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In pictures: CEO Middle East awards 2017
CEO Middle East magazine honours this year's top business leaders at Dubai event
Retail CEO of the Year: Nilesh Ved, CEO Apparel Group
Apparel Group features more than 1,750 stores, with 75 international brands, from Tommy Hilfiger to Cold Stone Creamery.
And what started in the UAE has stretched across the region and the globe, with stores as far away as the Philippines and South Africa. That shows not only a great understanding of local markets, but international as well.
Apparel Group has won many awards, including the Dubai Quality Appreciation Award and the Coveted Place to Work Award.
It is all due to the vision of one Nilesh Ved, who believes that the keys to success are passion, hard work, honesty and consistency.
Photo by Lester ApuntarITP Images Female CEO of the Year : Rafiah Ibrahim, CEO of Ericsson Group Middle East and Africa
Ibrahim, who has been in her current role since April 1 of this year, was previously the head of Ericsson Middle East.
She has certainly shown determination since joining the company in 1996 – although she has been in the telecommunications industry since 1981. It shows that experience can go a long way.
For Ericsson, she has working at its offices in a number of countries, holding various leadership positions, and helped to grow the business in several emerging markets.
Photo by Lester Apuntar/ITP Images Visionary CEO of the Year: Ronaldo Mouchawar, CEO Souq.com
It was in 2005 that Mouchawar came up with the idea for Souq.com, which became the Middle East’s biggest e-commerce website.
Souq.com has evolved over the years from an auction site into a massive retail portal and marketplace for third-party sellers.
And it continues to grow… in recent years by as much as 10 times, with around 22 million visits each month.
In 2014, this visionary CEO launched a ‘White Friday’ promotion – a Middle East equivalent of the Black Friday sales in the US – and raised over $275m.
Then in March of this year came the huge announcement: Amazon had acquired Souq.com for $580 million.
How does he do it? Well, he hails from Syria, which he once told Arabian Business is where “commerce is the heart blood”.
Photo by Lester ApuntarITP Images Philanthropy CEO of the Year, Kabir Mulchandani, Five Holdings
Mulchandani has successfully completed his comeback in the Dubai property industry. As the founder of Five Holdings, he this year handed over more than 220 apartments in the $1 billion FIVE Palm Jumeirah hotel resort, which opened ahead of schedule. He’s also on track to open a second hotel in JVC Dubai next year.
This comes six years after he beat unsubstantiated fraud allegations, which proved why you should never give up when you face tough times.
Perhaps born of a recognition that the lessons he learned from his own difficulties should be used to help others in trouble, our winner set about using his good fortune to help others.
Project Udaan launched in the same month that FIVE Palm Jumeirah hotel resort opened, with the aim of saving a life a day in India.
Five Holdings funds this project, with daily life-saving surgery to cure children who are born with congenital heart defects. Let’s say that again: the life of a child is being saved every day.
FIVE Holdings also supports the New Faces Trust in India, paying for surgery to help children born with facial deformities.
And the company also hopes to open a children’s hospital in India.
Photo by Lester ApuntarITP Images Lifetime Achievement Award: Colm McLoughlin, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of Dubai Duty Free pictured with colleagues. .
Photo by Lester ApuntarITP Images Winners of CEO Awards 2017 pictured on stage at the Four Seasons Jumeirah on September 13 2017 Dubai, Photo by Lester Apuntar/ITP Images Lifetime Achievement Award: Colm McLoughlin, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of Dubai Duty Free.
The mainstay of Dubai Duty Free since 1983, McLoughlin was part of a team from his native Ireland asked to set up the operation by the Dubai government.
During his 34 years in charge, he has built one of the world’s largest airport retail operations in the world in terms of turnover. By the year 2022 expects business in excess of $3 billion a year, with 10,000 staff.
McLoughlin also grew the company’s Leisure division, overseeing the Aviation Club, the Irish Village, Century Village, the Dubai Tennis Stadium and the Jumeirah Creekside Hotel.
Speaking at the awards, McLoughlin said, “I’m absolutely thrilled and humbled by hearing the names of the [lifetime CEO award winning] people that went before me. I feel honoured to be following them this evening.
“The company that I'm involved in has done well and we’re very proud of it but mostly I'm proud of the freedom that we have been given to make things happen by the government of Dubai and my own chairman His Highness Sheikh Ahmed, and by my team of staff at Dubai Duty Free, of whose number now stands at 5,900. I want to dedicate this lifetime achievement award to those people and, of course, my beautiful wife Breda.”
The Family Business CEO of the year award went to Anees Ahmed Moumina, CEO of SEDCO Holding Group. Ahmed was appointed CEO of of SEDCO Holding Group in 2013 after 25 years in the private sector and the financial services industry. His banking career has given him vast experience across a variety of business sectors. SEDCO, a leading Shariah-compliant private wealth management organisation, proudly states that: “We were on top of customer journey and experience management innovation before it was even a trendy buzzword.”
Moumina also serves as a board member of The National Commercial Bank and Elaf Group and is a member of SEDCO Holding’s Investment Committee, and also a member of several other charitable boards.
Photo by Lester Apuntar/ITP Images The Young CEO of the year award went to Talal Al Gaddah, who runs all of the six main departments at MAG Property Development. With an aim is to bolster his company’s position as one of the top five real estate developers in the UAE, he said the ultimate goal is to expand to the Far East, Europe and further afield the USA.
Though still young, he has an extensive background of industry success, much of it attained within the MAG Group. Prior to being appointed to his current role, he was Director of Sales and Marketing where he achieved sales of 1.5 billion dirhams in 12 months. He was also instrumental in opening up new markets including the launch of The Gate in Frisco City, Texas, USA. Photo by Lester Apuntar/ITP Images. Healthcare CEO of the Year is the founder of Fakih IVF, Dr Michael Fakih.
Fakih IVF has bases in the GCC, Lebanon and the Unites States. With over 25 years of experience, Dr Fakih is responsible for over 12,000 IVF deliveries. His continuous innovations have made him a pioneer in his field. He’s also found time to write over 40 medical publications.
He was listed as one of the top 15 American Lebanese of all time in the category of Medicine. Recently, his clinic has been rapidly expanding in the region over the past 12 months.
Photo by Lester ApuntarITP Images Bank CEO of the year: Hisham Ahmed Al Rayes, CEO of GFH Financial Group.
Al Rayes was appointed CEO in 2012 of GFH Financial Group, one of the regional leading financial groups with 6.2 billion dollars in assets and funds under management. His main objective on taking the top role was to establish a diverse regional financial group.
Prior to this role he was GFH’s Chief Investment Officer, during which time he was responsible for driving the development of its investment strategy along with management of the bank’s liabilities.
He’s also a multitasker, who makes time to hold the following roles: chairman of Balexco and Gulf Holding Company, along with directorships in: GFH financial Group, Khaleeji Commercial Bank, Falcon Cement Company, GFH Capital and Shuaa Capital.
Photo by Lester Apuntar/ITP Images Start Up Start Up CEO award winner is Ahmad Ashkar, the founder of the Hult Prize Foundation - named by TIME Magazine as one of the top five initiatives changing the world.
Ashkar specialises in innovation and global expansion, and is on the advisory board of the United Nations Development Programme.
He is one of the world’s foremost experts in venture philanthropy and has been recognised as one of the top 10 entrepreneurs in the Middle East.
He has worked closely with Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. He has appeared as a coach and speaker at the World Economic Forum, United Nations and other notable gatherings.
As a Palestinian-American, he serves as an independent advisor to the municipality of his hometown in the West Bank, where he is also an active entrepreneur.
Photo by Lester ApuntarITP Images Hospitality CEO of the Year: Omer Kaddouri, CEO Rotana,
Kaddouri joined Rotana in 1998 as Resident Manager of the Al Bustan Rotana in Dubai. 16 years later he was became President and CEO of the whole group, with a portfolio of over 85 properties.
His great belief in the online trend has moved the company forward with its investment in technology infrastructure, giving Rotana an ever larger opportunities to expand its distribution.
He has led many initiatives involving the retention and succession planning of colleagues. These are in line with his belief that human resources will remain a key factor in the growth of the company.
As President and CEO, he is responsible for paving the way for Rotana’s aggressive expansion plans to operate 100 hotels by 2020.
Photo by Lester Apuntar/ITP Images. Energy CEO of the year: Ahmad bin Shafar, CEO Empower
Shafar has been Empower’s CEO “since it was just a business plan” as he once told Arabian Business. It is now the world’s largest district cooling services provider. Revenues for 2016 reached AED1.84 billion, up 11 percent from 2015 and on track for similar growth in 2017.
It has more than 65,000 clients, and maintains 69 district cooling plants in Dubai. Under his direction, Empower is supporting global initiatives related to organisations such as the United Nations.
He has also been appointed by the UN’s Environment Programme, as a special advisor for its Global District Energy in Cities Initiative.
A California State University graduate, with over 20 years of experience in senior management, he firmly believes that leaders in the energy field have to "ensure that we build cities that are friendly to the environment"
Photo by Lester Apuntar/ITP Images Innovation CEO of the Year: Dietmar Siersdorf, CEO of Siemens Middle East
Siersdorf has come a long way since joining Siemens in 1987 as an electrical engineer. Rising through the ranks he was appointed Executive Senior Vice President for fossil power generation and then President and CEO of the global fossil energy solutions business.
He’s is an active board member of a number of Siemens subsidiaries across the region. The company’s fantastic progress is underpinned by our winner’s belief that: “Great ideas come from a mix of very good people.”
Those great ideas include steps to decarbonise the company, and build infrastructure around the world in order to meet their ambitious sustainability targets.
Photo by Lester ApuntarITP Images Property CEO of the Year: Hussain Sajwani - accepted on his behalf by his son Ali (pictured).
Sajwani founded Damac Properties in 2002, which has grown to become one of the largest property development companies in the Middle East, building prestigious properties in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Jeddah, Riyadh and London, among other cities.
Teaming up with luxury designer names such as Versace, Cavalli and Bugatti, to have them style and brand some of Damac’s properties, is a stroke of genius.
His knowledge of the property market - from marketing and sales to legal and finance - is exemplary, based on many years of experience.
Forbes magazine in the US even nicknamed him ‘The Donald of Dubai’ when he found himself on their list of the World’s Billionaires for the first time last year.
Photo by Lester ApuntarITP Images Industry CEO of the Year award: Fleming Dalgaard, CEO Gulftainer, the world’s largest privately-owned, independent port operator based in the UAE, and a company that is still rapidly expanding. Dalgaard has extensive global experience of managing large businesses, with a proven record of establishing profitable growth, both through organic expansion and through acquisitions and business partnerships. He has held various Board Memberships for the last 15 years.
In a CEO magazine interview earlier this year he told us that he “believes that unless your business is innovating, it's going backwards.”
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Proton finally has a desktop app. The Swiss company, known for its privacy-focused alternatives to the Google Workspace apps, revealed a Windows and macOS application on Thursday that includes Proton Mail and Proton Calendar. The desktop app is currently available in beta for subscribers on the most expensive premium tier, but the company says it will launch for all Proton users in early 2024.
The company says the desktop app has a modern design with a clutter-free experience. Proton views the move as providing a leg up over Google. “While many people use email on desktop in a browser, desktop apps can still provide certain advantages such as better offline support,” Proton CEO Andy Yen wrote in a press release. “For this reason, we have decided to launch a desktop app, something that even Gmail does not provide.” The desktop app now gives Proton apps on all major platforms.
In addition to the desktop app, Proton is launching several new features for all platforms, including auto-forwarding email rules. Messages sent this way will be encrypted between Proton accounts, and it supports unencrypted auto-forwarding to non-Proton accounts. In addition, Proton Mail now integrates with customer relationship management (CRM) and customer support software as the company looks to grow its footprint in the business world.
Proton says encrypting forwarded messages while maintaining the security the company brands itself on was an enormous challenge. “Messages sent between Proton Mail accounts are always end-to-end encrypted by default,” Proton CTO Bart Butler wrote. “But to maintain end-to-end encryption for messages forwarded to other Proton users presented a huge technical challenge. We needed to figure out how to re-encrypt messages for different recipients without the server being able to access the content.”
Attachment previews are also available for all Proton Mail platforms. Previously, you had to download email attachments locally before viewing them. It now lets you see them directly from the inbox with one click. Proton says it does so without compromising security.
You can also now snooze Proton Mail messages in another catch-up move for the encryption-focused company. In addition, it spruced up the Proton Calendar with searches on the web while adding public holidays. The company has had a busy year, also launching a native Windows file-syncing app in July and a password manager in April.
Before it officially launches early next year, the Proton Mail desktop app is available now in beta for Proton Visionary subscribers. That tier was previously locked to legacy supporters, but the company has reopened registrations from now until January 3. (The plan isn’t cheap, though, at $40 monthly or $360 annually.) Meanwhile, auto-forwarding is available now for paid users on any plan, while attachment previews, snoozing and calendar improvements are here for everyone with a Proton account.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/proton-mail-now-has-a-desktop-app-in-beta-110021703.html?src=rss

