
An important part of shopping for clothing is trying on items to make sure they fit. UK online shoppers believe this should also be an option when purchasing items via the Internet.
Research from a UK virtual fitting room company, Fits.me, involving 1,000 UK consumers, found that 60% won't purchase clothing online if a retailer does not offer free returns.
"Consumers don't trust the sizing information they see online, and with good reason: there are no universal sizing standards, and sizing may vary considerably even within a single retailer," says Heikki Haldre, founder and chief executive of Fits.me.
Of those returning unwanted items the main reasons cited were ill-fitting garments (43%), feel of the fabric (25%) and style of the garment (15%).
To get around the problem, many online shoppers (41%) are ordering multiple sizes for one item and returning those that don't fit. This costs retailers offering free returns a lot of money, not only in postage but in re-warehousing and, possibly, discounting for resale.
The answer could lie in virtual fitting rooms. A recent study of conversions and returns at shirt-maker Hawes and Curtis, who use Fits.me's technology, showed that its virtual fitting room was responsible for an improvement in conversion rates of 57% for first-time customers, and a 35% fall in its overall garment return rates.
Earlier this year, Fits.me revealed the findings of a survey that found trying on clothes in store fitting rooms was becoming less attractive. Consumers cited tiny fitting rooms, queues and embarrassment as the main reasons they'd prefer to try on clothing at home.
"It's certainly true that more and more people are shopping online, where it's impossible for shoppers physically to try on clothes for fit," said Haldre. "This is forcing retailers to look at new solutions in which the fitting room has been re-imagined for the online world: these include virtual reality, personal style assistants, augmented reality, avatars and Fits.me's own robotic mannequins that take on the exact shape and size of the shopper."
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Activision released screenshots for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, giving us a look at what the next entry in skateboarder Tony Hawk’s action sports franchise as to offer.
[dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap]t was thirteen years ago, back in 2002, when Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 was released. Since then there have been several games based off the iconic series. The first game, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, was a smashing success and Activision released a number of follow-up games. However, when Tony Hawk Shred was released on October 26, 2010 it was met with poor reviews from critics and fans alike. Now, Activision and Tony Hawk plan to change all of that with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 will feature several professional skaters who will skate alongside Tony Hawk. Activision confirmed these pro skaters to be Nyjah Huston, Riley Hawk, Aaron “Jaws” Homoki, Ishod Wair, Leticia Bufoni, Chris Cole, David Gonzalez, Andrew Reynolds and Lizzie Armanto. Some of these pro skaters can be found in the slideshow above.
The next installment in the Pro Skater series plans to keep the franchise’s combo-driven gameplay while offering new unique features. On top of new parks being introduced, familiar old skate parks like Warehouse have been reworked as well. Players will also be able to create their own skate parks and share it online with the rest of the community when they are finished. The game will also implement new levels and “fine-tuned controls” while also introducing power-ups. There will even be projectiles that could “change up the core skating experience.”. In addition to these new features, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 will introduce a new online multiplayer mode. Players will have the ability to enter and leave online sessions with friends and random people whenever they choose. While online, you can take on missions, skate head to head with friends and unlock new content. Activision also claims that you can “level up”, suggesting that the game has some sort of leveling or ranking system in place.
“Skateboarding has always been about the freedom of ripping with your friends, and creating a game that captures that feeling has been a vision of mine since the Pro Skater series began over 15 years ago,” Tony Hawk said in a statement. “I’m beyond excited to see that dream finally come true with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5, which takes the old-school attitude of the original games online in a big way.”
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 is currently in development at Robomodo and Disruptive Games. It will be released on Xbox One and Playstation 4 first some time this year before coming to Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 afterwards.


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DUBAI, 23rd July, 2018 (WAM) -- Dubai is set to host the 3rd edition of The Global Franchise Market Exhibition – TGFM, the official franchising event in Dubai offering a dedicated platform for local and international ‘franchisors’ and ‘franchisees’ to explore new business partnerships and investment opportunities, on the 5th and 6th of December this year, at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
This year, TGFM will bring together leading investors, master franchisees, licensees, entrepreneurs, and leading brands in various sectors and it is expected to attract over 2,000 visitors and participants and witness the participation of over 100 leading brands from 80 countries. The exhibition will feature also five pavilions for participating countries like Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Malaysia and Turkey. TGFM will offer a great platform for B2B meetings at the exhibition while also awarding participating brands with the ‘best stand design’ and ‘best stand activity’ prizes to recognize their unique contribution.
As a testament to its growing reputation for generating great value on investment for exhibitors, last year, 42 percent of exhibitors generated business value between US$100,000 to $500,000 while 18 percent generated business value between $500,000 to $1 million and three percent even generated business worth more than $1 million.
"The Global Franchise Market Conference and Exhibition - TGFM 2018 comes at a time when the Franchise market in the UAE is set to grow immensely owing to a series of business-friendly policies and regulations implemented by the UAE leadership as well as UAE’s strong economic growth, high purchasing power among consumers, consumption patterns, and the increasing penetration of international franchise brands. Franchising has developed extensively in the UAE over a short time, especially in the food and beverage sector, which according to a survey by a global audit firm KPMG, has grown by nearly four percent annually, increasing from $11.3 billion in 2014 to reach $13.2 billion this year", said Anas Al Madani, Vice Chairman and Group CEO of INDEX Holding.
According to the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, F&B continues to dominate the franchise market in the region and the industry was the second largest spending category for UAE consumers, totaling $24.8 billion last year. In addition, fast food is expected to account for 40 percent of the franchising market and industry experts expect the region’s F&B franchisees to grow by more than 25 percent in the coming years and maintain their dominance over other sectors like education and healthcare services.
The Global Franchise Market is organised annually by INDEX Conferences and Exhibitions – a member of INDEX Holding with the support of Department of Economic Development – Dubai and under the strategic partnership of Franchise Souq and Francorp Middle East.


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Told BelaPAN official representative of the Russian pipeline company "Transneft" Igor Demin. In his delivery are conducted in both Belarusian refineries — Novopolotsk and Mozyr.
According to the information previously reported, the Belarusian side has conceded in a dispute with Russia on the price of oil.
In accordance with the intergovernmental agreement on the distribution of export duties on Dec. 9 2010, January 1, Belarus may buy Russian oil and oil products without paying duties. Belarus has already agreed with Russia to import this year, 21.7 million tons of oil, including 18 million tons of pipelines.
However, the parties could not agree on a price. Russian oil companies have offered to lay a tax-free oil pricing formula, an extra 45 dollars per ton. According to their estimates, it will provide for the equal profitability in the supply of crude oil and petroleum products for export to Belarus and other countries.
Because of the controversy surrounding these additional payments from the beginning of the new year, the Russian oil to Belarus has been reported. Belarusian oil refineries were threatened with termination.


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Brands and marketers are digging the effectiveness of online video buys and they plan to ante up for more cross-platform buys this year, including those on tablets. That’s according to ad network BrightRoll’s annual report surveying agency executives on online video.
Specifically, the report found that 30% of agency executives expect online video to be the area with the largest increase in spending this year. In addition, many agency executives anticipate upping their spend significantly in nearly all forms of digital video -- 64% say they are likely to include smartphones in digital video buys, while half say they will add tablets to the digital video mix. About 30% say they will include connected TVs in video buys now.
These findings dovetail nicely with other recent studies pointing to the growth in mobile video and tablet video. Online video technology provider Ooyala said in its report last week that online video consumption on mobile devices rose in the first quarter of the year, with a 41% boost on smartphones and a 32% increase on tablets.
So fine-tune those mobile and tablet plans, marketers! But remember, not all tablet and mobile dayparts are created equal. Ooyala found that tablet viewing rises in the morning, subsides during the day, and then peaks at night with one-third of all tablet video plays occurring during prime time.


