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Coffee is a lucrative business and owners of coffee bars, coffee houses and coffee shops are part of what the Specialty Coffee Association of America estimates was an $11.05 billion business in the United States in 2005. Almost $9 million of that comes from cafes, kiosks and carts. The market grew by more than $1 billion from 2004 to 2005, even with 60 percent of adults calling themselves occasional coffee drinkers, rather than daily drinkers.
If international trends in single-cup coffee indicate what will happen in the United States, it is no wonder that more coffee sellers are investing in one-cup coffee makers.
Single-cup coffee makers and servings such as K-Cups are still relatively new in the U.S., so there is room for growth. Single-serving coffee makes up about 5 percent of the U.S. market now, according to Dow Jones article in July. The market share is expected to increase to 20-25 percent in the next decade, according to the Specialty Coffee Association of America.
There, single-cup pod-brewed coffee took over 40 percent of the market share, according to an article in Tea & Coffee Trade Journal published in January 2005. The reasons? Choice, convenience and improved taste – all factors important to American consumers.


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NEW YORK, March 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via InvestorWire — Playgon Games Inc. (TSX.V: DEAL) (OTCQB: PLGNF) today announces its placement in an editorial published by NetworkNewsWire (“NNW”), one of 50+ trusted brands within the InvestorBrandNetwork (“IBN”), a multifaceted financial news and publishing company for private and public entities.
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Almost everything in the online gaming market produces eye-popping numbers. Even pre-COVID, online gambling was accelerating at a brisk pace as ever more people discovered mobile apps and demand surged with the younger tech-savvy demographic. Enter the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and millions more people suddenly became familiar with remote gaming.
Operators were caught off guard by the tsunami of demand and continue to scramble to capture market share in the booming digital sector. As the technology continues to gain ground and more effectively recreate the casino experience, companies with innovative technologies and insight, such as Playgon Games Inc., are providing operators with a variety of new turnkey packages to capitalize on strong consumer demand
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Matthew Henick, previously who was the head of BuzzFeed Studios, is joining Facebook’s media partnerships team, where he will working as head of content planning and strategy.
In a post on Facebook, Henick contended that the social network is “a storytelling platform at its core,” and it is noted like he wants to help Facebook take advantage of those storytelling opportunities:
Good stories attract the audience in, but great stories intensifies the audience’s connection to each other. The future of storytelling is social. As media discovers to flourish the advantages of the digital world, a completely new video experience is appearing on mobile, with a potential for social and interactivity that we are only starting to tap. It withstands silos like “first” and “second screens.” I think everyone in the world must be able to touch this experience — whether they want to consume it, create for it or even monetize it — in a singular, unified way. Facebook is in an amazing position to present that. It’s a clear extension of the company’s mission to bring the world closer together.
Even at BuzzFeed, it sounds like Henick’s role was to connect digital media with more traditional forms of storytelling — he led a team concentrated on turning BuzzFeed content into TV series and feature-length films. BuzzFeed mentioned earlier this year that it was restructuring its entertainment group.
Facebook, meanwhile, launched a new Watch section last year where users will be able to check out original shows.
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This season has been an exceptional one at Lake Breeze with the celebration of our 20th anniversary, the awarding of Best Small Winery in Canada and Best Winery in BC by Wine Align, and now a gold medal from the Fall Wine Fest for our 2014 Syrah.
We are pleased to announce the release of the MacIntyre Heritage Reserve wines at Lake Breeze Winery. The MacIntyre family has owned Lake Breeze since 2001 and are proud to create this collaboration with winemaker Garron Elmes, who has made all of the Lake Breeze vintages since 1995.
It has been a busy start to the season at Lake Breeze. One that has been made that much better through the recognition of our 2014 and 2015 vintage wines. The perennial favourite Lake Breeze Pinot Blanc was awarded gold at the All Canadian Wine Championships, while the Pinot Gris received a gold medal and 92 point scoring at the Los Angeles International Wine Competition.
Lake Breeze was awarded "Best Pinot Gris" at the Northern Lands Wine Competition Awards held in Edmonton.
This inaugural event gathered wineries, chefs, and craft beer producers from across Canada. The three day festival featured 20 producer dinners hosted by restaurants across Edmonton, wine seminars, and culminated in the "Meet Your Makers Grand Tasting".
Lake Breeze's 2011 Tempest was recently recognized placing 2nd at the 8th annual Iconic Reds Wine Tasting in Vancouver, which makrs our best placing at this annual recognition of BC Bordeaux style blends.
The 2011 Tempest in 750 ml bottles have sold out, but you can still double up on this big expressive red with our magnumsized bottles available here.


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More than a million restaurants are open for business in the United States, and according to a 2017 National Restaurant Association report, people want to know more about what's on their plate.
Finding good-for-you meals can be difficult when you're short on time—but they do exist. Half the battle, however, is knowing exactly what not to order. That can be tricky business, because you'd never assume a chicken salad or vegetarian sub would serve you more than 1,000 calories.
But after analyzing more than two dozen chain restaurant menus, that's exactly what we found. Here are six on-the-go and sit-down options you should avoid next time you go out to eat.


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Japanese automaker Honda is recalling nearly 2.6 million vehicles in the United States to replace fuel pumps and resolve a defect that increases crash risk, reported news agency AFP.
On Thursday, a Honda news release talked about the problem with the fuel pump which will be addressed. It said there is an issue with the fuel pump impeller, which may lead the fuel pump to become inoperative. It highlighted that the fuel pump defect may cause the vehicle’s engine to stall while driving, leading to accidents. However, the company noted that it had not received any crash or injury reports related to fuel pump impeller issues.
“If the fuel pump module is inoperative, the engine may not start or can stall while driving, increasing the risk of a crash or injury,” the release said.
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The fuel pump impellers were improperly moulded and could deform over time, reported Bloomberg. The recall includes Honda and Acura models made between 2017 and 2020 including the Honda Accord, Honda Civic and Acura TLX.
Honda said its subsidiaries in the US will inform vehicle owners in stages as replacement parts become available. As per the company’s federal recall report, dealers will be notified between December 2023 and February 2024.
According to documents posted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s website on Wednesday morning, Honda’s dealers will replace the fuel pump module on the recalled vehicles free of charge.
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It promises to be more fun than its predecessor.
The current tenth-generation Honda Accord has only been around since 2018, but already the Japanese brand is working on a replacement for one of the best-selling sedans available in the USA. Even now, near the end of its lifecycle, it remains one of the best all-rounders.
But you don't get on a best-selling list by sitting around, so Honda recently released the first teaser images of the all-new 2023 Accord. Obviously, Honda doesn't want to reveal too much too early, so if you want a better idea of the overall design, look at the patent images we discovered earlier this year.
Honda is being extremely stingy with details this early in the launch process. It simply claims that the new Accord will bring excitement back to the midsize sedan segment.
How exactly? Honda says its new Accord has sleek styling and a more responsive, "fun-to-drive" hybrid powertrain. We're not aware of any new hybrid powertrains, so it likely means the existing 2.0-liter naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine and dual electric motor setup will soldier on. It's the same setup found in the upcoming Civic Hybrid and the 2023 CR-V Hybrid, which we recently took for a spin.
It produces 212 horsepower and 232 lb-ft of torque in the current Accord. We expect a minor power bump and perhaps a sportier calibration or driving mode for the CVT transmission.
The Accord will also be the first Honda to boast Google built-in. Honda announced its partnership with Google a little over a year ago, and we've been waiting to see Android Automotive in one of its cars.
The next-generation software will work in tandem with a 12.3-inch touchscreen, the largest ever fitted to a Honda. According to Honda, the interior will also be all-new. No official images are available, but we expect it will mimic the minimalist interior of the 11th-generation Civic but with more upmarket materials.
The full reveal of the all-new 2023 Honda Accord will occur next month.


