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by Gord Hotchkiss on Nov 30, 10:47 AM
If you haven't heard, or received your invite, the annual SEMPO State of the Market survey is currently looking for search marketers to give us this year's snapshot of the industry. You can find a link to the survey at the SEMPO site. Now in its third year, this survey has become the definitive year-over-year look at search marketing.
by Aaron Goldman on Nov 29, 12:15 PM
Jordan Rohan's opening keynote at the recent Search Insider Summit set the stage for three days of stirring debate, keen insight, and dropping buzzwords like they were going out of style. Since there's nothing like buzz monitoring to really get the pulse of today's search world, I kept a running tally of search buzzword usage at the Summit. Here are the results.
by Bill Wise on Nov 28, 10:00 AM
November '06 will go down as the month the search giants got serious about newspaper plays. Google has unveiled plans to enter ad management for newspaper classifieds across 50 papers; last week, Yahoo countered by entering strategic partnerships--starting with collaboration on job classifieds, but set to expand into Yahoo help with newspapers' maps and search presences--for 176 newspapers' online divisions.
by David Berkowitz on Nov 27, 4:30 PM
Search engine marketing might seem old-hat and mainstream compared to emerging social media channels, but search's auction-based media buying is far more revolutionary. Despite the hype surrounding the new social advertising channels, however, some of the largest deals lately have involved sites that rebuild barriers to entry that search marketing demolished. The future of advertising might look like a mashup of the past.
by Andrew Wetzler on Nov 24, 1:00 PM
Change is the constant within search. That's a function of the relative newness of the industry and the amount of attention and dollars it has received. So let's take a step back to see how far we've come.
by Rob Garner on Nov 22, 10:30 AM
In early November, I spoke at an Ad:Tech NY panel entitled "Planning and Execution of Search Engine Marketing Projects." In no particular order, here are elements I've found to be recurring obstacles in the quest for high search performance on Fortune 1000 level Web sites....
by David Berkowitz on Nov 21, 2:00 PM
One of the last sessions of MediaPost's Search Insider Summit last week in Palm Springs, Calif. wound up a personal favorite, with Pressfeed's Sally Falkow, Pheedo's Bill Flitter and Social Media Club's Chris Heuer leading a discussion on how social media impacts search. A number of these issues involving social media are just now coming to the forefront and should affect search marketing for years to come....
by Bill Wise on Nov 20, 11:30 AM
Last week, advertisers got their first glimpse of the e-Media Exchange, the auction-based TV (and other traditional media) ad-buying exchange initiated by blue-chip advertisers like Wal-Mart, and powered by e-Bay. Said to be ready to roll in Q2 '07, the Exchange may--or may not--thrive. There are forces acting both against and in favor of its long-term survival.
by Brian Kaminski on Nov 17, 11:45 AM
Google certainly raised a few eyebrows with its recent acquisition of YouTube, especially since the site is barely a year old, has huge infrastructure costs, and significant copyright issues with which it has to contend. Throw in the fact that YouTube is just beginning to solidify a revenue model that has historically caused other online community sites to burn out, and you might wonder what Google is thinking, what they plan on doing with it, and how the acquisition should impact your own marketing efforts.
by Gord Hotchkiss on Nov 16, 10:45 AM
I'm a huge fan of passion. Curb the urge to snigger. When I say passion, I refer to it in the ideological way, not the sensual one (although I'm pretty fond of that as well). I believe passion trumps everything else: intelligence, education, money, social connections. Look at times when people have really moved the world in a meaningful way, and you'll always find passion....


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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Sales at Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry, a key supplier of Apple Inc’s products known by its trade name Foxconn, were down by 7.7% in March.
The world’s largest contract electronics maker reported revenues of T$347.7 billion dollar ($11.51 billion) in March, falling from T$376.6 billion from a year earlier, it said in a filing to the Taiwan stock exchange on Monday.
January-March revenue totalled T$929.7 billion, down by 12.0% from the previous year, the filing showed.
Last month, Foxconn reported a 23.7% fall in profit in the last three months of 2019 as it braced for the impact from the coronavirus pandemic that hit demand from key customers.
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It’s a known fact by now that the next-generation Mercedes C-Class and S-Class in AMG flavours are going to adopt a plug-in hybrid powertrain. The reveal was made by Affalterbach’s boss Tobias Moers last month in an interview during which he also confirmed plans for an amped-up hybrid GT to rival the Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid.
In a separate interview, the very same Tobias Moers admitted the new four-cylinder 2.0-litre turbocharged engine (pictured above) powering the A45 and CLA 45 could be installed in larger models. Putting two and two together, we’re not entirely surprised that Autocar is now reporting the new C63 could switch to an electrified four-pot.
Gallery: 2021 Mercedes C-Class Saloon new spy photos
Eschewing the twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 of the current-gen C63, the new performance model from Mercedes could use an adaptation of the M139 unit powering AMG’s compact cars. In those vehicles, it produces as much as 416 bhp and 369 pound-feet of torque, and an electrified version could pump out even more muscle.
According to Autocar, the engine will allegedly boast a 48V integrated starter motor in the same vein as the one used by the larger inline-six M256 unit found under the bonnet of the CLS 53. In the swoopy saloon, the electrified component adds 22 bhp and 184 lb-ft, but AMG is looking to upgrade the system and squeeze out “significantly more power” for the next C63.
Despite losing half of its cylinders, the C63 is expected to match the 503-bhp of the current model in "S" guise while gaining 37 lb-ft of torque to deliver 553 lb-ft. Even with the added hybrid hardware, the entire powertrain is expected to weigh less than the M177 installed in today’s C63.
Switching to a four-cylinder unit is not the only big change Mercedes-AMG is preparing as the C63 saloon, coupe, and convertible will employ a 4Matic all-wheel-drive system. Purists will at least take comfort from knowing a Drift mode similar to the E63’s will send all power to the rear axle by decoupling the front driveshaft.
The regular C-Class Saloon (W206) is rumoured to debut at the 2020 Paris Motor Show next September, so don’t expect to see the revamped C63 sooner than the second half of 2021. Once again, there’s also going to be a lesser AMG version, but likely not today’s C43 as Mercedes will introduce a C53 with a de-tuned version of the C63’s electrified powertrain.


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Veteran entrepreneurs market their diverse businesses at Synapse Summit Social at Sofwerx
Amalie Arena is again the place to be for the 2019 Synapse Summit on January 23 and 24, 2019. After all that entrepreneurial mojo to get your business engines humming, join us at Sofwerx for the Synapse Social Wednesday night, January 23 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm. Sofwerx staff will be on hand to describe a variety of projects at their exceptional facility, and Action Zone will host a Veteran-owned business marketplace.
"The purpose of the marketplace," says Valerie Lavin, Action Zone, Outreach Director, "is to highlight Veteran entrepreneurs and the diversity of business concepts being developed by them in the Tampa Bay region. It provides consumers an opportunity to get to know our Veteran business owners in the community and purchase their products and services."
Sofwerx has been a consistent supporter of Veteran entrepreneurs, having hosted events, classes and socials at their Ybor City facility over the last several years.
Veteran-owned businesses interested in participating at the Sofwerx Synapse Social and Action Zone VOB Marketplace may contact Valerie Lavin at or register online. The cost is $25 for each table reserved. Space is limited and is first-come first served.


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WhuddleWorld, Inc., creator of eponymous online hangout for kids WhuddleWorld, was forced to shut down in April after running out of money. The team of five that built WhuddleWorld over the last year and a half is soliciting acquisition and partnership offers to get the immersive world back online.
Co-founder Dee Hardrath claims that at the time of shutdown WhuddleWorld had grown to 76,000 registered members and a monthly page view count of 20M. She also says the company still receives emails four months later from loyal followers pleading them to get the world back into operation.
Check out our recent roundup of virtual worlds for information about the competitors in this space.
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The internet is undeniably the world's global marketplace. Statistics show that millions of new people are joining the Internet every day, with more than half of the world's population reportedly interacting with the Internet service, making cybercrime to be on the rise due to inadequate awareness of cyber attacks. Some countries, companies, individuals and organisations have adopted some security measures to protect their online engagements from threats, but a larger percentage rarely update their security features against the increasingly sophisticated and modified malware used by cybercriminals.
If we take the developing countries of the world as a case study, their governments have weak or no threat response and outdated security systems to protect their data, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attacks. In these countries, 80% of new internet users are from them, but only 10% have any prior knowledge of cyber security. 22% have outdated security systems running on their device, while the rest are simply vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Interpol reports that more than 600 million people on the African continent are now online, and about 90% of them are operating without proper cybersecurity precautions in an environment that sees about 700 million cybersecurity threats in a year. According to the report, Africans are being indirectly victimised as they try to catch up with the latest trends in digital infrastructure and services such as mobile banking, crypto trading, and more.
To curb or mitigate this problem, there is a need for massive awareness and training of the masses and cybersecurity personnel on the latest trends in cyber threats and measures to combat them. The government is expected to adopt some policies and work with stakeholders to ensure a concerted effort to protect the country's cyber sovereignty.