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Nestlé Philippines and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority signed a partnership agreement to educate and upskill coffee farmers and trainers to improve production methods that will help increase coffee yield and sustain the country’s growing farm-to-table coffee industry.
The TESDA-registered Coffee Production Level II Program and Scholarship aims to equip smallholder farmers with new knowledge and skill on progressive Robusta coffee production training and enterprise-based competency training in coffee farming.
“We are grateful to be working with TESDA to promote entrepreneurship in the agriculture sector and enhance the farmers’ competencies in coffee production. We are very honored that TESDA in the development of the certification program, and in providing scholarships to farmers has placed its trust in the best practices and proven subject matter expertise after Nescafe Plan, and its flagship program Project Coffee Plus. Our partnership with TESDA aims to upskill more farmers through meaningful interventions that enable sustainable and profitable coffee production,” said Nestlé chairman and chief executive Kais Marzouki.
He said that under the Project Coffee Plus, farmer participants in Bukidnon and in Sultan Kudarat reported a two-fold increase in yields, and a three-fold growth in incomes.
The Coffee Production Level II program will be initially offered to farmers in Bukidnon and Sultan Kudarat where 80 percent of the country’s coffee is grown. TESDA granted a Technical Vocational Education and Training certificate to Nestlé’s Bukidnon Integrated Coffee Center to serve as the hub for all coffee production training to be conducted for farmer beneficiaries sponsored by TESDA scholarships.
Located in Malaybalay, Bukidnon, the BICC was established in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture under the National Convergence Initiative and was approved by the Agricultural Training Institute as a learning site for coffee production.
Through the scholarship program, TESDA will train trainers for effective conduct of the curriculum; and provide a scholarship fund under TESDA’s Program on Accelerating Farm School Establishment so that eligible farmers can enhance their knowledge and skills in planting, maintaining and harvesting coffee.
Enrollees will learn to adopt an entrepreneurial approach in managing small farm operations of one to 10 hectares, and gain the skills to effectively market their coffee beans to buyers such as Nestlé.
“With this program, we will enable the farmers and our IP coffee growers to produce quality beans that are at par with the standards of Nestle Philippines. We will also be able to help them increase their yields and help them pursue a more sustainable livelihood. This partnership will scale the impact of the work we do in TESDA for the farmers and IPs. We also commit our pool of highly-skilled trainors and TESDA facilities as additional learning sites to ensure that we can accommodate as many farmer-beneficiaries as possible,” said the TESDA chief Secretary Isidro Lapeña.
For many years, coffee production in the Philippines has been on the decline, with locally-grown coffee meeting only 19 percent of demand in 2019. Coffee production showed signs of recovery earlier this year, after it posted double-digit growth in the first quarter. The Coffee Production Level II program, as well as TESDA’s scholarship fund and support, aims to accelerate this momentum and foster inclusive growth, particularly among Robusta coffee producers.
TESDA and Nestlé hope to nurture the next generation of coffee farmers in an effort to ensure food sufficiency in coffee. The average age of Filipino coffee farmers is 57 years old, so the agriculture sector needs to attract a new generation of farmers who can capitalize on the growing demand for coffee and successfully grow profitable coffee farming ventures.
“For subsistence farmers, they are slowly but surely transforming into agripreneurs. Since we have started manufacturing Nescafe in 1962, we have been really nurturing a close relationship with Filipino coffee farmers. The Nescafe Plan has initiated farmers interventions that promote sustainable farming to ensure that present and future generations of farmers will benefit from participating in the sector,” Marzouki said.
“As you probably know, Nescafe is the biggest locally produced coffee brand in the Philippines, and the leading buyer of the country's Robusta coffee beans. And as such, we want to continue to buy as much locally grown coffee, as we can. And that's why we also confident that this program will contribute significantly to the growth of the coffee sector,” Marzouki said.
The curriculum of the 176-hour certification program is based on proven competency standards developed by Nestlé with the assistance from TESDA. Course content was derived from Nestlé’s Better Farming Practices for Robusta production, along with modules from the Farmer Business School for Coffee jointly developed by Nestlé and GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fürInternationale Zusammenarbeit) for Project Coffee+, an agripreneurship initiative of the NESCAFÉ Plan.
Key elements of the curriculum will focus on teaching farmers modern farming practices that follow sustainability standardsand optimize resources to enhance productivity. The program will also provide training in financial and marketing skills to help farmers ensure the profitability of their farms.
At the end of the course, smallholder farmers are expected to have the tools and skills to establish better-integrated and sustainable coffee-based farming systems.
Through this joint program, TESDA and Nestlé aim to help spur inclusive growth in the coffee sector and transform coffee farming into a high-yield, high-income industry in the future.
Nestlé is building on competencies based on industry projection that consumption will be growing 32 percent by 2025. This means that each Filipino may have per capita consumption of close to 4 kilograms of coffee. Coffee production has been on the upward trend growing 12.5 percent in the first quarter of 2021.
“Therefore, our program comes at a very opportune time. It is really imperative for us to intensify our efforts to equip our farmers with the skills to capitalize on these opportunities by training our farmers in best practices. We are hopeful that coffee production will meet this rising demand,” Marzouki said.
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The Stanislaus County Fair Welcomes
Turlock, CA (April 7, 2022) – “All my friends know the low rider” you can almost hear the tunes coming to town!
The Stanislaus County Fair Welcomes one of the most iconic rock bands “WAR”, Friday, July 08, 2022 on the Coors Light Variety Free Stage at 8:30 p.m. The concert will be hosted by The Hawk, 104.1 and is free with the price of Fair admission.
“We are excited to welcome this legendary street band to the fair this year,” said Jose Piña, spokesperson for the Stanislaus County Fair. “They have amazing hits that I know our guests are going to love!”
Multi-platinum-selling WAR, the original street band, has been sharing its timeless music and message of brotherhood and harmony for almost 5 decades before millions across the globe. WAR has sold more than 50 million records since its formation to include ten Billboard Top 10 hits. Top 40 hits include the timeless classics “Why Can’t We Be Friends,” “Low Rider,” “The World Is A Ghetto,” “The Cisco Kid,” and many more. WAR’s influence is still felt in modern times. With samples and nods by artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Flo-Rida, Thomas Rhett, Tupac, Smash Mouth, Janet Jackson, Dave Matthews, Korn, and countless others, it is evident that WAR remains a household name. More recently, LA Weekly declared WAR in the top 10 concerts of 2018. WAR has not only sealed their status as a household name, but has also proven that their music and messages continue to be as relevant as ever today as they have always been.
The 2022 Stanislaus County Fair opens Friday, July 8th for a 10-day run. Fair guests can count on an award-winning experience that has been over 109 years in the making. Discounted Fair admission tickets, unlimited ride wristbands, and the Fair season pass will be on sale beginning Saturday, April 30, 2022. Corporate ticket sales will also be available to purchase at a discounted rate. Visit the Fair’s “new” website for upcoming ticket sale information at www.stancofair.com.
The 2022 Fair will feature 10-nights of free celebrity concerts included with Fair admission, a total of three stages of live entertainment, upwards of 30,000 local exhibits and over 1,750 animals.
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The mission of the Stanislaus County Fair is to provide a family and community-oriented experience promoting agriculture, entertainment and technology. For more information about the award-winning Stanislaus County Fair, visit www.stancofair.com.


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According to some media, some of the groups in Nissan's leadership are interested in the departure of Ghosn. They promise to get rid of French surveillance.
The three factories are connected to each other. Renault holds 43 percent of Nissan shares, while Nissan, with a higher turnover, owns only 15 per cent of the French partner. Fifteen percent of the Renault French government also owns Nissan. Ghosn, according to some sources of Nissan, wanted to connect the two companies even more closely and get opposition from Japanese managers.


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August 26 Nvidia (“Wide Moat”) announced that the US government is imposing a new licensing requirement for the sale of some of its data center graphics processing units (“GPUs”), namely the current generation A100 and the next generation H100, exported to China or Russia.
We note that Nvidia has not sold products to customers in Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Nvidia’s major cloud customers include Chinese companies such asAli Baba, Tencent And Baidu for a variety of applications such as natural language processing, image recognition, and deep recommendation engines.
The goal of the new licensing agreement is to address the risks associated with the military end use of Nvidia’s AI-related chips amid mounting tensions between the US and China.
In a filing with the US stock market watchdog, the SEC, Nvidia pointed out that its revenue prospects for the fiscal third quarter included approximately $ 400 million in potential revenue for China that could be subject to the new tax requirement. license.
We believe that many end-use applications for Nvidia’s data center GPUs among Chinese customers are consumer-centric, so we believe the company should be able to license those customers.
Stock market drop
The company’s share price fell about 4% after the market after the news.
Although the stocks are trading at a discount to our fair value estimate of $ 200, we believe continued market volatility may create a more attractive entry point.
It should be noted that Chinese customer demand has been weak in the past few quarters due to the milder economic conditions in China linked to the COVID-19 blockade.
We reiterate our expectation of at least 40% growth in Nvidia’s data center segment this year, but if the company is unable to ship its data center processors to Chinese customers for an extended period, we will likely revise the results. our growth assumptions for this business.
We believe long-term investors should start to find Nvidia attractive, as we believe its data center business will prove relatively more resilient to macro challenges, although the developing situation with Chinese cloud customers is worrying.
Even taking into account weak demand in China, we expect Nvidia’s data center segment to grow sequentially every quarter during 2022, as customers such as Microsoft, Amazon And Alphabet invest in Nvidia’s A100 GPUs for internal and external workloads such as natural language processing and recommendation engines and Half it spends a lot to develop the infrastructure necessary for its metaverse offering.
The upcoming H100 family of GPUs (Hopper) is expected to deliver a performance boost over the A100 family, particularly in natural language and machine vision models, and should contribute significant fourth quarter revenue.
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Consumers unable to distinguish between waste lamp types
The message comes from a study commissioned by EucoLight, the European association for lighting waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) compliance schemes, which found that as well as not being able to identify types of lamp, many consumers don’t know where they should take their waste lighting to be recycled.
The survey was conducted by market research company GfK across Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Romania with the aim of understanding consumer awareness of the different types of lamp available on the market, and how to recycle them when they become waste.
When shown images of the products, respondents to the surveys were often unable to distinguish between energy-saving, LED, incandescent and halogen lamps.
And although the survey was taken across six countries, the findings were very similar in each of them. Between 27 and 42 per cent could identify energy-saving light bulbs correctly, as opposed to the 18-35 per cent who confused them with LED bulbs.
When asked to identify an LED lamp, only between 14 and 23 per cent of respondents classified it correctly, whereas between 31 and 45 per cent thought it was an energy-saving light bulb.
EucoLight says that the results prove that all types of lamps should be collected together in the same container to avoid the risk of consumer confusion between lamps leading to a decrease in recycling efficiency and a possible decline in the recycling rate.
Reflecting on the results of the survey, Nigel Harvey CEO of UK compliance scheme RecoLight, who is also a Director of EucoLight, said: “These findings mirror the situation in the UK. Most consumers have difficulty in differentiating different lamp types. That is why it is logical for all waste lamps to be collected in the same container.”
Respondents were asking if they knew where they should deposit their lamps for recycling. Spanish and Belgian survey-takers scored the highest, with around 50 per cent correctly saying local authority waste facilities or a recycling centre, and more than 10 per cent suggesting the retail outlet where they purchased their lamps.
The proportion of respondents that said they either didn’t know what to do with their lamps or that they would put them in their residual waste was fairly consistent, with 32 per cent in Portugal, 30 per cent in Italy and 30 per cent in the Netherlands. 78 per cent chose one of the two answers in Romania, while just 17 per cent chose either in both Spain and Belgium.
Harvey added: “We will continue to advise all our collection partners, both consumer and commercial that LEDs can be placed in the same container as fluorescent lamps. At Recolight we collect all lighting in scope of the WEEE regulations.”
Founded in mid 2015, EucoLight was set up to provide expertise in the field of the collection and recycling of WEEE lighting and promote the positive role of Extended Producer Responsibility schemes for WEEE lighting on the environment and society.


