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Does a stay-at-home mom selling crafts on Facebook Marketplace constitute a home business?
That’s the kind of question Carbonear council hopes to clarify with an amendment to its home-based business regulations.
“We do have some home-based businesses that are more hobby related than actual businesses,” said councillor Danielle Doyle. “For example, right now during our pandemic, we have a lot of people making masks at home. But, is that a business that should be paying business tax? We don’t feel that people who are doing hobby crafts should be subject to a business tax.”
Doyle said the development committee recommended the town’s chief administrative officer draft an amendment to the home-based business regulations specifically excluding those who are making hobby crafts for no profit.
Back in February, the Town of Bay Bulls on the Southern Shore ignited a firestorm of controversy when the council there taxed hobbyists selling their wares over social media. Some hobbyists claimed they were not registered businesses, and as such should not have to pay a business tax.
Still on the subject of home-based businesses, Carbonear council did approve a new home-based business last month, a hair salon on Water Street, subject to all other necessary government department approvals.


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The Digital Health 150 is CB Insights’ annual ranking of the 150 most promising digital health startups in the world. This year’s winning companies include startups working on data integration & analytics, home health tech, virtual care, clinical intelligence, and more.
CB Insights has unveiled the third annual Digital Health 150 — a list of 150 of the top private companies using digital technology to transform healthcare.
The 2021 Digital Health 150 cohort has raised approximately $14.9B in aggregate funding across 522 deals since 2016 and includes startups at different investment stages of development, from early-stage companies to well-funded unicorns.
The companies were selected by CB Insights’ Intelligence Unit from a pool of over 11,000 companies, including applicants and nominees.
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KARACHI: The current account deficit in the first 11 months of 2017-18 has amounted to $15.9 billion, up 43.2 per cent from the previous year.
According to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Wednesday, the gap was $1.9 billion in May. This was nominally down from the preceding month, data showed.
The current account tracks a country’s overseas transactions, such as net trade, earnings on cross-border investments and transfer payments.
Exports of goods amounted to $22.8 billion in July-May, up 13.2 per cent from a year ago. However, the corresponding rise in imports which were worth $50.7 billion, remained 16.4 per cent over the same period.
The recent depreciation of the rupee against the dollar is likely to help bridge the trade gap. The move to cheapen the rupee against the dollar will curtail imports as they will cost more because of the change in the value of the local currency. Similarly, exports will see a spike in nominal terms because of the devaluation.
Exports have mostly grown at a single-digit rate since 2010-11. A recovery in advanced economies from the second half of 2017 with the United States experiencing one of the fastest quarterly growth rates in the last three years, played a key role in the recent surge in exports, according to the SBP. It boosted demand for products exported by emerging economies, including Pakistan, it said.
The former finance minister under the PML-N government, Miftah Ismail, said after the latest round of rupee devaluation, exports have now become more competitive on a global level. He expects that exports are going to register a greater increase in coming months because of a cheaper rupee.
According to the SBP, exemptions for the textile industry on the import of raw material (customs duty) and textile machinery (sales tax) may have catalysed exports, specifically to the European market, in the presence of the GSP Plus status.
But the simultaneous rise in imports continues nonetheless. In addition to a higher import bill for petroleum products, increased demand for motorcars, palm oil, pesticides, chemicals, plastic materials and iron and steel scrap contributed to the surge in non-oil imports.
Lastly, workers’ remittances rose 3 per cent to $18 billion at the end of the 11-month period.


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Alert, Alert!! Hide your grinders, pack up those coffee makers and throw away those grounds. Coffee may be hazardous to your health!
Is anybody willing to take bets on how long it will take before the food intake police call on the coffee and refreshment industry to place warning labels on products containing caffeine?
A teenager was taken to hospital after overdosing on espresso coffee.
Jasmine Willis, 17, developed a fever and began hyperventilating after drinking seven double espressos while working at her family's sandwich shop.
The student, of Stanley, County Durham, was taken to the University Hospital of North Durham, where doctors confirmed she had overdosed on caffeine.
She has since made a full recovery and is now warning others about the dangers of excessive coffee drinking. (src. BBC News)
Most people would classify this under the category of most insignificant news item of the day, yet someone at the BBC thought it was a worthy enough cause to place on their international news site. It currently holds the coveted top position on the BBC's most e-mailed list.
What would a coffee awareness article be without a blow by blow account of the harrowing experience?
Ms Willis, who had thought the coffees were single measures, said the effects were so severe that she began laughing and crying for no reason while serving customers at the shop.
She developed a fever and began struggling to breathe after being sent home by her father.
"My nerves were all over the place.
"I was drenched. I was burning up and hyperventilating.
"I was having palpitations, my heart was beating so fast and I thought I was going into shock.
"I did not realise this could happen to you and I only hope other people learn from my mistake."
The teenager, who was allowed home after a few hours of observation, suffered side effects for days afterwards and now says she cannot stand the sight of coffee.
Suffered side effects for days afterward? Can no longer stand the sight of coffee? This sounds like my reaction every time the mainstream media pumps out silly articles like the one referenced above. Maybe we can get a warning label for that.
Terry Trippany is the editor at Webloggin. All emphasis in the article is mine.


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News of a class action lawsuit against six of the largest TV groups for advertising price fixing is “crap,” says sales consultant Jim Doyle. “I know the group heads and many of the station sales leaders at all of these companies. I’ve been part of the TV business for more than 40 years and I am positive that it is absolutely not the case. Not a single one of those people is stupid enough to engage in any conversation that could be construed as collusive.”
The great challenge for local TV is not only to create compelling digital products and services, but to find and train people to sell them. Station groups are stepping up those efforts, hoping to latch on to some of the dollars that are migrating from broadcast to digital. “Digital, social, secondary channels, websites, mobile – it’s literally a laundry list that each sales rep needs to understand, then master himself,” says sales consultant Adam Armbruster. Part II of this special report tomorrow will address integrating new programmatic or automated selling platforms with existing sales, traffic and billing workflows. Also see today’s Open Mike on sales compensation for new hires.
Sales consultant Jim Doyle outlines four approaches to help TV station sales teams take advantage of the growing opportunities available to them. “AEs — and a few managers — need to stop thinking about history and start thinking about possibility. Possibility is what a client could spend with you. That is usually a whole lot more than what they have been doing.”
Sales consultant Jim Doyle tells an NAB audience that both traditional and digital account executives tend to undervalue, even disparage the “other” medium. That should change.


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Porsche is a veteran of endurance racing, having won overall in the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans no less than 16 times, but developing a new LMP1 from scratch is no easy task, especially with rivals as strong as Audi and Toyota, which have already had a number of successes with recent prototypes.
Maximum efficiency in energy consumption is the directive of the new WEC regulations for the top LMP1 category--and that is also the direction for the automobile future, according to Porsche. Thus, in developing the new 919 Hybrid, Porsche engineers needed to ensure that every component--from the combustion engine to the energy recovery systems, chassis and running gear, aerodynamics and driver ergonomics--not only performs well but is efficient too.
The combustion engine is a compact V-4 unit that also serves as a load-bearing member in the chassis. It displaces just 2.0 liters but thanks to direct-injection and turbocharging technologies manages to produce close to 500 horsepower.
In addition, the 919 Hybrid has two energy recovery systems. Fundamentally new here is a system that recovers thermal energy from exhaust gases via an electric generator driven by the exhaust gas stream, which is similar to what is being used in the 2014 Formula One season.
The second hybrid system has the functionality familiar from the 918 Spyder supercar. Here, a generator on the front axle utilises braking phases to convert kinetic energy into electric energy. Lithium-ion batteries serve as the energy storage medium. When the driver needs this energy, such as coming out of a corner, an electric motor drives the front axle. This makes the 919 Hybrid an all-wheel drive vehicle temporarily.
Porsche will field two 919 Hybrids in the WEC this season. Driving the number 14 car will be Romain Dumas, Neel Jani and Marc Lieb, while sharing time behind the wheel in the number 20 car will be Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley and Mark Webber.
Fellow Volkswagen Group brand Audi, which won this year’s WEC and Le Mans titles, will utilize a TDI diesel engine for the hybrid system in its own 2014 R18 e-tron quattro prototype. Toyota is yet to reveal full details on its 2014 TS040 Hybrid Le Mans prototype but has said it will come with a naturally aspirated V-8.
Joining the 2014 919 Hybrid on Porsche’s stand in Geneva this week was another race car, the 2014-spec 911 RSR. The car is similar to last year’s version and will once again compete in the GTE category of the WEC. Last year the car came first and second in its class in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It features a naturally aspirated 4.0-liter flat-six engine rated at 470 horsepower. Porsche will field two of the cars in the WEC this year.
The first race of the new season is the 6 Hours of Silverstone, which gets underway in the U.K. on April 20, 2014. In the meantime, catch the rest of our 2014 Geneva Motor Show coverage via our dedicated hub.


