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Mukesh Ambani - along with 500 other billionaires across the globe - incurred a loss of huge sums of money in the US share market on Monday. Unfortunately for him, Mukesh Ambani was amongst the highest losers and lost a whopping $2.45 billion, which rounds up to ₹17,353 crore. However, the highest loss was incurred by Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos who saw his stock worth plummet $3.4 billion in just one day. Besides the Chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, 17 other Indian entrepreneurs had to face massive losses on Monday.
Globally, the wealthiest people on the 500 Bloomberg Billionaire Index lost 2.1% share of their total net-worth, which accounts to $110 billion. To say that billionaire business owners around the world faced a serious case of the Monday blues, would be an understatement.
What caused the decline?
Last week, America announced that it would start levying an extra 10% duty on Chinese goods starting September. This made the market risky and investors refrained from putting in their money. They continued to do so until they knew for sure how this increased duty that would affect trade between the US and China.
The quantity of items being shipped from China to the US is humongous. This move had the potential to have blasphemous effects on the markets of both China and America. As a result of the refrain, the US share market saw a decline of 3% on Monday. And while 3% doesn't sound like it's a lot, it cost the world a whopping $110 billion. In fact, the week is almost over, and the stock markets are still trying to recover from the drama that ensued on Monday.
How much does it affect billionaires like Mukesh Ambani?
When the amount of losses is put together, it brings forward the staggering amount of $110 billion. But when distributed across the 500 billionaires on the list, it doesn't really count for much. In fact, this market share drop might only cost the billionaires a mere 2.1% of their personal fortunes. If the wealth of all these men is to be put together, they will still have $5.4 trillion in their banks.
And while you may be thinking about how many zeros even are there in a trillion (12, by the way), this amount is that extraordinary. In fact, only the top richest countries in the world have a higher GDP then that amount.
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One Piece Odyssey is scheduled to launch around the world on January 13, but we’ll get to try the latest One Piece game out for ourselves a few days earlier. Bandai Namco Entertainment announced plans to launch a demo on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on January 10, complete with the ability to carry save data over to the full game once it’s available.
RELATED: IMPRESSIONS: We Played One Piece Odyssey on a Boat the Way Luffy Intended
A new “Memories” trailer was released along with the latest update:
One Piece Odyssey hits PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Steam on January 13, 2023.
Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his comics at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.

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Internet security company Kaspersky Lab today announced Kaspersky ONE, a “Universal Security” solution that helps users protect a wide selection of platforms and devices with a single license.
With the offering, customers can protect multiple devices, including desktops, laptops, smartphones, and Android-based tablets.
As Kaspersky Lab points out, owning multiple web-connected and portable devices has become commonplace. Everyone seems to carry a laptop or tablet in one hand, a smartphone in the other and have a desktop at home. But security for all of these devices is often an afterthought, creating weak links in your personal digital security.
Kaspersky ONE can be used to protect desktop and laptop personal computers running Windows® or Mac OS X®, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile or BlackBerry smartphones, and Android-based tablets.
After Kaspersky ONE has been installed, customers have full access to Kaspersky Labs’ latest databases of threat information, updating client software automatically.
The move by Kaspersky Lab to offer a unified security solution follows a similar announcement from Symantec earlier this month when the company announced Norton One, a personalized service that protects consumers across multiple devices.
Kaspersky One will be available on October 17th for online order, or at Best Buy, Staples, and retail locations in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland.
A one-year licenses of Kaspersky ONE will cost $79.95 for three devices, $99.95 for five devices, and $149.95 for ten devices.


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Star Wars 8: The Resistance’s Older BB Units Revealed
A pair of new BB droids from The Resistance in Star Wars: The Last Jedi have been revealed online. Poe Dameron’s prized “one of a kind” unit BB-8 returns in The Last Jedi with some relatives making their debuts in the new trilogy, most notably the First Order’s BB-9E, a.k.a. BB-8’s “evil twin”. The introduction of a potential direct adversary for BB-8 adds the kind of dimension to the droid’s narrative that wasn’t seen in The Force Awakens. BB-9E has already made its debut via toy leaks, and was also released as one of Sphero’s newest high-end App-connected electronic toys, to go along with BB-8 and R2-D2 models. But as it turns out, BB-8 and BB-9E aren’t the only BB units that will appear in The Last Jedi. The Resistance actually possesses at least a couple of others, and two of the newly introduced units have made an official appearance online. Related: Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Original Trilogy Connections Revealed Thanks to the new Sphero remote control app (screenshots via r/StarWarsLeaks on Reddit) we have our first look at two new resistance BB units. There’s an image of BB-2 and BB-4, which look similar to BB-8 and BB-9E but are clearly older and not nearly as advanced. A Resistance BB unit
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U.S. ag export sales continue to post high values. Both corn and soybean oils topped marketing year highs last week. USDA reports corn topped 3 million tons, nearly 2.3 million of which were purchased by China.
Thanks to Mexico and Canada, soybean oil climbed significantly higher at 10,800 tons. Cotton, beef and pork also saw improvements. Sorghum, however, hit a marketing year low after a Chinese shipment cancellation. Rice sales fell 42% at 14,900 tons, a noticeable 73% lower than last week.
The next USDA report will be released on April 11.
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I read a fantastic article on Zerohedge this morning about the world ending as per usual. However, this morning’s article “The ‘Game Over’ Redux” had something that I have been trying to explain to some friends/family regarding China for awhile but never really could. This is because I could never fully explain myself due to limited a understanding. That being, I know how it works and how it will collapse in the grand scheme of things but not necessarily all of the triggers and inner workings of the extremely complicated Chinese economy. The quoted text from Knight Research firm Mark Lapolla does a much better job with this.
I think the China situation, however, is profoundly obvious and profoundly simple. The idea that the free world is placing its hope in a repressive, communist regime employing command and control economic management while violating trade protections and human rights everywhere is absolutely astounding, amazing. I would suggest that, in itself, should be a sufficient warning flag. But let’s be a lot more specific. I actually see the situation in China as very analogous to the U.S. in 1929 and Japan in the 1980s….I’ll just tick off eight similarities between China circa 2011 and the U.S. before the Depression. 1) Massive disparity of wealth, income, and education. 2) Rapid industrialization and displacement of labor. 3) Opaque and misleading economic and financial data. 4) Massive build-up of leverage across the “rising” class. 5) Bubbles in both residential real estate and fixed asset/infrastructure development. 6) Accelerating and uncontrolled growth in disintermediated credit. 7) Expected transference of economic growth to domestic demand. And, finally, an accelerating price/wage spiral. Nonetheless, to China’s credit, they have a booming economy which has drawn the attention, admiration and certainly the economic aspirations of the world. The irony is, despite its hubris, China appears to have lost control — and has done so by doing everything it could to avoid that. Essentially, in its own zeal to placate its masses with rapid growth, China has created a tide of inflation that threatens it with wide-spread social unrest. But if it crushes speculation and clamps down on credit, it risks a deflationary collapse that would also threaten social harmony. The upshot is that China no longer controls its own destiny. The free markets do. As an aside, I would suggest that in the not-too distant future, when this all unravels, there will be downside as well as upside for the U.S., particularly as it relates to what we were talking about before, the way the U.S. has benefited from the value of intellectual property versus scale.
On China’s Lewis Point (discussed extensively here):
If there was one thing that pushed us over the edge to publish it last November, it was our belief, now confirmed, that China and an increasing number of other emerging markets are caught in a price/wage spirals that they’re not going to be able to control through monetary, fiscal or legislative policy. These are an inevitable result, not only of the credit boom, but of the manufacturing engine they’re living by. This is the great differentiator between the U.S. and China. The reason a systemic inflation cannot happen here for a long time and why it is happening in China is simply this: When labor is in the business of manufacturing goods (as opposed intellectual property or services), labor has a call on rising finished goods prices. When commodities prices begin to increase and manufacturers attempt to raise finished goods prices, wage rates must go up or labor’s value is necessarily diminished. This is the dynamic traditional U.S. manufacturing businesses faced decades ago, and now, in China, it has reached epic proportions. We’ve seen 20% to 30% wage increases by the government on the low end and by contract manufacturers such as Foxconn (FXCNF), which does the Apple (AAPL) iPhone, on the high end. It has raised wage rates, almost 30%. China bulls believe this wage inflation is good for workers and so ultimately is going to help China accelerate consumer demand as an engine of their growth. Nonetheless, it hasn’t and won’t, for a couple of reasons. 1) Savings rates actually are rising in the major city centers. 2) China’s consumer confidence numbers and research on the ground in China both show that labor has never been less secure than they are now, which seems paradoxical. One would think that China’s new¬found international power, along with higher incomes, would make Chinese workers feel all is right with the world. The problem is that the cost of living is growing even faster. Without getting too technical, China has probably crossed over what’s called, in academic theory, the Lewis Point, where the movement of labor from agriculture into manufacturing reaches a peak and begins to taper off as manufacturing labor begins to reconsider whether life in fact wasn’t better back on the farm.
In short, it’s a bubble. A giant one. Historically every bubble ever blown has popped. I don’t see this going any differently. China can talk and threaten the US, it’s people, it’s intellectual property, it’s monetary system all they want. THEY are in the bubble and are continuously trying to juggle it. It comes down to wages. Sustainability in China will only be possible if the wages increase, paradoxical because low wages are the very thing that attracts so much business to China in the first place.
…USA USA USA USA USA!
Moot point though considering the world ends this weekend.


