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In the lead-up to the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas, Polaroid has unveiled new Smart and Ultra HD TVs and Android tablets.
In Australia, Polaroid imaging products are distributed by Brands Australia, while non-imaging products have been supplied by Atico International.
Australia’s first taste of Polaroid TVs came in early 2013, when Atico International began distributing Polaroid TVs, ranging from 18-to-50 inches through the mass market and grocery channels, including Coles Supermarkets.
A representative of Atico International’s Australian office said the company was in negotiations with Polaroid in the US and could not confirm whether it would be handling the local distribution of this new range.
Polaroid’s premium TV range will include a 50-inch Smart TV to be sold in the US for $599 (AU $683) and a 50-inch Ultra HD TV to be sold in the US for $999 (AU $1,115). Polaroid will also market a broad range of LED TVs from 32 inches up to 69 inches.
Rather than organise the manufacturing of these TVs itself, Polaroid has licensed the brand to Empire Electronics Corporation to oversee the distribution. Since the advent of digital imaging, which severely impaired the Polaroid Corporation, leading to it filing for bankruptcy protection several times during the 2000s, Polaroid has looked to license its brand to other suppliers.
Another of these licensees is Southern Telecom, which has manufactured a range Polaroid-branded Android tablets, including 7-, 8- and 10.1-inch models.
“Tablets are changing the way consumers use and share their favorite media and memories, and Polaroid’s robust line of tablets is allowing more consumers to share with on-the-go convenience,” said Polaroid president and CEO Scott W Hardy.
“Our Q Series provides consumers with super-fast quad core processing speeds allowing for faster performance and less wait times when watching movies, or playing games. In addition the Q series’ sleek design and affordable price point make it a great choice.”
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The Chamber of Customs Brokers, Inc is requesting the Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) to defer the strict implementation of the “switch-on” mode for the electronic submission of airfreight manifests, noting it has led to delays in customs clearance and high storage charges.
BOC on June 17 implemented the order on the basis of Customs Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 10-2015, which requires airlines and freight forwarders to electronically submit their airfreight manifests through value-added service providers (VASP). The order also means penalties are now being imposed on late submission of e-air manifests.
CCBI president Atty Ferdinand Nague, in a June 21 letter to BOC Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) District Collector Edgar Macabeo, said since the order’s adoption, stakeholders have complained of its “unwarranted effect(s) to the prejudice of our innocent clients-importers who are already suffering from delays in customs clearance and higher cost of storage charges aside from undelivered commitments to their respective customers and the just-in-time manufacturing requirements of various semiconductors and electronics companies under PEZA (Philippine Economic Zone Authority) and other ecozones and freeports.”
Nague said the order implementation should be deferred “until such time all transmission glitches and other internal issues and concerns of airlines and forwarders” are resolved. The deferment would also “temporarily ease the traffic and delays” currently being experienced in customs clearance at NAIA, he said.
There have been numerous reports of queuing in the lodgement of the e-air manifest particularly at NAIA since the start of the order’s implementation.
According to Leo Morada, chief executive officer of BOC-accredited VASP Cargo Data Exchange Center, the “reported queuing pertains to stakeholders lining up at the VASP help desk facility at the BOC NAIA Building for various forms of client inquiries and requests for assistance.”
He said “there is no queuing insofar as the system capability of BOC’s electronic-to-mobile (e2m) system and VASP systems to handle the volume of electronic transactions. As early as February this year, numerous stakeholder consultation meetings were initiated by BOC and continuous information dissemination efforts by all VASP were conducted in order to fully inform all stakeholders.”
Morada said he expects the situation to normalize within the week.
Under CMO 10-2015, the airline must first submit its electronic inward foreign manifest (e-IFM) before freight forwarders and consolidators can submit their electronic consolidated cargo manifest (e-CCM).
BOC is currently allowing manual direct validation only for PEZA air shipments. The manifest for air cargoes for consumption must still be lodged electronically and validated.
BOC began implementing CMO 10-2015 in May 2015 but this was done on “switch-off” mode as part of the program’s pilot testing. The switch-on mode—previously scheduled for rollout in December 2015—was supposed to start on March 15, 2016 but did not proceed. The switch-on mode was finally implemented on June 17, after three months of stakeholder consultations and information dissemination by VASPs to their clients. – Roumina Pablo
Article underwent revision at 4:30pm on June 22, 2017.
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Already this year, the smartphone market expects a significant reduction. Most of all, it will affect the budget segment of gadgets, say experts from the South Korean corporation Samsung. Writes about it Bloomberg .
The article also notes that even the easing of the lockdown in the PRC caused by the coronavirus pandemic cannot improve the situation.
According to the Vice President of Samsung Daniel Araujo, we can talk about a significant destabilization of the mobile device market in the last quarter of 2022. This was caused by an increase in inflation and interest rates, as well as a global global recession. The same trends will continue this year. The most significant problems will be faced by the mass segment of the market, he told reporters of the publication.
Araujo stressed that given the difficult economic situation around the world, users seek to save money without spending it on timely updating of their smartphones.
Earlier, the first photo of a branded smartphone from Coca-Cola appeared on the network


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Sunday, October 16, 2011
Since HP is suffering from the troubles of fierce competition, especially in tablet computer and smart phone, the position of HP in the PC industry has already become popular topic to us. However, recently, it is also released that HP is going to come back to HP industry to continue their leading position in the market.
Such news has helped HP to increase in share price by more than 40%. It seems that HP comes to be more cautious than before in making decisions. As a matter of fact, the whole PC industry is still in the process of development with enough profits and PC computers are still the primary devices users select at present. Especially nowadays, most of large or small business customers still prefer to a completed set of solutions that can improve the competition ability to a great extent.
In addition, Lenovo, another tycoon in the PC industry, has released that they are going to beat HP after surpassing Dell in sales and production volume. According to the report, the difference is only about 4.2% to 4.4%. However, such a decision from HP will also make the difference larger and larger.
Anyway, as to the sharp developing of Lenovo, some insiders told us that the reasons for Lenovo to develop so rapidly is related the competitors’ policy adjustment more than the business revolution themselves. Such a change has also supplied Lenovo a large space of creative development and opportunities.
It is very likely that if HP has given up their PC department, it will be a very good chance to Lenovo to dominate the whole market in sales structure. It is also said that the PC industry has developed rapidly and will be an area filled with cost competitiveness. Currently, the cost of all aspects for Lenovo is lower than HP while the good reputation has also helped Lenovo to win the hearts of users fully in the near future. It is still unknown what will HP has in the PC industry.
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Under current Illinois law, farmers can sell an unlimited amount of raw milk on the farm  without a permit. Legislators and health officials were working hard to completely banish farm-to-consumer agreements in some sneaky ways . This was not lost on Illinois’ thriving raw milk market.
Now, a proposed bill in Illinois banning the sale and distribution of natural or “raw” milk , has come to a screeching halt this session after legislators heard from thousands of natural milk supporters.
The restriction, which was slipped in as an amendment to an unrelated bill, HB 4036 HA1, would have banned the sale and distribution of raw milk in Illinois. The sponsor, Daniel Burke (D-23rd district), chose not to move the bill out of committee after legislators were inundated with calls and emails from concerned Illinois citizens.
Burke, who is known for generally supporting farmers, was listening and said:
I am convinced, by virtue of the thousands of communications I’ve received, that natural dairy should continue to be made available to our society. If people believe this product is beneficial, I am not going to interfere with that. It was never my intention to put any restriction on the farmers.
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KETCHUM, Idaho (BRAIN) — Club Ride has hired New Zealander Daniel Carruthers to provide consulting services for distribution and marketing in the Asia-Pacific markets.
WILTON, Conn. (BRAIN) – Scott Rittschof is joining Cycling Sports Group, a division of Dorel Industries, as senior vice president and general manager. Bob Burbank, who started at the company as the global general manager of Cannondale in 2010, is leaving to pursue other opportunities, Dorel said.
SAN DIEGO (BRAIN) — BST Nano Carbon, a design and composites manufacturer, has acquired Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles and will be manufacturing Ellsworth carbon frames in its San Diego facility.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (BRAIN) — Hawley USA is the new exclusive distributor of OGIO Endurance Collection products to the IBD channel, Hawley announced Wednesday.
The agreement began Sept. 1 and Hawley wil display OGIO products in its booth at next week's Interbike show.
EMMAUS, Pa. — Bicycling Magazine published its biennial ranking of the 50 most cycling-friendly cities in the United States in its October issue, which hit newsstands Sept. 2. And New York City was named the Best Bike City by the magazine’s editors.
NOVATO, Calif. (BRAIN) — Marin Mountain Bikes has hired Chris Holmes as the company's new brand director. Holmes will be responsible for establishing and coordinating all of Marin's marketing activities.
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands (BRAIN) — California-based manufacturer Pure Fix Cycles announced this week that is has opened a corporate office in Europe.
Editor's note: This story was originally published Aug. 27. This version is updated to clarify how the E100 spokes are replaced in case of damage. We also added a photo of the spoke ring and the new rim shape.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany (BRAIN) — 2014 may be the Year of the Return of the Concept Bike, at least at the Eurobike show. In addition to the BMC concept bike we wrote about earlier this week, on Tuesday we took a look at a full-suspension, extensively "connected" concept road from Canyon.