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Verdant Capital, an African corporate finance firm, recently announced that it has raised $10 million in “mid-term” debt financing for Zeepay, a financial technology (fintech) company serving 20 countries in Africa as well as, via partners, markets in the Americas and Europe. Zeepay, which has offices in Ghana and the UK, plans to use the funding to develop: (1) its range of value-added services, such as loans; and (2) expand its business in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Founded in 2014, Zeepay offers domestic and international money transfers through digital wallets. Its services allow users to direct their funds to banks, payment cards, ATMs, and purchases of insurance and mobile airtime. Customers can also make withdrawals through banks, fuel retailers and other agents. In 2021, the company facilitated transfers worth a total of USD 1.8 billion.
Verdant Capital, a corporate finance firm operating from offices in Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa, provides advisory services in capital raising as well as mergers and acquisitions to clients across the Africa. These customers span agro-industry, renewable energy, business services, financial services and manufacturing industries. The company also manages the Verdant Capital Hybrid Fund, which has a volume of $80 million that it invests in inclusive financial institutions. The word “hybrid” in the fund’s name refers to an “intermediate level of capital that can be tapped by local and international senior debt investors”.
By Nithin Naren, Research Associate
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Jive Software has a new CEO and a new home for its headquarters.
Jive named Tony Zingale as its new CEO. Zingale has been the interim CEO for the past three months while Jive looked for someone to replace Dave Hersh, who is now the company’s chairman of the board.
The company also announced it would be moving its headquarters from Portland, Or. to Palo Alto, Ca.
Zingale has considerable experience in leading technology companies. He recently served as president and CEO of Mercury Interactive, a business technology optimization company. In 2006, Hewlett Packard purchased Mercury for $5.1 billion.
Jive is considered a candidate to pursue an IPO. Zingale is recognized as having the experience to lead the company to a public offering.
Jive is one of the leading social business software companies. It often considered a candidate for acquisition by large technology companies looking to get a stronger position in the fast growing social business space. Analysts project the Social Business Software (SBS) market is growing in excess of 25% annually. The market is expected to reach $5 billion by 2013.
Jive’s move from Portland is not a huge surprise. The company has increased its presence significantly in the Silicon Valley. In the past year, the company has increased from 4 to to 50 employees. It expects to have more than 100 employees in Palo Alto by the beginning of next year.
Portland will continue to be a major hub for Jive. But it’s clear that the company is moving as the core of its operations are in Palo Alto.
The move is a bit of a blow for Portland. The community is becoming a technology center in itself but it has few technology companies that have grown to the scale of Jive Software.


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MINSK, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Belarus plans to increase its exports of agricultural and food products to China, a competitive and attractive market that offers a bright prospect, Minister of Agriculture and Food of Belarus Ivan Krupko has said.
In an exclusive interview with Xinhua, the minister acknowledged that Belarus also plans to expand the range of products for export, and organize export sales of food products with a high degree of processing, such as ice cream, cheese, condensed milk and yoghurt.
In 2019, Belarus' exports of food products to China amounted to 131.5 million U.S. dollars, a sixfold increase from that of 2016. Over the January-November period of 2020, exports to China totalled 238.7 million dollars, almost twice of that of the whole year of 2019, Krupko said.
The share of exports to China currently accounted for 4.5 percent of the total volume of Belarusian exports of agricultural and food products, he noted.
From 2016 to 2020, the ministry has worked on the approval of Belarusian enterprises to export to China. So far, most exporters of meat, milk, fish and other products have managed to export their goods to China.
China is a large consumer of various products, and this trend will develop. For Belarusian food export companies, this is a great opportunity to diversify their export channels, he added.
There is still a lot of work to do in order to build up the presence of Belarusian food in the Chinese market, Krupko said.
He noted that when organizing export sales to China, Belarus plans to use e-commerce as much as possible.
Krupko also said Belarus believes that cooperation with China in scientific research and education on agriculture will be promising, adding that Chinese investments in Belarus' agro-industrial complex are in the interests of both countries. Enditem


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Google has stopped selling the Pixel C Android tablets | The Pixel C has been dropped from the Google Store
Pixel c is the 10.2-inch android tablet.It was launched by Google on 8 sep 2015. Quanta (Foxconn) had manufactured it. It had following features or specifications is :
pixel c specifications
storage capacity – 16 32 or 64 GB flash memory
ram – 3 GB
Product family – Google pixel
Operating system – Android 6.0 marshmallow
CPU -1.9 GHz octa-core 64bit ARMV8-A
Pixel capacity 10.2,308 PPI pixel density
Sound – Dual side facing speaker
Camera – Rear -8MP,Front-2MP
Display – LTPS LCD 10.2″
In totality, Its features were pretty solid.Google has sold this device continuously for 2 years.At its launch, it was confounding device.At the initial stage,
its price was very high but it was the good android tablet.its is a very good tablet made by Google.
But unfortunately, its life has come to an end.yes, Google has dropped this android tablet from their play store and there’s no any new tablet to replace it.
They are no longer available for sale.You cannot buy it from google android store.It seems like Google has lost their interest in the Android tablet though Google is planning to continue to support the hardware moving ahead.
Google has stated that“As is common when a device has been out for a few years, we’re now retiring Pixel C and it is no longer available for sale.the company said in a statement. we are committed to updating and supporting it time to time, including the recent update to Android 8.0, so customers can continue to get the best out of their device.
Google has quietly stopped selling the Pixel C Android tablet. The Pixel C has not available in the Google Store.
They had recently launched Google pixel book.It has best parts of laptop and tablet.This will definitely prove to be a multifaceted device.
the price of pixel c (silver ) 64 GB variant is Rs. 99,990 get this price from gadgets.ndtv.com.


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A new short film released today by Patagonia presses Americans to support a forthcoming proposal that hits Capitol Hill this Fourth of July to legalize the farming of industrial hemp in the U.S.
Following the 2014 campaign by Michael Lewis, a veteran and rogue hemp farmer, to raise a flag made entirely of hemp at the Capitol, Harvesting Liberty hammers home the staggeringly irrational laws the prohibit the planting and farming of industrial hemp on U.S. soil.
Patagonia released the 12-minute documentary in collaboration with Fibershed, a non-profit educational organization focusing on sustainable textile agriculture, and Growing Warriors Project, a skills-training and reintegration service founded by Lewis to help returning veterans learn small-scale and professional farming.
According to Patagonia, its support of the film is underscored by the current necessity of importing its hemp products, which the brand touts as “one of the most durable natural fibers on the planet.”
Though it possesses zero psychoactive properties, industrial hemp is a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance and the U.S. imports around $500 million in retail value hemp products annually. Hemp also requires less water and fertilizer than legal fiber alternatives.
You can learn more about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act, originally introduced in 2015, coming before the Senate and House on July 4th.


