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Press Release: Sproxil Joins The World Customs Organization’s IPM Connected Global Network In the Fight Against Counterfeiting
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Sproxil Joins The World Customs Organization’s IPM Connected Global Network In the Fight Against Counterfeiting
Cambridge, MA (January 30, 2014) – Sproxil®, a leading provider of world-class brand protection, has joined the World Customs Organization’s (WCO) IPM global network of track & trace and authentication solutions. The IPM Network is the WCO’s online tool to combat counterfeiting – it enables right holders faced with counterfeiting of their brands, to exchange information in real-time with field Customs officers.
The IPM Network integrates two major technical developments: a mobile version and the opportunity to interface IPM with authentication and/or traceability solutions companies. Using a mobile device, field Customs officers can instantly verify a product’s authenticity simply by scanning the barcode or other track and trace method to automatically launch the authentication application.
By joining the WCO’s global network of solutions, Sproxil is now officially IPM Connected and is working with the WCO in its on-going effort to combat illicit trade and the growing threat it poses to our society and economy. The WCO encourages all databases, sources of information, authentication or traceability solutions which could help Customs officers in their fight against counterfeiting to interface with IPM and become IPM Connected.
“We’re proud to join the WCO’s IPM network. The partnership enables Sproxil clients to share and leverage information from the IPM network to detect potential counterfeit attacks on their brands and products. This is a tremendous benefit – first and foremost, it makes products safer for consumers but it also helps organizations protect their brands and products,” states Sproxil CEO & Founder Dr. Ashifi Gogo. “As a leading solution provider, we feel it’s important to be an active member in the anti-counterfeiting community and provide the most comprehensive tools to our clients. The WCO’s IPM Network is a leader on the global stage in the battle against counterfeiting; we are pleased to be an active part of such an innovative, prestigious constituency.”
Sproxil’s Mobile Product Authentication™ (MPA™) technology has been used more than seven million times to verify that products are genuine. Leading pharmaceutical companies, such as Johnson & Johnson, Merck Serono, IPCA as well as regulatory organizations in the emerging markets of Africa and India have been leveraging Sproxil’s MPA solution to protect consumers from taking potentially harmful counterfeit and substandard medications since the company launched in 2009. The MPA solution can be used to verify any tangible item, and Sproxil’s solution is currently being implemented and used for products across multiple industries including skin care, supplements and vitamins, electrical cabling, automotive and motorcycle parts and agro-business, to name a few.
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Old mobile operating systems don’t die, they just go to live life on TV.
LG bought WebOS, the woebegone former operating system that ran Palm devices, in a quiet transaction in 2012. LG picked up WebOS for a song from Hewlett-Packard, which had spent $1.2 billion to buy the operating system in 2010. A little less than a year after LG picked up WebOS, the Korean gadget maker’s efforts have finally borne fruit.
The results are a group of smart televisions from LG that run on WebOS announced Monday at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This is no small effort, it’s not like LG is throwing WebOS into a test device to tease consumers with a small sample of smart televisions running WebOS. In fact, 56% of LG’s LED LCD HD televisions will be using WebOS as the driver of a smarter television experience.
The strength of WebOS was always that it was one of the simpler and more intuitive operating systems. But in the age of smartphones and tablets,the major problem with WebOS was that it was too simple and not really sophisticated when compared to Android and iOS.
Palm did not really have the resources to compete with the likes of Google and Apple (and many Palm engineers went to Apple to work on the first iterations of the iPhone and iOS) and it ultimately folded and sold out to HP. Yet HP was a poor steward of WebOS which it open sourced and tangentially promoted, releasing one tablet—the HP TouchPad—that did not sell well until HP reduced the price for a fire sale. Work on WebOS languished and eventually was sold off as spare parts to LG.
This initial failure may ultimately prove to be the best thing that could have happened to WebOS LG has proven its commitment to using the operating system in a majority of its HD televisions along with all of its new line of 4K Ultra HD televisions. LG believes it can make Web-related television browsing and content, discovery, services and channel switching incredibly simple with WebOS of at least that is the company’s story at CES 2014. The thing about LG though is that it is an incredibly stubborn company.
When it comes to its core products, LG will be happy to push WebOS down consumers’ throats until it can call it a success. So, WebOS will have legs for the next several years at the very least and could become one of the primary standards for smart televisions for the rest of the decade and beyond. It’s been a strange trip for one of the first mobile operating systems that began at Palm, but living a life as some of the smartest televisions on the planet is not a bad end for WebOS.
Google may ultimately be the loser here. Google has been pushing Android to the smart television front for years now and it has just lost LG—one of the most prominent television manufacturers in the world—as a key partner. Android has proven its ability to move to just about any device category from wearables to set top boxes to video game systems, but it has never really caught on in the television world. The big TV makers like LG and Samsung have their own proprietary systems and will push forward with them, marginalizing Android on large screens to a variety of smaller manufacturing partners.


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See a bevy of Buicks from all over the world and get a rare look at Italian car collector Nicola Bulgari’s property in Allentown during the Buick Club of America’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the NB Center for American Automotive Heritage.
From Regals and Roadmasters to Skylarks and Somersets, more than 600 vehicles of every color, era and size from America’s oldest active car brand will be showcased. There will be touring cars, four-door sedans, two-door coupes, convertibles, ambulances, hearses and more.
Bulgari’s restoration and show buildings will be closed during the meet, but he will bring out 15 of his Buicks for viewing, including some cars made famous in films: the 1930 taxi featured in the Frank Capra classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” and the 1940 “Bette Davis Woodie,” a burgundy Buick Estate Wagon featured in several Warner Bros. movies.
The jewelry magnate also will display his red 1910 Buick Bug, which was an Indianapolis 500 race car and one of two known to exist; and black 1938 Buick Y-Job, General Motors’ first concept car.
Admission, benefiting Allentown’s America on Wheels museum, is $5; $2, ages 11-16 and and seniors ages 62 and older; free, ages 10 and under.
The NB Center for American Automotive Heritage is at Union Boulevard and North Ellsworth Street. Info: buickclub.org.
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It’s a big news day in the world of DB2 for z/OS with IBM announcing the Beta Launch of DB2 10. There has been much speculation about how this version is going to look and we had a sneak preview at the IBM Gold Consultant Day at IDUG last year – http://www.triton.co.uk/blog/?p=321
“With DB2 for z/OS, IBM has once again redefined the benchmark for large-scale database systems. I’m particularly impressed by the potential for significant productivity improvements through the new temporal data support, enhanced automatic functions and SQL and XML extentions. These enhancements will help our customers to directly drive competitive advantage through more rapid deployment of application and warehouse workloads.” Julian Stuhler
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Shares of Kemet Corporation (KEM - Free Report) , a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), soared nearly 8% on Wednesday after S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that it was adding the capacitor manufacturer to the S&P SmallCap 600 index.
According to S&P, Kemet will be replacing Astoria Financial (AF) in the index "prior to the open of trading on Monday, October 2." KEM is moving higher thanks to increased demand from index funds that track the S&P SmallCap 600.
As the name implies, the index tracks small-cap companies. To be eligible for inclusion in the index, a company must be based in the U.S. and have a market cap of $450 million to $2.1 billion.
Astoria Financial, which has soared more than 42% over the past 52 weeks, is now too large for the index. KEM has skyrocketed more than 450% over that same timeframe and now holds a market cap of roughly $1 billion.
Kemet is the world's largest manufacturer of solid tantalum capacitors and one of the world's largest manufacturer of multilayer ceramic capacitors. These are two of the fastest-growing sectors of the U.S. capacitor industry.
On top of its strong Zacks Rank, the stock is also sporting an “A” grade for Value, as well as an overall VGM grade of “A.” Even with its share price explosion, the company still holds a P/E ratio of just 12.13 and a P/S ratio of 1.10.
Based on our current consensus estimates, we expect Kemet to record EPS growth of 264% and sales growth of 53% this fiscal year. Nevertheless, today’s gains are a result of S&P SmallCap 600 index funds starting to buy up shares and are therefore not indicative of a change in the company’s fundamental picture.
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If you are from the x-generation or .. ahem, older. Chances are you have own at least one TV in your life that you bought with your own money. My very first was in the picture you see below.
my very first TV
It was a behemoth of its time, a massive 32″ CRT TV that comes with a remote controller and two different sets of inputs (front and back!). Heck, even the screen is sorta but not entirely flat, an awesome feature in its time. Of course, it also weighs as much as a porcelain kitchen sink and as thick as refrigerator.
In fact, it was so heavy my friend’s dad had to take a day off after helping me move this baby to a new house.. due to back pain. Sorry uncle Harvey.
Well, that was also more than 10 years ago.
LG Cinema 3D Smart TV Launch Bloggers Party
TV has come leaps and bounds since, and recently LG put up a preview party for bloggers to showcase their 2012 Cinema 3D Smart TV lineup at Gardens GSC Signature, and the reception was rather awesome. Those who attended the event were left impressed with the line up that LG has to offer.
Attendees had a chance to try out the immersive 3D experiences delivered by the largest 3D Smart TV in the country, and there were also showcase of Dual Play technology – which allows you to play 2 person games with 2 TV, instead of traditional top/bottom or left/right split screen method.
top 3 CNET Asia 3D TV Winners – all from LG
LG’s offering is head and shoulder ahead the competition, the recent CNET Asia 3D TV comparison have LG TVs ranked first, second, and third. That is saying something isn’t it?
LG’s Smart TV has all the bells and whistles built in, and not just something with a pretty design. It’s DLNA ready, you can watch Youtube on it, play movie straight out of thumb drive/network, and so much more.
our very own LG party at a friend’s house
You can watch flicker free 3D movies from blueray, 3D movie files, and more impressively, convert ordinary videos to 3D by the touch of a button.
How I know this? A friend actually hosted a small party just to show case his newly bought LG 3D TV not long ago, and we were all mighty impressed. True story.
To keep up with more news and latest technologies with LG 3D TVs, check out LG’s TV/Audio/Video blog.


