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In 2011, the headline Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results appeared first on Search Engine Land.
As Danny Sullivan reported: “Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings.”
The story actually began in May 2010, when Google noticed that Bing was returning the same sites as Google when someone would enter unusual misspellings. By October 2010, the results for Google and Bing had a much greater overlap than in previous months. Ultimately, Google created a honeypot page to show up at the top of 100 “synthetic” searches (queries that few people, if anyone, would ever enter into Google).
This story got picked up by dozens of media outlets as both companies got into a public war of words and blog posts.
Google called Bing’s search results a “cheap imitation.”
Meanwhile, Bing called the sting operation a “spy-novelesque stunt” and defended their monitoring of consumer activity to influence Bing’s search results.
And all this happened on the same day as Bing’s Future of Search Event, where the Google-Bing dispute raged on in person.
Oh what a day.
2022: Tagging added URL parameters to your tracking URLs for better analytics and measurements.
2022: The portfolio feature automatically adjusted bidding across multiple campaigns to balance under- and over-performing campaigns that shared the same bidding strategy.
2021: The feature helped searchers learn more about the search result or search feature they were interested in clicking on.
2021: The label read “identifies as Black-owned” and showed in the product listing results within Google Shopping.
2021: Marketers were seeing an end to conditions that have made business travel to training seminars, conferences and trade shows unsafe.
2021: In this installment of Barry Schwartz’s vlog series, he also chatted with Beobide about the page experience update.
2018: Multi-User Access allowed users to have one email and password to access all of the Bing Ads accounts they manage.
2018: This made it possible to create a structured restaurant menu for display in mobile search listings directly in Google My Business.
2018: You could now wake up to a favorite playlist and use voice to pick up where you left off with Netflix shows.
2017: Japan’s high court ruled that search results are a form of speech entitled to protection.
2016: Companies, often not based in the local area, set up fake locations within Google Maps to trick the algorithm into thinking they were locally based.
2016: Data from Bing provided key trends on Valentine’s Day-related searches — including gifts, candy, flowers, restaurants and jewelry — and ad performance.
2016: Hard pressing on the app brought up a menu for the “I’m Feeling Curious” button.
2016: In search and Google Now, users were able to get a combination of candidate-generated content and third-party content about the primaries and the election.
2014: With the right content and user experience, Yahoo could have generated new “search” usage and ad revenue from mobile.
2013: The settlement ended several months of debate over France’s plan to charge Google for linking to French news content.
2013: The proposal was required to address four “areas of concern” – “search bias” and “diversion of traffic”; improper use of third-party content and reviews by Google; third-party publisher exclusivity agreements; and portability of ad campaigns to other search platforms.
2013: The two patents (originally issued in the early 1990s and owned by Lycos, which later sold them) pertained to the ranking and placement of ads in search results.
2013: Answer: On multiple devices. For information on the football teams, recipes and snacks.
2013: The latest images showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more.
2012: Google remained “convinced that a free high-quality mapping tool is beneficial for both Internet users and websites.”
2011: Under the terms, agencies had to provide their clients with metrics on costs, clicks and impressions on AdWords at least monthly, if not more often.
2011: Blekko decided to ban the top 20 spam sites from its index entirely, including ehow.com.
2011: Licensing issues had delayed the service, despite Google offering boatloads of cash to music labels.
2011: Latitude could send reminders to check-in at locations when you arrive, supported automated check-ins at places and automatically checked you out when you left a location.
2010: The local business ad (“enhanced listings“) allowed a business to stand out with an “enhanced” presence on the map or in the map-related listings on the SERP.
2010: News publishers had through April 2010 to modify their news sitemap to accommodate the new protocol.
2010: Google sales boss Nikesh Arora reportedly said that Google would consider giving more transparency about revenue splits in AdSense.
2010: Google and the Associated Press reached an agreement allowing Google to continue using AP content. But whether this is a long-term agreement was unclear.
2010: The SEO agency had recently launched Open Site Explorer and offered a variety of SEO tools.
2010: Google announced they would be discontinuing their support for “very old browsers.”
2010: The Boring couple had first sued Google in early 2008 for taking pictures of their suburban Pennsylvania home, which was on a clearly marked private road.
2010: Major events from the year 2000 in consumer search.
2009: Search engines and websites still had lots of room to improve in order to connect with searchers.
2009: It was the year of the microsite.
2008: Microsoft was ready to bid $31 per share to Yahoo’s board of directors to purchase the company, a deal potentially worth $45 billion. (Yahoo ultimately rejected this bid – and it wouldn’t be the last time.) More coverage of the bid:
2008: The API allowed developers to discover socially-labeled links on pages and generate connections between them.
2008: Effectively, the rules required that “any legal consumer device” must be allowed to access the C Block broadband network.
2007: Pages would continue to be crawled, they just wouldn’t get indexed.
2007: It was returning 500 errors, graphics weren’t loading and searches weren’t working.
2007: The National Pork Board thought one of her project’s T-shirts violated their trademark on the phrase “The Other White Meat.”
2007: Was it a social network? A game? Or service. We may never know.
2007: Open View aggregated user and expert reviews and generates a dynamic summary in more or less a single paragraph.
2007: X Prize’s mission was to “create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity.”
2007: Google’s flyover to snap imagery of the Sydney landscape and residents didn’t go as planned.
These columns are a snapshot in time and have not been updated since publishing, unless noted. Opinions expressed in these articles are those of the author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.
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Gabriela Preda is an intern with the International Trade Administration’s Office for Export Policy, Promotion, and Strategy.
Two reports released earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA) — Jobs Supported by State Exports 2013 and U.S. Metropolitan Area Exports 2013 — highlight one of the hottest topics right now in our economy: U.S. exports.
Since the launch of the Administration’s National Export Initiative (NEI) in 2010, U.S. businesses are selling more goods and services abroad than ever before, reaching an all-time record in 2013 of $2.3 trillion in exports.
As we transition to the next phase of supporting U.S. exporters through NEI/Next, ITA is expanding export-promotion efforts and trade advocacy. Our success depends on collaboration with public and private organizations at the national, state, and local levels that want to do the same.
One of the most important tools for supporting U.S. exporters is the nationwide network of Small Business Development Centers, and we were glad to see them in the spotlight at America’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Annual Conference in Grapevine, Texas.
More than 1,400 participants representing the SBDC network gathered for training sessions, workshops, discussions, and exhibits.
Supported by a collaboration of Small Business Administration federal funds, state and local governments, and private sector resources, SBDCs provide an array of technical assistance to small businesses and entrepreneurs. A hallmark of SBDC assistance is no-cost, extensive, one-on-one, long-term professional business advising.
In Grapevine, hundreds of SBDC export counselors took part in 15 international trade sessions ranging from export basics to protecting intellectual property in China. The annual conference is helping to build an army of enthusiastic SBDC export counselors across the United States, arming them with the knowledge and skills necessary to guide businesses forward.
And we at ITA are proud to have such a capable network of business experts as partners in supporting U.S. exporters! Together, SBDCs and ITA’s network of Export Assistance Centers will help support America’s business innovators bring quality U.S.-made products to more markets around the world.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. Intel Corp. said that it has received a request for additional information from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in connection with the agency's regulatory review of a proposed flash-memory venture.
In May, STMicroelectronics NV and Intel created a flash-memory joint venture with an assist from private-equity firm Francisco Partners LP. Then, recently, Intel, STMicroelectronics, and Francisco Partners unveiled the company name of ''Numonyx'' for the pending independent semiconductor company.
''While no estimate is being provided for a specific transaction closure date, Intel intends to respond promptly to the information request by the FTC,'' according to the microprocessor giant.
The company said it will also continue to work closely with the agency as it conducts its review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act. ''Once the FTC determines that the company has substantially complied with the second request, the HSR Act requires a waiting period of 30 days before the transaction may be closed,'' according to Intel.


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Exactly one week after Apple improved shipping estimates for its flagship Mac Pro desktop to three to five weeks, the company has again cut down on wait times with orders now showing delivery dates of less than one month.
Spotted by AppleInsider reader Rolando, all configurations are now available within three to four weeks, the new estimates bring estimated shipping times to one month or below for the first time since launch.
Ship-by dates have slowly improved over the past few months, with checks in April showing estimates at 5-6 weeks, which moved up to 4-6 weeks on Apr. 11 and 4-5 weeks on Apr. 18. Last week Apple improved availability to 3-5 weeks.
The Online Apple Store is still the only place to buy the most powerful Mac ever as in-store supplies are non-existent. In January, Apple said it didn't expect to have models available at brick-and-mortar Apple Stores until at least March. In hindsight that guess was a bit optimistic.
As Apple stocks up on inventory, authorized resellers like MacMall and Adorama have limited supplies of select Mac Pro configurations, which can be seen in AppleInsider's live Price Guides.


