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According to Lyft, in the last 10 months Uber employees have ordered and canceled 5,560 Lyft rides in a bid to reduce the number of its competitor’s cars on the road and waste drivers’ time.
While there’s no suggestion that Uber HQ has green-lighted such action — or even knows about it — the alleged behavior certainly won’t do the San Francisco-based company’s reputation any favors.
Related: Lyft finally hits the road in NYC
Lyft’s data, supplied to CNN on Monday, shows that as many as 177 Uber employees across the U.S. have been using the tactic since October 2013.
“It wastes a driver’s time and impacts the next passenger waiting for that driver.”
Remarkably, one particular Lyft passenger supposedly working for Uber canceled 300 bookings during a 15-day period spanning May and June this year. “That user’s phone number was tied to 21 other accounts, for a total of 1,524 canceled rides,” CNN said in its report.
Erin Simpson, a spokeswoman for Lyft, told Digital Trends that it was “unfortunate for affected community members that they have used these tactics, as it wastes a driver’s time and impacts the next passenger waiting for that driver.”
Not only Lyft?
It appears some Uber employees behaved in a similar fashion in January when rival service Gett said its New York drivers had had more than 100 rides booked and canceled by Uber workers across a three-day period.
Uber and Lyft have emerged as the two leaders in the ride-sharing business and besides battling with each other must also deal with opposition from traditional cab drivers in many locations where they operate.
Uber, which launched in 2009, currently serves more than 100 cities globally, while Lyft, which has been in business since 2012, can be found in more than 60 cities across the U.S.
We’ve reached out to Uber for comment on its alleged underhand tactics, and will update when we hear back.
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The new Nintendo 2DS XL arrives in July and will be compatible with 3DS titles
The Nintendo 2DS XL is widening the company’s handheld scope nearly two months after the release of the Nintendo Switch, and while new releases continue for the Wii U.
Nintendo have plenty of devices to keep developing for, their latest a potential competitor to the Switch.
The New Nintendo 2DS XL makes its debut in Europe on July 28, giving consumers yet another new choice which apparently will fit between the Nintendo 2DS and New Nintendo 3DS XL systems.
The Japanese games giant have timed it so the new Nintendo 2DS XL will launch on the same day as three games launch for the Nintendo 3DS: Hey! PIKMIN, Miitopia and Dr Kawashima’s Devilish Brain Training: Can you stay focused?
“The new, clamshell-design system will be available in a stylish black/turquoise colour, as well as in white/orange, and will use the same size large screen found on New Nintendo 3DS XL systems," a message from Nintendo explains.
“As the name of the new system implies, visuals will be displayed in 2D only. The system is lighter but still packs the same power as New Nintendo 3DS XL, and has built-in NFC support for amiibo cards and figures.
“It can play the massive library of quality Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS games in 2D.
“Nintendo systems are also the only dedicated video game systems where people can find their favourite characters and game franchises, such as Mario, Peach, Yoshi, Kirby, Pokémon, Fire Emblem, Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros., Animal Crossing and The Legend of Zelda.
“There are over a thousand games in the Nintendo 3DS game library and more are always on the way, including three that launch on the same day as New Nintendo 2DS XL.
“These new games will offer fun new experiences for New Nintendo 2DS XL owners, and for owners of any Nintendo 3DS family systems.”
It means that fans who may not have been interested in the 3D effects of the 3DS can now buy something up to date that’s also compatible with 3DS games.
It’s obviously not seen as a serious contender against the Nintendo Switch and is a system that will have a ton of games to offer from the start.
Nintendo are in the middle of balancing a number of hardware options which appear destined to be cannibalized by the Nintendo Switch eventually, the Wii U being the biggest.
Having discontinued production on the lacklustre console, Nintendo have confirmed new releases for May, including Citadale - The Legends Trilogy, Triple Breakout, Pinball and Darksiders Warmastered.
Flying against the rumours that it had been cancelled, the Darksiders remake arrives May 23, costing £14.99 in the UK.

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The U.S. Court of International Trade has upheld a determination by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules from China materially injured domestic solar companies.
The decision dated Aug. 7 (but made public on Aug. 21) rejects claims by Chinese firms Trina Solar, Wuxi Suntech Power, Suntech, and Yingli Green Energy that, among other things, the ITC did not take into account market conditions before making its injury determination.
Plaintiffs asserted that several considerations showed that the domestic market would have suffered the same fate irrespective of whether their products were available in the U.S.
For one, the price and demand for crystalline silicon PV are tied to the need to achieve grid parity, they argued. Also, government incentives that stimulated demand for crystalline silicon PV products in the U.S. were being phased out during the period of investigation spanning January 2009 through June 2012. The fastest growth in demand during that period was in the utility sector, where grid parity and government incentives had the greatest effect, the plaintiffs claimed.
However, Judge Richard K. Eaton found that the ITC rightly considered the volume, price effects, impact of subject imports, and other external market factors, when it made its determination.
The decision is another victory for defendant and intervener SolarWorld, a German-based firm that is the largest solar manufacturer in the U.S. The company filed antidumping and countervailing duty petitions with the Department of Commerce and ITC in October 2011 covering crystalline silicon PV cells and modules from China.
The U.S. ITC in November 2012 unanimously determined that imports of those products from China materially injured the U.S. industry, clearing the way for the Commerce Department to issue antidumping and countervailing duties of between 31% and 250% on Chinese producers.
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In the latest Mashable roundup of the most exciting gadgets, the company’s latest smartwatch is its most popular product.
The brown’s software and hardware lineup is so impressive, in fact, that Mashable named it the best smartwatch in the entire Android ecosystem.
And its Android-based platform is among the most popular on the planet, with over 2.5 billion active devices running it.
As a result, Brown’s software has become one of the hottest gadgets around, and it’s one of Apple’s most popular products.
We’ll take a closer look at its hardware later on, but first, let’s get into the nitty gritty.
The smartwatch and AndroidBoth the brown and its competitor, Crest, are smartwatches built on Android.
But unlike Apple’s devices, both are available in the Google Play Store, as well as at a number of retailers.
They are both compatible with the Android Wear platform, but unlike Apple, Brown doesn’t have a watchOS-based version of Android Wear.
Instead, the brown has a separate Android Wear-based operating system called Android Wear 2.0.
This makes Brown’s smartwatch a bit of a differentiator, with Android Wear being a standalone operating system that Apple and Google have separately made available for Android Wear devices.
For example, Brown makes Android Wear available to the Google Nexus 7, the Nexus 6P, and the Nexus 10, as you can see in the following screenshot.
That’s just one of many reasons why Brown’s device is such a standout: Brown’s hardware is built to be compatible with Android’s most prominent mobile operating system.
The brown is also the first smartwatch that uses a quad-core Snapdragon processor, which is a new, faster processor for Android than we’ve seen in many Android Wear models.
And the brown uses the same Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 processor found in other Android Wear smartwares, including the Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy S7.
The reason for this?
In order to run on Android Wear, the hardware has to support Android apps.
This means the device can only be used on Android’s OS.
If a smartwatch supports an operating system other than Android Wear (like Apple’s OS X), it will also be limited to apps from those other OSes.
For instance, Apple’s iOS is not supported by the brown’s OS; however, the software running on the brown can run on iOS 11.5 and later.
If you’re not using Android Wear for work, you may be wondering why the brown supports Apple’s platform.
That’s because the brown doesn’t support Android Wear in the first place, as it is built on Apple’s own operating system and cannot run natively on Android devices.
However, the reason for Android’s lack of support is because Android devices aren’t designed to run apps on Android, but instead rely on third-party apps.
For instance, Google Play doesn’t include third-parties like Netflix and Google Play Music on its Play Store.
This makes Android’s ecosystem very different from Apple’s ecosystem, which has hundreds of thousands of apps that run on the iPhone and iPad, and Apple’s App Store, which offers thousands of games, apps, and widgets.
Apple’s OS, however, does include a huge number of third-tier apps.
As you can tell from the above screenshot, the Google app store includes many apps from third-level apps.
These third-platform apps are the apps that you’ll use most on your Android device.
Apple has more apps than the brown, but it also has more than twice as many apps as Brown.
While most Android devices are built on Google’s OS (or at least the Android Open Source Project), the brown is not the first Android Wear device to use Apple’s operating system instead of Android’s.
Earlier this year, a smart watch called the Pebble, which Apple announced in May of this year for $249, was also designed to use the Android OS, and was the first watch on the market to include the Pebble’s touchscreen.
In addition, Samsung’s Gear S3 smartwatch recently debuted as a compatible Android Wear watch.
Apple and Google are not the only companies to build smartwands based on AndroidOS, but the two companies have had a long history of building them.
Back in the mid-2000s, Apple launched the first Apple TV, which featured a dual-core processor and HDMI output.
Apple also used an ARM processor and the Mali graphics in its iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 smartphones.
In the early 2000s, Motorola’s first smartwand was based on the Motorola A8 chip.
And in 2015, the first Nexus smartwatch used Google’s Android OS.
But as more smartwear companies have come and gone, their hardware has become increasingly modular.
The Brown, for example, has a metal frame that can be modified to fit the wrist of a variety of users.
The Android Wear operating system has also changed in the past decade, as more