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Unseen ads of our goddess as the face of KOLON SPORT China ^^
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Lee Min Jung unleashed her sexy side through a recent pictorial for fashion magazine, In Style.
woah! New – and amazing – pics of our Min Jung for Kolon Sports were revealed!
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TURIN -- Fiat Auto had a fast start to 2004.
The Italian automaker sold 68,868 units in January to attain 30.97 percent of the Italian market, up from 30.82 percent, or 64,877 units during the same month last year. That's well above Fiat's 27.6 percent share in December.
Fiat fell short of its 2003 targets for Italy and western Europe.
Fiat says its share of western Europe's new-car sales grew to 8.6 percent in January, up from 8.5 percent a year ago and up from 7.0 percent in December 2003. ACEA will report official western European sales results on February 12.


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Shoe repairer and key cutter Timpson to open 1,000th shop
Expansion: Timpson plans to open at least 150 new branches during 2014
Timpson, the shoe repairer and key cutter that seems to be everywhere, is opening its thousandth shop tomorrow.
It will be on a site once occupied by a warehouse belonging to the family retail shoe business, which was sold by the chain in 1987.
It is now occupied by Tesco, which will host the new branch.
Chairman John Timpson said he planned to open at least 150 new branches during 2014.
‘I guess that makes us one of the fastest growing retailers, but we would never have survived simply by being a cobbler,’ he said. As the chain has grown, it has added engraving, watch repairs, dry cleaning and mobile phone repairs to its services.
Group sales for 2013 were up six per cent to £145million, while pre-tax profits were up 48 per cent to a record £14.9million.
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Porsche looks ready to revive the Panamera Sport Turismo Concept and build a wagon out of its four-door coupe.
Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo Concept
A few years ago it took actual willpower not to consider what kinds of cool derivatives Porsche could make with the Panamera. Our fancies were helped by patent drawings of a Panamera convertible, rumors of a two-door 928 GT and internal Porsche sketches of such a car, and report after report after report that the current, second-generation Panamera would begin to expand the family. That hasn't happened, but according to a new report in Auto Express, the next Panamera will be the one to begin the


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For starters, one quarter of all Veranos sold have been adorned in Crystal Red Tintcoat. This, as you may imagine, is not the norm — as red was only the fifth most-popular color across the industry in 2011, according to paint supplier PPG.
In addition, the top three markets for the Verano are New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, with other major metropolitan markets such as Dallas, Houston, and St. Louis — rounding out the top 10.
When it comes to sales on the West Coast, almost half of Veranos sold in the region are specced out with the top-of-the-line 1SL trim level, which includes leather-appointed seats, a heated steering wheel, a 9-speaker Bose sound system, and passive entry with push-button start. The 1SL, also known as the leather equipment group, has a starting price of $25,965.
But perhaps most important is the fact that almost one in two Verano buyers trade in vehicles from non-GM brands, resulting in conquest sales for the Tri Shield. For instance, Karen Schindler of St. Louis was the first Verano owner in early December; she switched from a 2002 Lexus IS300 and was quoted as saying, “I got everything I wanted with this car for a great price. I really love it, and things like the heated steering wheel were a big surprise. And it’s great that it was built here in the U.S.”
The GM Authority Take
Congratulations, Karen, for a choice well-made!
However, the equipment and color purchase statistics could be attributed to the manufacturing inconsistencies and variations associated with the launch of a new vehicle, but the fact that nearly half of Verano buyers switch from an outside brand must be music to the ears of Buick and GM executives. Of course the fact that the Verano gets 32 MPG on the highway doesn’t hurt, either… but we think that number should be slightly higher. Nevertheless, let’s hope the conquesting trend continues.
So far in 2012, the Verano sold 4,980 units, with 2,497 sales in March.


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Voxbit, one of the leading providers in internet communications and VoIP phone systems and supplier of the Byphone hosted phone system, has partnered with premium IP phone manufacturer Snom Technology to deliver a new collaborative tool that will allow Microsoft Teams users to include Snom phones as part of their telephony solution.
The Byphone management system platform combines the high-performance features, audio quality and high-end design of a Snom handset with the flexibility of Microsoft Teams, offering the best of both worlds. This integration puts the decision about how to communicate back into the hands of the end-users, enabling fluid and flexible communications that everyone is comfortable with.
Employees who don’t use Microsoft Teams can use their Snom handset to carry out direct calls and transfers to individuals from a Teams extension, using direct routing technology.
James Wells, Head of Channel at Byphone said, ‘‘The new world of work has prompted a drastic shift in how business users communicate. Employees need increased flexibility, but not at the expense of high-quality, robust audio interactions. Our latest solution is a perfect blend of these two needs; we are delighted to be able to include Snom’s portfolio of IP phones in our platform alongside Microsoft Teams.’’
Snom’s Head of Interop, Mark Wiegleb, is convinced that users will really benefit from this collaborative solution: “The Byphone solution is a seamless integration of Snom devices with Microsoft Teams on their platform and the real winners here are the people using the system to make calls. Not only do they benefit from the superior audio quality of a Snom phone plus all of the additional on-device features, they can also enjoy all of the advantages available to Teams users. Ultimately, it’s all about preference and choice, and Byphone hand those decisions to the users themselves.”


