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GuestTek | August 7, 2019
Arnon Levy Leads Board of Directors as Founder and Chairman Calgary, Alberta – August 7, 2019 – GuestTek Interactive Entertainment Ltd., the global leader in providing innovative and interactive technology solutions for the hospitality industry, is pleased to announce that effective August 7, Kate Levy has been appointed as GuestTek’s new Chief Executive Officer. Kate has been a key member of GuestTek’s executive team as the Chief Strategy Officer since 2015 and has focused on several key roles such as Managing Director for EMEA and leading the Global Support & Client Relations department. As CEO, Kate will report directly t...
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Calgary, Alberta – June 12, 2019 – GuestTek Interactive Entertainment Ltd., the global leader of end-to-end hospitality technology solutions, is excited to announce that international motivational speaker, Chris Koch, has been named as the company’s new brand ambassador. Chris has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Network, the Dr. Oz Show and has been featured on Ted Talks. Born without arms or legs in a rural area of Western Canada, Chris has learned to overcome everyday challenges most people take for granted. He travels the world to share his message of resiliency, courage, and perseverance with event appearances at schools, charitabl...
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GuestTek to provide broadband technology and interactive solutions to hotels throughout Russia. Calgary, Alberta – September 21, 2017 – GuestTek, global leader in broadband technology and interactive solutions for the hospitality industry, expands into Russia. Leading hotel brands plan to substantially expand their presence in Russia, and GuestTek is ready to partner with them to deliver a world-class guest experience. On September 21st, GuestTek President and CEO, Arnon Levy, traveled to Moscow and officially registered Limited Liability Company GuestTek Rus, finalizing the company's entry into the Russian market. GuestTek ...
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Reflecting on 20 years of innovation as the global leader in broadband technology and converged interactive solutions for the hospitality industry. Calgary, Alberta – March 27, 2017 – In an era when technology companies often come and go, GuestTek™ is proud to announce its twentieth anniversary this month, achieving two decades of steady growth and a continuous commitment to clients. Every day, GuestTek reaches over 4000 properties and over 850,000 guestrooms, rivaled only by the 5.4 million unique devices that the company serves every month. Starting in 1997 with in-room, high speed internet connections and full compu...
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WEST MIAMI, Fla. – A man was arrested last week after Miami-Dade police detectives discovered that he was selling counterfeit goods out of a back room at his West Miami business, authorities said.
According to an arrest report, Homeland Security Investigations officials contacted the Miami-Dade Police Department about the suspect, identified as Ulisis Valencia, 26, of Miami.
Police said an undercover detective went into the business called UA Exclusive at 6460 SW 8th St. on Thursday and saw the store owner conducting a sale with two men in a back hallway.
Police said a female employee quickly closed the door that separates the showroom from the back hallway after the undercover detective called on backup detectives to enter the store.
According to the arrest report, the men who were in the hallway and the suspect's stepmother tried to run out of the back of the store, but they were apprehended by detectives positioned in the back.
Police said Valencia gave officers permission to search the store, and they found a second showroom filled with counterfeit purses, wallets, sunglasses, shoes, watches and other goods.
A representative and expert for the companies, which included Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Chanel, verified that the items were counterfeit, authorities said.
Police said the brand items had a retail value of more than $4 million.
Orlando Garcia, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, said Valencia had been running the counterfeit operation for about six months.
Valencia was arrested on a charge of selling counterfeit goods worth at least $20,000.
Garica said more people could face charges in the case.

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It might have been the television coup of the year. After wresting Project Runway back from Lifetime and The Weinstein Company, Bravo announced in May that it would air the upcoming 17th season of the wildly popular reality competition, which the network originally launched back in 2004.
However, a major wrench has been thrown into Bravo’s victory: News broke this morning that Project Runway‘s biggest names, judge Heidi Klum and mentor Tim Gunn, are leaving the show to develop an as-yet-unnamed fashion series for Amazon.
So what exactly do Klum and Gunn have in the works? While thematic details are still in development, Amazon announced that the new reality series “will create a shoppable experience for viewers.”
Amazon’s announcement also includes statements from both Klum and Gunn.
“After 16 incredible seasons, I am saying ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to Project Runway, a show that I was honored to host and help create,” said Klum. “I am incredibly proud of the show, and it will always have a special place in my heart. I am so appreciative of the dedicated fans, and most of all, I am grateful that we could shine a light on creativity and help launch so many talented designers’ careers. I’m most excited that my journey with my dear friend and colleague, Tim Gunn, is far from over.”
Said Gunn: “I am grateful to Project Runway for putting me on a path I never, in my wildest dreams, thought my career would take me! I am so proud to have been a part of the groundbreaking process that showcased talented young designers as never before. Most importantly, I am indebted to our incredible fans. They are the heart and soul of what we do, and continue to inspire us to raise the bar in this arena. I’m excited for them to see what’s next, as I partner with Amazon and Heidi Klum on our next great ‘fashion’ adventure.”
But the series’ upheaval doesn’t stop there. Shortly after this news came another exit. Famed designer Zac Posen, who has been a judge on Project Runway since Season 11, announced that he, too, would not return to the show when it relaunches on Bravo.
Bravo didn’t address Posen’s departure in its to statement Deadline: “Bravo is proud to bring Project Runway back where it all began, and Heidi and Tim will always be a huge part of the legacy. The series will continue its iconic impact with Bravo’s reboot for the next generation of designers and fans. We are excited to announce our new host and mentor very soon.”


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Fuel prices in India are soaring, so Uber has raised its fares by 15% in West Bengal.
State officials, however, report that the company did not appropriately handle the fuel price information.
Uber Hikes Fares By 15.6%; What’s Behind This?
The company has not released an official statement, but drivers have received messages confirming that a new pricing system has been implemented.
The online ride-hailing company’s customers haven’t received this well. The company’s customers have complained that the new pricing model will not be affordable, especially now that there are limited mass transit options.
According to the new pricing model, Uber will charge Rs 14.7 per kilometer, up from the current rate of Rs. 10. Additionally, the base fare has been raised from Rs 47.25 to Rs 48.
Meanwhile, the minimum fare remains at Rs. 85. If you ride 10 kilometers for 30 minutes, the old fare would be Rs. 195.85. As a result of the new rates, the fare would now be Rs 225. It represents an increase of 15.6%.
Uber has told its driver-partners that 25% of the total fare will go to the company’s account under the new pricing system, and the remaining 25% will go to the driver. It will help drivers and car owners recover some of their losses due to the fuel hike.
Uber Fails To Inform The Transportation Department Of The State Government.
The state government has reported that the company has not informed the transport department about the new fares.
The state government said the company failed to inform the transport department of its new fares on Wednesday.
As per the transport minister Firhad Hakim, “We are the licensing authority and according to the terms and conditions, it is upon the aggregator to inform the state government ahead of any fare revision. We have already sent them a letter.”
Ola, the Uber competitor, has also revealed that its prices will be rising soon, too.
On Wednesday, diesel and petrol were priced at Rs 92.03 and Rs 98.64 per liter, respectively. On January 1, the price of diesel and petrol per liter is Rs 77.44 and Rs 85.19, respectively.
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Aquaovo's water filters are Montreal's answer to the ubiquitous spring water bottle.
The gleaming white porcelain eggs (“aqua ovo” means water egg in Latin) look more sculptural than practical, balancing on their translucent acrylic stands. Noémi Desrochers founded Aquaovo in June, 2007, with her brother Manuel, who had been working on his plans for an egg-shaped water filter for three years.
The concept was inspired by the notion that when liquid is stored in an egg-like vessel, it encourages the water molecules to move. When water moves, says Desrochers, it tastes different. “We call it living water.”
To build a porcelain version of the design, the pair went to China to tap into the country's expertise in ceramics, with the added bonus of lower production costs. You can now find Aquaovo in health food stores and high-end design and kitchen outlets in Canada, the United States and across Europe – the company is also expanding into Asia.
The timing was right: Aquaovo hit the market just as bottled water became an environmental bogeyman, precipitating sales of roughly 3,000 units.
While other manufacturers play upon consumer fears of tainted water, Desrochers actually praises what comes out of our faucets. “In order for [tap water]to be great, it needs a final touch,” she adds.
That's where she believes Aquaovo's four layers of water filtration come into play. The filters, made of such substances as carbon, quartz crystal and ceramic pellets, are good for four months.
Says Desrochers: “We want good water and we don't want the planet to pay for it.”
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(Victor Valley)– Senator Scott Wilk, R-Antelope Valley, announced the passage of his Senate Bill 1409 (SB 1409) by the Senate Committee on Agriculture.
The measure updates current law to streamline the production of industrial hemp in California and allow California farmers to grow and produce non-intoxicating hemp for commercial and industrial uses.
Industrial hemp is an agriculture crop that is grown and processed throughout the world for thousands of consumer and food products including alternatives to fossil fuel and wood products.
Senate Bill 1409 brings California’s hemp laws up-to-date by allowing the pilot program to proceed as intended and by bringing the definition of industrial hemp in line with reality. Wilk added that the federal government has also initiated efforts to bring industrial hemp laws in to the 21st century by removing it from the federal controlled substances list and that measure will compliment his bill if it is successful in congress.
SB 1409 is double-referred and will now be heard in the Senate Public Safety committee.


