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- The cryptocurrency market crashed in a single day, with billions being worn out, and in consequence, CZ shed $13.3 billion from his internet value.
- CZ remains to be the richest man not solely in crypto however in your entire finance trade together with his internet value at $75 billion, miles forward of second-placed Sam Bankman-Fried.
The cryptocurrency market has been bleeding this complete week, culminating in a massacre on Friday which has seen Bitcoin begin the weekend off buying and selling at its lowest stage in six months. As CNF reported, crypto-centric shares have gone down with the ship as nicely, with Coinbase and Microstrategy shedding at the least 16 % every. It wasn’t simply the corporate shares that went down with Bitcoin, nonetheless. Crypto billionaires are bleeding as nicely, and the chief, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao misplaced $13.3 billion in a single day.
CZ is the founder and CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency change. Prior to now 24 hours, it facilitated $26.2 billion in spot buying and selling quantity and $104.3 billion in derivatives buying and selling, at the least 3 times increased than second-placed OKEx.
This domination of the crypto buying and selling market has made Binance one of many largest moneymakers within the trade, and its founder and largest shareholder CZ has change into one of many richest males on this planet in consequence.
In keeping with the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which is a day by day rating of the world’s richest folks, not solely is CZ the richest man in crypto, he’s the wealthiest in your entire finance sector.
The Index places CZ’s wealth at $75 billion as of as we speak, ranked 14th richest man on this planet. This makes him wealthier than Carlos Slim, the richest man in Mexico; PC guru Michael Dell; Alibaba founder Jack Ma; and Amancio Ortega, the founding father of quick vogue behemoth Zara. It additionally makes him the richest man in Singapore, the place he resides.
As Bitcoin dipped, and dragged all the opposite main altcoins down with it, CZ’s wealth additionally dipped. In keeping with Bloomberg, he misplaced a staggering $13.3 billion previously 24 hours. This was the largest drop in your entire record, which comprises 500 billionaires, with Tesla CEO, Dogecoin bull and metaverse skeptic Elon Musk dropping the second-highest quantity with $12.5 billion. FTX change’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried misplaced $571 million and is valued at $14.4 billion.
CZ’s wealth is primarily tied to Binance. The change is privately owned at the moment, however CZ has revealed that his group has explored itemizing choices. The U.S subsidiary may go public first, nonetheless, as he revealed in an interview in September.
Apart from Binance, CZ’s wealth can be tied to Binance Coin, the native token of the change which at the moment ranks because the fourth-largest crypto by market cap. The token is buying and selling at $348 at press time, down by 19 % previously day.
Regardless of being the richest man in crypto, CZ insists that he doesn’t care about wealth and that he intends to provide away 99 % of his huge riches earlier than he dies.
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SES-imagotag presented its VUSION Retail IoT Cloud platform at NRF 2019 developed in partnership with E Ink, Microsoft Azure, Cisco and many other retail tech companies.
Here’s what happened during these three days:
- Coop selects SES-imagotag’s VUSION Smart Labels solution. It is the first time a major retailer has opted for yellow e-Paper electronic shelf labels, thanks to SES-imagotag’s unrivalled expertise in retail display technologies.
- SES-imagotag and Cisco introduce a leading-edge IoT infrastructure for physical retail. The technological partnership started by both companies aims at digitalizing physical retail, improving operational efficiency and in-store shopping experience.
#TBT to earlier this week when I had the pleasure of being the guest speaker at @sesimagotag #NRF2019 to celebrate the launch of #Givingbook and talk about social impact and how transactional giving will transform the retail industry. #PurposeIsTheNewCurrency pic.twitter.com/x2ytBhR3LF— Alexandre Mars (@alexandremars) January 17, 2019
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Home Depot CEO Frank Blake recently sat down for an interview with CNBC while he was in New York to promote Home Depot Foundation’s Celebration of Service campaign that runs from Sept. 11 through Veterans Day.
In the interview he talked about the store’s double-digit same-store growth, which he said has been the company’s “strongest second quarter in over 20 years.”
He cited the housing recovery for the growth, which he anticipates will continue for the last half of the year, and the return of the pro customer.
“Maybe not at a brisk pace, but a good pace, a good solid pace,” he said. “You can’t expect brisk in an environment where we’re just coming off the worst financial crisis most of us have ever seen.“
He said pro customers suffered from a lack of credit availability following the 20008 crash.
“You saw that market shrink post fall of 2008, but it has now started to recover,” he said. “In the first quarter, our pro segment grew faster than our consumer segment. In the second quarter they were both growing equally.”
As for store expansion, Blake said Home Depot has plans to open just two stores in the U.S., focusing on unique market opportunities instead of exponential growth.
“One is in Puerto Rico and the other in Minot, N.D., because Minot is now a booming town because of shale gas,” he said “We’ll build stores in Mexico, but it’s ones and twos. It’s not like a few years ago when we were doing 100, 200 a year. Those aren’t coming back. The environment is completely different.”


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The billionaire owners of the British petrol forecourts operator EG Group have taken pole position in the race for control of Asda after being named the preferred bidder by the supermarket’s US owner.
Mohsin and Zuber Issa, who are working with the private equity firm TDR Capital, have pushed out a rival offer from the private equity firm Apollo Global Management with a bid that values the UK’s third largest grocery chain at £6.5bn.
The Blackburn-born brothers, who bought their first petrol station in Bury, Greater Manchester, in 2001, each own a quarter of EG Group, which is thought to be worth as much as £10bn after a series of acquisitions including forecourt groups in the US, Little Chef roadside cafes and a major Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in the UK.
TDR owns the other half of the group, which was formed in 2016 by the merger of the Issas’ Euro Garages with TDR’s European Forecourt Retail Group and now employs 50,000 people across almost 6,000 sites in the UK, US, Europe and Australia. Sales at the group soared by two-thirds to €20bn (£18.1bn) in 2019, according to the latest accounts filed at Companies House, but the company made a pre-tax loss of £82m after servicing £8.4bn of debts.
The pair, whose parents came to the UK from Gujarat, India, in the 1960s, attended their local comprehensive school in Blackburn while their father worked in a textile factory. The brothers donate 2.5% of their wealth every year to charity and their Issa Foundation supports local hospitals and deprived schoolchildren.
Sources suggested the Issa brothers and TDR had been able to edge ahead in the deal for a majority stake in Asda, in a development first reported by Sky News, because of the potential to work together on expanding the supermarket into petrol forecourts. Speculation increased after Asda announced plans to test three convenience stores with EG Group earlier this month. Leeds-based Asda operates more than 600 stores in the UK.
The TDR-backed deal was thought likely to prove less attractive to Asda and its parent group, Walmart, as it could lead to attention from competition regulators and potentially a lengthy inquiry.
Regulators blocked Walmart’s earlier attempt to quit the UK by ruling against a proposed merger between Asda and Sainsbury’s.
While the Issa Brothers and TDR have chosen to set up a new entity to bid for Asda, experts said the structure of the bidding vehicle would not be enough to avoid a competition investigation. “Regulators look at who you are and what else you control when they’re considering mergers and acquisitions. They look behind the corporate veil in order to see what’s going on,” said Jonathan Branton, a competition lawyer at the legal firm DWF.
Apollo, which is working with the retail veteran Rob Templeman, the former boss of Debenhams, was thought to be planning a more straightforward deal based on expanding Asda’s online presence.
It is understood that Apollo has yet to be formally informed that they have not won preferred bidder status and might yet fight back with a new offer.
However, its deal may have attracted criticism over its reliance on raising debt.
A third bid, from the private equity firm Lone Star Funds, fronted by the former Asda and Somerfield executive Paul Mason, was dropped last week as it did not match the price being offered by its rivals.
Walmart restarted talks on the sale of a stake in its UK arm in July, 15 months after the collapse of the planned merger with Sainsbury’s. A deal is expected to be announced as early as this week.
Hammering out the details may take longer as bidders wrangle over potential liabilities including Asda’s pension scheme and an equal pay dispute being considered by the UK supreme court, which could cost billions of pounds in back pay.
Walmart, which bought Asda in 1999, is expected to retain a minority stake in the supermarket as part of the deal.
The group is thought to want to float Asda on the stock market but that ambition could take some time, given the volatility of markets as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. It views a private equity deal as a way to secure new investment in Asda in preparation for any initial public offering.