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The fast increase of the Business Process Outsourcing(BPO) enterprise will growth the demand for office space within the provinces by means of round 1.95 million rectangular meters within the next six years, a belongings consultancy firm said.
In a press briefing on Wednesday, Leechiu Property Consultants(LPC) chief govt officer David Leechiu stated that the BPO tale isn’t always best approximately Metro Manila anymore, as BPO activities also are coming from the provinces.
Leechiu stated records from the IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines(IBPAP), which referred to 30 percent of the 1.3 million full time employees(FTEs) BPO businesses hire are within the provinces. This could translate to around 390,000 FTEs.
The British pound has confronted turbulence recently, ultimate week plummeting against the greenback to its lowest degree for 31 years, amid uncertainty over the impact of the usa’s deliberate Brexit from the European Union.
But Unilever chief government Paul Polman voiced confidence in his organization. “Our business continues to demonstrate its resilience through growing competitively and consistently in tough market conditions,” he stated.
“With markets remaining gentle and risky, we’ve got continued to transform our business at an expanded tempo.”
Third-quarter sales were up three.4 percentage over the equal length last year at steady trade quotes, but,
The Rotterdam-based totally agency stated in a declaration that “due to a terrible forex impact inside the sector… turnover turned into truely solid.”
Sales stood a 13.38 billion euros ($14.6 billion) in the third sector, down fractionally from thirteen.4 billion euros inside the equal duration in 2015.
The news comes as Marmite, a famous British savory staple, turned into among emblem names pulled off the online shop of main supermarket chain Tesco after Unilever reportedly demanded price hikes.
Unilever had sought fee will increase for its products to offset the cost of imported commodities following the autumn of the pound, the Financial Times suggested Thursday citing executives at severa grocery store corporations.
THE HAGUE: Dutch meals large Unilever, reportedly stuck up in a pricing conflict with a British grocery store chain, warned on Thursday the falling pound will in all likelihood hike its charges in Britain.
Releasing stagnant third-sector figures, the big multinational, which substances popular emblem names like Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Knorr soups and Hellmann’s mayonnaise, mentioned it was a “hard market” globally.
There changed into a “price deflation” throughout most of Europe, chief economic officer Graeme Pitkethly said.
“But inside the UK, which is ready 5.Zero percentage of our global turnover, fees have to begin to boom to get better higher cost of imported substances from the weaker sterling,” he advised a convention name.
In one instance stated by using the SEC inside the case, Charles Grom, a former Deutsche Bank analyst, paid a $100,000 penalty in February and become suspended from the securities industry for certifying a “buy” score on the bargain retailer Big Lots whilst privately telling others that the organization should were downgraded.
The financial institution changed into additionally penalized for posted an wrong studies record and failing to maintain or surrender electronic information at some point of the SEC’s investigation.
The financial institution neither admitted nor denied the allegations.
Information generated by using studies analysts including ratings, perspectives, estimates, and trading tips can move markets,” Antonia Chion, associate director for enforcement at the SEC, said in a declaration.
“Broker-dealers have to hold and enforce rules and techniques which are fairly designed in mild of the character of their business to prevent the misuse of such records.”
Insider-trading legal guidelines and guidelines typically restrict investors from shopping for or selling a business enterprise’s stock based on “cloth private records.”
“AC Energy is at a important inflection factor. Our transformation is enabled through fast organic growth and key strategic acquisitions,” Francia stated.
The corporation also lately obtained Bronzeoak Clean Energy (BCE) and San Carlos Clean Energy (SCCE). Bronzeoak Philippines institution is one of the leading renewable energy developers, having evolved over 250 MW of sun and biomass initiatives. SCCE and
BCE were renamed as AC Energy DevCo and Visayas Renewables Co. Respectively.
“Our newly integrated improvement platform is a vital element to be able to help AC Energy gain the purpose of tripling its renewable power ability to 1000 MW by way of 2020,” Francia stated.
AC Energy is also devoted to grow to be a key player inside the retail power deliver (RES) marketplace, imparting contestable customers with easy and compelling answers.
AC Energy Retail’s first client went stay in December 2016. The business enterprise presently has over 50 MW of switched and devoted clients, and continues to develop as customers pick out their respective retail strength providers.
Five years on account that its status quo, AC Energy reached one thousand MW of attributable capacity in 2016. The company currently set a new goal of attaining 2000 MW of attributable capability by way of 2020, 1/2 of with the intention to be renewable energy. It currently has 1300 MW of capability, which includes 300 MW of renewable energy.
AC Energy is the development arm of the Ayala institution in the energy zone. The agency is constructing a portfolio of power era assets using renewable and conventional technology.
A SURGE in Chinese tourists is expected in June this 12 months as a finances airline will mount 12 Clark- Beijing flights, the Clark International Airport Corporation said on Wednesday.
Clark-based totally South East Asian International (SEAIR) Airline will use aircrafts interchanging nightly for the Clark-Beijing path.
The two times-a-week flights from Clark consist of Kunming (Yunnan province), Nanning (Guangxi location) and Changsha (Hunan province). Three different routes may even fly immediately to Puerto Princesa in Palawan.
The other two times weekly flights are Clark to Ningbo and Wenzhou (Zhejiang province), Wuhan (Hubei province) and Hefei (Anhui province).
“This is a big development for Clark airport as SEAIR’s passengers are in particular Chinese businessmen and their families who desire to visit the country,” CIAC President and CEO Alexander Cauguiran said in a assertion.
“Our Chinese guests’ keen hobby in touring choice destinations within the Philippines is a reassurance of our nations’ longtime friendship, as continually being fostered by using President Rodrigo Duterte,” Cauguiran introduced.
According to CIAC, the preferred destinations of Chinese vacationers are the seashores and diving locations, family activity spots, souvenir shops, restaurants, and great hotels, in particular within the Clark Freeport Zone, according to CIAC.
SEAIR partnered with China International Travel Services, the biggest authorities-owned excursion operator in China.
Department of Tourism data showed China is the third largest marketplace for tourism in the Philippines, with a few 630,000 Chinese vacationers travelling the Philippines in January to November 2016.
Because of struggle mer ties with China, the DOT expects the range of arrivals to double this 12 months.
SEAIR is also launching the Clark-Koror course. Koror is the most distinguished amongst many islands comprising the principle industrial middle of the Republic of Palau, CIAC said.
CIAC’s management group and SEAIR executives will keep a speak with tourism stakeholders in Angeles City and close by towns in Pampanga in line with the airline’s plan to encompass guided tours in its flight schedules, Cauguiran cited.
“Our modern-day spherical of funding would be invested in our precedence areas of product, technology, senior control and technical talent,” stated Adrian Chng, leader govt of GoBear. “We are also very interested in partnering with and/or making an investment in different technology groups who have developed thrilling new technologies that would beautify our atmosphere and our potential to enhance people’s financial fitness. Specific areas consist of patron onboarding and fulfilment solutions, non-public financial management, alternative credit score scoring, economic training, and investment structures.”
Opportunities in the location are being driven through several huge, interconnected traits: international-beating monetary growth, fast urbanisation, a quick-growing center class and cell everywhere; Asean’s digital economic system is expected to reach S$270 billion via 2025.
At the identical time, many purchaser services and products stay sick-ideal to this mobile technology, and coins transactions are the norm. The occurrence of a coins-based economy limits purchasers’ economic get entry to, due to the fact with out a non-public monetary profile economic establishments can not determine and price clients’ risk and compare product suitability.
“GoBear’s cause is to improve your monetary fitness,” said Maria Rodriguez Java, united states of america director, GoBear Philippines. “Filipino purchasers are able to make knowledgeable choices throughout 14 private financial product areas, together with coverage, non-public loans, deposits and credit cards, in a easy and obvious manner. Our users have the benefits of GoBear’s type of merchandise and economic partners, and its adept era to look for suitable financial solutions that suit well with their private targets,”
“GoBear has been providing innovation monetary solutions inside the Philippines for the past 3 years. We have over a dozen bank companions whose merchandise fit properly with our cutting-edge person demographics. As our customer base grows and develops, so could our product offerings,” Java stated.
GoBear is happy by way of the opportunity to create the infrastructure and environment to enhance financial fitness for masses of thousands and thousands of clients throughout Asia. It could utilise its product, technology and statistics competencies as key enablers in assessing and pricing chance, which might assist companions better apprehend consumer options based on virtual personas and trips. It is likewise on these journeys that consumers undergo a more efficient and superior virtual enjoy at the same time as being matched to the maximum relevant merchandise for their wishes.