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Thanksgiving night, an evening traditionally reserved for blissful, turkey-induced slumber, has been invaded by a new American tradition: Black Thursday shopping.
Retailers this year are upping the ante in the game they started in 2011 and plan to open even earlier on Thursday night -- some as early as 8 p.m. -- to get a jump on their competitors.
"It's like baseball -- it's America's favorite pastime," said Todd Jerscheid, director of mall marketing and business development for the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City.
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But the squeeze on the Thanksgiving holiday has prompted some retail worker strikes and dozens of online petitions calling on stores to "save" Thanksgiving. More stores and area malls this year are joining retailers like Macy's and Best Buy in starting their Black Friday hours at midnight -- up from the traditional early opening of 4 and 5 a.m.
Others are also hopping on the Thursday night bandwagon, started last year when Walmart stores opened at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving. This year, Walmart will open at 8 p.m., as will Toys "R" Us, Kmart and Sears. Target plans to open at 9 p.m.
When asked how far into the Thanksgiving holiday retailers were daring to go, National Retail Federation spokeswoman Kathy Grannis said it depends on the demand from shoppers.
"If this does continue to grow next year, retailers will re-evaluate what time they should open," she said. "But I think eventually they'll meet a plateau."
The steep discounts offered -- like $180 for a 40-inch flat screen TV that typically sells for $420 -- draw out millions of people for the official kickoff of holiday shopping. Roughly 147 million adults said they will shop or are considering shopping this weekend, according to a survey conducted by BIGresearch. The remaining one-third of the nation's adults said they're staying home.
Lea Teem and her daughter Ashley said they plan on hitting the Leesburg Corner Premium Outlets on Friday, as they do every year.
"It's almost like a family tradition for us," Lea said. But they won't consider shopping on Thanksgiving night.
"I feel like every family deserves time together on Thanksgiving," she said.
That sentiment has inspired the retail sector's strongest push-back yet against the movement to start Black Friday before, well, Friday.
Target's move up from last year's midnight opening prompted a protest petition on Change.org that has garnered more than a quarter-million signatures. Starting last week, Walmart workers began planned protests across the country. On Monday, employees at Landover's Walmart walked off the job to protest the way the company has handled the Thanksgiving holiday.
Danit Marquardt, a spokeswoman for Walmart, said that the company's supercenters are open 24 hours, so working Thanksgiving Day is not new.
"Our associates are here and ready to serve our customers," she said.
But Cindy Murray, an associate at the Walmart supercenter in Laurel, said workers were upset because they felt like they were being taken advantage of. Murray, who had requested Thursday off to spend with her children and grandchildren, found out last week that she would be working the 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. shift Thanksgiving Day. And with the doorbusters beginning at 8 p.m., the stores are now requiring more people to work earlier.
"I feel as though, 'Where's my time with my family?' There is none," Murray said. "I think all stores should take up the practice of shutting their doors on this holiday. I don't think that's a whole lot to ask."
But it's unlikely the trend will stop, said Grannis, who noted retailers will do whatever they can to remain competitive in November and December, as those months often determine a retailer's profit for that year.
"Competition is part of the reason retailers started to look into these hours," she said, adding that brick-and-mortar stores are getting increasing competition from online retailers. "The busiest online shopping day from 2003 to 2010 was on Thanksgiving ... I think that shows there is a desire among consumers."


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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced sales drops and reported job and management salaries cuts, saying the coronavirus pandemic has broken the supply chain of data-center hardware.
Incomes fell 16 percent to $6 billion due to the COVID-19 proliferation. Revenue fell 16% to $6 billion for the first quarter, a California company in San Jose said in a statement Thursday. Analysts had expected an average of $6.19 billion, as per information collected by Bloomberg. Profit, excluding some sectors, was 22 cents per share, as opposed to an average estimate of 28 cents.
As per the statement, HPE will put in place a cost-cutting plan to save $1 billion by the end of fiscal 2022. The steps will involve adjusting the portfolio and supply chain as well as reducing client care, marketing efforts, and real estate strategies, HPE said in a statement.
"This has definitely been a tough quarter for all indicators and I am disappointed with the results, but I don't see it as an assessment of our capabilities," said Antonio Neri, CEO of the company, in an interview. "Obviously, this was caused by supply chain disruptions due to coronavirus," including the lack of chip components from China, logistics, and social distancing rules violations in some regions.
According to Neri, he anticipates HPE sales to "improve sequentially," with better results in the third quarter than in the second and fourth quarters. However, he said, it is not known how bad the economic downturn will be.
HPE eliminated its annual earnings estimate in April, indicating doubt over the coronavirus pandemic, which forced millions of people to stay home to stop the disease from spreading.
HPE stocks fell by about 5% with prolonged trading after closing $10.36 in New York. Shares fell 35% this year.
Neri tried to boost sales at a computing and networking company, where incomes have been decreasing during the year excluding a quarter since the company separated from HP Inc. in 2015. By competing with larger hardware competitors of Dell Technologies Inc. and authoritative cloud computing giants such as Amazon and Microsoft, HPE has been able to become a leader in computing that distributes computing power closer to customers than in centralized data centers. Moreover, the company has tried to boost sales by proposing $2 billion of funding for customers seeking to save money at crisis.
In line with the company's three-year cost-cutting plan, executives, including Neri, will reduce the base wages by 20 percent to 25 percent, and the board will cut each director's cash by 25 percent from July to the end of the fiscal year. The equipment manufacturer will combine offices where it can be done, Neri said. He foresees more than half of HPE's workers not to be back to the office full-time, but instead to attend meetings and cooperation when required.
The quantity of employees who could lose their jobs following the cost-cutting plan has not yet been decided, Neri said. The company will spend the next few months working through the details and assessing how much it can save in other areas. HPE has already introduced some temporary salary cuts and has frozen employee promotions, company managers said at a conference call after the earnings were stated.
In the second fiscal quarter, revenues declined across all HPE business segments. Server sales fell 20 percent to $2.64 billion, and storage hardware fell 18 percent. Neri said the company saw "steady" demand from large enterprises, while small and medium businesses were not so interested in the company's services. HPE was unable to produce as much data center hardware as customers ordered, he said.
The integration of HPE with the Cray supercomputer is on track and should create synergies by 2021, the company said by phone.