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The U.S. Department of State reported on June 4 that U.S. travel to Cuba would be restricted. “Passenger and recreational vessels” are banned from traveling to Cuba, including yachts, cruise ships, and private and corporate planes, effective June 5. This “people-to-people” license that let Americans travel to Cuba for educational and religious reasons, is over.
Though the people-to-people license — which permitted travels to travel via group educational and cultural trips — was the most popular way that Americans traveled to Cuba, there are still plenty of ways for a trip to Cuba to happen. For example, according to The New York Times, “Under 'support for the Cuban people' category, individuals can travel to Cuba, but they must have an itinerary filled with meetings and visits with local business owners, artists, or others. They must plan on participating in local activities and staying in a private home, instead of a hotel.” In other words, you can't merely go to hang out at the beach.
The Trump administration also ended an educational travel program. According to the State Department, this is a response to the Cuban government’s repression of its citizens, as well as a protest against the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
While there are far more strict regulations, Americans are allowed to travel to Cuba, particularly if they have family in Cuba or if they need to travel to Cuba for business or philanthropic reasons. Furthermore, if consumers booked a trip there before June 5, they should be fine to continue with their travel plans. Additionally, there are 11 U.S. permit options — there used to be 12 — that grant travelers access to Cuba. Beyond family visits, business purposes, and humanitarian efforts, it’s still possible to visit for other reasons, like for religious or journalistic endeavors.
“With the new mandates for Cuba, it only impacts U.S. flagged vessels,” says Kitty McGowan, president of the U.S. Superyacht Association. She adds that the number of U.S. flagged vessels traveling to the island has been on the increase in the past few years but that in reality, from a superyacht and U.S. flag boats side, it probably only impacts 20 vessels.
“A lot of the crew and the guests,” says McGowan, “spend time and money and resources on the island, and that is going to significantly impact the island. With regards to the United States, that’s the beautiful thing about yachts: there’s lots of other places to go.” As for Cuba, it will hurt the island far more. “Not so much the country as much as the people,” McGowan says. Having been there herself, McGowan comments that the people there are very resourceful and they have a mindset of, “Okay, we have boats coming in, what can I do to help make their stay better and make me some money?”
According to a recent news report, McGowan says more than 250,000 U.S. citizens visited Cuba from January through March of this year. “So now you figure the economic impact of 250,000 people and what they spend on a trip? Do the math. That kind of economic pressure is going to hurt, because now they’ve had it,” she explains, saying that these travel restrictions will be felt on a massive level. On the other hand, the U.S. will likely be fine. “So when you talk about superyachts versus general tourism, it’s not going to be that significant. I think the beneficiary is going to be The Bahamas and Mexico.”
The International SeaKeepers Society is taking the recent changes into consideration. As Michael T. Moore, an attorney and the chairman of the board of SeaKeepers, told Boat International, they will process each vessel as they’re presented to them. “We have always processed each vessel as if the rules have changed since the last trip,” Moore says. “This has been our successful formula for almost 300 yachts who wished to and did visit and return from Cuba without incident.”
Presently, SeaKeepers did have one incident involving a yacht that visited Cuba under the guidance of an organization that considers itself an expert on trips to Cuban. No permits were obtained. “On its return, the vessel’s document has been confiscated and its application for a cruising permit has been denied,” Moore told Boat International, adding that the yacht is flagged “offshore.” All members of the crew of three are American nationals. The beneficial owner is a Mexican National.
“At this time, we are investigating what was done, what was not done, and what happened. We will then seek to have the yacht cleared and a cruising permit issued,” says Moore. “Our policy going forward will be to have the trips approved, as we have always done, by Department of Commerce, Department of Treasury, and Department of Homeland Security. We will then have trip by Vessel’s Underwriters.”
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Should we be expecting Alibaba to get into the content game soon?
Seeing a demand no one was filling, Amazon.com earlier this week officially unveiled a new subscription service that offers all-you-can-read digital books for 12 yuan ($1.84) per month.
Hoping to profit from growing interest in paid content in China, the new Kindle Unlimited service will give Chinese subscribers access to more than 44,000 e-books.
The Kindle is an e-reader designed and marketed by Amazon. It allows users to buy, download and read e-books, magazines and newspapers. Amazon launched its Kindle e-book store in China in December 2012.
Subscribers to the new service can read the e-books on any Kindle device or any device, including smartphones and tablet computers, with Amazon’s Kindle app installed.
The service aims to provide Chinese customers a more flexible way to read and to foster China’s nascent e-book market, said Gu Fan, the head of Kindle content product management at Amazon China.
Zhu Ning, an economist, who recently published a book named The Guaranteed Bubble, told China Daily the number of books read by Chinese people is “embarrassingly low.”
Alibaba Holdings, the e-commerce giant founded by Jack Ma, offers a few e-book readers on site, but nothing proprietary and no content.
However, WeChat, China’s leading mobile messaging application, is hot on Amazon’s tail, trying to monetize its 650 million users by working to develop a paid subscription service.
The new service, which is under development, would allow writers of WeChat’s public accounts to charge readers for certain content.
WeChat, which is owned by the Shenzhen-based Internet giant Tencent Holdings, wasn’t planning to disclose the new service before it was ready. It was accidentally discovered by users while being tested online.
In an e-mail to China Daily on Tuesday, WeChat confirmed it is working on the new feature but didn’t say when the service will be officially launched. It said the service is intended to “support and encourage creative work” on WeChat.


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ABTA has listed 12 tourist spots from across the world and Kerala is the only Indian destination that entered the list.
The association of Travel Agents (ABTA), the largest and prominent travel and tours operators association in the United Kingdom has listed Kerala as one of the ‘Destination to watch’ in 2017.
ABTA has listed 12 tourist spots from across the world and Kerala is the only Indian destination that entered the list. The list, featured in ABTA’s ‘Travel Trends Report 2017’, has Kerala in the eighth spot.
As per ABTA, a a journey through the serene backwaters in the traditional houseboat, the life of the local people, spice plantations and forests are among the not to miss experiences of the state. The association also mentioned about Kerala’s famous Ayurvedic rejuvenation therapy.
Other tourist destinations which featured in the list include the US, Sardinia (island of Italy), South Africa and Vietnam. The list also features Andalucia (Spain), the Azores islands (of Portugal), Bermuda, Chile, Croatia and Denmark.
In 2015, Kerala received 1,66,792 tourists from Britain, which accounted for a 17.06 per cent share of the total foreign tourist arrivals to the state.
Earlier, Kerla has been voted ‘favourite Indian leisure destination’ of the year, according to a survey conducted by the US based Conde Nast Traveller magazine. And after that, God’s Own Country has been awarded the ‘best honeymoon destination’ in the country by a travel website Travel + Leisure.
- Kerala Voted the ‘Best Leisure Destination’ In India By Us-based Conde Nast Traveller Magazine!
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Fashion SVP announces November edition, adds footwear
today Jul 27, 2016
London trade show Fashion SVP has announced plans to add a November edition following a 40% growth on the number of exhibitors at the last show in June.
The two-day event, designed especially for those who buy direct from factories, features more than 150 garment manufacturers from over 15 countries including the UK, Portugal, Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and Egypt.
Europe’s leading retail brands and importers could find a wide selection of knitwear, jerseywear, wovens, denim, embroidered pieces, swimwear, lingerie and hosiery.
The November edition will also add footwear and accessories, said the organisers.
All exhibitors are hand-picked by an in-house team.
The second 2016 edition of Fashion SVP will be held at Olympia London on 15-16 November.
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This year has seen sustainability and ESG dominate many conversations, whether one is in business, government or the NGO community. So perhaps it is no surprise that organisations, no matter where they are located, are facing a watershed in terms of sustainability regulations which will have a major impact on how businesses operate and report.
Thus far, sustainability regulations have been met with a mixed response. Whilst some see them as a force for good and essential to move countries towards a common global standard, others are concerned about companies’ readiness to adopt onerous reporting and assurance regulations.
In this edition of Spotlight, we delve into the complex world of sustainability regulations to give you more insight into what is required, by when and for which companies.
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Wal-Mart rides the Fence
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
(SNN Bentonville) Today, Wal-Mart stores changed their policies on how they would give donations to “highly controversial” issues.
This new policy is definitely a win-win for Wal-Mart. Now stores will be able to push profit margins higher while hiding behind the veil of controversy. This will be important as the retailer’s quarterly profits were down 0.01% last quarter, which translates to more money that the human mind can envision.
Some say that the decision may draw the ire of homosexuals. Seriously though, what self respecting homosexual would shop at Wal-Mart?
The American Family Association has taken credit for this new policy. The group has been leading a boycott of the retailer which it ended early last week allowing its members to take advantage of Black Friday deals. However, AFA says they will continue to monitor Wal-Mart's progress and if necessary, AFA will take further action.
While Wal-Mart does not have a position on same-sex marriage, they have said that who they date is their business. In addition, the retailer continues to sell season boxes of Will and Grace.
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In such a changeable lending environment, it’s not easy to keep track but here is some of the most recent product-related news at the time of writing.
In terms of launches, CHL Mortgages released its first seven-year fixed rate mortgage. The lender has also increased its maximum loan to value (LTV) for individual and limited company borrowers to 80 per cent, up from 75 per cent.
Foundation Home Loans announced a new BTL product range exclusively for expat landlords.
Foundation’s expat proposition is available to non-SPV (special purpose vehicle) individual landlords who are UK nationals living as expats worldwide, as well as limited company borrowers.
Products will be available for standard BTL, short-term lets, houses in multiple occupation (HMO) and green options all available up to 75 per cent LTV for both purchases and remortgage with rates starting from 3.24 per cent.
Vida introduced a range of limited edition residential and BTL products. The limited edition BTL range includes five-year fixed rates for purchase and remortgage. A standard buy-to-let product at 75 per cent LTV is available at 3.04 per cent with a £1,495 fee and a fee-free equivalent starts at 3.19 per cent. For HMOs, a 75 per cent LTV product is available at 3.19 per cent with a £1,995 fee.
Hinckley and Rugby Building Society relaunched its BTL limited company lending proposition, boosting its current BTL offerings. This includes a five-year fixed rate at 2.95 per cent up to 70 per cent LTV with a £250 application fee and £999 completion fee.
Hanley Economic Building Society launched a five-year BTL fixed rate remortgage special. This is available from 3.03 per cent up to 80 per cent LTV with a £750 product fee and a valuation fee which is subject to property value.
Fleet Mortgages, Aldermore, TML and Paragon make rate changes
When it comes to rate changes, Fleet Mortgages cut rates by 20 basis points across all lifetime tracker products available in its three core ranges – standard, limited company and limited liability partnership and HMO/multi-unit freehold block (MUFB).
Aldermore Bank reduced product switch rates across its residential and BTL ranges for existing customers. BTL rates for individual landlords now start from 2.70 per cent, with reductions of up to 0.65 per cent, while limited company rates have been reduced by up to 60 basis points and are now available from 2.95 per cent.
The Mortgage Lender announced a series of rate cuts across its BTL product range. The lender has repriced its five-year fixed rate products at 75 per cent LTV, with rates now starting at 3.33 per cent for standard properties and 3.45 per cent for HMOs. Both come with a free valuation and either free legal services for purchases or £500 cashback for remortgages.
Rates have also been reduced at 80 per cent LTV, with rates now at 4.05 per cent. The product also comes with a free valuation and either free legal services or £500 cashback. In addition to the product repricing, TML has launched a new five-year mortgage at 3.20 per cent up to 70 per cent LTV with a completion fee of £2,495.
Finally, on the criteria front, Paragon Bank extended the window in which BTL borrowers can remortgage from three months to six months. Paragon will now offer borrowers the chance to remortgage up to six months ahead of their current buy-to-let product reaching maturity.
By the time you read this, additional product modifications are likely to have been made, such is the pace of change throughout the industry. And this only serves to highlight the continued value attached to the advice process and the support and expertise this can offer for a range of borrowers, not just landlords.