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Amazon Prime Day Sale Goes Live on July 26 in India– Amazon has always been known to offer great discounts and deals to its customers through the Amazon Great Indian Sale or its End of Season Sale. This has greatly helped the online shopping giant gather a loyal customer base in India and worldwide.
With just a few days into July, Amazon already has a sale up its sleeves to please its users. We are talking about none other than the Amazon Prime Day Sale 2021 that will go live on 26th July and go on for 2 days till 27th July. The sale will start a day before for Prime members, as usual.
Amazon Prime Day Sale 2021: A Slew of Deals
The sale is going to offer up to 40% off not only Smartphones but on TVs, Amazon Devices, Fashion & Beauty, Home & Kitchen, Furniture, and Everyday Essentials as well. Amazon will also host the world premieres of Toofan (Hindi), Malik (Malayalam), Ikkat (Kannada), and Sarpatta Parambarai (Tamil) for Prime members during Prime Day.
From July 8 to July 24, 2021, lakhs of local and small sellers on Amazon will create unique bargains for clients in the run-up to the two-day shopping festival. On its web platform, the company also stated that it will launch new items from big brands and MSMEs.
We dedicate this Prime Day to lakhs of small businesses and local sellers on Amazon.in. We are humbled by their resilience, and grateful for the opportunity to support their rebound during these hard times. We are also excited to offer our Prime members a unique opportunity to discover joy with two days of best deals and savings, hundreds of new product launches, blockbuster entertainment and more, all from the safety and convenience of their homes.Amit Agarwal, Country Head, Amazon India
The e-commerce giant has stated that their latest smart speakers, smart displays, and Fire TV items will also be discounted by up to 50%. Amazon has stated that during the Prime Day sale, it would give “the year’s best prices” on some of its own items, including the Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle devices.
Amazon has provided information on some types of discounts and deals that it will be providing, which offer up to 10 percent instant discount for HDFC cardholders and on EMI transactions, exchange discounts, and no-cost EMI options.
Amazon has recently announced that Prime members who use the Amazon Pay ICICI Bank credit card would receive 5% bonus points. Additionally, Amazon Pay users would be eligible for a Rs 1,000 rebate.
What do you think about Amazon’s upcoming sale? Let us know in the comment section underneath. Stay tuned to our page by subscribing to our newsletter down below, and don’t forget to join our telegram channel for regular news and updates.


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A major industrial and warehouse building just north of Wichita is for sale.
The more-than-450,000-square-foot Hayes Co. building near 77th Street North and I-135 has been listed for sale or lease through Insite Real Estate Group.
The property includes 27,000 square feet of office space, 175,000 square feet of manufacturing space and 250,000 square feet of warehouse space.
“It’s a true corporate headquarters/manufacturing facility,” said Insite’s Curt Robertson.
The facility includes another 430,000 square feet of hard-surface, outdoor storage.
The listing price is $17 million.
The privately held, family owned company said in a statement that its growth in the customer-managed warehousing business has been in the Dallas area, reducing its need locally for all the square footage it owns at 7700 Hayes Drive in Park City.
The 34-year-old company was founded by Bob Hayes as a wholesale lumber broker. It expanded into fencing, decking and iron products and eventually moved into the manufacture of ornamental lawn and garden products.
When it sold that business to Southern Sales & Marketing Group of Atlanta in 2008, it turned its full attention to another business it had started a year earlier, logistics and customer-managed warehousing.
Will Hayes, Hayes Co. president and CEO, said the company is “exploring all options” with the facility in terms of leasing or selling all or most of it. Hayes Co. continues to use a portion of the building, including for its headquarters operations. Hayes said those operations will remain in the Wichita area even if the company reaches a deal that doesn’t include it occupying a portion of the building it constructed in 2001.
David Bossemeyer, vice president for business development for the Greater Wichita Economic Development Coalition, said there is no other building like it in the region with the amount of square footage, ceiling height – the warehouse portion of the building has a 38-foot-high ceiling – and condition.
“It’s been kept in immaculate condition,” Bossemeyer said.
“It was built to manufacture and that’s what we would like to put in it,” he said. “It provides us an opportunity we didn’t have before.”


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An early look by Kantar Media analysts at advertisers’ share of clicks on some 278 non-branded BTS-related keywords for back-to-school campaigns running on Google desktop and mobile in the U.S. from July 1 through 15, 2019 reveals a couple of surprises.
Specialty advertisers are taking the lead. BagsInBulk.com, for example, emerges as the top advertiser with an 8% click share. DiscountMugs.com ranked No. 3, with a 6.3% click share. Both of these specialty advertisers appear predominantly for school backpack keywords, according to Jim Leichenko, director of marketing, media division at Kantar.
In mobile, Leichenko said, keywords for product listing ads related to backpacks were responsible for a strong showing by Etsy, eBags and SwissGear, which would not have
made it into the top 10 without them.
"Niche players are doing very well," Leichenko said. "If you're not doing well on certain keywords, look at improving your offer."
He said other advertisers are taking advantage of the back-to-school season to get in front of consumers -- the type of advertisers that consumers wouldn't think belong in the back-to-school category, like those in consumer products goods.
Then you have telecom providers talking about telephone plans that tie in to back-to-school. “These are nimble marketers taking advantage of every opportunity,” Leichenko said.
Within text ads, there are a lot more specialty retailers ranking in the top 10 than in PLAs. They are largely focused on textbooks and school supplies. One that stood out as different from the others is AmazonBusiness.com -- Amazon’s site for office supplies, which ranked No. 2 on desktop and No. 3 on mobile, based on school supply keywords.
Amazon, the site, also ranked in mobile for similar keywords -- giving the marketplace two opportunities to appear in mobile results rather than the one.
It’s still early, Leichenko said. The height of the paid-search campaign season for back-to-school is August.
Last year, Dell took the top paid-search ad spot on back-to-school search terms in 2018, garnering 7.6% of all desktop clicks and 8.1% of all mobile clicks on product listing ads.
In this set of keywords, Kantar studied 278 non-branded back-to-school keywords including terms such as “school backpacks,” “school uniforms,” “best laptops for college” and "dorm refrigerator," from July to September 2018.
Rounding out the top five in desktop click share on product listing ads were Walmart at 4.5%, Kohl's at 3.5%, Old Navy at 3.5%, and Target at 3.2%.
For mobile click share, Best Buy came in at 6.2% share, Walmart at 5.4%, Kohls at 4.1%, and LL Bean at 3.7%.