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The outdoor retailer is set to become a major player in surfwear.
More than 99.9 per cent of shareholders voted in favour.
Outdoor retailer completes first stage of equity raising in less than 48 hours.
Iconic Aussie brands – Oroton and Billabong – both face an uncertain future. Where did it all go wrong?
With the upcoming AGM in a couple of weeks, what will the future hold for the once iconic brand?
Family makes third investment in 12 months.
Australian label accused of selling clothing made under harsh labour practices in North Korea.
Surfwear retailers find a more favourable tide with profitability and sales outlook improving.
Aussie surfwear maker sees profits surge due to strong growth in Asia and America.
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Apple launched its Apple Watch earlier this year, in April. While the hardware was not upgraded this year, the Cupertino-based company did release the WatchOS 2 software update. It was only a matter of time that Apple looked into the possibility of launching the second iteration of its wearable device. The introduction of a second Apple Watch is bound to irk many Apple fans out there, especially those who have spent over $10,000 to get their hands on the Apple Watch Edition.
Gmail: Google is working on a new notification system for Gmail users in its everlasting pursuit to lock down your email communication. The report found that the percentage of encrypted emails sent to Gmail addresses from non-Gmail addresses rose from 33% to 61% between December 2013 and October 2015.
Today, the Intercept published a report on Securus Technologies-a jail telephone service provider that is heretofore best known for gouging the shit out of detainees and their families-based on a cache of metadata and recordings of tens of millions of calls provided to the outlet by an anonymous hacker.
An all-new next generation graphics and lighting engine brings to life the world of Fallout like never before. The Fallout universe was always an interesting one to me, and the opening of Fallout 4 does not disappoint. And then there is the power armor...yes, the almighty Power Armor. She's pretty good with a shotgun, so get her in close and she should help out with whatever you come across in your Fallout 4 adventure.
Zelda : Twilight Princess HD will also support the five previously released figures from the Smash Bros. amiibo series: Link, Toon Link, Zelda , Ganondorf, and Shiek. It and previous Zelda Amiibo will work with Twilight Princess . Recent bundles like Yoshi's Woolly World have been stocked well enough, but at the same time, this isn't The Legend of Zelda , so there is no doubt more people will be buying this.
As retailers announce their Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales in the weeks leading up to the events, we're compiling a list of the biggest stores' hours, to help you put together your shopping strategy. At least three people were arrested, and one woman was injured when a TV fell on her while fights broke out in other shopping centers and hundreds of shoppers refused to leave another store that advertised heavily discounted items but had sold out.


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Paytm Money, a wholly-owned subsidiary company of Paytm now allows users to make Initial Public Offering (IPO) investments. Paytm Money until now allowed users to invest in multiple mutual funds in the market. The platform has more than 6 million users who invest through it. Extending the investments domain with the launch of IPO investment services will now allow retail investors of the country to be a part of more wealth creation opportunities. Applying for IPOs through Paytm Money is a very simple process for the users. More details on the story ahead.
Paytm Money Now Allowing IPO Investments
With Paytm Money, investing in IPOs will be a completely digital and seamless process for retail investors across the whole country. To apply for an IPO and complete the application process, users can do so with the UPI IDs linked with their respective bank accounts.
Paytm is leveraging the UPI platform of the country and its infrastructure to make the process of applying for an IPO faster. The turnaround time for the whole process of applying for an IPO will be reduced by up to 4 days because of the use of UPI infrastructure.
Paytm Money offers users a very seamless experience with everything they want to do in regards to their investment. If they want to make changes, they can do so within the IPO window itself. Users can even cancel or reapply for the IPO in case they change their mind.
The platform will track and inform users about all the upcoming IPOs and give them insights into the company that is going public so that the users can make up their mind before they invest. Users will also be able to download a prospectus of the company they are interested in investing. Adding to this, the performance of the past IPOs can also be checked with the help of Paytm Money.
Varun Sridhar, CEO of Paytm Money said, “In near future, we plan to launch IPO funding, derivatives trading, margin finance and a host of other value-adding features to make investing seamless and convenient. This is aligned with our mission to drive financial inclusion across the country.”
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At the opening keynote at CES, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has confirmed that the streaming platform will expand to yet another major market – India – along with other countries including Vietnam, Turkey, Singapore, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Poland, Russia, Azerbaijan and many more.
The long list totals 130 new countries, which added to the 60 where it already operates, means Netflix covers nearly every nation on earth.
The company has also added Arabic, Korean and Chinese to its language options – despite Hastings admitting that they aren’t actually live in China… yet.
The expansion comes after yesterday’s announcement that the company will partner with DreamWorks to distribute new original content in additional markets. Netflix will also collaborate with LG to bring 4K HDR content to markets in Asia, Europe and the Middle East this year.
As of 2015, Netflix is live in more than 70 million homes. Hastings touts that users clocked up 12 billion hours of streaming in Q4 of 2015 alone, up from 8.25 billion a year prior, seeing a total 42.5 billion hours for all of 2015.
While Netflix is focused on being a content creator, rather than simply a provider, Hastings says he aims to continue investing in its core streaming technology.
“One day we hope to get so good at suggestions that we show exactly the show you want for your mood,” he says, along with updates to improve picture quality and audio that will roll out throughout the year.
Questions on what this means for you? Check out our followup Q&A on everything you should know about Netflix in your country.


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Calgary is leading the country in cannabis retail with 24 licensed pot shops — more than twice as many outlets as the next highest jurisdiction — despite the province’s decision last fall to stop issuing further store licences.
“We’ve had remarkably little problem with the retailers here,” Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Thursday. “We have 24 private retail outlets in Calgary, which is by far the largest in the country.”
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The mayor said that despite the city’s free-market approach to regulation, the province’s decision last November to halt licensing due to a shortage of cannabis supply has left some Calgary entrepreneurs in limbo.
The city has now approved development permits for 167 stores in Calgary, more than a dozen of which are stuck waiting for the province to lift a moratorium on new licenses.
“I’ve said from the very beginning, there is no way the Calgary market can support that number of stores,” Nenshi said. “(But) it’s sort of a shame that instead of letting the market sort it out, the first 24 who got in kind of won the lottery because there was then a moratorium on other stores.


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NEW YORK (AP) — When Terina McKinney displays her leather bags and belts at events attended primarily by black women, they are often interested in her designs, and in her experience as an African-American business owner. But she seldom makes sales.
“They all ooh and ahh and ask a ton of questions, but don’t necessarily make purchases,” says McKinney, whose Jypsea Leathergoods products range from $20 to $325. Instead, her customers tend to be white or Asian women.
While calls have been increasing for black consumers to support black-owned businesses with their buying power estimated at more than $1.2 trillion a year, social media campaigns with momentum like #buyblack are relatively new. And McKinney’s frustration is shared by some other black business owners who say they can find it hard to sell to black consumers. Full Article.


