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As one of 28 innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration bases and the 3 leading areas of maker spaces, Jingrong Town takes full advantages of the rich university resources, completed industrial supporting facilities and an ample space for all developments and is committed to the international standard, marketing operation and professional services to keep pace with Optical Valley and Silicon Valley, so as to create a global innovation center. By the traction of policies, the perfect matched facilities, optimized services, platform sharing and the incubation of vertical industrial chains, Jingrong Town is accelerating to gather the innovation and entrepreneurship ecological chains of total factors, such as funds, talents and projects of government, enterprises, education, research institutes, successfully forming a new layout that spare buildings are turned to maker spaces and economy transformation is promoted by innovation and entrepreneurship. Premier Li Keqiang gave a full credit to Jingrong Town during his visit:"Spare living quarters are conjured to maker spaces as if new economy appearing on the market is transformed from the traditional industries."
As of now, 750,000 ㎡ of the maker space has been built in Jingrong Town, aggregating 1,633 emerging industry projects including big data, UAV, advanced materials, biomedical treatment, VR/AR, etc. Moreover, 49 new incubators were introduced including TsuPark Research Institute and Plug&Play, gathering more than 18,600 makers, bringing in 41 high-level talents including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering and experts from the Recruitment Program of Global Experts, and the group of over 100 maker's mentors was also formed. “Chengdu Floater” talent program was also promoted. Now there are 624 departments for makers to live at any moment. The program has cumulatively gathered 42 public technology service platforms, 7 innovation and entrepreneurship service platforms, 22 funds, 1,399 new market subjects and 14 new listed companies with registered capital of RMB 4.112 billion in total. Jingrong Town strives to foster the new energy of economic development with innovation and entrepreneurship and takes the lead to promote comprehensive management reform of intellectual property rights. Electronic information and innovation and entrepreneurship industry have made a huge progress in the development, emerging industries such as big data and UAV with strong momentum for growth, and the traditional superior industries such as food processing featured with potential transformation and upgrading. Jingrong Town has witnessed the multitudinous international competitions such as the Final Competition of 2017 China SWC Startup World Cup and more than 300 conferences, as well as the establishment of the center of Global Innovation Center. It has been granted with the titles of the first innovation and entrepreneurship base for overseas Chinese and the first national entrepreneurship demonstration park for college students, and also included in the first batch of Chinese Characteristic Towns. In December 2016, NDRC made a special press conference to promote the construction experience of the innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration base in Pidu District.


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An Australian company is leading the charge when it comes to helping solve the world’s conventional plastic bag problem, having produced 500 million compostable bags since 2018.
MyEcoBag is a leading producer of compostable packaging and has been supplying compostable bin liners and pet waste bags to Australians for over a decade, through more 2,200 Australian retail stores including Woolworths and Coles.
The 500 million bags could be equated to approximately 3.3 million kilograms of conventional plastic – a green attribute which helped MyEcoBag sales to grow 140 per cent growth in FY23 compared to the previous year.
Pivotal to the company’s growth in Australia has been the Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) programme rollout, according to MyEcoBag manufacturer Secos Group CEO and Executive Director Richard Tegoni.
The adoption of the brand’s products in these programmes has led to an increased revenue of 74 per cent since late 2022.
Tegoni said: “Through the FOGO programme and our relationship with councils, data has shown that when households use compostable bin liners, it increases the separation of food waste by as much as 32 per cent.
“The beauty of compostable bags is they contribute to a circular economy; when properly composted, the result is new, nutrient-rich soil to help grow plants, therefore generating something new.”
Made with GMO-free corn and other compostable materials, MyEcoBag products are fast to compost, taking about 90 days to fully break down when composted, leaving no microplastics or toxic residue.
Looking ahead, a major focus for the brand will be the continuation of product innovation – under development are new materials with faster compost timeframes and higher renewable content, in addition to materials that come from agriculture and food waste materials in production.
Also being explored is a compostable high barrier film which would be a game changer for the food industry due to its use in things like pouches and sachets.
“If we make everything compostable, we will effectively fix the conventional plastic problem.
“The new problem will be making sure we have enough composting capacity to deal with all this compostable plastic, but that is a much easier problem to solve over time than it is to solve the conventional plastic problem, which can never be solved.”
MyEcoBag accounts for 35 per cent of compostable bag sales in Australia, and globally they are available in 20 countries, with the USA the company’s biggest growth market – doubling in size in the last financial

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The 2017 incident occurred shortly after Trump named Rudy cybersecurity advisor.
(On January) , 2017, President-elect Donald Trump named Rudy Giuliani to be his cybersecurity advisor. A month later, on February 7, Giuliani walked into a San Francisco Apple Store with a problem: his iPhone had gotten locked down after 10 unsuccessful passcode attempts,NBC reports.
iPhones are designed to become permanently inaccessible after 10 failed login attempts. Rudy — who is now Trump’s personal lawyer — had little choice but to wipe the phone and start over.
“Proceeded with DFU [device firmware update] restore and will set up the phone again from a current iCloud backup,” an Apple store employee wrote in Apple’s internal database.
Some security experts criticized Giuliani’s decision to seek help at an Apple Store for his problem.
“There’s no way he should be going to a commercial location to ask for that assistance,” former FBI agent E.J. Hilbert told NBC. Hilbert argued there was too much risk that an Apple Store employee would gain access to sensitive information on Giuliani’s phone.
Experts also questioned whether it was wise for someone with Giuliani’s access to Trump to have his data backed up on a commercial platform like iCloud, where it could be taken by hackers or malicious insiders.
Trump may have named Giuliani as a cybersecurity advisor, but evidence of Giuliani’s expertise about the Internet or digital technology is hard to find.
In ahilarious incidentlast year, Giuliani posted a tweet that accidentally included the URL “G – 20. In “due to a missing space at the end of a sentence. A prankster registered this domain and set up a website critical of Donald Trump.
Giuliani, apparently not understanding how domains work, blamed Twitter.
“Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message,” heTweeted. “The same thing-period no space-occurred later and it didn’t happen. Don’t tell me they are not committed cardcarrying anti-Trumpers.”
More recently, NBC reporter Rich Schapiro said that Giuliani hadtwice butt-dialed himand accidentally left the reporter a voicemail message with three minutes of a private conversation about his overseas dealings, which is the subject of intensive scrutiny by congressional Democrats.
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Denys Shortt, founder of Enable’s parent company, DCS Europe plc, has been selected as a Central Region finalist in the 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.
Denys won this award back in 2000 and it was winning that inspired him to expand and start more businesses. Stratford-upon-Avon based DCS Europe has more than doubled in size in the five years since Denys won the award, with sales of 81 million pounds and employs over 100 staff.
In 2000 Denys ventured into a new field—Enable. This company, also based in Stratford-upon-Avon, employs 20 and has sales of over 1 million pounds. Last year Denys started a third company, Enable Infomatrix which employs 5 and with sales of 500,000 pounds.
Denys has a hunger for growth and focuses on providing excellent customer service and building customer loyalty. He believes his drive and determination comes from his younger days in sport when he was an England international hockey player.
Denys will be attending a judges reception on 23rd May 2005 at Castle Ashby, Northamptionshire. The award winners will be announced at the Central Region Awards Banquet and Ceremony on Thursday 30th June 2005 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole.


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It has been more than a year since COVID-19 restrictions were put into place in the U.S., and consumer shopping habits have changed dramatically. In COVID Consumer Journey: Passive to Panic, a new report from Jacksonville, Florida-based Acosta, an integrated sales and marketing provider in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry, breaks down changes in shopping behaviors among four distinct consumer groups that emerged as a result of the pandemic.
The new consumer groups identified by Acosta include: “Staying the Course,” skewing toward younger, employed males; “Social Distancers,” skewing toward employed Millennials and/or Millennials with children; “Hunkering Down,” leaning toward older and retired or unemployed individuals; and “Panic Button,” more likely to be Gen-Xers with children or older individuals with no children.
“While we’ve seen significant growth in the number of consumers stocking up, shopping less and buying more online, our research indicates COVID concern level directly corresponds with changing shopping habits,” said Colin Stewart, EVP of business intelligence at Acosta. “In fact, 94 percent of the individuals in our ‘Panic Button’ segment, which reported the highest COVID concern level of 8.6 out of 10, stocked up on groceries, while only 30 percent in the ‘Hunkering Down’ segment, with a lesser concern level of 7.4, did so. Similarly, 63 percent of the ‘Panic Button’ segment shopped more online during the pandemic, while only 25 percent of the ‘Social Distancers,’ with a concern level of 7.7, changed this behavior.”
COVID Consumer Journey: Passive to Panic provides a comprehensive analysis of the difference in shopping behaviors between the four consumer groups that emerged as a result of the pandemic, including:
Shopping Behavior Changes by Segment
- The “Panic Button” segment, comprising 21 percent of shoppers, has high COVID concern and made significant and swift changes, like stocking up and shopping online;
- The “Hunkering Down” segment, comprising 28 percent of shoppers, made moderate changes, including shopping less and spending less;
- The “Social Distancers” segment, comprising 28 percent of shoppers, made only small changes, like buying more groceries than usual; and
- The “Staying the Course” segment, comprising 23 percent of shoppers, made no real changes to their shopping habits and had less overall COVID concern.
Post-COVID Shopping Habits
- Post-pandemic, many shoppers will continue with the new habits they’ve developed, particularly those who have changed the most.
- Shoppers in the “Panic Button” segment are most likely to stick with their new habits. Eighty-two percent plan to continue with at least some changed habits, and 27 percent plan to stick to all or most of their changed habits; and
- “Social Distancers” are most likely to revert to their pre-pandemic shopping behaviors, with 29 percent planning to do so, compared to 19 percent of “Hunkering Down” shoppers and 17 percent of “Panic Button” shoppers.
Post-COVID Shopping Priorities
Looking at shoppers as a whole, product availability will be the top priority (60 percent), followed by lower prices (52 percent) and customer safety (42 percent). While these remain most important to all shoppers, priorities will vary by the four segments:
- Convenience, lower prices and good customer service will be even more important for “Staying the Course” shoppers;
- Customer safety and fast checkout will be more important to the “Social Distancers” segment;
- Promotions, lower prices and the option for delivery will be higher priorities for “Hunkering Down” shoppers; and
- Product availability, customer safety and options for curbside pickup and delivery will be higher priorities for “Panic Button” shoppers.
Acosta’s COVID Consumer Journey: Passive to Panic report was gathered via online surveys using the company’s proprietary shopper community, conducted between Dec. 30, 2020 and Jan. 4, 2021. To access the full report, visit acosta.com.


