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HR recruiters must be vigilant against a new, more targeted type of cyberattack, such as a recent incident involving a phony LinkedIn profile. HR is particularly vulnerable because it has access to employees’ private information, like their W-2s.
Cybercriminals are moving from mass attacks—"spamming and hoping” that some minuscule percentage of email recipients will open the fake emails—to “spearfishing,” a more specific approach, Asaf Cidon, vice president of content security services at Campbell, Calif.-based Barracuda Networks, told Bloomberg BNA Aug. 14.
Criminals research a company, Cidon said, “using social media to establish a relationship” and then post a professional-looking resume on LinkedIn. If a recruiter responds, the spammer manipulates the person to “get access to everyone’s profile in the company.” With that information, phishers can send an email impersonating a senior company official such as the CEO, asking the HR manager to send the W-2 tax forms of everyone in the company, he said.
This type of attack goes by the colorful name of “spear phishing” among security specialists. The spoof email from the CEO may be from an address only one letter different from the genuine address, or the “from” field of the email may contain the genuine address while the “reply to” field has a different address, or the CEO’s actual email account may be “hijacked,” Cidon said, adding that he’s seen more of the CEO email hijacking in the past month or two.
The IRS itself has put out a warning about these scams. Even tax practitioners are vulnerable, the agency says.
LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, has become an online center for people to post their resumes and for recruiters to search for good prospects; there were 467 million members as of the third quarter of 2016. And it’s a tempting vehicle for scammers, as are other social networks.
Speaking of LinkedIn, Cidon said, “I don’t want to single them out,” because “any social network is susceptible” to these kinds of attacks. Twitter, Facebook, and even text messaging systems have all been used by scammers, he said.
Dell SecureWorks, a Dell Technologies company that provides cyberattack security solutions, recently caught a malicious scam on LinkedIn through its antivirus software. Among other things, this shows the importance of having antivirus softwawre, Shawn Neibaur, a security engineer who heads up the security team at Lindon, Utah-based HR software company BambooHR, told Bloomberg BNA Aug. 14.
What Dell SecureWorks detected was “‘Mia Ash,’ a fake persona on social media designed to build rapport with potential victims at target organizations in the Middle East and then infect them with malware. In the past, attackers have been accused of posing as recruiters at Northrop Grumman and General Motors, Barracuda Networks said in an Aug. 10 statement.
LinkedIn said the Mia Ash account has been dealt with, and it advised caution in dealing with online entities. “The account in question was investigated and has been restricted. We always recommend people only connect with people that they trust,” LinkedIn told Bloomberg BNA in a statement emailed Aug. 16.
“On the LinkedIn attack, they were trying to get someone in the company to download a file with malware,” enabling the perpetrators to steal email addresses and passwords and use them to wire-transfer money or steal W-2s, Cidon said.
“HR departments are the hot new targets for spear phishing,” Neibaur said. They have people’s Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable data, which are more valuable to sophisticated cybercrooks than “raw credit card numbers” because they can be used for tax fraud and identity theft.
Being hacked for such information can expose a company to compliance risks, especially in the European Union, which has strict regulations about protecting employee privacy, he said.
Somebody in any large organization is bound to be using a “weak password” or reusing one that’s been compromised when a site such as Yahoo was hacked, Cidon said. He recommends the use of “two-factor authentication,” in which anybody trying to access the company’s network has to both supply a password and respond to an additional verification step—for example, provide a verification code sent via text message to a known mobile phone number.
He also suggested training employees, especially those who handle sensitive information, and using a product that can scan email messages and determine whether there’s something fishy in the text that looks like it wasn’t composed by the alleged sender.
Neibaur said BambooHR makes sure there’s a clear separation between business and personal networks.. Employees can’t access the company’s network except on approved workstations, and the company provides a completely isolated, separate network that employees can access with their personal smartphones because the tech-savvy expect employers these days to provide such a service, he said.
He also recommends that employers not allow employees to access Facebook, LinkedIn, and other such sites except for work purposes and explain to them that it’s for reasons of cybersecurity.
The employer could completely “lock down” work computers such that they can only access certain approved websites, but there tends to be “cultural resistance” to such extreme measures, he said, “because people don’t like being treated like children.”
Recruiting departments should consider using an HR information system so they don’t have to accept emailed resumes, which can be risky. An HRIS system “has a portal that does all antivirus testing upfront,” he said.
Further advice came from Alvaro Hoyos, chief information security officer at San Francisco-based OneLogin.
“Even though our personal identities and corporate identities overlap, personnel and their employers need to be aware of the risk of the intersection of the two,” he told Bloomberg BNA in an Aug. 16 email. “For example, companies should have policies about personnel accessing their personal emails on work systems or networks. Companies should encourage personnel not to store personal data on their corporate systems. In the end, this benefits all parties and helps mitigate some of the risk related to spear phishing and other social engineering campaigns for both your identities.”
Anyone can detect phishing emails by asking oneself a few questions, he said: “Does the email contain an unexpected or unusual request? Does it look or feel ‘off’? Do the ‘from’ or ‘reply-to’ fields contain incorrect email addresses? Are the links malicious/obfuscated?”
“The days when security could be three or four guys sitting in an office are dead and gone,” Neibaur said. “Everyone must be responsible because everyone is a target.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Martin Berman-Gorvine in Washington at email@example.com
The IRS warning about W-2 email scams is available at https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/dont-take-the-bait-step-6-watch-out-for-the-w-2-email-scam.
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text: Small is beautiful, says the new Brazilian-South African development team S2. Their latest boutique project “O” Residences has just 41 units, perfect for Bay Harbor, itself a “super cozy” hidden gem. ““O” is walking distance from some of the best shops and restaurants in the area, which is ranked one of the safest neighborhoods in the country and has one of the best schools. Plus, there’s no traffic”, said S2’s South African President Marc Schmulian, extolling the property’s locale. “The island is up and coming to the extreme.” The developers plan their project around a concept, from a place of inspiration, and for “O” (French eau for water) the theme is all things aquatic. Everyone can take advantage of the panoramic views since every single residence will have a waterfront view. On top of that, “O” is loaded up with more water features – pools, a waterfall, hot tubs, bay view lounges, and the building’s signature, “water deck,” a gorgeous, glassy wading pool where owners will be able to kick back when the scorching summer heat hits. “We were determined to bring the theme of water indoors.” Said Schmulian. “Instead of creating closed-off corridors, we created a trellis system and natural atriums on each floor so that you are protected from the elements, but in nature at the same time,” he explained. Sound good to us! Vertical gardens are the trendy thing these days, and the project’s architect Charles Benson is famous for them. In “O”’s case, a cozy building doesn’t mean meager amenities; that much should be clear now, but S2 told us, there’s much, much more. Amenities include a breezy summer kitchen, 1,000-square-foot gym with state-of-the-art equipment, boat slips, and free membership with the well-known Palm Restaurant and Club for all owners! Remember that prices at “O” (from $600,000) to $1 million, approximately) are a value when you consider where you are. Adjacent to Indian Creek, Bal Harbour and Sunny Isles, “O” will be the epicenter of multi-million dollar living. “We aim to give people tons of amenities and the same lifestyle that you would get in one of these places, but for an affordable price,” Claudio Stivelman, CEO of S2 Development said. One high-tech extra will be “O”’s smart-home technology in form of a touch panel within each unit that will interface with building amenities, to bring the car around or book the summer kitchen or a cabana. S2 is also partnering with local restaurants and shops to integrate their services. For the technologically precocious, lights, shades, and appliances will also be able to get with the program. “O” will also afford its owners a number of low-tech luxuries, such as 9-foot floor-to-ceiling windows, glass panel-terraces that will run the full length of most units, high-end appliances, and designer fixtures all around. For the interiors, S2 has partnered with Nuspace Designs. “They will sit down with buyers to help them plan and decorate their new units, which will be completely customizable,” Schmulian said. “Nuspace can do them from top-to-bottom, to the buyer’s taste.” Based on the renderings, we think “O” will be totally gorgeous as-is and plenty of buyers agree. Despite the 70 percent deposit needed before closing, S2 has welcomed South Americans, from Argentina, Venezuela, and CEO Claudio Stivelman’s native Brazil. A number of Canadians and locals have also signed on the dotted line. Most buyers plan to make the Bay Harbor property their year-round home. “It means they are buying into our concept,” said Stivelman. “It is an emotional buy and we appreciate that since we put a tremendous amount of passion into what we do.” Just as they want buyers to want to buy at “O”, S2 wants realtors to sell it. That’s why they’re sweetening the deal for all of the pros out there with high 7 percent commission. “Outside brokers will make a good 3.5% before we even break ground,” Schmulian expanded. With said groundbreaking planned for the very beginning of next year and completion in the second half of 2016 there’s still time to get in on this prize of a project. But, if you miss the boast on “O”, S2 has more on the Bay Harbor horizon, namely La Boutique, another 41 unit, you guessed it, boutique waterside project that, from what we’ve heard, will be splendid. S2 is also co-developing Muse with PMG, keeping themselves busy all over town. Whatever your plans, keep an eye on S2 – they may think intimate and exclusive, but we see big things for them in this business.