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In the security environment of 2022, internal cyber defense for a company is a big and epically complex endeavor. But, frustratingly, getting it right just means that attackers will try to break in another way.
In the 2013 breach of Target, for instance, the attackers gained their initial access by hacking a third-party vendor that had worked at the retailers’ locations. For a more current example, Microsoft said last fall it had observed attackers trying to get into the systems of companies by breaching their managed service providers, who had administrative access.
The threat actor in those attacks, by the way, was the same group believed to have carried out the SolarWinds breach — a case study in third-party risk if there ever was one.
Supply chain insecurity
Thus, in this environment, managing external cyber risk is arguably just as important as securing your endpoints and networks. “If you do have good internal defenses,” says Jim Rosenthal, CEO at security firm BlueVoyant, “a cyberattacker will go after you through your supply chain.”
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However, there aren’t many companies out there that are going to make the investments necessary to manage third-party cyber risk all on their own, Rosenthal said. And while plenty of tools will now assess third-party cyber risk, BlueVoyant is the one vendor that will take on the responsibility of truly solving the problem for customers, he said.
While the company originally launched in 2017 to provide internal security for customers, with its managed detection and response (MDR) offering, BlueVoyant now places an equal emphasis on its external cyber risk management services.
Amid rapid growth in its customer base and revenue, BlueVoyant today announced raising a $250 million series D round funding round to help fuel its continued aggressive expansion — across both internal security and external cyber risk management for customers. In connection with the round, BlueVoyant now has a valuation of “substantially more than $1 billion,” Rosenthal told VentureBeat. The exact valuation was not disclosed.
The round was led by private equity firm Liberty Strategic Capital and included backing from ISTARI, Eden Global Partners and 8VC. Steven Mnuchin — formerly the U.S. secretary of the treasury and now the founder and head of Liberty Strategic Capital — and is joining the board of directors at BlueVoyant in connection with the investment.
The series D round brings BlueVoyant to more than $600 million in total funding to date, the company said.
Technology + humans
The MDR market is now highly competitive, with Gartner tallying 40 major players in the space in a report from last fall. Along with BlueVoyant, others cited by the research firm include Alert Logic, Arctic Wolf, Cybereason, Mandiant, Red Canary and Sophos.
BlueVoyant’s MDR offering provides cloud-based cyber defense for customers, and stands out with capabilities for analyzing massive amounts of data as part of its threat detection, Rosenthal said.
These analytics are performed across an ever-growing number of datasets — more than 50 right now — including through the use of advanced machine learning (ML), he said. The platform can ingest data feeds from hundreds of security tools and uses “high levels of automation” for processing data, none of which has to ever leave the customer’s cloud environment, Rosenthal said.
The technology works in tandem with 24/7 human expertise from the company’s security operations center team, and ultimately, BlueVoyant “can add more value than anyone else that I know of — because of our ability to do [MDR] at scale,” he said. BlueVoyant works with two different security information and event management (SIEM) systems — Microsoft Sentinel (for customers in Microsoft Azure) or Splunk (for customers in Amazon Web Services).
“We take the alerting from all [of a customer’s] tools into the Sentinel or Splunk cloud, we evaluate them and we respond to them as needed,” Rosenthal said.
Of course, internal security is only part of the equation for customers. Recently released research commissioned by BlueVoyant shows how pervasive the supply chain security threat has become: Nearly all firms — 97% — at this point have been negatively impacted by a supply chain security breach, according to the study conducted by research firm Opinion Matters.
When it comes to external cyber risk management, however, what BlueVoyant offers is one-of-a-kind, Rosenthal said. “We do supply chain defense, as opposed to supply chain risk scoring,” he said.
The latter approach typically involves assessing a few thousand suppliers, and giving each of them a risk score, Rosenthal said — but providing customers with that information “doesn’t actually improve the defense in the supply chain at all.”
Solving the problem
Instead, what BlueVoyant does is it looks at every participant in a customer’s supply chain, and identifies any externally detectable, severe vulnerabilities that an attacker would see. The company then interacts with the supplier to make sure that the issue is remedied — solving the problem on the customer’s behalf, Rosenthal said.
“This is a dynamic process — because on average, once a month, there’s a new zero day vulnerability in the world that’s externally perceivable. And that starts a race,” he said. “We can identify it at scale, typically within 90 minutes, and then interact with the affected suppliers within 90 minutes after that.”
This process involves having a “very specific interaction” with the third-party vendor, Rosenthal said. “We say, ‘Here’s the vulnerability. Here’s why it’s serious. Here’s where it is in your network. And here’s the appropriate patch or reconfiguration to fix it.’ And then we watch until they do it.”
Doing all of that is “supply chain defense — as distinguished from supply chain risk scoring,” he said.
And as of right now, “no one else does it,” Rosenthal said. “And it is what the world needs — if you want to prevent attackers from either disrupting your operations, or disrupting the supply chain, or moving upstream in an operation to the enterprise itself.”
Third-party suppliers can include software vendors; suppliers that hold intellectual property; firms that hold confidential data — either about employees or customers; and commodity suppliers. Another key category is suppliers that “are critical to just-in-time operation of your company — and if they are disrupted, your company’s operations are impacted because of that disruption,” Rosenthal said.
BlueVoyant encourages its clients to have risk thresholds tailored to each of the different areas, he said. “But our goal is to make sure that in the areas that really matter, there is nothing easily compromisable by a criminal group.”
BlueVoyant reports that it has more than 700 customers — 299 of which were added just in 2021. Customer names were not disclosed.
The company also did not share revenue figures, but said that its annual recurring revenue doubled in 2021. BlueVoyant is targeting 100% growth in ARR once again in 2022, Rosenthal said.
“I think this company will continue to double in size for the foreseeable future,” he said.
With its growing revenue base and new funding in hand, the company plans to double its sales and marketing team and expand geographically in 2022, he said. BlueVoyant operates in 15 countries at this point, and plans to continue adding a country or two every quarter, according to Rosenthal.
The New York-based company currently has a headcount of 560, and plans to add 100 employees by the end of the year, he said
On the product side, BlueVoyant plans to continue adding new datasets for further enhancing its threat detection capabilities, and will consider additional acquisitions, as well, he said. The company’s most recent acquisition was of supply chain risk management firm 202 Group in October.
Rosenthal, formerly the chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley, cofounded BlueVoyant with executive chairman Thomas Glocer, formerly the CEO of Thomson Reuters.
While the series D funding makes the company a member of the now-populous security unicorns club, “within five years, I expect [BlueVoyant] to be more than $10 billion” in terms of valuation, Rosenthal said.
The company has made no decisions about whether to stay private or pursue going public — but either is an option because “we’ve earned the right to build our own value by our growth rates,” he said.
All in all, “we’ve got an extraordinarily effective record at providing internal defense for companies. And we are, at this point, very special in our ability to provide external defense as well,” Rosenthal said. “My goal is to always be a leader in both internal and external defense, and to make sure that companies have both — because they need both.”
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There’s a safer way to get in on the ground floor of marijuana investments
Deals involving marijuana companies are flying right and left every day of the week. There’s constant talk of one company making a deal with another for an acquisition or a seemingly unattached company getting into the marijuana industry. One of the most logical combinations is the possibility that Altria, maker of the Marlboro cigarettes, could be considering a move into marijuana. However, all of the talk is causing crazy things to happen with marijuana stocks and prices continue to fluctuate substantially. For those that want to get involved in the marijuana stock market but aren’t ready to take the leap of faith, there are other alternatives.
One of the biggest upcoming industries within the marijuana ecosystem is the beverage industry. There are already several beverage companies, including Pepsi, Constellation – the company behind Corona Beer – and Coca-Cola that are either in or are considering entering the marijuana space. These companies have a solid track record in the markets, which makes it relatively easy to gauge their performance in order to ascertain a proper level of investment. Additionally, their expanded operations, if and when they get into marijuana, will give investors an extra dividend as their share prices almost definitely will explode.
The marijuana beverage industry is expected to reach $600 million in the U.S. within the next four years. The entire marijuana industry is expected to be worth around $75 billion within the next decade and beverages are going to command a significant part of the market. By putting money into the beverage companies now, investors will be more prepared for the growth explosion and can expect to see significant returns through their long-term investments.


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You read that right: according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey involving more than 300 respondents, most brands see social media as a crucial business tool but do not use it in their crisis management efforts.
Yes, most of the businesses surveyed are “starting to think about how to improve crisis communications elements in their BCM programs” (that’s corporate speak for “cover their asses”). Yet they’re hesitant to dip their toes into the social media pool when it comes to reputation and crisis management for some reason…
Based on these findings, you’d think that most businesses haven’t even hired PR firms. One of PwC’s Risk Assurance principals says:
As social media’s use in an organization becomes more pervasive and management grows more comfortable with its use, BCM programs will naturally begin to adopt social media for internal and external crisis communications.
In other words, they’re kind of like your great aunt: they’re scared of Facebook now, but once they get on it’ll be post, post, post. With fewer kitty pics.
Are any of your clients still social-phobic?


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To allow for a service, users simply download a Visible app (currently accessible usually on iOS) and register. Right now, subscriptions are invitation usually and would-be subscribers have to get an invitation from someone who’s already a tide Visible member.
Once registration is complete, Visible will send a sim label a subsequent day, and, once installed, a user can entrance Verizon’s 4G LTE network to tide videos, send texts, and make calls as most as their heart desires.
Visible says there’s no throttling during a finish of a month and subscribers can compensate regulating internet-based remuneration services like PayPal and Venmo (which is owned by PayPal).
The use is usually accessible on unbarred inclination — and right now, flattering most usually to iPhone users.
“This is something that’s been a seed of an thought for a year or so,” says Minjae Ormes, conduct of selling during Visible. “There’s a core organisation of people from a devise side. There’s a core organisation of 5 or 10 people who came adult with a idea.”
The association wouldn’t contend how most Verizon gave to a business to get it off a ground, though a care group is comprised mostly of former employees, like Miguel Quiroga a company’s arch executive.
“The approach we would consider about it.. we are a phone use in a height that enables all that we do. The approach we launched and a app messaging square of it. You do all else on your phone and a lot of time if we ask people your phone is your life,” pronounced Ormes. The meditative was, “let’s give we a phone that we can activate right from your phone and get prepared to go and see how it resonates.”
It’s an engaging pierce from a corporate overlord (Verizon owns Oath, that owns TechCrunch), that is already a tip dog in wireless services, with some 150 million subscribers compared with ATT’s 141.6 million and a soon-to-be-combined Sprint and T-Mobile subscriber bottom of 126.2 million.
For Verizon, a new association is expected about holding off attrition. The association strew 24,000 postpaid phone connectors in a final quarter, according to The Wall Street Journal, that put some vigour on a patron bottom (but not unequivocally all that much).
Mobile telecommunications sojourn during a core of Verizon’s business skeleton for a future, even as other carriers like ATT demeanour to dive deeper into calm (while Go90 has been a flop, Verizon hasn’t given adult on calm skeleton entirely). The merger of Oath combined about $1.2 billion in code income (?) to Verizon for a final quarter, though it’s not anywhere nearby a kind of media juggernaut that ATT would get by a TimeWarner acquisition.
Verizon seems to be looking to a other mobile services, by connected devices, industrial equipment, unconstrained vehicles, and a enlargement of a 5G network for destiny growth.
Every wireless conduit is pulling tough to rise 5G technologies, that should see national rollout by a finish of this year. Verizon recently finished a 11 city trial-run and is banking on enlargement of a network’s capabilities to expostulate new services.
As a Motely Fool noted, all of this comes as Verizon adds new networking capabilities for industrial and blurb applications by a Verizon Connect multiplication — shaped in partial from a $2.4 billion merger of Fleetmatics, that Verizon bought in 2016 along with Telogis, Sensity Systems, and LQD Wifi to beef adult a mobile device connectivity services.
Meanwhile, pretender entrants to plea large wireless carriers are entrance from all quarters. In 2015, Google launched a possess wireless service, Project Fi, to contest with normal carriers and Business Insider just lonesome another would-be wireless warrior, Wing .
David Arabov and co-founder Jonathan Francis didn’t take prolonged after holding a $26 million payout for their prior business before removing right behind into a startup fray. Unlike Visible, Wing isn’t a one-size-fits-all devise and it’s a most some-more normal MVNO. The association has a operation of skeleton starting during $17 for a flip-phone and augmenting to an total devise during $27 per month, according to a company’s website.
As carriers continue to face complaints over use fees, sealed in contracts, and terrible options, new options are firm to emerge. In this instance, it looks like Verizon is perplexing to make itself into one of those carriers.


