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Keeping track of your bills have always been a dreaded chore that always seems to occupy too much of your time. Manilla, a company that already offers a free bill-management service, wants to make it even easier to accomplish the task by integrating its service with email. Today, Manilla unveiled a partnership with AOL to launch AOL Bill Manager, a feature that allows AOL users to review their bills directly in their email inboxes.
MyBankTracker spoke with Jim Schinella, CEO of Manilla, who told us, “What we’ve announced today was not only powerful for Manilla’s business, but also for what it does for email. Clearly, when you look at email over the years, there has been a growing problem within email and how you manage your account effectively. What we we’ve done and what we could do with other email providers is certainly make the experience much more efficient and productive.”
The typical billing email doesn’t say much. Usually, consumers get an email telling them that the bill (or statement) for the past month is available and to pay by a certain date. Customers can head directly to the biller’s website to make the payment.
With Manilla, consumers can link their billing accounts, financial accounts, subscriptions, daily deals and travel and rewards programs to one place. In addition to the original bills, users see an organized view of important details such as balances, due dates and expiration dates. It saves consumers from having to log in to multiple accounts to view their bills.
By working with email providers, Manilla is able to cut out one more step: logging into Manilla. Currently, data from existing Manilla accounts cannot be transferred to AOL Bill Manager, but it’s a feature that is being considered, said Schinella.
If integrated with other email providers, most notably Google and Yahoo, Manilla can bring easy bill management to many more consumers. The company has talked with all of the email providers but there’s nothing to announce at the moment, Schinella added.
Manilla boasts more than 500,000 activated users, who manage an average of six provider accounts. The company is partnered with more than 3,500 businesses. Next month, Manilla will present at Finovate, a financial technology conference, in search of additional partnerships.


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AUBURN HILLS (WKZO) -- For the 28th consecutive month, Chrysler has posted a year over year sales increase. The automaker says July sales were up by 13-percent compared to the same period in 2011.
Chrysler officials say two models set sales records for the month. The Chrysler 200 sedan and the Dodge Journey crossover were up by 43-percent and 68-percent respectively.
Overall sales for the Chrysler brand were 35-percent higher, Dodge was up by six-percent, Jeep sales were seven percent higher and RAM truck sales jumped 15-percent. Fiat sales rose 22-percent in July.

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Our goal is to #feedfishbetter around the world and we’re pleased to say Vitalis has been swiftly growing in popularity on the global market, now distributed in over 40 countries. We recently paid a visit to Tzong Yang Aquarium Company in Taiwan to meet father and daughter team Denis and Tina Wang and find out about just how well Vitalis Aquatic Nutrition is doing out there.
*World Feeds MD Peter Kersh, pictured with Denis and Tina Wang and the sales team of Tzong Yang Aquarium Company, Taiwan.
We were taken aback by the fantastic welcome and response we received from our Taiwanese associates. Vitalis has already found huge success in the Taiwan market, feeding a diverse range of aquatic species for the past year. Their team of 13 have been hard at work sharing the core ethos of Vitalis and demonstrating the benefits of our diets for fish in the retail market. They’re very much looking forward to further success moving forward.
*Peter and Tina meeting Vitalis retailers in Taiwan, including Fish In Fish Anping in Tainan ciy and Chite & Yukeman Aquarium & Pets in Taoyuan city.
It’s been great to see how well received our fish food has been in the Asian market. Visiting retailers and public aquariums alike, it quickly became clear that the high quality of Vitalis is deeply understood and sought after. We are excited for the considerable opportunities presented by the Asian market, and look forward to a bright and successful future with Tzong Yang Aquarium.


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The CEO of a startup that sends mobile chargers to EV drivers reveals how he landed $23 million from investors including Mark Cuban and Obama adviser-led Pendulum
Here's an exclusive look at how the startup that wants you to hail electric car charging like an Uber just brought in $23 million from Mark Cuban and others.