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SME Survey: SMEs ready to embrace IoT
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are notoriously slow when it comes to adopting new technologies, but South African SMEs are about to do a U-turn in this regard, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). In fact, as many as 83% of decision-makers responding to a new survey expect to be using IoT in their business within five years.
This was one of the most notable results from SME Survey 2018, a research project conducted in partnership with QuickBooks, based on 1400 interviews with SME decision-makers. However, the IoT (the network of devices featuring an IP address and the communication between these internet-enabled devices and systems) is very much an outlier in terms of future technology uptake by SMEs, says Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx and principal researcher for SME Survey.
“The IoT is crucial to the development and success of many SMEs and it’s no surprise that South African businesses are recognising the value of implementing and applying this technology,” says Rich Preece, Global Leader of the QuickBooks Accountant Business. “Time and insightful data are essential commodities for any small business and they are two of the biggest advantages the IoT can offer small businesses.”
While the Survey asked SMEs about multiple future technologies – including artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, 3D printing, crowd-sourcing, Blockchain and virtual reality (VR), as well as IoT – only the latter appears likely to have significant uptake among SMEs in the next few years.
“SME decision-makers are generally only willing to embrace a new technology if there is a clear business case to do so,” says Goldstuck. “We noted in the interim results that the uptake of fibre ahead of ADSL is paralleling that of ADSL’s growth over dial-up in this sector a decade ago. This is clearly due to the obvious benefits fibre delivers to SMEs. It has become obvious over the years that only technologies that directly benefit the SME, by helping it to save or make money, or become more efficient, will be adopted. IoT clearly fits the bill here.
“Many SMEs have already been exposed to the benefits of the IoT in some form or another, thanks to technologies for vehicle tracking and asset management, so they are already aware of its benefits. This is the most likely reason SMEs foresee this as an area of major investment in the near future.”
He points out that next on the list were AI and Big Data, which came far behind and were only expected to be adopted by 29% and 27% of SMEs, respectively. This is not too surprising, says Goldstuck, considering that these technologies are mostly beneficial to businesses with large customer bases or complex logistics.
“Only 21% of SMEs state they will consider 3D printing, and this will likely be mostly in those fields where models or prototypes are required, or that need a limited run of a particular product. While the potential benefits are huge, the current cost-benefit ratio is not at a level that most SMEs would find attractive.”
Crowd-sourcing was also not popular with SMEs, with only 16% of respondents answering positively. Goldstuck puts this down to it being too new as a business tool. Because it requires a new way of thinking, adoption requires a mindset change within SMEs, something that always takes time to achieve.
“Blockchain is also a very new technology, so its value proposition is not entirely clear for SMEs. Furthermore, it is intimately tied to Bitcoin, which, due to its crash earlier this year, has had a damaging impact on perception of Blockchain. Before Bitcoin climbed through the roof, 13% SMEs were prepared to consider Blockchain, but following the January crash, the figure dropped to a mere 5%.”
Similarly, he points out, AI also saw a major fluctuation between the interim results (34%) based on late-2017 interviews and the more recent early-2018 data (19%). He suggests this disaffection with AI stems from the intensification of coverage of the impact that Facebook and Google algorithms have had on the promotion of fake news. Since it was AIs that effectively made the decisions that drove many of the fake news stories’ popularity, this may well have had an impact on how much trust SMEs are willing to place in this technology.
Innovative hardware did not fare much better, though.
“Only 8% of SME owners indicated they would be utilising virtual reality (VR) within the next five years. This is probably due to the fact that VR is still regarded by many as a toy, with few real benefits for a business.
“Technology vendors should note that, while 70% of SMEs are ready to embrace new technologies, the only one they really seem enthusiastic about is IoT. This demonstrates that, while the willingness is there, they will only embrace something new if it makes sense for their business. Moreover, it also serves as a warning to technology developers that, just because SMEs say they are ready to embrace new technology, doesn’t mean that they are willing to purchase any new technology.”
SME Survey is the original and largest representative survey since 2003 to measure the forces shaping SME competitiveness in South Africa.
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European economic woes have cost Ford Motor Company $149 million so far this year and the bill could rise to $600 million for the full year, the American carmaker said yesterday.
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Ford said that the problems in Europe were the result of lower sales and falling demand for spare parts as consumers and companies cut their spending.
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Azerbaijan's non-oil, gas production up
By Ayya Lmahamad
Azerbaijan increased the volume of production in the non-oil and gas sector by 20.8 percent in January-February 2022, the State Statistics Committee has reported.
In the first two months, the volume of production in the oil and gas sector also increased by 1.4 percent.
Industrial products worth AZN 13.1 billion ($7.7bn) were produced, which is by 4.6 percent more compared to the same months of 2021.
Some 72.9 percent of the industrial output was produced in the mining sector, 22.4 percent in the manufacturing sector, 4.2 percent in the production, distribution and supply of electricity, gas and steam, and 0.5 percent in the sector of water supply, waste treatment and disposal sector.
Moreover, commercial oil production in the mining sector drop by 6.4 percent, while commercial gas production increased by 17.8 percent.
The volume of production in the sector of production, distribution, and supply of electricity, gas and steam increased by 5.1 percent, while the volume of production in the sector of water supply, waste treatment, and disposal increased by 12.8 percent.
Additionally, the production of construction materials in the manufacturing sector grew by 83.8 percent, electronic equipment by 78.2 percent, furniture by 75.9 percent, chemical products by 48.3 percent, pharmaceutical products by 42.6 percent, computers, electronic and optical products by 39.6 percent, printing products by 37 percent, oil products by 25.4 percent, rubber and plastic products by 23.2 percent and food products by 14.1 percent.
In the meantime, production in the sphere of installation and repair of machinery and equipment dropped by 9.7 percent, textile production by 11.2 percent, tobacco products by 10.3 percent and wood processing industry by 27.8 percent.
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China Mobile reported that it added 10.67 million 4G subscribers during the first quarter of 2019.
China Mobile’s 4G subscriber base reached 723 million in Q1 2019 against 713 million in Q4 2018.
China Mobile’s total number of mobile customers reached around 931 million in March 2019 as compared with 925 million in December 2018.
Handset data traffic recorded 172 percent growth. Handset data usage reached 5.7GB (+162 percent). Voice usage minutes fell 9.3 percent. SMS usage rose 19.3 percent. Mobile ARPU stood at RMB50.3 for the first quarter vs 45.4 in Q4 2018.
China Mobile added 10.34 million wireline broadband customers to take the total number to 167 million. Wireline broadband ARPU was RMB30.8 vs RMB31.5.
China Mobile’s operating revenue dipped 0.3 percent to RMB185 billion.
China Mobile’s telecom services revenue dropped 0.5 percent to RMB165.9 billion for the first quarter of 2019 — due to the decline in data tariffs.
China Mobile’s revenue from products increased 1.5 percent to RMB19.1 billion.
China Mobile’s profit fell 8.3 percent to RMB23.7 billion with profit margin of 12.8 percent. EBITDA increased 4.4 percent to RMB72.7 billion.


