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Artificially sweetened drinks, such as diet sodas, were associated with a higher risk of stroke and dementia in a study; the findings do not show a causal.May 1, 2018 Diet soda has been claimed to have negative effects on health. This article reviews the research on diet soda and whether it is good or bad for .
4 Ways Diet Soda Could Make You Gain Weight. Diet isn’t necessarily as innocent as it seems. There is some evidence that diet soda drinkers have a similar type 2 diabetes risk to regular.Diet drinks are sugar-free, artificially sweetened versions of fizzy beverages with virtually.
However, diet sodas such as Diet Coke, Pepsi Max, and other sugar-free carbonated drinks can fit in with a ketogenic diet. It can even be useful if you consume alcoholic beverages on keto Diet soda, unlike regular sodas, contains less carbs and even free of carbohydrates.Over the last 40 years, diet sodas — without calories or carbs — have had a huge market around the world, promoting the idea that .
Mar 8, 2018 Diet soda drinkers have the same health issues as those who drink regular soda, according to a new report.WebMD examines the facts about sodas. There are so many studies that the information can be confusing. Learn the real health effects.
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Diet soda is essentially a mixture of carbonated water, artificial or natural sweetener, colors, flavors and other food additives. It usually has very few to no calories and no significant nutrition. For example, one 12-ounce (354-ml) can of Diet Coke contains no calories, sugar, fat or protein and 40 mg of sodium.Does diet soda make you gain weight? In the past decade, sales of diet soft drinks have fallen flat. According to data from Beverage Digest, since 2005, American consumption of diet soda has declined by more than 27 percent, and in just 15 years, diet sodas have gone from representing almost one-third of the entire carbonated beverage category.
Diet soft drinks might not actually be better for you, as a recent study finds drinkers face a higher risk of stroke and dementia just for the taste of the real thing. Diet soda triples stroke dementia risk compared to normal daily cola habit – study Published time: 21 Apr, times as likely to develop both stroke and dementia within.May 17, 2018 The American Diabetes Association – the most well-respected professional group focusing on diabetes – officially recommends.
After a year, the diet soda group had dropped a little bit of weight, compared with those who drank regular sodas. By the 2-year mark, however, the two groups were about.Related: Drinking Diet Soda May Just Make You Want to Eat More. The researchers accounted for age, sex, education, overall how many calories people ate, diet quality, physical activity, and smoking.


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new blended brand - House of Hazelwood
William Grant / Brian Kinsman launched a new brand of premium blended scotch and it has become available recently at Singapore airport DFS. coming in 18, 21 and 25 years expressions, they come in a beatiful art deco 50cl decanter, and very expensive.
they are very expensive, for a 50cl bottle the price of 18, 21 and 25 years were EUD65, EUD98 and EUD150 respectively. and this is launch price. two months after launch, they must be doing so well that they just upped the price to EUD75, EUD112 and EUD170!
Ben/Horst, perhaps you like to House of Hazelwood into the list of brands in the database.

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Since being purchased by Anheuser-Busch InBev, 10 Barrel Brewing has faced disappointed craft-beer fanatics on one hand and increased funding on the other. As it turns out, this predicament may have led to one of the most bizarre creations in beer history: the faux mini pub.
It all began in July when the Oregon Brewers Festival didn't include 10 Barrel Brewing, saying that the brewery did not qualify as a craft brewery. In response, 10 Barrel threw its own heavily promoted party during the festival, and get this: The party was thrown in a mini pub inside of its regular pub in the Pearl.
Then, on August 19, Brewpublic broke the news that 10 Barrel would open seven additional mini pubs "across all of Oregon." The article went on to say that the "rollout began to take place over the past few weeks and will continue to do so over the next few weeks." Another
To fill in the blanks, Eater reached out to 10 Barrel, and that's when Jeff Segvich, speaking on 10 Barrel's behalf by phone and email, explained that the mini pubs were all a joke. Later, in an email, Segvich wrote:
"The release on the new mini-pubs was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek note to go along with the video of the small pub popping up on people in random locations throughout the region. Not actually opening any physical new locations. Sorry for the misdirection; we were just trying to have a bit of fun at our own expense, and I think the joke fell flatter than we thought."
The takeaway? 10 Barrel Brewing's mini pubs will not be heading to your neighborhood anytime soon.


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The company's S-1 lays the groundwork for what is widely expected to be one of the largest initial public offerings of the year, second only to Uber's IPO in May. It's also...Technologyread more
Fraud investigator Harry Markopolos' accusations extended beyond GE's management to actuaries, auditors and analysts who he claims overlooked billions in liabilities.Marketsread more
Trump's tweet comes a day after Apple put out a press release describing the money it spends on U.S.-based suppliers and vendors.Technologyread more
CNBC combed through Wall Street research to see which stocks are still a buy after their earnings reports.Marketsread more
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Talk about a long-term commitment.
According to a new study, American car buyers are growing more comfortable with making monthly auto loan payments that stretch out over six years.
Data from J.D. Power's Power Information Network (PIN) found that 33 percent of retail auto loans taken out this month have term lengths of at least 72 months. If that pace continues, it will break the previous monthly record for six-year loans set in September 2012, when 30.6 percent of all loans were at least 72 months.
"Longer loan terms, coupled with the current low interest rate environment, increases the affordability of new vehicles for consumers," said Thomas King, senior director of consulting and analytics at J.D. Power.
(Read more: Americans rethinking how they buy cars)
As the auto industry has rebounded over the last five years, consumers have been looking for a way to pay for more expensive vehicles, while keeping their monthly payment as low as possible.
Another factor behind the trend is the rising popularity of leases. J.D. Power said 26.5 percent of retail sales this month are leases, a new record high. The previous record was 26 percent, set in May 2000.
(Read more: Tesla soars, Ford down: 'Consumer Reports')
"Unlike buyers who finance their vehicle and have considerable discretion regarding when to return to market, consumers who lease their vehicle must come back into the market when their lease terminates," King said.
"The current level of leasing means there will be a steady and significant stream of lessees returning to market three years from now."
—By CNBC's Phil LeBeau. Follow him on Twitter .
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Austal USA has 2,100 workers, 115 acres and up to $5.2 billion worth of U.S. Navy contracts at its Mobile River shipyard.
What it doesn’t have is a mailbox.
Austal and several other businesses on Pinto Island, across the river from downtown Mobile, don’t get mail delivery from the U.S. Postal Service. Company officials say time-sensitive documents from job applicants, subcontractors and even government officials get delayed and sometimes lost.
"It’s the era of the Pony Express out here on Pinto Island," said Craig Hooper, Austal’s vice president for sales, marketing and external communication.
That era may soon be ending. Shortly after being contacted by the Press-Register for comment, a post office spokeswoman said the service is considering delivery to the island.
Postal service spokeswoman Debbie Fetterly said Wednesday that Mobile’s postmaster has looked into mapping out a Pinto Island route, but nothing has been confirmed.
‘Apart from civilization’
Bill Harrison III’s family started Harrison Brothers Dry Dock and Repair Yard on Pinto in 1895, and mail delivery has never once been an option, he said.
Back then, the business had to ship its workers across Mobile River on a barge. The Cochrane Bridge opened the island to car traffic in 1928, followed by the Bankhead Tunnel in 1941 and the Wallace Tunnel in 1973, but still the mail stayed west of the water.
"We’re sort of apart from civilization," Harrison joked.
For much of the 20th century, the island was dominated by the Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co., which employed more than 30,000 workers at its peak, building and retrofitting Navy vessels during World War II.
Those days are long gone, but the island is still home to some of Mobile’s largest employers, such as Austal and BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards.
BAE has about 800 workers, and expects to add another 400 in the next few years as part of a recently signed agreement to build offshore oil vessels.
Austal employs more than 2,100, with plans to grow to nearly 4,000 workers to meet Navy contracts for littoral combat ships and high-speed transport vessels.
‘All sorts of things go awry’
Austal opened its shipyard in 2001, and has been lobbying for postal service since then, Hooper said.
The company has a post office box in Mobile and pays a courier to bring about two bins full of mail to the shipyard every day, he said.
But some people just look up the shipyard’s physical address and send mail there. That’s when the trouble starts, Hooper said.
"One of our VPs, when he was a job candidate, wrote a nice thank you note and had it returned," Hooper said.
Worse, he said, are the "business-critical, time-critical pieces of mail that go astray. Bids, pricing, government report requests — all sorts of things go awry."
Bill Pfister, another Austal executive, said many GPS systems base their directions on postal service information, which makes it tricky to get to Austal’s Dunlap Drive address.
"Since it is a guy-thing to not ask directions, quite a few prominent customers and suppliers ended up at Dunlap Circle in Prichard," he said.
Harrison said he’s been in post offices all over Mobile looking for packages that were never delivered.
"I’ve chased things down sometimes in Springhill, the Five Points post office, everywhere up and down the city," he said.
"We’re just used to it," he said. "Everybody copes with whatever the situation is."