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Another day, another uproar over a manuever by Facebook that allows users to “share where they are in a really nice and social way,” in the words of CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The concern centers on Facebook’s long-awaited location-based feature “Places,” which was introduced last night and immmediately prompted concerns — not for the first time — that “nice” and “social” are code words for “Facebook is going to play fast and loose with your privacy again as we cultivate more local advertising and business partners. Mmmmwwahahahahaha.”
As the ACLU pointed out in a statement last night, “Places allows your friends to tag you when they check in somewhere” and “when it comes to opting out of that feature, you are only given a ‘not now’ option. ‘No’ isn’t one of the easy options.”
Indeed, you can remove a location tag — just as you can remove a photo tag — but if you’re concerned about your privacy, you’ll need to stay on top of Facebook.
Though you’ll receive a notice every time your location has been tagged so that you can remove it if you choose, unless you’re obsessively checking your phone, your location will show up on your Wall for some period of time. More, according to Wired, “your friends will see your face appear on the Facebook page of that bar, restaurant or strip club under a list of ‘People here now.'”
The good news: Wired has already assembled a checklist of ways for users to disable the feature so that if you don’t to share your location, ever, you won’t have to. At least, not until Facebook updates its privacy settings again. (For a pretty shocking overview of the company’s evolving approach toward privacy, check out this timeline assembled some months ago by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.)
To walk through the “Places” disabling process, click here.


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US-based designer Sushma Patel is set to make her debut in Indian fashion industry with the forthcoming India Resort Fashion Week (IRFW). She is going to showcase her talent inspired by her Indian roots. She has added a desi touch to her creations. Over 15 years of presence in the fashion industry, Patel has showcased her work at fashion weeks in New York, Paris, Dubai and Milan. She also retails from diverse destinations like Istanbul, Jamaica, Romania, Barbados, Russia, Cayman Island and Iceland.
Though she never found time to bring her designs to India since she was busy with her international projects and clients, Patel has always been keen on coming back to her own country to launch her line of clothing. She would be unveiling her designs at the second edition of the fashion extravaganza scheduled at Goa’s popular Candolim beach.
Inspired by Indian designers like Manish Malhotra and JJ Valaya, her collection at IRFW titled ‘Cupcake Massacre’ will have a mix of tailored jumpsuits and easy-to-wear shifts accented with chains and studs, accessorised by colour−blocked wedges and slings.


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There has been a shocking rise in holidaymakers making fake claims of suffering from vomiting and diarrhea abroad.
A growing number of hotels in the Costa del Sol, Valencia, Costa Blanca and Benidorm have now warned they could be banned from staying there.
It could cost Spain up to €60 million.
Nuria Montes, from Spain’s hoteliers association HOSBEC, said:
“The number of claims has increased significantly since the start of this year, when the ‘claims farm’ started their campaign to attract British tourists coming through tour operators.
“This is not happening only in Spain, similar situations are being produced in other European destinations such as Greece and Cyprus, and also in the Caribbean.
“We estimate that during 2016 the number of claims may be around 10,000, reflecting a very significant increase compared to previous years.
“We have estimated that the economic impact on the Spanish hotel industry will be around €60million, in case the hotel industry has to bear the full cost.”
It will see the cost of holidays increase, leaving airlines and tour operators unimpressed.
Richard Conroy, founder of travel illness company SickHoliday.com, worries the fake cash-grabs will undermine legitimate investigations, where real holiday sickness can lead to long-term disease.
He said: “Fraudulent holiday sickness claims are on the rise — we turn down four or five cases we feel are bogus each week ourselves.
“The only thing this trend is going to do is push up the cost of holidays by roughly 10% while punishing those who have genuine grievances with tour operators.
“We estimate there are around 25,000 fraudulent claims for holiday sickness per year.
“Criminal charges need to be brought. Until that happens, we all suffer.”


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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) traders in Embu County have benefited from training on business and human rights to build stronger, more sustainable, and ethical enterprises.
The training conducted by Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) in partnership with Danish Institute of Business and Human Rights is aimed at enabling them to understand their role and responsibility in upholding and integrating human rights in their business strategies.
KNCCI Trade official Joyce Chelagat said the purpose of the trainings being carried countrywide was to enable the SMEs understand and learn their role in business and the importance of embedding human rights into their businesses.
She said businesses were not separate entities operating in isolation from the societies in which they thrive and as such have a moral and ethical responsibility to respect and uphold the fundamental rights of individuals within their sphere of influence.
Speaking on Monday during the training of tens of SME pla
yers held at a hotel in Embu Town, Ms Chelagat said this was not a matter of compliance with regulations but conscience and the values that underpin responsible entrepreneurship.
She said entrepreneurs need to understand their corporate responsibility to respect human rights as a key role for their businesses in a bid to attract markets and reduce risk of costly litigations, regulatory fines and reputation damage.
‘For instance, farmers need to understand the chemicals they ought to apply in their farms so that the products they avail to the market are safe for human consumption,’ she said, adding that issues of how they also treat their workers is another aspect that should also be taken into account.
Some Kenyan products have been in some instances blocked from accessing European Market due to high chemical residual levels and Ms Chelagat said SMEs and farmers must be sensitized on the need to uphold human rights for them to thrive in business.
Edward Munoru from the Micro and Small Enterprises Authorit
y (MSEA) said issues of human rights must be taken into account in the business ecosystem to promote sustainable enterprises.
Source: Kenya News Agency


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The all-new iPhone 15 series is not launching until around five months from now, particularly by mid-September 2023. Nothing has been announced by Apple too regarding this release date, and these details are just based on rumors.
However, leaks have been coming forward as early as now as to the features of the upcoming iPhone 15 series.
Various news outlets reported how a leaker on Twitter revealed details about the features of some models in the series, specifically the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max.
A leaker named 941 shared the details of these possible features on Twitter. They indicated that the phone’s Action button would have a wide range of new functions, including taking over the power off and force restart functions currently controlled by the volume buttons.
“… I have some (small) info regarding the action button on iPhone 15 Pro,” tweeted @analyst941. “Firstly, the volume up + power button will no longer be used to power off the device, or ‘force-restart’ it. The sequence remains, but combination will be changed to action + power button.”
This leak about this particular feature makes sense especially when put side by side with another leak that came out weeks ago saying Apple is developing a dedicated chip allowing its phone’s Action button to work even if the device is off or has run out of battery.
But that is not all. The leaker also said the Action button would replace the functions of the volume-up button when capturing a photo. And, there are new shortcut options. These shortcut options include the light press that auto-focuses the camera, the hard press that captures a photo, and the hard press and long-hold that captures or records video.
941 said pressure sensitivity in the Action button would enable these additional controls.
“If you missed it, or don’t understand how the capacitive button can be ‘light’ or ‘hard’ pressed: again, the capacitive buttons (incl. action) will be Force-sensitive. It’s like 3D-touch was, so it will recognize whether you’re just tapping it, lightly pressing it, or hard press,” the leaker added.
There are also leaks that came out about the design of some of the phones in the upcoming iPhone 15 series. A Chinese tipster said the regular iPhone 15 and 15 Plus would feature a frosted back finish, similar to the Pro version in the current generation. Right now, users can tell by the back finish whether the model is Pro or non-Pro.
Furthermore, the Pro units are said to incorporate a titanium frame with curved glass edges. Plus, there will also be an added Action button on the phone’s side frame that will still distinguish between the different iPhone tiers.
Leaks about the colors also came out. For instance, the regular iPhones will see a new green and cyan blend that would resemble iPhone 12’s Mint Green option.
Meanwhile, for the iPhone 15 Pro, rumors reveal it will get a new dark red colorway, replacing the Deep Purple on the current 14 phones.