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Gionee will unveil its first full-screen design smartphone today. Dubbed the Gionee M7, this smartphone is a variant of the Gionee M7 Power that will be launched in Thailand in a few more days.
Now, the Gionee GN5007 appears to have stopped by the TENAA certification database. The Gionee GN5007 flaunts a 6-inch HD+ display with a resolution of 1440 x 720 pixels and an aspect ratio of 18:9. The smartphone seems to make use of a 1.4GHz octa-core processor paired with 4GB RAM and 32GB storage space that can be expanded up to 256GB using a microSD card.
From the TENAA listing, it is seen that the Gionee GN5007 will have just one 13MP sensor at its rear and an 8MP front-facer for selfies. The device is also seen to get the power from a massive 5000mAh battery tipping that it could be a variant of the M7 Power that has dual rear cameras.
Also read: Gionee M7 images released
Besides this, Gionee has taken to its official Twitter handle to tease that the upcoming smartphone will have a long-lasting battery and an impressive selfie camera. The smartphone is said to measure 8.6mm in thickness and weigh in at 187 grams. The Gionee phone seems to support to VoLTE and run on Android 7.1.1 Nougat OS.
The image that accompanies the tweet tips that the smartphone in question will arrive with thin front bezels and has a dual tone color design. It is important to note that the device will not be the only full-screen phone from Gionee. There could be two more such smartphones with 18:9 FullView display to be launched by the company in the coming months.


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Fans of the Darksiders franchise have been waiting for the next game and got excited when they found out that a new title was coming. Darksiders 3 was first leaked through an Amazon listing, but nothing had been officially announced by THQ Nordic.
The listing suggested that Darksiders 3 was a real thing and that an official announcement might come soon. At least, that’s what we hoped. Well, it has happened.
THQ Nordic has confirmed that Darksiders 3 is going to be released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC next year. So fans can celebrate. THQ Nordic and Gunfire Games have officially confirmed that Darksiders 3 is being developed and that it’s scheduled to be released in 2018. The game will be an open-world action-adventure with an emphasis on exploration and environmental puzzles. Fury is going to be the protagonist. It is good to know for sure that this game is coming. We have a date and everything.
Darksiders 3 is set at about the time of the previous title. We had heard all of the rumors, but now it is official. More information about Darksiders 3 is going to be revealed in the coming months and when we learn more about it we will let you know.
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U.S. online retail spending rose 15 percent to $26.8 billion in the holiday season through Dec. 12, according to ComScore Inc., a sign more consumers are taking advantage of discounts available through e-commerce providers.
Spending rose to a record $6.1 billion in the most recent week, Reston, Virginia-based ComScore said today in a statement on its website.
Web retailers led by Amazon.com Inc. and EBay Inc. are angling to get shoppers to make purchases online, rather than in physical stores.
Amazon.com offered a discount on certain products to consumers who use its mobile application to check prices elsewhere. EBay opened pop-up stores that let customers look at products before buying them online. Free shipping deals in coming days will give added inducement, ComScore said.
Dec. 12 “kicks off what should be the heaviest week of the year for online shopping, where we could see several billion- dollar spending days,” ComScore Chairman Gian Fulgoni said in the statement.
The heaviest day so far came Nov. 28, when spending rose 22 percent to $1.25 billion as consumers took advantage of discounts offered on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving. The fastest growing category was digital content and subscriptions, which includes books, music and movies, ComScore said.
Online retailers are vying for a larger share of the retail market. E-commerce accounted for just 4.6 percent of the total retail market in the third quarter, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Amazon, based in Seattle, slid 3.3 percent to $174.51 as of 12:25 p.m. in New York. Its stock was little changed this year before today. Shares of San Jose, California-based eBay fell 1.7 percent to $30.33.
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The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced strict new rules in the UK to tackle the spread of deadly coronavirus.
With immediate effect, people must now stay at home except for shopping trips for basic necessities, one form of daily exercise, any medical need and travelling to and from essential work only.
Retail outlets selling non-essential goods will also be shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together strictly prohibited.
Police will fine anyone who isn’t abiding by the new measures aimed at slowing the spread of the virus.
The U.K. has today announced further deaths from the virus which now stands at a total of 335 deaths.


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THE new global laboratories of a Hampshire company were opened in Chilworth this week.
Merck’s Innovation Hub at the University of Southampton Science were officially opened by Romsey MP, Caroline Nokes.
The announcement came a week after White House Press secretary Sean Spicer resigned from Trump's team.
The appointment of Kelly, who is seen as a stabilizing figure, is hoped to bring some discipline to the White House. secretary of Homeland Security, was a retired four-star general before Trump's appointment.
Ding Dong for short, the smart speaker costs the equivalent of 8 and does a majority of the things the Echo can do And the design of the 'peerless high-quality speaker' is part of the Chinese culture as well – it symbolizes tiānyuán dìfāng—the notion that 'heaven is round, Earth is square,' a concept that Charlie Liu, Ling Long's senior marketing manager, says is central to Ling Long's design language, reports Bateman.
The device comes in four colors: red for prosperity, white for purity, black and purple (pictured).
The speaker, from Chinese firm Ling Long and known as the Ding Dong, has an AI with a music library of 3 million songs, can take memos and share updates regarding news, traffic and weather in what the firm calls 'cinema-like sound quality'.
Ling Long Ding Dong is a a voice-activated, cloud-based smart home speaker designed with a music library of 3 million songs, can take memos and share updates about news, traffic and weather in what the firm calls 'cinema-like sound quality'After watching its success, China doesn't want to be left behind as more and more people are looking to virtual assistants for help around the house and knowns that getting to the market first will introduce millions of people to the technology.
Home to a 90-strong multinational team, the Chilworth laboratories undertake ground-breaking research on advanced electronic and optoelectronic materials – the products which underpin much of the smartphone and tablet technology used today and in the future.On Friday evening, Donald Trump shook up staffing in the White House — for the second time in a week.Trump announced via a tweet that he was replacing his chief of staff Reince Priebus with General John Kelly.And the design of the 'peerless high-quality speaker' is part of the Chinese culture as well – it symbolizes tiānyuán dìfāng—the notion that 'heaven is round, Earth is square'Ling Long Ding Dong can answers questions, coordinates schedules, gives directions and plays music and audiobooks, in addition to sharing updates about news, weather and traffic - similar to that of Google Home (left) and Amazon's Echo (right)Creative Strategies, a service that tracks trends and develops deeper insight into key industry topics, released their findings that looked at how consumers are using these virtual assistants and how they really feel about them.They also found that 2% of i Phone owners have never used Siri and only 4% of Android owners have never used OK Google, which suggests those who own the phone do indeed call on the powers of the digital personas.


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Antitrust probe ordered against Amazon, Flipkart
The investigation order comes the same week that Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is expected to visit India for a company event and potential meetings with government officials; Pic: N NARASIMHA MURTHY ET. BANGALORE
India's antitrust body on Monday ordered an investigation into alleged
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said it was ordering a wider probe following a review of allegations that Amazon and Flipkart were promoting some "preferred sellers" and in turn hitting business of other smaller sellers.
The two companies did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the antitrust move.
The investigation order comes in a week when Amazon chief
The complaint against the two giant companies was filed by Delhi Vyapar Mahasangh, a group representing small- and medium-sized businesses, which alleged that several of Amazon and Flipkart's preferred sellers were affiliated with or controlled by the companies themselves, either directly or indirectly.
The CCI also wants its investigations arm to probe the e-commerce companies' discounting practices as well as their relationship with such sellers, it said in its 11-page order.
"The Commission is of the opinion that there exists a prima facie case which requires an investigation," said the order.
The investigation is the latest setback for Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart, which Indian brick-and-mortar traders allege violate the country's foreign investment rules and burn billions of dollars to offer steep discounts that hurt smaller traders.
Both the companies deny those allegations.
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Walmart on Monday said it has sacked 56 of its executives in India, including eight from senior management level, as it restructures its business in the country.
In a statement, Walmart India president and CEO
Most of the sacking was in Walmart's real estate division that is responsible for store expansion, implying the firm was facing challenges in expanding its wholesale business.
Walmart operates 28 wholesale stores in India, selling goods to small shopkeepers but not to retail consumers because of government rules aimed at protecting Kirana stores do not allow such sales.
"We are also looking for ways to operate more efficiently, which requires us to review our corporate structure to ensure that we are organized in the right way. As part of this review, we have let go of 56 of our associates across levels at the corporate office," Iyer said in the statement.
All of the 56 impacted associates, eight in the senior management and 48 in the middle as well as lower management, have been offered enhanced severance benefits and outplacement services to support their transition, he added.
He, however, denied reports of a second round of job cuts in April as part of an overall plan to shut down its physical presence in the country after struggling to return a profit.
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On Wednesday, a data breach at drive-in food chain Sonic jeopardized the security of credit cards from up to 5 million customers, whose accounts are being “peddled in shadowy underground cybercrime stores,” website Krebs on Security informed.
Initial rumors of a data breach occurred last week when multiple financial institutions began noticing a suspicious pattern of transactions using cards that were previously used at Sonic, the website noted. The company’s credit card processor confirmed the breach of Sonic’s cash registers, known today as point-of-sale terminals, but it remains uncertain whether it has targeted a small portion of these drive-ins or the entire 3,600 locations across 45 U.S. states.
“We are working to understand the nature and scope of this issue, as we know how important this is to our guests,” Sonic said in a statement. “We immediately engaged third-party forensic experts and law enforcement when we heard from our processor. While law enforcement limits the information we can share, we will communicate additional information as we’re able.”
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- MetaMask and Phantom have patched a critical vulnerability in their browser extension wallets.
- Codenamed “Demonic,” the vulnerability exposed users’ secret recovery phases by recording them as clear text on users’ disks.
- While wallet providers have fixed the threat, some users may still be vulnerable unless they migrate their funds to new wallets using the latest versions of wallet software.
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Some of the most popular browser extension crypto wallets have been suffering from a critical vulnerability that left users’ secret recovery phases vulnerable to theft, a new report has revealed.
Critical Crypto Wallets Patch Vulnerability
Several browser wallet providers have successfully patched a long-standing vulnerability.
According to a Wednesday report from cybersecurity firm Halborn, some of the most popular cryptocurrency wallets, including MetaMask, Phantom, Brave, and the xDefi browser, were suffering from a critical vulnerability in their browser extension software. Under certain conditions, the vulnerability, codenamed “Demonic,” exposed secret user recovery phases, giving would-be attackers access to billions of dollars in cryptocurrency stored in browser extension wallets. all over the world.
In the report, Halborn explained that the insecure permissions vulnerability caused the browser extension’s crypto wallets to save the contents of all passwordless inputs, including so-called mnemonic keys or secret recovery phrases, as clear text on disks. of users as part of the “Restore session” function. He put all users who had imported their browser extension crypto wallets using a secret recovery phrase at risk of having their private keys and cryptocurrency funds stolen.
In a blog post on Wednesday, Solana wallet Phantom noted that Halborn had alerted them to the Demonic vulnerability last September and that they had started rolling out fixes in January. Phantom confirmed that as of April, all users were protected from the vulnerability, and she stated her intention to release an even more comprehensive patch next week. MetaMask, on the other hand, said that it had patched the vulnerability in versions 10.11.3 and later. However, some users who had previously imported older versions of the browser wallet using their secret recovery phrase may still be at risk, especially those who used unencrypted hard drives or potentially compromised computers.
As a precautionary measure, MetaMask recommended that users install the latest version of their browser extension wallet and migrate funds to new wallets. So far, no exploits related to the Demonic vulnerability have been reported.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this article owned ETH and several other cryptocurrencies.


