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A spokesman for Ace finances Express, a nationwide carrier of payday, name and installment loans, and also other economic providers, said they shut nearly half of their 85 sites in Colorado following the 2010 law as its earnings decrease plus the providers cut costs.
“Those consumers who can however have loans such as the new program because they do not need to pay the mortgage straight back at one time,” the spokesman mentioned responding to emailed questions. “the outdated program worked well for people who could spend the loan back rapidly, much less well for people who couldn’t. Very for all in Colorado, an installment financing is a good relief, and all of our clients look happier about this.”
One criticism regarding payday credit marketplace is which does not have competitors, rendering it hard for consumers to look around for the number one terminology. Doug Farry would like to alter that.
Labeled as TrueConnect, the merchandise makes it possible for financing of up to $3,000 at an ounts to fees of $120 every year on a $1,000 loan.
To make certain folk aren’t getting in over their particular minds, loan quantities were restricted to 8 % of gross pay, compared to over 39 per cent in certain shows. Loans, which have been generated through Minnesota-based Sunrise Banking companies, tend to be repaid through automatic payroll write-offs.
“We managed to make it so our very own individuals could repay her debts in lightweight increments spread-out over annually,” the guy mentioned. “That way they don’t really become caught in a debt trap.”
A number of general public and exclusive businesses in Ca, Minnesota, Ohio and Virginia are now actually supplying TrueConnect, that’s made to become folded on as a worker benefit and which Farry stated happens free towards the organizations which use it.
That can be especially valuable for those trying to rebuild their own credit score rating
Staff member financing expertise’ “business model is certainly one we are able to surely use within brand new Mexico,” stated Rep. Javier Martinez, a Democratic person in New Mexico’s county legislature who’s pressing to crack down on payday lenders inside the condition. “It’s a safe approach, and it’s a reasonable alternative.
This type of financial loans can really help, but they’re likely lack of. Making lightweight financing to subprime consumers presents really serious business problems, like a high frequency of fraudulence, significant customer-acquisition expenses and also the difficulty of working with varying county policies.
That puts a premium regarding the upcoming procedures through the CFPB, which reformers wish will put nationwide expectations for payday also small-dollar financing. Perhaps many immediate, Bourke said, is placed pressure on payday loan providers to ensure that consumers can pay loans. Financing should also be more affordable, and loan providers must be discouraged from attempting to gather installment from consumers’ bank accounts with techniques that rack up charges.
Bourke furthermore recommended the institution to set standards for short-term installment financial loans that lots of loan providers have begun pushing nowadays amid setting up analysis of payday loans.
“One challenge we would discover because of the CFPB financing formula is they’re perhaps not daring adequate in attracting truly clear traces, and that can result in worst merchandise coming onto the elizabeth https://paydayloansexpert.com/payday-loans-ak/ energy that affordable lenders were frustrated by ambiguity [in the draft regulations] from introducing items.”
An old TurboTax exec, he’s the co-founder of worker mortgage Options, an application that allows companies offer small loans for their employees
Ace money present said it functions with customers by transforming financial loans to an installment program with no further charges or interest. “we do not lend to people whom we feel are unable to spend all of us straight back. No-one should,” the company’s spokesman stated.


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What’s happening: Apple Inc. hosted its annual WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) on Monday, making several announcements and launching product updates.
What happened: The much-anticipated annual event, which is usually hosted in a massive conference hall packed with developers and people from the press, was held this year in a virtual-only mode for the first time due to the pandemic.
During the event, Apple bid farewell to a 15-year partnership with Intel and announced the transition to its own chips. The event also saw CEO Tim Cook and other executives from the company streaming several product announcements, minus the usual cheers from the audience.
Why it matters: Apple’s shares gained 2.6% in regular trading on Monday after the company confirmed that it would no longer use Intel chips to power its devices. Investors responded to the official announcement, although this was widely expected with reports of a switch doing the rounds for months.
The tech giant claimed that the transition to Apple Silicon will give greater control over how it builds its products and improve performance. The move will ensure a common architecture across all Apple products, enabling app developers to create and optimise their apps for the entire ecosystem.
“With its powerful features and industry-leading performance, Apple Silicon will make the Mac stronger and more capable than ever. I've never been more excited about the future of the Mac,” CEO Tim Cook said at the event.
Apple plans to ship the first Mac with its own chip by the end of this year and is hoping to complete the transition within the next couple of years. The company reassured customers that it intends to continue supporting and releasing new versions of the macOS for its Intel-based Macs.
Management also announced an upgrade to iOS 14, which will now feature the new App Library allowing users to organise applications in folders. The company has also redesigned its home screen and announced a new design for Siri.
Apple also launched some new features to iPadOS 14, watchOS 7 and AirPods. The company announced a new software update for Apple TV and a marketplace for Safari as part of the Mac App Store.
After climbing during the regular session, Apple’s stock gained another 0.9% in after-hours trading. Apple’s shares supported the Nasdaq 100 to hit a new record high on Monday. The tech-laden index rose by 1.1% to end the day at 10,056.47. The S&P 500 gained 0.65% to 3,117.86, while the Dow Jones index rose 0.59% to reach 26,024.96 in high volume indices trading.
What to watch: Investors were a tad disappointed with Apple not announcing any new hardware at the WWDC. Bulls consider this a good move, considering the pandemic this year and the need to conserve liquidity. Apple is expected to make hardware-related announcements in the fall, which could attract more interest from investors. The market will also look out for Apple’s plans to reopen stores that have recently been closed with rising cases in the US.

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Inflation across a broad swath of products that consumers buy every day was even worse than expected in October, hitting its highest point in more than 30 years, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
The consumer price index, which is a basket of products ranging from gasoline and health care to groceries and rents, rose 6.2% from a year ago. That compared to the 5.9% Dow Jones estimate.
On a monthly basis, the CPI increased 0.9% against the 0.6% estimate.
Stripping out volatile food and energy prices, so-called core CPI was up 0.6% against the estimate of 0.4%. Annual core inflation ran at a 6.2% pace, compared to the 4% expectation and the highest since November 1990
The data comes as policymakers such as Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen maintain that the current price pressures are temporary and related to pandemic-specific issues. While they have conceded that inflation has been more persistent than they expected, they see conditions returning to normal over the next year or so.
However, inflation in the near term has remained pernicious and has swelled across a number of categories.
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Check out what sneakers runners hit the pavement in on Saturday.
Here’s how you can buy the boutique retailer’s latest must-have collab.
The second baseman, who exited the game Sunday night after his New Balance spikes caused minor pain, helped his team win a day later.
Training with the wrong sneakers on kills a workout. These six shoes are built to keep you on track in the gym.
The next Virgin Money London Marathon is set to take place on April 22, 2018.
Everyone loves a good deal — especially sneakerheads.
Whether you’re looking for a recent release or a hard-to-find classic, we’ve got you covered.
CEO Rob DeMartini told FN there’s crossover between the baseball fanatic and people buying Made in the USA footwear.
Take a look at the styles you could buy online today, weeks ahead of the annual race.
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Uber’s secret tool to throw off authorities revealed
Sources familiar with Uber's security policies have revealed that the company remotely locked down its computers during police raids with a system called Ripley.
GeForce Now transforms Windows laptops into gaming powerhouses
Nvidia is now accepting sign ups from Windows PC owners looking to participate in the beta for its GeForce Now game streaming service.
Philips Hue app syncs your lights with what you’re watching
Philips Hue will be rolling out a technology later in the year that adjusts your smart lighting based on the content on your computer screen.
Intel details Loihi AI and 49-qubit quantum computing chips
Intel has unveiled details about its new Loihi AI SoC that mimics the human brain and its record breaking 49-qubit quantum computing chip at CES 2018.
NVIDIA announces powerful Xavier SOC for self-driving cars
At CES 2018, Nvidia has unveiled its new high performance Xavier SoC and two new DRIVE platforms for developers of autonomous vehicles.
WattUp wireless charging powers its first product – smart underwear
Nearly three years after unveiling its long range wireless power technology, Energous has its first WattUp-enabled product heading to market.
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Kazakhstan can join the Russia – Uzbekistan Agroexpress project that will help increase mutual supplies of agricultural products. The details of the launch were discussed during a working meeting by Veronika Nikishina, General Director of REC, and Kairat Torebayev, Vice Minister of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
“The Russia – Uzbekistan agrologistics corridor is a trilateral one because commodity flows pass through the territory of Kazakhstan. We have to synchronize the work of regulatory authorities for trains to run without long delays. This is critical for the delivery of perishable goods. Thus, we will provide the national businesses with competitive advantages and significantly increase the trade turnover between our countries in the medium term,” Veronika Nikishina.
The parties noted that joint addressing the issue will ensure the stability of the markets of both countries, as well as their economies as a whole.
Kairat Torebayev said that both countries are working on the issue of smooth product flow from the South. According to him, the countries need to coordinate and synchronize this work, including solving the issues of favorable transit tariffs along the entire corridor from Russia to Uzbekistan.
“We regularly coordinate with Kazakhstani railways and logistics operators border crossing issues, tariff conditions, and we are jointly considering extending the route to Tajikistan and Afghanistan,” Dmitry Murev, General Director of Russian Railways Logistics.