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BENCH WARRANT - MASSENA - Village police said Thomas M. Larose, 46. of 915 Lafayete St., Ogdensburg, turned himself in to Ogdensburg City Police Wednesday afternoon after learning a warrant had been issued for his arrest. He was transported to Massena, arraigned on the warrant that had been issued after he failed to appear for sentencing on Jan. 28 for an attempted petit larceny conviction and sent to the St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility with bail set at $500 cash or $1,00 bond by Acting Massena Village Justice James M. Crandall.
Larose had pleaded guilty to attempted petit larceny in November. He had been charged with shoplifting $460.23 worth of merchandise from the Massena Walmart on July 8.
PETIT LARCENY - MASSENA - Village police charged Andrew S. Brewer, 21, and Trisha M. Harner, 32, both of 2 River St., Massena, with petit larceny at 8:13 p.m. Wednesday at the Massena Walmart. They allegedly walked past the stores last point of sale without paying for $27 worth of action figures. Harner was charged with a second count of petit larceny stemming from a Nov. 18 incident when she allegedly left the store without paying for Mens tee shirts valued at $19. They were released on appearance tickets.


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Swedish furniture retailer Ikea is to host its first-ever gallery exhibition in London, called The Collection. Open from 21-23 January, it will look to celebrate the ‘joy of storage’ - a concept the brand is renowned for.
The exhibition will showcase different ways of storing collectors items, including retro fashion, Lego magazines and Spice Girls memorabilia, to show that people shouldn’t only hang on to items that are functional, but also things that are joyful.
Commuters at London’s Waterloo station station will be treated to Celebrity Cruises’ Lawn Club experience on the most depressing day of the year (18 January). Its Blue Monday activity will aim to give people a taste of the cruise experience, with the chance to win a VIP chauffeur-driven ride journey home, complete with a luxury food and wine hamper also on offer.
It’s probably no surprise that a few exercise-related experiential campaigns have popped up in January. Perhaps one of the most unlikely has been from Kwik Fit, which has taken a step out of its car servicing comfort zone, encouraging people to ditch their spare tyres by taking part in one of its free exercise classes.
Set to run throughout Sundays in January, there is even the potential for the classes to be rolled out throughout the year if successful.
Fitness protein brand Maxinutrition is also encouraging people to get fit, and has announced plans to launch an urban gym on the streets of London. The Street Gym event is set to take place early this year, and is designed to support the brand’s new campaign, coined It’s Not For Everyone.
Images of children’s charity Unicef’s New Year’s Eve stunt was also among the most popular stories this week. It used ‘blue’ projection mapping and fireworks in London and Edinburgh to highlight the plight of young children caught up in the Syrian crisis this winter. Key landmarks including The Shard and Edinburgh Castle were lit up blue, and they displayed the Unicef logo.


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While a breakup of Facebook would create more competition for consumer attention and digital ad dollars, it's not clear that splitting up the company would diminish its power to influence public opinion. Or drive readership among web publishers.
Benioff, who also is CEO of software firm Salesforce, likened Facebook to cigarettes for having addictive powers and harmful effects on kids.
"Facebook is addictive, it's not good for you, they're after your kids, they're running political ads that aren't true ... and they're also acquiring other companies and co-mingling data those companies have on their users into theirs for more power," he said in an interview with CNN.
Benioff isn't the only media executive who has criticized Facebook. Rupert Murdoch, the News Corp. CEO whose political affiliations are the opposite of Benioff's, also wants to rein in Facebook.
Murdoch is dependent on the social network's power to drive web traffic. His Fox News website generated more Facebook "engagements" than any other publisher during the third quarter, according to analytics firm NewsWhip.
Those engagements keep people glued to Facebook, which is problematic for publishers that want to monetize their own audiences.
Facebook reportedly is addressing this issue by offering cash payments to publishers whose articles appear in its news section, but it remains to be seen how lucrative that source of revenue will be.
Facebook's biggest media properties are its main social network, image-sharing app Instagram and the Messenger and WhatsApp messaging platforms. The company is estimated to control about 22% of U.S. digital ad spending; it is even stronger in categories of mobile and social media advertising, according to eMarketer.
One breakup scenario would undo Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram and the $19 billion takeover of WhatsApp. After several years of rapid growth, each of the companies is worth much more than what Facebook paid for them.
A company breakup likely would compel Instagram and WhatsApp to work even harder to make their apps more addictive amid heightened competition for viewing time.
The platforms also would work to outdo each other with overlapping features.
Instagram would push deeper into messaging, while WhatsApp would expand on its image-sharing and shopping features. A breakup likely wouldn't leave the companies too hobbled to compete, given their massive reach among more than 1 billion people and ability to attract more investment.
However, publishers would benefit from having a bigger selection of distribution channels. Instagram doesn't have a news tab, and groups images into visual themes, like style, décor and beauty.
While the app doesn't let users share links to websites, publishers can link their Instagram Stories -- posts that have several images and disappear after 24 hours -- to their websites to drive traffic. The New York Times, for example, has Stories that let Instagram users swipe upward to visit its website to read related articles.
WhatsApp is focused on encrypted messaging, but has enormous potential to become like WeChat, the Chinese messaging app that acts like a lifestyle hub. WeChat has mini-programs that do everything from making payments to booking travel.
Instead of building out more WhatsApp features, Facebook has added a broader range of functions to Messenger. As a separate company, WhatsApp likely would expand its range of features to give people more choices, while creating a new avenue for publishers to build an audience.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Speculation is building that Microsoft will unveil a tablet computer on Monday.
The company was secretive when it invited media to an afternoon event in Los Angeles, saying it would be a "major" announcement and would not divulge the location until Monday morning.
In an email, the company had said, "This will be a major Microsoft announcement — you will not want to miss it."
Several media outlets, including The New York Times, cited unnamed sources saying that Microsoft will launch its own tablet to boost its new Windows 8 operating system and counter Apple's hot-selling iPad.
Microsoft declined to comment.
Microsoft is preparing to release its new operating system, Windows 8, which works across laptop computers, tablets and even televisions.
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New Jersey wine-making is going strong
New Jersey Wine Week is being celebrated by an industry that by all measures is booming right now.
In 2015, New Jersey wineries collectively produced a record 530,000 gallons of their product.
Tom Cosentino, executive director of the Garden State Wine Growers Association, says it is booming because there is a great interest in wine and more and more people are drinking it.
But Cosentino says it's not just quantity — it's quality.
"In a blind taste test against the best that other states have to offer, we are winning medals."
There are over 50 wineries in New Jersey right now, up from just a handful in the year 2000. Since then, there have been more than 35 wineries added.
New Jersey is consistently ranked in the top 10 for wine production in the United States.
Cosentino says that up until 1981, there were only six wineries in the state because Prohibition kept the fledgling industry down. Under New Jersey's laws, the population had to increase by a million before a new vineyard could open. But in 1981, the Farm Winery Act was passed. Since then, the state has seen a gradual increase in wineries.
Cosentino says this week wineries are offering celebrations and wine-tastings statewide. The celebration of New Jersey Wine Week is also an extension of the fall agritourism push in the state.
"There is a big trend today in New Jersey of farm to table and everyone wants to know where their local food source is," he said.
Joe Cutter is the afternoon news anchor on New Jersey 101.5.
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Magic appoints GCap's Finch as first commercial director
By by Sarah Woods, brandrepublic.com, Tuesday, 23 May 2006 11:00AM
LONDON - Alison Finch, the former head of commercial marketing at GCap, has been appointed by Emap as Magic's first commercial director.
Finch will join Magic on June 5, where she will lead the local sales team and be responsible for creating and developing new and non-traditional revenue streams.
During her 10 years at Capital and then GCap, Finch was responsible for driving increased revenues through multi-platform offerings, delivering a consistent trade marketing campaign and managing the profit and loss of the commercial division of Capital Radio's interactive division.
In addition, she was in charge of marketing and new revenue opportunities around network products including Newslink and hit40uk.
Andria Vidler, managing director of Magic, said: "In addition to [Alison's] team leadership abilities, she has a proven ability to think creatively and look beyond the tried and tested to generate and deliver new revenue streams."
Finch said: "Everyone at Magic should be proud of their recent achievements. I am delighted to be joining a team which is focused and looking to the future for new opportunities."
Magic was recently reached number one in the London market according to radio measurement body Rajar for first time. The station has recently enjoyed a refreshed look and sound.
If you have an opinion on this or any other issue raised on Brand Republic, join the debate in the Forum.
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RIM to use Kobo on PlayBook to stymie iPad
Kobo this evening revealed that a version of its eReader app will be preloaded on the BlackBerry PlayBook from the start. RIM said picked the eReader hardware maker as Kobo had an international e-bookstore and was adept at customizing for specific countries. The bookseller in turn said that a WebKit browser made it an ideal fit since it uses the same engine for many of its existing apps, including those on the iPad.
All of the customization and sync features from other devices will carry over, Kobo said, though it would have a unique social component. Like the app promised for BlackBerry smartphones, Kobo on the PlayBook should support BlackBerry Messenger as a platform (demonstrated below) to allow chat and other real-time discussion of books. The bookstore already has access to about 2.2 million titles, one million of which are public domain or otherwise free.
The tablet is due to ship to the US in early 2011.
A partnership between the two Canadian companies suggests RIM is eager to compete with the iPad by offering at least one guaranteed bookstore in as many countries as possible. While it will have an Amazon Kindle app from the start, the PlayBook will have a significant uphill battle versus Apple. The iPad is considered one of the most universally accessible e-readers as it has e-reader apps from virtually all major bookstores, even though many have their own devices competing for attention.
The RIM approach is somewhat similar but broader than that for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, where the Kindle app will be a standard feature but primarily for US users.