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The Swedish premium vehicle brand Volvo AB, on Wednesday announced that will sell the upcoming V60 model in China as an imported vehicle, the Beijing Times reports.
The official announcement was made Richard Snijders, CEO and executive officer of Volvo China at the Guangzhou International Motor Show, Auto Guangzhou 2011, currently going on this week.
The automaker expects to sell between 48,000 and 50,000 cars in China this year, added Snijders, up from just over 30,000 units last year.
However, it is not clear for how long Volvo will import vehicles in China, as the parent Geely Automobile Holdings is waiting for Chinese government approval to build two car plants in the country in the city of Chengdu in the southwest and the other in Daqing in the northeast.
“The first locally produced model, a medium-sized sedan, will be launched in 2013, followed bya small sedan in 2014,” said Shen Hui, senior vice-president of Volvo and chairman of VolvoCars China Operations.
The second generation S60 began production in Ghent, Belgium on May 17, 2010, with an expected annual production of 90,000 vehicles.
The engine range of the S60 and V60 comprises four petrol engines and three diesels. The engines available are the T3, T4, T5 and T6 petrol engines and D3, D5 and 1.6D DRIVe diesel engines, the latter of which has Stop Start Technology to increase the efficiency of the engine.
Geely, parent of Geely Automobile Holdings, took over Volvo from Ford Motor in August 2010, marking China’s largest overseas auto acquisition.
China, the world’s largest automobile market, is likely to see car demand grow between 3 and 10 percent in 2012, compared with about 5-6 percent expected for this year and down from 33 percent in 2010.


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Barr Laboratories Inc. will soon hold the exclusive rights to Loestrin (norethindrone acetate and ethinyl estradiol) and Loestrin FE (norethindrone acetate and ethinyl estradiol/ferrous fumarate) oral contraceptive products in the United States and Canada, thanks to a proposed agreement signed by Barr and the Northern Ireland-based Galen Holdings PLC. The agreement also would settle litigation between the two companies over Galen's femhrt hormone therapy and Estrostep oral contraceptives (both containing norethindrone acetate and ethinyl estradiol). The resolution of the litigation would allow Barr to speed up the availability of a generic version of those products, launching its generic drug 6 months before the Galen patent expires. The two companies expect to finalize the agreement at the end of the year. "This is a good deal for both companies," says Galen's chief executive office Roger Boissonneault.
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Two of Microsoft's top executives will leave the company, including its head of marketing and the former CEO of Skype.
Hackers are circulating credentials for thousands of FTP sites and appear to have compromised file transfer servers at The New York Times and other organizations, according to a security expert.
It's getting close to official – Samsung's going to roll out the Galaxy S 5 on Monday, February 24, in Barcelona, kicking off this year's Mobile World Congress with a bang.
As rumors swirl that Twitter is gearing up for an initial public offering (IPO), industry analysts say the timing is right for such a move.


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Nuketown to return as limited edition offering in Black Ops II
The popular Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer map Nuketown will be returning in this year’s Black Ops II with a futuristic appearance, as a limited edition inclusion.
Based on information obtained, apparently on display at Irish retailer Xtravision, the map has been “re-imagined for the future” and will be called Nuketown 2025 this time around. The map is described as “the biggest incentive in Call of Duty history” and is listed as part of a “limited edition pack”.


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SINGAPORE - The Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) has initiated the second phase of a review on the proposed multibillion-dollar merger between French lens maker Essilor International and Italian eyewear manufacturer Luxottica Group.
On Sept 13, CCS received a notification for decision on whether the proposed merger would infringe the Competition Act. The phase 1 review was completed on Nov 13, but the CCS was unable to conclude that the proposed transaction would not raise competition concerns.
In particular, it found that the two companies are the biggest players in their respective markets, which means that a merger could give them substantial market power in the complementary segments of ophthalmic lenses, prescription frames and sunglasses.
Essilor designs, manufactures and wholesales ophthalmic lenses, in addition to manufacturing and marketing machines, instruments and services for eye-care professionals. It also sells sunglasses, with its activities for online retail taking place mostly outside of South-east Asia. In Singapore, it says its activities in these areas are "almost negligible", the CCS highlighted.
Meanwhile, in Singapore Luxottica - whose brands include Ray-Ban, Oakley, Burberry and Coach - is involved in the wholesale supply activities of spectacle frames and sunglasses under its brands or under brands licensed by third parties. At the retail level, it sells sunglasses through Sunglass Hut.
The CCS said in a press release: "Retailers may face reduced choices should the merged entity decide not to sell individual products separately, or to sell them separately, but at prices higher than the prices of the bundled products. The transaction may therefore substantially lessen competition in the supply of these products in Singapore, which necessitates a more detailed phase 2 review," said the CCS, adding that it will issue a decision on the proposed transaction by the end of the phase 2 review.
The commission is inviting feedback and views in relation to the proposed transaction, with the closing date for submissions on Jan 2, 2018.
The second phase review can take up to 120 working days to complete, during which the two companies can also address any potential competition concerns.
According to a Reuters report last month, European Union's antitrust regulators had halted the investigation into the 46 billion euro (S$73.2 billion) proposed merger after the two companies failed to submit requested data. However, the Canadian Competition Bureau as well as 10 other jurisdictions, including Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea have all cleared the transaction, Reuters reported.