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Millions of individuals had been working from their properties through the lockdown worldwide as a consequence of Corona virus an infection. In order to advertise work-from-home tradition and within the meantime, the search engine firm Google had fully freed one in every of its providers, in order that customers would not have any downside at work. Till now there was no restrict on the video assembly for all of the customers on Google Meet however these advantages are the final day on 30th September. After this, customers is not going to get the good thing about limitless free conferences as earlier than.
Read: Facebook needs to ‘spy’ on you, know the entire fact
Will get 60 minutes restrict
In April, Google introduced that each one customers will be capable of entry limitless Google Meet for video conferences. However, that is going to alter now and in the previous few months after the lockdown, the state of affairs has additionally improved. It is obvious that Google is now taking cost from customers for its assembly service as earlier than. On the video conferencing platform Zoom the place customers get 45 minutes of video name entry, Meet will nonetheless give 60 minutes entry to all customers.
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Normal customers don’t have any downside
It is obvious that there will likely be no downside for normal customers as 60 minutes is sufficient for a web based assembly. However, the businessmen who had been utilizing this service usually in lockdown, they should pay Google to proceed the conferences even additional. However, the assistance of different platforms can be taken rather than Google Meet. It can even must be seen whether or not Google limits the variety of folks becoming a member of the assembly totally free customers. Till now nothing has been stated concerning the official in-limits by Google.


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In economics, dematerialisation is the idea that we need less and less physical stuff to produce the goods and services that we consume. For obvious reasons, our rising consumption of digital services is fuelling the trend – and in the process also dematerialising the tax base.
Due to their immaterial nature, digital services are geographically indeterminate. This makes it easier for tech companies to minimise their tax liabilities in any particular nation. Of course, avoiding tax is not the same thing as evading it – as Google recently demonstrated in a courtroom victory over the French government. But what of the charge that the big tech companies are ‘dodging’ tax (implying a moral lapse if not a legal one)? A particular complaint is that companies that sell vast amounts of online advertising, like Facebook and Google, pay very little corporation tax in the countries where the advertising is sold.
Writing for CapX, Tim Worstall comes to the tech giants’ defence:
“…the basic underlying principle of the international taxation system – tax should be paid where value is created. Intellectual property is an ever rising portion of value being created and when we come to things like software platforms it’s by far the majority.”
He goes on to cite a counter-argument from Richard Murphy:
“I know that it will be claimed to be due to the intellectual property having been developed in the USA. But let’s be candid; IP is worthless without a customer and it is UK customers who create the value added in this country, and not the IP as such”
Worstall is not impressed with Murphy’s logic:
“It’s worth just savouring that. JK Rowling created considerable intellectual property with her books, but it’s the readers who provide it, so therefore JK must be paying tax everywhere else and not in the UK – or perhaps only in the UK on her UK sales.”
The JK Rowling analogy is a revealing one, but not quite as Worstall might wish. He is right when he says that customers don’t create value (rather, they pay for it). But while that applies to Ms Rowling’s readers, it doesn’t apply to the users of Facebook – who don’t pay anything. Instead, the customer is the advertiser who pays Facebook for drawing its users’ attention to adverts. As the new old saying goes: ‘if something is free, then you are the product’.
Unlike the Harry Potter reader, the Facebook user is the (unpaid) co-producer of what Facebook sells. Obviously, as a digital platform, Facebook is essential to the whole enterprise – and it’s fair that the foreign-owned intellectual property on that platform should be taken into account. But let’s draw a parallel with another kind of platform – a North Sea oil rig.
Without the engineering brilliance of companies like Shell or BP there would be no North Sea oil industry. However, no one can deny that much of the value of what they produce comes from the natural resources that they extract – resources that properly belong to the nation not the oil companies. That’s why the North Sea oil industry has its own special tax regime, one that allows private enterprise to make a profit, but ensuring that the nation gets its due.
We should treat the big tech companies in a similar way. If the value co-produced by a nation’s collective attention (and sold on to advertisers) can’t be individually remunerated, then it should be nationalised – and taxed accordingly. Yes, the platform should have a fair share of the profits, but so should the nation.


text: Limiting yourself to just one glass of wine isn’t always an easy task. And it turns out it may be even harder depending on the size of that glass. The Behavior and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge recently studied patrons at a local pub in hopes of finding out if changing the size of the wine glass has any effect on drinking behavior. (And no, we aren’t talking Betty White-sized glasses.) It turns out, decreasing the size of the glass has no noticeable effect, but increasing the glass size does. In the experiment, the same amount of wine was poured in varying glasses. Nonetheless, people felt there to be less wine in the larger glasses. That led them to drink faster and drink more–10% more. So it seems like the question isn’t: is the glass half full or half empty? But: how big is the glass?


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Apple Inc. unveiled pricey upgrades to its iPad Pro and Mac lines at an event in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Tuesday, as well as releasing an enhanced version of its Apple Pencil stylus.
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Apple’s new retina MacBook Air has a 13.3-inch screen and a backlit “butterfly” keyboard. It’s the first Air device to feature Touch ID fingerprint recognition or a Force Touch trackpad, which the company said boasts a 20% larger area relative to the trackpad on the older model. It’s 15.6 millimeters thin and features an eighth-generation Intel Inc. Core i5 processor. The device can play movies for up to 13 hours nonstop.
Apple earnings: Can pricey new phones carry the holidays?
The Air starts at $1,199 for a 128-gigabyte model. The previous-generation model started at $999 and will still be on sale for that price. A new 264 GB version will go for $1,399. The new Airs have two USB-C ports, which handle charging and all other connectivity, whereas the older models connected via traditional USB and a dedicated charging port.
The new models are available for preorder and will hit stores on Nov. 7.
Apple also spruced up the Mac mini, a small desktop computer that requires users to supply their own monitor. A revamped version of the device has configurable memory of up to 64GB. Storage configurations start at 128GB and can be configured up to 2 terabytes, according to Apple’s website.
The company said that its new Mac mini has a space gray finish and many connectivity options, including four USB-C ports, two traditional USB ports, an HDMI port, and an Ethernet port. It starts at $799, compared with a $499 base price for the prior-generation version.
On the tablet side, Apple introduced a new 11-inch iPad Pro and upgraded the 12.9-inch Pro. Apple fit an 11-inch screen into the same body as the previous 10.5-inch model by reducing the bezels on the device. Apple also packed a 12.9-inch screen into a smaller device, which Apple said is now about the size of a piece of 8.5-inch by 11-inch notebook paper.
While previous iPads charged with Apple’s Lightning cable, the new models will connect via USB-C, and they’ll allow users to charge their iPhones through the iPad.
The company said this is the first iPad Pro line to feature Apple’s latest-generation neural engine, which allows the device to handle 5 trillion operations each second. It’s also the first iPad family to feature FaceID, which lets users unlock their devices with their face and also enables Apple’s animated “Memoji,” digital avatars that bear likeness to their user.
The devices, as with the new computers, are up for preorder now and officially go on sale Nov. 7. The 11-inch Wi-Fi model starts at $799, while the 12.9-inch version will begin at $999. Adding cellular connectivity makes the devices more expensive: A 1TB cellular version goes for $1,899.
Prior to the announcement, Apple sold a 10.5-inch iPad Pro for a base price of $649 and a 12.9-inch model for a starting price of $799.
At the Tuesday event, the company also enhanced its Apple Pencil stylus. The new version will attach magnetically to the iPad, charge wirelessly, and pair automatically with the device. Users will have the ability to change between functions by double tapping on the Pencil. This newest model will sell for $129 and features an option for “laser engraving,” while the original pencil sells for $99. Apple will continue to offer that model as well, given that the new Pencil is only compatible with its latest line of iPad Pros.
Apple shares were little changed in midday Tuesday trading. The stock has gained 27% over the past 12 months, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average


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It looks like things are rather feisty for Google searchers today as those looking for Valve’s Steam website are being told to “F*** Epic Games Store” instead.
Originally reported by PCGamesN, it would appear that Google has taken a rather big stumble when delivering users their search results.
Instead of displaying the appropriate information regarding the Steam Store landing page, searchers are being instructed to lay with the Epic Games Store. On a side note, that’s something we would not recommend.
The unruly search result only popped up for browsers who searched for “Steam store”; those who searched for just “Steam” were greeted normally.
Google’s offensive messaging was found to be an SEO pull of a Steam user’s game review of Metro Exodus, a previously Epic Games Store exclusive title. While the user, Rommel, scored the game positively, his review consisted of “FUCK EPIC GAMES STORE” and a big ASCII middle finger.
(Credit to Vg24/7 for discovering the cause.)
Despite Epic Store exclusive games making their way over to Steam after their year of exclusivity, it’s clear that some fans are still upset at the fact the they had to wait slightly longer for a game or (heaven forbid) download another launcher.
As for more hilarious/explicit internet shenanigans, check out what this angry Fallout fan did when they discovered Fallout First.