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Bill Miller, the legendary value investor and former Legg Mason LM chairman and chief investment officer, doubled down on his bullish Bitcoin outlook in a virtual interview as part of the Forbes/SHOOK Top Advisor Summit at the Encore At Wynn hotel in Las Vegas.
During his decades at the Baltimore based investment management giant, Miller was the principle portfolio manager of the Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust and famously beat the S&P 500 every year from 1991 to 2005. Miller is now the chairman of Miller Value Partners, with 16 employees and $3.6 billion in assets under management.
In conversation with Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management managing director Marvin McIntyre, the 71-year-old Miller likened gold to the horse and buggy and Bitcoin to a Ferrari in response to the differing sentiments of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and some of the headwinds facing the largest cryptocurrency including a crackdown in China and an uncertain regulatory future in the U.S.
Miller was an early adopter of Bitcoin in 2017, when his firm put a 5% investment in the well-known cryptocurrency. Miller says his initial cost per coin was about $200 and has since risen to about $800 with his latest major buy happening in the spring when the price was cut in half from over $60,000 to around $30,000 . He even told the conference crowd he had bought Bitcoin earlier in the day before taking the stage virtually.
In his illustrious career, Miller’s calling card has been value investing and along those lines he told the assembled group of financial advisors some of his undervalued stock picks including cookware manufacturer Tupperware Brands TUP , digital car sales company Vroom, generic drug manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals RARX and automotive manufacturer General Motors GM .
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The largest holdings in the mutual fund he manages, the Miller Opportunity Trust include Amazon, IT services company DXC Technology DXC and Google GOOG parent company Alphabet. Facebook, which has faced outages and negative headlines over the past month is also a significant holding at 3.7%. The fund is nearly one-third invested in consumer discretionary.
The firm’s smaller mutual fund, Miller Income Fund, which is mostly run by his son Bill Miller IV, is principally invested in mailing technology company Pitney Bowes PBI , Florida-based real estate investment trust GEO Group GEO and home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond BBBY .
While Miller’s funds have beaten their benchmarks dating back to inception, in 2009 for the Opportunity Trust and 2014 for the Income Fund, it has been a difficult summer for both vehicles. The former was down just over 19% after fees from July through September as compared to the S&P 500 which was up just over half a percent. The fund run by Miller’s son was similarly under its target for the same time period, down over 8.1% after fees compared to its benchmark, a high yield master fund run by Bank of America Merrill Lynch BAC which was up just under a percent.


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One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises to come out of The Game Awards this year was The Callisto Protocol. Developed by a team made up of former Visceral Games veterans and led up by Dead Space creator Glen Schofield, it looked exactly like the sort of successor to the beloved horror franchise (in spirit, if not in name) that fans have been desperate for for years.
The Callisto Protocol’s developers have already spoken about the game’s similarities to Dead Space, and recently, speaking with IGN, Glen Schofield spoke a bit more about that. More specifically, after acknowledging Dead Space’s legacy of one of the most terrifying horror games of its time, he said that developer Striking Distance is hoping to reach similar heights with The Callisto Protocol.
“I’m looking forward to really trying to make the scariest game on next-gen platforms,” Schofield said. “From what I hear — it’s hard to be the creative and talk nicely about it — but from what I hear… [Dead Space] was one of the scarier games of [its generation] and I want to do the same on next-gen, or what’s considered now the current-gen.”
The Callisto Protocol is due out some time in 2022 for the PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.


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A Barrie woman has her sights set on a vacation after winning a hundred grand from the OLG.
Grainne Hallman won the top prize on an Instant Cleopatra ticket bought at a Petro Canada on Dunlop St. in Barrie, and says it was a purchase on a whim. “I had just dropped my husband off at work when I decided to stop at the store and buy a scratch ticket,” said Grainne as she picked up her prize at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto. “At first I thought I had won $10, but after a closer look I saw it was actually $100,000,” said Grainne. “I checked the ticket on the OLG Lottery App and it said ‘Big Winner’, so I called my husband right away.”
After paying off some bills, the self-employed 57-year old says a vacation will be in order.


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Several sales of large properties this fall have sent receipts for Evanston’s Real Estate Transfer Tax soaring to more than $1 million over full-year budget projections.
City officials, in preparing this year’s budget a year ago, projected raising $2.1 million froin the tax, at a rate of $5 per $1000 of selling price. But receipts through the end of October totalled almost $3.2 million.
Big properties changing hands included:
- The Oct. 3 closing on the sale, first reported in midsummer, of the 1603 Orrington tower complex for $61.5 million
- The Oct. 4 sale of the property that houses the new Trader Joe’s store at 1211-29 Chicago Ave. for $11 million.
- The Oct. 9 sale of the apartment complex at 525 Kedzie St. for $7.25 million to a firm controlled by basketball star Isiah Thomas.
Those top-dollar transactions last month followed the big sale in September of the newly constructed 1717 Ridge Ave. apartment complex for $70.25 million on Sept. 10.
And another strong report for this month is already assured with the reported sale of the Church Street Plaza retail complex development for $70 million.
In the smaller-scale market, the following properties sold for over $1 million in the past two months:
- A mixed-use retail and residential building at 1805 Central St. across from the Metra station brought $2.16 million
- A lakefront home at 1114 Lake Shore Blvd. sold for $2.05 million
- A corner house with a porte-cochere at 1304 Forest Ave. changed hands for $1.7 million.
- A home at 1217 Michigan Ave. near the lakefront sold for $1.598 million.
- A home at 2621 Harrison St. sold for $1.587 million.
- An apartment building at 139 Ashland Ave. went for $1.35 million.
- A home at 1242 Maple Ave. with a wrap-around porch sold for $1.2 million
- A Georgian-style home at 745 Central St. sold for $1.121 million.
- A home at 1600 Colfax St. adjoining the golf coursesold for $1.12 million.
- A home at 2207 Orrington St. sold for $1.07 million.
- A frame home at 1040 Michigan Ave. sold for $1.01 million.
- A home at 2808 Lakeside Court in northeast Evanston sold for $1.05 million.


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The annual Eurovision Song Contest, one of the world's most-watched non-sports events (and possibly #2 in Europe only to soccer), is weeks away from its finals, and is apparently worried about fan behavior in Lisbon's Altice Arena.
Fans buying tickets for the event, broadcast all over Europe and beyond, have been given a long list of what not to bring, a list that's already spurred thousands of social media protests and jokes.
Among the things not to bring are some that would seem obvious, like guns, bombs, crowbars, saw blades, handcuffs and chains. Among the less obvious are adhesive tape, rope, and ladders. And the one that's provoked the most comment and laughter: supermarket shopping carts.
Organizers have warned that what is confiscated will not be returned, so leave your shopping for later.
The contest started 63 years ago as a project of the European Broadcasting Union, and now includes one contestant from each of 43 countries; the country whose champion wins gets the next year's finals; the winning performer gets a moment in the spotlight, and a chance for something more; among winners who get their launch through Eurovision are ABBA and Celine Dion.


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With reduced production in the main growing region of West Africa, it has seen cocoa prices rise all around the globe rise by 27 percent.
The Ivory Coast, which accounts for more than 40 percent of the globe’s cocoa production, has experienced abnormally wet conditions and flooding leaving the cocoa trees rotting with disease.
According to Pia Piggott from Dutch financial provider Rabobank, another factor in chocolate prices rising is also due to raw sugar becoming more expensive.
Even after last year’s 20 percent rise in chocolate prices, the key ingredients becoming more expensive are only pushing manufacturing prices higher.
“We’ve seen a lot of inflation in the chocolate category already, however we’re expecting there’s more price pressure coming,” said Piggott.
“The cocoa price will continue to stay quite elevated into next year.”
There is some relief for manufacturers with dairy prices remaining low, but cocoa and sugar prices are at record highs for the decade.


