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We’re proud today. We achieved a new milestone – 850,000 registered users to date.
It’s not just the number of users that’s important. We’re very pleased that so many people share our enthusiasm for online collaboration.
This Saturday we saw the proof of Projectplace helping organisations meet deadlines that cannot be missed at any price: the Eurovision song contest. Sweden may not have won but the project was nonetheless a huge success.
We recently launched the world’s first mobile kanban board, a digital to-do board that allows users to organise personal projects with their Facebook friends. Shortly before, Projectplace also launched a unique approach to work planning, which effectively combines high-level Gantt charts and detailed kanban planning.
“Our single-minded focus on making the Projectplace service even more user friendly and intuitive continues to strengthen our position as market leader,” says Johan Zetterström, CEO at Projectplace.
Our goal? To reach one million online collaboration enthusiasts this year.


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The Google My Business tool lets shop and restaurant owners customize listings that appear in Google Maps and Search. Google today announced a slew of new features to make Profiles stand out to customers.
Business owners can now set a preferred profile cover photo in the image carousel. While many might choose to highlight their store logo, Google is separately adding a prominent place for logos at the top-right of profiles right next to the business name.
That logo joins other “core information” like phone number and hours just underneath the top carousel, which can now be reserved to highlight other aspects. Google is also adding another gallery reserved for images uploaded by a business. They will appear instantly and be prominently featured, with captions coming soon.
To get customers to follow a Profile and get updates, businesses can now provide welcome offers. The “Follow” button will feature a tiny badge to note when deals are available, with the offer saved after the subscription is confirmed.
Starting today, businesses can reward customers who follow their business on Google with welcome offers , turning happy first time customers into loyal, repeat ones.
To make Profiles easier to access, business owners can now claim a short name and URL. The latter is ideal for links online and in the real world, while the former can eventually be searched in Maps.
With this URL, businesses can easily refer customers back to their Profile – to catch up on latest updates, to make a booking or to write a review after a visit. In the coming months, people will also be able to search short names in Maps.
The last update to My Business is a website where proprietors can download and order custom assets. This Marketing Kit includes stickers that invite users to follow a profile and write reviews, or images that can be customized and shared on social media.
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Staff at a shop selling luxury products in York, UK. Agence France-Presse
British retail sales jumped back almost to pre-coronavirus lockdown levels in June when non-essential stores in England reopened, giving a boost to beleaguered clothing stores.
British retail sales beat expectations in September to cap a record quarter of growth that took total sales volumes further above their pre-pandemic level, but rising COVID cases risk crimping demand going forward.
British retail sales fell last month on easing lockdown curbs, as people dined at restaurants instead of buying food at supermarkets, data showed on Friday.
Europe emerged from a double-dip recession in the second quarter with stronger-than-expected growth of 2 per cent over the quarter before, according to official figures released Friday,
European regulators have fined Amazon 746 million euros ($886 million) for data protection violations. Amazon said in a regulatory filing on Friday
Daimler will keep a 35% stake in the trucks division it plans to spin off this year, the luxury carmaker said on Friday, giving more details on a landmark corporate split it hopes will boost share values.


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Fitur 2009 had a unique focus on technology and sustainability, which proved positive for us as hotels looked for new markets, new channels and new technology to increase room sales. Hoteliers expressed interest in contracting with more extranets to increase Online Distribution activities and looking at what their competitors are doing across the internet. Many clients are looking for integration to distribute their rates and availability from their CRS to other IDSs
Technology and Sustainability: New technological tools and sustainability was the basis of this 29th edition of Fitur. It was the 1st edition of the conference SMXTravel @ FITUR 2009, showing “all the secrets of the internet” in tourism marketing. It also highlights this year’s edition of Fiturtech 09 that includes, among others, Web 3.0, a 2.0 development environment that integrates a social network with the internal and external customer. Fitur had addressed the demand of the sector regarding online business, and this was extremely positive for RateTiger as we commit to more effectiveness in presentations held with hotels interested in our products.
There is a vast opportunity in the market for Hoteliers to boost incremental revenues. Following in the footsteps of the Low Cost Carriers – hotel companies are adding ancillary products and services to add up to 20% to their bottom line.
However, according to the director of International Tourism Fair in Madrid (FITUR), Ana Larrañaga, there was a 10% fall in visitors on 2008. The snowbound weekend had made it difficult for this event to reach or surpass last year’s 250,000 visitors.
Exhibitors were also at a low – there were 13% less hoteliers and a 9% drop in the number of companies for 2009. Despite the criticism directed at Fitur by some hoteliers on the price per square meter and the challenging organizational structures, the general feeling is that the event was “very positive” and “satisfaction from those who attended it.”
Hoteliers had agreed that “in a difficult economic climate, we can not deny that many companies have been affected by the slowdown and this has had its impact on Fitur”. Despite the situation, they said nothing is more important “when business is especially difficult when we are urged to generate at a meeting point like Fitur where professionals network and it’s valuable generation of new alliances, creativity and ways of doing business to reveal how to boost profits using ancillary strategies”


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RoboticWares Pvt. Ltd, which runs logistics management startup FarEye, is raising $24.5 million (around Rs 185 crore) in its Series D funding round led by Microsoft’s corporate venture fund, M12.
According to filings accessed by VCCircle, M12 alone will put around $10 million by subscribing to 40,866 compulsorily convertible preference shares (CCPS).
Two other new investors Honeywell Venture Capital and Eight Roads Ventures will be pooling in around $5 million each by subscribing to 20,438 CCPS each.
Existing investor SAIF Partners will be bringing around $4.5 million as part of this funding round.
An email query sent to FarEye did not immediately elicit a response.
FarEye had last raised funding of Rs 61.53 crore ($9.56 million) in 2018 from Germany's Deutsche Post DHL Group.
Prior to this round, the startup had raised $3.5 million (around Rs 20 crore) in a Series A round from SAIF Partners in June 2016.
FarEye was established in 2013 by Kushal Nahata, Gautam Kumar and Gaurav Srivastava.
Nahata, who is the CEO at FarEye, holds a B.Tech degree in electronics and telecommunication. He earlier worked at Bhubaneshwar-based Learnics.in. Kumar, who is COO at the firm, is also an electronics engineering graduate and took the entrepreneurial route right after completing studies. Srivastav, who is the CTO at the firm, is a computer science graduate and co-founded FarEye soon after his graduation.
The company’s flagship logistics management software helps the entire supply chain, from first-mile seller pick-ups to last-mile delivery. Apart from this, the company’s tech-based solutions cater to sales force automation and field workforce management.
M12, formerly known as Microsoft Ventures, has invested in over 70 startups in areas ranging from cybersecurity and artificial intelligence to business software-as-a-service and industrial drones.
Last year, the venture fund backed health-tech startup Innovaccer in its first India investment.
It had also said that partner Rashmi Gopinath will lead India investments. However, she left M12 to join B Capital, an investment firm co-founded in 2015 by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and Silicon Valley-based Indian-origin investor Raj Ganguly.
Honeywell Venture Capital is part of Honeywell International Inc. It was launched in 2017 to focus on technology startups.
Eight Roads, which entered India towards the end of 2007, has invested in over 40 companies across healthcare, technology, consumer and financial services.
Eight Roads led a Series C round in customer analytics and cross-channel engagement platform MoEngage Inc earlier in February. Its other investments include BankBazaar, Ashish Life Science, CareStack, Pharmeasy, Cygnus, Whatfix, StashAway and Northern Arc.