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According to a report of Dong Nai Department of Industry and Trade, in the first six months of this year, Dong Nai Province’s Industry Promotion and Industrial Development Consultation Center cooperated with the Duc Thanh II Co., Ltd. to organize sewing training for 350 rural workers in the province; organize training courses in terms of industry promotion and state management for 27 officers in Trang Bom District; launch the 2013 innovation contest and vote outstanding rural industrial products.
The center has also implemented advisory tasks, such as consulting bidding for highway shipbuilding, constructing the anti-thunderbolt system, the traffic camera system and industrial infrastructure in Nhon Trach District and propagandizing about saving-energy solutions and cleaner production in the province.
According to the year’s plan, Dong Nai’s total industry promotion budget reached VND7.05 billion, of which, national and local industry promotion budget stood at VND700 million and VND6.35 billion respectively. Dong Nai Province’s Industry Promotion and Industrial Development Consultation Center have to deploy seven industry promotion projects. However, in the first six months of this year, some projects have not been deployed yet, such as the project on supporting the application of modern equipment in handling environmental pollution, constructing performance models and organizing training courses for officers and vocational training for 500 rural workers.
The deployment of industry promotion projects in the first six months of this year has not brought positive results. However, compared to 2012, the quality of industry promotion has been higher compared to cities and provinces in the southeast region.
Dong Nai Department of Industry and Trade’s leader directed Dong Nai Province’s Industry Promotion and Industrial Development Consultation Center to focus on implementing industry promotion projects in order to ensure the assigned plans. In the long term, the center should associate industry promotion projects with economic programs to supplement resources for industry promotion tasks.
Dong Nai’s total industry promotion budget in 2012 reached about VND4.089 billion, of which, national and local industry promotion budget stood at VND850 million and VND3.349 billion respectively. The center trained more than 850 rural workers for industrial sewing, carving, bamboo and rattan weaving; supported the development of technical performance models for three rural industrial businesses. The province’s rural industrial products have been widely advertised through support projects and have been participated in trade fairs and exhibitions. In particular, propagandizing about saving-energy solutions and cleaner production has engaged the interests of beneficiaries./.
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On 16 March, Chinese ridesharing app Didi will launch in Sydney. Already available in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth, the app promises “a safe, reliable and value-for-money way to get around”, according to Lyn Ma, Didi Australia’s general manager.
That “value-for-money” statement will certainly be true in the first few weeks following the app’s launch – it is offering riders who sign up before launch a 50% discount on their first four weeks of rides, up to the value of $1200.
Didi is one of four major players in the Australian ride hailing market, alongside American giant Uber, Indian-based Ola and Estonian company Bolt, which was previously known as Taxify. All four apps vary slightly in their base pricing, ride offerings and compensation for drivers. But for consumers and drivers, there’s not a clear answer for which app is “best”.
The cheapest ride hailing app in Australia
“In your particular city, the cheapest one is going to be the new one on the market,” says Graham Cooke, the insights manager at comparison site Finder. Uber is typically slightly more expensive than its competitors, but “in terms of the base price they tend to be pretty similar”.
The real savings with ride sharing come from discount codes and offers, which are most aggressive when an app is new to an area and trying to win market share. For Sydneysiders, that means Didi is currently the best value for money, while in Melbourne, Cooke suggests looking to Bolt, which only recently arrived in that market.
After the initial launch period, ride hail prices will even out – at which point checking emails and texts for regular discount codes and offers will give riders the best value for money. “If you sign up for Ola and Bolt, you’ll tend to get regular discount offers and emails,” Cooke says. “Especially if you’re using the service for a while and stop using it. They’ll send you tailored discount offers.”
Even if you don’t currently have a discount code, the best way to get the cheapest fare is to “sign up for all four and play them off each other” by getting an estimated fare from each app and then selecting the cheapest option.
Cooke suggests all ride hailing apps tend to be cheaper than taxis, although large surges can change that. “Without surge, [ride sharing] is 30-40% cheaper than a taxi.”
Many ride hailing apps still have surge pricing – where prices rise when demand is higher – but Cooke says they are no longer transparent about surges. Instead, each app will present customers with a fare estimate. “The only way to tell is to jump into the apps and get a quote at the time.”
While the cheapest door-to-door ride hail service fluctuates with every trip, Cooke notes that UberPool, which routes trips with multiple passengers and drop-offs, “is quite probably the cheapest way to get to A to B” if you’re prepared to sacrifice a bit of convenience.
The ridesharing app that’s best for drivers
Like riders, ridehail drivers are offered incentives like lower fees to sign on to new apps. However, Les Johnson, secretary of the Ride Share Drivers’ Association of Australia, suggests that these are not all they’re cracked up to be. “They all practise the art of smoke and mirrors. It doesn’t matter which company you look at, the rate’s at a level where it’s not sustainable for drivers, and that’s why we have such a high turnover of drivers in Australia.”
Johnson says the commission rates vary between apps, but “the companies that have the lower rates of commission are struggling for market share, so slowly but surely they’re cutting the rates. They’re saying the drivers are earning more money but that’s not completely true.”
Johnson says that as with riders, who should be checking each app before a trip, “at the moment the only way a driver can maximise his or her earnings is to be on multiple platforms, so they’re getting the maximum number of jobs”.
Johnson believes that none of the major platforms currently offer drivers a fair rate after commission, GST and vehicle operating expenses. Licensing and regulations vary from state to state, but in Johnson’s home state of Queensland, he says, the most financially sustainable way to drive a private vehicle is to build up a loyal clientele and book work directly with customers whenever possible, rather than relying on ride hailing apps.
He says new drivers “come in, they’re told that there’s a rainbow at the end of the street. After a couple of months they realise that it’s not that and they opt out.”
The most convenient ride hailing app
Uber is the most established ride hailing platform in Australia. “They came in before it was even technically legal,” Cooke says.
Because Uber has been in the market for longer, has strong name recognition and is available in far more areas, it is often the only available option. “It’s more reliable in that way,” Cooke says. He also notes that Uber offers functionalities the other apps do not yet have, such as synchronisation with expense reporting software like Concur for SAP.
However, as the ride hailing market matures and grows, he adds, “the more competition there’ll be – and that should be better for consumers”.
The safest ride hailing app
The most important safety rule of using any ride hailing app is to ensure the vehicle and driver match the name and description supplied at the time of booking, Cooke says. “They all have insurance on the rides. As long as you make sure that it’s the correct car, it should be safe enough.”
However, ride hailing services have a far-from-spotless record on assault, for passengers or drivers. One service that places safety at the heart of its business is Shebah, an Australian ridesharing company that only hires female-identifying drivers, and only accepts rides from women, or men who are travelling with children. Shebah is also the only ridesharing app that is able to transport unaccompanied minors.
“We chose to do it. Taxis can take children as well,” says Georgina McEncroe, Shebah’s CEO. “There’s nothing lawfully stopping other rideshare drivers from offering that service. It’s a policy decision of theirs not to transport unaccompanied minors.” All Shebah drivers “meet our regional leaders face to face. They have contact with us. They’ve all completed working-with-children checks. It’s a very different set-up.”
Shebah cars are also equipped with child seats, which the drivers have been trained to properly fit. Shebah does work like a traditional ridesharing service, with real-time hailing, but it is still a small company and McEncroe recommends customers book rides in advance, “especially if they’re travelling with children”.