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State Division of Motor Vehicles investigators arrested a woman at her home outside Raleigh and charged her with using stolen identity information to get a North Carolina ID card and to register and finance cars in a scheme that they said began in mid-2011.
Gerarda Latorre Rodriguez, 47, was arrested at 4924 Reconciliation Drive at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, records showed.
She was charged with three counts of altering or forging a title certificate or registration, giving a false name to get the ID card and identity theft.
Rodriguez had the birth certificate and Social Security card of a woman from Puerto Rico and used that to get the ID card and to finance a total of $19,408.70 for three cars.
The charges of altering or forging car paperwork involved a 2000 Nissan bought and registered in January 2012, a 1998 Nissan bought and registered in March 2012 and a 2005 Toyota bought and registered in June of this year.
In the arrest warrants, agents said they believe crimes were committed between July 2011 and earlier this month.
Rodriguez was held in lieu of $50,000 and scheduled to appear in court Thursday.


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You may not have heard of Red Velvet, BTS or Black Pink. But to an entire community of fans these are global superstars or, as they call them, idols.
A new cafe and store in Nottingham is hoping to change all that by opening the city's first one-stop, K-Pop shop. Fans will be able to pick up music and merchandise on the top floor of the new store on St. James' Terrace before heading to the street food cafe below for a bowl of instant ramen, made famous by the K-dramas (Korean TV dramas).
Fans of K-Pop have been forced to travel to other cities such as London or Birmingham to get their fix as there is nothing like this in Nottingham despite an army of fans and K-Pop university societies.
The House of PKL is set to open to the public from Sunday, November 20 with plans to hold ticket-only events on Friday and Saturday. Demand has been huge with tickets for the pre-opening events already almost sold out. Fans have even offered to work in the cafe for free just to be part of the K-Pop community.
Owner Anastasia Tsappis, from Wollaton, decided to open the store after her three daughters became fans of the music. She said: "We were having to travel to Birmingham, Manchester or London to take the girls to places that sold the merchandise.
"I got fed up with hearing them say, I wish there was a K-Pop store in Nottingham. We wanted to give them the experience that they wanted so it's for them and fans like them," she explained.
"When it comes to the cafe, when we travel, we often have to find something to eat. Some of the fans will go to random cafes after they buy the merchandise, open what they have bought and put it on Instagram. There isn't really anywhere for teenagers to go. Some of the bars let the students hold nights there once a week or once a month. But the younger ones have nowhere to go and just sit."
The shop is already fully stocked with everything fans could want from beautifully decorated albums to stickers to socks and the all-important light sticks that fans wave at performances. Fans often collect the albums and merchandise hoping to complete a full set by contacting each other to see who has what and where they can pick up the latest imports.
The cafe will serve Korean street food favourites such as Korean corn dogs which Anastasia says cause massive queues in London where fans are desperate to try them. The plan is to bring new exciting dishes to the city while keeping it simple and affordable. There will also be events held in the evenings.
"We are going to do Korean Street food along with Boba tea and hot drinks. We are going to be doing Korean corn dogs and I think we are the only ones outside of London doing it. When we go to London, we have to stand in line for an hour to get them. We are waiting on the machine to arrive in order to be able to make them," she explained.
"We are hoping to start offering food in the next few weeks. We will also be doing instant ramen too which you see in the K-dramas. In the shows, you see them go to the convenience store to buy the ramen, then they sit there to eat it which is what we have done. We have ramen for people to buy along with the corn dogs and Tteok-kkochi which are Korean rice cakes."
She added: "You have them on a skewer, grill them with sauces. We aren't going to try to do restaurant food because we aren't a restaurant. People can come and have an experience of Korean street food."
Transforming the building from its former life as a Caribbean-themed restaurant to a white cafe has not been easy. The building was also a wine bar at one stage and is over 350 years old.
"Everything was bright orange with palm trees so we spent a lot of time painting. It's a listed building so we can't do anything which is why we have the pillars everywhere. We've had to apply thousands of coats of paint to try to cover the walls."
It's all hands on deck at the moment as the soft launch starts tonight with a private event for the Kpop societies from both universities. Demand has already been high to attend the opening as most of the tickets for Saturday's event are gone.
"We've invited the societies in from the colleges and universities for free drinks and to have a look around because they love this stuff so much so it's nice for them to have a look around before we open. Then tomorrow, we have a ticket-only event to try to control how many people arrive as when my girls visit other shops they can be in there for at least an hour," she explained.
"We want to give people time to get the stuff and have a nice experience. We are almost sold out and only have four tickets left for two-hour time slots then they are gone. We plan to open from Thursday to Sunday."
Anastasia has plans for the store and cafe once it gets going in the next few months. She would like to look at moving closer to the city centre and also, holding events in the cafe.
"There isn't really anywhere to go if you are a younger person in the evenings so we are going to do event nights as well maybe once a month. At the moment, teenagers can go to parks, town or bowling but there aren't many meeting places that are safe to hang out in where they feel welcome to gather. Sometimes people don't want to drink but they still want to get out of the house and socialise which they can do here."
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During the past 18 months there has been steady improvement at three Chinese factories that make iPhones and other Apple products, reports The Associated Press today. Other oppressive conditions cited have been improved and listed in the report from the Fair Labor Association. Although Apple has met 99 percent of the work conditions, long hours give it a failing report.
In an effort to raise work standards from the inhumane sweatshops reports of Apple’s supplier, the Cupertino, Calif. based company joined the Fair Labor Association last year as part of their efforts to improve the situation.
Foxconn Technology Group doesn’t comply with Chinese labor law by allowing some factory workers to exceed limits on hours even as the Apple Inc. assembler met the other conditions set by the monitoring group.
Restrictions on overtime were broken because labor shortages and employee turnover forced remaining staff to work longer hours to meet production targets, the Fair Labor Association said in a report yesterday. The group inspected assembly lines at the maker of iPhones and iPads for 15 months after releasing its initial audit in March 2012.
They made extensive strides in progress which is noted by Auret van Heerden, president of the Washington-based labor group. ‘Because of Foxconn’s weight in the labor market, anything they do tend to have a market-setting aspect to it. The government’s limit of 49 hours a week was always a very ambitious goal. They made phenomenal progress in getting to an average of about 52, 53 hours a week,’ said van Heerden.
Excessively long work schedules remain a problem, however. The FLA says more than half of the 170,000 employees at the Foxconn factories exceeded China's legal limit of 36 monthly overtime hours from March through October. Apple’s worker’s average work week of 53 hours is well below industry norms.
In its final verification report, completed last month, Foxconn was found to comply with 356 of 360 action items, or about 99 percent, with the four remaining issues all related to work hours, the FLA said. While progress has been made, three factories aren’t complying with Chinese labor law, it said due to those hours of over time in question.
Even as conditions at the Foxconn factories plants improve, there are recurring complaints about abuses at other Chinese facilities that make Apple products.
China Labor Watch, a non-profit group that monitors Chinese factories, said in a recent report that it uncovered a wide range of violations during an examination of factories in Shanghai and Suzhou run by Apple contractor Pegatron Corp. The problems included sexual discrimination, excessive working hours, poor living conditions and pollution.
FLA expects Apple to continue pushing Foxconn to pare the amount of time that Foxconn employees work.
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wonders why no one thought about this all this while. Yes, Hyundai Motor Group
has developed a new centre side airbag, further enhancing the safety of its
vehicles. The airbag works to separate the space between driver and passenger.
The Group will roll out the technology in upcoming vehicles.
present cars have all kinds of airbags for the front driver and passenger-
front, side, knee, etc. But the space between the driver and the co passenger
in the front row was never seriously considered.
new, additional airbag expands into the space between driver and passenger
seats to prevent head injuries of passengers in the front row. If there is no
one in the front passenger seat, the airbag will protect the driver from side
collision coming from the right side. The centre side airbag is installed
inside the driver’s seat and will deploy once the impact is sensed.
new centre side airbag is expected to diminish head injuries caused by
passengers colliding with each other by 80%. According to the European
Automobile Manufacturers’ Association’s statistics, the rate of secondary
damage caused by these kinds of collisions or from hitting interior materials
is about 45%.
Group has applied newly patented technology to maintain reliability but reduce the
weight and size of the airbag.
has an internal component called tether which allows the airbag to maintain its
form and withstand the passenger’s weight. Hyundai Motor Group has developed a
new technology to simplify the design and reduce the weight of component
produce an airbag which is about 500g lighter than the competing products.
Thanks to the smaller size of the airbag, the Group’s design teams will have
more flexibility in the type of seat design they envision for future products.
Euro NCAP is expected to include side impact into its consideration beginning
year 2020 and Hyundai Motor Group’s airbag is expected to work favorably in
Source: Hyundai Motor Group
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A growing number of Comcast customers, whose data use surpasses the arbitrary limits set by the cable company, are getting hit with added charges.
According to a story Thursday from Bloomberg, Comcast is testing metered Internet use in a growing number of cities, including Atlanta, Nashville and Miami. In those places, “customers who exceed 300 gigabytes a month — the equivalent of streaming high-definition video five hours a day, by one estimate — pay $10 more for additional increments of 50 gigabytes,” Bloomberg reported.
Drink some Chamomile tea before reading on. It’s apt to boil the blood. Comcast says the plan for usage-based billing is about “fairness.” Not all users consume the same amount of data, so why should those who occasionally check e-mail or Facebook pay as much as the person who binges daily on Netflix?
Of course. Simple. Protecting consumer interests is how the cable guys fostered so much good will. Be that as it may, read a little further into the story and Bloomberg quotes an analyst who says Comcast’s flirtation with metered pricing is “an insurance policy against cord-cutting.” He said the company is trying to safeguard its business model.
So, just as services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu begin to present consumers value for their entertainment dollars, cable providers saddle them with new fees. Then comes the double whammy. The higher data costs make Netflix and Amazon Prime more expensive to access and a little less attractive.
But help may be on the way. On Wednesday came word that a new service called Starry Internet plans to deliver wireless broadband for far less money than the cost of a cable subscription. Starry is operated by Chet Kanojia, the man who founded the ill-fated Aereo.
A few years ago, Aereo took on the television industry by connecting consumers to millions of tiny TV antennas via the Web. Users could then watch over-the-air TV broadcasts on laptops without having to pay cable fees. Aereo put up a good fight, but in 2014 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled the company violated copyright law. Soon after, Aereo was forced to shut down.
Kanojia lost that one, but in several extended conversations with him years ago, I learned he believes that traditional delivery of entertainment is vulnerable, ripe for the picking, and technological advancement has made it so. He’s the kind of guy who believes consumers are best served when there’s competition in a market. He’s the kind of guy who knows how to disrupt. Here’s hoping he or someone else supplies the public with an attractive alternative to cable.