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In Capital One’s latest Small Business Growth Index (Fall 2019), 64% of business owners surveyed say that their current business conditions are good or excellent. Additionally, compared to six months ago, small business optimism increased five percentage points, and recession concerns decreased six percentage points.
Feeling slightly less concerned about a recession, however, doesn’t mean business owners exist in a recession-free bubble. If the economy entered a recession in the next six months, 85% of small business owners say it would impact their business. The impact, for 65% of business owners surveyed say they "would be more conservative with inventory and supply management." Regarding cash flow, while 61% say a recession "would negatively impact cash flow," 74% of business owners "feel prepared for a recession from a cash flow perspective."
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It appears that the U.S. Department of Energy has had a change of heart.
Four years ago, then-Energy Secretary Steven Chu was widely known as a skeptic about hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.
Last summer, he appeared to relent--and now the DoE has said it will launch a campaign to promote hydrogen fueled cars, tentatively deemed H2USA.
According to a writeup in trade journal Automotive News, the campaign is as much about symbolism and convincing municipalities and the industry that there is support for further tests of hydrogen cars.
The article notes the campaign won't be lavishly funded, contrasting the modest effort to the expansive funding for hydrogen vehicles a decade ago under President George W. Bush.
One of the initiative's tasks will be to advocate for funding and construction of the hydrogen refueling stations that will be needed if Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai bring hydrogen vehicles to market in 2015 or thereafter, as they have said they will.
Those automakers feel that hydrogen-fueled cars are still important as one way to travel with zero emissions without the range anxiety of most battery-electric vehicles today.
Not every global carmaker agrees; Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn said hydrogen cars are unviable as a future technology just two weeks ago.
Today, there are likely no more than 200 hydrogen-fueled vehicles operating regularly on U.S. roads.
General Motors has about 25 of its "Project Driveway" Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell Vehicles on the road at any given time, according to Shad Balch, GM's Manager, Environment & Energy Policy and Communications.
"These are the same vehicles we used in the Project Driveway program from 2008 through 2011," Balch said.
"We have a dozen in Hawaii and two in California at the Camp Pendleton Marine base, participating in a Department of Defense program. We're also putting miles on six vehicles as part of a data-driven program by the DoE."
Honda has leased roughly 25 of its FCX Clarity fuel-cell cars to California drivers as well; the mid-size sedan was the first dedicated hydrogen vehicle to be offered to the public when it went on sale in 2008.
First Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle delivery, Newport Beach, Dec 2010
Mercedes-Benz has had a fleet of up to 70 B Class F-Cell vehicles operating in northern and southern California since 2011 as well.
While Mercedes-Benz recently partnered with Ford and Nissan on development of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, a two-year delay in its plans to offer a production hydrogen car was buried in the announcement.
By the end of 2015, there will likely be 500,000 of more plug-in electric vehicles on U.S. roads.
While that's short of President Obama's ambitious goal of 1 million such cars in 2015, it will outnumber the hydrogen vehicle population by two to three orders of magnitude.
What do you think? Should the U.S. devote Federal funding to hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle rollout and infrastructure? And what are the right conditions for these cars to succeed in the market?
Leave us your thoughts in the Comments below.
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Posted by Abe Sauer on January 4, 2011 10:00 AM
With every passing day it seems the future envisioned by the 2006 film Idiocracy becomes more possible. In the not-so-distant future of Idiocracy, retail brand Costco has come to service nearly every human need, even law school.
Brit retail giant Tesco, with its plethora of businesses, seems to be vying with Virgin for that one-brand-fits-all title in the UK. With banking, fashion, fuel, filmmaking, insurance, optical, pharmacy, residential communities and a record label under its vast retail umbrella, Tesco's latest move sees it expand into the pawn business.
In partnership with UK pawn brokerage Ramsdens, Tesco will be offering a gold exchange to pay cash for customers' gilded valuables. Could this be a genius brand leveraging move — or a brand embarrassment in the making?Continue reading...


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I get it. Samsung wants to hawk their wares. And obviously they're joking. But when a corporate voice gets all tongue-in-cheek, I can't help but feel like they're that creepy, middle-aged dude offering me candy from a white van. [Twitter]
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V&S said the closure of the plant, which employs 80 people, would save 35 million kronor a year.
“Having a whole plant running at half speed is far too expensive in the long run,” said Rolf Cassergren, President V&S Distillers.
The plant is focused on making Vin & Sprits traditional Swedish spirits, including Skåne Akvavit, Grönstedts Cognac and Explorer.
V&S said sales of these lines, which are focused on the Swedish market, have fallen after restrictions on private alcohol imports from other EU countries were lifted three years ago.
“When Swedes buy alcohol outside the country they mainly choose the low-price alternatives. This does not benefit our Swedish spirits, which are of high quality, but are also more expensive,” said Cassergren.
V&S said it would now negotiate with unions before coming to a final decision.
V&S is best known as the maker of international market-leading Absolut Vodka.


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Britain's biggest supermarket Tesco is to sell its 206 opticians branches to Vision Express under new plans to further "strengthen" the business.
Tesco's boss, Dave Lewis confirmed the sale today, just months after the food firm's £3.7 billion buy out of Booker - the cash and carry firm behind convenience stores Londis and Budgens.
A statement said all 1,500 staff who work within the optician business in the UK and Ireland will be transferred to Vision Express following a consultation process.
Tesco opened its first opticians branch in Peterborough in 1999. Last year it made £90 million in sales, however it now awaits the green light from the UK's competition watchdog before being sold off.
The sale is the latest in a wave of new changes for the supermarket, which has seen it axe opening times in a number of 24-hour Extra stores, scrap its Orchard loyalty scheme and wipe free click and collect.
Tesco has also already disposed of its Giraffe restaurant chain, Harris & Hoole cafes, Dobbies garden centres and Turkish Kipa chain under the turnaround project.
Matt Davies, Tesco's UK & Ireland boss, said the deal "allows us to further simplify and strengthen our UK business and ensures our customers are still able to enjoy high quality eye care services from Vision Express in our larger stores.
“Our priority now is to work with our colleagues and support them through this change."
If the sale is successful, Vision Express, which is owned by global group GrandVision, will own 598 outlets across the UK and Ireland.
Jonathan Lawson, Vision Express chief executive, said: “This is a really exciting time for Vision Express and provides us with the opportunity to invest in the future of the nation’s eye health by extending our reach even further across the UK.
“We extend a very warm welcome to all Tesco Optician colleagues and customers, and together will ensure we continue to provide them with eye health expertise that is second to none.”
TESCO is selling its optician business to Vision Express, as part of the company’s continuing turnaround plan led by boss.