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An online password manager can make your life much easier by automatically entering individual passwords for each website and service you visit. It is a very convenient tool – unless it is hacked.
In that instance, by discrediting a single password, cyber criminals can receive access to invaluable information, including banking credentials. LastPass, a popular password manager, has recently disclosed a network breach.
Attackers compromised user email addresses, password reminders, per-user salts and authentication hashes. The passwords themselves were not compromised, as the service doesn’t store them in its cloud. Nevertheless, LastPass recommends users change their LastPass master passwords and enable multi-factor authentication. Let’s give credit to the company: When LastPass found the breach, it quickly released a public warning.
To the hackers’ benefit, many large companies try keeping security breaches a secret, but not here. Still, potential consequences of the breach seem to be dubious. CEO and founder of LastPass Joe Siegrist claims that the incident will not influence “the vast majority of users”. Some researchers support this position, declaring there is no risk for users with strong passwords.
Other researchers consider that the breach can lead to a new wave of malicious activity aimed directly at LastPass users. Being armed with the list of real email addresses hackers can create a targeted phishing campaign to defraud the lacking data. For example, LastPass is advising users to change their master passwords.
What stops cybercriminals from spamming LastPass users with fraudulent letters, disguised as official ones? When people receive an unsuspicious email with warnings and recommendations from the “developers”, they can readily follow a link to change their master password — and give it right to the cyber criminals’ hands.
Here is what we can recommend to LastPass users:
This is not the first time LastPass has had to deal with security issues. Last summer the University of California Berkeley revealed security flaws in five security managers, including LastPass. The other four were RoboForm, My1Login, PasswordBox and NeedMyPassword. As you may know, there is no perfect security solution. A company needs courage to take responsibility and reveal breaching incidents despite the risk of losing clients. Some LastPass users will want to switch to other services, while others will be loyal no matter what happens.


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Egypt is ready to work with Russian tourists in a new way – payments in rubles and the acceptance of the MIR card are preparing to come into force in the near future, and this is marked by the rush demand of tourists. This was stated by the Egyptian media, not forgetting to mention that in Turkey these options were “chopped off” due to US sanctions, but Egypt does not plan to follow this example.
“In recent days, there has been an influx of a large number of Russian tourists at the airports of Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh and Marsa Alam. Observers explained such an influx of Russian tourists to Egypt by the fact that banks switched to the Russian ruble instead of the dollar, ”says one of the publications. It also recalled that Turkey felt firsthand how much demand Russian tourists have for the opportunity to use Mir cards in the country – especially when Turkey was persistently “persuaded” to abandon the Russian payment system through blackmail.
Egypt does not intend to follow this example. “Tourism investors and experts are counting on the introduction of new mechanisms that allow Russian tourists to pay for the cost of tourist and hotel services in Russian rubles instead of dollars, emphasizing that this measure will double the inbound tourist flow from the Russian market. They also demand that enforcement procedures be issued by the Central Bank as soon as possible so that with the start of the winter tourist season next month, the ruble can be sorted out against the Egyptian pound, ”the publication says, emphasizing that investors in the tourism sector have highly appreciated the state’s decision to deal with Russian tourists in rubles instead of dollars.
“This decision will be in the interests of the tourism sector, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, will help to significantly develop the economy. The Russian ruble must be included in the list of currencies used by banks. Also, the Central Bank, together with the Ministry of Finance, intends to allow banks access to the Russian Mir payment card system.
This will increase incentives for the revival of Russian tourism in Egypt and increase contracts between Russian and Egyptian entrepreneurs in the tourism sector during the upcoming tourist season.”
“If the Central Bank of Egypt decides to accept the Russian ruble as a trading currency , the number of Russian tourists coming to Egyptian resorts will increase significantly. Hurghada, Marsa Alam and Sharm el-Sheikh will “grow” significantly in terms of tourist flow in the coming months, which is explained by the fact that several Russian travel companies have announced an increase in the number of their flights to Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada,” added Rami Fayez, member of the Marsa Alam Tourism Investor Association.
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By Molly Packer
Changing the way the world looks at consumerism is on Baylor’s summer agenda this year. As hosts of the third Transformative Consumer Research Conference, Baylor will host professors from across the country June 24-26 to talk about prominent consumer issues facing the business world.
Though the conference has been held three times before, it has never been hosted by Baylor.
“The first time it was at Dartmouth and then at Villanova,” Dr. Brennan Davis, a marketing professor, said. “This really builds Baylor’s place as a world-class institution.”
The conference allows attendees to talk about the problems at hand in small groups. Davis calls it a “dialogue-ical” conference. Nine sectors of the conference are dedicated to separate issues, including poverty, addiction, obesity, youth risk and consumption and sustainable products. Every sector has 12 conference attendees to discuss and try to solve the problem.
Transformative research came about with help from the Association for Consumer Research, a major consumer-focused guild in marketing.
“The Association for Consumer Research decided that the work to be done within consumer research was not focused enough on changing people’s lives in a positive way,” Davis said. “The conference started to, in a sense, pull professors out of the Ivory Tower and into a very practical and transformative work.”
Chris Blocker, a marketing professor, will be guiding discussion in the Poverty and Subsistence Marketplace sector of the conference.
“What we’re really looking at is poverty in general and how that affects customers,” Blocker said. “There’s been a lot of research on consumers with discretionary income and lots of abundance, but there hasn’t been much research at all on impoverished customers.”
Blocker and the other members of the group will be looking at consumerism of people doing what they have to do in order to survive. Those who produce their own food or sell their crops at a local marketplace go through a series of complex interactions simply to make a living.
“We’re really trying to spur dialogue and research that would have a transformative impact on them,” Blocker said. “We really want to spur research that understands the lives of impoverished consumers and helps them in a more human way.”
Helping others through transformative research is one way that Davis believes the conference will be good for Baylor, she said.
“It matches Baylor’s mission by committing this research to helping others,” Davis said. “We give feet to Baylor’s motto, Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana, by expanding the reach beyond our great state to effect change around the world.”
Research findings from done at the conferences will be published in a journal.
“Public policy makers on the state and federal level are looking to these journals for their scientific knowledge about how to change,” Davis said. “If we can get information into the right hands, changes can be made.”


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Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei was reported to have reached a cooperation agreement with new energy vehicle maker BYD and will integrate the HarmonyOS car system into the Denza electric vehicle brand under BYD.
During its annual developers conference on November 8, Chinese smartphone maker vivo unveiled its Android 13-based OriginOS 3, which commenced internal testing on November 9.
On September 21, the Shanghai Tree-Graph Blockchain Research Institute released Conflux OS, a new self-developed operating system that provides underlying code support for the cultivation of a Web3 application ecology in China.
As an advocate for social metaverse development in China, Tencent-backed platform Soul presented its two latest intelligent technology achievements – Ling OS and NAWA Engine – at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference on September 1.
Honor CEO George Zhao said on August 31 that the Chinese smartphone brand set up an independent team to develop MagicOS at the end of last year, and that this team has now emerged with MagicOS 7.0.
Chinese consumer electronics firm OPPO held its Developers Conference in China on August 30, during which it released a new smartphone operating system, ColorOS 13, and the first people-centered intelligent cross-end system, Pantanal.
Chinese consumer electronics brand OPPO on August 29 announced 10 winners of its inaugural OPPO Research Institute Innovation Accelerator, which has seen teams from around the world submit technology proposals aimed at tackling some of society's biggest challenges.
Chinese smart device brand OPPO released the global version of its latest Android-based operating system, ColorOS 13, on August 18.
On August 17, CPO of Chinese tech firm OPPO Pete Lau released an open letter on Weibo, announcing that the OPPO Developer Conference will be held online from August 30 to 31, and that a "smart cross-end operating system" based on ColorOS 13 will be released.
Shenzhen-based tech giant Huawei announced on July 18 that its new product launch event is scheduled for July 27.
JD.com's community group purchasing platform, Jingxi Pinpin, is further shrinking its business lines and may only retain operations in the cities of Beijing and Zhengzhou.
Smart car operating system provider Banma and real-time 3D interactive content creation platform Unity jointly announced on Thursday that the Unity Integrated Development System has now officially included Banma's operating system, AliOS.
On Wednesday, the open source operating system community OpenCloudOS was officially launched.
Vivo announced on Monday that a new version of its smartphone operating system, OriginOS, will be released on December 9. The new OS will be named "OriginOS Ocean".
At the summit, leading Chinese telecommunications and electronics firm Huawei joined hands with industry customers and partners to review the latest progress in the operating system industry.
IrisView Technology announced that it has obtained nearly 100 million yuan ($15.63 million) in Rounds A and A+ of financing, with Jinshajiang Venture Capital and Source Code Capital serving as lead investors, respectively.
On Wednesday, at Alibaba Cloud's Apsara Conference, the cloud computing company released its operating system, 'Anolis OS', and announced its open source.
Chinese mobile phone brand Meizu announced on Friday that it has reached a strategic cooperation with Sony's Xperia, which will enhance the application adaptation and localization of Flyme OS.
Telecommunications and technology firm Huawei announced via Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, on Wednesday that the company will launch its new openEuler operating system on September 25.
On Tuesday, Huawei launched a new version of its proprietary operating system, HarmonyOS, for the mining industry.


