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As reported by Gartner, the Mobile phone sales will certainly account for 46% of all mobile phone sales globally by 2013. By 2013, touchscreen mobile tools will certainly account for 58 percent of all mobile gadget sales around the world as well as a lot more than 80 percent in industrialized markets such as North America as well as Western Europe.
These Mobile phone tools offer even more energy and also enjoyment than conventional smart phones. Customers have lots of tools from which to pick, whether it is a multimedia giant, a messaging device, or a social networking device. It is for that reason anticipated that the need for converged smart phones will certainly remain to expand faster than the total smart phone market.
* They have continuous, nonstop accessibility to the web via mobile information solutions like the GPRS (basic package radio solutions) and also 3G. You can download and install information from the net, attach to the workplace intranet in addition to any kind of computer system to send out, obtain or integrate information.
In The United States and Canada, nevertheless, the increase is a lot more famous. Throughout the very same duration, sales for smart devices raised by 106%. That suggests their sales greater than increased in contrast to the very first quarter sales of 2007.
* The majority of mobile phones are made it possible for with general practitioner (Gps) that aid in navigating. They utilize real-time or preinstalled maps and also satellite imaging to aid an individual get to any type of location anywhere without asking his method around.
Cellphone provided individuals boosted flexibility as well as far better network insurance coverage without cords. Individuals required for extra on their mobile phones which had currently come to be a crucial device. The cellular phone mobile phone producers brought out premium smart phones that integrated the capability of a computer system and also worked like a full amusement equipment.
In the initial 3 months of 2008, several components of the marketplace saw substantial jumps in sales for these tools. Even more than 11.7 million smart devices were offered huawei soldes ete from January via March in Europe, Africa, as well as the Center East. That was up nearly 40% over the previous year’s initial quarter outcomes.
* The vital to opening Mobile is to make use of its one-of-a-kind anytime/anywhere enablement of details exchange. Mobile phones are actually wise and also they are being significantly utilized for recreation, organization and also purchasing tasks.
Still at the leading edge of mobile phone sales, Nokia isn’t going to be left out of the mobile phone race. These Smart device tools supply even more energy and also amusement than typical mobile phones. It is consequently anticipated that the need for converged mobile gadgets will certainly proceed to expand faster than the total mobile phone market.
* Smartphones are positioned for significant development in sales over the following couple of years. It is time to begin assuming concerning one if you do not have currently had a mobile approach.
In the past our cellphones were just for making phone call. Today, even more people desire our smart phones to be totally packed with every possible attribute: Web access, MP3 abilities, general practitioner navigating, e-mail tools. As these supposed smart devices end up being significantly preferred, some are anticipating 2008 will certainly be the year they go mainstream.
As reported by Gartner, the Smart device sales will certainly represent 46% of all cellphone sales globally by 2013. The globally market for touchscreen mobile phones will certainly go beyond 362.7 million systems in 2010, a 96.8 percent boost from 2009 sales of 184.3 million systems, according to Gartner, Inc. By 2013, touchscreen smart phones will certainly make up 58 percent of all mobile phone sales globally and also greater than 80 percent in established markets such as The United States and Canada and also Western Europe.
Equally as the 3G apple iphone was preparing to make an extremely prepared for launch around the globe this July, the cellphone sector launched its most current data on the mobile phones as well as their influence on the marketplace. According to Gartner, Inc, mobile phone sales have actually enhanced worldwide by almost 30% simply given that 2007.
The craze over smart devices really did not begin in 2008. Within its initial year, the initial apple iphone marketed 5 million devices in spite of being offered just in the United States as well as pick components of Europe.
Therefore the opportunities of advancement in the area of smart device software application growth are limitless and also in order to lead the competitors it is essential that companies involve with companions which can sustain them with the transforming landscape of Smart device.
* It isn’t almost applications. There are large selections of mobile advertising and marketing tasks that can function well for your brand name.
Despite the fact that the apple iphone isn’t the only mobile phone on the marketplace, its success has actually plainly opened up the eyes of various other mobile suppliers regarding the wants and needs of customers. While mobile phones, like those developed by Blackberry, were as soon as thought about just preferable by on-the-go organization experts, customers today appear to enjoy the suggestion of being frequently attached to the globe around them. They desire information, amusement, interaction, songs, and also navigating all involved a solitary, streamlined bundle.
Software application advancement business are taking on each various other to create more recent applications as well as widgets on these software application systems. YouTube for mobile, streaming information program, barcode viewers, video games are simply a few of the instances of applications created for mobile phones.
And also the very best information for phone manufacturers is that customers plainly do not mind paying additional for these included attributes. Keep in mind the apple iphone initially went for a huge United States $499 for the 4 GB version which was consisting of a price cut for authorizing a 2 year agreement with a company.
* The majority of smart devices incorporate the attributes of Personal organizer (Personal Digital Aide) and also routine mobile phones. You can arrange all your organization as well as individual emails in a smart device.
Still at the center of mobile phone sales, Nokia isn’t going to be left out of the mobile phone race. With integrated General practitioners as well as a great widescreen screen, the phone will certainly fit in well with the competitors.
With the appeal of the apple iphone, it’s not a surprise that cellphone business are mosting likely to be striking the marketplace quickly with their very own mobile phones. Samsung, for instance, is launching the Tocco which is smaller sized as well as thinner than Apple’s version. It permits and also has a touchscreen for the dragging and also going down of widgets for the individual’s benefit.
* The essential chauffeur of mobile development is great gadgets and also quick, cost effective information. They will certainly utilize it … a great deal if individuals have it.


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Lucky Brand Starts Chapter 11 Proceedings, Seeks Sale
Jul 7, 2020 10:46 AM ET
Lucky Brand has started proceedings under Chapter 11 to help pave the way for a sale and decrease its debt load brought about by recent difficulties with the inclusion of the pandemic. The retailer said it has received new financing commitments that will offer enough liquidity to fund it until the sale’s closing, according to an announcement.
Executive Chairman and Interim CEO Matthew A. Kaness said, “We have made many difficult decisions to preserve the Company’s viability during these unprecedented times. After considering all options, the Board has determined that a Chapter 11 filing is the best course of action to optimize the operations and secure the brand’s long-term success.”
Lucky Brand also said it has come into a stalking horse asset purchase agreement with Nautica and Aéropostale brand operator SPARC Group LLC for the sale of most of its operating assets. In addition, the retailer said new Authentic Brands Group LLC subsidiary ABG-Lucky LLC will buy all of its intellectual property assets.
Young, Conway, Stargatt & Taylor, LLP and Latham & Watkins, LLP are serving as the legal counsel of the retailer, while Berkeley Research Group is functioning as its restructuring adviser. Houlihan Lokey Capital, Inc. is functioning as the retailer’s investment banker and financial adviser.
Lucky Brand said the “vast majority” of its online shopping platform, retail locations and wholesale businesses stay open to customers. The retailer also said that it and its advisers will keep looking into possible sale transactions “with other parties to achieve the highest or otherwise best offer for the Company” during Chapter 11.
The news comes as nearly 3,600 companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the first half of this year, representing an increase of 26 percent. The increase occurs as companies fall to the financial ills of COVID-19 and are seeking protection from creditors. There were 2,855 Chapter 11 filings by the conclusion of June last year.