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ICANN finally terminates Indian domain name registrar that has been in insolvency.
ICANN announced on Friday that it has finally terminated its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with Net 4 India Limited. Net 4 India has been in insolvency and customers have complained about many issues.
ICANN said that it received lots of complaints — 400 of them between June 5, 2019 and September 30, 2020 — about the registrar, many of them about domains not renewing and the inability to transfer them.
The non-profit domain overseer first contacted Net 4 India about customer complaints in April 2019. It issued a Notice of Suspension in June 2019. The suspension was delayed due to activity in Indian courts. ICANN started issuing breach notices to the registrar in late 2020. In January this year, ICANN issued its third breach notice to Net 4 India, noting that a court in India asked it to delay terminating the registrar so long as Net 4 India complied with the accreditation agreement.
Apparently, it has not done so.
ICANN will now commence the De-Accredited Registrar Transition Procedure.
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1 CMA CGM bonds hit near- record lows after the shipping line's quarterly profit collapsed on lower freight rates. The container line is adding debt to support its buyout of Neptune Orient Lines, Bloomberg said.
2 Palm oil's bull run has more to go as El Nino-induced dry weather curbs production at the world's top growers, said a Bloomberg News survey. Palm oil declined 0.3 per cent to RM2,529 on Tuesday.
3 Hilton, the world's biggest hospitality firm by number of rooms, may add a new brand that focuses on small, cheap hotels in big cities, its chief executive Chris Nassetta was cited as saying in a Bloomberg report.
4 Cacola Furniture has been given up to March 4 next year by the Singapore Exchange to meet the requirements for the removal from the SGX Watch-List, including making a pre-tax profit for the financial year 2015.
5 China Gaoxian Fibre Fabric is facing a claim from Daewoo Securities in South Korea in relation to an alleged breach of an underwriting agreement from 2010. The claim is for 1 billion won (S$1.2 million) in damages.


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Nutri food maker Inner Being looks to expand operations
Inner Being is also looking at additional round of fund raising, having already raised Rs 1.75 cr from NAARM and high net worth individuals few years back.
Further, it looks to expand its product offering to 25 from the current 14.
C.S. Jhadav, director, Inner Being, said, “We will be venturing into the Bengaluru, Mumbai and Dubai market in the next couple of months and will be tying up with the hospitals, corporates and doctors along with e-commerce players like Big basket in modern retail”. The company derives 70% of its business through institutional channels while rest comprises the retail.
The Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR)-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) incubated company, which was instituted in 2014, is also looking at new product variants like Jowar laddu that was launched during Diwali and Quinoa noodles and soup etc.
It is also looking at additional round of fundraising, having already raised Rs 1.75 crore from NAARM and high net worth individuals few years back.


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The Central Reserve Bank (BCR) on Friday reported that credit to the private sector —which includes loans granted by banks; finance companies; municipal and rural savings banks; as well as cooperatives— accelerated from an annual rate of 14.2% in July to 14.4% in August —boosted by the
"Without the disbursements associated with said program, credit to the private sector would have registered an annual decline of 0.3%," it said.
The BCR indicated that Reactiva Peru
has sustained the payment chain by granting more than 522,000 loans to all economic sectors, and has financed them at historically-low interest rates.
"In August, Reactiva Peru's loans amounted to S/10.3 billion (about US$2.877 billion), which boosted credit to companies to a high annual growth rate of 24%. Without Reactiva Peru, business credit would have declined 0.3% annually," it said.
The issuing entity highlighted that this program has allowed a greater expansion of credit in all business segments during August.
"Credit to micro and small enterprises increased 28.4% (it would have fallen 3.7% without Reactiva Peru), loans to medium-sized companies grew 37% (instead of -1% without Reactiva Peru), and those aimed at large companies and corporations increased 16.9% (1.4% without the program)," it explained.


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Chinese co to supply machinery to NTC
TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2006 06:40:23 PM
NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday said machinery for modernisation of five mills of National Textile Corporation is being sourced from China.
"NTC had floated tenders for purchase of five of the 22 mills identified for modernisation. The bids of China Texmatech Company were found to be lowest for speed frame and ring frames. Therefore NTC has decided topurchase these machinery from Chinese company," Minister of State of Textiles E V K S Elangovan said in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.
The five mills identified for modernisation are Algappa Textile Mills in Kerala, Coimbatore Murugan Mills in Tamil Nadu, Burhanpur Tapti Mills and New Bhopal Textile Mills in Madhya Pradesh.
"No machinery has been imported from China by NTC till date," the minister said. The entire swiss replica watches packaging process is paid into detail to enhance the collections quality and appearance.With every new launch, a new replica designer handbags technology is developed.This had led to making replica rado watches remain competitive in the International market.


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The Hyundai Elantra has been fully redesigned for 2021, promising affordability while delivering a healthy list of standard features. This seventh-generation Elantra will also debut a new hybrid variant to squeeze the most out of every gallon of gas, plus a performance model to enhance the driving experience.
Hyundai is letting drivers “Unlock Better” in the national marketing campaign for the all-new, redesigned 2021 Elantra. The campaign provides early access and unique experiences through premium partnerships and innovative car shopping technologies. National TV ads showcase how the Elantra’s technology keeps up with customers’ lives.
“The 2021 Elantra is the sleekest, most tech-forward and fully integrated Elantra ever. It was important for us to mirror that redesign with partnerships and technologies that unlock better experiences for our drivers,” said Angela Zepeda, CMO, Hyundai Motor America.
Elantra’s Advanced Technologies in National TV Spots
In two national TV ads, Hyundai is highlighting some of Elantra’s segment-leading technologies. In the 30-second ad, “Date,” the BTS hit song, “Dynamite,” is the soundtrack for the spot that demonstrates how Dynamic Voice Recognition can help drivers in unexpected ways. “Buried,” another 30-second spot, finds Elantra owners in real need of the vehicle’s Digital Key. The ads will run in national broadcast, including during NBC’s Sunday Night Football.
Music and Video Gaming Streaming Integrations
Hyundai is unlocking better experiences in live music and gaming. Hyundai and LiveXLive (NASDAQ: LIVX) are creating a streaming concert series celebrating independent music venues and showcasing rising talent. There will be four streaming concerts in Los Angeles that will feature video content shot in the Elantra leading into the show. In a first for an automotive brand, Hyundai will also utilize the gaming livestream platform Mobcrush to deliver Elantra messaging through its first to market, high impact Live Sponsored Breaks and gamer live reads.
Elantra Insider & Augmented Reality
Hyundai believes that better technology makes for a better shopping experience. With Elantra Insider, available on HyundaiUSA.com, interested buyers can unlock exclusive early access to Elantra before it hits dealerships. That includes Showroom Live walkarounds with designers and technology experts; options to pre-configure their desired Elantra; and vehicle availability tracking alerts. A mobile device Augmented Reality visualizer can also virtually bring Elantra to life in a customer’s own driveway.