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According to Rahimzai, more than 500,000 olive plants have been prepared to be planted in the Canal in the upcoming year. He further added that the government has managed to recover 4,600 acres of land from the land grabbers belonging to the Canal Directorate.
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Stalwart flavoured milk brand Oak have been serving the Australian people for what feels like forever. Earlier this year, interest in Oak spiked with chocolate milk slurpee machines popping up around the country, and now the brand has used that momentum to spring a new product on us unworthy flavoured milk fiends: OAK Plus.
As you can probably tell from the name, OAK have gone and given their flavoured milk a big hit of energy, designing it towards a sports recovery drink with a formula that has been specially created to bring drinkers a sizable dose of 30 grams of protein for ideal post-workout flavoured milk sessions. What’s more is that it’s now low in fat (7g per serve) and has reduced sugar (40.5g per serve).
“We know that lots of people already drink OAK chocolate milk after exercise because of the protein and nutritional advantages it has over water and other functional drinks”, explained OAK Marketing Director Angela Burr. “OAK Plus tastes every bit as good as a regular OAK but is designed specifically to refuel the body after a tough workout, with 30 grams of natural dairy protein for sustained energy and muscle recovery throughout the day”.
OAK Plus has hit the shelves around Australia now, in all three of the brand’s most well known flavours – Chocolate, Iced Coffee and Vanilla – in 500ml bottles at $3.90 each. You can grab them from all major supermarkets as well as convenience stores like Caltex, BP and 7 Eleven.
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Financial institution Of America performed analysis in early June after the LUNA crash to find out the market sentiment in direction of Crypto. Surprisingly, the outcome confirmed that individuals are nonetheless planning to purchase HODL and even use Crypto for on-line transactions.
This result’s stunning as a result of the crypto group remains to be reeling from the market crash. However even with the continued downtrend, many individuals nonetheless consider crypto will rebound. The respondents on this survey had been as much as 1,000. 90% of those numbers informed the researchers that they plan to put money into Crypto earlier than the top of 2022.
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The researchers additionally found that the variety of these already utilizing crypto and people planning to speculate is similar. By that, the BoA analysts concluded that crypto sentiment remains to be constructive even with the continued woes out there.
However this stance is completely different from what high crypto critics assume. For somebody just like the Berkshire Hathaway CEO, Warren Buffet, Bitcoin doesn’t have any weight as a result of it doesn’t produce something. Buffet made his stance clear when he declared that he wouldn’t purchase all of the accessible BTC for 25 bucks even when somebody provided them to him.
This assertion supported his perception that Bitcoin just isn’t spectacular whether or not the value skyrockets or plummets. Buffet sees BTC as an asset that buyers preserve passively hoping that the value will improve. To him, that’s not one thing to applaud.
30% Plan To HODL, 39% Already Use Crypto
From the survey, the BoA analysts found that 30% of the individuals who responded had been crypto holders. This group mentioned they don’t plan to promote their crypto this 12 months. As an alternative, they intend to HODL and watch for a greater value sooner or later.
Surprisingly, some buyers are nonetheless hopeful that crypto will rise once more from the ashes. Though some analysts say there isn’t a finish to the continued bearish development, buyers nonetheless wait.
The sentiment, in accordance with BoA analysts, is an efficient one. It exhibits that each one hope just isn’t misplaced for crypto. However he additionally said that buyers needs to be cautious because the current FUD within the business may nonetheless trigger one other downtrend.
As for the opposite 39%, this group disclosed they’re already shopping for issues on-line with digital belongings. To them, digital belongings are a method of paying for on-line purchases, not a worth retailer, as fans say.
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The survey exhibits that cryptocurrency homeowners in Canada will not be utilizing it as a mode of fee. As an alternative, they’re utilizing it as an funding asset. In 2021, 13% of Canadians owned bitcoin as in comparison with the 5% who owned bitcoin in 2020.
In response to the financial institution, BTC holders held a mean of $500 cryptocurrency worth. The Financial institution of Canada revealed a two-times progress in bitcoin use.
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It's been a wild year on Wall Street. The benchmark S&P 500 has broken many records. We've witnessed the fastest bear market decline of at least 30% in history, the quickest rebound to new highs from a bear market low on record, and the highest-ever reading for the CBOE Volatility Index.
This heightened volatility and steep first-quarter sell-off have created a lot of interest in the stock market and investing. In particular, we've witnessed the meteoric rise of FinTwit in 2020.
FinTwit, or Financial Twitter (TWTR), describes a wide-ranging financial investment community on Twitter that seeks to share information and educate readers so the group can become wiser and richer. As someone who regularly peruses and engages with the FinTwit community, I've watched it blossom since the February-March crash.
While information on FinTwit should not be construed as concrete recommendations to buy or sell particular stocks, it does help investors decipher what stocks and trends are of interest to the financial community. Trends and stocks that get a lot of buzz could well be worth your attention.
The following companies are five of the most discussed stocks on FinTwit.
Arguably the most talked-about stock on Financial Twitter is also the most polarizing company of the group: Tesla (TSLA 4.06%). Among the FinTwit community, there is no middle ground. Users either think Tesla's going to the moon or that it's going bankrupt.
Without question, Tesla CEO Elon Musk deserves credit for creating the first successful mass-produced auto company in more than five decades. Tesla could potentially deliver north of 500,000 electric vehicles (EV) in 2020. It recently announced plans to improve the battery range of its EVs while lowering long-term costs. Electric vehicles are the future of the automotive industry, and Tesla is in the driver's seat on the EV innovation curve.
On the other hand, Tesla hasn't produced a full-year generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) profit. It has also relied on EV tax credits to pump up its adjusted profits. Further, while Musk has proved a genius, he's also a liability for the company. There have been numerous instances where a tweet or comment has gotten Musk in trouble. It's also unclear if Tesla can maintain its competitive edge over deep-pocketed peers.
It remains to be seen if Tesla can live up to the investment community's exceptionally lofty expectations. However, history suggests that all bubbles eventually burst.
Among tech stocks, there isn't a company that FinTwit seems to fancy more than edge cloud platform services provider Fastly (FSLY -1.66%).
As some of you might know, Fastly was clobbered last week after the company revised its third-quarter sales guidance. Having previously called for between $73.5 million and $75.5 million in sales, Fastly now anticipates reporting between $70 million and $71 million in revenue. The company cited weakness from TikTok, its top user, during the recently ended quarter as the reason for the revision. President Trump had been threatening to ban TikTok downloads in the U.S., which presumably hurt its usage.
However, Fastly's lowered guidance still represents a 42% increase in year-over-year sales at the midpoint. It also follows a second quarter that saw Fastly's customer count advance at a pace not seen since its initial public offering.
Fastly is ultimately a business based on data usage. The company needs businesses and shoppers to continue to push online and into the cloud to be successful. While it's unfortunate that TikTok had a subpar quarter, in terms of usage, Fastly's future remains bright. A majority of its existing clients appear to be spending more, and that should help improve the company's gross margin over time.
Another company the FinTwit community can't get enough of is fintech stock Square (SQ -0.23%). Generally speaking, FinTwit loves finding companies capable of disrupting established industries. Payment facilitator Square could do just that.
Square is best known as a payment and growth facilitator for small businesses. The company has been providing point-of-sale solutions, data analytics, and even loans to small businesses for years. Between 2012 and 2019, the gross payment volume (GPV) processed by its network grew by roughly $100 billion to $106.2 billion. With Square's seller ecosystem reliant on merchant fees, a 49% compound annual growth rate in GPV between 2012 and 2019 isn't too shabby.
But what has FinTwit abuzz is peer-to-peer payment platform Cash App. In just 2 1/2 years, Cash App's monthly active user (MAU) count has more than quadrupled to 30 million. The company's second-quarter results also announced that 7 million of these MAUs are using Cash Card, a traditional debit card that links back to a user's Cash App balance.
Cash App is a high-growth, next-generation payment platform that could become increasingly popular with Generation Z and millennials throughout the decade. By as soon as 2022, it might be Square's leading generator of gross profit.
Teladoc Health/Livongo Health
The fourth and fifth most talked-about FinTwit stocks are Teladoc Health (TDOC -2.18%) and Livongo Health (LVGO). I've chosen to address them together because Teladoc is in the process of acquiring Livongo in a cash-and-stock deal that was valued on the day of the announcement at $18.5 billion.
Teladoc seems to have the inside track to becoming the telemedicine kingpin. There's no doubt that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has aided the company's business. In the second quarter, total visits more than tripled from the prior-year period, with doctors wanting to keep at-risk patients out of their practices as much as possible. Keep in mind that the company's compound annual growth rate prior to COVID-19 was a scorching 75% since 2013.
Maybe the best news for Teladoc Health is that telemedicine is a win up and down the healthcare industry. Virtual visits are cheaper for health insurers and more convenient for patients and physicians.
As for Livongo Health, it's become the most exciting applied health signals company around. Using artificial intelligence, it sends tips encouraging members with chronic illnesses to make lasting behavioral changes that will improve their health. The company has consistently seen its diabetes member count double or nearly double on a year-over-year basis, and it's reported three quarters in a row of adjusted profitability.
Once Teladoc and Livongo become a single company, it'll be on the leading edge of personalized medicine.