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Friday, 13th March 2015
In Japan Travel News,
A cheap yen and investment - foreign tourists flocking to Japan
With just under 2,000 days to go until Tokyo opens its doors to the world for the 2020 Olympics, it seems as though the country's tourism industry is already booming, according to research by investment bank Societe Generale. And as the yen continues to cheapen and fears around Fukushima ease, it seems as though more and more international travellers are eager to explore the magical and illusive Oriental world of Japan.
What do the numbers say?
It is impressive when you consider that between 2011 and 2014 foreign arrivals have more than doubled, rising from 6.22 million to 13.41 million. Much of this boost has come from a rise of 3.4 million tourists that came from Asia alone. And all of this correlates with a series of policies from PM Shinzo Abe, who became prime minister in 2012, which have seen the Bank of Japan's quantitative easing scheme and easier fiscal policy.
These economic moves have weakened the Japanese yen, making the country an overall cheaper destination for tourists. Since December 2012, the US dollar alone has risen by 47 per cent in value, and with the Chinese yuan being closely pegged with the dollar, the Chinese travellers are also reaping the benefits of a weak yen and flocking to Japan for their holidays. This further is in conjunction with the rise in number of middle-class Chinese families that now have the money to travel and are looking to broaden their horizons.
Furthermore, it's not just visitor numbers. Spending by tourists has also increased by a staggering 150 per cent from 2011 to 2014, with 2,030 billion yen being forked out by visitors in 2014 alone. The report by Societe Generale now states that the potential growth rate for tourism will jump from the current 0.5 per cent to 1.5 per cent by 2020 when Tokyo hosts the Olympics.
Beyond the economics, tourists have generally found themselves be more comfortable visiting Japan due to the easing of two concerns: visas and Fukushima. The Japanese Embassy in China recently announced that it has released an all-time high of 250,000 visas in January 2015, following the simplification of visa application requirements. The Japanese government has extended the validity of its multiple-entry visas for high-income Chinese tourists from three to five years, offering them unrestricted travel throughout the country.
Speaking to Beijing Today, Hideki Ijichi, chief representative of the Japan National Tourism Organisation’s (JNTO) Beijing office, said: “The new visa policy allows more Chinese to visit Japan without restrictions. With multiple-entry visas, they can start an independent tour whenever they want, enjoy delicious cuisine, go on shopping sprees and enjoy its famous hot springs."
A recent survey by the Beijing Daily has even suggested that with 60 per cent of the Chinese who are planning to travel during Spring Festival will do it abroad, one of the top destinations is Japan.
Another major concern among the travelling community has been the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster that took place in March 2011. The JNTO has since been quick to state that the stigma from the accident has dropped significantly. JNTO official Mamoru Kobori added: "We have said many times that radiation levels are absolutely insignificant in Tokyo and the main tourist areas. People understand that travelling, eating and living here don’t pose a problem, as long as you avoid the restricted area around the Fukushima nuclear plant.”
As Japan gears itself up for the Olympics, with booming building permit applications and expectations that there should be an extra 10,000 hotel rooms in just Tokyo by 2020, the only way is up for this nation. Japan is ready to prove itself on the international stage - is it time for you to finally check out the hype?


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Nike’s supply chain has been disrupted in the pandemic, but new ‘collaborative robots’ or cobots will help achieve sustainability ideals and achieve customer expectations. The sporting goods giant has welcomed the robot fleet due to Covid-19’s disruption of the global supply chain and has installed over 1,000 robots to help ship out orders from its distribution centres.
Cobots are now supporting Nike’s factory employees with sorting and packing sportswear products, as some human employees remain too sick to work. Nike revealed that the robots have helped the company to triple its digital order capacity in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
“The challenges and constraints imposed by the pandemic have driven our teams to transform how we serve consumers through the implementation of new technology platforms, automation and process improvement in our operations,” said Andrew Campion, Nike Chief Operating Officer.
In a recent report, Nike admitted factory shutdowns in Vietnam and Indonesia due to Covid-19, caused the company to lose three months of production during the first quarter of fiscal 2022. Vietnam supplies 51 percent of Nike footwear and 30 percent of its apparel. In Indonesia, 24 percent of Nike’s footwear is manufactured alongside 12 percent of its apparel.
Renewable energy upgrades in a pandemic? JUST DO IT!
Over the pandemic, the sportswear apparel titan has also opened a distribution centre, run on renewable energy and recycles 95 percent of its waste generated on site.
Despite the setbacks of the pandemic, Nike remains dedicated to increasing its sustainability initiatives and supporting its supply chain.
The firm is determined to eradicate waste from its supply chain over the next five years and to become zero carbon by 2025.
“Our new Court Distribution Centre represents Nike’s continued investment in a fast and flexible supply chain to deliver the full range of our product to consumers when they want, where they want it,” commented Eric Sprunk, Nike Chief Operating Officer. “This state-of-the-art facility will increase our responsiveness as we accelerate our digital growth and better serve millions of consumers across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.”


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Huawei Nova 10 and Nova 10 Pro leaks are out in the open as the phone lineup proceeds toward the launch on July 4th. However, Huawei is working on new flagship – The Mate 50 series the background that will come with a better camera than Huawei P50 Pro.
In the past week, we’ve come to learn that the Huawei Mate 50 series will equip a new Kirin processor – Kirin 9000S. Although, we don’t have any official confirmation on this matter but we could assume that the phone lineup will have a limited quantity of this Kirin chipset. While rest of the Mate 50 stock will be powered by Snapdragon chipsets.
In addition, it’s revealed that the company has improved Huawei Mate 50 Pro’s imaging system and it would be better than last year’s Huawei P50 series camera. There are also some changes made to the light intake of the phone. The construction of the new camera will make it easy to high-quality images with better details.
Huawei P50 Pro comes with a quad-camera system consisting of a 50 MP True-Chroma Camera (Color, f/1.8 aperture, OIS), 40 MP True-Chroma Camera (MONO, f/1.6 aperture), 13 MP Ultra-Wide Angle Camera (f/2.2 aperture) and 64 MP Telephoto Camera (f/3.5 aperture, OIS), support AF.
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According to previous leaks and reports, the Huawei Mate 50 series is likely to retain the three models theory from its predecessor. As such, the phone models could be – Huawei Mate 50, Mate 50 Pro, and Mate 50 Pro+. As mentioned before, the company is likely to use the Snapdragon processor heavily on this flagship as the Kirin stock is running out.
Huawei Mate 50 lineup will be packed with the HarmonyOS 3.0 operating system, which comes with better performance as compared to the last generation of the HarmonyOS software. Furthermore, the Chinese tech maker has ensured that there should be a sufficient quantity of this series for the consumer, as it has brought in new suppliers to resolve some issues.
We currently, don’t have an exact input on the launch date of the Huawei Mate 50 series but it was expected to happen in July, which is later postponed to somewhere in August. All and all, we’ll keep you posted with further development.


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Peugeot has released a special edition RCZ coupe.
The RCZ Magnetic takes the ‘Sport’ trim level and adds a host of extra standard equipment, including front and rear parking sensors, satnav, leather sports seats in black or red, a leather steering wheel and a short-shift gear lever.
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Outsiders can spot a Magnetic RCZ by its ‘Pearlescent Pearl’ white or ‘Metallic Nera’ black paint, both coming combined with matt black roof arches and 19in alloy wheels. There are no mechanical changes.


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As people tighten their wallets over the holiday season, economists say it makes the prospect of a 2022 recession even more likely
The American consumer wants to know what’s next.
Sales at retailers fell in September, the government said on Friday, a sign the economy could slow in the coming months as consumers emerge from the pandemic-era amid 40 years of high inflation and the end of government stimulus programs withdraw their expenses. Retail sales, a major part of consumer spending, are closely watched as a sign of consumers’ mindset and financial health. They increased by 8.2% year-on-year.
If people continue to tighten their wallets well into the holiday season, it will make the prospect of a 2022 recession even more likely, economists say. Retail sales are expected to rise 0.3% in September, according to economists polled by the Wall Street Journal. Excluding auto dealers, revenue rose 0.3%. Auto sales can skew overall retail spending patterns.
Americans, finally regaining momentum after two years of a global pandemic, are understandably nervous about the economy and their own finances. The 2022 stock market plunge caught many people — and some analysts — by surprise, and nervous consumers are waiting for the other shoe to fall. With so many stressful events, more shoppers are sticking to the essentials, say economists.
Retail stores are obviously concerned about holiday shopping and the mindset of US consumers, and they’re attracting holiday shoppers earlier this year, said Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate.com. “This week Amazon (AMZN), Target (TGT), Walmart (WMT) and others launched their vacation deals,” he said. He said the next month will show more evidence of the early Christmas sales.
But people pay for inflation. Revolving loans such as credit cards rose 18.1% to $1.15 trillion in August after rising 11.7% the previous month, according to data released this month by the US Federal Reserve. Non-revolving loans, typically auto and student loans, rose 5.1% to $3.53 trillion, down slightly from a 5.2% gain in July. This category of credit is much less volatile.
While the majority of Americans (53%) are still positive about their personal finances, that percentage has fallen 11 percentage points over the past two years, according to a report released this week by life insurance company Primerica. Additionally, three-quarters (75%) say their income is lagging behind cost-of-living increases, while 22% believe they will be financially better off in a year’s time.
“We are seeing an increasing reliance on credit as many middle-income families report that their credit card debt has increased recently,” said Glenn Williams, CEO of Primerica, of the survey results. “The financial stress caused by rising credit card balances is also causing more families than ever to make minimum payments on their credit cards.”
Primerica’s Middle Monitor Financial Security Monitor is a quarterly national survey designed to monitor the financial health of people with annual household incomes of $30,000 to $100,000. More than a third (37%) of 1,546 respondents said they are taking on more credit card debt, a six-point increase since the June survey and the highest number since quarterly data collection began.
People aren’t just looking for bargains and switching grocery stores. Many are staying at home and avoiding the “buy now” button altogether. The latest data from the Financial Health Network, a Chicago nonprofit, found that people’s financial health was deteriorating for the first time in the project’s five-year history, pointing to the end of pandemic-era benefits, inflation and stock market volatility.
Stimulus checks, improved child tax credits, rent and student loan moratoriums, and other programs have helped people through the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic. Child poverty fell to a record low in the past year, the Census Bureau said last month. The child tax credit alone lifted 5.3 million people out of poverty, including 2.9 million children, the researchers said
Still, people seem more willing to shop from the comfort of their own homes. “Non-store retailers — basically the Census Bureau’s term for e-commerce stores — outperform most retail sectors,” Rossman said. “Their annual sales increase of 11.6% was second only to the 20.6% increase in service stations, almost entirely due to higher gas prices. The growth of e-commerce is a more positive story.”
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Skoda plans to launch new SUV Snowman and Yeti
From Bentley to Mahindra all are betting on the SUV segment. Be it in the high end segment or the new mini SUV segment, car makers are lining up new models which gives one the feel of an SUV but sips in fuel like a hatchback. Seems like most car makers are planning new models in the SUV segment which is currently being the most favoured.
Skoda which had got good success with the Yeti SUV is now planning to go big. The company is planning to launch a new SUV christened as the Snowman atleast for now and new look Yeti which will get the new design theme. The larger SUV is based on VW’s Tiguan. The VW Tiguan is due to come on stream in 2014 – in three different forms: standard wheelbase, extended wheelbase and four-door coupe. The Tiguan and the Snowman will be a part of the MQB platform. The SUV could also bear the name Grand Yeti.
Skoda will also give the Yeti a all new look again following the new design theme. The all new Yeti which will be launched in 2016 will be based on the MQB platform.