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Pass owners will not be allowed to travel for free in electric buses across UP
The Directorate of Urban Transport in Uttar Pradesh announced that citizens with a travel pass will not be allowed to commute for free in electric buses across the state. Currently, 300 electric buses are operational in 7 districts of the state while a total of 700 such vehicles will be introduced in 14 cities. Individuals with an MST pass and the staff employees will also not be permitted to travel in these buses for free.
Cashless transactions to be made available in electric buses
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The Managing Director of City Transport, Pallav Bose informed that free travel for commuters with passes will only be allowed in the CNG-run buses. Further, the authorities are planning to introduce cashless transactions in the electric buses for the benefit of travelers. In order to implement this scheme, the city transport officials will purchase 100 smart electronic ticketing machines, equipped with the facility of QR code scanning.
The MD asserted that cashless transactions will bring forth a hassle-free measure of making payments. Once the plans are materialised, citizens will be able to pay through their ATM cards, wallets or UPI.
Smart system of road regulations to be introduced in multiple cities
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Under the ambit of a central government project, the Uttar Pradesh administration has decided to deploy 700 electric buses in 14 districts of the state. In addition to this, the road infrastructure will also be improved under the Smart City Project. Further, charging stations will also be set up for these electric buses.
The air-conditioned buses will be equipped with a string of facilities including panic buttons, live tracking resources, LED screens and CCTV cameras. They will also help in reducing air pollution and sound pollution. Additionally, the authorities are also working on a project to introduce a smart system of road regulation in Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra, Mathura, Prayagraj, Meerut, Bareilly, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Shahjahanpur, Aligarh, Ghaziabad, Jhansi and some other cities.


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Suffering from seizures since two months old, Emili Zoe was diagnosed with Lennox-Gastaut and West syndromes. The effects of her seizures and tumors were severe, but worse were the effects of the medications meant to offer relief. Emili’s parents discovered cannabidiol (CBD) oil through a charity called the Por Grace Foundation. The therapy immediately stopped the seizures and restored her quality of life, while highlighting the potential for CBD-based therapeutics in treating a variety of conditions.
Until recently, having access to CBD in Mexico was limited. Once Emili’s family was able to legally access a form of cannabis oil high in CBD and low in THC, they began to see a reduction in her seizures and a more happy and responsive Emili.
Having been influenced by the drug policies of the U.S. since marijuana was placed on the D.E.A.’s list of Schedule 1 narcotics, Mexico is beginning to follow the trend toward legalization taking place in several states and reassess its own war on drugs. The decision to allow the import of RSHO-X™ began with lobbying efforts by a couple of families whose children suffered from otherwise untreatable diseases. Since then, Medical Marijuana, Inc. established its HempMeds® Mexico subsidiary and initiated an educational tour to highlight the many potential benefits of cannabidiol (CBD). The government’s shift has now expanded access to RSHO-X™ to a number of other individuals suffering from medical conditions that don’t respond to other therapeutics. Earlier this year, the Mexico Supreme Court indicated that legalization in Mexico could be happening in the near future.
“[We believe] that full legalization of all cannabis products may soon be a reality within Mexico,” said Medical Marijuana, Inc. CEO Dr. Stuart Titus. “Regardless of any near-term additional regulatory decisions, our Company is honored to be the first distributor to Mexico of cannabis-based products to families that have been awarded government import permits. We applaud this first step forward by the regulators to allow our product and the great efforts of Mexican lawmakers for acting on behalf of the welfare of the Mexican people.”
For more information on HempMeds® Mexico or accessing RSHO-X™, visit http://hempmeds.mx/ The first company to provide medical cannabis products in the country, HempMeds® Mexico’s knowledgeable bilingual staff is on hand to help qualified patients in Mexico access RSHO-X™, the first THC-free hemp oil product on the market.


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A familiar shop in the Nicholsons Centre has been made permanent.
Purple Pansy has been a pop-up shop in the town a few times over the past two years.
The home and garden shop has now set up a permanent home in the centre next to Clinton Cards.
Most recently it was in the Nicholsons Centre before Christmas and centre manager Jane Wright said is was thanks to the support of Maidenhead shoppers that it was made permanent.
She added: “It is a wonderful destination to find a quirky gift or unusual ornament for your home.”
Mark Simeone from Purple Pansy said: “Trading as a pop-up shop over the last two years has given us the confidence to open our first permanent shop.
“Throughout this year we will continue to stock a wide range of home and garden items with a wow factor and prices to match.”
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Illinois and Nevada made headlines early this year when, on January 1, they joined California as the only states to ban the sale of cosmetic products that have been tested on live animal subjects. While more than 30 countries have banned animal testing worldwide, the U.S. has been slow to take up the call, opting instead to allow individual states to handle the legislation. That may change, though, thanks to the Humane Cosmetics Act, which was introduced in Congress this past November. The act has gained support from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, with Democrats and Republicans recognizing both its timeliness and its importance to the cosmetics industry, consumers and the animals used in testing. Companion legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate, also with support from both parties.
What the Act entails
The Humane Cosmetics Act seeks to end animal safety testing of cosmetics products in the U.S. as well as the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals. If passed, the testing portion of the law would go into effect one year after enactment, with the sales portion becoming effective three years after becoming law. The delay allows manufacturers and testing facilities time to alter their testing methods and, for cosmetics manufacturers, time to deplete their existing stock on store shelves and in warehouses.
Why it’s important
As a world economic leader, the U.S. has lagged behind its international counterparts in recognizing the cruel and inhumane practices used in animal testing in the cosmetics industry. In introducing the legislation this past November, Congressman Tony Cárdenas hailed the bill and called the practice of animal testing “inhumane and unacceptable.”
“The cruel and inhumane practice of testing cosmetics on animals is unacceptable,” Cárdenas said. “These tests are unnecessary, especially when there are non-animal, cost-efficient research methods that we can adopt. I’m proud to join my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in introducing this bipartisan bill to protect animals from abuse.”
Congressman Vern Buchanan, co-chair of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, agreed. “Scientific advancements have created viable alternatives to these cruel experiments, while still ensuring that cosmetic products are safe for human use,” he noted. “As countries around the world work to prohibit animal testing in cosmetics, it’s time for the United States to get on board.”
Although the Act has strong bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, it still has a way to go before it’s enacted into a law. Until then, the bill’s sponsors remain very vocal about the need for the ban and in their support of safe, effective alternatives to animal testing.
“Thousands of animals suffer as a result of cosmetic animal testing each and every year in the United States,” noted Congressman Paul Tonko. “Numerous state, national, and world-wide movements are proving that animal testing is not only unnecessary, it is not even the safest or most viable option available. Our Humane Cosmetics Act establishes a national ban on animal testing for cosmetics, as well as supporting the development and implementation of testing alternatives that help ensure the U.S. cosmetics market continues to thrive. This legislation will restore America’s position as a world leader in cruelty-free safety methods that promote the well-being of everyone, humans and animals, alike.”
Alternatives to animal testing
The FDA does require cosmetics products to be tested and deemed safe for human use through enforcement of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), but there is no FDA or other federal provision requiring animal testing. Instead, the act advises manufacturers to use testing methods that are “appropriate and effective” for making sure their products are safe. In fact, on its website, the FDA states, “We also believe that prior to use of animals, consideration should be given to the use of scientifically valid alternative methods to whole-animal testing.”
InVitro International is a leader in alternative testing products and services, with options for both ocular testing and skin corrosivity testing, the two most common types of tests performed in the cosmetics industry. In addition, InVitro International provides in-house lab testing to help manufacturers and cosmetic companies incorporate cruelty-free testing without investing in a lab of their own. To learn more about InVitro International’s products and services, use our online form or call us at 800-246-8487 to get in touch today.


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New Delhi [India], December 1 (ANI): India’s manufacturing sector expanded fastest in three months in November with the S&P Global India Manufacturing PMI at 55.7. In October, the index was 55.3.
The indices vary between 0 and 100, with a reading above 50 indicating an overall increase compared to the previous month, and below 50 an overall decrease.
Demand resilience boosted manufacturing growth in India, with companies noting the quickest increases in new orders and production for three months, S&P Global said in a statement on Thursday.
Moreover, firms were strongly confident towards growth prospects, with optimism driving another round of job creation and restocking their shelves, said the statement.
“Companies also reported a notable improvement in international demand for their goods, with new export orders expanding at the second-fastest pace since May.”
According to Pollyanna De Lima, Economics Associate Director at S&P Global Market Intelligence: “India’s manufacturing sector continued to perform well in November, besides heightened recession fears elsewhere and a deteriorating outlook for the global economy.”
Pollyanna De Lima added it was business as usual for goods producers and new orders and exports expanded “markedly” during the month.
“Survey participants were also strongly confident in both the buoyancy of demand for their goods and their ability to further lift production in 2023. The level of positive sentiment recorded in November was the best in nearly eight years,” Pollyanna De Lima said. (ANI)
This report is auto-generated from ANI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.