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Experienced marketing specialist Keith Bugeja has been appointed as a search engine optimisation (SEO) executive at Kindred Group, he announced on Monday.
He shared the appointment on social media on Monday, saying: “I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as SEO executive at Kindred Group plc.”
Mr Bugeja joins the company from Prohealth Ltd, where he served for over four years as a digital marketing executive.
Before that, he worked briefed stints at Attard and Co and at Switch, as a digital marketing executive and online strategist, respectively.
Prior to that, he worked at a number of prominent Malta-based companies, including GO plc, RS2 Software plc, and Vodafone.
The iGaming industry, as an online-based sector, naturally requires significant investment in SEO, however, the industry does also have the option of influencer marketing.
In July of last year at the CasinoBeats summit, a number of industry leaders debated the merits of both marketing techniques.
A key conclusion reached by the panel was that a balanced approach was important so companies can get the most out of SEO while riding the modern-day wave of influencer marketing.
World-class platform provider launches with UK-based operator
Having been acquired by MGM Resorts International in 2022, LeoVegas Group will undertake BetMGM’s casino and sports betting operations in the UK
The deal is the latest agreed by ESA Gaming, with the company enjoying recent global growth and expansion in key markets such as Africa and Italy
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In recent times, people claiming that talcum powder harmed them filed lawsuits against its producers. These lawsuits are usually filed as class acts or as individual lawsuits.
This article outlines the history of the talcum powder’s link to cancer, recalls of the product, and settlements made. To learn more, contact our professional mass tort attorneys at Rueb Stoller Daniel today.
A History of Discovery and Recalls
There have been several events over a long period that have linked ovarian cancer to baby powder use. As far back as 1975, Johnson & Johnson referred to the link between talc on genitals and ovarian cancer as the “talc ovary problem” in an internal memo. This memo was released in 2017 during an ovarian cancer trial.
In 1982, a case-control study in the cancer journal found that women who used talcum powder as a dusting powder on their genitals or sanitary napkins stood a higher risk of ovarian cancer than others who did not.
In 2011, Dr. Daniel W. Cramer and colleagues found that long-term talcum powder use significantly increases ovarian cancer risk. Also, in 2014, a study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute linked talc use to ovarian cancer.
It took until 2018 before the FDA started testing cosmetic talc products for traces of asbestos. By July 2019, the US Justice Department began a criminal investigation into whether J&J lied about the risk of its product causing cancer.
Although manufacturers of talcum powder claim that their products do not contain asbestos, we have seen some of them pull their products off the shelves. In October 2019, Johnson & Johnson recalled 33,000 bottles of talcum powder. They also announced that they would discontinue selling the product in the US and Canada in May 2020.
They claimed they removed it because there was false advertising about the powder causing cancer. The powder remains on the shelves in the UK and other parts of the world, though.
Talcum Powder Settlements
Since scientists established that talc powder causes ovarian cancer, people have filed over 20,000 lawsuits against companies like J&J. Below is a timeline of settlements for such lawsuits.
In February, a jury determined that Johnson & Johnson talcum powder was responsible for Jacqueline Fox’s death. She has used talcum powder for over three decades. The jury awarded her $72 million, $62 million of which was for punitive damages.
In May, Gloria Ristesund, who had used Johnson & Johnson baby powder for decades, was treated for ovarian cancer. The jury awarded her $55 million.
In November, Deborah Giannecchini, who had also used talcum powder for more than 40 years, underwent radiation and chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. A Californian jury gave a verdict of $70 million for her case, $65 million of which was for punitive damages.
In May, Louis Slemp, who was undergoing treatment for aggressive ovarian cancer, was awarded $110 million by a St. Louis jury. She had also used baby powder for more than 40 years.
In August, Eva Echeverria was dying from stage 4 ovarian cancer after using baby powder daily for more than 60 years. She received a $417 million jury verdict, $340 million was in punitive damages.
Some men have also gotten settlements for cases related to the use of talcum powder. In April 2018, Stephen Lanzo, who claimed that he contracted mesothelioma through Johnson & Johnson baby powder usage, was awarded $37 million in compensatory damages and $80 million in punitive damages.
In July 2018, 22 women who had filed a class-action lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson were awarded $4.6 billion for causing them all to suffer ovarian cancer due to their baby powder usage.
In March, a jury awarded Teresa Leavitt a settlement of $30 million after they found that her Johnson & Johnson talcum powder caused her mesothelioma. Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $100 million as settlements to plaintiffs who alleged that the asbestos in their baby powder caused cancer to resolve more than a thousand lawsuits.
In June 2020, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Johnson & Johnson over a pay-out to women who alleged that its baby powder caused them to develop ovarian cancer. This upholds the Missouri Court of Appeal’s decision which reduced the Settlement from the $4.7 billion originally decided by a jury but insisted that the company makes the pay-out. As such, J&J would have to pay $2.1 billion to these plaintiffs.
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Controversy thrusts brands and their leaders into the public spotlight. Here’s how they can win consumers’ hearts by personifying human attributes instead of playing the PR game.
Love them, hate them, never heard of them — chances are Porter Airlines has snuck into your newsfeed at some point over the last few weeks.
If passed by Toronto city council, Porter’s proposal to extend the runway and fly jets in/out of Billy Bishop Airport will expand the airline’s route network significantly.
Headlines have centred around Porter CEO Robert Deluce and a public relations war with residents opposed to a longer runway and the environmental impacts of jets. One community-led group, NoJetsTO, has garnered support and signatures from more than 14,000 Torontonians, arguing that jets will irreversibly damage the airport’s Toronto Island location. Following council’s April 1 decision, it doesn’t look like the issue will get resolved any time soon. Councillors voted unanimously to continue negotiations with Porter for at least a year.
Divisive issues and controversies shine a light on brand leaders in a way that consumers don’t see on an everyday basis. That new exposure to the people running a company actually presents a unique opportunity to demonstrate what a brand is all about — a key tool for establishing authentic customer loyalty, says Chris Malone, consultant, keynote speaker and founder of Fidelum Partners.
Divisive issues and controversies present a unique opportunity to demonstrate what a brand is all about — a key tool for establishing authentic customer loyalty.
Benevolence or Browbeating?
When it announced its plan to bring jets to Billy Bishop in 2013, the airline launched a special website to encourage consumers to get onboard. Through the website, 40,000 people have backed Porter’s plans online and more than 17,500 have sent letters of support to City Hall.
Last month, Porter created a Facebook poll on new travel destinations that prompted respondents to write their city councillor in support of the jet plan. Called manipulative by some, Porter argued the poll was simply intended to show people the benefits of the airport expansion.
But do the focus on short-term benefits and a push to put plans into place quickly leave consumers distrustful of Porter’s greater intentions?
Pulling Back the Curtain
As Chris explores in his groundbreaking book The Human Brand, people perceive brands as if they were tribes or social groups. The more we know about the leader of that group, the more insight we have into what we can expect from the rest of the tribe. How we see brand leaders interact with others gives us an indication of how they would treat as customers.
“When controversies happen, it’s an opportunity of a moment of truth where that executive gets thrust into the spotlight and we are going to see what they are made of,” says Chris. “This is an opportunity for people to see what Porter is all about: who is leading that group, what their priorities are.”
“This is an opportunity for people to see what Porter is all about: who is leading that group, what their priorities are.”
This is important because people are very sensitive to the intentions of others, Chris found in his research for The Human Brand, and we are hardwired to make decisions based on those intentions. Brands motivated by a higher purpose that keep the best interests of their customers – not profit – at its core are those that enjoy authentic brand loyalty.
People Over Profits
“It’s certainly reasonable for a company to expect to profit, but before we feel we can trust and become loyal to a company, we often want to see them demonstrate loyalty to us first,” says Chris. “We want to see: are you willing to put my best interests first and things that have no immediate benefit to you in the short term as a demonstration that you really do care about my best interests?”
“We want to see: are you willing to put my best interests first and things that have no immediate benefit to you in the short term as a demonstration that you really do care about my best interests?”
Chris points to the iconic example of Apple, which has consistently shown it’s not just about consumer electronics — it’s about thinking differently and changing the world. Google is another great example with its motivation to give access to the world’s information. Humans are driven to connect with a company’s ethos, its “why.”
Putting Consumer Interests Ahead of Shareholder Interests
Therein lies the key to navigating the tricky divide between shareholder interests and profit with what’s best for you customers and the community you operate within, he says. Brands that put the customer first and show their human face by being more transparent actually get far more in the long term than if they solely care about profits in the short term.
Brands that put the customer first and show their human face by being more transparent actually get far more in the long term than if they solely care about profits in the short term.
Domino’s Pizza is an excellent example of the power of showing a brand’s human side in the face of difficulty, says Chris. At a time when other companies were cutting costs and laying off employees to generate a profit, Domino’s reinvested in its product and launched a campaign to apologize for past mistakes. Televised during the 2009 NFL playoffs, the ads humbly invited consumers to give the brand another chance.
“Domino’s really showed vulnerability and humanity, which is unthinkable from a business standpoint but totally normal from a human standpoint,” says Malone. The response was exceptional and shareholder value has tripled in the last three years.
Porter’s Opportunity to Enhance its Reputation
Porter now has an opportunity to show its human face and start building relationships with those on all sides of the issue, says Chris.
While the big-bad-corporation-fighting-with-the-community-and-devastating-the-environment narrative is one heard time and again, Porter can flip that script by demonstrating that it’s willing to be balanced, objective and considerate of the interests of others.
“When we see a company like Porter act or conduct themselves in a way with another group, we take that as an indication of how they would treat us,” says Chris. “They have a real opportunity to actually enhance their reputation through this — the way they handle themselves could actually leave the opponents pretty respectful and supportive of them.”
“When we see a company like Porter act or conduct themselves in a way with another group, we take that as an indication of how they would treat us.”
Slowing the approval process down, being transparent and building relationships will successfully bring long-term success over short-term interests.
“I think they can say, ‘You know what? Let’s not rush’,” says Chris. “If (the expansion) doesn’t happen until 2016, it’s not the difference between 2015 and 2016 that makes a difference. It’s the fact that they’ll be able to do it for the next 10 or 15 years that makes the difference.”