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Seven months after Hurricane Maria, people are still putting pieces of their lives back together. Across the island that takes plenty of different forms. As power, access to clean water and business opportunities slowly come back to Puerto Rico, people have been spending a lot of money, in plenty of different ways. We revisit a dairy farmer, a convenience store owner, a homeowner and a community center to see where things stand with recovery after the hurricane.
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The fair has established its position as a must-attend trade event for the beauty industry in the region, showcasing a wide range of products, services, techniques and information related to cosmetics, aesthetics, nail, hair and beauty equipment for salons. A lot of positive feedback from attendees showed that the fair was an ideal business platform for both exhibitors and visitors seeking opportunities to find new local partners, and to expand their business in Kyushu’s growing beauty market.
The special exhibition area ‘NEXT’, where exhibitors showcased their new products and brands, was very well received by visitors who were looking for the latest developments. Mr Kenta Kuroki, CEO of Tryangle & Co, commented: “We are a regular exhibitor at Beautyworld’s Tokyo and Osaka editions, and we are making our debut at Beautyworld Japan Fukuoka as we are now ready for the Kyushu market. We exhibited our brand new slimming equipment targeting aesthetic salon owners in the region, and we are very happy that so many relevant buyers visited our booth. We had enough time to explain our products to them and many of them concluded contracts on site. We have made a good start in the Kyushu market here. We are very happy and will be back next year.”
“We came back to the fair after a five year interval, and we are pleased with our decision to return,” said Ms Riho Fujimoto, Instructor, McCoy Co Ltd. “We feel that the fair has attracted a lot more visitors compared to the edition five years ago, and many salon owners came to our booth. We believe we can find many good clients from the contacts we made at the fair, following a lot of good conversations. We are looking forward to participating again next year.”
Stages & seminars were well attended by beauty professionals
The popular ‘Stages & seminars’ programme, consisting of 16 seminars for aesthetic salons, hair dressing salons and nail salons, invited industry experts to share their knowledge and skills. All sessions were fully booked and participants were eager to gain practical knowledge and find out more about the latest techniques and innovations. The show also hosted a special seminar by the Japan Esthetic Organisation as well as informative exhibitor presentations and associated seminars.
The eighth edition of Beautyworld Japan Fukuoka will be held from 8 – 9 February 2021 at the Fukuoka Kokusai Centre, and will continue to contribute to the ongoing growth of the beauty and spa industry in the Kyushu region. For details on Beautyworld Japan Fukuoka and its sister fairs, please visit the shows official website: www.beautyworldjapan.com
Other beauty-related shows by Messe Frankfurt include:
Beautyworld Middle East
17 – 19 August 2020, Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, UAE
Beautyworld Saudi Arabia licensed to Al-Harithy Company for Exhibitions Ltd.
29 September – 1 October 2020, Jeddah Center for Forums and Events, Saudi Arabia
Beautyworld Japan West
19 – 21 October 2020, INTEX Osaka, Japan
17 – 19 May 2021, Tokyo Big Sight, Japan
For more details please visit www.beautyworld.messefrankfurt.com
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Background information on Messe Frankfurt
Messe Frankfurt is the world’s largest trade fair, congress and event organiser with its own exhibition grounds. With more than 2,600* employees at 30 locations, the company generates annual sales of around €733* million. We have close ties with our industry sectors and serve our customers’ business interests efficiently within the framework of our Fairs & Events, Locations and Services business fields. One of the Group’s key USPs is its closely knit global sales network, which extends throughout the world. Our comprehensive range of services – both onsite and online – ensures that customers worldwide enjoy consistently high quality and flexibility when planning, organising and running their events. The wide range of services includes renting exhibition grounds, trade fair construction and marketing, personnel and food services. Headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, the company is owned by the City of Frankfurt (60 percent) and the State of Hesse (40 percent). For more information, please visit our website at: www.messefrankfurt.com
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Dogecoin: What's behind the surge?
'Let's be very clear. This is a bubble,' cryptocurrency founder Charles Hoskinson said of the Doge surge
Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that began as a joke in 2013 and is based on a popular meme, has seen a more than 500% price surge over the past week, according to Friday data from CoinMarketCap.com.
The cryptocurrency's market value is currently listed at nearly $50 billion and is now a top-five cryptocurrency, CoinMarketCap data shows. Individual Dogecoins are worth $0.3671 per unit compared to Bitcoin's $61,831.78.
Billy Markus, one of the co-founders of the joke cryptocurrency and who goes by the name "Shibetoshi Nakamoto" on Twitter, said Friday that he was able to "fully pay off" his mother's "home equity loan" and thanked his followers.
"Called mom. Told her I was able to fully pay off her home equity loan. Lots of tears," he tweeted. "That was such a weight, for so long. One step closer to feeling like she can live independently. This is all thanks to you guys. I don’t even know what to say, it’s beyond words. Thank you."
CRYPTO MARKET CAP SURGES TO RECORD $2 TRILLION, BITCOIN AT $1.1 TRILLION
He continued: "The truth sounds bonkers...'I was able to do so from gifts of the internet dogs money I invented, as well as selling related Tweets, drawings and screenshots, with everything coming from unbelievably kind strangers,'" referencing his effort to sell an NTF – a form of digital artwork – of the first version of Dogecoin to ever exist for more than $21,000, according to another tweet.
Dogecoin has made headlines in recent months since several big-name celebrities, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and rapper Snoop Dogg, brought it up on social media.
"Dogecoin will continue to trade up as internet celebrities, such as Elon Musk, tweet about it," Adam Lowe, founder of tech company Arculus, told Fox Business in a statement.
But celeb recognition isn't the only reason the cryptocurrency's value is skyrocketing.
Similar to a trading frenzy that occurred in late January when a group of traders on the speculative investing Reddit forum WallStreetBets banded together to squeeze the Gamestop's short-sellers and cause its share price to soar, users on a Reddit forum called SatoshiStreetBets helped prompt Friday's Dogecoin surge.
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"Doge is about doing good. That resonates with people," one user wrote on the forum. "The memes resonate with people. The easy access resonates with people. The writing is on the wall folks, $.50 is possible if the market DEMANDS it. $1 is possible if the market DEMANDS it."
Reddit moderators removed another post on a Dogecoin-specific forum showing a user's investment balance of more than $1 million. The user claimed he bought "4 million dogecoins at about [$0.04]" in February.
Bitcoin also soared to a new record-high value of $63,200 on Tuesday, leading some investors to voice concerns about a cryptocurrency bubble.
"Most crypto investors are not concerned about a bubble for BTC [Bitcoin], barring major regulatory changes that are not currently anticipated," Lowe said. "Many people, including major investment banks, have significantly higher price targets for BTC than its current trading price."
He added that "like any meme asset, Dogecoin is highly volatile and is most likely in a bubble, although it’s anyone’s guess when it will pop."
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Charles Hoskinson, founder of cryptocurrencies Cardano and Ethereum, said in a video posted to Twitter on Friday that Musk's efforts to bring attention to Dogecoin, as well as "market manipulation by clever whales," has led Dogecoin to "become a haven for new entrance into the cryptocurrency space."
"Let's be very clear. This is a bubble," he said. "The price of Doge is not sustainable. It's going to collapse, and a massive amount of retail money is going to be lost very quickly. My belief is that after that bubble bursts, it will be a catalyst for regulators and lawmakers to get involved in our industry and hurt the industry. Not a good event."


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We are pleased to announce The Software Report recently recognized Proofpoint as one of the Top Software Companies of 2020. It’s truly an honor to be included among the winners as over 50 percent of the Fortune 1000 trust our innovative people-centric security and compliance solutions to protect their employees from the threats that target them, their data, their digital activity, and the digital channels they rely on.
That trust is paramount, especially as organizations continue to grapple with COVID-19 pandemic disruptions and remote working needs. We remain committed to helping security teams worldwide protect their people even if they are no longer operating on corporate networks where they have traditional protections.
We are also extremely proud of our innovation and evolution as detailed by the publication: “The company began as an email spam-detection product and has grown into a comprehensive platform for all aspects of employee information protection. As the threats have grown and evolved, so has Proofpoint’s suite of cybersecurity solutions… With annual revenue approaching $1 billion, Proofpoint proves to be a top dog in digital threat intelligence and protection.”
This recognition is based on nominations from industry professionals as well as company customers. The Software Report evaluated each company across multiple categories including product strength, management team caliber, organizational composition, and company growth.
For more information on Proofpoint’s people-centric security and compliance approach, we encourage our customers to attend our annual Proofpoint Protect virtual event on September 9-10, 2020: https://www.proofpoint.com/us/events/protect.


text: New York City’s entrepreneurial economy depends heavily on immigrants. In particular, immigrant women compose one of the fastest growing groups of business owners across its five boroughs. Entrepreneurs can play a significant role in contributing to local economies such as creating jobs, catalyzing economic vitality, and supporting local communities. However, business creation and development in the competitive world has created various challenges for immigrant women who undertake entrepreneurial activity. These are their stories.