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The infamous Apple Maps application has done it again! As Apple continues to work on the service, a bar in Portland, Oregon is losing thousands of dollars in business. What’s the connection, you ask?
It’s Apple Maps. Customers are using it on their iPhones to get directions to the bar, but the ill-fated cloud service erroneously points them to Southwest Portland instead of Northwest Portland.
Metrovino (bar) owner Todd Steele tells Katu.com that he gets the following question five or six times a day: “Where are you guys located?”
Apple Maps reportedly drops a pin “blocks away” from the bar’s actual location, resulting in lost customers and less profits.
“We’re guessing on the low end $500 to $1,000 a night,” the Metrovino owner said, adding that they’ve calculated their losses at “around $50,000 since mid-September.”
Steele and his mother, who is a partner in the business, even went as far as to tell Apple to fix this particular glitch. The mother actually marched into the Apple headquarters in Cupertino hoping to get some face time with the company’s high-ups, but no cigar.
“It got so bad at one point that my mom, who is a partner in the business, actually walked into Apple headquarters in Cupertino,” Steele said. Sadly, she was turned away.
An upcoming version of iOS (6.1) will allow users to submit bug reports to Apple in a more intuitive manner, enabling the Cupertino giant to respond faster to complaints.
As Apple continues to improve the service internally, numerous iPhone customers have returned to Google Maps.
In a widely reported executive shakeup occurring at Apple late last year, CEO Tim Cook fired the guy who was responsible for the iOS division and iOS Maps, implicitly.
Replacing Scott Forstall is Eddy Cue, Apple’s chief of Internet software and services.


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Nvidia finally raised the curtains from its brand new Ampere-based gaming GPU lineup. The new RTX 30 series comes as a successor to the RTX 20 and as predicted, the company has announced three variants- the RTX 3090, RTX 3080 and RTX 3070. As seen in various leaks and rumours, the new GPUs come with a brand new design and a new push-pull fan configuration. The new GPU lineup is also claimed to offer twice the performance compared to the previous generation at the same time being 1.9-times more power-efficient.
The RTX 3090 matches up to the TITAN RTX making it the most powerful consumer-grade gaming GPU from the company. It comes with a three-slot, dual-axial, flow-through design that includes a silencer making it 10-times quieter than the TITAN RTX and said to be 30 degrees celsius cooler. It is a massive GPU, hence Nvidia is calling it BFGPU or Big Ferocious GPU. It comes with 24GB of GDDR6X memory and is 50 percent faster than the TITAN RTX. Basically you can game at 8K resolution at 60fps. The Founders Edition version of the RTX 3090 is going to cost Rs 1,52,000.
Following that, is the RTX 3080 that offers twice the performance compared to the RTX 2080 and comes with 10GB of GDDR6X memory running at 19Gbps. The GPU is claimed to deliver stable performance for gaming at 4K resolution at 60fps. This one comes with a price tag of Rs 71,000. Sitting at the bottom is the RTX 3070 which is claimed to be faster than the RTX 2080 Ti and on average 60 percent faster than the RTX 2070. It features 8GB of GDDR6 memory and is said to be suitable for gaming at 4K and 1440p resolutions. The RTX 3070 is priced at Rs 51,000. There have been rumours around the RTX 3060 as well, but it seems that Nvidia might announce this one at a later stage, probably by the end of this year.
As mentioned these new GPUs make use of the new GDDR6X memory, as well as the new 8N Nvidia custom process from Samsung, which is basically the 8nm architecture. You also get up to 36 Shader-TFLOPS, 69-TFLOPS second-gen Ray-Tracing cores, and 285 TFLOPS third-gen Tensor cores. Nvidia is also adding RTX IO that will enable users to make use of the GPU to load and decompress game assets from your storage directly thereby improving frame rates and enabling near-instantaneous game loading. This feature will finally make use of PCIe Gen 4 SSD to proper use.
The new RTX 30 series brings several world firsts, including a new thermal solution called ‘Dual-Axial, Flow-Through’ that is said to deliver two times more cooling performance in a unibody design. The new GPUs also come with a stronger mechanical structure including a new low-profile leaf spring along with a new 12-pin power connector. Older 8-pin connectors will be supported as well thanks to the included adapter. There is also support for HDMI 2.1 which means increased bandwidth and the ability to connect a single cable connection to 8K HDR TVs. These are also the first GPUs to bring support for AV1 codec that will allow users to watch up to 8K HDR video using as much as 50 percent less bandwidth.
On a side note, Nvidia also announced that Fortnite and the newly announced Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will support RTX or Ray Tracing. Buying the new GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3080, or GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card or pre-built PC with any of these GPUs gets you a free digital copy of Watch Dogs: Legion and GeForce Now cloud gaming service subscription for one year.
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Welcome to 60 Sec Tech - one minute of what you need to know in technology.It’s official - China Mobile will sell and support the iPhone 5. This move opens up a market of 700+ million customers for Apple in China. China Mobile will launch its 4G network in conjunction with the iPhone 5.iOS 7 has also finally been properly jailbroken - well, mostly. Evasion has released its first complete jailbreak download for the new Apple devices, but like any first run, it’s not perfect. And, like any jailbreak, it’s not sanctioned by Apple. Users are cautioned to back their phones up, in case something goes wrong during installation.Moving away from high-end phones: Miami-based company BLU has just released their best smartphone - the Life Pure. It’s aimed squarely at the budget / no contract market, but has a much better screen and camera set than you’ll find on other budget phones like the Moto G. At $349 unlocked though, it’s double the price of the Moto G, and it still can’t run on 4G networks.
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Following a 33% sales growth in the 1st quarter of 2017, Isuzu Philippines Corporation (IPC) flexed its muscles by putting its latest truck lineup on display at this year’s Truck Fest. Visitors can see the brand’s commercial vehicles in the metal at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City until Sunday, April 23, 2017.
The Japanese brand showcased its huge 12 truck lineup, which looks like a statement of dominance over the commercial vehicle segment. Among those on display is the NHR flexi truck 10x10 body, which is built by Kyoei Kogyo Philippines Corp (KPC). On the other hand, the FVM fruehaf wing van found at the booth is made by Centro Manufacturing Corporation.
The Japanese automaker also presented its light-duty truck lineup which includes the NPR dropside, NPR aluminium van, NQR garbage compactor, NHR iVan, and the NHR jeepney prototype. As for its medium- to heavy-duty trucks, the Japanese brand had the FVM crane, CYZ51 dump truck, and EXZ51 tractor head at the booth.
In addition, those who are interested to buy customized Isuzu trucks can approach any of the body builders at the event to discuss purchase requirements. Available on site are the truck body building brands such as Centro, Almazora, KPC, Multilift, Transbilt, Versatemp, Red Dragon, CoolAire, and JVF Commercial.
IPC also added more eye candy for booth visitors as it displayed the mu-X Black Series and D-MAX X-Series, which were both launched this year.
Meanwhile, the Japanese brand will give awesome gifts such as a dashboard camera and a fuel card worth P10,000 to all registered customers who purchase their trucks until June 30, 2017.