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Ferrari’s replacement for the vaunted LaFerrari won’t arrive until after 2022, and not to worry, it should likely pack an even more sizzling version of the V-12 hybrid powertrain.
At an investor meeting this week in Maranello, chief marketing officer Enrico Galliera said Ferrari is developing the next hypercar using part of a $4.2 billion budget earmarked between now and 2022. While that car will continue to be the "apex of performance and technological innovation" in the vein of the 950-hp LaFerrari—the fastest Ferrari C/D has ever tested in our 63 years—it's unlikely to pack a pure electric powertrain. CEO Louis Camilleri said that Ferrari is considering electric drive for its future product but is more insistent on a broad, company-wide shift to hybrids and plug-in hybrids that eventually will make up 60 percent of its lineup by 2022. During the meeting, Ferrari presented a slide entitled "Ferrari Music" showing a line graph of the exact tonal curves its engines produce from bass to tenor to soprano. That should be enough of a clue.
Because Ferrari is still a low-volume manufacturer, it has greater leeway than major automakers to continue refining large-displacement engines like its 6.5-liter V-12 and keep them in compliance with tightening emissions standards. Ferrari sold approximately 8400 cars worldwide in 2017. Once Maranello tops 10,000, a threshold that will no longer exempt it from the latest regulations in many markets, the engineering challenge to retain these classic engines will be much tougher.
But executives promised the V-12 will at least remain in production through 2022, if not longer, along with a "significant increase" in average retail prices for all of its cars over the next five years. More expensive Ferraris than now? Anyone could have predicted that.


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India’s agricultural industry is a market ready for innovation. Over the last 50 years the country has seen its agricultural productivity grow at a phenomenal rate, outpacing even its population growth. Now, the nation is the world’s second largest producer of fruits and vegetables, as well as contributing a fifth of the world’s rice supply and 13% of its wheat. The sector’s significance is felt domestically as well as internationally, with around 60% of the nation’s population reliant on agriculture. Yet there is a disconnect, with the sector’s hefty size being betrayed by its struggles with productivity. Among the problems include the consistently slow integration of technological advancements into existing processes, something that sets the nation apart at a time where economies around the world are putting digitisation at the heart of expansion plans.
Many processes continue to rely on manual labour and personal choice – meaning the margin of error is widened, volatility in prices is common and often crop yields are lower than in other countries. A lack of supply chain transparency and inconsistency in food prices has meant the industry is weighed down by inefficiency, and calls are rising for widespread change to bring stability and profit to the fore. Sure enough, there are companies wading into the field to ensure those changes are made, and a new landscape seems to be on the horizon for the nation’s food sector.
The rise of tech
According to a PRS Legislative Research report from 2016, key issues identified as affecting India’s agricultural productivity included; ‘continued dependence on the monsoon, inadequate access to irrigation, imbalanced use of soil nutrients’ and ‘uneven access to modern technology’. Yet the tides have been turning to welcome a new influx of tech deals and investment over the last few years.
In AgFunder’s 2020 Farmtech investment report, it found that in 2019 India recorded the second highest number of deals after the US, with the majority of this going towards marketplaces, farmer to consumer brands, farmer platforms, and rural fintech.
“It saw an 87% year-on-year funding growth, from $133 million to $249 million in 2019,” the report reads.
The region has also been the recipient of funding injections from some major players such as Google and Microsoft. Last year Google announced its $10bn investment, seeking to ‘leverag[e] technology and AI’ in service of progressing industries such as health, education and agriculture. Microsoft also announced its own pledge last year, launching a program for agtech startups in India that are ‘committed to driving transformation in agriculture’.
An environment of technological opportunity is thus being fostered, and startups in the country are beginning to gain traction, with a 2019 NASSCOM report saying agricultural startups are growing at a rate of 25% every year. The country now boasts hundreds of these firms, all of which focus on resolving the plethora of issues currently faced in the industry. Apps that use AI and IoT are being developed to monitor and improve crop and soil quality, while data analytics and machine learning tools are being harnessed to address supply chain issues. With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing many processes online, further digitisation is on the cards for the nation.
So who are some of the companies leading the charge? We take a look.
Making tech their business
B2B online platform Onato is making waves in the country’s fruit and vegetable industry – a sector that the group’s founders estimate is worth over $100bn per year. Only this week, the group announced it had raised $2.2m in seed funding from investors Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, as well as local agrifoodtech firm Omnivore, to help develop its platform and accelerate widespread rollout.
Based out of Bangalore, the company – which launched in February this year – was established to connect suppliers and buyers of produce across India, enabling greater supply chain transparency and price security. In a statement, founder Vedant Katiyar said;
“More than 60% of the population of India is dependent on agriculture, and yet tech penetration in the agri-supply chain is quite low. Decision making is mostly intuition-driven, which leads to a lot of volatility in prices and wastage.”
The platform seeks to remedy this issue through the use of protected data, offering a framework for decision making, and keeping communication between buyers and sellers secure. The promise of protecting such supply chains against instability and fluctuation drew the attention of investors, and Kanika Mayar, executive director of Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, said in a statement that “most of India’s fresh supply moves through inefficient supply chains due to fragmented volumes, arbitrary pricing, and complex credit management.”
“Onato aims to solve these critical bottlenecks, and we are excited to partner with Vedant and Ashish [in] their mission,” Mayar added.
A similar venture is that from Intello Labs, which earlier this month announced the launch of its produce trade exchange platform ‘Praman’. This new tool allows for online assessment and auctioning of agricultural commodities. The platform is anticipated to reach a monthly gross transaction value of $100 million within the next two quarters, making it the largest agri-trade exchange in India. Such a system is seen as greatly needed in the industry as manual grading systems are typically seen as inadequate and giving rise to significant disparities in prices of produce.
While we’re not seeing total industry reform yet, the conditions are ripe for change, and the rising tide of investment into India’s agricultural startups holds promise that the nation could soon be casting aside the issues that have previously held it back from reaching full potential. With technologies increasingly adapting to meet agricultural needs, supply chains are tightening up and India’s resulting development will be one worth watching.