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Eliminating waste and improving health through circular economy principles could boost the global economy by a massive $2.7trn (£2trn) every year.
That is according to a new report published by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which said that industrial food production practices, such as excessive use of antibiotics in livestock, could lead to five million deaths annually by 2050.
That is four times the number of deaths caused by road traffic crashes each year, while food production is also currently responsible for almost a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions globally.
But a “circular economy redesign” could massively cut the environmental and health costs, ensuring food is grown without harmful practices, and waste eliminated through better redistribution and by-product use.
“The way we produce food today is not only extremely wasteful and damaging to the environment, it is causing serious health problems,” Ellen MacArthur, said. “We urgently need to redesign the system.”
Under the proposed model, health costs caused by pesticide use would decrease by $550bn a year, while antimicrobial resistance, air pollution, water contamination and food-borne diseases would reduce significantly.
Greenhouse emissions would be expected to decrease by approximately 4.3 gigatonnes of CO2, the equivalent of taking one billion cars off the road permanently.
Moreover, it is estimated that circular economy principles could prevent the degradation of 15 million hectares of arable land, and save 450 trillion litres of fresh water every year.
However, the report states that cities will hold the key to this food revolution, forecasting that they will consume around 80% of all food around the world by 2050.
It predicts that cities could unlock $700bn a year by using organic material to help produce new food and products, and by reducing edible waste.
“People around the world need food that is nutritious, and that is grown, produced and delivered in a way that benefits their health, the environment and the economy,” MacArthur added.


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I thought I would post a selection of photos taken over the CES week, many thanks to DVBLogic for there sponsorship of TDL’s CES coverage.
Bloggers in the press room.
Media Center Embedded devices at Microsoft
Android Tablets where everywhere
There were some Windows Tablets too
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Google is investing in Kenya and has committed $10 million to support the country’s economic recovery from the gruelling effects of the COVID 19 pandemic. In an event hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa, H.E President Uhuru Kenyatta and Google CEO discussed ways in which Google is willing to help businesses including tech startups and communities in Kenya to recover and grow.
Across Africa, many countries have suffered the catastrophic effects of the coronavirus pandemic on their economies seeing as businesses could not operate normally due to tight new restrictions like total lockdowns that left many sitting at home for weeks and months without working. As much as the restrictions were eased, many businesses were left to pick up the pieces of what was left when they returned to work. Others have since found themselves in deep debt with others going bankrupt.
The Alphabet owned company is going through with its promise that it made in September last year and this is the reason why Google is investing in Kenya to provide support for African businesses, job seekers, and educational institutions ensuring that they can sustain themselves through the pandemic.
A breakdown of the $10 million Google is investing in Kenya.
Google has committed $10 million to help businesses in Kenya recover and thrive during the coronavirus pandemic. The main areas of focus will be the following;
$2 million will go to local non-profits via Google.org to help marginalized communities recover from the pandemic.
$3 million in small business loans to help business people and entrepreneurs in Kenya get through the economic hardship created by COVID 19.
$5 million to support Kenyan tech start-ups. The rate at which tech start-ups are launched in Africa is rising as people come up with digital solutions to solve everyday problems. The growth of these start-ups can be attributed to the immense funding from foreign tech billionaires who have endorsed these businesses. On this list, are some of the biggest names you can think of in tech like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos.
Through the Google for StartUps Accelerator programs, the tech company offered support to a selected pool of startups across Africa through training and mentorship courtesy of the best instructors Google has to offer. Among these, 20 Kenyan tech companies have since graduated from the program.
The tech giant’s Google for Education has trained over 2000 teachers, educators and guardians on remote teaching and learning, and online safety. This is through giving them the digital skills that they require.
Such initiatives are essential to see that these businesses can recover and sustain themselves in the long run. According to Google, economic recovery is also about digital transformation. Kenya has been observed to have an emerging economy and by 2030, the country could unlock $74 billion in economic impact in the country.


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1. You can now watch live Periscope broadcasts on Twitter without ever leaving the app. This functionality is initially rolling out on iOS, but will likely come soon to Twitter for Android and the web.
2. Twitter has also introduced Conversational Ads, which “make it even easier for consumers to engage with and then spread a brand’s campaign message.”
3. The Super Bowl is right around the corner – and the average cost of a 30-second slot during the game has soared to $5 million this year! Here’s everything we know so far about which brands are advertising with Super Bowl commercials and what they’ve got planned.
4. In the last week, many SEO professionals and webmasters reported major ranking changes in Google as the search giant updates its Core Algorithm. Google claims that this is not Penguin, but rather just common core ranking algorithm updates.
5. A new study from Nanigans found that advertisers continued to increase their ad budgets on Facebook in Q4 – especially when it came to Facebook video ads, dynamic product ads and carousel ads during the holiday shopping quarter.
6. Snapchat plans on competing with Facebook for advertisers’ dollars with ad targeting, new business bosses and a possible algorithmic feed.
7. On Monday February 8, all Chipotle stores will close for an hours-long safety talk. Will it help, or taint the brand even more?


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Thomas E. Perez | Boost minimum wage
It used to be that you could support a family on a minimum wage salary. Today, a minimum wage worker has to make a choice every day: Buy a gallon of milk for the kids, or buy a gallon of gas to get to work.
The current national minimum wage, frozen at $7.25 per hour since 2009, simply hasn’t kept up with inflation. As a matter of fact, its purchasing power has declined by one-third since the 1960s, and it’s worth less today than it was in 1981. Bus fare has certainly gone up since 1981. Same with the price of a dozen eggs, or a week of child care. Landlords aren’t sending out rent decreases. And yet the value of the minimum wage is eroding.
It’s time to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, which would make a difference in the lives of 28 million people, including 497,500 Kentucky residents.
President Barack Obama first asked Congress last year to increase the minimum wage, but that call has fallen on deaf ears. Fortunately, people around the country aren’t waiting. A national movement, drawing its strength from grass-roots energy, is inspiring states, local governments and forward-looking businesses to show leadership where Congress hasn’t.
Thirteen states plus the District of Columbia have passed laws increasing their state minimum wages over the last year and a half. More than 7 million workers total will benefit from those increases.
A higher minimum wage is pro-business as well as pro-worker. Employers large and small, debunking the conventional wisdom, have embraced a higher minimum wage and acted on their own to raise their employees’ pay. From national brands like Costco and the Gap, to the Ace Hardware store just a mile away from my office, companies are giving their workers a raise not just because it’s the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do for the bottom line. It improves morale, productivity and customer service; it reduces absenteeism, turnover and training costs.
Besides, many employers believe that the people who make or sell their products ought to make enough money to buy them. In an economy driven by consumer demand, what any business needs most are customers. When working families have more money in their pockets, they pump it right back into the economy. They spend it on goods and services in their communities — and that helps businesses grow, which creates more jobs.
In addition to asking Congress to act, President Obama is doing what he can to help more workers get a raise. He signed an executive order, which we at the Labor Department are in the process of implementing, to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour for private-sector workers on federal contracts. It’s hard to argue against our rationale: if you serve meals to our troops for a living, you shouldn’t have to go on food stamps in order to serve a meal to your family at home.
As we celebrate Labor Day, the holiday that honors the working men and women who contribute to the strength and prosperity of our nation, let’s honor them in a real and meaningful way: Let’s give them a raise.
Thomas E. Perez is the U.S. secretary of labor.


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The poultry industry in Moldova has found itself in a difficult situation following the summer drought and the rise of feed prices, say market participants. The country’s government however, has declined the proposition of the poultry producers to allocate funds to support the industry as well as to limit the export of grain to stop the further increasing of the level of feed prices.
“The government declined our proposals to release producers from the payment of value added tax on the feed import, as well as the proposal to introduce a temporary ban on grain exports, and it makes the local manufacturer of dietary meat uncompetitive with imports. We open our market to poultry meat from Ukraine, Romania and Brazil. The smuggling will soon also be booming” said general director of Moldavian poultry production company VISPAS & C Basil Pascari.
He also pointed out that in neighbouring Ukraine, the government is making every effort to avoid the consequences of severe drought – in particular the state pay preferences to save not only the breeding livestock and poultry, but all animals in every farm. In neighbouring Romania for each broiler grown to the required condition the government pays EUR 0.50. In Moldova the poultry industry is not subsidised at all.
Pascari also expressed concern that Moldova will not be able to establish export of poultry meat in the EU despite the government claims. “Not even one slaughterhouse at our poultry farms will pass the examination of European phytosanitary certification bodies. We simply do not keep up with technology and the requirements of the EU,” he concluded.