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Science Confirms The Obvious: Fast Food Is Pretty Bad For You
Over the past 14 years, fast food has gone from "awful, health-wise" to "awful, health-wise."
A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine takes a look at a host of popular American fast-food establishments to see if they’ve improved, nutritionally, in the past decade and a half. They have! Technically! Also technically: they are still way below average.
The team used the Healthy Eating Index, a tool created by the US Department of Agriculture that essentially measures how well a given diet matches up with a list of dietary guidelines, also created by the Department of Agriculture. The HEI, as it’s usually called, awards points for a diet that includes more of certain items (dark green vegetables, whole grains, seafood) and also points for less of other items (refined grains, sodium, and the vague “empty calories”). The average American diet scores in the low 50s, typically, which is, um, not good, considering that the scale is out of 100.
The HEI began in 1995, and eight key fast-food restaurants, including McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, KFC, and the other biggies, have HEI data starting in 1997. The study compares that score with a new score from the 2009/2010 year, and finds that over those 14 years, the scores barely rose. In 1997, those restaurants averaged a score of 45; 14 years later, they averaged 48. Still below average, and still pretty awful, despite new menu items like salads and wraps entering the menu. Maybe because those salads aren’t actually healthful at all?
An accompanying article says, “this tiny increase is disappointing, and a bit surprising.” Well, maybe not surprising.


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Just recently Apple released its new iPad, the rumours of yet another iPad starts circulating. The next iPad is thrilling people on the rumour that Apple plans to make the next iPad worth anywhere between $249 to $299. The rumour had its birth at one of the regional factories in Taiwan, where Apple has placed its new orders.
As Apple has always had a “tradition” of competing against fellow technology companies by bringing out a product similar to others, but in a repackaged and more attractive way, which makes it popular with customers, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is the new inspiration for iPad Mini. Apple has surprising even capped the production number of these iPad Minis to 6 million. So, if you see one in the market, better race to buy it. iPad Mini is expected to be out by the third quarter of this year.
Apple had collaborated with Samsung to get the new PLS-based LCD technology for smaller iPads. The screen of this iPad Mini is expected to be of 7.8-inch. The current screen size of iPad is 9.7-inch. It is a good product to introduce and might get those into iPads, who still have not been much interested in tablets.
But producing iPad Mini might be a threat to Apple’s own regular iPads and their sales. Besides, there have been rumours about an iPad Mini since “about forever” now. Apple, which always has eyes on the target that says sales, will definitely think more than ten times to actually go into production for iPad Minis.


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SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM) Labour Market Report said on Thursday (Sept 14) that the number of employed Singapore citizens and permanent residents decreased by 1,200 in the second quarter of this year.
This is the first time the number has fallen since the second quarter of 2020.
“Robust increases in sectors such as community, social and personal services and financial and insurance services were offset by contractions in food and beverage services and retail trade due to outflow from the cessation of seasonal hiring,” said MOM.
However, total employment excluding migrant domestic workers grew for the seventh straight quarter, with 25,500 non-residents getting hired in the second quarter of this year.
The fall in employment numbers is largely due to fewer people working in retail trade and food and beverage services because of seasonal factors, MOM said.
Hiring related to seasonal events goes up. Much of it is temporary work that goes to part-time workers or students.
Manpower Minister Tan See Lung warned against complacency but said, “You may sort of see this kind of lumpy seasonality, so I wouldn’t act on one quarter’s sort of drop.”
“What is important is that there’s still hiring,” the Manpower Minister added.
The director of Manpower Research and Statistics at MOM, Mr Ang Boon Heng, is quoted in CNA as saying, “Usually in the second half of the year, close to September until December, and sometimes stretching a little bit into the Chinese New Year, we have all these year-end festivities as well as we have the (Formula One race).”
The decrease in resident employment is not expected to continue, MOM says. Hiring is expected to rise in the coming months due to the recovery in tourism and the year-end celebrations, although the figures are not likely to go up as much as last year.


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Food Safety News(FSN) has compiled an investigation that shows the majority of honey found in grocery stores, drug stores, restaurants and big box stores do not contain any pollen. Without pollen, it is not real honey!
When we go into the store looking to find honey we often see these bottles shaped into cute bears that are so willing to share their honey on your favorite food or in your favorite drink. But is it because they know its not real honey that they are so willing to share?
FSN used Vaughn Bryant, one of the leading melissopalynologists, otherwise known as experts in identifying pollen in honey, and director of the Palynology Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University, studies over 60 products labeled as “honey” that had been purchased by FSN from ten states and the District of Columbia.
Of all products labelled as “honey, Bryant found that 76 percent purchased from major grocery store chains, and 77 percent of samples purchased from big box chains did not contain any pollen. If that wasn’t crazy enough, “honey” samples taken from drug stores and fast food restaurants revealed that 100% of them contained no pollen! This means none of the products tested labelled “honey” found in fast food restaurants and drug stores are honey!
According to FSN, the lack of pollen in most conventional “honey” products is due to a process these products go through called ultra-filtering. This means the products have been intensely heated, forced through extremely tiny filters, and potentially watered down or adulterated in some way before they are packaged and sold to stores. The process of ultra filtering also removes all medical benefits honey can have for the human body.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) holds the position that any so-called honey products that have been ultra-filtered are not actually honey. But the FDA agency refuses to do anything to stop illegitimate “honey” from reaching stores across North America. The FDA also continues to stonewall all actions, like petitioning, from establishing a national regulatory standard for verifying the integrity of honey.
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Who’s Who in Airfreight Forwarding?
Each year, Inbound Logistics creates a list of all leading players in the airfreight forwarding industry. With overall air cargo volumes remaining 1.2 percent down from their 2014 year-end peak, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), airfreight forwarders are facing headwinds.
This annual list helps the customer navigate this dynamic industry, listing companies of all sizes. ICAT Logistics is honored to be a part of this prestigious list for 2015!


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Two suspect in a robbery were apprehended two hours after the student reported the theft of his iPhone because of a cell phone application Friday.
A male USC student on the 2300 block of Portland Street was held at knifepoint while walking and listening to music on his phone. The victim called DPS right after the robbery.
The Dept. of Public Safety used a GPS tracking device on the cell phone through the MobileMe app to find the suspects.
The phone was tracked from the DPS office while a joint LAPD-DPS team went to find the location of the phone. The suspects were found walking on the 1100 block of Pico Avenue a few miles from USC campus, DPS. Capt. David Carlisle said.
“Besides good detective work, the fact is that technology was a major factor in this investigation,” Carlisle said. “Without a smartphone, it would have made recovering it very difficult. It would have taken a lot of leg work, and there is no guarantee this crime would have ever been solved.”
Carlisle recommends students download tracking apps because they can be useful tools during an investigation.
“Students, most of whom have smartphones, may want to take the time to download [tracking] apps,” Carlisle said. “In the event that they lose it or it’s stolen, it would aid investigators in the recovery of property, and this case, in the possession of the suspects.”
The success of the tracking device in the robbery has motivated others to download tracking apps on their phones.
“This incident definitely inspires me, not just so that I can get my phone or computer back but also so that police are able to find criminals more easily,” said Mallorie Maranda, a sophomore majoring in psychology..
MobileMe is an Internet service from Apple that syncs your Mac or PC with your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with emails, contacts and calendar events and also enables you to locate your missing devices. iPhone users can activate MobileMe to download the Find My iPhone app without purchasing MobileMe services.
The Find My iPhone app allows iPhone owners to track the location of their phone using Google Maps, send a message to a possible finder and erase all information on their iPhone.
David Samson, a junior majoring in business administration, said that having a tracking app on a smartphone is essential.
“This technology is the future,” Samson said. “Human error, like leaving your cell phone on a park bench, combined with technology and the ability to find your phone is incredible.”


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Top Agencies, Brands Discuss How Mobile is Reshaping Marketing and Media Across Europe
LOS ANGELES, June 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile Media Summit, the largest mobile media and advertising conference in North America and Europe is headed to London for its first event on Tuesday, July 1st. The mobile media and advertising industry gathering, taking place at the Rosewood Hotel, will bring together the most powerful media, digital, agency, brand and mobile executives who are moving the industry forward and driving mobile innovation across the UK and Western Europe.
"The Mobile Media Summits are the preeminent mobile conferences that put advertisers at the forefront of mobile innovation and I'm very excited to be the keynote speaker at their first event in London. As mobile reshapes the media landscape it's critically important to understand how it fits into a multi screen world globally," said Keith Weed, Chief Marketing and Communication Officer of Unilever.
"We are incredibly excited for Mobile Media Summit London to bring together international brand, agency, and mobile technology leaders to discuss how mobile is evolving globally," said Paran Johar, CEO and founder of Mobile Media Summit. "This exclusive event is the only one that puts brands and agencies at the forefront of the discussion hearing what they want and where they are investing their budgets." For more information on the agenda, speakers and registration, visit http://mobilemediasummit.com/london-2014/
Event sponsors and partners include Opera Mediaworks, 4A's, Adweek, Airpush, Medialets, mobiThinking, PubMatic, SheppardMullin, Street Fight, The Advertising Club, The Makegood, xAd, Women in Wireless, and among others.
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About Mobile Media Summit The Mobile Media Summits and Mobile Media Upfront are the quintessential thought-leadership forums for brand, agency and mobile leaders to learn and network on the newest mobile technology and media. Founded in 2008 by Paran Johar, the Mobile Media Summit and Mobile Media Upfront are the largest event series in mobile advertising, where an average of 75% of the audience are advertisers, more than any other event. Since its founding, the event series has hosted over 850 speakers and well over 10,000 attendees. Visit www.mobilemediasummit.com for more information.
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Modern Slavery Act 2015
In October 2015, the UK Government introduced the 2015 Modern Slavery Act. The Act requires companies operating in the UK, with a Group turnover of more than £36million per year to publish a statement setting out the steps that they have taken during that financial year to ensure that slavery and human trafficking are not taking place:
- anywhere in their supply chains;
- in any part of their own business.
You can find Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland's statement below:
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Oxford, UK – Western European car registrations in May 2022 were down by 13.1% at 850,000 units compared with May 2021, according to data from LMC Automotive. In May the previous year, a total of 970,000 units were registered.
Gloom continues for Western European car sales
Supply cannot keep up with the reduced levels of demand for passenger cars in Western Europe as consumers are holding back slightly in the light of the war in Ukraine.
LMC Automotive said: ‘We forecast the 2022 market down again against both 2020 and 2021, at around two-thirds of the levels seen in 2019, due to our baseline assumption that supply chain issues will constrain results until 2023.’
The consultants added that if the war in Ukraine continues, supply chains struggle and demand will drop further; sales could also fall because of China’s coronavirus policy.
Looking at the largest markets, in Germany sales were down 10.2% in May, with registrations at 207,199 units. In the UK, year-to-date sales were down 8.7% year-on-year. Sales hit a total of 124,394 cars in the month, down by 20.6% on the same month in 2021.
In France, the year-to-date number of registrations fell by 16.9%, with a total of 600,000 units sold there in the year so far.
Spanish sales were down by 10.9% in the month at 84,977 units. The year-to-date total is 318,488 units, lower by 11.5% on this time last year. In Italy, sales were down by 15.3% at 121,299 units in May. A total of 560,000m vehicles have been sold there in the year to date.