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The Industrial Development Authority (IDA) has stopped granting licenses for new tuk tuk assembling and manufacture plants in Egypt, as part of the government’s efforts to curb the spread of tuk tuks on the streets, an official source with the Ministry of Trade and Industry said.
The source told Youm7 that this decision comes in conjunction with procedures to reduce tuk tuk imports, adding that five plants for the assembly and manufacture of tuk tuks in Egypt that have been licensed by the IDA.
The number of licensed tuk tuks are 211,000, according to Youm7, while the average number of tuk tuks in Egypt ranges from 2.5 to 3 million vehicles, according to the statistics of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics.
Former Minister of Trade and Industry Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour issued a decree in 2014 banning the importation of tuk tuks and components, but later backtracked on the decision and allowed the import of production inputs and spare parts in accordance to a set of regulations.
In April 2017, former Minister of Industry Tariq Qabeel renewed the decision to banning the import of fully-made tuk tuks. He also decided to export all produced tuk tuks in free zones and banned their sale on the local market.


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Where to go if you're a holiday shopper on the prowl for high-end fashion? Bloomingdales? Macy's? Neiman Marcus?
Or, in these designer belt-tightening times, could shops selling gently used - and far less pricey - labels be more enticing?
An increasing number of people are deciding that secondhand is cool, and often indistinguishable from new - except when it comes to the much lower price tags.
"Who would ever know?" said JoAnn Kenyon of Miramar, a shopper at Couture Exchange in Fort Lauderdale, responding to whether buying used gifts for friends and family might turn up a few noses.
In a stalled economy, the choice is clear. From January to August, national sales at consignment and thrift shops rose by 35 percent from the same period in 2007, according to an in-house survey of members of the National Association of Resale & Thrift Shops.
Buyers are expected to keep coming for the holidays. "They may have started shopping for themselves but it will translate into shopping for gifts because it's a natural transition," said Adele Meyer, executive director of the thrift. association.
Resale shopping "has an excitement that you can't compare to other segments of retailing," she said.
Bargain hunting appeals to everyone, not just those whose paychecks or retirement plans have shrunk. "People are tired of paying a 300 percent markup," said store manager Richard MM-zth of Indulge at Fiore's Vintage Men's Wear in Palm Beach. The store sells Lilly Pulitzer, Armani, Versace and other designer heavyweights. When it comes to patrons, "We get everyone from celebrities to construction workers," he said.
Secondhand stores benefit from a longing for style even in a credit-starved economy. Thrift shoppers feel good about getting a deal on a trendy item, recycling goods and saving money all at once.
At Fiore's, MM-zth sold a Marc leather bomber jacket to a visiting New Yorker for $245. The same jacket sold for $2,000 at Macy's two years ago, he said. And a wool cashmere Hugo Boss black sports coat that sells for $1,000 new is on sale at the shop for $125.
Consignment shops have been dusted off in recent years, and many are no longer packed sky-high with musty, out-dated clothing. High-end thrift stores dress the part, offering many perks shoppers are accustomed to elsewhere.
At Couture Exchange, owner Sandra Weddle offers gift certificates and layaway. Her storefront is emblazoned with colorful graphics of dresses. Inside the small shop, there are mannequins dressed in stylish fashions and dressing rooms framed by elegant silky black drapes. She regularly fields calls from bargain hunters as far away as Bonita Springs and Naples.
"This is not your Grandma's consignment shop," Weddle said. "This is the new generation."
Friends Kenyon and Cyndi Reid of Fort Lauderdale became regulars after passing the shop in the spring. Since then, Kenyon has bought mostly jewelry and designer purses. Reid became a fan after she found two dresses to wear to a weeklong family function in Texas. Previously, she had gone "everywhere" but came up empty.
"Why spend $500 on a dress that you wear one time?" Reid said.
When Weddle started Couture Exchange 15 months ago, her goal was to have 200 consigners by the end of the year. She ended her first year with 463 consigners.
According to a survey by the thrift shops association, 79 percent of shops reported an increase in incoming merchandise in September and October compared with those months in 2007. Consigners are paid an average of 40 percentto 60 percent of an item's sale price after it's sold.
The net number of consignment shops has grown by 5 percent a year for the past three years according to the thrift association, which has about 1,000 members. Because they don't pay for inventory until it sells, consignment shops have low start-up costs, which appeals to people who have lost their jobs, Meyer said.
Some secondhand shops focus on music, which draws a steady clientele. At Radio-Active Records in Fort Lauderdale, "We have devoted vinyl junkies who are 13 years old and customers in their 80s, and sometimes those two customers are buying the same thing," said owner Sean Kayes.
But business can be sluggish. Last year Kayes stood outside his shop and offered a $1 bill to anyone who would venture inside. He said it was cheap advertising, and he rang up a few sales.
Vinyl fans looking for a coveted record will travel 150 miles to Kayes' shop, he said. "We have everything you can imagine. We have a great soul section and a pretty good international section."
Prices average about $10 for CDs and vinyl records not in demand. A collectible album or first edition might sell for $50, a new LP for $15 and used CDS for $4 to $7. Customers can bring in CDs for trade rather than cash.
Regular customer Steve Nunn of Weston was recently browsing through the jazz section. He and his father came after a stop at Goodwill where he bought Legos for his sons. But at Goodwill, Nunn was really looking for a "slightly worn" wooden cabinet with the character that comes from a few years of use.
"You can't always find what you want in new stores," he said.