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EU doubles down on Amazon tax claims as it seeks to revive state aid fiscal policy
An internal restructuring that fundamentally reorganised Amazon’s global business was solely intended to help the technology company avoid paying tax on certain profits, the European Commission has told the EU’s highest court.
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It was a year of great interest in the IoT, for good reasons and bad.
The Internet of Things was going great guns for most of 2016. Until October 21, that is. That’s the date of the coordinated cyberattacks on Dyn, an Internet performance management services firm. The distributed denial-of-service attacks quickly had impacts on Airbnb, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, PayPal, Reddit, Twitter, and other popular websites.
Dyn was able to fight off the aggressive attacks, limiting the damage to that one day. It soon after announced that it would be acquired by Oracle. Everything’s good now, right?
Not really. Because those attacks employed unsecured IoT devices, the event had a further chilling effect on consumer adoption of IoT technology. There were many IoT devices under Christmas trees last month, yet the Dyn episode was a wake-up call for IoT cybersecurity, a call that ARM Holdings and many other companies answered in the following weeks.
One positive trend of 2016 was the number of semiconductor vendors taking the IoT seriously as a potential market opportunity. “Dev kits” proliferated from many chip suppliers. Intel signaled that it is looking toward the IoT in the post-PC world, introducing the Joule IoT compute module in August and reorganizing its IoT Group in November, spinning off the new Automated Driving Group.
It was a year of big acquisitions. Among the largest were the $32.2 billion purchase of ARM by SoftBank Group and the pending $47 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors by Qualcomm. Analog Devices is buying Linear Technology for about $14.8 billion. Near the end of the year, TDK put up $1.3 billion for InvenSense. Cypress Semiconductor acquired Broadcom’s Wireless Internet of Things business unit for $550 million.
Venture capitalists were on the prowl around IoT startups. Investors in Ayla Networks ponied up another $39 million. Afero attracted $20.3 million in private funding.
Big companies announced big investments in IoT technology. SAP committed more than $2.2 billion, Samsung Electronics pledged to invest about $1.2 billion in IoT startups, and IBM added more than $200 million to make its Watson artificial-intelligence technology applicable to the IoT.
We entered 2017 with one less IoT standards consortium. The AllSeen Alliance joined forces with the Open Connectivity Foundation, as the OCF committed to continued development of the AllJoyn standard. The Industrial Internet Consortium released its Industrial Internet Security Framework.
Sierra Wireless held its first annual IoT Developer Day in San Jose, Calif., building on the Innovation Summits it holds each year in Paris.
In short, an eventful year for the Internet of Things. Let’s hope for a less exciting and interesting year in 2017 — 12 months of stuff getting done, useful products being introduced, and continued cooperation in those pending IoT industry standards.
IoT Security Risks Grow (Part 1)
Side-channel attacks, botnets, ransomware all loom as attacks become more sophisticated on connected devices.
Optimizing Multiple IoT Layers
Where and how IoT engineering teams are approaching design optimization among various layers of the IoT.
IoT, Architectures, And Security
ARM CTO Mike Muller discusses how markets and technology are changing in a very candid one-on-one interview.


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A coalition of tech and business groups have joined together for a lawsuit challenging Maryland’s newly passed digital services tax, as first reported by The Washington Post. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Maryland, argues the state tax is preempted by federal law and violates various constitutional prohibitions against state taxes on out-of-state activity.
The lawsuit is led by the US Chamber of Commerce, which is joined by three tech industry groups: Internet Association, NetChoice, and Computer & Communications Industry Association. Membership varies, but all three associations count Google, Facebook, and Amazon as members, as well as other tech giants.
The Maryland law would establish a new gross revenue tax on digital advertising undertaken by non-media companies — targeted squarely at the ad revenue collected by tech giants like Facebook and Google. The tax rate varies depending on the size of the company, but it would range as high as 10 percent for companies with global annual revenue higher than $15 billion.
Prior to passage, a number of state politicians raised concerns about the legality of the bill — most notably Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, who identified “some risk that a reviewing court would find that the tax is unconstitutional” in a public letter in April.
Maryland Gov. Lawrence Hogan opposed the bill, but the state’s General Assembly overrode his veto to pass it into law on February 12th. The tax is set to go into effect 30 days after passage unless the lawsuit’s injunction is successful.
Digital tax proposals have become increasingly common as tech giants have grown more profitable and less popular — but the taxes remained hotly contested by the tech industry. A UK digital service tax passed in 2020 resulted in enterprise rate hikes from many US tech companies, while the staggered implementation of France’s digital services tax has sparked a standoff with US trade officials.
Then-presidential candidate Andrew Yang proposed a US digital services tax as part of his 2020 primary campaign, but the idea has failed to gain traction among US lawmakers.


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Earlier today, Google announced its new smart speaker, Google Home Mini, will be released on October 19th and is shaped like a donut—which is why the tech giant opened a pop-up pastry shop next to Patricia’s Green in Hayes Valley, according to tipster Melissa L.
"[With a] chance to win either donuts or their new Google Home Mini product," she tells us. "Two donuts came in the box. One is blueberry and the other is glazed with sprinkles."
In a Facebook event, Google explains that the shop is open today until 8pm, with a return engagement from October 14–15.
One of 11 pop-up locations spread across the country, these shops are the only places where people can try out the device before its October 19th launch date.
Hoodline tipster @R27D posted photos from the event on Twitter:
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While the upcoming caseload for the United States Supreme Court’s fall term may not be as heavy on HR issues as in the past, there is at least one case that will examine the role of religious freedom in hiring .
The Court has announced it will hear the case of a Muslim woman who was denied employment at trendy clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch because she wore a headscarf.
The company has faced more than one discrimination suit in recent years over the policy, which has subsequently been amended, according to the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.
In this case, according to the MSN News story:
Samantha Elauf, then 17, was refused a job at the retailer in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2008 because she wore a headscarf, violating the company’s “look policy,” which outlines how store staff should be groomed and dressed.
While a federal judge hearing the case found Abercrombie & Fitch was liable for discrimination — to the tune of $20,000 — that decision was later appealed, where the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Colorado ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights Act only protects employees who provide “explicit notice of the need for a religious accommodation.”
Under the act, no one can be refused employment based on their religion, unless the employer cannot accomodate the person’s religious beliefs without adversely affecting business, and court documents said she did not ask about how the company’s “look policy” could be adjusted to accommodate her religious dress at the time of the interview.
“Before her interview, Ms. Elauf knew the position required her to model the Abercrombie style, knew the style of clothing that Abercrombie sold, and also knew that Abercrombie did not sell headscarves,” Abercrombie said in its court brief.
The EEOC said its cases involving complaints of religious discrimination have more than doubled in the past 15 years, according to MSN News.
SCOTUS is expected to take up the case in January, with a decision expected in June.
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BANGOR, Maine — For many businesses, big and small, the pandemic has felt like a rollercoaster ride, as they try to keep their heads above water.
Fortunately for Tropical Tastes and Styles, the Bangor shop recently re-opened its doors.
After being closed for two years, owner Angela Okafor said she felt confident enough to restock the store. As well as unique, international items, she has African-inspired clothes and even a hair braiding section.
Okafor said her shop fulfills an unmet need in the region.
"We don't carry the typical things you will see at Walmart or Shaw's or Hannaford, so we try to provide those services that people are not able to find here," Okafor said. "I worried. I was scared I wasn't going to be able to get back here, but we have received so much support from the community."
Okafor said her shelves are now stocked, and she's holding an official reopening on Saturday at noon at her store location at 347 Harlow St. in Bangor.
"The pandemic forced us to shut our doors due to, of course, having children and too many other personal and life issues," Okafor said.
"We have food and stuff from Africa, from the Caribbean. We have some Asian. We have from the Hispanic countries," Okafor said.
She says the community's love and support have provided her with the push she needed to turn the lights back on.
"There were so many times I worried," she said. "I was scared I wasn't going to be able to get back here."
Some businesses have had to pivot their plans and try other ideas to stay profitable.
In Greater Bangor, for example, Jolain's Gourmet Catering & Event Planning went from mostly wedding catering to packaging and selling their mac 'n' cheese.
With so many weddings canceled, the company owner turned to making and delivering products to small-town supermarkets.
"It just blossomed from there, with other people asking for it and so on and so forth. So here we are, a year and a half later," Jolain Cameron said. "It was a year in November, and it's a pretty busy product."
Now his mac 'n' cheese is available at the Paradis Shop'n Save in Brewer; Tozier's Family Market in Brewer, Searsport, and Bucksport; at the IGA in Orono and Calais; at Danforth's Down Home Supermarket in Hermon; and at the Corner Store on Hammond Street in Bangor.
"In an effort to try and get some income, more regular income just to be able to have the business survive, I thought, 'You know, this mac 'n' cheese is very popular,'" Cameron said.
His creative side business is precisely what has has kept him in business.
"Now people can just take it from the refrigerator to oven and bake it off, and it would be exactly like what they would have at one of our events," Cameron said.
Unfortunately, not every business has been able to bounce back.
Antique Alley in downtown Bangor, for example, has closed after its owner died from COVID. The family has said it plans to sell the business later this year.