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Study: Incentives are not the way to drive multichannel shopping
A university study found that financial incentives, such as coupons, are not always required to drive customers to try something new, including multichannel shopping. In fact, they can be counterproductive.
The study explored how stores can drive sales through more than one channel, for example, driving online shoppers to brick & mortar and vice versa.
Professors at the Department of Management of the University of Bologna (Italy) and Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College conducted a field experiment with more than 30,000 customers of a major multichannel European book retailer.
The authors randomly assigned the firm’s customers to receive one of four marketing campaigns. Customers received one of two messages: one stated the benefits of multichannel shopping while the other stated the retailer’s value proposition. Each message either included a financial incentive or did not, yielding four campaign variations in all.
When the multichannel message included a financial incentive, the customer received three coupons, one for each channel. When the value proposition message included a financial incentive, the customer received three coupons that had to be used on three separate purchase occasions. Coupons were valid for three months.
Sources: Gap, JCrew, American Girl Dolls
The campaign that proved most effective at inducing customers to use more than just one channel was the campaign that combined the multichannel message with no financial incentive. The campaign generated a return on investment (ROI) of 93 percent, compared to negative ROIs for the other campaigns.
Surveying the respondents, the authors found the multichannel campaign with no incentive communicated the benefits of multichannel shopping without appearing manipulative, or only usable if various restrictions were met.
"The coupon incentives were quite reasonable from the company’s perspective, but were restrictive and manipulative from the consumer’s perspective," said Professor Elisa Montaguti, MBA director at Bologna Business, in a statement. "So the prescription for companies is simple — make clear what you’re encouraging the customer to do, but don’t come across as manipulating them into doing it."
The researchers believe the findings are particularly relevant in today’s shopping environment, where consumers are bombarded with e-mails and website recommendations with purchasing incentives.
"In our case, multichannel shoppers are more profitable than they would be if they were single channel, but you can’t force them into becoming multichannel," said Prof. Montaguti. "You have to convince them in a clear, straightforward manner."
- Companies increase profits with multichannel shoppers: Study in INFORMS’ Marketing Science – INFORMS Society for Marketing Science
- Companies increase profits with multichannel shoppers – Phys.org
Do you agree that incentives encouraging multichannel shopping often come off as manipulative and work counterproductively? What’s the best way for stores to encourage multichannel shopping?


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Businesses should respond to the wireless boom's opportunities by rolling out the low end of Wireless Fidelity hardware now, Gartner's analysts said Thursday at its conference in San Diego. But they should be ready to deploy higher-bandwidth gear to their mobile workers by the end of next year.
The number of wireless LAN users, expected to number 4.2 million this year, will increase to more than 31 million by 2007, Gartner's study says. However, the increase will lag behind the climb in the number of "hot spots"--zones for wireless access to the Internet and E-mail via notebooks, handhelds, and the newest generation of data-ready mobile phones.
"As more and more wireless applications are built requiring broadband connections, the possibility of more than 100,000 'hot spots' within the next five years is an innovation that can't come too soon" for providers, says Ken Dulaney, a VP and research director for Gartner. His findings point to a stall in hot-spot provider profitability until a larger number of users are armed with wireless LAN capabilities.
For the moment, deploying 802.11b-compliant wireless gear is the smart move for businesses, he says. The low end of wireless accessibility, 802.11b delivers a relatively narrow 11-Mbps pipeline to the Internet. "In most cases, businesses will be satisfied with 802.11b performance, and 802.11b will be the technology of choice for hot-spot frequenters," Dulaney says.
Two other standards, 802.11a and 802.11g, offer bigger bandwidth--up to 54 Mbps--and eventually will supplant Wi-Fi, according to Gartner. The former uses a different radio frequency than 802.11b (5 GHz as opposed to 2.4 GHz), but it's the only approved fast-access wireless standard. Although hardware supporting 802.11g, which, like 802.11b, sends its signals at the 2.4-GHz frequency, has appeared, the standard is still in flux and not scheduled to be set until later this year.
In fact, earlier this month, Gartner recommended that large companies steer clear of 802.11g until the standard is certified by the nonprofit Wi-Fi Alliance. Gartner urged companies to wait until the fourth quarter of 2003, when 802.11g-certified products would be available, before investing in this technology.
But businesses should be ready to make the move to the faster 802.11a and 802.11g technologies next year, Dulaney says. "When they mature in 2004, 802.11a wireless LANs will offer significant technological advantages over 802.11b networks," he says. Other than the bigger bandwidth, 802.11a has additional benefits for business, including a lack of interference from Bluetooth and consumer devices operating in the crowded 2.4-GHz band, and the availability of up to 13 channels in North America.
Vertical markets such as warehousing, manufacturing, health care, and education are the best bets for immediate deployment of wireless, Dulaney says. They will account for more than half of all wireless-equipped users, even through the end of 2004. "In warehouses and manufacturing, a wireless LAN decreases the number of inventory specialists required," he says, "making warehousing systems more efficient, less costly, and more accurate, with analysis of real-time inventory levels."


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Lumavate is ushering in a new era of mobile from Indy
It’s time to think differently about mobile. That’s the message Lumavate is sending as the fast-growing Indianapolis-based tech scale-up stakes its claim as the leader in progressive web apps (PWAs), especially those in the consumer space where points of activation are critical.
Having already earned a reputation in the market as a “disruptor” for several global brands, including a Fortune 100 company, Lumavate expects to be the dominant enterprise platform for PWAs as they become the preferred alternative to native apps.
The company’s growth supports its bold vision. Following the launch of its updated mobile platform less than a year ago, Lumavate has more than doubled in size from about 11 employees to nearly 30 today, with plans to hire more people this year. Most of the growth has happened over just the past six months.
So what are progressive web apps exactly?
The simplest explanation may be that they are web experiences that look and act like native mobile apps. Users can add them to their home screens and they are typically cached onto their devices for offline functionality, but users don’t have to go to an app store or wait to download anything. Perhaps most importantly, they support device functionality such as notifications, camera, geolocation and other background functions that make PWAs feel more like native apps.
“When you look at what’s happened over the last 10 years since the App Store came out in 2008, there are two million native mobile apps in Apple’s App Store and 3.8 million in Google Play, but consumer engagement with them has declined substantially,” said Stephanie Cox, vice president of marketing with Lumavate.
Over half of mobile device users don’t download any apps at all, according to the comScore 2017 Mobile App Report. The Wired SEO mobile marketing statistics for 2017 show that five out of 10 apps are only used 10 times and more than 20 percent of the time a downloaded app is used only once.
“So you have companies that are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, supporting native mobile apps that consumers simply don’t engage with,” Stephanie said. “If you think about the time and money spent to develop a native mobile app — designing and building it, getting it approved, marketing and promoting it — just so the end user will download and then likely delete it, that’s a pretty frustrating proposition for a marketer like me.”
Stephanie says there is and will continue to be a place for native mobile apps in the tech landscape, especially for gaming. However, she believes marketers will quickly move to PWAs and Gartner supports this claim, stating that “by 2020, progressive web apps will have replaced 50% of the general-purpose consumer-facing mobile apps.”
It’s been two and a half years since Google started pushing the idea of the PWA, but things have really started to accelerate in just the past year as other major tech platforms have adopted and started supporting PWAs. Microsoft, FireFox and most recently Apple are all on board — even collaborating with each other, which highlights the gravity of the shift in mobile that’s taking place.
Getting started with PWAs
As with any digital project, it’s possible for a PWA to be built by an in-house team, outsourced to a development shop, or a combination of the two. Where Lumavate shines is when an organization wants to transform their mobile strategy to incorporate mobile throughout the entire customer journey.
“I think the power of our platform is that we allow you to build PWAs at scale, and we allow marketers and developers to work together in the same platform like never before. Developers can code functionality-rich widgets, then seamlessly pass them along to marketers who can personalize them and create mobile experiences — without the marketer having to write a single line of code,” Stephanie said. “So with a library of widgets ready to go, a marketer could literally build and publish a mobile experience in as little as 30 minutes, but the real magic comes in next because where most everyone else stops after publishing the app, Lumavate ties everything together with contextual activation.”
Using smart activation methods such as near-field communication (NFC), QR codes, text, or click, users can easily access PWAs published using the Lumavate platform without experiencing the friction of an app store download that exists with native mobile apps today. The platform also enables a brand to combine smart activation methods with user and location-based data to dynamically create highly-personalized mobile experiences that are specific to a user and where that user is in the journey with the brand.
“The tech has finally caught up with the way people shop and interact with their devices, which is yielding much better results than native mobile apps,” said Stephanie. “Lumavate is at the forefront of this shift in thinking about mobile in a completely different way and the brands and partners who come along with us are going to have a great competitive advantage as the market catches on.”