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No doubt, Coronavirus has eaten deep into the fabrics of China and the rest of the world. No wonder, the Bank of America declared that the world is facing a Coronavirus induced recession.
Between December, when the killer disease started, and now, the global equity market alone has lost $24 trillion in value, more than the $22 trillion in United States GDP, as reported by the Bank of America in its research journal.
Over the last century, recessions have almost always been started by sustained periods of high-interest rates but never a virus.
The damage such contagions inflicted on the world economy has typically lasted for more than three months and still counting. Now, this once-in-a-century pandemic is hitting financial markets like never before.
In barely a number of weeks, the coronavirus pandemic has shaved off nearly a third of the global market capitalization of global equities markets. The spread of the virus has triggered panic across the world and shaken the confidence of investors.
Making matters worse is the oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, which has injected uncertainty into other assets. Earlier, only the global stock and debt markets were impacted by the Coronavirus scare; now, the commodities and money markets are in disarray due to the crude oil war.
Olanrewaju Durojaiye, a financial advisor for a leading Canadian bank, said: “The effect of the COVID 19 on the financial market is devastating, considering that a chunk of the world’s production is located in China.
“This would have been better managed for financial markets if we didn’t have the oil price issue between Saudi and Russia.”
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that the coronavirus outbreak could cut global economic growth in half, or worse.
While conditions are improving in China lately, the Coronavirus outbreak is leading to lockdowns in the Western world and Iran. Due to spiralling numbers, the US and many countries in Europe are staring at a grim situation.
Temitope Busari (CFA), a treasurer in a leading financial firm based in Lagos, during a phone interview with Nairametrics, said, “The outbreak affected demand and supply of commodities and production input, disrupted supply chains, led to travel bans and enhanced social distancing with more people working from home.
“The ensuing uncertainties engendered a strong bear market in financial markets around the world, especially as many multinationals began to review their financial projections downward. Following a breakthrough in medical research, the degree of economic recovery of sovereign states and multinationals will vary. It will take strong leadership and innovation to master disaster recovery efforts in the coming months.
“This pandemic will definitely lead to a slowdown in the global economy, with bigger numbers of contractions expected in emerging market economies as foreign portfolio investors continue to exit to safety. Additionally, what I believe to be more worrisome is the potential catastrophic impact of COVID-19 on the Healthcare system and health workers in Nigeria.”
Miss Urenna Ukonne, an intelligence analyst for Taxide, also added on a phone chat with Nairametrics, “COVID-19 has dealt a hard blow on the global economy. The virus that has spread to about 100 countries has led to businesses shutting down, retail stores closing, restaurants and the like following suit, leading to a shortage of sales. Sporting activities have also been brought to a halt.
“Countries that thrive on exports to other nations for their revenues, have stopped until the coast is clear due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the global decline in demand, and the fact that countries have closed their borders. Recession comes knocking for some countries. Also, we’ve seen countries such as US, UK, Nigeria spending more on health care to tackle the pandemic.”
Elsewhere in Africa, it has disrupted trade, increased debt vulnerabilities and limited the scope for monetary policy manoeuvres.
However, the issue for central banks around the world is stopping the massive panic showing in the global equities market at unprecedented levels.
Lately, the Fed showed how central banks can go big. But interest rate cuts are of limited use; they won’t tempt consumers to go out and spend in Paris, Lagos or Shanghai when the bars are closed, and flights cancelled.
But the market’s reaction and its evaluation of the economic impact of the virus wiping out several trillion dollars of value in global financial markets suggest what is certain to anyone outside of the investing world: you can’t cure a virus with monetary policy as quantitative easing.
Investors are looking to governments for more targeted moral support and bailout packages. But even that has not calmed nerves altogether.
Victor Silas, an investment analyst, told Nairametrics, “The effect of coronavirus in the global financial market cannot be overemphasized. In the commodity market, crude oil prices have fallen drastically due to low demand from China, which is a large consumer of the commodity.
“Potential disruption to China’s economy and factories would be significant as the country’s potential share of the world economy has risen to 19.3% in 2019 from 8.7% share during the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak, according to data from IMF.”
Meanwhile, the global economy is expected to grow by 2.4% in 2020 down from the 2.9% projected earlier, said a report by OECD.
However, what can really calm the financial markets are signs showing that the virus caseload has peaked, and then that there is an encouraging economic outlook spurred by a surge in demand in financial assets across the world.
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Forgtmenot co-owner Abby Sierros was serving up candlelight, cold draft beer and steak frites last night.
The streets were dark and quiet last night, as most Lower East Side residents huddled in their homes or fled to friends and relatives, but for those who ventured out post-superstorm Sandy, food, drink and comaraderie were on tap at several bars and restaurants. Just as many locally owned coffee shops were functioning while Starbucks all over town remained locked up tight, the establishments that opened their doors to their neighbors last night were generally the ones owned by the neighbors. There were no honking taxis or stretch limos dropping off stiletto-clad visitors from outside the LES, no DJs on the scene, just locals chilling out with each other and killing time until life gets back to normal.
169 Bar on East Broadway ran a small generator and a big party.
At 169 bar on East Broadway shortly after 7 p.m., the beer-and-a-shot $3 happy hour special was flowing freely to patrons relieved to get out of the house for a while, and pleasantly surprised to find generator-powered lights, plenty of company and even a little food. At Forgetmenot on Division Street, co-owners Abbie and Paul Sierros had a system. Abbie was behind the candelabra-lit bar, cheerfully offering to cook anything from the remaining contents of her refrigerator: steak, french fries and eggs. Meanwhile, Paul kept the power coming via a long extension cord plugged into an electrical inverter in a van parked out front.
Pushcart Coffee at 221 E. Broadway, along with several other locally owned java joints, is open today.
Lower East Siders don’t let a little stormy weather keep them from their morning coffee routines. Around the neighborhood today, many locally owned coffee shops were not only open, but doing robust business and planning to keep serving as long as they had power to brew and customers to imbibe.
“We’ve seen all our regular customers, and a lot of other people’s regular customers, too,” said Wally Corrales, who opened 12 Corners coffee shop at 155 E. Broadway in August. Corrales and his partner Mary Colgan, who live nearby at Hester and Mott streets, plan to stay open as late as possible today and will try to open tomorrow as well. They are stocked with coffee supplies and baked goods, though they were unable to get bagels this morning because Kossar’s was closed.
It was a nearly perfect fall weekend — ideal conditions for several community events, including yesterday’s Grub Street Food Festival at the Hester Street Fair. We stopped by before the biggest crowds began swarming the Seward Park playing fields, checking in with some Lower East Side favorites.
Newbies Dorie and Josh Greenspan, who recently opened Beurre & Sel in the Essex Street Market, were right inside the main entrance, offering up their addictive cookies. Right next to the mom and son combo were our friends from Melt, the Orchard Street bakery. The Pickle Guys were on the scene, as well, along with Natalie Raben of the Lower East Side BID, who was getting the word out for next weekend’s Pickle Day. Other vendors pictured (after the jump): Cheeky Sandwiches, Pop Karma, Sons of Essex, Brooklyn Taco, Knishery NYC and Family Recipe.
Cafe Katja, at 79 Orchard St., will reopen next month after a major expansion.
Cozy neighborhood joint Cafe Katja, at 79 Orchard St., is almost ready to reopen after a summer of renovations that will double its capacity and open up new menu options, including lunch service.
Andrew Chase and Erwin Schrottner, the owners of the petite five-year-old Austrian cafe, jumped on the opportunity when the space next door became vacant last year, designing a bigger, more functional restaurant that retains Katja’s homey, intimate feel. They removed a 25-inch-thick brick wall, unifying the two storefronts with a new U-shaped slate bar, reclaimed-wood plank floors and custom metalwork that includes tall streetside windows they can fling open in nice weather.
12 Corners Coffee, 155 East Broadway.
A new coffee shop opened this week at 155 East Broadway, just west of Rutgers. It’s called “12 Corners,” and serves Kobrick’s Coffee. The staff is still setting up the small shop, which was once the home of Desserts NYC and before that Flowers Cafe. The owner wasn’t around when we stopped by this afternoon. A Yelp listing indicates the business will be open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. every day. The interior has been completely revamped; there are several tables set up along the wall and a small counter-area looking out onto East Broadway.
Rustic LES, 124 Ridge Street.
Yassir Raouli was just minutes away from seeing thousands of dollars slip through his fingers. Rouli, the Morrocan cuisine guru who operates the gourmet Bistro Truck with his wife Elsa, will soon open Rustic L.E.S., a brick-and-mortar restaurant at 124 Ridge Street, off Stanton. But just months ago, Raouli was struggling to find the funds to outfit his new kitchen.
“We were tight on money,” Raouli said recently, sitting in his nearly furnished restaurant. “As with every restaurant, you never meet the budget—it’s impossible. We were thinking of ways to raise money.” His answer came from Ben Rossen, one of the creators of Smallknot, a crowd-funding website that allows members of local communities to donate funds to small businesses in need of cash and receive rewards from those businesses in return.
Malt & Mold, 221 East Broadway.
In some parts of town, the arrival of a new business might not cause a stir. But on East Broadway, near Seward Park, any new venture seems to get the neighbors buzzing. This was certainly the case on Friday, immediately after the signage went up announcing “Malt & Mold,” a new specialty grocery coming soon to 221 East Broadway.
Before the weekend, we stopped by the tiny shop (located right next to Pushcart Coffee) to talk with proprietor Kevin Heald. Malt & Mold will be a takeout destination for beer, cheese, charcuterie, pickles, fresh bread, chocolate, ice cream and other locally-sourced products.
Last month we noted that Va Bene Pizza at 201 Clinton Street (East Broadway) had closed. Now comes word that a new restaurant will be opening in this spot. “Cowboy Pizza” is expected to open around the middle of next month. It’ll be run by Jamie Rogers and Lisa Fischoff, who already operate “Pushcart Coffee,” around the corner at 221 East Broadway. They have two partners in the new venture, Aaron Stoquert and Sarah Trapido. We’re told they’ll be serving “good old fashioned New York pizza” as well as some specialty pies. We’ll let you know when we learn more.
Lisa Fischoff, Jamie Rogers of Pushcart Coffee.
Regular customers of “Dora,” the year-old coffee shop at 221 East Broadway, have noticed a few changes lately. In September, Jamie Rogers bought the business from Nicole Slaven, who had named the shop for her great grandmother, Dora Cohen. This week, Jamie renamed the store “Pushcart Coffee.” Recently he also took on a partner, Lisa Fischoff, the first employee he hired three months ago.
Yvette Ho is moving Panade’s puff pastries and muffins back to 129 Eldridge St. next month.
Neighborhood sweet spot Panade Cafe, which leaped into bigger space over the winter, is moving back across the street to its old digs at 129 Eldridge St. in July.
The puff pastry shop, which is owned by Yvette Ho, will resume operations early next month at its old spot, Ho tells us in an email. The former elementary school teacher launched her business there in 2006, and kept the space to use as her main kitchen when she moved the cafe across the street in December, to a much larger space.
When Alan Natkiel finally caved to pressure from his enthusiastic friends and decided to solve his unemployment problem by opening Georgia’s Eastside BBQ in 2007, he had a few very firm predictions about his potential for success.
One, that all the new buildings sprouting out of the ground near his northern Orchard Street location would create a built-in customer base—construction workers at first, and later, upscale office workers and new Lower East Side residents.
Two, that he could turn a profit without becoming a destination dining spot as long as he won over enough local diners.
After four years, one of the old kids on the block
One day way back in 2006, Mike Caswell spent several hours people-watching on the block of Orchard Street between Broome and Grand streets. The midtown real estate broker Caswell had hired to help him choose a site for the high-tech coffee shop he planned to open suggested a spot halfway down that block. At first, Caswell thought he was crazy.
“This street looked like a war zone,” Caswell says, sipping an Americano in a window seat of Roasting Plant, now in its fourth year. But his agent insisted that the Lower East Side was the place to find Caswell’s target demographic. So the industrial-engineer-turned-coffee-entrepreneur, who at that point had invested seven years developing his automated roasting and brewing system, agreed to check it out. From a table at 88 Orchard, one of the first new businesses to open on lower Orchard, he saw exactly the type of customers he believed would dig his 21st-century brewing system and premium product.