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CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — It’s a stop many make when walking around Plaza Midwood.
“Pizza is happy food!” said Greg Taylor, with Pizza Peel.
But things are a bit happier than usual at Pizza Peel.
“I was like, wait!” said Cristal McGill, who works at the restaurant. “I didn’t see the interview, but I was very excited.”
“It feels good, it feels really good,” said Greg. “I found out this morning.”
It’s all the good feelings.
“I didn’t hear the shout out personally,” said Greg. “I saw the draft, glanced at the TV, and had to get back to the customers.”
That shout-out came from brand new Panthers star and Charlotte native, Ikem Ekwonu.
“I used to go to a spot called Pizza Peel,” said Ikem, during his post-draft interview. “Pizza Peel is pretty good.”
And he didn’t stop there. He also mentioned Le Peep and one other place.
“I used to go to this spot called the Improper Pig,” said Ikem.
There are plenty of reasons to smile when working with pizza. Now, there’s hope for the Panthers’ future.
It’s been a long time coming so hopefully we’ll get there and get some championships!” said Cristal.
But people won’t have to wait until fall to celebrate.
“We would definitely do an Ickey special, do a pizza of the month with Ickey!” said Greg.
A special pizza, for a special shout-out.


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South Africa has one of the best stock exchanges in the world.— Celeste Fauconnier
North African countries have very diversified economies.— Celeste Fauconnier
East Africa is standing out in terms of fast, sustainable growth rates.— Celeste Fauconnier
The Money Show’s Bruce Whitfield interviewed Celeste Fauconnier, Africa analyst and co-author of RMB’s “Where to Invest in Africa" report.
These are, according to the report, the top-10 investment destinations in Africa:
1. South Africa
8. Côte d'Ivoire
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The Money Show’s Bruce Whitfield interviews Daily Maverick Publisher Styli Charalambous.
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You've probably never heard of Chuck Feeney. Nevertheless, he’s one of the strangest, most impactful people who has ever lived.
"I will still gladly bet my life on the quality of our product," says Pratley Group CEO Kim Pratley.
The Money Show’s Bruce Whitfield interviews distinguished Africa correspondent Lee Kasumba, who is in Mozambique’s central city.
Seven suspects were arrested in Limpopo in less than 24 hours after a cash-in-transit vehicle was blown up in the province.
Consumer journalist Wendy Knowler and a medical testing expert put several harmful weight-loss products under the microscope.
Bruce Whitfield interviews La Grange about her and Madiba's attitude to money (hopes and fears, successes and failures, etc.)
The Panorama, Welgelegen and Plattekloof Neighbourhood Watch has identified a new house break-in trend.
After 3 years there are 3 Nic Harry stores (incl online) that sell 100 000 pairs of socks in over 20 countries around the world.
GreenCape CEO Evan Rice unpacks why our province is seeing a great deal of success with sustainable energy projects.


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Huawei is still the second-biggest foldable smartphone maker on the globe and despite issues with the western government, the Chinese tech giant continues to invent new hardware one of which is the newly rumored P50 Pocket flip smartphone.
This isn’t the first time we’re hearing about Huawei trying something new with its foldable smartphone lineup.
The new report was published by Harper’s Bazaar China which gave an insight of what the device could potentially look like when it finally debut.
As mentioned earlier, the so-called Huawei P50 Pocket is meant to follow in the trail of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 or even the Motorola Razr Fold.
The alleged Huawei P50 Pocket was also featured in a pictorial with Chinese actress and singer Guan Xiaotong.
Based on the picture details shared, the device has a circular external display at the back of the device that can be used to display quick notifications, time, and battery percent. It can in fact serve as a viewfinder for taking pictures with the device while it’s closed.
According to another revelation made by Engadget Chinese, the device has its fingerprint reader along the edges of the device while the external display is placed close to the camera sensors.
The version in the Harper’s Bazaar photoshoot is gold with some sort of leafy pattern, but Huawei’s teaser shows that it will also come in a silver variant with a diamond plaid pattern.
Huawei is said to be planning a Dec. 23rd announcement of the P50 Pocket smartphone – in China of course and it’s going to be another expensive gadget relative to its current Mate X2 foldable smartphone.


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Samsung have announced that they’ve sold a staggering 20 million Galaxy SIII in 100 days. That’s just over 3 months, or a quarter. Nokia sold 4 million Lumia handsets during Q2 of 2012.
Whilst the iPhone 4S sold 4 million units in 3 days last year, we should point out that the SIII has now become the most successful smartphone to date for Samsung, setting a new record for the company.
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Twitter hit President Trump’s executive order targeting social media companies on Thursday, saying it threatens the future of online speech and Internet freedoms.
“This EO is a reactionary and politicized approach to landmark legislation,” Twitter’s Global Public Policy Committee said in a statement.
The directive instructs federal agencies to see if the new rules can be placed on tech companies such as Twitter, Facebook and Google, which own YouTube.
Specifically, Trump wants to remove or replace part 2 of the Communications Decency Act, 1996, the landmark law that protects social media companies from liability for the materials their users post.
This allows them to be considered “sites” rather than “publishers” who can sue for defamation.
“Section 230 protects American innovation and freedom of expression and is supported by democratic values,” the Twitter statement said.
“Unilateral Erosion Efforts [Section 230] It threatens the future of online speech and Internet freedoms, ”it added.
Trump signed the order two days after Twitter slapped a pair of fact-check labels on his pair of missives for the first time in a mail-in vote.
The president said the case was that social media sites that were in bad faith – in “editorial decisions” – in his view, including adding fact-check labels – had to remove their immunity from prosecution.
“In a country that has long respected freedom of expression, we cannot allow a limited number of online sites to hand over text that Americans can access and report on the Internet,” the order states.
“This practice is fundamentally anti-American and anti-democratic. When large and powerful social media companies censor opinions they disagree with, they use deadly force.”
A Facebook spokeswoman said that scrapping or weakening section 230 would curb more talk online and encourage sites to censor anything that offends anyone.
A Google spokesperson said that “the undermining of section 230 in this way will affect the US economy and its global leadership on Internet freedom.”
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Just as you read it. An unusual alliance has been carried out between Facebook and LaLiga that will result in the launch of the fantasy game called as LaLiga Winning Streak. The prediction video game will be available to users of the platform Facebook Fantasy Games from the United States and Canada. How about?
Due to the massive number of users of the social network Facebook and all its derivatives, that is, around 2 billion active accounts, it is not surprising that brands like Spanish LaLiga decide to invest in the development of a joint product. This is how the idea of a collaboration was born and, consequently, the production of LaLiga Winning Streak, which will arrive between the months of September and November.
In this proposal, fans will be able to predict which team will win on each date of the Spanish soccer tournaments. But that is not all. The players of LaLiga Winning Streak They will have the opportunity to organize and create their own Fantasy league to compete with friends or with other users. As a result, they could create a community with a focus on LaLiga.
What is Facebook Fantasy Games?
Facebook Fantasy Games is the most recent business the company has ventured into Mark Zuckerberg and is intended to offer free prediction games based on sports and TV shows, as well as pop culture content.
On this new platform, Facebook will launch a first sports prediction game with Whistle Sports, Pick & Play Sports, in which players score points by correctly guessing the winner of a match.
In collaboration with LaLiga, the doors are opened to the football fanatic public for Facebook, which would allow to raise the popularity of Fantasy Games, where it already enabled the first video game, titled Pick & Play Sports, through which users can predict the winner of a match important. What do you think?
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May 21, 2019
Thomas Cook pushes ahead with expansion despite market fears
Thomas Cook intends to push ahead with expansion plans despite growing doubt over the 178-year old UK travel group's ability to continue trading. The new hotel, based in Chania, Crete, will open on Saturday and be Thomas Cook's first family-focused own-brand property. Thomas Cook's shares shed more than half of their value in recent days after the group reported a pre-tax loss of £1.5bn and revealed its auditor had noted material uncertainties over the successful sale of its airline business and a new credit facility. The share price, which fell as low as 8p on Monday, recovered 17 per cent on Tuesday to trade around 12p. The company's bonds maturing in 2022 traded up slightly, but remained at a heavily distressed price of around 40 cents on the euro. The cost to insure against a Thomas Cook bond default using five-year credit default swaps was around 67 percentage points upfront by the close of dealings on Monday, according to Bloomberg data, meaning it now costs $67m to insure $100m of debt, on top of $5m a year in premiums.
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COVENTRY, England — Jaguar Land Rover has flown Chinese components in suitcases to Britain to sustain production and could operate out just after two weeks as the effects of the coronavirus outbreak hits corporations across nations around the world and industries.
Britain’s largest carmaker operates three auto factories in its household current market that establish just about four hundred,000 cars a calendar year.
“We are risk-free for this 7 days and we are risk-free for upcoming 7 days. In the third 7 days we have components lacking,” CEO Ralf Speth informed reporters on Tuesday at the official opening of the Countrywide Automotive Innovation Centre in Coventry, central England.
“We have flown components in suitcases from China to the U.K.,” he reported.
Manufacturing at JLR’s Chinese manufacturing facility would recommence on Feb. 24 and was “risk-free for the 1st 7 days,” Speth reported.
The new coronavirus has killed some one,900 people in China and infected all around seventy two,000, confining hundreds of thousands to their residences, disrupting organizations and delaying reopening of factories just after the prolonged Lunar New Yr holiday break.
Speth reported product sales in China, the world’s largest vehicle current market, experienced been hit. That arrives just after JLR experienced viewed a restoration in product sales there, assisting it to return to profitability in the latest quarters.
“That’s fully stopped. It truly is zero,” he reported. “You do not know irrespective of whether the financial state will catch up or irrespective of whether this form of decline is just a decline.”
The manager of Tata Motors, JLR’s mother or father firm, Guenter Butschek, speaking at the very same party, reported the firm does not have ample visibility pertaining to components suppliers from China.
“We are risk-free for the month of February and for a good aspect of March,” Butschek reported. “Are we thoroughly coated at this point of time for the entire month of March? Regrettably…not.”
JLR joins main world-wide businesses in warning of the effects of the coronavirus in China on source chains.
Fiat Chrysler Cars has suspended production of the Fiat 500L at its Serbian plant because of to disruptions in the source of audio system components.