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(Bloomberg) -- Qatar relented -- ever so little -- after slapping a “sin tax” on alcohol over New Year’s that raised the price of a 24-pack of Heineken from $53 to a whopping $105.
After making global headlines and prompting an outcry on social media, the country’s sole liquor store pared its prices on Sunday. Residents in Qatar can now get their brews for just about $92 a case.
Like most other countries in the oil-rich Persian Gulf, Qatar restricts alcohol sales to non-Muslim foreigners. Expats need permission from their employers to get a license that allows them access to the store that sells liquor and pork, located on the outskirts of Doha near the country’s main graveyard and church complex.
The liquor store, officially called Qatar Distribution Co., said that it’s “pleased to reduce the retail sales price.” A list that accompanied a statement to its customers showed slightly lower prices across the board, and a 100 percent tax on top of it.
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have created a RFID tag based entirely on plastic electronics. According to Philips, this will be the first plastic-electronics based tag capable of transmitting multi-bit digital identification codes at 13.56MHz — the dominant industry-standard frequency for RFID tag applications.
In contrast to conventional silicon-chip-based RFID tags, a plastic electronics RFID chip can be printed directly on to a plastic substrate along with an antenna without involving complex assembly steps. Philips claimed this could pave the way for the packaging industry to replace barcodes with a low-cost RFID tag that provides individual packages with a unique item-level identification code.
Performance results for the tags were presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. 'We have shown we can make a plastic logic circuit complex enough so that an RFID tag can send out a unique identification code. Tags based on plastic electronics have so far not been able to do this,' said Philips' Steve Klink.
Plastic-electronics RFID tags have the potential to be manufactured using extremely low-cost reel-to-reel and in-line processing. Philips is involved in a project to investigate this.


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Apple has made discreet changes and updates to its mapping service in Japan. These changes fix reported shortcoming in the mapping functionality that was a huge concern among Apple device users. Some of the features that were fixed are modifying the pronunciation of instructions during turn-by-turn navigation alerting users to all roads. This feature did not function correctly when it was released with iOS 6.0. The new update also offers improved point-of-interest labels for landmarks like hospitals, libraries, subways and freeways. The new update offers 3D buildings for major landmarks like the Tokyo Station and Tower.
These bug fixes and enhancements were fixed quietly without a major announcement about the intended update to be delivered to mapping service in Japan. In addition to the bug fixes, improvements have been made to deliver better satellite imagery and flyover imagery. Local information is now available with the satellite imagery enhancement. Apple’s rival in the mapping segment, Google has released its own map app for the iOS which was also updated very recently to offer swift access to the search tool and integration with Google’s contact service.
Apple received a lot of flak for its mapping service and app with the release of the iPhone 5. Entire cities were misplaced and landmarks were famously relocated to different cities. The Apple map app does not yet have the expertise, layering structure or the prowess that Google has managed to achieve with its maps and navigation apps. The Cupertino based company is looking to roll out fixes across geographies for its map apps. So far, Japan has received a new update that fixes a few bugs and adds new features to the mapping service.


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Only last week we reported that a Last of Us 2 sequel might be announced during PSX this year and it’s happened.
Naughty Dog had also mistakenly confirmed that the game was in development last year, we were one of the first to report it.
Sony revealed the sequel to Naughty Dog’s critically and commercially successful title, The Last of Us, during its Playstation Experience event today.
Ellie seems to have grown up in the game and Joel is still accompanying her. The original game ended on a cliffhanger note and players weren’t sure what would happen to Ellie and Joel. The reveal trailer puts all their doubts to rest as both of them will be returning for the sequel.
However, the past events of the original game might have an impact on their relationship and it would be interesting to see what kind of equation they share now. Ellie doesn’t look very happy in what we saw in the reveal.


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Inspired by Wasps’ rich history and combined with Under Armour’s innovative technology, the new kits will be worn by the players for the duration of the 2017/18 season.
22nd August, Coventry: Wasps Rugby and global sports performance and innovation brand Under Armour have revealed the Club’s new home and away kits for the 2017/18 Aviva Premiership season.
To celebrate Wasps’ 150th anniversary season, official technical apparel partner Under Armour has designed special kits which are inspired by the club’s rich history and tradition.
The new home, away and training kits for the 2017/18 season are now available to buy online via waspsshop.co.uk and at the official club store.
To celebrate the launch of the 150th anniversary shirt, first team players Sam Jones, Kyle Eastmond and Tommy Taylor will be available for photos and autographs at Wasps Club Shop at the Ricoh Arena from 1630-1830 this afternoon, ahead of Wasps final pre-season game, against Connacht (kick off 7.30pm)
Club mascot Sting will also be on hand throughout the day to greet supporters in the club shop, while fans can put their rugby skills to the test in Wasps Interactive Zone which will be running between midday and 7pm.


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It’s not uncommon to hear business people talk about disruptive technologies, or things that turn an existing industry on its head. Most of the time when we hear those stories, we think of companies in the high-tech industry. But is all innovative and disruptive growth limited to those who deal in bits and bytes?
A recent article in Forbes would suggest otherwise. The article (which you can read in its entirety here) highlighted a disruptive and innovative company in a rather old-school industry: Shoe-making.
Jack Erwin is a New York based shoe company that specializes in top-of-the-line men’s dress shoes that are available at a fraction of the cost of competitors’ products. While other shoes were selling for around $1,000 (remember, this is New York), the entrepreneurs from Jack Erwin were selling shoes of equal quality for around $200.
Let me be clear: This success story isn’t about undercutting the prices of competitors. It’s not just about minimizing costs and getting “lean and mean.” It’s not about “cutting out the middleman” (in fact, the founders of the company did just the opposite). There was a lot of thinking, planning, strategy, and plain old hard work (and maybe some luck) that went into this endeavor. If you’d like to know more details about what the two young entrepreneurs behind Jack Erwin did, I suggest you read the Forbes article here.
My point is that innovation and entrepreneurship isn’t limited to the domains of software and high tech. Success and growth don’t necessarily depend on the kind of product or service you offer. They depend on whether or not you can offer people what they want in a way that nobody else can.
You may not think of the industry you’re in as a “high-growth” industry because it’s not glamorous or high-tech enough. But the two young (at the time, 29 and 30 years old) entrepreneurs that started this shoe company might disagree with you. In their first year, they had revenues of $2 million. Later that year, they were looking at a financing round (lead by a company that could have been a competitor) landed them $9 million to expand their operations.
As one of the founders (Ariel Nelson) says, “I believe there are hundreds of millions of dollars in opportunity here, and we are poised to become the big player.”
Who knew that shoes could be so disruptive? What have you got that could turn an industry on its head?