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Get ready to walk! The great urbanist Jane Jacobs advocated for livable, walkable cities, and the Municipal Art Society invites you to do just that during the first weekend in May. MAS’s 9th annual Jane’s Walk weekend, a three-day festival of free, public, volunteer-led walking tours, kicks off Friday, May 3rd. The Jane’s Walk festival is a global event honoring Jane Jacobs’ legacy of urban exploration, local history, and civic engagement. This year, Jane’s Walks will take place in 200 cities around the world, and New Yorkers will have nearly 300 walks to choose from!
6sqft recently covered the controversial proposal by the Alliance for Downtown New York (ADNY), the Department of City Planning (DCP), and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC), to change zoning laws to allow property owners in the Water Street Subdistrict of lower Manhattan–at One New York Plaza, for example–to bring in retail tenants like restaurants and clothing stores in exchange for making improvements and upgrades to the public plazas and arcades adjacent to their buildings. Crains reports that the City Council passed a bill Tuesday that would allow the Financial District landlords to convert the public corridors in front of 20 buildings in the Water Street corridor to retail shops.
The public corridors, which cover ten blocks, were created when the Water Street buildings that abut them were built. Building developers agreed to create the public arcades and walkways in exchange for more buildable square footage.
Whether you consider them “dead-end” corridors devoid of street life or nifty urban shortcuts (or just convenient rain shelters), the city’s covered public walkways and arcades are finding themselves in something of a spotlight, reports the Wall Street Journal.
This recent focus is on the covered walkways that run alongside skyscrapers in the Water Street corridor in lower Manhattan. A proposed zoning change, which would affect property owners in the Water Street Subdistrict, would allow retail to open up shop in these arcades.
Find out why some object to new retail additions
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When tasked with converting this historic brownstone on Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene from an existing four-family residence to a single home for a growing brood, MANIFOLD Architecture Studio (MAS) appears to have focused on the one item that unified the building from the start – the stairway.
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SALT LAKE CITY — All types of plastic bags — from grocery bags to garbage bags — are no longer allowed in Salt Lake City's blue recycling bins.
City officials are gently trying to spread that message, hoping to educate residents about the costly and bothersome impacts plastic bags can have on recycling sorting equipment.
"It jams it up," said Vicki Bennett, Salt Lake City's Sustainability Department director, noting that the sorters have "so many moving parts" that plastic bags gum up the equipment and have to be removed by hand.
Last week, the department posted on Facebook the city will "no longer be able to accept plastic bags" in the curbside bins.
"They get caught on machinery in recycling facilities, cause expensive delays, create significant litter and do not biodegrade," the post states. "Recycling processors around the country are not accepting them anymore, and this directly impacts Salt Lake City's recycling program."
The city has been working toward phasing in the change since last year, and last week marked the beginning of a "soft launch" of the ban from the blue recycling bins.
In addition to grocery bags and garbage bags, dry cleaning bags and other plastic films — such as cling wrap — will no longer be accepted.
"We want people to understand we need their help," Bennett said. "That's the only way any of this is going to work."
Bennett said the city doesn't intend to fine offenders, but if there are households that continue to put plastic bags in their recycling bins, they might get a notice on their bin from the city.
"It's one of those things that's hard," she said, acknowledging some residents might not listen. "We're not the green police."
Instead, city sustainability officials will continue to work to educate residents, Bennett said.
First and foremost, Bennett said her team is urging residents to stop using plastic bags altogether.
"Single-use plastic bags at the grocery store are the most wasteful things in the world," Bennett said.
Park City last year became the first city in Utah to ban plastic bags — though that ban only affects three grocery stores within the city.
Bennett said Salt Lake City officials have studied a ban of plastic bags, but such a law hasn't gained any traction because a Salt Lake City-only ban could be problematic because it could deter grocery stores from locating in the city.
Instead, a statewide law would "make so much more sense," Bennett said.
"We would be so behind that," she said. "Then all the stores would be on even footing, everyone would have the same requirements no matter where you are."
But, Bennett added, "if no one else will step up, maybe we have to look at those options."


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Haig Club Scotch Whisky will hit global markets later this year
April 10, 2014
London-based Diageo plc announced the upcoming global launch of Haig Club Single Grain Scotch Whisky in partnership with professional soccer player David Beckham and British entrepreneur Simon Fuller, who is the founder of XIX Entertainment and creator of the entertainment TV show “American Idol.”
New entity Wirtz Beverage Canada will feature dedicated sales team for Diageo brands
March 3, 2014
London-based Diageo has signed an agreement with Chicago-based distributor Wirtz Beverage Group, a division of Wirtz Corp., making it the exclusive national broker for Diageo’s beer, wine, spirits and ready-to-drink (RTD) brands in Canada.
First releases to include aged Barterhouse and Old Blowhard whiskeys
February 12, 2014
London-based Diageo plc announced the official start of its Orphan Barrel Whiskey Distilling Co. The Tullahoma, Tenn.-based venture aims to locate lost and forgotten barrels of whiskey from around the world and share them with the growing base of whiskey aficionados in the United States, the company says.
Spirits-, beer-, wine-maker sees strong growth in super-, ultra-premium brands
January 30, 2014
Diageo plc, London, reported interim financial results for the six months ended Dec. 31, 2013. Following 2.2 percent growth in the first quarter, net sales grew 1.8 percent in the first half of the fiscal year, supported by 4.6 percent growth in North America, the company reports. Sales in emerging markets also were up 1.3 percent, but were negatively impacted by weakness in China and Nigeria, and sales in Western Europe were down 1 percent, continuing the improvement trend seen in the first quarter.
Premium brand joins Don Julio and DeLeón in tequila portfolio
January 27, 2014
Norwalk, Conn.-based Diageo purchased super-premium tequila brand Peligroso from California-based Peligroso Spirits Co. LLC. This announcement comes three weeks after the company announced a joint venture with rap artist and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs to acquire the luxury tequila brand DeLeón.


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Intel 5th Generation Processors (Broadwell-U) Launched
The long wait is finally over as the chipmaker formally announces the 5th Generation Intel Core processor lineup which includes a total of 14 new processors under the Core i3, i5 and i7, as well as three new Pentium and Celeron chips.
Based on 14nm manufacturing process, these new 5th-Gen Intel processors are touted to bring 22-percent improvement in 3D graphics performance, an hour-and-half more battery life, and 50% faster video conversion than Haswell-U processors.
The graphics performance improvement is, in large part, credited to the new HD Graphics 5500, HD Graphics 6000 and Intel Iris Graphics 6100 that can be found on the new Core i3, i5 and i7 chips under the Broadwell-U product line.
In addition, Intel has also added some of its home-brewed technologies in to the mix, such as RealSense and Wireless Display (WiDi) Version 5.1 which are both geared for wireless and “more natural and interactive user experiences”.
Here’s the full list of new 5th Generation Intel Core processors:
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Intel expects that consumers will start seeing computing devices running on Broadwell-U as early as this month. Meanwhile, Cherry Trail-powered devices are expected to hit the shelves within the first half of this year.


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Hyatt Hotels Corporation ( H Quick Quote H - Free Report) recently announced the opening of Alila Napa Valley in St. Helena, CA. Notably, this marks the second Alila property in the Americas and the 1000th Hyatt hotel opening worldwide. Following the announcement, shares of the company moved up 3.1% during the trading hours on Mar 15. Located, in one of the world’s famous wine regions, the hotel comes with a 68-rooms, adults-only restorative retreat. It also features an outdoor pool, restaurant and bar, Spa Alila, and a fitness center. With respect to the launch, Jim Chu, Hyatt’s executive vice president of global franchising and development, stated, “Today, we remain focused on expanding our global footprint and building our business based on where we can best extend care and make a positive impact on our guests and the communities in which we operate.” Increased Focus on Expansion
Hyatt has been consistently trying to expand its presence worldwide in order to gain market share in the hospitality industry. Recently, the company announced a solid pipeline of developments that are likely to cater to the company’s intention of global market expansion.
For the Alila brand, the company plans to open Alila Marea Beach Resort Encinitas in Encinitas, CA; Alila Dalit Bay in Sabah, Malaysia, and Alila Hinu Bay in Salalah, Oman. For the Andaz brand, the company plans to open Andaz Bali in Bali, Indonesia.
In terms of Destination by Hyatt, the company plans to open Banyan Cay Resort & Golf in West Palm Beach, FL; The Seabird Resort in Oceanside, CA; The Shay in Culver City, CA, and Sweetgrass Inn at Wild Dunes Resort in Isle of Palms, SC. For Grand Hyatt, the company plans to open Grand Hyatt Kuwait in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
For the Hyatt Centric brand, the company plans to open Hyatt Centric Beale Street Memphis in Memphis, TN. Also, it plans to open hotels in Cambridge, England; Charlotte, NC; Denver, CO; Dubai, U.A.E.; Melbourne, Australia; Nashville, TN.; Sacramento, CA; Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador.
Moreover, the company is planning to open properties under its Hyatt House / Hyatt Place, Hyatt Regency, JdV by Hyatt, Park HyattThompson Hotels, and The Unbound Collection by Hyatt brands.
Going forward, the company remains optimistic about full-service growth opportunities, comprising both newbuilds and conversions globally.
In the past three months, shares of the company have gained 21.8% compared with the industry’s 19.4% growth. Hyatt — which shares space with Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. ( HLT Quick Quote HLT - Free Report) , Choice Hotels International, Inc. ( CHH Quick Quote CHH - Free Report) and Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation ( VAC Quick Quote VAC - Free Report) in the Zacks Hotels and Motels industry — has a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell), at present.
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Nippon Yusen K.K. and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., Japan’s two largest shipping lines, narrowed first-quarter losses as car shipments surged after automakers restored output disrupted by the earthquake and tsunami.
Nippon Yusen said Tuesday it had a ¥1.3 billion deficit in the three months ended June 30, compared with a loss of ¥7.2 billion a year earlier.
Mitsui O.S.K., operator of the world’s largest merchant fleet, said it posted a net loss of ¥5.02 billion, compared with a ¥8.05 billion deficit a year earlier.
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., the nation’s No. 3 shipping company, had a net loss of ¥674 million in the first quarter, compared with a ¥3.7 billion deficit a year earlier, the company said Tuesday. The carrier’s sales jumped 12 percent to ¥273.6 billion.
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SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Ssangyong Motor Co., owned by India’s Mahindra & Mahindra, said Monday that the long-body version of the its popular Tivoli sport utility vehicle has been named the “Tivoli Air.”
The new model was named such in order to underscore its pursuit of becoming an essential element of life just as air is to human beings, the company said in a press release. The latest Tivoli model is to make an official debut in March, it added.
With the name of the new model, Ssangyong Motor unveiled some rendering images in which it tried to design the radiator grille based on minimalism and emphasize its dynamic and strong image with character lines that run from the front to the side.
The Tivoli has emerged as one of Ssangyong Motor’s most popular SUV models since its debut in January last year by appealing to younger customers with its unique design and affordability.
Ssangyong Motor sold nearly 64,000 units of the Tivoli at home and abroad last year, the best annual performance ever among its vehicle models. Its long-body version has also been expected to appeal to customers who want more luggage space without compromising the design of the Tivoli much.’