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A new selection of documents uncovered by WikiLeaks reveals the existence of a “Sonic Screwdriver”, an Apple Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter used to deliver a payload to bypass firmware passwords and inject an Apple-specific malware package to the target Mac. Ars Technica notes that none of this is particularly new, given that this Thunderbolt exploit was discovered around two years ago, and many similar scenarios shared by other tools used by the CIA, but the fact that the CIA is building tools based on discovered exploits should be reason enough to keep your stuff up to date.
The Apple Online Store went down overnight, and when it came back up, there were a bunch of new things. For starters, there’s a new 9.7-inch iPad, which replaces the old iPad Air 2. It has very similar dimensions as the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, but comes without the pro-features such as Apple Pencil support, the A9X processor, the laminated display, True Tone, or wide colour. It’s also not compatible with the Smart Keyboard, comes in 32GB or 128GB capacities, and starts at $469 for Wi-Fi, or $669 for Wi-Fi and cellular. Order one from 2:01AM AEDT on Saturday.
A report from Bloomberg talks up Apple’s plans for augmented reality, with Apple CEO Tim Cook having previously claimed that AR would be a big deal, and eventually as common as having thee meals per day. Bloomberg writes that Apple is working on a number of AR products, including glasses that could provide information overlays to the wearer from their iPhone, but other AR features could make their way into the products like the iPhone sooner, rather than later.
A report from Fast Company claims Apple is looking to the $3 trillion healthcare market as its next big catch. With many patients in hospitals already used to smartphones, having an iPad to manage your own healthcare while you’re admitted is a normal thing, provided you go to one of a handful of hospitals in the US. Apple says the privacy and security of iOS means that hospitals are choosing Apple products to manage all aspects of health care, including remote-patient monitoring and in-patient care.
The latest iPhone rumour claims the new iPhone model will come with a “mostly flat” display, with perhaps a small curve at the edges. The rumours still seem to claim it will feature an edge-to-edge OLED display, and it’s also said to come with 2.5D cover glass that’s been used since the iPhone 6 to give the glass overlay a slight curve and allow it to sit flush with the case.
The Australian banking cartel that want access to contactless payments on the iPhone have called Apple Pay alternatives “unrealistic” in the Australian market. As reported by ZDNet, the latest submission to the ACCC from the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, NAB, and Bendigo and Adelaide banks, say that Android Pay and non-NFC payment technologies are unrealistic in Australia, “which has the world’s highest adoption of contactless NFC card payments and one of the world’s highest iPhone market shares, particularly among customers likely to use mobile payments”. It’s almost as if the banks recognise that people want Apple Pay, and not whatever they’re selling, but don’t want consumers to have access to the former without the latter.
An investigation has found that Apple’s Russian arm fixed prices for iPhones illegally. The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service found that Apple Russia contacted retailers, telling them to hold the price of iPhones, saying that it would contact them if they found their prices to be inappropriate, with Apple also suspected of terminating trade agreements with retailers who refused to comply. No penalty has been set, but it could be as much as 15% of Apple’s sales in Russia.
Mobile marketing firm Fiksu has discovered the existence of previously-unknown iPad models, which TechCrunchs reports is evidence enough of an upcoming refresh. The refresh is widely expected to introduce a new 10.5-inch model alongside the current 12.9 and 9.7-inch iPad Pros, perhaps with an A10X chipset, but it’s unclear whether this refresh will include any kind of hardware upgrade for the smaller iPad mini.
A concept rendering based on the iPhone rumours so far gives us a taste of what this year’s iPhone might look like. The reduction of bezels surrounding the display is the most prominent feature, even though there’s still a small area along the top and bottom of the screen to allow for the earpiece and other electronics. I’m still not sure whether Apple will be going with a curved display, but it looks pretty good in the renders.
A story from Reuters tells us how Siri learns new languages. Siri has the lead on other personal assistants when it comes to being multi-lingual, with Apple’s personal assistant capable of speaking 21 languages localised for 36 countries, which Reuters notes is important feature to have when most of your iPhone sales are outside the US. The story of how Siri will learn Shanghainese, a dialect of Chinese originating from Shanghai, is an interesting read that involves human translation to boost Siri’s accuracy.


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Bitfinex, an exchange for digital currency bitcoin, said it had been hacked and may. bitcoin sinks after exchange reports hack Related: More than $70 million stolen in bitcoin hack Tim Wellsmore, director of threat intelligence at cybersecurity firm FireEye, said bitcoin exchanges had been slow to respond to the threats posed by hackers The EXMO crypto exchange has suffered an apparent hack that has seen 5% of its crypto holdings vanish bitcoin trader forum from the platform. Gox had been operating since 2010 and was the biggest Bitcoin exchange at the time. By Leo Kelion Technology reporter. But very few know that this big exchange was not hacked only once, but twice. Copy link. Cyber thieves stole a total of $282,617,000 from cryptocurrency exchanges in 2019, according to a new report on crypto crime.
Bitcoin Daily: Hack Shuts Down Crypto Exchange Livecoin; Former Canadian Prime Minister Says Bitcoin May Be Reserve Currency In Future bitcoin vc By PYMNTS Posted on January 18, 2021. on Wednesday in New York, after sinking as much as 15 percent. We combine Bloomberg’s global leadership in business and financial news bitcoin sinks after exchange reports hack and data, with Quintillion Media’s deep expertise in the Indian market and digital news delivery, to provide high quality business news, insights and trends for India’s sophisticated audiences Bitcoin plunged after one of the largest exchanges halted trading because hackers stole about $65 million (¥6.6 billion) of the digital currency. Bloomberg | Quint is a multiplatform, Indian business and financial news company. close. Prices dropped 7.8 percent on Tuesday after declining 6.2 percent Monday Hackers have stolen bitcoins worth about $65 million after attacking a major digital currency exchange. Published 18 December 2013.


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Jessica Simpson wants to buy her brand back from Sequential Brands, the company that owns the rights to her eponymous fashion line, for up to $65 million, according to Bloomberg.
Sequential Brands Group Inc. filed for Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on Tuesday, noting in an announcement that due to a “significant debt,” it could no longer operate its portfolio of seven brands. One of those is the Jessica Simpson Collection. The others are Joe’s Jeans, Gaiam, AND1, Avia, Spri and William Rast. Earlier this year, Sequential Brands sold Heelys, a wheeled shoe brand, to BBC International for $11 million in cash proceeds.


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Hurricane Irma may have kissed Jacksonville throughout Sunday evening and into the early hours of Monday morning, but the storm’s impact on downtown Jacksonville was significant. An estimated 4-6 foot storm surge crested the bulkheads and submerged Water Street, Hogan Street, Independent Drive and Coastline Drive.
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While workers frantically worked Tuesday to clear up debris to get downtown back open for business, a major building remains without power. The Wells Fargo Center experienced significant flooding within the underground parking facility. More than 72 hours since the storm passed, efforts to pump out the water that entered the subterranean chambers of the building have hindered the ability for crews to restore power within the building.
Once Florida’s tallest building when the facility opened for business in 1974, the structure still stands as one of the Southeast’s most distinctive office towers. The tower’s design concept included a sloping base and larger corner frames to provide a distinctive image not only for the company, but also as an identifying landmark for the city of Jacksonville. The building was also intended to become a “city under one roof.” When completed, the first floor contained several retail spaces, restaurants, a bank, a 360 seat theater-style auditorium, and an indoor four story atrium of tropical vegetation.
Now the third largest commercial office structure in the city (measured by net leasable square footage), thousands of employees from major employers such as Wells Fargo and Regency Centers (among others) remain locked out of the building for the foreseeable future. Some initial estimates have indicated that it may take an entire week to restore power to the iconic skyscraper. Beyond the sheer loss of productivity, having several thousand less employees within downtown during normal business hours has a spill over affect that negatively impacts restaurants and retail establishments that rely on the foot traffic generated by downtown’s daytime population.
As a major landmark in downtown’s skyline remains dark, it serves as a reminder that Jacksonville still has work to do in order to recover from a massive hurricane that touched virtually the entire state of Florida.
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D.C. has now enacted a tax requiring stores to charge customers five cents for every plastic bag they use. I was a sucker and paid the odious five cents today for the first time for the plastic bag in which my sandwich was wrapped.
Apparently D.C. encourages the use of cloth bags instead. I have free, allegedly environmentally friendly ones from both the libertarian fellowship program I did last year and my undergrad alma mater. The latter largely fell apart under the weight of Russian and Barbri books. It's been hanging in its current tattered state on the coatrack in my office, a shadow of its former self. Maybe that's a good thing: the linked post indicates the cloth bags are actually less environmentally friendly anyway.
What's odd about this tax is that generally if you're a policymaker trying to entrench a revenue-generating program, you want the relevant program to be as invisible as possible. Therein lies the genius of income tax withholding, Milton Friedman's infamous brainchild. The five cent plastic bag tax, on the other hand, is about as visible as possible -- there are little signs in many of the covered retail shops telling the customer that she has a choice to escape the five cents. It's almost as though the D.C. government has chosen this particular approach purely to needle anyone who isn't already a dyed in the wool environmentalist.
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SINGAPORE - January blew cold air on the red-hot property market - but this latest, seventh round of measures to cool the market led to an unusual anomaly.
In the six previous rounds of cooling measures from September 2009, which slapped on additional stamp duty for buyers and tightened loan restrictions, home sales dipped immediately after each round. Some buyers even forfeited options to buy, in anticipation of price falls.
After Round 6, for example, volumes of new home sales fell 26 per cent last October from the month before.
After Round 5, sales volumes fell 66 per cent in December 2011 compared with November's sales.
But in January, after Round 7, the property market rebounded despite the introduction of tighter loan limits and a hike in the additional buyer's stamp duty (ABSD).
New private home sales were up 43 per cent in January from December, propelling home sales to more than 2,000 units. This was in part due to buyers rushing to beat the clock before the measures kicked in on Jan 12. Last year, the monthly average was 1,858 units in a record year with 22,290 new homes sold.
In February, sales figures slowed to fewer than 800 units on the back of a Chinese New Year lull and a dearth of new launches. Last month, however, they looked set to go up to more than 2,000 units again, with strong sales at a string of suburban projects. This has prompted talk of a possible eighth set of curbs.
What accounts for the uptick in home sales this time round?
Are the cooling measures ineffective? Or do they signal a more fundamental shift in the behaviour of both home buyers and property investors?
Signs of slowing market
In fact, there are clear signs that the property market is cooling, if you look beyond new home sales volumes.