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VideoCoin Launches Decentralized Video Sharing Platform
The team is competing with traditional cloud providers.
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The VideoCoin Network, a decentralized ecosystem for the sharing of video material, has announced the debut of its fully-working product.
The project seeks to create a realistic decentralized alternative to leading video streaming platforms such as Netflix and Hulu, providing a blockchain-based alternative to established cloud providers such as AWS and Google Cloud.
The program is open-source, and it allows anyone to stream video through the VideoCoin network, which performs all the necessary functions of encoding, storing and distributing video content.
The platform is powered by its own token, VID. However, unlike similar projects, it doesn’t use the token for payments. Realizing that the volatility inherent to project utility tokens and cryptocurrencies in general, VideoCoin decided to accept payments through a third-party fiat payment processor, backed by a consortium of banks.
Both content publishers and network operators are paid in a tokenized fiat currency, which reduces the friction commonly found with proprietary tokens. Instead of being a payment currency, VID functions as a reputational token, powered by staking mechanisms. Workers are selected by VideoCoin Network’s algorithm to become operators and process video files according to several criteria: quoted price, number of staked tokens and performance.
Upon completion of verified work, the VideoCoin Network’s protocol distributes both fiat payments and additional VID tokens to the operators, which provides them with a direct payment and builds their reputation through additional tokens. This ensures that the best and most committed nodes become operators, while driving demand for the token.
Its supply is also limited, with the company burning two thirds of the supply for the launch.
VideoCoin previously launched a Blockchain VR Network, built specifically for the blockchain industry and featuring original programming from notable crypto content creators, including BlockTV.


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Phil Mickelson, known as “lefty”, won his 40th PGA Tour at the AT&T National Pro-Am at Pebble Beach. His tee shot on 15 at the Rivera Country Club at the Northern Trust Open during the third weekend of February 2012 ended up in short pants of a fan that didn’t move an inch until Phil approached him. Phil gave him an autographed pairs of gloves as a gesture. When Phil is not playing, he spends his time at the Callaway Golf facility located in Carlsbad, California not too far from his home.
Callaway is a golf equipment company which not only sells golf equipment but also spend enormous amount of money on research. Its annual research budget is about $34 million. A new driver called RAZR Fit is made of light weight composite material is stronger than titanium. Callaway also launched a new aerodynamic golf ball called Hex Black Tour. It flies further and sticks to the green better.
Callaway has also developed a software package which analyzes swings, store data and make adjustment to golfer’s swing to improve the game. A trailer equipped with computers travel to golf courses, collect data and transmit to its headquarters for analysis and assist players on the ground.


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South Korea has ordered the recall of 125,522 Volkswagen cars after revealing that its own testing showed that the carmaker deliberately manipulated a diesel emissions device in vehicles with an older engine.
South Korea is the first country after the United States to announce measures based on it own testing to address the diesel emissions scandal that has engulfed Europe’s biggest auto manufacturer.
It came after regulators in California ordered Volkswagen on Wednesday to recall around 16,000 diesel vehicles.
The California Air Resources Board said it had told Volkswagen Group of America to recall all VW, Audi and Porsche vehicles equipped with 3.0-litre diesel engines in the model years 2009-2015 that were sold in California.
In September, Volkswagen admitted that it installed software in up to 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide that vastly understated their actual emissions of smog-causing nitrogen oxides.
South Korea’s environment ministry said on Thursday that it ordered Volkswagen Korea to submit a recall plan by 6 January 2016, and also fined the unit 14.1bn won ($12.31 million).
Cars to be recalled are Euro 5 engine vehicles with 2,000cc and 1,600cc diesel “EA189” engines, mainly sold in South Korea between 2008 and 2015. They include the popular Tiguan model, the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said it had not yet determined whether VW vehicles with the newer “EA288” engine – mainly Euro 6 models – had manipulated emissions, and could announce results after it completed testing the diesel models of 16 manufacturers by April.
A Volkswagen Korea spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment.
Sales of diesel-powered German imports have been gaining share in recent years in a South Korean market long dominated by home-grown players led by Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors.
However, the market share of imported vehicles fell from 15.7% in September to 12.34% in October, the lowest percentage since July 2013. Volkwagen sales fell from 2,901 registered vehicles in September to just 947 in October, according to the Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association, a trade group.
Among imported brands, Volkswagen’s share fell from 14.2% in September to 5.4% in October.
The Korean move came as a federal court in Australia said that it expected VW to cooperate with courts in Australia so a class action over the emissions scam could proceed.


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Discussing Wal-Mart's sales, and the impact from emerging markets, with Patrick McKeever of MKM Partners. "The underpinnings of consumer spending are actually a little bit better than a year ago," he says.
Discussing the potential for Satya Nadella to take over for Steve Ballmer as CEO at Microsoft, with Kara Swisher, co-executive editor of Re/code. Swisher also discusses Bill Gates' role on the board.
CNBC's Jim Cramer discusses whether potential Steve Ballmer successor EVP of cloud and enterprise at Microsoft Satya Nadella can make the company stronger.
CNBC's Jim Cramer shares his opinions on the potential of Amazon raising the price of its Prime service, and Google's "fabulous earnings call."
CNBC's Jim Cramer provides perspective on news Wal-Mart lowered its guidance for the current quarter.
Benefit cuts to food stamp effective Nov. 1 will impact a near-record 47.6 million Americans, but CNBC's Jeff Cox reports those cuts will be felt throughout the economy.
David Dillon discusses his company's strategy to keep prices low while still creating shareholder value.
Millions of food stamp recipients can expect to see their benefits reduced beginning in November—and that could end up being just the beginning.
Every time you go to a fast-food restaurant, you have a 1 in 5 chance of being served by a worker who's living in poverty.
Consumers flocked to two Walmart stores that were processing transactions with EBT cards even though no money was being debited from the customers' accounts. CNBC's Seema Mody shares a video.
Customers with EBT cards cleared shelves at Walmart stores in two Louisiana cities on Saturday night, KSLA News 12 reported.
Uncle Sam posted a budget surplus last month of $17 billion. Does Washington still have a massive spending problem? Keith Boykin, Former Clinton White House aide; Jim Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute, and CNBC's Courtney Reagan, share their opinions.
A flurry of activity in Washington this week has sparked trash talk among members of Congress from both sides of the aisle, reports CNBC's John Harwood.
The House rejected a five-year farm bill Thursday that would have cut $2 billion annually from food stamps and let states impose broad requirements on those receiving them.
Workers demanding a minimum wage increase have staged walkouts across the country, saying they can't survive on the money they make. Can they get anything done?
Food stamp usage in America has gone up 70 percent since 2008. Art Laffer, Laffer Investments; Dean Baker, Center For Economic & Policy Research; and Hadley Heath, Independent Women's Forum, discuss.
Despite a drop in the jobless rate, and a soaring stock market, the number of Americans on food stamps continues to rise. Guy Benson, TownHall.com and Emily Sussman, Former Young Democrats of America executive director, discuss.
More than 46 million Americans are living below the poverty line. Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago Professor of Economics; Rana Foroohar, Time Magazine; Katie Burke, Edelman; Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason Magazine; and Morgan Brittany Townhall columnist, provide perspective.
Discussing what's holding back growth in the markets, with Dean Baker, Center For Economic & Policy Research; Jim Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute; and Stephen Weiss, Short Hills Capital.
Caroline May, Daily Caller political reporter, discusses why the number of people applying for food stamps is increasing despite a drop in the nation's unemployment rate, with Margie Omero, democratic strategist.


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Google is preparing to take on commerce giant Amazon by incorporating a “buy now” button into its shopping search results, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The results currently rely on links to third-party retailers, but the Mountain View search company is apparently looking to integrate itself a little deeper into the checkout process.
Unlike Amazon, Google doesn’t plan to maintain its own warehouses, stock products, or handle any sales itself. Instead, it will create a system for consumers to buy products from third-parties using Google Shopping as an intermediary service.
Currently customers who checkout through third-party stores are more likely to search that store for additional products rather than going back to Google to find any other items they need. The new button, the Journal says, isn’t so much about getting people to buy things as it is about getting people to buy things while remaining on Google, ready to start searching for even more items.
Google is also reportedly planning a separate service that would allow it to advertise two-day shipping for products purchased through Google Shopping, reportedly for an annual fee.
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National Bank (TSX:NA) is proud to launch its International direct payment solution that will allow National Bank Client Card holders to use their debit cards worldwide via the Maestro network.
In concrete terms, this means that Client Card holders will have greater access to their funds and be able to pay for purchases via Maestro at more than 13 million participating merchants in more than 100 countries around the world. As in Canada, clients simply need to enter their PIN to authorize the payment and the purchase amount is debited directly from their bank account.
"Electronic payment is rapidly changing and we are making it one of our top priorities. Right now, direct payments make up the bulk of debit transactions, and with the growing number of people travelling all around the globe, it was vital for us to meet our clients' changing needs," stated Eric Paquet, Senior Manager - Retail Transaction and Payment Solutions at National Bank Financial Group.
For National Bank clients travelling outside Canada, the Client Card is now as convenient a payment solution as credit cards and foreign currency.