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The MBiT Index study, Nokia’s annual report on mobile broadband performance in India, has revealed exponential growth of 3G data traffic across the country in 2015.
It also indicates how a growing device ecosystem and increased adoption of multimedia services will boost traffic further as 4G LTE networks are rolled out across the country.
According to the study, overall mobile data traffic grew by 50% in 2015, with 3G traffic outpacing 2G across all circles for the first time. This was the result of a mature network, device and content ecosystem. 3G device penetration more than doubled during the year while new network launches and expansions in existing circles boosted data adoption beyond larger towns and cities.
Subscriber appetite is growing for multimedia services, with video and social networking now making up 60% of data traffic. Average monthly data usage for 3G surpassed 750 MB per subscriber and, with operators poised to launch 4G LTE networks, faster data speeds will fuel an even greater surge in traffic – echoing 4G LTE launches in other parts of the world where operators have traditionally seen data usage increase by up to four times.
Sandeep Girotra, Vice President and Head of India Market, Nokia said: “Aggressive 3G network expansion in existing circles and new launches by operators have been instrumental in increasing data traffic in India. It is expected that this data traffic growth will be boosted in coming years by the auction of additional spectrum, an increase in smartphone penetration and the development of the content ecosystem. Moreover, the rapid evolution of the device ecosystem, supported by a decline in prices, presents significant growth opportunities for operators as they launch and expand 4G LTE networks in coming years.”
Key trends expected for operators in 2016:
· 2G still has the potential to drive internet adoption in Category B and C circles in the short to medium term.
· With evolving device support for 3G carrier aggregation, operators could potentially offer DC-HSPA as a substitute for 4G LTE in some circles in the short term.
· 4G LTE device ecosystem will continue to grow with decline in device prices, thus giving operators the opportunity to monetize quickly as they launch 4G LTE networks.
The Nokia MBiT Index
Nokia’s MBiT Index, a report on mobile broadband performance in India, provides insights about mobile broadband traffic growth in the country and correlates trends with changes in various ecosystem drivers such as devices and subscriber usage patterns.
The fifth edition of the Nokia MBit Index study evaluates 2G, 3G and overall data traffic growth trends at a pan-India and circle category level, and data consumption per user on 2G and 3G for 2015. It highlights the development of the device ecosystem during 2015 as well as users’ data usage patterns in terms of type of content being consumed along with the associated drivers.
MBiT Index is based on Nokia’s analysis of data obtained from various sources, including input and analysis done by Analysys Mason. It analyzes mobile broadband traffic trends only at a consolidated level and does not intend to provide any comparative analysis of data growth of different operators.


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Ingram Micro Taps Amazon WorkSpaces for DaaS
Technology distributor Ingram Micro is bringing the Windows desktop to Samsung mobile users by way of Amazon WorkSpaces.
Announced earlier this month, the new Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offering is aimed at so-called "prosumers," Ingram Micro's term for freelancers, students, entrepreneurs and other users who do the vast majority of their computing tasks on their smartphones.
Prosumers also require reliable access to their productivity apps, even when they're traveling or otherwise not in a traditional office environment.
Ingram Micro's DaaS offering taps into the virtual desktop capabilities of the Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones, which Samsung launched earlier this year in a bid to court exactly those types of productivity-focused mobile users. A complementary docking station, the DeX, lets Galaxy S8/S8+ users connect their devices to a keyboard, mouse and large-screen monitor to mimic a desktop computing scenario.
The offering also uses the Amazon WorkSpaces service to deliver users' Windows desktops to their devices. Based on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, WorkSpaces lets users easily provision cloud-based Windows desktops -- including files, applications and documents -- to supported devices.
Third, Ingram Micro leverages its own cloud platform to simplify the process of setting up a DaaS scenario for mobile prosumers. Until now, the cost and complexity of configuring a virtual desktop environment has typically meant that DaaS was feasible only for SMBs or enterprises, Ingram Micro argues.
To lower these barriers to DaaS, Ingram Micro says it developed "a custom-built Cloud Store" to automate the setup process and reduce the advanced IT legwork required.
"Using our robust platform and technical expertise, the Ingram Micro Cloud services team has created this simplified and automated solution for Samsung mobile users to easily get set up and use a virtual Windows desktop," said Tarik Faouzi, vice president of Global Cloud Partners and Solutions at Ingram Micro, in a prepared statement. "This collaboration demonstrates Ingram Micro Cloud's commitment to empower every user and partner by reducing the complexities of access to innovative cloud technologies."
Ingram Micro is extending these DaaS capabilities to its partners, as well. "The full mobile desktop offer, including Samsung smartphones and peripherals, Amazon WorkSpaces and several of our Windows-based SaaS services, is already available to our cloud channel partners in the US. Later this year, we'll be making it even easier to provision the solution by making it available through the US Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace," wrote Renée Lawrence, director of services product marketing for Ingram Micro Cloud, in a blog post.


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It’s time to shift thinking away from the idea that smartphone usage is only for people on the go. In today’s reality, the relationship between consumers and their smartphones expands far beyond a means to find a location, send a text, or make a call. In a 2013 mobile consumer survey by Google, 58% of smartphone users stated that they use their device to stay informed by reviewing websites, products, and news online, and 82% stated they use their device to casually browse the internet. Social patterns and behaviors have shifted and every aspect of people’s lives are integrated with their smartphone in hand.
With this evolution in behavior, a societal expectation has emerged. Consumers expect the ability to access online information from anywhere and at any time with the same user experience across all devices. To sum up their survey findings, Google states, “Having a mobile-optimised site is critical and a cross-channel strategy is needed to engage consumers across the multiple paths to purchase.”
What does this mean for your business?
Your Brand Must Be Mobile
For starters, it is a necessity to embrace mobile and cater to your mobile customers. Whether it be through a mobile-friendly website, a mobile app, or a combination of both, your brand should be able to connect with your audience through their mobile devices. If that communication channel is disrupted, brand perception suffers, because it sends a message that says, “I am out of tune or don’t care about the needs of my customers.”
Your Sales Strategy Must Be Mobile
By building sales strategies around smartphone usage, you will see an increase in mobile conversions. In the aforementioned Google consumer survey, 46% of smartphone users stated that they made a purchase directly from their device, and of those, 60% make at least one smartphone purchase every month. The survey also shows that 38% of smartphone users made an offline purchase as a result of preliminary research performed on their smartphone.
Technology is advancing at a rapid pace, and it is important for your business to stay current with these changes or run the risk of alienating prospective customers. If you don’t have the time, capabilities, or desire to develop a mobile strategy in-house, consult with a Tampa web design company that specializes in mobile. Mobile is not a thing of the future. Consumer behavior is changing now, and smartphones are at the center of this societal shift.
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As part of its mission to facilitate cross-chain trade, Rarible has adopted Polygon as its fourth blockchain integration after Ethereum, Flow, and Tezos. OpenSea, the current market leader, works with Ethereum, Polygon, and Klatyn. In October, NFTs using Polygon were included in its platform.
Since its debut in early 2020, Rarible has steadily increased its reach to include additional blockchains, most recently incorporating Flow in June and Tezos in December. In November, Rarible also introduced a texting function.
But as blockchain data provided by DappRadar shows, that has yet to do much to increase sales volume. While Rarible’s weekly sales were $396,000, OpenSea’s were $414 million. Rarible announced in their announcement that they would be releasing their own multi-chain wallet shortly. However, no specific timeframe was given. For ERC-721 and ERC-1155 tokens, the platform also introduces the possibility of splitting fees and implementing royalty requirements.
In a news statement, Rarible CEO Alexei Falin remarked,
“Rarible understands the duty to democratize all elements of NFTs for both artists and consumers. Rarible Protocol’s partnership with Polygon is another milestone to help the thriving markets and initiatives created on its ecosystem reach more people and expand their back-end capabilities.”
The company also plans to utilize the blockchain’s NFT and game division, Polygon Studios, for promotional and technological assistance as part of the agreement.
Even Polygon has been on a collaboration binge in recent months, with high-profile deals like those with sports betting service DraftKings and music NFT platform OneOf. With Sequoia Capital India at the helm, Polygon closed a $450 million fundraising round in February.
Rarible has responded to the shifting NFT market with a new consolidated marketplace. Rarible 2, the revamped website, consolidates information from numerous marketplaces so consumers can browse collections with a single click.
Rarible to show Ethereum-based collections
As part of a series of upgrades, Rarible has announced that it will show, in order of price, Ethereum-based collections of NFTs listed on decentralized and centralized marketplaces such as LooksRare, OpenSea, and SudoSwap.
Rarible, presently the fifth largest NFT marketplace according to decentralized apps monitoring firm DappRadar, has seen a reduction in monthly active users since the start of the year. Its 30-day trading volume is slightly above 10% of OpenSea’s $323.78M market share.
The company came up with the notion of NFT aggregation to increase the number of collections available on the platform, the number of users, and the amount of available liquidity. He believes Rarible’s return user base will grow if it focuses on attracting short-term traders through an aggregated experience.
The aggregation technique makes better sense for Rarible than any of its four larger rivals partly because it’s big enough to aggregate marketplaces collectively. While still modest enough to reap a positive impact from NFTs placed on its platform.