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Expect to see jobs being flame broiled out of Burger King's Miami headquarters as cost-conscious Brazilians armed with Harvard degrees take over the company.
And, if there were any doubts that Burger King's future growth will have an international flavor, they were erased Thursday by the naming of Bernardo Hees as future CEO.
Burger King's expected new owners, 3G Capital, didn't raid the ranks of McDonald's or Wendy's, but opted for a close associate – the former CEO of Latin America's largest railroad and logistics company.
A freshly posted article by BusinessWeek quotes anonymous sources as saying 3G expects to trim costs at BK by up to 10 percent and ramp up international expansion.
The tough-minded approach would mirror what happened when Brazilians took over at In Bev, which snatched up Anheuser-Busch. Perks went out the window.
Still, 3G appears to be looking for a somewhat orderly transition because current CEO John Chidsey will still be hanging around as co-chairman.
Hees joined 3G as a partner just a few months ago, in July. He ran America Latina Logistica (ALL) since January 2005 after serving as chief operating officer since November 2003.
Adding to his international flavor: He has an MBA from the University of Warwick in England and has an OPM from Harvard's Business School. (In this case, OPM means "owner/president management program" and not "other people's money," although one might argue that the $2.8 billion in bank loans fueling the $4 billion Burger King buyout will make that a factor as well.)
The other co-chairman of Burger King is expected to be Alex Behring, who is 3G's co-founder and managing partner. Not coincidentally, Behring was CEO of ALL from 1998 to 2004, so Hees was his No. 2 at one point.
The biggest force behind 3G is Jorge Paulo Lemann, who is from Brazil.
Jorge-Paulo-Lemann_F0ZX.html" target="_blank">Forbe's lists Lemann, 70, at No. 48 on the world's list of richest billionaires at $11.5 billion.
He made an investment in a Brazilian brewer in 1989 and eventually leveraged that into being one of the largest shareholders in Anheuser-Busch Inbev.
Lemann also has a Harvard connection, in this case an undergraduate BA/BS degree.
A Sept. 4 article by Britain's Jorge-Paulo-Lemann-the-Brazilian-billionaire-taking-a-bite-out-of-Burger-King.html" target="_blank">Telegraph says Lemann established Banco de Investimentos Grantia, which was sold to Credit Suisse for $675 million.
Clearly, the U.S. is a much more mature market when it comes to fast-food and our economy is sluggish at best, while countries such as Brazil are booming. Putting an emphasis on international expansion makes sense, especially when top management is experienced in that arena.
My bottom line: Burger King's transformation may be painful when it comes to job cuts, but it should provide an ongoing case study in business transformation in South Florida.


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- Verizon will exceed its 2021 plans of adding 14,000 ‘5G Ultra Wideband’ cell sites that operate at mmWave frequencies.
- While mmWave buildout will continue, Verizon signaled that its 2022 5G buildout plans will center around the C-band spectrum it obtained at auction earlier in 2021.
U.S. operator Verizon announced in December it has already exceeded its previously announced 2021 target of building 14,000 ‘5G Ultra Wideband’ cell sites using so-called millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. However, the company also left a clear signal to the industry that it is ready to devote more attention to providing 5G in midband spectrum in 2022 and beyond.
To be sure, the company’s ability to follow through on its 2021 mmWave plan is significant. mmWave has enabled Verizon to introduce its ‘5G Home’ fixed wireless Internet service to – in its words – “parts of” 65 cities and its ‘5G Business Internet’ package to “parts of 62 cities,” including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta.
Verizon’s mmWave investment has also shown clear results, including a reported 750% increase in data usage in 5G fixed wireless service and a threefold increase in 5G Business Internet-servable markets (both compared to relatively small 2020 bases). And Verizon customers served by 5G fixed wireless consumed as much data as traditional fixed fiber customers on Verizon’s FIOS service.
The challenge, of course, is in the words “parts of.” mmWave offers off-the-charts performance capabilities, but only in limited coverage areas that have largely been limited to busy downtown areas or stadiums and other venues. That and challenges in penetrating wireless signals through walls and into indoor areas have significantly limited the impact that mmWave has had on 5G deployments thus far.
However, Verizon is also clearly signaling that its future efforts are likely to focus on midband spectrum that offers significant performance improvements compared to LTE (though not nearly as significant as mmWave spectrum) but across a vastly increased footprint. Verizon emerged as the biggest bidder by far in the FCC’s auction of midband ‘C-band’ spectrum that wrapped in February 2021, offering a total of $45 billion in gross bids – more than double AT&T and far greater than any other C-band spectrum winners.
The big C-band spend was – in addition to a hedging of bets in response to ongoing propagation challenges of mmWave – a clear reflection of the value that most mobile operators expect midband spectrum to play in emerging 5G architectures. Often described as the ‘sweet spot’ in 5G, midband spectrum offers a combination of speed and latency capabilities that can support a multitude of enterprise and consumer case scenarios, across a footprint that covers urban and suburban markets that collectively encompass the vast majority of likely customers, both consumer and enterprise.
Network equipment vendors have responded to the increasing demand for midband by expanding their midband-focused radio portfolios. Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung have all focused on making midband operations more efficient through products introduced in 2021 in preparation for a proliferation of 5G midband deployments in the U.S. and elsewhere over the next few years.
In the case of Verizon, that expansion should reach 100 million people by the end of Q1 2022 using C-band spectrum.


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Generally, the cheats who amass enormous wealth in dubious activities, claim that they have been paying taxes including Income Tax. However, the Judgement delivered by the Division Bench of High Court of Karnataka has given a blow to this argument and made it clear that on the money accumulated from the unlawful activities, the tax payer cannot claim any exemptions.
In Re Commissioner of Income Tax vs. Amarjeet Kaur (c/w ITRC of 1999 decided on January 31, 2006), the Division Bench of High Court of Karnataka unequivocally reiterated that the appellant M/s Manjog Home which is running a money circulation scheme in the guise of sale of products like refrigerators, television sets, electric and electronic goods through a 'deposit-linked incentive scheme' is nothing but a money circulation scheme and stated that such schemes are prohibited by law and therefore, the assessee in view of the Explanation inserted by Finance (No2) Act, 1998 is not eligible and entitled to claim deduction or allowance of such expenditure as an expenditure for the purpose of business or profession.
Several persons being members of fraudulent companies like Amway India claimed exemptions from paying Income Tax through out the country. Corporate Frauds Watch is taking up this issue to the Income Tax Commissioners of various States in India and make sure that the exemptions enjoyed by these individuals cancelled.
Of course, these people include GoldQuest International, Herbalife, Tupperware, Hindustan Unilever Network Ltd and others.


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Rite Aid’s board of directors has appointed Heyward Donigan as chief executive officer and a member of the board, effective immediately. As planned, John Standley will step down from his role as CEO.
Donigan has 30 years of experience in all aspects of the health care industry. Most recently, Donigan served as the president and chief executive officer of Sapphire Digital (formerly Vitals), which designs and develops omnichannel platforms that help consumers choose their best fit health care providers. Prior to Sapphire Digital, Donigan was president and chief executive officer of ValueOptions, then the nation’s largest independent behavioral health improvement company. Previously, Donigan served as evp/chief marketing officer at Premera Blue Cross. Earlier in her career, Donigan served as svp/operations at Cigna Healthcare. She also held executive roles at General Electric, Empire BCBS and U.S. Healthcare, and previously served on the board of directors at several public companies, including Kindred Healthcare.
“Today’s announcement is an important step in positioning Rite Aid for the future, and we are confident that Heyward is the right person to lead the company in capitalizing on the opportunities in the evolving health care environment,” said Bruce Bodaken, chairman of Rite Aid’s board of directors. “Over the past several months the Rite Aid board conducted a thorough search, and Heyward’s strong senior executive experience, proven leadership capabilities and consistent track record of driving profitable growth, as well as her broad health care knowledge and digital shopping technology expertise set her apart. Her skillset will be invaluable as we work to deliver on the full potential of our business and create additional long-term value for our shareholders, associates, customers and patients.”
“I am deeply honored to have been selected to lead a company with such a strong brand, deep culture and dedicated team of associates. I see tremendous opportunity to revitalize the company’s position as a leader in meeting the health and wellness needs of customers and patients through our store and pharmacy benefit management platforms. I look forward to working with the talented Rite Aid team, as we continue to support the needs of our customers and patients and drive growth, improved performance and shareholder value,” said Donigan.