Mark Cuban supports Biden's proposal to forgive $10,000 in student debt per borrower as long as 'ridiculous tuition fees' are addressed alongside it: 'We don't want this being a perennial problem'
Cuban previously said canceling debt is "the worst thing you can do," but told Insider he now supports forgiving $10,000 and free community college.
Mark Cuban's company Fireside will offer creators grants through SKALE's $100 million ecosystem fund
Fireside is partnering with cryptocurrency network SKALE to provide grants through a $100 million "ecosystem fund" that will "help kickstart a new generation of creators to transition to Web3."
Mark Cuban downplays crypto prices and NFTs, touts blockchain's potential, and shares advice for founders in a new interview. Here are the 8 best quotes.
The billionaire "Shark Tank" investor reflected on his early business ventures, and shared why he bought the Dallas Mavericks basketball team.
Mark Cuban says 'every major tech company' is calling their lawyers about buying Twitter after Elon Musk's hostile bid
"And Twitter is on the phone with their lawyers asking which can be their white knight," the billionaire tweeted on Thursday.
Shipping giant DHL is partnering with a South African footwear brand to honor the legacy and creativity of Africa
Mark Cuban and Ashton Kutcher are two of the biggest investors behind South Africa's popular shoe company Veldsoken.
Billionaire Mark Cuban takes a swipe at Elon Musk's question about what inflation could look like in the coming years
Musk canvassed his followers in a tweet Sunday, asking what they think the inflation rate could be in the next few years.
I used Mark Cuban's new pharmacy company to order my medicine, and the prescription was a little cheaper. Here's how it worked.
Mark Cuban launched the low-cost prescription drug online pharmacy to help save consumers up to thousands of dollars on life-saving medication.
Mark Cuban brushes off the idea of a Russia-Ukraine dash for cash, saying investors don't have much alternative to markets if they want good returns
"Markets always overreact and overcorrect to news, or anticipated news, particularly after a big run-up," Cuban told Fox Business.
Top 5 wine regions for stock market-beating returns: An entrepreneur who's been backed by Mark Cuban and Peter Thiel explains how anyone can add this high performing alternative asset to their investment portfolio
Fine wine has consistently beaten stocks in the last 15 years in terms of returns and investing in it is no longer purely for the super-rich.
'Shark Tank' star Mark Cuban is on the lookout for a crypto app with the potential to become as wildly popular as Instagram
"We haven't gotten that first viral, mainstream, crypto-based application. We will. That's what I'm looking for in terms of investments," Cuban said.
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Shaan Patel used $3,000 in extra scholarship money to start Prep Expert, a digital course company that helps students raise their SAT and ACT scores.
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban is the top NFT influencer while YouTube star Anthony 'Pomp' Pompliano leads the list for Gen Z
Former T-Mobile boss John Legere, who famously bought an NFT from DJ Steve Aoki for $888,888.88, was second on the list of NFT influencers.
Mark Cuban learned his crypto investing lesson the hard way after losing $200,000 on a little-known token
"I should have done more homework on it," Cuban told The New York Times about his investment in a little-known DeFi token called titan.
The term "inflation hedge" is just a marketing slogan for bitcoin — and for gold, too, the "Shark Tank" star said.
A market for crypto carbon offsets is reportedly booming, and its drawing DeFi entrepreneurs and big investors like Mark Cuban
Dallas Mavericks boss Mark Cuban told the WSJ he owns Klima tokens, a new crypto asset whose DAO is focused on climate activism.
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Mark Cuban's Dallas Mavericks say they'll give $100 in bitcoin to people who download the Voyager Digital app this week
The basketball team, which has partnered with the crypto platform Voyager Digital, is offering $100 in bitcoin as an incentive to download the app.
Democrats are set to unveil a new billionaire's tax and some of the wealthiest Americans are glad. Here are some of the ultrawealthy who want higher taxes.