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CANBY, Ore. (KOIN) — Nine Oregon businesses and nonprofits are suing Gov. Kate Brown, arguing her response to the COVID-19 pandemic is “irrational, unreasonable” and violates their due process rights.
The claim was filed Tuesday in the United States District Court. Last week, KOIN 6 News spoke with Tyler Smith, one of two attorneys behind the suit. Smith would not confirm whether he was working on any lawsuits on behalf of businesses at the time, but said he expected to see “an avalanche of cases where people have had their due process rights violated.”
“The government cannot take your life, liberty or your property without giving you a notice and an opportunity to be heard about whether the deprivation of that right was wrongful or rightful,” Smith said.
Some of the plaintiffs named in the lawsuit include PDX Muscle, a gym in Beaverton; Kuebler’s Furniture in Salem; Hood River Mixer Shop, Inc., which operates liquor stores in the Gorge; Under the Skin Tattoo, in Hood River; and Open Our Oregon, a Hood River nonprofit organized to help businesses combating the governor’s shutdown orders.
The suit argues, in part, that restrictions were originally put in place due to the belief that COVID-19 cases would overwhelm medical facilities. However, over time, forecasts of the impact of COVID-19 have “dropped dramatically.”
Plaintiffs also claim there has not been a significant overall rise in deaths in the state, demonstrated by weekly data released by the Oregon Department of Health. They question the logic of “suddenly destroying the livelihoods of many thousands of Oregonians” and “irrational distinctions between essential and nonessential categories” of business.
The suit asks for a judgement declaring the governor’s executive orders 20-07 and 20-12 null and void as they relate to the operation of businesses. It also asks for costs and “reasonable attorneys’ and expert fees,” as well as any other “relief” that may be appropriate.
KOIN 6 News reached out to Brown’s office for comment on the lawsuit, but has not heard back yet.
A “huge test for our civil liberties”
Prior to the lawsuit being filed, Smith told KOIN 6 News he’s never seen such a widespread taking of rights by the government, from economic liberties to religious freedom and personal freedoms such as the right to travel and visit with family.
“This is unprecedented and it’s a huge test for our civil liberties,” he said. “And I think people are finally starting to wake up to the fact that this is overbroad and not really calculated to address all of the safety precautions while at the same time respecting peoples’ liberties.”
Cities across Oregon have seen pushback on the executive orders for some time now. A crowd of supporters gathered in front of Salem’s Glamour Salon last week when owner Lindsey Graham decided to reopen. Pappy’s Greasy Spoon in Canby got a visit from police after the restaurant opened for dine-in service. One week later, dozens of customers ordered takeout and ate in the restaurant’s parking lot to show support.
Smith, whose office is visible from Pappy’s parking lot, says people who accuse business owners of being selfish when they reopen are not seeing the full picture.
“People don’t usually go to work because it’s a whole lot of fun, they go to work because they have bills to pay, they have mouths to feed,” he said, adding that many of the businesses fighting to reopen are mom and pop stores or startups from young people who have put their savings on the line. “They can see their future collapsing.”


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Streets busy with Prius taxis were among our abiding memories of Stockholm and the media launch of the new Toyota Prius, the uptake of hybrid power among cab operators in the Swedish capital encouraged by a local incentive scheme. In the UK too more businesses are recognising the value of switching to more environmentally efficient vehicles and turning to our hybrid car as the best solution. Read on to find out why cabbies choose Prius.
In doing so, they are responding to their customers’ wishes to cut their carbon footprint, and making a contribution towards cleaning up the air quality in some of our busiest towns and cities. Thanks to its full hybrid capability, Prius can run for short distances on emissions-free electric power alone, making it a clean and practical proposition in urban traffic.
In the past week greentomatocars, one of the pioneers of eco-focused cabs, has taken delivery of a number of new Prius to bolster its private hire fleet, covering London and the Home Counties. CEO Tom Pakenham (pictured above) explains: “We are delighted to offer our customers the opportunity to be the first Londoners to experience the comfort, performance and unparalleled environmental benefits offered by new Prius.”
The eco-cab is far from being just an on-trend London phenomenon. Calder Cabs in West Lothian has become the first business in Scotland to operate a fleet of hybrid vehicles. Following approval from the local authority licensing body, it is replacing its diesel cars with Prius and hopes to have an all-hybrid line-up within three years.
“What we are doing supports the Scottish Executive’s call for businesses to reduce their carbon footprint,” says Calder Cabs director Colin Paton. “We looked at a range of options including other hybrids and LPG-powered cars, but Prius ticked all the boxes.
“As a business we also value the benefit of its fuel economy, and from an environmental point of view, we believe what we are doing is the future for our type of business.”
With London’s Climatecars also leading the way with a Prius fleet, hybrid power has gained a useful foothold in the UK’s public transport consciousness.
To see other hybrid taxis from around the world, click here.
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Trans-Pacific trade treaty close to signoff says USA
Japan offers America a side of rice, but nasty copyright provisions remain
The US Trade Representative Michael Froman has tried to reassure the country's lawmakers that the interminable negotiations over the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) will conclude during 2015.
However, as chief negotiators meet in New York with the hope of securing signatures by the middle of March, there's speculation that what will emerge won't be “trans” anything. Rather, to get the treaty over the line to President Barack Obama's timetable, America might offer extensive sweeteners to Japan's powerful agricultural lobby.
The Washington Times says Froman expects the treaty to be concluded within a “small number of months”.
Within America, much of the opposition to the deal comes from Democrats and supporters like trade unions. Froman, however, still believes the administration should get the fast-track authority it needs to complete the deal as quickly as possible.
That would restrict Congress to a yes-or-no vote over the treaty, with no opportunity to put forward amendments.
According to Global Trade Review, Japanese negotiators have put forward a compromise in which their country will offer America preferential treatment for its rice exports to Japan, cutting out the other 10 nations involved in the TPP.
America, in turn, agreed to allow Japan to maintain its safety standards on car imports.
One analyst told GTR what's emerging looks like a bilateral treaty between America and Japan, and “less attractive side deals for everyone else.”
Apart from agriculture, the proposed treaty has copped criticism on a wide range of issues: criminalisation of copyright infringement, patent rules that seem to favour the US pharmaceutical industry, and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions that open governments to litigation for local legislation. ®