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Amazon Studios is having a great year.
In January, it was the first streaming service to win a Golden Globe Award in the “Best Series” category, taking home the trophy for “Transparent,” a dark comedy about a father who comes out as transgender.
Additionally, Amazon has signed a deal with Woody Allen for a full season of a 30-minute TV show to be streamed exclusively for Amazon Prime, and Ridley Scott is producing the original Nazi drama series, “The Man in the High Castle.”
Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com founder and CEO, is heavily involved with Amazon Studios and which projects are greenlit.
Bezos is on the cover of the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter talking about his strategy for Amazon shows and how he decides what gets made.
“You can have the best technology, you can have the best business model, but if the storytelling isn’t amazing, it won’t matter,” Bezos tells THR in an interview. “Nobody will watch. And then you won’t sell more shoes.”
When asked what he is looking for in an Amazon show, Bezos explained to THR:
Is this something we can imagine is someone’s favourite show? One way you can think about TV is you can say, ‘I want to make something that millions and millions of people are going to watch.’ If that’s your starting point, you paint yourself into a corner and you often end up with homogenized, uninteresting content. If you say, ‘Let’s hire the world’s greatest storytellers. Let’s encourage them to take risks,’ then you’re going to end up with a remarkable story, and remarkable stories always find an audience.
As for how many viewers account for Amazon’s audience, the streaming site doesn’t reveal viewership numbers and Bezos won’t say.
“I don’t think it’s useful,” he says. “I don’t want our team obsessing over ratings. I want them obsessing over quality. If they can pull that off, we will have millions of happy viewers.”
And despite his demanding position as Amazon CEO, Bezos still finds time to work with Amazon Studios on producing original shows.
“I’m involved very significantly when final decisions are made; so after the pilot process, when we sit down to review all the shows and figure out what to say yes to,” he tells THR. “But I’m really a reverse-veto person. I would never say no to something the team wanted to do, but I might say yes to something the team didn’t want to do. You want there to be multiple ways to get to ‘yes’ because you want to encourage risk-taking.”
With Bezos located in Seattle, it can sometimes be tough for him to remain in constant contact with such an L.A.-based industry, but he makes it work with his team flying to Seattle specifically for greenlight meetings.
“We sit in a big conference room and we’ve all watched all the shows, and we’ve got all the data [from users who have watched the pilots and given feedback] in front of us,” he explains of the process. “You absolutely have to be willing to make something that’s going to be remarkable. You’ve got to take some risks.”
Once the hard work is done and people tune in to Amazon’s shows, it’s time to sit back and wait for the accolades.
The first season of Amazon’s hit “Transparent” won two Golden Globes in January, and a slew of other awards.
While Bezos isn’t obsessed with bringing home awards, he does says, “I think they’re important to the creators. The audience also likes it. Is it the only thing that matters? No, but it’s very good validation of the quality of the work that the team is doing.”
Read Bezos’ full interview with The Hollywood Reporter here.
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The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1 of the astir iconic events surrounding the United States abrogation palmy November, volition diagnostic characters from the crypto and blockchain abstraction for 1 of the archetypal times palmy its 99-year history.
In a Sept. 14 announcement, Web3 steadfast Cool Cats Group said immoderate of the characters from their nonfungible token (NFT) postulation volition look arsenic balloons palmy the Thanksgiving Day parade scheduled for Nov. 23 palmy New York City — a bluish feline and a beverage carton. According to the parade’s shaper Jordan Dabby, the characters volition beryllium represented physically for thousands of New Yorkers watching from the streets and millions watching from their homes.
— Macy's Parade History (@ParadeHistory) September 14, 2023
With astir 2 months until Thanksgiving, it’s unclear whether immoderate antithetic firms palmy the crypto and blockchain abstraction programme to idiosyncratic characters represented with parade floats oregon balloons. The lineup astatine the Macy's parade changes from twelvemonth to year, and has featured characters including Baby Yoda from The Mandalorian series, Sonic the Hedgehog, Pikachu, and Charlie Brown.
In 2021, erstwhile the parade returned to its afloat procession pursuing the 2020 shutdowns amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers excessively launched an NFT series. The pursuing year, palmy summation to the proceedings held in-person, the suit arranged for a virtual parade incorrect the metaverse.
Having a Web3 steadfast represented palmy a ample suit akin the Thanksgiving Day parade volition apt question amid antithetic happenings palmy New York. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman’s transgression proceedings is acceptable to footwear disconnected connected Oct. 3 and whitethorn inactive beryllium going connected astatine the clip of the abrogation parade.
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Emirates adds new route to Pakistan
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Supporting the thriving trade between the Indian subcontinent and the rest of the world, Emirates SkyCargo now offers 10,900 tonnes of weekly capacity into and out of the region.
“With the new service to Sialkot, which is a major manufacturing hub in Pakistan, we are creating a new lane that will give local businesses access to trade opportunities across Emirates SkyCargo global network of more than 130 destinations, particularly in Europe, United States, Australia and the Middle East,” says Nabil Sultan, Emirates divisional senior-vice president,cargo.
With the addition of Sialkot, Emirates now operates 63 flights a week between Dubai and Pakistan, offering 1,400 tonnes of cargo to Pakistan.
“When combined with the efficiency of one of the youngest fleets in the skies, unrivalled ground-handling facilities, and the very latest information technology, Emirates SkyCargo is the ideal partner for Sialkot based businesses as they look to boost trade,” adds Sultan.