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Realme claims that it sold 5.2 million smartphones during the festive season days that ended last month, up over 160 percent compared to last year. Furthermore, the company says that it secured the No.1 smartphone brand spot during the festive season on Flipkart. Deep discounts and deals on the Realme phone portfolio enabled this increase in sales. Citing Counterpoint, the company says that it is now the fourth largest smartphone brand in India in Q3 2019, and took the third spot in September 2019.
The 5.2 million smartphones sales figure was achieved during the time frame of September 30 to October 31. During this one-month time frame, Realme hosted four Realme festive days, and these sales helped in achieving the mega shipments number. Realme also claims to have secured its position as the top four smartphone brand in India, citing Counterpoint - as reported last month by the market research in its Q3 2019 India smartphone shipments report To recall, Counterpoint had found Realme to be the fastest growing smartphone brand globally in Q3 2019.
Globally, Realme has recorded 10 million shipments in Q3 2019, (10.2 million as per Counterpoint), and has secured the seventh spot in the top smartphone list. Counterpoint had at the time noted that Realme was the fastest growing smartphone brand. This is especially noteworthy as the global smartphone market has been in decline for several quarters already. Realme is giving tough competition to Xiaomi, which is now a part of the top five smartphone brands globally in Q3 2019, according to Counterpoint.
Xiaomi managed to sell 31.7 million smartphone units globally in Q3 2019, while Realme managed to ship over 10 million, as mentioned above. Elated by the overwhelming response, Madhav Sheth, CEO, Realme India, said in a statement, “We are delighted to once again emerge as the no. 1 preferred choice on Flipkart during festive days. Our 5.2 million smartphone sales figure is an actual and credible sell-out data which is different from the usual sell-in numbers, which the other brands have been promoting. Realme offers the most blockbuster products which are high on features, style, and performance and is available across price segments.”


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U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc. is establishing a “major” engineering team in China for its Shanghai assembly plant, according to CEO Elon Musk.
The team will focus on developing software for the factory and its products, Musk tweeted last week.
“This includes original engineering of new factory processes and cars,” Musk said of the team in his Sept. 25 tweet. “Great engineers will only join if original engineering is supported, not just job localization.”
Factory construction is complete, equipment installation has begun and production is on track to launch at year end, Ma Chunlei, Shanghai city government’s deputy secretary-general, said in July at a press briefing.
After the plant begins production, its capacity will gradually increase to around 3,000 vehicles a week, Ma said. The first product will be the Model 3 sedan, he said.
In July 2018, the Shanghai government approved Tesla to build a 14 billion yuan ($2 billion) assembly plant in the city’s Pudong New Area.


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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, YORK COUNTY, Pa. -- A major investment in southern York County.
A new multi-million dollar home for Johnson Controls keeps the internationally known business in York County.
Even if you're not familiar with its name, the company's products touch many.
As Johnson Controls moves, its Spring Garden Township facility to Hopewell Township, one thing remains the same; the staff is proud to still be able to call York County home.
Many are celebrating the grand opening of Johnson Controls new 250,000 square-foot research and development center in southern York County.
Johnson Controls vice-president and general manager of global chiller business Laura Wand said "it is one of the largest investments Johnson Controls has ever made. It represents over $150 million of new investment into the community."
State representative Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York) said "it`s a huge deal that we were able to retain 500 jobs in York County, highly skilled, highly technical jobs, with a great salary."
Those highly skilled workers do something that practically everyone can all appreciate in the dog days of summer.
"Test equipment that goes into commercial and industrial space to make air conditioning," Wand said.
Which means York isn't just the home of Johnson Controls, it's also the name of an internationally recognized brand.
"We cool everything from your kid's elementary school, to the toughest, most harsh environments in the world." Wand said.
"Today, the three largest sectors of our economy are agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing. We've never forgotten who we are, or where we've come from. We've stayed true to our manufacturing roots," Phillips-Hill said.
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania put up $20 million dollars to keep the company local.
"It impacts realtors, and home builders, it impacts small business that provide goods and services to the workforce here," Phillips-Hill said.
Johnson Controls global test lab manager Eric Pelky said "York County is a great place to grow at. It`s fantastic that we've been staying here. We have the knowledge base of the people here, and the continued experience that we have in York County
Johnson Controls' York International brand has been a part of York County for more than 100 years, and with it's new facility, it doesn't appear to be going anywhere else anytime soon.


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One Product Manager at OnePlus recently took to Chinese Q&A board Zhihu to address some recent criticism of the OnePlus 5’s design. With the Shenzhen, Guangdong-based original equipment manufacturer (OEM) recently revealing the first official render of its latest Android flagship, some consumers took online to voice their displeasure about its overall look, criticizing the company for making a device that features an unappealing camera bump and is too similar to the Apple iPhone 7 series, among other things. The firm’s employee drew a parallel between those reactions and those that surfaced following the unveiling of the OnePlus 3, stating that they still remember how some consumers were mocking images of the device published by Chinese telecommunications regulator TENAA and saying that the phone was “generic” and “ugly.” Many of those same critics later changed their minds after getting the opportunity to use the OnePlus 3, the company’s Product Manager said, adding how they believe history will repeat itself with the OnePlus 5.
The same source added that “a flat picture” can hardly be completely representative of an actual device, asserting that consumers should give the OnePlus 5 a chance before making any final conclusions on the handset. The Product Manager also specifically referred to the criticism of the camera bump present on the rear panel of the OnePlus 5, stating that smartphone development is an “art” that requires making compromises and currently doesn’t allow for high-end image quality in a completely flat setup. In an effort to significantly improve the photo and video recording capabilities of the OnePlus 5 over those of its predecessor, the Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer had no choice but to design a device whose imaging setup protrudes through its back plate, the company’s employee said.
All of the aforementioned arguments may be substantiated after the OnePlus 5 hits the market later this month, with the handset being scheduled for an official unveiling on June 20. According to earlier reports, the BBK Electronics-owned company is planning to release the OnePlus 5 shortly after announcing it and will be offering it in two variants boasting 6GB of RAM /64GB of flash memory and 8GB RAM / 128GB of storage space, respectively. Both models will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 and offered in a handful of colors, according to previous teasers released by the Chinese OEM.


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Wall Street thinks Apple recently finished an amazing quarter. If the analysts are right, the company will reveal on Wednesday the results of a January-through-March period with significant revenue growth in all its products, both hardware and services.
The analysts show no hint of pessimism about the iPhone-maker. According to Barron’s, “Consensus estimates call for double-digit increases from last year across the board: iPhones sales up 43%, to $41.4 billion; iPad sales up 29%, to $5.6 billion; Mac sales of $6.8 billion, up 27%; wearables sales (mostly Apple Watch and AirPods) of $7.4 billion, up 18%; and a 16% bump in services, to $15.5 billion.”
So much reason for optimism about Apple results
It’s not hard to see why the eyes of Apple investors keep flashing dollar signs. In its October-through-December quarter, the company raked in $111.4 billion in revenue, up 21% over the previous year. That marked the first time the Mac-maker cleared the $100 billion mark. The success was driven by double-digit growth in each of its product categories.
That projected 43% increase in iPhone revenue is based on reports of very strong sales. For example, Wedbush analysts recently predicted Apple will sell between 240 million and 250 million iPhones in 2021, breaking a record that’s stood since 2015. Back then, buyers had been waiting for larger displays. With the current models, people had held off for 5G.
And the pandemic is expected to continue to be the driving force behind sales of Mac and iPad. Revenue from macOS and iPadOS computers grew dramatically during each of the first three quarters that COVID-19 forced the world into working and learning from home.
Much of the excitement is reflected in Apple’s share price. The company is valued at $2.26 trillion. And its value has increased 3.85% since January 1.
The official numbers from CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri are right around the corner. The company’s investor relations page promises, “Apple’s conference call to discuss second fiscal quarter results is scheduled for Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET.”
Just don’t be confused — Apple’s financial quarters aren’t numbered the same as calendar quarters. For Cupertino, the January-through-March period was Q2 2021.
Anyone can listen in on Apple’s earnings call this afternoon. Before it happens, be sure to bone up with Cult of Mac’s new glossary of terms for understanding Apple’s earnings calls.
We first published this story on April 27, 2021.