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Hong Kong-based 3PL Kerry Logistics Network saw its net profit grow 7% to HK$1.183bn (US$150.76m) in 2017. The net profit was achieved off the back of a 28% increase in revenue of HK$30.79bn and core operating profit of HK$2.13bn, an increase of 13%.
The integrated logistics segment of the company led the surge in growth, generating 78% of the profit after 12% growth, was boosted by business in Thailand. In Hong Kong new business in various verticals helped Kerry log 18% growth in its logistics business in the territory. But increased competition in China placed a drag on the possibilities of even greater profit.
Kerry Logistics’ international freight forwarding division clocked up a 41% surge in turnover and a 14% rise in segment profit despite rising freight rates putting adverse pressure on profits.
The year 2017 was a period of active asset expansion for Kerry Logistics. To date, the Group is managing a logistics facility portfolio of 52m sq ft, of which 26m sq ft are self-owned. Three logistics facilities in Shanghai and Wuxi, China and Phnom Penh, Cambodia were completed in 2017.
Looking to the future Kerry Logistics’ regional strategy means the firm will be able to play to its strengths by riding both the impetus of the Belt and Road Initiative, where it has acquisitions in China and the CIS countries, and the boom in e-commerce.
Kerry Logistics has set its sights on the strong demand momentum driven by cross-border e-commerce, particularly between Greater China and ASEAN to boost growth. Following the successful launch of its express business in Thailand, Kerry Logistics said it plans to extend the concept to Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore.
George Yeo, chairman of Kerry Logistics summed up the firm’s current place in the market: “With the addition of Globalink Logistics and Lanzhou Pacific Logistics, we now have the strongest road and rail freight network across Eurasia. The deepening and widening of our capabilities position us well for rapidly-growing cross-border e-commerce which is facilitated by better physical connectivity and greater international cooperation.”
Kerry Logistics 2017 financial results coincided with the company receiving the “Excellence of the Year for Innovation & Leadership – Logistics Services – Global award at the LeFonti Awards presented in Hong Kong on 26 March.
The Awards praised Kerry Logistics for its leadership in global logistics and its role as an innovator, being one of the first 3PLs in Asia to adopt robotic fulfillment solutions in its flagship facility in Hong Kong.
“We are honoured to be commended by the Awards,” said Samuel Lau, deputy managing director – Integrated Logistics. “At Kerry Logistics we endeavour to create value for our customers and help them build their competitive edge through our trusted and innovative solutions. We are committed to consistently devising new operation models to accommodate their needs and the changes in the global economy. The accolade is the result of the concerted action of our workforce, without whom we would not have made this achievement.”
Backed by the Italian research institute and global independent publishing house LeFonti, the Awards were voted online by readers of LeFonti which has a readership of over 50,000, and were further evaluated by LeFonti’s editorial committee along with a team of legal, economic and financial journalists from over 120 countries.


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The Staff, 1/12/2018
Chinese technology giant Huawei is building a substantial 18-building campus in Johannesburg to house its various operations and is investing US$100 million to ensure it has all the facilities it needs for its various divisions, projects, partners and customers.
The Staff, 12/20/2017
MTN has launched what it believes is South Africa's first commercial connected car service from a mobile operator with a solution that monitors driving behavior and statistics to enable usage-based insurance.
Iain Morris, News Editor, 12/15/2017
Pan-African operator Liquid Telecom has teamed up with a startup hub in Zambia called BongoHive in an effort to spur the local technology ecosystem.
The Staff, 12/13/2017
Huawei Technologies has launched its latest OpenLab in Egypt as part of its effort to engage with partners and help to build an "ICT ecosystem" in Northern Africa "in response to industry digital transformation."
Ray Le Maistre, International Group Editor, Light Reading, 12/1/2017
In yet another sign that Africa's market for data center and cloud services is shifting up a gear, global ICT and networking services giant NTT Communications is bringing its Nexcenter data center service to South Africa through a partnership with local data center operator Internet Solutions.
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With more than 13,000 attendees, more than 450 exhibitors and more than 400 speakers, there was plenty to see and hear at this year's AfricaCom, which took place in Cape Town earlier this month.
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This year's AfricaCom, the 20th, was the biggest and most successful ever, with more than 13,000 attendees, more than 450 exhibitors and more than 400 speakers.
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In a news release, Sony announced the recall of 1.6 million flat-panel Bravia televisions sold around the world due to a faulty component that poses a potential fire hazard to consumers.
The recall was initiated after Sony discovered that a faulty component in the backlight system of the affected televisions could potentially overheat, resulting in the television melting or catching fire. While the company is not officially recalling the units, a statement from Sony states, “It has come to our attention through reports in Japan that in rare cases a particular component incorporated in certain models of 40” Bravia LCD HDTVs was damaged and as a result, may overheat and at times ignite inside the television. Sony has sold nearly 400,000 of these TVs in the US and no incidents have been reported to date. While we have no reports of any resulting damages to other property or bodily injuries, Sony offers all customers of the affects models a free in-home evaluation for the covered product.”
The recall of certain 40-inch Bravia televisions has been announced in Japan, but will ultimately spread over the globe, as the same model was sold in the US and UK.
As a Federal Way personal injury lawyer, I’ve witnessed similar recalls in the past and want to warn consumers to be overly cautious in situations where appliances have been known to start fires. If you’ve been injured by a defective product, contact a personal injury lawyer in your city to discuss to legal options open to you.


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Contraction in the Dutch herd started later than in other parts of Europe but is now significant, with this year’s August census showing a year on year drop of four percent in the breeding herd.
Pig World Publisher Digby Scott has some thoughts on the subject: European pig producers have invested heavily in efficient pig production and now they see mounting losses, their outlets shrinking and extra environmental and animal welfare costs they cannot afford.
European pig producers are in crisis and for the first time units are lying empty because new or existing producers are no longer coming forward to step into the shoes of those who have given up the struggle. Low-cost imports
Even those who are hanging on by their fingertips are wondering if there is any point, because if red-tape and poor prices don’t get them now, low-cost imports from Brazil and the United States will get them in the future.
It is a gloomy prospect. So gloomy that in the next few years Europe’s large processors and retailers might find their gravy train running into the buffers as the European pig cycle breaks beyond apparent repair, just as Britain’s did a decade ago. Source: BPEX Related Website
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More consumers are switching their current bank accounts as they vote with their feet and look for better returns and improved customer service.
There was a rise of 20% in the number of switches to bank accounts completed during the first three months of the year compared with the last quarter of 2015 – and a rise of 10% in the same period last year.
March saw the highest number of switches since the Current Account Switch Service was launched in 2013. There were nearly 125,000 switches during the month, out of a total of nearly 310,000 during the first quarter of the year, according to Bacs, the industry body responsible for the service.
The past year has seen just over a million customers switch accounts, meaning there have been 2.8 million such actions since the service began.
Kevin Mountford, of Moneysupermarket, said: “The latest current account switching figures are very encouraging and it’s great to see both a 20% increase since the last quarter’s figures as well as a 10% annual uplift.
“But while the increase in figures is positive news, the number of switches is still comparatively small, given there are 65 million active current account holders in the UK.
“Banks and building societies, therefore, have a good opportunity to capitalise on these people and should continue to create innovative products that create consumer excitement and encourage switching, especially as it’s only a handful of providers that are making net gains from switching activity at the moment.
“At the same time, consumers should continue to put pressure on banks by switching provider if they aren’t happy with their current deal.”
He added: “On average, people save £70 a year by switching and there are plenty of enticing deals currently on the market, offering high-interest rates, cash incentives, and other perks, so it’s well worth shopping around as there may be a better offer elsewhere.”