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Obama Memorabilia Is Selling Like Hotcakes
Friday, November 28, 2008
As a pointless exercise in self-flagellation, it's fun to look back and wonder how you should have invested your money in the last year. You'd have ditched stocks and bonds, of course, and you would have avoided real estate. And if you really had foresight, you would have bet the rent on Barack Obama baby bibs.
Or Barack Obama mugs, T-shirts, stationery, posters, postcards, notecards, aprons, coasters, dog jerseys, throw pillows and mouse pads. With so many segments of the economy in the fetal position, the Obama memorabilia business is one of the very few that is actually thriving.
In most election years, the candidate T-shirt and button market pretty much disappears after the ballots are counted. Not this time. Our next president has become a living, breathing stimulus package for a modest-size group of entrepreneurs who are slapping Obama's image on any surface it'll stick to. At CafePress.com there are 96,000 different Obama-related designs for sale, according to vice president of marketing Amy Maniatis. That includes a T-shirt that says "Now I don't have to move to Canada" and a poster that says "Once you go Barack, you'll never go back." All the designs come from "virtual shopkeepers," who upload images to the site and then sell them on any number of stock items, splitting the profits with CafePress.
"This is our third election, and for us, what we saw in 2000 and 2004 was really different," Maniatis says. "There was a lot of anti-Bush merchandise after those elections." Anti-Bush stuff sold so well for so many years that there was genuine concern at CafePress that the end of the president's second term would hurt the company's bottom line. ("Economists Warn Anti-Bush Merchandise Market Close to Collapse" read a recent headline in the Onion.) Instead, Obama love has more than offset the downturn.
At America!, the exuberantly punctuated chain of patriotically themed souvenir shops, they're moving a lot of life-size cardboard cutouts of Obama, at $42.99 each. (And by the way, all the McCain product -- half off.) Spokeswoman Donna Tsitsikaos sounds like a woman trying hard not to crow about sales numbers.
"Product is driving people to the stores," she says, "even in this economy."
Obamamania has been a boon for tiny Greenville, Ohio, the home of Tigereye Design, which manufactured and handled the fulfillment for official Obama campaign materials, such as shirts, hats and buttons. It also has its own site, DemocraticStuff.com, which peddles an astounding variety of niche Obama buttons, including "Beekeepers for Obama," "Emo for Obama" and "Ventriloquists for Obama." Tigereye started the year with a staff of 50, then just kept on hiring.
"We had about 500 people at the peak," says Steve Swallow, the company's president. "It really had an impact on our local workforce, because almost all of the people we hired were unemployed before. And it wasn't just us. If you call the post office here, I bet they'll say they never handled so much mail."
Wealth from Obamabilia is currently spread all over eBay, where a search using "Obama" yields more than 21,000 items, including a rhinestone tote bag, a glow-in-the-dark bottle stopper and a flip-top lighter. On Craigslist, there are Obama banks ($40 apiece), a bobblehead doll ($100) and a doll that sings and dances ($100).
There has even been some additional work for tattoo artists. Some people prefer their Obama souvenirs permanent.
"Right after the election, I had four ladies come in here together and say they wanted the Obama 'O,' " says Justin McCrocklin, who works at Tatu Tattoo in Chicago. "You know, the 'O' he used on the logo, with stars and stripes on it."
These women had worked on the campaign, they explained, and they wanted to remember the experience. For $70 per person, each now has a half-dollar-size forget-me-not on an ankle or forearm.


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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- IG Group Holdings IGG, +2.16% said Wednesday that it will acquire 87.5% of FXOnline Japan KK, a privately owned Japanese online retail FX trading company, for 21.9 billion yen ($207 million), or 112.2 million pounds. IG will also acquire a call option to buy the remaining 12.5% of the firm. IG said that it will issue up to 32.97 million shares to raise 82.2 million pounds to finance part of the deal. It said the deal is expected to enhance earnings in the current financial year.
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PH’s jump in global logistics survey buoys EU firms
MANILA -European businesses in the Philippines are more optimistic for the rest of 2023 after the country climbed 17 notches in the World Bank’s annual report measuring the performance of the local logistics sector.
The European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) on Tuesday lauded the Philippines’ performance, taking note that it climbed to the 43rd spot out of 139 countries in the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI).
“In an increasingly globalized world, seamless and sustainable trade is essential. The chamber further supports measures that will aid logistical efficiency as well as customs and trade facilitation,” the ECCP said in a statement.
The LPI measures the ease of establishing reliable supply chain connections and the structural factors that make it possible, including the quality of logistics services, trade- and transport-related infrastructure, and border controls.
Countries are ranked based on indicators related to customs, infrastructure, international shipments, logistics competence and equality, timeliness, as well as tracking and tracing.
Meanwhile, the ECCP suggested to the Philippine government to improve its logistics sector further through the timely implementation of the 10-year Maritime Industry Development Plan (MIDP), which was updated last month.
The MIDP aims to ensure the development and the expansion of the Philippine merchant fleet, as well as to ensure competency in the country’s maritime human capital.
Aside from that, the ECCP also called on the government to fully operationalize the National Single Window and integrate it with the Asean Single Window.
The two other suggestions from the business group are for the Philippines to uphold the International Commerce Terminology, the internationally recognized set of trade term definitions developed by the International Chamber of Commerce, as well as to officially clarify the lead government agency responsible for matters relating to shipping rates and port congestion.
To date, the Philippines is looking to have its eligibility under the EU’s Generalized Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) renewed, vowing its commitment to adhere to the 27 international conventions on human rights, labor, environment and good governance which are requirements for the renewal.
The EU GSP+ is the regional bloc’s preferential tariff system, under which the Philippines enjoy zero duty for more than 6,000 covered products until 2023.
Its renewal has been put into question under the administration of President Duterte, stemming from criticism of his brutal war on drugs and its bearing on the human rights situation in the Southeast Asian country.
According to the Department of Trade and Industry, the Philippines had2.03 billion euros ($2.21 billion) worth of exports under the EU’s GSP+ scheme as of 2021.
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If you thought the cloud wars were already tense, you were right. But the rise of blockchain is pushing that war to a whole new height as giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM rush to bring Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) to the cloud environment. Will BaaS become the key differentiator in the competition—or will a whole new technology race in to disrupt the digital landscape? Below, I offer some insights.
What is Blockchain?
In case you’ve been too overwhelmed with cloud, fog computing, and other tech advancements tearing through your industry, here’s a quick overview: Blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin, a type of encrypted digital currency. But unlike Bitcoin, Blockchain is not a strictly financial tool. Although it is designed as a general ledger...Read Complete Article


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The BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition will be the world’s first Ubuntu Phone when it goes on sale in Europe on Monday 9 February, after years of false starts and broken promises.
It comes with a 4.5-inch QHD display, a quad-core MediaTek Cortex A7 processor clocked at 1.3GHz and 1GB of RAM. It also features a 5-megapixel front camera and an 8-megapixel rear camera.
Ubuntu Phone looks set to shake up the way we interact with our smartphones and the apps we’ve installed on them. Rather than laying out all the apps separately in grids as with Android and iOS, Ubuntu Phone is bringing in the revolutionary idea of “Scopes,” which as Cristian Parrino, VP of Mobile at Canonical claims, is “a gamechanger”
Ubuntu Phone is looking to integrate content and services via “Scopes,” which will integrate various apps and services into an easy to use interface, so users don’t have to scroll through screens of icons.
For example the NearBy scope will aggregate local services centred around where you are and what you’re doing, giving you reviews of local restaurants nearby, as well as the weather in your area. It should mean you no longer have to open up separate apps or web pages to view all of this information.
It will go on sale exclusively across Europe for 169.90 (around £127, $194, AU$249) on Monday 9 February in a flash sale. The website for the sale and the exact time the virtual doors will open will be revealed on @Ubuntu and @bqreaders on Twitter.
If you want to get your hands on one, you’ll need to be quick as there will only be a limited amount of BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition devices available on Monday. Rodrigo del Prado, deputy director general of BQ, told us that further flash sales, and then more widespread availability across Europe will follow in the next two to three weeks.
A number of networks in Europe such as amena.com, giffgaff, and Portugal Telecom will offer sim bundles with the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition.
We spoke to Cristian Parrino, VP of Mobile at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Phone, who told use that “Launching a new product is a journey, this is the first step,” and that for the time being Canonical is focusing on early adopters who are bored of iOS and Android, rather than fighting for shelf space among more well known brands.
Time will tell if this direction will pay off and Ubuntu Phone can get the attention of disgruntled iOS and Android users.


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McCullough & Associates Receives Bayer Award
McCullough & Associates recently announced that Bayer MaterialScience has given it the 2013 CAS Distributor StraCo award. The criteria for the award includes overall sales growth, growth of specific StraCo product line areas and adding new customers to the Bayer portfolio. This is McCullough & Associates’ fifth StraCo award since 2007.
For more information, visit www.mccanda.com.