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TFG heard from Kevin Shakespeare, Director of Stakeholder Engagement at the Institute of Export & International Trade (IOE&IT), on the significant changes in how exporters and importers trade with the EU come 1st January of 2021 – the end of the transition period.
Skuchain, Inc. announced today the launch of the ECO system for precious metals trading, a joint project with Mitsubishi Corporation RtM Japan Ltd., the minerals trading subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation.
Smart Currency Business have collated predictions from major banks and highlighted key factors which may influence the pound, euro and dollar in their latest quarterly forecast.
TFG heard from Andreas Tesch of Atradius on the status of credit insurance market in Asia and the key initiatives taken in response to Covid-19’s impact on Asian trade.
Wirecard is suspected of misleading investors through aggressive accounting practices including inflating sales and revenue in order to appear to be performing better than it is actually doing.
EIPP in combination with blockchain can help banks avoid duplicate Invoice Financing and perform dedupe effectively.
We dive deeper into how Covid-19 impacted the shipping industry. Will the cruise liners be able to financially recover from this outbreak?
As lockdowns became the norm around the globe, governments have had to step in to support their economies due to the substantial downturn in economic activity – breaking stimulus records in the process.
There is immense synergy to be unlocked between SMEs and trade finance funds by working closely together and developing relationships that allow for a level of comfort on both sides of the coin to be developed over time.
With competitive digital economy, Colombia will be able to plan for post-pandemic recovery and strengthen regional economies to adopt smart solutions linked to the Internet of Things that allow them to compete in global value chains.
The Local Currency System – SML – resurfaces as an alternative to recover trade flows not only in the Mercosur but also in other regions of the world which can implement it.
TFG heard from Dr. Deborah Elms, CEO, Asian Trade Centre on the impact of COVID19 for businesses in Asia Pacific and how governments and policymakers can accelerate the economic recovery.
The Business Plan outlined new objectives that will allow UKEF to adapt its support for SMEs, help businesses across all the regions of the UK, access UKEF products, and focus its activity on sectors and countries.
The FCI Annual Review is a globally recognised publication in the world of Factoring and Receivables Finance.
Considering the stakes involved in managing the AML/KYC compliances are high, banks/ FI should carefully assess the options available with them and look holistically to mitigate the risk.


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Amazon has beaten Google and Apple to the punch, by launching the first cloud based music storage system. The product allows users to play mp3s and videos that they have uploaded to their cloud via the internet or android phones. The service includes a “Save to Amazon Cloud Drive” button for saving MP3s to the cloud, and provides an option for users to upload music from a hard drive to their Cloud Drive.
Amazon cloud users are provided with 5 GB of free storage and then are given up to 20 GB if they buy an album through Amazon, then offering $1 per GB after that. While music fans await Apple and Google’s products, the most similar existing service is Grooveshark which allows users to stream songs from the site as well as uploading songs to the site.
So, we can expect that record companies are pleased that we have another method of storing and accessing music, can’t we? No, unsurprisingly they’re still acting like it’s 1995 and they’re kicking and screaming and calling in the lawyers like a child throwing its toys out of a cot in a tantrum. They want Amazon to pay them a license for storing their songs. Amazon claims that storing music in a cloud is no different to a music fan storing ripped mp3s from a CD or legally downloaded mp3s on an external hard drive.
However, still choosing to ignore reality and technological innovation like they have for the last 15 years, the big record companies are sending in the lawyers. The major record companies have now decided retrospectively that the licenses previous granted to punters in buying music don’t apply to cloud storage and distribution.
A representative from Sony told the Wall Street Journal “We are disappointed that the locker service that Amazon is proposing is unlicensed by Sony Music.” Although the lawsuits may be some time away, look forward to a legal bunfight that will put yet another nail in the coffin of the current record company model.


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Aside from his brief appearance in the”Fear Itself” series that came out in 2011 -which lasted only 10 issues – one of Marvel’s most iconic characters has unfortunately taken a back seat over the years, until now.
Writer Felipe Smith, also known for his Peepo Choo manga series, and artist Tradd Moore are teaming up in hopes of reenergizing the Ghost Rider character with the appropriately named “All-New Ghost Rider” series.
The new line of Ghost Rider comics will follow the high school senior Robbie Reyes, who will become the next vessel for the Spirit of Vengeance. The main villain of the series will be Dr. Calvin Zabo, also known as Mister Hyde, who uses his “Hyde” formula to turn himself into a superhumanly powerful being.
The concept of introducing the Spirit of Vengeance to an inexperienced youngster, whose surroundings are much different than the previous host’s was is really interesting. Johnny Blaze was cool, but the new direction they’ve taken is refreshing and will no doubt open up a lot of opportunities for the Ghost Rider character.
Activision is aiming to retake the top of the podium when it comes to the records Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V snatched from the Call of Duty franchise.
In an interview with MCV, UK senior brand manager Kevin Flynn said the Call of Duty series will take back the records it lost, including the UK’s fastest selling game ever.
“Congratulations to the team at Rockstar for their success,” he said. “We look forward to getting the record back before the next GTA title.”
Despite the fact that sales figures have dropped slightly year after year, Flynn said the release of Call of Duty: Ghosts will show other companies that their series is still capable dominating the market.
GTA V currently holds seven Guinness World Records, and made up 50 percent of all software sales in the United States during the month of September.
Call of Duty: Ghosts is set to release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and Wii U on November 5, with PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions hitting shelves when the consoles launch.
A bug that’s been corrupting save files in Pokemon X and Y has been acknowledged by Nintendo, and according to a translation of Nintendo’s official Japanese website the company is doing what they can to fix it.
The bug corrupts files when players attempt to save in Lumiose City, however the bug appears to be infrequent. The website says a patch should arrive in the Nintendo 3DS eShop within a few days.
The problems occur on the perimeter of Lumiose city, specifically the North and Southern Boulevards.
Days after Watch Dogs’ postponement was announced, the team-based, arcade-style driving sim has followed suit and won’t hit shelves until spring 2014.
Driveclub was one of only two launch games that were meant to be offered for free to PS Plus subscribers. As a result, Sony will offer gamers the dark platform-puzzler called Contrast in addition to Compulsion Games’ Resogun. Sony says that DriveClub will eventually be made available for free on PS Plus, but said extra development time is needed for the game to meet its potential.
“We understand that the delay is disappointing news, but can assure you that the reason we have made this decision is to ensure that when DriveClub launches, it will realize the next-gen racing vision,” said Sony President Shuhei Yoshida.
More than 80 million Xbox 360s have been sold to retailers, according to Microsoft after announcing yesterday their NPD report for September.
In the United States alone, Xbox 360 software sales reached $401.2 million in September, the biggest month on record for Microsoft. It’s also more than any other console in the U.S.
Grand Theft Auto V was a large contributing factor, as the game alone made up more than 50 percent of all US software sales in September.
However it was Sony’s PlayStation 3 made the most noise in September in terms of home consoles, as it was the top home console overall in September, breaking the Xbox 360’s 32-month streak from January 2011 through August 2013.
Even the Wii U has been on an upswing lately, as overall sales went up by 200 percent in September after the console received a 50 dollar price cut.
The Xbox One launches on Nov. 22 for $500, while the PlayStation 4 hits shelves Nov. 15 for $400.
Developer Young Horses may have had modest beginnings, but their first title, Octodad, has become a huge cult hit in the indie community. The game is known for its awkward yet charming controls in which players take possession of an Octopus everyone thinks is a human-being. The company recently announced they would be developing a sequel entitled, Octodad: Dadliest Catch. The title is being released for PC, Mac, Linux and Sony’s next-gen console, the PlayStation 4. CGMagazine recently caught up with the programmer and producer of Dadliest Catch, Kevin Geisler, to ask him a few questions about the much-anticipated release.
How has developing on the PS4 differed from the PC?
K: So far, it’s been very similar to Linux as far as development. In a lot of ways it seems easier to develop some things on PS4 because when I’m running specific code it will hard crash easier than the PC. Sometimes Windows will hide a lot of memory access issues, so it ends up being easier for me to catch bugs when developing on a console.
What does Dadliest Catch hope to accomplish that the original couldn’t?
K: When we originally made Octodad, it was a student project. We had to come up with the pitch version and prototype in about five months, so it was rushed out. A lot of the changes in Dadliest Catch are things like expanding the world Octodad lives in. He goes outside of the house this time. We managed to fix a lot of the bugs in the first Octodad without losing the charm the awkward controls brought to the gameplay.
Dadliest Catch has a price-tag. Why should I buy it when I can just get the original for free?
K: The original Octodad had a lot of glitches. We like to think we improved the art and the style of the game. We also made sure the length of the game is much longer. We’ve put in a lot of additional features as well. Things like controller support which the first game didn’t have. I also think the story this time around will be much better.
Would you say the game is more story-centric now?
K: Well the original had a story. But with Dadliest Catch we want to delve more into the background of Octodad himself. There is also a wider variety of situations (for gameplay) in the title. We also think there’s a lot more character development this time around. In the first Octodad the character’s goals were shallow and we want that to be different this time around.
Microsoft has changed their publishing rights (self-publish). Would this mean an Xbox One version is now on the horizon?
K: We’ve been looking in the Xbox One development program. It’s really up to Microsoft as far as helping developers get onto the platform. Sony has been upfront and supporting us and getting us things we need. So its one thing to announce a program but we’ll have to see in the future where they’ll take it.
So you haven’t been approached by Microsoft whatsoever?
K: Yeah we have. But, we haven’t gotten to a stage where we’ve actively developed or announced that we would be working on it. I know they’ve been actively approaching developers at places like PAX Prime. I know they’ve been more active lately but I’m sure its gonna take a bit of time to actually pull through and get through all the developers they’ve been trying to reach out to.
As an indie developer, what do you think the biggest challenge has been in this competitive community?
K: I think in a lot of cases, its still about getting the word out there. And especially once the game is out, stuff like score placement and finding an audience to play the game can be hard. We were very fortunate to get through Steam Greenlight and be able to get Sony’s attention but a lot of games don’t. And even if they have an audience, they may not be able to get through something like Steam Greenlight, even though its perfectly fine game for a lot of people.
Is Octodad your only franchise, or do you plan on expanding to other IP’s in the future?
K: We wanna support Dadliest Catch for a little while such as expansions and new features. But I do think most of us wanna move on to new things. We don’t want to be known as the studio who just did Octodad.
The delay of Watch Dogs has certainly angered many gamers who have eagerly been waiting for the release of the highly-anticipated open-world action game, but some analysts think this was a smart move.
In an interview with the New York Times, Benchmark Company analyst Mike Hickey said that Grand Theft Auto V‘s commercial success has put pressure on Ubisoft’s own open-world game.
“They want it to be their next big franchise,” he said, adding that the delay was understandable because delivering an experience that did not meet gamers’ expectations could have been detrimental to the brand.
“The company made the right decision,” Hickey added. “They could have put out a lower-quality game, but it’s best to wait to get it right.”
This is still a little strange, because it’s not like we didn’t know what Watch Dogs was going to look like, or how it was going to play. Numerous gameplay trailers, articles, and demos have been put in place that sucked us in long ago. There have even been TV spots circling the airwaves, hooking everyone else in who haven’t been following the game already. I can’t imagine how much more Ubisoft can add to the game, especially when they were pushing and promoting this game so close to it’s initial release date, clearly ready for the game to hit shelves and make its way into our open arms.
Sure GTA V was amazing and broke records, but that doesn’t mean people wouldn’t have been interested in buying Watch Dogs as well. It would have been an excellent opportunity to showcase what open-world games look and play like on next-generation technology right out of the gate. The PlayStation 4 Launch Day bundles that would have included a copy Watch Dogs – now reduced to just a console after the delay – would have been a supremely satisfying introduction to the world of next-gen gaming.
The emphasis on communication technology and hacking is unique, and not something you can find in a GTA game. To me, evading police cars by hacking street lights and causing them to crash or slam on the breaks, sounds way more badass then just turning around and shooting them. Sure that’s something I enjoy doing here and there, but I think this new take on open-world games would have satisfied a lot of people, even if the game launched so close to the release of GTA V.
It’s about money of course, and pushing the game to a spring release date could potentially build up more hype and avoid some pressure from GTA V. This build up could easily lead to disappointment as well when we realize nothing new was really added to the game during that time, and that we’ve just been waiting because Ubisoft wanted a few million more sales.
Ubisoft’s already been negatively affected by the delay, as the company’s share value fell more than 30 percent, the most in company history. Ubisoft expects to book a loss of up to $95 million for the year, compared to previous estimations for a profit of $170 million for the same period. Is it going to be worth it? I don’t really think so.
This week on The Weekly Goofs, Scott steps in to take the place of Wayne for the week after coming back from a nice vacation. The goods this week are as follows:
Dark Souls II getting a graphic novel
Rockstar paying reparations for pain and suffering due to GTAOnline issues
The Long Dark reaching its Kickstarter goal
Watch Dogs getting delayed until Q1 2014
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The Cork County Councils Beacon Retail Programme has successfully concluded for Midleton based retailers. The Beacon Retail Programme, commenced in the town on the 22nd June 2015 in the Midleton Park Hotel.
During their time on the Programme, retailers worked with Elmer Kerr, an experienced retail professional and Padraig O Sullivan, Beacon Programme Manager. Elmer and his team of industry experts helped the participants to identify the challenges their business were facing and a strategic working document was them compiled and implemented by each business owner. This strategic plan will now provide the framework for growing the business over the next 12 – 18 months.