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Campaign compiles a new 'Move and win roundup' as each week progresses.
This edition will cover November 18 through 22, 2019.
Catch up on past people moves and business wins.
Creative shop Tomorrow in Shanghai hired ex-Publicis Sapient senior creative director Daniel Tan as creative director. He has over 15 years of experience and has also worked at Ogilvy, DDB and BBDO and for clients including Google, Mercedes, Nestle, Nike, Samsung and Disney.
Publicis Communications India announced that Anil Nair has stepped down as CEO and managing partner of L&K Saatchi & Saatchi. He will remain as an advisor. Paritosh Srivastava, currently COO of Publicis Ambience and Publicis Beehive, will become MD of L&K Saatchi & Saatchi effective January 2. Nair was a co-founder of Law & Kenneth, and took over as CEO and managing partner of L&K Saatchi & Saatchi in 2014. He plans to devote time to his passion for biking. Srivastava, who has experience at Ogilvy, Rediffusion Y&R and Publicis Worldwide, joined Publicis Groupe in 2011.
Havas Media Group has appointed Matt Houltham as CEO of Australia and New Zealand, effective January 2020. Houltham joined Havas in January 2016 and is currently group managing director of Havas Melbourne. Prior to Havas he was managing director at Naked Communications in both Melbourne and New York, and was a digital partner at Publicis agencies Zenith Optimedia and Mojo.
WE Communications wins Adobe’s Australia and New Zealand accounts following a pitch in October. The new remit will cover the entirety of Adobe’s business including corporate communications, media relations, events, product PR, and analyst relations. WE has partnered on Adobe’s social and influencer campaigns since 2017. Meanwhile Mike Wilson, who was the founding CEO of Havas Media from November 2013, will assume the newly-created role of chairman. In this capacity, he will maintain an involvement with key clients, explore targeted M&A opportunities, maintain and develop key partnerships and explore further integration opportunities with Vivendi group companies including Universal Music Group, Studio Canal, Gameloft and Daily Motion.
Jack Morton appointed Austin Powers as APAC lead for its innovation practice, Genuine X, and strategy director for the agency’s Singapore office. He will report to Charles Robinson, SVP and MD at Jack Morton Singapore and Damian Ferrar, global head of Genuine X. Powers was previously director of immersive and interactive for APAC at Freeman in Shanghai. He has worked with brands including Disney, Warner Bros, Ubisoft, Omega, Porsche, BMW and Microsoft.
Travel marketing firm Sojern has hired travel industry veteran Noreen Henry as chief revenue officer to oversee all global sales and account management teams. Henry brings more than two decades of travel experience to Sojern, most recently serving as CEO of WayBlazer, an artificial intelligence travel technology start up. She was also chief revenue officer at hospitality distribution company DHISCO, senior vice president at travel ecommerce site Travelocity Global, and vice president at Intent Media. Henry will be tasked with accelerating the growth of Sojern’s hotel marketing solutions globally and deepening relationships with enterprise travel customers. She will play a key role in expansion into growth areas like tourism and the attraction space.
Brand and retail consultancy Fitch has appointed Liz Krueger and Daniel Segal as strategy directors in its Hong Kong office. Krueger will further strengthen Fitch’s strategic capabilities with a focus on experience creation. Her experience spans Asia and across multiple sectors including finance, travel, tech and retail. As a user experience (UX) specialist, Segal will enhance user centric solutions in interaction design. With 18+ years of industry experience under his belt, Segal's experience spans across Asia, America, United Kingdom and the Middle East.
Influencer marketing company, The Social Club, has added several key hires to its Auckland, New Zealand office including two newly created roles. Sally Dunn joins as account director following her client lead role at Little Giant, Linked by Isobar. Gyles Foster takes up the other newly created position of growth partnership manager, upskilling and educating the market and assisting with the rollout of new social solutions. He joins from Firefly Digital where he worked as a business development manager. Meanwhile, Charlotte Caines, a former account manager at Mango has also recently joined The Social Club as a campaign producer. The hires now bring the company’s headcount to 14. The business has also moved offices and currently shares space with Augusto at the City Works Depot in Auckland.
Ogilvy appointed Shouvik Roy as president and head of office for Ogilvy Delhi. He has worked in brand consulting, design, marketing and advertising with companies including HCL, GE Capital, and DDB Mudra, and has also been a co-founder of two startups in the branding and communications space. He will join on December 5, reporting to Kunal Jeswani, CEO of Ogilvy India. He will be responsible for clients including Dabur, Pernod Ricard, KFC, BMW, Coca-Cola, Perfetti Van Melle, Uber, Eicher Motors, Mother Dairy, Philips, Voltas, Max New York Life and American Express.
Chris Elkin, former WPP group managing director, and Nhu Vo Elkin, former sales and marketing manager for Cathay Pacific Vietnam, have launched Doodle Brands, which they bill as one of the first companies in the country to focus on marrying brand innovation and design thinking (human-centred design). The company says it engages clients through interactive, visual, and hands-on workshops to frame and solve brand problems, with outcomes such as strategies, identity, customer experiences, customer interfaces, and other brand-interaction touchpoints and materials. Doodle Brands is a partner of LUMA Institute, a US-based leader in design thinking.
BBC Studios Asia Pacific promoted Fiona Lang, currently chief operating officer for ANZ, to the new role of general manager for Australia & New Zealand, and promoted Ryan Shiotani, currently acting SVP of Branded Services for Asia, to SVP and general manager for South and Southeast Asia. Lang will lead the Sydney-based branded services (including marketing, advertising and creative), commercial and content sales teams. Shiotani, based in Singapore, will the branded services, marketing, creative, content and affiliate sales teams in Southeast Asia and India. Both roles report to Jon Penn, executive vice president of BBC Studios Asia Pacific, as part of the newly formed APAC regional business, incorporating Australia, New Zealand and Asia, which was announced in September.
Production company Sweetshop appointed Penny Woo as executive producer to work across China, Asia and the MENA region. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Woo haas over 19 years working experience in the advertising industry and has been a freelance producer for BBH Shanghai, TBWA Shanghai and Havas Worldwide Kuala Lumpur and brands such as Audi, Harbin, Google and Ikea.She has also worked with a wide range of production companies including Sweetshop, Godmother Productions and Passion Pictures in Shanghai and Axis Films in Kuala Lumpur.
China programmatic advertising platform iPinYou appointed Andy Ng, previously regional vice president at Appier, as managing director for APAC. He will focus on assisting APAC brands in entering China.


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All things end. The aeronautics industry has long-since shuttered or flown off to warmer climes, and now an Island once welded to metal manufacturing is turning to cheaper, stronger and greener alternatives: products made of plastic, carbon-fiber and other composites that do the work of metals without the metalwork.
Metal’s day is not done. There are still jobs that require steel’s invulnerability or copper’s conductivity. But with the fate of several cornerstone trades in the balance and a periodic table of nonmetallic alternatives at the ready, the science of metallurgy is being redefined – and with it, one of Long Island’s great hidden economies.
The fortunes of bulk alloys follow the building industry’s ebb and flow, and as construction slowly recovers so does that metallic trade. The changes to the rest of Long Island’s metal industry are on a finer scale: The metal manufacturer producing small parts and precision electromechanical components is at the crossroads, trying to bridge the heavy metals of the past and the future’s advanced composites.
For every aerospace business that’s ridden its assembly lines out of town, there are a dozen Island manufacturers still producing metal tools, steel sheds or sophisticated electronics. No matter how you smelt it, “there’s still a huge metal industry out there,” said Marc Anderes, the vice president of operations at Commack-based Maloya Inc.
Maloya was founded in 1965 as a machine-building business – it completed entire machines on contract – but in the 1990s switched gears to produce components only. Today, Maloya and its subsidiaries, including precision-cutting expert Maloya Laser, buy more than $1 million in raw metals annually from regional distributors and post $35 million in annual sales.
Breaking the mold
It was diversity that pulled Maloya through the Great Recession: The company produces products as large as 2,000 pounds – parts for wave simulators that test battleship hulls – and as small as the clasps for custom-made earrings.
Like other metal manufacturers, Maloya is now enjoying post-recession gains, including a construction bounce.
“We’re definitely seeing a resurgence in high-end residential and commercial interior systems, such as elaborate staircases and fancy gates,” Anderes said.
Other increases have come from “discretionary” spending that has benefitted metal manufacturers over the last two years, including a spike in automotive aftermarket products like performance-engine components. Also thriving is one of Maloya’s proprietary product lines, a heat-exchange device used by airport de-icing trucks that has done particularly well in China.
“That growth market helped us offset some of the domestic recessionary impact,” Anderes noted.
Other metal manufacturers have found more domestic ways to steel themselves against volatile markets. Bohemia-based James D. Rubino Inc. is a one-man shop specializing in the fabrication of metal railings, gates and chimney caps, run by a former carpenter who swapped wood for metal out of economic necessity.
Jim Rubino was a carpenter for decades, and James D. Rubino Inc. employed 42 woodworkers before the recession hit homebuilding.
“I couldn’t afford to run that business anymore,” he said. “Metal fabrication was something I could do by myself, something I did as a hobby and for my friends.”
Rubino invested $50,000 in welding and milling equipment, the mechanical brakes needed to bend metal, plus a 95-ton press. And so far, so good.
“Business doubled last year from the previous year,” Rubino noted. “I’m hoping this year it doubles again.”
Somewhere between Rubino and Maloya are the companies like Action Machined Products, a Copiague job shop. Action generated just under $2 million in revenue last year, according to President Kris Derrig, mostly in precision stainless steel and titanium components for the aerospace and health care industries.
Derrig’s firm has invested about $1 million over the last five years in live-tooling, computer-controlled lathes and other metalworking equipment. Unlike Rubino, Derrig is no newcomer to the metal-manufacturing game, and keeping metalworking tools up-to-date, she said, is part of the business.
“Every five years you start to see a major shift of some sort, on the administrative side or the manufacturing side,” Derrig noted. “You’ve got to keep up.”
The one word: Plastics
Keeping up is taking on new meaning for the metal industry. Clients requiring traditionally metal parts and products are slowly disappearing, replaced by new tastes for advanced materials. While Maloya continues to work primarily with metals, Anderes acknowledged the rising tide of plastics and other composites, as well as a slow shift to “alternate metals” like zinc and titanium.
But it’s the rise of nonmetallic composites, he said, that will most change the Island’s metal business.
“How we work with metals is going to change radically,” Anderes said. “A lot of what we do may go in the direction of composites. Carbon-fiber technology is tremendous.”