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New York—Just because it was a shorter week for many of us—between Labor Day and Rosh Hashanah—there was no shortage of interesting fashion and retail news.
Of course, the start of New York Fashion Week takes top billing this week—and next.
The 10th annual Style Awards on Wednesday launched fashion week, honoring some of the biggest names in the fashion and entertainment world: Zac Posen, Kate Upton, Victor Cruz, Frederic Fekkai, Patrick DeMarchelier, Rachel Zoe, John Varvatos etc.
Pantone, the color authority, also issued its semiannual palette showing New York designers’ favorite color choices for Spring 2014“This season, consumers are looking for a state of thoughtful, emotional and artistic equilibrium,” commented Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute.
Eiseman’s comments echoed some of those from economists who are concerned about a slowdown at retail. While more Americans are employed and the economy continues to (very) slowly improve, many shoppers are having second thoughts about spending on discretionary merchandise, such as apparel.
“The consumer is feeling better and is willing to make larger item purchases but that leaves them with less money in their wallet to spend on other things. The items you can live without, people are living without,” said Lazard Capital analyst Jennifer Davis.
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Why is Wal-Mart just so creepy? Maybe it’s the manager “training” described by Josh Eidelson for Salon:
For decades, the campus group Students in Free Enterprise has drawn major funding and leadership from Wal-Mart, and channeled scores of students into the retail giant’s management ranks. Renamed Enactus in 2012, the group calls itself “the world’s best-known and most successful program helping university students to create community empowerment projects …” But California State University, Chico, accounting professor and former SIFE insider Curtis DeBerg told Salon that the well-heeled group served as “really a marketing branch to support business leaders who supported SIFE,” and that his decade as one of SIFE’s Sam Walton fellows was marked by fraud, turf war and falsehood. “There’s something entirely inconsistent about servant leadership as Wal-Mart practices it,” said DeBerg, the founder of the now-rival spinoff Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship. DeBerg’s memoir, “How High Is Up?: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of a Sam M. Walton SIFE Fellow,” will be released next month.
Asked about DeBerg’s allegations, Enactus sent a statement from CEO Alvin Rohrs saying that DeBerg “has not been associated with our organization for more than a decade and we are puzzled as to why these complaints would resurface now.” Rohrs told Salon that “we take the integrity of our competitions extremely seriously” and that a three-month investigation by an “independent investigator” into the cheating alleged by DeBerg had “found no impropriety or indication of any unethical behavior.” Rohrs added, “Over the last 11 years we’ve used this incident to continue to improve and strengthen our processes to ensure the highest standards of transparency and accuracy.”
In contrast, University of California, Santa Barbara, labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein, the author of “The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business,” told Salon over email that DeBerg “offers an inside account of the cultlike character, institutional corruption and corporate conservative ideology of an organization that is a product of the founding generation of Walmart executives,” as well as “part of the cultural apparatus that sustains the entire evangelical capitalist world within which so many retail, hotel, and food processing companies make their way.”
Wal-Mart referred a request for comment to Enactus. Noting that Wal-Mart served as SIFE’s top corporate sponsor and hired over a third of management trainees from SIFE in 2003, the historian Bethany Moreton argued that SIFE, an “economic counterpart” to the right-wing political group Young Americans for Freedom, had been “adopted” by Wal-Mart. Today SIFE has renamed itself Enactus; Wal-Mart’s CEO (SIFE’s most recent past board chair) and its central U.S. vice president sit on Enactus’ board; Wal-Mart and its Sam’s Club subsidiary are seven-figure Enactus donors.
A condensed version of Salon’s interview with DeBerg follows.
What brought you to SIFE, and what kept you there for so many years?
In 1993 … the dean of our college of business got this one-page letter from Rob Walton, who was chairman of the board for Wal-Mart … It explained that [as a Sam Walton fellow] a faculty member would organize a small team of students on campus … teaching community members about free enterprise, and the importance of small business and free enterprise, with their strong bent on reducing the debt …
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Specialist in SME finance Optimum Finance has published its first quarter results for 2019 to show growth of 15% in Q1 over Q4 in 2018, and 166% growth compared to Q1 in 2018, as small and medium-sized enterprises continue the upwards trend of using invoice finance and factoring services to manage cash flow.
The business is also 32% up against its targets for new business secured from business owners looking to source immediate and flexible solutions for financial pressures as debtor days continue to rise in the UK.
The firm’s growth is leading to new investment in technology designed to automate the process of securing funding with a web-based app for new clients.
The company’s results have led to five new appointments across the business in support and client service roles including Kerry Hodgson as head of client management, Steve Goulden, regional sales director for the Midlands, Lynn-Marie Stephenson, regional sales director for the North, James Beck as chief technology officer and Lisa Gregory in the credit control team.
Optimum Finance has also launched its graduate programme with the appointment of two graduate trainees, Reuben Keating and Sian Low.
Commenting on this recent growth CEO Richard Pepler said: “It’s no secret that with banks’ rigid lending conditions SMEs have been increasingly looking to other routes to unlock the cash in invoices rather than go through time-consuming and lengthy approval processes for loans, crowdfunding or overdrafts, which lock them in, often at high borrowing costs.
“Our funding solutions are often used to offset the credit control cost and administration, making it a highly cost-effective and flexible way of ensuring cash stays in the business.
“The process of running a business has changed in the last few years and the banks have not kept pace with the changes. Technology is at the heart of every business; automation and improving efficiency of the finance function is essential to the future success of all SMEs.
“Our business model is tailored to meet these changing needs and this is reflected in our fast growth. We have created a new CTO role as part of our mission to revolutionise the finance function for the UK’s SME companies which make up the backbone of the UK economy.”


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Polo Ralph Lauren opens women’s flagship in Manhattan
New York City Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. opened a four-floor, 22,000-sq.-ft. women’s flagship on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The luxurious store is located across the street from the company’s Rhinelander Mansion store, which has been converted into Lauren’s men’s flagship.
The flagship, located in a Beaux-Arts building that was built from the ground up, is dedicated to Lauren’s women’s and home collections and also features the designer’s first domestic Watch & Jewelry.
The store is outfitted with luxury materials and details that give the space a residential, Parisian feel. A grand marble staircase with an ornate handrail sweeps up through the four floors.
Consumer Sentiment Index declined in October
Ann Arbor, Mich. — The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer sentiment, released Friday, showed that confidence among U.S. consumers unexpectedly declined in October, with Americans more pessimistic about current economic conditions.
The index decreased to 67.9, the lowest since July, from 68.2 in September.
Unemployment projected to remain above 9% through next year may keep weighing on sentiment and make Americans reluctant to ramp up their spending, which accounts for 70% of the economy.
The Thomson Reuters sentiment index averaged 89 in the five years leading up to the recession that began in December 2007 and has yet to reach that level since the recovery began in June 2009.
Separate figures from the Labor Department on Friday showed consumer prices rose 0.1% in September, less than forecast. The Commerce Department said Friday that retail sales climbed more than forecast in September; spending rose 0.6% following a 0.7% gain in August that was larger than previously estimated.
Consumer expectations for six months from now, which more closely projects the direction of consumer spending, rose to 64.6 from 60.9, which was the lowest since March 2009, according to the Friday sentiment index.
The survey’s measure of current conditions, which reflects Americans’ perceptions of their financial situation and whether it is a good time to buy big-ticket items such as cars, dropped to 73, the lowest since November, from 79.6 in the previous month.
Other index results showed that consumers expect an inflation rate of 2.6% over the next 12 months, compared with 2.2% projected in September.
McDonald’s targets LEED Gold for California site
New York City — A renovated McDonald’s in Riverside, Calif., became the first McDonald’s west of the Mississippi, and the fourth in the United Sates, to seek LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification.
The building, which has stood as a McDonald’s restaurant for 44 years, reopened after a renovation that made the building more sustainable and energy-efficient. The new green features include:
- Light colored hardscape to reduce heat emissions from site;
- Native drought tolerant plants to reduce water consumption by landscape;
- Low flow plumbing fixtures to reduce water usage;
- Installation of 294 photovoltaic panels to generate a percentage of the restaurant’s power consumption; and
- Recycled denim insulation inside the building.
The restaurant features an interactive touch-screen display for visitors to learn about the building, environmental sustainability, and how individuals can reduce their carbon footprint.
Other LEED-certified McDonald’s restaurants are located in Cary, N.C., Savannah, Ga., and Chicago. The Riverside restaurant expects to receive LEED certification within one year.