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The daily price fluctuations of the shares in the hydrogen and fuel cell sector discussed here – primarily those from the USA and Canada – give an indication that very different interests determine events here: Thus, on many days in July 2021, there was a concurrence of price declines with almost identical percentage losses in the prices of all these shares with manageable trading volumes at the same time. In other words: The buy side held back and the forces betting on falling prices had the upper hand. However, no selling pressure could be detected, which is reflected in the amount of shares traded.
Nikola Motors – competition is good for business
It seems like Nikola Motors [Nasdaq: NKLA] was able to stop the bleeding of the past few months. The stock is rising again. Up to 30 million shares are now traded each day, a comparatively high volume for the company. The new-found optimism among investors seems to stem from reports about Nikola’s recent progress in meeting its targets. Construction of the Arizona factory is well underway. Then there are new production facilities being built in Ulm, Germany. And another boost for the stock came when competitor Daimler Truck announced its intention to have 5,000 hydrogen-fueled heavy-duty vehicles on the road over the next few years, with business partner Shell providing the fueling infrastructure. Sounds a lot like Nikola’s business model, the difference being that Nikola will produce its own hydrogen, and be able to keep the revenue, instead of outsourcing the task to another company.
Nikola Motors – uncertainty is waning
There are two sides to every story. And that’s very much the case with the planned cooperation with General Motors, GM, and the cancellation of 2,500 battery electric refuse trucks for Republic Services which turned out to be rather fortuitous in retrospect. In the GM scenario, Nikola would itself have had to spend over USD 700 million on tools, among other things. The participation of GM with USD 2 billion as a “valuable consideration” would have resulted in a dilution of the number of issued stocks.
Nikola – a hydrogen-powered Tesla
US manufacturer Nikola is the company currently making the most waves in the nascent hydrogen market, emerging as another success story similar to Tesla‘s. Its critics, however, consider the Phoenix-based would-be truck maker to be just as overrated as its competitor from Fremont, as it has yet to deliver on most of its promises.


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Officially, the capabilities of the new platform will be shown on Wednesday, October 21. And the first car that will appear on it will debut in early 2021.
The South Korean company Hyundai is going to present a new platform for electric cars called E-GMP. On the eve of the high-profile premiere, a representative of Hyundai shared a teaser. The main feature of the new “cart” will be the possibility of using exclusively electric motors.
Therefore, the premiere will open a new page for the Korean brand. It is also planned to build self-driving cars on the new platform. And the debut car will be the Hyundai Ioniq 5, which should be shown in early 2021. Another important part of the novelty is the short overhang and extended forward hood – this arrangement allows you to maximize the space in the cabin.
Also, cars built on the E-GMP platform will have a completely new design, which should help attract even more buyers.
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SUNNYVALE, CALIF.: Harmonic has agreed to buy its neighbor, Omneon, in a cash and stock deal valued at $274 million, the broadcast vendor said today. Both companies are headquartered in Silicon Valley, just five minutes apart. The deal combines Harmonic’s video processing technologies with Omneon’s high-level servers and peripherals.
The combined companies had $425 million in revenues last year. Harmonic’s totaled nearly $320 million, down from $365 million in 2008. Omneon’s were $105 million compared to $126 million in 2008, before the recession hammered the broadcast industry. Omneon nonetheless achieved a 58 percent gross margin.
Together, the companies have more than 2,000 customers across 100 countries, with two-thirds of Omneon’s business coming from outside the United States last year. The combined workforce will include 450 engineers working in research and development, and 580 in sales and service--a total of 1,030 people. Harmonic now has 840 employees, Omneon has 280 for a grand total of 1,120.
There was no mention of layoffs in the Harmonic’s announcement. It said only that “most of the Omneon executive management team is expected to join Harmonic at closing,” including Lawrence Kaplan, a founder of Omneon, and Suresh Vasudevan, its CEO.
Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, Harmonic will pay $190 million in cash and issue approximately 17.1 million shares of Harmonic’s (NASDAQ: HLIT) common stock at closing price May 5. The value is estimated at $274 million net of Omneon’s anticipated cash balance at closing of $32 million.
Omneon stockholders have to vote on the deal. Investors include Norwest Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Advanced Technology Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Invesco Private Capital and Lucent Ventures. Omneon filed for an IPO in December of 2006 but abandoned the plan last year during the economic downturn.
Harmonic’s 100 percent acquisition of Omneon is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close the third quarter of 2010.
Harmonic’s acquisition comes a little more than a year after it closed on Tel Aviv-based Scopus in a deal valued at $50 million. It acquired Santa Clara, Calif.,-based transcoder Rhozet in 2007 for $15.5 million. The next year, Harmonic acquired Entone, a San Mateo, Calif., video-on-demand specialist, for $45 million.
Harmonic also reported its first-quarter results today, posting net revenues of $84.8 million, up 25 percent from the same period last year. Total bookings for the quarter ending April 2 were $91 million, up 60 percent. Net income was $5.3 million, or 5 cents a share, compared to a net loss of $18.8 million or 20 cents a share a year ago, when it took charges on the Scopus acquisition.
Cash and equivalents as of April 2 were $267.8 million versus $271.1 million Dec. 31, 2009.
Harmonic said it expects net revenues for the second and third quarters of 2010 to be $180 million to $190 million, excluding financial impact related to the Omneon acquisition.
-- Deborah D. McAdams
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Bite into St. Joseph's Day with a traditional favorite.
March 19, St. Joseph’s Day, is a very big deal in Rhode Island. Every season between February 1 and Easter, LaSalle Bakery turns out thousands of zeppoles from its food safety-compliant kitchen. Though the equipment has changed, the bakery still uses the same recipe from the 1930s that Michael Manni Sr. learned from the original owners when he worked there as a kid. Two years ago, brothers Michael and John Manni bought the business from their dad. Zeppoles come in flavors like original, chocolate mousse and Bailey’s Irish cream, which is popular around St. Patrick’s Day, as well as a fried version of the original Italian treat. On St. Joseph’s Day, customers begin arriving at 5:30 a.m. “We unlock the door at quarter to six or six o’clock, and there are people out there waiting to get in,” says Michael Manni. “People buy in abundance. They walk out of here with boxes of four dozen.” It’s a better holiday when it falls during the week, says production manager Michael Della Grotta. “But only the cool employees bring them to work.”
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Learn how the famous Italian zeppoles are made in this behind-the-scenes video.