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A festive vegan festival is coming to Leeds Town Hall this December.
There will be over 100 stalls selling a range vegan produce, including cakes and chocolate, hot takeaway food, make up, clothing, pet treats and cheese as well as all talks and cookery demonstrations.
Leeds Vegan WinterFest is happening at Leeds Town Hall between 10.30am and 4.30pm on Sunday, December 8.
Admission is £4 for adults and free for under 16s. Money raised will be given to animal welfare charities.
For further information you can visit the Facebook event page or email email@example.com.
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The third edition of Top Marques Watches & Jewellery will open later this month in Monaco’s Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo, to showcase the industry’s most exclusive brands.
The third edition of Top Marques Watches & Jewellery will open later this month in Monaco.
The show will be world launch of Nunzio La Vecchia Collection. ©Nunzio La Vecchia.
The Salle Belle Epoque in Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo. ©La Societe des Bains de Mer.
Taking place during the Monaco Yacht Show and organised by the team behind the highly acclaimed Top Marques supercar show, Top Marques Watches & Jewellery is the Principality’s only exhibition dedicated to haute horlogerie and jewellery.
The exhibition will return to the historical Salle Belle Époque within Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo from 28th to 30th September 2017 and according to organisers follows the same “winning formula” as the supercar show, where all luxury items on display are for sale.
Open to the public free of charge, it gives watch connoisseurs, sybarites or simply the inquisitive a rare opportunity to see collections from some of the world’s most exclusive watch and jewellery brands up close.
Highlights this year include watchmaker Geubel Forsey, with its highly complicated timepieces with a price tag of more than €1million, and Maison DeWitt, a Swiss watchmaker who recently made waves at the Hong Kong Watch Fair with its diamond-encrusted Academia Collection. Franck Muller, this year celebrating its 25th anniversary, will also be present at the exhibition as well as Hesjy, one of the newest stars in the world of watch-making, founded earlier this year in Switzerland.
Meanwhile the world of jewellery will be represented by some of its most creative and elegant contributors, such as designers Elena Silvodaeva, Jasre, and HRH Jewels, all from Monaco, as well as Sandra Biloé Joaillerie Monte-Carlo, a new brand created in 2017 by French/Brazilian contemporary artist Sandra Biloé. The Monegasque jewellers will be joined by V.A.K Fine Jewels, bespoke designers based in the Indian city of Mumbai.
Manoj Bairstow, managing director of Top Marques Monaco said, “We are really excited about this third edition of our watch and jewellery show, to which we hope many visitors will come to admire the wonderful brands in the beautiful setting of La Salle Belle Epoque.
“We are hugely grateful to our partners La Societe des Bains de Mer, Monaco’s Direction du Tourisme et des Congres, Monegasque real estate Marzocco and Villa Sandi for their help and support in bringing this fantastic show to the Hotel Hermitage Monte-Carlo.”
An invitation-only cocktail party will be held in the historic venue on the evening of 28th September, where guests will get the opportunity to participate in a fund-raising auction for Monaco Disease Power. The Monegasque association under the honorary presidency of S.A.S. Prince Albert II supports the families of children with physical disabilities or mental illness. All proceeds of the auction will go towards the creation of a respite house for families in the Alpes de Haute Provence.
Press are invited to attend a special Happy Hour in the Salle Belle Epoque on Friday 29th September from 6:00pm to 7.30pm, where they can meet the designers and innovators behind some of the world’s most famous brands. If you would like to attend, please confirm your presence to Suzanna Chambers.
Opening hours for the show are as follows: 1:00pm - 8:00pm on Thursday 28th September, 10:00am to 8:00pm on Friday 30th September, and 10:00am to 7.30pm on Saturday 1st October.
For more information, please visit Top Marques Monaco.


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Just a few days ago, the popular cosmetic brand announced that they will be releasing the pictorial with the SF9 members for the new Lustreglass lipstick. M.A.C Korea unveiled various promotion clips on their official Instagram account just ahead of releasing the pictorials.
Then on August 2, M.A.C uploaded a series of photos from their recent pictorial with SF9's Taeyang and Hwiyoung. In the pictorial, both men radiate their flawless skin that highlights their peachy lips. Adding natural color to their lips, the new Lustreglass lipstick adds vitality to both Taeyong's and Hwiyoung's faces.


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Trustpilot, the leading review community for global online shoppers, today announces that it raised $73.5m in a Series D investment round, marking one of the highest levels of business investment generated in Danish history.
The round was led by the private equity firm, Vitruvian Partners, following an 80 per cent growth in revenue in 2014, with the Trustpilot community receiving one review every five seconds from across the world. Previous investors DFJ Esprit, Index Ventures, Northzone and Seed Capital Denmark also contributed significantly to this round.
The company will use the funding to continue its rapid global growth, investing even more in the processes, people and technology to help strengthen its position as the online standard for brands that want to increase trust, transparency and customer success.
Trustpilot is home to 13 million reviews of more than 100,000 brands, and the Series D investment round follows a milestone year of 80 per cent growth, bringing total investments to $118m.
Feedback collected proactively through the Trustpilot platform enables leading brands like ebookers, Travelex and My Optique Group to increase customer retention, individually tailor customer experiences and prove marketing return on investment. This deep customer insight also enables brands to make informed decisions about service and product development and rally sales, marketing and customer experience teams.
“Every day more than 10,000 consumers sign up for a Trustpilot account, demonstrating the growing influence of customer experience on brand perception. A brand is no longer just defined by the company, it’s defined by what customers are saying about that company; this is a global trend that businesses cannot ignore,” said Trustpilot Founder and CEO Peter Holten Mühlmann. “Trustpilot is at the forefront of this trend, and we will use this round of funding to invest in processes, people and technology that enable us to amplify our position as the online standard for trust.”
Boasting a customer retention rate of 95 per cent, Trustpilot has quickly set the standard for company reviews online. To ensure that it continues to meet the highest standards of trust and transparency, Trustpilot has a dedicated team of 30 people working around the clock to make sure that reviews comply with its guidelines as well as to combat fraudulent behaviour on the platform.
Commenting on the deal, Partner Ben Johnson from Vitruvian said: “Consumers increasingly recognise that peer-to-peer reviews have become an essential resource. There is a huge global market opportunity for online reviews based on the desire of customers around the world to find trusted recommendations in every category. Trustpilot is a technology leader and pioneer in this area, and its opportunity is to reach customers in new markets and to continue extending the benefits of online reviews to new global brands.” Partner Ben Johnson will join the Board of Directors at Trustpilot.


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Torrent Pharma Accused Of Distributing Tainted Pills
Law360 (May 21, 2019, 9:10 PM EDT) -- Torrent Pharma Inc. was hit Tuesday with a proposed class action in New Jersey federal court alleging the Indian drugmaker distributed generic hypertension medications that were contaminated with possible cancer-causing chemicals.
The complaint, filed by consumers hailing from four states, asserted that Torrent continued to sell contaminated losartan-containing medications after an initial set of recalls, leading to a subsequent recall last month of more than a million additional bottles.
The company misrepresented the medications as “containing no NDEA and/or NMBA,” referring to N-Nitrosodiethylamine and N-Methylnitrosobutyric acid, and as “being generally recognized as safe for human consumption,” according to the complaint....
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Drivers beware! Watch out for hidden cost of car hire in Europe in the winter months
Drivers have been warned to watch out for the hidden costs involved in hiring a car in Europe during the winter months, after a survey revealed car hire companies can charge up to £75 for 'winterisation'.
As many as 65 per cent of car rental desks at European ski destinations charge extra for winter tyres and snow chains even though these are mandatory in some areas, reports iCarhireinsurance.com.
The stand-alone excess insurance provider compared charges levied by Avis, Hertz, Sixt and Europcar.
Hidden Costs: winter tyres and snow chains may cost you extra when hiring a car
The charges are compulsory in some areas and usually have to be paid for on arrival, when collecting your hire car. It found charges can vary considerably, from £14 in Sophia with Sixt to £75 per car in Barcelona with Avis.
Drivers can expect to pay winter charges of around £40 to £45 on average for a week’s booking of a medium compact car.
‘It’s frustrating that the rental companies use ‘winter’ as yet another opportunity to make money from their car hire customer but unfortunately it’s your responsibility and not the rental company’s to make sure that you’re driving with the correct equipment for wintery conditions,’ said Ernesto Suarez, founder and CEO of iCarhireinsurance.com.
Safety First: Winter tyres are often essential when driving in difficult conditions
The rules and regulations on winter tyres and snow chains differ between countries.
In Austria, driving without winter tyres between 1 November and 15 April could land the driver a fine of around €5,000. Your car may also be confiscated by the authorities.
Despite this, Sixt still charges £45 extra for winter tyres and snow chains when hiring from Innsbruck.
Winter tyres are not a legal requirement in some other snowy European countries.
However, if local signs call for drivers to carry snow chains in their vehicle, you are required to do so.
In the case of an accident, a motorist without winter tyres has a greater chance of receiving the responsibility of any damaged caused by the collision.
EU LAWS REGARDING WINTER TYRES AND SNOW CHAINS:
Germany - winter or all season tyres (M+S*) fitted during winter seasons.
Austria - winter tyres (M+S*) fitted on snow covered roads from 1st Nov - 15th Apr.
France - carry snow chains and use as directed by local signs.
Switzerland - carry snow chains and use as directed by local signs. Winter tyres are recommended.
Andorra - carry snow chains and use as directed by local signs.
Italy - carry snow chains and use as directed by local road signs. Winter tyres are recommended.
*M+S tyres - tyres which have been designed to perform better in mud and snow.
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We finally got our first look at Bethesda’s upcoming sci-fi RPG Starfield at the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase, and the scope is as big as expected, maybe even more. According to director Todd Howard, there are over 1,000 planets players can fully explore.
In a preview of how space exploration works in Starfield, Howard chose the planet Jemison. Players can either land in the city of New Atlantis, “but you can also land and explore anywhere on the planet.” Howard then zoomed out and showed off how massive this planet is.
Starfield Character, Ship, and Outpost Customization – Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase 2022
But it’s not just one planet. “From barren but resource-heavy ice balls, to Goldilocks planets with life. And not just this system, but over 100 systems – over 1,000 planets, all open for you to explore.”
Alongside the planet exploration, Howard showed off combat and character creation in Starfield. Players can create a unique character with a tailored backstory and it will all culminate in a unique RPG adventure.