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More than 7.5 million used cars changed hands last year as the second-hand market grew 11.5 per cent on the back of the short supply of new vehicles.
A total of 7,530,956 used motor transactions were made – 777,997 more than the previous year – according to the latest figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
Here’s a countdown of which second-hand motors were bought in biggest numbers in the UK.
Used car market grows: Some 7.5m second-hand motors changed hands in 2021, which is 778k more than the year previous. However, dealers are running low on stock due to high demand
Despite the year-on-year growth, transactions fell by 3.1 per cent in the final three months of the year as dealers ran low on vehicles stocks following a 2021 of unprecedented demand for used motors.
With the semiconductor shortage causing substantial new-car delivery delays and impatient motorists shifting their attention to the used market from the middle of last year, dealer stock levels have been running low in recent months.
Demand for used cars in December alone fell by 10.2 per cent, the SMMT said, which was due to a combination of growing Omicron cases and the reduced availability of vehicles.
Sales of used petrol and diesel cars both grew by 10.7 and 9.8 per cent respectively last year, while demand for electric and hybrid vehicles grew significant – as much as 119.2 per cent for battery-only cars – as more low-emission models dripped into the used market as appetite for greener models hits at an all-time high.
Used car sales fell in the final three months of 2021 due to the short supply of second-hand cars after record demand for second-hand motors since new car production has slowed
Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive, said, ‘It’s good to see the used car market return to growth, even if activity is still below where we were pre-pandemic.
‘With the global shortage of semiconductors set to ease later this year, releasing the squeeze on new car supply, we expect more of the latest, cleanest and zero emission models to become available for second owners.’
Ian Plummer, commercial director at used car marketplace Auto Trader, estimates that there have been around 1.5 million ‘lost’ new car sales since the pandemic struck and semiconductors went into short supply, which has then reflecting on the used market.
Most used car transactions were in the South East, with over one million changing hands in the region
He says there are fewer younger vehicles second-hand vehicles available as a result, which is impacting dealer stocks and pushing prices higher by almost 30 per cent on average.
‘There are already a third fewer sub three-year-old used cars available to buy this year than there were in 2019,’ he said.
‘With no sign of demand easing, price growth won’t be slowing significantly anytime soon and we may have to get used to our cars as appreciating assets.’
Richard Peberdy, UK head of automotive at KPMG, said the impact on the second-hand market was causing an ‘additional cost challenge’ for some consumers whose budgets are being squeezed on a number of fronts.
‘As supply chain problems eventually ease, more new cars will be produced, more used cars will enter the market and their prices will begin to level off,’ he suggested.
Used car transaction figures have been published by the SMMT a month after it released official data for new car registrations.
Supply shortages in the new market means the top 10 most popular zero-mile cars looked very different to previous years – not least with Vauxhall’s Corsa ending Ford’s 50-year run as maker of the most-sold new motor, and Tesla taking second spot with the Model 3.
But what impact has record appetite – and soaring prices – had on the most popular used cars? Here’s a countdown on the 10 models that most commonly changed hands in 2021:
10. BMW 1 Series – 122,840 sales
Badge appeal is strong with the 1 Series, with used buyers attracted to the idea of a family hatchback with a BMW badge on the bonnet
BMW’s 1 Series hatchback sneaks into the top 10, with the rear-wheel-drive premium family car taking tenth spot.
Having been on sale in the UK since 2004 and been sold across three different generations, there is plenty of availability in the UK.
9. Audi A3 – 122,856 sales
The Audi A3 is another premium family hatch that’s been around since the late ’90s. The depreciate slowly and lots of badge kudos, which is what makes them a popular used buy
A rival to the 3 Series, the Audi has been around even longer, with the first-generation car launched in the late nineties and there still being plenty examples of that car on the road today.
The appeal of badge kudos, a premium interior and pretty slow depreciation makes the A3, across all four generations, an attracting second-hand buy.
8. Volkswagen Polo – 147,372 sales
Fancier than a Renault Clio or Peugeot 206/207/208, the Volkswagen Polo is a classy supermini with lots of premium appeal in a sector that hasn’t been best known for luxury
Back when few premium brands had superminis in their range, the Polo was one of the fanciest small cars you could get. And it’s been kicking around for some time, with the original launched in the seventies.
Latter generations have grown quite a bit in size, so much so that they can almost pas as a compact family car. Again, depreciation is relatively slow for this one.
7. Mini Hatchback – 167,828 sales
Of all the small cars on the market, nothing else holds its value as well as the Mini hatchback, which was the seventh most bought used model in 2021
Fewer modern cars have split opinion like the BMW-built Mini. Traditionalists hate everything about it, especially its ownership and the not-so-mini dimensions. But an equal volume of drivers love its retro looks and kart-like handling.
Whatever your opinion on the Mini hatch, since it returned to the market in 2001 it has been a big seller. Again, it holds value exceptionally well, such is demand from used buyers.
6. BMW 3 Series – 175,190 sales
While demand for saloon cars is shrinking, the BMW 3 Series is still very much an in-demand used motor
With demand for saloon cars falling by the wayside in recent years, there is no quelling the demand for the BMW 3 Series.
It’s certainly the UK’s favourite junior executive saloon and its second-hand appeal is still steering customers away from hatchbacks and SUVs. A spacious interior and great fuel economy – especially from diesels – makes it an appealing family motor.
5. Vauxhall Astra – 200,911 sales
Over 200k used Vauxhall Astras changed hands in 2021. The family hatchback isn’t the best to drive, but it is practical – and fast depreciation makes second-hand cars relatively cheap
A long-standing favourite in the UK, there are plenty of Vauxhall Astras to go around. And that’s why it is fifth in this list.
While it might not drive as well as some of its closest rivals in this list – or offer premium appeal – it is a practical and spacious family model. Depreciation isn’t great, which means second-hand models can be quite a lot cheaper than the competition.
4. Volkswagen Golf – 247,919 sales
The Volkswagen Golf has in recent years been one of the most rounded family hatchbacks on the market, which is why demand is so high for second-hand cars
Another family hatchback that’s packed with badge appeal is the VW Golf, which is among the best-selling new cars as well as used.
Recent generations have all been exceptionally well-rounded vehicles, offering lots of premium feel, good driving dynamics, a host of strong and efficient engines and lots of value retention. No wonder over 245,000 changed hands in 2021.
3. Ford Focus – 251,265 sales
Over a quarter of a million used Ford Focus models changed hands in 2021. The family hatch was the nation’s most bought new car for a decade from 1999 and is very popular still today
The Focus was the UK’s most bought new cars every year between 1999 and 2008, so there are lots of examples around.
Traditionally, it’s the best-handling medium-size family motor on the market, though not always the classiest – which is why it has fallen behind the Golf in new car sales in recent years.
2. Vauxhall Corsa – 262,448 sales
The Vauxhall Corsa might have topped the registrations charts for 2021, but it hasn’t been able to repeat the same success in the used market
The Vauxhall Corsa might have been 2021’s best-selling new car but it isn’t the top choice second-hand model, despite over a quarter of a million changing hands last year.
With the Corsa model being around since the early nineties and selling in droves since replacing the Nova, there are loads on the road. Rapid depreciation means they are usually a cheaper option than its closest rival and the best-selling used car, which is…
1. Ford Fiesta – 326,436 sales
Ford’s Fiesta is again the most-bought second-hand model in the UK. Recent examples of the supermini are incredibly good to drive and immensely practical. They’re reliable too
It comes as little surprise to see the Ford Fiesta topping the second-hand charts, with the nation’s most-bought new car every year from 2009 to 2020 being in high demand.
And it’s for good reason as recent generation Fiesta have been incredibly good to drive, hugely practical, relatively dependable and pretty much better than anything else on the market at a similar price point.
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A Huddersfield fashion brand has secured the first of a number of national charity partnerships.
Zhoodz, which designs and supplies reflective clothing, has become a “Corporate Friend” of Dogs Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity.
The Outlane-based company, founded by Steve Cooper, has gone from strength to strength since entering the retail market last July.
The latest tie-up will see Zhoodz donate 10% of the sale of dog-related products and accessories to the charity.
Zhoodz introduces a fashion element to road safety, with full colour reflective designs so dogs, and their owners will be seen in car headlights.
The link-up with Dogs Trust is the first of many charity partnerships to be formed by the brand as the business sets its sights on expanding nationally.
Mr Cooper said: “It has been an extremely busy few months at Zhoodz. We are overwhelmed with the positive influx of interest we have received on the products since launching. We are extremely proud to support Dogs Trust. The team at Zhoodz are passionate about protecting the welfare of animals and look forward to maintaining a relationship going forward.”
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One of the best programs aimed at preventing young people from falling into the trap of drug abuse is DARE or Drug Abuse Resistance Education.
Police departments and schools all over the United States participate in DARE programs.
Unfortunately, DARE is being used by some people primarily to line their own pockets.
Montgomery County Sheriff John P. Durante has some advice for anyone who wants to support the DARE program: Give locally.
Durante is helping spread the word about a growing problem. People not connected with local DARE programs are setting up tables or stands outside retail establishments to solicit money or sell merchandise.
These stands sell DARE T-shirts and other DARE items as well as coupon books, Durante told reporter Margaret Gibbons. One such solicitation was set up Plymouth, Montgomery County.
Law enforcement officials discovered that the stand was being operated by a profit-making marketing agency that earmarks a "portion" of its profits for the national nonprofit DARE America organization.
"Portion" is the key word here. The company gives DARE America 50 cents for each $25 coupon book sold, Durante told Gibbons.
There is nothing illegal about the sale of the merchandise or coupon book, Gibbons reports, but no local DARE program receives proceeds from these sales.
In addition, Durante told Gibbons that these stands hurt local DARE fundraising programs.
"We work hard to raise the money our programs need to operate," Durante told Gibbons. "These vendors only make our job that much more difficult as people who purchase the items from them feel they have already contributed to DARE."
Gibbons tracked down James McGivney, regional director for DARE America, who acknowledged that local DARE programs do not benefit directly from the sales proceeds. But they do benefit indirectly, McGivney told Gibbons.
DARE America, which also is a nonprofit charitable organization, provides free training for DARE officers, McGivney told Gibbons. At the completion of that training, these officers are provided with free training kits that include curriculum and educational materials such as videos, he added.
"All of this costs money and, like other charities, we could not raise sufficient funds through traditional fundraising," McGivney told Gibbons.
Durante told Gibbons he and other law enforcement officers are "appalled" that private vendors are making a profit on the program that educates children about the dangers of drug use.
The sheriff recommends that people wanting to contribute to DARE programs in their area call their local police departments to find out how they can contribute to local programs.
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Overseas credit card spending surged about 65 percent during the long holiday earlier this month that gave many over a week's break if they took just two days off work.
KB Kookmin Card said Tuesday that overseas spending on its credit cards from April 29 to May 9 totaled W25.4 billion, up 64.5 percent compared to the same period a year ago (US$1=W1,118).
Many Koreans took advantage of the break to go abroad. Domestic spending grew only 12.6 percent over the same period.
Japan was where Koreans spent the most money over the holiday, followed by the U.S., Vietnam, Italy and France.
China, which ranked third last year, sank to ninth place this year as many avoided traveling there amid an unofficial Chinese boycott over Seoul's decision to deploy a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense battery from the U.S. here.
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1 . Apple: ‘We aren’t keep up with demand’
Global passion intended for Apple unabated as client demand outstrips supply throughout iPhone, iPad and iMac ranges, Apple says. As Apple released record income, chief executive Bernard Cook proved that also supplies of older, more affordable models of the iPhone were not enough to satisfy demand, and this sales of iMacs dropped primarily as the company could hardly make the fresh design fast enough. He added that iPad Tiny demand, as well, continued to outstrip supply as customers flocked for the device that Apple’s Dorrie Jobs had said the business should never produce.
From this article we can infer that inside the short run the supply curve of apple goods is relatively inelastic due to source constraints that include delay in assembling and manufacturing method.
To confuse matters, Apple’s largest contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology shut a manufacturing plant in the upper Chinese associated with Taiyuan after having a riot shattered out among 2, 1000 employees.
Foxconn would not confirm which in turn plants source Apple, but an employee told Reuters the Taiyuan plant is among the ones that assemble and make parts for Apple’s iPhone 5. Apple referred inquiries on the manufacturer to Foxconn. The Washington dc company likewise assembles its devices for factories operate by Pegatron Corp. For the parts part, Apple’s key supplier for screens, Sharp Corp, has been struggling with expense and trying to raise cash to shell out debt. Sources had advised Reuters the company’s output of recent iPhone displays had gone down behind schedule. Thus the supply curve of Apple goods would be as follows: Supply curve of Iphone in the growing process
2 . Increase in demand in conjunction with supply constraints
The early total for the iPhone 5 topped sales in the iPhone 4S, which usually sold much more than 4 mil units in its first weekend after Apple introduced that in August 2011. The numbers usually do not include products that have but to be transported or sent to customers since Apple catalogs sales only if online customers sign pertaining to the order. “We are not overly focused on this ‘disappointing’ number even as believe this is a classic case of near-term expectations getting out of touch with reality, Sterne Wry analyst Shaw Wu stated. He added that he expects Apple to sell an overall total of twenty seven million iPhonesin the Sept. 2010 quarter and 46. your five million devices in the 12 , quarter.
The iPhone 5 has become one of Apple’s most intense international rollouts to date. The device will be available 31 countries upon September 28 and in much more than 100 countries by the end of the year.
“Expectations for Apple are always white hot, said Colin Gillis, a research analyst with BGC. “It’s not just enough for them to break records but for smash these people.
Therefore given the inelastic source curve and increasing requirement of consumers the demand curve of apple would shift rightwards but given the supply restrictions in short operate the supply contour remains a similar and volume supplied would not increase as a result.
Increase in demand curve and supply constraint of apple iphone.
a few. Samsung attempts pinch Apple suppliers because of Galaxy S4 demand KOREAN LANGUAGE PHONE MANUFACTURER Samsung apparently is assaulting on another front in its ongoing battle against Apple, with studies claiming that it is trying to grab its rival’s parts suppliers. While Samsung korea does a wide range of its developing in-house, Reuters news agency reports which the company is looking to get new suppliers due the growing with regard to its Galaxy smart phones, particularly the Galaxy S4. Yet , the Korean language giant evidently is looking to lure apart Apple’s suppliers, sparking talk of another challenge between the two Smartphone businesses. If this is accurate, it could help to make life a little difficult for Apple, which will reportedly offers signed up fresh manufacturers lately to work on a cut-price iPhone version.
It could increase costs to get the American gadget designer and could trigger the firm to go through shortages of critical iPhone parts. However , it looks like the battle may have already been signed up with. Samsung purchased a three percent stake in Sharp earlier this year, which explained this week that it is looking to boost sales, possibly harming their relationship with Apple. “The next rounded of the post-patent battle on their behalf will be over component products, stated Lee Sun-tae, an expert at NH Investment & Securities. “Who wins access to the best performingcomponents in class in large quantity ” that’s the key¦ and clarifies why The samsung company is buying components nowadays. This looming issue follows on the heels of Apple’s and Samsung’s regular patent warfare in the process of law. Most recently, Apple requested a court’s permission to add the Samsung Galaxy S4 to its future patent court action, claiming the handset infringes iOS style patents.
Therefore if the statements turn out to be authentic as a result of that the the supply of iphones may possibly reduce and it may bring about decline inside their profits since the demand of product is presently there but source constraints may possibly force the consumers to shift to substitutes. The diagram could be shown because:
Increase in demand and corresponding decrease in supply curve.
5. Report: Competition from compete with Samsung
Apple apparently is scaling back component orders pertaining to the iPhone 5 after demand for its latest Smartphone began to taper off in the 4th quarter. According to a survey Monday from The Wall Street Journal, Apple has slashed first-quarter requests for iPhone 5 screens by nearly fifty percent, while likewise scaling again orders for other components found in the Smartphone. The Cupertino, Calif. -based company warned suppliers of the slashes starting a month ago, the Log said, citing “people acquainted with the situation. Apple stock fell a lot more than 3 percent when the market opened Mon morning, slipping below 500 usd for the first time in almost 12 months. The company would not immediately respond to a ask for comment. Sanford Bernstein analyst Alberto Moel told the Journal that Apple was likely required to cut iphone 5 accessories component requests after inserting especially huge orders for the fourth quarter, leaving the corporation with excessive inventory.
At the same time, Apple has faced elevated competition inside the Smartphone industry from competitor Samsung in the last few months. Gartner that Samsung solidified where it stands as the world’s largest Smartphone manufacturer, selling fifty five million androids during the third quarter and nabbing a great industry-leading 32. 5 percent market share. As result of this approach the we could infer that demand for Korean phones have increased and it has recently been able to boost supply due to proper supplyoperations. Thus the necessity curve will shift rightward and supply contour would as well shift rightward for Korean phones. Increase in demand and corresponding embrace supply of The samsung company smartphones.
Elasticity of Demand
Besides the iphone, you will find other, cheaper mp3 players on the market. Yet , the iphone and Apple brand will be clearly the most used, and many could say that you cannot find any substitute for an iphone. At $250, the i phone is relatively pricey, especially for its target demographic”teenagers. An increase or perhaps decrease in selling price would certainly impact the demand among teenagers. Apple iphones are considered amusement, not necessities, because any individual can survive not having an iphone. Also, if there is a cost change, there exists time to adjust to the change because people may wait to get an iphone. General, the demand for iphones is usually elastic.
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i-Popularity The latest advertising for i phone, featuring take star Gwen Stefani, have created a much bigger demand for the product. Studies have shown that the advertising campaign has been successful with consumers in their teen years and adults in their 20s and 30s, and then for both males and females. The rising demand for the latest i phone has triggered a temporary shortage of the product, driving Apple iphone users to enter black market and pay higher prices. Increase in demand of apple iphones.
New Laptop Chip Assists iphone Cheaper
A scientific breakthrough has given Apple the capability supplying more iphones. This new pc chip will make it less difficult and less expensive to produce the iphone. The reduced production costs imply that Apple has turned many more iphones available in stores. Nevertheless , the demand intended for iphones hasn’t kept plan the supply, and so Apple decreased the price of the iphone to $249 to eliminate the surplus.
Increase in supply of i phone.