The group includes Mark Cuban, George Soros, Ray Dalio, Abigail Disney, members of the Pritzker and Gund families, and a Facebook cofounder.
The founder of DeFi network avalanche says success for crypto will be bitcoin losing its crown to a stablecoin
"We are not anywhere near done until the number one coin is a stablecoin," Emin Gün Sirer, CEO of Ava Labs, told Insider.


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As government-licensed cannabis growers scramble to build brand and market share, provincial retailers across the country are preparing to stock their shelves.
British Columbians are already purchasing cannabis in public-facing storefronts. Unlike Ontario dispensaries, these storefronts are widely ignored by law enforcement and, in many cases, hold municipal business licences.
Premier John Horgan’s NDP government is acting to legalize many of these businesses, with a framework that will include both public and private retailers. B.C. will not cap the number of retail licences but will only issue them with the explicit support of local governments. This approach gives neighbourhood opponents a way to stall the development of legal cannabis markets, presenting a concern for retailers.
Alberta’s NDP government presented its private-sector cannabis retail model to voters in 2017. In its first year of legalization, the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission is expected to grant licences to 250 retailers while online sales will continue to be operated directly by the government agency. This is more than six times the number of storefronts expected in Ontario, which has approximately three times the population.
When former Premier Brad Wall stepped down, several Saskatchewan Party leadership candidates expressed skepticism and even hostility towards legalization. One suggested that the legal cannabis age should be 25.
Premier Scott Moe’s government ultimately moved forward with a retail framework where the private sector would be responsible for both retail and sales distribution—an approach favoured by many other industry leaders. Much to the relief of industry leadership and recreational consumers, the legal age will be 19.
In Manitoba, access to legal cannabis stores will be dictated by postal codes, as individual municipalities were given the ability to prohibit retail sales. As of January 2018, 18 municipalities indicated that they would not accept cannabis retailing, with 22 remaining undecided.
Canopy Growth, Delta 9 Cannabis, National Access Cannabis, Tokyo Smoke and a consortium of other retailers are licensed to sell product to consumers, while the Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Corp. will secure and track supply.
The Liberal government has approached legalization with an abundance of caution. Former health minister Dr. Eric Hoskins placed a strong emphasis on harm reduction. As a result, Ontarians will only see 40 storefronts, run by the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC). The stores will provide product information and guidelines via iPad screens as part of a state-of-the-art Shopify system. The legal age for cannabis consumption will be 19.
Quebec’s proposed cannabis laws are the most restrictive in Canada, with only 15 government-run dispensaries. Government will also control online sales. This stance is a far cry from the Quebec government’s comparatively liberal approach to alcohol sales, which are permitted in corner stores.
Quebec’s current legal drinking age of 18 will apply, so expect some young Ontarians to hop the provincial border.
Premier Brian Gallant’s Liberal government has eagerly embraced cannabis as an economic engine. CannabisNB, a Crown agency, will work with various tenders in the private sector for retail sales. To date, licensed suppliers are Canopy, Zenabis and Nuuvera.
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island is expected to have four stand-alone, government-run cannabis stores. Supply deals have been signed with Organigram, Canopy and Canada’s Island Garden.
Nova Scotians will have nine government-run cannabis stores to choose from. Unlike their counterparts across Canada, these stores will be located within provincial liquor stores.
Newfoundland & Labrador
Newfoundland & Labrador will have 41 private-sector stores in the first year of legal cannabis. Ontario-based Canopy Growth has agreed to an 8,000-kilogram supplier deal with the province, and its subsidiary, Tweed Inc., is expected to operate four retail locations.


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Neiman Marcus now has something in common with Sears Holdings.
The luxury retailer on Thursday got downgraded by Standard & Poor’s to CCC+ from a B-. The ratings agency also has Sears in the C category — a “junk” rating that signals risk the company is in danger of falling into bankruptcy.