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The energy crisis has taken over from the coronavirus pandemic as the main theme of GBP to AUD forecasts into 2022
The outlook for the pound for October is very uncertain due to rising inflation, slowing growth and unemployment, the combination of which could create a nightmare scenario for the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee.
The energy crisis has pushed the Pound down against the Australian dollar plus AUD is benefiting from gas and coal prices increases.
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The Sterling to Aussie exchange rate is even more volatile than usual because of the uncertainties around how the British economy will perform post-Brexit and the relative impact on the two economies of the Covid-19 pandemic.
NAB have revised upwards their Aussie to pound sterling forecasts now expecting the GBP/AUD rate to be at A$1.88 by June 2022.
Westpac have changed their GBP-AUD forecast from 1.85 to 1.81 by the end of September, which is an upgrade from an earlier projection of 1.7857.
Australia and the United Kingdom signed a free trade agreement in June 2020, which will make whisky and wine cheaper in both countries and reduce tariffs on speciality foods, also easing travel and work restrictions.
You can read more about GBP cross-rate forecasts here GBP Trends and Forecasts for 2021.
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Financial squeeze getting tougher for food and grocery suppliers, AFGC
A detailed financial health report on Australia’s $111 billion food and grocery sector has found suppliers being squeezed between high manufacturing costs and dominant retailers, according to the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AGFC).
The Competitiveness and Sustainable Growth Report, which was conducted by KPMG for the AFGC, provided detailed analysis of real financial data from food and grocery suppliers, covering the last four years 2010-13.
AFGC CEO Gary Dawson said the report found Australia now has the highest manufacturing costs in the world, and that retailers are extracting even greater payments from suppliers to fund discounts and promotions.
“This report demonstrates how tough the market conditions have become for food and grocery suppliers, squeezed between the unstoppable force of dominant retailers and the immovable object of high labour, utility and regulatory costs,” Mr Dawson said.
“A key finding is that one dollar in every four earned by suppliers is being returned to retailers to fund discounts, rebates and promotions,” Mr Dawson said. “The rapid growth in payments extracted by retailers represents a direct profit shift from suppliers to retailers and reflects the dominant position of the two major supermarket chains,” he said.
The AFGC said the two major retailers extracted an additional 5 per cent more from suppliers than other retailers, which reflected their market power. This ‘trade spend’ has been growing at four percent per annum, while volume has been flat and profitability declining sharply, according to the AFGC.
“This level of funding flowing back to the major retailers is simply unsustainable, with a direct impact already on marketing, R&D and innovation spending,” Mr Dawson said.
Other key findings of the report included:
Australia has the highest manufacturing costs in the world, with labour, utilities and regulatory costs all among the highest globally;
A strong focus on cost containment by suppliers has brought some reductions in supply chain costs through initiatives such as automation to boost efficiency and productivity;
Capital investment is growing, which is a positive sign for the future, although much of this investment has been focused on ‘staying in business’;
Profitability of Australian suppliers is now well below international peers, and falling further behind, raising questions about the willingness of major companies to make major investments to upgrade Australian facilities;
Despite growing demand for premium food in Australia’s key export markets, we are losing market share in China, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan.
“Looking forward, the key challenge for Australia’s food and grocery sector is to improve its competitiveness in order to secure growth opportunities domestically and in export markets,” Mr Dawson said.
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Mr Dawson said the report underlined the importance of “levelling up the playing field between retailers and suppliers”.
“It is important that the draft Food and Grocery Industry Code of Conduct move through the current regulatory review process to get it in place as soon as possible,” Mr Dawson said. “The Code will provide greater contractual certainty and transparency. In addition, the ‘root and branch’ review of Competition Policy provides a welcome opportunity to examine and address the current market imbalances,” he said.
“Without a viable domestic food processing sector Australia will not fully capitalise on the opportunities of the Asian ‘dining boom’,” Mr Dawson said.
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Roku officially launched the Hulu Plus application. Sad news is you can only get Hulu on Roku if you pay $7.99 and that doesn’t limit the amount of commercials. Nonetheless, we are one step closer in cutting the proverbial cable cord.
The service will hit other boxes like PS3 and XBox360 soon.
“We are excited to bring Hulu Plus to all Roku users,” said Pete Distad, VP of Content Distribution for Hulu. “With Hulu Plus on Roku, TV fans will have an easy way to streamto their TVs the shows they love, whenever they want.”
The $7.99 price change has given Netflix a run for their money. With a less than 24 hour turnaround for NBC, ABC and FOX content, you can definitely watch the shows when you want.
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INDUS Battle Royale introduces New Hero ‘POKHRAN’, Check details – To celebrate Diwali, India-based publisher SuperGaming has announced a new hero for its upcoming battle royale ‘Indus.’ The new hero is created by Homi J. Bhabha as per the game’s lore. The release of the hero seeks to tap into India’s history and culture and the release of Pokhran seeks to memorialize one of India’s most important scientists ever.
New Hero “Pokhran” introduced in INDUS Battle Royale
Homi J. Bhabha, a prominent figure in the international scientific community, served as the president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) from 1960 to 1963. Additionally, he contributed to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Bhabha’s untimely demise in a plane crash in 1966 at the age of 56 marked a significant loss for India and the global scientific community.
The made-in-India battle royale game seeks to highlight Bhabha’s accomplishments through its gameplay and Pokhran is just one of the many heroes that will highlight India’s history and culture.
Indus’ Closed Beta is Arriving Soon
The Indo-Futuristic battle royale Indus developed by SuperGaming has been highly anticipated by several battle royale fans. The Indian developer has announced that the game will enter closed beta in the coming days.
SuperGaming’s much-anticipated Indo-Futuristic battle royale, “Indus,” is set to enter its closed beta phase in the upcoming days. The Indian developer has gathered significant anticipation among battle royale players, promising not only the traditional battle royale mode but also successful features from previous community playtests.
Battle Royale Players are expecting INDUS the Made In India game to be a blast in the gaming community so prepare yourself to dive into the battlefield of INDUS.
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The Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ are smartphones that may be close to a perfect state, and this isn’t being said by a Samsung fanboy, nothing close to that, but when something is good we have to admit. The smartphone does great in nearly every area of compromise, being a hard adversary for the rest of competition. However, the Galaxy S9 and S9+ still are “mortal” smartphones and aren’t saved from issues.
In the recent months, we have seen a number of reports widespread through Europe, Africa, Australia and the Middle East. Those reports were related to call issues being suffered by the owners of both smartphones, according to the users the call isn’t stable and some drops were experienced in the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus.
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Samsung has been quiet since the first reports started to appear, but apparently, they finally acknowledged the issue and today an update with a fix is being rolled out to both flagships. The two updates are labeled as G960FXXU1ARD4 and G965FXXU1ARD4 and are respectively being delivered to all eligible Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus.
Each of these updates weights at 150MB and brings nothing besides a fix for the call stability issues suffered by users in the recent months. Funnily, there is just one addition to this update and is a quality improvement in the standard Wallpapers package. Until the moment, we can’t confirm if the above update has fixed the call issues once and for all, we’re waiting for the user’s reports to decide if Samsung has managed to kill this annoying problem in this update.