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Future of Ilford Town Centre being mapped out as crucial vote nears
- Credit: Archant
Trying to please a handful of people can be hard enough, but trying to please hundreds of Ilford business owners is an entirely different proposition.
And their pleasure, or otherwise, will soon be measured in a vote – not to elect a politician but to choose something a little more innovative.
So innovative it has given Ilford Town Centre its own police team and just launched a website offering special deals to entice shoppers.
The man at the helm of Ilford’s Business Improvement District (BID) is Ben Collins.
Those three words – Business Improvement District – may not exactly roll off the tongue but they have certainly made their mark in Ilford.
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“It’s about making it work for every business,” says Ben.
“That’s been the challenge – how to get businesses involved. They’ve been really open.”
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More than 460 businesses in Ilford Town Centre pay 1.2 per cent of their rateable value into the BID each year.
That means hundreds of business owners are metaphorically and literally investing in the BID and its aims.
Since it launched in Ilford in 2009, it has put its money towards a raft of schemes and events promoting the town centre.
With its five-year term ending in April 2014, each business will be balloted on whether to renew the BID.
They will have to decide if they have seen enough in the last few years – and can expect enough in the next few years – to put a cross in the “yes” box.
BID manager Ben, 37, is overseeing that process and is helping to put together a business plan.
“You can’t please all of the people all of the time,” he says. “Some businesses will like everything the BID delivers. Some will have hobby horses as their priorities.
“That’s why the engagement process is so important.
“We’ve recently surveyed them all, asking what their personal priorities are.
“That’s why we do research – so we can please businesses and deliver. We don’t just plough on blindly.”
Firms will also have a face-to-face interview with Ben and his team as they create a list of priorities and ambitions that will form part of their renewal business plan.
With about £360,000 from the businesses each year, plus grants from other bodies, there is plenty of money to spend – but it is not a bottomless pit.
Businesses will be balloted in October/November.
Not only will more than 50 per cent need to vote for renewal, but more than 50 per cent of the area’s total rateable value will also need to be behind the second chapter of the BID.
How much is the town centre looking over its shoulder with the likes of Westfield Stratford City only a few minutes away by train?
Ben says: “I think Westfield is more of a destination-type experience.
“What Ilford has is a strong sense of community and convenience.
“Going forward, everything we do will be with the local population in mind in terms of events in particular.
“Vaisakhi, for example, and we’d like to do something for Diwali.”
He added: “It’s just about being able to differentiate ourselves. We have very good independent shops here.
“It’s about knitting everything we do together and promoting it.
“We want to work hard on the loyal customers who love it here and making it a better experience for them.
“And we want to work hard with the many people who have a decision to make.
“They may think about going to Lakeside, for example, but we need to be in front of them to make that decision more difficult.
“When they come here we have to make sure it’s a quality experience so that they come here again instinctively.”
Ipswich-born Ben’s business experience stretches back more than a decade, from completing a degree in business studies at Suffolk College.
His first job was with local paper the Evening Star – now called the Ipswich Star – where he was a newspaper sales executive, organising promotions and building relationships in the area.
He worked his way up to brand manager and after five years left in 2005 to work as operations manager for Ipswich Central – the firm responsible for running Ipswich town centre’s BID, the first in the UK to be accredited by British BIDs.
After a one-year stint at Suffolk County Council, he joined Bayswater BID in Westminster as manager, just after traders voted for the district to be formed.
“Every town centre is different,” says Ben. “It’s probably one of the best decisions I’ve made going to manage Bayswater.
“They were ready to go [with the BID] but there was nothing really in place.”
Having become Ilford BID’s manager in October, Ben – who has been married to Karen for eight years and is father to Joseph, seven, and George, four – has had to quickly get up to speed with the area and the people who make it tick.
Speaking of the job, he said: “I really like the diversity of each day. One thing you can’t be is stuck in the office. You need to be out there, visible and available. I think that’s absolutely key to make a success of the job.”
Earlier this month, website www.ilfordvip.com went live, giving shoppers access to unique deals from some of the BID’s hundreds of members.
It is the latest innovation of a BID which is aiming to maintain the upward curve.
One area where the curve arguably need to be shunted upwards is the night-time economy.
“I think it needs to be family focused more,” says Ben. “It’s about making the town centre experience more than just shopping.
“Shopping will always be the crucial anchor, but the more people spend time here the more time they spend with the businesses.”
It has been four years of achievements for Ilford BID, with everything from the formation of its own police team to regular cleaning in and around the town centre and extra planting being funded.
“I want to make sure every pound, every penny spent, is having a return for businesses,” says Ben.


