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Global spend on Facebook advertising has rocketed by 114% year on year for the second quarter of this year according to new data from Kenshoo.
Marketers and sales people aren’t working closely enough together in organisations to maximise the opportunities of their marketing, a new study shows.
The average spend of the top 100 advertisers on YouTube, as defined by media spend, has risen 60%. The study also shows the increasing importance of video ads with the number of advertisers investing in video ads up 40% year on year.
For marketers struggling to make sense of information and properly manage multiple campaigns a new tool has launched this week that its owners claim will simplify the job.


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Dofus: ‘The Belly of the Whale’ dungeon now available
“The Belly of the Whale” is now available in DOFUS. Located in Frigost, this new dungeon will add fresh background details to the frozen island.
Designed for high level players (Level 200), this dungeon will add new quests, new items and even new monsters. Will players have what it takes to survive in the “Albatrocious Rock” area?
“The Belly of the Whale” is a part of the 2.22 update.
More information about the “The Belly of the Whale” on the official website: www.dofus.com/en/mmorpg/news/patch-notes/423223-frigost-whale
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KISS generally love to brag about their legions of fans who dress up like the face-painted hard rock legends and emulate the band. Here’s an exception: WCBS-FM reports that four men — wearing masks resembling makeup worn by KISS guitarist Paul Stanley — walked onto the lot of a Saddle Brook auto body shop on March 14 and caused an estimated $40,000 worth of damage on over two dozen cars during a 20-minute vandalism rampage. The destruction was caught on video surveillance cameras — provided by SB Maaco Auto Body Shop on North Fifth Street and released by police last Thursday, March 13 — showing several clues left behind.
“We definitely have some direct evidence related to the crime scene,” said Saddle Brook Deputy Police Chief Robert White. “I believe it’s only a matter of time before they are apprehended.”
In addition to the surveillance video, there is plenty of evidence being used by police: fingerprints from a shovel used and dropped by nearby railroad tracks headed toward Garfield; fingerprints from two cars (the suspects do not appear to be wearing gloves); one man was wearing an elbow cast; and one suspect was wearing a New York Rangers hockey jersey — that of former captain Brian Leetch.
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CES 2021 will be held virtually and major tech companies are releasing some of their products. Lenovo has launched a series of new devices including the new Lenovo Tab P1, a affordable variant of the Lenovo Tab P11 Pro launched last year.
Lenovo Tab P11 has a 11-inch IPS LCD screen with a 2,000 x 1,200 pixels resolution display with integrated Eye Care mode technology. It features thin bezels all around the screen with a 16:10 aspect ratio making it comfortable for movie watching and a 78.8% screen-to-body ratio around the display.
It comes in power with the Snapdragon 662 chipset coupled with 6GB of RAM and expandable storage using a dedicated microSD card slot.
It features an 8MP (f/2.0) selfie camera placed in the bezels of the device for video calling and it also offers background blur feature for privacy. It also offers front-facing quad speakers with Dolby Atmos-tuned stereo sound.
It comes in with a new kid-friendly mode called Kids Space from Google that offers parents and children an array of family-friendly apps, books and videos specifically designed for children under nine.
On connectivity, it offers dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth 5.0, a USB-C port, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. It comes in with Android 10 running out-of-the-box.
Lenovo Tab P11 comes in a single variant priced at $229 available in Slate Grey or Platinum Grey color options in the United States and it is expected to be launched in other regions soon.


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When the Samsung Galaxy S5 was launched earlier this year there was chatter that the company wasn’t pleased with the response its flagship smartphone had received in the market. But according to new data published by Strategy Analytics, Samsung’s 2014 flagship aided the company in selling more LTE capable smartphones than its arch rival Apple. The smartphone enabled Samsung to take over the spot of the largest LTE smartphone vendor in the world from Apple.
Data published by Strategy Analytics shows that Samsung sold 28.6 million LTE capable smartphones in Q2, 2014 which runs from April through June. This translates into a 32.2 percent share of the global LTE smartphone market.
In Q1 Apple had 40.5 percent of the entire market but it fell to 31.9 percent in Q2, 2014 partly due to the launch of the Galaxy S5 and largely because many customers held off on purchasing a new iPhone since the iPhone 6 is just around the corner.
Apple doesn’t sell a “cheap” iPhone but Samsung’s product lineup is filled with competitively priced smartphones that also feature LTE, look no further than the $300 Galaxy Core Lite. This also works in favor of the Korean company which has now crowned itself as the world’s largest LTE smartphone vendor. Though in this particular quarter Galaxy S5 sales played a vital role in pushing it to the top.
Behind the two behemoths comes LG in third place which accounts for 5.2 percent of the global LTE market in Q2, 2014.
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WARREN, Mich., Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bay City (MI) resident Sandy Gelisse went into Art Van Furniture during its Black Friday festivities last week looking for a new sofa and came out with the keys to a brand new black and red Fiat automobile! Gelisse won the car during the store's Black Friday event, which offered guests the chance to win one of 34 brand new 2013 Fiat automobiles.
"This year's Black Friday event was the biggest in Art Van Furniture's 53-year history," said Art Van Elslander, Art Van Furniture founder and chairman. "We wanted to give our guests a holiday experience like no other. Offering the opportunity to win a new Fiat was incredibly exciting for us. We're thrilled for Sandy, and hope she enjoys her brand new Fiat and her new sofa for many holidays to come!"
Sandy Gelisse, who won the car, said, "It was quite a surprise! I certainly didn't expect to win a new car when I went furniture shopping that morning. What a wonderful way to begin the holidays. Lucky for me, my kids are grown so I won't have to fight them for the keys."
Sandy Gelisse will be featured in upcoming Art Van Furniture commercials showcasing her big win and Art Van Furniture will be offering more opportunities for holiday shoppers to win more Fiats in the days ahead.
About Art Van Furniture
Art Van Furniture is Michigan's largest furniture retailer and America's largest independent furniture retailer. The company operates 34 stores throughout Michigan, a full service e-commerce website, plus six freestanding Art Van PureSleep bedding stores in Canton, Troy, Rochester Hills, Brighton, Ann Arbor and New Hudson, Michigan. Founded in 1959, the company is family-owned and headquartered in Warren, Michigan. Visit www.artvan.com for more information.
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Until 2019, MXBC customers were middle school students in second and third-tier cities, buying 3-yuan ice-cream. Last year, it received more than 2 billion yuan from venture capitalists.
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Bubble tea chain MXBC’s Shenzhen IPO plans to raise 6.5 billion yuan (US$910 million) through 400 million shares was approved Thursday. According to the prospectus, 2.9 billion yuan will go on building new factories, 1.1 billion on logistics, 1.9 billion on cash flow, and the rest on marketing and R&D.
Until 2019, MXBC was popular exclusively among middle school students in second and third-tier cities, selling 3-yuan ice cream and 5-yuan bubble tea. Venture capital had zero in a bumpkin beverage chain. But then, MXBC became the first tea chain open 10,000 outlets in China and the money followed. Last year, it received more than 2 billion yuan from Meituan’s Longzhu Capital and Hillhouse.
With such fast expansion and low prices, people are skeptical about whether MXBC is making any money at all. With the prospectus revealing its financial condition, we can now have a glimpse of how it grew from a hole-in-the-wall operation to a global franchise.
MXBC’s founder ZHANG Hongchao went to Zhengzhou, capital of Henan Province, in 1996 and opened an ice cream shop called Mixue Bingcheng (sweet snowing city). it didn’t work out well, so he then tried restaurants – both Chinese and western– which ended up badly too.
In 2005, MXBC started selling ice cream at only 2 yuan, a huge hit. The business started to pick up and Zhang opened five stores in a year. In 2007, his little brother ZHANG Hongfu joined him in the first franchise of MXBC. Today, an MXBC ice cream still costs only 3 yuan.
MXBC’s revenue has grown from 2.6 billion yuan in 2019, to 10.3 billion yuan last year. Net profit rose from 450 million yuan to 1.9 billion yuan last year. The revenue of Nayuki – another bubble tea outfit that went public in Hong Kong in June – last year, was only 4.3 billion yuan, with a net loss of 145 million yuan.
Unlike Hey Tea and Nayuki in which most of the stores are directly controlled by the brands, MXBC is a franchising business. Its main income comes from selling materials and equipment to franchisers. Among all 22,276 MXBC stores across the globe, only 47 are directly operated by the company.
All ingredients, including fruit pulp, tea powder and jams, are made in MXBC factories. In the first three months of this year, the company made 1.8 billion yuan selling to franchisees, accounting for 72 percent of total income. Even the straws each store use are from an in-house factory. MXBC made 300 million yuan last year from straws.
Supplements to bubble tea chains seem to be a better business than selling tea. Tianye Group which supplies ingredients for Nayuki filed for an IPO in June.
But managing franchises is never easy. In its prospectus, MXBC said quality control is a major risk as the company’s business covers a wide range and quality issues can happen due to unforeseeable incidents.
MXBC put itself top of the trending list on social media because of quality issues. In April, a market watchdog in Guilin fined an MXBC store 2,000 for it using out-of-date coffee powder. In June, an MXBC store in Hunan Province was fined 12,000 for a bug in its lemon tea.