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“An electronic cigarette (or e-cigarette), electronic vaping device, personal vaporizer (PV), or electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) is an electronic inhaler meant to simulate and substitute for tobacco smoking. It generally utilizes a heating element that vaporizes a liquid solution. Some release nicotine, while some merely release flavored vapor.”– Wikipedia
Just when you thought e-cigarettes were the latest smoking innovation, a Brooklyn Park shop adds a new wrinkle.
Andrew Alshouse, president and CEO of the eCig Market that opened in Brooklyn Park Sept. 20, says his is the first e-cigarette retail outlet in the world to offer custom blending of up to three flavors, custom adjustment of the PG/VG ration and adjustment of nicotine levels from zero to 24 mg.
“This system is known as ‘FLAV-KICK-NIC’ and is patent pending,” Alshouse said. “We have invented a machine that accurately dispenses e-juice on the spot. Customers can make the customizations and have their juice ready in less than one minute.”
Alshouse, a Champlin resident who has worked as a software engineer for the last 20 years, claims that “no other shop in the world could do such a thing without the machine and system we have invented.”
His new shop, located across the street from North Hennepin Community College, is an attempt to create a “pleasing, clean environment that’s somewhat sophisticated and pleasant for all ages,” Alshouse said.
“A good number of our customers are ex-smokers, but quite a few have never smoked before,” he said.
Alshouse said he’d always wanted to start his own business.
“My son, Brandon, got the idea for this, and the two of us put our heads together and came up with a whole new way of doing things,” Alshouse said. “I didn’t sleep for five months.”
Though the FDA hasn’t come down with regulations on e-cigarettes yet, Alshouse said he and his son are committed to maintaining the highest quality possible in their products so they’re ready for the time when federal regulations do come in the next year or two.
Brandon, 20, quit smoking, went to e-cigarettes, liked them, and realized the opportunity, said Andrew, an ex-smoker who, along with his wife, also vapes regularly now.
Brandon, who is the owner of the shop, said he used e-cigarettes to quit smoking tobacco.
“I smoked for three years and had massive health effects; I used to not be able to take a deep breath; I felt like I was dying,” Brandon said. “I quit smoking when I was 19. After a few months, I started being able to smell and taste things again. Since then, I’ve been working my way down to nicotine-free e-cigarettes.”
Since he cut down on nicotine, he said, “I’ve started getting energy and changing my life.”
One advantage of e-cigarettes, he said, is that “You can still have the hand to mouth action without nicotine.”
Brandon claims there are no second-hand effects from nicotine-free vaping.
“We’re really trying to get people not to use nicotine; stay away from those stinkies,” he said. “We’re not trying to attract kids.”
He said he tries to discourage people from using e-cigarettes if they aren’t already smokers.
“There’s no point in it,” Brandon said. “We’re all about helping people quit. But some people have no intention of quitting, so they switch to e-cigarettes to become healthier and avoid the carcinogens.”
Brandon notes the huge dollar savings of e-cigarettes over cartons of tobacco cigarettes.
“Most smokers spend $60 a week on a carton of cigarettes,” he said.
The e-cigarette initial set up is a one-time cost as low as $35, and replacement juices amount to about $20 a month, he said.
The shop purchases its huge variety of flavored juices from a “flavor chemist” in California, Brandon said. He spends hours trying a variety of 50 to 60 combinations for taste and appeal. One recent flavor addition is Mint Chocolate Chip. Another, called Eden, combines 12 fruits and a secret ingredient, he said.
“I like to create new tastes,” Brandon said. “Sometimes it takes awhile for people to find the right flavor.”
Brandon, a graduate of Anoka High School, came up with his own business plan and is on duty in the Brooklyn Park shop daily. He said he spends his off-work hours studying and researching to learn about the e-cigarette liquids, how they work, and how they taste.
“I do loads of research at night,” Brandon said. “I’ve never worked this many hours in my life, but I just love it.”
eCigMarket, at 8413 West Broadway in Brooklyn Park, is open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Information: www.ecig-market.com, or 763-400-7174.


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Digital Technology Drives Enterprises into the Most Required Metamorphosis: Study
FREMONT, CA: Almost every industry is embracing Digital Technology, taking advantage of new platforms, tools, and relationships to underperform their rivals. Both, a challenge and an opportunity, this trend is rapidly identifying itself as a way to excel and evolve in the big picture of enterprises. CA Technologies in its latest study tracks down the various roles assumed by software as a business transformer and comes up with some startling conclusions.
Not surprisingly the global study reveals the widespread adoption of digital transformation, where digital disruption has proved to be an essential business methodology, having brought in two times higher revenue growth and two and a half times higher profit growth than the mainstream organizations. Now the ideology across all business is to exploit the modern technology and communications to expand one or more key aspects of the business, which can help achieve a state of digital readiness to accelerate the economy.
Evolution in digital technology is also changing customer behavior and expectations, with the web getting more interactive and devices even get smarter.
The research throws light on how the trend has also sparked out high returns from digital investments in a pattern across majority of organizations (55 percent) with many projects under the sleeve, including customer services, sales and marketing, and product/service development. While 45 percent of respondents have seen measurable increase in customer retention and acquisition from their digital transformation initiatives; 44 percent have seen an overall increase in revenue.
The impact of the trend also reflects on the Digital Effectiveness Index (DEI), a measurement tool developed in partnership with freedom dynamics. Digital disruption has driven software industry forward with 3.5 times greater impact than the mainstream. It also revealed that disrupters were two and a half times more likely to fully use agile development (77 percent vs 31 percent) as well as the leaders are two times more likely to leverage APIs for internal development (68 percent vs 34 percent). DEI further revealed that Telecom and Financial Services are the strongest in following the digital trend whereas firms with public sector and consumer packaged goods lag behind.
The survey conducted by industry analyst firm namely as Freeform Dynamics, included 1,442 respondents from 16 countries across nine industry sectors.


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The current year 2020 is advertised as an intonation point for Electric Vehicles by commerce experts and most analysts if the product launches during the Auto Expo 2020 were anything to consider.
As a sign for the Indian market future, Auto Expo 2020 was fundamentally centered on the tendency of Indian transportation, the electric vehicles.
Every market player beginning with Maruti Suzuki to recent entrants such as Great Wall Motors and MG Motor put their most exceptional electric concepts and models forward from their particular arsenal. They never saw coming as an indefinite and unheard-of cyclone (COVID-19) emerging to disrupt the whole ecosystem.
The story changed after a few days of its coming into our lives and has since taken the whole world by storm with the Indian automobile industry not being spared after the pandemic struck.
The business that was already struggling with BS-VI emissions customs limit was not scheduled to pact with yet another disaster, a harsh one when a shutdown that lasted for 21 days was imposed on holding the extensive spread of the deadly virus.
Preventive measures such as lockdowns, curfews, quarantine, and social distancing were put in place across nations, communities, and governments. India did not get left behind; they came out loud as the biggest democracy all over the world to have gone a step ahead in bringing normalcy to a standstill. It came after they imposed a shutdown that has never been experienced before, possibly only during times of war.
COVID-19 brought the auto industry to a standstill all over the world, and the Electric Vehicle business was not spared with sales of NEV plummeting to a massive low in the world’s biggest Electronic Vehicle hub in China. Business leaders were compelled to assess the way the disruption would change the electrification drive of China.
With so much confusion around, China’s electrification drive has lost its impetus, and a delay is looming.
Currently, it is not a matter of COVID-19 hitting the industry; the more significant impact was also experienced due to the crude oil price and its performance in the last 100+ days. It is evident that futures plunged to subzero levels for the initial time, which was referred to as unexpected and unanticipated, yet a feeling driven by industry demand and consumer sentiment.


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Jawfish Games has launched what some very big rivals haven’t been able to do. The Seattle startup is announcing today it has released two of its own real-time multiplayer tournament games on multiple platforms.
The new social-mobile games Jawfish Poker and Jawfish Words allow players to compete against each other in real time for virtual currency and bragging rights. The games are built on a proprietary technology that enables players to chat and play 15 or 20 hands a minute with real friends. Since the poker title launched a week ago, players have already played a million hands.
Jawfish previously launched the technology in the market in a partnership with Big Fish Games. Those companies released an iOS game called Match-Up! by Big Fish. It enables up to 16 friends to compete against each other in live tournaments within the app’s Word, Match-3, or Mahjong minigames. Now Jawfish, headed by former poker star Phil Gordon, is launching games under its own brand name.
“We’re now showing our chops in real-time multiplayer tournaments,” Gordon told GamesBeat.
Gordon said that players will be able to compete against each other across platforms, including iOS, Android, and the web. Jawfish Poker, available now on Apple’s iTunes App Store, focuses on the most important decision at a poker table: “all-in or fold?” It rapidly cycles players through hundreds of opponents in a fast-action game that is meant to look like a game on television.
Gordon led the design of the game. He is known worldwide as one of the best professional poker players. His team includes the engineers who built the hit title Full Tilt Poker, which was a hugely popular online poker game until the federal government shut it down in a regulatory battle in April 2011. A big legal battle ensued, and eventually the government changed its attitude about real-money online gambling. The app finally reopened last November, after rival PokerStars bought Full Tilt Poker. The team, however, moved on.
Jawfish Words is a real-time word-search game. Players compete in three objectives per round, such as High Score, Corners, Longest Word, or Diagonals. The game launched on the Amazon Kindle in May, and it has generated nearly 500,000 tournament entries since its debut. In June, Jawfish Words will debut on iOS, Android, and Facebook. All players will be able to compete in the same field of play.
That’s important so that the game can reach “critical mass,” Gordon said.
“If there are no players, it’s not fun,” he said. “By going cross-platform, it opens it up more and makes critical mass easier to achieve.”
The poker game is a virtual-goods game, where players can purchase extra chips with real money but can’t cash their winnings out.
The company started in January 2012 with eight co-founders, including Gordon. He finished fourth in a worldwide tournament, the World Series Main Event, in 2001. He was also the lead commentator in Bravo’s TV show Celebrity Poker Showdown. And he was the poker analyst for ESPN.com for five years. Gordon has written four books on poker, and they’ve sold more than 500,000 copies. His earliest accomplishment was entering college at age 15.
Gordon said the technology wasn’t possible 18 months ago, but with faster 4G data networking speeds on smartphones, it is quite doable now. The platform sits upon Amazon Web Services. With more than a million tournaments, the entire bandwidth cost has been less than $20, Gordon said.
Jawfish has $3.59 million in funding from Right Side Capital and Founders Fund. The company has 25 employees and is in the midst of hiring 25 more engineers.
Zynga announced last year that it would release real-time multiplayer game tournaments. But it still hasn’t launched those just yet.
“Our job is to take the games you know and reinvent them as multiplayer tournament games,” Gordon said.
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Chris Pinkham has joined JUMO - an Afrikan FinTech company that uses behavioral data from mobile usage to create financial identities for SMME’s. Pinkham was previously the VP of Engineering at Twitter, a role which he left in February 2017.
Pinkham joins the JUMO board and will be working with the company's leadership team on technical and product strategy.
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Chris Pinkham, Board member at JUMO.
Speaking to iAfrikan, Pinkham explained that he joined JUMO because he was impressed, among other reasons, with the progress JUMO has made.
"Andrew (Watkins-Ball, CEO and Founder of JUMO) and I have had several conversations over the past 18 months and I've been impressed with the team he's built and the progress JUMO have made towards building a global platform to bring financial services to underserved entrepreneurs and communities," elaborated Pinkham.
Pinkham is highly regarded in the technology industry as, among many of the roles he has served in, he was also at Amazon.com where he ran the global network and systems engineering as the VP of Engineering. He led the Amazon.com creation of EC2 – the popular elastic cloud computing service.
Pinkham, born in Singapore, graduated from South Africa's University of Cape Town.
"We see the potential to bring affordable financial services, in conjunction with our banking and other partners, to hundreds of millions of customers around the world," added Pinkham.
Among his notable accolades in the technology industry is that, in 2008, he co-founded Nimbula, a high-profile infrastructure software startup which was acquired by Oracle in 2013.
Although he didn't want to share much about JUMO's future plans for expansion, there is talk that the company could be expanding further in Asia in the coming months.
"It's tremendously exciting working with an amazing emerging markets company having such a positive impact on a global problem," concluded Pinkham.
It's exciting to see an Afrikan technology company get someone as sought after and experienced as Pinkham to join their board and help with technical and product strategy. This will likely see JUMO become a global player.Share this via:


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The rumour mill is churning with whisperings that Panasonic could be the latest company to begin whipping out those pink slips.
According to sources, the company could be gearing up to slash more jobs on top of the 17,000 recent axes it’s already made as it looks to move towards a profit rebound.
However, unlike the previous lot of job losses, which were focused in-house, the source has told Reuters that this time the company will take a blunter axe and shift workers to other units, subsidiaries or affiliates, rather than cut them out of the business completely. He warned the company would aim to halve its 7,000 head office workers.
Panasonic, like many other companies, this year reported a loss within its business. In March the company said it had made a $9.7 billion (772 billion yen) net loss for the year ended March 31.
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Province Launching Shop Local Campaign To Support Small Businesses
The Ontario government is launching a “Shop Local! Shop Safe! Shop with Confidence!” campaign to encourage Ontario residents to support their local small businesses and to shop safely while doing so.
The province is launching the campaign in connection with International Small Business Week.
“The countless stories of success from our diverse small business community is living proof that Ontario is a place to grow and achieve big dreams,” said Prabmeet Sarkaria, Associate Minister of Small Business. “All of our small businesses supported the fight against COVID-19, many by closing their doors for several months—now it’s our turn to help support their recovery. When Ontarians Shop Local, Shop Safe and Shop with Confidence, we’re doing our part to ensure the future vitality of our main streets, our communities and our province.”
There is no additional funding announced with the campaign.
The province’s campaign asks for mayors, local leaders and groups to support our small businesses by committing on social media to “Shop Local, Shop Safe, Shop with Confidence,” while highlighting the best practices put in place by businesses to help keep shoppers safe while ensuring that the reopening of Ontario continues to be a success.
The government is pointing to the principles of the People Outside Safely Together (POST) Promise to encourage small businesses to strictly follow health guidelines and reopen with appropriate measures in place, so consumers can shop safely and with confidence, including: washing and sanitizing hands; maintaining physical distancing; staying home if unwell; practicing respiratory etiquette and cleaning and disinfecting regularly.
“The Retail Council of Canada is strengthened by the contributions of our diverse membership, and we’re delighted join the Government of Ontario in supporting our main street retail businesses and indeed all retailers across the province,” said Diane J. Brisebois, President of the Retail Council of Canada. “‘Shop Local, Shop Safe, Shop with Confidence‘ helps retailers, the province’s largest private-sector employers, promote safety for consumers and workplaces, while continuing to help to build strong and vibrant communities all across Ontario.”
Additionally, the province has previously announced “significant support to small businesses”, including an investment of $150 million in rural broadband as well as an expansion of the Digital Main Street platform to help small businesses create and enhance their online presence, helping them to adapt and meet the challenges of today. The province has also implemented a ban on commercial evictions to help small businesses that have been significantly impacted by restrictions due to COVID-19.
The Ontario Government reduced the small business Corporate Income Tax rate by 8.7 percent starting January 1, 2020. They say this will deliver up to $1,500 in annual savings to more than 275,000 businesses.


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Popeyes Serves 24 Karat Gold-Coated Chicken Wings To Mark Its 3,000th Outlet
By Izza Sofia, 05 Oct 2018
To honor the opening of its 3,000th restaurant, fried chicken fast food brand Popeyes took to celebrating this glorious occasion like never before.
It put a decadent twist on its chicken wings by hand-battering them in champagne and tossing them in edible 24 Karat gold flakes.
President of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Alex Santoro said in a press release, “We are thrilled to open our 3,000th restaurant and have even more guests enjoying our incredible fried chicken. We wanted to share this celebration with our fans, so our chefs cooked up something extra special for them. It’s a fun way for guests to celebrate this milestone right along with us.”
‘Popeyes 24 Karat Champagne Wings’ was offered for a limited one-day release on 4 October, as part of its ‘Boneless Wing Bash’ that contains six boneless wings, a side and a biscuit for US$5.00 at participating outlets, including its 3,000th outlet in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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Twitter logo changed to X
Musk has been tweeting and dropping hints on the ‘X’ rebranding since July 23rd. It started off with very cryptic tweets as he usually does but the message became quite clear later. Musk also tweeted saying that X.com now redirects to Twitter.com, and that the interim logo will go live later today. The logo change has already happened but there’s still a lot of work to be done.
So far, only the Twitter web version has the logo changed to X. Also, if you open Twitter tabs then the blue bird is still visible. The mobile apps haven’t gone through the rebranding either since the logo is still the same. But the change is expected to take effect very soon. It’s a very different change from what we’ve been seeing Twitter as, the past few years. But it’s part of a bigger plan that Musk has envisioned for Twitter.
Musk has already been making changes to Twitter ever since he bought the company last November. The rebranding seems even more real with the logo change. Twitter’s CEO Linda Yaccarino in a series of tweets shared what the company’s vision is for the platform.
“X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine,” Yaccarino tweeted.
It looks like Musk has big plans for Twitter, and the rebranding comes shortly after Meta launched its rival, Threads. Like every new trend online, we’ll forget this too but it will take some getting used to seeing X instead of the blue bird.
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Just as rumors have suggested, Motorola launched today an international version of the Verizon-bound Droid Turbo. The device will go on sale (at least for now) in Latin America.
Things aren’t looking very positive at Samsung right now, but who are the players responsible? Is the rise of LG, Xiaomi, and Lenovo, not to mention Apple’s continued success, actually dragging Samsung down?
Leaked photos of the Motorola Moto Maxx show off a GSM Droid Turbo. That’s a version of the awesome new Motorola device for the non-U.S. crowd. Event still scheduled for Wednesday in Brazil.
Motorola has released the kernel source code for the new Moto X (2014) and the Moto G (2014). This means that custom ROMs are coming folks, prepare for the awesome.
It was another interesting week in the world of Android, with cool new devices, software updates, and a slew of financial news revealing the latest trends in the industry. Samsung announced quarterly results that were just as bad as forecasted, OnePlus put up its flagship killer on pre-order, Amazon launched a Chromecast competitor, Motorola introduced the powerful Droid Turbo, Oppo launched the N3 and the amazingly thing R5, Nexus 6 went up for pre-order (and went down just as quickly), the Galaxy A series finally went official, and Google continued to materialize its apps.
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Amazon and Best Buy have the new Motorola Moto X (2014) on sale right now for as low as $0 with a two-year contract through AT&T or Verizon. $0 leather, $20 bamboo and $1 black resin.
Google and Lenovo announced today that the $2.9 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility has been completed. Starting today, Motorola, the pioneer of mobile phones and one of the most iconic brands in consumer electronics, is a fully owned subsidiary of Lenovo.
The Nexus 6 is now available for pre-order in the Play Store, starting from $649 and shipping from November 21.
Earlier today we got our hands on the Droid Turbo, now here’s a collection of photos giving our readers a better look at the device!
With a giant battery, fast charging technology, powerful innards, and a high-resolution camera, Verizon’s Droid Turbo looks like a phone that Droid fans should look forward to.


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With last year’s Pro Evolution Soccer game, Konami managed to fall behind EA’s FIFA in terms of quality and they’re trying to make up for that this year with PES 2010. There will be a lot of improvements to come with this year’s version of the game, all improving the complexity and realism of the simulation.
For example, Konami announced that, starting with Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, the Master League will now have expanded elements that will task players with some managerial responsibilities, like tactical and match day options and instructions, expanded game settings, as well as scouting and improved player acquisition dealings. There will also be youth teams in PES 2010, and players can promote the youngsters and turn them into tomorrow’s superstars.
Even though some or most of the improvements this year’s edition of Pro Evolution Soccer are not really some amazing features and most of them have been in EA’s franchise for ages, it is still nice to see that improvements are being made and the competition gets tougher. After all, when two big companies battle for supremacy and do their best to win the war, it’s the gamer who wins. So, after all, from our point of view, it doesn’t matter if Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 or FIFA 10 will grab the crown this year, as well as the products are of an incredibly high quality.