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Here's a Thanksgiving secret a few of us planning dinner at home have right now: Sometimes the best holiday meal isn't one with grandma's stuffing or a overnight-brined organic turkey.
It's just one we don't have to cook.
Local chefs are paying attention. Though most grocery store delis offer all the pre-made components of Thanksgiving dinner, restaurant owners in Anchorage say there's a growing market for higher-end takeout meals that taste like home cooking or, in some cases, even fancier.
The Marx Bros. Cafe, a restaurant in downtown Anchorage, has been offering to-go Thanksgiving for more than 25 years. But recently, several other fine dining restaurants, including Simon & Seafort's and Suite 100 Restaurant, have gotten into the takeout game and say they have found plenty of takers.
"I really think that restaurants are just responding to the need. I think it's a change in our culture," said Garrett Martin, manager at Suite 100 in South Anchorage. "Not only are people just busier, people are leaning toward things that are more important to them. When you have less time spent prepping, you have more time for the good stuff."
[Want to go out to eat for Thanksgiving? Here are some restaurant options around Anchorage]
There was once a time when late November was slow in the Anchorage restaurant world, said Jack Amon, longtime partner and executive chef at Marx Bros. Interest in takeout Thanksgiving has grown with the increase in the number of families where two parents work, he said. When he was growing up, the women in his family stayed home and had more time to prep.
"Now you have two working spouses, kids in soccer, kids in hockey, kids in school," he said. "The poor mother, usually, has to spend all day in the kitchen and somebody has to go fight the crowds at the grocery stores."
An estimated 1,600 to 2,000 people will eat Thanksgiving takeout from Amon's restaurant Thursday. There is only so much time on Thanksgiving Day, and many customers feel like it's better spent out of the kitchen, Amon said.
"I got five kids, they go from age 13 to 3. We like to play games, we like to go outside and sled when there's snow," said Josh Pepperd, whose family has been getting dinner from Marx Bros. for 10 years. "The kids would much rather have us than have a certain from-scratch home dinner."
Marx Bros. dinner for eight to 10 people costs $250 and includes either a deep-fried turkey or one that's ready for the oven, stuffing, potatoes, yams, gravy and a pumpkin cheesecake.
"It all comes in a nice little box that we carry to your car," Amon said. "I take a lot of pride in them."
A similar meal with an organic turkey at Suite 100 costs $300. The restaurant is planning to do roughly 30 of them, Martin said.
"I think the price is reasonable for what it is," Martin said. "When I cook, especially when I cook recipes at home, once you buy everything, the cost is so compounded because you are buying more than you need for an actual dish."
Thanksgiving is now Simon & Seafort's busiest reservation night all year. Instead of turning people away from a fully booked dining room, they decided to extend takeout service a couple years ago, said Chris Hockett, front house manager. It will likely do 75 full meals this year for 10 to 12 people for $260 each.
"Don't feel guilty," Hockett tells customers. "Cooking's not easy. It's time-consuming. It's expensive."
Linnea Cummings owns Alaska Dinner Factory, a business that offers pre-assembled meals for delivery and takeout. For the last few years, she's done brisk business in ready-to-cook Thanksgivings. She'll do 45 dinners for 12 this year at $280 a piece. She's toned up her Thanksgiving offerings as she's learned more about the market. Thanksgiving menus are shaped as much by nostalgia as they are about what people actually like to eat, she explained.
"Each person has a traditional thing, the potluck item they bring," she said, talking about her own family table. "Whether we like it or not, we still eat it and we still miss it if it isn't there."
She's expanded her offerings to include more nostalgic dishes, she said. A version of green bean casserole, for example, is a runaway hit. She's working on something that might get at people's love of canned yams, she said.
One of Cummings' customers, Lynette Harple, started ordering Thanksgiving a few years ago, when she found herself working and caring for her mother and her husband, who were both ill. The dinner included turkey, green bean casserole, potatoes and several "to die for" miniature pumpkin pies, she recalled. It met everyone's desire for a festive meal, she said, and shrank her list of responsibilities.
"It comes ready to go and it comes with explicit directions," Harple said. "I just don't have time to cook a ton of stuff because I gotta work, you know?"


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Tailwind is no stranger to acquisitions. Just last year we acquired PinReach. But we’re a bit astonished at Facebook’s recent $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp. We decided to dig around a bit to see if we can solve the mystery behind this earth-shattering acquisition.
Let’s be frank here- When Facebook announced that it would be acquiring WhatsApp for the hefty price tag of $19 billion, people freaked out. No surprise, since you can buy a whole lot of stuff with $19 billion. Stuff that, when taken at face value, seems quite a bit more valuable than a tiny company with only 55 employees and 2013 revenues of only $20 million. So what’s the big deal? Read on to find out why this decision might not be a colossal mistake, although it is most certainly bold.
1. Untapped Potential
WhatsApp’s main source of income is a $1 subscription fee after one year of use. Even though Facebook has decided to allow WhatsApp to remain independent, it is likely that additional monetization methods will come into play. Although the founders of WhatsApp have made clear their disdain for in-app advertisements (they don’t even have a marketing department), perhaps the service will take a note from WeChat and add in-app purchases such as games and stickers. WeChat, for those that don’t already know, is the leading messenger app in China with over 300,000 users worldwide. Although, according to Chinese news website Xinhua, users amount to something closer to 600,000. Regardless, it’s a lot of people. If Facebook can find the right way to monetize the platform (as they did with Facebook itself after a few years of research) there is definitely potential for some serious cash. Just for the sake of comparison, (although the two apps are radically different in both user-base and monetization methods) just look at WeChat, which is estimated to earn $1.1 billion this year.
2. Global Reach and Relevance
WhatsApp has an incredible adoption rate. As 2013 drew to a close, 25 million unique users were signing up each month. Almost 1 million users PER DAY. That’s not to mention the 450 million users that were already logging on each day. But that’s not even the best part. These users come from countries all over the world, many of which are developing countries that show slow adoption of Facebook. The acquisition allows Facebook to remain relevant in those countries. Additionally, the move helps Facebook deal with the general shift away from laptops towards mobile devices. Some would even go so far to say that, in order to remain competitive on the mobile front abroad, Facebook had no choice but to acquire WhatsApp, regardless of price.
3. People generally don’t appreciate being advertised to
It’s true. When I’m playing an epic round of Flappy Bird and a flashy banner ad pops up, ruining my concentration and causing my adorable avian friend to slam into a green pipe, I’m not a happy camper. This is why ad-blocking software is so popular. We’ve seen it on all major social media platforms, and it’s the same thing on mobile- marketers have to find a way to monetize without being ‘in your face’ about it. On Pinterest, we have to form our profiles in accordance with what the followers want, not with what we want them to want. The anti-advertising stance of WhatsApp’s creators means that they will continue to innovate in a way that doesn’t rely on ads. Zuckerberg even said “I don’t personally think ads are the right way to monetize messaging.” So essentially, acquiring WhatsApp allows Facebook to get around the mobile advertising problem with a team that is practically founded on a their disdain for it.
4. Cheap to Maintain
As we said before, WhatsApp only has 55 employees. At first glance this may seem like an incredibly small amount of people, certainly not worth forking over $19 billion for. However, this tiny group of people is managing to successfully cater to a user base of over 450 million. As Henry Blodget noted at Business Insider, “assuming an all-in cost of $200,000 per employee, that’s a total cost base of $11 million. [Assuming] WhatsApp grows to …300 employees over the next few years… it will have a cost base of only $50-$75 million.” He goes on to note that if the company manages to continue its insane growth, “it could easily be pulling in more than $1 billion a year of revenue in a few years. Almost all of that would be profit.” There are no marketing costs to configure either, considering the WhatsApp creators are happy to just let the app sell itself.
So that about sums it up. It looks like Zuckerberg might not be quite as insane(or inept, depending on who you ask) as many pundits would have us believe. But will the popular messaging app really be able to recoup $19 billion in revenue? Only time will tell.