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NPCI has put a 30% cap on UPI transactions to reduce the monopoly of Google Pay and PhonePe
Experts said with incentives, such as cashbacks and more merchant-centric features, Whatsapp can make headway in a market
WhatsApp Pay, which was launched in India last month, has started off slowly with only 310,000 unified payments interface (UPI) transactions in November, according to data from the National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI).
One reason for the lukewarm response to Whatsapp Pay was its limited availability, with many of the 400 million active users in India not getting the feature at the same time. However, experts said with incentives, such as cashbacks and more merchant-centric features, the Facebook-owned company can make headway in a market that is largely dominated by pure payment apps such as PhonePe, Paytm and Google Pay.
NPCI has put a 30% cap on UPI transactions to reduce the monopoly of Google Pay and PhonePe, which in November recorded 960 million and 868 million transactions, respectively. However, experts believe WhatsApp still has a long way to go.
“Many users still do not know that WhatsApp has payments capability. As users start interacting with businesses and when businesses start sending payment request via UPI, gradually we will see transactions grow on WhatsApp too," said Arnav Gupta, analyst, Forrester Research.
Using the payment feature in WhatsApp is a unique experience in itself. Unlike standalone payment apps, it is integrated in a chat window. “Many people don’t open WhatsApp with the intention of making payments, unlike Paytm and Google Pay where you naturally go to make payments," said Faisal Kawoosa, co-founder and chief analyst, techARC.
However, some feel that payment being an integrated feature of the app has its own use case and that gives WhatsApp an edge over others.
“Many merchants are already using WhatsApp from a transaction point of view for sharing product photos and videos with customers. The payment in such cases is made through third-party apps like Paytm," said Sanchit Vir Gogia, founder and chief executive officer, Greyhound Research.
For the B2B and B2C business it is critical for WhatsApp to have a large fleet on the street, Gogia pointed out. Platforms such as Paytm have a large fleet of people on the ground who are educating and helping merchants set up online stores.
“Level of technology education on ground is dismal. Though people use WhatsApp they need more confidence to setup a WhatsApp Business store and do transactions on it," he said.
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North Carolina Seafood
More than 100 edible species are taken off our shores. In the Cape Fear region, visitors frequently spot shrimp boats that are harvesting this delicacy off our barrier islands. The shrimp may wind up on your dinner plate at a local restaurant the same day they are caught. Many restaurants have peel and eat shrimp since that is a very popular dish.
Although many tons of fish are consumed here in North Carolina, the product is shipped to fine restaurants in many parts of the country, including New York City’s best restaurants. Other types of fish travel to processors outside our state who prepare it for shipment overseas.
One of the newer efforts is making a big difference with shellfish. Our shellfish aquaculture operations provide fine oysters, too. Several local towns provide recycling centers for clams and oyster shells that eventually are used to start new oyster beds. That program is proving to be a valuable tool not only in helping sustain the oyster population, but in cleaning our waters too since oysters, clams and mussels filter contaminants as they feed on sea water.
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture shows off the state’s bounty at events and online via its Goodness Grows in North Carolina and Got to Be NC programs. Watch the Wilmington Today website to find out where to buy local produce at farmers markets.
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BigHospitality's sister site MCA reports that The Coal Office Restaurant, which will be housed next to Dixon’s new offices, will be a Mediterranean/Middle-Eastern inspired, all-day dining restaurant with 360-degree views over Granary Square and newly regenerated parts of London.
The 160-cover restaurant will also feature a roof top terrace, outside dining area and an open kitchen layout throughout three floors.
Granit is also chef-owner of the Balagan restaurant in Paris and Machneyuda in Jerusalem.
Originally built as a Victorian coal store, Coal Drops Yard has been redeveloped in to a restaurant and retail space featuring the surviving brick viaducts, iron work and cobbled streets, which will open as a whole in autumn 2018.
A number of operators have been linked with the scheme including Steve Parle, the Sethi family, Columbo Group and the team behind Padella.
Harts Group is planning to crowdfund the launch of its largest Barrafina restaurant yet at the development.
It will also launch its new Mexican concept Casa Pastor, described as a 'big sister' to its Borough Market restaurant El Pastor, alongside 79-cover wine bar The Drop, at the King's Cross scheme.


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New Brunswick-based cannabis producer Organigram continues to struggle, reporting lower sales and a bigger loss for its first quarter ended Nov. 30, 2020.
Net revenue for the three-month period fell to 19.3 million Canadian dollars ($15 million), lower than the previous quarter’s CA$20.4 million.
Organigram’s adjusted EBITDA loss grew to CA$6.4 million from a loss of CA$2.6 million in the previous quarter.
In a conference call with analysts, the company’s CEO said inconsistent inventory and lower international sales hit Organigram’s bottom line.
“We had unfulfilled (product orders) in the quarter. One of the challenges we’ve had, truly, is inconsistent supply of many of our products,” CEO Greg Engel said.
“There’s kind of a lost opportunity there, where we’ve not been able to fulfill the market demand,” he said. ”
We believe with increased production, we are in a great position to be able to continue to increase share on products like (Shred, a pre-shredded dry flower) and some of our core new offerings.”
The CEO said the company had between CA$5 million and CA$6 million in product orders it was not able to fulfil in the quarter, though some of those orders were addressed after the Nov. 30 quarter ended.
International sales collapsed to only CA$240,000, considerably lower than the previous period’s CA$2.6 million in global revenue.
Organigram said the Israeli Ministry of Health amended its quality standards for imported medical cannabis last year, requiring the New Brunswick producer to seek Good Agricultural Practices certification.
The company expects to resume shipments to Israel after receiving the certification as early as the third quarter.
Organigram’s CA$19.3 million in revenue consisted of:
- Adult-use cannabis products (CA$16.8 million).
- Medical cannabis sales (CA$2.2 million).
- International sales (CA$240,000).
- Wholesale sales and other revenues (CA$115,000).
In a regulatory filing, Organigram said its decrease in gross margin quarter-over-quarter was partly attributable to inventory write-downs (CA$3.1 million) and unabsorbed overhead (CA$2.3 million).
As of Dec. 1, Organigram had cash and short-term investments of CA$79 million, with CA$60 million owing on its term loan.
Engel told analysts the company continues to see the United States as an opportunity but added: “There isn’t a clear path as a Canadian company dual listed (as OGI) on the Nasdaq and (Toronto Stock Exchange), with the regulations that exist there currently, to enter the U.S. in the THC market.
“Our approach is really about developing branded products, innovation and technology we feel will lend itself to the market, and that may be something we look to license out or we look to do ourselves in the future as the regulations allow.”
On the proposed merger of Canadian cannabis giants Aphria and Tilray, announced in December, Engel said “bigger does not necessarily mean better.”
“Some of our larger peers have shuttered multiple facilities,” he said, adding that the potential merger might be more about international markets than the Canadian market.


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Help Celebrate National Cleaning Week
ISSA is celebrating National Cleaning Week, March 22-28, 2020. The association is offering a myriad of opportunities to get involved in this national recognition of the cleaning industry, its workers, and the value of clean as part of the week-long celebration.
National Cleaning Week celebrates the value of clean and the important, positive impact cleaning has on public health, the environment and our economy.
ISSA has conducted research on how regular and proper cleaning in offices, retail spaces, restaurants, schools, hospitals, and at home can result in significant public health and economic benefits. For example, a clean work environment results in a 2 to 8 percent gain in worker productivity and customers strongly prefer to patronize restaurants and stores that are clean. Additionally, there are more than 800,000 businesses nationwide in the cleaning service industry employing 3.5 million workers to keep the places where we work, shop, dine and live clean.
"As the leading trade association for the cleaning industry worldwide, it's important we take an active role in promoting the value of clean, advocating on behalf of the industry at the federal and state levels, providing education and training, thanking cleaning service workers, and raising the profile of the cleaning industry," says John Barrett, ISSA’s executive director. "Together we can change the way the world views cleaning in part by telling our stories and educating the public about the value of clean during National Cleaning Week."
ISSA has created a number of opportunities to participate in National Cleaning Week. To get involved, a person can:
- Share with ISSA and on social media your stories about the value of clean and how they are celebrating #NationalCleaningWeek.
- Share National Cleaning Week graphics on websites and social media.
- Tell customers, employees, and friends about National Cleaning Week and the value of clean.
- Become an ISSA Advocate for Clean and receive ISSA advocacy updates. By joining, a person will be among the first to hear about pressing legislation, compliance deadlines, advocacy events, and training. Participants will also receive tips on how to easily contact elected officials regarding critical federal and state issues and legislations affecting the industry.
- Support ISSA Charities. Tax-deductible donations go a long way in allowing ISSA Charities to clean the homes of cancer patients, advance women in the cleaning industry, and support the future of clean through scholarships and company internships.
For more information about National Cleaning Week, visit www.issa.com/NCW or contact Stacy Seiden, ISSA's government affairs coordinator, at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Google’s move this month to combine its travel-related products—including the Google Trips mobile app, Google Flights, and Google hotels search—into one landing page called Trips is a “troublesome development” for those in the online travel business, according to Wedbush Securities.
Analyst James Hardiman predicts especially choppy waters for
(ticker: TRVG). He believes it is most vulnerable to losing traffic to the
(GOOGL) division and likely to see revenue pressure. Hardiman sliced his price target on Trivago to $3.60 from $4.90 while maintaining a Neutral rating.
The news isn’t much better for fellow metasearch engine companies
(EXPE), though their resources and size give them a better chance than Trivago, Hardiman said in a note to clients on Monday.
The one-stop Trips site is dangerous on several levels, starting with an option that lets consumers go straight to the Google Hotel Ads system and bypass metasearch engines. This hurts TripAdvisor and Trivago, who have invested in Google Hotel Ads to gain traffic.
“The latest innovations by Google in the travel sector signal that the Google threat is becoming harder and harder to ignore,” Hardiman writes. “We believe, with over 1.5B (billion) active people already using Gmail, Google has a distinct advantage over its competitors in providing these relevant and helpful tools for its users.”
Google has taken several steps over the past few years to increase its presence in the online travel space. In early March, it rolled out a dedicated hotel booking website. (Previously, travelers had to start with a hotel-related query in Google search before reaching its Hotels search widget). In May, Google rolled out vacation rentals to its hotel search engine.
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“Marta Grossi eats her art for breakfast,” said Design Boom in a recent review of hong-kong-based designer Marta Grossi’s project, Banana Graffiti. In a temporary project, proving that inspiration is all around us, the designer uses bananas as her canvas. Every night she customizes a banana that she will eat for breakfast the next morning. To add to the intrigue of this simple idea and brilliant execution, you should know that all these photos have been taken by her using her iPhone 5.
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On Thursday, the European Central Bank is expected to announce a quantitative easing program.
Reports on Wednesday put the bond-buying program at €50 billion per month. But will this be enough?
Harvard professor Larry Summers has his doubts.
And in a note to clients ahead of Thursday's big meeting, Kit Juckes at Societe Generale broke down some of the problems facing the ECB, and has a clear, one sentence analogy of why the ECB's program is unlikely to fight its biggest problem: a lack of inflation.
As for the effect on the economy, an improving bank lending survey may suggest that temporarily, the Euro area is already doing a bit better. But it’s still in stagnation, CPI inflation has not troughed yet, debt levels remain absurdly high, and the idea that growing a central bank’s balance sheet is the same as increasing money supply, is like comparing a light shower to a monsoon.
To get inflation, you need too much money chasing too few goods. But as Juckes lays out, just buying debt, thereby adding to the size of the ECB's balance sheet, is not going to increase the money supply, or the amount of money consumers and corporates have to chase goods.
In just a few hours, we'll have more details from the ECB on its latest program.
And while the success of the program can't be known for some time, the hurdles the ECB needs to overcome are high.