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German newspapers sued for pointing out an alleged illegal site
At the end of August 2013, a group of German publishers sued newspapers Der Tagesspiegel and Die Zeit, accusing them of assisting copyright infringement for having printed an interview with the operator of an alleged unauthorized ebook site, giving the site name as well – TorBoox, which claims to be the largest ebook piracy site in Germany, with 1.5 million books downloaded monthly.
While hosting copyright infringing material may be considered illegal, and, in some cases, linking to illegal content and indexing links containing illegal material has been considered illegal, to consider publishing an interview and just naming an illegal site as an infringement seems a little far fetched.
“With the direct and multiple naming of the Internet address the reader is immediately aware of the illicit supply of the website. With regard to objective journalistic reporting there was no need for direct nomination,” the publishers write in their complaint.
As the admin of the site in question told TorrentFreak, the funny part is that even the online magazine of the German Book Publishers Association had itself published the complete URL of the site. And while the publisher association decided to take action against the newspapers, it seems there is little to do against the site itself which has a hidden server (Tor) with its content. What’s more, the site operators intend to make it international.
The complaint was withdrawn right away but this shows the big mess related to liability over copyright infringement and the lack of adaptability of publishers to a new market. Only a few months ago, German researchers cooked up a new form of DRM aimed at discouraging piracy by changing the text of each book, thus creating a form of digital watermarking which is actually an invasion into the author’s work.
And although the e-books market is still limited, maybe it is time publishers should find ways to develop this market and conquer it by modern business models rather than spending money in court, suing newspapers.
Journalists Face Criminal Complaint For Mentioning Name of Pirate Site (30.08.2013)
“In the network there is no property” (only in German, 26.08.2013)
German publishers sue newspapers for just mentioning an e-book pirating site (5.09.2013)
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May 30, 2019 | By Louise Squire
Oct 17, 2016
By WGSN Insider
The Karl Lagerfeld Group is big and getting bigger. The German designer’s brand that is part-owned by GIII Apparel, has announced a major expansion move for the global business. It plans to build an international hospitality brand called Karl Lagerfeld Hotels & Resorts.
It has entered into an exclusive, long-term license agreement with Brandmark Collective BV to make this happen.
The company said the new hospitality brand “will translate Karl Lagerfeld’s vision and unique aesthetic into bespoke projects including hotels, residential properties, restaurants and private clubs.”
“Expanding our brand into the hospitality sector reflects our greater vision to broaden Karl Lagerfeld’s comprehensive lifestyle experience,” said Lagerfeld group CEO Pier Paolo Righi.
Brandmark was founded last year and is a licensing platform that translates, launches and manages a suite of existing brands in the hospitality space. The founders have helped to create, launch and/or operate more than 25 hotels around the world, with extensive hospitality experience across all key disciplines.
Lagerfeld has already begun work on its move into hospitality and has been developing the Karl Lagerfeld six-star hotel in Macau, which is scheduled to open in 2017 and it is currently exploring opportunities in gateway markets and resort destinations worldwide.
Lagerfeld’s announcement is part of a wider trend we are seeing with traditional retail brands moving into the hospitality sector. Just last week lifestyle and interiors retailer West Elm announced plans to open a string of branded hotels in 2018, and Detroit-based fashion retailer Shinola is also planning to open a hotel in 2018. Why the rush to open hotels? It’s part of a wider company strategy to expose consumers and potential consumers to the complete brand offerings and get them to buy into the full brand lifestyle.
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British Fashion Council – Letter from London
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2015 BFC/GQ Designer Menswear Fund Shortlist
Astrid Andersen, Christopher Raeburn, E.Tautz, Matthew Miller and Sibling have been shortlisted for the 2015 BFC/GQ Designer Menswear Fund supported by Vertu. The winner of the Fund will receive bespoke, high level mentoring support, as well as a £150,000 to take them to the next stage in their business.
Decoded Fashion London Summit
Decoded Fashion London is a two-day summit (20th – 21st May) bringing together leading voices in fashion, as well as the brightest minds in new tech as they discuss this year’s theme “Future Proofing”. The event will unite some of the top names in Luxury, Fashion and Retail in the UK with global fashion leaders who are pushing the boundaries and innovating the industry.


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Vidalia onions headed for shelves April 17
The start of Vidalia onion season is almost here, and fans can mark their calendars for April 17, when the sweet onions are set to ship to grocery stores across the country.
“I’m pleased to announce, in coordination with the Vidalia Onion Committee, April 17, 2023, as the official pack date of the 2023 Vidalia onion season,” said Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper. “It’s an exciting time for farmers and producers in our state and for consumers across the country as we look forward to enjoying the sweet onion once again. The Vidalia onion has become a sought-after ingredient by professional chefs and home cooks alike, and we’re proud to grow them right here in Georgia.”
Vidalia onions are available for a limited time each year — April through early September — and many look forward to this time of year. The pack date is determined by soil and weather conditions during the growing season, which contributes to high-quality Vidalia onions. The Vidalia Onion Advisory Panel voted April 17 as the 2023 pack date.
Known for their sweet, crisp flavor and versatility, Vidalia onions are a seasonal treat suitable in a variety of dishes — from savory to sweet. Because of the unique combination of weather, water and soil in 20 South Georgia counties, Vidalia onions cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world — while all Vidalias are sweet onions, not all sweet onions are Vidalias.
“For the 2023 season, we have 10,000 acres of Vidalia onions planted in the production area,” said VOC Chairman Cliff Riner. “Over the past few years, sweet onion sales have continued to increase, with Vidalia onions being a big part of the market. We're looking forward to another great season this year.”
For more than 80 years, Vidalia onions have been hand-planted, harvested and cured by growers. The Vidalia Onion Act of 1986 established their growing region in south Georgia and trademarked the “Vidalia onion” name. Vidalia onions are grown from a distinctive Granex seed, then packed and sold on or after the official pack date annually.


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by Michelle Tejada, staff reporter
For reasonable health concerns, consumers are demanding antibiotic free meat and poultry. Important industries and fast food restaurants have considered this and are starting to make changes in their meat quality.
“This is unbelievable I didn’t think that this could actually happen. This is a change in the industry that will benefit our health. It should’ve been done a long time ago but the important thing is that they are listening and changing it now,” senior Marcela Abanto said.
The United States has sold about 80% of antibiotics to the meat and poultry production. Antibiotics have been injected in meat since the 1940’s. It has been utilized to reduce illness and death from infectious diseases. However, because it is overused, these infectious organisms have become immune to them.
“The change will be very beneficial for us in the future and the only reason why it isn’t for the industry is because if their products have diseases then they have to throw it out. Antibiotics protect their product so that it doesn’t go to waste. But it’s not right nor is it natural so I agree with these changes,” junior Nicholas Kleess said.
Back in 2015, McDonald’s announced that they will only buy pure chicken. Many other fast food places, such as Chick-fil-A, are also pushing to use antibiotic free meat and poultry.
Tyson, one of the largest chicken producers in the U.S., stated that by 2017 they will no longer use antibiotics to raise chickens. Tyson has made the change and announced “no antibiotics ever” on their new pork labels.
“I believe that meat industry is correct in taking measures to curtail the use of antibiotics for livestock. Humans would be best served if we did not build tolerance to antibiotics we could need in the future,” mathematics teacher Mr. Bullock said.
It’s only a matter of time before other meat industries follow Tyson’s footsteps.