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Carat has announced that it has bagged British Airways’ media duties following a global pitch. ZenithOptimedia was the incumbent.
In a statement on the development, Priti Khurana, marketing lead - India and S Asia, British Airways, noted that the brand is keen to ‘start managing media in a dramatically different manner’.
She said, “British Airways is the preferred carrier for a large part of the discerning traveler audience from India and we are keen to take the appeal much further. To this end, British Airways has already made sizeable investments on the technology and infrastructure front and now we’d want the message to be driven home, with maximum impact.”
According to the statement, a ‘high voltage media campaign’ is scheduled to go on air shortly.
Vidhu Sagar, EVP, Carat Media, added, “British Airways is a prestigious brand and has always been the preferred choice of the discerning traveler. However with the recent expansion of the franchise to include more mainstream audiences, our media approach is now going to be similarly aligned to connect the brand message with the chosen prospects most effectively. We shall endeavour to do this with the help of all pertinent media platforms - including television, print, digital, OOH as well as activation, as appropriate.”
Kartik Iyer, MD, Carat India, said, “We are absolutely delighted that British Airways has chosen Carat to partner them in this growth phase of their business. British Airways had always led the market in creating iconic brand communication campaigns and we look forward to partnering them in their endeavour to engage with the vast traveling population of India.”
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The new Aston Martin Vantage AMR will be made available in a choice of four different exterior colors, these include Stratus White with an Orange graphic; Ultramarine Black with Blue graphic; Zaffre Blue with Red graphic and Scintilla Silver with Grey graphic, each of these color schemes features a different interior color scheme. The first V8 model will utilise the same 430bhp 4.7-litre V8 as the standard V8 Vantage S, connected to either the 7-speed single clutch semi-automatic gearbox, or (thankfully) a six-speed manual. Now, the British marque has finally revealed a couple of production models bearing the AMR badge. The brand was first announced at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, along with the Vantage AMR Pro.
Aston Martin has unveiled a limited edition version of the Vantage, called the Vantage AMR.
Aston Martin says it will limit AMR production to just 300 cars - 100 V12s and 200 V8s.
Aston Martin will launch a new range of cars under its newly-formed AMR banner.
For the car's wheels - fivespoke items on the V8 auto and 10-spoke ones on the V12 - there's a selection of three different finishes.
Aston Martin's successes in endurance motorsport have inspired the overall demeanour of the Vantage AMR, which has been developed with a focus on weight-saving and raucous performance.
In the United Kingdom, the Aston Martin Vantage AMR will have a starting price of £97,995, or the equivalent of around $125,000, with Aston aiming to start delivering cars by Q4 2017. "Unmistakable in look and feel, the Vantage AMR will appeal to our most enthusiastic customers".
"As our most agile and athletic road vehicle, and our long-time representative in the world of GT racing, it is the ideal model with which to introduce the exciting AMR range".
Lightweight ten-spoke alloys are also available, along with other performance boosting options such as an AMR-developed aero that incorporates a carbon-fibre front splitter, dive planes, side sills and a huge fixed rear spoiler. They will cost from £97,995 and deliveries will start late this year.
New polling shows Trump's support slipping among Republicans
CBS News noted that more than half of Republicans call the investigation a political distraction that should be put aside. One-third of Americans now say his approach to the investigations has made their opinion of him worse, pollsters found.


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Just days after Uber Technologies’ venture into the Jump electric scooter sharing program, Bird unveiled its new custom designed Bird Zero. Bird has also announced a new all-day rental package that lets riders own scooters for the whole day.
Bird Zero is designed to meet the demands of Rideshare 2.0 with 60% better battery life, better lighting, and enhanced durability. The company has also included two additional features into the Bird Zero that were missing in the previous Bird scooters – battery indicators and speedometers. These features were, however, found on scooters owned by rival Lime.
There has not been a major upgrade in top speed, which continues to be around 15 miles per hour. Bird executive chief Travis VanderZanden said, given the fact that electric scooters are more environment-friendly, people should start experimenting with it for short trips rather than using cars.
The possibility of e-scooters getting robbed when parked in front of a restaurant or shop had so far played spoilsport for dockless ones. Bird has now solved this issue by launching a new all-day scooter rental service called Bird Delivery. As per this service, Bird Zero scooters are delivered to customers by 8 am for the whole day and they remain incapable of being used by other customers.
Experts believe that the rental service could be priced over $150 with discounts during the first few days.
Bird competes with Lime and Spin in the country. Now that Uber and Lyft have also ventured into the bike-sharing industry, competition is likely to get stiffer. Even as US cities are invaded by bike-sharing players, Bird has ventured into the international markets, setting its footprint first in Paris.
But the bigger rival Lime had already expanded to Europe by 2017-end with around 500 bikes on circulation in Frankfurt and Zurich. In addition, Lime has plans to expand into 25 new markets by the end of this year.
Last month, the IPO market was in a full swing. IPOs of Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) and JFROG (NASDAQ: FROG) had an impressive opening day in September, the former creating a
PepsiCo Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP) beat market expectations on both revenue and earnings for the third quarter of 2020. The company saw the momentum continue in its snacks business while the
With more and more people turning to virtual entertainment sources, amid the virus-related movement restrictions, video game publishers like Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) are witnessing unusually high demand. Not surprisingly,


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Marco’s Pizza closes its doors
SALEM — A prime retail spot at the corner of State and Lincoln is now vacant after Marco’s Pizza unexpectedly closed Monday with no explanation, removing all signs of its existence and telling callers that the location “is no longer open for business.”
A worker at Family Video, which shares the same building at 120 N. Lincoln Ave., and is located in the space next door, said they didn’t know Marco’s was closing until the signs came down and they saw workers carrying boxes out. When asked if the video store was also closing, she said no.
There’s been a sign posted at the corner of the lot for some time now advertising the building for sale or lease, but the worker said plans call for Family Video to remain, but to occupy a smaller space in the building. The property is listed two different ways on the Legacy commercial property website at www.legacypro.com, either for sale or for lease.
On the sale listing, there’s a price tag of $849,000 for the building measured at 5,853 square feet. Under lease, there’s up to 4,350 square feet available. No price is listed for the lease cost. A message for comment was left at the phone number listed on the sign at 847-904-9200 but was not returned.
A message was also left at the Marco’s Pizza corporate offices in Toledo asking about the closure, but no call was returned. Marco’s Pizza, which has hundreds of locations across the nation, opened in Salem more than four years ago next to the Family Video and was open as recent as this past weekend before suddenly shutting the doors. The number of employees affected was unknown.
Julie Needs, executive director of the Sustainable Opportunity Development Center in Salem, which oversees economic development activities for the city, was surprised when she heard about Marco’s Pizza closing.
“I didn’t know anything other than they had extra space to lease,” she said regarding the building.
Her previous understanding from the leasing company, identified on the sign as Legacy, was that nothing was leaving. She did say, though, that it appeared the amount of square footage available for lease was increased.


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Xinnet, July 20. The People’s Daily South China News published today reported that the American funeral industry has also begun to favor Chinese goods. reported that due to monopolistic operations, funeral expenses in the United States remain high. Statistics show that among the average funeral expenses of $6,500, coffin costs account for about $3,000, which is very profitable. According to estimates by the American Association of Coffin and Funeral Article Sellers, the number of coffins sold in the United States this year will reach 1.7 million. The report also stated that it has only been three years for Chinese-made coffins to enter the US market. According to "USA Today" reports, Chinese-made coffins only account for 2% of the American funeral industry market, but they have great potential for high quality and low prices. They may quickly enter the American market and break the market monopoly of the American funeral industry. Compared with American coffins, Chinese coffins have the biggest competitive advantage in price. According to information from the funeral home in Houston, coffins produced in China cost about US$1,700 per pair, while coffins in the United States cost about US$2,300. As Chinese coffins are cheap and good in quality, imports are gradually increasing. The Funeral Supplies Company in Greenville, South Carolina imports at least 15,000 Chinese-made coffins every year. The Chinese coffin also needs improvement. According to the Chinese version of "World Journal", the design of Chinese coffins still has flaws. According to estimates by industry insiders, because of the high profits of the funeral and interment industry, cheap coffins sold through the Internet may become "hot commodities." Faced with the influx of Chinese products, American funeral and interment companies can no longer hold back. California funeral and interment industry recently held an annual meeting to discuss how to deal with the challenges posed by Chinese coffins.
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The International Monetary Fund has made a surprise U-turn on its stance on the cryptocurrency ban as the US and other major economies continue their crackdown.
The IMF’s sudden flip on the crypto ban, warning it “may not be effective” comes just months after suggesting banning as an option, because it would also prevent countries from gaining the associated benefits.
“While a few countries have completely banned crypto assets given their risks, this approach may not be effective in the long run,” the IMF said in a website post about interest in central bank digital currency (CBDC) adoption in Latin America and the Caribbean. “The region should instead focus on addressing the drivers of crypto demand, including citizens’ unmet digital payment needs, and on improving transparency, by recording crypto asset transactions in national statistics.”
The Washington-based Fund said earlier this year that outright crypto bans “should not be ruled out,” and called for a “coordinated response” to the rise of crypto that it warned could undermine the global monetary system.
The IMF’s softening stance toward crypto comes as the US embarks on the crypto crackdown in the wake of 2022’s market downturn that wiped away $2.0 trillion of value and culminated with the implosion of major exchange FTX.
China cracked down hard on bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies in 2021, expelling bitcoin and crypto miners from the country and briefly crashing the market before crypto companies established themselves in the US and around the world.
The IMF has clashed with El Salvador since the country gave bitcoin legal tender status in 2021, warning of “underlying risks to financial integrity and stability, fiscal sustainability, and consumer protection.”
The bitcoin price has almost doubled this year as traders abandon smaller cryptocurrencies in favor of bitcoin and its nearest rival Ethereum following a US crackdown that some think is part of a plot to destroy the market.
In their report, the IMF economists leaned into a position closer to adopting cryptocurrencies, but within a well-regulated framework. They said that cryptocurrency offered a number of benefits to its adopters. They wrote that crypto offered protection against macroeconomic uncertainty, promoted financial inclusion, and faster payments among other benefits.
In a survey shared with officials across the region, the IMF found that half of the respondents said they were considering both retail and institutional CBDC options. What they also saw in CBDCs was a way to promote resilience in communities vulnerable to natural disasters, and create a way to boost financial inclusions in more remote ones.
The price of bitcoin surged to over $31,400 recently, reaching its highest level since 2022, fuelled by growing institutional interest in the maiden cryptocurrency. Although bitcoin briefly retracted, it has managed to maintain a trading value above $30,000 for the first time since April. This price level has proven to be a significant resistance point throughout 2023.
Economist and trader Alex Krüger said he is bullish on it, setting a high price target, particularly in light of the recent spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund applications.
According to Krüger, the news of the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock filing for a spot Bitcoin ETF was “huge and not properly priced in yet”.
Analysts said the recent rally faces uncertainties regarding the sustainability of its gains after having risen by over 85 per cent in value this year. The overall market grapples with regulatory concerns and macroeconomic factors contributing to the prevailing uncertainty.
Crypto trading expert and analyst Michaël van de Poppe, expressing doubts about the cryptocurrencies’ ability to sustain their rally, noted that if bitcoin experiences a minor correction to around $28,500, it will present an ideal opportunity to accumulate the asset.
The current surge in bitcoin’s value can largely be attributed to the increasing interest from major financial institutions. Notably, BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management company, recently applied to register a bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund (ETF).
Furthermore, the launch of a digital asset trading platform by EDX Markets, a cryptocurrency exchange supported by renowned firms such as Charles Schwab, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Citadel, has also instilled investor confidence in the crypto space, especially at a time when the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has intensified its regulatory crackdown on crypto exchanges like Binance and Coinbase over the alleged listing of unregistered securities.
In terms of Bitcoin’s price analysis, as of now, it is comfortably trading above the resistance level of $30,000, with a valuation of $30,621. On the weekly chart, bitcoin has experienced a growth of over 15 per cent.
Despite its substantial growth this year, bitcoin still trails behind its previous record high of over $60,000, achieved in 2021.