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Posted February 16, 2018 12:17:54 The hamburger is a favorite of American and global travelers, and a new study shows it’s the most popular food of choice among travelers in the United States.
Researchers from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Society analyzed travel data from data collected by the U.S. Travel Industry Association.
The survey, which included 2,095 Americans and 10,000 foreigners, found that in 2019, more than 4 in 10 travelers had eaten a hamburgers.
The hamburgier’s popularity is likely tied to the popularity of the new McDonald’s restaurants opening up across the country, as well as the popularity among some Americans who have been forced to choose between their jobs and their family.
The burger also has been a hot-button issue in the U: While many travelers believe they are more likely to eat at a McDonald’s than a Burger King, researchers found that nearly a third of respondents who said they regularly eat out at a restaurant said they usually order a hambone.
This means that many Americans have decided to switch to a more local and local-friendly restaurant.
The study also found that the hamburger, while a popular choice for American travelers, is still a bit pricey for those who have to travel more than a few days.
That’s not surprising given that the median price of a hambburger in the US was $2.16 in 2018, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
But the study found that when it comes to Americans who spend a lot of time traveling, the price for a burger is actually pretty much the same as the price of the chicken sandwich, according in the study.
And, according the study, the average cost of a burger in the country was only $1.20, compared to the average price of $1 in the world.
So, how much does the hamburgurger weigh?
The average hamburger weighs about 2.2 ounces, according Food and Food Policy Research Institute’s (FFPRI) 2016 report.
That works out to about 7.5 ounces (about a quarter of a pound).
That’s a pretty big difference from the amount of food Americans eat at home.
But the burger’s popularity has only grown since it was added to McDonald’s menus in late 2019, according a study from the National Association of Chain Restaurants.
The number of burgers sold increased by over 20% between 2019 and 2020, according their study.
According to the study by FFPRI, the number of people ordering a hambreiner at a burger joint in 2019 was about 10,700.
By 2020, it was more than 15,000.
The researchers say that, when you factor in all the other food options, the hambreiners popularity is even more striking.
The median price for burgers in the USA increased by 18% between 2020 and 2020.
That translates to $3.12 for a Big Mac burger.
In the United Kingdom, it increased by almost 15% between 2016 and 2020 as well.
That makes a Big Apple burger $1 more expensive than a McDonalds burger.
According to the report, the median amount of time travelers spend eating at a hambrette was about five hours.
That means, if a person eats for just a few hours per week, it would take them just over a year to eat a burger and an entire week to eat an American meal.
That is a pretty hefty difference.
The most popular hamburger on the menu, of course, is the McBeth, which is made from the ground beef of the ground chuck chuck and beef brisket.
McDonald’s said that its burger had been one of the most-requested burgers on their menu in 2018.
In 2019, it sold almost 16 million burgers.
But why do we love hamburgiers?
It is an American staple, a burger of a time, and it’s often served on a bun.
According a 2015 survey by The Economist, Americans prefer hamburgies made from ground chuck and brisket over hamburghers made from chicken or pork.
McDonalds said that they have “overwhelming support” for their hamburger.
And it is a burger that many in the food industry, like the McDonalds and Burger King chains, have made a huge push to keep on top of.
According the study conducted by FFPMRI, the industry is growing fast.
In 2020, the total number of burger orders exceeded 3 million.
The study found a slight decline in 2019 and a slight increase in 2020.
It also noted that there were 663 new burger restaurants opening in the past year.
So, McDonald’s and Burger Kings are making burgers that will be around for years to come.
And while McDonald’s claims that they are the only burger chain in the universe that serves burgers made from beef, the researchers found this is not true.
They said that there are other burger companies in the fast food world that serve burgers made with pork and ground beef.
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TOKYO - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will source the all-new Diamante sedan exclusively from Australia for the U.S. market when sales begin next year.
Mitsubishi introduced the Diamante successor here last week and revealed the new sourcing strategy, an important step in the company's effort to reduce dependence on exports from Japan.
'This is our new policy - or basic strategy - for coping with the rising yen,' Managing Director Taizo Yokoyama declared.
'We have to plan our production on a global basis. Exporting from Japan has become unfavorable because of the yen.'
Station wagon versions of the current generation Diamante have been exported to the United States from Australia since late 1992. Mitsubishi's Australian plant built 52,000 vehicles last year, including about 3,200 Diamante wagons that were sold in the United States.
Combined Diamante sedan and wagon sales in the United States fell to 18,096 units last year from 52,267 in 1993.
Yokoyama said exports of the revamped Diamante to the United States will begin late this year or in early 1996. Europe also is expected to be supplied from Australia.
Mitsubishi has targeted Diamante sales of 3,100 units a month in Japan, compared with an average of 2,400 during the life of the first-generation model.
WAGON VERSION DELAYED
The new Diamante arrives in Japan four years and eight months after the original series debuted. Yukimichi Kitane, general manager of the product planning department in Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s passenger-car development and engineering office, said a wagon based on the new model is planned 'but will be delayed.'
The new sedan is rounder than much of what has come out of Japan lately, achieving a slippery 0.28 drag co-efficient.
The front-drive Diamante is 188.5 inches long, fractionally longer than the current model, and rides on a 107-inch wheelbase, about the same as the current Diamante.
Thirty-five percent of parts are common, about half carried over from the previous model and half from other Mitsubishi models.
Several new technical features have been incorporated, most notably a world-first 2.5-liter V-6 lean-burn engine. Previously, 1.8-liter engines offered on Mitsubishi's Galant and the Toyota Carina were the largest lean burns available.
Fuel efficiency on the 175-horsepower Mitsubishi lean-burn engine is about 16 percent greater than a conventional 2.5-liter V-6.
But Kitane said there is no plan to offer the lean burn in the United States.
The Diamante also is available with a 270-hp, 3.0-liter MIVEC twin-cam engine, and a 2.5-liter V-6 rated at 230 hp.
The Diamante also features another world first: a five-speed automatic transmission on a front-drive car.
Like the Porsche Tiptronic, the Mitsubishi transmission can be operated either as a five-speed automatic or as a clutchless manual transmission.
The new Diamante is priced in Japan from the equivalent of $22,950 for the 2.5-liter 24-valve model to $44,300 for the 3.0-liter version with Sport Mode transmission. The 2.5-liter lean burn is priced at $28,500.
Other features include an optional Preview Distance Control, an evolution of Mitsubishi's distance warning system that's available on the Japan-market Debonair. The unit uses a laser-radar device to sense the distance of the vehicle ahead and a miniature camera built into the interior mirror.
A tire pressure alarm comes as standard equipment.
A microprocessor that constantly evaluates data from wheel-mounted sensors activates an alarm when changes in tire radius are detected.


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We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
LoveLive, a startup that helps artists and record labels manage their music licenses, has secured a £1.7 million (or about $2.7 million) round of funding, the company announced today.
LoveLive’s purpose is to help music artists make more money, which I think everyone can agree is a wonderful idea. More specifically, LoveLive helps record and distribute live performances from musicians. It also helps copyright holders monetize those performances through paid sponsorships from major brands, charging pay-per-view fees to fans who want to see the live stream, and managing distribution channels like YouTube and Vevo. The startup processes over 400 live performances per year from several well-known artists, such as Madonna, Ellie Goulding, and many others. Some of the brands it has worked with include HP, Ford, and Nike.
“Look, anyone can now take their smartphone camera out and record a live show, but you honestly can’t do much with that. It’s just not that easy,” said LoveLive founder and CEO Richard Cohen in an interview with VentureBeat. He added that to make something valuable enough for big brands to take notice requires not only a professionally shot performance video but also a high degree of managing the licensing to ensure you’re able to monetize something that ordinarily you’d likely never see any money from beyond the opening night.
Cohen said the London-based startup plans to use the additional capital to expand its business globally. Earlier this year, the company acquired media startup and relative competitor Show Cobra to help expand its presence in the U.S. LoveLive also plans to use money from the round to continue developing proprietary software that helps music rights holders manage their licenses easily, as well as provide the kind of flexibility needed to pursue new ways of making money through licensing, pay-per-view sales, sponsorships, and more.
The new round of funding comes from a select crop of notable investors with experience in the digital media industry, including Maker Studios executive chairman Ynon Kreiz, Andurand Capital’s Pierre Andurand, former 888 Holdings CEO Gigi Levy, and Access Industry head of media Jorg Mohaupt — as well as Perform Group execs like joint-CEO Oliver Slipper, CCO John Gleasure, and former COO Andy Measham.
Founded in 2012, LoveLive has 50 employees. Cohen said the latest investment is the first part of a larger $20 million institutional round of funding that the company plans to raise in the future.
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Available exclusively on Zoo York’s Instagram channel and ZooYork.com, the line includes a dad hat and t-shirt inspired by the “Zoo York Mixtape” from 1997, a t-shirt similar to what was worn by the skaters in the film “Kids,” a long-sleeve t-shirt inspired and signed by founder Eli Morgan Gesner.
In addition to creating limited-edition items, Zoo York founders will also provide ongoing design direction to licensees and partners around the world. Original founders Rodney Smith, Gesner and Adam Schatz are starting with a re-branding that will take Zoo York back to its original logo, featuring a font the founders first saw during a meeting in the Empire State Building, a nod to the brand’s New York City roots. The trio will also work with Zoo York on brand storytelling as well as content creation by tapping into their network of collaborators, including skate photographer Giovanni Reda.
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Source: Emirates News Agency
In partnership with Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), the three-week market access accelerator will enable global start-ups to bring cutting-edge FinTech innovation to the UAE.
Accepted start-ups will be sponsored to travel to the UAE and showcase their ventures at GITEX, the region’s largest tech trade show from 10th to 14th October 2022.
The engagement will include training, networking, brand building, and one-on-one meetings with prominent investors, media, and sought-after members of the region’s start-up ecosystem.
In addition, participants will have the opportunity to win the prestigious XRPL grant to work on solutions for the open source, decentralized, and permissionless public blockchain - worth US$25,000, through a fast-tracked application process.
Commenting on the ninth edition of startAD’s CSA, startAD Managing Director, and NYU Abu Dhabi Research Professor of Engineering, Ramesh Jagannathan said, "CSA 9 offers the most cutting-edge fintech start-ups a platform to put their best foot forward in the GCC, by opening doors to business deals and partnerships with leading local corporations, preparing start-ups for the region’s regulatory framework, providing access to investment opportunities, and building their network in the global financial services and start-up ecosystem. Partners such as Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Institute are building a valuable pathway for innovative start-ups to disrupt the global market from Abu Dhabi.
"In partnership with startAD, Ripple is excited to support fintech start-ups leveraging blockchain and crypto to develop new use cases and businesses that solve real-world problems. These technologies will play a pivotal role in the future of finance, and entrepreneurs have a tremendous opportunity to make a global impact by building innovative solutions that will usher in a more inclusive and accessible financial system," Director of University Partnerships at Ripple, Lauren Weymouth, said.
The programme is open to start-ups building solutions or technologies in the fintech space.
Participants will be at the pre-seed or seed rounds of growth, having completed the product development phase with a ready minimum viable product in place. A minimum of two team members is required, giving them the capability to dedicate resources to the programme.
Focus areas for CSA 9 include but are not limited to blockchain-powered applications, P2P lending, insurance, digital distribution platforms for financial products, cryptocurrencies and remittances, identity and authentication, payment gateways, financial education, and financial inclusion. Other programme partners include Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) and VentureSouq. Applications close on 28th August, 2022.
Since its inception, startAD has supported more than 380 start-ups, resulting in 66 pilots. These start-ups have generated $70 million in revenues and have raised $100 million in funding. The 8th edition of startAD’s Corporate Sprint Accelerator has been judged as one of the top 10 fintech accelerators in the region and resulted in five pilots and partnerships announcements and $25,000 awarded in grants.