Neiman’s ability to generate sales growth has “deteriorated,” S&P noted, while also pointing to the department-store industry as one of the most challenged sectors.
“We have a negative outlook for all of the department stores,” said S&P credit analyst, Helena Song.
Dallas-based Neiman’s “capital structure is unsustainable over the long term,” with weak mall traffic and a highly promotional retail environment exacerbating its chances of recovering, according to S&P.


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As the only presentation by a manufacturer on the second day of the North American International Auto Show, Volvo was very clever about their introduction and had the auto media’s undivided attention as they introduced a wrecked Volvo battery-powered C30.
Their point? Volvo’s safety chief explained that an electric car reacts differently in a crash, and that needed studying. After explaining some of the differences the point was clear. Having launched the Volvo S60 last year, a small company like Volvo might not have a new car to show, but they wanted us to know they did have a hard working future. By combining safety — Volvo’s strongest consumer attribute — with electric power — the industry’s new hot button — in destroying one of the most popular upscale compacts, Volvo hit just about every point journalists were making about this year’s auto show in Detroit.


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Jill Nakagawa Wins A $150 Spree At Times
On Thursday, Jill Nakagawa needed to get groceries, so she took a trip to Times Supermarket in Waimalu. As she left the store at 2:40 p.m., MidWeek‘s representative approached Jill with a simple question. She answered correctly and instantly won a $150 Times Supermarket spree.
“I like shopping at Times because it’s convenient and they have a good selection of products,” said this week’s
Mystery Shopper, a retired government contract project manager. “Also, their people are nice.”
Jill was born and raised in McCully and graduated from McKinley High School in 1962. She lives in Pearlridge and enjoys traveling. She also likes to read MidWeek.
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Perhaps the most stark example of how fast the money stopped flowing in Southeast Michigan real estate lies just off Telegraph Road, north of Square Lake Road. A completed parking structure sits next to the unfinished shell of what was to be a $350 million development called Bloomfield Park. Planned was 533,000 square feet of retail space, 127,000 square feet of office space, 60 residential condo units and three parking structures. Today, project owner Covenant Real Estate Fund L.L.C. is in default with its lender, Wells Fargo. Construction has been stalled since Covenant stopped paying construction crews. Similarly, plans to build mixed-use projects on high-profile sites in Troy and Northville stopped, though no structures were built. Opinions are mixed as to what economic conditions will be needed before such large-scale mixed-use developments will be viable — or if the projects will ever be viable again. “We won't see this again for a long time, if ever,” said David Long, a specialist in retail leasing out of the Southfield office of CB Richard Ellis. There were specific components that led to the boom, he said. There was a strong demand in housing and a free-flowing commercial real estate lending environment. And there was a retail expansion fueled by a high level of consumer spending, mostly a result of credit card purchases. “When you look at all the factors, they've completely unraveled,” Long said. “And you'll need all of those components back before you see mixed-use projects. It's unlikely we'll ever see something like that again.” Waiting on residential The residential piece of developments will be slow to come back, said Kelly Sweeney, CEO of Birmingham-based Coldwell Banker Weir Manuel. Though financing for developers remains a challenge, he said, the more basic problem is the price condominium units are selling at. No developer would make money on a project when the sale price of a unit is compared to the price of land and construction, Sweeney said, given how low the sale prices have been. In Oakland County, the median price for residential sales at the end of 2009 was $89,000 and sales in Detroit had a median price of $6,500 according to the Farmington Hills-based MLS Realcomp II Ltd. Condo projects had units listed in the $350,000 to $400,000 range in 2006. “If developers knew what units would be selling for in 2010, they'd never have built them in the first place,” Sweeney said. The former Kmart headquarters in Troy was in play in September after New York-based Blackstone Group put the land up for sale after financing could not be secured. Originally planned for that site was a project