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Iran’s largest car manufacturer, Iran Khodro Industrial Group (IKCO), and Germany’s giant car manufacture Mercedes Benz have signed a contract to establish a joint venture for selling new products and offering after-sale services in Iran.
An Iranian knowledge-based company is to export its resistance welding electrodes, much in demand by auto makers, to international markets.
With the world having learnt who will steer Iran’s government in the next four years, a large number of foreign firms have once again lined up to enter the county’s 80-million-strong market, with the French car producer Peugeot and oil giant Total standing at the forefront of the queue as usual.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani officially launched the production line of Peugeot 2008 and the locally designed IKCO Dena+.


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PopCap Games on Wednesday released its action puzzle game Peggle Nights for the Mac. Meanwhile, Hothead announced that Jonathan Blow's Xbox Live Arcade platformer Braid is headed for the OS, while Ludia said that it will bring the venerable children's property Where's Waldo to Mac, PC, and other platforms later this year.
Peggle Nights, the second installment in the Peggle series, features 60 Adventure mode levels, 60 new Challenge mode hurdles, a new Peggle Master power-up, and new kinds of style shots and achievements. The game brings back the 11 Peggle Masters for a journey into each of their dream worlds. Next month, PopCap will release a free 10-level bonus level pack, Spring.
As this article was published, PopCap's site did not yet reflect the availability of the Mac version of the game.
Braid challenges players to manipulate time to solve puzzles. The art is rendered in a painterly style. Hothead did not release any information about the game's ship date, system requirements, nor price.
Little was also said about Ludia's Where's Waldo? game, except the title -- Where's Waldo?: The Fantastic Journey -- and the fact that it will feature competitive and cooperative gameplay for up to four players. It's expected to "launch across several major platforms later this year," according to the publisher's press release. The company said that consoles, PC/Mac, iPhone, and iPod touch are part of its plans.


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The Port of Long Beach earned “Best Seaport in North America” honors at the 2013 Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards in Beijing. The 2013 Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards recently hosted in Beijing by the Cargonews Asia shipping trade publication, witnessed the 16th win in the past 18 years for Long Beach. The award recognizes the best ports as judged by importers, exporters, and logistics and supply chain professionals. "We deeply appreciate this recognition, which comes from members of the supply chain industry,” said Port of Long Beach Executive Director J. Christopher Lytle. "We will continue to work hard to improve our Port from top to bottom, from terminals, channels and bridges to customer service. We thank our customers, the Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards and Cargonews Asia for this honor.” The annual Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards, known informally as the “Shippers' Choice” awards, are based on an annual poll of thousands of professionals in freight transportation services. This year’s event was the 27th annual AFSCA awards. It is a highly regarded distinction in the industry. Awards also are given in many categories, including best shipping lines, container terminals, air cargo terminals, airports and rail haulers.
DP World’s London Gateway, the U.K.’s new deep-sea port and Europe’s largest logistics park opening in Q4 this year, will prove that ports add value to the supply chain, delegates to the 11th annual 3PL Summit and Chief Supply Chain Officer Forum in Chicago were told yesterday. Peter Ward, London Gateway supply chain commercial manager, said, “London Gateway is overturning the traditional view that ports add cost, not value
An industry body set up to ensure businesses are ready to secure opportunities from decommissioning work over the coming years will shortly launch a major mapping exercise to help the supply chain benefit from the $38.6b to $46.3b of North Sea work forecast for the future. The work by Decom North Sea will help promote the capability and capacity of the North Sea supply chain for decommissioning projects, as well as showcasing supply chain companies and their individual expertise and
Northrop Grumman Corporation's Newport News sector announced two promotions. Becky Stewart is promoted to vice president, Surface Ship and Submarine Fleet Maintenance and Veasey Wilson is promoted to vice president, Supply Chain Management. Stewart, who previously served as director for Surface Ship and Submarine Fleet Maintenance, is responsible for all aspects of naval and commercial surface ship and submarine fleet maintenance from pre-contract through delivery.
Old Dominion University will offer a new undergraduate major in maritime and supply chain management in the fall of 2006. The major will be the first of its kind in Virginia, and the second in the country, according to school officials. It will be offered as a bachelor of science in the business administration degree program. Students will have to complete courses in business, accounting, economics, marketing, finance, information technology, management and general education classes
Huntington Ingalls Industries appoint new Vice President in Shipbuilding Division HII announce the promotion of Lori Harper to vice president of supply chain management for the company's Ingalls Shipbuilding division. In this capacity, Harper will be responsible for all Gulf Coast supply chain management functions, including sourcing and procurement, inventory control and material operations in support of all Ingalls contracts
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued enhanced Importer Security Criteria for the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT). The Security Criteria Implementation Plan provides that, effective immediately, importers applying to join C-TPAT must submit a completed, comprehensive security profile with their application. Importers who are already C-TPAT members must harden their physical supply chain within 60 days; adopt enhanced internal supply chain management practices
The National Retail Federation issued the following statement from Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold on the International Longshoreman’s Association (ILA) vote approving a new, long-term master labor contract covering port terminal operations along the East and Gulf Coast ports: “Today’s vote ratifying a new, long-term master labor contract is welcomed news to the nation’s retailers
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. appointed Jeff Danis as the cruise line’s new vice president of Supply Chain Management. Danis will be responsible for overseeing worldwide procurement, inventory management, distribution, warehousing, and shipping operations for both Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises. He will focus on supplier relationship management, maintaining integrity of the procurement process, and driving efficiencies in the supply chain process
Middle East contract logistics market to sustain 6.9 percent average growth to reach over USD 3.7 billion in 2015; Barloworld Logistics intensifies growth plans in Middle East, anchored on integrated smart supply chain solutions. Barloworld Logistics, a provider of logistics and supply chain management solutions, has announced that it is intensifying its growth plans in the Middle East as the region’s contract logistics services market expects to sustain a 6
Epic Gas Ltd. says it has contracted Kyokuyo Shipyard Corporation in Japan to build two 11,000 cbm fully-pressurised gas carriers to be delivered in 2016. This latest order brings the total newbuild contracts for the year to eight fully-pressurised vessels
As Congress considers extending critical federal incentives for wind energy this month, leaders from the Virginia Offshore Wind Development Authority, the City of Norfolk, and the Virginia Ship Repair Association joined Environment Virginia to detail the economic and environmental benefits of
In a speech to be given at the TOC Container Supply Chain: Middle East Conference on December 9, Andrew Kemp, Regional Director EMEA of the freight transport insurance specialist TT Club will warn of the additional liability that freight forwarders and other logistics operators are open to as a
Rolls-Royce has announced that it has won an order to provide design and integrated equipment packages for two UT 771 WP platform supply vessels to be built by Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group Co. Ltd (SINOPACIFIC), a shipbuilder in China. The contract incorporates MTU-engines as part of an
Global marine and environmental risk assessor, RightShip, has been awarded the Australian Prime Ministers Exporter of the Year Award by the Hon. Tony Abbott MP at the 2013 Australian Export Awards in Melbourne. RightShip was established in 2001 to address the lack of accessible
A student team fielded by the University of North Texas (UNT) won the Intermodal Association of North America’s (IANA) third annual Intermodal Challenge, earning national recognition for their university through IANA’s growing young professionals development program
Leaders from key sectors of the Greater New Orleans region will meet on Tuesday, December 3, 2013 to address gaps in national domestic response capability by including regional best practices as part of a template to be shared by America's strategic military base and port communities
Lion Containers Ltd. announced that it has joined Achilles FPAL, the supplier management community supporting the European oil and gas industry. Achilles FPAL is a community used by major buying organizations within the oil and gas sector
Freight transport insurance specialist TT Club said it is continuing its efforts to reduce risk in the supply chain. Through constant analysis of the claims it receives, the international insurer has pinpointed an array of operational circumstances that more commonly cause dangerous incidents
Britain’s new global shipping port welcomes its first scheduled vessel, the ‘MOL Caledon’ from South Africa. After more than a decade of planning and construction across three square miles of development, DP World London Gateway deep-sea port is now open & operational.
PPG Industries announced that Diane M. Kappas has been appointed vice president, Americas, for the protective and marine coatings (PMC) business, effective Dec. 1. The company also announced that Jane Valenta has been appointed to Kappas’ previous role of vice president, environment
The many years of concern about the commercial Mexican-U.S. cross-border practices which slow down the movement of cross-border cargo and security implications, especially because of the drug cartel involvement in these movements, and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) concern for accuracy in
Effective sharing of marine construction experience, safe methods of working and recommended practice for offshore installation will lie at the heart of presentation by Alan MacLeay at EWEA Offshore 2013 in the "Synergies with other maritime technologies" session on November 20 in the
Asian growth and-global recovery are the topics for discussion at the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) gathering in Hong Kong next week (5-7 November 2013). But the underlying topic of debate at the conference will be “is the customer getting what he pays for”.
TT Club’s Senior Underwriter, Dan Negron, speaking at the recent TOC Americas Conference in Miami outlined his views on future Latin American trade growth and the pressures that this will create on the region’s transport infrastructure. Excerpts from his address follow:


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Despite court victory, issues still to resolve in D.C. lawsuit against online travel brokers
D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan, responding to the District's court victory in its lawsuit against online travel companies: “The Court’s ruling today is an important step in our efforts to ensure that the District receives the substantial sums it is owed by online companies selling hotel rooms in D.C.,” Nathan said in a statement.
Not much there. But there's still quite a bit of legal wrangling to go, including a likely appeal, so maybe it's best that D.C. leaders not gloat.
As the District points out in its release, Judge Craig Iscoe's order "does not resolve a number of other issues in the case, including the total amount of taxes owed, whether the defendant companies are subject to negligence or fraud penalties, and whether the parent corporations of Expedia and Orbitz may also be held liable for these taxes."
Joe Rubin, director of the Interactive Travel Services Association, issued a formal statement Monday afternoon that echoes what he told the Washington Business Journal earlier in the day.
"This decision is clearly an outlier, and we think it is an incorrect decision. Almost every other court that has considered this question has found for the online travel companies, and every state legislature that considered this issue in the 2012 legislative session has rejected it," Rubin said. "Therefore, while each of the companies will make their own decision regarding appeals, we would not be surprised to see it appealed, and expect the online travel companies to prevail if it is appealed."
D.C. leaders have said the city is being shorted by the OTCs as much as $10 million annually in transient occupancy taxes. The online brokers say they owe the District nothing, and have, in fact, never filed sales tax returns with the Office of Tax and Revenue.
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ZAGREB, Sept 26 – Croatia’s economy may grow roughly 3 percent next year, about the same amount as this year, the central bank governor Boris Vujcic said on Wednesday.
Many analysts and the central bank have said the slow pace of economic reform in Croatia, needed to improve the business climate by cutting red tape or reducing taxes, is hampering growth prospects in the longer run.
“Next year we see a growth of slightly below 3 percent, similar to this year,” Vujcic told an economic conference on corporate business plans in 2019.
He said the central bank expected the main growth drivers to be exports, consumer spending and investment.
“This year, the level of investment has been below our expectations, but consumer spending has somewhat surpassed our expectations,” Vujcic said.
He also said the risks for the forecast for next year were largely on the downside.
“We are witnessing a slowdown in industrial production in Croatia at the moment. In the event of slower industrial production and growth in our main trading partners, Italy and Germany, it would negatively affect our growth. Also, rising trade barriers on the international level could have a negative impact,” Vujcic said.
Vujcic said average inflation next year was seen at 1.6 percent, a touch below 1.7 percent expected this year. (Reporting by Igor Ilic; Editing by Hugh Lawson)


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BALTIMORE — Royal Farms will be celebrating World Teacher's Day on Oct. 5 by giving teachers one free, any-size coffee, hot or iced, across all locations.
Teachers will have a variety of coffee blends to choose from, including pumpkin spice coffees and lattes, which can be found alongside other seasonal items the convenience store chain has introduced for the fall.
"We are so appreciative of the teachers in our communities and the impact they have on our future leaders. We want to celebrate World Teacher's Day by treating teachers with the fuel they need to seize the day," said Frank Schilling, director of marketing and merchandising at Royal Farms.
For customers not currently teaching but are still interested in trying out a free coffee for themselves, guests can sign up for RoFo Rewards on the Royal Farms mobile app or on RofoRewards.com. Rewards members automatically receive a free coffee in their account when they sign up for the program, as well as save money throughout the year, earn fuel discounts, receive rewards for everyday purchases and redeem other surprise freebie offers.
World Teacher's Day is the latest free coffee initiative from Royal Farms. The c-store retailer kicked off 2023 by introducing "Free Coffee Mondays" for RoFo Rewards members. then, in May, the company showed its support for nurses, doctors and other medical workers by providing them with free coffee during National Hospital Week.
Founded in 1959 under the name White Jug and based in Baltimore, Royal Farms operates nearly 300 convenience store locations throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, with sites in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.