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Asian art, antiques highlight I.M. Chait auction Sept. 7
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – I.M. Chait Gallery / Auctioneers will conduct an Asian arts and antiques auction Sunday, Sept. 7. The auction will begin at 11 a.m. Pacific. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding for the 550-lot sale.
The auction will feature:
– Numerous snuff bottles including glass, hardstone and jade etc. from a Northern California collection;
– Chinese porcelains including “eggshell,” Famille Rose, monochrome glazes etc. from local collections;
– Numerous Chinese cloisonne enamel vessels and covered boxes from a Nevada collection;
– Chinese ink and color scrolls, including landscapes, figures, flowers, etc. from various collections;
– Large group of various carved wood African masks;
– Numerous Neolithic and early Chinese pottery from the Tom D. Williams collection of Indianapolis, Ind.
For details contact I.M. Chait Gallery / Auctioneers, email email@example.com or phone 310-285-0182.
View the fully illustrated catalog and register to bid absentee or live via the Internet as the sale is taking place by logging on to www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
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Mumbai: The Cotton Association of India (CAI) on Thursday lowered its January estimate of the cotton crop by 5 lakh bales than its previous estimate to 330 lakh bales (of 170 kgs each) for the 2018-19 season, beginning from 1 October, 2018.
The main reason for the decline in the estimates of the crop is mainly due to farmers in the southern zones, including Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telengana, uprooting their cotton plants following moisture deficiency which have left no scope for no third or fourth pickings, CAI said in a release here.
Earlier, in the December estimate, CAI had projected 335 lakh bales. The CAI has reduced the crop estimates for Telangana
by 2.50 lakh bales to 45 lakh bales, Andhra Pradesh by 50,000 bales to 16 lakh bales and Karnataka by 2 lakh bales to 15
The total cotton supply is projected October 2018 to January 2019 is 198.80 lakh bales, which consists of the arrival of 170.32 lakh bales, imports of 5.48 lakh bales up to 31 January, 2019 and the opening stock at the beginning of the season estimated at 23 lakh bales.
Further, the CAI has estimated cotton consumption during October 2018 to January 2019 at 105.34 lakh bales while the export shipment of cotton up to 31 January, 2019 has been estimated at 24 lakh bales.
Stock at the end of January is estimated at 69.46 lakh bales, including 39 lakh bales with textile mills and the remaining 30.46 lakh bales with Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) and others (MNCs, traders, ginners among others).
The total cotton supply till end of the cotton season, that is up to 30 September, 2019 has been estimated at 380 lakh bales, which consists of the opening stock of 23 lakh bales at the beginning of the season, cotton crop for the season at 330 lakh bales and imports estimated at 27 lakh bales.
Imports are estimated to be higher by 12 lakh bales as compared to the previous year's import estimated at 15 lakh bales.
The CAI has estimated domestic consumption of 316 lakh bales, which is lower by 4 lakh bales compared to the consumption figure estimated during the last month, while the exports estimated for the season 2018-19 is at 50 lakh bales, which are lower by 19 lakh bales compared to the export of 69 lakh bales estimated during the last year.
The carry-over stock at the end of the 2018-19 season is estimated at 14 lakh bales.
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PepsiCo to set up low-cost foods unit. After repeated unsuccessful attempts to buy out Gujarat-based snacks majors such as Balaji Wafers and A-Top Foods Products, beverage and snacks maker PepsiCo India is in the process of creating its own low-cost foods business and increasing manufacturing capacities across its plants. While Frito-Lay remains category leader in the Rs 3,000-crore salty snacks market with four local brands—Lehar, Uncle Chipps, Aliva and Kurkure—which hold a combined 55-60% share, the multinational has been consistently losing share to local strongholds like Balaji and A-Top in the West and Haldiram and Bikanervala in the North.
The division will be separate from PepsiCo’s joint venture with Tata Tea announced in April this year for healthy non-carbonated beverages, and which is expected to roll out its first product later this year. Details of the new foods value division are yet to be finalised, a PepsiCo spokesman said in response to an email query by ET seeking information about the new division. The efforts to hike capacity come after Frito-Lay’s talks with the Rajkot-based Balaji Wafers failed about a month back. Owned by local entrepreneur ChandubhaiVirani and his family, Balaji has an estimated turnover of Rs 350 crore. Virani, who started his venture in early 1980s by selling sandwiches in a cinema hall near Rajkot and then diversified to home-made chips, has been keenly sought-after by Frito-Lay.
GTL Infra calls off $11 bn merger with Rcom. On June 27, 2010, RCom and GTL Infra had signed a Non-Binding Term Sheet for a merger that would see a combined tower strength of over 80,000 towers, with an enterprise value of $11bn, which would have made it the largest telecom infrastructure firm in the world. However, as the deed expired on August 31, 2010, with no efforts by either party to extend the agreement deadline or enter into a new contract, the deal has been officially called off, with a notice to that effect being sent by GTL to the BSE, after a meeting of the Board of Directors of GTL on September 6.
According to an official statement by an RCom spokesperson, "Following the expiry of the non-binding Term Sheet with GTL Infrastructure Ltd., Reliance Communications Ltd. is now engaged in discussions with certain other strategic and financial investors, to pursue a similar transaction aimed at significant reduction in the Company's debt and unlocking of value for RCOM shareholders from the passive infrastructure and related assets in its 95% owned subsidiary, Reliance Infratel Ltd.” This statement comes after previous reports that RCom and GTL Infra would convert around Rs 6,000 cr of loans from promoters into equity, to issue fresh shares worth $1 bn to investors to aid the merger.
Maruti to invest in third Manesar plant Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL), the country's largest carmaker, plans to invest around Rs 1,925 crore for setting up a third plant at its second facility in Manesar. This will be Maruti's largest investment in a single plant in the country Osama Suzuki, director, MSIL, and chief executive officer of Suzuki Motor Corporation, said, "We had not estimated the pace at which demand for cars would grow in India. We are investing 35 billion yen for constructing a new plant at Manesar to meet the increase in demand."
With automobile sales reporting record growth in the first half of the year, Maruti Suzuki has been facing supply constraints in delivering some models. The need for capacity, greater than anticipated earlier, has come about because of the unexpected surge in demand for the multi-seaterEeco and also for the Swift. Company executives said sales of the recently-launched Eeco were three times more than the initial target of 6,000 units a month.
ESPN STAR to spend 45 cr on CLT20 promotion ESPN Star Sports, which will telecast the Champions League Twenty20, will spend more than Rs 45 crore, or four times what it spend during the inaugural season, for promoting the international club tournament being held in South Africa next month, industry officials familiar with the development said. The sports channel hopes to pocket $18-20 million (about Rs 90 crore) from this tournament, said officials requesting anonymity. It is charging between Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 3.25 lakh per ten seconds of ad time, media-buying executives said.
ESPN Star will soon roll out a high decibel campaign, created by McCann Erickson and featuring AmitabhBachchan as the brand ambassador. The campaign will promote the tournament as “AbHogaAsliMuqabala” . The channel had appointed international brand consultants Saffron to arrive at the positioning strategy for the CLT20. “The study shows that the tournament was perceived as quality cricket,” said a spokesman of ESPN STAR. “But because of the newness of the concept viewers were not as tuned in as one would expect,” he added.
HC says Vodafone must pay tax on Hutch buy Decision by the Bombay High Court in the landmark Vodafone tax case has tipped the equation in favour of the Indian taxman, as the court has accepted its jurisdiction over Vodafone’s India acquisition. On Wednesday, the high court ruled that Vodafone must pay capital gains tax on its $11-billion acquisition of a controlling stake in mobile phone operator Hutchison Essar that was completed in 2007. Estimates published prior to the judgement assign a $2-billion tax liability on Vodafone.
Vodafone will appeal to the Supreme Court in the next two-to-four weeks, said senior lawyer Harish Salve, who is representing Vodafone. The court has given the company eight weeks. “Vodafone remains confident that there is no tax to pay on the transaction,” said a company statement. The final outcome of the case may influence valuations and structuring of M&A transactions between offshore entities with underlying assets in India.