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The game community is in turmoil about the possible addition of battle passes to the game thanks to a recent tweet from reliable Pokemon Go data-mining service PokeMiners. Many people are concerned that a battle pass system might be implemented sometime in the future.
Is Pokemon Go ever going to have a battle pass? Has it ever had one in the past? Were you interested in learning more about what Pokemon Go might be like?
A new item, the 'Battle Pass Ticket,' has been added!
Go Battle League battle pass
Pokemon Go has previously adopted a battle pass system, but only in the Go Battle League, its player-vs-player mode. Players may choose to try out other real-life trainers and earn points for all the battles they win. Both packs included free items and bonuses for reaching certain milestones.
Pokemon Go has the only battle pass system ever. Niantic has yet to make an official announcement about the data mine or the new item, but data-mined items can end up in the game, so there might be a battle pass in the main game sometime in the future.
Some players are interested in a potential battle pass, because it might make it easier for dedicated players to earn rare and difficult-to-achieve rewards. Others are concerned about Niantics' increasing amount of monetization in the game and fear that it might be another nickel-and-dimes strategy.
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"Opening soon," says the white hoarding covering a Chanel Beauty store on the aptly named Fashion Walk, a retail area normally teeming with shoppers in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay district. The shop, which has looked like this for nearly four months, is just one of many whose openings have been significantly delayed by recent anti-government protests, adding to the increasing number of empty storefronts appearing in the city's retail enclaves.
As the escalating unrest sparked by a now-withdrawn extradition bill shows no signs of abating, luxury brands that had plans to open new stores in the third or four quarter of this year have put things on hold, taking a wait-and-see approach towards developments as Hong Kong enters its sixth consecutive month of turmoil.
Last week, malls including the Landmark in Central and Sogo in Causeway Bay were closed almost every day as radicals have adopted a new strategy: cripple the city on weekdays instead of confining protests to weekends, as they had previously done.
Luggage maker Rimowa had plans to open what would have been its 10th Hong Kong store in Lee Garden, another mall located in Causeway Bay, but the brand is waiting to turn the space into a fully functioning store until at least early next year.
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What this means is that brands are willing to keep stores vacant while paying exorbitant monthly rents to avoid the added costs that come with opening a physical shop.
Hiring sales associates and filling stores with inventory that is not likely to sell are expenses that companies prefer to avoid as the protests have taken a hit on their sales. Brands such as Moncler, Gucci and Salvatore Ferragamo have reported sales declines of up to 45 per cent in Hong Kong during the third quarter.
Many luxury labels have as many as eight or nine stores in Hong Kong, most of them catering to tourists who have stopped coming in the wake of the ongoing turmoil.
Hong Kong is notoriously one of the most expensive cities for commercial real estate in the world, which is why the impact of the unrest on luxury brands' bottom lines has been significant. According to a report released last week by real estate company Cushman & Wakefield, Russell Street in Causeway Bay remains the most expensive retail street in the world, although the company used data gathered before the unrest began.
When Italian fashion label Prada confirmed that it would end the lease of its Causeway Bay flagship in June 2020, the landlord announced that it would slash the monthly rent of HK$9 million (US$1.15 million) by 44 per cent for its next tenant. While the monthly rents for the Chanel and Rimowa stores nearby are probably not as high, that figure is common among stores in prime retail destinations in the city.
(Swire Properties) has offered temporary rental adjustments to the majority of its tenants, to support the Hong Kong retail industry as well as our tenants during this challenging timeSwire Properties spokesperson
Landlords, who for years have been able to charge very high rents to fast-fashion companies, luxury labels and beauty stores, are realising that they will have to compromise to keep their tenants.
Cathie Chung, senior director of research at Jones Lang LaSalle, a real estate management firm, believes more landlords will consider adjusting rents amid the current crisis and the sluggish economy as Hong Kong has now entered into a technical recession.
"Our view is for unemployment to start to rise, which will affect commercial space demand," she says. "We believe commercial property rents will decline in 2020, with high-street shop rents to drop about 5 to 10 per cent and grade A office rents to drop about 15 to 20 per cent."
A spokesperson for Swire Properties, which operates high-end malls including Pacific Place, said that the company "has offered temporary rental adjustments to the majority of its tenants, to support the Hong Kong retail industry as well as our tenants during this challenging time".
Pacific Place, located in Hong Kong's Admiralty area - which due to its proximity to several government buildings has been extremely affected by the protests - is home to one of the city's top department stores, Harvey Nichols. However, the store, which formerly occupied the ground and second floors of the mall, has now consolidated all its selling space on the second floor, an unusual location for an "anchor tenant".
As you access the ground floor of the mall from the main entrance, which is considered a prime location for foot traffic and therefore sales, you now face a series of hoardings that do not specify what is set to open in those spaces, formerly occupied by Harvey Nichols.
According to a spokesperson for Pacific Place, "four retail and food and beverage labels will take over the space originally occupied by Harvey Nichols on level one, spanning a total gross floor area of 42,000 square feet (3,900 square metres). These tenants will progressively open their shops later this year."
Strategies that mall owners are implementing to limit the damage include diversifying into more accessible lifestyle stores and restaurants, catering to local customers, and moving away from luxury boutiques, which rely on visitors from China and other countries for most of their sales. But unless rents go down and a complete adjustment happens in the retail sector, Hong Kong's formerly buzzing shopping havens have to brace for more uncertainty.
Amid the social and financial crisis gripping the city, however, predictions of Hong Kong's complete demise as Asia's retail hub are premature. K11 Musea, a new mall targeting millennials that opened in August on the Kowloon waterfront, counts major brands such as Gucci, Saint Laurent, Tod's and Chanel among its tenants. Chanel alone has opened two stores in the mall: a beauty boutique and a shoe store.
The mall was busy with customers on a recent weekend visit, although most were lining up outside affordable eateries such as Happy Pancake and Gontran Cherrier. (With the stand-off between the protesters and the police moving to Tsim Sha Tsui this week, the mall has been closed for the last two days.)
One thing is clear: fashion and beauty retailers need to step up their game to justify their extensive retail footprint in Hong Kong. If those boarded-up shops don't open soon and if existing stores start closing, the future could see some of Hong Kong's formerly buzzing retail enclaves looking like the "ghost malls" of the US and China: abandoned shopping centres that have become the subjects of haunting photo essays widely available through a quick online search.
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Burberry has released a new ad, starring Domhnall Gleeson and Sienna Miller, telling the tale of Thomas Burberry, the founder of the international chain which has become, over the years, one of Britain’s largest branded clothing businesses. The video, with a script by...
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WASHINGTON — A lot of thought goes into the Thanksgiving meal — from how to cook the turkey to who will make the pies. But when it is all over a new challenge presents itself:…
Overcook a Thanksgiving turkey and it might be dry and tough. Undercook it and it could end up looking like a pink, gelatinous science experiment.
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Many shoppers buy their Thanksgiving turkey frozen, but more and more people prefer a fresh one. If that includes you, be careful not to buy that bird too soon – one to two days before you plan on cooking it is the maximum, according to the USDA.
After years of pressure from the public and animal-welfare groups, the USDA\’s inspector general looked into the laws regulating commercial dog breeding and agreed there was a gap between breeders who sell online and those who do not.
Organic food products are traditionally more expensive for consumers than their conventional varieties. This difference in price is also felt by the farmers who grow and produce certified organic food. But a new program is helping small farmers grow certified natural food.
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Shoppers are paying between 35 percent to 39 percent more for
groceries than they did a decade ago.
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Pairing adaptive streaming technology with MiQ’s agnostic, multi-DSP capabilities delivers more sustainable, high-quality ads while supercharging campaign performance
LONDON & NEW YORK – April 18, 2023 – As part of its ongoing commitment to addressing pollution caused by online media delivery, leading global programmatic media partner MiQ today announces a new partnership with groundbreaking streaming tech provider, SeenThis. Together, the pair are modernizing creative delivery for eco-conscious brands and agencies, using the power of streaming to advance more sustainable MiQ-driven campaigns across the world.
Compared to conventional technology used to deliver programmatic creative, SeenThis is fueled by adaptive streaming, which instantly delivers the highest quality creative possible and with less data waste. These ads stream in bite-sized pieces when in-view, ensuring that data is transferred only when actively consumed by users and is otherwise paused. For MiQ and its clients, this reduces data waste by an average of 25%, as well as associated carbon emissions all related to excessive buffering and offscreen loading. It also eliminates reliance on publisher bandwidth to download files and improves the overall user experience for static images, video, and other display formats. This includes:
- No creative limits: Creative delivery modernized by streaming tech
- Effective delivery of greener campaigns: Wasted impressions are minimized by pausing advertisements when out-of-view
- High attention formats: Clients can extend video reach into display formats with over 80% viewability
Paired with MiQ’s agnostic, multi-DSP optimization tactics and advanced programmatic activation strategies, MiQ and SeenThis have already achieved greener and more performant results for over 100 campaigns to date, including for major fashion houses, tourism brands and next-gen gaming companies. Through faster load times and better viewability, click-through rates have performed 2x better than standard display, resulting in nearly 85K KG of CO2e savings for clients to date, which is equivalent to the pollution from over 3 million plastic bags or driving from New York to L.A. 160+ times.
Against this impressive backdrop, MiQ is using SeenThis technology to develop new streamed formats and expand its streamed offering into other channels beyond display, which will be unveiled in the coming months.
“In 2022, we made great strides with Scope3 and MiQ’s Green Score to measure, reduce, and benchmark carbon emissions across the supply chain,” says Chris Lehman, Global Head of Creative at MiQ. “Our team is fully dedicated to identifying and actioning new ways to address the sustainability needs of the industry. Optimizing and future-proofing the creative that clients use seemed like a natural next step in this continued progression. SeenThis is the perfect partner to aid us in that journey and we look forward to further innovations which enable a greener ad ecosystem.”
Thomas Houge, CCO at SeenThis adds: “The combination of our innovative creative technology with MiQ’s robust sustainability offering creates something completely new in the market. We’re already seeing the huge benefits that this provides to companies we’re working with together.
We’re eager and ready to facilitate this success for others across the globe and excited to collaborate with MiQ on additional advances this year and beyond.”
Since 2017, Swedish tech company SeenThis has been evolving screen experiences for everyone, everywhere. With its groundbreaking adaptive streaming technology, SeenThis is transforming the distribution and climate impact of digital content compared to traditional technology. With billions of streams served for 1,000+ brands in 40+ countries, the company is on a journey to reshape the internet — for good. Working across seven offices globally, SeenThis employees are obsessed with creating a truly high-speed and energy-efficient Internet. For more information, visit seenthis.co.
We’re MiQ, a programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. We connect data from multiple sources to do interesting, exciting, business-problem-solving things for our clients. We’re experts in data science, analytics and programmatic trading, and our team of people are always ready to react and solve challenges quickly, to make sure you’re always spending your media investments on the right things in the right places.
Headquartered in London, MiQ operates globally from 18 offices located across North America, Europe, and APAC. Our company has been recognized numerous times for our stellar contributions both internally and externally including for Ad Age’s 2023 Best Places to Work Award, 2022 Inc. Programmatic Power Players list, and AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list in 2022, 2021, and 2020.
You can find out more here: wearemiq.com.
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The team at Daimler Truck and Bus Australia has paid tribute to the man who started the Freightliner story in our market – Ian Bruce.
Ian recently passed away in Melbourne, but Daimler Truck and Bus CEO and President, Daniel Whitehead, says his legacy lives on.
“Ian identified the massive potential of the Freightliner brand in Australia and dedicated eight years of his working life to bring it here,” he says.
“We are very grateful to Ian for his role in introducing Freightliner to Australian customers and are determined to continue his legacy.”
The Mercedes-Benz Commercial Vehicles sales and marketing executive spotted the opportunity to bring the U.S. truck brand to Australia following the acquisition of Freightliner by the German manufacturing giants in 1981.
He pushed hard for Freightliner to invest in a right-hand drive truck program and eventually had two FLC prototypes built and sent to Australia for evaluation.
Freightliner then engineered the second generation FLC 112 in right-hand drive, which hit the Aussie market in 1989.
Ian retired soon after the launch of the truck he worked so hard to bring here, ending a stellar career that started at Melbourne’s H.W. Taylor Motor car accessories back in 1938.
Along the way he also worked at Kenworth, International Harvester and Cummins.
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Stay up to date with the latest Freightliner Trucks News at heavyvehicles.com.au.