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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A consumer group is warning shoppers to be careful about where they buy their toys this holiday season.
Consumers need to protect themselves against sellers on popular third-party websites such as Amazon, Walmart Marketplace and eBay offering counterfeit toys with potentially hazardous materials or items that have been recalled, according to a new report from the Maryland Public Interest Research Group Foundation.READ MORE: Baltimore County Officer Opened Fire On Driver Trying To Flee Traffic Stop: Police
In its 36th annual “Trouble in Toyland” report, the group advises shoppers to research independent sellers and read their reviews, and to look up second-hand toys on saferproducts.gov to see if they’ve been recalled.
“The handful of greedy Grinches who are putting children at risk to put more money in their pockets have hearts two sizes too small,” said Rishi Shah, Maryland PIRG Foundation’s Advocate. “We need a concerted effort by federal regulators and toy vendors to keep dangerous toys off the market. And, while it’s not fair that gift-buyers need to keep an eye out for these counterfeit or recalled items, because of some bad actors, all of us need to do so.”
Additionally, Maryland PIRG suggests the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission strengthen standards for toys with batteries and magnets, and adopt “a more protective small parts test.”READ MORE: Shootout Between Cars Speeding In Hampden Rattles Otherwise Quiet Neighborhood
A majority of the 13 toys recalled in 2021 thus far could break apart or reveal small parts to children, the group said.
In a statement, the Toy Association, a trade group for the toy industry, said the report “fails to mention that U.S. toy safety requirements are among the strictest in the world.”
The association noted that some of the toys named in the report were voluntarily recalled by manufacturers and are no longer available from most sellers.
“The Toy Association agrees that counterfeit toys lurking online have the potential to be unsafe and should be avoided at all costs,” the group said. “The Toy Association continues to urge parents to shop only from reputable brands and sellers, whether in stores or online, whose toys comply with over 100 different safety standards and tests required by law.”MORE NEWS: ‘It’s Probably Everywhere’ Concern Grows About Omicron Covid Variant In Maryland As Positivity Rate Jumps Above 5%; Hogan To Speak Wednesday
The full report can be read here.


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Consumption of plant-based foods is growing at record levels across Europe, according to data from the market research institute Nielsen, now published in a new report by the Smart Protein Project. The project, conducted in […]
Nearly seven in ten Americans have “discovered” vegetables in recent times, with many sampling leafy greens and one in five trying cauliflower for the first time in their lives. According to the survey of 2,000 […]
A survey conducted by alt-meat company Gold&Green Foods has examined which plant-based ready meals and snacks customers would most like to see. Plant-based pies and pastries were the most in-demand, with 35 percent of respondents […]
A recent consumer survey on plant-based alternatives in Spain conducted by ProVeg, aimed to identify priorities for improvement and development of plant-based products, yielding some very interesting conclusions for those interested in developing or distributing […]
Voucher site vouchercodes.co.uk has analysed a range of meat alternatives available in the UK to determine which provide the best value for money. Quorn sausages came out on top, costing an average of 58p per […]
Peace of Meat, a B2B supplier of cultivated fat which was recently acquired by Meat Tech 3D, has released survey results revealing that up to 68% of plant-based meat producer respondents would be likely or […]
Abillionveg, a review platform for the global sustainability movement, has used its review data to produce several reports and infographics on the plant-based movement.
GFI Asia-Pacific has released a report entitled “Asian Cropportunities: Supplying Raw Materials for Plant-Based Meat”. The aim of the report is to explore new ingredients that could be used to make alt-protein products in Asia.
New research from insight agency buzzback shows the overall level of awareness of plant-based products among consumers in the US is at an all-time high, with more than half of households substituting dairy milk for […]
A survey conducted by Applewood cheese this October amongst 2,037 respondents, found that almost half of the UK population will cater for at least one vegan this Christmas, and 20% will cook a fully vegan-friendly […]
With more Americans than ever turning to a plant-based diet, a study commissioned by Myprotein analyzed TripAdvisor data to find which of the most populated cities in each state offers the most vegan takeout and […]
A report commissioned by Herbalife Nutrition has found that around 23 percent of Americans have tried alt-meat products. The study also found that sales of plant-based products had increased by 35 percent since the beginning […]
According to a recent survey, two thirds (61%) of British consumers believe that the traditional meat-based Sunday roast dinner could become outdated within the next ten years. Encouragingly, few people meat-eaters see meat as the […]


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Jimmy Herring, Wayne Krantz, Michael Landau, Keith Carlock and Etienne Mbappe have formed a new band, The Ringers, and they've announced a string of US dates in February. The supergroup, which brings together five genres of music — rock, funk, jazz, blues and African — will start things off February 19 in Athens, Georgia, and wind up in Washington, DC, on February 23.
In the all-new Holiday 2012 issue of Guitar World magazine, Aerosmith's Joe Perry and Steven Tyler give you the scoop on everything from their new album, Music from Another Dimension!, to their battles over Aerosmith's destiny.
You know him as Metallica’s lead guitarist. But to a select group of obsessive outsiders, Kirk Hammett is famous for a completely different reason: for years, the wizard of wah has been quietly amassing one of the world’s most extensive collections of classic horror memorabilia.
With the year in music winding down, we reached out to some of your favorite guitarists to find out what music and gear rocked their worlds in 2012. Below,Intervals guitarist Aaron Marshall fills us in on his five favorite pieces of gear.
Peavey Electronics has announced the immediate availability of its new Peavey AT-200 guitar featuring Auto-Tune. The AT-200, a collaboration between Peavey and Auto-Tune pitch-correction technology creators Antares Audio Technologies, electronically self-tunes and intonates as you play.
Deep Purple, who have already announced a new studio album due in April 2013, also will be digging through their past, reissuing 10 classic albums over the course of the year. The reissues will be begin January 29, when Live In Paris 1975 is released. The album has been digitally remixed and re-mastered from the original multi-track recordings.
As many expected, Metallica look to be turning their Orion Music + More festival into an annual event. The band announced earlier today that the 2013 edition of Orion will take place on June 8-9 in Detroit, Michigan.
Gibson pioneered the arched-top semihollow electric guitar in 1958 with the introduction of the ES-335. A thinline-bodied guitar, the 335 featured a solid block down its center, and hollow sidewings. The ES family of guitars became a favorite of electric blues players, like B.B. King, as well as rock and rollers, such as Chuck Berry, and the design has remained a favorite of blues, rock and pop players to this day. Prestige’s affordable Musician Standard brings this classic design forward, blending old-world construction and a vintage Bigsby tremolo with noise-silencing contemporary appointments and a set of Seymour Duncan high-output pickups.


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Michael Shivers Joins Signature Systems as Vice President of Sales and Marketing
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FLOWER MOUND, Texas, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas-based Signature Systems, a global company that engineers, manufactures and distributes premium composite matting solutions for industrial, stadium, government and event applications, is pleased to announce Michael Shivers has joined the executive team as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
In his new role, Shivers will be responsible for the global sales and marketing team. Jeff Condino, President of Signature Systems, said "Michael brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to our executive leadership team and we are looking forward to him driving our sales and marketing efforts forward and accelerating our global growth."
Shivers holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University and has an extensive background in sales, business development, marketing and strategy. Prior to Signature, Shivers held multiple customer-facing positions with increasing responsibilities for Dynata, the world's largest first-party data and insights platform in Plano, Texas.
"I am thrilled to join Signature Systems at such an exciting time," said Michael Shivers. "Signature is positioned well for the future with a globally recognized brand and an executive leadership team with a clear vision for future growth. I am excited to lead our high-powered sales team and execute our growth plan."
About Signature SystemsWith global headquarters in Flower Mound, Texas, Signature Systems designs, manufactures and distributes composite matting for industrial, stadium, government and event clients in more than 60 countries. It operates manufacturing, sales and distribution facilities in Orlando and Darlington, U.K. Its industry-leading HDPE composite mats — including leading brands MegaDeck®, SignaRoad®, DuraDeck® and OmniDeck™ — are manufactured in the United States. signature-systems.com
Company Contact:Jeremy Koliasjkolias@signature-systems.com410-286-1273
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Revealed: The secret plans that could have saved Holden
HOLDEN’S car assembly line falls silent forever this Friday. But there were plans to keep it running until at least 2025.
HOLDEN considered building a homegrown SUV, reviving the iconic Torana nameplate, and continuing US police car exports before announcing the shutdown of its assembly line three years ago.
The company says it “left no stone unturned” in its attempt to save the Elizabeth car factory and considered a “wide range of options”.
While an SUV based on a stretched version of the current Commodore’s underpinnings was considered alongside a smaller model to be called the Torana — giving Holden three models off one “platform” — the secret plans initially floated in the mid-2000s didn’t get off the ground because GM wanted to source similar cars from other factories.
Holden also conducted a feasibility study into continuing production of the Caprice — and maintain exports as a US police car — alongside newer models, News Corp Australia can reveal.
However, in the lead-up to the shutdown announcement in December 2013, Holden put forward a detailed plan to Federal and State Governments to build four-cylinder and V6 Commodores alongside the next generation Cruze small car from 2018.
That proposal was designed to keep the Holden factory running to at least halfway through the next decade, the year 2025, sources have told News Corp Australia.
It means that even if the factory had been saved it would have still spelled the death of the Commodore V8.
The planned Commodore of the future was a derivative of the sedan Holden will import from Germany next year.
Plans outlined to News Corp Australia show the Elizabeth factory required an upgrade by 2018 to assemble the two new models — codenamed E2 for the Commodore and D2 for the Cruze.
The changes to assemble the D2 small car were relatively minor, however a significant overhaul was required to build the E2 locally.
Holden boss Mark Bernhard would not go into detail about the secret plans but said: “We left no stone unturned in trying to keep manufacturing here, it was a very complex decision”.
Former industry minister, Senator Kim Carr, told News Corp Australia: “I took to Cabinet a proposal to do two new Holden models … and had a plan for $300 million a year in support for the whole industry, including manufacturers and parts suppliers.”
This would have been enough for Holden and Toyota to keep their local factories running, says Senator Carr, because both needed each other to be supported by the same supplier base.
“There is no doubt in my mind both Holden and Toyota would have stayed,” said Senator Carr. “We could have kept the whole industry alive and 50,000 people in jobs for $300 million a year (in government support).”
The planned injection of taxpayer funds was in addition to the “massive investments” made by the car makers themselves, which had agreed to contribute three dollars for every dollar of government funding.
When asked about the possibility of a locally made Holden SUV, Senator Carr said: “I was always keen for Holden to build an SUV but that was never a plan put to me. Car companies evaluate options all the time when planning for the future.”
Holden will close its Elizabeth assembly line this Friday, marking the end of car manufacturing in Australia.
Ford, Australia’s oldest car maker, closed its Broadmeadows and Geelong factories a year ago after 91 years of manufacturing.
Toyota closed the Camry factory in Altona earlier this month. It was the first full scale car manufacturing facility Toyota had closed anywhere in the world.
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Dragon Ball FighterZ was announced for the Switch this week, and you can check out some undocked Switch gameplay right here.
Bandai Namco is bringing Dragon Ball FighterZ to the Nintendo Switch this year, and Gamespot has captured some gameplay of the title running on the console in undocked mode.
The game is curently in development for the platform at Arc System Works and will support single Joy-Con play, as well as the Switch Pro Controller.
The release date hasn't been confirmed, but Dragon Ball FIghterZ will land on the Switch at some point this year.
The game is already available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.