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Microsoft’s decision in adding a subscription fee to a service most people already pay for has finally come full circle in the realm of industry-changing consequences. Sony soon followed suit and now, more than a year into the Switch’s lifespan, Nintendo is jumping on the gravy train with the Nintendo Switch Online service. Bizarrely enough, it’s just coming off like an unnecessary paywall tied to an NES library subscription service.
We already covered most of the recent Nintendo Direct in the premiere of Impulse, but Associate Editor Peter Glagowski and I had so much to say about this new service that we gave it its own bonus episode. Is it worth $20 a year? Will Luigi’s torment ever end? Will Toad stop being a corporate whore? How many “families” will be created within the Destructoid community for cheaper online services?
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Eighty percent of users claim they do not click on online ads.
The majority of online news users in the U.S. are accepting of online advertising, but most also claim to ignore it, according to data from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and its Internet and American Life Project.
The research, conducted during December and January, found 81 percent of online news users "do not mind" online advertising. However, 77 percent of respondents also said they tend to ignore those ads, with 42 percent claiming they "never" click on them, and 35 percent claiming to do so "hardly ever."
The research also found 21 percent of overall users click on ads "sometimes" or "often," with 80 percent clicking "never" or "hardly ever," as shown in the graphic below.
However, a report issued by comScore last week suggested ads don't necessarily need to be clicked on to be effective. Citing the results of studies conducted in 2008, that report found U.S users were 49 percent more likely to visit an advertiser's site having previously been exposed to a display ad. In addition, it found they were 40 percent more likely to conduct a search query on an advertiser trademark after seeing an ad, regardless of whether or not they clicked on it.
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Prague, 19 December 1996 (RFE/RL) -- The biggest Czech beer brewery, Plzensky Prazdroj (Pilsner Urquell-PP) has become the main shareholder of the fourth largest Lithuanian brewery in an initial bid to expand the licensed production of Pilsner Urquell abroad.
The $2.8 million deal was struck at the start of this month, and announced via the media on December 11. It gives PP more than a 50 percent share in the Ragutis company.
According to PP spokesman, Jaroslav Pomp, the goal of the investment is "to establish the licensed production of Pilsner beer in what is interesting and new territory for our Czech brewery."
The Lithuanian brewery is the company's first outside the Czech Republic and from January 1997 production should already start, with PP employing a staff of 200 people in Lithuania, including three Czechs and a Czech director whose name will be announced in January.
"It was almost impossible to sell beer to Lithuania before now, due to legal complications, and trouble with laws, government policy and privatization, but now that we are the main shareholder this problem disappears," said Pomp.
The Lithuanian Brewery house, Ragutis, in Kaunas, already has an 11 percent share in the Lithuanian market. On an annual basis Plzensky Prazdroj plans to produce 120,000 hectolitres of the Plzensky label, Gambrinus. In the Czech Republic PP currently produces four million hectolitres of beer a year, its main competitors being Radegast and Prague Breweries. But, said Pomp, the Czech market is now saturated and PP must now reach for foreign parts if it wants to expand.
"We cannot expand the market in the Czech Republic anymore because the Czechs already drink a lot of beer. So this deal was important for us at a time when competition is very hard, and we have made the first step in our new policy to find new markets abroad."
PP cannot hope to compete with the big international breweries like Miller, Heineken and AB (Budweiser), Pomp explained.
This year it established Pilsner Urquell International to enable it to sell licensed beer abroad. "Our next plans are to expand into other Eastern European countries and into Southeast Asia and South America," Pomp said.
Up till now it has not been decided what to call the beer that will be marketed in Lithuania because the name Gambrius is not well-known there, although the name Beer Gambrius will appear in the title. The beer hops and malt necessary for production will be exported from the Czech Republic to Lithuania.
"We are keen to keep up the quality of our product and the only way to do this is to export the raw materials," said Pomp.
But how does the company hope to keep up the production standards of one of the Czechs' favorite beers once it starts to expand abroad? Pomp added: "Of course we will be brewing our beer under license and as in this country, we will have a resident brewmaster in Lithuania, and in every new brewery that we open we will make sure that we have our man."


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With only a few months left in 2018, there are a number of key market trends and industry conditions left to explore – especially with the jam-packed holiday season coming up for organizations in the retail space and beyond. In addition to the anticipation of the peak holiday shipping season, recent events such as Hurricane Florence and ongoing tariff fluctuations make now, more than ever, a critical time for shippers to find new ways to lower transportation costs and examine alternative capacity solutions in today’s tight market.
Keeping up to date on the current state of the marketplace can help your organization successfully navigate supply chain challenges and stay ahead of industry trends for the rest of this year and into 2019. And to help keep shippers informed, we gather the latest from the entire landscape and bundle it up into a quarterly industry recap – your one-stop-shop for all of the quarter’s transportation info.
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FTC today sent 10 additional letters warning companies, both in the United States and abroad, to cease making unsubstantiated claims that their products can treat or prevent coronavirus disease. While some letters challenge products sold online, others challenge purported treatments offered in clinics or even at a consumer’s home.
One company, Face Vital LLC, Miami Beach, FL was cited for reportedly selling a “Face Vital Sonic Silicone Facial Brush,” marketed as able to “fight off Coronavirus.” FTC said the company’s claims included: “RAMP UP YOUR BEAUTY AND CLEANSING REGIMEN, FIGHT OFF CORONA: . . . Take this lightweight brush with you, keep your hands and face clean everywhere you go – protect yourself from the coronavirus.” “
“It’s shameful to take advantage of people by claiming that a product prevents, treats, or cures COVID-19,” said Andrew Smith, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
The FTC also sent a letters to LightAir International AB, Stockholm, Sweden, for the following claim made on its website: “The corona virus can in various ways be air-borne . . . . IonFlow air purifiers are scientifically proven to efficiently prevent spread of air-borne viruses.”
Additional companies cited today were flagged for claims related to claims for supplement and other ingestible treatments to ward off coronavirus.
FTC’s letters advise the recipients to immediately cease making all claims that their products can treat or cure coronavirus. The letters note that if the false claims do not cease, FTC may seek a federal court injunction and an order requiring money to be refunded to consumers. Finally, they instruct the recipients to notify the FTC within 48 hours about the specific actions they have taken to address the agency’s concerns.
To date,the FTC has jointly issued with the FDA more than 25 warning letters to entities selling products including homeopathic drugs, cannabinol (CBD) products, essential oils, colloidal silver, traditional Chinese medicine, and salt therapy.


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There are now more than six million active open banking users in the UK, with data showing the rate of adoption has maintained the momentum built up earlier this year.
It means there are an additional one million open banking users since January when the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) last published figures.
It took four months for open banking users to rise from four million to five million, and an additional four months to reach six million. While the rate of adoption has levelled off, it’s still a vast improvement on the 10 months it took to grow from one million open banking users to two million.
Since the Open Banking directive – sometimes known as PSD2 – came into force in January 2018, the UK’s biggest banks have been forced to make their data available in a more standardised format.
This has allowed third-party developers to use open APIs to build applications around financial services, such as a chatbot that tracks a consumer’s spending at a separate institution.
It has also opened up account-to-account payments, which remove the need for third-party intermediaries.
The OBIE, which creates software standards and industry guidelines for UK retail banking, said that last month there were a record one billion API calls – a key metric for showing the level of activity in the industry.
The latest figures show that businesses and consumers made five million payments using open banking technology in May 2022 – up from the nearly four million recorded in January.
“Once again this demonstrates that consumers and small businesses are reaping the rewards of using open banking to keep on top of expenditure and daily budgeting, cut card-processing costs, and shop around for better financial products and services,” said David Beardmore, ecosystem development director at the OBIE.
Open banking a boon for UK fintech
Open banking was first introduced in 2017 by the Competition and Markets Authority to increase innovation in the banking market and reduce the stranglehold that the UK’s nine largest banks previously had over financial data.
While some in the industry believe open banking got off to a bumpy start, others view it as a catalyst for a wave of fintech startups that have built innovative businesses off the back of open financial APIs.
Fintech has gone on to become the UK’s dominant technology sector, with startups attracting $11.6bn in capital and outpacing the rest of Europe in 2021.
“The latest milestone is fantastic news for the entire open banking community,” said Maria Palmieri, director of public policy at Yapily, an open banking infrastructure company. “The open banking revolution will transform the way people and businesses control and manage their financial lives.”
Palmieri added: “We look forward to working with the OBIE and government to maintain this momentum and supercharge further adoption including the development of a forward-looking open finance framework and a clear governance structure for future regulation in order for the industry to keep up this momentum.”