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Oculus has just introduced a several new social features for the Oculus Gear VR that includes Facebook sharing features and new social games with the intention of making the Samsung’s Oculus Gear VR more social. It really only confirms Facebook’s continued plans to make virtual reality more social for users.
The Facebook owned company has focussed recent features on improving social interaction. In November Samsung released the Gear VR in conjunction with Facebook’s Oculus VR
Anyone with a Samsung Gear VR will now be able to create a profile, search for friends and leave reviews for all apps in the Oculus Store.
Oculus is also planning to add new games that have been created just for virtual reality which can also support a maximum of four players.
Gear VR will have a dedicated section on Facebook for videos which will allow users to connect Facebook accounts and see a feed of 360 degree videos which are personalized and based upon your friend’s pages. These videos will also be able to be shared in virtual reality.


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When Ensemble studio started working on Halo Wars RTS game, they never intended for it to be a Halo title or to take place in its universe. Ensemble founder Tony Goodman believes that the game was a “really fantastic, under-recognized product,” but he still laments how Microsoft forced the Halo universe upon the game near the end of its development.
"Microsoft was pretty risk averse and they said, 'I don't know if we want to take the risk of creating strategy games on a console. We'd feel better if Halo were attached to it,'” he said. "The difficult part of that was it took the game back about a year in development, and I think it never quite turned out the same. They just said, 'Why don't you just paint over what you have with Halo stuff?' But things aren't quite that simple."
And the situation only got worse when Bungie got wind of the news that the Age of Empires developers were making a Halo RTS. "Bungie was kind of sore about the idea. What they called it was 'the whoring out of our franchise' or something. Yeah, that didn't create a great relationship between us and Bungie; they viewed us as someone infringing [on their franchise]," Tony Goodman reminisced.
Interestingly, Tony’s version of the story contradicts Bungie’s own public statements. A few months before the release of Halo Wars, Bungie AI specialist Damian Isla stated that "We've done a lot of talking with Ensemble guys, and we're all really excited about Halo Wars, because from everything we've seen so far it's a very cool, faithful adaptation... Everything we've seen has been very, very encouraging - we're very excited about it."
It seems that Damian’s statement was more on the diplomatic side than the truth.


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Pending Home Sales Drop 16%, Factory Orders Up 1.1%
January 5th, 2010 - Down 16 % from 114.3 reported in October, pending home sales declined for the first time in ten months. Falling well below expectations, contracts to buy previously owned homes have weakened a considerable amount. However, NAR chief economist, Lawrence Yun, still takes comfort in the positive sales strides made since last year.
"The fact that pending home sales are comfortably above year-ago levels shows the market has gained sufficient momentum on its own," Yun stated in regards to yesterday's data release. "We expect another surge in the spring as more home buyers take advantage of affordable housing conditions before the tax credit expires."
Fronted by gains in business development, factory orders confidently increased 1.1% to 365.30 billion. Doubly more than what Wall Street predicted, demand amongst industries has made a broad based mount from the 2.1 % fall in October.
With business development paving the way for factory improvements, companies are believed to be expanding their production and expenses.


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Dubai-based cloud kitchen startup Kitopi has raised USD 415 million in a Series C investment led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, the company said in a statement. It is one of the largest-ever financing rounds raised by a venture-backed company in the Middle East and North Africa. It is also the first investment by SoftBank in a Middle Eastern company. Kitopi did not disclose its valuation but confirmed to MENAbytes that it is over USD 1 billion, making it the third Middle Eastern unicorn and the fastest one to attain the status. The deal was also joined by several other leading growth investors, including Chimera, DisruptAD, B. Riley, Dogus Group, Next Play Capital, and Nordstar.
Founded in 2018 by Mohamad Ballout, Saman Darkan, Bader Ataya, and Andy Arenas, Kitopi operates a network of over 60 cloud kitchens in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain. It had also expanded to the United States in 2019 but exited the market after the start of the pandemic.
The three-year-old startup partners with F&B brands to help them expand their reach through its cloud kitchens. The startup takes care of all the operations, from the preparation of food to delivery, while working with the restaurants on a revenue-sharing basis. According to its website, it works with more than 200 brands, including Shake Shack, Papa John’s, Jollibee, Nathan’s Famous, IHOP, and many others.
In a statement, the company said its competitive advantage is in its proprietary Smart Kitchen Operating System, a suite of applications that optimizes the performance of its cloud kitchen operations in real-time. It helps Kitopi manage multiple brands in a single kitchen and maximizes operational efficiency. “One application, for instance, uses data science to predict when drivers will arrive and how long a menu item would take to cook, then automatically sequences which items are cooked first, to enhance speed,” noted the statement.
Since its launch three years ago, Kitopi’s kitchens have been able to double order volume while reducing preparation time by 40%. The startup has also expanded into subscription-based meal plans and grocery delivery in the last 12 months. Its overall business grew 300% in 2020.
Mohamad Ballout, co-founder and CEO of Kitopi, said, “These past three and a half years have taught us the importance of pursuing our vision with grit, focus, and building a high-performance culture. We are humbled to work with world-class partners such as SoftBank, Chimera, DisruptAD, and others. What this shows is not only a great commitment to our company but also to the industry and the region. Our focus now is to expand our presence in the Middle East and Southeast Asia while continuing to innovate and pioneer in the cloud kitchen space. We are excited to take what we do to other parts of the world.”
Faisal Rehman, managing partner for SoftBank Investment Advisers, said, “Constraints placed on the hospitality sector by the global pandemic have rapidly catalyzed the value proposition of cloud kitchens for customers and restaurant brands. We believe Kitopi’s proprietary technology is changing the unit economics of food delivery to provide more choices for more customers in more places. Moreover, we are delighted to welcome Kitopi as SoftBank’s first UAE-headquartered investment and are excited by the company’s growth prospects in the region and beyond.”
“Mohamad has assembled one of the highest quality leadership teams from the get-go and continues to build a depth of talent across the organization. Coupling this with being one of the first companies in the world to innovate in the cloud kitchen space globally makes for an incredibly exciting venture outcome to be borne out of Dubai—we are privileged to have the opportunity to work with Kitopi,” said Dany Farha of Beco Capital.
Tushar Singhvi, deputy CEO and head of investments at Crescent Enterprises, said, “As a long-standing partner, CE-Ventures continues to support the company’s ambitious global expansion plans. Becoming the region’s fastest unicorn is just the beginning.”
Kitopi had previously raised USD 60 million in a Series B round in early 2020.
This article was originally published on MENAbytes.