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Govt. exempts free phone status- PTA phone registration online latest update
Every imported phone will be taxed as per Federal government new mobile tax regulations
Federal government of Pakistan has removed exemption of first free phone for overseas Pakistanis and every international traveler coming to Pakistan.
It was revealed in finance committee that after the application of new finance bill, first free phone status will be removed and it is already applicable since 1st July. Customs officials told the Govt committee that from now on every passenger coming to Pakistan will have to bear tax on new phone he is bringing from other country.
Earlier, one mobile was allowed to bring in Pakistan without paying any tax. One just needed to register its imei number on pta dirbs system within 6o days.
After new tax order on imported mobile phone, there is no tax exemption.


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Analysts have become increasingly bearish on Cracker Barrel Old Country Store in the month leading up to the company's second-quarter earnings announcement scheduled for Tuesday, February 24, 2015. The consensus analyst estimate has moved from $1.62 a share to the current prediction of earnings of $1.60 a share.
The consensus estimate has fallen over the past three months, from $1.63. Analysts are expecting earnings of $6.13 per share for the fiscal year. Revenue is expected to be $734.1 million for the quarter, 5% higher than the year-earlier total of $698.5 million. For the year, revenue is expected to come in at $2.82 billion.
A year-over-year revenue drop in the first quarter broke a streak of two straight quarters of revenue growth.
The company has seen steady earnings for the last eight quarters, and for the last four, net income has increased year-over-year by an average of 7%. The quarter with the biggest boost was the third quarter, which saw a 17% surge.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store is engaged in the operation and development of the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurant and retail concept. The company operates over 500 full-service restaurants and gift shops in 41 states. Other companies in the restaurants industry with upcoming earnings release dates include: Biglari Holdings, Bravo Brio Restaurant Group and DineEquity.
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“Um…I’m supportive,” Kim Gordon said after a long hesitation when asked if she’d been encouraging when her daughter, Coco Gordon Moore, casually let it slip on the phone that she had “that thing” this Saturday, which turned out to be making her runway debut as a model at Eckhaus Latta’s Spring 2018 show.
Gordon, who hadn’t been planning on attending much of New York Fashion Week, of course then secured herself a ticket, arrived to the show promptly, and even craned her neck quite a few times toward the entrance before Moore finally walked out—and let another thing slip. The knit dress that designers Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta had outfitted her in turned out to be a bit loose when in motion; by the end of her turn on the zig-zag catwalk in a vaulted space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, “my nipple was out pretty much,” as Moore put it after the show.
Not that Moore, who’s a surprisingly normal 23-year-old, given that her parents are the founders of Sonic Youth—she lives in Bed-Stuy and describes herself as “more of a low-key, stay inside-type person”—cared very much: “I was kind of like, whatever, I can’t do anything about it, and it’s a fashion show.”
And a fashion show with plenty more for showgoers to gawk at, at that: Gordon and the rest of the models, including the singer Kelela and the brand’s mainstays Alexandra Marzella, Michael Bailey Gates, and India Salvor Menuez, also had Aztec clay masks streaked across their hair, faces, and backs, thanks to the brand’s collaboration with Immunocologie.
“This reminds me of the artist Donna Huanca,” Menuez said brightly as the hairstylist Holli Smith brushed a swath of clay across her forehead, having already slicked back her hair with an Oribe mist spray and water—the only beauty products used in the entire show.
Eckhaus and Latta typically go for an all-natural look with their models on the runway, but in a way, their idea to keep the clay visible, rather than wash it away, was even more real than their past looks: To achieve the appearance of a “face that was just scrubbed clean,” like they usually showcase, Latta pointed out, “you can’t really fake it unless you clean it,” using products like masks.
The move was simply the pair’s latest in bringing reality to fashion, after showing actual sex in their spring 2017 campaign; real-life, privately recorded confessions in their latest video; and, of course, as always, a wide range of ages, races, and genders in their cast.
The latter was particularly amplified this time around: A 60-year-old woman walking the show is, at this point, nowhere near surprising for the brand, but Eckhaus and Latta definitely outdid themselves when they cast the artist Maia Ruth Lee, knowing that she was more than eight months pregnant.
“The joke has been, is she gonna give birth at the show?” Latta said with a laugh. Lee’s husband, the artist Peter Sutherland, was definitely in on the fun: He proudly Instagrammed his wife walking with her exposed belly and captioned it “Preghaus Latta," "trimester 17."
In other words, altogether, it was the usual scene, times 10, at Eckhaus Latta: “low-key, not just models, but artists and models and a family friend type vibe” was how Moore's agent summed it up to her—and convinced her to walk the show in the first place. And, thanks in large part to showgoers including art world names like Nate Lowman and the Whitney Biennial curator Christopher Y. Lew, as well as those like the New York Times critic Vanessa Friedman who brought along their children (or dogs) and held them on their laps, Moore wasn't disappointed: "It was definitely like that."
The brand does seem to have gotten increasingly to its core as of late thanks to the fact that they’re now doing pre-collections—the first of which launched in May—where they can concentrate on market-friendly basics like t-shirts and denim. “It allows us to have the shows be more about pieces and our new explorations in making clothing,” Eckhaus said. “We love clothes that are falling apart and exploring the idea of clothing that’s not deconstructed or distressed, but evokes the idea of how a hole or flash or tear could emerge.”
After their usual knits and denim pieces, which looked better than ever, and even some impressively tailored suits, that concept that was showcased particularly in the show’s finale, which, preceded by three green sheer shirts, consisted of three completely sheer pieces with deliberate cut-outs, all in an even more see-through pale blue. In other words, Moore was hardly alone in showing off her nipples—and not seeming to mind at all about doing so. Everyone was, after all, amongst family and friends.
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Gov. Mike DeWine’s order for all hair and nail salons, barber shops and tattoo parlors in Ohio to close indefinitely on March 18 brought a rush of customers who had hurriedly scheduled haircut appointments late that afternoon.
The order was among several the governor has issued in the past 10 days to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus). Restaurants and bars were ordered to close or limit business to carryout and delivery on March 15.
One hair stylist described the start of the final day as somewhat slow. The rush began around 3:30 p.m., said Dina Martinez, manager of Sport Clips Haircuts at City Centre of Avon, 35925 Detroit Road. A team of four hair stylists at the Avon location of Sport Clips, cranked out 64 haircuts March 18 – 50 in the last five hours of business. On the same day last year, there were 53 haircuts at Sport Clips, Martinez said.
And the last guy in the chair? Avon Lake resident Gerald Phillips, who came in shortly before closing for his first haircut since January.
“I can be cheap, frugal and a tightwad,” Phillips jokingly said. “I usually get my hair cut at Great Clips, but the ones in Avon and Avon Lake already were closed when I got there. So I came here. It was packed, but I figured it was worth the wait. I needed a haircut. She (hair stylist Melanie Ritter) did a good job.”
He tipped Ritter $40 for the $20 haircut.
“I knew she was going to be unemployed for a while, so I thought I’d help her out,” Phillips said.
Martinez was monitoring the shop’s online scheduling system following DeWine’s announcement.
“Right around 3:30, the computer screen just filled up with people scheduling appointments online,” she said. “It was crazy. I’ve never seen anything like this. This is super sad.”
Martinez said she would spend time at home with her 4-year-old daughter while she’s off work.
“I can’t wait to see what happens with all of this,” she said.
Grace Campbell, a hair stylist for about five years, called the sudden influx of customers “wild.”
“I remember hearing about Y2K when I was about 6 years old, and later anthrax soon after 9/11, but this is crazy,” she said.
Colin Coughlin of Elyria was among those getting a haircut.
“This is like something in a movie,” he said. “It’s weird. And we’re living it.”
Coughlin, 28, is an online banker for Key Bank and is serving customers on his computer at home.
“The government has to do what they have to do,” Coughlin said. “It’s about stopping the spread of the virus.”
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The reality star turned fashion designer took to Instagram yesterday evening to debut her brand new 'do as she braved the scissors went all edgy on us.
Amy who has gone extension free for the first time in, well a long time captioned the stunning selfie, "January is all about stripping back. Less makeup, fitness on track, and taking a break from hair extensions!"
Taking a leaf out of Kylie Jenner's book (the KUWTK star mentioned she wanted to wear less of the slap this year) Amy appeared to be virtually barefaced but she still looked absolutely stunning.
It wasn't long before Amy's followers flooded her Instagram feed with compliments about her new barnet.
One fan wrote, "Naturally beautiful! I did the same just over a year ago and my hair is 70% better! Keep up good work," while another said, "My God is that the actual length!? My hair hero!! Looks lush!!!"
We couldn't agree more.
Even though our favourite celebs have been going shorter and shorter lately (Lauen Pope and Khloe Kardashian spring to mind), no-one has opted for this length yet which just goes to show that Amy is a total trendsetter.
Gorgeous Ms. Childs - who also gave her locks a fiery red refresh - has gained a huge 2,953 likes on the snap already.
Excuse us while we book a salon appointment...
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Ipswich/Harwich: Fred. Olsen and Ipswich Town celebrate travel partnership
- Credit: Archant
Ipswich Town legend John Wark was guest of honour on board the Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines vessel Braemar at a celebration marking the company’s travel partnership with the club.
Captain Bent Ivar Gangal gave the former Blues, Liverpool and Scotland star a tour of the ship, during a call at Harwich International Port, accompanied by Nathan Philpot, Fred. Olsen’s sales and marketing director, and Simon Milton, Town’s academy sponsorship manager.
Under the two-year deal,
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, a member of the EADT/EDP Top100 listing of the 100 largest companies in Suffolk and Norfolk, and sister company Fred. Olsen Travel, which is based in Ipswich, will look after the club’s travel requirements, including hotels, domestic and international flights, and even the players’ medical trips.
The agreement also gives Town supporters discounts on holidays and cruises, with every trip booked by Blues fans meaning that Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines and Fred. Olsen Travel will invest funds back into the club.
Mr Philpot said: “We have been delighted to be joined by our partners Ipswich Town Football Club on board Braemar in our local port, Harwich, and we hope that we have been able to give John and Simon a flavour of why we believe that our relationship with the club is so important.
“We may offer cruises to all four corners of the globe from 10 ports around the UK, but we are a local Ipswich-based company, and we are pleased to be reinvesting our earnings on every cruise booking made by Town fans back into the Club. Hopefully, supporters can go on their cruise holiday knowing that they helped to develop the next young player and made a difference to their team.”
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Mr Milton added: “Ipswich Town are delighted to have Fred. Olsen as their official travel partners and continue the long-standing relationship between both companies.
“Our Academy U10 team will continue to wear the Fred. Olsen logo with pride on their shirts and we look forward to welcoming Nathan Philpot to the training ground to meet the team in the new season.”
Besides the guests from Ipswich Town, the Braemar also played host to a number of students from the One sixth form college and Suffolk New College in Ipswich, with which Fred. Olsen has been working to develop specialist hotel management, travel and tourism study modules.
Many of the students took the opportunity to be photographed with the former footballers and to have the chance to hold John’s prized 1978 FA Cup winners shirt.