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Peruvian anchovies seek MSC eco-label
The Association of Peruvian Anchovy Producers (APAP) is pursuing Marine Stewardship Council sustainability certification, Ocean Nutrition Canada (ONC) announced on Tuesday.
The Peruvian anchovy fishery is the world’s largest fishery, yielding around 7 million metric tons of fish annually, used mainly to produce fishmeal and fish oil.
ONC, which manufactures omega-3 dietary supplements and food ingredients from Peruvian fish oil and fishmeal, has worked with the APAP for more than year on preparing for the MSC pre-assessment process. The company is partly owned by Nova Scotia’s Clearwater Fine Foods.
The Walton Family Foundation, the philanthropic organization created by Wal-Mart founders Sam and Helen Walton, also helped the APAP prepare.
The APAP “has worked hard to ensure the recovery and sustainability of the anchovy fishery,” said ONC CEO Daniel Emond. “MSC certification validates the work the association has done and the sacrifices its members have made in not only saving this fishery, but in keeping it healthy and thriving for more than 35 years.”
The fishery dates back to the early 1950s, when anchovies were caught mainly for human consumption. The fishery collapsed in the early 1970s due to overfishing, and the Peruvian government adopted strict fishing restrictions to better manage the harvest. Despite frequent El Niño events in the 1990s, the fishery has remained stable over the past four decades, according to ONC.
More than 150 fisheries worldwide are engaged in the London-based MSC program, with 50 certified, 108 under assessment and 20 to 30 in confidential pre-assessment. Collectively, the fisheries represent more than 5 million metric tons of seafood.
Two weeks ago, the Pelagic Freezer-Trawler Association’s North East Atlantic mackerel harvest became the 50th fishery worldwide to earn MSC certification.


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In the growing netbook market, Microsoft is now leading the race seeing an 86% increase over the 12months, pushing the software making to a dominant position.
As the netbook market continues to grows rapidly, the growth of Windows on netbook PCs has skyrocketed over the past year.
Windows share on PCs in the U.S. went from under 10 percent of unit sales during the first half of 2008 to 96 percent as of February 2009, according to the latest NPD Retail Tracking Service data.
It's hard to believe it's been a year since we first started to see netbook PCs running Windows come to market, said Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft's Windows blogger.
Looking forward to Windows 7, Microsoft has promised that forthcoming new O.S. would run acceptably on netbooks as well. It is unclear if users who purchase netbooks with XP will be offered incentives to upgrade to Windows 7.
Little did we know that these devices would evolve so much in such a short time. A year ago, they were Internet-centric devices defined mainly by their tiny size and low cost. An interesting concept perhaps, but sales didn't really take off until the category evolved into the more capable small notebook PCs we see on the market today. LeBlanc wrote.
The inability of Windows Vista to run on netbooks forced Microsoft to offer very low cost licenses for Windows XP to kill off the threat of Linux finding a foothold on low cost hardware. XP is being kept on by Microsoft as the OS of choice for Ultra-Low-Cost-Portables (netbooks).


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True, some retail investors are dipping their toes back into the equity waters. The housing and job markets are improving, which helps bolster confidence. And, more importantly, despite a tough August, stocks remain close to all-time highs.
Still, retail interest is nowhere close to what it used to be. Volume on the major exchanges is languishing at levels not seen in almost two decades.
The fact remains that five long years after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and helped trigger the second epic equities crash in less than 10 years, mom-and-pop investors are still leery of the stock market.
On the other hand, you can’t fight the tape. Clearly the market sees something in these retail brokerage stocks. Here’s a quick look to help decide whether they’re worth the risk.


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If you didn’t partake in Magellan Jets’ holiday gift box featuring its Bombardier Challenger 300 jet card, the Boston-based jet membership broker has one more gift, valid through the end of December.
For all new contracts signed and funded before we jump into 2020, Magellan is offering two free hours and two upgrades.
Magellan’s jet cards start at 25 hours, so the two free hours are a 4% bonus.
Upgrades can be worth $1,000 to $3,000 per hour based on conditions of redemption.
Earlier this year, Magellan relaunched its jet card membership under the Elevate banner.
The new program did away with peak day surcharges and now includes a 30-day money-back guarantee beginning with your first flight.


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SHOPPERS in Coventry are being offered an early Christmas present – free car parking in the city centre.
CV One and Coventry City Council have announced plans to provide free parking every Wednesday to coincide with late night shopping in the city.
Organisers decided to repeat the free parking offer again this year in a bid to attract even more shoppers to Coventry city centre in the run up to the festivities.
The offer starts from today and will run through to December 22 and is valid between 3pm and 9pm – but is only available at selected car parks including West Orchards shopping centre, the Lower Precinct, Barracks car park and the Belgrade Plaza car park.
Coun Linda Bigham, the council’s cabinet member for city development, praised the offer, saying: “The complimentary parking offer is a great way to take advantage of the late night shopping in the city over the run up to Christmas.
“We have implemented this scheme for a number of years now and it has been extremely well received by both the public and the retailers.
"We are hoping that this year it will prove to be even more popular.”
CV One chief executive Liz Millett said: “CV One and Coventry City Council are delighted to once again offer free parking to the city’s visitors.
“We feel this is a fantastic way to entice more people into the city to take advantage of the late night shopping opportunities, while also offering families more time to visit the city together.”


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Beontag has established a global platform to provide production, innovation and service centers in Europe, The Americas and Asia. With this footprint and the industry’s widest product portfolio, the multinational is the second-largest RFID company worldwide.
(Tampere, Finland, Sao Paolo, Brazil / Milan, Italy) – April 19th, 2022 – Beontag, a global company specializing in graphic & label materials and RFID technology solutions, announces the acquisition of Confidex, one of the world’s leading providers of RFID, NFC and BLE solutions for industries, logistics and mobility.
This acquisition, following those of Lab-ID (Italy), Digital Tags (France), Temera (Italy), and Stora Enso’s Ecotag technology, is another step in Beontag’s accelerated growth process. It reinforces Beontag’s presence in the digital transformation value chain of multiple sectors as a provider of a wide range of products and technologies. Joining Beontag further strengthens Confidex’s global presence and helps it to develop more localized services.
As a pioneer in the RFID industry since 2005 and with operations in Finland, China, France, Netherlands and the USA, Confidex has become the trusted partner for mobility, logistics and industrial companies. The company is the number 1 global supplier of industrial-grade RAIN RFID tags and labels, as well as contactless RFID tickets and labels for mobility, with over 120 fare and toll collection operators as customer base. When serving customers in these business-critical processes, the highest standards of quality, innovation and consistent supply are the backbones of Confidex operations. Becoming a part of the Beontag Group, Confidex has a truly global operational platform and increased material know-how to help customers improve their operations’ sustainability and efficiency.
With over 37 years of market experience, Beontag has a vast portfolio of innovative and technological products that serve the retail, industries, and service sectors in Europe, The Americas and Asia. With best-in-class manufacturing facilities, continuous investments and a highly qualified team, the company has been expanding its business globally and is one of the largest and most respected label companies worldwide.
Beontag is also a technology company with a broad portfolio of IoT solutions, focused on the manufacturing of RFID labels as well as on software development for digital transformation and sustainability of supply chains and manufacturing, including traceability and authentication of products.
For more information, visit www.beontag.com.
Confidex designs and delivers short-range wireless identification solutions built on RAIN RFID, NFC and HF-based tags, labels and tickets, as well as Bluetooth Low Energy beacons – the key enablers linking assets and people in business-critical processes. The company has enabled short-range wireless enterprise IoT solutions since 2005, making supply chains, manufacturing processes, transactions and authentication of goods and people more efficient and sustainable. With its global network of resellers and distributors, Confidex, the technology and award-winning Finnish company serve customers representing a broad range of industries in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia. For more information, visit www.confidex.com.
Beontag: CEO Ricardo Lobo +39 349 166 5462, email@example.com
Confidex: CEO Timo Lindström +358 40 5253114, firstname.lastname@example.org