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Schroders and Calastone want to put funds on blockchain. But do these vehicles take the industry anywhere?
Vendors attempting to move funds distribution processing to blockchain can't reach escape velocity.
The robo advisor is using Calastone’s fund-admin platform to go beyond ETFs in product design.
Buy-side executive Martin Davis calls for asset managers to join this “too compelling” project.
The marketplace will create efficiencies and new products – if fund managers, distributors and registrars find use cases for their data.
The fintech has built a blockchain for communicating structured data among funds and their service providers.
The funds-transaction vendor has the tech; can banks and buy sides find the business model?
It should enable active fund managers, distributors and service providers to come up with new business models to combat declining fees.
Aviva Digital sees the advice-driven model of selling investments is experiencing a resurgence.


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Japanese automaker Honda recently announced that it has been targeted by a cyberattack — an attack which is currently affecting its operations on a global scale. According to recent reports, the issue is currently affecting the company’s ability to access its servers, affecting several of its internal systems. “Work is being undertaken to minimize the impact and to restore the full functionality of production, sales and development activities,” and also added that no data had been breached at this point in time.
The attack began Sunday night and into Monday morning, where hackers targeted Honda with ransomware — a sort of computer malware that locks users out of their own systems unless they pay the attacker to remove it. Specifically, cyberattackers used the “Ekans” malware, a type of ransomware that targets industrial systems used to operate factories. A Reddit user noted, “From what I’ve heard having one close by, they have 1,800 servers and 2,000 workstations infected at just one plant with a recovery time of two hours per server.”
At this point, it’s not immediately clear who attacked Honda’s servers, but the Telegraph points out this is not the first time the automaker has been targeted by hackers.
U.S. workers sent home, unable to access manufacturing plants
As a result of the attack, the Union County Daily Digital, a local news outlet situated around Honda’s Marysville, Ohio assembly plant, noted that its A-shift was sent home when employees couldn’t even enter the building. As cyberattackers infiltrated the company’s network infrastructure, they took to denying door access to normal users.
The company still insists they see a “minimal” business impact from the attack, but are still working to take some of its affected operations back online within the coming hours and days. Apart from the Marysville plant, the company’s announcement confirmed that operations at its Swindon, UK plant as well as those in Italy, Turkey, Japan and other North American facilities. Honda currently employs 220,000 people globally.


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Los Angeles, June 20 (IANS) Actress Katie Holmes, who got associated with the Bobbi Brown cosmetics company in 2012, was given a night-time look for the brand’s new campaign.
In the ad for Navy & Nude Collection of the brand, Holmes is seen with tied up hair, highlighting her face. Subtle smokey eyes with navy eyeliner while the lips are kept nude, reports eonline.com.
“I wanted to give Katie a night time look that she would feel confident wearing and that still represents her own style,” said Bobbi Brown, founder of the cosmetics company.
The 34-year-old has also shot ads for Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Cream Shadow Sticks and Natural Long-Wear Even Finish Compact Foundation.


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Microsoft's augmented-reality headset could be used in medicine, retail and other fields, the startup says
Microsoft is also opening its Health Cloud platform to outside developers, allowing them to integrate fitness data into their Microsoft Band apps.
Passengers were unable to check in for flights or print boarding passes.
Austin is the next city where Google will test its autonomous driving technology
Photos had been limited to 640 pixels since the company's launch in 2010
In both incidents, a self-driving test car was rear-ended at a stop light. No injuries occurred.
Fitbit's fitness trackers may have outsold the Apple Watch in May, according to a research firm.
The Google-funded startup's Neo camera won't compete with the search giant's Jump virtual-reality camera system
Microsoft's design uses lenses that may cost $225 per eye and a high-end 3D printer to produce the lens casing.
The 3D imaging startup raised $30 million in funding that will go toward developing mobile apps for creating 3D content
The institute's software will be free for non-profits and academic researchers, but everyone will pay to use Google's cloud platform
The device is designed for use in medical settings and won't be geared toward consumers looking to track fitness activities.
Google may have a strong interest in applicants who have creative backgrounds, like film making and directing.
The government still hasn't said how much data it fears was stolen in the breach.
Fitbit is valued at $6 billion dollars with its stock trading for around $30 per share


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The metaverse blurs the lines between our physical and digital lives, potentially transforming advertising, e-commerce, entertainment and education. Learn how this investment theme could unfold.
The metaverse sounds like an idea dreamed up by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, but the basic premise isn’t so farfetched: Create a network—or networks—of 3D virtual worlds that blur the lines between our physical and digital lives.
While many of these concepts are already used in gaming, the metaverse has consumer applications—imagine using a digital twin to try on clothing or shop for real estate and home décor—and the potential to transform everything from entertainment to education. Instead of reading about ancient Rome, for example, students could experience it virtually.
“We think the metaverse is most likely going to be a next-generation social media, streaming, gaming and shopping platform,” says Internet analyst Brian Nowak, “In some ways, we already live in a metaverse, as shown by the total time spent by daily active users in the U.S. on digital platforms.”
U.S. daily users of social media, streaming and gaming already spend the total equivalent of about 11 billion days per year consuming digital media and about 14 billion annual days watching linear television—time that could eventually move to the metaverse.
Still, before the metaverse becomes ubiquitous, it will need to overcome a range of hurdles, from the strength of existing digital platforms, to computing power and privacy issues. Here are some of the opportunities and risks.
The word metaverse evokes a virtual world where avatars drive digital cars and use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to buy art for their imaginary homes.
While such virtual commerce could ultimately be significant, the initial applications of the metaverse are more pragmatic. “We expect the metaverse to primarily operate as an advertising and e-commerce platform for offline products and purchases,” says Nowak.
In fact, advertising and e-commerce represent an $8.3 trillion opportunity to monetize U.S. consumer spending on an everything from games and music, to apparel, automobiles and real estate. In the not-so-distant future, consumers in the metaverse may be able to test-drive new cars, walk through home renovation plans and attend live concert events anywhere in the world—potentially unlocking additional $5 trillion in consumer spending related to new, more immersive experiences.
The metaverse has a potential $8.3 trillion total consumer expenditure TAM in the U.S. depending on the level of disruption
To be sure, the metaverse could eventually disrupt digital media and commerce in the same way streaming services shuttered video stores. For this reason, investors across industries should consider the long-term implications the metaverse could have for today’s stalwarts. Two potential hurdles, however, could slow the growth of this brave new digital world, and with it, the investment opportunities it may create:
- Current digital media and e-commerce offerings have never been more robust, are continually improving and represent a significant hurdle. Any metaverse offering or technology will need to be significantly better to compete for consumers’ attention. “In the end, we have to ask, what consumer pain-points will a metaverse solve for hundreds of millions of people?” says Nowak, noting that companies with aspirations to move into the metaverse will either need a partner or a “killer app” to drive mass adoption.
- Although consumers have become more accustomed to sharing personal data through e-commerce and social media, the metaverse is likely to introduce many new privacy issues—and not just because of the amount of data required to fuel it. If the metaverse in fact does transform commerce, education, healthcare and work, a far larger population than is currently active on social media— potentially hundreds of millions of people—will need to disclose detailed information about what they are doing and with whom.