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Geely Automobile Holdings on Wednesday maintained its annual sales target as it bet on new product launches. However, the company warned that its near-term performance would be affected by a global chip shortage and resurgent COVID-19 infections.
Geely reported a 22% year-on-year surge to 45 billion yuan ($6.94 billion) in its six-month revenue to June 30th, supported by a diversified product mix.
The company’s total vehicle sales increased 19% year-on-year to 630,237 units during the period, but underperformed a 27% growth in the Chinese overall passenger vehicle sales.
On the other hand, Geely’s six-month net profit rose a modest 4% year-on-year to 2.38 billion yuan as a result of share-based payments of 641 million yuan.
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Additionally, Geely maintained its full-year sales objective of 1.53 million vehicles.


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As the domestic market has become saturated and competition among brands has intensified, more and more home furnishing companies have begun to develop overseas markets. However, the Covid_19 epidemic has brought challenges to export companies, like sales backlash, loss of customers and difficulties in market development. Recently, Dongpeng, as a leading brand in Chinese Ceramic Industry, has reached a strategic cooperation with 3VJIA AIHOUSE, in order to take a step forward in marketing by taking advantage of designer channels to empower overseas distributors and China Design. The two sides will jointly expand overseas markets under the principle of sharing resources.
Li Qi, Senior Director of 3VJIA Overseas Business Dept.(Left) and Ye Weixian, Sales Director of Dongpeng International Business Dept.(Right)
Co-Branding Makes a Breakthrough on Strategic Channels
Dongpeng has established long-term cooperation with 3VJIA in domestic market. This overseas strategic partnership aims to form strong alliance, promote resource sharing and make breakthroughs on sales channels. As a professional home building design software provider, 3VJIA AIHOUSE is home to numerous outstanding designers, developers and house owners, etc. 3VJIA AIHOUSE has connected manufacturers, designers and buyers, providing new technical support for Dongpeng overseas distributors in terms of product display and marketing supports.
AIHOUSE is entering the global market at a faster pace with its technology in cloud designing and rendering, and its integrated solutions in connecting design and manufacturing. AiHouse is building a platform where it provides powerful design software and connects designers and global supply chain. It nurtures and converts leads by offering multiple touch points to consumers such as designers' virtual stores, design inspirations sharing, online promotion events and photorealistic virtual interior scenarios. So far, AIHOUSE has thousands of professional designer users worldwide, and has business partners in France, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Philippines and Taiwan.
This strategic cooperation also confirmed the high recognition of Dongpeng brands and products by professional designers overseas. Dongpeng is always quite confident in "China design" and believed that compared with the "Italy Design" and "Spain Design" that are often heard around us, we should have the courage to create and envision "China Design". In the coming months, Dongpeng International will introduce AIHOUSE software to its overseas distributors and provide relevant trainings for the purpose of reaching more target customers.


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Google is acquiring Qwiklabs, a company that helps people learn how to use public cloud services to run applications without operating a data center.
It’s a helpful move for Google, which is trying to expand the use of its cloud platform and stands to gain when developers and IT professionals get a handle on making applications run in the cloud. The company will create tools to help get people up to speed on the Google Cloud Platform and G Suite productivity service, Jason Martin, the director of professional services for Google Cloud, said in a blog post.
But there’s a wrinkle to the acquisition, announced Monday: Qwiklabs’s existing portfolio is entirely focused on educating people about offerings from Amazon Web Services, including Alexa skills. For the time being, those offerings will still be available.
“We plan to continue to offer lab learning credits and subscriptions for sale on Qwiklabs.com,” Qwiklabs CEO Enis Konuk said in a blog post. “Owners of existing credits and subscriptions continue to enjoy the same access to our library of hands-on labs. Our partners who deliver instructor-led training sessions and events can continue to do so.”
A Google representative declined to comment on future plans for Qwiklabs’ existing product base. This isn’t the first time the tech titan has bought an AWS-focused cloud company, though.
In 2014, Google acquired Stackdriver, a service designed to help people manage the performance of their cloud compute resources. At the time, it only worked with AWS. Now, it handles both AWS and GCP workloads. Google Cloud chief Diane Greene has said on multiple occasions that she’s a supporter of multi-cloud deployments, so it’s possible Qwiklabs’ offerings will continue in the same vein.
Amazon will likely have to find a new education partner to fill Qwiklabs’ void. In September, the cloud provider announced it would give customers on its Enterprise Support Plan free Qwiklabs credits.