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UK online retail experienced its worst month of sales growth ever in November, falling by a 19.8% year-on-year, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini Online Retail Index, which tracks the online sales performance of over 200 retailers.
While this does compare to a strong November 2020 (+36.2%), the month-on-month figures for retail were equally negative – showing a rise of 40.4% versus the 50% rise that would typically be expected for the October to November timeframe.
Digging into the results further, there is evidence that consumers are both buying less often and spending less when they do, with the conversion rate down by 20% year-on-year to 3.3% and average basket value (ABV) falling to GBP123 (versus its 2021 peak of GBP149).
With high street sales up, it is perhaps unsurprising that of the retailer types, multichannel brands suffered the most – with their sales plummeting by 23.4% compared to 13.4% for online-only retailers.
Meanwhile, every category bar clothing saw double-digit negative growth. The sector saw online sales edge up 0.4% on last year.
“The drop in online sales this year is not unexpected however the month-on-month figures suggest that spending overall has been even more subdued. Multichannel retailers were hit the hardest, down 23.4%, but online-only retailers also suffered, down 13.4% due to the drop in overall traffic online,” says Lucy Gibbs, managing consultant, retail lead for analytics and AI at Capgemini.
“While a return to in-person shopping has taken a large share of the spend, other factors such as supplier shortages and delivery disruption have also caused retailers to spread and dilute some of the offers, which could be behind the decrease in conversion by 20% across November.”
Andy Mulcahy, strategy and insight director, IMRG adds: “In retail, we are often prone to focusing on the negatives, but there is no escaping that November’s performance was very poor. The most concerning thing is that traffic was the problem, shoppers were just not visiting retailers’ sites in their usual volumes. To an extent, that could be explained by people taking to big high street locations again, but the next few weeks will be very interesting in that respect.
“There does seem to be an attitude of ‘getting it in before we get locked down’ at the moment, but from next week people will not want to go anywhere to avoid having to isolate over Christmas. We will, from a retail perspective, be in a lockdown in all but name which will really skew trading figures.”


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EIGHT STUDIO’s hulking gacha game Grimlight transports players to an anime world inspired by classic fairy tales. Well, for those who can actually play the game, at least. It turns out that the long-awaited launch of the gacha is complicated by Grimlight maintenance, which takes more than a day.
Grimlight maintenance is still ongoing
Grimlight is still stuck in a cycle of downtime a day after its launch on Android and iOS. Since its release, players around the world have been unable to play the fairytale gacha game. Despite multiple updates from the developer, it appears that players still have some time before the game runs smoothly.
In an update from the developers on Discord, EIGHT STUDIO explained that they were overwhelmed by the sheer number of players. Although there were quite a few pre-registrations, the developers did not expect such a large number of players on launch day.
“I want to apologize to everyone for the poor opening launch for Grimlight,” the developers said in a statement. “Due to our apparent lack of preparation and operational capabilities, it had caused significant server issues, leading to frustration and bugs for everyone. There is no excuse for our mistakes and our team is very sorry.”
Grimlight maintenance ended for a spot earlier this morning. In the end, however, maintenance in Asian areas was resumed after just a few hours. Right now, fans are wondering if the game will ever actually be playable.
Furious fans speak out
After more than 24 hours of Grimlight maintenance, fans are outraged. With fans trying to get into the game for a day at a time, many are convinced that the game will never end its downtime. Some even assume that the downtime will continue until the game shuts down.
Despite fighting to get the game started, fans are incredibly disappointed. One fan went so far as to say that Grimlight has “the worst launch in history” due to the game’s overwhelming bugs when you can actually get into it.