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By Victor Okoye
Organizers of the National Food Safety Summit has said all is now set for 2022 edition of the event expected to hold in Lagos on Friday August 26, 2022.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 2022 National Food Safety Summit is scheduled to hold on Thursday at the Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island.
The Chief Executive Officer, RCL Industrial Safety Centre, Mr Joe Oduah, said the objective of the Food Safety Summit was to educate participants on all stages of food processing.
“Do you know that millions of people get sick from food borne illness yearly and thousands die.
“Do you know that hazardous materials contaminating food supply can cost millions and damage company’s reputation.
“The food safety summit is therefore here to help in all stages of food processing from growers, manufacturers, transporters to the kitchen and from low to high risks food handlers and managers,” he said.
NAN recalls that the first leg of the summit held in Abuja on Thursday July 28 at the Federal Ministry of Environment in Maitama.
Oduah said the Abuja event was a huge success, adding that the Lagos event promises to be much more exciting, entertaining and educative.
He stressed that at the end of the event, participants would learn and understand how to implement modern and the best food safety measures.
He added that food handlers would also be educated on basic principles of food hygiene, policies and guidelines.
He noted that certificates would be issued to attendees, noting that interested participants can log on to www.foodsafety.org.ng or call 08099700070, 09057666625 for more information about the event.
The event is powered by RCL City Centre in collaboration with National Industrial Safety Council of Nigeria (NISCN), National Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC), Federal Ministry of Health, Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and the Lagos State Safety Commission. (NAN)


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(KNNP) – A day after megastore chain Walmart asked the public to refrain from instore open carry, Walgreens, Wegmans and CVS follow suit.
Via their website, Walgreens remarks:
“We are joining other retailers in asking our customers to no longer openly carry firearms into our stores other than authorized law enforcement officials.”Walgreens
CVS states they “support the efforts of individuals and groups working to prevent gun violence.”
Wegmans remarked similarly that “the sight of someone with a gun can be alarming, and we don’t want anyone to feel that way at Wegmans.”
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GetFeedback.com, the company disrupting the online survey software market with engaging mobile-ready customer surveys, today unveiled GetFeedback for Salesforce, an integrated offering that allows any company to create branded, mobile-ready customers surveys that can be distributed to customers on smartphones, tablets and web browsers. Survey responses can be automatically associated with existing customer data in Salesforce, and individual customer responses can be segmented for deeper insight and action with Salesforce analytics.
“Customers are at the center of every business and gathering customer feedback is paramount to success,” said Alex Bard, SVP and GM, Salesforce Service Cloud. “GetFeedback for Salesforce allows companies to deliver world class mobile-ready surveys that integrate seamlessly with Salesforce, giving companies a powerful new way to connect with their customers in an entirely new way.”
“With GetFeedback for Salesforce, companies can now gather the customer feedback they need to make critical business decisions, with one integrated system,” said Kraig Swensrud, founder and CEO of GetFeedback.com. “GetFeedback for Salesforce delivers real-time customer feedback to the right department at the right time, allowing companies to listen to their customers and react immediately.”
GetFeedback.com has received venture funding from salesforce.com, among other investors.
Key Details Regarding GetFeedback for Salesforce
GetFeedback for Salesforce is an integrated offering that allows any company to create highly engaging, mobile-ready customers surveys that tie directly into Salesforce. The following are common uses for the new product:
● GetFeedback for Salesforce1 Service Cloud - Customer surveys are core to every support organization. Organizations of all sizes want to understand customer satisfaction scores, if issues are being resolved adequately and how likely customers are to promote a product to others. GetFeedback for Salesforce allows for the seamless integration between customer satisfaction surveys and the Service Cloud.
● GetFeedback for Salesforce1 Sales Cloud - Sales representatives and sales managers have long needed to engage with customers to understand purchasing behavior, how they can effectively engage with customers over time and how their sales organization can stay on top of the competition. GetFeedback for Salesforce provides a powerful way for sales leaders to gain customer insight, directly from within the Sales Cloud.
● GetFeedback for Salesforce1 Exact Target Marketing Cloud - Customer surveys are essential for marketing organizations looking to engage with new and existing clients. The best marketing departments have conversations with customers to learn about interests and develop new opportunities. Whether that is customer feedback about an event, a specific campaign, or a set of offers, GetFeedback allows companies to gather marketing feedback that leads to more engaged customers.
● GetFeedback for Salesforce1 Chatter - Customer feedback needs to be shared with the right individuals in every organization, in real-time. If a customer responds to a survey noting a problem, the right employees need to be notified to resolve the issue. With GetFeedback for Salesforce, social collaboration tools like Chatter provide the ability to route survey responses and customer issues directly to the individuals who can best serve that customer.
● GetFeedback for Salesforce1 Platform - It’s critical that customer surveys integrate deeply into every custom enterprise app. Many organizations leverage the Salesforce1 Platform to create custom apps for managing events, products and partners. GetFeedback for Salesforce allows customer feedback to integrate seamlessly into every native app running on the Salesforce1 Platform.
Availability & Pricing
GetFeedback for Salesforce is included with every GetFeedback.com plan at no additional charge. Find additional information and sign up at www.getfeedback.com/salesforce.
Built on the Salesforce1 Customer Platform, the new social, mobile and cloud customer platform built to transform sales, service and marketing apps, GetFeedback for Salesforce is also now available on the Salesforce AppExchange at www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
GetFeedback.com is a modern survey marketing application designed and built for a mobile world, allowing anyone to easily create an online survey experience with perfect branding, beautiful imagery, even embedded video. More importantly, GetFeedback.com will dynamically re-size and re-format every survey to display perfectly on today’s smartphones, tablets, and web browsers. The result? A fun, engaging experience for any audience that results in better response rates, better feedback, and better business decisions. GetFeedback.com was founded in 2013 by former Salesforce executives Kraig Swensrud and Sean Whiteley. GetFeedback.com’s client roster includes Appirio, Amazon.com Student, The Association of Surfing Professionals, Dropbox, Heroku, LinkedIn, The North Face, Oracle Responsys, and salesforce.com. For more information, please visit www.getfeedback.com.
About the Salesforce1 AppExchange
The Salesforce1 AppExchange is the world’s leading business apps marketplace. With more than 2,000 partner apps and 2 million customer installs it is the most comprehensive source of social and mobile cloud apps for business. The Salesforce1 Customer Platform is the new social, mobile and cloud customer platform for building next generation apps, powering Salesforce CRM, and more than 3 million custom apps built by customers and partners. Apps built on the Salesforce1 Platform can be easily distributed and marketed through AppExchange.
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“No, no, no. I’m not working! No, no, no, no work — just dancing!” cried Pierre Hardy as Chaka Khan’s “I Feel For You” blared from the loudspeakers.
It was Saturday night in Paris and the footwear designer was at the grand Leblanc-Barbedienne mansion for a disco party marking 15 years of his namesake label. The venue was his former showroom and he was putting it up for sale, though he declined to say what he planned to do with the proceeds.
This was neither the time nor the place to talk business, anyway. Let’s focus on the disco. “I should jump up there and spin some music,” said Julien David with an eye on DJ Virgil Abloh’s booth. Paco Rabanne’s Julien Dossena was hoping “No More Tears (Enough is Enough)” by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer would come on. “I love the way it slowly gets more dramatic,” he said. Dancing around him under a giant disco ball were also Haider Ackermann, Hidetoshi Nakata, Atlanta de Cadenet and Alexandre Mattiussi. At some point late in the night, disco turned to hip-hop and Yeezus himself, Kanye West, Paris Fashion Week’s uncontested ubiquitor, made a splashy entrance. Kim Kardashian and Theophilus London tagged along though little North West apparently stayed back at the hotel.
West and London couldn’t help themselves and jumped on the turntables to the roar of the crowd. Kardashian enjoyed the spectacle from a safe distance.
The fashion establishment turned out for another anniversary Friday night — 25 years of the ANDAM prize.
All over the Hôtel Potocki were elder statesmen of the industry — the organization’s president Pierre Bergé and its founder Nathalie Dufour; Kering’s François-Henri Pinault, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton’s Pierre-Yves Roussel and Swarovski’s Nadja Swarovski — and its new wave, like former prize winners Mattiussi, Gaspard Yurkievich and Felipe Oliveira Baptista, who reminisced about receiving the prestigious honor, not to mention the money it came with.
“I was able to do my very first show thanks to ANDAM,” said Baptista, a two-time winner.
“For me, it was less financially helpful than it is now, but still it was great,” said Yurkievich, who won back in 1998, when the financial reward was significantly smaller than the 250,000 euros, or $318,000, that this year’s laureate, Iris van Herpen, is getting.
While the event was a formal occasion that saw France’s new minister of culture, Fleur Pellerin, promising support for the industry, most of the crowd — Gareth Pugh, Farida Khelfa, Mary Katrantzou, Caroline de Maigret, Mia Moretti and Coco Rocha — wasn’t interested in such lofty topics. Charlotte Dellal, for instance, talked about her mismatched Delfina Delettrez earrings: one dangling an eye, nose and mouth.
“I like strong noses,” she declared, lifting hers dramatically for effect.
Bergé, though, had a few strong words of wisdom for the young talent in the room.
“I’m worried that they will go down the wrong route,” he said. “Fashion exists because of all these young designers. But the people who do fashion best today are people like Zara and H&M. That’s fashion to me. You need to offer the price that goes with the product and stop dreaming.”