called the Pavilions of Troy, a $320 million redevelopment to include about 440,000 square feet of commercial and retail space, 132 residential units, a public ice rink, a 3,000-seat theater, restaurants and a grocery store. The property was later put under option by Farmington Hills-based Grand Sakwa Properties Inc. During a presentation to the Troy City Council, principal Gary Sakwa told officials that a viable retail development can be built on the site, but the residential component does not make sense right now. “Candidly, this developer isn't interested in doing residential anywhere today,” he said during the meeting. “We could try, but we don't want to go broke in the process.” The property was later sold to Forbes Frankel Troy Ventures L.L.C., owner of the Somerset Collection in Troy. Nathan Forbes, managing partner of Southfield-based The Forbes Co., which operates Somerset, has said there is not a plan for the site yet. Retail, office downturn Plus, office and retail developments are still a long way off due to the pricing of vacant space, said developer Peter Burton. Based on current rental rates in Troy and Southfield, he said a new development would make sense if it could be built for $70 per square foot. “That's a problem, since it's going to cost $200 or $220 per square foot,” he said. “Financing is hard to get for good projects, and it's really hard to get for bad projects. You won't see financing when the underlying aspects of the project just don't make sense.” Recovery in the retail sector will vary from one geographic region to the next, said Matthew Swantko, vice president of the retail group in the Southfield office of Grubb & Ellis. He said individual stores are now becoming interested in growing, but there isn't an explosion of retail ready to go. Right now, there is still a lot of vacant retail space, and there isn't demand for major retail developments. “It's going to be a slow-paced recovery,” he said. “We'll see the stronger markets coming back faster, though. And when there is demand, we're going to see big projects moving.” Entertainment Projects such as Bloomfield Park and Pavilions of Troy sought to create density in suburban areas. A collection of restaurants, for example, is needed for entertainment projects, such as a cinema, said Paul Glantz, founder and chairman of Troy-based Emagine Entertainment Inc. A more direct move is to build on existing entertainment centers, he said. He is finalizing financing on a bar, restaurant, bowling and cinema development in Royal Oak. Emagine was also to be a lead anchor of the Bloomfield Park development, Glantz said. The challenge to bring a cinema to a greenfield development such as Bloomfield Park is that there has to be a density of restaurants. In his case, the magic number was six full-service restaurants. In fact, a provision in his lease indicated he would only pay 50 percent of his rent until the development had six restaurants. In Royal Oak, he said, that restaurant base is built in. “Nothing in our society is more iconic than a dinner and a movie,” said Glantz. “In Royal Oak, we're in an area that already has a base of great restaurants.” Glantz said the mixed-use concept still has value, though. “If Bloomfield Park was back, and they had six restaurants, I'd still build there,” he said. Bloomfield Park languished for seven years under the management of first-time developer Craig Schubiner. The project was on the brink of insolvency prior to 2006 when it was purchased by Ohio-based Development Diversified Realty and New York-based Coventry Real Estate Advisors. However, the DDR/Coventry team was crippled by the lack of retail and residential demand in the area and halted construction in November 2008. The anomaly One variation, a mixed-use project that is finding success, is under construction in Dearborn. Southfield-based Redico L.L.C. combined three hot trends: mixed-use development, senior housing and medical office for the Dearborn Town Center project. In getting the 250,000-square-foot project off the ground, CEO Dale Watchowski played each element off the other. The 143,000-square-foot medical office component will be used by two tenants: Oakwood Healthcare Systems and Midwest Health Plan. A retail space of 22,000 square feet will focus on street-level medical uses, including a pharmacy and an optometrist in addition to a restaurant. The retail and medical office will then have a built-in user base, American House Senior Living L.L.C. — of which Redico has an equity stake — which will build up to 105 units of senior housing. The $60 million project will be built on 4.85 acres with a 530-space parking structure. The project is planned with green construction principles; it has applied for LEED certification at the gold level. Watchowski has said the strategy was to embrace