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Maldives has commenced International Maldives Travel Market (IMTM) 2018.
IMTM 2018 was officially inaugurated by Minister of Finance and Treasury Ahmed Munawar. IMTM held in Adaaran Hudhuranfushi Resort is the first ever international travel and trade fair to be held at a resort in Maldives. The fair is attended by travel industry professionals from 18 countries. It includes tour operators, travel agencies, liveaboards, dive centres and other professionals from the industry.
The fair will pave way to further enhance the tourism sector and businesses in the country, Finance Minister Ahmed Munawar said addressing the function. Noting that tourism is the source market of the Maldivian GDP with 90%, Minister Munawar said Maldivian tourism grew 11% in April this year.
Meanwhile, Managing Director of IMTM Mohamed Farshath said one main aim of the fair is providing a platform to meet and discuss mutual concerns in the country. He said IMTM is actively trying to create solutions and solve the problems that the industry is facing, especially those businesses that are trying hard to thrive but are unable to attend international fairs due to the hefty cost involved, to sustain IMTM's long term vision is to promote Maldives as an emerging world class MICE destination.
During the ceremony, PADI Maldives was inaugurated. IMTM has been endorsed by Ministry of Tourism of Maldives.


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CNN top international news brand in Europe
June 11, 2015
CNN is again confirmed as Europe’s biggest international news brand, reaching 36 per cent of the continent’s affluent population every month on TV or digital platforms* according to this year’s Ipsos Affluent Survey Europe study.
The independent industry research shows CNN as having 25 per cent higher reach than the nearest news competitor. With 36 per cent cross-platform monthly reach, CNN is ahead of Sky News (28 per cent), BBC (27 per cent), Euronews (24 per cent), CNBC (13 per cent), Bloomberg (12 per cent) and Al Jazeera English (8 per cent).
In TV, CNN remains well ahead of all news competitors with a 30 per cent monthly reach across Europe. Similarly, CNN is the top news destination site with 11 per cent monthly reach, ahead of competitors such as New York Times (9 per cent) and Financial Times (8 per cent) as well as traditional TV news brands.
Ipsos also found that CNN leads in cross-platform reach amongst core audiences. CNN reaches more C-Suites (49 per cent), business decision makers (49 per cent), luxury consumers (40 per cent) and frequent international travellers (55 per cent) across Europe every month than any other international business or news network.
“In a world of multiple devices and fast-changing consumer habits, CNN continues to outperform the competition on both linear TV and digital platforms,” said Rani R. Raad, Chief Commercial Officer, CNN International.
“Our continued leadership position across Europe is a testament to the vital role CNN plays in informing and engaging with the continent’s affluent audiences. Whether it’s compelling breaking news on TV, shareable social content on mobile, or a rich digital experience – CNN continues to remain at the forefront of the news landscape.”


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A collection of news, articles and other featured content about Mobile Marketing.
FORM.com, a company in low-code/no-code mobile data collection acquires GoSpotCheck's task management and image recognition platform in a carveout.
The retailer is launching "7Voice," allowing customers to place orders through its 7Now delivery service via voice-enabled devices Google Home and Amazon Echo.
The manufacturer is launching digital product identities (IDs) for tens of millions of its products, starting with the Polo brand.
The German liqueur brand has teamed with location data provider Foursquare to run a Halloween-themed campaign that lets mobile users see "Darke Spirits" in augmented reality.
A survey of 50 top-level CPG executives shares how they leverage field service solutions to improve operational efficiencies, in-store marketing and merchandising.
The brand is celebrating the Mexican holiday with an out-of-home campaign centered on a mural that springs to life through augmented reality.
The dollar store chain has updated its mobile application as it continues to deploy technology that complements a shopper's in-store experience.
After spending 130 years building a global brand, Coca-Cola is prepared to up the ante. The company has embarked on an aggressive 5-year digital transformation journey.
Unilever is again running a summer program incentivizing ice cream purchases at 10 Albertsons Cos. chains, this time drumming up more of a digital presence.
The drugstore chain is honing its health-centric vision by expanding its assortment of wellness products with a focus on transparency and self care.
Formex Swiss Watches this month released a mobile app that lets consumers try on its products using their smartphones.
Publix teamed with Nestle and Sparkling Ice to run respective summer rebate programs administered via Snipp Interactive.


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Update: Square Enix has issued the following statement in response to reports on its closure in India:
“We have made a long-term commitment to serving the Indian market, and it means there always will be a possibility that we make necessary changes in the strategy from time to time in order to take the best strategic option. It is true that we are considerably reducing the size of our Mumbai office, however, it does not mean we will withdraw from India.”
Square Enix has shut down its India operations just a year after setting up shop, laying of its six employees in the process.
While Square Enix India didn’t develop games itself, it was working with Indian developers to create mobile games specifically for the India market.
The Indian subsidiary didn’t release a single game during its brief existence, and while it was working with several developers around India, none of those projects got the go-ahead of Square Enix’s Japan headquarters.
Note that the closure of Square Enix India will have no impact on the release of the publisher’s console and PC games in India, which are distributed by E-xpress Interactive via Square Enix Europe.
Square Enix hasn’t released an official statement as to what prompted the decision to wind up its India operations, but we’ll update this story if and when we learn more.
MCV India has more details on the Square Enix India closure.