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Re-branding under the name of the well-known luxury make reflects the group’s new “strategic focus”, chief executive Ola Kallenius said in a statement. “We want to make clear where we see the core of our company – building the most desirable cars in the world.”
The former Daimler group revealed plans to spin off its heavy goods vehicles division in February last year, with the plans approved by shareholders in October. The new company Daimler Truck rolled onto the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in December and is targeting an entry into the blue-chip DAX index, where it would join Mercedes-Benz. Internally, Mercedes employees have been using the name since Saturday, the anniversary of Carl Benz’s application to patent his motor vehicle in 1886.
The reorganisation was carried out with an eye to taking on the different technological challenges faced by the two companies as the motor industry moves away from combustion engines. While battery technology is essential to the future of passenger cars, “hydrogen will play an important role in the truck department”, Kallenius said when Daimler Truck launched on the stock market. The Mercedes-Benz group continues to hold a 35-percent stake in Daimler Truck after the spin-off.


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Motorola seems to be the centre of spotlight recently as a flurry of leaks pertaining to its upcoming handsets, have surfaced online in the last few weeks. We have now seen leaked photos of the company's new ultra-low-end Moto C line-up, followed by the images of Moto Z2 Force and E4 in the mid-range.
The freshly leaked renders showing the Z2 Force has nothing new to offer as the handset's design remains consistent with its earlier leaks. Nevertheless, the catch here is that the Z2 Force is definitely thinner at 5.99mm in contrast to its predecessor Moto Z Force (7mm).
Apart from its sleek design advantage, the Z2 Force reintroduces the traditional headphone jack which was oddly absent in the Moto Z and Z Force models. According to Android Authority, the final release model will come with a Lenovo logo on the side as seen in the earlier leak.
The Moto E4 Plus mirrors most design elements from the original Moto E4 with the exception of a new fingernail groove at the bottom corner of the handset. The E4 Plus is also touted to feature the Lenovo trademark on the side while the new groove mechanism should come in handy for removing the back panel.


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Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE -2.23%) stock tanked Friday morning after the renewable gas producer's third-quarter earnings missed Wall Street estimates. The market had been expecting something bigger, especially after the company bagged a five-year contract with Amazon in April.
Clean Energy Fuels shares were down 8.5% as of 11:40 a.m. EDT.
The company's revenue jumped 21.5% year over year to $86.1 million. With the economy reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic-induced shutdowns and travel and movement of goods normalizing, Clean Energy Fuels delivered 104.2 million gallons of fuel in the third quarter, up 6.7% year over year.
Clean Energy Fuels breaks down organic waste into biogas to produce renewable natural gas (RNG), which it then sells through its stations, primarily to medium- and- heavy-duty commercial vehicles. The company also sells conventional natural gas and realized higher prices in Q3 thanks to the soaring prices of natural gas in recent months.
Yet, Clean Energy Fuels reported a Q3 loss of $3.9 million, or $0.02 per share, according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Analysts expected the clean energy stock to turn a profit instead, which explains why the stock is tumbling today. Also, the company reiterated its full-year outlook and expects to incur a loss of $86 million.
On a positive note, here are some of the significant things that CEO Andrew Littlefair highlighted:
- The company is seeing more Amazon trucks fueling at its stations.
- It is entering the marine sector with its new customer Pasha.
- It is developing RNG production projects in the dairy space through joint ventures.
During its third-quarter earnings conference call, the company further revealed that Amazon trucks had fueled at more than 85 Clean Energy stations across 21 states. More importantly, the company is building more stations to accommodate more of the Amazon fleet by early 2022.
With some of the largest global companies already among its customers, Clean Energy Fuels has proven RNG's viability as an alternative to fossil fuels. Growth potential is huge given that the company's current target market, heavy-duty trucking, is also the largest consumer of fuels within the transportation sector. Moreover, it's expanding into marine and recently bagged its first contract to build a hydrogen fuel station. Hydrogen is another massive market that's getting a lot of attention lately.
So while Clean Energy Fuels will likely regularly be in the news, the stock could have more bad days like today simply because investors want to see the company make money and prove its renewable fuel isn't just viable, but commercially viable.


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With automation solutions and innovations the theme for this round of AUTOMATICA 2012, imaginative engineering and design in pursuit of automation will be the order of the day for over 700 manufacturers at the 5th Annual Trade Fair for Automation and Mechantronics at the New Munich Trade Fair Center May 22 ? 25.
Taking place every two years, AUTOMATICA is one of the most important forums for the global know-how of the robotics industry to gather as decision-makers find information about the latest industry developments, solutions to new challenges, make contacts, and effectively invest in technologies of the future. It is the first and only international trade fair that covers the entire value-added chain in robotics and automation.
With more than 700 participants and over 30,000 anticipated visitors, this year?s AUTOMATICA exhibits not only innovation but also economic growth in the robotics and automation industries, which suffered a major blow due to the economic crash in 2009. The Statistical Department of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) announced a strong increase in robot sales of 18 percent in 2011 and predicted a continued average annual increase of six percent until 2014.
This upward trend is also reflected in the registration figures for AUTOMATICA 2012. Norbert Bargmann, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Messe Munchen, is very pleased “that many exhibitors, who had to refrain from taking part in 2010 for economic reasons, are going to take part again. In addition, approximately 10 percent of the registered companies are participating in AUTOMATICA for the first time.”
Attendees and followers of AUTOMATICA can anticipate a focus on developments in ?green? automation and the automotive industry in particular this year, which echo commitments made throughout the 2010 forums.
May 22. Sustainability:
There was an especially great deal of interest in the topic of sustainability within the scope of the motto “Green Automation” at the last fair. As a result, AUTOMATICA 2012 is again taking up this topic, but putting it in the larger context of the German Mechanical and Plant Engineering Federation (VDMA) sustainability initiative “BlueCompetence.? Members will exhibit the technologies and processes of mechanical and plant engineering which, for example, consume a minimum amount of energy while delivering maximum productivity, preserve our resources, reduce emissions to a minimum or improve people’s living conditions in a sustainable way.
May 23. Challenges for the automotive industry:
As a traditional core industry for robotics and automation, the automotive industry was the main driver of industry recovery following the 2009 economic downturn. Automobile manufacturers and their suppliers are currently facing a paradigm change ? because lightweight design and the use of reinforced carbon composite materials call for automated processes, as does the trend toward electromobility.
AUTOMATICA?s special exhibition demonstrating automated battery production in support of this booming industry is the result of a collaboration between 20 companies who are paving the way for more affordable electronic and hybrid vehicles as a result of efficient battery production
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May 24. Growth industries:
The food, medicine, pharmaceuticals, and biotech markets exhibit particular growth potential, but in many cases struggle to implement automation technology. Talks will focus on software implementation as well as picker, feeder, and vision technology applicable in all four markets.
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May 25. Future trends:
Robots are getting ready to leave their cells and help people as service suppliers ? in factories as well as in daily life. Creating reliable mobile helpers will require continued innovations in modern safety and sensory technology as well as lightweight-design approaches.
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In addition to battery manufacturing, a special exhibit this year is dedicated to automated lightweight construction with composite materials. Other offers include the robotics award ceremonies, the CEO Round Table about robotics trends, machine vision seminars as well as the promotion of young talent via career orientation in the areas of robotics, automation, and mechatronics.