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Nielsen: What’s in Store 2016 and Beyond (On-Demand Webinar) 1/6/2016
Check out Nielsen’s most recent webinar What’s in Store 2016 and Beyond to learn about the top market trends you should to be poised to leverage this year.
During the webinar, Nielsen SVP of Consumer Insights James Russo provides a five-year retail forecast including key factors that will influence the future of the business. Whether it’s evolving eating habits, local market changes, the multicultural consumer or rise of tech titans; you’ll need to know what to expect in the year ahead.
Here are just a few highlights for the 2016 landscape:
- Dollar and unit sales growth is expected in 2016, but will be only marginally better than 2015
- Increased growth is forecasted across a broader spectrum of departments and categories
- The majority of shopping trips will be for immediate needs, not for stock up or routine trips
- Food consumption away from the home has surpassed in home consumption for the first time since 1992 and is continuing to grow
- Changing eating habits allow for new opportunities for snacks as meals and on-the-go meal options
- Over half of Americans will do more of their shopping online in 2020


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Thanks to Spigen, we have the opportunity to see the first cases for Samsung first foldable smartphone. The company is already developing the first cases of the Samsung Galaxy Fold, which we hope will work with the strange design of the device.
According to Verge, Spigen was working on 20 protypes before the Galaxy Fold was officially announced. Last week, Samsung officially unveiled Samsung’s unpacked event, Spigen created a model of the foldable smartphone to begin testing the original cases. Spigen intends to release three case models for the Galaxy Fold, Thin Fit, Ultra Hybrid, and Tough Armor’s most popular model. The cases will be made of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and polycarbonate (PC).
But the main question is how will the cases work with the flexible hinge that is in the middle of the Samsung Galaxy Fold screen? According to Spigen, the Tough Armor case will have a special construction structure to bend. However, the company does not want to reveal many details, mainly due to competition on the market.
Spigen is still under test for the best design of Samsung Galaxy Fold, but plans to release all three models on April 26th. Also, another smartphone maker is working on the case design for Samsung Galaxy Fold, Zagg. However, the development of the foldable smatphone case is currently stopped because the company does not have access to the device.


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Hookup App Mixxxer Reports 250,000 Users
LOS ANGELES — Recently launched hookup app Mixxxer is ending 2014 on a high note, reporting a fast and vigorous uptake by carnal consumers.
According to the company, the location-based adults-only mobile sex finder is quickly becoming popular with swingers and the sexually adventurous — so much so that the app has now hit a new milestone — attracting more than 250,000 registered users to the online hookup service since its introduction in July.
Introduced as a racy response to the glut of available dating apps, the publishers of the free, web-based Mixxxer app credit positive word-of-mouth advertising during the past five months for keeping the app’s growth steady.
For those seeking additional features, a premium membership is available.
“Thanksgiving marked a special occasion for Mixxxer by hitting the quarter-million member mark,” said Mixxxer founder Michael Manes. “We were approaching it that week, and due to a surprising spike in activity over the holiday, we managed to break through 250,000 members.”
“We always thought holidays would be slow, but we saw an increase in traffic to the site throughout the day,” Manes added. “I’m guessing the day off work and holiday downtime contributed to the increase.”
Manes says that Mixxxer prides itself on its unique features, which are unavailable on other apps, such as the special privacy filter and its “shower door” feature, plus a lack of restrictions in photo messaging and posting, so that users can get as steamy and explicit as they like within the safety of the website and without inhibitions.
“I consider hitting the 250,000 member mark a major milestone. That’s 250,000 members in just the United States,” Manes concludes. “It takes years for most websites to see the numbers we’ve reached; we are seeing consistent growth and just beginning to explore expansion outside the U.S.”
For more information, visit Mixxxer.com.