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i2c Releases First-of-its-Kind Crypto Card Program Report
Posted Feb 2, 2022 16:19 (GMT +7)
Category leader shares insights from millions of crypto-backed cards issued across 40 countries
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 01, 2022
i2c Inc., a leading provider of digital payment and banking technology, today released a first-of-its-kind report on crypto-backed cards, one of the world’s fastest-growing card categories. The report examines account and transactional data from more than 4,000 traditional and crypto-backed card programs, across 40 countries and three continents.
With more than five million crypto-backed cards running on its global platform, i2c is the world’s premier partner for issuing and processing cryptocurrency cards.
Unlike many crypto studies, the report is notable for being based on actual behavior (transactional data) as well as verified demographic data as opposed to respondent statements. Among the report’s highlights were findings that seem to challenge common perceptions about crypto users and reinforce both the global nature and borderless benefits associated with the technology:
- 45% of crypto cardholders are over age 35
- Crypto-backed card programs transact cross-border at more than twice the rate of traditional cards
- Crypto-backed card programs show higher dollar volumes (7%) for cross-border transactions than traditional card programs
“Crypto-backed cards are presenting the payments industry with groundbreaking firsts while demonstrating what's possible for a truly global payments program," said Jim McCarthy, president of i2c. “We saw crypto-related accounts grow exponentially over the past year along with innovations and engagement levels that are changing the way we think about payments and cardholders.”
Download the full report here: Crypto-Backed Cards: Behind the Numbers
About i2c Inc.
i2c is a global provider of highly-configurable payment and banking solutions. Using i2c's proprietary "building block" technology, clients can easily create and manage a comprehensive set of solutions for credit, debit, prepaid, lending and more, quickly and cost-effectively. i2c delivers unparalleled flexibility, agility, security and reliability from a single global SaaS platform. Founded in 2001, and headquartered in Silicon Valley, i2c's next-generation technology supports millions of users in more than 200 countries/territories and across all time zones. For more information, visit www.i2cinc.com and follow us at @i2cinc.
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Apple considers more iPhones and price pointsApple is exploring launching iPhones with bigger screens, as well as cheaper models in a range of colors over the next year taking a cue from rival Samsung Electronics, say four sources with knowledge of the matter.
The moves, which are still under discussion, underscore how the California-based company that once ruled the smartphone market is increasingly under threat from its aggressive Korean competitor. Samsung has overtaken Apple in market share through the popularity of its bigger-screen Galaxy “phablets” and by flooding the market with a range of products at different prices.
Apple is looking at introducing at least two bigger iPhones next year - one with a 4.7-inch screen and one with a 5.7-inch screen - said the sources, including those in the supply chain in Asia. They said suppliers have been approached with plans for the larger screens, but noted it is still unclear whether Apple will actually launch its flagship product in the larger sizes.
“They constantly change product specifications almost to the final moment, so you’re not really sure whether this is the final prototype,” said a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
Apple declined to comment.
Apple’s possible shift to offer what is often referred to as “phablets” - chunkier smartphones not quite big enough to qualify as tablets - comes as the longtime darling of consumers and investors faces pressure to deliver more than one new handset model a year. Critics say its pace of innovation has slowed since the death of legendary co-founder Steve Jobs.
The iPhone 5 launched in September was the first to veer away from the Apple phone’s 3.5-inch screen, which Jobs famously deemed “the perfect size for consumers” and had been used in every iPhone since the iconic device was unveiled in 2007.
The current iPhone 5 has one of the smaller screens among the best-selling smartphones in the mobile market, where consumers spend more time browsing the web and streaming content. Samsung’s Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 2 have 5-inch and 5.5-inch screens.
For this year, Apple is expected to launch two new models widely referred to as the iPhone 5S, with new fingerprint technology, and a cheaper version in plastic casing, supply chain sources have said. Apple plans to dress up the cheaper phone in a range of five or six colors to differentiate it from the more expensive model that has traditionally come in black or white.
The U.S. firm has discussed a price of $99 for the cheaper phone, the timing of which could slip to next year, according to a source.
Apple - whose revenue growth has decelerated from the heady days of 2010 when it introduced the iPad and the iPhone was the world’s top selling smartphone - has sought ways to re-energize its flagship line.
Analysts say the company needs a cheaper gadget for growth markets in China and India, and to counter Samsung’s edge in having phones up and down the price spectrum. China, the world’s biggest smartphone market, is set to grow 48 percent this year, outpacing the global increase of 31 percent, according to industry forecasts.
While Apple only offers a single phone model across all markets, it has successfully marketed the iPod music player and its iPad in different sizes and at varying prices. Asked at last month’s AllThingsD industry conference why Apple hasn’t launched different sized iPhones, CEO Tim Cook said: “We haven’t so far. That doesn’t shut off the future.”
He explained that the range of iPods serve different audiences and needs. “On the phone, that’s the question. Are we now at a point to serve enough people that we need to do that?”
Cook noted a larger screen comes with trade-offs on features such as battery life, resolution and brightness.
Test production for both the standard and cheaper iPhone models aims to start next month, with mass production ramping up in August to meet a September launch target, said two sources.
“Trial production was originally planned to start in June, but the mixing of colors is taking longer than expected as Apple has very high and idealistic standards,” said one source in Asia, adding that 20 million plastic iPhones are expected to ship in the October to December quarter.


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Barnes & Noble is stealing the indie shop playbook, and it’s working
James Daunt launched his first indie bookshop in London 33 years ago. The Barnes & Noble CEO is now bringing the lessons he learned to the biggest bookseller in America.
Daunt Books, 2022. [Photo: Niklas Halle’n/AFP/Getty Images]
If you’re strolling down the Marylebone High Street in London, you’ll stumble across a popular bookstore called Daunt Books. Inside, sunlight pours through stained glass windows, dappling rows of books organized by country, rather than theme, to appeal to armchair travelers who want to explore the world through reading. “It’s how I like to read, personally,” says James Daunt, who opened the bookstore in 1990 when he was in his twenties. “But it muddles the books because you abandon traditional subject categories.”
Daunt acknowledges that his approach to bookselling is unusual, and perhaps a little risky. But it’s been a hit. He went on to open five other Daunt Book locations across London, which have thrived over the past 33 years, even as Amazon has grown explosively, putting many bookstores out of business. A little over a decade ago, Daunt’s track record as an indie bookstore owner caught the eye of the world’s biggest booksellers, which were flailing.
In 2011, Daunt was brought in to fix Waterstones, Britain’s largest bookstore chain. It had been on a downward spiral since the Great Recession and further hit by the rise of Amazon’s e-book sales. But under Daunt’s watch as managing director, Waterstones became profitable in 2016 for the first time in nearly a decade. In 2019, he was appointed CEO of Barnes & Noble, where he has orchestrated a similar turnaround. (He still owns and operates Daunt Books alongside this new role.) This year, Barnes & Noble will open 30 new locations on top of the company’s existing 600.
Daunt has applied the lessons he’s learned over three decades as an indie bookseller to these corporate bookstore giants. He empowers booksellers at each location to curate books based on their own quirky, idiosyncratic tastes. It’s a strategy that leads to more engaged workers and more interesting stores, Daunt says.
And importantly, it’s one that Amazon has been unable to replicate, given how poorly its brick-and-mortar stores have performed. In a twist of fate, Barnes & Noble has moved into two shuttered Amazon Book locations in the Boston area, which the company says are doing “very well.” It’s now actively scouting other former Amazon locations to move into.
THE RISE OF THE MEGABOOKSTORE
For centuries, the neighborhood bookstore has had a sacred place in culture. Bibliophiles could gather there and find their tribe; booksellers could share their favorite new titles with an eager audience. But starting in the ’90s, the indie bookstore appeared to be under threat, first from the large corporate chains, then from the growing specter of Amazon. And Big Bookstore did, in fact, obliterate many indie bookshops: Between 2001 and 2008, 1,000 of them closed in the U.S., the steepest decline in decades.
Daunt watched all of this play out. When he opened Daunt Books in 1990, bookstore chains like Waterstones, Ottakar’s, and Dillons were steadily expanding in the United Kingdom. In the United States, Borders was opening hundreds of stores in the late ’90s, and Barnes & Noble launched superstores with enormous footprints, allowing it to control a quarter of the country’s bookstore market. On top of their scale, Daunt says the chains pushed to get rid of fixed pricing, so they could sell books at lower prices, knowing they could afford the lower margins because they sold at larger volumes than indie bookstores.
But Daunt also believed that independent bookstores offered a fundamentally different experience than their larger counterparts because they reflected the unique personality of their booksellers as well as the particular tastes of a community. This is why Daunt refused to change the model of Daunt Books. He has never offered sci-fi books, for instance, because they don’t fit into the store’s rubric of organizing titles by country. “The general principle is whatever you choose to do, do it well,” he says. “If you haven’t got the space to do it well, don’t do it at all.”
He believes that this philosophy saved his bookstore and helped it to grow, despite incursions from the chains. His customers were looking to browse new books recommended by the booksellers that they would never have discovered otherwise. Some indie bookshops tried to compete with their larger counterparts by offering a larger selection of books or slashing their prices. But this was always a losing proposition because the big chains would always win.
Allison Hill, CEO the American Booksellers Association, which represents independent bookstores in the United States, says that indie bookstores have always thrived when they have focused on their strengths, rather than trying to be something else. “Part of the value of the independent bookstore has always been community,” she says. “You shop there for the authentic relationships, the personal recommendations, and the gathering space they offer.”
As Amazon grew throughout the ’90s and 2000s, its online inventory included practically every book on the market. Even the chain bookstores—no matter how big their footprint—couldn’t compete with Amazon’s comprehensive range of titles, which could be shipped quickly. This is partly why Waterstone’s and Barnes & Noble began to struggle over the past decade and a half. “It was hard to move away from the philosophy of squeezing the maximum number of titles in the store,” Daunt says. “And then Amazon sprung up and did it better than they could, but they didn’t change their model.”
DAUNT’S INDIE PLAYBOOK
Since Daunt joined Barnes & Noble as CEO, he’s been on a mission to change the company’s model towards more curation. He joined right before the pandemic hit and the entire fleet of 600 stores had to shutter. But Daunt decided not to lay off any booksellers, whom he viewed as the company’s most precious resource. Instead, he took advantage of the closures to redesign stores, inviting local booksellers to provide feedback.
Often, this means totally changing the store’s inventory. In the past, when the company had a centralized inventory system, smaller stores would have a watered down selection of what was available at the bigger stores. In a 30,000-foot store, for instance, there would be a robust home repair section, but in a smaller store, there would be half a shelf of home repair books. “Half a shelf is useless,” Daunt says. “Forget about trying to have every book. Instead, focus on particular subjects and curate the very best.”
Curating books for each store involves relying on booksellers to know what kind of people visit each location, like whether high schoolers stop by after classes or if there are families with young kids nearby. The company still stocks books based on how well they’ve performed nationally, prominently featuring bestsellers like Lessons in Chemistry and the Percy Jackson series. But Daunt also wants to empower booksellers to pick books based on their own particular tastes. If someone is interested in historical fiction or manga, they’re invited to develop a good selection of books in that category. Daunt says that often, these booksellers’ picks drive readers towards lesser-known books. “It has shifted from a commercially oriented selection of predictable bestsellers to something much more dynamic, much more driven by individual passions within bookshops,” he says. “If you leave booksellers alone, they’re very good at choosing books they think they can sell.”
When stores reopened after the pandemic, consumers flocked back to bookstores, eager to get out of the house and survive their newfound solitude through reading. This created new energy in the bookstore industry. More than 450 independent bookstores have sprouted up since January 2020, according to the American Booksellers Association. And many indie booksellers say their sales are up compared to before the pandemic. “We’re seen a renaissance in reading,” Hill says. “Communities began to understand how important it was to rally around their local businesses if they wanted to preserve their neighborhoods.”
Barnes & Noble also thrived. It’s no longer a public company, so it doesn’t disclose its financials, but the company says new stores are doing “very well” and the chain is expanding rapidly. (Barnes & Noble was taken private for $683 million by private equity firm Elliott Management in 2020.)
Hill isn’t particularly concerned about Barnes & Noble borrowing from the strategies of indie booksellers, partly because she’s not sure a big chain store can ever fully replicate the magic of a small, local bookstore. “Independent bookstores are growing and innovating,” Hill says. “They’re continuing to offer a unique value proposition that is more valuable than ever to the communities that they serve. I think it’s impossible to authentically replicate them.”
After all the turbulence in his industry over the past three decades, Daunt has come to the conclusion that Amazon was never really the long-term threat indie booksellers assumed it would be. For one thing, Amazon relies on algorithms, rather than tastemakers, to sell books. It will continue to be the place people will go when they already have a book in mind. But Amazon hasn’t proven itself to be skilled at creating good in-store experiences; its sales in physical stores have declined since 2018.
But perhaps more importantly, Daunt believes that booksellers of all kinds, from Amazon to your local bookshop, can actually increase overall book buying. The key to success, he believes, is for booksellers to understand their strengths and focus on what they do best.
“There’s always been this simplistic notion that the book market is fixed,” Daunt says. “It isn’t; it’s very elastic. Yes, Amazon does steal sales, but it also expands the overall market. For us, it means that we don’t have to sell boring books anymore, like technical manuals on how to wire electrical systems in your house. If you need to get that book from Amazon, that’s fine by me.”
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Apple is planning to hold its first media event of 2022 today at 1 p.m. EST through a live stream. The event is expected to see the unveiling of a new iPhone SE, iPad Air, and at least one new Mac. Here’s how to tune in.
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Stock of the week: Reckitt Benckiser
Reckitt Benckiser, best known for its household brands such as Nurofen, Cillit Bang and Vanish, is in advanced talks to buy baby food maker Mead Johnson for $16.7 bn. Following the announcement, Reckitt Benckiser’s shares jumped 3.7%. Investors will be interested to know that this acquisition will move the company into a new market, which Mead Johnson is a big player in.
The firm has a strategy of increasing exposure to emerging markets, which is already bearing fruit. Following the launch of a £100m marketing drive, Reckitt Benckiser reached its target of generating 50% of revenues from emerging markets. Investors should appreciate that the group plans to concentrate increasing its market exposure in 16 countries throughout a five year plan.
We have long been fans of the company for the lower risk investor, despite its high rating and comparatively low yield. The group has been an excellent and consistent performer over the last 16 years although it has been criticised for not having enough exposure to emerging markets. Management have taken this on board and now the drive into the higher growth regions is paying dividends. They are also expanding and focussing on the health and hygiene businesses where margins are higher. We therefore recommend this stock as a ‘Buy’.