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Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $8.9 billion over 25 years to settle all current and future claims that its baby powder and other cosmetic talc products allegedly caused cancer.
In January, a federal appeals court ruled that Johnson & Johnson could not resort to bankruptcy court to resolve around 38,000 lawsuits that claimed that the talc used in their products caused ovarian cancer and mesothelioma. As a result, Johnson & Johnson has now announced a settlement plan.
The settlement will be paid by LTL Management, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, which will re-file for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy to resolve the allegations. The company maintains that the talcum powder products are safe, and the filing is not an admission of wrongdoing.
Johnson & Johnson and its affiliated companies will not seek bankruptcy protection and will operate normally. While the company maintains that the allegations against them lack scientific merit, they recognize that resolving the claims in the tort system would be lengthy and costly.
According to Erik Haas, the company’s VP of litigation, most claimants would not receive any compensation. Some critics were concerned that the legal action would encourage other major corporations to avoid taking mass tort lawsuits before juries.
The settlement will provide closure to many of the plaintiffs who have been pursuing legal action against the company for years.
Johnson & Johnson to Settle Talc Cancer Claims
The announcement comes after Johnson & Johnson faced scrutiny over the safety of its talc products. The company recalled a batch of baby powder in 2019 after a small amount of asbestos was found in the product.
The sale of talc-based powder in North America ended the following year. Last year, the company announced that it would replace talc with cornstarch in its baby powder worldwide by 2023.
The settlement marks a significant milestone in the long-running legal saga involving Johnson & Johnson’s talc products. While the company continues to maintain that its products are safe, the settlement reflects a recognition that fighting these claims in court would be a lengthy and expensive process.
The settlement also sends a message to other companies that they must take product safety seriously and be accountable for any harm caused by their products.
Johnson & Johnson is a multinational corporation that produces a wide range of healthcare products, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer health products.
The company is recognized as one of the largest healthcare companies in the world and is also listed on the Fortune 500 list. Johnson & Johnson has been involved in various controversies over the years, including lawsuits related to the safety of its products, particularly its talcum powder products.


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After slashing the prices for some its smartphones earlier this month, Reliance Retail has announced another price cut for a bunch of Lyf smartphones.
Reliance Lyf Flame 1 which was initially launched at Rs. 6,490, is now available for Rs. 4,399. Similarly, the Wind 5 that was launched at Rs. 6,599 gets a discount of Rs. 1,000 and will be now available for Rs. 5,599. Whereas, the Water 7 has received the biggest price cut [...]
Reliance Retail has launched another couple of smartphones in India, dubbed as Reliance Lyf Water 7 and Lyf Wind 1. Both the Android-based smartphone will be available via retail stores across all the country.Reliance Lyf Water 7:
The Lyf Water 7 comes with a 5.5-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) display with Asahi Dragontrail Glass protection. It is armed with an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor, paired with [...]


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Cryptocurrency solutions firm Talos raised $ 40 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Which also brought together PayPal Ventures, Fidelity Investments and other investors. As such, Talos now has some of the largest industry sponsors supporting its mission.
What is Talos?
The Talos platform is designed to help institutions manage the entire trading lifecycle.
Founded in 2018, the New York City firm provides technology to financial institutions to support digital asset trading.
Talos services include access to liquidity, direct market access, pricing, automatic execution, reporting, clearing and settlement.
Thus, the company’s client base spans the entire digital asset ecosystem. From buying organizations to financial service providers, and includes banks, broker-dealers, major brokers, OTC offices, lenders and exchanges. Market participants can use the platform to interact with other vendors through a single customizable API and graphical interface.
Anton Katz, co-founder and CEO of Talos, said his firm has “made significant progress over the past two years” in attracting new institutional clients. Thanks to this, the company believes, they will be able to realize their global goal. Which is to provide the basis for institutional trading of digital assets around the world.
The fintech startup announced funding on Thursday and said it will use the capital to build “the institutional-grade infrastructure customers need”.
Justin Schmidt, former head of digital asset markets at Goldman Sachs, joined Talos as head of strategy in April.
PayPal Ventures Managing Partner Peter Sanborn noted that Talos software “provides support for digital assets and enables organizations to securely interact with crypto”.
Andreessen Horowitz investment model
Traditionally, venture capitalists, when working in new directions, faced with the restriction of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on investing venture capital. Only 20% of the capital can be used for experiments. And the rest directed to typical venture capital deals.
So, at some point, for Andreessen Horowitz, this limitation became too tight. A company that believes in cryptocurrencies particularly frustrated by the inability to invest more of its main fund in crypto startups. Thus, the company abandoned the status of a venture capitalist. Then it created a separate fund for $ 300 million, focused on the cryptocurrency market and blockchain startups. Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz said they will make larger and more risky investments in cryptocurrency. As well as buy unlimited shares in public companies or from other investors. Noting that the company can invest about $ 1 billion in cryptocurrencies.
Other large companies with more assets are likely to use this model as well. So, it should come as no surprise that the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) is trying to persuade the SEC to change its definition of what a venture capital firm is. The NVCA recognizes that it will lose more and more of its members if venture capital firms are not given more flexibility.


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Mark Little, consumer analyst at Ovum
SPAIN: Google has successfully ridden the margins of regulation and consumer acceptance since birth. Operating in the grey areas where regulation is yet to catch up and consumers are yet to fully understand, is a brave but perfectly legal strategy that is even to be recommended- arguably the only place a technology company should be.
But, riding the margins is high risk and has consequences when laws are broken and consumers upset, a situation Google is no stranger to. The latest slip, from Google Play this time, sees the apparent passing of personally identifiable information to developers without consumer permission. Is this just another privacy violation to add to the playlist, another fine to pay down like the consumer pays a parking fine?- well yes it is, that’s the point.
It is this apparently casual attitude to privacy infringement that is gradually building a problem for the search giant. Privacy infringements drive an endless media feed-back loop that slowly and invisibly hardens consumers’ attitudes against the betraying brand and heats up the market for privacy services.
Already, Ovum’s Consumer Insights survey has shown that 66 percent would block tracking by a search engine if they could. Google are structured not to plan but just to innovate, to act first and ask questions afterwards, a culture many companies could do well to simulate, but a culture which can ignore relationships and positive engagement with the consumer.
Build it and they will come (for sure if it’s built by Google), but disrespect them and they will go is a lesson that Google and the Internet at large needs to learn fast.


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Huaweis Android competition: Ark OS to be up to 60 percent faster than Android
By Adeline Kuang 2019-06-06 672 0
The operating system, which is expected to be called Ark OS, should run on smartphones, computers, tablets, televisions, in cars and portable devices and be compatible with Android apps, announced Yu Chengdong, head of Huawei consumers.
The compiler, which translates the Android source codes into the new Huawei form, should, according to Yu, make the system 24 percent faster, the system response 44 percent faster and the apps performance of third-party providers even 60 percent faster.
The software could also be ready in autumn and distributed to the first users in China at the end of the year. Germany is likely to start at the beginning of 2020.
The first screenshots were also filed with the Office. However, the designs were already submitted at the end of March and are strongly reminiscent of the standard Android ad.
The development of its own operating system, which has been pursued since 2012, has taken on a whole new urgency for the second-largest smartphone manufacturer since the U.S. government decided to massively restrict the business of U.S. companies such as Google with the Chinese company.
This would mean that Huawei would have access to new versions of the Android operating system later than other smartphone providers and could not pre-install any Google services.
Huawei inventory users: What does the Android ban mean?
Huawei is the second largest smartphone provider in the world and also a leading network supplier.
For users of Huawei smartphones, this step means, among other things, that Google will continue to be able to fully supply the phones of current Huawei customers with updates and apps over the next three months. However, the relaxation does not apply to the use of US technology in new products.
The USA had put Huawei on a blacklist of companies whose business relations with US partners are subject to strict controls. Anyone who wants to sell or transfer US technology to Huawei must acquire a license. This may be refused if security interests are involved.
Huawei is suspected by US authorities of using his entrepreneurial activities for espionage in China. Evidence of this has not yet been made public. The USA is also urging other Western countries such as Germany to keep Huawei off the networks for the future super-fast 5G mobile communications standard. Huawei always rejected the US accusations.
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SnapPay, Inc., provider of international payment solutions, today announced the availability of facial recognition payment technology for North American merchants, allowing consumers a new level of convenience for payments at retail outlets. The technology is based on available facial recognition platforms available in Asia, but will serve a local North American introduction of the technology to mainstream retail. SnapPay will be demonstrating the technology today at the Retail Council of Canada’s Retail West Show, at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, and at next week’s Grocery Innovations Canada (GIC) show in Toronto.
Facial recognition is a new capability of SnapPay’s payment platform that enables consumers to digitally pay with a qualified digital snapshot during the checkout process. For merchants, it helps minimize the time for consumers to checkout, aids the value proposition for more self-check out lanes in store, and helps merchants stay at the forefront with the latest technology offerings in the payments’ landscape.
“Facial recognition technology is an increasingly popular method of payment among global consumers,” said Spencer Xu, CEO and founder of SnapPay. “By enabling consumers to pay with their ‘face’ North American merchants, particularly those with self-service kiosks, are providing an unprecedented level of convenience and speed in the checkout process, to a lucrative customer segment that increasingly demands it.”
Juniper Research forecasts that mobile biometrics will authenticate $2 trillion in in-store and remote mobile-payments transactions in 2023, driven by over 2,500% growth. In addition, the facial-recognition market is projected to double to $9 billion between 2018 and 2024, according to Mordor Intelligence, a consulting and advisory firm.
“Retailers in Canada are eager to explore technologies that will help improve the retail experience for their customers. SnapPay is a very interesting new player offering new solutions in the Canadian payments ecosystem. We’re looking forward to being first to see this new technology in use at Retail West,” said Mary Markou, Senior Director, Sponsorship Retail Council of Canada.
The facial recognition feature can successfully trigger and complete the payment transaction with a simple 3-D snapshot of the user’s face and can also help merchants tie this into loyalty programs within their brands, easing the consumer experience for shoppers.
Facial recognition technology authenticates user payment account, and seamlessly completes the transaction without the merchant or consumer needing to touch money. No need to worry about wallets, having cash, or even your phone, all you need is your smile to pay for your next in-store purchase.
Since its inception, The National Digest has been dedicated to providing authoritative and thought-provoking insights into trending topics and the latest happenings.