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Europe is suffering in Millward Brown’s annual ranking of the world’s most valuable brands, as the Chinese market continues to mature and gain power. Over the 10 years of the BrandZ list Chinese brands in the top 100 have grown their value by a staggering 1,004% to $432.4bn. By contrast, European brands have grown just 23% to $373.8bn and UK businesses have appreciated by 64% to $112.3bn.
The number of European and UK brands featured in the top 100 is on the decline. Europe is home to 19 brands, down four from last year, and there are now just five UK brands in the ranking, one fewer than 12 months ago. The proportion of total global brand value that these two regions make up has also dropped – the UK by one percentage point and Europe by three points – all of which has been mopped up by Asia, meaning it now accounts for 17% of the top 100’s overall value.
North America still dominates, accounting for 66% of the global total – though that share remains static – while the top 10 brands all originate from the US. With a 137% increase in brand values over the past 10 years, the rate of growth in North America is far slower than in China, but it is rising from a much higher base. The value of North American brands in the top 100 now totals $2.2trn, up from $912.7bn in 2006.
There are seven new entries to this year’s top 100, three of which are from China – ecommerce retailer Alibaba, telecoms provider China Telecom and telecoms technology manufacturer Huawei. The latter is one of the most globalised Chinese brands with 65% of sales revenue coming from outside the country.
While these three benefit from being within burgeoning digital and mobile sectors, Europe’s brand powerhouses come from waning traditional categories such as automotive, financial services and luxury.
“France has got a lot of luxury brands [such as Louis Vuitton in 32nd and Hermes in 55th] but the category is facing formidable challenges from corruption, people moving away from conspicuous consumption and the financial slowdown,” says Walshe. “The car market is also financially challenging at the moment so that’s a hit for Germany and to a certain extent the UK.”
Little has changed in the car sector over the past decade because the barrier to entry is so high, says Walshe. Western car brands have suffered in brand value terms by largely failing to appeal to new consumers in expanding markets such as Asia.
Walshe says Europe’s sluggish growth relative to China is really a problem with its legacy industries, which are flatlining in comparison with Asian tech-based companies: “You’ve got stability on one hand with lesser innovation causing lower growth, and on the other hand you’ve got massive disruption and high growth. Europe is in the first side,” he says.
Within these more traditional categories it is the businesses that innovate and focus on strengthening their brands that continue to grow. European brands can prosper in China if the proposition is right – roughly a third of Audi’s sales are now generated in the region, for example.


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MPO Summit 2019 10/3/19-10/4/19 Silicon Valley, CA J-Pac Medical, the leading manufacturing and packaging outsourcing partner to medical companies, is sponsoring and attending the 2019 MPO Summit. This event, occurring October 3-4 at Marriott San Francisco Waterfront Hotel, will bring together experts from industry OEMs, contract manufacturers, suppliers, consultants, members of the investment community, and academia.
J-Pac Medical, a leading manufacturing and packaging outsourcing partner, has added unique 3D printing capability to assist medical device and diagnostic companies further. This manufacturing technology enables J-Pac to produce end-use strong, functional prototypes of medical device components within hours.
J-Pac Medical is receiving international attention from diagnostic companies for turning 2-D textiles into 3-D medical devices.
J-Pac Medical adds absorbable polymers to capabilities.
CEOCFO Magazine interview with J-Pac Medical CEO, Jeff Barrett.
J-Pac Medical to showcase custom solutions for OEM medical device and diagnostic companies at BIOMEDevice San Jose


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Journey Warn Fans of Online Tour Scam
Got tickets to see Journey between now and the end of the year? Bad news: The band actually isn't touring.
They set the record straight in a recent Facebook post, pointing out that a series of dates being promoted as "Journey Tour 2014" has nothing to do with Journey. "Attention CAUTION fans," reads the update, which includes a screenshot of the offending tour promo. "Someone is selling tickets that are phony and a rip off. WE ARE DONE WITH OUR TOUR ... THIS IS NOT REAL."
The idea that someone would pretend to sell Journey tickets is almost too bizarre to comprehend, and fortunately, that doesn't seem to be what's happening here. The long list of dates that's being promoted actually appears to be the Journeys Noise Tour, a package sponsored by the clothing manufacturer that features headliners Issues and special guests I Killed the Prom Queen, Ghosttown, Marmozets and Nightmares. It would seem safe to assume that neither Journeys nor the bands listed on the bill would be thrilled to learn that their promotion is being bungled this way, but none of the parties involved appear to have issued a comment regarding the miscommunication.
In the meantime, rest assured that Journey are off the road for the rest of 2014 -- and start looking forward to next year, when according to the comments in the aforementioned Facebook post, the band plans to announce a new run of shows with Tower of Power and the Steve Miller Band.


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FILE - Fruit, vegetables and a whole chicken sit in a shopping cart in this arranged photograph inside a supermarket on Sept. 3, 2012.
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images An online grocery store delivery and pick-up platform has revealed which is the top-selling grocery item in the U.S. and Canada.Instacart, headquartered in California, shared its shopping data with FOX Business on Americans' add-to-cart preferences. In fact, Instacart revealed that when it comes to this particular item, the company recently hit quite the "a-peel-ing" landmark: More than 1 billion bananas have been delivered by Instacart to date – making the yellow fruit the most popular grocery purchase.THE MOST POPULAR HOT SAUCES IN EVERY STATE IN AMERICA"While bananas are a big business everywhere in the country, Instacart data shows a clear pattern that folks in the Midwest and neighboring states have a higher share of banana purchases, especially in comparison to southern states and Hawaii," Laurentia Romaniuk, Instacart’s trends expert, told FOX Business.Bananas run the world: If you took all the bananas delivered via Instacart and placed them end-to-end, it would make over 5 trips around Earth.
For reference, the earth is 24,901 miles in circumference. (Instacart / Fox News) "These regional differences bring to life how American diets differ based upon where you live, and while bananas may be the fruit of choice in Iowa, we can only imagine that people in Louisiana are munching on other delicious fruits harvested in the state like tomatoes and strawberries," she added.Instacart also revealed a state-by-state map showing the percent of Instacart grocery orders that included bananas in 2022. Check out the map infographic below,


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Chinese communications equipment provider Huawei has spun off its Application and Software Division into an independent business unit and named it Huawei Software.
The company, after achieving success in the Chinese domestic market, is trying to establish its foothold in the international market with the goal of becoming the world's leading provider of end-to-end software products and service solutions. Che Haiping, head of Huawei Software, said the company had set up Huawei Software just to reach this goal. He added that the flexible approach would help the company look into service convergence to assist operators transform their business operations.
In 2007, Huawei Software achieved a sales revenue of CNY1.4 billion, with about a third of that coming from the international market.


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For iPhone photographers looking to protect the photos they put online, Marksta makes it easy to add a (not-goofy-looking) watermark before uploading.
PhotoBulk is a simple photo editor for Macs that lets you make three easy bulk edits to photos.
The article initially misstated Tony Rodriguez's title. He is chief technology officer.
Digital watermarking from Digimarc is giving smartphone users the ability to interact with newspapers, magazines, audio, and video.
A quick and simple tutorial for adding watermarks to your photographs using Aperture.
Canon apparently sees an opportunity to automate the watermarking process on the camera--making use of biometric data courtesy of the photographer's iris.
The week's big news, a philosophy of watermarks, and the clockwork photography contest. Plus, an assignment experiment: what happens in 1/30th second?
Sales for technology for inserting digital watermarks and fingerprints into media files will quadruple by 2012, a new study finds.
Keep ditial photos safe(er) online with PicMarker, a free watermarking service.
Technology could eventually take the place of DRM, which is both ineffective and alienating to consumers.