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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has started investigating Lizard Squad, the online group that took credit for knocking PlayStation Network and Xbox Live offline. On Christmas, Lizard Squad allegedly assaulted Sony’s and Microsoft’s servers with a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack, which overwhelms a target with junk data that most servers don’t know how to handle. The result was that gamers on PlayStation and Xbox systems were without the ability to play many games for extended periods of time.
The increase will be $1, raising charges from $9.99 to $10.99/month for monthly subscribers while 3-month plans will go up by $5 to $29.99.
Soon, you'll be able to enjoy all the benefits of being an Xbox Live fan on not only your console, but your iOS, Android and Switch devices.
Microsoft is cracking down on what people say while using their services. The tech giant plans to ban accounts that use "offensive language" and will go through private data to "investigate" users.


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Samsung gives a sense of a future folding device that will integrate for the first time Amoled panels are fully flexible, said the baptized panel as & # 39; Infinity Flex Display & # 39;
This announcement was made on Wednesday at the opening of the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC 2018), in San Francisco, California (USA), where they had to turn off the auditorium lights to avoid the detailed design of the device that was visible, which was also hidden inside the casing.
Samsung explained that the device was not ready and what was shown was only a prototype, but will be sold in 2019.
It will have two screens, one outside to be used like other smartphones, and one inside, with the ability to display tablet functions.
This flexible panel will have a new user interface, which will allow window adjustments for up to three simultaneous applications in various sizes and screen spaces, so that it has an optimization that will adapt to the tastes of the user. The panel will measure 7.3 inches, but it is not specified below what resolution. The manufacturing consists of folding panel technology developed by the company, which has a new protective layer with polymers that allows it to be flexible and resistant at the same time.


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Sony has revealed pricing for its Xperia XZ2 Premium smartphone after it was unveiled earlier this year. According to the company, the device will cost a whopping $999.99, the same price as Apple’s iPhone X. For the money, you’re getting a 5.8-inch 4K HDR display, dual 19MP and 12MP rear cameras, a Snapdragon 845, 6GB of RAM, Android Oreo, a 3540mAh battery, 64GB of storage, and stereo speakers. In the end, you’re pretty much shelling out extra cash for the display and the fancy camera system.
If you’re looking to pick up an Xperia XZ2 Premium, you’ll be able to do so from Amazon and Best Buy. Sony says the device will launch on July 9th and come with free Xperia Ear Duo wireless earbuds if you preorder through Amazon.


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There are more and more cases of big companies failing to keep their customers happy with the privacy and private data handling. Microsoft was also under such a situation when it failed to keep up with European data protection terms and was in the news for the same. Now Microsoft came up with the solution by making changes in their Cloud Contract terms to follow up with the customer’s privacy issues. European authorities are the ones that put light on this issue and made Microsoft bring changes to their terms.
European Union data protection authorities warned Microsoft about the issue with their Cloud services term. The cloud contract terms of Microsoft were not following European data protection rules and so got Microsoft into a position where changes needed. Privacy concerns were raised by authorities on the terms that Microsoft was putting to the customers. Microsoft is a tech giant and the number of customers is too big to overlook any of the terms related to users’ data and companies’ services. For better or good Microsoft took the issue seriously and made proper changes that suit the customers and authorities.
As per Microsoft’s spokesperson, the update will be made to these terms in the OST (Online Services Terms) following the warning by EU authorities. The warning was given to the tech giant in October and the changes in their Cloud Contract terms will be public by 2020. The services and data processing of user will be more transparent to users to make it more clean and reliable. It’s a good thing that the tech giant showed seriousness over privacy and transparency of data while accepting that it will be better with the changes made now.


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Revlon to Remove Toxic Chemicals from Products
Through a joint press release from The Breast Cancer Fund, UltraViolet, and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics; Revlon announced they will be eliminating cancer causing toxic chemicals from their products. Revlon will remove “long-chain parabens and certain chemicals that release formaldehyde” from its cosmetic line. After a petition garnered more than 100,000 signatures, Revlon knew it was time to make a change. “Long-chained parabens are endocrine disrupters – linked to breast cancer”, and formaldehyde are both used as preservatives in many personal care and cosmetic products. The landmark announcement comes as more and more companies are becoming aware of the potentially harmful chemicals in personal care products and cosmetics we use on a daily basis. Though this is a win for the toxic free lifestyle, Americans won’t stop here. Consumers in the United States are also applying pressure to companies like Johnson & Johnson as well as L’Oreal to make changes similar to those made by Revlon.
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To maintain short hairstyles, many men go for a haircut about twice a month. The novel coronavirus pandemic has closed non-essential businesses in some areas, which means barber shops haven’t been open. Out of desperation some men have cut their own hair, or given themselves questionable hair styles, and shared photos on social media. Would you ever attempt to cut or color your own hair?
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CV-Library acquires programmatic platform Brilliant Jobs
CV-Library has officially acquired Brilliant Jobs, a platform that uses the latest AI and programmatic technology to efficiently connect candidates with employers. The acquisition was part of a strategic move to own and integrate a leading programmatic product within its existing technology stack and to expand the organisation’s product offering.
The move is part of the CV-Library Group’s wider plans to deliver a global programmatic job advertising solution across its existing and new territories. Whilst CV-Library in the UK continues to invest and deliver traditional job posting products, it will offer clients and partners the option to buy, advertise and optimise their job adverts based on performance.
This will be led through CV-Library’s U.S. based business, Resume-Library, which is one of the fastest growing job boards in North America, as well as providing a springboard for further international expansion over the next 12 months.
CV-Library have earmarked over $9m for acquisitions and platform transformations over the next 2 years and the first stage, integrating Brilliant Jobs, is due to be complete and available to the market in late October 2022.
Lee Biggins, Founder and CEO of CV-Library and Resume-Library said: “This acquisition provides us with the technology to bring a true programmatic solution to the market, with a product mix that suits every hiring model. I am personally very excited about this step forward in our vision to become a leading job board globally, as well as the possibilities it brings for us as a modern technology business.”
The acquisition also sees the formulation of an impressive new team at CV-Library, led by Andrea Olivari, Global Partnerships Director, with Chee Ho Wan, founder of Brilliant Jobs, joining as Head of Campaign Delivery.
The Muse Gets Another $8 Million
The Muse, a values-based job search and career development platform used by 75 million people annually, is proud to announce $8 million in new investment led by MBM Capital, founded and run by managing partners Lauren Bonner and Arun Mittal.
They plan on making acquisitions. Wonder if they will be buying other job sites?
“The Muse, already a known and loved career destination for tens of millions of Gen Z and Millennial jobseekers, will seek out and acquire other deeply loved brands that attract high-demand job seekers. By incorporating these brands into a broader whole, The Muse will grow their jobseeker offerings and value for employers while creating an easier solution to buy.”