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Start-up Nextreme has launched a chip-cooling system with a difference — it can be built into the chip itself, cooling only the areas that need it.
Cooling has become a major issue in chip making in recent years, prompting Intel and AMD to concentrate on multicore processors as a way of boosting chip speed while stemming ever-greater heat emissions.
The energy to power and cool datacentres has doubled in the past seven years, creating growing headaches for system administrators.
Some companies have approached the issue by adapting datacentre air-conditioning systems to be more efficient, as is the case with HP's Dynamic Smart Cooling (DSC).
Nextreme's approach, on the other hand, works on the micro-scale. Its thermoelectric module, called the Ultra-High Packing Fraction (UPF) OptoCooler, operates on a similar scale to the chip itself.
It uses a manufacturing technology that allows it to be integrated directly into chip packaging. The module can pump out 10 times more heat than conventional thermoelectric cooling modules, claims Nextreme, a spin-off of US research institute RTI International.
The product is particularly honed for optoelectronics, such as the laser diode packages that illuminate telecommunications fibre-optic cables, but the company says it is in talks with most US semiconductor manufacturers. Other potential markets include electronics, medical, military and aerospace applications.
"This is a major breakthrough," says Dave Koester, vice president of engineering at Nextreme. "For example, this development enables direct cooling of a laser diode on a scale that is similar to the diode itself. This significantly improves efficiency and offers new, integrated packaging options that were previously unavailable."
The unit has an active footprint of 0.55 square millimeters, and at 25 degrees Celsius, removes a maximum of 420 mW of heat, adding up to a heat density of up to 78 W/cm2. At 85 degrees C the values go up to 610 mW and 112 W/cm2, according to Nextreme.
When integrated into optoelectronic packaging, the module can deliver more than 45 degrees Celsius of cooling, according to the company.
Nextreme's manufacturing process, called Copper Pillar Bumping, integrates thin-film thermoelectric material into the solder bumped interconnects typically found in semiconductor circuits. It can be implemented at the system, package or wafer level, or in discrete modules such as the OptoCooler.


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More people living above shops in Cheltenham town centre could help reduce the number of empty premises, according to a council report. Civic chiefs are drawing up an action plan after a review into the number of vacant premises in the town.
The report jointly commissioned by Cheltenham Business Improvement District (BID) and the Borough Council initially identified 28 empty units in Cambray Place, The Strand, High Street, The Promenade and Montpellier last spring. But this number was reduced to only a handful of empty and available premises by the autumn.
However, the report says there is scope for further improvements bearing in mind the added risks the retail sector is facing with the cost of living crisis and energy costs. The review, which was considered at the cabinet meeting this week, also said the underused and unused upper floors of shops could be valuably used to provide additional space for residential, business and community use.
This would have a positive impact that would have on town centre footfall. In light of the review’s findings, Cheltenham Borough Council’s cabinet has agreed to work proactively with developers, other organisations and through its own powers and resources to support more town centre living in unused spaces to provide much needed accommodation.
They also hope this will increase the footfall to the town’s high street. Economic development, culture, tourism and wellbeing cabinet member Max Wilkinson (LD, Oakley) said: “The British High Street is a precious concept, but everyone knows it is changing.
“We need to ensure Cheltenham’s town centre adapts to that change in a way that helps us to continue to prosper. This is a challenge in an economy where people are buying more online and less in shops, and lots of town centre premises are owned by investors for whom Cheltenham is only a line in a spreadsheet.
"But this vision is a positive one to overcome that challenge. More homes in the town centre will make a huge difference to lots of people and it’s sustainable too - both for the environment and for town centre businesses.
“Working more closely with businesses and landlords will help us fill more premises, provide more homes and help our town centre thrive.”
The council aims to work in partnership with the BID and the Cheltenham Economic Advisory Board to develop an action plan to be presented to civic chiefs in September. This plan will set out how the recommendations will be delivered in partnership with businesses and organisations.


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LONDON — Under-fire cryptocurrency company Tether has parted company with its auditors, according to CoinDesk.
CoinDesk reports that Tether said in a statement on Saturday night that its relationship with Friedman LLP "is dissolved."
"Given the excruciatingly detailed procedures Friedman was undertaking for the relatively simple balance sheet of Tether, it became clear that an audit would be unattainable in a reasonable time frame," Tether said in the statement.
- Tether, hit by $31 million hack in November, has built a cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar.
- Critics are suspicious of whether it has dollar reserves it claims, but Tether calls scepticism "uninformed and baseless."
- The company has now parted ways with its auditor, which was reviewing its holdings, blaming auditor's "the excruciatingly detailed procedures."
The ending of the audit is likely to fuel critics of the cryptocurrency, who are suspicious of its backing.
Tether created a cryptocurrency called USDT that is pegged to — and supposedly backed by — the dollar. It is meant to function as a "stablecoin" — a cryptocurrency that allows you to avoid the volatility of bitcoin but still have the operability of a cryptocurrency (i.e. being able to send to digital wallets and exchanges.)
The cryptocurrency was hit by a $31 million heist in November. The attack led to online rumours that Tether, which is closely linked to cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, is facing deeper issues around its solvency. The press has also raised questions about Tether's handling of its cryptocurrency.
The New York Times wrote shortly after the hack: "One persistent online critic, going by the screen name Bitfinex’ed, has written several very detailed essays on Medium arguing that Bitfinex appears to be creating Tether coins out of thin air and then using them to buy Bitcoin and push the price up."
Bloomberg wrote earlier this month: "Among the many mysteries at the heart of the cryptocurrency market are these: Does $814 million of a digital token known as tether really exist?" The article highlighted suspicions that the company may not hold the dollar reserves to back Tether that it claims to.
Tether has called this criticism "uninformed and baseless" and promised in a statement in December that Friedman's audit of its books would vindicate the company.
"We understand that the public is anxiously awaiting the completion of this process, but it cannot be rushed and we are not Friedman’s only customer," the company said in December. "Moreover, the amount of due diligence that is being performed by Friedman is substantial."
Tether said in its Saturday statement to CoinDesk: "As Tether is the first company in the space to undergo this process and pursue this level of transparency, there is no precedent set to guide the process nor any benchmark against which to measure its success."
Business Insider contacted Tether for clarification of when it parted ways with Friedman LLP and whether it has hired a new auditor. The company did not immediately respond to our request for comment.


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The trademark dispute between entertainment giant Walt Disney Co. and Internet start-up GoTo.com, centering on a round green logo,
was resolved Friday, with Disney agreeing to pay $21.5 million and stop
using the logo for its Go.com network.
While not a substantial amount for Disney
, which brought
in $13.24 billion in revenues in the past six months, the dough could be a
lifesaver for GoTo.com
. The smaller company lost $30.5
million in its most recent fiscal quarter, and its stock price hit a
52-week low on May 24.
GoTo.com sued Disney in February 1999 in the United States District Court
in Los Angeles, saying the green-light-shaped logo the company’s Go.com
network adopted in December was too close to the circular green logo the
pay-for-placement search engine firm has used since 1997.
On November 15, 1999, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Terry Hatter, Jr.
granted GoTo.com a preliminary injunction, which meant Disney, Infoseek and
related companies had to drop the Go.com logo.
At the time, Disney vowed to appeal the decision, but the companies
apparently reached a negotiated settlement before the actual trial date was
set. A pre-trial conference was originally scheduled for March.
The decision by Go.com to concede defeat in the battle over the
green-light logo, and adopt green lettering with a yellow arrow, marks
another twist in the story of a company that’s been rocked by turmoil and
indecision. The Go Network, a joint venture between Disney and Infoseek,
has been marked by high executive turnover, including the conviction of one
of its execs — Patrick Naughton — for crossing state lines to solicit sex
with a minor.
Strategy has shifted at Go.com, too. The company recently abandoned
ambitions of being a wide-reaching portal, and instead decided to focus on
being an entertainment destination.


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It would appear that Google’s getting ready to release something new – something like a pair of new smartphones. The Google Pixel 3 and Google Pixel 3 XL are currently in a price-cut sort of situation at the Google Store. This is a situation of the sort we’d expect just before the release of a new set of replacement devices. But it’s not time, is it? Hasn’t it only been a short span of time since the Pixel 3 and 3 XL were first released?
Your hunch and/or memory are right – it’s only been a short while since the Google Pixel 3 was first released. It was October of 2018 when we saw the Pixel 3 hit shelves for the first time. The first three releases of Google Pixel smartphones suggest a release pattern: once a year, two phones, both in October. But what good is an unchanging release schedule in an always-evolving market? It’s time for a new schedule.
It’s also right about time we get in deep on the newest set of leaks. We’ve seen two Google Pixel “Lite” phones popping up here and there over the last several months, always in relatively rare circumstances. Almost as if they were real leaks, not just day-by-day plants like we’ve seen in recent months by OTHER brands. No funny business, alright there?
A pair of Google devices appeared at the FCC this week in reports from watchers suggesting the Google Pixel 3 Lite and Google Pixel 3 Lite XL might be ready for business. The models went by numbers G020C and G020G, which tells us virtually nothing – other than they’re not exactly the same as previously-rumored Pixel 3 Lite and 3 XL Lite models, one of which was tipped to roll with model number G020B.
The Google Pixel 3 Lite and 3 Lite XL were previously rumored to come with 4GB RAM, Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 or 610 processors, and cameras with quality much like that of the more expensive predecessors.
OR, since the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are currently $200 cheaper than normal right now, maybe they’ll be very SIMILAR in price – until October comes up once again. But let’s not imagine our lives away – take a peek at the other phones and such that are out right NOW, out in the SlashGear main feed – right now!