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How Vodafone, RCom, Aircel & MTS use Big Data, analytics to reduce customer churn and increase ARPUs
Telcos are using these tools to improve not just their voice offerings, but data product offerings as well by better understanding customer demands and usage patterns, further
Alibaba is building a network of international merchants who will accept Alipay wallets. Paytm could piggyback on this network.
Successful CEOs do not become so by accident. They sustain their leadership position because of their capabilities and commitment to work, often on 24x7 basis.
Indians heading global cos is not a novelty anymore. Yet, there's intense interest in the men and women of Indian origin that corporations choose for top jobs.
As per Gartner, the total revenue generated from the IoT industry would be $300 bn & the number of connected devices would be 27 bn by 2020 globally.
In 1981, the first credit cards were launched and later, debit cards were issued. As of now Indian banks have issued 57.4 crore debit and credit cards.
Banks are moving into e-commerce through payment services, jostling with companies like Flipkart, Amazon, Bookmyshow etc, to enable customers to buy stuff online.
Entrepreneurship comes with added pressure of quickly scaling a business, ensuring steady cash flow for salaries, and sharing managerial space with key professionals.
Mobile wallet firm One Mobikwik Systems announced a $25-million funding round, with Cisco Investments and American Express coming in as new investors.
A telco offering users free access to one website, while charging for other websites is discriminatory, opponents to zero rating argue.
Post-spectrum auctions, most telecom firms have managed to retain their respective domains, but at a high cost.
Behind the numbers were weeks of high stakes strategy devised and executed in ultra-secure war rooms
Google is reportedly interested in buying Inmobi. Snapdeal wants to buy Komli Media. Flipkart bought Adiquity earlier this month.
The rural DNA of Indian MNCs is their biggest strategic asset that will be hard for any other country to match.
A digital population of 500 million could transform India’s economy, business landscape, governance and society beyond recognition.
"India is becoming our largest overseas market," said Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun at last month. All that the brand's India head, Manu Jain, needs to pull off the challenge is a few good men.
In Bangalore, students of Christ University are part of a pilot by a mobile ad services provider in which they see ads even when the screen is locked.
Apple created the smartphone era, while Samsung has ruled the charts over the last four years. But Apple may change the course of the smartworld.


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ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A recent study, “The Most Romantic Survey Ever: Celebrating Valentine’s Day in 2015,” suggests that traditional Valentine’s Day gifts are falling out of favor.
The Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa is helping to change the traditional valentine’s gifts and going beyond the box of chocolates with their romance package.
Champagne toasts, red roses and a violinist in the lobby upon arrival are just of the few things guests can expect this weekend at the Hyatt.
Guests arriving between 3 and 5 p.m. Feb. 14 will be randomly selected to receive prizes.
Some of the surprise gifts include a couple’s massage, complimentary concert tickets, suite upgrades, cocktails in the lounge and sensual treats.
In addition to the surprise gifts, hotel-goers can enjoy the amenities that come with staying at the resort.
The romance package includes breakfast in bed, chocolate truffles, rose petal turn down and sparkling wine.
For more information, visit the Hyatt website.


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Samsung might have found a way to remove the unsightly notch and bezels around its screen to deliver what could be a far more appealing visual experience in this year's Galaxy Note 9.
The folks over at Let's Go Digital discovered a patent Samsung filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that shows a smartphone with no notch and no bezels. But like those handsets that come with those features, the Galaxy Note 9 still offers an earpiece, microphone, and front-facing cameras.
According to Let's Go Digital, the patent describes how Samsung could effectively cut holes in the screen and place components behind it that would utilize those holes. The screen would come with a hole for the earpiece, for instance, or one that would support a front-facing physical fingerprint sensor. All around, the handset would be covered by its display.
Apple's iPhone X has what some may consider a controversial design. The device eliminates bezels around the screen to put content front and center, but has an unsightly notch at the top where its earpiece and front-facing camera is placed. The notch doesn't stretch across the display, but it distracts from the broader user experience.
Samsung also offers bezels above and below the screen in its Galaxy S8 line and the Galaxy Note 8 that are similarly used to house components. But these areas don't swoop down into or interrupt the display.
Samsung's patent suggests that there's an evolution going on in smartphone design and the iPhone X, Galaxy S8, and Galaxy Note 8 are an interim stop towards a smartphone that has a face entirely covered by a screen.
Looking ahead, it's possible that the technology described in the patent could make its way to the Galaxy Note 9. But it's also worth noting that like other big companies, Samsung files for patents all the time. And it's possible this one will never find its way to a device.


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SAUDI: Profits up at Saudi dairy-to-sugar group Savola
Saudi food group Savola has booked a 22% jump in annual profits, helped by land sales but also higher market share in the retail sector.
Savola, which operates across the Middle East, north Africa and some former Soviet states, posted net profit of SAR1.7bn (US$453.3m) for 2013, up 21.5% on a year earlier.
The company said proceeds from land sales and reduced financial charges helped its bottom line.
Nevertheless, Savola's operating profit was up 4.9% at SAR2.58bn.
Savola's fourth-quarter results reportedly missed analyst forecasts. Net profit rose 36.7% to SAR564m. However, analysts polled by Reuters had estimated Savola would report a quarterly net profit of SAR642.5m.
The company's operating profit for the fourth quarter was down 14% at SAR563m. Savola pointed to the way it had accounted for the "hyper-inflationary economies of Iran and Sudan".
Savola did not provide a sales figure for either the whole of 2013 or the fourth quarter. However, it said the inflation in the two markets, as well as lower commodity prices, "impacted" revenues.
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2020 Lexus Is 200t was already the worst-kept secret in the auto industry. It’s already been in the succeeds since last yrs, and news have swirled since. The Manufacturer eventually known the 2020 Lexus Is 200t is returning, and we nowadays recognize It’ll assemble its public unveiling at the 2019 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. While Company has released no impressive glimpses at the assembly 2020 Lexus Is 200t, it includes given us enough to show an accurate graphic. From the concept the automaker displayed off, it’s visible the 2020 Lexus Is 200t would probably keep on the long nose, small trunk, with kick-up rear end spoiler from its previous generation.
The 2020 Lexus Is 200t’s sizes are still unexpected right now, but its top engineer, unveiled its track can be larger than the current model and its wheelbase will be reduced. This suggests it can most likely get the similar 97.2-inch wheelbase its most important donor possesses. He also confirmed the cars’s body and chassis will have the same rigidity as the rivals without the need of expensive carbon fiber.
There would be lots of hypothesis and news covering the 2020 Lexus Is 200t’s powertrain, but he dropped a major clue when he stated, “the auto has continually had an inline six-cylinder powerplant, of course we have that with the new vehicle, too.” Because Development lacks an inline-six engine, and because the model has nearby connections to the new BMW Z4, this motor could possibly be a less effective version of the Z4’s 382-horsepower 3.0-liter system. A hybrid model was eliminated around before, but he shot that down when he stated, “I think this new autos will likely be the last present from this Producers to those who enjoy listening to the agreeable audio of a real petroleum engine at high revs.”
Safety advantages are actually scant in sports cars, but the jury continues to be out on the 2020 Lexus Is 200t. Presented Company’s recent deal with advanced safety features, we might discover much more babysitters when compared with standard, such as adaptive cruise and automatic emergency braking, in the 2020 Lexus Is 200t.
The 2020 Lexus Is 200t’s on-sale date was still unconfirmed, but we identify it’ll come out at the 2019 North American International Auto Show, which opens to the news media on January 14. Costs is in addition unconfirmed, however we assume the 2020 Lexus Is 200t’s rates to launch properly above the competitors. Stay tuned for changes on rates.


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A little over 24 hours before the official presentation of the iPhone 13, the well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has published more information about the future iPhone. In a note to his investors (via MacRumors) he states that there will be changes in the maximum and minimum storages of this generation.
Yes, up to 1000GB on an iPhone
Ming-Chi Kuo hopes that all iPhone 13s, regardless of model, ditch the 64GB option and start at 128GB. He also expects the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max to offer up to 1TB of storage. According to the analyst, the capabilities of this generation of iPhone would be as follows:
- iPhone 13 mini and iPhone 13: 128, 256 and 512 GB.
- iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max: 128, 256, 512 and 1000GB.
Comparatively, the iPhone of the previous generation, the current iPhone 12, have this storage:
- iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12: 64, 128 and 256 GB.
- iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max: 128, 256 and 512 GB.
While it is more than feasible to use a 64GB iPhone comfortably, it must be recognized that the jump to 128GB storage will be welcome. Especially welcome if we want to store a lot of photos or videos, beyond iCloud, or download games of considerable sizes, to name a few examples.
Leaving behind storage sizes that were a novelty in their day.
In the note to investors, Kuo also finds a moment to talk about the possibility that the production of the iPhone 13 will be slightly delayed. According to the analyst there is a risk that, due to the shortage of key components, the number of units manufactured suffers.
“We believe that the current challenge for iPhone production is component shortages. Due to component shortages, legacy models were down 5-10% in 3Q21. Shipping of iPhone 13 in 4Q21 may have potential downside risk due to component shortages. However, this downside has a limited impact on iPhone 13 shipments. We believe iPhone 13 shipments in 2021 may grow more than 10% year-on-year (vs. iPhone 12 in 2020) “.
Let’s remember that they are several changes in this generation of iPhone that require new components. From the new cameras, almost all of them with new sensors and new stabilization systems, to the new motherboard, which now incorporates more components to free up internal space in the device, the new iPhones require that the flow of components arrive in abundant quantities.
It is clear that between the expectation that these future iPhone 13s are generating and the difficulties that the industry in general is going through, getting an iPhone 13 can be somewhat more complicated than other years. We estimate that Apple will open the reservation period next Friday the 17th, although we will have to wait for tomorrow’s event to ensure it.