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A Kmart store, located along a busy Transit Road retailing stretch in Lancaster, is slated to close — the victim of the company’s plan to cutback on its outlets.
Kmart officials confirmed the store, located at the corner of Transit and French roads, will close on April 14 when its lease expires. Officials said 68 people will lose their jobs with the store closing.
Kmart, last year, announced plans to close 60 of its 1,305 stores nationwide.
With the closing, Kmart will still have local stores in Buffalo, Cheektowaga, Niagara Falls and West Seneca.
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Richmond Times Dispatch June 24, 2019
FRANKFURT, GermanyIt’s a scary time to be in the car business. The internal combustion engine is under attack from electric challengers. Car ownership is becoming optional in the age of Uber.
Regulators around the world are fining companies that don’t do enough to cut carbon dioxide emissions, […]
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Chicago Daily Herald June 24, 2019
An online pharmacy told U.S. regulators it found another cancer-causing chemical in widely prescribed blood-pressure pills, raising new questions about a complex global web of companies that produces medicine for millions of people.
A solvent called dimethylformamide was discovered in the drug valsartan made by several […]
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Just-Style July 8, 2019 The next generation of warehouse operations can not only deliver new levels of retail profitability, but can stop margin erosion in its tracks. Craig Summers, UK managing director at Manhattan Associates, looks at steps retailers can take to make their warehouse operations succeed.
There is currently a downward pressure on […]
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Chicago Sun-Times July 8, 2019 Some over-the-counter eye drops and ointments have been recalled over concerns the products may not be sterile. Time to check the medicine cabinet.
Select over-the-counter eye drops and ointments sold at Walgreens and Walmart stores as well as some prescription ointments sold at other retailers have been recalled over […]
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The Toronto Star June 20, 2019 By Daron Taylor
Last year, Moms Organic Market founder and CEO Scott Nash did something many are afraid to do: He ate a cup of yogurt months after its expiration date. And then tortillas a year past their expiration date. I ate heavy cream I think 10 weeks […]
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Cycling on picturesque Mulholland Highway through bucolic, tree-studded hills, Milt Olin probably never saw the car that killed him.
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Feedback on plans for £100 million Grantham designer outlet village ‘is positive’
The company behind the plans for a £100 million designer outlet village in Grantham says it has received a very positive response from the public.
Rioja Developments held a consultation event on Friday and Saturday at ChristChurch in Finkin Street where people were able to see the plans.
If approved, the 270,000 sq ft retail village, located on a 36-acre section of the KiNG31 land, just south of Grantham, would create around 1,500 jobs and attract up to 3.5 million visitors per year. It would be accessed off a new A1 junction and include around 1,800 car parking spaces.
Giles Membrey, Managing Director of Rioja Developments, said: “It was great to see that, despite the rain, so many local people came out to view our proposals over the weekend. The initial feedback we have received is very positive, and we are all very excited about the benefits the Designer Outlet Village could bring to Grantham.
“I am looking forward to reviewing carefully what local people have said, refining our proposals, and presenting updated plans in a few weeks’ time.”
Everyone attending the event was given the opportunity to provide written feedback, or take away feedback forms to return by post. All the feedback will be taken into account in developing the final plans to submit to South Kesteven District Council.
Stephen Vickers, Managing Director of Buckminster, which owns the land, said: “As a major investor and property owner in Grantham town centre we are absolutely committed to Grantham’s future, meaning that listening to and understanding the views of local people is incredibly important.
“We are thrilled that the public has shown such strong support for the scheme, which further demonstrates Grantham Designer Outlet Village’s potential to act as a catalyst for economic growth as well as its appeal as a shopping destination.”
Leaflets outlining the proposals, along with freepost feedback forms, will be distributed in Grantham. The plans can be seen at granthamdesigneroutletvillage.com. Anyone with questions can phone the freephone consultation line on 0800 319 6162.
In the coming months, a second consultation event will be held to present any changes that will be made to the plans before they are submitted to South Kesteven District Council.
Rioja says that previous experience shows that 10 per cent of visitors to the outlet village will visit Grantham town centre boosting business and tourism.


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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The mood at Latin America’s largest wholesale market, the Central de Abastos in Mexico City, has morphed from typically cacophonous and bustling to cloudy and anxious as deliveries and sales grow sluggish amid a days-long fuel shortage.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador late last month launched a sweeping plan to stanch rampant fuel theft, the first major move of his young administration against widespread corruption and organized crime.
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But the move to close key fuel pipelines that have been tapped by criminals and instead re-route distribution via trucks has prompted hours-long lines at gas stations, while threatening to crimp the economy and damage the president’s popularity if shortages persist.
The effects of the crackdown have grown noticeably in the past week. At the Central de Abastos, where 62,000 cars and trucks converge daily to buy and sell fruits, plants and other goods, according to figures provided by the market, vendors say many have been staying home.
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Moto G6 and G6 Play Coming to India Soon! – Motorola
Motorola Moto G6 and G6 Play [Coming to India SOON!]
Motorola India has begun prodding the Moto G6 arrangement through its official web-based social networking channels. The Motorola twitter India page shared 14seconds video to promote their Moto G6 and Moto 6 Play, indicate that these model phone is coming to India!
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As you may know, the Moto G6 arrangement likewise has the G6 Plus, yet accessibility of each telephone will shift and it shows up the Plus won’t hit India.
Unfortunately, a correct declaration/dispatch date isn’t yet confirmed. But the advertising campaign has been started, we believe that it will arrive in India soon.