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Like most Milwaukeeans, I won't be able to watch the Wisconsin Badgers take on top-ranked Ohio State Saturday morning from the comfort of my own couch.
Thanks to the ongoing staring contest between Time Warner Cable and the Big Ten Network, local cable subscribers will need to find somebody with a satellite dish or head to a local tavern -- that has a dish -- to watch the showdown from Ohio Stadium.
The root of this battle is money. The Big Ten Conference wants its network placed on a standard tier and is asking Time Warner to fork over $1.10 per subscriber. The cable company, on the other hand, wants to make the channel available as part of a premium sports package, which would require customers to purchase additional programming.
Time Warner says the BTN is a niche network with limited appeal while the Big Ten says it has a nationwide following. In the long run, both sides are equally to blame and need to come up with a solution ... fast.
It's not hard to see where Time Warner is coming from. Not every body likes sports, and why should the cable company have to shell out big bucks for a station that may not get a lot of viewers? But if that's the case, why are there three religious networks on the basic package? Or the two Spanish-language channels? It's a pretty good bet that not everybody in town speaks Spanish. Never mind the fact that there are three shopping channels listed on the online cable guide.
It isn't a stretch to think that Time Warner could generate a lot of advertising revenue on a station that at least the same amount of people buying second-rate jewelry from an infomercial would be watching.
On the other hand, it's the Big Ten that decided to start its own network. Gone are the weekly syndicated packages that were available to over-the-air customers. While most games still ended up on ESPN or ESPN2, at least those channels are available to standard cable customers.
This entire mess is stupid. Instead of spending the time and effort with commercials and ad campaigns, both sides need to sit at the table tomorrow morning and come up with a plan. Everybody is allowed to make a buck or two, but when you start depriving your customers of a product, you end up doing a lot more damage in the long run.
Some state lawmakers, meanwhile, introduced a bill this week that would establish an arbitration system to work out the disagreements between sports networks like the Big Ten's and the NFL Network (which will air the Packers-Cowboys game on Thursday, Nov. 29).
In the meantime, your best bet is to call your favorite bar to find out if they have a dish. At least you won't have to clean up the mess afterwards.


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A group of hackers published a statement yesterday in which they claimed to have accessed “all Sony systems”, adding that they had managed to steal around 6,000 files that are already for sale on the Internet. Now the company has stated that They have opened an investigation processalthough they have not shared additional details.
Speaking to IGN, sony has confirmed that they are already investigating this assumption hacking and data theft: “We are currently investigating the situation, We have no further comments to make. right now,” the company has concluded.
It is real hacking to Sony?
Although Sony has neither confirmed nor denied that the hacking be real, The group of hackers has published evidence that they have actually managed to access the company’s systems. However, it seems that those who have seen them play down the matter and assure that it is not a very serious robbery.
The hackers They have put the package of stolen documents up for sale and claim that If no one buys them before September 28, they will publish all the files stolen. They have made this decision after Sony wanted to pay to prevent the leak of this material, which is around 6,000 items (according to experts, a not too high amount considering that it is supposed to cover “all Sony systems”).


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Winning Fantasy 5 ticket sold in Cocoa
We compared lottery figures over the past three years to bring you this fun ranking of counties. It's not scientific, but we compared the amount of money spent on tickets versus winnings to come up with our ranking. Video by Jessica Saggio Wochit
A Fantasy 5 ticket worth more than $30,000 in Wednesday's jackpot was purchased at a Cocoa Publix.
The ticket, which was one of seven winners, was sold from Publix at 2301 State Road 524. The winning numbers— 21-22-23-35-36— clinched a total prize of $30,835.92.
The money will be split among the seven winners, who purchased tickets in Lehigh Acres, Vero Beach, Riviera Beach, Orlando, Big Pine Key and Miami.
In Vero Beach, a winning ticket was sold at a Publix on 21st Street.
This is the sixth winning Fantasy 5 ticket purchased in Brevard since Jan. 1.
Sheets is a breaking news reporter for FLORIDA TODAY andTCPalm.
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Advocate General Niilo Jääskinen has said that online marketplace eBay is not liable for the trademark infringements committed by its users.
The Coca Cola Company has put the squeeze on its long-standing rival PepsiCo by filing a trade dress infringement complaint that concerns their respective juice beverage lines.
Microsoft has opposed Apple’s attempts to trademark ‘App Store’ in the US.
Apple Corps—the record label founded by the Beatles—has finally agreed to let its technology company namesake Apple sell The Beatles’ back catalogue through its online music service, iTunes.
Trademark application fees have risen in India after the country amended its trademark law.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was finalised in November.
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) says that China’s ineffective enforcement of IP is a threat to US firms and that its indigenous innovation policies threaten US exports and investments.
Duane Morris LLP has recruited Laurie van Löben Sels from Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP after it merged with Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in January.
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Wheelchair user criticises Ipswich McDonald’s after being told she couldn’t eat in
PUBLISHED: 11:29 19 August 2020 | UPDATED: 13:33 19 August 2020
A mum has criticised McDonald’s after she was told she couldn’t eat in at an Ipswich branch because she was in a wheelchair.
Gemma Patrick has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome type three and uses a wheelchair on trips out of her house in Stoke Park Drive, as she is in too much pain to walk.
The 29-year-old turned up at the Tavern Street restaurant on Sunday, August 16, with her fiancé Alan and their two young children, Esther and Ava.
She was shocked when a member of staff stopped them at the door to ask if they were eating in and then told them it wouldn’t be possible with Gemma in her wheelchair.
“We wanted to take my daughter for a Happy Meal as being a little kid she loves them,” she explained. “The member of staff said unfortunately due to government guidelines we could only be seated upstairs which obviously wasn’t possible.
“It was so frustrating that McDonald’s refused to make reasonable adjustments for me when there was loads of space downstairs where we could have sat in a corner.”
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While Gemma was told they could be served at the takeaway counter, she decided to go somewhere else for a sit down meal and went to The Cricketers, where Wetherspoons staff were happy to accommodate them by making some minor adjustments.
She added: “Usually I have found people are really helpful but since Covid all of that has gone out of the window and businesses seem to have forgotten an entire customer base in their haste to reopen.
“They’re relying on government advice as an excuse – it seems like it’s too much hard work and people can’t be bothered.”
A spokesperson for McDonald’s said: “We are very sorry to hear that the customer in question was unable to dine-in at our Ipswich Tavern restaurant, and fully understand their frustrations.
“It is incredibly important to us as a business that we are accessible to all, and it is unfortunate that social distancing measures have made the dine in area inaccessible at this time.
“As we continue to adapt and introduce new measures to keep our people and customers safe, we are encountering new and unforeseen challenges.
“It is important we adapt to these where possible, so we will be working with the restaurant to see if there is a possible solution.”
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Buddy, can you spare a coat?
Countess Marie Douglas-David may want to invest in a personal stylist while trying to squeeze more out of her divorce deal.
She made a major fashion faux pas yesterday by showing up at court in the same wool coat she wore the day before.
“It’s an old coat,” she said as she left divorce court.
She said she used to have “a nice black one,” but had left it in a restaurant.
Her current coat “looks like an old Chanel bathrobe,” says Allen Cohen, a spokesman for Weatherproof Garment Co.
“It doesn’t fit her very well, and the wool looks like the kind that pills.”


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The University of Utah Alumni Association is celebrating the 20th annual Utah Food Drive to benefit the Utah Food Bank. This year’s drive runs through Saturday, Nov. 30.
The food drive, which started in 1994 as a small competition for canned food between the Utah and BYU Alumni Associations, has grown into a vital holiday food drive providing food and monetary donations to the Utah Food Bank. In 2012, Utah supporters donated 402,000 pounds of food and $85,000 in monetary support. Although the rivalry competition ended after 2011, doing all that the U community can to ease hunger in Utah remains a top priority. One in five children in Utah faces a shortage of food daily. In addition, many needy Utah families have recently seen their government access to food resources reduced.
You can help support the U’s effort in many ways. You can make a monetary donation online or you can bring non-perishable food items to the Alumni House, 155 S. Central Campus Drive, or directly to the Utah Food Bank, 3150 S. 900 W.
Members of the Student Alumni Board and MUSS Board will be collecting food and money donations at many local grocery stores from Monday, Nov. 25 through Wednesday, Nov. 27. Please help support their efforts.
Please join the Alumni Association in a continuing tradition of serving our community.