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Bengaluru Lockdown Today: In the wake of the rapid increase in the number of cases being reported from Bengaluru, a 33-hour lockdown has been imposed from Saturday 8 PM to Monday 5 AM in Bengaluru. Earlier, the state had announced Sunday lockdowns starting from July 5. Earlier too, Bengaluru observed Sunday lockdown. But this time, it’s more stringent.Also Read - DDA Housing Scheme: Last Date For Interest-free Payment of Flats Extended. Details Here
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“Respected Citizens, just stay home and don’t ask for exceptions as this is being done in everybody’s interest, heavens won’t fall if you postpone by a day. Please exercise self-discipline and cooperate. Happy Sunday,” Bengaluru Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao tweeted on Saturday. This makes it clear that nothing apart from essential services are allowed. Also Read - Delhi Unlock: Cinema Halls To Open At 50% Capacity, Buses To Run With 100% Capacity From July 26 | Full List of Guidelines Here
1. Only essential services — milk, medicine — shops will be open.
2. No home delivery of non-essential items allowed. A Twitterati asked the police commissioner whether the food-delivery apps will be functional. And here is the reply.
3. Meat shops will remain open, according to reports.
4. All shops apart from essential services will remain closed. All market will remain closed.
5. No cycling is allowed as well.
Earlier, the government had said that on locked down Sunday, weddings fixed beforehand will be allowed. People arriving at the city from outside will have a tough time on Sunday as most vehicles will be out of bound.
A total of 1,172 cases were from Bengaluru Urban alone on Saturday; apart from 24 deaths.


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CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. (AP) -- Hot Topic's chief financial officer, Jim McGinty, has resigned.
The clothing and accessories company said Tuesday that George Wehlitz will serve as interim CFO.
McGinty, 50, had worked for Hot Topic Inc. for the past 12 years. His resignation is effective March 29.
The 52-year-old Wehlitz became vice president of finance at Hot Topic in 2008. He previously served as CFO at motorcycle clothing and accessories company Cycle Gear Inc. Before joining Cycle Gear, Wehlitz worked at Hot Topic from February 2002 through November 2005 serving as vice president, controller in 2002 and then as vice president of finance from August 2003 to November 2005.
Hot Topic runs its namesake stores as well as Torrid, which sells clothing, accessories and lingerie to women sizes 12 and up. The company is also testing a new retail store concept called Blackheart that offers, beauty products, lingerie and accessories.
Hot Topic had 619 Hot Topic stores in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Canada, 190 Torrid stores and 5 Blackheart stores as of Dec. 29.
Its shares fell 14 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $11.14 in midday trading Tuesday. Its shares traded as low as $7.22 just over a year ago and hit a 52-week high of $11.39 last Friday.


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This is another professional recognition WEP has received this year in environmental domain after joining forces with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as strategic partner of Champions of the Earth – the UN's flagship environmental award.
"WEP is one of the few companies that have a long-range strategic view in Chinese water purifying agents market. It has already held the leading position in this industry through constant investment in R&D and accomplishment of whole industrial chain layout ahead of other peers." Said Arden Dai, Executive Director at Frost & Sullivan.
"Driven by its successful corporate strategy, WEP has demonstrated an outstanding growth track, which is much faster than the industry average. In addition, WEP has set a prominent example for Chinese enterprises in corporate social responsibility (CSR), and successfully established a long-term strategic partnership with UNEP. In light of all these accomplishments throughout the years, WEP is considered the worthy recipient of the 2013 Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award in Chinese water treatment chemicals market."
"As an influential power in China's environmental protection industry as well as the water treatment chemicals market, WEP are delighted to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan team with our excellent performance and remarkable products and services.
“With common value on environmental protection, we will join hands with Frost & Sullivan to resolve the environmental issues together. WEP will also continue to utilize our technical advantage and pursue the global presence and industrial dominance through international cooperation and resource allocation. We are confident to become one of the leading water companies worldwide and an ideal partner for global cooperation in water industry in the coming three to five years." cited WEP's President and CEO, Mr. Tan Mingzhuo.
The world is now facing severe challenge of environmental issues. WEP is committed to environmental protection. After 15 years' efforts, WEP has now become China's largest manufacturer of industrial wastewater purifying and sedimentation agents, and at the meantime an expert of water treatment providing one-stop solutions. In addition, WEP is the first Chinese company that supports UNEP in environmental activities.
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Euphony established a beachhead in Benelux to support their core business reselling land line telephony, Internet access, mobile, and energy services such as gas and electricity. France surrendered upon hearing the news.
Nigel Huxtable, vice president, Sales EMEA of StayinFront, said he liked the StayinFront product’s twin attack of CRM and analytics in one system “without the monetary investment and time requirements of configuration.”
The Good News: Customer Experience Management vendor Tealeaf has commissioned a survey finding that 48 percent of online adults in America say they’re conducting more online transactions than they did in the past “given the current economic climate.”
The Bad News: 80 percent experience problems — error messages (38 percent), endless loops (19 percent) and login problems (28 percent) — when doing so.
The Ugly News: That’s an improvement. Last year 87 percent said they had problems.
The Hey, Wake Up, Stupid news: Fully 32 percent of those who experience issues when conducting transactions online “would simply take their business elsewhere or abandon the
The Death Rattle: Customers are complaining to their friends, not you: “38 percent of all online adults contacted a company’s call center after encountering problems using the Web site in 2009, versus 47 percent in 2008.”
In sports, Ahnold The Governator signed a bill allowing the construction of a 75,000-seat stadium, hoping to get an NFL team back in Los Angeles.
The proposed stadium will be built about 15 miles east of Los Angeles, according to plans.
Schwarzenegger said in these tough economic times, California needs to spend millions of dollars to get an NFL team, since that’s “53 more part-time jobs created.” The legislation specifically prohibited the 0-6 St. Louis Rams from moving back.
The tool’s “deep mapping technology” gives an “intuitive, visual representation” of
“relevant” relationships, searching personal contacts from Outlook, LinkedIn, Facebook, Gmail and Yahoo as well as Internet and “premium data” sources.
The result? Your “connection paths” to any person or company. The premium edition “analyzes and ranks sales prospects based on the strength of personal and professional connections.”
They’d have won our Company of the Week award if they’d offered a Kevin Bacon Edition.
In politics the percentage of adults who think there is “solid evidence” that the earth is warming and that people are causing it has dropped from 77 percent in 2006 to 57 percent today, according to the Pew Research Center.
“The steepest drop has occurred during the past year,” according to the Associated Press.
Observers attribute the drop to a “statistically significant” correlated rise in the number of adults who can identify the smell of coffee.
Getting a jump on the Christmas season, SeeWhy is offering Live in Five, its “Grinch-busting” Web site conversion program.
Evidently it’s a “real-time, shopping cart abandonment remarketing” product. Scott G. Silk, CEO of SeeWhy, says “e-mail remarketing can recover up to 50 percent of abandoned shopping carts.”
Also stops runaway sleighs with reindeer/dogs named Max.
That’s the news for today, we’re off to hide the keys to our brother-in-law’s La-Z-Boy.