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Slab import prices in Asia dip amid HRC price slump
Import prices for steel slab in Southeast Asia and East Asia have fallen over the past week because of the sustained decline of prices in the downstream market for hot-rolled coil, market sources said on Monday October 21.
HRC prices in Vietnam have been pressured downward by the ample supply of materials from India and Russia
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Fastmarkets’ price assessment for steel slab, import, cfr Southeast Asia/East Asia
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Snapdragon 845 Android phones are significantly faster than latest iPhones in cellular speeds
The cellular speeds of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chip used on most high-end Android phones in 2018 are significantly faster than the cellular speeds you can get on the latest Apple iPhones equipped with an Intel modem.
The findings were published today by Qualcomm itself after the company looked at over a million user-initiated test on the popular Speedtest app by Ookla.
The Snapdragon 845 chip is what powers devices like the Samsung Galaxy S9 series, the LG G7 ThinQ, OnePlus 6 and the HTC U12+, and it is the Qualcomm X20 modem inside it that provides the fast speeds.
Data from the worst-case AT&T network scenario show that Snapdragon-based Android phones had 192% faster speeds than iPhones with an Intel modem. In the common network scenario, Qualcomm chips were 64% faster on AT&T and 68% faster on T-Mobile for downloads, while uploads were 41% faster on AT&T and 23% faster on T-Mobile. Latency was also lower (lower means better here).
iPhones use Intel modems, while Android phones stick with Qualcomm's X20 modem
Qualcomm is, of course, very interested in undermining the competition, especially considering that it has lost a big chunk of its modem business with Apple after Intel first started shipping its modems for the iPhone 7 and the Apple-Intel partnership expanded with the iPhone 8 and iPhone X series.
It's not just Qualcomm, though. Samsung has also recently released a series of ads attacking iPhones for offering less features and functionality to users and one of the biggest blows was slower cellular speeds of the otherwise more expensive iPhone models.
This time around, Qualcomm does seem to have a point. It provides factual data based on a large pool of what looks like random speed tests from different locations and it's hard to argue with it. What is your experience with Qualcomm's chips versus those of Apple? Have you found your speeds lacking?


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Dish will hold a free preview of eight channels from December 1 through January 1, the satcaster announced today.
The preview, which the satcaster is calling ‘Binge-A-Palooza,’ includes AMC, Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, Food Network, Pixl, Get TV, BET and the Cooking Channel.
The eight channels will be available to Dish subscribers throughout the month regardless of which programming package they get. Dish customers will be able to watch the channels live or On Demand via the channels’ apps.
In addition, Dish said today that it will again offer the ‘Yule Log’ channel from December 13 to January 2. The channel displays a roaring fire in a fireplace to help get Dish subscribers in the mood for the holidays.
Dish this month will also hold a free preview of the NBA League Pass, and NBA TV channel, from December 15 through December 17.
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16th August 2022 FSNI / Supermarkets
Foodstuffs has opened its third social supermarket.
Foodstuffs North Island is updating New World bulk bins in partnership with long-term supplier Prolife Foods, owner of the Alison’s Pantry brand.
Foodstuffs North Island has gained Rainbow Tick accreditation.
Foodstuffs finishes its biscuit category review, keeping some well-known New Zealand names and adding new international brands.
Foodstuffs is creating its own Grocery Price Index which will be included in a new reporting dashboard to “publicly track its progress” against the Commerce Commission grocery market review recommendations.


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Connecticut is perennially the richest state in the nation, but advocates argued Monday that they don't want another distinction — as the only state that has a "luxury tax" on high-end cars, jewelry and yachts.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is seeking to impose a 3 percent surcharge on those items — beyond the proposed 6.35 percent retail sales tax — in an effort to close the state's projected budget deficit for the fiscal year that starts in July. It is all part of a $1.5 billion tax package that was widely ripped Monday at a public hearing in front of the legislature's tax-writing finance committee.
The luxury tax is one piece of an overall package that would increase virtually every major tax in Connecticut, including the income, sales, gasoline, alcohol, cigarette and cigar taxes. The state's sales tax would also be charged on haircuts, yoga studios, pet grooming, and car washes, among other services. At the retail level, the 6 percent sales tax would increase to 6.35 percent.
But the luxury taxes seemed to capture much of the attention during a nine-hour hearing as car dealers, boat owners and jewelry sellers drove to Hartford to make their voices heard.
John Green, president and chief executive officer of Lux, Bond and Green, predicted that his jewelry company would lose five to seven jobs because the ripple effect would extend beyond the additional 3 percent surcharge on jewelry items over $5,000. Customers, he said, would also avoid the store for items under that threshold and could potentially buy from stores as far away as Maine, which would ship items to Connecticut.
"Our customers will go elsewhere" for items above and below $5,000, Green said. "They just won't go into our stores."
Sen. L. Scott Frantz, a fiscally conservative Greenwich Republican, agreed with Green that the proposal would backfire.
"Luxury taxes, in my research," Frantz said, "100 percent of the time have failed."
Numerous speakers cited the federal luxury tax that was imposed in 1991 on yachts by President George H. W. Bush. Yacht sales plummeted, which opponents said was directly attributable to the tax, while others said it was more attributable to the deep recession at the time. Two years later, after a torrent of criticism, the tax was repealed.
"Taxing the rich backfired," said Anthony Bento of Norwest Marine Inc. of Norwalk, which sells new and used boats.
"Connecticut would be the worst place for consumers to purchase a boat," Bento predicted. "A short drive to New York or Rhode Island would save the consumer thousands of dollars. ... Boat sales will plummet. ... Boaters will flock to Rhode Island."
Connecticut collects sales taxes when a boat is sold and resold multiple times. The state would currently collect $6,000 when a yacht is sold new for $100,000, but it would collect money again when it was resold. Advocates said that the biggest losers would be the workers, such as carpenters and painters, at the various boat yards.
When asked to respond to the boat owners and jewelry sellers, Malloy's spokeswoman, Colleen Flanagan, released a one-sentence statement that said, "The governor is confident his revenue package maintains Connecticut's competitive advantage."
State Sen. Andrea Stillman, a Democrat who represents waterfront communities such as Old Saybrook and Old Lyme, said she was concerned about Malloy's plan to tax boat services, such as repairs, storage, cleaning and towing. Those taxes are expected to raise $14.3 million over two years.
"Many people who own boats today are people in the middle class and the upper middle class," said Stillman. "This is just another burden for folks."
Like jewelers and boat owners, automobile dealers said the proposed luxury tax on vehicles over $50,000 would hurt their business, too.
Mary Ellen Hadelman, the owner of family-owned Chase Parkway Volvo and Subaru, said that Malloy's proposed luxury tax would lead to layoffs at dealerships in the state, which currently employ 12,500 workers at an average salary of $54,000 each.
"It's not well thought-out," Hadelman said. "It's very short-sighted."
Jeff Aiosa, owner of the Carriage House luxury car dealership in New London, said that the car dealers provide $9 billion in annual new car sales and 13 percent of the total retail sales statewide. The luxury tax, he said, would harm the sales of an important industry in the state.
Tim Phelan, chief of the Connecticut Retail Merchants Association, said he was unaware of any other state that has a similar luxury tax as the one that Malloy was proposing. The surcharge would extend to items of clothing, such as a suit costing more than $1,000. Lawmakers, though, focused more on the automobile, yacht, and jewelry proposals during a public hearing that started at 10:30 a.m. and adjourned about 7:30 p.m. Monday.
Through the day, speakers testified against any number of proposed tax increases. No one spoke specifically in favor of the luxury tax, although two union representatives — Brian Anderson of AFSCME, Council 4, and Paul Filson of the Service Employees International Union — when talking about the personal income tax, said the rich have had their tax rates cut at times through the years at the state and federal levels.
"Why should the wealthy continue to be coddled?" Filson asked legislators.


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Creditors yesterday appointed David Carson of Deloitte as liquidator of furniture store chain Flanagans of Buncrana Ltd.
The company is being wound up with debts of €8.4 million.
The company has stores in Donegal, Dublin, Kildare, Sligo and Wicklow.
Flanagan's ceased trading two weeks ago with the loss of 40 jobs.
David Carson said he will be working now to sell off remaining stock and engaging with suppliers and creditors.