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At last year’s key global broadcast trade shows, 4K/Ultra HD was in abundance but certainly no huge topic of conversation. Even though there has been a large uptake of sets capable of receiving and playing out 4K/Ultra HD content, the number of services across the world remains stubbornly low. Joseph O’Halloran looks at Insight TV, one service that is bucking this trend.
The numbers don’t lie: it’s looking very good for 4K/Ultra HD. Research from Strategy Analytics at the end of 2018 calculated that 222 million global homes owned an Ultra HD TV by the end of 2018, an increase of nearly 50% over the previous 12 months.
Furthermore, and showing exactly how strong the demand for such technology would be going forward, it forecast that more than 600 million homes will own an Ultra HD TV by 2023, with North America continuing to lead in terms of adoption with 71% of homes set to own one by 2023. A similar tracking report by Futuresource Consulting has found that as 2018 drew to a close, consumer interest in Ultra HD continued to climb, receiving a further push due to average retail prices reaching parity with HDTV sets.
Sounds good? Well certainly in terms of the number of devices in homes. Yet when one considers the number of Ultra HD services in use right now, and indeed going forward to 2023, it is a different story. There just aren’t that many and despite 2018 having a World Cup to kick off demand, growth in service numbers has plateaued. And what makes this even more curious is the amount of content now filmed using 4K cameras. The recent Superbowl LIII was a prime example with rights holder CBS shooting the landmark event in 4K but not broadcasting in that form.
So what is going on? The good news is that there are actually some service providers doing rather well right now. Let us give you some Insight.
Addressing one of the key 4K-specific events of the TV conference calendar in November 2018, Kagan senior analyst Mohammed Hamza told an audience of industry professionals that not only was the 4K device ecosystem growing fast but that ultimately the debate around the viability of 4KTV screens was no longer an issue; instead the industry would plough its own path according to what people could watch. He said: “The consumer acceptance is there... The competitive environment has changed: the development path for 4K is not the same as that of HD before it. Online platforms and streaming growth offer a significant contribution. The key discussion centres on content, an issue that will persist as consumers and platforms transition.”
The transition, and why everything now centres on content, was also covered by Futuresource, which noted that broadcast Ultra HD had enjoyed a strong 2018, with February’s Winter Olympics and the FIFA World Cup accelerating many broadcasters’ plans to introduce 4K Ultra HD coverage, making high quality streams available. But as things stand now in this non-sporting year, plans have not translated into mass service deployment.
Indeed, Futuresource highlighted subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) as the likely primary gateway for consumers to access Ultra HD content, with Netflix in particular driving spend. The survey found that some 20–30% of subscribers have opted for the SVOD leader’s Ultra HD premium tier. However, Futuresource cautioned that for wider uptake, a reduction in the cost to deliver Ultra HD and HD broadcasts simultaneously was needed. It regarded IP delivery would be key to this, at least in the short to medium term.
But there are firms already doing well in Ultra HD content, one of which has been Insight TV. The 4K Ultra HD HDR broadcaster and producer of native Ultra HD content has announced a number of shows crossing several genres over the last 12 months including Travel With a Goat, Road to Gymkhana GRiD, King of the Hammers, THRU, Breaking Limits, and DarkFEST.
And in addition to content launches there have been numerous carriage deals with leading cable operators and telcos.
So where and how has Insight TV seen the Ultra HD industry develop over the last year? “We saw growth over the last 12 months and growth in [all parts] of the business,” noted Arun Maljaars, director of content and channels.
“We grew our side of distribution on 4K channels, which sell the main products of premium content 4K for a broadcast fee. We also have our HD channel, which has also grown. We’ve just launched [with US cable operator] RCN in 4K. We’re doing deals with Samsung TV Plus and LG channels digital stream there as well. So in terms of uptake it’s really growing and you see the demand for 4K, you know, growing month by month. Also, from the content side, because [in addition to] our 4K channel and our HD channel we’re doing content sales partnerships and you see the demand in [uptake for] 4K content in our specifications, which is 50 frames HDR. [It is] is really rising.”
But surely there’s more to driving the uptake of content than having technologically sound, high quality content. What is it that makes a 4K programme worth watching? Maljaars stressed that it is all about telling the story. “With [some] other 4K channels sometimes you get only the visuals but what we deal with, we look at the creative side first. So it shows to be an interesting [story], regardless if it’s SD, 4K or whatever it will be. So after we’ve said all that, we take the right concept, we take the right talents and then we add in the 4K. So [we focus on] where we go, are we going to shoot it, how are we going to shoot it, adding that aspect to the programming. So we get really interesting programming [in what we do with] 4K.”
Over the last few months, Insight TV has expanded from its home territory of Europe and reached out in the US and China. Each market has its own challenges but Maljaars believes that there are a lot of commonalities.
“In the end we think we make the best shows in the higher specifications and we’re always a front runner both in creative and in technical. So we do like to see our channel carry across the world,” he remarked. “But maybe there are more similarities than you would think between China and the US. Not in terms of doing business, maybe – that is different – but in terms of consumers watching it. We see interest in the same titles in China as the US and of course [there are local] features there as well. So that’s a thing we’re working on, but there are a lot of similarities rather than differences.”
But if that is the case with individual territories, what is the situation with the different types of companies such as cablecos and telcos that Insight TV is increasingly doing business with? How does Insight gain a business edge when a lot of the production technology is commoditised? The key focuses for the company are 4K aspect and frame rate, which for Insight is in the range of 50–60fps. Plus HDR. And naturally the thorny issue of standards arises.
Maljaars revealed that Insight TV has a working partnership with Technicolor regarding HDR. It also recognises the role played by Dolby Vision in the ecosystem and HDR10+, the standard from Samsung and Amazon. “I’m not saying one is better than the other, but I think it’s a smart move from Amazon and Samsung to take the HDR10+ standard, which is free for everyone,” Maljaars noted.
“Hollywood productions will be using Dolby Vision probably because they have the funds. But for the TV producers and the channels just below that segment it is [important to work with] Dolby Vision and also Technicolor. So we’re experimenting [with it.]”
The key sales target for Insight TV content has been cable operators and telcos which are looking at 4K services to gain a differentiator among customers in the 25-35 age range. Yet increasingly Insight TV is involved in the streaming world with the likes of Roku and Samsung Plus online service. Maljaars sees such companies’ business models as interesting from a return point of view. What could be even more interesting for Insight TV is if its content is increasingly delivered via a streaming app rather than as part of a traditional cable or telco pay-TV operator’s bouquet.
“Well, I wouldn’t say it doesn’t cannibalise each other,” says Maljaars. “At least we share from our point of view. The telcos might think different about that, of course. But definitely you see the digital; players challenging the status quo. But at the same time everyone’s working together. So you see Roku apps on the various broadband telco devices. There’s a new service out there and everyone needs to think about how we’re dealing with it and how we all can benefit from it. So it’s interesting to see how that develops, but it doesn’t take business away from the telcos for us right now.”
So just what is likely to happen with 4K development? Maljaars made the bold prediction that maybe within five years almost all channels will be broadcast in 4K in some regard. This he believes will bring about a point at which content will separate Insight TV from the rest.
“That’s why we’re looking at focusing on the storytelling itself more rather than the technical part first,” he explains, “and because we’re focussing on all the millennials between 25 and 35 we’re growing with them. So everything: the subjects, the shows they are interested in – we’re growing naturally with them. When they are 40 or so they will know Insight and they will accept [our content], so it will be a standard that will still exist. I think that next year there will be even more 4K [in the] market than last year because all the operators are bringing out 4K boxes, and it becomes more of a standard and for me, personally, or for Insight TV, the buyers, or the acquisition managers, directors, they need to do more in my opinion towards what kind of content they are buying. You know, is it interesting for the consumers? Is it real storytelling stuff, which you are going to offer to the consumers, and secondly, is it real 4K HDR?”
Standards aside, there’s a lot of heft to HDR and its adoption by the mainstream consumer electronics industry. The standards battle is obscuring the fact that whatever format wins, HDR will win overall.
The other current future technology with a less clear future is 8KTV. This technology is receiving a huge push as the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020 approaches. Yet as 4K adoption is painfully slow, it will likely be near glacial for 8K. That said, Insight TV’s development team is involved in the technology and made its first 8K HDR production during the summer of 2018 and Maljaars adds that it was currently shooting more 8K HDR material in current productions in order to make its content future proof.
Knowing exactly what this future to be proofed against is hugely difficult to predict. One thing that is less speculative is that there will be more and more 4K Ultra HD sets out there and that Insight TV will be cranking up the production engine to make sure that for Ultra HD applications they are not all dressed up with nowhere to go.