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Ice Cube brings NFTs to BIG3 with historic crypto transaction
MyDoge chairman purchases BIG3’s Aliens for $660K in dogecoin
Rapper and BIG3 basketball league founder Ice Cube has made history alongside MyDoge Chairman Bill Lee with the world’s largest commercial cryptocurrency transaction.
"We just did something great," Ice Cube told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on Friday, "being able to have a league like the BIG3 to embrace NFTs and the blockchain technology that add real utilities."
"What Cube is really doing is bringing the power of Web3 to the BIG3," Lee added on "Mornings with Maria." "So with utility, it makes it so that he's turning the team owners into developers."
In the historic deal, Lee bought 25 "Fire-Tier" NFT editions of BIG3's Aliens through dogecoin, worth $600,000, according to a press release.
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The 3-on-3 professional league announced a new ownership model earlier this month which gives anyone the opportunity to own part of a BIG3 team through blockchain technology and NFT purchases on tier-based levels.
"What that further unlocks is something such as sponsors, such as Taco Bell, they could also create their own unique NFT experiences," Lee further explained. "To me, what I see Cube is really doing is making the BIG3 from just an entertainment and media play to also a technology play. So he’s unlocking all of that."
The rapper and actor noted BIG3’s excitement in exploring this "new frontier."
"Having our league connected to these communities that are so active, so passionate, can only help to lead growth," Ice Cube said. "I can’t wait to see where things go this year."
Lee, who’s previously invested in Tesla, SpaceX and Coinbase, hopes the purchase is a step toward dogecoin becoming "the people’s currency."
"You can envision a world where anyone, even a fan, could create their own custom experiences around these utilities," MyDoge’s chairman said.
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The BIG3 NFT waitlist opens Saturday, followed by the platform’s public debut on Sunday.
"We definitely educated ourselves. I do own [crypto], and so it's just really about embracing the future and to be able to be part of the largest transaction," Ice Cube added. "You know, us at the BIG3, we always pride ourselves on changing the game. I think with this transaction, we have changed the game."


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A Northern Ireland textile company is to close its County Tyrone base with the loss of 140 jobs.
The firm has been at the heart of Strabane's economy
The Strabane-based hosiery company, Adria, said on Thursday that harsh trading conditions led to the decision.
The company once employed 1,000 people in the area, and also had factories in Londonderry and Newry.
In a statement, the company said it had taken the decision to close "with regret". It will continue to employ 40 people in the area.
BBC NI Business Editor James Kerr said that, for a generation, Adria had been the "economic backbone" of Strabane.
"The harsh global economics of the clothing industry hit the company hard in recent years and there have been several closures and rounds of reduncancies."
The company said it had taken the decision with regret, but that global trading conditions had not improved as they had hoped.
The firm has entered a 90-day consultation process with the workforce and said it would play its part with those who are to lose their jobs.
Adria was taken over 18 months ago by the international clothing company Quantem.
It will continue to employ 40 people in the area, who are engaged in the commercial and design part of the business.


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Amazon is planning to retire its Music storage subscription service, the plan that enabled Amazon customers to upload their own music to the company’s servers. From a report: Amazon Music Storage subscription plans, which let users upload music from their Mac or PC and stream them alongside the in-app on-demand and radio options, will be accepted until Jan. 15, 2018. Then, the service will run until January 2019, when it will be removed entirely. As of Monday this week, free plans — which allow for 250 songs to be stored in the cloud — are no longer able to upload new music to their MP3 locker.
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A bill passed by the city council in early November would ban employers from using automated hiring tools unless a yearly bias audit can show they won’t discriminate based on an applicant’s race or gender. It would also force makers of those AI tools to disclose more about their opaque workings and give candidates the option of choosing an alternative process — such as a human — to review their application.
Proponents liken it to another pioneering New York City rule that became a national standard-bearer earlier this century — one that required chain restaurants to slap a calorie count on their menu items.
Instead of measuring hamburger health, though, this measure aims to open a window into the complex algorithms that rank the skills and personalities of job applicants based on how they speak or what they write. More employers, from fast food chains to Wall Street banks, are relying on such tools to speed up recruitment, hiring and workplace evaluations.
“I believe this technology is incredibly positive but it can produce a lot of harms if there isn’t more transparency,” said Frida Polli, co-founder and CEO of New York startup Pymetrics, which uses AI to assess job skills through game-like online assessments. Her company lobbied for the legislation, which favors firms like Pymetrics that already publish fairness audits.
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The design of the Google Pixel 3 with on-screen notch is filtered
Google, despite having about two years in the phone industry has managed to create a great line of very competent devices in the current market, we are talking about the Pixels made up of two generations with a next generation for this year. The new ones Google Pixel, as above, they will have an XL version and a normal one. There is still time for the new Pixels to be presented, however, so far this year we have seen how rumors of these devices arrive. The latest leak reveals the front of both versions thanks to supposed tempered glass screen protectors published by Slash Leak.
Like the Google Pixel 2, the phone will have two versions, the most advanced being the XL will come with a higher screen ratio covering almost the entire front, but as a consequence it would have a reduced notch on top. We have already seen this design in phones from LG, Huawei and even Apple. It should be mentioned that this leak coincides with the previous ones so it could be very possible that it is the final design or at least a concept that Google could be testing. Remember that it would only come in the normal version, so there would be two options to choose from.
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The image also shows that he will continue to use front stereo speakers, Google is one of the companies that incorporates this feature in its terminals. As can be seen, both would come with reduced frames and curved corners adopting the design of the previous Pixel and most current phones. It should be said that they will also include dual front camera. Soon we will know more details of the Google terminal.
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Dublin, Ireland — (METERING.COM) — June 5, 2013
Domestic consumer switching continues to slow in Ireland, while switching by small business customers has remained stable over the past year compared with the previous one, according to the Commission for Energy Regulation’s (CER) annual consumer survey.
Among the domestic consumers surveyed, 12% of the electricity consumers switched supplier in the previous 12 months, compared to 29% in 2011 and 16% in 2012, while 14% of the gas consumers switched, compared to 18% in each of the previous two years.
Among the small and medium enterprise (SME) consumers, 15% of the electricity consumers and 16% of the gas consumers switched during the previous twelve months, compared with 14% and 16% respectively in 2012.
In both the domestic and SME sectors, switching in both the electricity and gas markets is primarily driven by cost/savings. However, among domestic consumers who switched gas supplier, a dual fuel offer was cited by a majority of switchers as a very important or important reason for switching.
Further, in both sectors, reasons for not switching focus on the lack of a compelling reason to switch, with trust and satisfaction with current supplier also identified as an important reason by a majority.
Other findings of the survey included:
- Satisfaction with the service provided by Ireland’s electricity and gas supply businesses remains high in all segments, although the score for SME electricity suppliers has declined significantly (to 77%) since 2012
- There is a high level of awareness of the range of competitors across the markets under consideration, and most consumers are satisfied with the current levels of competition
- More than 80% of SME consumers found their bills easy to understand, however only 59% of domestic electricity consumers and 53% of domestic gas consumers could understand their bills
- Among consumers not currently using prepayment, it is of interest to a quarter of consumers in the domestic electricity market and a fifth of consumers in the domestic gas market. Consumers who currently use prepayment (5% of domestic electricity consumers and 12% of domestic gas consumers) strongly preferred prepayment over standard bill pay meters.