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Newspaper advertising revenue continues to take it on the chin.
According to the Newspaper Association of America, newspaper revenue in the third quarter dropped 5.1 percent, year over year. This is now the 25th straight quarter of ad revenue decline. In 2006, according to the NAA, ad revenue was $49.3 billion. Today, a comparative paltry $23.9 billion. The entire industry is now generating less ad revenue than Google.
If there’s a silver lining, it’s that online ad sales continue to grow, although far below the rate needed to sustain newspaper businesses. Online ad revenue over the year increased 3.6 percent to $759 million. Poynter points out that even with the slight increase of online ad revenue, that incremental gain doesn’t cover print losses — not even close, by a 10 to 1 ratio.
Newspapers are managing a declining asset. In the meantime, they are attempting to build a new digital business. At some point, newspapers must shed their legacy businesses. The only question is when. Some would argue that this is some date in the future, perhaps 10 or 20 years down the line. After all, online ad rates can’t replace print revenue right now.
Perhaps the time is now. Newspapers must change their economics. Anyone with a passing understanding of the online ad business knows that it’s fanciful to believe online ads will miraculously pull in the same rates as legacy print placements. Newspapers are living in denial. It’d be better if they made the leap now and fix their cost base for a new world.
“I thought the logical progression would be [that] they [would] start cutting days,” said Peter Stabler, an equity research analyst at Wells Fargo Securities. “There’s no faster way to cut and trim costs than to stop print on Mondays, then Tuesdays, then Thursdays, then Saturdays. That probably makes sense economically: You start looking at days where they don’t make advertising money. Mondays and Saturdays are high on the list.
“Whether they can disappear altogether? Yes, they probably could,” Stabler continued. “But there’s enormous pain associated with that.”
The digital divide of the 1990s has pretty much eroded (or evolved with some unintended consequences: Lower-income children now waste more time on devices than higher-income kids). In turn, more people now have access to content. Tablets and phones are as ubiquitous as televisions. Factors that once handcuffed publishers can now be in their favor.
And it’s not like publishers aren’t trying to put their eggs in as many digital baskets as possible. Whether it’s a site redesign to better the experience or creating an app, everything a publisher does focuses on how to work with advertisers. The advantage for publishers of going all digital is that they gain creativity and flexibility in working with advertisers. Just look at the different models: direct sales, exchanges, native. And there are more to come, I’m sure. What does print have? Solely direct.
The halcyon days of print excess are long gone. We know this, yet we continue to believe that there’s hope, that print will survive, that it’s needed. Maybe not. Journalism is needed. Content is needed. Distribution mechanisms change when better ones come about. Just ask the telegraph.
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Entrepreneur magazine: 2013’s Entrepreneurial Women to Watch
When Linda Rottenberg graduated from Yale Law School in 1993, she knew one thing: She didn’t want to practice law. So off to Argentina she went–to work for Ashoka, an organization that supports social entrepreneurs. Tech entrepreneurship was booming in the U.S. But in Argentina? Rottenberg learned that there wasn’t even a word for entrepreneur there. “Everybody I was meeting who had big talent aspired to a government job,” she says.
There was no venture capital. No role models. No support. That sparked the idea for Endeavor, the New York-based organization Rottenberg launched in 1997 with Peter Kellner, an investor who had witnessed the same lack of advocacy for entrepreneurs during a Harvard Business School trip to China. Endeavor finds what Rottenberg calls “high-impact” entrepreneurs around the world and supports them through intense mentoring–each participant gets his or her own board of advisors–and access to a network of local investors. Rottenberg, who serves as CEO, defines high-impact entrepreneurs as those with “the greatest ability to create jobs, generate revenues and become role models for the next generation.”
The basic idea hasn’t strayed much from Rottenberg’s initial plan. “We had sketched out search, select, support, give back–that the entrepreneurs would start giving back to Endeavor,” she says. “On the big-picture level, it is almost exactly what we had envisioned.”
But the program’s influence is even greater than Rottenberg could have imagined. Since its founding, Endeavor–which has 17 offices around the world and is aiming for 25 by 2015–has worked with 726 entrepreneurs. In 2011 program participants earned $5 billion in revenue and created 200,000 jobs. And they are starting to step up to the give-back portion of the program as well: In 2012 two Endeavor entrepreneurs each gave $1 million to their local offices. “They’re now mentors and angel investors themselves,” Rottenberg says.
That reciprocation is at the heart of Rottenberg’s mission. “The No. 1 factor for catalyzing the [entrepreneurial] ecosystem is successful entrepreneurs investing and mentoring the next generation,” she says. “[It’s] even more important than institutional venture capitalists.”
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The government shutdown could adversely affect Americans' health as well as their pocketbooks.
The government shutdown is endangering what Americans consume, as all inspections of domestic food except meat and poultry have been halted, The New York Times reports. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have brought back furloughed workers to handle a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people in 18 states.
The individuals who ensure that fruit, vegetables, dairy products and other domestically produced food are safe to consume have been furloughed. Food inspectors, lab technicians, administrative staff and communications specialists have been sent home due to the shutdown over government spending.
"This is a self-inflicted wound that is putting people's health at risk," said Representative Rosa L. DeLauro, a Democrat of Connecticut and activist for food safety.
She said that because the shutdown occurred after budget cuts to the agencies, "you're creating the potential for a real public health crisis."
The Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible for inspecting most of the food that ends up on American tables, has gone from inspecting around 200 plants per week to none. It has also reduced the inspection of imported food. A meat and poultry hot line that consumers can call about food safety or to report problems has been closed.
At the C.D.C, about 68 percent of staff members have been furloughed, including epidemiologists and other workers that track food-borne illnesses. Such staff members identify sickness linked to dangerous strains of bacteria like salmonella and E. coli, and their absences reduce the C.D.C's ability to respond to outbreaks.
Although the agency has brought back about 30 furloughed workers to handle the salmonella outbreak, which is linked to raw chicken, the agency is still short-staffed. Barbara Reynolds, a center spokeswoman, said, "We're still down to a skeleton crew."
Others are worried about the agency's ability to disseminate information about outbreaks. "When you have an outbreak and health alert like this, you have to get this information into the hands of consumers," said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington research group. "The C.D.C. may have brought back some staffers, but their communications staff is working at reduced capacity and that's a concern. The agency's ability to get information out is limited."
Many important agricultural reports used by farmers and traders have also been canceled due to the shutdown, which impedes decision-making about planting and is disruptive for the commodities market, The Times reports. A significant report that was canceled is the World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates, which provides statistics on the global production of crops like corn and cotton and data about meat and sugar.
"It leaves the commodities market in a bit of a fog," said Christopher Narayan, an analyst with the bank Société Générale in New York. He also said investors will not be able to obtain accurate information.
At the F.D.A., about 45 percent of the agency's staff members have been furloughed. "F.D.A. is doing what it can under this difficult situation to protect public health," said Steven Immergut, the agency's assistant commissioner for media affairs.
The F.D.A currently inspects less than 2 percent of imported food, even when the government is open. About 20 percent of the food Americans eat is imported, including 85 percent of seafood and a great deal of produce. The current inspection of imported food will be limited because of the shutdown.
A new food safety law passed in 2011, which enhances the power of the F.D.A, has been delayed because of sequester budget cuts, and is now delayed further because of the shutdown.


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The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), the country’s lead agency in the promotion of non-oil export, has said it was working with critical stakeholders in the oil palm industry to return the country to its glorious years as a net exporter of the product.
Nonye Ayeni, the executive director/chief executive officer, NEPC, stated this in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, during a technical session on addressing non-compliance with food safety standards in palm oil production in Abia State, organised by the Abuja headquarters of the council.
Ayeni noted that palm oil, a major agricultural product in Abia State, is an important commodity used globally in a wide range of products and is also regarded as the world’s most popular edible vegetable oil with a global market worth over $45 billion.
The NEPC boss, represented at the forum, by Fred-Ilogben Macpherson, deputy director, the product department of NEPC, explained that Nigeria exported 64.14 metric tonnes of palm oil in 2021, valued at $44,689.30, while in 2022, it exported 350.72 metric tonnes valued at $828, 323.32. He further noted that as of September 2023, the country exported 96.44 metric tonnes of the commodity, valued at $52,724.98.
She, however, noted that there have been stricter restrictions on palm oil from Nigeria, in recent times, due to issues arising from non-compliance with food standards and urged stakeholders in the sector to strive towards meeting the world’s approved standards to be competitive in the international market.
Ayeni said that the council in its drive to promote economic diversification, has been developing and implementing strategies to achieve the desired result, even now with serious emphasis on standards.
“As the need for quality produce exports increases, it is imperative to maintain quality standards of products exported to the international market,” she stated
Udeme Bassey Edet, of Sustainable Smallholders Oil Palm Services Company Limited, a resource person at the forum, observed that Nigeria can relaunch the palm oil business, by ensuring that best management practices are applied in palm plantations to increase yield.
He urged farmers to use the right palm seedlings, especially the “Tenerra” and fertiliser (12-12 17 +2), which according to him, is the best fertiliser for oil palm plantation.


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Kylie Jenner is a famous model, influencer and entrepreneur. She is known for her famous show Keeping up with the Kardashians. We know the Kardashians are victims of rumors and other haters. However, recently there has been many issues against her from the animal activists. Kylie Jenner has recently been in the limelight because of the attack she faced from few animal activists. The young model was getting out after shopping for Christmas when she was attacked by four protesters who stopped in front of her vehicle. She was on her way from Moncler in Bev Hills. She was referred to as a monster by them. They screamed things like “Shame on you” and “You are a monster”.
Her driver made an effort to start the vehicle and retreat but the protesters descended on the vehicle and made statements against her. Further, he managed to get the car out of there. Kylie did not make any effort to respond or react against them. She remained silent about this issue. However, this was not the first time Kylie has dealt with such an issue.
The first issue happened a week after she raised awareness against animal cruelty. A week later she posted a story of her new Louis Vitton slippers made of minx fur which caused an outrage among the animal cruelty protestors. She had to face many hateful comments and statements against this act. Kylie was criticised for not acting the way she preaches.
She has also been warned by PETA to have her products tested for cruelty free cosmetics. There has been many issues recently about animal cruelty in producing cosmetics and clothing. Many models are also guilty of this act like Kylie. Animals have been victim of many huge brands like Louis Vuitton and others for their fur.


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Salma Hayek, Anna Wintour Among 'Green Auction' Participants
Second annual 'Bid to Save the Earth' event happening in NYC on March 19 will support non-profit environmental organizations.
Actress Salma Hayek, Vogue editor Anna Wintour and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter are among the notable names partaking in the second annual "Bid to Save the Earth," an auction of unique environmentally-friendly items that is being hosted by Christie's.
Taking place in New York on March 19, the green auction will include artwork, celebrity meet and greets, exotic trips and high fashion, with proceeds benefiting four leading non-profit organizations: the Natural Resources Defense Council, Oceana, Conservation International and the Central Park Conservancy.
"The Christie's green auction gives wide recognition to the importance of ocean conservation and enables people of every means to participate easily and effectively," the event's host, David Rockefeller, told Reuters.
Artists Michael Doven, Isack Kousney and Shinji Turner-Yamamoto have donated works for the auction, and Christie's will also present an online silent auction at christies.com.
Last year's auction, which took in $80,000 just for a round of golf with Bill Clinton, raised an overall total of over $2 million for various environmental groups.