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MU campus brand representative program stretches deeper than promotion for members
Women empowerment and a unified student body define what it means to be a brand ambassador on campus for these two students.
Feb. 11, 2020
A young girl sits with her mother in Atlanta, both with Coca-Cola bottles in their hands, smiles on their faces as they celebrate the child’s birthday.
Today, Coke bottles define Alaina Vacante’s happiest memories as she sits in the Kappa Alpha Theta house at MU and recalls why she decided to become a campus representative for the brand.
“I really like the company and what they do and there’s so much joy and happiness around it,” Vacante said. “It’s such a simple, everyday thing but it’s so much more than that because it’s [a part of] all the major events in your life.”
Several years later, the young girl from Georgia represents the face of Coca-Cola at MU. She hands out samples of new products to students, posts on social media accounts about the brand and attends various on campus events.
Representing the soda company on campus, Vacante hopes to foster more than just the consumption of the beverage, but strong relationships with students and the university. The students make up the targeted demographic, with hopes that the same joy the soda company brought Vacante will fill the students.
“I really just hope it puts a smile on their face more than anything,” Vacante said.
As a campus representative, Vacante also gets professional experience for her future job. As a strategic communication major, attending events such as the Coca-Cola ambassador training in the summer gives representatives the opportunity to learn more about the brand they’re promoting. Students made connections with other ambassadors, staff at the company and had plenty of opportunities to drink various coke beverages from vending machines scattered throughout the building.
Vacante also has the opportunity to make more connections with people in the University and looks forward to interviewing UM System President Mun Choi in the future about Coke’s potential involvement with MU.
Coca-Cola shares MU’s campus promotion with many other brands, though, such as PINK Nation. As a senior in high school, Skylar Williams scrolled through Instagram and came across the application to become a PINK Campus Representative. It sparked her interest but did not come up again until her sophomore year at MU when she knew she needed to apply.
“Honestly, I just grew up just loving PINK’s brand and values and the message that they send to women,” Williams said. “PINK just really values girl power, being comfortable in your own skin and just chasing your dreams and it’s overall encouraging women to support each other.”
VS PINK appealed to Williams because of its values and the commitment to her own dreams. Since she wants to work at Victoria Secret one day in marketing, her strategic communication major led her to the campus representative program to further her skills.
Marketing is at the core of her responsibilities as a representative as she hosts a plethora of events each semester to promote the brand on campus. Her work includes planning and hosting various events such as an upcoming “Galentine’s Day” event which will have snacks, a photo station and time for girls to meet new people. Williams also keeps all social media platforms up to date with announcements about events and various challenges with other universities like a competition to see who could best style a new pair of leggings.
But Williams’s role on campus extends further than clothing promotion — a lot of the work aligns with empowering the women on MU’s campus.
“PINK really is all about girl power,” Williams said. “Overall, I feel like my goal at the end of the day is to make girls on campus feel comfortable and confident in their own skin.”
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A woman in Hollywood, California, is suing the cosmetics store Sephora after she said she contracted oral herpes from a lipstick tester tube, according to TMZ.
The woman said she used one of the sample tubes on display at a Hollywood store in October 2015 and was diagnosed with the herpes virus shortly after.
According to TMZ, she filed a lawsuit against the store for failing to warn her that sampling products could possibly lead to contracting the virus and that Sephora owes her for an "incurable lifelong affliction."
Sephora has since responded to the incident:
"While it is our policy not to comment on litigation, the health and safety of our clients is our foremost priority. We take product hygiene very seriously and we are dedicated to following best practices in our stores."
But could someone really get herpes from lipstick? And how common is it?
Infectious disease specialist Amesh Adalja told Live Science that it's not especially common for someone to get the herpes virus from lipstick. Instead, it's more likely that the person already had the virus before coming into the store.
Oral herpes is a very common infection. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 67 percent of people under age 50 have herpes simplex virus type 1 (the virus that causes oral herpes).
Though symptoms of oral herpes can include painful blisters and open sores around the mouth and a tingling or burning sensation in the region, not everyone with the virus will experience the symptoms.
“They may be ‘clinically silent’ but contagious,” Adalja, who is also a senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security said.
The virus can easily spread through saliva and skin contact, he added.
So if someone with the virus used the lipstick without a disposable applicator and soon after, another person used the same lipstick, the second person could easily become infected.
Depending on environmental conditions (humidity, moisture, etc.), the virus could survive on the lipstick for a couple of hours, Adalja told Tech Times.
"In general, it's a good rule of thumb to not use anyone else's lipstick, toothbrush, what have you," Dr. Larry Beatty told Cosmopolitan in 2013 after a N.Y. woman alleged the same after sampling a lipstick at MAC Cosmetics. "If you had chapped lips or a break in the skin and swipe on a lipstick that someone used that's infected with the herpes simplex virus, then you're more susceptible to contracting it. But even if your skin is 100 percent intact, it's still not a guarantee that you'd be protected from getting it; there is still a degree of risk."
If you are going to use test products, dermatologists recommend applying the sample on the wrist or neck instead of directly near the mouth or near a scratch or open sore. And never directly apply the tester to an area — use a disposable applicator.
But in the end, the virus is so common that it’s nearly impossible to avoid. In fact, Adalja said, it’s “basically part of the human condition.”


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Roku Is Warning Customers YouTube TV App Might Disappear
The streaming hardware manufacturer is escalating a disagreement over Google's policies.
Roku users may soon have issues finding YouTube TV on their devices. In an email sent to its YouTube TV users, Roku is now warning that the app may go dark. This is due to recent negotiations in which Google allegedly wants conspicuous placement for YouTube in all search results and to block results from other providers. News of the brewing standoff was first reported by Axios, which has also published the email alerting customers.
"Recent negotiations with Google to carry YouTube TV have broken down because Roku cannot accept Google's unfair terms as we believe they could harm our users," reads the email. "While we are deeply disappointed in Google's decision to use their monopoly power to try and force terms… we remain committed to reaching an agreement with Google that preserves your access."
Roku is also indicating that in these negotiations, according to Yahoo News, Google has allegedly "threatened to set chipset and memory requirements for devices that would raise hardware prices." Such a move would therefore, potentially, give Google's Chromecast device an unfair competitive advantage, which a Roku spokesperson argued would be "predatory."
Google, which has a long history of skirting antitrust issues, has not yet responded publicly. Neither Roku nor Google are strangers to these types of disputes. Last year, it took months and months for NBCUniversal and Roku to broker an agreement that would allow the Peacock streaming platform to be made available on Roku-enabled devices, and the same was true of HBO Max.
Earlier this year, Roku released estimated data from 2020 indicating that it closed out the year with a total of 51.2 million active accounts. During the pandemic, the company says it created approximately 14 million accounts, and that in the fourth quarter of 2020 alone, its viewers watched a total of 58.7 billion hours.
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The Raja Ferry company will temporarily suspend the ferry service on the Phangan to Samui routes.
The Raja Ferry company announced on Saturday (April 22nd) “The Raja Ferry Port will suspend the ferry service from Phangan Island to Samui Island and from Samui Island to Phangan Island route from April 23rd to April 25th, 2023.”
“Customers who have already booked tickets in advance on the date and time can request a refund online via line @rajaferryport. Sorry for the inconvenience.” The notice read.
The Phuket Express noted the company did not give any reason why they have to suspend their ferry service.


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UK chain Byron is launching two new vegan burgers to the menu – featuring Beyond Meat’s flagship patty – on June 18.
The Truffler features truffle ‘cheese’ sauce alongside portobello mushroom, truffle ‘mayonnaise’, crispy onions, and lettuce. The Cali Cheese features vegan cheddar, roasted garlic ‘aioli’, smoked tomato ketchup, red onion, pickle, and lettuce.
In addition, the restaurant has launched a vegan Pineapple & Coconut ice-lolly for dessert.
“We know that our diners are often keen for lighter alternatives when the warmer months kick in and our new summer menu ticks all the boxes. The new vegan burgers are the most exciting part, you have classic summer flavours in the Cali Cheese (inspired by California) and all out decadence in the Truffler,” Sophie Michell, Byron’s Food & Drink Director, said in a statement.
“We designed them to be enjoyed by committed vegans and people who just want to cut down on their meat consumption, without compromising on flavor.
“The lollipops are simply good fun, they are made by a small artisan producer, they are 100 percent natural and are a light, cooling finish to the meal. Byron has always been a supporter of small UK brands and I would like to continue that tradition.”