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We have reached the point in the pandemic where people are starting to know what they’re talking about. Especially outside of the United States, researchers are starting to put together incredibly detailed studies about how the coronavirus spreads and one thing is becoming increasingly clear: Airflow matters.
Take a look at this:
Choose your seat carefully. In this situation, one of the positive cases remained more than 20 feet away from someone infected and was only in the same building for 5 minutes, which makes for a pretty frightening scenario.
In this case, a picture is worth a few thousand words. It comes from a study done in South Korea, where researchers meticulously examined CCTV footage, airflow currents, testing data, and more to create a picture of exactly how the virus spread through a restaurant in a very short amount of time. And their findings are clear (if not entirely surprising): The virus is spread via aerosols, and aerosols travel along air currents, and if you are in the path of those air currents, you’re at a large risk for breathing in those aerosols and getting sick. Simple as that.
Obviously, this makes an understanding of airflow paramount when thinking about the safety of an indoor environment. And understanding airflow is very much a 3D problem.
Certainly, Digital Blue Foam was ahead of the curve when they announced their Covid Space Planner back in June. Figuring out the safest way to re-organize existing office space should be paramount for organizations planning to re-enter the physical workspace. Even with news of a vaccine on the horizon, concerns about the spread of disease won’t go away. Many epidemiologists and public health officials will be recommending mask use and social distancing for a long time, given uncertainties about vaccine efficacy and the length of immunity they convey. There’s even a chance that the vaccines will keep us from getting sick, but not stop us from spreading the virus.
But offices aren’t the imperative here. It’s restaurants, grocery stores, schools, bars, clubs, retail establishments – those places that really can’t operate remotely with any sort of effectiveness, and almost certainly don’t have CAD drawings easily available for upload and examination. Whether they know it or not, they need good 3D visualizations of their spaces, both to help them understand the risk they’re putting their employees and customers in and to help explain their decision making to wary people who want assurances the building is safe (especially in winter months, when windows can’t be open in the north).
How many registers should you safely open?
We saw over the summer Unity provide a nice 3D simulation of customer flow through a grocery store, where they were able to show how store policy might impact public health. If the store is able to open more registers, people are able to keep farther apart from one another while shopping. That’s fairly intuitive, but being able to see it and demonstrate it makes it a lot easier to make sure you get the resources you need to make it happen.
Similarly, Upsite Technologies was able to show way back in 2019 the way that 3D visualizations of airflow could help artificial intelligence figure out the optimum way to keep server rooms cool and servers performing at their optimum capacity. If AI can optimize for cooling, surely AI can optimize for keeping aerosols away from people, no?
Tech to keep servers cool could keep shoppers safe.
But, as you can see, it looks less real than my kid’s Minecraft world. Think how much more effective this simulation would be with captured data and something that actually looks like the store a company is operating or a customer is planning on visiting. So much of our effort here in the States to combat the virus is a marketing effort; people seem to need to see to believe.
Reality capture can help make that happen.
Imagine something this detailed in terms of airflow, but mapped onto an actual space:
That might shake people up a little and get them to understand the threat we’re working on. But it’s also a business opportunity. If you can help organizations assure their customers that it’s safe to come on inside, that’s a valuable service. Whether that can be done cost effectively or not remains and open question, of course.
Maybe there’s a government entity that wants to pony up some CARES Act funding for a dry run? It’s worth a shot if you’ve got some extra capacity. It might put some money in the pockets of industries struggling to stay afloat. Heck, it might save a life.
Sam is a former editor of Spar3d.com and SPARView, as well as various B2B publications in the workboat, security, and privacy industries. Currently, he serves as editor of West Gray Creative, a content services company in Portland, Maine. In his spare time, he fronts the bluegrass band The World Famous Grassholes, runs the music blog www.PortlandsBestAlbums.com, and serves as Vice Chair of the Gray-New Gloucester School Board.


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Two of California's three major container ports reported sizable increases in export boxes during October, though all three ports posted declines for overall container traffic in October and remain in the negative for the year to date.
The ports of Los Angeles and Oakland saw exports increase while the Port of Long Beach reported exports down. All three were down in all other categories including exports, empties and total box moves for the month.
The Port of Long Beach reported a 24 percent drop in total box traffic for October compared to last year. The port, the nation's second busiest, shed more than 150,000 TEU compared to October 2008 to end the month at 452,418 TEU handled. Loaded inbounds at Long Beach fell 22.4 percent for the month, loaded outbounds dropped 10.1 percent and empties fell a precipitous 37.6 percent compared to the same period last year. For the first ten months of the year, total containers moving through Long Beach are down 24.5 percent to 4,152,209 TEUs.
At neighboring Los Angeles, the nation's busiest container port, total box traffic was down 8.3 percent in October, ending the month at 647,424 TEUs. While loaded inbound containers fell during the month by 8.7 percent and empties were off 21.2 percent, total loaded outbound boxes marked a sole bright spot, increasing 11.8 percent compared to October 2008. October was the tenth straight month in which the port reported a decline in total monthly traffic and for the first ten months of the year Los Angeles remains down 15.4 percent compared to the same period last year.
In the Bay Area, the Port of Oakland saw a 6.7 percent drop in total container numbers for the month, ending October with 181,066 TEUs handled. Imports moving through Oakland in October were off 8.4 percent and empties were down 11 percent, with export boxes climbing 17.2 percent. Like Los Angeles, total monthly container numbers at Oakland were down in every month since January and for the first ten months of the year Oakland's total container volume is off 11.1 percent compared to the same period a year ago.


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Sony is rumored to be experiencing hardware problems with the PlayStation 5 (PS5) which might delay the release of the next-generation console.
Introducing the PlayStation 5
Sony has finally revealed the official name of their newest console: Playstation 5. While no launch date has yet been announced, Sony has said that the highly anticipated gaming console will be available “in time for Holiday 2020.”
Just recently, the company hosted a livestream that highlighted a number of technical details of the new gaming console as well as introducing the DualSense controller.
Rumored hardware problems
With this, it would seem that despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems like nothing is stopping Sony from releasing the PS5 during the holiday season this year.
Here are some reasons why it shouldn’t.
The PS5 may be experiencing some hardware issues according to Daniel Rubino, the executive director of Windows Central. Rubino had shared a comment from self-proclaimed industry insider Jeff Rickel that showed Sony is uncertain how the PS5 will perform.
FUD or legit concerns about Sony's PlayStation 5 having issues?
Anyone following this stuff, talking to game devs and people in-the-know have been hearing similar rumblings for months now. This just summarize it well.
Sony may have overshot (and underestimated) Microsoft. pic.twitter.com/geUAsE4oBB
— Daniel Rubino (@Daniel_Rubino) April 2, 2020
According to Rickel, Sony’s underestimation of Microsoft has led them to rush the development of the PS5 which caused them to mess up the form factor of the upcoming next-gen gaming console.
This caused the hardware to fail at an “alarming rate” with the console unable to maintain its clock speed and has become subject to heating problems.
In his tweet, Rubino said that the issues specified by Rickel had long been speculated by game developers and insiders for months.
Hardware problems are definitely not good for business which is why Sony should take time to redesign the console and fix the issues before launching it on the market.
Unprecedented PS4 sales
There is an ongoing resurgence in PS4 sales thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. Gaming and tech enthusiasts have long been putting off buying new consoles in favor of the upcoming next-gen consoles like the PS5 and Xbox Series X.
However, with the enforcement of lockdowns and social distancing protocols, people had been looking for ways to keep their minds off the pandemic and many of them have turned to gaming. This caused a surge in the sales of existing game consoles such as the PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
In fact, gaming consoles are now short in supply with many inventories and retail outlets running out of stock. Sony should take advantage of this situation and focus on selling the PS4 instead.
Once the spread of the COVID-19 slows down and the world starts running again, one can only imagine the struggles that the global economy would face.
Consumers may not receive a new and expensive gaming console as warmly as they would in other circumstances.
With the International Monetary Fund already announcing a recession that could be worse than the 2008 Global Recession, releasing a new console may not be a good idea.
Image courtesy of Pixabay/StockSnap.


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File another under FFS. An amazing tribute to his Airness or to simple Greed (we vote greed)?
The release of retro style Air Jordan shoes has sparked riots in malls across the United States. Thousands of sneaker fans lined up, pushed and shoved their way to claim a pair of the $180 collectibles.
The shoes inspired a frenzied dash. There were long lines and instances of violence. In one California mall, a shopper pulled out a gun and fired a round into the air.
The violence wasn’t just there. Police in Seattle used pepper spray on shoppers who were pushing and shoving. In Georgia, shoppers were arrested over the frantic dash for shoes, according to The Journal News.
Elsewhere, mall doors were torn off hinges. Police were called to serve as backup assistance to mall security.
Nike is expected to sell $1 billion in Air Jordan merchandise in 2012. An staggering amount considering that Jordan, as a player, hasn’t been relevent since 1998.