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Government sends notices to EV makers Hero Electric, Okinawa on FAME-II subsidy sops
By Team Startupcity | Friday, 07 October 2022, 09:05 IST
The Ministry of heavy Industries (MHI) has sent notices to a set of Electric Vehicle (EV) makers to check if the components used in their vehicles are largely locally sourced as they avail benefits provided under the Rs 10,000 crore Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles (FAME)-II scheme, sources aware of the matter said.
According to government officials aware of the developments, Hero Electric and Okinawa have been asked to show documents that support their subsidy claims while a few other firms have also come under the scanner, sources in the know said.
Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma's Revolt Motors and Coimbatore-based electric vehicle manufacturer, Ampere Vehicle, have also received the notices, said multiple people familair with the details.
Over the last few weeks these notices have been sent to conduct an audit at these factories, these people said.
"An audit by the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) is currently underway at four more EV companies besides Hero Electric and Okinawa... The scope of the audit at manufacturing facilities of EV two-wheeler manufacturers is to verify that the components used in their vehicles are largely locally sourced. This is an essential criteria to ensure that the vehicles sold by these companies are eligible to be subsidized by the centre...," said a person familiar with the development.
All of these EV two-wheeler manufacturers (including Hero Electric and Okinawa) are facing the checks but subsidies are said to have been put on hold for only the two till now, a person cited earlier said on the condition of anonymity.
“The subsidies for electric vehicle manufacturers will be restored once they submit appropriate documentation to substantiate localization claims," a senior government official said, adding that no steps to recover the already disbursed subsidy are underway at the moment.
Officials had earlier maintained that any penalties raised on these companies, for fabricating localization claims can be recovered from future subsidy disbursals.
According to the FAME-II portal, none of the models sold by Hero Electric or Okinawa has been identified as eligible for the subsidy.
Coimbatore-based Ampere EV confirmed that audits were conducted at its factory and that the government had given it a clean chit.
The FAME-II scheme stipulates that at least 50% of the value addition for an EV should be done locally by EV makers for them to avail of the subsidy, which significantly reduces the final price for the end customer. Losing out on the subsidy would be a blow for both EV makers, as competition heats up in the EV space with HeroMotoCorp set to launch its new electric scooters this month.
“One needs to see whether companies like Hero Electric and Okinawa are able to adjust their supply chains to start getting the subsidies again,” said Jay Kale, senior vice president, equity analyst, auto and auto ancillary, at Elara Capital. “If not, then the pricing of these vehicles could see an increase in the interim leading to advantage for players like TVS, Ola, Ather, and upcoming Hero MotoCorp.”
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AMD executives said Wednesday that the company can’t keep up with the demand for its high-end AMD Radeon HD 5800 and 5700 graphics cards.
AMD also revealed its notebook graphics roadmap; three new products are scheduled for the first quarter of 2010.
Matt Skynner, the vice president and general manager of the GPU division at AMD, told analysts Wednesday that the company will be “challenged to meet the demand for the next few months.”
“We’ve had a great reception for the products, and we haven’t been able to keep up with demand,” Skynner said. However, AMD is “ramping [production] aggressively” during the fourth quarter, he added, and some of the back-end constraints will be eliminated during the first quarter of 2010.
Both the Radeon HD 5800 and 5700 chips have been well-received, and have been generally considered to outperform rival Nvidia’s offerings by a significant amount. In a series of roadmap slides presented at the company’s analyst day at its Sunnyvale headquarters, AMD executives revealed that a dual-GPU “Hemlock” graphics card will debut next week, followed by sub-$100 “Redwood” and “Cedar” cards in the first quarter of 2010. The sub-$100 price is expected to increase demand.
AMD will also attempt to push the power of its desktop GPUs into the mobile space. In the first quarter of 2010, it will launch three DirectX 11 parts: “Broadway,” a notebook GPU for the 30- to 60-watt enthusiast notebooks; “Madison,” a similar part for 15- to 30-watt performance notebooks; and “Park,” a GPU for the mainstream 8- to 15-watt category.
AMD said it surpassed Nvidia in discrete GPU sales for the mobile space beginning in the second quarter of 2009.
By 2011, however, discrete CPUs, chipsets, and graphics chips may become a thing of the past. By then, AMD will have begun its “Fusion” strategy, marketing “accelerated processing units” as a replacement for the standard CPU-GPU-chipset trio. In 2011, AMD plans to market two notebook APU platforms: “Sabine,” based on a 4-core “Stars”-class CPU/DirectX 11 GPU combination; and “Brazos,” which will combine a “Bobcat”-class two-core CPU with a DX11-class GPU.


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AllThingsD reports that Facebook is currently testing a new feature which will remind users of their old posts. The feature will be embedded on the newsfeed of each user.
In addition, AllThingsD secured a confirmation of the aforementioned tests by obtaining an official statement from a spokesperson. More particularly:
[quote]“We’re testing a new way to help you remember favorite moments by making it easier to revisit previous News Feed posts. When you click on this notice, you will see a selection of some of the top posts from your News Feed from a year ago. This is just a small test at this stage.” [/quote]
Given the feature’s limited exposure, for the time being, only time will tell about its future development and formulation. Our feeling is that it will bring both nostalgia and some embarrassment, as well.
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(Reuters) - Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc said it is voluntarily recalling certain lots of Soliris, an intravenous drug for two potentially fatal blood disorders that can damage the kidneys, heart and brain.
The company said the recall was related to its earlier manufacturing process, which had prompted a similar recall in November.
Alexion initiated the recall due to the presence of visible particles found in a single lot of Soliris during a test, the company said in a statement.
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If you are a Charter Spectrum customer trying to access channels such as ABC, ESPN and Disney Channel stations, you have seen the blue screen and QR code appear instead of your usual programming. The code links to a landing page that talks about the Walt Disney Co.’s decision to pull programming from the cable TV provider.
Beginning Sept. 1, Walt Disney Co. pulled its channels, including ESPN and ABC, from Charter Communications’ Spectrum pay-TV — a direct result of a growing dispute over pricing that could ultimately change the way viewers access television entertainment.
In a statement, Charter Communications said “the current video ecosystem is broken.”
“With The Walt Disney Co., we have delivered a model that creates better alignment for the industry and better choices for our customers,” the statement read. “We hope we can find a way forward. »
The litigation affects more than 5 million customers in California, or one-third of Charter Spectrum’s total customers nationwide.
This especially sours the mood for sports fans preparing for the start of the NFL season and families wanting children’s programs.
Until the impasse is resolved, there are other ways to access these channels.
Where can I watch sports and other Walt Disney programs?
If you want to stick with one TV provider in your area, your options include Cox, DirectTV and Dish. Each provider offers different packages and the basic packages include programs owned by Disney.
- Cox offers plans starting at $56 per month; its second package, at $99 per month, includes ESPN. Cox’s TV services are contract-free, but they do have a 24-month service contract that lets you make changes or cancel within the first 39 days of service.
- DirecTV lets you connect to its service using an Internet connection or satellite dish. To subscribe with an existing internet connection, packages start at $64.99 per month plus fees – this package includes ESPN, FX and Disney Channel. DirecTV has a 24-month programming commitment for new customers upon activation of its services.
- The Dish TV service requires a satellite dish and packages start at $79.99 per month for 190 channels. All Dish services come with a two-year commitment and early termination fee.
Consumers ready to ditch cable companies can turn to streaming services that connect to their smart TV or connecting device such as Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast or Apple TV.
TV streaming services DirecTV Stream, YouTube TV, Sling TV and Fubo offer live sports and news, as well as entertainment for children and families from ABC-owned TV channels, ESPN networks, Disney-branded channels , Freeform and FX networks. and National Geographic Channels.
ABC-owned television channels are also available over-the-air at no cost to the customer.
- YouTube TV costs $72.99 per month. It offers more than 100 live and local channels. For an additional fee, customers can access the NFL Sunday Ticket or the NFL Sunday Ticket and NFL RedZone. The Sunday ticket costs an additional $349 per season. The package that includes Sunday Ticket and NFL RedZone costs $389 per season. YouTube TV is running a discounted promotion on both add-ons; each add-on has a payment plan option.
- Sling TV, a subscription/app service, offers packages starting at $20 per month. The basic package includes 32 channels – ESPN, Disney Channel, Freeform and local live channels included. Families wishing to add channels such as Disney Junior (and five other related channels) can do so for an additional $6.
- Fubo offers 176 channels, including Disney Channel and ESPN, for a basic package costing $74.99 (additional taxes and fees may apply).
In Disney’s latest update on the negotiations saga, he said Hulu + Live TV — Disney owns a majority stake in Hulu — is another option to access his programming.
The live-streaming service, which bundles Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN+ along with 90 live channels, costs $69.99 per month. The offer is not accompanied by a contractual link.
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Native advertising is predicted to make up over 50% the display media bought across Europe by 2020.
We may only be a few months in to 2016 but it’s already shaping up to be a breakthrough year for native advertising. A new report forecasts a massive €13.2 billion native ad spend around Europe by 2020 – spectacular growth of 156% compared to the €5.2 billion companies spent on native ads in 2015.
In Britain alone, the market was worth £1.2 billion last year. That figure is set to more than double to £2.8 billion by 2020, according to the study, carried out by Yahoo and Enders Analysis and unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The move to mobile
That’s sweet music to the ears of online publishers who are currently struggling against a number of advertising headwinds, most notably the marked trend among consumers away from the larger screens of laptops and PCs to the much smaller screens of mobile devices.
Display advertising is challenged on smaller screens, so native in-feed advertising makes far more sense from both viewabilty and user experience perspectives.
Additionally, surveys are finding that consumers actually appreciate native as adding value, compared to blaring and brash display ads they’re not overly fond of – one reason fewer people are clicking them.
A true native execution is the ultimate ‘opt-in’ advertising and a world away from the intrusive splurges which shield entire homepages or launch a video that’s impossible to switch off. If the reader choses to engage with on-site, clearly labelled sponsored content, that’s exactly what they get.
The future is native
The new study found that native advertising will amount to 52% of all display advertising in European markets by 2020, and – reflecting the swing to mobile – native ads for mobile will soar from €1.5 billion last year to €8.8 billion in less than four years’ time.
So, it’s increasingly looking like publishers and advertisers are embracing a native future together, with everyone benefiting – even consumers!