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Apple is opening up its mobile news app to all kinds of publishers as of this week and launching an ad campaign to help boost its popularity.
Apple News, which just launched last September, is facing fierce competition against Facebook and Google, both of which announced fresh apps for news last month. Facebook’s app, Instant Articles, will be open to all publishers, while Google’s app will feature articles from a long list of news outlets.
Currently, Apple’s news service partners with media companies such as Bloomberg, ESPN and the New York Times, and articles are curated to the user’s interests.
In order to keep readers from straying, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company is attempting to lure in smaller media companies and even bloggers to deliver content to its audience, with hopes that they’ll jump on board in exchange for exposure to Apple’s millions of dedicated iPhone owners.
As an added bonus, publishers will have access to data from the app to find out how their articles are performing, and Apple has promised ease of use for writers by providing new editing tools.
Not only is it trying to keep its current readers, but Apple also wants to attract new fans, and is launching an ad campaign to promote itself, according to a Re/code article.
The ads will appear in airports and on billboards in some of the largest cities in America, including Chicago, New York and San Francisco. It will also appear online.
This is the company’s first big push to sell Apple News, points out Re/code.
“Apple itself hasn’t leaned that hard into promoting Apple News – it didn’t push the service at all during its big fall product launch event last September – which seems pretty telling,” says the article. “But if you talk to Apple execs privately, they’ll argue that they really are interested in making it work – it’s just that they’re doing lots of other stuff, too.”
Apple plans to install its News app on all devices that run its newest iOS9 software.


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Power giants 'making millions from poorest'
Energy firms make some of their biggest profits from their poorest customers, the UK's main consumer watchdog has claimed
Energy firms make some of their biggest profits from their poorest customers, the UK's main consumer watchdog has claimed.
Consumer Focus (CF) said it estimated power suppliers were making more than half a billion pounds a year in extra charges from people on prepayment metres. Typical customers using the devices were often those on the lowest incomes, it added.
Jonathan Stearn, CF's campaigner on disadvantage, said energy firms were using customers who pay for their gas or electricity through prepayment meters to help subsidise cheaper deals for others.
He told the BBC: "Companies could be making up to £550 million a year from extra charges they charge on prepayment meters. The energy companies are making the most money out of those on prepayment meters and often those are the people on the very lowest incomes."
Energy awareness group National Energy Action (NEA) said prepayment metered customers paid on average £359 more a year than those with normal meters. This contrasts with the extra annual cost of between £85 and £100 to maintain the prepayment boxes estimated by energy industry regulator Ofgem, the charity added.
A NEA spokeswoman told the BBC that 1,000 people a day are being put on prepayment meters, with many forced to do so after after falling into debt.
She added: "Once you are in debt you are effectively blocked from switching to cheaper deals."


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Electronic Products interviewed Philip Lessner, Ph.D., Kemet’s senior vice president and chief technical officer (CTO). Lessner said he is starting to see real-world uses for VR in industrial settings, including Kemet’s factory locations to help train workers on complex equipment.
Kemet Corp. was acquired by Yageo Corp. in 2019, transforming the companies into a $3 billion interconnect, passive, and electromechanical powerhouse in the electronics industry. The electronic components manufacturer, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2019, has been expanding its product portfolio over the past several years in order to grow and innovate for next-generation technologies.
Historically, Kemet has been known as a major capacitor manufacturer for high-reliability applications, such as automotive, medical, military and aerospace, industrial, and telecom. But in recent years, the emergence of technologies such as the internet of things (IoT), 5G, automotive electrification, wearables, and augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), has led the company to expand beyond passive components to play a bigger role in these growing markets and to continue on a growth path.
The interview with Dr.Lessner covered the following topics and questions:
- What are the basic building blocks, at the component level, for AR/VR devices?
- What differentiates Novasentis’s haptic technology from competitors?
- What makes polymer tantalum capacitors a good dielectric for these applications?
- Do you think that sensors, in general, is the biggest area of innovation for VR applications?
- Does the capability to feel different textures open up new opportunities?
- What are the most important technology improvements/specifications for sensors in these applications?
- Is Kemet primarily targeting industrial-type applications?
- Designers tend to forget about the passives and the interconnects, but these components also have to shrink, so there has to be innovation in these areas, too?
- Do you see any emerging applications for VR — outside of training or machine maintenance or virtual gaming?
- What do you think are some of the biggest technology challenges today associated with XR?
Read the full interview at Electronics Products article link below


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- In MARKET, CURRENCY & MACRO NEWS, US-China developments cause a kerfuffle, Facebook’s Libra gets ganged up on and a weaker £ helps the UK services industry
- In RETAIL/CONSUMER NEWS, UK retail sales and car sales dive, the M&S/Ocado rationale is questioned, Tesco axes staff and Sports Direct buys Jack Wills while in the US, Barneys files for bankruptcy
- In INDIVIDUAL COMPANY NEWS, Just Eat and Takeaway.com agree terms
- In OTHER NEWS, I bring you cat batteries…
MARKET, CURRENCY & MACRO NEWS
So the US-China thing spills over into currencies, Libra faces more pressure but a weak pound is helping the UK services sector…
Market meltdown as trade war with China hots up (Daily Telegraph, Tom Rees) highlights market turmoil as both US and UK markets had their worst day of trading so far this year as major markets dropped between 1.7% and 3.1% yesterday following China’s decision to halt American agricultural imports. China also let its currency fall below $7 to its lowest level in 11 years, angering Trump who tweeted that “China has always used currency manipulation to steal our businesses and factories, hurt our jobs, depress our workers’ wages and harm our farmers’ prices”. * SO WHAT? * Clearly this is a reaction to Trump slapping taxes on almost all Chinese imports – but what is different this time is that China is weaponising its currency to get its point across, presumably because there’s only so much it can do on the trade front (because it exports more to America than it imports). If this continues – or gets weaker, even – it could well negate the effect of tariffs and Chinese imports will start to rise again. Some recent comment has suggested that China is willing to play the waiting game and watch Trump squirm while they dig in until the presidential election next year, hoping that he will not be re-elected. They win either way in that scenario – if he stays in, his bargaining position may get weaker (the US economy might not be in such good shape by then) and if he gets replaced, they could get a better deal with his successor. The key is how long they are prepared to wait and take the pain because there will be some domestic collateral damage in the meantime.
Facebook’s cryptocurrency raises privacy questions, say
regulators (Financial Times, Hannah Murphy) shows that regulators from the US, EU, UK, Australia and Canada have issued a joint statement voicing concerns over the privacy risks pertaining to Facebook and its 27 partners who may “instantly become the custodian of millions of people’s personal information”. They said that there wasn’t enough detail on how data would be treated and asked for further information. * SO WHAT? * Regulators, central bankers and politicians really do seem to hate the idea of Facebook making a successful cryptocurrency under their noses – and you can understand why, given Facebook’s track record on their treatment of data. I just wonder whether the pressure will be enough to scupper Libra before it’s even born and whether these parties are trying to get banks to sort something out in the background to make a more “legitimate” alternative. I don’t think that the current financial commitment to Libra so far is that big in the scheme of things and it could die a death without causing too much damage to its consortium members. However, I think that if the central bankers, politicians et al. really want to kill Libra, they need to come up with a viable alternative – and quickly.
Continuing on the subject of currencies, Weak pound helps UK services sector activity improve in July (Financial Times, Valentina Romei) shows that activity in the the all-important UK services sector actually improved last month, slightly offsetting the nightmare that manufacturing and construction are having at the moment. The IHS Markit purchasing managers’ index for services rose in July to its highest level since October, but Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply group director Duncan Brock observed that “While services activity grew in July, the marginal improvement on last month is a smokescreen. Fundamental weaknesses remain in a sector pinned down by Brexit uncertainty and increasingly stagnant global economic growth”. * SO WHAT? * Things could definitely be worse, but this is not going to be enough to crack open the Bolly. There’s still plenty of uncertainty out there!
It’s carnage in the UK at the moment with UK retailers experience worst July since sales records began (The Guardian, Richard Partington) citing the latest data from the British Retail Consortium (although figures released by the Office for National Statistics reflect a less dire picture). Barclaycard, which processes almost half of all credit and debit card transactions in the UK, said that families are cutting down their spending on essential items and one of its directors, Esme Harwood pointed out that “Spending has remained relatively subdued over the past few months, with an underlying uncertainty about the wider economic and political landscape causing many to hold off making purchases on bigger ticket items”.
Then in Car sales fall but electric vehicles up 71% (Daily Telegraph, Michael O’Dwyer) we see that the latest stats from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) show continued weakness in car sales (which backs up what Esme Harwood said above) as the number of new car registrations fell for the fifth consecutive month in July. The number of electric car sales was a small highlight with Britons tripling their purchases in the space of a year – but as I always say, this is from a really low base.
Meanwhile, in retailers, M&S broker raises doubts on Ocado deal (The Times, Ben Martin) highlights a very unusual situation where M&S’s broker questioned the rationale behind the retailer’s £750m tie-up with Ocado. Morgan Stanley analysts said in a research report that they weren’t convinced that it should even enter the online food delivery market given that it only accounts for just over 5% of the UK food market “and is no longer showing much growth”. I say this is unusual because Morgan Stanley is paid by M&S to be its broker, which usually means it tries to
emphasise the positives. * SO WHAT? * M&S has heralded the Ocado deal, announced in February, as something that will transform its online offering. Given that M&S has been struggling for quite some time now, you can see why it wanted to trumpet its new development. FWIW, I think that it IS a transformational deal given that their online offering (like its offline offering) has been pretty lacklustre as a whole, and if you want to do online properly, then Ocado is the company you want to work with. I also wonder, but I can’t prove it, whether M&S will be different to others in terms of online food delivery because I suspect that fewer people do their “main” shop with M&S – they tend to buy various favourite bits. If this is the case, then actually ordering online won’t be a hassle (less items to deal with) and they may actually do better than supermarkets.
Elsewhere on the high street Tesco cuts 4,500 jobs in store revamp (The Times, Elizabeth Burden) highlights more cuts at Tesco as it has decided to cut jobs mainly from its Tesco Metro shops, which are going to undergo a widespread overhaul. Then in Ashley adds Jack Wills to stable as clothing chain collapses (Daily Telegraph, LaToya Harding) we see that Sports Direct sealed the deal to buy Jack Wills for £12.7m. This includes all of its 100 UK and Ireland stores and its distribution centre. Given the recent disastrous performance of Sports Direct, you do wonder whether this is a case of out of the frying pan into the fire.
In news just in, Barneys files for bankruptcy, plans to close most stores (Wall Street Journal, WSJ Staff) heralds the demise of a famous institution as it has come to an agreement with lenders that will give it time to find a buyer. The luxury retailer currently operates 13 department stores and nine warehouse stores, but most would have to be closed as part of the chapter 11 process. The New York, Boston, San Francisco and Beverly Hills stores along with two Barneys Warehouse outlets will remain open, but all other physical stores will shut down. * SO WHAT? * I know I keep banging on about this, but department stores are just an anachronism IMHO. They can’t compete on price, so they have to offer superior experience – but not everyone can/is willing to shell out more for their merch than they need to. It’s sad, but it’s just another sign of how consumer behaviour is changing.
INDIVIDUAL COMPANY NEWS
Just Eat and Takeaway.com agree merger terms…
Takeaway.com and Just Eat agree food delivery tie-up (Financial Times, Tim Bradshaw and Myles McCormick) highlights a deal whose terms were agreed yesterday after merger talks came to light last week. The combined group will be worth over €10bn and will be the biggest food delivery service outside China – surpassing Uber Eats. This is the latest deal in a fast-consolidating
sector as operators go for scale to improve the economics of their expensive operations. Mind you, Just Eat shareholders await a sweeter deal (The Times, Simon Duke) points out that some shareholders want a better deal as Takeaway’s share price is sliding more than Just Eat’s and they argue that, although it is the smaller partner, it will be providing around two-thirds of the enlarged company’s revenues and therefore Just Eat shareholders should own more of the business. * SO WHAT? * The deal isn’t done and dusted just yet as 75% of Just Eat’s shareholders must approve before it all goes ahead. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens here.
And finally, in other news…
I thought I’d leave you today with something really random in Charge up your phone with the power of a portable cat battery from Japan (SoraNews24, Oona McGee https://tinyurl.com/y3dhsgeu). ?? This is very strange, even by normal Japanese standards 😂
Some of today’s market, commodity & currency moves (as at 0902hrs green is up, red is down). THIS IS INTENDED AS A ROUGH GUIDE ONLY!
|FTSE 100 *
|Dow Jones *
|S&P 500 *
|Oil (WTI) p/b
|Oil (Brent) p/b
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(markets with an * are at yesterday’s close, ** are at today’s close)