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Main Street Minute: Coffee chain donating sales to Valley fire station
KTAR’s Main Street Minute focuses on local businesses that are hiring, opening and hosting events across the community. Stories air each weekday on KTAR at 7:27 a.m.
• Dutch Bros. Coffee will celebrate the grand opening of its newest Valley location Friday selling with 16-ounce drinks for $1. The coffee spot near 83rd Avenue and Thunderbird Road will also give all proceeds from sales made between 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. to Peoria Fire Department Station 193.
• AT&T is opening an entertainment-focused retail store Thursday in Phoenix. The 5,500-square-foot location at Metrocenter Mall includes more screens, fewer counters and more seating.
• A job fair that includes openings in education and nonprofit work was scheduled for Thursday. The event runs from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel Phoenix North near Interstate 17 and Peoria Avenue.


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Looks like oculus is again under the fire in new for it. This time the company tried to get the Serious Sam VR game and offered a lot to the Croteam and the VR community when heard about this shot their fiery arrows of disapproval towards oculus.
The company had received a lot of negativity back when it blocked the games which could have been available to all VR platforms through Revive.
This was the statement found on reddit made by one of the members of Croteam:
“They tried to buy Serious Sam VR as well. It wasn’t easy, but we turned down a shitton of money, as we believe that truly good games will sell by themselves and make profit in the long run regardless. And also because we hate exclusives as much as you do.”
However another Croteam member later stated this on reddit:
“I want to clarify some of the inaccuracies about our relationship with Oculus. Oculus did approach us with an offer to help fund the completion of Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope in exchange for launching first on the Oculus Store and keeping it time-limited exclusive. Their offer was to help us accelerate development of our game, with the expectation that it would eventually support all PC VR platforms. We looked at the offer and decided it wasn’t right for our team. At no time did Oculus ask for, or did we discuss total exclusivity or buyout of support from Vive. We look forward to supporting Rift and Vive.”
Oculus later responded with another statement (reached out to kitguru) by saying:
“We regularly offer developers financial grants to help fund early development of new titles to accelerate development or expand the scope of the game. In some cases, we exchange funding in return for launching on the Oculus Store first, with the expectation that the game will go on to launch on other platforms. In the case of Croteam, at no time did we request that they stop development for other platforms, and we look forward to seeing Serious Sam be successful across the entire VR ecosystem.”
While a timed exclusive is not that bad, a full time exclusivity is just not right, especially in the case of VR Platforms as for a lot of us VR headset be it HTC Vive or Oculus is in the end a peripheral and exclusivity to a peripheral is inappropriate, also the HTC Vive , the competitor VR platform does not have any exclusives.
Either ways we hope that we see more VR games coming to all VR platforms and not being exclusive to one of them.
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With the smartphone battle spilling into the driver's seat, Apple has signed up nine more manufacturers for CarPlay.
Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Audi, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, Mazda and Ram have all been added, according to Apple's website.
CarPlay, like Google's just-introduced Android Auto, is designed to allow someone that already owns a smartphone to take that experience into the car with a safer, car-friendly experience that taps voice recognition and a vehicle's existing in-car navigation display.
A number of those manufactures newly committing to CarPlay are also supporting Android Auto, including Chrysler, Audi and Alfa Romeo.
Apple has said to expect CarPlay to start showing up in models later this year.
CarPlay taps Siri to allow drivers to make calls, listen to voice mail and hear incoming alerts and messages. Integration with maps allows turn-by-turn directions to show up on the vehicle's infotainment system, while on the audio side, CarPlay supports iTunes radio, podcasts and certain third-party apps including Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio and Beats Music.
—By Ina Fried, Re/code.net.
CNBC's parent NBC Universal is an investor in Re/code's parent Revere Digital, and the companies have a content-sharing arrangement.
The gaming developer reported results that beat estimates and announced plans to lay off 364 workers.
As execs at Salesforce consider whether or not to sell, one firm in particular is the most likely buyer, said a person familiar with their thinking.
A federal appeals court in New York City ruled in favor of Pandora, helping the service save in royalty fees.
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An acquisition of Salesforce could turn out to be a terrible decision given the size of Salesforce, Roger McNamee said.
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Letchworth, UK - Major UK tire retailer Kwik Fit reports selling more than five times the number of winter tires than at the same time last week, as drivers prepare for adverse conditions in response to severe weather warnings.
However, only a small proportion of drivers switch their tires in the winter; research for Kwik Fit found that 68% are unaware of the difference between cold and warm weather tires.
23% of motorists said they have not even heard of winter tires.
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Several new comparisons have been made in regards to "Dead Island 2," which was officially announced at E3 2014. According to a report from Joystiq on June 12, the sequel was confirmed to be in development with a computer-generated trailer that was shown off during Sony Computer Entertainment's press conference. Along with the PS4, the same title will also be coming out on the PS4 and Xbox One.
Fans of the first game as well as "Dead Island: Riptide" should find some familiar elements with the sequel. Players are still going to be using an assortment of crafted weapons along with environmental hazards and vehicles to ward off the infected zombies in the open-world first-person action game. The cooperative and role-playing elements should also return as well.
What makes "Dead Island 2" different is the story. Instead of being serious like "Dead Island," the development team decided to take a much lighter tone to the zombie outbreak. Furthermore, the game world is also much bigger as players will be able to explore the state of CA as opposed to a single island. Finally, the artificial intelligence of the zombies is going to be improved as the horde can now be alerted by certain sounds.
The "Dead Island 2" release date is currently expected to be set sometime during the spring season. Interestingly enough, "Dying Light," the spiritual successor to the first two games of the series, is slated to arrive in Feb. of next year. The new intellectual property plays similar to the first two games of the "Dead Island" series with several new elements such as the day-night cycle and free-running abilities.
With the original development team, Techland, working on "Dying Light," Deep Silver decided to enlist Yager Development to develop "Dead Island 2." Before the sequel, the development team worked on "Spec Ops: The Line," which was released in 2012. You can find an image featuring the new intellectual property with the photo on top of this article (courtesy of the "Dying Light" Twitter page).


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June 18, 2015
06/18/15 The Washington Post
SALAMANCA, Mexico — It wasn’t a planned strike, more an impromptu protest: a group of assembly-line workers at the Mazda car factory one spring morning just stepped away from their posts.
In addition to long, strenuous hours, they said, they endured constant taunts from one assistant manager, who also had allegedly sexually harassed an employee. They refused to work until they could air their grievances with his superiors.
“We showed up but we decided not to work,” said Eder Capetillo, a 29-year-old worker who participated in the one-day halt in March. “We were asking for respect.”
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Mazda Motor Manufacturing de Mexico S.A. de C. V (MMMdM), a joint venture production company owned by Mazda Motor Corporation and Sumitomo Corporation, announced on January 3, 2012 that production capacity at its plant currently under construction in Salamanca, Mexico will be increased in the fiscal year ending March 2016. MMMdM, will commence operations at the new plant in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year ending March 2014 with an initial production of 140,000 units annually. Capacity will be increased to 230,000 units in the fiscal year ending March 2016. The increase will accommodate the additional annual production of approximately 50,000 Toyota-branded vehicles, beginning in the summer of 2015, as well as the increasing worldwide demand for Mazda’s SKYACTIV vehicles.