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A great night was had by all at the Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce Awards 2017 and RIFT was incredibly proud to see our Operations Director Kieran Brogan lift the trophy for Excellence in Customer Service.
In collecting the award Kieran said:
“This is a wonderful recognition of the hard work and dedication of the RIFT team. We’re especially proud of this award for two reasons.
For RIFT as a local family business we believe it’s vital to highlight and celebrate the successes happening in our county.
For ourselves it’s great to be able to share the results of our focus on customer service and lead by example, demonstrating that it should never be just check box exercise. Our entire business is founded on this idea and it guides every aspect of our work from the newest recruit we’ve just welcomed right up to our chairman, Jan Post.”


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Descartes buys Aljex Software for $32.4m
February 13, 2018
Canadian logistics company Descartes Systems has paid $32.4m to acquire Aljex Software, a New Jersey cloud-based provider of back-office transportation management for freight brokers and transportation providers.
Serving freight brokers and transportation providers for more than 20 years, Aljex has built a robust platform backed by deep domain expertise. With nearly 400 customers in North America using the platform to plan and execute around three million freight moves per year, Aljex’s products help companies automate business processes and create electronic documents critical for executing transportation moves.
Users can manage the lifecycle of a shipment from order creation through execution, including real-time tracking with connectivity to the Descartes MacroPoint network.
"Descartes has worked with Aljex for a number of years to provide end-to-end solutions for the freight broker community in North America," said Edward Ryan, Descartes' CEO. "We now have an opportunity to fully integrate Aljex into the global logistics network. In doing so, we can provide customers with improved access to track shipments and the ability to better utilise increasingly scarce carrier capacity."
Aljex is headquartered in Somerville, New Jersey. Descartes acquired Aljex for US$32.4m in cash, satisfied from Descartes' existing acquisition line of credit.
"Managing the capacity on trucks profitably while meeting increasingly high customer delivery expectations is a complex task," said Tom Heine, CEO of Aljex. "Aljex helps solve the unique problems faced by freight brokers and transportation providers in this demanding environment. These solutions can also be utilised by large fleet operators looking to broker their own excess capacity and improve truck utilisation."
Descartes provides on-demand, software-as-a-service focused on improving the productivity, performance and security of logistics-intensive businesses. This modular service can be used to route, schedule, track and measure delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay transportation invoices; access global trade data; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes.


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This year’s World Trade Forum brings together researchers and practitioners to reflect on recent developments in trade policy and on opportunities to bolster trade cooperation looking forward.
This webinar, organised in partnership with Bertelsmann Stiftung on 8 July, presented findings and recommendations for WTO reform, based on a Bertelsmann Stiftung-support research project. Speakers focused on working practices; dispute settlement; managing subsidy-related spillovers and governance of plurilateral initiatives.
Many governments are using trade policy measures to increase the availability of personal protective equipment, medical supplies, and food products during the COIVD-19 pandemic. Tracking them is important for assessing their incidence, effectiveness, and potential international spillover effects—particularly on countries that depend on imports of these critical products.
To mark World Refugee Day on June 20, 2020, a new application called WORKEEN launches to help migrants, asylum seekers and refugees gain access to the job market. WORKEEN is a serious game application, created by a team of political scientists, sociologists, economists and software engineers.
The Covid 19 pandemic is affecting the global economy and some predict it to be worse than the great depression. On 18 June the RESPECT project, led by Prof. Bernard Hoekman, hosted an online panel which discussed whether this crisis…
On 5 June 2020, Prof. Bernard Hoekman, director of the Global Economics research area, chaired a webinar on ‘Pandemic-Era Trade Policies in Food and Medical Products and International Cooperation’.
On 18 May the RESPECT project, led by Prof. Bernard Hoekman, hosted an online panel which discussed patterns and prospects of trade policy strategies since the COVID19 crisis outbreak. Panellists focused on trade policy responses in Europe, their coherence across EU Member States and EU institutions, their implications for business and developing countries.
To curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, governments worldwide have undertaken measures that radically disrupted human mobility, such as the sealing of national borders, mass evacuations and quarantines. Who is affected and in what ways?
Ten years ago the Global Governance Programme was launched in response to a growing need for global governance in an ever more interconnected and multipolar world. Watch this short video to see how the programme’s research activities on EU-Asia trade and international economic relations have developed since then.
The Global Economics team at the Global Governance Programme (GGP) has initiated a new video series on ‘Rules of Origin’ and international trade. Hosted by the Schuman Centre of the European University Institute (EUI), it comprises of interviews with Mr. Stefano Inama,
UNCTAD. The first episode of ‘Rules of Origin’ provides…


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Microsoft announced that Outlook 2013 RT will be coming to Windows RT, along with the Windows 8.1 update. Sales of Windows RT tablets like the Surface RT have been underwhelming thus far, but Outlook will change that.
When the Windows 8.1 update comes to the Windows Store later this year, Outlook RT will join Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote as a free app on Windows RT systems. That is huge news in general, but it’s particularly intriguing for business users.
The Surface RT (and Windows RT tablets in general) is a decent tablet, but it’s not a great device for business computing. It has distinct advantages over its Surface Pro sibling–it’s thinner, lighter, cooler, quieter, and has significantly better battery life–but it can’t join a Windows network domain.
With the Windows 8.1 update, it still won’t be able to join a network domain, but the IT and BYOD management features in Windows 8.1 make it much more business friendly. The addition of Outlook is the real game changer, though. The default Mail client in Windows 8.1 is no match for Outlook, and business users need consistency between the tools they use on their primary PC, and the apps available on the Windows RT tablet.
Smaller Windows tablets are expected to launch later this year. The small size, combined with the features of Windows 8.1 (and the inclusion of Outlook) will make Windows RT tablets very powerful business tools.
Earlier this year, Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang told an audience of financial analysts, “If Outlook were to show up on RT, my life would be complete,” adding, “I am one Outlook away from computing nirvana. Outlook god, please…”
Why does the CEO of nVidia care? nVidia has a vested interest in the success of Windows RT because it makes ARM processors that are used in some Windows RT tablets. Success for Windows RT means more demand for nVidia processors.
Office is a powerful carrot that Microsoft hopes will lure customers over to Windows tablets–be they Windows RT or Windows 8 Pro models. The addition of Outlook is a significant advantage for Windows RT tablets, but even if Windows RT doubles…or even triples its market share, there will still be a massive audience of iOS and Android tablet users left in the cold.
According to an alleged internal roadmap document leaked a couple months ago, Outlook RT was not supposed to be ready until late 2014. That roadmap also suggested that Office for iOS and Android might also become available around the same time.
It’s possible the leaked roadmap was simply wrong. Assuming it was legitimate; the accelerated availability of Outlook RT suggests a spark of hope that Office for iOS and Android will also be available earlier than anticipated.
If Microsoft is working on iOS or Android versions of the Office apps, it’s still being coy about it. The official response was, “We have a great Office experience on Windows 8 tablets. For iPad and Android tablets, people can use Office Web Apps.”


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Bolloré Logistics Central China transports oil & gas upstream equipment to Egypt
Sep 10, 2019: Bolloré Logistics Central China recently transported 53 pieces of Oil & Gas upstream equipment, from Lianyungang, China to Alexandria, Egypt.
The company was tasked to perform this operation by a major Chinese Oil & Gas company. And it managed to transport it within the span of one month from July to August.
The total volume of the cargo was 1,560 cubic meters, weighing 240 tonnes.
The projects team and sales team of Bolloré Logistics Central China gathered to form a dedicated crew, which collaborated closely throughout this project - from site survey, solution design, to final execution.
As the export point, the company chose the Lianyungang Deepwater Port over Shanghai port, to provide the customer with a solution that is equally competitive yet economical due to differences in freight and port charges.
It is the first time that Bolloré Logistics chose Lianyungang which is 500 kilometers away from Shanghai in Jiangsu Province.
In addition to the route optimisation, Bolloré Logistics Central China crew further helped the customer improve the packaging of the cargo to ensure goods integrity during the heavy lifting.
The effective coordination with the involved shipping company and Egypt team at destination is another key factor that contributed to the smooth delivery of the equipment.
The transport operation of the oil & gas cargo complied with the strict Bolloré Logistics QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety and Environment Management) policies.
“We are proud that our Central China team was able to design and executed one-of-a-kind solution to provide the customer with services that are tailor-made to its needs. Our strong know-how in industrial projects and extensive footprint in the Africa continent makes Bolloré Logistics a reliable partner for our international and Chinese customers on their Belt and Road projects," said Basile Ricard, managing director, Bolloré Logistics Central China.