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The update was released just four days after the House of Representatives approved an amendment to a spending bill that would allow all military service members to use products containing hemp and its derivatives including cannabidiol.
In its new Friday memo, the Navy clarified that “use” of banned products “includes the use of topical products containing hemp, such as shampoos, conditioners, lotions, lip balms, or soaps.” That language did not appear in either of its earlier hemp policy notices, including one released earlier this month.
It’s not clear what’s behind the rule’s expansion, but military branches have been consistently warning service members about consuming hemp-derived cannabinoids despite the crop’s federal legalization under the 2018 Farm Bill.
They’ve expressed concerns that, because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not currently regulate commercially available CBD products, there’s a risk of mislabeling and members inadvertently taking a product that contains excess THC that could show up on a drug test.


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Indonesia's cocoa output expected to shrink this year due to rain
The output of the commodity is estimated to drop by 10 percent this year, compared with that of 400,000 tons last year, Sindra Wijaya, director executive of the country's cocoa association said here on Friday.
"This year's output will resume decline. It is caused by rain that is more frequent," he said.
Cocoa production also dropped last year after El Nino weather phenomenon hit the country, Wijaya added. The decline may hamper downstream industry in the country, he added.
Indonesia is the world's third largest producer of cocoa after Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana.
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Walmart beats Street, ups outlook amid higher U.S. sales, online grocery growth
Walmart posted its 20th consecutive quarter of U.S. sales gains in its second quarter, along with a top and bottom line that topped analysts’ expectations.
Net income rose to $3.61 billion, or $1.26 per share, in the period ended July 26, compared with a net loss of $861 million, or 29 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Excluding one-time items, Walmart earned $1.27 a share. Analysts had expected $1.22 a share.
Total revenues rose 1.8% to $130.38 billion, topping expectations for sales of $130.11 billion. Sales in the U.S. rose 2.9% to $85.20 billion.
Same-store U.S. sales rose 2.8%, ahead of expectations. On a two-year stacked basis, U.S. comp sales were up 7.3%, the strongest growth in more than 10 years. Transactions edged up 0.6% during the quarter, compared with a 2.7% increase a year ago. The average ticket rose 2.2%, compared to a 1.8% increase a year ago.
E-commerce sales rose 37%, in line with last year, which the company partially credited to strong online growth in grocery. Walmart has been steadily expanding its next-day delivery and it now covers about 75% of the U.S. population. More than 2,700 Walmart stores now offer pickup for online grocery orders, and more than 1,100 locations offer same-day delivery for groceries.
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MERRILLVILLE, Ind. – Northern Indiana Public Service Company LLC, or NIPSCO, is raising its natural gas rates starting Sept. 1.
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At the show, Encee built a fifty-two square meter booth with four open display sides, two large ZW3D background palates, and six laptops for hands-on demonstrations. There was much curiosity over the new software as numerous visitors attended the booth during the four days of exhibition. New customers were delighted to discover the extent of the capabilities of ZW3D, and were even more surprised by the great price. People who had already heard about ZW3D and former VX customers were very excited about the new software. Particularly, they commented on how the new features of TransMagic, Partsolution, and Turning will be able to aid them in their designs.
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Starting today, U.S. -based users who want "early access to the collaboration" can start talking to Cortana via their Echo devices and to Alexa on Windows 10 devices and Harman Kardon Invoke speakers, which are powered by Cortana.
The Register has contacted Microsoft to find out when the world outside of America can experience the joy of ignoring Cortana through an Echo device the same way they do now on a Windows 10 PC, and will update if a response is forthcoming.
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It's been a long time coming, but Microsoft's Cortana and Amazon's Alexa are finally working together.
After all, the advent of Alexa for Business means that Microsoft likely needs Amazon more than the other way around. Microsoft says the integration will start rolling out to customers Wednesday and will reach all USA customers within days.
Such a future would likely require support from rival voice assistants like Apple's Siri, Samsung's Bixby and the Google Assistant, none of which have shown much movement towards cooperation in the 12 months since Amazon and Microsoft's partnership was first announced. To summon Alexa on a Windows 10 computer, it's the other way around: say "Cortana, open Alexa" to play Jeopardy, add items to your shopping list, check your Amazon order status or to control your smart home devices. "Engineers will use feedback from the public preview to deepen the collaboration between Cortana and Alexa".
I guess Microsoft execs may look at the Cortana-Alexa integration as a way to make up for Cortana's huge skills gap compared to Alexa.


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Guy Chazan at the Financial Times: “Angela Merkel has urged Europe to seize control of its data from Silicon Valley tech giants, in an intervention that highlights the EU’s growing willingness to challenge the US dominance of the digital economy.
The German chancellor said the EU should claim “digital sovereignty” by developing its own platform to manage data and reduce its reliance on the US-based cloud services run by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. “So many companies have just outsourced all their data to US companies,” Ms Merkel told German business leaders. “I’m not saying that’s bad in and of itself — I just mean that the value-added products that come out of that, with the help of artificial intelligence, will create dependencies that I’m not sure are a good thing.”
Her speech, at an employers’ conference in Berlin, shows the extent to which the information economy is emerging as a battleground in the EU-US trading relationship. It also highlights the concern in European capitals that the EU could be weakened by the market dominance of the big US tech companies, particularly in the business of storing, processing and analysing data.
Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s powerful competition chief who is now also to oversee EU digital policy, last month told the Financial Times that she was examining whether large internet companies could be held to higher standards of proof in competition cases, as part of a tougher line on dominant companies, such as Google.
Ms Merkel was speaking just two weeks after Berlin unveiled plans for a European cloud computing initiative, dubbed Gaia-X, which it has described as a “competitive, safe and trustworthy data infrastructure for Europe”.
At the conference on Tuesday, Peter Altmaier, economy minister, said the data of companies such as Volkswagen, and that of the German interior ministry and social security system, were increasingly stored on the servers of Microsoft and Amazon. “And in this we are losing part of our sovereignty,” he added….(More)”.