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The UK-based company was one of 25 organizations nationwide to be honored with this honour.
Founded in 2016, Sure Purity manufactures carbon dioxide polishing filtration systems used by the. the beverage industry to avoid product contamination.
Using unique technology, the company’s system removes potentially harmful trace impurities from beverage-grade CO2.
With contamination resulting in off-flavors, odors and appearance of beverages, and in some cases even resulting in food safety recalls, the technology addresses a range of concerns in the beverage industry.
Gary Robson, Founder and Managing Director of Sure Purity, said: “Having worked in the global beverage industry for over 25 years, it was my direct experience that led me to develop a business that could address the concerns industry regarding recurring food safety. problems arising from contamination.
In the first 18 months, we invested heavily in our research and development to create a product that could solve this problem and we won a contract with two major global brands to develop technology that would support their own manufacturing.
Robson continued, “It is an incredible honor to receive such a prestigious award and we are proud to fly the flag for the North East region. We are a region known for its history of innovation and we are proud to carry on this heritage.
“With our industry-leading product, we are not only helping to protect global brands and their consumer brands from contamination issues, we are also providing a sustainable way for major brand beverage bottling plants to reduce their waste. solids by 50%, thereby reducing their carbon footprint.


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May 8, 2017
Coach pays luxury price to catch up with LVMH
May 8, 2017
Coach is paying luxury prices to catch up with the Europeans. The U.S. handbag maker is plunking down $2.4 billion for rival Kate Spade, a figure not justified strictly by the numbers. But Coach's owners like the $13 billion company’s move to a multibrand portfolio, which has worked for industry leaders LVMH and Kering. Mature luxury marques can no longer expect to succeed on their own.
Monday's deal represents a 27.5 percent premium on Kate Spade's undisturbed share price, or about $515 million. Coach is only promising to cut $50 million in costs, mainly from supply-chain savings rather than store closures, according to Chief Executive Victor Luis. Taxed and capitalized these are worth about $320 million today, suggesting Coach is overpaying by around $200 million.
But while the deal math doesn't quite add up, Coach's investors boosted its share price some 6 percent, an indication they trust an acquisition strategy like the one Gucci parent Kering and French handbag-to-champagne conglomerate LVMH have successfully pioneered. Despite a 1 percent contraction in the luxury sector globally in 2016, according to Bain, LVMH shares have soared 61 percent and Kering has doubled over the past year. Compare that to single-brand companies: Michael Kors is down 25 percent, Italy's Tod's is up 8 percent and Burberry has gained 37 percent.
This suggests that holding a diverse portfolio of brands works well in a sector particularly sensitive to geopolitical, travel and currency shifts. But given the market is also contracting thanks to slowing GDP growth in China and President Xi Jinping's crackdown on corruption, it also means that Kering and LVMH are expanding their slices of the profit pie.
Coach is far from becoming America's answer to LVMH. Kate Spade sells mid-range luxury handbags primarily to Americans, much as Coach does. Spade may help gain access to millennial shoppers, but the brand remains relatively unknown in Asia. The success of this transaction is also contingent on Coach implementing the turnaround strategy it has employed on its core business.
Luis has promised that under Coach, Spade would pull back from discounting and sell fewer bags at department stores. That strategy boosted Coach's bottom line: it reported an estimates-beating 9 percent jump in profit in its last quarter. But performance in Asia remained relatively flat: sales in China increased 2 percent, but decreased 1 percent in Japan, both on a constant-currency basis. Copying the European cool kids will take more than window dressing.
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Samsung is reportedly planning to exit the high-value and low-value feature phone market in India. The company is planning to exit the feature phone market gradually with the last batch of devices being manufactured by local contract manufacturer Dixon in December this year. Also Read - Microsoft is bringing Xbox games to Samsung’s smart TVs
According to a report by ET Telecom, Samsung is planning to focus on smartphones in the higher market tiers. Once the last batch of feature phones has been manufactured, the company will launch mostly above Rs 15,000. The company has already spoken with its channel partners and they are ready to exit the Indian feature phone market in the next couple of market by the end of this year. Also Read - Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra: Here's what the 2023 flagship may look like
The report quoting analysts said that the move comes as the Korean electronics giant is required to manufacture phones worth Rs 15,000 factory price in order to be eligible for the government’s Production Linked Incentives (PLI) scheme. Also Read - Volkswagen Virtus launched in India at Rs 11.21 lakh: Check variants, other details
The move is also in sync with a latest report by Counterpoint Research, which suggests that India’s feature phone market has witnessed a decline of 39 percent year-on-year owing to supply chain issues, inflation and lower consumer demand.
“The feature phone market registered a decline of 39% YoY. Supply issues, high inventory levels and softening of consumer demand due to high inflation were the major reasons for this decline. itel led the feature phone market in Q1 2022 with a 21% share. itel has been the top feature phone brand for nine consecutive quarters,” the report said.
The same report also says that the Samsung’s overall market share in India declined by one percent in the first quarter of 2022. However, it remained the top selling 5G smartphone company in India for the second quarter in a row.
Furthermore, the report says that Samsung has been to strengthen its foothold in the higher value smartphone segment. “The company also maintained a lead in the affordable premium segment between Rs 30,000 and Rs 45,000,” the report by Counterpoint Research said adding, “The launch of its latest S22 series and revamping of the A series and M series across price tiers towards the quarter-end drove Samsung’s shipments.”
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Nokia Siemens Networks
is swapping out its CEO, becoming the latest telecom giant to undergo a major leadership change.
The wireless specialist announced Tuesday that Simon Beresford-Wylie is stepping down as CEO, a little over two years since leading the creation of the Nokia Siemens joint venture. The company's services chief, Rajeev Suri, will take the Nokia Siemens reins from Beresford-Wylie on Oct. 1, it said.
In the last 12 months,
have also appointed new CEOs, highlighting the
in the telecom sector.
Beresford-Wylie had told the Nokia Siemens board of his desire to depart "at the appropriate time" and is now heading off to pastures new, according to a company statement released early Tuesday.
"I respect his decision to pursue opportunities in a new industry after 27 years in the telecommunications infrastructure sector," said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. "He leaves a remarkable legacy as the architect of Nokia Siemens Networks."
Nokia Siemens did not reveal the identity of Beresford-Wylie's new employer but confirmed that he will support the 41-year-old Suri during a transition period through Nov. 1.
Beresford Wylie, who has been at Nokia since 1998, is credited with nursing the company through its infancy, as well as guiding it through the recession. The CEO, however, was also involved in the failed attempt to
wireless business, which was seen as a shot in the arm for Nokia Siemens'
North American operation
. The Finnish firm ultimately lost out to Ericsson in the tussle for Nortel's Code Division Multiple Access and Long Term Evolution (LTE) assets.
Despite a cloudy economic climate, Nokia Siemens has kept itself busy forging alliances and launching new products. In July, for example, the wireless company created a joint venture with networking specialist
to target the carrier Ethernet market. This came hot on the heels of a partnership with storage giant
to create joint products for telecom service providers.
In an interview with
The Wall Street Journal
the new Nokia Siemens CEO said that he sees good opportunities in the services sector, particularly after its recent deals with