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Watch a video of hair stylist Jonathan Long demonstrate how to get the smudging look at home using Extreme 'N' Easy by Nice 'N' Easy
Check out a video of BT2's Autumn/Winter catwalk show, which showcases the trends for the season ahead.
RTÉ Fashion's Sarah McIntyre caught all the glamour at the Dublin Horse Show yesterday
Take a look at a video of the competition at the Littlewoods Ireland Ladies Day at the Kilbeggan Races, judged by Amanda Brunker.
Off the Rails presenter Brendan Courtney talks about the new season of the show, as well as his new series Reality Bites: Ladies Day
Kenneth Egan has been earning kudos among the fashion set by sporting a daring selection of jackets during RTÉ's Olympic coverage. Daire O'Brien reviews his trendsetting London 2012 style
Check out a video of the fabulous style at Ladies Day at the Galway Races.
Check out a video of the Best Dressed Lady competition at Wexford, sponsored by Littlewoods Ireland
Check out a video of Olympian Jessica Ennis getting red carpet ready for the Cosmopolitan Women of the Year Awards
Victoria's Secret show to take place in London
Pre-loved clothing sale for Greystones
Nyong'o stuns at 2014 MTV Movie Awards
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The bride-to-be took time out of wedding planning to guest judge the hit fashion reality show!
Savvy business woman and reality TV star, Kim Kardashian, took a break from prepping for her upcoming nuptials and served as a guest judge for Project Runway‘s first ever outdoor runway show in NYC on Jun. 24!
Kim is no stranger to the world of fashion! She co-owns the swanky D-A-S-H boutiques with her sisters, has collaborated on everything from swimwear to jewelry, has a line with Sears coming out this fall and is gearing up for the launch of her newest QVC K-Dash collection — it was only a matter of time before she appeared on the show!
Even though Kim is super busy with her wedding planning madness, we’re so happy she found some time to guest judge. While she isn’t exactly what one would expect to see on the show, she will definitely make a fabulous judge.
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Sagicor Bank partners with Dream Entertainment for Dream Weekend
Sagicor Bank is now the official bank of Dream Entertainment Limited’s five day summer music festival - Dream Weekend.
The two entities inked their partnership during a Memorandum of Understanding signing on Tuesday July 4, 2017 at Sagicor’s New Kingston Head Office.
This year will see the ninth staging of Dream Weekend, the five-day summer music festival held in Negril, from July 28 to August 1, 2017.
This partnership reinforces Sagicor Bank’s commitment to reaching its target market and interfacing with them in their various comfort zones. With both direct and indirect access to the over 30,000 patrons who participate in Dream Weekend, this opportunity gives Sagicor Bank a great advantage to leverage its brand, increase brand awareness and build brand loyalty.
According to Philip Armstrong, deputy CEO, Sagicor Bank, “At Sagicor we are always looking for strategic business partnerships and seeking innovative ways to achieve our business objectives, and this partnership with Dream Entertainment aligns perfectly with one of our main objectives of reaching the increasingly popular generation of Millennials (Generation Y)”.
Of the over 30,000 participants of Dream Weekend, more than half the patrons are between the ages 18 and 30 years old – the main target audience of the product and services offered by Sagicor Bank. Endorsing the partnership, Scott Dunn, managing director of Dream Entertainment said, "The team at Dream Entertainment is excited at this opportunity to have Sagicor Bank as our premier partner financial institution for our flagship event – Dream Weekend; we have no doubt that Sagicor’s involvement will add great value to an already world class event."
“Sagicor Bank continues to find unique marketing opportunities to position the brand in the minds of consumers as the best financial institution of choice with an unmatched banking experience, and Dream Weekend provides another opportune platform for us to connect with our existing clientele, as well as potential clients,” said Ingrid Card, vice president, group marketing at Sagicor Group Jamaica.


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Binance said the decision by Barclays to prevent customers using debit and credit cards to buy crypto on the exchange appears to be based on an "inaccurate understanding of events."
- "We are disappointed that Barclays appears to have taken unilateral action based on what appears to be an inaccurate understanding of events," a Binance spokesperson said.
- Binance said the FCA warning specifically referred to Binance Markets and "does not apply to the products and services provided through www.binance.com."
- “We would welcome a dialogue with Barclays to discuss any concerns that they have and we hope that the above information helps to provide clarity on the matter."
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Lenore Elfand, co-owner of Empire Cannabis Clubs — the self-proclaimed first cannabis dispensary in New York City — knows firsthand the damage that the war on drugs inflicted on whole families for decades. Elfand’s brother and father, who are two of her partners in the business, spent a combined 12 years behind bars for growing marijuana at a time when it was illegal.
“It didn't just affect all the men in my life — I raised my brother's children until they aged out,” Elfand told Yahoo News. “So it affected everyone, [including] me, my mother, the kids. This social injustice doesn't just affect the people that go to prison. It's a family issue.”
Marijuana was legalized last spring in New York, and as yet, no applications are being accepted for recreational cannabis dispensaries. But Empire has operated as a not-for-profit membership club in Manhattan since last September, which allows the business to circumvent current laws that permit the use and possession of marijuana but not its sale.
“It's a business model that is based on the legislation,” Steve Zissou, Empire’s attorney, said.
Now, with the announcement this month that New York will give priority to those convicted of marijuana-related offenses or their relatives when licensing its first 100 legal cannabis dispensaries, Elfand is cautiously optimistic that her family will be near the front of the line.
“There's a lot of work to be done, and hopefully we can come together with some lawmakers and make it happen," she said. "Because New York City alone is going to be the biggest market in the world.”
New York state is trying to promote social and economic equity in its projected billion-dollar industry, according to Chris Alexander, the executive director of the state’s Office of Cannabis Management.
Despite roughly equal drug use rates, Black and Latino Americans are four times more likely than white offenders to be arrested for marijuana in New York, according to data compiled by the New York Times. Black people also remain more likely to be arrested than white people for marijuana possession in every state, including those where marijuana is legal, data from the American Civil Liberties Union shows.
Pot is now legal in 18 states and Washington, D.C., and Alexander hopes that New York can avoid the missteps in other states, where the profit from legal weed has mainly accrued to wealthy white people, or large corporations have been able to swoop in and take control of the market.
Some states, like California, have created social equity programs for legal marijuana, but they have often blocked out or further harmed the communities they were initially put in place to serve. A Los Angeles Times review found that less than 8% of cannabis licenses went to equity applicants in the state’s largest jurisdictions — while many potential applicants went broke trying to adhere to the required regulations.
“There is no blueprint, but to have a different outcome we have to do things differently,” Alexander told Yahoo News. “We have a real opportunity to make some change.”
It won’t be so easy for just anyone to open a recreational dispensary. Requirements include establishing New York residency, providing proof of prior ownership of any legal business for at least two years, and an expectation that licensees will pay a producer/dispensary license fee that costs in excess of $200,000 biannually, as laid out in New York Senate Bill S854A.
Cannabis is expected to bring in an estimated $436 million in tax revenue to New York, according to the Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA). In January, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a $200 million fund to aid new businesses, with most of the money likely to go toward purchasing and renovating storefronts across the state.
For Alexander, it seems only fair to ensure that those who have once been criminalized for cannabis get the opportunity to benefit from the newly legalized, and profitable, industry.
“The folks who've been the most impacted should go first,” he said. “And it makes sense to build the foundation of New York's market with folks who have real business experience. These are folks who have been battle-tested. They've demonstrated that they know how to run a business in the financial capital of the world. They are the perfect applicant to start and build our industry.”
Ernesto Castillo and Joel “Tellie” Collado are two applicants who would seem qualified. As co-owners of El Puré, a marijuana delivery service based in upper Manhattan that’s served all five boroughs for nearly 20 years, they see New York’s latest law as an opportunity to take their business from behind closed doors into plain sight. After at least nine stints in jail between the two of them for previous marijuana convictions, Castillo and Collado told the New York Daily News that they feel they finally have a chance to become legal businessmen.
“Our elders looked at us as drug dealers,” Collado said to the newspaper. “Now, they are proud of us. We were corner kids that were written off. Now, we are Harvard kids without a Harvard degree, for real, and now, we’re playing by the rules.”
Criminal justice reform advocates are praising New York’s approach and urging other states to follow its lead.
“Marijuana criminalization is a textbook case for how structural racism and white supremacy are deeply embedded across laws and policies in our state,” the New York Civil Liberties Union's Toni Smith-Thompson, a senior field organizer, and Yusuf Abdul-Qadir, a senior racial justice policy strategist, wrote on the organization’s website last year. “Our state has been a national leader in mass incarceration. Now we can be a leader in repairing those harms.”
“New York here is taking a really bold and innovative step that hopefully will be able to be a model for the country,” Melissa Moore, the civil systems reform director for the Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit that lobbies for alternatives to drug criminalization, told Yahoo News.
“You can't look at decades upon decades of devastating policy in the harm that was done to individuals and communities and say that a handful of licenses is going to cover that devastation,” she added. “We can do as much as possible within the vehicle of this bill to make sure that we're not just moving forward business as usual.”
The MRTA also will expunge the records of those previously convicted of marijuana possession and ensure that at least 40% of the tax revenue is reinvested in communities that suffered disproportionate harm from the so-called war on drugs.
But some of the finer details of the law, which includes prohibiting vertical integration — in which businesses would own every aspect of the supply chain, from growing to selling — give some marijuana entrepreneurs like Empire pause, because already existing medical cannabis businesses would be allowed to keep their current vertical integration.
“Our concern is the lack of simplicity when it comes to allowing this to flourish amongst the people that it hurt the most,” Julio Brinez, the fourth co-founder of Empire, said. Brinez, a Bronx, N.Y., native, says he’s seen all aspects of the war on drugs and finally wants to see the “regular person” win.
Zissou, Empire’s attorney, sees the continuation of vertical integration licensing for medical cannabis companies as the biggest hurdle for future recreational dispensary owners. If the current medical companies are able to control their own market, Zissou believes they will be able to dictate lower prices and control of the cannabis product, eventually creating a monopoly in the industry.
“What is likely to happen in New York is that the billionaires are going to take over this industry, which is where the real fight is,” he said.
But not all business owners are lamenting that billionaires will potentially push them out of the market in a few months. Smaller entrepreneurs, some with brick-and-mortar businesses and others without, are finding ways to flourish in this decriminalized, pre-recreational-dispensary New York era.
Small shops on Native American land in upstate New York have seen a dramatic rise in sales since they started selling marijuana. Native Americans call it an expression of sovereignty, according to NBC New York, something long overdue after centuries of being overlooked and ignored.
“We have been stepped on for so long, and to have something like this happen, it’s almost liberating,” said William Roger Jock, a partner in Good Leaf Dispensary on the Akwesasne territory, near the Canadian border.
Downstate, in the Big Apple, weed entrepreneurs with small folding tables decked out with various displays of edibles and marijuana flowers are starting to set up shop without fear of being arrested. While police have largely turned a blind eye to smaller sellers, New York considers recreational marijuana stores already to be unlicensed and illegal.
“We ain’t worried about nothing,” one outdoor merchant in Washington Square Park, in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, told Forbes. “Weed is legal, and as long as you have a street vendor’s license, you’re good.”
“I saw firsthand what New York's laws did to people,” Zissou, a former New York City prosecutor and now a criminal defense attorney, said. “So if, with my last breath, I can try to make that better, I’ll die smiling.”