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One year ago, Ralph Isenberg opened YaYa, the world’s only Tex Mex frozen yogurt store in the Bishop Arts District.
In recent years, Bishop Arts has gone from a residential neighborhood to shops inside buildings that create a small-town feel. As a longtime member of the community, Ralph Isenberg has watched the community change.
“I was around these parts 30 years ago, where there wasn’t a Bishop Arts District and several of the buildings in the district I actually managed for a bank after they were foreclosed,” he says.
He retired from real estate last year and decided to make frozen yogurt his hobby. He opened YaYa Best Tex Mex Yogurt the day after Thanksgiving in 2018.
“I didn’t go to college, I went straight into the hotel/restaurant business,” Isenberg says. He worked in that field for 15 years before becoming a real estate developer. Now he has returned to the restaurant business by opening the yogurt shop, located in the middle of one of the store lined blocks of the Bishop Arts District.
YaYa serves Tex Mex frozen yogurt, with flavors such as Aztec Coffee Blend and Jalapeno and his shop is the only one in the world that sells this, he says. The store is an open space that highlights the different flavors and spices used in the yogurts. His favorite part of running his shop is the people he encounters each day.
“I found it amazingly simple, that by just serving some good yogurt, being friendly, and having the right environment, you make people happy,” he says.
By Colleen Elliott
Kimberly Dawn has worked in Bishop Arts for eight years and enjoys everything the community has to offer.
On a rainy Tuesday morning, the house that is Emporium Pies in the Bishop Arts District, where Kimberly Dawn works, is unusually empty. The lunch rush hasn’t hit yet, and when it does the line will grow quite quickly.
Eight years ago, Dawn began working at Oddfellows, a traditional American diner in Bishop Arts. It reminded her of California where she lived before moving back to Dallas. “I forced my way into getting a job there just by showing up, every single day, bothering them…I wanted to work there,” she says.
When she left Oddfellows, she helped bring Emporiums Pies to Bishop Arts. One of her favorite parts about working in Bishop Arts is the community aspect to it. “I love how the business owners all really support each other and it’s kinda like a family; bickering back and forth, but also a lot of support,” Dawn says.
As the Thanksgiving holiday nears, the pie baking ramps up. “Thanksgiving is crazy, we are very very organized though,” she says. Each year they bake between 6,000 to 7,000 pies to keep up with demand. She remembers that one year, the store employees used blow-up mattresses and slept on the floor of the store as they needed to bake around the clock to keep up with their orders. Now they have two giant walk-in ovens that “look like spaceships” she says, which make it easier to keep up with demand.
Dawn has been involved with Emporium Pies since she helped to open the Bishop Arts location. “I decided to help my friend here, and did that for a while, then I went back to school for three years, then I came back here after asking for a reference, and they’re like ‘why don’t you just come back and work for us?’” she says and she’s worked there since.
By Colleen Elliott
White candles and soaps line the wooden shelves and the fresh, soapy scent of the products flows through the air. Sunlight flows through the large window in the front of the store, filling it with warmth.
The Bishop Arts location of White Rock Soap Gallery is nestled in the front of a space with three other small shops. The space itself is warm and inviting. As the holidays grow nearer, the store and the surrounding community prepare for the flood of holiday shoppers.
White Rock Soap Gallery was started in 2013 by Keith Bailey and Mark Fuentes. In an interview with VoyageDallas in 2013 Bailey said, “We used the term gallery in our name because we envisioned a place where we could introduce our customers to other local Texas makers in addition to our own products. We currently also sell products from 30 local artisans from cities all over Texas.”
The different communities the stores reside in “inspire unique scents for each store”, White Rock Soap Gallery employee, Jason Martin, says. The stores generally carry the same products, but each store may have unique items tailored to its community. Martin has been working at the store for two years and enjoys the calm environment and loose structure, compared to traditional corporate jobs. The store also fits into the niche market of the Bishop Arts community by selling products that are handmade by local artisans.
The soap gallery fits in well with the surrounding Bishop Arts community. The stores in the community get along well and are often careful not to carry products other stores are carrying to reduce competition between businesses.
By Colleen Elliott
One of the newest faces on the Bishop Arts District scene is Paradiso, a southern European-inspired restaurant opened in late September 2019 by real estate developers Exxir Capital. Gerald Pearson, assistant general manager, explains how it has been settling in to this famously quirky neighborhood.
Before working at Paradiso, Pearson worked at Sachet, a Mediterranean restaurant on Oak Lawn with a similarly Instagram-able feel.
“My roommate works for Exxir Capital, so I just met some really great people while I was looking to grow within my career, and this was opening up,” says Pearson.
The place is undeniably trendy, with a hot pink neon sign bearing the restaurant’s name framing the main entrance. The walls and ceiling are covered in windows, and vibrant green vines hang delicately above visitors’ heads. Cozy furniture in pink velvet and rich brown leather complete the look. The whole place is begging to be posted on your Instagram story.
“It’s the only place in the Bishop Arts District that can hold this amount of people,” says Pearson. “It brings people to Bishop Arts, so I think people have really enjoyed it – they can come here and connect.”
Critics in the neighborhood have argued that Paradiso lacks the authenticity of other nearby businesses. They fear it is just another sign that Bishop Arts District’s reputation as Dallas’ best-kept secret is quickly dissipating. But the reception by neighbors, Pearson says, has been positive.
“Just speaking for Bishop Arts, it’s very community driven, so all the shop owners know each other. We all do things – if we’re planning an event, we get everyone else involved, so I don’t think that anyone feels threatened by any means,” says Pearson.
It’s impossible to deny, however, that changes to the Bishop Arts District are coming.
“Exxir Capital is doing so much within Bishop Arts – right now, they’re breaking ground on new apartment complexes, hotels. So, this is their first venture into restaurant hospitality. There’s a lot more to come,” says Pearson.
By Maggie Kelleher
In an area that is rapidly changing, Ken Valencia merges his high-fashion background with the Bishop Arts District’s local touch to create a trio of businesses that feel right at home.
In 2012, Valencia left his job as merchandise manager for Donna Karan to open Home on Bishop. Located at 502 North Bishop Avenue, the lifestyle boutique offers almost exclusively hand-crafted home décor, clothing, jewelry, furniture, and more at affordable prices.
“The Bishop Arts District was just the only place where I considered having this store,” said Valencia. “It has an authentic, cool vibe that I really liked, and it was an opportunity for me to bring cool, hand-made, hand-crafted, affordably priced merchandise to Dallas.”
In the front window, a collection of eclectic vases in seemingly endless shapes, sizes and patterns are on display. Against a wall, a rack of newly-arrived fur shawls hang neatly, signaling the store’s shift into winter. Holiday-ready miniature bags adorned in jewels sit decoratively around the store.
After the success of Home on Bishop, Valencia purchased Bishop Street Market – a gift boutique originally opened in 1996 – which is located mere steps from his first business in the neighborhood. Then, about a year and a half ago, he opened Ellison | Valencia Gallery, which offers local art at affordable prices.
As a business owner and resident of the neighborhood, Valencia recognizes the changes that the area has undergone.
“The changes have been pretty quick. When we first moved into the store years ago, it was just a small neighborhood, and it started to grow,” said Valencia. “Now I get to employ more locals, and that goes back into the local economy. So, it’s been good not only for me, but good for the local economy, as well.”
As far as shopping goes, Valencia offers one piece of advice: stay off the internet.
“We’re so used to online shopping and Amazon gobbling up the world,” said Valencia. “With brick and mortar, you can actually go into a store, talk to a real person, try on the clothing, understand what’s behind it, how it was made, the process behind it, and having that interaction is so important – not just to me and my neighborhood, but I think globally.”
By Maggie Kelleher
A lot of things can happen in 47 years, including a complete change in a Dallas neighborhood. Caty Selinas has witnessed the change Bishop Arts has gone through throughout the years.
“This area when I first came to Dallas in 1972, was really run down. A lot of graffiti, a lot of crime and destroyed from inside. People used to break in and steal,” she said.
After having seen the neighborhood grow so much in the past years, Selinas has recently started working and moved to the neighborhood. Before, she used to visit the neighborhood and come here for the Hispanic Food.
“I’ve been here for a year and a half and I love it, how this neighborhood is today is the same place I always dreamed of living, ” she said.
“It’s been a great change. Everyone here is always happy and I love seeing tourists from all over. I’ve met people from London, Argentina, Colombia and so many more places.”
Although Selinas is very happy in her new home, the high prices that keep increasing is something she wishes would change. She believes White Rock Gallery, where she works is one of the few stores in the neighborhood that is not incredibly high priced.
“White Rock Gallery opened in March 2018. It was a rocky start in the beginning but the prices here are very reasonably compared to other vendors,” she said.
Selinas hopes that the prices don’t keep increasing as she would ideally like to stay in the neighborhood.
“I love it here and don’t ever want to leave but if these prices keep raising I’m going to have to,” she said.
By Isabella MejíaSeeing Bishop Arts District grow from the outside is one thing, but seeing it grow as you one for one of the biggest neighborhood developers is another thing. Valeria Martinez works as the secretary for Merchants Association and Jim Lake.
“I was looking for a job when I graduated college and my mom knew a friend of his. I started as an intern and I had no idea he owned like 95% of Bishop Arts so then I stated working over here too because he wanted someone to be part of the Bishop Arts Merchant Association,” she said.
“So, basically whatever happens here, if people have concerns or things like that I’m basically the voice of it for him.”
Jim Lake is one of the biggest developers in Bishop Arts. The company owns more than 850,000 square feet of property.
Growing up in Oak Cliff, Martinez is proud of her neighborhood expanding and becoming what it is today.
“I grew up in Oak Cliff, before it was Bishop Arts really. I grew up like a few streets down so mostly like Jefferson I’d go to and stuff and it wasn’t really nice yet like it wasn’t a bad neighborhood but it obviously wasn’t like it is now, “ she said.
Today, as she works for Jim Lake she has learned all about development and how new businesses settle into the neighborhood.
“Jim Lake doesn’t build up he works with what’s already here. So he does a lot of like re-development so these are, like, his building but then the newer ones are other developers,” she said.
“He wants to keep it unique and wants to give back to Dallas so he is very specific about who he puts here,” “Right now it’s going South and it’s growing towards Jefferson because these people keep building to that direction.”
Although Martinez is thrilled her neighborhood is growing, she has seen first-hand how businesses, mostly Hispanic that have been there for more than 20 years, are being “pushed out.”
“My family is being pushed out because rent is going up and stuff like that. Which is true because there used to be an ice cream place right here that got pushed out because their rent went up too high and that was a big thing because everyone loved it,” she said.
Martinez realizes the neighborhood is going through a gentrification process and that there’s always a positive and a negative side.
“There’s a good and a bad to gentrification it’s not always bad. There’s people here that own properties and they get paid a ton of money because they end up selling it but then you’re also being pushed out,” she said.
Martinez wishes for the neighborhood to continue growing and wants to continue to be part of that process as she continues to work for Lake.
“The way I also see it it’s that this has always been my neighborhood and I see us doing so much better so obviously for me I prefer that,” she said.
By Isabella Mejía
When Meri Dahlke and her co-founders opened Ten Bells Tavern in 2012, the surrounding neighborhood was a far cry from what it is today. They’ve rode the wave of change so far, but as of now, there may be an end in sight for this locally-loved bar.
“Everything is changing,” Dahlke said. “It’s definitely a lot more apartment folks. Down here – on our side of Bishop Arts – nobody used to cross that, but now they do because they have developments down the street.”
It didn’t take long for one of these developers to begin encroaching on Ten Bells Tavern’s spot in the neighborhood.
“We are one of the properties that got bought out by a developer,” Dahlke said. “Luckily, they weren’t able to take our property over, so we get to remain there through our lease, but we don’t know about after. So hopefully we can help keep things the same until then.”
In an area that is quickly becoming known for its density of Instagram-able businesses, Ten Bells is dark, small, and unassuming, which may be why locals love it so much.
“It’s one of the last places around that still draws mostly locals – not just tourists,” says Lydia Arnold, a lifelong resident of the area.
Despite the uncertain future on the horizon, Dahlke is optimistic.
“I see a lot more young people, and it’s great – it’s a different dynamic in the neighborhood, and we encourage that,” Dahlke said.
Still, Dahlke maintains that there is a fine line between progress and erasure of the neighborhood’s culture.
“I think the changes have been both positive and negative,” Dahlke said. “It’s very different than from when we first got the place. You have the old school people who are like, ‘We don’t like it, we don’t want that,’ and then you have people like us who want the in-between.”
By Maggie Kelleher
In Wild Detectives bookstore, a child runs around examining the books while her mom orders her a hot chocolate. At the bar, a couple asks for a refill on both their coffees – one latte and one drip coffee. Behind the counter, one of the newer baristas works quickly to fulfill all the incoming orders.
Danielle Sherrill has been working at Wild Detectives for two months. She started working at the combination coffee shop and bookstore after graduating from the University of British Colombia. While Sherrill has lived in Texas her whole life, besides her college years, she sees Bishop Arts as an area with new life and a great culture.
It was actually Wild Detective’s commitment to connecting people offline and providing an “accepting, conversational, social place in the neighbor,” is what drew Sherril to working as a barista for them.
“People will sit at the bar and meet people they’ve never met before. There’s a lot of people that are working on projects or reading and they will start a conversation about their work or the book they’re reading so it’s very lively,” said Sherrill.
For now, Sherrill commutes from Irving where she is living with her mother. Her topic prority now that she has settled into her job is finding her own apartment, but the search is proving a little difficult.
“ I don’t really want to move in with a complete stranger but I have very few connections within Bishop Arts so I might just have to trust a stranger,” Sherrill joked. “But I’m not at that point yet.”
Her hope is to live within the Bishop Arts neighborhood but with the rising rent prices Sherrill also said she was looking into surrounding neighborhoods such as Lower Greenville but for now Sherrill’s enjoying the time she gets to spend with her mom while she stays at home.
By Lauren Lehner
For students, fall is the season of finals and with finals comes the need for lots of preparation. However, trying to find places to study that aren’t overly crowded can be challenging. Two students at the University of Texas at Dallas are currently trying to find the solution to that very problem.
Tommy Ambuul is a senior studying biochemistry and has been coming to Wild Detectives since 2017 and says it’s his favorite place to study.
“I like that it’s all wood and I love the art around the area like the urban feel to it,” said Ambuul. “I keep coming back for the coffee shop.”
Ambuul also brought his friend with him to get her off campus and try Wild Detectives for the first time.
“It’s really quiet in here and a lot of times when you go to coffee shops like it’s not super quiet so it’s harder to get work done but here it’s really easy to stay on task and get your work done,” said Julia Miller, a junior studying theology with an emphasis in education.
Both upperclassmen are actually from the Irving area but find it hard to work on campus and the choice of places to go off campus is limited so they spend more time studying in Dallas.
“I’m pretty sure there are no coffee shops in Irving that I’ve found,” said Ambuul.
“Yeah the closest one is about a 5-minute drive but there is definitely nothing you can walk to,” Miller agreed.
Both students prefer venturing out of their neighborhood to study and get work done. Miller and Ambuul also agreed that they travel to Dallas instead of staying in Irving because the cleanliness of coffee shops in both Bishop Arts and downtown Dallas makes it worth it to drive.
By Lauren Lehner
This article is part of a series in a special project on gentrification in Dallas from an SMU Division of Journalism course titled Advanced News Reporting. The class is taught by Karen Thomas.