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Harvard Business Review’s Best-Performing CEOs in the World 2018 list has been released, featuring a number of cosmetics industry names.
The 100-strong list is a measure of enduring strong business leadership, and is compiled based on information collected over a chief executive’s entire tenure, as opposed to short term metrics.
Criteria includes market capitalisation, shareholder interest and social contribution.
“[CEOs] face an array of outside forces—savvy competitors, demanding customers, profit-hungry investors, political and economic headwinds,” wrote the Harvard Business Review.
“Nonetheless, their companies have shown a remarkable ability to sustain momentum”
While Pablo Isla of Inditex took the top spot this year, followed by Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, several beauty leaders also secured a spot in the rankings.
So who were they?
1. Bernard Arnault, LVMH
In third place, Arnault achieved a financial ranking of 7, Sustainalytics ranking of 226 and CSRhub ranking of 186. Tracking of Arnault’s leadership began in 1989.
2. Fabrizio Freda, Estée Lauder Companies
In 19th place is the CEO behind the owner of cosmetics brands such as La Mer, MAC Cosmetics and Jo Malone London.
Freda achieved a financial ranking of 34, Sustainalytics ranking of 422 and CSRhub ranking of 267. Tracking of Freda’s leadership began in 2009.
3. Blake Nordstrom, Nordstrom
Pitching in at 62, the retail boss has a Sustainalytics ranking of 437 and CSRhub ranking of 392.
Meanwhile, Nordstrom’s financial ranking came in at 93.
4. Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon
The founder, chairman and CEO of online retail giant Amazon came in 68th on this year’s list.
The New Mexico-born businessman was revealed to have a financial ranking of 1, Sustainalytics ranking of 829 and CSRhub ranking of 824.
6. Simon Wolfson, Next
In 97th is Wolfson, CEO of UK retail chain Next. With a financial ranking of 105, as well as a Sustainalytics ranking of 667 and CSRhub ranking of 340, he has been tracked since 2001.
6. Gilles Andrier, Givaudan
In 98th place, Andrier is the CEO of Swiss manufacturer of fragrances and active cosmetic ingredients Givaudan.
Andrier achieved a financial ranking of 180, Sustainalytics ranking of 298 and CSRhub ranking of 111. Tracking of Andrier’s leadership began in 2005.


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Apple is preparing for a strong launch for its virtual reality glasses, which are expected to be unveiled during the spring period of this year.
According to the “Euro News” website, Apple is currently developing operating systems that allow potential users of these glasses to develop their own electronic applications that will be compatible with virtual reality.
This comes after reports were revealed that Apple is currently in talks with a large group of media and entertainment companies, in order to achieve compatibility between its expected virtual reality glasses, and the visual and audio entertainment services provided by these companies.
According to the predictions published about the expected virtual reality glasses from Apple, the glasses, when officially unveiled, are expected to cost $3,000.
This cost is twice the cost of Mita’s virtual reality glasses, which were revealed during the past 2022, under the name “Meta Quest Pro”, and its cost is deliberately limited to $ 1,500.
In a previous report by Bloomberg, it is expected that the new Apple glasses will be introduced to the market, with support for two high-resolution screens, which are customized for compatibility with Metaverse, in addition to external cameras for augmented reality.
Among the services that Apple will be keen to achieve compatibility with its new glasses is its Apple TV + digital broadcast service, in addition to Apple currently conducting talks with Disney platforms and a number of entertainment companies to take advantage of the broadcast and entertainment services it provides to users of the upcoming glasses.


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Consumer Access to Safe, Legal, Natural Products Under Attack
NPA Submits Comments for the Record
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bill reintroduced in the Massachusetts State Legislature would place a costly burden on small businesses who have already been hard hit by the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. The bills, H.D. 1309 and S.D. 678, the “Protecting Children from Diet Pills and Muscle-Building Supplements,” have been reintroduced by Representative Kay Khan and State Senator Mike Rush. Last year, NPA submitted comments for the record here.
The proposal restricts the purchase of supplements to individuals over the age of 18, which would mean that young people in Massachusetts would be banned from addressing nutrient gaps in their diets with nutrient-rich supplements.
“This will do nothing to promote public health and will actually make it worse by restricting access to nutritional supplements during the pandemic,” said Daniel Fabricant, Ph.D., President and CEO. “We should be focused on expanding access to nutritional supplements for all Americans, especially those that are nutritionally vulnerable.”
According to a 2017 study on the risk of deficiency in children and adults in the United States, thirty-one percent of the U.S. population is at risk of at least one vitamin deficiency or anemia, including, a significantly higher risk for in women (37%), non-Hispanic blacks (55%), and obese individuals (39%).
This year, NPA launched a new effort to expand access to nutritional supplements for all communities through the tax code and assistance programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
The bill’s sponsors claim that the legislation is necessary because of an association between dietary supplements and eating disorders, yet no such association has been proven by a review of the most authoritative publicly-available data. NPA recently filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to determine if any such association existed and found no adverse events or reporting associated with dietary supplements and eating disorders.
“Nutritional supplements are simply natural ingredients found in foods and restricting access to them is unfair to Massachusetts consumers, hurts responsible retailers and drains the state budget through lost sales taxes. Nobody wins,” said Dr. Fabricant. “We are pleased that a bipartisan majority of members in the state house and the Baker Administration agree with this and with consumers and have so far rejected this unnecessary and costly approach.”
The bill also targets natural ingredients called thermogenics, which are found in foods and beverages we use every day, like caffeine in a Dunkin Donuts cup of coffee, catechins found in green tea or beans in Boston Bean soup. “Should young people in Massachusetts need to get the consent of a parent or guardian or prove they are 18 to buy these products?” asked Dr. Fabricant.
This legislation also targets lipotropics, which are found in healthy and recommended foods, including lean cuts of beef, chicken, turkey and in fish like salmon and Massachusetts own world-famous cod. “If eating cod is a health threat to minors it might be time to remove the Sacred Cod from the State Capitol, because cod is chock full of lipotropics, an ingredient targeted by this bill,” said Dr. Fabricant.
The bill has already sparked a public outcry and has led to thousands of letters in opposition.


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RegTech provider Smarsh has made another addition to its senior leadership team. The company announced this week that it hired Sheldon Cummings to serve as general manager of its business unit tasked with serving RIAs and broker-dealers.
Previously, he was the chief operating officer at Mailchimp, the automated email marketing platform. He also spent time at Intuit serving in dual roles: vice president of sales and the chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer. Cummings’ hire comes after Kim Crawford Goodman joined the company last year to serve as CEO.
“The intensifying regulatory landscape often impacts [RIAs and broker-dealers] in ways distinct from larger, global enterprise businesses,” said Crawford Goodman. “Sheldon’s vision and skill set align perfectly with our long-term strategic goals for serving wealth management firms.”
Smarsh provides capture, archiving and oversight solutions for financial services firms and entities in other highly regulated industries. In an era where more people than ever are working remotely, there has been a massive spike in digital communications – all of which must be retained for regulatory and compliance purposes.
“I am honored to join Smarsh and lead our Corporate business team to new heights,” Cummings said. “The volume and variety of digital messages flowing through various workplace and personal communication platforms grow at an unthinkable rate each day. Financial services firms, in particular, need a proven industry leader to help mitigate the risk exposure related to these communications. I look forward to working with everyone at Smarsh to give our customers the tools they need to meet this extraordinary, evolving challenge.”
Cummings has also held director positions in the consumer goods industry, including with Kraft Foods and Mondelēz International.