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To meet the rising demand for cloud technology during the pandemic, Twilio is acquiring customer data start-up Segment in a stock deal valued at about $3.2 billion. Both companies are based in San Francisco and Segment will become part of the Twillio. The transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of Twilio’s fiscal 2020, ending December 31, 2020.
To tear down data silos
Jeff Lawson, co-founder and CEO of Twilio, published a post on Twilio’s blog about the acquisition. According to Lawson, data silos destroy customer relationships by causing awful customer service and irrelevant and annoying marketing experiences. The main reason for this acquisition is to tear down these data silos, to help companies and their developers.
“Combined Twilio and Segment means Twilio can help any business and any developer makes their customer engagement across every channel more personalized, timely and impactful. Over time, the addition of Segment will allow Twilio to integrate data intelligence into Twilio Flex and every one of our offerings to provide highly personalized customer touchpoints” Lawson wrote.
Peter Reinhardt, Segment’s co-founder and CEO, said,
“Together, Twilio and Segment have an incredible opportunity to build the customer engagement platform of the future. We created Segment to help businesses set themselves apart in the digital age and deliver rich, connected customer experiences built on high-quality data. By joining forces and applying our customer data platform to Twilio’s engagement cloud, we’ll be able to make the entire customer experience seamless from end-to-end.”


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Zaha Hadid collaborates with Bulgari
We catch up with Bulgari’s Boris Barboni to discuss the brands new collaboration with the late, great Zaha Hadid.
#RaiseYourHand for Bulgari
Following their continued support with the children’s charity, Bulgari launch their latest campaign in collaboration with Save the Children.
LIFE STAND STILL
Bulgari mine their gilded heritage as they open a new store on Bond Street that’s positively dripping in vintage glamour and cinematic chic.
Bulgari presents ‘Hyper-Reality’
Tune in to the provocative new film from Keiichi Matsuda, courtesy of jewellery kings Bulgari.
Bulgari B.zero1 at Milan Design Week
Bulgari celebrate B.zero1 and Milan Design Week in an oversized installation.


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The retail industry is experiencing a revolution on a par with the introduction of plastic payments in the 1950s or the launch of the internet and e-commerce in the early 1990s. The mobile device, a gadget we check more than 200 times every day, is changing the way we discover and buy products and services.
PayPal predicts that we won’t have physical wallets by 2016. Visa Europe predicts that 50% of all its transactions will be made via mobile by 2020, and retailers are already reporting that up to 12% of their traffic comes from mobile channels (eDigitalResearch, May 2011). There is no doubt the market is buzzing with expectation and retailers are starting to catch-on.
As the internet caught fire and UK consumers flocked to buy anything from music files to bicycle parts online, many retailers were left struggling to catch up with this changing retail model. The challenge was to retain customers, but competition was coming from new players who understood search engine optimisation (SEO), online marketing and the customer’s desire to buy anything from them at any time.


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Audi partner of Cortina d'Ampezzo for the development of sustainable local mobility
Strong of the close partnership with the Municipality of Cortina d'Ampezzo last year, Audi confirms its presence on the territory with the winter sports events and with the active commitment to the development of sustainable mobility at local level.
The four rings carmaker recognizes the "Queen of the Dolomites" as a location of excellence where to express their will to support and enhance the territory, also in view of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships that will take place here in 2021.
Thanks to the work of the Fondazione Cortina 2021, of which Audi is the sponsor, which is responsible for organizing the World Cup, the city intends to present itself at this appointment as an avant-garde location and innovation laboratory, where sustainability and performance are inextricably linked.
Starting from the new year, the Cortina d'Ampezzo's official car will be the e-tron. Audi is developing a network of electricity recharging points in the Cortina d'Ampezzo area, providing users with infrastructures and services for sustainable mobility.
In addition, in the historic center and in the main transit areas, Audi has studied digital installations that show the interaction between man and the environment.
The Ingolstadt brand will be the protagonist of the winter sports that will take place in the Municipality: in 2019 among other events will be present for the stage of the Women's World Ski Championships, scheduled for 19 and 20 January and of which the manufacturer is Title sponsor at international level.
While from February 22 to 24 will be held the Cortina stage of the fourth edition of the Audi quattro Ski Cup, the competition dedicated to ski lovers and fans of the Brand, who will compete in a giant slalom in the World Cup of Skiing format.


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Sony Electronics announced Tuesday that the Bravia Internet Video Link module -- which will stream free, Internet-based video to new models of its HDTV sets -- will ship in July and sell for about $300.
Sony also unveiled seven Bravia HDTV sets that will be compatible with the device. Sony’s initial partners for the Bravia Internet Video Link include Time Warner’s AOL, Yahoo, Sony Pictures Entertainment and its Grouper video-sharing site and Sony BMG Music.
“Internet-video popularity has reached an all-time high, but until now, there was no easy way to bring it into the living room,” Randy Waynick, senior vice president of Sony’s Home Products Division, said in a prepared statement. “The Bravia Internet Video Link seamlessly streams Internet video content to your TV the way it’s intended -- free of any additional charge.”
The Bravia Internet Video Link module attaches to the back of Sony’s TVs via a universal-serial-bus cable and connects to an existing broadband Internet service through an Ethernet port.
The device will be supported by Sony’s Bravia S-series flat-panel LCD line (KDL-46S3000, KDL-40S3000, KDL-32S3000 and KDL-26S3000) and the new KDF-37E3000 micro-display, which will ship this spring. Other Bravia models supporting the module include the new V-series and XBR flat-panel LCD line (KDL-46V3000, KDL-40V3000 and KDL-32XBR4) and the E-series micro-display line (KDF-50E3000 and KDF-46E3000), shipping this summer.
Sony announced the Bravia Internet Video Link last month at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Meanwhile, Apple’s Internet-content-to-TV device, Apple TV, will begin shipping in mid-March, slipping a few weeks from its original February ship date. Apple TV is also priced at $300.