urban development ideas but also create a successful real estate development. “So often, seniors at these facilities are being driven to a doctor's office, to the store for their meds or to a restaurant for coffee,” Watchowski said. “The thought was to combine it all on one site, enable them to live more independently, but at the same time create a true mixed-use development.” Close to a ground-breaking is the retail, office and residential re-development of the Broderick Tower in Detroit. The $55 million redevelopment would include 127 rental units and 20,000 square feet of retail and office space in downtown Detroit. The project has received historic tax credits and is close to finalizing financing, said Fred Beal, president of Motown Construction Partners L.P., the legal entity developing the project. Beal is also president of Detroit-based J.C. Beal Construction Inc. Looking back at the trend of mixed-use projects, Beal said it's now clear that Michigan developers and national developers were building far ahead of demand. Banks fed money into the pipeline, and developers built. “But that's what developers as a group will do,” Beal said. “We do a good thing until it's no longer a good idea. And then we do it some more.” Waiting for recovery The challenge for mixed-use projects is that Southeast Michigan must wait for multiple sectors to come back at the same time, said Brad Soderwall, a senior project manager in the Detroit office of Hines Interests L.P. “A big-box retailer might say they need another location in Michigan and have something built at a well-located corner,” he said. “But a large mixed-use project has to cover retail, residential and probably office. “So you have to have several sectors all in-demand at once — in one location — for that to make sense.” While the waiting happens, developers will try to sell property or find other ways to defer holding costs, Soderwall said. In the case of the project originally called Highwood in Northville Township, 200 acres of the 414-acre former hospital site have been sold to the local government to use as public recreation, said Grant Trigger, director of brownfield redevelopment for Bloomfield Hills-based Real Estate Interests Group Inc., which bought the site in a joint venture with Livonia-based Schostak Bros. & Co. Of the original proposed $800 million project, Trigger said 80 acres now remain owned by the joint venture, REIS Northville L.L.C., for a development, though the concept has not been determined. “We're marketing this right now, but there just isn't a lot of activity,” he said. “But we own this property, and we're in this for the long haul.” Daniel Duggan: (313) 446-0414, [email protected]
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PAVILIONS OF TROY • What was planned: $320 million redevelopment of the former Kmart headquarters, with 440,000 square feet of commercial and retail space, 132 residential units, a public ice rink, a 3,000-seat theater, restaurants and a grocery store. • Now: The Kmart building (shown) remains on the site. • Status: The property was sold to Forbes Frankel Troy Ventures L.L.C., owner of Somerset Collection in Troy. No plans have been announced.
HIGHWOOD • What was planned: $800 million residential, retail and office project on the site of a former state psychiatric facility (shown). • Now: Of the 414 acres purchased, 200 acres have been sold to Northville Township government for public recreation. • Status: Eighty developable acres are still owned by the joint venture of Real Estate Interests Group Inc. and Schostak Bros. & Co., which bought the site. The land is being marketed to tenants, but nothing is imminent.
BLOOMFIELD PARK • What was planned: $350 million mixed-use development of residential, retail and entertainment. • Now: After stalling in the planning stages, funding was pulled from the project. Owner Coventry Real Estate Fund L.L.C. is now in default with lender Wells Fargo. • Status: Several structures built but most uncompleted. No construction is happening.


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The Electric Vehicle Energy Taskforce has identified five key “enabling conditions” for the UK to increase the number of electric vehicles (EV) chargepoints by tenfold, requiring a £7 billion investment by 2035 mostly from the private sector.
Tesco’s electric vehicle (EV) charger rollout has hit a new milestone, with chargers now installed at 500 stores.
While the difficulties faced by those with mobility impairments in electric vehicle (EV) charging have begun to be recognised, chargepoint design innovation to solve these challenges is still in early stages.
Digital energy services company eEnergy is planning to install at least 50,000 workplace electric vehicle (EV) chargers by 2030, signing an exclusive agreement with EO Charging.