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Asia leading way in IoT adoption, says Vodafone research
November 9, 2017
Asia's businesses are leading the world in IoT adoption, with the number of companies embracing connected devices soaring 200% from 2013 to stand at 36% in 2017, according to a report by Vodafone.
The Report – the Vodafone IoT Barometer 2017/18 – is a global survey of business sentiment relating to investment and innovation in the IoT. One of its key findings shows Asia is leading the way in connected device adoption and, more importantly, globally IoT has hit critical mass and is now being deployed at scale.
The report found:
- 77% of Asia's businesses see IoT as mission-critical to their business;
- 88% of Asian respondents have increased the use of IoT in the past 12 months;
- Over half (53%) of Asia's enterprises say IoT has increased their market competitiveness; and
- 42% of Asia businesses have more than 1000 connected devices and 53% are seeing significant returns on investment.
"This is a defining moment for IoT,” said Justin Nelson, Vodafone’s director of IoT for Apac. “Asia's businesses now see IoT as a core component of their current and future business, and their confidence in it delivering a competitive advantage is soaring."
The barometer examined four key factors for modern businesses: state of the market; business benefits; moving forward; and future optimism.
The report noted that on top of the overwhelming adoption numbers, the most significant factor was that IoT was increasingly being deployed at scale, and that increased RoI as a result. The report also cited the widening range of benefits that businesses received – greater business insights, reduced costs and improved employee productivity topping the list.
As far as business benefits go, improved brand differentiation (42%) and improved market competitiveness (53%) rated the primary benefit, compared with 35% in the Americas and 33% in Europe while the ability to monetise IoT remains on average with the rest of the world at 53%,
When asked about the next steps, the surprise finding was the positive framing of IoT security, which rather than being a barrier to IoT deployment, was seen as "giving businesses the confidence to do more". Asia was once again much more positive in this area with 86% of respondents hailing security as an enabler compared with 79% globally, and 83% of businesses stating they have adequate skills to manage IoT security, significantly way ahead of Europe on 70% and the Americas at 65%.
As the scale of IoT projects increases the report also noted a rise in connectivity requirements. Businesses are looking to use a mix of technologies from fixed line to low power wide area networks (LPWAN) depending on the application. Typically, large-scale projects use four different connectivity options, with mobile and wifi the two most popular. There is increasing interest in the newer technologies such as narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), with 28% of all companies now considering it and other LPWAN options for new IoT projects.
The research surveyed 1278 respondents in 13 countries – USA, Brazil, Ireland, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Africa, China, India, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
• Vodafone has entered the IoT consumer market with the launch of V by Vodafone, enabling consumers to connect millions of home and leisure electronics products to the group’s dedicated global IoT network.


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Google’s experimenting wheel has now found another dimension and that is analytics support is available within Google’s webmaster tools. It is not much earlier that Google has launched search query report and has renamed it as Google search analytics. The users who are in a beta testing mode can check the analytics report in place of search queries report in webmaster tools.
Google has called for the webmasters to place their feedback for the new report how much beneficial the up-gradation is. The famous webmaster tool analyst of Google, Zineb Ait Bahaji has announced recently that the process of implementing search analytics report in webmaster tools is in progress.
If you see in the webmaster tools that there is search analytics report in place of search query, Google is requesting to make a test of the process and you are involved in the beta testing. According to Zineb Ait Bahaji, the new feature has been placed in different section for testing. Some of the webmasters can see it in the left navigational menu under search traffic. She has also added, “The new report currently has less than 90 days of data, but it will catch up in the next few days.” For more specific information on this report you may check the following snap.
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Apple to report Q2 2013 earnings on April 23rd
Apple has announced that it will be holding an earnings call to discuss the financial results of its second fiscal quarter of 2013 on Tuesday, the 23rd of April, at 2.00pm Pacific Time (10.00pm here in the UK). As per usual, the company will be providing a live audio stream of the call on its website.
Back in January, Apple reported record Q1 revenue of $54.5 billion and a record net profit of $13.1 billion, or $13.81 per diluted share. The iPhone was the company’s most popular product during the quarter, with a record 47.8 million units sold, while the iPad came in second with 22.9 million units sold.
Compared to the first quarter, which includes holiday sales, Apple’s Q2 figures are expected to be lower. In addition, the company hasn’t released any major products during the quarter.
Apple has previously said that it expects Q2 revenue of between $41 billion and $43 billion, and gross margin between 37.5 and 38.5%.


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Airtel, after revising its prepaid mobile recharge plans in India seems to have silently introduced a new Rs 666 prepaid plan that offers users 1.5GB high-speed data daily and unlimited voice calling benefits. The plan aimed for customers with a budget under Rs 700 has validity of just 77 days, over the current Rs 719 plan (which was earlier available for Rs 598).
The Rs 666 plan offers 100 SMS per day along with high-speed data and unlimited voice calls. After subscribers reach high-speed daily data limit the browsing speed will be capped at 64kbps.
Meanwhile, Airtel’s Rs 598 plan that offered the same benefits with greater validity of 84 days now costs Rs 719. The cheaper Rs 549 plan offers 2GB data per day, 100 SMS a day and validity of 56 days. In addition, there will be a one-month trial to Amazon Prime Video Mobile Edition, Apollo 24/7 Circle for three months, access to Shaw Academy, and cashback on FASTag transactions, along with Wynk Music and free Hello Tunes accessible from the Airtel Thanks App.
Almost the same plan has been launched by competitor Vi as well with the same data benefits, SMS, voice calls for 77 days. Additions offers with Vi are Binge All Night data benefit, Data Delights and Weekend Data Rollover.
Jio too offers a Rs 666 plan for 84 days and benefits like Airtel and Vi Rs 719 plans. Moreover, there is access to JioTV, JioSecurity, JioCloud and JioCinema.