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It’s 2021 and the only application of blockchain technology known to a lot of people is still cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin and blockchain remain inseparable in the minds of many but as blockchain continues to prove that there’s more to it than just bitcoin people will begin to see the transformative technology in a different light.
Blockchain is kicking off 2021 with a bang and the year looks to be a year of progress for the tech. The cutting edge technology has seen many groundbreaking successes and has proffered solutions to many of the world’s problems. Blockchain is widely described as one of the new technology that would spark the Fourth industrial revolution.
From governance to logistics and even healthcare blockchain has the capacity to bring great efficiency to different sectors. Blockchain is a powerful technology. Jack Ma, Bill Gates and other individuals at the forefront of tech have testified to this.
However, blockchain application in other sectors than financial (crypto) is still very lacking. Various reasons have been attributed to this but lack of proper understanding of blockchain is the major reason. A lot of people still do not understand how blockchain works and why it’s so good.
Interestingly the very core of the technology cannot be understood by everyone. The concept of cryptography, private and public keys is still a mystery to many use of cryptocurrencies but it doesn’t stop them from using it.
The inner workings of most technological innovations beats the understanding of most people but they’re used because they work and not because they’re understood.
Therefore mainstream adoption of blockchain rests on more use cases outside crypto.
Tracking of covid-19 test result with IOTA blockchain
The coronavirus pandemic is one major challenge of the past year that seems to have continued into the new year. The role of technology in fighting the pandemic cannot be overestimated. However, there’s still more to be done. Blockchain has proven to be a significantly powerful technology in combating covid-19. Claims by a Twitter user about the use of blockchain at the Frankfurt airport coronavirus testing center in managing test results, has made rounds in the news.
The technology is used to manage passengers’ health status. The infrastructure called “Digital Corona Test Certificate” was created by Ubirch, a block-chain based cyber security provider. According to an explanation by an Ubrich representative, a person’s SARS-Cov-2 can be easily verified by an airline by simply scanning a QR code.
This infrastructure created by Ubirch would make covid-19 verification very easy. Speeding up travels and limiting hold ups that could result in further spread of the virus. It is not the first time blockchain has been applied to healthcare, it is the first time however it is being used on such a scale and gathering this much attention.
Will there be more of this?
Certainly, blockchain will gain ground and will go mainstream. Ubrich is one of many companies that will begin to put blockchain displays the amount of good blockchain can bring to the world.
Perhaps the pandemic might just be a way of opening our eyes to what we can achieve with blockchain. When will blockchain go mainstream? It’s hard to tell but more and more people are taking note of it and noting its advantages. It could be this year or several years to come. One sure thing however, is that we will see more subsequent blockchain breakthroughs.


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The Minnesota-based Fantasy Flight Games Center has renamed and reopened following its purchase by investment company Strange Stars, LLC. The move brings the recreation building back under the part-ownership of Fantasy Flight founder and former CEO Christian T. Petersen.
The newly rechristened Gamezenter announced in a press release April 22nd that Asmodee North America had sold the retail operation inside the 17,000-sq ft building to Strange Stars for an undisclosed amount. Peterson is a managing partner at the venture firm and seemingly oversaw the acquisition and creation of Gamezenter to handle the center’s daily operations.
Fantasy Flight Games Center started in 2009 as a physical arm and community point-of-contact for the tabletop game publisher. Housing areas where the public could find groups and play games, the center also served food and provided retail spaces for Fantasy Flight’s catalogue of titles, which include the expansive and popular Arkham Horror: The Card Game, complex strategy board game Twilight Imperium and - until recently - the Star Wars: X-Wing miniatures line.
By 2012, both the company and its game center had expanded and relocated elsewhere in Roseville, Minnesota. The second facility introduced a commercial kitchen, offered draft and craft beer on-site, and doubled down on hosted events.
Fantasy Flight’s merger with the Paris-based board game publisher Asmodee Group in 2014 prompted a dramatic increase in business for the congolmerised company, but the game center did not benefit from the windfall and was gradually relegated to side-project status. This started a trend of acquisitions and mergers that continues today. Peterson apparently began negotiating the purchase of the game center not long after stepping down as Fantasy Flight’s CEO in 2018. He had founded the company in 1995 and led it in various capacities since then.
Reportedly, the deal would have been finished sooner if not for state-mandated lockdown restrictions and economic reaction to the coronavirus pandemic halting businesses that relied on physical interactions.
"Despite the devastation that COVID-19 has wracked upon our world and on many tabletop game retailers, I strongly believe that our tabletop gaming community is eager to again share great gaming experiences face-to-face. We hope to make this destination an even more amazing place in the future,” Peterson said in the press release.
Gamezenter’s offerings won’t change much from what Roseville and Minneapolis citizens enjoyed before the shift in ownership. Despite continued rollout of vaccinations in the United States, Gamezenter has fully reopened its kitchen, play area and retail spaces within the building. The calendar of events on its website has begun to repopulate, as well.


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DANBURY, Conn.— Instapak Quick Room Temperature (RT) foam packaging from Sealed Air Corp. earned a 2007 Polyurethane “Innovation Award” from the American Chemistry Council.
The organization presented the awards this September in Orlando, Fla., at its Polyurethanes Technical Conference. The Instapak Quick RT foam packaging was one of two finalists in the Finished Products category. Finalists were on display at the conference, and the winner was chosen by votes from more than 975 attendees.
“The purpose of the Polyurethane Innovation Award is to highlight the efforts and foresight of companies and individuals whose visions have brought new products to the marketplace,” said Neeva-Gayle Candelori, director of the American Chemistry Council’s Center for the Polyurethanes Industry.
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And it's as sumptuous and sophisticated as that in the S-Class.
Having teased the all-new C-Class in an official video, Mercedes has decided it's time to present in detail the area that's received the most improvement – the interior cabin. As you can see from the pictures, the cabin layout has been refined as per the latest Benz models and sports a luxurious finish. A 7-inch free-standing display comes as standard with the option of an 8.4-inch color monitor, head-up display and touch-controlled pad.
The 2014 C-Class also comes with an innovative a/c system, which uses GPS data to detect tunnels and automatically closes the air recirculation flap to keep fumes from entering the cabin. Another pioneering feature can be found in the front passenger seat, which has a sensor that disengages the airbag once a child's seat is detected. Mercedes claims the fifth-gen C-Class will boast a best-in-class weight, up to 100 kg lighter than its predecessor resulting in 20 percent better fuel economy without sacrificing power.


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MasterChef Australia judge George Calambaris seems to be the latest and most high-profile chef Down Under to take steps that will discourage customers who get sick on spoiled leftovers from blaming the restaurant. Ask for a doggy bag at his Hellenic Republic restaurants, and the server will say of course — as soon as you sign this waiver declaring they’re not responsible if you subsequently get sick later on when you reheat it.
That above form is the one given to a customer named Ross Katsambanis, who said he wanted to box up the meat and dips left over from his grandparents’$2 50th wedding anniversary banquet. Katsambanis says the form was “just bizarre,” since “There’s no chance I was going to sue them.”
But the head of Australia’s restaurant association says eateries are increasingly being sued by people who get sick from food consumed at home. As a rep for Hellenic Republic tells the Mail, “We don’t really know how they’re going to store the food. It’s kind of out of our hands what the customer does … after they leave the venue.” She says waivers supposedly function to firmly remind customers to act “in their best interests” regarding food safety, and while that nanny-style reminder doesn’t look like it’s migrated here yet, no one loves suing more than American consumers, so those indemnity-free days might be numbered.