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Johnson & Johnson [NYSE:JNJ] is in the early stages of exploring a sale of its Mentor Worldwide breast implant business, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
However, the process is likely to be impacted by the current coronavirus outbreak, which is causing a major slowdown in the healthcare deals market, two of the sources said.
JNJ is working with JPMorgan on the potential sale process, two of the sources said. The unit generates around USD 100m in EBITDA, all three sources said.
Irvine, California-based Mentor is one of the largest makers of breast implants for aesthetic and post-surgical breast reconstruction, according to its website. It makes a line of breast implants under the Mentor brand that are sold in over 100 countries.
JNJ announced that it had reached an agreement to take Mentor private in late 2008 for USD 1.1bn, at a 92% premium to the company’s share price at the time. The Mentor division is now part of JNJ’s medical devices division.
Mentor competes with Allergan [NYSE:AGN], Sientra [NASDAQ:SIEN], Establishment Labs [NASDAQ:ESTA] and other players in the global breast implant market, according to filings.
The global breast implant market was valued at USD 2.7bn in 2019 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.1% from 2019 to 2030, according to industry tracker Market Industry Reports.
The US Food and Drug Administration last March sent warning letters to Mentor and Sientra alleging the companies failed to perform post-approval studies of their silicon gel-filled breast implants to assess long-term safety, according to an FDA press release.
Johnson & Johnson in December said it promoted Diane Gomez-Thinnes as Mentor’s worldwide president, succeeding Warren Foust, who was appointed president of JNJ’s Surgical Vision business.
Johnson & Johnson did not respond to requests for comment. JPMorgan declined to comment.
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Manna Capital Partners, an investment firm co-founded by Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling owner Ulysses L. “Junior” Bridgeman, announced plans this week for a $600 million “advanced beverage production and distribution complex” in Montgomery, Alabama. The 180-acre site will include a 1.7 million-square-foot production plant for alcoholic and non-alcoholic products, according to an announcement by the state. Production will begin in 2025. The complex will include distribution operations. “Our goal is to be the leading total beverage supply chain company in North America while operating with the highest quality, sustainable capabilities needed to produce beverages for world-class brand owners,” Bridgeman said in the statement, adding that the project “fills the gap for major brands who want to be asset light, nimble and make a difference in their communities by hiring minority and women-owned businesses.” BD notes that the news comes as Coca-Cola pushes further into the US alcohol market through licenses with beer companies for spiked versions of brands such as Simply, Fresca, and Coca-Cola (with Jack Daniels). So far, Coca-Cola bottlers have had little room to get involved with such efforts. Presumably, Bridgeman’s ability to co-pack and perhaps distribute alcoholic beverages could create the scale needed to pursue more creative approaches, perhaps even with Coca-Cola’s alcohol offshoots.
Coca-Cola has signed on with Monumental Sports & Entertainment as the exclusive soft drink partner for Capital One Arena in Washington D.C., home for the NBA’s Washington Wizards and the NHL’s Washington Capitals. The account is currently held by PepsiCo. Meanwhile, Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling has signed a long-term beverage partnership agreement with the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks and its home arena, the Honda Center. And the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights organization has signed a multi-year beverage partnership with Ghost Energy that makes the brand the team’s official energy drink. The ready-to-drink version of Ghost, a Bang Energy challenger, was created in a JV with Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Kroger agreed to acquire Albertsons in a deal worth $24.6 billion that would combine the two largest US supermarket chains. Industry watchers expect the deal to draw scrutiny from antitrust regulators. BD observes that the combined chain’s scale would give the retailers increased leverage when negotiating with food and beverage suppliers including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Keurig Dr Pepper.
Primo Water has acquired Crystal Spring Water in Rhode Island, which also serves Southeastern Massachusetts. The deal adds 2,500 customers to Primo’s North America division.
CBD products maker Charlotte’s Web has become the official CBD of Major League Baseball. MLB is the first professional sports league to sign a sponsorship deal with a CBD company. Charlotte’s Web makes oils, gummies, and other CBD products for people and animals. They do not offer a ready-to-drink beverage
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Newly appointed Ford Motor CEO Jim Hackett admitted yesterday that demand for driverless transportation could take many different forms and that Ford was rethinking how it would tailor its cars and mobility services for self-drive modes of transportation in the future.
Speaking at the Cities of Tomorrow event Ford held yesterday, Hackett, who was reportedly wearing an Apple Watch and dressed in jeans, said Ford was challenged by trying to figure out how consumers will react to driverless vehicle business models when they become commercially available.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Hackett said driverless' "biggest leap is the nature of the human interpretation of using it."
If you think we're going to take the autonomous vehicle and just replace the station wagon, I don't believe that's what's going to happen. The AV will replace and do something that the station wagon can't do —not just drive itself — but other things...It's about aligning the technology to what the market wants it to do — is it a new station wagon or is it an Uber vehicle?
Hackett, who previously hailed from office furniture supplier Steelcase and played center on the University of Michigan's football team, was most recently head of Ford's Smart Mobility Division, which overseas Ford's autonomous driving activity.
One of Hackett's main missions since becoming CEO in May is to help the company take a more self-driving direction as a whole, as Ford hopes to meet its previously stated goal of offering Level 4 cars by 2021 that require no input from humans to go from point A to point B.
To that end, Ford agreed to invest $1 billion in the driverless car startup Argo AI earlier this year. It has also invested in leading LiDAR supplier Velodyne and ride-hailing startup Chariot.
Ford has been developing autonomous cars for over 10 years, but has said publicly Argo AI will play a key role in its plans to launch Level 4-capable vehicles commercially under a mobility services business model in 2021.
At least Ford is not imposing a business model of what the company thinks driverless transportation should be like in the future. In may respects, as Hackett said yesterday, Ford hopes to instead ready the technology that people want. The problem is that no one knows exactly what that will be.
Tesla released yet another over-the-air update for its Autopilot driverless mode this week. We cannot yet confirm that the update will offer any noticeable boosts in self-drive performance until we have tested it, but the new version of Autopilot has gradually improved over the course of the year so that the new version is now at least as good as the previous one. A feature the update offers that is not directly related to driverless is that Autopilot automatically dims Tesla Model S, X, and 3 high beams for oncoming cars on roads and highways at night.
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Yesterday marked the end of the “everything must go” auction of items left in the Pontiac Silverdome. The number of items that could be considered worthwhile memoriabilia were limited but the auction is looking like a success – at least compared to what the Silverdome sold for nearly five years ago.
Triple Sports & Entertainment LLC’s grand plans to renovate the building haven’t come to fruition after initially stating their expectation was to begin work in spring or summer last year. The dome is now facing an uncertain future as its condition deteriorates and it’s contents have been liquidated.
Triple Sports paid just $583,000 for the property in November 2009 but the liquidation auction is suspected to have brought in about $1 million. ESPN’s Darren Rovell provided some auction details in a report yesterday.
While the auction has ended, fans looking to grab a piece of Silverdome memorabilia are in luck. Stadium seats were not included in the auction and remain available for purchase. Prices range from $100 for a single seat ($175 if you want a number 20 seat) to $465 for an adjoining set of four seats.


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India may seek a ratings upgrade from Moody’s amid recovery hopes
Finance Ministry officials aim to convince the ratings agency of India’s firm recovery with details of how the country will meet its budget targets for the current fiscal, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
OECD marginally lowered India's FY22 growth projection to 9.7%
"The risk of lasting costs from the pandemic also persists. The output shortfa...
Cross Currency | Decoupling of forex and equity markets, rare but not impossible!
The broader gains in equities have not been able to lift th...
Can Zomato's blockbuster IPO help India overcome prejudice against free market?
Could the recent IPO of Zomato be an inflexion point, the beginning of a flirtation? Indeed, it has been heartening to see the widespread enthusiasm that accompanied the first public listing of an Indian tech startup. A very large number of people under 30 have subscribed to the stock.
Financials likely to drive market this earnings season: Mihir Vora
“While financials have held out quite well in spite of the second wave, once the results are out, it will probably be a confirmation of the fact that the private sector banks and NBFCs have handled the stress well and probably we will get a fresh leg in the market.”
Numbers that matter: State of an economy interrupted, in charts
The RBI said there had been a rise in mobility indicators and attendance at workplaces, as well as jumps in advance tax payments, power consumption, digital transactions and other indicators in the month of June, all of which it considered forerunners to a revival in business and consumer confidence.
Why India’s stock markets are decoupled from the economic reality
One, markets by their khaasiyat — their very nature — are decoupled from the economy. They are either forward looking or despondent. The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index (BSE Sensex) bottomed out a shade below 26,000 a day before the lockdown commenced in March 2020.
Brave New World: Agro-commodities in for bull market; stay-at-home trade picking up
I believe that the Global economy is moving from a free market economy to a planned economy, where government decides the winners and losers.
Bullzire'21: Top experts to discuss markets & economy post Covid-19 in event organised by SRCC's D-Street
The ninth edition of Bullzire will host discussions with leading minds on topics of finance, stock markets and economics.
Global recovery expected to be asynchronous between advanced and emerging market economies: IMF
"Extraordinary policy measures have eased financial conditions and supported the economy, helping to contain financial stability risks," the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its Global Financial Stability report released ahead of the Spring meeting of the global lender and the World Bank.
India to be among fastest-growing emerging markets in FY22: S&P
The steep contraction in the current financial year will be followed by a bounce back to 10% growth in FY22, putting India among the fastest-growing economies in 2021, said Andrew Wood, S&P director of sovereign and international public finance ratings.
View: What a Democratic White House and Congress could mean for the U.S.
A Republican-controlled Senate, regardless of who is president, is unlikely to support any material increase in the stimulus given their concerns over rising debt.
Shift to market economy from nationalised system causing RBI-govt tensions: Viral Acharya
Acharya, who resigned after run-ins with the government last year, said the dip in financial savings is also another reason which can explain the disagreements between Mint Road and North Block.
India may impose anti-dumping duty on Chinese Aniline, denies market
Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR), under the commerce and industry ministry, also said that it would continue to treat China as a ‘non-market economy’, allowing India to impose anti-dumping duties on cheap imports to protect its domestic industry.
Emerging market economies diverge as lockdowns persist
Here are the latest plans toward ending lockdowns in some of the major emerging markets.
Fed unbound: Balm for markets, economy
Beginning with an emergency interest-rate cut announced March 3, the Fed has run through its 2008-09 crisis playbook and leapt into uncharted territory.
RBI measures for commercial real estate to boost market, economy mood: Yashpal Gupta, Repco Home Fin
We are hoping that when the government comes out with a circular, the issues of housing real estate market will also get addressed, says Yashpal Gupta, MD & CEO, Repco Home Finance.
Market, economy trends that should worry us more than auto sales, inflation
There is a disturbing trend that we perceive even in equity investing.
Dichotomy between markets & economy? Just live with it
The economy seems to be at a low while the market appears to be on a high.