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Senior executives from the worlds’ largest ports will assess the impact of China’s Belt and Road initiative alongside shipowners including COSCO, Maersk and Carnival as well as Chinese and international corporations such as Huawei, Alibaba and Amazon.
Senior executives from the worlds’ largest ports will assess the impact of China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) alongside shipowners including COSCO, Maersk and Carnival as well as Chinese and international corporations such as Huawei, Alibaba and Amazon.
The program being prepared for the IAPH 2019 Guangzhou World Ports Conference in China from 6th to 10th of May will ensure valuable insights for port authorities, port operators and port service providers on the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) as seen from the Chinese perspective.
With BRI originally initiated on a national level by the Chinese government leadership back in 2013, Guangzhou Port Authority has invited senior figures from Beijing and the Guangdong Provence to give delegates a rare glimpse what this has meant for Chinese transportation policy and growth in Chinese ports, as seen in the eyes of its maker.
In a recent visit to China in February, Patrick Verhoeven met with Associate IAPH member China Ports and Harbours Association to discuss closer cooperation as well as the upcoming Conference in Guangzhou.
Gauging Belt & Road – from a Chinese Perspective
He commented: "According to the UNCTAD's 2018 Review of Maritime Transport, Chinese ports – including Guangzhou – occupy seven of the world's top ten container ports in terms of volume. We will not only hear their side of the story, but also from other IAPH member ports who have been recipients of Chinese investment as part of the Belt and Road Initiative and what it has meant for them."
BRI is a development strategy adopted by the Chinese government involving infrastructure development and investments in 152 countries and international organisations in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Africa. By July 2018 this represented major investments in 42 ports in 34 countries.
The most recent visit of President Xi to Italy to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Italian government is a milestone. Italy became the first Group of Seven (G7) nation and the largest EU member to accept BRI funds.
At the summit, Chinese investors signed twenty-nine separate deals amounting to $2.8 billion worth of projects with notable agreements to invest in port infrastructure in Trieste, Genoa, and Palermo.
Another major topic for IAPH Guangzhou 2019 World Ports Conference : presenting a roadmap on integrating UN Sustainable Development Goals into port governance
"With the successful conclusion to the recent workshop involving over thirty ports hosted by UNCTAD last week in Geneva, we will be presenting a path forward for all IAPH member ports to apply the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals in practice as part of their corporate governance" comments IAPH Managing Director, Dr. Patrick Verhoeven.
"At a special plenary session of the IAPH Guangzhou 2019 World Ports Conference our members will communicate the workshop findings, in order to verify that the roadmap we are planning meets our members' expectations" he added.
At the intense session in Geneva, diverse ports of all sizes representing the five continents of the world ranked and prioritised concrete actions that have already been put into practice according to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals as part of the IAPH's World Ports Sustainability Program (WPSP). Dr. Antonis Michail, WPSP's Technical Director explains:
"We first established a baseline of exactly what levels of experience the participants had with applying the 17 UN SDGs in practice. We then also conducted an exercise to establish which concrete actions could realistically be achieved by a majority of ports, depending on size and level of progress on sustainability issues. With that in mind, we then asked the ports to prioritise what relevant activities we had already come across in the last year since we started the Program, highlighting one to the Workgroup that really stood out in terms of impact. We will now create a framework with these outputs at the IAPH 2019 World Ports Guangzhou Conference and propose a roadmap to create a standardised approach towards applying UN SDGs at an industry level."
Other topics under the spotlight will include the challenges of new and disruptive technologies to ports and people; the leading role of the Chinese internet economy in the world; new modes of cross-border trade and legal implications for e-commerce; China and the world's emerging cruise markets; and reducing energy consumption and emissions in ports.


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SurveyOnTablet is proud to have been chosen as the official survey partner of SIHRE 2013, a specialized exhibition for hotel, restaurant, catering and SPA equipment. The event will take place for the thirteenth consecutive year between November 6 – 9, 2013 at the Inter Expo Centre in Sofia. It is organized by Bulgarreklama Agency and the National Association of Hotel, Restaurant, Cafeteria (HORECA).
SIHRE is held alongside five other well-recognized exhibitions: Interfood & Drink, Meatmania, The World of Milk, Bulpek and Salon De Vin. The event has been established in the hospitality industry as an annual platform demonstrating the latest products and trends of the sector, where industry professionals network, exchange ideas and experiences, expand their knowledge on business and improve their professional qualifications.
This year SIHRE expects over 170 exhibitors from 17 countries, such as Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Germany, etc. SurveyOnTablet is on board and will have the pleasure to help SIHRE’s many exhibitors and visitors share their valuable feedback. You can visit SurveyOnTablet during SIHRE on Stand C1, Hall 6 at the International Expo Centre, Sofia.
We applaud SIHRE’s commitment to their customers and look forward to a successful and fruitful event.
The SurveyOnTablet team


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Showing no immediate signs of recovery, the American economy shrank at staggering rate of 6.1 per cent in the first three months of 2009, one of the worst contractions in decades.
Rattled by the global economic turmoil, the economy had clocked a negative growth of 6.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2008.
The advanced estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that the US GDP contracted 6.1 per cent in the first quarter of this year, much higher than expectations.
"Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labour and property located in the United States -- decreased at an annual rate of 6.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2009, (that is, from the fourth quarter to the first quarter)," the BEA said in a statement on Wednesday.
Reportedly, this is for the first time in over 60 years, the US economy has witnessed negative growth of more than 6 per cent for two consecutive quarters.
The BEA noted that the decrease in real GDP in the first quarter was mainly due to negative contributions from exports, private inventory investment, equipment and software and non-residential structures, among others.
However, the same was partly offset by a positive contribution from personal consumption expenditures (PCE).
Meanwhile, the contraction of 6.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2008 was the worst ever in 26 years. In the third quarter of last year, the real GDP fell 0.5 per cent.
The US economy officially entered into recession in December 2007 and the crisis turned severe with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September last year, pushing the Federal government to unveil unprecedented measures.
"The slightly smaller decrease in real GDP in the first quarter than in the fourth reflected an upturn in PCE for durable and nondurable goods and a larger decrease in imports that were mostly offset by larger decreases in private inventory investment and in non-residential structures and a downturn in federal government spending," the statement said.
In May, the American economy would be in recession for 18 straight months, the longest ever since the Great Depression in the 1930s.


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Vivo V20 Pro 5G is now receiving the Android 11 update in India. The company announced the phone in India a few days ago, and soon after has started rolling out the latest software. Out of the box, the Vivo V20 Pro 5G runs on Android 10-based FunTouch OS 11 software. The Vivo V20 Pro 5G integrates specifications like a Snapdragon 765G SoC and a dual selfie camera setup. It packs a triple rear camera setup with a 64-megapixel main sensor and a 4,000mAh battery on board.
Gadgets 360 has received Android 11 update on the Vivo V20 Pro 5G. The build number of the latest update is PD2020F_EX_A_6.70.8 and the update size is at 3.6GB. The changelog claims that the Vivo V20 Pro 5G latest update brings along features like chat bubbles, priority chat function, and notification history. The update also brings along the November 2020 Android security patch update. GSMArena also shared screenshots of receiving the update, so it should be rolling out widely.
The Vivo V20 Pro 5G is priced in India at Rs. 29,990 for the lone 8GB RAM + 128GB storage model. The phone has been made available via varied online and offline stores in Midnight Jazz and Sunset Melody colour options.
Coming to the specifications, the Vivo V20 Pro 5G features a 6.44-inch full-HD+ (1,080x2,400 pixels) AMOLED display with a wide notch and has a dual-SIM slot. As mentioned, it is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G SoC paired with 8GB RAM. Internal storage is listed to be 128GB.
The Vivo V20 Pro has a triple camera setup that houses a 64-megapixel primary Samsung ISOCELL GW1 sensor, along with an 8-megapixel secondary sensor and a 2-megapixel monochrome sensor. The dual selfie camera setup has a 44-megapixel primary sensor and an 8-megapixel secondary sensor. It also has an in-display fingerprint scanner.
Coming to the battery, the Vivo V20 Pro 5G has a 4,000mAh battery that supports 33W FlashCharge fast charging. Connectivity options for the phone include 5G, 4G LTE, Bluetooth v5.1, dual-band Wi-Fi, GPS/ A-GPS/ NavIC, and a USB Type-C port.
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Looking at performance of the stock market over the last 12 months, one might assume that the economy is exploding upward. The rise has been driven mostly by a boost in consumer sentiment, which has taken off since the U.S. elections in November.
In 2017, consumer sentiment hit its highest level in more than 10 years!
Consumers represent 70 percent of the U.S. economy. Their confidence is crucial to future growth. Business spending is much smaller, but it is also much more volatile. So, when businesses are increasing their spending, the economy really has potential to move up. The good news is that optimism is also up for business executives.
Confidence data is nothing more than opinion polls. This is why they are referred to as soft data. Hard data represents real action. Typically, these go hand-in-hand: A change in one leads to a corresponding change in the other.
After inflation, consumer spending is up, but just by 2.8 percent.
The trend in the hard data does not match that of the soft data. The Federal Reserve does not seem concerned.
The Fed raised rates last December and March. Expectations are nearly 100 percent that it will raise them again in June–despite first quarter economic growth of 0.7 percent.
How does one reconcile the gap between opinion polls and actual improvement? What is likely to happen?
The U.S. economy is still improving. Unemployment is down to 4.4 percent. Corporate profits are up. Energy prices are down. Finally, global growth appears to be entering its first synchronized period of growth in two decades. According to BlackRock, European earnings are up nearly 20 percent in the last year.
Add to this good news the potential for positive surprises and it becomes more clear why a glass-is-half-full perspective is better.
- Soft data could finally lift hard data
- Increased global trade will help U.S. companies
- Wages should rise with tight labor market
- Deregulation could create more opportunities
- Corporate tax reform may boost profits
- Infrastructure spending could boost productivity
Any one of these surprises could help convert optimism into action. The timing is the greatest uncertainty, but that is no reason to be overly concerned. With so many positive economic changes occurring in the world right now, we believe there are plenty of opportunities
*Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The S&P 500 index often represents the U.S. stock market. One cannot invest directly in an index. Investing involves risk, including potential loss of principal. The opinions and forecasts expressed are those of the author and may not actually come to pass. This information is subject to change at any time, based on market and other conditions, and should not be construed as a recommendation of any specific security or investment plan. SFS is not affiliated with any companies mentioned in this commentary.