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Cyber attack that took place on May 12 affected 200,000 users from 150 countries July 11/2017
The victims of the mass cyberattack that occurred on May 12 were 200 thousand users from 150 countries. This information was stated by the press-secretary of the European police department (Europol) Jen Ohn Jen Hurt.
According to him, there are many affected companies, including large corporations. He also noted that the cyber attack may continue on May 15, when people come to work and turn on their computers.
The virus, called WannaCry blocks access to files and requires affected users to pay $ 300 ransom in bitcoins. Unless the price is paid in three days, hackers threaten to double this amount, and after 7 they remove all files from the computer.
The first reports of cyber attacks appeared in the media and social networks on Friday, May 12. According to Europol, the malware was launched from the National Health Service of England. Then it affected networks in other countries. The virus infected computer networks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Megafon and other organizations in Russia.
Proofpoint specialist Darien Hass and author of the MalwareTech blog managed to stop the spread of the virus using code to access a meaningless domain on May 13. However, the WannaCry creators released a new version of the virus, which no longer refers to this domain name.
It is noted in Europol that the motivation of hackers is not fully understood. Typically, this type of attack is revenue-oriented. However, in this case, the amount of the repurchase is small. According to the ministry, only a few companies and individuals agreed to pay $ 300 to attackers, following the recommendations of law enforcement agencies. According to The Guardian, the accounts of the creators of the extortion virus received $ 42,000 from approximately 100 people.
The intruders have not been revealed yet.
AdWords launches a new keyword-level bidding interface July 11/2017
Google AdWords users all around the world noticed that is a new keyword-level bidding interface is launching soon.
Google will show recommended bids for different ad positions on the page, even if the bid simulator for this keyword is not available.
Some phases were also changed a little bit. Instead of the "top of the page" is now replaced by "over all organic results"; instead of "first position" the tab "over all other ads" will be now used.
There was no official launch announcement yet.
Let us remind you that Google AdWords changed algorithm of work of the Optimizer of the price for conversion last week. Earlier this tool could raise the maximum bid for prospective clicks by no more than 30%. Now this restriction is lifted.
Publishers have found a way to beat Facebook's ranking algorithms July 25/2017
The AdAge Edition noted that publishers have found a way to beat Facebook's ranking algorithms. They began to attach short videos in MP4 format instead of pictures; since videos re usually given priority in the users' tapes.
New tactics are used by large publishers, such as BuzzFeed, and smaller ones, among them is ForShitsAndGiggles.
For example, the 48-second "video" published by BuzzFeed has received more than 1.4 million views in just a couple of weeks:
Other examples also include short videos that last only a few seconds.
The Facebook representative in the AdAge commentary says that the social network does not prioritize the video before other types of publications in the news line. But if the user usually interacts with the video, he will often see posts of this format in his tape:
"We are constantly improving the news line to show you the most relevant stories, and prevent attempts to deceive the system."
Nevertheless, Russ Torres, the USA Today Network vice president of video content and strategy believes that in fact Facebook promotes the video in line.
BuzzFeed and ForShitsAndGiggles have not yet commented on this aspect.
Google Image Search loses market share to Amazon and Facebook Aug 14/2017
The share of Google in the search market grew from 58.84% in October last year to 64.8% in March 2017. At the same time, the share of Google Image Search fell to 21.8% in favor of Amazon and Facebook. This information has come from analysts of the American company Jumpshot in partnership with co-founder Moz Rand Fishkin.
During the research, they analyzed search data in Google Search, Images, Maps, YouTube, Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, Facebook, Reddit and Wikipedia for the period from October 2016 to May 2017 with a sole purpose to determine the resources that accounted for the largest number of search engines Sessions and traffic.
Generally, at this period Amazon's share went up from 0.4% to 2.30%, and Facebook's 0.8% to 1.5%. Bing and Yahoo both showed growth of up to 2.4%, while Google Maps was ranked up to 1.2%. The activity of Google Search, Bing, Amazon and Facebook showed growth, while Google Images, YouTube, Yahoo and Google Maps lost their positions.
The report also included data on search volumes and CTR in the US. The number of search sessions in Google has exceeded 30 billion a month (as of October 2016). By May 2017, the growth trend remained at the level of 10-15% compared to the previous year.
The results of the organic search in 2016 went down to the bottom. In December they were ranked at 54% (despite the fact that in January and February of the same year their level was at 57% and 56%, respectively, and taking into account the traditional activity stop after the winter holidays).
November 2016 gave the highest rates of search activity without clicks and was ranked at 45.5%. At the same time, the lowest indicator was in October, which is only 40.3%.
According to Jumpshot, the largest traffic is generated by Google: about 63% in May 2017, with about 60% in October 2016. During this period, YouTube also showed better results and went up by 0.2%, while Amazon rose by 0.1%. Traffic from Facebook, Yahoo, Reddit, Imgur and Bing almost died, and that’s only Wikipedia that remained at the same level.
Google adds tags for recipes, videos and products in the image search Aug 03/2017
Google added tags for recipes, videos, products and GIF to the image search results. Now when searching for images, users will immediately see which type of content the individual results are related to.
The Google rep commented on the new feature saying the following:
"These badges will help you find those images that involve additional actions or contain more detailed information."
To display a label on a website page, appropriate marking of structured data should be added: for recipes, goods or video. GIF-images Google algorithms will recognize and mark automatically, thus, markup is not needed for them. New badges will not always be displayed just like extended snippets. Filling in the fields for the recommended properties of the markup increases the chances of getting them.
Google also updated its structured data verification tool. Now it processes markups for images.
It should be recalled that Google started showing videos and recipes in the search results for pictures starting from last month.
How Google processes pages with the Canonical and noindex attributes Aug 14/2017
During the last video conference with webmasters, John Mueller answered the interesting question: how does the search engine process pages that both contain the Canonical and Noindex attribute?
The question to Mueller was:
"I once was at a seminar where I was told that if you use rel = canonical and Noindex on a page, then Canonical will transmit the Noindex canonicalized page. Is that true?".
"Hmm. I don’t know. We discussed this issue for a long time, at least inside the team. In particular, what should we do in this case.
Using Canonical, you are telling that two pages should be processes identically. Noindex reports that the page that contains it must be removed from the search. Therefore theoretically our algorithms can get confused and decide that you need to delete both pages. Correct? Or they can process them in different ways, taking into account Noindex attribute.
As a matter of actual practice, it is most likely that algorithms will decide that the rel = canonical attribute was added by mistake."
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The share of transactions made on mobile phones during the 2015 holiday shopping season (Nov. 1 – Dec. 31) climbed from 14% in 2014 up to nearly 19.9%% in 2015. (Source: Custora)
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There are 925+ million people using Facebook Groups as of Q3 2015. (Source: TechCrunch)
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28% of US adult Internet users are on Instagram as of August 2015. (Source: Pew Research)
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GroupM states “when consumers were exposed to both search and social media influenced by a brand that overall search CTR went up by 94 percent.”
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Branding plays a much bigger role in the alcoholic beverages teens choose to drink than it does for adults, according to new research.
A study from Johns Hopkins University polled more than 1,000 underage drinkers between 13 and 20 about their alcohol consumption over the previous month, and found they favored a relatively small number of brands.
Leading the pack were Bud Light and Smirnoff Malt Beverages. About 28 percent of teens reported drinking Bud Light in the past month, and 17 percent had sipped Smirnoff Ice or one of the brand's other flavored malt drinks.
Budweiser and Smirnoff took the next highest spots as well: Nearly 15 percent of respondents had tried Budweiser beer, and nearly 13 percent reached for Smirnoff vodka. Coors Light, Jack Daniel's Bourbons, Corona Extra, Mike's, Captain Morgan Rums and Absolut Vodkas rounded out the rest of the top 10 brands.
It is significant that young drinkers reach for such a concentrated group of brands, study authors said. Eighteen alcohol brands account for 50 percent of the market share among underage drinkers, but 33 brands dominate half the market for drinkers of all ages.
"For the first time, we know what brands of alcoholic beverages underage youth in the U.S. are drinking," study author David Jernigan, Ph.D., director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Johns Hopkins, said in a release. "Importantly, this report paves the way for subsequent studies to explore the association between exposure to alcohol advertising and marketing efforts and drinking behavior in young people."
Source: New York Daily News


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The tire industry in the USA is one of the most important segments in the country’s prestigious auto parts sector, not only does it play a key role for the world’s leading automotive industry, but the US tire market also contributes significantly to its GDP, employment, and foreign trade earnings. As the USA remains one of the world’s top automotive manufacturing countries, global tire demand and demand for other auto parts in the global automotive market continues to increase. BizVibe’s tire industry analysis expands on the market growth, key statistics achieved, tire production in the US and key drivers for the market’s growth. The tire industry in the USA is expected to continue experiencing growth at a steady and consistent pace going forward.
The USA Tire Industry Statistics
According to a recent report from the USTMA (the US Tire Manufacturers Association), today’s tire industry in the USA provides employment to over 737,000 people. Additionally, it directly supports more than 284,000 U.S. jobs through manufacturing, distribution and retailing, and is responsible for more than 450,000 additional U.S. jobs in supplier-induced activities. So far, the US tire market consists of at least 55 tire-related manufacturing facilities across 19 states in the country, and generates over $148.4 billion in sales, demonstrating the important and critical role that tire industry plays in the country’s shipping and commerce needs.
The US tire industry is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of more than 5% in terms of volume until 2021. Currently, the global automotive market is dominated by the passenger car segment, followed by light commercial vehicles, medium and heavy commercial vehicles, and off-the-Road (OTR) vehicles and two-wheeler segment. As a result, the passenger car tire segment accounted for the largest share of the global tire market. As a result, its dominance is expected to continue throughout the forecast period as well.
Car Tire Manufacturing in the US
In terms of tire production, the USTMA also projects that the total shipment of tires this year is likely to drop slightly to 318.1 million units compared to 318.4 million in 2016. The original equipment (OE) passenger tire shipments are also expected to decrease by 1.8 million units from 2016 while passenger replacement tire shipments are projected to increase by 1.8 million units. Original equipment light truck and truck tire shipments are expected to increase while decreases are projected for replacement light truck and truck tire shipments.
Apart from the top American-based car tire manufacturers such as Goodyear and Copper, other leading international tire companies—namely Bridgestone, Goodyear, Michelin, Cooper, Continental, Sumitomo, Hankook, Yokohama, etc—are also manufacturing and producing tires at an efficient pace in the US
Tire Exports from the US
When it comes to tire exports, statistics from the International Trade Centre indicates that the US exported over $4.48 billion worth of tires in 2016. In terms of volume of exports, the USA exported 42.26 billion units of tires to the global market, representing 6.4% of the world’s total tire exports during that year. The largest exporting destinations for the American tires are currently Canada, Mexico, Australia, Germany, and Chile.
The USA’s leading position in the global tire market has also attracted a significant number of buyers and traders from all over the world and US tire companies hope to source the best business deals. To help your tire business stay at the peak of the industry, BizVibe provides the best-in-class solutions to source products and make business deals with the top tire manufacturers in the US. The state of the tire industry in the USA is expected to continue prospering.