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IN 2010 the WA AIDS Council and STYLEAID Committee proudly welcomes 17 designers to feature at this years event.
As STYLEAID is the number one fashion fundraising event for the WA AIDS Council, the designers who are involved are vital in making it such a success.
Their involvement assists in helping to raise the much-needed funds that allow the council to continue with the education, prevention, care and support of the community here in WA. Without them STYLEAID would not happen.
Established labels hitting the runway in 2010 are; Timothy Godbold, Aurelio Costarella, ae’lkemi, Antipodium, S2, United Constructions, Flannel, Arj Selvam, One Fell Swoop, Of Cabbages and Kings and Kooey.
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Returning after debuting and wining the $5,000 grant from ABSOLUT in 2009, Garth Cook makes the transition from emerging to established designer.
In its tradition of fostering creativity in the fashion industry STYLEAID will also be showcasing five new young designers including the 2010 ABSOLUT Creative Award winner, Daniella Caputi.
In addition to Daniella STYLEAID tribe will also feature; The Butcher and the Crow, Andrea Wolf, Lonely 8-Bit Hero and Pinch and Spoon.
This one of a kind shoot created for STYLEAID 2010: tribe, is an historic shoot, the first time local designers have been captured by the camera represents all those who are integral to the success of STYLEAID.
The WA AIDS Council, together with the STYLEAID committee, is extremely excited to present STYLEAID tribe to the people of Perth on July 30th 2010 at the Burswood Entertainment Complex.
We look forward to your support in helping us raise much needed funds to maintain the vital work undertaken by the WA AIDS Council, which strengthen our community’s health and quality of life.
With tickets on sale in May, the STYLEAID Committee expects another sell out event.


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Brooklyn Beckham's Fiancée Nicola Peltz Shares a Sweet Photo with Her Future Sister-In-Law
Nicola Peltz seems to be working on integrating herself into the Beckham family. This week she shared a cute black-and-white photo of herself with someone who is going to be her in-law in the future.
Brooklyn Beckham, 21, the eldest son of soccer legend, David Beckham, has found the person he wants to call his wife. The model is set to marry actress Nicola Peltz, 25.
This week, the “Transformers: Age of Extinction” actress posted an image on Instagram showing her posing with her future sister-in-law. Peltz and Harper Seven Beckham, 9, were photographed was cozying up together.
Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz at a Saint Laurent show for Paris Fashion Week's Womenswear Fall/Winter 2020/2021 on February 25, 2020, in France | Photo: Dominique Charriau/WireImage/Getty Images
NICOLA’S BOND WITH HARPER
It was quite clear in the selfie that the pair were familiar and comfortable with each other. Showing how close they already were, the actress referred to the little girl with a unique nickname.
Praising Harper’s personality, Peltz wrote: “h7 is the sweetest most loving and beautiful little human i know!” The star and Brooklyn have been preparing for a 2021 wedding.
The model surprised the actress in July 2020, with a proposal. Taking to Instagram, Brooklyn shared a photo of the special moment.
The engagement came after the couple had only been seeing each other for eight months. Peltz and Brooklyn officially came out as a couple on Instagram in January 2020.
WHEN THEY STARTED DATING
They had been linked to each other from October 2019. The model didn’t propose to his fiancée with any ordinary jewelry, opting to go big.
The actress’s engagement ring has been thought to feature a 4.5-5 carat diamond. The ring is said to be an emerald that is set on a thin, diamond-encrusted band and might fetch around a quarter of a million dollars.
NICOLA’S ENGAGEMENT RING
According to “The Mirror” the jewelry is quite similar to Victoria Beckham's own engagement ring. Victoria is Brooklyn’s mother and soon-to-be Peltz’s mother-in-law.
THE WEDDING GOWN
A “Page Six” source said the fashion designer will create the actress’s wedding gown. “Nicola had initially wanted a haute couture gown by Elie Saab, as she has worn before,” the insider claimed.
PELTZ’S RISE TO FAME
Peltz made a breakthrough in Hollywood in 2010 when she starred in “The Last Airbender.” From 2013 until 2015, she appeared on the small screen in the television series “Bates Motel.”


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Tesla issued an apology to Chinese customers on Tuesday following a protest over the automaker at the Shanghai Auto Show, and after the Chinese Communist Party issued stern words over the popular brand. After a protestor made a scene at the show earlier this week, Chinese fans and customers banded together on local social media channels, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, before the Community Party weighed in.
According to the report, the government's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission criticized Tesla for arrogant behavior and accused the company of selling defective cars. The protestor that sparked the backlash said faulty brakes on a Tesla Model 3 caused a crash and left her parents with injuries that required hospitalization. Tesla reportedly countered a month ago when the incident occurred, saying the driver was speeding at the time of the crash, citing a police report. Tesla does not operate a public relations department to field requests for comment.
The Communist Party said on China's WeChat platform that Tesla "has to face up to the torment of its Chinese customers." Tesla posted on the Weibo social media site saying, "We apologize for failing to resolve the problem of the car owner in time," and added it will create a new department focused on customer satisfaction. While it didn't touch on the protestor's specific issue, the automaker said it cooperates with all local investigations and follows all decisions by the government.
Tesla has come under fire in China recently for separate privacy concerns in the country after the state government banned Tesla EVs from various military sites and government buildings. The country remains concerned that the cars' cameras and sensors can track an individual's location to spy on the driver and record where the vehicle goes. CEO Elon Musk assured customers that the cars absolutely do not spy on owners, and the cameras in question are not turned on in China.


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The next generation Hyundai i10, which may well become a new segment player for Hyundai slotting itself between the i10 and i20 has been caught testing yet again in Chennai. While speculations about the new i10 replacing the current gen i10 are rife, it seems unlikely that Hyundai will replace the current gen i10 entirely. The new i10 for the world will most likely sell alongside the current gen i10 in India. The current i10 will undergo a facelift by the end of 2013. The next gen i10 may well be called the Brilliant for the Indian market and i15 for some others.
The big news about the next gen i10, or the Brilliant is arrival of a diesel option. The car will be powered by a 1.1 liter three-cylinder CRDi oil burner unit which produces 75PS of power and about 200Nm of peak torque. The engine isn’t just spunky and fuel efficient but has been lauded for its eco-friendly credentials as well.
Apart from the normal five speed manual shifter, we would love to see an auto-transmission on the car – something which is a crying need in the India metro cities these days, though we know it’s a little too much to ask for. The 1.1 liter engine, available on the i20 in some markets makes the car capable of a 0-100 km/h sprint in 16 secs and a top speed of about 165km/h. Expect some earth shattering figures as regards fuel efficiency as well.
Unlike the cutesy current gen i10, the new i10 will feature the Fluidic Sculpture design philosophy and will turn out sharper. A hint of it can be seen in the exposes headlamps of the test car.
The car is expected to make its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show this year. Expect an India launch early next year.
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8th January 2016
Unsecured household debt has reached a new high, according to research by the TUC.
Excluding mortgages, collective household debt stood at £319 billion in the third quarter of 2015, a record high, and well above the £290 billion peak of 2008, just before the financial crisis.
Unsecured debt as a share of household income is now 26.5% – the highest it has been for five years and the average debt held by a household was £11,800 in Q3 2015, up £600 on the previous year. On this household measure, debt has never been higher.
Bank of England analysis published earlier this week shows household borrowing surged in the run up to Christmas. The monthly cash rise in consumer credit for November 2015 was the highest since February 2008.
The TUC said the problem of household debt was far wider than ‘Christmas on credit’ and its analysis follows a recent forecast by the Office of Budgetary Responsibility that UK spending was set to be £40 billion in deficit for 2015 – another record high.
Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane told a recent Treasury Select Committee that consumer credit is ‘picking up at a rate of knots’.
The TUC said this level of credit should worry the government as a signal that fundamental problems with the economy have not been fixed.
TUC general secretary France O’Grady said: ‘Rising household debt signals that too many people are still struggling to make ends meet. With pay growth slowing, and households facing a lost decade on wages, it’s no surprise that more families are relying on borrowing to meet the costs of day-to-day essentials.
‘Although employment has risen, wages are still worth less today than eight years ago. This has left families struggling to meet the rising cost of living. We need a recovery where families can afford to pay their bills and raise their children without relying on credit cards and payday loans.
‘The government must do more to increase job security, with the hours and pay that people need to get by. Otherwise we’ll be heading back to the same problems that led to the last financial crash. Ministers should lead by example and bring an end to years of real-terms public sector pay cuts.’