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Five years ago, physicist Austin Russell saw better laser sensors as essential to make self-driving cars a reality. That was early in the autonomous vehicle industry’s history, and early in Russell’s career. Actually, he was still in high school at the time.
Now 22–and having skipped college–Russell is founder and CEO of Luminar, a startup backed by PayPal and Palantir billionaire Peter Thiel (among others) that just formally unveiled itself and its new laser scanner for self-driving cars. The startup is going against big players like Velodyne and Quanergy in the market for lidar technology, which is something like radar but with infrared laser beams instead of radio waves.
Along with the scanner, Luminar announced $36 million in funding that will allow it to open a factory in Florida to build 10,000 scanners this year. They will go to automakers and other tech companies for autonomous car research, though Russell won’t say who these “strategic partners” are.
Lidar is a prerequisite for self-driving cars, says Russell, as his system can perceive distances down to a few millimeters and works in anything from bright sunlight to pitch black conditions, things that a standard camera can’t do. The lasers in Luminar’s sensor scan in front of and sometimes behind a vehicle out to at least 200 meters (about 600 feet); the time it takes the signal to bounce back off an object is used to calculate distance.
Lidar technology goes back to the 1960s. Luminar hasn’t invented anything fundamentally new, but it claims to have gotten performance up and costs down by custom-building every aspect of the system. “We’ve built this sensor from the chip-level up,” says Russell. “We’re making our own lasers, our own receivers, our own scanning mechanisms, our own processing electronics—all from scratch.”
Within a few seconds of talking to Russell, I begin to forget about his age. (He just turned 22 on March 14, Pi Day.) He has a level of composure well beyond the self-important arrogance of peers who just landed entry-level engineering jobs in the Valley. Physical stature—he stands 6-foot, 4-inches tall—a deep voice, and a full reddish beard lend a smidgen of gravitas. Russell betrays his youth, though, with occasional fits of goofy giggles during our conversation. For instance, he talks about the danger of lower-end lidar technology, “if they increase the power any more or try to get more range or resolution out of it, they’ll start frying people’s eyes—hahahahahahaha.”
Squeezing Into Cars—And Budgets
Russell’s system uses infrared wavelengths of 1550 nanometers, instead of the common 905nm wavelengths in less-expensive systems (all the way down to range finders used by golfers), which can irritate people’s eyes if the signal is too strong. The eye can’t even focus a 1550nm wavelength, so the power can be much higher—40x greater in Luminar’s case—without posing a hazard. A silicon-based receiver can’t pick up the longer 1550-nm wavelengths. Instead Luminar needs a pricier material called indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs).
Again, none of this is new, per se. Luminar’s claimed advantage is in getting the price for advanced lidar way down. Russell wouldn’t utter a word about what his system will cost, but an investigation by Bloomberg said Luminar is aiming for under $1,000, vs. up to tens of thousands for current top-of-the-line systems.
Cost is especially important because a fully autonomous car needs at least four lidar sensors, one at each corner of the vehicle, to provide a 360-degree view, says Russell. Unlike the big drums atop research cars like those designed by Alphabet’s Waymo division–which is currently suing Uber for allegedly stealing its lidar technology–Luminar’s sensors are just a bit bigger than a Nintendo Wii and fit into the car’s bumper. “Long term we are making sure this can be efficiently made and affordable to be [installed] on everything from a Honda Fit to a Bentley,” says Russell.
A car that uses lidar just to assist the driver in spotting obstacles or other dangerous conditions can get away with one scanner in the front bumper—a setup Russell shows me on two Luminar test cars, a Tesla Model S and a BMW i3.
A Clear View
Like any self-respecting startup, Luminar claims that it has the greatest technology out there—and it has attracted a lot of money from people who feel the same. The numbers are impressive. The system has a range of over 200 meters, versus, for instance, 120m for Velodyne’s hulking high-end HDL-64E unit. Quanergy’s S3 sensor is much smaller, similar to Luminar’s, but it can measure just a half million location points per second. Russell says that Luminar’s can measure “millions” per second.
Most of the talk around autonomous cars has been about artificial intelligence, with chip giants like Nvidia and Intel releasing compact supercomputers that are being tested by auto companies including Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Tesla (Nvidia), and BMW (Intel). Luminar is making the case for providing cleaner data for the AI to munch on. “Because of such poor-quality data that the processing has to deal with, a lot of [the work] has shifted over to processing,” says Russell.
To impress me, Russell and his chief technology officer Jason Eichenholz start with a simulation of how they claim a lower-quality but still expensive lidar system views a cavernous, 235 meter-long stretch of warehouse space that runs along Pier 35 in downtown San Francisco. On a large LCD screen, sporadic wavy lines, like those on a topographic map, form a series of concentric arcs propagating off to the horizon. The lines are color-coded to indicate increasing distances—one of many visual niceties for the human viewers that the computer itself doesn’t need. Their colleague is riding a bicycle back and forth about 20 meters ahead of me. On the lidar screen, he appears as a few errant squiggles among those topographic lines.
Switching the system into high gear, the on-screen image changes to a detailed psychedelic rendering of the warehouse. I can make out the posts and beams holding up the roof, clear outlines of cars parked inside, and a cartoonish rendering of the bicyclist, with even the spokes of the wheels sometimes visible. That makes the computer’s job easier, says Eichenholz. “It’s less computationally intensive to figure out it’s a bike when it looks like a bike, versus, it’s just a bunch of dots,” he says.
Later Russell shows me a similar before-and-after comparison on a nighttime drive along the San Francisco waterfront. In high-res mode, I can make out clear outlines of cars, people, and the palm trees along the Embarcadero boulevard as if they were all wrapped in multicolor glowing El wire for some Burning Man exhibit.
From an initial run of 10,000 sensors this year, Russell hopes to gear up quickly. “We’ll start looking at making hundreds of thousands or millions of units starting in early 2018,” he says. That’s all in line with ambitious promises by carmakers to have autonomous vehicles on the road by 2021. “They are just depending on the fact that something can come along to solve their problems,” he says, “hopefully we can help save the day on that.”


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If Spotify is planning on executing an IPO in the near future, it’s certainly just hired the right person for the job.
McCarthy already serves on the board of Spotify, but will now give up his seat to take on a more active role.
The exec was CFO of Netflix when the streaming movie company floated in 2002.
He quit the company in 2010, but not before its stock price had increased considerably: between October 2004 and April 2009, Netflix’s share value more than quadrupled from $9.50 to $45.
Interesting sidenote: McCarthy (pictured) joined Pandora‘s board in 2011, but left just over two years later.
Earlier this month, Spotify raised a whopping $526m in new funding – taking its total lifetime investment to $1.1bn since it launched in 2008.
Spotify now boasts 20m paying subscribers around the world, from a total active user base of 75m.Music Business Worldwide


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Amiibo sales are picking up speed. Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima stated in a recent press conference that more than 21 million amiibo have been shipped worldwide, up from 10.6 million units at the end of March.
The bulk of the sales – 66% – are from North America, 20% are from Europe and 11% from Japan. The Yarn Yoshi’s seems to be the most popular of all amiibo, with 400,000 units sold. And if you were in any doubt, the amiibo cards are selling like hotcakes. According to Kimishima “Nintendo can’t keep up with demand.” and promised new shipments.


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National Sponsorship to support USCA dedication to protecting and preserving the German Shepherd Dog’s working heritage.
3-Amigos Nutrition Group, LLC, the makers of Kinetic Performance Dog Food, today announced a new sponsorship agreement with the United Schutzhund Clubs of America (USCA). Effective immediately, Kinetic, a line of premium foods specifically formulated for active, working and sporting dogs, becomes a National Sponsor and the Official Dog Food Sponsor of the USCA.
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Great news for dog lovers in the Midwest! We just added a new distributor for Kinetic here in the heartland. We welcome Northstar Pet Foods who proudly services independent pet food retailers, breeders and kennels throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota.
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CES 2016 is coming and here are the things to expect from one of the biggest technology events.
The LG G5 could be priming itself up for a big and possibly early release, though all that remains to be seen.
After reporting that the Samsung Galaxy S7 would be debuting at a higher price because of an iris scanner yesterday, new rumors pertaining to the highly awaited release of the next Samsung Galaxy flagship has cropped up.
LeBron James is a hands down choice to help out in the endorsement department and Samsung has commissioned the Cleveland Cavaliers’ star player once again as it tries to hype up the Samsung Gear VR.
A “mini version” of select flagship models have seemingly become a fad these days. Some of you may have already heard about the rumor on Apple’s end, something pertaining to the iPhone Mini or iPhone 6c which is widely believed to be coming out soon.
Contrary to early rumors, it looks like that Samsung will not be charitable as far as its next flagship, the Samsung Galaxy S7, is concerned.
A common feature that most mobile phone uses would more likely look forward to in 2016 is the kind of display smartphones will be sporting.
A new Samsung Galaxy S7 fan-made video is making its rounds on the internet, and will knock the socks off other Samsung fans, even some developers.
Anticipation and eagerness continue to hound the next device from Samsung in the Samsung Galaxy S7 which many believe will be debuting by January, 2016 at the earliest.
Samsung continues to unveil one device after the other lately and the latest addition to its long list of devices is the Samsung Galaxy A9 (SM-A9000).
Is this the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge?
Samsung releasing a Galaxy S6 flip phone? Here's what we know!
Selected Samsung gadgets are rumoured to be equipped with the new Android Marshmallow later this year and early 2016.
Cheaper deals for Google Nexus 5 and Samsung Galaxy S6 are now available in this pre-Black Friday Discounts.
Samsung galaxy S3 and E7 will now be able to update to the latest Android Lollipop 5.1.1.