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Downtown Detroit's Giordano's pizzeria appears to have abruptly closed.
The shop at 1224 Randolph St. was locked with newspaper over the window on July 1, the Detroit Free Press
reports, but it's unclear when the Chicago-based chain shut down.
No reason for the closure was provided. Giordano's was one of about a dozen pizzerias to open in and around downtown Detroit in recent years. Among others are Grandma Bob's, Shield's, Brass Rail, La Lanterna, El Club Pizza, PizzaPlex, and Mootz, while Buddy's is preparing to open a new downtown spot.
Giordano's also set up around the corner from Greektown's Pizza Papalis, a longstanding local Chicago-style pizzeria.
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Australian Mangoes is proud to be involved in the ACIAR project, Evaluation of agribusiness research and development opportunities for tropical fruit processing in the Asia-Pacific region which is led by Professor Robin Roberts from the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University.
On December 2nd 2018, the first weekend of summer was celebrated with sticky hands and mango-covered smiles as Australians from across the nation arrived to Bondi beach to celebrate this king of fruit at the annual Mango Mess-tival.
China had more than 700 million Internet users in 2017 and has emerged as the world leader in e-commerce (Marinova 2017). Increasingly, Chinese consumers are shopping online for fresh fruits and vegetables because they don’t have to pay for storage and handling costs associated with traditional retail channels. This trend could point to a potential market for Australian mangoes.
Maintaining an effective cold chain by monitoring temperature is the most important thing you can do to ensure the best quality product when it arrives in market. In the past, temperature loggers had to be retrieved to access the data, but a new generation of loggers can give you real-time information about the temperature and location of your consignment without relying on someone to retrieve the logger and send data to you.
Work on a new pilot project promising to enhance quality monitoring of northern Australian mangoes and reduce food waste kicked off in the Burdekin this month. CRCNA-backed startup, Trust Provenance, implemented the solution at Manbulloo’s Horseshoe Lagoon property, with the trial now monitoring mangoes as they are boxed, stacked in pallets and loaded onto trucks ready to be sent to market.
The Australian Mango Industry will be hosting the 2018 Grower Market Tour in Sydney from November 30th to December 3rd.
Queenslander Rai Bin’s newly planted hybrid mango trees currently represent the largest commercial plantings of three new varieties in Australia – but it’s been a long time coming.
New intensive mango management systems including high-density and trellis designs are currently being trialled by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries in Queensland (DAF) in both the ‘Small Tree High Productivity Initiative’ (STHPI) and the ‘Cyclone Resilience’ projects.
The 2018 pre-season roadshows have begun in earnest. Roadshows have been held in Kununurra, Katherine, Darwin, Bowen, Ayr and Mareeba. Australian Mangoes has been delighted by the turn-out and would like to thank the hundreds of participants who have attended meetings to date.
A new website (apmangonet.org) has been developed to connect researchers engaged in the production and trade of mangoes in the Asia-Pacific region. This new site provides a platform to share research outcomes and allow collaboration between research centres, institutions and supply chain stakeholders.


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Honda is getting into the e-scooter market through a new subsidiary called Striemo. The startup plans to sell an electric three-wheel scooter that’s stable at walking speeds or speeds comparable to that of a bicycle.
Both the company and its first product are called Striemo and the scooter is a little more complex than the two-wheel models it aims to displace, according to Yotari Mori, the CEO of the newly formed company.
“We developed Striemo to see if we could create a means of transportation that allows everyone to move around naturally just like everyone goes out with their shoes on,” said Mori. “It is a new mobility developed by utilizing the know-how of ‘human research’ cultivated through motorcycle development at Honda.”
Read Also: BMW Shows Off Electric Tricycle And FWD Scooter As Urban Transportation Solutions
Weighing in at 44 lbs (20 kg), it can go up to 18.6 miles (30 km) on a charge. Its real party piece, though, is the stabilization technology. Striemo claims that it’s very hard to fall off of the scooter because of its ability to calculate the balance of its center of gravity to within 0.0039-inches (0.1 mm). That allows the three-wheeled micromobility vehicle to be stable under the rider no matter how quickly or slowly they’re moving.
It also makes the turning mechanism easier. To turn, riders are required to lean into the corner, not unlike a skier might do on a hill. That allows it to not only be stable at high speeds but to turn very sharply at low speeds, too.
The Striemo will be offered to customers at 260,000 yen ($1,939 USD at current exchange rates), reports Nikkei Asia, and the company is taking pre-orders for a limited 300-unit run. It plans to put the scooter on sale in Japan this year and to introduce it in Europe in 2023. Honda is just the latest automaker to propose a “micromobillity solution”, joining the ranks of BMW and Polestar.


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China's economic growth is expected to slow further in 2019 but there is no economic collapse and the government will roll out more measures to support the economy if it's faced with more challenges, said Fang Xinghai, vice chairman of the country's securities regulator, at a World Economic Forum panel in Davos, Switzerland.
"China's economic growth will slow down this year due to trade disputes, a slowing real estate market and other factors, but a slowdown doesn't mean there is economic collapse," said Fang.
He expects the GDP to grow by around 6 per cent . . .
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Google's ecosystem of cohesive devices is shaping up quite nicely. With the Pixel Watch and Pixel 7, it might be too tempting to ignore any longer.
Don't like being tied to a phone contract? You might want to try out an MVNO carrier like Metro by T-Mobile, Mint Mobile, or Google Fi.
The ASUS ROG SM8475 Engineering Device gives us a few clues about what to expect from the next generation of gaming phones.
In a move three years in the making, Huawei and ZTE have now been banned in Canada over 5G technologies.
Qualcomm has launched its new flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. The chip features faster CPU speeds and improved efficiency and will launch on phones in Q3 of this year.
Alongside the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 refresh, Qualcomm has also launched the new Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 with enhanced gaming performance, better AI processing, and improved efficiency.
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Angry Crab Shack multi-unit Franchise Owner Lincoln Kennedy knows all about the value of teamwork and corporate office support as a strategy for sustained success. The former NFL offensive tackle, and first-round draft pick, brings the same passion and positive mindset to his franchise game as the hands-on owner of a seafood franchise that has made a splash in the Arizona market even in these uncertain times.
“We aren’t trying to recreate the wheel here. Besides the amazing Asian-Cajun flavors, the one thing that sets us apart is a fun, homey atmosphere that feels like you’re loved,” says Kennedy, who is set to build on the momentum of his Happy Valley, Arizona, location with a second restaurant in Las Vegas.
There’s a lot to love about Angry Crab Shack; just ask any Franchise Owner or customer. The fast-casual Cajun-Asian seafood concept continues to carve out an unbeatable niche that delivers an unmatched franchise opportunity.
Looking back, veteran restaurateur Ron Lou, a first-generation immigrant and the first Asian-American to play in the NFL, was looking to fill an industry void when he launched Angry Crab Shack in Mesa, Arizona, in 2013. The high-quality, affordable seafood restaurant was an instant hit, appealing to Cajun and Asian food lovers alike by specializing in boiled shellfish flavored with signature sauces.
Lincoln jumped at the chance to join the Angry Crab Shack family when his long-time friend decided to expand the presence of the brand through franchising.
“Part of what was so appetizing about the Angry Crab Shack opportunity was how much demand is out there for restaurant concepts like these,” says Lincoln, a current Fox Sports Radio co-host. “There’s always a draw for seafood, and when you have great seafood like we do, it will naturally bring people to the brand.” The Angry Crab Shack franchise family believes in its owners and has tackled COVID-19 challenges head-on by waiving royalties and helping owners apply for critical funds to keep restaurants open, employees paid and communities fed.
Angry Crab Shack is built for franchising with simple kitchen operations and a strategic real estate approach that focuses on second-generation restaurant locations for a low cost of entry.
Multi-unit franchise owner Will Gardner knows that Angry Crab Shack is a smart investment. Gardner, who co-owns the Happy Valley location and learned the ropes of the brand as general manager, has launched plans for two additional locations.
“It’s like being the host of an ongoing party. We are messy, we are loud, we are fun,” says Gardner. “And, anyone who has a good working knowledge of business can be successful in this concept. Corporate support during the pandemic has been fantastic— they are expediting marketing initiatives and providing guidance to accommodate multiple service options, including curbside pickup, delivery and the gradual return to indoor dining.
Angry Crab Shack continues to capitalize on the growing seafood boil trend to bring family and friends together for a hands-on, energized dining experience. The brand is revving up growth outside its home state with signed franchise agreements for restaurants in Laveen, Arizona; Parkland, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Oak Lawn, Illinois; Henderson, Nevada; Arlington, Texas; and Salt Lake City, Utah.
Alongside an expanded nationwide franchise effort, Angry Crab Shack is all about engaging with the community and being part of the local culture. And, to continue to satisfy the seafood crave during COVID-19, the brand offers curbside pickup and delivery from six corporate and five franchise locations. As part of their commitment to communities, they are stepping up donations to area food banks and hospitals.
Angry Crab Shack always has their pulse (or should we say claws) on the latest trends and dining habits of guests. Innovation plan ideas for the coming year include home meal kits, seamless delivery and adding menu options to satisfy guests with dietary restrictions. Their passion for Franchise Owners and employees is as important as their passion for a fun seafood experience.
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