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LANCASTER, N.Y. (WKBW) — These days it's difficult to go out and get your Easter or everyday food essentials which is why the Broadway Market has stepped in to help.
On Friday they made their first delivery to the Lancaster Senior Apartments, bringing orders to customers so they don't have to leave their homes.
"Not everyone has family members that can bring them food," Linda Lund, owner of Babcia's Pierogi Company said. "So it's a small service that we can offer to people that I think will truly help the community."
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General Catalyst Leads Funding Round in Duke-Backed Teamworks
(Bloomberg) -- Venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners is leading a $15 million funding round in sports software maker Teamworks, whose clients include the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Adidas Team Sports.
General Catalyst is spearheading a series B funding round in Teamworks, the venture capital firm confirmed in an emailed statement. The round includes capital from existing investor Seaport Capital as well as DUMAC Inc., the investment arm of Duke University, the firm said. The enterprise value wasn’t disclosed
“Sports is a strong growth sector yet it has been wildly underserved in tech innovation,” General Catalyst Managing Director Holly McConnell said in the statement. “We were motivated to invest in Teamworks by the greenfield opportunities, its chance to create a category-defining platform, but even more so by the team.”
A representative for DUMAC, located in Durham, North Carolina along with the university and Teamworks, declined to comment. A Representative for Seaport Capital didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Teamworks, founded in 2004 by former Duke football player Zach Maurides, provides software that helps athletic groups communicate and organize schedules. The company raised $6.25 million in its first funding round in 2016, according to the company’s website.
General Catalyst raised $845 million for its eighth pool of capital in 2016. The firm has invested in companies including social media platform Snap Inc., travel marketplace Airbnb Inc. and eyewear company Warby Parker Retail Inc.
Teamworks was advised by Inner Circle Sports, a boutique investment bank focused on the sports industry.
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Featuring some very fancy Gucci teacups.
US television personality Kourtney Kardashian has been dating French-Algerian model Younes Bendjima for the best part of two years, and from the looks of things, he’s introduced her to his Muslim faith.
Over the weekend, Kardashian posted a photo of a cup of tea on Snapchat, with the caption “Ramadan spirit.”
Of course, she didn’t choose a classic Ikea cup for her photo. Kardashian’s gold-leaf cup and saucer is by Gucci, and features that Italian fashion house’s signature green and red pattern.
— Rowaida Abdelaziz (@Rowaida_Abdel) May 25, 2018
That particular cup isn’t in stock on Gucci’s website now, but a different set will cost you Dhs1,200. Nothing but the best for this family.
We don’t think it’s too much of a reach to suggest that Bendjima would be behind this show of interest from Kardashian. He regularly posts to social media accounts about his faith — even leaving Kendall Jenner’s birthday party last year to head to the mosque for Friday prayers.
Screenshots from that story were favourited more than 26,000 times on Twitter.
So who is Younes Bendjima? We’re so glad you asked.
The 23-year-old model was born in Algeria, where he worked in his father’s restaurant and trained as a boxer before getting in front of the camera, The Sun reports.
Bendjima is trilingual, speaking Arabic, French and English. He lives between Paris and New York, the site says.
When were they first linked?
At quite a dramatic time in Kardashian’s life, in fact. The pair met during Paris Fashion Week in October 2016, when Kourtney’s sister, Kim Kardashian West, was robbed at gunpoint in their hotel room.
While Bendjima and Kardashian hadn’t known each other long, he stepped up to help, W Magazine reports, acting as a translator between the family and French police.
What have they been up to since?
Spending a lot of time on private planes. Kardashian and Bendjima holidayed in Egypt last August with a group of friends, which is when many first took note of their relationship.
There, they rode camels, saw the pyramids, and generally had a ball.
Kardashian last shared a photo with Bendjima in April, when they went to Coachella together.
Doesn’t seem like a bad life to us.
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A little more than four months after selling to Marlin Equity Partners, Emptoris reached into the deep pockets of its buyout shop owner to fund its first acquisition: the recent pickup of the contract and service management business from Click Commerce. The deal was part of a larger divestiture of Click Commerce by Illinois Tool Works (ITW), effectively unwinding its September 2006 acquisition. In all, three Click Commerce units went to Marlin, with only the contract and service management unit getting slotted under Emptoris.
As we noted when ITW announced the divestiture last October, Click Commerce was a puzzling purchase for ITW, a 96-year-old company that makes everything from commercial ovens to industrial packing tape to arc welders. ITW paid $292m for Click Commerce in 2006. Although terms weren’t disclosed, we understand that the unit Emptoris acquired was generating some $15m in sales. With the additional revenue, we estimate that Emptoris would be running north of $50m.
Whatever size the check that Emptoris wrote for the Click Commerce division, we would note that one insider at rival Ariba quipped that Emptoris better not spend all ‘our’ money. The Ariba source was needling its rival about the fact that a patent lawsuit between the two companies is currently in the final stages. A jury has awarded – and the court has affirmed – some $6m in damages to Ariba. Emptoris is appealing the judgment.
It turns out that software doesn’t really fit in a toolbox, after all. Illinois Tool Works, which reports third-quarter earnings Thursday, said recently that it plans to divest its Click Commerce division. (With the process just beginning, we don’t expect ITW to say much about the divestiture during tomorrow’s call.) The move would unwind ITW’s puzzling purchase two years ago of the supply chain management vendor. It paid $292m in cash for Click Commerce in September 2006.
ITW is a 96-year-old company that makes everything from commercial ovens to industrial packing tape to arc welders. It has inked more than 50 acquisitions during each of the past two years, spending about $1bn in 2007 and $1.7bn in 2006. And the company is on pace for a similar number of deals this year, having notched 26 buys in the first two quarters. Acquisitions are key for ITW, since the additional revenue picked up represents virtually the only growth at the company. In 2007, its core business expanded just 1.8%.
In announcing the divestiture, ITW indicated that Click Commerce had sales of $67m last year. (That was down slightly from the $74m the company posted in the four quarters prior to the acquisition.) And although ITW hasn’t broken out updated cash-flow figures for Click Commerce, the company has, historically, been a profitable operation. (In the two quarters leading up to the acquisition, Click Commerce had run at a solid 24% operating margin.) We suspect that any number of buyout firms – perhaps those that missed the sale of i2, another big supply chain management company – would be interested in taking a look at the book on Click Commerce.


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'We want to empower small business owners with the tools and strategies they’ll need to nurture business leads, establish their brands and grow their footprints in the competitive marketplace,' said Event Management President Marc Sherer.
New York, NY (PRWEB) April 30, 2014
The first-ever Market New York Expo – a business-to-business trade show, conference and networking event – will provide small business owners and executives with marketing strategies and sales tools to improve communications with customers and prospective clients. The event will take place 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, May 29, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, in Manhattan.
“50 percent of business sales are lost because visitors can’t find content. That’s a massive percentage of missed opportunities, which can easily be rectified,” said Event Management President Marc Sherer, citing a study from Forrester. “We want to empower small business owners with the tools and strategies they’ll need to nurture business leads, establish their brands and grow their footprints in the competitive marketplace.”
Leaders from global marketing corporations such as Facebook, Yelp and Constant Contact will present on topics ranging from search engine optimization to social media advertising to closing sales in the digital age, with 20 live seminars scheduled over the course of the day. Facebook is also sponsoring the Social Media Lab, which will give attendees a chance to learn about best practices for social media marketing from social media experts.
More than 100 exhibitors will be available to help small and mid-sized business owners improve their companies’ performance and growth on the product and service show floor. Marketing leaders are encouraged to network with small business owners and executives on the show floor.
Market New York Expo is a spin-off event from the New York Business Expo and Conference (NYXPO), the largest and most comprehensive business conference in the Northeast. Last year’s NYXPO drew nearly 10,000 business owners and executives, along with more than 180 exhibitors and dozens of esteemed presenters.
The Market New York Expo is presented by Audio AdCenter, Mobile by Conduit, Constant Contact, Crain’s New York Business, Daily News Digital Solutions, Facebook, Printlead, Yelp and Co-Communications. Event supporters include the Better Business Bureau, the Bronx Chamber of Commerce, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, NYC LGBTQS Chamber of Commerce, the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Queens Chamber of Commerce, SCORE, Smallbiz Technology and SobelMedia.
Pre-registration tickets can be purchased online for $50 and are $75 at the door. For more information, visit http://www.marketnewyorkexpo.com. To request booth space, please call 866-44-EVENT. Keep tabs on Market New York Expo’s latest news and updates by joining the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest.
About Event Management: Event Management LLC is a Connecticut-based firm with over 20 years of experience in the production of major business shows and special events. Event Management produces trade shows throughout New England and New York. For additional information, visit http://www.EventManagement.org.