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An anticipated deal for processor maker Broadcom to buy security firm Symantec has fallen through due to the insistence of the latter on a price of US$28 per share, which was not acceptable to the former.
The Federal Government's draft encryption bill could seriously damage Australia’s — and international — cyber security and, would act contrary to its stated aim of increasing security for Australians, a submission jointly made by the telco industry body Communications Alliance, the Australian Information Industry Association and the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association claims.
AIOps. It's not the latest buzzword, but the use of "advanced algorithms and AI techniques for analysing big data from various IT and business operations tools, to speed service delivery, increase IT efficiency and deliver a superior user experience".
Thanks Sam for debunking these alternative facts
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Bloomsbury Dubai to Launch the World’s Most Expensive Edible Cupcake
We're never short of fancy cupcakes here in Dubai. The latest news from this sweet world? Bloomsbury Boutique Café, set to open at The Dubai Mall, will be unveiling the world’s most expensive edible cupcake at its launch event on Thursday 28 June.
Edible, you ask? While cupcake brands over the world have introduced pricy cupcakes galore, those are usually gold-plated or diamond-encrusted – hardly fit for consumption. This cupcake, however, promises to be infused with the world’s finest chocolates, among other ingredients, perhaps even gold and certain other gems – but all edible.
“We decided that we would take the realistic approach and present the most expensive ‘edible’ cupcake in the world using the real meaning of the words – Let them eat cake,’” said Vinay Lall from Tablez Food Company, who announced the opening of Bloomsbury at The Dubai Mall.
Bloomsbury, which was conceived by Shaffeena Yousuf Ali on a trip to the UK, has already brought the taste of luxurious English boutique dining to the UAE with the Abu Dhabi branch that was launched last year and since then has sold a record number of cupcakes. “Our aim is to redefine the cupcakes in the Gulf, why can’t a cupcake taste as good as it looks and look as good as it tastes,” said Shaffeena. So be prepared for a true delight for the eyes as well as the taste buds once their priciest cupcake is available!
The cupcake will be launched during the opening of the café and will be available on their menu on a 40-hour order basis.


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Ferrucio Lamborghini began his business by manufacturing tractors from scrap materials after World War 2. The business was a success and eventually he could realise his dream of owning a Ferrari – or so he thought. Enzo Ferrari was less than impressed with this upstart tractor-builder and turned-down Signor Lamborghini’s request for a car to be built.
That was like a red rag to a bull – Lamborghini’s insignia depicts a raging bull – and Ferrucio resolved to build a better sports car than Enzo. The rest is history, as they say, as Lamborghini went on to build some very fine cars, the name coming to the fore with the glorious Miura in the 1960’s. After various trials and tribulations the company came to be owned by Audi, manufacturing know-how and economies of scale meaning that the cars are now being built in much greater numbers – not necessarily a good thing, but that’s another story.
Now, it is fair to say that Lamborghini supercars outnumber the humble tractors that launched the legend so it should be no surprise that they too have become collectable. Indeed, one example has just passed through Bonham’s auction this week at The Grand Palais in Paris during the course of Retromobile, one of the most prestigious classic car shows. In the end, the DLA 35 model dating from 1957 and believed to be one of only 117 built, making it a rare model even in Lamborghini terms, was knocked down for just 14,950 euros, including buyers’ premium. Admittedly that was rather less than the guide price of £22,000 but will make an unusual addition to any collection.
Full details: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24103/lot/305/


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By MJ Brickey
The Stuart Area Firefighters Auxiliary will host the Staurt Alumni Day in downtown Stuart, on May 11, and they are making a call for vendors and those interested in booth space.
Booth space is $10, said Jeanette Tweedel of the Stuart Area Firefighters Auxiliary.
Tweedel said organizers are working on events such as a bake-off with awards, horse shoe tournament and she said the auxiliary will also have a bake sale in an effort to raise money for a new bunker for the fire department.
She said gaming booths are welcome too. The auxiliary will be cooking hot dogs, hamburgers and there will be inflatables, she said.
Tweedel said the auxiliary is also trying to organize a pet parade and to award best looking pet, ugliest pet and best pet costume.
Tweedel said the auxiliary is trying to organize events that will benefit everyone in the community, bring life to Staurt’s downtown and develop events to look forward to yearly.
For more information, contact Tweedel by calling 918-318-0121.
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As the preferred in-house AV supplier at the Colorado Convention Center, Image Audiovisuals is proud to announce the launch of a web-based and mobile-ready event app, customizable for large conventions, trade shows, and meetings.
“We are very excited to welcome the app to the convention center,” says Dave Mueller, President of Image Audiovisuals. “We think it is a perfect complement to our diverse list of services and offers clients new opportunities to provide extra benefits for attendees.”
Features of the app include event schedules, list of attendees, maps of the venue and a link to Yelp™ for those looking to explore downtown Denver. Additionally, the app allows for custom links to social media and the ability to house digital webcasts of all sessions, available during the event and subsequently, on any mobile device, laptop or PC.
“The fact that our app lives on past the conclusion of any event is a huge benefit to our customers and unlike any of the traditional mobile apps on the market,” said Scott Cornelius, Director of Sales at the Colorado Convention Center. “When you factor in the longevity of the app and the ability to directly sell content to those who attend and those who do not, it opens a new door for sponsors to gain more reach overall and for associations to generate revenue from the event.”
The app also offers the Greenroom,™ a virtual extension of event sessions which allows attendees to interact directly with each other and speakers throughout the event, furthering conference networking opportunities.
The affordable, easy to use web-based App can be viewed at http://e-attend.com/ccc13. To access this demo, enter your email address and create a password.