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Five years ago tomorrow, Mark Zuckerberg launched a site out of his Harvard dorm called thefacebook.com. It was an immediate hit, despite competition from established social networks, because it offered a safe place for students to share things like party photos with just their real friends. So it’s hardly a birthday surprise that photo uploads — and a range of other methods for sharing personal information on the site — continue to gain popularity today, as can be seen from some new statistics just released by the company.
In fact, information-sharing features like photos seem to be gaining popularity with Facebook users faster than Facebook itself is gaining new users — a sign that the sharing-focused redesign implemented last year continues to take hold on, and also a good sign for the company’s revenue-making efforts. Here’s the breakdown.
Facebook said it had 140 million monthly active users as of mid-December (when we last saw new numbers). The company hasn’t updated that number since, but a recent third-party analysis by the blog AllFacebook guessed that the site hit 160 million users by this past Sunday, based on raw data available on Facebook’s advertising service. That’s a fourteen percent increase in new users in roughly a month and a half.
Meanwhile, Facebook users are now sharing more than 850 million photos per month, up 21 percent from 700 million in mid-December. Facebook was pronounced the largest photo-sharing web application in the world by web measurement company comScore in January of 2008, so presumably this ongoing growth is helping it maintain that title.
Facebook is also seeing a surge in status updates — the Twitter-like feature that Facebook launched shortly after Twitter, back in the spring of 2006. Now, more than 15 million users are updating their statuses at least once a day, whereas 13 million were back in mid-December — a 15 percent increase. It’s hard to know exactly how big Twitter is because that company doesn’t release traffic data, and much of the activity comes through the use of its application programming interface (API), but we’re guessing there are somewhere less than 15 million Twitter users tweeting at least once per day
This isn’t just personal information that’s being shared. Now, 24 million other “pieces of content” (links to online news article, Facebook notes, etc.) are being shared per month, up 60 percent from 15 million in mid-December.
Why are people sharing more? The redesign emphasized features like status updates and photos, and that certainly seems to have contributed to it. But the average Facebook user now has more than 120 friends whereas the average user only had 100 friends in mid-December, a 20 percent increase. More friends likely means more friends to share things like photos, news articles and your status with. Facebook more than doubled from 60 million monthly active users in January of 2008. As new users gradually gain more friends on the site, they seem to be deciding to share more.
This is also good for Facebook’s revenue plans. The company is trying to build “engagement” ads around sharing behaviors; in the news feeds showing you your friends activity, for example, Facebook also shows you ads and links to brands — and to brand fan “Pages.” You might see an ad for a movie then become a fan on its Page, then the action will appear in your friends’ news feeds. The more people post photos and status updates and whatnot, the more material Facebook has to show you in your news feed — and the more you’ll want to read your news feed every day. This may be why more than 3.5 million users are now becoming fans of at least one Page every day, up 40 percent from 2.5 million in mid-December.
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Rainforest Rev: Killing Innovation and Fresh Business IdeasPosted: October 29, 2013
October 29th, 2013
THE BIG PICTURE
Your Business Model Is Killing Innovation
By Henry Doss, Chief Strategy Officer of T2 Venture Creation, from Forbes
How do you make an innovation focus work inside of an existing business model? The answer: by merging “culture rules” with “business model”. Growing an innovation culture is a long-term and rather complex thing, but here are three quick ways you can begin influencing your business model through innovation. First, people. Develop ways to encourage trial and error and iteration, and then lead supportive conversations about failure. Then… Read more here.
Out of Fresh Business Ideas? Try This.
By Victor W. Hwang, CEO of T2 Venture Creation, from Entrepreneur Magazine
It happens to all of us: one minute we have so many fresh ideas and the next minute, the well is dry. As a leader, your goal is to instill creative confidence by making your team comfortable enough to stretch outside their comfort zone. Operate from the standpoint that there are no bad ideas, just early incarnations of good ones. Focus on process, because process equals substance. Innovation isn’t a rational endeavor. It takes a lot of effort, risk and failure. Without joy in the process, why bother? Read more here.
Contagious Entrepreneurship: People Who Know Entrepreneurs Are More Likely to Become Entrepreneurs, Kauffman Foundation Survey Shows
How to create more entrepreneurs in the innovation ecosystems? The study is to test whether entrepreneurship is an imitative behaviour and, if it is, whether increasing people’s exposure to growth entrepreneurs can lead to the creation of more entrepreneurs with massive knock-on effects for the economy. The research showed that knowing an entrepreneur is possibly a significant factor in whether a person runs their own business. Read more here.
Raising start-up cash in the 21st century
How can economic policies help grow more innovation ecosystems? New potential uses of ‘crowdfunding’ – raising a large pool of money from many small contributions online, could be a key to spurring economic growth and job creation. Thanks to the bipartisan JOBS Act entrepreneurs will soon be able to use this method. Read or watch the video here.
THE LATEST NEWS
Darwin’s Business Conference At NYU Stern
Evolution: This View of Life
The conference focused on the possible applications of evolutionary thinking for business and business ethics and why they matter to business. Much of what organizational management amounts to is trying to shape the norms and institutions of quasi-tribal groups so that they work better. It is now well established that cultural evolution is a fundamentally Darwinian process, exhibiting incremental descent with modification, semi-random innovation (trial and error), competition among ideas, selective survival and other Darwinian features. Read and watch the videos here.
Square founder hopes to turn St. Louis into the Silicon Prairie
MarketPlace Public Radio
Jim McKelvey founded the mobile payment company Square four years ago with fellow St. Louis native Jack Dorsey. Square couldn’t find the programmers they needed to grow, so the company set up headquarters in San Francisco. To keep that from happening again, Mckelvey is starting an apprenticeships program. McKelvey is confident he can transition the city from its industrial roots into a tech-hub. Listen more here.
Detroit residents work to engage the community with signs of hope, resurgence
How do you rebuild an innovation ecosystem? Detroit residents are hoping to breath new life into their communities, despite the city’s filing for bankruptcy earlier this year. Neighborhoods are working to attract developers to rehab blighted buildings, create new jobs and assist would-be buyers and renters. Read or watch the video here.
Italy’s Emerging Food & Ag Tech Startup Ecosystem
There’s a global movement of entrepreneurs developing technologies that help preserve and reinvigorate local food ecosystems. They’re creating everything from sensors and software that help farmers improve operation to online marketplaces that allow farmers and food artisans to sell direct to consumers. So it should be no surprise that this movement has made its way to Italy, a country with great respect for its culinary traditions. Read more here.
Down and out, the Irish turn to tech
MarketPlace Public Radio
By now, what went wrong in Ireland is a familiar story — a burst housing bubble, a bailout, an economic crisis and record unemployment. But on the banks of the Liffey, the river that runs through Dublin, is a burgeoning technology sector that many people in Dublin hope can help pull the country out of its doldrums. Many of the world’s largest — mostly American — tech companies have their European headquarters in Dublin to take advantage of Ireland’s super low, 12.5 percent corporate tax rate. Listen more here.


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Russia’s Central Bank Plans to Facilitate CBDC Interaction with Digital Ruble Platform
Russia’s central bank has announced that the platform for the digital ruble will soon be able to work with other central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The Bank of Russia has stated that it is currently working on mechanisms for interaction between the digital ruble and other CBDCs, and that various models are being developed. These models include two-way integration with each CBDC platform or launching an international digital platform that will facilitate the interaction between multiple digital currencies. The bank has also revealed that it is open to the experimental use of cryptocurrencies in foreign economic activities, and may even set up a special organization to facilitate cryptocurrency transactions.
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Cosh Living recently partnered with five industry suppliers to host an early morning exclusive trade event in their Sydney Showroom.
The Morning Brief is a quick get-together held before work and designed for suppliers to come together and showcase exciting new collections and present them to a trade audience.
A great opportunity to network and get up to date with multiple companies at the same time, each supplier is allocated 10 mins, and the whole event is concluded in an hour.
Those who were able to stick around the Cosh Living showroom for a little longer were introduced to new releases by Australian furniture brand Kett. These new stunning new pieces included the innovative Frame office and Frame Bedroom as well the Erskine Bed and Erskine Sofa.
With a great turnout and an overall very successful event, Cosh Living would like to thank everyone who attended and the suppliers who shared some amazing new products.
If you are interested in your team attending any future Cosh Living trade events, please contact your nearest Cosh Living showroom for further information.


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BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) — Animal Charity in Boardman was open Saturday to give pet owners who work during the week, a chance to get vaccines and micro-chipping.
When you’re a pet owner, that pet becomes a part of your family.
If your pet goes missing, and somehow ends up in North Carolina. Your pet can be returned to you wherever it’s found with the help of the micro-chip.
Micro-chipping helps find your pet if it gets lost. At the clinic, they take a needle and stick the chip right beneath the skin of your cat or dog.
It’s a procedure the Animal Charity clinic has been doing for five years.
Animal experts believe micro-chipping is better because there’s a risk your pet can lose its identity if it wanders off
“When the animal’s on a leash or tethered, they can break that, get lose, and then they can break off their collars, lose their tags, all of that. The good thing about the micro chip is that it can’t be lost. It’s always with the animal no matter where they go. They can be states away, and that micro-chip number is still going to register to you,” said Animal Charity Director Shalyse Bolash.
Animal Charity offered a discount on the process Saturday.
This discount is offered several times throughout the year. The process takes about three seconds.
These chips will remain in your pet for the rest of its life.