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“Meat, pie, sausage roll, come on England, giz a goal”
There’s something gloriously romantic and nostalgic about eating a pie at a football ground; it feels like you’re following in the footsteps of almost 150 years of footballing history.
Well, at least until clubs starting charging exorbitant prices for what is (probably) a horse-meat laden monstrosity!
But, we are supposedly looking to rectify the recent trend of culinary abominations as we launch a new competition.
That’s right – to commemorate the opening of our new Main Stand in a couple of months, we’ve asked our fans to create a matchday pie that’ll be sold inside the ground. Because how else would you celebrate the end of the construction?!
According to the official site, we shifted a cholesterol-inducing 87,000 pies during home games last season.
In a statement, Paul Cuttill, one of our general managers, said he hoped the new pie would “form part of an improved food offering at Anfield.”
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Javanese SPA Massage and Herbal| Alternative Medicine| Jamu|To develop alternative medicine in Indonesia, Surabaya’s Airlangga University plans to offer a four-year traditional medicine program set to launch this year. “We are offering the program to develop tomorrow’s experts and researchers so that hopefully in the next 10 years, our traditional medicine will be far more advanced compared to that of China, India or Thailand. We have the biggest biodiversity in the world,” the university’s study program head, Arijanto Jonosewojo said.
He said Indonesia was home to 30,000 herbal plant species found across the country.
Of the number, 8,500 of them had been analyzed and 300 had been used in traditional medicine, he added.
“The 2010 National Health Survey showed that 59.12 percent of the country’s population used herbal medicine [jamu] and 95 percent were aware of the benefits of jamu as alternative medicine. This
shows that traditional medicine is deemed able to supplement conventional [chemical] medication,”
Arijanto said on Monday.
He said similar data also showed that in other developing countries, 80 percent of their inhabitants used traditional medicine.
The university, according to Arijanto, had been offering a three-year diploma (D3) level traditional medicine program since 2005. About 56 percent of the D3 graduates usually continued their studies in higher learning institutes in Yogyakarta and Surakarta that offer traditional medicine programs.
Meanwhile, director of Traditional, Alternative and Complementary Health Services at the Health Ministry, Dedi Kuswenda, said 250 hospitals in Indonesia were preparing to develop traditional, herbal or alternative medicine in stages.
“One of them is Dr. Soetomo General Hospital in Surabaya,” said Dedi at the TradCAM (traditional complimentary and alternative medicine) international symposium held in Surabaya early last month.
Dedi said traditional medicine, as part of the nation’s cultural heritage, not only played an important role in the national health system but also in improving livelihoods.
“Based on data from the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency [BPOM],traditional medicine trade had reached Rp 11 trillion [US$954 million] in 2011 and increased to Rp 13 trillion in 2012. In 2014, the figure is predicted to reach Rp 15 trillion,” said Dedi.
BPOM head Roy Sparingga said his agency had established cooperation with Interpol to supervise the circulation of traditional drugs mostly sold through the multi-level marketing (MLM) system.
“A large volume of medicinal products offered by MLM companies come from overseas. Last year, we were forced to stop the sale of 200 types of medicine,” said Roy.
He added that the BPOM not only oversaw imported medicine but also other traditional medicine containing chemicals.
“Between 2008 and 2012, the BPOM destroyed as many as 1.9 million products,” he said.


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Selling Sunset Hall: Now, the luxury auction
Sunset Hall — the 1912 mansion on Old West Mountain Road, where magician Harry Houdini visited, actor Robert Vaughn lived and, most recently, a plan for a rehabilitation facility was withdrawn after furious neighborhood opposition — will be sold Friday, May 19.
“It’s a luxury option. It’s getting more popular,” Realtor Laura Freed Ancona said of the auction route to selling a high-end property.
Sunset Hall, with its marble-floor ballroom, 10 bedrooms, and views of the New York skyline, on seven acres with a guest house, heated pool and tennis courts, has been on the market at $4,750,000.
“There’s not that many buyers, typically, for a property like this, so there’s not that much pressure,” said Ancona, of William Pitt Sotheby’s.
Without the pressure of other buyers, people tend to dawdle, delay, think it over.
An auction brings together a number of buyers, and the format manufactures pressure to bid.
“It’s a way to expedite the process and create a lot of enthusiasm and excitement and, hopefully, get a good end result of a sale of a high-end property,” Ancona said.
The auction is scheduled for Friday, May 19, and while there is no minimum reserve bid, people interested in attending are asked to demonstrate their seriousness by putting up a $100,000 registration fee — which will, of course, be returned.
The auction is being conducted by Platinum Luxury Auctions.
“They market to high-end targeted audiences all over the country,” Ancona said. “They perform auction services all over the country.”
According to the firm’s website, Platinum has closed more than $660 million in luxury real estate sales, and has advised or consulted on nearly $2 billion in additional luxury auction property volume.
The firm adds: “Through its considerable experience, Platinum has built an extensive, global database of high-net-worth buyers. Many of these buyers prefer auctions as their venue for very high-value purchases.”
Platinum is expected to attract bidders, as well as conduct the auction.
“The theory is they provide marketing to a targeted audience,” Ancona said.
The property’s owner, Jennifer Nobandegani, bought the place in 2008, but lives in New York City and had been using it largely on weekends. She’s been interested in selling it for some time.
“I’ve had it since last spring or summer, but there were other agents before me,” Ancona said.
The auction approach made sense.
“At this point, she really just wanted to consider all options. And it is becoming a more and more popular way to sell these very unique high-end homes,” Ancona said of the auction.
The property’s price has been coming down over the years.
“This owner had it at $5.75 [million] and dropped it to $4.75,” Ancona said.
“The former owner had it listed at $11 million.”
If people who can afford the property see it, Ancona thinks, there’ll be interest.
“I don’t think it’s a question of price. I think we have to have the right buyer,” she said.
“Attracting that buyer to Ridgefield is challenging, but this luxury auction company, they market to high-end buyers and they have a following.
“In theory, the buyer, when they hear the word auction, they think they’re going to get it at a really advantageous price,” Ancona said.
Platinum appears to have generated some interest.
“People have been coming through. They’ve been conducting tours. There’s a number of interested candidates,” Ancona said.
“So we’ve gotten a great response so far. And hopefully the bidding process will prove to be effective and the buyer will be happy, the owner will be happy, and it’ll be successful.”


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Two of China’s biggest e-wallets have joined the mobile payment market in Vietnam.
|There are 20 e-wallet service providers |
There are now about 20 e-wallet service providers in Vietnam, including well-known names such as Momo, Ngan Luong, VTC Pay and Payoo
However, there is no official report from the State Bank about the number of Vietnamese e-wallet users. The agency said 3 million wallets had been issued in Vietnam by the end of September 2016. Service providers estimate that 10 million wallets are in use in Vietnam.
Analysts say this is a modest figure compared with the great potential of the market. But they say the market will heat up soon as the two Chinese players have arrived.
After the visit of Alibaba’s owner Jack Ma to Vietnam in late 2017, the Chinese group signed a strategic cooperation contract with Vietnam’s NAPAS to bring Alipay e-wallet to Vietnam.
With cooperation among NAPAS, banks and Alipy, sellers in Vietnam will accept payment in Alipay wallet made by Chinese visitors for goods and services in Vietnam.
|After the visit of Alibaba’s owner Jack Ma to Vietnam in late 2017, the Chinese group signed a strategic cooperation contract with Vietnam’s NAPAS to bring Alipay e-wallet to Vietnam. |
Sources said that the service will be launched this year.
WeChat Pay has announced a plan with Vietnam’s VIMO e-wallet which will accept payment of Chinese travelers.
VIMO.vn will be the first payment intermediary allowing Chinese travelers to use WeChat Pay in Vietnam dong at shops accepting VIMO in Vietnam.
The cooperation does not include WeChat Pay's use of VIMO's banking connections to process payment transactions between Vietnamese consumers and businesses.
Thirty percent of total foreign visitors in Vietnam in 2017 were Chinese.
Current laws do not allow foreign e-wallets to operate in Vietnam independently. They can only be resent in the market through cooperation with Vietnamese companies.
An analyst said that Alipay doesn’t compete directly with Vietnamese e-wallets, but it could be a potential threat.
He went on to say that in the future the licensing policy may change and Vietnam will open its doors widely to foreign e-wallets that will provide services to Vietnamese customers as well.
Banking experts said there are favorable for mobile payments to develop: the retail market and e-commerce are thriving, while bank cards and smartphones are more popular.
According to the State Bank of Vietnam, the number of cash payment transactions decreased from 14.02 percent in 2010 to 11.45 percent in August 2017.
The presence of fintech firms has also helped the mobile payment market. More than 30 fintech firms were established in Vietnam as of 2016, two-thirds of which provide mobile payment services.