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – -(AmmoLand.com)- Ducks Unlimited (DU) and Filson have teamed up to introduce a limited offering of officially licensed DU lifestyle apparel and accessories. Initially, the DU Collection will consist of more than a dozen unique pieces and is expected to expand as the partnership grows.
“Ducks Unlimited and Filson are both iconic brands with rich histories. It only seemed fitting to align the two brands to provide DU members and supporters a unique, co-branded line of merchandise – many of which could be passed down from generation to generation,” said DU CEO Adam Putnam. “Filson items are known for their quality and we know our members will be thrilled to see the DU logo appear on items they can wear or use all year long.”
For more than 120 years, Filson has earned a worldwide reputation for honesty, quality, and durability. Headquartered in Seattle, and renowned for making products from fabrics such as heavyweight Tin Cloth and warm Mackinaw Wool, the Filson brand is known for producing the highest quality and most durable apparel and accessories on the market.
Filson has a long-standing heritage in the outdoors. They are committed to supporting DU’s conservation mission while sharing similar missions of sustainability and the promotion of outdoor recreation.
“In support of Ducks Unlimited and their massive impact on wildlife and wildlands, Filson is honored to celebrate their vision and steadfast commitment to conservation by offering a select collection of products with officially licensed Ducks Unlimited graphics and logos,” said Filson’s Chief Creative Officer, Alex Carleton. “We look forward to sharing the Ducks Unlimited mission with Filson customers.”
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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has introduced legislation that would extend a program that helps low-income households afford high-speed internet.
Gillibrand said the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act would provide $7 billion in funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program.
Over 1.7 million New York households rely on the program, but it is set to run out of funding by April.
Gillibrand said without additional funding, these families will either be forced to pay full price for internet or lose access to broadband services entirely.
Established in the Infrastructure Law, the ACP lowers the out-of-pocket cost of broadband service and devices for working families. The program provides a monthly discount of up to $30 per month off the cost of Internet service and equipment as well as a one-time discount of up to $100 off a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet.


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Apple still doesn’t officially own Beats, but with the deal all but finalized the Cupertino company is already hard at work downsizing the smaller firm. According to a new report from 9to5Mac, Apple is already cutting some Beats employees and moving others to departments at its own Cupertino campus.
The team behind Beats headphones, speakers and any other hardware is expected to become part of Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller’s department in Cupertino. Meanwhile, a number of other employees working in development and creative positions are also being offered jobs at Apple. Unfortunately other Beats departments like human resources, finance and customer support haven’t been so lucky, with some employees already let go. Others have only been offered a position until early next year.
There’s also the issue of Beats Music, which will reportedly need to transition over to iTunes servers in what could be a lengthy and tedious process. It’s unclear whether Beats Music CEO Ian Rogers and Chief Creative Officer Trent Reznor will take positions at Apple, though the streaming service will reportedly continue to operate out of Beats’ Southern California headquarters.


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Jim Clifton, the CEO of Gallup, saw the rise in business closures as a signal of a decline in American small business. In a worried post published on his company’s blog a year ago, Mr. Clifton wrote, “When small and medium-sized businesses are dying faster than they’re being born, so is free enterprise. And when free enterprise dies, America dies with it.”
Wow. That’s frightening rhetoric.
Fortunately, the data from the Census Bureau tells a better story about the survival of American small businesses. Business failure rates and the fraction of American employers that goes under each year is actually in long term decline. In 1977, 12.9 percent of American companies with paid employees went out of business. In 2013, that fraction was down to 9.0 percent.
As the figure above shows, the trend is noisy, with lots of ups and downs. (The R-squared of the linear trend is only 57 percent.) The company closure rate jumps in economic downturns, rising from 12 percent to 14 percent in the 1981 recession; from 10.7 percent to 11 percent in the 1992 downturn; from 11.00 percent to 11.9 percent in the 2002 slowdown; and from 9.9 percent to 10.9 percent in the 2009 recession.
Of course, that’s to be expected. Businesses are hurt when demand slows and consumers and other businesses aren’t spending. Some can’t weather the downturns and go under. But the spikes in business failures are reversed when the economy recovers.
Small Business Deals
Contrary to Mr. Clifton’s worry that small and medium-sized businesses are failing in droves, the Census data indicate that small employers are less likely to go under now than in decades past.
Over 99 percent of all American companies with employees are small businesses. So the trends shown in the chart are driven by what happens to small companies. And that pattern is clear.
While recessions cause spikes in business failure rates – the long term tendency is toward more, not fewer, small businesses surviving.
Image Source: Small Business Trends, created from Census Bureau data


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100th anniversary tour comes to Ely
- Credit: Hughes Electrical
A company that has been trading for 100 years is visiting the city this month (August) whilst on a tour of its stores in a special van.
To mark 100 years in business, Hughes Electrical has recreated a 1950’s Bedford van, complete with TV’s, a washing machine, a cooker and a radio.
The van will be at its store on the High Street in Ely on August 21.
Visitors can look inside the vehicle and enter a free competition to win one of 100 prizes.
The company has come a long way since Frank Hughes, a WW1 veteran, founded it in Lowestoft in 1921 to sell and repair radios.
Chairman and Frank’s grandson, Robert Hughes, said: “We are now one of just three specialists electrical retail chains in the UK.
“We try to uphold family values in how we deal with people as their loyalty has helped us reach this landmark.”