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The mail slowdown resulting from operational changes implemented by new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has doubled the delivery time for birth control prescriptions, a reproductive health company executive told Salon.
Democrats have sounded the alarm over changes by DeJoy, a top donor to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, after the US Postal Service told 46 states it may be unable to meet their mail voting deadlines this fall. But the focus has increasingly moved to the potential impact on the delivery of medication, which threatens to leave patients without access to life-saving medicine.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is reportedly looking for alternatives to the USPS after shipments of medication were delayed. Meanwhile, there have been a growing number of anecdotal reports of elderly patients being left without critical medications for weeks.
Access to birth control has also been impacted, Carrie SiuButt, the CEO of SimpleHealth, an online birth control company, told Salon.
A “couple of weeks ago” the company noticed a few complaints “trickling in” but “now we’re seeing up to 5% of people” reporting delays,” she said. “What would have been three to five days now can take upwards of seven to 10 days.”
A recent Axios/Ipsos survey also found that about 5% of respondents who were awaiting a prescription delivery had either not received it, or got it late.
SimpleHealth had seen its business double amid the coronavirus pandemic. Most of the company’s clients use insurance to pay for their prescriptions, so the company is legally prohibited from moving up refill timelines to counteract the effect of the delays, though it is now offering six-month refills to patients that pay out of pocket.
“We are writing to patients that we are currently experiencing delays but… this is really frustrating for me because it’s another barrier for women to receive proper access to the medication they need,” SiuButt said. “We try to get our patients what they need right away but it’s unfortunate that some of the decisions being made are affecting women’s health care.”
SiuButt said her own experience has left her worried that her mother will not receive her diabetes medication in time.
“It’s less about the politics, to me it’s about human being welfare,” she said.
Postal workers have also noticed significant delays.
“Medications come in as parcels and we have seen that mail is taking longer,” Kimberly Karol, an Iowa postal clerk and the president of the state’s Postal Workers Union, told Salon. “In many cases, it was increasing the delivery time somewhere between three and seven days. That’s a big change.”
Karol warned that the delays could particularly impact customers in rural areas.
“If it hasn’t yet, which I would be surprised if it hasn’t, it will,” she said. “We’re in many cases the only way they can receive mail. If the system gets backed up, their mail is going to be included in that…. We see that there are issues getting items to the final destination.”
Medical groups have also sounded the alarm over the changes.
“My patients who rely on their insulin, or their inhalers, or any other type of medication can’t wait weeks to see whether or not their prescription will be delivered,” Jacqueline Fincher, president of the American College of Physicians, said in a statement, adding that the organization is “alarmed” that these changes will “exacerbate existing issues.”
“The Postmaster General’s alleged pause is wholly insufficient and does not reverse damage already wreaked,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement after meeting with DeJoy. “We are highly concerned that the slowdown of the delivery of medicines to veterans is not being sufficiently addressed.”
The VA acknowledged that it has been forced to find alternative ways to deliver medication, like FedEx and UPS, in an email to the Disabled Vets of America. The VA fills about 80% of prescriptions by mail, about 120 million prescriptions per year.
“The VA has now confirmed to us that the United States Postal Service (USPS), which is responsible for delivering about 90% of all VA mail order prescriptions, has indeed been delayed in delivering these critical medications by an average of almost 25% over the past year, with many locations experiencing much more significant delays,” Stephen “Butch” Whitehead, who heads the group, said in a statement. “To help mitigate these postal delays, the VA has been forced to switch to alternative delivery services in a number of areas across the country and is taking other actions to expedite processing and delivery of prescriptions.”
Last week, 31 senators wrote to DeJoy that they’ve heard from hundreds of veterans that weeks-long delays are “causing veterans to miss doses of vital medications.”
The VA’s website says that “prescriptions usually arrive within 3 to 5 days” but veterans and VA staff told the lawmakers that “these medications are often taking weeks to be delivered.”
A VA spokeswoman disputed the letter to ABC News, noting that the website urges veterans to request refills at least 10 days before they need it.
“VA always encourages veterans to order routine prescriptions in advance,” spokeswoman Christina Noel told the outlet. “When it comes to emergent prescriptions, VA either fills them onsite or uses commercial carriers to ensure timely delivery.”
Many companies rely on USPS for delivery as well. CVS, Express Scripts, and OptumRx, the three largest pharmacy benefit managers in the US, all use USPS to send prescriptions, as do startups like Honeybee Health and Amazon’s PillPack. The number of prescriptions sent through the mail has spiked during the pandemic.
HoneyBee Health said that about 20% of patients whose prescriptions were sent via first-class mail experienced delays though the other companies told BuzzFeed News that they have not been affected by the USPS slowdown.
While UPS and FedEx offer alternatives to the USPS, they do not offer the same low rates and often themselves rely on the USPS for “last mile” delivery in rural areas.
“We tend to use UPS and FedEx more for time-sensitive and expensive drugs,” Umar Afridi, the founder of the online pharmacy TruePill, told CNBC. “USPS is often the lowest cost and they have the biggest reach.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., launched an investigation this week into the effect of the USPS on medication delivery, sending out letters to top pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens to find out whether their customers have experienced delays as well.
“Millions of Americans with diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, asthma, and other chronic conditions, illnesses or health care needs rely on the USPS for delivery of their prescription drugs and are at grave risks if President Trump’s efforts to degrade mail service results in delays and disruptions,” they wrote. “These health threats are magnified by the ongoing pandemic.”
Former Rep. John McHugh, who now heads the Package Coalition, a group that advocates for reliable postal delivery service with members like PillPack, Express Scripts, CVS Health, and Amazon, warned that the effects could snowball.
“There’s an exponential factor to this,” he told CNBC. “Once you are behind, what happens next is you get further behind and then further behind.”
“Any additional strain will have an impact on patients,” added Dr. Lakshman Swamy, an associate medical director at Massachusetts’ state health care system. “It’s inevitable.”
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Digital courier service eCourier and online locally produced selling group WE Entrepreneurs have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Saturday.
Under this agreement, eCourier will deliver all sorts of locally made products sold in the We Entrepreneurs group to customers, said an eCourier press release on Tuesday.
The signing event took place in Haji Shahab Uddin Complex, Mohakhali, at the WE office.
Chief Executive Officer of eCourier Biplob G Rahul, eCourier's Business Development Team Manager Md Zahidul Islam, Senior Executive at eCourier's Business Development Team Urmi Akhtar, President of WE Entrepreneurs Nasima Akter Nisha, WE members Jahanur Kabir Shakib and Imana Haque Jyoti were present during the signing ceremony.
During the signing ceremony, Biplob G Rahul said, "From now on, we will deliver all WE products to any part of the country in the fastest time possible."
Nasima Akter Nisha said, "Now the customer will not only be satisfied with the purchase of the product from us, but also with the safe delivery of his/her product."


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Kraft Goes Couponing For Market Share
By George Anderson
The Reuters article sums its up: Kraft plans to “buy its way into more shopping carts by pouring more cash into promotions.”
The food manufacturer has been stung by a dive in cookie sales, courtesy of devotees of Dr. Atkins, plus a drop-off in other categories where private label is growing. Kraft
is looking to gain some traction by increasing its promotion budget by $500- to $600-million on top of what was previously budgeted for 2004.
Morgan Stanley analyst David Adelman said Kraft’s promotional push may have unintended although, perhaps, not unwelcome consequences. “Their key objective is to fight back against
private label. A branded competitor could get caught in the crosswinds of Kraft’s response.”
Ken Harris, a partner with Cannondale Associates, agrees. “Kraft has some formidable marketing skills they’re going to bring to bear,” he said. “In many respects … they’re
going to outshout the competition and gain the attention of the consumer.”
Moderator’s Comment: What do you believe will be the short and longer-term consequences
of Kraft’s promotional strategy on its brands and those of its national and private label competitors?
Short-term: Kraft drives sales.
Longer-term: We hope we’re wrong, but Kraft devalues its own brands (and perhaps entire categories) by resetting the “real” price in the minds of consumers.
Anderson – Moderator


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According to the Indian TOI website, a proposal has been made for a new portable charging port for their own phones.
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Idera last month issued the first major announcement for its LANSA product lineup since it bought the application development toolmaker last year. With Visual LANSA 15, the company has delivered more than 500 enhancements, including a new API creation experience, native chart controls for Web apps, and a host of sample apps, among many other new features.
Before LANSA sold itself to Idera in January 2019, Visual LANSA was the company’s flagship integrated development environment (IDE) for creating modern graphical applications that run on IBM i, Windows, and cloud platforms.
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We all turn into our parents at some point in our lives. And Princess Charlotte has already become mom Kate’s mini-me, style-wise.
Princess Charlotte is already copying Kate’s style in the clothing that she wears. Just in a recent family photo, the young Princess followed in her mom’s footsteps by wearing a mini-me version of Duchess Kate’s favourite boots.
On Wednesday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge released their official Christmas card. In their 2020 holiday card, the couple poses alongside their three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis. Photographer Matt Porteous captured the group this autumn at Anmer Hall. The whole family is wearing similar knitted jumpers in autumnal shades of brown and green.
While Prince George is sitting next to William and laughing Louis can be seen clinging to dada’s leg, Charlotte is perched on her mom’s knee, wearing a pair of familiar-looking pair of brown boots with long brown leather tassels.
The boots were made especially for Charlotte by Penelope Chilvers, the designer behind Kate’s go-to casual knee-high Tassel Boot. The Duchess has owned her for at least 16 years. She wore them while posing for photographers at the Blenheim Palace Game Fair in August 2004.
“Very excited to see Princess Charlotte in our Mini-Me Tassel Boots. Her mother, HRH Catherine has been wearing the #LongTasselBoots for so many years, it is so sweet that Princess Charlotte now has a mini-me style!” posted the designer on Instagram.
Stylist Rochelle said: “I think that Kate and William have dressed their children similar to them to keep the look and feel of the festive card.
“Both the boys, Prince George and Prince Louis have got a similar look to their dad with the earthy tones, jumper and shirt combo.
“The colours they are wearing complement Prince William and the rest of the family. Both their looks represent them and their style.
“Princess Charlotte has a similar look to her mum in a jumper and jeans combo. Kate has again chosen complementary tones for both herself and Charlotte. They have a very relaxed feel as a family.”


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The toy retailer appoints head of American Eagle Outfitters’ digital technology to oversee IT and digital operations as it takes its e-commerce platform in-house.
Styleclick, Inc. a provider of e-commerce and web development services today announced the launch of three new online stores, further expanding its e-commerce and web services business. The new stores include:
-- JERZEES.com, a division of international apparel manufacturer Russell Corporation
-- Ninashoes.com, part of Nina Footwear, manufacturer of nationally-distributed women's footwear
-- Mycashmere.com. Exclusive to the Internet, Mycashmere offers a complete line of cashmere fashions at competitive prices direct from manufacturer


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Triumph Motorcycles India has launched the all-new Triumph Street Triple S with prices starting at Rs.8.50 lakh in the entry-level S variant. The British manufacturer’s middleweight naked gets upgrades in all departments sporting an all-new engine, evolved design, updated suspension and a lighter chassis.
At the outset, the 2017 Street Triple gets an evolved design language. The styling is sharper now but retains the iconic bug-shaped dual headlamps seen on the previous iterations. The bike sports new inner and outer radiator cowls, front and rear mudguard, and new rear body panels. Triumph says the new Street is the lightest bike in its class with a dry weight of 166 kg, despite sporting a larger engine.
Power comes from the all-new 765 cc in-line triple engine on the Street Triple. Triumph says, the motor gets 80 new components including an increased bore and stroke, new cam, pistons and Nikasil plated aluminium barrels for better heat dissipation. In fact, this same engine will also power the FIA Moto2 championship from the 2019 season.


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Australian company GrainCorp has rejected a US$2.7 billion offer from U.S.-based Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) on the heels of releasing its annual profit statement and lifting its share dividend.
GrainCorp claims the ADM deal “materially undervalues” the company, as it announced a 19% increase in net profit for the 2011-12 fiscal year. GrainCorp’s shares sat around the AUS$12.20 mark on November 15. GrainCrop did not say if the company had received any other offers.
A spokesperson for ADM, Jackie Anderson, said the company’s bid of AUS$11.75 remained “an attractive proposal.”