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If British fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood had the opportunity to vote in the upcoming U.S. election, neither Clinton nor Trump would be her pick. » Read More
China's first lady Peng Liyuan has landed on the coveted Vanity Fair international best-dressed list ahead of her U.S. counterpart Michelle Obama.
Showcasing the latest in the big business of skimpy, several designers were featured during the second edition of Lingerie Fashion Week.
Haute couture designers are increasingly turning to 3-D printing to bring unconventional, customized designs to the runway.
In America, teenagers think that braces are awkward, dorky and annoying. But in Asia, braces are cool. They're so cool in fact, that teens in Thailand, Indonesia and China are even wearing fake braces to make a fashion statement.
The same executives who hope you add $595 Manolo Blahniks to your holiday shopping list also want a spot in your grocery cart.
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The Hennessey Venom F5 will make its debut at The Quail 2020 in August, the company told Motor Authority late January, with impressive figures that should give Bugatti a run for its money. Now, we’re getting our first look at some of the production-ready pieces, starting with the carbon-fibre tub.
The tub is what everything will be bolted onto. It weighs a scant 190 pounds, contributing greatly to the F5’s power-to-weight ratio.
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The tub can handle 38,353 lb-ft of torque per degree, which will be needed when it’s hooked up to that 6.6-litre twin-turbo V8.
Hennessey’s goal is to get the vehicle to 311 mph (500 km/h) which would eclipse the record set by the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+. According to its engineers, the F5 won’t need all 1,817 horsepower to do it — just 1,520, thanks to a planned drag coefficient of 0.33.
These upgrades mean the original price of US$1.6 million has been raised to US$1.8 million, and Hennessey says the price will likely go up again when the vehicle is revealed.
The production of the vehicle is about six months behind schedule, but hopefully, the company will be able to get the car together in time for the planned debut.
Bugatti Chiron breaks internet, top speed records by nailing 490 km/h
Watch: Hennessey’s Venom F5 motor makes 1,817 hp on the dyno
The first three Venom F5s are currently in production, while the brand plans for the first four vehicles to be delivered in 2020. Eight to ten more will be completed in 2021.
Only 24 Venom F5s will be built in total — 12 for the U.S., and 12 for international customers. Thirteen of them have already been pre-sold, with 11 coming to the U.S. so far.


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JBL is partnering with Roxy, a brand of Quiksilver, to create hip, portable audio products and accessories, starting with co-branded headphones in fashion colors.
JBL, which is expanding its role in portable audio and accessories, said the new headphones will launch during the second quarter of 2009. No details were offered on new JBL/Roxy portable products.
The new alliance leverages Roxy’s expertise in young women’s sports fashion and JBL’s sound technology, said JBL. The product line will be marketed as combining premium sound with high intensity sports action. It will be “designed by women, for women,” said Susan Paley, JBL director of business development.
“With this partnership, JBL is expanding the demographic reach of the brand by delivering superior lifestyle products to a new audience of young women whose lives are a confluence of fashion, music and adventure,” added Paley.


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Google Censors Chrome In Wake Of Backfired Ad Campaign
This brouhaha kicked off when SEO Book found that searching for the phrase "This post is sponsored by Google" returned hundreds of results, all talking up Google Chrome and all pointing at the browser's download page. Worse, many of the posts had little-to-nothing to do with Google Chrome.
This sort of behavior violates Google's own guidelines on content and had some viewers seeing red. Allegations were made that Google was paying small-time bloggers to spam posts about Chrome in order to falsely inflate its ratings and drive additional download traffic. Coming on the heels of news that Chrome's market share continues to increase, it's the sort of thing that gets nerds angry.
The story sounded odd from the beginning, given that Google's entire business revolves around Internet search. If Google wanted to push Chrome at users with underhanded tactics, it probably could've come up with something more effective than an army of second-rate bloggers with dubious writing talents and bad link policies.
Google's response, since corroborated by its ad agency, Essence Digital, is that it never intended to buy blog posts or anything of the sort. In a statement, the company said: "Google never agreed to anything more than online ads. We have consistently avoided paid sponsorships, including paying bloggers to promote our products, because these kind of promotions are not transparent or in the best interests of users. We’re now looking at what changes we need to make to ensure that this never happens again."
Essence Digital has chimed in with: "We want to be perfectly clear here: Google never approved a sponsored-post campaign. They only agreed to buy online video ads. Google have consistently avoided paid postings to promote their products, because in their view these kind of promotions are not transparent or in the best interests of users.
In this case, Google were subjected to this activity through media that encouraged bloggers to create what appeared to be paid posts, were often of poor quality and out of line with Google standards. We apologize to Google who clearly didn’t authorize this."
As penance for its act, Google is "taking manual action to demote www.google.com/chrome and lower the site’s PageRank for a period of at least 60 days. We strive to enforce Google’s webmaster guidelines consistently in order to provide better search results for users."
The current top page of search results for "browser." Searching for "Chrome" still returns Google Chrome as a top result
While it's true that searching for "browser" no longer returns a direct link to Chrome, there's still plenty of first-page links to the company's product. Then again, the company's decision to demote Chrome is entirely voluntary. There's no evidence that Google authorized the creation of terrible blog posts as a means of promoting Chrome--the search giant's prompt response actually leaves it looking rather good.