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According to the recent statement which showed that Kroger’s CEO secured $ 22.4 million in compensation and benefits last year. The highest total since he became president of the supermarket chain in 2014. Bloomberg sets the record straight. The package, unveiled Thursday in a regulatory dossier, is up nearly 6 percent from the previous year thanks to a larger bonus. A larger pool of stock prizes and a salary increase. Kroger’s average employee salary decreased 8 percent to $ 24,617.
In this regard, Rodney McMullen was born in Pineville, Kentucky, where his parents were factory workers. Chief Executive Rodney McMullen ended the $ 2-hourly COVID-19 salary increases for front-line warehouse and warehousing workers in the spring of 2020. Just two months after the “Hero Reward” began. Most recently, McMullen announced in early March that he was a national grocer “ending the 2020 fiscal year with strong sales and profits.”
Here’s what he said in this regard, “ I feel incredibly humbled by the strength of our partners and what we continue to accomplish together. Kroger continued to increase its market share during the [fourth] quarter. Our ability to meet our customers ‘evolving needs is testament to … our partners’ diligent focus on our customers.” The Bloomberg News Service, part of a Manhattan-based financial, software, data and media company, isn’t exactly a progressive crusade for workers’ rights. However, reporter Anders Millen puts the Kroger leader’s $ 22 million compensation in this context: McMullen, one of many CEOs who saw their pay jump last year even as the pandemic disrupted the US economy and pushed millions into unemployment. While, precarious conditions of frontline workers led to calls for wage increases from unions, lawmakers, and even President Joe Biden.
- Kroger is closing more stores in Los Angeles due to “hero payment”
- Kroger stores is not taking any chances will continue to have mask requirements
- Kroger publicizes Go Fresh & Local Provider Accelerator
Kroger one of the largest grocery retail which operates about 2,740 stores and employs 465,000 workers, said in March that it plans to raise the average hourly wage to $ 16 an hour. From $ 15.50 – a 3 percent increase. Last April, it also awarded full-time workers a bonus of $ 300 and part-time workers half of it. The company says its average hourly wage rises to more than $ 20 when benefits like healthcare are included. Now, what is your take on this? Let us know in the comment section below!


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Nike Kobe 6 “All-Star” Arrives March 15th
Although all Kobe-related releases have been pulled from shelves for the time beating, it appears that the Black Mamba’s footwear legacy will live on well into 2021 with the continuation of his reissued Protro lineage. Next year is expected to focus on the Kobe 6, with news filtering through of a reissue of Bean’s All-Star sneakers from 2011.
@SHOF reports that the pair is tipped to arrive in the same Challenge Red, Black, and White color scheme, but may well differ slightly in detail. It is, of course, the 10-year anniversary of the sneaker, a pair that was worn by Bryant to claim the NBA All-Star MVP award that is now named after him — this will be a special release. Pairs are tipped to arrive early 20201, but with the next year’s NBA season now tipped to start in December, the All-Star break will likely be moved closer to the end of Spring. Grab a detailed look at 2011’s pair here below, and make sure you’re following us on Twitter for developments.
Update 01.20.21 // Official images of the 2021 Nike Kobe 6 Protro “All-Star” have landed ahead of their expected release in February.
Update 02.13.21 // A release of the Nike Kobe 6 Protro “All-Star” has been pushed back to March 13th in Europe, and March 15th in North America.
Nike Kobe 6 Protro “All-Star”
EU Release Date: March 13th, 2021
NA Release Date: March 15th, 2021
Style Code: DH9888-600
Color: Challenge Red/Black-White
Where to Buy:
Nike.com 10 am ET
Dick’s 10 am ET
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Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington announce that The 36th Annual RAMMY Awards will return to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Sunday, June 10, 2018. Award nominations are now open through Sunday, January 14, kicking off a full season that celebrates the region’s outstanding restaurants.
The RAMMY Awards Gala honors the exceptional ability and accomplishments of the hard-working individuals and organizations of the region’s restaurants and foodservice community. RAMW is currently accepting submissions in 20 awards categories, including looking for restaurants in the region that have been open for 25 to 50 years to be considered for this year’s Honorary Milestone RAMMY Award. Honoring longstanding local restaurants and RAMW members who have been in business for at least 25 years, the Honorary Milestone Award is bestowed onto only the Washington region’s most influential or beloved dining institutions. In celebration of for the producers and artisans that work so hard to provide incredible ingredients for the industry to utilize, the Regional Food and Beverage Producer category will once again be voted on by the RAMW restaurant membership.
To nominate an outstanding operator or professional in the area’s restaurant industry, visit the RAMMYS nominations portal at www.therammys.org through midnight, the evening of Sunday, January 14. Only RAMW members are eligible to become finalists. The selection process for nominees and winners involves two esteemed groups: the voting public and an anonymous panel of volunteer judges, consisting of food and dining journalists, educators and foodservice industry professionals. Finalists in 20 categories will be announced at a special event in March.
In addition to those eligible for online nominations, RAMW honors two additional members with the Joan Hisaoka Associate Member of the Year, presented to an allied member who best exemplifies commitment to and support of RAMW, and the Duke Zeibert Capital Achievement Award, given for dedication and leadership that has helped transform Washington’s restaurant scene into today’s vibrant restaurant industry. These awards are determined by RAMW’s Executive Committee.
Presented by the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW), The RAMMY Awards Gala honors the exceptional ability and accomplishments of the hard-working individuals and organizations of the region’s restaurants and foodservice community. Named the #1 Food & Restaurant event by BIZBASH Magazine since 2009, The RAMMYS celebrate one of Metropolitan Washington’s greatest assets: Its restaurants.
The Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) is the regional trade association representing restaurants and the foodservice industry in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. Established in 1920, RAMW is an advocate, resource and community for its members. The Association works to promote and sustain the growth and development of the industry while providing its members legislative and regulatory representation, marketing and small business support, programming and events. RAMW strives to serve its members with professionalism and integrity, and provide them the training, education and support they need to grow a successful business.
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India’s over 100 million smartphone users are beginning to shop online at such a pace that the country’s biggest e-tailing companies are expecting the mobile traffic to surpass their
desktop user base soon. Currently, several e-tailers are registering close to a third or nearly half of their sales via mobile devices, while a few others have already crossed the halfway mark.
Increasing affordability of smartphones, special mobile sites and apps, improved data coverage and reduced costs, plus the overall mobile ecosystem in general, have created favourable conditions for
m-commerce to grow impressively in the country.
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Fair & Lovely, one of the leading products in the skin whitening sector, are allegedly using photo touch-up techniques to justify claims of desired results.
Similar advertisements manufactured by FMCG giant Unilever, displaying photographic changes were earlier withdrawn from being displayed in the UK market in October 2008.
The ad campaign showed a miraculous change in the complexion of a person – from dark to very fair – displayed in a series of photographs. Allegedly, the affect has been achieved in the series of pictures by using software to show the desired results of alteration in the complexion of the person.
The Daily Mirror issue dated October 16, 2008, clearly states that “Consumer goods giant Unilever has been rapped for a TV ad shown in the UK promoting skin-lightening creams.
Created by Unilever’s research laboratories, Fair & Lovely claims to offer dramatic whitening results in just six weeks. A package of the cream displays one face six times, in an ever-whitening progression, and includes”‘before” and “after” photos of a woman who presumably used the product. On its website, the company calls its product “the miracle worker” which is “proven to deliver one to three shades of change”.
However, industry experts said: “Images conveying the same message on the box and in the advertisements are touched up using software.”
Since Fair & Lovely is not categorised as a pharmaceutical product, Unilever has not been required to prove efficacy. Many dermatologists do dispute its effectiveness. Dermatologists claim that fairness creams cannot be effective without the use of skin bleaching agents such as hydroquinone, steroids, mercury salts and other harmful chemicals, which Fair & Lovely does not contain.
Fair & Lovely is the largest selling skin whitening cream in the world, and was first launched in India in 1975. It held a commanding 50-70 per cent share of the skin whitening market in India in 2006, a market that is valued at over $200 million. In India, the ad campaign was also withdrawn when authorities objected to the racial tone of the product and its campaign.
Such advertisements have attracted much public criticism, especially from women’s groups in many countries from India to Malaysia to Egypt.
The target market for Fair & Lovely is predominantly young women aged 18-35. According to retailers and market research report, “there is repeated evidence that schoolgirls in the 12-14 years category widely use fairness creams”.
Extracts from an Emirates Business article by Vigyan Arya, published 9 February 2010 (original *dead link*)