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Growth in Bluetooth has been spectacular, and will continue to expand, says analyst Fiona Thomson at IMS Research - but though its growth is assured, there is a question mark over just how far it can expand. The cloud over its future is Wireless USB.
Thomson's report, being sent to Bluetooth Special Interest Group members, assesses the expansion over the last three years as being a tenfold one. It is bound to make for excited conversations around the buffet tables during this week's San Jose, California meeting of the SIG.
"In five years time around 100 million each of notebooks, portable digital media players, and games appliances are predicted to have Bluetooth connectivity", Thomson says. "The impact of Bluetooth in some applications in the medium term is still in the balance, as how fast the alternative wireless technology WUSB makes headway in the PC, office equipment and digital camera markets is not yet clear."
The SIG is already preparing for the future threat, of course, as reporter Rick Merritt noted in Doctor Dobbs' Journal: "The current Bluetooth Version 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate hits a data rate of 3 Mbits/second, [but members] gather in San Jose this week to discuss higher-speed versions of the interface."
The surprise emergence of WUSB is not necessarily the strangest feature of the report, however. The standard was expected to make waves, being heavily sponsored by Intel. Many Bluetooth SIG members are going to raise their eyebrows at the discovery that their future seems to stand or fall with the mobile phone business.
"Two years ago, I'd have said that growth in other areas would accelerate," said one SIG member."Specifically, we were seeing massive growth in factory equipment, where a wireless control unit makes it easier to move equipment around the shop floor."
Another area of success for Bluetooth has been in retail, where chip-and-PIN credit-card readers are spreading - but this isn't regarded as a significant enough part of the future growth to feature in the IMS summary of the report. Nonetheless, the report expects Bluetooth expansion into other areas:
"What is clear is that the penetration of Bluetooth in cellular handsets has increased enormously over the recent past, boding well for its adoption in other equipments in the future," says the summary. That means that Bluetooth may well have an even more dire effect on WUSB than the other way round.
Details and pricing on the report from IMS Research in the UK.
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, Washington (PressExposure) May 13, 2009 -- OPPONENTS of a proposed federal tax on sodas and other sugary drinks are using the same "tired" tactics employed by the tobacco lobby years ago. That's the view of popular obesity information website ObesityCures.com. Washington leaders are currently discussing ways to pay for President Barack Obama's $1.2-trillion extreme makeover of the health care system... and the "soda tax" could be one of them.
It's estimated that the controversial tax could raise as much as $24bn over the next four years.
Supporters of the tax, like the Center for Science in the Public Interest, say sugary drinks are one of the main culprits in the global obesity epidemic. They argue that a national tax - similar to those levied in at least 12 states already - would cut consumption and make for a healthier nation.
The American Beverage Association, the lobby representing Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Kraft Foods and other big drinks companies, disagrees. It says such a tax would be unfair on lower-income people and would do nothing to cut the amount of sodas and other sugary drinks Americans consume.
"Taxes are not going to teach our children how to have a healthy lifestyle," said association president, Susan Neely. The association backs self regulation, in the form of nationally agreed guidelines, as a way to limit sugary beverage consumption in schools.
But ObesityCures publisher Alan Cooper believes a soda tax would be effective.
"There's plenty of precedent for 'sin taxes' on harmful industries, both to encourage them to moderate their behaviour and to help pay for measures to mitigate the harm they have caused," Cooper said.
"The smoking industry is a perfect example and the anti-soda tax arguments currently being used by the beverage industry mirror those trotted out by the tobacco lobby years ago. They're just as flawed now as they were then. "Ms Nealy says a tax will hurt poor consumers and won't teach our kids to have a healthy lifestyle. Wrong on both counts."
Cooper said lower income consumers were the biggest victims of the obesity epidemic and also the least able to afford the kind of healthcare needed to treat its ills - diabetes, heart disease and other ailments.
"Wouldn't a share of the $24bn soda taxes go some way towards helping the victims? And teaching our kids about healthy lifestyles? Last time I looked, a few billion dollars bought you a lot of education."
Cooper also dismissed the idea of industry self-regulation as an alternative to taxes. "It's another of those tired tobacco lobby tactics. By all means lets have national guidelines. But let's give them teeth and make them federally enforceable.
"This, coupled with a national soda tax, would be the quickest way to encourage beverage makers to produce and market healthier drinks."


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Data for today’s episode is provided by Mercator Advisory Group’s report – 2019 U.S. PaymentsInsights – Credit Cards: Still the Card of Choice.
After a one year lull, Merchants are trying to influence customer card choice again:
- 2019 saw a 7% increase in “stores posting signs about minimum purchase to use credit”
- Last year, 40% of consumers reported seeing discounts for using cash vs. credit. In 2019, 46% reported.
- 8% more consumers witnessed stores charging a fee for credit card use this year vs. last year
- 7% more consumers saw signs requesting not to use credit this year than last
- 36% of consumers report ‘taking their business elsewhere’ after seeing a requent not to use credit
- Similar percentages of customers defect after seeing signs for an extra fee or not accepting a card brand
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Mercator Advisory Group’s most recent consumer survey report, Credit Cards: Still the Card of Choice, from the bi-annual North American PaymentsInsights series, reveals that the credit card is U.S. consumers’ preferred method of payment both online and offline.
When shopping in stores, 43% of U.S. consumers prefer to use credit/charge cards, followed by 32% who prefer to use debit and 17% who opt for cash. Further, these findings are on…


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For consumers affected by the 2017 Equifax Inc. data breach who were hoping to claim $125 as part of the settlement related to it, the Federal Trade Commission is now saying: Please don’t.
According to a blog post the FTC released Wednesday, the response to the settlement has been “overwhelming.” Some 4.5 million people visited the FTC’s settlement website in the week since the settlement was announced, according to the FTC.
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Anti-monopoly probe threatens Qualcomm's growth in China
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BEIJING — Qualcomm's growth prospects in the world's largest mobile-phone market may be under threat after China's National Development and Reform Commission began an investigation related to an anti-monopoly law.
Qualcomm disclosed the probe Monday, saying the NDRC advised that specific details are confidential. The San Diego- based company said it knows of no charge by the agency that it violated the law. Qualcomm gets revenue from sales of smartphone chips and collects license fees from wireless providers for the shipment of most Internet-capable handsets.
The Chinese government has been stepping up corporate scrutiny as new leadership expands an anti-corruption drive and cracks down on business practices that lead to increases in consumer prices. China may also be trying to help local competitors such as Spreadtrum Communications Inc. by slowing Qualcomm's push to broaden the reach of its chips and technology in the country, said Cody Acree, an analyst at Williams Financial Group in Dallas.
"There's a lot more to this than any kind of antitrust investigation," said Acree, who has a hold rating on the stock. "To the extent that you can stymie Qualcomm's efforts, all the better."
Emily Kilpatrick, a spokeswoman at Qualcomm, said the company won't comment beyond its initial statement. The office of Li Pumin, a spokesman for the NDRC, said it had no information immediately available on Qualcomm's statement when reached by phone Tuesday.
The stock has gained 17 percent this year.
Qualcomm's customers in China include Lenovo Group Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Since no specific accusations have been made, few handset manufacturers committed to Qualcomm will switch immediately as it takes 12-18 months to bring a new design to market, said David Wolf, managing director of Allison+Partners' China practice counseling American, Chinese and European clients.
Following the revelations of U.S. surveillance programs by former government contractor Edward Snowden, state-owned Chinese media urged a shift toward domestic suppliers of information technology, such as Shenzhen-based Huawei, and away from U.S. companies such as Cisco Systems Inc.
"To suggest that Qualcomm has anything approaching a monopoly defies the facts," Wolf said. "There could be any number of reasons behind this."
Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of chips for smartphones, got 49 percent of its $24.9 billion in sales from China in the fiscal year that ended in September, with some of that coming from devices assembled in China and sold elsewhere. The company Monday said it will cooperate with the NDRC probe. Qualcomm was invited to a meeting about antitrust regulations in July by the country's commerce ministry, a spokeswoman said then.
The company gets the majority of its total revenue from chips, while the bulk of its profit comes from licensing technology that is central to modern mobile-phone networks and handsets. That means even phone-service providers that don't use Qualcomm chips pay royalties to use its patents. The company collected technology-license fees on more than 1 billion phones in fiscal 2013 and sold more than 700 million chips.
Spreadtrum, based in Pudong, China, earlier this year agreed to be acquired by Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd., a Chinese state-owned company, for $1.78 billion.
China Mobile Ltd., the world's largest wireless carrier, hasn't paid Qualcomm licensing fees after opting to use an alternative technology for its current data network that the Chinese government said wasn't covered by the U.S. company's patents.
Qualcomm said it expected that to change next year as China shifts to a higher-speed technology for mobile networks called long-term evolution, or LTE. Underscoring the importance of the market, company executives said at an analyst day in New York last week that the network shift means Qualcomm will be able to supply chips and get licensing fees from China Mobile.
Now, the NDRC probe raises doubts about that potential licensing revenue, said Gus Richard, an analyst at Piper Jaffray & Co.
"I don't think China's going to pay them," said Richard, who rates the shares the equivalent of a hold.
Chief Operating Officer Steve Mollenkopf said at the meeting last week that Chinese phone makers will use more Qualcomm chips in domestic handsets and then in export products as they aim to expand overseas. The company's chips run on multiple networks, which let devices operate in different regions.
"They all want to figure out a way not only to be leaders in China, but also be leaders worldwide," he said.
At the meeting, Qualcomm Chief Executive Officer Paul Jacobs was asked whether his business in China had been hurt by concerns about the U.S. National Security Agency spying on mobile-phone conversations. While such reports increased the focus on security of cross-border data traffic, they haven't hurt sales of hardware, Jacobs said.
He also said the Chinese government wants to create a bigger domestic chip industry.
"There is pressure just generally in China on multinationals," Jacobs said.
The Qualcomm inquiry may be part of a broader investigation by the Chinese government agency aimed at keeping consumer prices from rising too quickly, and may not be a challenge to Qualcomm directly, said Mark McKechnie, an analyst at New York- based Evercore Partners LLC. He recommends buying the shares.
"This looks like more of a broader effort over in China," he said. "It's probably more about the chips than the royalties."
In the market for the most advanced Internet-capable phones, Qualcomm has a share of about 60 percent and profit margins of less than 20 percent, McKechnie said. That indicates it's facing tough competition and makes it more difficult to show evidence of a monopoly, he said.
The Qualcomm probe is the latest example of the challenges that foreign companies have faced as they try to expand in the world's most populous country.
China's state-controlled media last month accused Starbucks of charging too much for coffee and said Samsung Electronics's smartphones don't work properly. IBM's China revenue slipped 22 percent in the third quarter as state-owned companies started delaying orders, including mainframes and servers.
In August, the Chinese government fined six dairy companies including Danone for fixing the prices of infant formula products. The fine, a combined 669 million yuan ($110 million) for dairy companies including Mead Johnson Nutrition Co., was a record for violating anti-monopoly laws.