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- A showcase by emerging designers from Pearl Academy on
- Day 5 of AIFW AW’18
New Delhi, March 08, 2018: Continuing the association with Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), students of the Pearl Academy, on March 18th, will get an opportunity to showcase their talent at the Amazon India Fashion Week in association with Nexa Autumn Winter 2018 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in the capital. Almost 300 graduating students from all campuses of Pearl Academy will be participating in this annual event by the FDCI.
Pearl students are working on myriad concepts drawing inspiration from tribal art, cultural songs of their state and some intriguing aspects of society that gives them a creative impetus. While some of the themes focus on sustainability and environment, others are making use of unconventional materials in designing garments and few others are inspired by Indian craft techniques.
Professor Nandita Abraham, CEO, Pearl Academy said, “Amazon India Fashion Week is the most celebrated fashion event in the country. Students from Pearl get the fabulous opportunity to showcase their talent along with stalwarts of the design space. Our students have been working tirelessly over the last few months to make sure their collections stand out. This is an amazing experience and it boosts their confidence as they prepare to step into the industry.”
President FDCI, Sunil Sethi commented, “Students are the future of tomorrow as they are brimming with a new perspective, which is fresh and not jaded. We at FDCI believe in the power of ideas and that’s what makes a huge difference in the way we will be looking at design in years to come. I wish Pearl students a trajectory that is star spangled with achievements and may this chance, catapult them to fame.”
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AUSTIN – (August 10, 2015) For the week ending August 8th, 2015, Texas auctions quoted feeder cattle prices mostly steady, with instances of sales ranging from $2 lower to $8 higher per hundredweight (cwt). Texas weekly direct feeder cattle sales were $1.00 to $4.00 higher regaining part of what was lost last week. Wholesale beef values were higher, with Choice Grade gaining $3.09 to close at $264.34 per cwt and Select Grade gaining $0.85 to close at $230.14 per cwt. Net export sales totaling 5,900 metric tons (MT) for July 24 – July 30 were down six percent from the previous week. Export shipments of 10,500 MT were down 11 percent from the previous week. Shipments primarily went to Japan, South Korea, and Mexico.
Cotton cash prices were 1.50 cents lower than the previous week and closed at 57.88 cents per pound. October futures prices settled at 62.77 cents per pound, 1.24 cents lower than last week. For the reporting period of July 27 – August 2, the USDA NASS Texas field office indicated that 89 percent of cotton acreage is in the squaring stage, up 10 percentage points from the previous week, but down three percentage points from last year. Net export cotton sales were down noticeably from the previous week’s sales. Shipments were up 11 percent from the previous week and eight percent from the average. The primary destinations were Vietnam, Turkey, and South Korea.
Wheat cash prices lost $0.01 and futures prices gained $0.01 to settle at $4.37 per bushel and $4.93 per bushel, respectively. The USDA NASS Texas field office reported that 100 percent of the Texas wheat crop has been harvested, with 47% of wheat acreage in Good to Excellent condition. Net export sales for wheat were 838,500 MT, with increased purchases reported for the Dominican Republic, Japan, and the Philippines.
Texas corn prices were higher, with cash prices up to $3.99 per bushel and futures prices up to $3.73 per bushel. The USDA NASS Texas field office reported 91 percent of the Texas corn crop is in the silking stage, with 57% of corn acreage in Good to Excellent condition. Corn export sales were down noticeably from the previous week and from the prior four-week average. Export shipments were six percent lower than the previous week and seven percent lower than the average.
This week’s U.S. Drought Monitor for Texas showed a worsening of drought conditions for the state, with 27.67% of Texas still in some stage of drought intensity. Additionally, none of the state remains in extreme or exceptional drought, down 5.48 percentage points from three months ago. On the national level, drought conditions also worsened, with 42.29% of the U.S. experiencing abnormal dryness or some degree of drought, up 3.40 percentage points from last week.
Additional information on agricultural weather, crop progress and agricultural markets can be found on the TDA Market News page.
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All cash prices above are market averages for locations covered by the USDA Market News program and do not reflect any particular sale at any specific location. Feeder cattle prices are for Texas direct sales of 650-850 pound medium and large No.1 steers for current delivery. Futures prices are quoted for the nearest month contract on the last trading day of the week. Timber prices are from the Texas A&M Forest Service, bimonthly “Texas Timber Price Trends.” MBF = thousand board feet. For additional information, contact TDA at (800) 835-5832 or visit our website, www.TexasAgriculture.gov.


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UK: SDDE Smith Group (SDDE) and its portfolio of brands will be headline and partnership sponsors of the Urban Living Festival, 6-7 July 2022, hosted by International Hospitality Media (IHM).
SDDE will raise the profile of three of its customer facing brands at ULF: Host & Stay, Styled Interior Design, and CoStays. The event will bring together an audience of owners, investors and operators that are the driving force behind the convergence of numerous hospitality and real estate asset classes.
The partnership highlights the increasing importance of flexible space and interior design as the sector evolves and the lines between hospitality, living and working space become blurred – a trend that has accelerated since the pandemic.
As part of the collaboration, SDDE and IHM will work together across the latter’s various platforms: Boutique Hotel News, Serviced Apartment News, and Short Term Rentalz. This will include webinar appearances, podcasts, digital adverting and a series of curated thought-leadership Feed Your Mind events throughout the year.
Dale Smith, founder and CEO of The SDDE Smith Group, said: “We’re hugely excited to be working with IHM across a number of our SDDE Smith Group brands this year. Piers and his team are highly regarded within the hospitality and accommodation sectors and I believe our Host & Stay, Styled Interior Design and CoStays businesses will all benefit greatly from this partnership as they look to consolidate their positions in their respective markets.
“Given the breadth of real estate related brands we have within The SDDE Smith Group portfolio, the Urban Living Festival aligns perfectly with our vision of what the future holds for the living and working environments. The blurring of the lines between short lets, residential lets and flexible working is moving at a rapid pace and we feel therein lies a huge opportunity for all stakeholders.”
George Sell, editor-in-chief at IHM, added: “This partnership is a great example of how hospitality and real estate brands are recognising and embracing the convergence of asset classes that we at IHM are so so excited about. We’re delighted to be working with Dale and his team, and look forward to a great year of mutually beneficial activity with them.”


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Market News & Headlines >> Hong Kong Lifts U.S. Beef Restrictions
Hong Kong has agreed to further loosen trade restrictions on U.S. beef imports immediately, a move that should boost shipments to what is already one of the largest export markets for U.S. beef and beef products, USDA said on Tuesday.
"This is great news for American ranchers and beef companies," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "Hong Kong is already the fourth largest market for U.S. beef and beef product exports, with sales there reaching a historic high of $823 million in 2013. We look forward to expanded opportunities there for the U.S. beef industry now that all trade restrictions are lifted," Vilsack said.
The move will return U.S. access to Hong Kong’s beef market to pre-2003 levels, USDA said. Hong Kong banned all U.S. beef in 2003 following the discovery of the first bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)-positive animal in the United States. It previously relaxed parts of the ban in 2005 and in 2013.
Previously, only deboned beef from all cattle and certain bone-in beef from cattle less than 30 months of age could be shipped from the United States to Hong Kong. Earlier this year, Mexico, Uruguay, Ecuador and Sri Lanka also lifted their longstanding restrictions to provide full access for U.S. beef and beef products.
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) granted the U.S. negligible risk status for BSE. There have been only four BSE-positive cattle found in the U.S and there has never been a recorded case of BSE transmission to a human through American beef.
U.S. beef exports to Hong Kong have been rising at a break-neck pace. January-April shipments of U.S. beef/beef variety meats were up 66% from the same period in 2013 as measured by volume and were up 94% in value. This is after shipments doubled in 2013 from 2012 and rose 142% in value.


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Banksy has opened his own high street shop in London - but no one will ever be allowed to go inside.
The shop, called Gross Domestic Product, sells artwork including life vests washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean that were hand-stitched by women in Greek migrant camps.
Banksy says he has been forced to open the shop following a legal dispute with a greeting card company.
Mark Stephens, an arts lawyer and founder of the Design and Artists Copyright Society, described the row as "frankly ludicrous litigation".
It began after a card company tried to sell Banksy merchandise, forcing the mysterious street artist to produce his own in order to avoid someone else claiming the trademark, My London reports.
Although people will be able to visit the store for the next two weeks, its doors will never open and the lights will remain on 24 hours a day.
Mr Stephens said: "Banksy is in a difficult position because he doesn't produce his own range of shoddy merchandise and the law is quite clear: if the trademark holder is not using the mark, then it can be transferred to someone who will."
As a solution to the issue, Mr Stephens proposed that Bansky launch his own range of merchandise and open a shop.
The artist said: "The proceeds from these products will go towards buying a new migrant rescue boat to replace the one confiscated by Italian authorities.
"So you may well be committing a criminal offence by purchasing them.
"Sometimes you go to work and it's hard to know what to paint, but for the past few months I've been making stuff for the sole purpose of fulfilling trademark categories under EU law. It's not a very sexy muse."
Other items for sale include disco balls made from used police riot helmets and a toddler's counting toy where children are encouraged to load wooden migrant figures inside a haulage truck.
Items on display in the shop, which are only available to buy online, range in price from a £10 signed spray paint can to a handbag made from a house brick.