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© Reuters. Uber offices are located in Redondo Beach, California, USA, March 16, 2022. REUTERS / Mike Blake
(Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc said it was investigating a cybersecurity incident after reports of a cyber breach forced the company to shut down some internal communications and engineering systems.
On Friday, Uber (NYSE:) said it had no evidence that the problem involved access to sensitive user data such as trip history and internal software tools the company had developed. used after the attack came back online.
Uber began investigating the cybersecurity incident on Thursday.
A hacker hacked into an employee’s account on the workplace messaging app Slack and used it to send messages to Uber employees informing them that the company had suffered a data breach, as reported by Uber. New York Times https://nyti.ms/3QMveIu on Thursday. quoted an Uber spokesman.
Cybersecurity has been an issue for Uber in the past. It suffered a significant hack in 2016 that exposed the personal information of some 57 million of its customers and drivers.
Shares of the ride-hailing company fell nearly 4% on Friday amid a broad-based U.S. market decline. [.N]
It appears that the hacker was able to gain access to other internal systems, posting a sexually explicit photo on an internal employee information page, the Times report added.
“We are in contact with law enforcement and will post additional updates here as they become available,” Uber said in an https:// tweet without providing further details.
Hackers have claimed that they gained access to vulnerability information provided to Uber by HackerOne. Such confidential information can be used for further breaches at the company.
HackerOne said it is “in close contact with Uber’s security team, which has locked their data and will continue to assist with their investigation,” according to Chris Evans, HackerOne’s director of hacking.
Security researcher Bill Demirkapi said the screenshots circulating online seem to attest to hackers or hackers bragging that they have access to Uber’s internal systems.
“This story is still evolving and these are some extreme claims, but there seems to be evidence to support it,” he said in a statement posted on Twitter (NYSE:).
As the NYT reports, Uber employees have been instructed not to use the Salesforce (NYSE:Slack)-owned office messaging app, as reported by the NYT.
The report adds: “I am informed that I am a hacker and that Uber has suffered a data breach.”
One person claimed responsibility for the hack and told the newspaper that he had sent a text message to an Uber employee claiming to be the company’s IT employee.
The report said the employee was persuaded to hand over a password that gave the hacker access to Uber’s system.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who took charge a year after the 2016 hack, fired the then-security chief, who was later accused of attempting to cover up the breach.


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The successor to theis just around the corner, and it's officially called the LG G7 ThinQ.
The May 2 event is happening in both New York and Seoul (on May 2 in NY and May 3 in Seoul).
LG's phones have shifted to include ThinQ branding to reflect LG's big initiative to link all its products together with its own AI and smart assistants, which was. The , released earlier this year, was an update to last year's LG V30 with more memory and added AI features.
Rumors on theinclude possibilities of a notch in the display like the iPhone X (yes, ), a Snapdragon 845 processor like the , and a premium price tag. It'll be going up against the Galaxy S9 and what will likely be several more new flagship phones before summer.


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Redmond talks up tablet as it's 'smallest and lightest' yet
Just one more thing about Bixby to ignore
Leaked document suggests a low-key unveiling could be on the cards
Better late than never, we guess
Some 9,000 people are thirsty for Redmond's Project 'Andromeda'
Let the movies see the bursting chest
Let's hope this one isn't discontinued as quickly as the last
Is that a tablet in your pocket or are you just pleased to see Andromeda break cover?
Firms are using 'dark patterns' to push users away from privacy-friendly settings
No Sets, please - we're skittish
Firm's cloud head says firm 'wouldn't have minded' buying the code-sharing site
Firm promises update will stop the browser from freezing and crashing
In terms of progress, they're starting to kick the Bernard Manning out of the system
Marks the official separation between Hub and Lab
In other news: rat eats money, dies
Microsoft's big spend is pushing back on ethical issues
Mixed Reality will remain firmly within Windows 10
But that doesn't mean it's losing its Edge
Firm claims it's fixed, but customers are still reporting issues
Firm says it doesn't support the separation of immigrant parents from their children
Plus some VR stuff and some new borkage for good measure
Users report that the cloud-hosted service is 'completely unusable'
Also, production of coal in Redmond rises thanks to glorious leader Nadella
Maybe people might buy into this one...
When shoplifting becomes damn near impossible
Streaming service will soon offer a five-part adaptation of Minecraft's story
But don't worry, the old one is still there too
There will be a USB-C port and Intel Coffee Lake processors at least
Long-standing 'always listening' flaw in Cortana among 49 patched vulnerabilities
Xbox One Plus Two?
Which? calls for action from Microsoft to restore user faith
End of life dates aren't sacred anymore
It's been a heck of an E3 showcase for Redmond's gaming division
No doubt we'll revisit this article to see how much of this he's kept to
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Windows Collaborative Displays are coming later in the year
Yet again, Redmond goes overboard
Ranging from joy to suspicion to bewilderment
But it's only a tweaked version of the Snapdragon 845 SoC
But some users are very unhappy
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Quirky gadget is being developed under the codename 'Januss'
Sound logic for a bum note app
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A promotional image for the new Heinz ketchup "PlantBottle."
By Teresa F. Lindeman Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The H.J. Heinz Co. today announced a partnership with Coca-Cola Co. that will allow the Pittsburgh ketchup maker to start putting its flagship product into a new plastic bottle made partially from plants.
Coca-Cola introduced what it calls the "PlantBottle" in 2009 and sees it as the first step in working toward steering food packaging away from materials made with fossil fuels.
William R. Johnson, Heinz chairman, president and CEO, said this morning in a press conference about the strategic partnership that the company plans to start using the new bottles this year with its 20-ounce package sold in the U.S. and grow from there.
"I see this as the start of a great strategic partnership between Heinz and Coca-Cola," he said, adding that the two companies are talking about working together on areas such as health and wellness and agriculture.
Coca-Cola Chairman Muhtar Kent said a number of companies are interested in using the PlantBottle technology. "We decided that Heinz was a great start," he said, noting the companies' consumers had many things in common.
Both men were in Boca Raton, Fla., for the Consumer Analyst Group of New York annual conference.


text: Tomorrow kicks off the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, the sprawling convention that shows off all the latest and greatest gadgets on track to be released during the upcoming year. One of the products everyone was looking forward to gawking at this year was the follow-up to the best-selling Android phone of all time: the Samsung Galaxy S IV. Unfortunately, Samsung won't be showing off the GS IV in Vegas this year, leaving us to wait a couple more months before seeing the company's newest flagship phone. However, that hasn't stopped the rumors and reports from flooding in. So, as we wait for the GS IV to make its official debut, here's a run down of everything we know about the phone and why we're so amped for its release.


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A massive police investigation is underway in The Gambia following the death of 66 children that has been linked to four brands of imported Indian cough syrup.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) have also issued a global alert over four cough syrups, warning they could be linked to acute kidney injuries and the children’s deaths in July, August and September.
Senior officials from the Medicine Control Agency and the importers have been called for questioning from the office of President Adama Barrow vowing to “leave no stone unturned” in the investigation.
The products – Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup – were manufactured by an Indian company, Maiden Pharmaceuticals, which had failed to provide guarantees about their safety, the WHO said.
The Indian government is also investigating the situation as the manufacturers said in a statement said it was shocked and saddened over the incident. The company said it followed Indian health protocols and was co-operating with an investigation.
Gambian health officials and Red Cross workers are now going door to door, as well as to pharmacies and markets, searching for the syrups and destroying them.


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Cherry Mobile's first ever Android One offering is simply called the One or Cherry Mobile One. It was officially announced last week together with the launch of Google Android One Initiative which aims to bring the latest Android experience to emerging markets through very competitive devices with very affordable pricing with the help of local smartphone companies like Cherry Mobile. Watch the unboxing below and see what things the One comes with right out of the box.
The Cherry Mobile One is now available for purchase for only Php3,999. It comes with free 8GB of memory card and that's on top of the 8GB internal storage of the device.