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Happy Mondays — saving the planet one day at a time
What do ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and American actress Gwyneth Paltrow have in common — beyond a place in the celebrity stratosphere?
They both support the idea of ‘meat-free Mondays’ - a notion pioneered in 2009 by citizens of the small Belgian town of Ghent. It’s based on the consensus that current practice on producing meat is bad for the environment and that reducing our consumption is a plus for the planet.
But how does this concept hold up? And can we really be greener by eating less meat? Beyond that, what are the implications vis-à-vis the recession — and the global South?
Food for thought
Exact figures vary regarding the impact of meat production. In a study for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, it’s argued that livestock accounts for 18 per cent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, making it a bigger contributor than the transport sector. The environmental campaigning organisation Greenpeace estimates that every kilogram (kg) of beef eaten represents about the same GHG emissions as flying 100 kilometres.
The situation already seems alarming. And it looks unlikely to improve any time soon: production of meat is predicted to double between 2006 to 2050, driven by growing demand in low- and middle-income countries as populations’ incomes rise.
But when it comes to GHG emissions, all meat is not equal. As with fruit and vegetable supply chains, emissions throughout a product’s lifecycle – all the stages involved in the creation of product, from creation, packaging and transport to consumption - vary enormously due to different production models.
Lamb shipped from New Zealand to the UK, for instance, may still produce lower lifecycle emissions than domestically raised beasts if the flocks are grazed on productive (carbon neutral) grasslands rather than using fossil fuel-dependent feeds.
GHG emissions come from a mix of sources, including the animals themselves, land use change to clear forests for grazing or growing their feed, the feed itself, and transport through the system, from moving inputs such as fertilizer, to car journeys of the consumer.
Felling and food
Meat production exacerbates the loss of forests to accommodate the growing meat industry, particularly in tropical zones such as Brazil and South America. Cattle ranching is thought to be the leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon, alongside soy production – a major source of animal feed for large-scale meat production.
Unfortunately, the types of gases livestock release directly (methane and nitrous oxide) have more powerful global warming potential (which looks at the ability of the gas to trap solar radiation and the time it lasts in the atmosphere) than carbon dioxide.
It should be noted that some forms of meat production can be highly energy efficient, and it is possible to minimise negative environmental impacts. Taking meat produced in the US and Kenya, we can see that in the US, for each calorie of meat or dairy produced, livestock consumes more than five calories – making this a very costly, energy-inefficient, mode of production. In addition much of this feed production competes directly with food production for human consumption for land and resources, and typically could be consumed by humans directly.
In Kenya, livestock production yields more calories than it uses because livestock are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products that people wouldn’t eat.
Despite these differences, there is consensus that meat production is deterimental for the environment and that a reduction in consumption could bring environmental benefits.
Though developing countries may be driving forecast growth in meat production, much of the consumption to date has been driven by exceedingly high levels of consumption in the developed world. Consumption of meat is still unequal.
In Uganda, for instance, 45kg of meat and dairy products were consumed in 2003, while in Europe and the US, the figure was 400kg. Some 100 million people go hungry and could benefit vastly from an introduction of more meat and dairy products into their diets; yet 1 billion people are either overweight or clinically obese and if they eat too much meat are far more prone to suffering from cardio-vascular disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers.
Meanwhile, the main victims of climate change, which is in part driven by meat consumption, live in the developing world. For example, while changes in the climate may be positive for agriculture in the developed world, the developing world is likely to see significant reductions in yields, due to lower rainfall and higher temperature.
Meat eating in the slump
Meat is arguably cheaper than it should be – many of its environmental (and social costs) are not internalised in the price we pay at the supermarket counter.
But relatively speaking, it still represents an expensive form of protein compared to eggs or beans, for example. In economic terms, meat is a ‘luxury’ good. And that’s even truer when times are tight economically.
Some anecdotal trends suggest that the economic crisis has been reducing consumption in the developed world, particularly in the US. One industry expert argues that people are eating less beef, pork and poultry and that per capita consumption in the US is the lowest it’s been since 1982.
In addition, people have been buying cheaper cuts of meat. This fall in consumption may give sustainable development a temporary reprieve from the negative impacts of animal protein production, but there are equity issues here.
The recession may well bring about a reduction in people’s buying power in the developing world, potentially reducing any increases in much-needed consumption of meat, dairy and eggs.
Meanwhile, for a vast majority in the developed world, the recession and any reductions in consumption may bring much-needed health advantages and be beneficial for the environment and society.
Let’s hope the recession instills deep-seated changes in attitudes towards how much meat consumption is really necessary – and ethical. Maybe, just maybe, the recession has added fuel to the fire that began in Ghent.


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Businesses have been popping up in Anniston recently, with three in the process of opening in the Model City’s downtown: Daylight Donuts; Classic, Too!; and the Three Legged Monkey.
Although management at Daylight Donuts had planned to open Friday, delays with renovations to the shop’s location at the corner of 14th Street and Quintard Avenue pushed the date back. But the shop opened Sunday.
“The kids and parents will be able to come in on their way to school or work,” Owner Kim S. Ou said.
Ou, who is originally from Cambodia, said she and her family have been in the U.S. for about 10 years and decided earlier this year to settle in Anniston to start the donut business. The shop will serve coffee, a variety of donuts and such breakfast items as pigs in a blanket.
An expansion of Noble Street mainstay Classic on Noble, Classic, Too! is already open and serving a variety of coffee drinks and light breakfast items. “We decided we needed a nice coffee shop down here on Noble Street,” said owner David Mashburn.
The shop’s coffee menu includes such offerings as espresso, cappuccino, cafe mocha, caramel macchiato, as well as plain coffee.
Beginning this week, Mashburn said, the shop will begin offering lunch and add breakfast next week. Part of the impetus for opening a location across the street from Classic on Noble, Mashburn said, was frequent calls by patrons who can’t take the time to sit and order lunch in the dining room and instead order ahead.
Classic, Too!, with its lunch-counter setup, is intended to have a more casual atmosphere and will offer “grab-it-and-go” lunches for those who need to eat in a hurry. The new facility in the Noble Building also has plenty of seating inside and an outdoor patio for patrons that Mashburn said he hopes to have covered soon.
Just up the block, the Three Legged Monkey will soon open its doors. Owner Angela Butts said the night spot will offer a new mix for patrons and hopefully break some barriers.
“It’s going to be a diverse lounge,” she said. “We want to attract everybody, not just black people or white people … so everybody can come together and have fun.”
Butts said she plans to open in the evenings and offer events on different days of the week. These include spoken-word poetry, live bands, Monday Night Football specials and a Wednesday Happy Hour.
“We’re going to do a lot of searching around for local bands,” she said.
Butts said she doesn’t have a precise opening date for the business just yet. She must still appear before the City Council for approval of an alcohol license on Aug. 13.
The Three Legged Monkey will offer a relaxing atmosphere and serve drinks but no food, Butts said. “It’s more of an upscale lounge,” she said, “where grown people can come and have a good time and not worry about the young people taking over.”
Mayor Vaughn Stewart is glad to see new businesses popping up downtown.
“We’re fortunate that the recession is winding down,” he said Friday, noting that developers are becoming increasingly interested in doing business in the Model City.
“We have developers actually contacting the city, which has not been the case in a number of years, and it’s very encouraging,” he said. “We’ll do whatever we can do legally and financially to encourage those businesses to open in Anniston.”
Stewart said beyond the downtown corridor, there are opportunities for development all over the city.
“It’s exciting,” he said. “And I’m not saying all this will happen overnight, but it’s certainly something we’re working on.”
Staff writer Paige Rentz: 256-235-3564. On Twitter @PRentz_Star.


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As the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing's new president, Mitchell Lieber is focusing attention on the convergence of e-commerce and direct marketing. The association this year will launch a series of teleconference seminars in which participants follow a power point presentation online. "Increasingly, clicks-and-bricks companies are doing direct marketing," Mr. Lieber says. "On the brick side, it's increasingly how companies reach their customers, and on the click side, e-commerce is direct marketing with the capability for real-time feedback."
Education: State University of New York-Albany.
Work highlights: Sept. 1989-present, president, Lieber & Associates, Chicago, a call-center consulting company that has worked with companies such as CBS Sportsline, FTD and R.L. Polk & Co.; 1988-89, marketing manager, WFMT-FM; 1985-88, telemarketing and telecom manager, Business Services Inc. (now Output Technologies).


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Privacy–People Do Care!
The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology has published a paper, “Mobile Phones and Privacy” that asks users themselves what is important to them when it comes to online privacy.
TechRepublic does a great job of examining the paper and also interviews the researchers behind it.
In question after question, cell phone users state their preference for more privacy rather than less. It makes one wonder why then we all agree to accept so much less.
The paper comes to several conclusions:
- The market has produced few realistic, privacy-protective alternatives to the dominant privacy-invasive online services.
- Greater transparency and consent requirements could help, but only if consumers can make decisions that align with their preferences.
- The gulf between private-sector information demands and consumer preferences suggest that better disclosures and choice mechanisms will only preserve the status quo.
- Aggressive interventions are necessary to create incentives for firms to reduce collection of personal information.
- Privacy tradeoffs are not clear; consumers need the ability to change their minds and walk away from a service.
Take a look. It will do your librarian heart good.
Thanks to LISNews for the link.
Photo from Alan Cleaver.


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Blog: Chocolate is good for your health... honest
Katy Askew | 6 September 2013
It's official: chocolate is good for your health.
At least, according to the European Commission. Brussels has agreed Barry Callebaut's claim that a daily intake of 200 milligrams of cocoa flavanols from either 2.5 grams of the B2B chocolate giant's registered trademark Acticoa cocoa powder or ten grams of its dark chocolate support healthy blood circulation.
Approval from the European regulator means the health benefits can be flagged on Acticoa products in all European Union countries. Health claims can also be applied by Barry Callebaut customers who use Acticoa cocoa and chocolate products.
"Receiving the right to use a health claim on cocoa flavanols by the EU Commission is most valuable for us as it is a great reward for long years of extensive research. The health claim is opening up new market potential. Since we received the positive opinion from EFSA on our submitted health claim, we saw a lot of interest among our customers," Peter Boone, chief innovation officer at Barry Callebaut, said.
And it works well for me too. Now "heart healthy" will be my reason for eating chocolate. This will sit neatly alongside "doctors say its good", my justification for drinking red wine. I forget why wine is good, and I'm not entirely sure the EC approves, but I do like the idea that it is backed by health professionals.
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