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Recent years have seen the Highland Aldi move up Indianapolis Boulevard to Hammond's Gateway Promenade, Outback Steakhouse move to a newer, larger building on U.S. 30 in Merrillville, and Dick's Sporting Goods rile up some Highland residents by skipping from the Highland Grove shopping center on U.S. 41 to Shops on Main in Schererville.
Commercial real estate observers say it might become more common for stores to hop to nearby shopping centers because of the slew of retail closures in recent years, including huge national chains like Sports Authority and H.H. Gregg. Others, including Macy's and Lowe's, have scaled back and shrunk their footprints. That can give retailers options to move somewhere nearby and get a better deal on rent when their leases expire, and some landlords may try to poach their neighbors' tenants to fill vacant space.
"You're absolutely seeing more poaching nationally," CoStar Group Market Economist Brandon Svec said. "It's really indicative of the hyper-competitive market, especially on the big-box side. There aren't many retailers looking for 25,000 square feet on the market. You have a lot of vacancies left behind by Sears, Kmart, Toys 'R Us and Carson's. Landlords with no other options will look at other centers."
To pry away stores, they might offer lower rents, more money for tenant improvements and other favorable terms. Some may even offer free rent or staggered rent arrangements, said Aaron McDermott, president of Latitude Commercial, a regional commercial real estate firm based in Schererville.
"As long as there is competition and new development there will be poaching," McDermott said. "New development makes the older developments have to rethink their product and upgrade, or face the likelihood someone may come along and offer a better product. Look at what happened at the Ultra Plaza Center. While I think that Ultra leaving had the ultimate effect on the property going to foreclosure, the developer had lost Aldi to the new Hammond project and frankly had done little to nothing to make that center appealing to new tenants."
After waves of brick-and-mortar closings, retailers have been shaking up the way they do business both nationwide and in the Region.
"Most retailers are not being as speculative about their real estate choices," McDermott said. "They are also shrinking their prototypes to smaller footprints. A lot of retailers are also catering towards same-day pick-up or delivery options to capture the online shopper. You are seeing a lot of the retailers essentially using their retail stores as distribution centers to deliver products to customers."
Target, Walmart, Strack and Van Til, Jewel-Osco and many others now deliver their products directly to the homes of online shoppers.
As more shopping migrates online, many retailers like Cabela's have shrunk the size of new stores. Others have looked to fill space with in-store stores, like the Amazon stores and return centers now located in Kohl's department stores.
Evolving business strategies mean retailers might have different needs and space requirements.
Dick's Sporting Goods moved into part of a former Jewel supermarket in Highland Grove in 2008, where it occupied nearly 48,000 square feet for the past decade. It recently moved about a half mile south to a 50,134-square-foot store at 101 U.S. 41 in Schererville, a space the bankrupt Gordman's vacated in the newer Shops of Main shopping center.
"I’m told it’s an expansion into larger space," said David Lasser, president of Commercial In-Sites in Merrillville. "(Retailers) always have, and always will, seek to confirm market availability and market rent, even if just to renew in their existing locations."
The difference is that now there's a glut of empty retail space nationally, especially big box stores that can't always be divided up into smaller spaces, CoStar's Svec said. Commercial property managers have scoured around for potential replacements such as driver's education schools, last-mile distribution centers for online retailers, trampoline parks, bounce houses and even Topgolf indoor golfing and entertainment venues.
"A lot depends on the viability of the retail corridor," Svec said. "Some centers might be afflicted because Toys R Us closed all its stores in bankruptcy. Others might be weakened because of less population density or purchasing power to attract new retailers, who are laser-focused on demographics."
As vacancies mount nationwide, retailers have the leverage in today's commercial marketplace, Svec said.
"Due to the closings, it's a very tenant-friendly environment," he said. "Landlords are looking for any retail tenants to fill that space so in negotiations the power dynamics are that retailers are holding most of the leverage."
There's not as much movement as there otherwise would be because most stores are locked into long-term leases, Svec said. But retailers now will often have more options within the same trade area when the leases are up.
"If they're somewhere that's outdated, they might move into a fresher space," he said. "You'll also see more battles among municipalities for stores since retailers are less likely to open another store in the vicinity and cannibalize off their own business. A lot of retailers have been culling back on total stores and reducing their footprint by closing stores that are performing less well so they're not cannibalizing themselves within the same trade area."
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Technology stocks turned in a day of small gains Tuesday, helping to push the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index to its highest close in 10 months as the market awaited quarterly results from video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc.
climbed 2.7 points to end the day at 2,011, its best close since Oct. 3, 2008. The Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index
Electronic Arts ERTS shares rose 34 cents, or 1.6%, to $21.89 ahead of the company's first-quarter earnings report. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters estimate EA will lose 14 cents a share on almost $724 million in sales for the quarter.
However, those results would be an improvement over the same period a year ago, when EA lost 42 cents a share on revenue of $609 million. EA's results are expected to be helped by strong sales of games associated with Nintendo's Wii video game console.
Semiconductor stocks ended up putting in a mixed performance. Gains came from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.


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Google Adds Data Compression to Chrome Mobile Browser
In its continuing effort to be the best option for web browsing on any device, Google’s Chrome browser has a new feature for the mobile app to help users keep from eating up too much bandwidth. New versions of Chrome for Android and iOS will offer up a “data compression” feature that, according to Google, can “reduce data usage by up to 50% while browing on the web.”
The new feature is being rolled out in an effort to help users keep from hitting data caps. While some smartphone owners pay a premium for unlimited data, many cell phone carriers cap users’ bandwidth, charging more for any overages of that cap. Other carriers will simply throttle a user’s bandwidth once they reach a certain threshold, and either way, it’s a pain. Switching on Chrome’s data compression mode should hopefully keep users from hitting those caps each month.
Switching on data compression mode is really easy, too: in the app’s options menu, select “Settings,” then hit “Bandwidth management.” From there, a user simply needs to switch the option to on, and boom—you’re saving data. Sadly, while my version of Chrome appears to be up to date, I don’t have that option just yet…my only option for bandwidth management seems to be limited to pre-loading websites on Wi-Fi only. I’m hoping that my phone gets the update sooner rather than later.
The new updates for the Chrome App have a couple other interesting features for iOS and Android to boot. iPhone users will soon have access to Google Translate through Chrome, while Android users will be able to create home screen shortcuts to favorite websites. Hopefully that’ll be a bit slicker than the bookmarks widget, which is less than ideal for browsing, I’ve found.
All in all, I’ve also noticed that Chrome has gotten a lot better lately in terms of allowing me to browse pages across multiple devices, with faster syncing overall. Maybe those improvements are in my head and it’s always been good at that, but it’s rare that I’d enjoy using a web browser as much as I do this one.
Now, if only Chrome can offer up some touch optimized zoom-in functionality for my Windows 8 tablet—then I’ll be a really happy camper.


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In January 2021, after the new Honor independence, it launched its first flagship product ship, the Honor V40, which has won unanimous praise from many consumers after opening and after the launch.
According to previous news, after completely separating from Huawei, Honor has completely asked for the launch of a number of products equipped with MediaTek and Qualcomm processors this year, including the top flagship Snapdragon 888.
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Recently, some relevant domestic media reported that according to people familiar with the matter, Honor will release its first high-end flagship product as soon as July. Not surprisingly, this time it will use Qualcomm’s latest flagship chip Snapdragon 888.
At the same time, the personage also said: “The Honor Magic series will not be a product. In the future, the Honor Magic series will focus on different directions.”
At present, the call to reshape the Magic series as a super flagship is relatively high internally.
It is worth mentioning that there have been reports that Honor has registered the “Magic X” trademark before. Informants, the machine is the top flagship of the Honor Magic series to take over the Mate series, and adopts a folding screen design.
In addition to folding screen mobile phones, Zhao Ming, president of Honor, also said during the release of V40 that Honor will make every effort to impact the high-end market, create a top flagship belonging to Honor consumers, and launch its own “Mate and P” series, which is expected to debut in 2021.
However, at present, Honor is still in the stage of complete confidentiality for the new top flagship, and no information about the new aircraft has been exposed.
However, it can be expected that Honor’s new flagship will inevitably be a top flagship with all-round improvement from design to configuration. Honor will rely on this highly competitive product to impact the high-end market and stand firm in the global mobile phone market, which is worth looking forward to.
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Monday September 21,2015 : KOREAN MESSENGING GIANT FLIRTS WITH SOCIAL CASINO GAMING
But spokesmen say this is "only a little bit"like gambling.
South Korea's messenging giant Kakao Talk, which boasts a user base of 140 million smartphone owners and holds an estimated 90 percent of the Korean market, appears to be flirting with social gaming to boost flagging revenues, reports the publication CNet.
The problem is that making money from letting people send texts for free has proved expensive despite advertising opportunities, and the company has been losing net revenues over the past two quarters - 23 percent down in Q1 this year and a further decline of 62 percent to $17.75 million in Q2-2015.
Adding to the company's woes, Juniper Research has forecast that global messenging revenues will decline by $600 million to $112.9 billion over the next four years, driven by competitive activity, despite booming traffic.
To stem the outflow, Kakao has introduced online board games and gambling, CNet reports
Kakao is also mulling the launch of a series of online board games as early as next (October) month, and is looking to partner with local developers to offer head-to-head games like Chess, Baduk, and Go-Stop, a traditional Korean card game.
CNet notes that many of these games will feature elements of online gambling, which has historically been illegal in South Korea. The government recently relaxed regulations, although there are still restrictions, including a 300,000 ($258) won monthly betting limit per person and a 30,000 ($26) won limit per game session.
Kakao is being careful to avoid being perceived as a gambling company, with a spokesman explaining: "Users purchase game money and play each other using that money. It is a little bit like gambling, but there are limitations on how much you can bet on a single game and how much [game money] you can purchase."
Jay Park, a Seoul-based mobile contents analyst, says the next cash cow is mobile games, but the field is more competitive in social networking, and Kakao may be better advised to focus on online-to-offline services - offerings that lend themselves to users spending money offline.
Kakao says it is focusing on moving its business increasingly to mobile channels; mobile-related activity made up 52 percent, or 117.78 billion won of its business in Q2-2015.
"It is still [advertisements] and games that make up 90 percent of our revenues," a spokesman revealed. "Within those two, especially with advertising, we are trying to move our revenue source from PC to mobile." He added that revenues are split 60-30 between advertisements and games with the remainder coming from a variety of other sources.
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