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Securus Technologies is a Texas-based company, specializing in providing and monitoring calls to prison inmates. Securus came into the spotlight earlier this month, when a former Missouri sheriff was found using the company's service to repeatedly track people without a warrant. The New York Times reports that between 2014 and 2017, former sheriff Cory Hutcheson used the service at least 11 times, allegedly tracking a judge and members of the State Highway Patrol.
Securus obtains tracking information through a company called LocationSmart, which in turn has agreements with most U.S. carriers. Earlier this month, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote a letter to various carriers asking them to independently verify that these requests are made lawfully. Read More
The holiday season is upon us, and that means it's time for big deals on this year's crop of smartphones. T-Mobile has an attractive offer starting tomorrow (November 17th) on multiple phones. Just buy one phone, and you can get another from the same manufacturer free. Well, free after rebate. Read More
A couple of months back, MetroPCS offered two unlimited LTE lines for $75. That was already a pretty great deal, but today Metro announced an even better one: four unlimited lines for a stunningly low $100. And for every line you port in, Metro will give you a free phone. Read More
At 11:50 PM local time on Thursday (4:50 AM GMT), an 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Mexico, near its border with Guatemala and Belize. The tremors were felt in Mexico City, hundreds of miles away from the epicenter, and caused extensive damage in the southern cities of Juchitán, Oaxaca, Chiapas. In response to this disaster, several US carriers are making calls and texts free to Mexico. Read More
ZTE phones are well known for delivering great bang for the buck - the Axon 7 and $99 ZMAX PRO immediately come to mind. Now, there's a new ZMAX phone on the block, the Blade ZMAX, and it offers quite a few flagship-level features for only $129. Read More
MetroPCS isn't seriously considered by many because of its reputation as a second-tier, prepaid carrier, but it's now offering some pretty enticing deals on its unlimited plans. Two lines with unlimited LTE for $75 is a pretty good deal, and the T-Mobile subsidiary has decent pricing on other plans as well. Read More
A few months ago, T-Mobile introduced new measures to deal with scam callers for anyone on the network. Scam ID tells you if a call you're receiving is from a number that's likely to be a scam, giving you a heads-up before you answer. Furthermore, you can have Scam Block cut out those calls altogether before they even reach your device. These features are completely free to T-Mobile customers, and now MetroPCS subscribers are getting the same treatment. Read More
Unlimited smartphone data is back! Roll out the barrels, re-download Netflix, and disable all those "Wi-Fi only" settings options, happy days are here again. But don't throw away your data meter just yet: the new batch of unlimited data plans from American carriers isn't what it used to be. A lack of limits now comes with an asterisk, like your favorite sports star "enhancing" his performance. So the question is no longer, "which mobile unlimited plan is the best?" Instead, it's "which carrier is going to put the least amount of petty restrictions on my so-called unlimited data?" Read More
Not everyone demands a high-end phone that costs as much as a computer. Maybe you only need a basic smartphone that'll let you poke around on the web and send some WhatsApp messages. If that's the case, there's the new LG Aristo on T-Mobile and MetroPCS. The price is low, but so are the specs. Read More
Kyocera is one smartphone manufacturer that could care less about beating the competition on specs. It makes cheap phones that either won't receive updates or won't get them until long after you've given up hope. But the handsets are affordable, and many of the later models tend to be pretty rugged.
Both of these hold true for the Kyocera Hydro Wave, which is now available from T-Mobile and on its way to MetroPCS. This 5-inch qHD phone comes powered by a 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, 1GB of RAM, and 8GB of internal memory. Fortunately, there's a microSD card slot for extra storage. Read More


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The business provides a mix of products and services to rent for parties and events, such as proms, weddings, graduations and birthdays. The spring, she says, is her busiest season with events booked out through the end of May already.
Bubbles comes from the champagne wall that is at most events. She also provides letters and numbers that are popular for events—and selfies.
The business originally started out of necessity for Aguilar and her family during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aguilar and her husband bought a house in Colleyville, and then her husband lost his job.
“I scrambled,” Aguilar said. “I was like, ‘What are we going to do?’”
People were still having weddings during the pandemic. She noticed people using big letter props for photos. That led to her buying four wooden letters that were 4 feet tall, spelling out “love,” for $1,200. She started bringing the letters and a beer bar to Stoney Ridge Villa wedding venue in Azle in 2020—when it was named Lone Star Bubbles & Brews. Now she has more than 140 letters.
Aguilar had experience working for Encore Live, a Fort Worth-based event planning company. She noticed a lot of big events had props that were just trashed because people just didn’t want to keep them.
“These props were built and made and it was crazy; they were phenomenal and people would just trash them afterwards because they were so massive,” Aguilar said. “So I wanted to have big items people would want at their event but didn’t want to hold on to them. I wanted to make it affordable for people.”
Photos and word of mouth followed, and then the request for more letters and numbers came along. She had three different storage units rented to store items for her growing business. In February 2022, she moved in next door to Jill Tuggle’s business, Partyology. They now work together at events.
“People started putting in orders faster than I could get them made,” Aguilar said. “[My letter and numbers] are more boutique; they are really handcrafted, and there’s a lot of love and time that goes into them.”
Bubbles and Marquee Events charges $55 per letter for a display.
“It’s been it’s been a wild ride,” said Aguilar, a native of Mansfield. “I never thought that I would own my own business but it’s been really fun.”
Bubbles and Marquee Events
4100 Felps Drive, Ste. D, Colleyville
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.


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PC shipments sank to their lowest level in five years in 2016's opening three months, and "it is difficult to see any bright spots" for the market in the months and years ahead. Those are among the...
VAR giant snaps up €13.7m DevOps, managed services and datacentre player
IaaS and PaaS will eventually overtake software sales, claims founder Larry Ellison
A selection of channel execs talk making the most of slim margins and the future of client computing
Bechtle vows to continue ramping up cloud portfolio, claiming that further vendor partnerships are likely


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Nexon has begun ramping up its promotion for DNF Duel, a fighting game based on Dungeon Fighter Online which features numerous classes as playable characters. Following its recent gameplay trailer, a new trailer has been released focusing solely on the Berserker. Check him out below.
Wielding a zanbato, the Berserker seems to use his own “lifeblood” to overwhelm opponents. In the original action RPG, he’s capable of activating Frenzy which consumes HP to increase hit rate, hit recover and skill attack damage. It should be interesting if Diehard is included since this slowly restores HP and increases physical defense when one’s health drops very low.
For the time being though, the Berserker seems capable of outputting a huge amount of damage and transforming into a giant spiraling wolf for his special attack. DNF Duel doesn’t have a release date or confirmed platforms but there will likely be more trailers for other recently revealed classes like the Ranger and Striker so stay tuned.


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- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
There is 20 percent more food available than needed to feed the whole world, reported Rachel Cernansky on FastCoexist.com. The USDA blames a data gap for the fact that some people go hungry.
Gabriel Youtsey, chief information officer for UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR), also believes that if more data was available, consumer-facing apps, in addition to those that help farmers, researchers, industry, or government, would find it useful.
"[They] are interested in more ‘soil to shelf' transparency about how food is grown and produced and how sustainable it is," Youtsey said.
In recent years, app stores have provided an abundance of programs to connect food with people and farmers with information. One such app is "Giving Garden," which in July won the UC ANR "Apps for Ag Hackathon," held in conjunction with the California State Fair.
The hyper-local, produce-sharing app provides gardening advice from the UC Master Gardener Program and helps backyard gardeners connect with others who want to share their produce.
Giving Garden CEO Deema Tamimi said open regional-level data from USDA has been a helpful start, but the agency does not have data on specific microclimates.
"We've seen that there's a lot of people with plant species databases, but they have it under some type of license so you can't just scrape that data and use it," she said. "There's stuff out there, but it's about finding a good data set that's available, and that has no proprietary restriction on top of it."
To advance the open-data cause in agriculture, Youtsey said more public-private partnerships are needed that will help spur innovation and lead to local projects that can have more visible impacts.
"USDA data on data.gov is an excellent resource for apps, and it will be made all the richer once proprietary data stores are further opened up," he said. "It's hard for many to see the benefits of open data until hyper-local success stories start to emerge."


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Madden 24 will allow players to take their games with them wherever
In Madden 24, the gameplay is one of the most important aspects of the game. The developers at EA have been working hard to address some of the issues that players have been facing, such as inaccurate passes and other gameplay mechanics. The first update for Madden 24 coins the game is expected to come early next week, and it will bring a number of changes to the game.
One of the biggest changes that players have been asking for is the ability to play the game on the go. Madden 24 will allow players to take their games with them wherever they go, thanks to the inclusion of cross-play functionality. This means that players on different platforms, such as Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, will be able to play together in the same game.
Another important change that is coming to Madden 24 is the ability to play the game offline. This is a big deal for players who want to be able to play the game without an internet connection. With offline play, players will be able to play the game on their own, without the need for an internet connection.
The developers have also been working on improving the graphics and visuals of the game. Madden 24 will have a new engine, which will bring a more realistic and immersive experience to the game. The new engine will also allow for more detailed and realistic player models, as well as better lighting and shading.
One of the most important changes that is coming to Madden 24 is the inclusion of a new feature called "Superstar X-Factors." This feature allows players to unlock new abilities for their players, such as increased speed or better blocking. Players will be able to earn these abilities by playing the game and completing challenges.
Another change that is coming to Madden 24 is the ability to customize the sound effects of the game. This is a big deal for players who want to be able to personalize their experience and make the game feel more like their own. With the ability to customize the sound effects, players will be able to choose from a variety of different options, such as the sound of the ball being kicked or the sound of the crowd cheering.
In conclusion, the first update for Madden 24 is expected to bring a number of important changes to the game. Players will be able to play the game on the go with cross-play functionality, play the Buy mut 24 coins xbox game offline, and customize the sound effects of the game. The new engine will also bring a more realistic and immersive experience to the game. Overall, the changes coming to Madden 24 are aimed at improving the gameplay experience for players and making the game feel more like their own.


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Reprinted with permision of Publishers Weekly
After reports of the death of Kirkus Reviews circulated in December, followed by news that the literary review magazine would continue publishing after all, the New York Times reported this morning that the publication has been bought by Herb Simon, an entrepreneur who made his money developing shopping malls and also owns the NBA basketball team, the Indian Pacers.
An executive at Simon's company told the Times that the Kirkus staff would stay in place and that one reason Simon, who also co-owns the independent Telecote Books in Montecito, Calif., acquired the publication is because he is a "voracious reader." Simon also told the Times that, given the shifting dynamic in the book industry with publishers moving from creating and distributing physical books to digital ones, "turmoil like this creates opportunities." A rep from Kirkus told PW that an official statement about the sale would be issued later today or tomorrow.