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The near-ubiquity of mobile devices has brought with it a polarizing social phenomenon: sexting, the act of sending explicit text messages or photographs via mobile device.
Adults aren't the only ones engaging in this behavior. Indeed, sexting has been called "the latest challenge in parenting" by some.
Sexting has been known to get celebrities like Tiger Woods and Jesse James in hot water, but it also poses a major risk to teens and tweens, one in four of whom admit to sexting. Recently sexting scandals involving minors have included a 41-year-old teacher accused of sending illicit messages to her student, as well as an 8th-grader who reportedly sold a nude sext of his girlfriend
The Electronics Blog at Consumer Reports asks whether Microsoft's 'creepy Kin video' encourages sexting:
The video, on a promotional site for the new phones, includes a downright creepy sequence in which a young man is shown putting a Kin under his shirt and apparently snapping a picture of one of his naked breasts. The breast is then shown on the phone's screen, just before the guy apparently sends it to someone. Next we see the face of a young woman, seemingly the recipient, with an amused expression on her face.
See the Kin ad below, then tell us what you think.
UPDATE: April 16, 2010--Microsoft has decided to take down the ad in question, according to Consumer Reports:
In the words of spokesman Patrick Neighorn: "Microsoft takes the issue of sexting very seriously and it was never our intent to promote it in any way."
As of 5 pm today, however, we were still able to view the video on Microsoft's promotional website for the Kin. Microsoft's Neighorn told us that might be because it was taking the company some time to remove the video from all servers that host the site.
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Hill and Knowlton has restructured its healthcare division, which
boasts over 60 staff and fees of more than pounds 4.3 million. This is
the result of the merger of its consumer healthcare division with its
The move has been prompted by the development of DTC (direct to
consumer) advertising in the US. While it is currently illegal to
advertise pharmaceutical products directly to consumers in Europe, it is
expected this will change - possibly within the next two years.
H&K claims the new structure gives the company a unique offering on the
UK healthcare PR market, combining consumer brand experience with hard
ethical healthcare knowledge. This will allow pharmaceutical companies
access to mainstream brand positioning techniques, and consumer brands
to target healthcare professionals.
H&K’s parent company WPP owns the US group Quantum, an expert in DTC
advertising, and is said to be looking to set up the same service in the
UK and Europe.
Wendy Mair, who has worked at H&K for ten years and returned from
maternity leave in August, will head the new group. European healthcare
head Dr Martin Godfrey becomes UK chairman, still with responsibility
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There are two kinds of people on Thanksgiving: overachievers who brine their turkeys according to some fussy Martha Stewart recipe that involves juniper berries and still find time to hang fall-colored wreaths around the house. Then there are those who wake up in a cold sweat at the thought of touching the stove.
Beneath the veil of nouveau American foodie-ism, there are more fearful-of-Thanksgiving-preparation types than you’d imagine. It’s one of the reasons the holiday is repeatedly the busiest day of the year for rotisserie-chicken-and-more Boston Market, which sells turkey year-round and whole birds on Thanksgiving. The chain has stayed open on the holiday every year since 1999, and Chief Executive Officer George Michel expects this Thursday to be the busiest one so far.
OK, so it’s no way to impress your mother-in-law, and your mastery of takeout turkey isn’t a real self-esteem builder, but it does free up the afternoon to wrestle fellow consumers for a $20 DVD player at a big-box store since, let’s face it, Thanksgiving is all more-shop-less-nosh these days. Just don’t expect all your guests to be thankful:
Don't invite me to thanksgiving if it's boston market.
— Melph Ziggler (@K1ngMello) November 25, 2013
Last Thanksgiving Day, Boston Market’s sales were up 13% from a year earlier, and the holiday before that 14%, according to figures from the company. This Thanksgiving, the chain’s 460 restaurants are preparing to serve more than 1 million customers — about five times the traffic on a normal Thursday.
Michel, in an email, points out several reasons for his optimism:
The demand for prepared foods continues to rise. “The younger consumer is the biggest purchaser of prepared foods for the holiday.”
Boston Market has improved its call center to capture more calls.
There’s a new combination holiday meal with turkey breast and ham, and “Based upon input we received from our guests, it’s selling off the charts.”
Between its catering, takeout and dine-in business, Boston Market sold 36,000 whole turkeys, 10,000 hams and 3 million pounds of mashed potatoes last Thanksgiving. It’s a convenient solution for anyone who needs a break from the kitchen — or just flat-out stopped trying.
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"Companies that manufacture insoles have finally recognized that women's feet aren't just smaller versions of men's," says Crystal Holmes, DPM, podiatrist and clinical instructor at the University of Michigan Medical School. "Our stride is significantly different, and we have narrower heels and tighter Achilles tendons."
You'll see a lot of claims on a package of drugstore insoles, but primarily they provide shock absorption, says Holmes. She likes Foot Petals inserts for women who wear pumps. "Heels put a lot of pressure on the ball of the foot. The technology in Foot Petals helps redistribute that weight." For exercising, Holmes suggests trying out the Spenco brand, which offers different models for running, hiking, and everyday use.
"The insoles are worth a try," says Holmes. "The worst that can happen is that you spend 20 bucks and realize something serious is going on and that it's time to see a podiatrist."


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As per the collaboration, JPL will offer its Cloud Native 5G Core to telcos globally along with Subex’s HyperSense for enabling closed-loop network automation, product performance and customer experience analytics.
However, if a recent survey is to be believed, passwords may be headed towards obsolescence within enterprises.
SecureAuth Corporation, a US-based solution provider of adaptive access control, released a survey yesterday revealing that 69 percent of organizations are likely to do away with passwords within the next 5 years.
When asked why they had not yet made improvements to their authentication strategy, respondents cited resistance from company executives and disruption to users' daily routine as the top hindrances -- tied at 42 percent. Other reasons for not adopting an improved authentication strategy included lack of resources to support maintenance (40 percent), steep employee learning curve (30 percent) and fearing that improvements would not work (26 percent).
“On the heels of recent mega breaches such as Yahoo!, in which usernames, passwords and security question responses were compromised, there's a growing movement from individuals and businesses for an authentication overhaul,” said Craig Lund, CEO of SecureAuth. "Single-factor, password-based authentication -- and even many traditional two-factor approaches -- are no longer enough in today's increasingly digital world. And with costs associated with cyberattacks totaling millions of dollars a year, it's in everyone's best interest to make it more difficult for attackers to cause further damage to our economy.”
Shockingly revealed in the survey, was nearly all (99 percent) of respondents agree two-factor authentication is the best way to protect an identity and its access. However, recent news has shown that many traditional two-factor authentication methods, such as SMS-based one-time passwords, are being circumvented by attackers in well-crafted phishing attacks.
Illustrating this inherent risk, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently announced a proposal to no longer recommend two-factor authentication using SMS delivered one-time passcodes as an out-of-band authentication method. Indeed, basic two-factor authentication alone is no longer enough -- and it's time for companies to adapt.
Furthermore, the majority (73 percent) of Wakefield respondents cited security questions or knowledge-based authentication (KBA) as the most essential measure for a company to authenticate its users securely. However, attackers often compromise these security questions and answers, greatly increasing an individual's exposure to cybercriminal attacks. Responses to some security questions can also be gleaned from social media sites, social engineering attacks and even a cybercriminal's educated guess.


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CAIRO: Workers in a Mahalla textiles factory have been awarded partial back-payments of their salaries a day after hundreds of workers protested in the streets of the Delta town.
Workers from the Aboul Seba’ factory chanted slogans against factory owner Ismail Aboul Seba’ on Wednesday after promises that they would be paid their outstanding salaries were not kept.
Mohamed Maree writes on his blog egytimes.org that “workers have forced the company to pay out salaries due on Sept.5 2009, meaning that they only have one other outstanding salary payment due to them.
“They have a promise from security bodies and company management that they will receive this salary payment after the Eid holiday, Maree continues.
Maree says however that a notice pinned up inside the factory announcing that all employees must take an obligatory 15-day unpaid holiday has left workers feeling uncertain about their future with the company.


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