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Two companies based in Minnesota can say they're among the most admired firms in the country, after making it onto Fortune magazine's annual rankings.
3M and Target make Fortune's "All-Star" list of the top 50 most admired companies in the U.S., with Maplewood-based 3M ranked 23rd and Minneapolis' Target in 44th (two spots behind Walmart – boo).
3M made it back into the top 50 after previously dropping out, and one of the companies making way was Wells Fargo, which dropped off the list after a terrible year in which it was revealed it had been opening new accounts on behalf of customers without their knowledge.
Also dropping out of the top 50 is Samsung, whose exploding Galaxy 7 notepads has seen its reputation take a serious hit among industry bigwigs.
Why 3M and Target ranked highly
Candidates for the list are initially identified by their revenue to identify the most successful companies in each industry, and then ranked based on feedback from the country's executives, directors and analysts.
Other Minnesota-linked companies mentioned in the rankings include Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank, which came first in the "Most admired super-regional bank" category but didn't crack the top 50, while Delta Air Lines ranked 31st overall.
3M scored highly among industry experts for its innovation within the medical products equipment field, ranking number one in the industry in a year it opened a $150 million research and development center on its Maplewood campus. It also ranked first for "financial soundness."
Target meanwhile got its highest score in the "social responsibility" category, ranking first among general merchandise companies, and also scored highly for quality of products, innovation and people management.
For the 10th year in a row, the most admired companies list was topped by tech giant Apple, which finished ahead of Amazon, Starbucks, Berkshire Hathaway and Disney.


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Digital TV News: Screen Digest
Inverto to unveil Unicable II LNB & Switch
Apr 3, 2014 – INVERTO has announced the availability of Unicable II, a new Unicable multi-switch and Low Noise Block (LNB) products, with up to 24 User Bands. The products conform to CENELEC standards EN50494 and EN50607.
News categories: INVERTO, Gil Laifer, LNB, Satellite, Worldwide
Technicolor reaches 300 million CPEs milestone
Apr 2, 2014 – Technicolor (Paris: TCH; OTCQX: TCLRY) has shipped its 300 millionth CPE. In 2013, Technicolor shipped 32.5 million CPEs to its diversified customer base around the world.
News categories: Technicolor, Pascal Portelli, CPE, Market Research, Worldwide
Cisco reaches over 100 million digital TV homes in Asia Pacific
Oct 17, 2013 – In the digital television (TV) industry in Asia Pacific, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the leading provider of conditional access (CA) and digital rights management (DRM), securing content that is delivered to more than 100 million digital homes in the region.
News categories: Cisco Systems, Sue Taylor, Asia, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DRM, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers
Sony to show 4K Ultra HD at MIPTV
Apr 3, 2013 – As part of its 50th anniversary theme of Screening the Future, MIPTV has partnered with Sony Corporation to present what will be the next game-changing innovation in television's evolution, ultra-high-definition. MIPTV will take place in Cannes, 8-11 April 2013.
News categories: MIPTV, Sony Corp, Broadcasting, Content Distribution
Multimedia Home Gateway Shipments Set to Surge a Hundredfold by 2015
Mar 11, 2013 – Global shipments of multimedia home gateways are expected to rise by a factor of more than 100 from 2011 to 2015 as pay-TV operators seek to unify the delivery of different forms of video content to all types of devices in homes, according to an IHS Screen Digest report.
News categories: Screen Digest, Digital TV, Gateway, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart Home
22 of 27 EU countries implement analogue TV switch-off by end-2012
Mar 11, 2013 – The Yearbook recently published by the European Audiovisual Observatory showed that the year 2012 was a significant watershed for digital terrestrial television in the European Union with a total of 22 EU member States having hit the recommended digital switchover deadline.
News categories: European Audiovisual Observatory, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Digital TV, EU, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Market Research, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Terrestrial, Turkey
30 million digital cable TV subscribers in Europe
Mar 5, 2013 – At Cable Congress 2013, Cable Europe has announced data from IHS Screen Digest that shows 5.5% top-line cable revenue growth across Europe, representing nearly €1bn in new revenues for 2012. The number of Digital TV subscribers also rose 9.2% to 30.5 million, up from 28 million at the end of 2011.
News categories: Cable Europe, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, Market Research, Subscribers
Global 3-D Market Flourishes Across Cinema, Home Video and TV VoD Platforms
Dec 20, 2012 – The global 3-D consumer market is thriving in a dynamic environment marked by clear and discernible growth across its major platforms, including cinema, home video and pay-TV video on demand, according to an IHS Screen Digest report.
News categories: Screen Digest, Blu-ray, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, VR
OTT Providers Must Address Delivery Network Access to Remain Competitive
Sep 18, 2012 – A detailed analysis by IHS (NYSE: IHS) reveals that the costs of OTT rises to uncompetitive levels when such services are scaled up to meet the demands of large numbers of the average TV-viewing public.
News categories: Screen Digest, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Market Research, OTT
- Synamedia launches addressable advertising solution
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- FOX News launches international D2C streaming service
- Ten carriers in Germany and Austria choose Ocilion for IPTV
- BluTV DTH launches in Brazil on EUTELSAT 65 West A
- Viya TV+ launches in the US Virgin Islands with Mirada
- OTT TV and video revenues at $83 billion in 2019
- 41.4% of TVs in Latin America are Smart
- DISH Network pay TV subscribers down 51,000 in 2Q 2020
- Pirate subscription TV services now a billion-dollar U.S. industry
- PAOK FC OTT platform built with Insys Sport on AWS
- SLING TV in-app guide integrates local OTA channels on LG Smart TVs
- Conviva releases State of Streaming Q2 report
- Stay-at-home providing springboard for French SVOD
- Survata announces enhanced CTV measurement suite
- Ofcom releases Media Nations 2020 report
- RADIO.COM expands connected TV footprint with Vewd
- NAGRA multi-DRM selected for Grupo Express OTT service in Argentina
- V-Nova and NETINT collaborate on MPEG-5 LCEVC transcoding
- ViacomCBS to launch connected video ad platform


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By further collaborating and leveraging new technologies, all three companies were able to achieve the first phase milestones – and support future development in the air cargo supply chain. These include the development of a respective ONE Record server by Qatar Airways Cargo and CHAMP, ONE Record server integration, data model alignment based on IATA guidelines, a customized security layer adoption, and exchange of AWB data between both servers. This phase of the pilot kicked off in February 2020 and was completed in September 2020.
Guillaume Halleux, Chief Officer Cargo at Qatar Airways Cargo said: “Digitalization is one of the key pillars of our strategy and we are modernizing all our processes to ensure efficiency, data accuracy and enhanced customer experience. I am positive that IATA’s initiative will yield many returns as it unlocks the possibilities of a full digital air cargo industry where airlines, their partners and service providers can work collaboratively.“
“We are proud to not only support the work of IATA – but also pull in other players in the air cargo supply chain to push the envelope of innovation,” says Michael Blaufuss, SVP Air Freight at Agility. “With ONE Record, our data will have a whole new level of accuracy and benefit. We are excited to be pioneering this new frontier.”
“It is a historic moment for all three of these organizations,” said Nicholas Xenocostas, Vice President, Commercial & Customer Engagement at CHAMP Cargosystems. “We have found that the IATA ONE Record concept is not only practical – but will also benefit the immediate stakeholders and industry to a greater extent.”


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According to the latest news, Samsung has announced its Neo QLED, micro-LED, and lifestyle TV display panels at the virtual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021 event. The company mentioned that it has specially designed Neo QLED for upcoming 8K and 4K TVs from the brand. On the other hand, the 88 inches, 99 inches, and 110 inches MicroLED panels are designed consumer TVs.
The company revealed that the Neo QLED panel is based on mini LED backlighting technology that features smaller LEDs. These small LEDs can focus light on a smaller area. The LED panel is equipped with LEDs that are up to 40 times smaller than conventional LEDs with full-array backlighting. The company said the display panel offers precise backlighting control, improved HDR, higher contrast, and better brightness. This is made possible by adding more LEDs in a smaller area.
Samsung mentioned that the Neo QLED panels are powered by Neo Quantum Processor for AI upscaling. Neo Quantum Processor is an image processor. There are as many as 16 neural networks that upscale image quality to the native resolution of the panel.
The Neo QLED panel is specially designed for Samsung’s QN900A 8K and QN90A 4K models. The company noted that the upcoming TVs that will feature these Neo QLED panels will offer features like super-slim bezels, 21:9 to 32:9 aspect ratio, a new audio system with object tracking and spatial optimization, and much more.
On the other hand, TVs with MicroLED panels are solely targeted at business. The MicroLED panels will have self-emitting LEDs for each pixel and there will be no requirement for backlights. The company claims these MiucroLED panels will be better than OLED panels. The newly designed MicroLED panels will offer accurate black levels and high brightness. With the Multi View feature, users will be able to view content from four different sources at the same time.