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Chinese consumers, who make up one-third of the world’s luxury market, made vivid their disgust with Dolce & Gabbana this past week, posting pictures of themselves defiling D&G labelled gear: wiping toilets with them, ripping, stomping and setting them on fire. Chinese retailers were also swift to pull the brand from shelves and online.
Feet firmly wedged in their mouths, designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana finally apologized to “Chinese people around the world” via video days after they were forced to cancel a major runway show in Shanghai.
Dolce&Gabbana apologizes. pic.twitter.com/eVLoHylnq6
— Dolce & Gabbana (@dolcegabbana) November 23, 2018
Dolce & Gabbana’s latest controversy
The initial uproar followed patronizing advertisements from the brand, featuring a Chinese model struggling to eat pizza and spaghetti with chopsticks. Things got nastier when screenshots of an account belonging to Stefano Gabbana (a man infamous for his inflammatory opinions) were shared; the content involved disgusting racist slurs. The brand first said the account was hacked, but their later apology leaves that excuse a bit murky now.
The Sicilian duo, known for their corseted aesthetic that explores the tension between sex and Catholic piety, have been designing together since 1985 and are no strangers to cultural controversy: Just last year, they ran another Chinese campaign cited for its use of stereotypical imagery. They also raised ire circa 2015 (including big-time pissing off Elton John) when they publicly spouted opposition to gay adoption, and called IVF children “synthetic,” and the “chemical offspring of a rented uterus.”
Racism in fashion
Fashion is supposed to be on the cutting edge of pop culture, but it is disappointingly common for labels and design stars to show that they are out of step with the changing world. There is the infamous case of John Galliano, the mad genius who was swiftly sacked from Dior in 2011 when tapes emerged of him on a sick-making series of anti-Semitic rants in Parisian cafes. Now, Galliano didn’t just apologize profusely, he went to rehab, got sober and accepted it would be a long crawl back. He re-emerged quietly at the helm of Margiela in 2014, a label launched on the concept of anonymity, the ultimate exercise in humility. His work has since spoken for itself, and he has received subtle support from industry friends along the way, such as when Kate Moss had him design her wedding dress.
It remains shocking how often blatant racist offenses crop up. This is a treacherous age for brands, where reputations and sales figures are destroyed in a flash. The spectrum of ignorance is wide, from Chanel’s $1,725 boomerang, which sparked accusations that the brand was pillaging Australian Indigenous culture, to H&M putting a “Cutest Monkey in the Jungle” T-shirt on a black child when marketing the shirt on its site. Just last year, Vogue presented Karlie Kloss styled as a geisha, for its diversity issue no less. Also last year, Marc Jacobs sent white models down the runway in dreadlocks. And for Fall 2018, Gucci featured non-Sikh models in Sikh turbans.
Many design greats were once lauded for collections that seem wrong today—from Yves Saint Laurent’s obsession with Orientalism to Jean-Paul Gaultier’s takes on Hasidic Jews and Harlem chic. (On a side-note here, repeat offenders Dolce Gabbana also did an “African” collection as recently as 1993, sending white models out in faux-fros; oh, and just to pile on here, they also showed “Blackamoor” style earrings, with their colonial connotations, as recently as their 2013 collection.)
But it is the internet that really made a mish-mash of cultural tropes. Today, all of pop culture is about sampling. We aggregate images from all over and they become incorporated into the mass consciousness: ideology, culture, design and politics get intertwined. When citations are not included, the origins get fuzzy.
The online blending of ideas can be exciting, making something new out of something old. But it easily crosses a line, inciting a rise of digital activist to reclaim cultural narratives and demand accountability for all this open source free-for-all. Accounts such as Diet Prada—involved in the outing of Stefano Gabbana’s possibly hacked account—are holding up a mirror to copycats in the fashion industry.
The way forward may be in education—literally, at fashion school. Toronto’s Ryerson University is a world leader in this effort. Ben Barry, who had been the head of the Centre of Fashion Diversity and Social Change at the School of Fashion, was appointed chair beginning this past September. A vocal and active advocate for change in the industry, Barry earned his PhD at Cambridge for work that set out to prove diversity could benefit the industry’s bottom line. His study of more than 3,000 women showed that we are more likely to make a buying decision when the models in advertisements look like all of us. He believes that incorporating diversity from day one of a student’s career is the way to get enough different voices and lived experiences to the table in order to make a long-term strategy to conquer fashion’s racism and other insensitivities problem.
They might be billionaires with some 35 years of experience, but I think Dolce and Gabbana would do well to spend a few days in a Ryerson classroom. Their Chinese revenue losses notwithstanding, they can’t have many more get-out-of-jail cards before consumers use their wallets to vote them into obscurity.


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The palace takes action
New dress for Princess Kate
Until now, it was always known where Princess Kate bought her clothes. That should change in the future. Because from Kate’s point of view, the British people’s attention is very much on their clothes.
Princess Kate is considered a style icon.
Princess Kate, 40, is tired of being dressed up. The wife of the heir to the throne, Prince William (40), always sparks a conversation with her appearance. However, this is too much for her. That is why the palace is taking action now.
Until now, the British royal family has always publicized the clothes and accessories that Princess Kate has worn in public appearances. Because she is considered a fashion icon. Vogue once described her style as “very inspiring.” It is now becoming increasingly difficult for her fans to imitate Kate’s look. According to the “Daily Express”, the palace announced that no more detailed information about the clothes would be published. An exception should only be made if the princess is wearing a special dress – for example to a movie premiere or a state visit.
Kate was ‘really disappointed’
So the focus should be less on her outward appearance. Because Kate, according to a royal expert, is “really frustrated.” “There were moments when she gave a historic speech and everyone asked if she had changed her hairstyle,” royal journalist Richard Palmer tells the Daily Express. But it has more to offer.
The Princess of Wales is committed to children and is drawing attention to mental health issues. “Kate is trying to make a difference in this country,” Palmer said. You must listen to it. The Palace now hopes that will be done with the new regulation. (to praise)
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Retail sales grew by 9% in August, says Retailers Association of India
Friday, 22 September 2023, 11:48:44
According to a survey by the Retailers Association of India (RAI), retail sales in August 2023 grew by 9% compared to the same period last year. Apparel sales rose by 8%. QSR and jewellery saw growth of 14% each, while food & grocery grew by 13%. Retailers are expecting double-digit growth in the upcoming months due to the festive season. South India experienced the highest growth at 15%, potentially due to Muhurtham Days, weddings, and the Onam festival. QSR and jewellery reported the highest growth in categories at 14%.
— Economic Times India
7 S&P 500 Stocks That Should Be on Every Investor’s Radar This Fall
Wednesday, 20 September 2023, 21:05:14
Where are stocks headed as we approach the fourth and final quarter of the year? Hard to say. There’s a lot weighing on markets right now. From an economic slowdown in China to a possible government shutdown in Washington, D.C., to persistently high inflation and the growing proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) products. Stocks have largely been treading water since the start of August. But that could soon change. Any signs that inflation is continuing to fall and the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes are coming to an end could lead to a major rally in the market. The fourth quarter of the year is traditionally the best for markets, especially as the year tends to close with what’s known as the “ Santa Claus Rally .” Of course, there are no guarantees. Things could take a negative turn should the economic picture get gloomy in coming weeks. But regardless of what the future holds, there are some stocks that investors should keep an eye on. Here are seven of the best S&P 500 stocks that should be on every investor’s radar this fall.
Pepsi stands to lose as McDonald”s said to negotiate with Coke: Report
Monday, 18 September 2023, 23:47:20
PepsiCo (PEP) stands to lose as Burger King (QSR) is in advanced negotiations with The Coca-Cola Company (KO) to be its exclusive beverage partners in India, The Economic Times reported
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Pepsi stands to lose as McDonald’s said to negotiate with Coke: Report (NASDAQ:PEP)
Monday, 18 September 2023, 23:47:20
Radiokukka/iStock Editorial via Getty Images PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) stands to lose as Burger King (QSR) is in advanced negotiations with The Coca-Cola Company (KO) to be its exclusive beverage partners in India, The Economic Times reported. That would end a nearly 10-year relationship, the paper said, citing people familiar. The deal could be announced by the […] The post Pepsi stands to lose as McDonald’s said to negotiate with Coke: Report (NASDAQ:PEP) appeared first on TheAdviserMagazine.com .
Looking for Passive Income? 3 Dividend Stocks for Steady Cash Flow
Monday, 18 September 2023, 20:28:27
Dividend stocks , often known for their long-term outperformance and stable cash flows, offer investors steady passive income and portfolio stability. Investors often seek dividend stocks for passive income, but some also offer strong growth prospects. Indeed, many of the companies who have paid dividends for an extended period of time offer such balance to long-term investors. First, reliable dividend stocks are typically well-established companies, providing confidence in uncertain times. Second, they tend to be less volatile than growth-focused stocks, maintaining stability during market turbulence. Lastly, when these dividend payers grow, it’s often a sustainable expansion. Let’s dive into three top picks for investors seeking robust dividend growth and relative stability over the long term. Realty Income (O) Source: Shutterstock Realty Income Corp. (NYSE: O ) is renowned for its consistent dividend payouts spanning over five decades. Its diverse portfolio of retail and commercial properties ensures steady rental income, even in economic downturns.
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