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Google has just launched the new core update for September 2019. What does this mean for you and what will change?
Google just announced that is has released its new September 2019 broad core algorithm update. Every time Google releases a new algorithm update, there is always a buzz that follows due to Google always being tight-lipped about what to expect. As Google’s algorithm is responsible for ranking websites and determining which web page shows up first in a search query, what has changed?
What Google has said
On September 24th 2019 Google stated: “Later today, we are releasing a broad core algorithm update, as we do several times per year. It is called the September 2019 Core Update. Our guidance about such updates remains as we’ve covered before”.
Just like always, Google isn’t giving away any information that reveals deeper insight into exactly what changes have been made and which web sites and businesses will see the biggest change from the September 2019 Core Update.
Keep calm and carry on
Whenever Google launches a new update to its search ranking algorithms, various businesses and web sites can notice a sudden dip or boost in their rankings with search results. As Google never reveals any information around their updates, knowing when a new update has been launched is helpful for figuring out if a sudden spike or dip in your rankings is due to something you’ve recently changed or if it is due to a new Google update.
When it comes to understanding the overall point of launching an update with no information, Google has stated: “One way to think of how a core update operates is to imagine you made a list of the top 100 movies in 2015. A few years later in 2019, you refresh the list. It’s going to naturally change. Some new and wonderful movies that never existed before will now be candidates for inclusion. You might also reassess some films and realize they deserved a higher place on the list than they had before. The list will change, and films previously higher on the list that move down aren’t bad. There are simply more deserving films that are coming before them”.
So, what now?
Moving forward from the September 2019 Core Update (and any other Google update), the best thing websites can do is to make sure that all the information on their website is relevant to the product or service they are providing.
As SEO is a long-term and continual investment, making sure that your website has high-quality content with relevant information will make navigating through the vagueness of Google’s future updates less stressful.


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This week saw a nice surprise for fans of Konami’s long-running pop’n music franchise with the sudden announcement and release of pop’n music peace in arcades across Japan. Possibly one of the biggest factors in the surprise of this release was not only the announcement but the fact that the game was released without the standard location testing, updating nationwide simultaneously. Coinciding with the ongoing 20th-anniversary celebrations for the series, the latest pop’n music peace looks to return to the series’ roots by stepping back to just what made it so loveable in the first place.
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Immediately from the trailer above, you’ll notice a departure from recent iterations of the game, opting instead for the original stylings of both characters and interfaces. The whole trailer screams originality, and it’s that exact charm which brought people to the series in the first place, so I’m definitely excited to see its return. While we haven’t been able to make our way over to arcades to check out what new music has been included with the latest update just yet, we’ll certainly be getting some game time as soon as we’re free.
Available as of today across Japan, you can check even more out about the latest pop’n music peace via the game’s official website.