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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — The latest recalls from Hyundai and Nissan impact some 625,000 cars manufactured between 2013 and 2015.
The Nissan recall is by far the largest. The automaker is recalling 625,000 more cars in the U.S. as part of a growing problem with faulty latches that can allow hoods to fly open while cars are moving. This latest recall covers Altima midsize cars from the 2013 through 2015 model years. It brings the total number of vehicles recalled for the problem to nearly 1.1 million.READ MORE: 'Fire Hose' Of Subtropical Moisture Bearing Down On Northern California
Nissan says in government documents that if the main hood latch isn’t fastened, the secondary latch may not hold the hood closed as designed.
Nissan previously recalled 238,000 Altimas from 2013 for the same problem, as well as 216,000 Nissan Pathfinders from 2013 and 2014, Infiniti JX35s from 2013 and QX60s from 2014.
The company is still investigating the problem and could recall even more vehicles. They still haven’t finalized a fix for the problem.READ MORE: Kid-Size Doses Of Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine More Than 90% Effective
Hyundai is recalling more than 26,000 Genesis luxury cars in the U.S. and Canada to fix a water leak that can cause the transmission gear shifter to malfunction.
The recall covers cars from the 2015 model year. Water can leak into the rear light assembly. In rare cases that can cause delays in gear shifting or display the wrong gear on the instrument panel. The gear selector is connected electrically to the rear lights.
Hyundai says in government documents that the incorrect gear can increase the risk of the cars moving unexpectedly and causing a crash. The company says it has no reports of any crashes or injuries from the problem.MORE NEWS: Support Builds for KPIX Reporter Targeted in YouTuber's Racist Remarks
Dealers will install pads to stop the water leak at no cost to the owners. Hyundai will notify owners starting in April.


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The Official Merlin twitter account have announced that the will be an announcement in five days time. Leading up to then they will be revealing one clue a day on their ow.ly account. All five pictures are already up thou, are we looking at promotional photos for the game scheduled to be out this year?
Something MAGICAL is unfolding in the world of Camelot in 5 days - what do you think it could be? ow.ly/i/H1vN— Merlin Official (@MerlinOfficial) June 13, 2012


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Whole Foods' retail locations could also help Amazon make last-mile grocery deliveries.
Fitzgerald, who has a buy rating on the stock with a 12-month price target of $1,150 (16% upside from the current share price), suggests that Amazon could even offer a special 1-hour grocery delivery service. (ROST), Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Mergermarket's Lim says the first challenge for Amazon is how to successfully run a physical supermarket chain.
In order to shop, customers download the free Amazon Go app, and swipe their phone screens to scan a QR code as they enter the store through sleek turnstiles. A year and a half ago, Mackey says he had a dream that Amazon boughtWhole Foods Market, and he told his wife about it when he woke up that morning.
Experts note that most Whole Foods shoppers are already familiar with Amazon and are lining up for what could be a smooth transition. Amazon swallows up whole foods in a monster move, that will cost close to 14 billion dollars. "We just had these big grins on our faces, like, 'These guys are awesome'".
Drew Herdener, an Amazon spokesman, said in a statement the company has "no plans to use no-checkout technology to automate the jobs of cashiers at Whole Foods and no job reductions are planned".
Jefferies'Brian Fitzgerald provides some more in-depth analysis of the strategy behind the deal: We believe the WFM (Hold) acquisition would give a boost to AMZN's efforts with Fresh which was launched 10 years ago and operates in 20 metro areas in the USA and overseas. Amazon's resources and technology might help expand those stores, some analysts say. Pachter said Amazon might get customers over those fears if they know the delivered items are the same as those they would find at the local store.
The deal was set in motion when Mackey and fellow executives Jason Buechel, Ken Meyer and David Lannon flew up to Amazon's Seattle headquarters, according to a transcript of a town-hall meeting held Friday with employees.
He said the two companies are now "engaged", but still need to wait until the transaction gets regulatory approval and is made official. Whole Foods has seen its sales slump and recently announced a board shake-up and cost-cutting plan amid pressure from activist investor Jana Partners. But based on Mackey's stirring testimony, it would take an terrible lot to make star-crossed lovers out of Amazon and Whole Foods.
Mackey compared the relationship to an "old traditional marriage, where there are all kinds of rules and chaperones".


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ISLAMABAD (July 21 2005): The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has restored the exemption of customs duty on import of computer parts, withdrawn in 2005-06 budget.
According to a notification issued on Wednesday the zero-percent customs duty would be applicable on the import of processor, motherboard, hard drive, CD rom drive, floppy disk drive, key board, mouse, flash drive, RAM, VGA card and built in modem.
The CBR has amended SRO 567(I)/2005 to notify the exemption of computer parts at serial number 61 (PCT heading 8471.000) of the new notification.
Fifteen percent customs duty will be applicable on the import of blankets (acrylic) PCT heading 6301.4000.
The CBR has also notified the list of pharmaceutical packing and raw material, if approved by the Ministry of Health for in-house use in the manufacture of specific pharmaceutical substances. According to Table-II of the notification, 5-10 percent customs duty would be applicable on different types of pharmaceutical grades depending on the PCT heading.
As per notification, the exemption of customs duty on the import of waste and scrap of iron steel; waste and scrap of alloy steel; other waste and scrap, turnings, shavings, chips, milling waste saw dust, filings, trimmings and stampings, whether or not in bundles; other re-rollable and re-meltable scrap and vessels and other floating structures for breaking up would be applicable from June 15, 2005.
The exemption of customs duty on the import of wheat flour and raw cane sugar/raw beat sugar would be applicable from July 8, 2005 onwards.


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Healthcare for smokers in the state costs about $27billion a yr, Ms D’Ath says, while nationwide, the ever-growing tax on cigarettes brings in just $17billion. The research is the first to look on the link between the devices and coronavirus instances in young individuals using inhabitants-based data collected during the pandemic. Experts warned that Disposable Vape devices are attractive to youngsters because they are often brightly coloured, Vape Starter Kits low-cost and contain fruity flavours.
The campaign warned young people of the dangers and Disposable Vape challenged the concept vaping is okay just because it’s healthier than smoking cigarettes. Vapes work through the use of electricity to heat the e-liquid, which is made of chemicals and often incorporates nicotine, Cheap Vape Sale to deliver a vapour which is inhaled into the lungs in a similar way to tobacco cigarettes. Australian scientists found that smoking just three cigarettes can set off a flurry of elevated exercise within the part of the genome that codes for a protein often called ACE2.
Ewan Fisher, 19, from Nottingham, has been left with the lungs of an 80-year-outdated lifelong smoker after vaping for simply six months in an attempt to surrender cigarettes. Nicotine, the energetic, addictive, Vape Mods stimulant ingredient in both cigarettes and lots of e-cigs, is well-known to stimulate the expression of those ACE2, which can imply vapers are at better threat, too, despite controversial (And now largely dismissed) research that advised nicotine might need a protecting effect towards COVID-19.
Other analysis has shown nearly all nicotine-utilizing young people vape stores – and some additionally smoke cigarettes. Smoking might alter genes in a way that creates extra cellular entry points for coronavirus, new research suggests. He known as for more analysis into vaping use and a larger give attention to the regulation of emerging merchandise to ‘keep retaining younger people protected from e-cigarettes’. Using nicotine products amongst young people was additionally raised in a single submission.
Professor Andrew Bush, a paediatric respirologist at Imperial College London, Disposable Vape said: ‘These things have not been round lengthy enough for us to be complacent about them.