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TORONTO, Oct. 2, 2014 /CNW/ - Canada Goose, a leading manufacturer of outdoor luxury apparel, today applauds the passage of the Combating Counterfeit Products Act in Canada's House of Commons.
"Today, MPs in the House of Commons stood firmly against counterfeit goods and we wholeheartedly applaud their important decision," said Kevin Spreekmeester, CMO, Canada Goose. "They voted to support new measures that will help stem the tide of illicit goods entering Canada, and Canadians will soon see meaningful benefits. These new anti-counterfeit measures are a vital first step in protecting not only Canadian businesses and potential jobs, but Canadian consumers, from the dangers of counterfeit products."
Counterfeits worldwide are now an estimated $650 billion a year problem and counterfeits in Canada have been a growing health and safety problem. Year over year the RCMP has reported a steady increase in the importation and availability of counterfeit goods which has impacted almost every industry from pharmaceuticals to technology. From alcohol, contact lenses and cosmetics, to computers, medicine, toys and batteries, counterfeit products are readily accessible and putting Canadians in harm's way.
About Canada Goose Inc.
For over 55 years, Canada Goose has been committed to producing outdoor luxury outerwear designed for the most extreme weather in the world; proudly made in Canada. From the South Pole research facilities and the Canadian High Arctic, to the streets of New York City, Stockholm, Paris, Milan, Toronto and Tokyo, people wear Canada Goose products because of its reputation for authenticity, quality, functionality, and iconic style. Canada Goose supports Polar Bears International as well as a number of charitable organizations and outdoor ventures that provide commitment to Arctic stewardship and the environment. Visit www.canadagoose.com for more information.
SOURCE: Canada Goose
For further information: Ashley Tilley, Communications Coordinator, Canada Goose, [email protected], O: 416-780-9850 ext. 2252


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A review of Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas.
Richard has cruise news on:
- Carnival Cruise Line skipping some Western Caribbean ports of call
- Royal Caribbean’s CEO declaring coronavirus sucks
- A cruise line’s data being hacked
- Daily gratuities being raised on a cruise line yet again
- Virgin Voyages canceling their New York City stop
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Just when I was beginning to resign myself to the fact that the auto industry would eventually get its bailout and its current failing business model would continue as usual, I am met with some great news. Thank goodness there’s a Republican with a backbone. Senator Richard Shelby is threatening to filibuster any auto bailout bill.
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), a staunch ally of the U.S. carmakers, and Shelby, who has emerged as the leading opponent of any aid package for the Big Three, sparred over the whether the American government should rescue U.S. automakers during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”
Levin said he was “confident” that Congress would consider a bailout bill for the auto industry, but stopped short of predicting whether it would pass. Democratic leaders in the House and Senate are considering a $15 billion “bridge loan” to help out the automakers.
“I think they’re very close to a deal, I think there will be a deal and that will happen in 24 hours,” Levin told host Chris Wallace. “Obviously, that’s a much more complicated question of whether the votes are there. What I’m confident of is that a bill will be introduced.”
But Shelby, who also voted against the $700 bailout bill for the financial industry, called it a “bridge loan to nowhere,” and said General Motors, Ford and Chrysler have to undergo a fundamental restructuring of their operations rather than look for federal help.
He also predicted auto industry executives would soon come back to Washington looking for more money, beyond any assistance they are given now.
“This is a down payment on many billions to come,” Shelby warned. “This is not something that happened overnight. This is 30 years in the making. These companies basically have failed or are failing. They probably need, according to some people, about 60 percent of the management to go, and about 40 percent downsize of the workers.”
Shelby also threatened a filibuster of any auto aid agreement, but was unsure whether he had the votes to sustain it.
He may not have enough votes to sustain a filibuster right now, but that could easily change with the vast majority of Americans opposing any auto industry bailout. People don’t want good money being thrown after bad, and the contracts that the US auto companies are strapped with right now are killing them. No amount of money from the US government can save them. They need to declare Chapter 11, get out of their contracts, and reorganize their companies.
Of course the CEO’s don’t want to do that because they’d lose their jobs. The UAW leadership don’t want bankruptcy because they’d lose their jobs. Yes, some line workers would lose their jobs as well, but they’ve been living pretty high on the hog with high hourly wages and super expensive health care packages. It’s time to come down to the reality the rest of us are living.
Update: Some commenters on this post are arguing that filing Chapter 11 would ruin the US auto industry, but this is totally wrong. Chapter 11 will benefit these companies in the long run. Besides, this is what Chapter 11 is for. Anyone who says Americans won’t buy cars from these companies because the warranties won’t be honored if they enter Chapter 11 don’t know what they’re talking about. If the Big 3 went into Chapter 11, all warranties would be priority claims and would be paid before almost anything else. The companies could run advertising campaigns to let their customers know that they can buy cars without any fear that their warranties wouldn’t be honored. Many companies entered Chapter 11 over the years and have come out on the other side significantly stronger and better run companies. Owens Corning and K-Mart are two companies that are vastly improved since their Chapter 11 filings.
Besides, if these companies are in such bad shape that even Chapter 11 can’t help them, then they should go the way of the buggy whip as far as I’m concerned. Under no circumstances should the American people be forced to support companies that have such awful business models that they can’t sustain themselves. Since nature abhors a vacuum, I’m certain an enterprising and intelligent businessman will see the huge market available, take the risk, and start his own American car company, which means he will be required to hire American workers. The American auto industry can begin anew, free from the entanglements that are killing the American automakers now. Just imagine the kinds of exciting and cutting edge cars that could be produced with fresh thinking, an innovative business model, and the most productive work force in the world.


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When I was a child, movies seemed to play at the theatres forever. They basically stayed in the small, two or three screen cinemas until people stopped coming to see them. No multiplex with fifteen screens here. No staggered start times all day for the same movie. There were three or four screenings per day if you were lucky.
Show times were published in the back of the local newspaper. You queued outside with no allocated seating. When it was full, it was full. You waited for the next showing.
Only when people stopped coming did the managers of these local picture houses then book another screen. I vividly remember ET staying in the theatre for about sixteen weeks. That was more than a quarter of a year.
This being the days before a VCR in every home, you had to wait years until the movie was on television. Usually on a commercial channel with advertisement breaks every twenty minutes. Then the release windows system was first conceived in the early 1980’s, on the brink of the VHS home video market, as a strategy to keep different instances of a movie from competing with each other. Even then it was sometimes over a year before a movie made it’s way to home rental.
Today? The window is down to three months, with most movies marketed towards opening weekend grosses, then out of theatres by week eight. Well, that was before the dark times. Before the ‘rona.
Many have queued up to write the eulogy for theatres over the course of the pandemic. The Warner Bros. and HBO day-and-date strategy really did start something, as predicted.
Now Netflix have lined up to put the boot into picture houses. Well, of course, they would, wouldn’t they? However their message simply echoes what we have already heard from the CEO of Disney among others.
Greg Peters, the online streaming giant’s Chief Operating Officer, was speaking at a virtual conference organized by Morgan Stanley. He said not only will moviegoers no longer wait for home viewing, they will now demand it. He went on to say that the cinema industry was only delaying the inevitable by trying to preserve its traditional privilege of showing films first.
“Many of us at Netflix are huge fans of the theatrical experience; it’s an amazing experience. But… the way we think about it is it should be consumer choice.
“We’ve been supporting [simultaneous] release for a long time, [and] maybe shorter theatrical windows. So I would say we’re enthusiastic to see a shift in enabling more and more of that.
“It’s what consumers want. At the end of the day, it’s hard to buck that trend for too long, and I think that that’s eventually where things go.”
Christopher Nolan will not be happy about this.


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Nintendo Fans Duke It Out in a Punch-Out!! Boxing Challenge at Nintendo World in NYC
WHAT: Nintendo celebrates the return of one of its most popular video game series by hosting a Punch-Out!!™ Challenge at the Nintendo World store in Rockefeller Plaza on May 16 from 1 to 4 p.m. Friends and family members of contestants will gather ringside to support them on their quest to secure the World Video Boxing Association (WVBA) title. Thirty-two participants will face off two at a time in a single-game elimination competition. Instead of strapping on boxing gloves, players will use the motion-sensing Wii Remote™ and Nunchuk™ controllers to simulate throwing punches. The winner walks away with a customized WVBA trophy and bragging rights as the Punch-Out!! champion. The winner also will receive a free copy of the new Punch-Out!! game for the Wii™ console, a Little Mac training sweatshirt and other prizes.
Fans in attendance will enjoy Nintendo premium giveaways, DJ entertainment and a chance to purchase the game before it launches on May 18. Fans also have the opportunity to play the new game on kiosks, or take a trip down memory lane by playing previous Punch-Out!! games using the Virtual Console™ service for Wii.
WHO: Adults, teens, kids ages 10 and up, video game enthusiasts and loyal fans of the classic Punch-Out!! games.
WHEN: Saturday, May 16, 2009
WHERE: Nintendo World Store
10 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10020