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Mumbai, 10th November, 2016: UBM India today launched the 5th edition of the Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) India (10th – 11th November 2016) safety show at a newer and a bigger venue this year – the CIDCO Exhibition Centre, Vashi, Navi Mumbai. The show brought together internationally renowned exhibitors, consultants, business experts and key government officials under one common platform, to discuss global best practices and seek solutions to some of the most pressing challenges in the field of workplace safety and health.
The inaugural ceremony of OSH India, 2016 took place in the presence of Key Dignitaries, Shri Sudhakar Sambhaji Sonawane, Honourable Mayor, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation ( NMMC ); Shri Jayendra Motghare, Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health, Government of Maharashtra; Shri Ajay Pandit, Director (Technical), Office of the Textile Commissioner, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India; Smt. K. Hemalatha, Regional Executive Director, Western Region, Airports Authority of India (AAI), Govt of India; Sanjay Pathak, Director, Ordnance Factory Board, Regional Controllerate of Safety (WR) Khadki Pune, Ministry of Defence, Government of India and Mr. Yogesh Mudras, Managing Director, UBM India amidst an august industry gathering.
The participation of leading exhibitors from across the industry reaffirmed the need and focus of OSH India as an industry event. These include, ‘Presenting Partner’ – Dickies (ID Overseas Pvt. Ltd.), ‘Occupational Safety & Health Partner’ – Euro Safety Footwear (India) Pvt. Ltd., ‘Platinum Partner – Udyogi International Pvt. Ltd. , ‘Gold Partner’- Venus Safety & Health and HAWS Corporation, ‘Silver Partner’- Prolite , Mallcom and Allen Cooper, ‘Knowledge partner’- Sure Safety, ‘Registration Partner’- Karam Industries , Work at height Partner – JLG and others such as Venus Safety & Health Pvt. Ltd, BATA India Limited, E.I.Dupont India Pvt Ltd, NEBOSH Ltd, and Tyco Safety Products (I) Pvt. Ltd. This year, the show has a presence of over 160 brands and will also see international participation from countries such as USA, UK, China, Germany, Srilanka, Norway, Japan and Malaysia.
OSH India seeks to provide tangible solutions to a very pressing need in today’s workplace. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have come up with different objectives for the subject of Occupational Safety Hazard such as the maintenance and promotion of workers’ health and working capacity; the improvement of working environment and work to become conducive to safety and health and the development of work organizations and working cultures in a direction which supports health and safety at work. These promote a positive social climate, smooth operation and enahnces productivity.
Speaking at the inauguration of OSH India 2016, Mr. Yogesh Mudras, Managing Director, UBM India said, “In India, the problems surrounding occupational safety and health are aplenty including lack of awareness or coordination between various stakeholders, a growing informal economy, expansion of flexible forms of employment, expansion of labour migration, and new risks associated with the use of new technology. OSH India 2016, addresses this very need, and gives an opportunity to safety and health suppliers and service providers from across the world to showcase their innovations and knowledge amidst an industry landscape of a vastly untapped Indian market. It features a power-packed two day conference to drive occupational safety and health as a priority for companies which will in turn translate into better health and productivity of employees, benefiting the organisation and economy at large.”
The expo includes an Innovation Zone which is a platform for exhibitors to promote and showcase novel products that will benefit the occupational safety and the health industry. It also comprises a new feature this year – a two day ‘LIVE SEMINAR’, which is a safety awareness forum where safety experts from leading safety product manufacturers will discuss and demonstrate, over the course of the expo, the latest technologies, trends and topics related to safety at workplace. Some of the topics of the Live Seminar included — Excavating Responsibility; How can you ensure safety at work place (practical case studies); protective coveralls :body protection (standards and practicability ); Explanation of Cosmos and products lineup / Q&A ; Principles on Fall Protection : focus engineering fall protection ; safety lighting : Atex, US standards and Indian standards and Ergonomics amongst others.
This year’s power-packed conference shared and ideated on global best practice with delegates whilst the accompanying exhibition helped identify solutions to the most pressing challenges in the workplace safety and health domain. The key sessions and panel discussions at the conference were attended by industry experts from across the country and leading international organizations. The topics of discussion on Day 1 at the conference included: ‘OSH Challenges in India and the Way Ahead’, ‘Globalisation and The Changing World of Work’, An Integrated Approach to Worker Health’ a case study on ‘How Good leadership Can Drive Improvements in Process Safety’ and presentations on ‘Vision Zero: From Vision to Reality’ and ‘Behaviour Based Safety Management’. Day 2 will include a panel discussions on ‘Women and OSH’and ‘The Role of Industrial Hygiene in OSH. It will also include presentations on ‘Risk Assessment & Risk Governance’, ‘Fire and Electrical Hazard Prevention’, ‘Making Big Differences to Small Businesses’ and ‘ Health and Safety Risks in Construction’.
Some of the distinguished speakers at the conference include Mr Vinayak Marathe, Senior Vice President, Reliance Industries Limited; Mr Suresh Tanwar, Chief Group Safety and Health, Tata Group; Mr Krishnanand Mavinkurve, Vice President & Head OSH, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited; Mr Sunil Bailwar, Vice President & Head Corporate Environment, Health & Safety – Hindalco Industries Limited; Mr Ashok Emani, Director & Head- ESG, IDFC Ltd.; Mr Badal Roy, General Manager, Head Safety Offshore Operations – Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC); Mr Pankaj Singh, General Manager – HSSE, India & South Asia, BP Castrol India; Mr JC Sekar, Co – Founder& CEO, AcuiZen Technologies Singapore Pte. Ltd.; Mr Stephen Philip Storey, Corporate EHS Head, Larsen & Toubro Limited India amongst others. OSH India 2016 is also witnessing the 4th edition of ‘OSH India Safety Awards’ open to Indian operating businesses, organizations, alliance and individuals in the public or private sector with a workplace health and safety initiative that complies with any one of the ‘Innovation’ or ‘Hero’ awards categories. Euro Safety Footwear (India) Pvt. Ltd. is the Presenting Partner for the Awards Night which will be a celebration of the coming together of the luminaries and fore-runners of the industry, marked by a night of glamour and entertainment.
Industry validates OSH India 2016 as an industry platform and reiterates the objective of the annual expo in Mumbai by UBM India.
Ms. Kavita Nigam, General Manager-Publicity & Promotion, Karam Industries said, “The OSH industry in India, though being a niche segment, has demonstrated rapid growth, primarily due to the entry of multinationals. OSH India is the only trade fair to showcase the industry and provides us with a great platform to exhibit our new product offering and help build our brand further. With a focus on much needed Safety Training, KARAM is also launching unique products that would address safety for women at the workplace. These, along with our regular bouquet of products and services, would be exhibited at OSH India 2016, which will help us reach out to more customers. We are looking forward to OSH India 2016 and further build our brand, showcasing a wider product portfolio.”
Mr Ankur Jain, Assistant Vice President, Bata India Ltd said, “The Occupation, Safety and Health industry is growing at the rate of 18% Y-o-Y, and we shall be witnessing a huge potential for the industry in the next 3-5 years. OSH India continues to be the only platform to represent the industry and we have become regular participants, since the past 3 years. We shall be launching our new range of colorful shoes in breathable material, which we shall be exhibiting at OSH India 2016, and look forward to close stakeholder interaction, including customers and traders.”


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From a digital perspective, the Met Gala was a smashing success.
In addition to welcoming more and more influencers into the fold, Vogue — which hosted live coverage of the event — said the iconic fashion event broke viewership records this year.
Nearly 15 million viewers tuned into Vogue‘s official red carpet live stream, which aired on Vogue.com and on the magazine’s Twitter account. That figure includes live and VOD coverage, Variety reports. All told, Met Gala content derived 200 million views across all of Vogue‘s social channels.
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In addition to the Twitter stream, hosted by Keke Palmer and Ilana Glazer, Vogue tapped YouTube star Emma Chamberlain to provide VOD red carpet coverage. Chamberlain’s interviews were published on Vogue‘s YouTube channel, and also drummed up massive viewership. Chamberlain’s one-minute chat with Kendall Jenner, for instance, amassed 4 million views alone.
Variety notes that Vogue also produced a slew of YouTube content following attendees like Billie Eilish (3.5 million views), Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes (3 million views), and BlackPink‘s Rosé (4 million views), as they got ready for this year’s gala, with multiple clips ending up on YouTube’s trending tab simultaneously.
And finally, on the short-form front, Vogue said engagement was up significantly from past Met Galas. A Reel posted to its Instagram account featuring Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner convening on the red carpet garnered 30 million views — triple the views of Vogue‘s formerly-most-viewed Reel, according to Variety.
“It’s perhaps strange to say that the Met Ball felt well timed this year,” Anna Wintour, Vogue’s global editorial director, U.S. editor-in-chief, and Condé Nast’s chief content officer, told Variety in a statement. “But after all the careful planning and precautions the teams went through, I do think that there was a special sense of celebration. And our live stream captured it for audiences all around the world.”


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Drum companies are working on new instruments and features all the time. No matter if it’s brands like Pearl, Vic Firth or Zildjian, they all create new products that aim to inspire musicians or help them in various situations. Most of these new products are presented at the annual NAMM show in Anaheim, California. This event usually takes place in january and offers an insight into the news for the coming year.
No matter if it’s new snare drums, new concepts for electronic drums or newly designed drumheads, all these different products are introduced at this event.
While some companies present new finishes for already existing series or reissue products that have been in their lineup before, others come up with completely new ideas, trying to revolutionize certain fields.
We had the chance to check out the newest products at NAMM 2020 and want to give you a short overview of our favorite new products.
If you are interested in checking them out yourself and getting to know about all other news for this year, visit us at the HOME OF DRUMS event in Frankfurt, Germany on the 3rd and 4th of April 2020!


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FCC says the wireless crunch demands TV spectrum
Now, the FCC is asking Congress to help carriers expand their spectral footprint. If Congress allows it, carriers could purchase segments of TV spectrum. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski explains: "I believe the single most important step that will drive our mobile economy and address consumer frustration is authorizing voluntary incentive auctions."
But television broadcasters still have concerns. While some broadcasters might choose to sell their spectrum, other broadcasters might abstain. But those choosing not to participate in the auction could still have their own spectrum plagued with interference and diminished signal strength. Genachowski points out, however, that the proposal would include compensation for any expenses related to repacking spectrum.
This shift in spectrum would only be an apt demonstration of the shifting industries. About 25 million Americans consume video and more on their mobile devices, quickly replacing the home television. And even at home, traditional media are being supplanted by streaming options. Genachowski explains that "This growing demand is not going away. The result is a spectrum crunch...The only thing that can address the growing overall demand for mobile is increasing the overall supply of spectrum and the efficiency of its use."
1. luis_lopez_351 (Posts: 951; Member since: 18 Nov 2010)
Phones took over Cameras, mp3's, Telephones, radios, game consuls, Laptops(well tablets did) and now TV. :) sad. sad. sad. for those lost companies but good for the phones :D.
2. deago78 (Posts: 160; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
Not too sad. Records were overtaken by CDs, Horse and buggy by cars and bow and arrow by firearms. When a technology emerges and fulfills a purpose better than the current one, it is overtaken. Such is the way of the world.
4. luis_lopez_351 (Posts: 951; Member since: 18 Nov 2010)
the only bad thing is it takes away jobs xD
3. celljrod (Posts: 82; Member since: 07 Apr 2011)
Just a question, isn't the old analog spectrum already supposed to be converted for wireless use?


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TEMPORARY EMERGENCY CLOUSURE
The management of the Aardvark Antique Mall has announced that the store will close temporarily as part of the national effort to stem the spread of COVID-19. The mall will close Tuesday, March 24th @ 5:00 PM
We will be back! But right now it our time to be still.
We will evaluate the situation weekly going forward.
(TO DEALERS: We will call you personally with full details)


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Time is running out to sign your team up for the summer softball leagues. This is the final week if you want to play.
Mostly excerpts of columnists published in The Madera Tribune.
If you weren’t at the fairgrounds Thursday night you missed a great party when the Madera District Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual Business E
LeBron James now enters the pantheon where the likes of Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson hang out.
You have to give much credit to Tesla, the Fremont electric car company and its founders for rolling out the first mass-market version of their all
Congress is having a rough go of it lately.


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“Let’s just say it will be PC to start with,” he said. “I can’t and I won’t speak for Europe but presumably if it is a success in the US then yes, it will be coming to Europe. We would quickly open it up to other territories."
“Phil Harrison had this big announcement of Game 3.0 and I think its great that he’s announced that because it will lend legitimacy to what we’re doing. But it goes further than that,” added Bergstresser. “We feel user generated content is not just something you just let people dabble in, we feel that it is something where you give people the tools to do whatever the hell they want."