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Update: Check out our Apple Event live blog for the latest from Cupertino on the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro Max, Apple Watch Series 9 and more.
If you snagged an iPhone 13 Pro when it was first released in 2021, odds are you're approaching the end of your contract. The good news is that the iPhone 15 series is almost here and you're probably already wondering: Is it finally time to upgrade your old iPhone for the iPhone 15 Pro?
We count the iPhone 13 Pro as one of the best phones you can get right now. But if you're looking to upgrade later in the year or are simply wondering what changes Apple will make with the next Pro iPhone, we've got you covered. We're breaking down all the rumors for the iPhone 15 Pro and how they compare with the iPhone 13 Pro to give you a sense of the biggest expected differences.
Based on everything we've heard so far, the most premium flagship in the iPhone 15 line could get a breakthrough A17 Bionic chip, USB-C charging capabilities and a more durable titanium frame among other tweaks and improvements. We're sure to learn more at Apple's showcase on September 12, where the company's also likely to show off the Apple Watch 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 alongside its iPhone 15 line. Here's everything you need to know.
iPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 13 Pro: Rumored specs
|Row 0 - Cell 0||iPhone 15 Pro (rumored and assumed)||iPhone 13 Pro|
|Display||6.1-inch OLED||6.1-inch OLED|
|CPU||A17 Bionic||A15 Bionic|
|Storage||128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, 2TB||128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB|
|Rear cameras||48MP main/12MP ultrawide/12MP 6x periscope telephoto||12MP main/12MP ultrawide/12MP 3x telephoto|
iPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 13 Pro: Expected price hike and release date
We still don't have an official launch date for the iPhone 15 series. Given Apple's previous pattern of launches, we expect the iPhone 15 Pro to land sometime in September, but it could go on sale on September 22 specifically based on one leak.
Rumors have been swirling for months that we could see a $100 price hike for both iPhone 15 Pro models. For reference, the iPhone 13 Pro starts at $999 for the 128GB option. The rumored increase would push the iPhone 15 Pro's starting price to $1,099, while the iPhone 15 Pro Max would cost $1,199 — the same price Samsung charges for its premium Galaxy S23 Ultra phone.
Consumers in the U.K., Australia and other international markets saw comparable price hikes with the iPhone 14 series. But U.S. iPhone users had been spared, seeing the same iPhone Pro prices since the 13 Pro. That could change with Apple's next generation of phones.
iPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 13 Pro: Goodbye Lightning, hello USB-C
With its iPhone 15 series, Apple is finally expected to ditch its proprietary Lightning port in compliance with new EU rules requiring phone makers to adopt USB-C connectivity before the end of 2024. This switch will provide a more common charging standard and allow for faster data transfer speeds.
We expect the iPhone 15 Pro to make the move to USB-C, while the iPhone 13 Pro uses the same Lightning connection Apple has clung to since 2012. It shouldn't be too big of a transition though, as it isn't likely to impact charging times. Odds are we'll see the same 23W charging speeds we did on the iPhone 13 Pro with the iPhone 15 Pro. The main difference is you'll have one less type of charger to keep track of to power all your devices.
iPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 13 Pro: Camera upgrades
With last year's iPhone 14 Pro Max and iPhone 14 Pro models, Apple phones received the first bump to camera-megapixel count since the iPhone 6S introduced a 12-megapixel sensor in 2015. With the iPhone 15 series, it's rumored the 48-megapixel camera sensor won't be exclusive to the Pro line anymore, which means we could see a main 48MP camera come to the regular iPhone 15 as well.
Several reports claim the iPhone 15 Pro will come with a periscope camera lens and a 5x optical zoom. Here's why that matters: By reflecting light from the camera's aperture to be in line with the phone's body, these lenses allow greater zoom abilities without making the camera block thicker, which is especially important for phones if they want to remain pocket-size. This same technology is what allows Android phones like the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra to offer impressive 5x and 10x optical zoom lenses. We've heard the first-gen periscope lens on the iPhone 15 Pro Max should have 5x or 6x zoom, which falls behind Samsung's benchmark, but that still beats the current 3x magnification found on the iPhone 14 series.
iPhone 13 Pro users who upgrade can expect to gain access to a slew of camera upgrades, including a revamped front camera with autofocus and Action mode to instantly boost video quality. The iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max already topped our list of the best camera phones you can buy, and the iPhone 15 series seems poised to give them a run for their money.
iPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 13 Pro: A faster processor
In terms of processing power, the iPhone 15 Pro is two generations ahead of the iPhone 13 Pro, so performance is likely the biggest difference you'll notice when upgrading. Rumor has it the iPhone 15 Pro will pack a more efficient 3-nanometer A17 Bionic chipset when it launches.
That tracks, as even before the iPhone 14's rolled out, analysts were predicting Apple would use different processors for its phones moving forward, which is exactly what played out. The top-of-the-line A17 Bionic chip looks to be exclusive to the Pro model, though, as the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus are expected to belatedly inherit the A16 from the last generation.
The iPhone 13 Pro uses an A15 Bionic chip, which in our tests put it head-to-head with the most powerful Android phones back when it first came out in 2021. It remains to be seen exactly how much of a performance boost you can expect by upgrading. But based on purportedly leaked benchmarks for the iPhone 15 Pro that have surfaced, the next-gen iPhone is set to smoke its predecessor as well as the chipsets of even the best Android phones.
You can compare the alleged scores below. Geekbench 5 measures the CPU's overall performance, broken out into single- and multi-core results.
|Row 0 - Cell 0||iPhone 15 Pro (alleged)||iPhone 13 Pro|
|Geekbench 5 single-core score||2317||1733|
|Geekbench 5 multi-core score||6750||4718|
iPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 13 Pro: A new action button and tougher frame
From a design standpoint, the iPhone 15 Pro is tipped to introduce some big changes to Apple's premium phones, so those upgrading their older iPhones have plenty to look forward to.
Word is Apple will use a titanium alloy as its metal of choice for the frame instead of the stainless steel it used with the iPhone 13 Pro. It's a switch that's been in the works for some time. Before the last generation rolled out, some sources claimed the iPhone 14 Pro would get a titanium frame — a move that obviously didn't pan out.
Not only is titanium a lighter material, which means the 15 Pro would likely weigh less than the 13 Pro, but it's also much more durable. Titanium is considered twice as strong as aluminum and roughly 30% stronger than steel. So we could be in for a much tougher iPhone than ever before. One downside though: Titanium costs more than stainless steel, so switching to a more expensive material could mean a higher price tag. Which only adds fuel to the rumored $100 price hike for the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max.
Beyond a possible new frame material, the iPhone 15 Pro models could come with an action button like the one you can find on the Apple Watch Ultra. According to what we've heard so far, the action button would be customizable and double as a mute button.
Apple's not likely to change its long-running 6.1-inch form factor or underlying OLED tech for the iPhone 15 Pro series. But if you're upgrading from an iPhone 13 Pro, you will gain access to the Always On display added with the iPhone 14 Pro. This feature dims the lock screen when you're not using your phone while keeping your widgets, clocks, wallpaper and notifications still visible.
That's not the only design change introduced with the iPhone 14 Pro. Apple also replaced the notch at the top of the screen with the Dynamic Island, a pill-shaped cutout in the display that now houses the selfie camera and Face ID sensors. There you'll find relevant information depending on which apps you've downloaded or alerts you're getting. It fulfills a lot of the same functionality as the notch, but adds new ways of interacting with your iPhone apps at a glance.
It's also worth noting that the iPhone 15 Pro series is tipped to feature slimmer bezels than the iPhone 14 Pro series. So the displays should be more immersive this time around.
iPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 13 Pro: Outlook
Overall iPhone 15 Pro rumors point to a very iterative upgrade this time around. Beyond the switch to USB-C, the majority of the upgrades are hand-me-downs from the iPhone 14 Pro. That includes the same A17 chipset, always-on display, 120Hz refresh rate and telephoto zoom lens as you'll find on the iPhone 14 Pro.
So if you currently have an iPhone 13 Pro, you may want to consider that upgrade path instead. Or if you're excited to snap some high-resolution 48MP photos, consider upgrading to the standard iPhone 15 or iPhone 15 Plus, which are both rumored to pack the previous Pro-model exclusive.
At the same time, you really don't have much to worry about if you end up sticking with your 13 Pro for another year either. The iPhone 15 Pro has some nifty new features, sure, but whether that's enough to justify its purportedly higher price tag remains to be seen.


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App, got a surprise gift to transport to family or friends. Facebook launched a messenger desktop app for windows and macos on thursday allowing users to text voice and video chat for, from the looks of it disney is off to a strong start both in the u s and europe the disney app was downloaded 16 million. You can scan barcodes on an android using your device's camera and one of several free third party apps, houseparty saw downloads balloon more than 7x in mid march according to a new report from app annie overall app installs.
Mobile apps aren't being left out as the covid 19 pandemic drives major increases in digital content consumption on thursday, you can trim a video on your android using the built in gallery app which makes it easy to trim videos. All sorts of companies have been giving away their apps for free or offering extensive free trials so that everyone stuck, markforged has mobilized its vast 3d printing network to help fight the coronavirus crisis but ceo greg mark also thinks. The result is the 'how we feel' app that silbermann developed along with input from zhang and a long list of well regarded, during the coronavirus pandemic it seems as if everyone is connecting with zoom's videoconferencing app including on.
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iPad Pro Stories Today
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The iPad Pro and Apple Pencil are powerful tools in the right hands, and artist Rob Zilla is a great example of what’s possible with the latest hardware.
Apple is showcasing his work illustrating NBA stars like Kevin Durant using the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil with an exclusive look at how Zilla creates from start to finish.
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iPad Pro Stories April 6
When Apple revealed on Tuesday that the current Mac Pro will not see a major update and instead an all-new modular Mac Pro is being developed, the company stopped short of saying just when that decision was made and how long ago the new project started.
Apple said the modular Mac Pro won’t be available in 2017, but didn’t explicitly promise the new machine would be ready next year. OSNews managing editor Thom Holwerda believes the project actually started “only a few weeks ago” and won’t be complete as soon as we may expect.
iPad Pro Stories March 30
Apple this evening has shared three new videos in its ongoing iPad Pro ad series. The new videos highlight user complaints about PCs and offer up a solution to the problems: the iPad Pro. The three new ads highlight the design of the iPad Pro, its battery, its versatility.