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Microsoft says HoloLens will start rolling out to developers within the “Windows 10 time frame,” but no one really knows what that means. Over the weekend, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella clarified this just a tad in an interview with the BBC. In short, it looks like you’ll be waiting a while to mine your couch cushions for coal, diamonds, and redstone.Although the company is not ready to reveal a roll out date yet, Nadella told the BBC that we can expect to see developers get their hands on HoloLens “within the next year.”The kicker is that Microsoft will focus on developers and enterprises at first. Nadella said something similar to ZDNet in mid-July when he remarked that the first version of HoloLens would be “more about developers and enterprise scenarios.”In other words, Microsoft is more interested in creating augmented reality working environments for offices and hospitals before moving on to Minecraft and Halo.That’s not to say that gaming isn’t an important part of HoloLens. Almost every mention and demo we’ve seen from the company included gaming. HoloLens was front and center at E3 with gaming demos, and earlier this year Nadella pretty much told The New York Times that he bought Minecraft with HoloLens in mind.
So don’t despair, HoloLens gaming hopefuls, it’s coming—just maybe not within the “Windows 10 time frame.”
The story behind the story: The physical limitations of HoloLens may be why Microsoft is foucsing on developers and business before turning to entertainment. While HoloLens offers some decidedly cool gaming demos, a complaint from critics who’ve tried the device say the field of view leaves a lot to be desired.
When we last saw it, HoloLens was like looking at a smartphone set a few inches in front of your eyes, which is decidedly smaller than what you get with virtual reality gaming headsets like the Oculus Rift. HoloLens will still be cool for some games, but that limited field of view matters far less when you’re looking at a document compared to a digital war zone.


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Hero and Honda continue to assert their dominance over others in the two-wheeler segment for Aug 2020
After a long dry spell of automobile sales due to an economic slowdown further marred by the Covid-19 pandemic, the automotive sector finally seems to be on road to recovery. After recording an impressive figure in the passenger vehicle segment, the two-wheeler segment has also seen an appreciable recovery in the month of August.
Here is a detailed report on wholesales vs retail sales of two wheelers for Aug 2020. Wholesales are the ones which the company sold to dealers, while retail sales are those, which the dealers sold to end customers. The difference between wholesales and retail sales is likely because some is lying at stock yard of dealers, or they were sold by dealers in those states which FADA has excluded.
Wholesales numbers are sourced from SIAM while Retail sales are sourced from FADA. Retail sales are gathered from 1,242 out of 1,450 RTOs, says FADA. Retail sales numbers do not include figures from AP, AN, MP, LD & TS as all these States/UT’s are not yet on Vahan 4.
As per the data, Hero MotoCorp wholesales stood at over 5.68 lakhs while retail sales were at 3.28 lakhs. This is a difference of about 2.4 lakhs. About 57% of wholesales were retailed in Aug 2020. Honda retailed the least, about 52% of their wholesales, while Royal Enfield retailed the most, almost 74% of their wholesales.
Wholesales and Retail Sales 2020 vs 2019
Speaking about YoY retail sales figures, they are still lower than the previous year during the same month. Although the figures are still better than those in recent months. As opposed to over 12.50 lakh units of two-wheelers sold in August 2019, this year the industry could sell just a shade under 9 lakh units in August. The figures are expected to rise in coming months as a result of a rise in demand for personal mobility. The decline in the usage of public transport due to safety reasons is a big reason for it.
Hero MotoCorp, Honda continue to lead
Hero MotoCorp world’s largest two-wheeler manufacturer continues to top the sales chart as always. With over 3.28 lakh units retailed last month, the company has witnessed a decline of 1 lakh from August last year. It is still way more than its next best competitor Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India. Honda retailed a total of 2.23 lakh units two-wheelers in August this year instead of 3.31 lakh units last year. Both manufacturers continue to lead with a market share of 36.50 percent and 24.87 percent for Hero and Honda respectively.
TVS, Bajaj hold their forts
TVS Motor Company occupied the third position with a little less than 1.40 lakh units retailed in August this year as compared to over 1.90 lakh sold in august last year. It is followed by Bajaj in the fourth position with cumulative sales of just over 1 lakh units last month. It saw a big drop in numbers as it sold over 1.57 lakh units last year during the same month. The top four manufacturers are the only ones to breach 1 lakh sales.
Yamaha, Royal Enfield, Suzuki face difficulties
Yamaha and Royal Enfield occupied the fifth and sixth positions respectively with cumulative sales of over 35,000 for both in August this year. While Yamaha sold 46,209 units in August 2019, Royal Enfield retailed a total of 48,627 units during the same period. Similar was the case with Suzuki Motorcycle India, as the Japanese auto company was able to sell only 30,396 units last month instead of 48,722 units in August 2019.
Others show disappointing figures
Piaggio, the parent company of Vespa and Aprilia, sold only 2,458 units last month in comparison to 5222 units sold in August last year. Classic Legends was only able to sell 1,353 units of Jawa motorcycles in August this year whereas it sold 1438 units in August 2019. The rest of the manufacturers like Harley Davidson (106), Kawasaki (45) and Triumph (37) among others displayed substandard sales as most of these brands produce high-end premium motorcycles which cater to a specific section of consumers only.
Statewise Two Wheeler Sales Aug 2020
Bajaj Sales and Exports Aug 2020


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Ford has issued a new safety recall in North America for certain units of the Edge, Fusion, and Lincoln MKZ.
The recall affects vehicles powered by the 2.0-liter gasoline engine and equipped with the 6F35 transmissions, whose torque converters may have inadequately welded studs that could detach, leading to a loss of motive power without warning to the driver.
If this happens, the power steering, power brakes, electrical function and vehicle restraint systems will continue to operate, Ford notes, and the ‘park’ function will not be altered.
The models affected by the recall are Edge and Fusion vehicles built at Oakville and Hermosillo from April 25 to June 20, 2017, and from May 4 to June 15, 2017, respectively, as well as Lincoln MKZs made at Hermosillo between May 4 and June 19, 2017.
Ford is not aware of any accidents or injuries associated with this condition and will have its dealers replace the torque converters on all 5,914 vehicles in North America, including 5,183 in the US, 32 in federalized territories, 687 in Canada and 12 in Mexico, free of charge.


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Cash buyers continue to infiltrate San Francisco’s competitive single-family home market. But those cash transactions aren’t necessarily translating into deep discounts. Instead, buyers seem to be using the cash advantage to simply win properties.
A total of 180 single-family homes sold over the past month, with 35 purchases made with cash as reported in the San Francisco Multiple Listing Service. Nine such transactions sold for less than the list price, one sold at asking, and 25 were over the asking price. It’s fair to say that many cash buyers are not looking for cut-rate prices on houses here. Buyers and their agents know that cash transactions provide a huge advantage because of the lack of complications connected to appraisals and loans.
One of the most glaring examples of cash buyers not worrying about discounts occurred in the ultra high-end market at 2969 Sea Cliff (above). The 6BR home with more than 5,000 square feet in the tony Sea Cliff neighborhood was listed at $5,250,000 and sold two weeks later in a cash sale for $5,650,000.
And then there was 1445 Cole in Cole Valley, a 3BR Craftsman listed at $1,775,000 which sold for $1.9M within 10 days.
Several buyers picked up homes in the city’s southeastern neighborhoods of Bayview and Crocker Amazon for all cash in the $300,000-$500,000 range, as well.
Of course, there are always exceptions, and 1915 Pierce was one. The 5BR home in Lower Pacific Heights was listed for $2.4M and sold in 61 days for $2.3M.
Most cash sales involving buyers paying well over list price have been happening either prior to the property going on the market, or shortly thereafter. It’s a buyer’s way of communicating to the seller that he or she won’t get a better offer.