Wokingham Borough Council is now able to offer combined or separate parking and electric vehicle (EV) charging rates as part of a new project.
Government looks to 'revolutionise' UK EV charging network as plans to support tenfold chargepoint increase unveiled
Data regulation, the acceleration of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) approaches and standardisation of public electric vehicle (EV) charging payment methods are among key policy measures unveiled in today’s (25 March) Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy.
A step change in ambition of the UK’s electric vehicle (EV) charging rollout is required to deliver the 2030 ban on new internal combustion engine (ICE) cars, industry experts have warned.
Current± caught up with Connected Kerb's CEO Chris Pateman-Jones to discuss enabling flexible EV charging on public chargepoints and addressing inequality in EV charging.
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced a new 2030 Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Strategy, with this including plans to use public land for chargepoints.


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Pokemon Go is a viral mobile game that needs no introduction. There are tens of millions of dedicated fans playing the game, even though it was only released a little less than three weeks ago on iPhone and Android. Even if you don’t play the game, it’s very likely you’ve heard about it in the news, and know how it works. You might even be annoyed by the hordes of Pokemon fans that are patrolling your neighborhood in search of new creatures and fights.
But Pokemon Go doesn’t only have negative side-effects. In fact, a new report shows that the game might make history great again.
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According to Associated Press, some of the Pokemon Go addicts roaming the cities actually look up from their screens and acknowledge their surroundings while they play the game, discovering historical landmarks in the process.
Many players visit historical locations and famous landmarks so that they can collect in-game items. But some of them even stay to discover and explore these Pokestop locations. “Before I was just going from Point A to Point B, but now I’m learning things,” 15-year-old Jaiden Cruz said while walking past the place where Abraham Lincoln spoke at an old railroad hall in Providence, Rhode Island.
Why are there historical places in Niantic’s massive database of Pokestops? AP explains that Google signed a licensing agreement to use The Historical Marker Database, a website that locates the geographic coordinates of more than 80,000 historical locations around the world, most of them from the US.
Niantic used these markers for Ingress, a 2012 mobile game that uses real-life locations, but which never took off like Pokemon Go. The company used the same locations for Pokemon, which explains the sudden influx of visitors to historic places.
Niantic decided that spots that came with “a cool story, a place in history or educational value” or a “cool piece of art or unique architecture,” would add value to Ingress, and to the in-game world.
“Hopefully, people will take their eyes off the phone and read the historical markers,” J.J. Prats, the founder and publisher of the volunteer-run website, said.
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There’s already hype building for Japanese sensation Shohei Ohtani and which MLB team he’ll ultimately play for.
The bigger question is what Ohtani will be asked to do. He can pitch and he can certainly bat.
Can he be both a regular starting pitcher and a regular everyday batter?
Those in the hobby seem to be excited for his baseball card value. Here are some eBay auctions that will be ending in the next couple of days:
- 2017 Bowman Chrome MOJO REFRACTOR (BGS 10)
- Auction ends Nov. 13 at 6:21 p.m.
- 2017 BOWMAN MEGA BOX SHOHEI OTANI ROOKIE RC REFRACTOR (PSA 10)
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On the back of its second quarter results, Energizer says it will split its business into two independent publicly traded companies, one for personal care and the other for its household division, focused on Energizer batteries.
On a recent visit to Oriflame’s R&D facility in Dublin, regulatory expert Garrett Moran sat down to discuss the aftermath of the ‘responsible person’ and how unrest in the Ukraine could see regulatory plans pushed back.
In a public meeting to be held next month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will seek out agenda items which reflect public and industry concerns, to be then discussed at the ICCR-8 meeting this summer.
Daily supplements containing the probiotic strain Lactobacillus paracasei NCC 2461 (ST11) may reduce skin sensitivity, according to results of a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical study.
Gillette’s newest razor is set to ditch the segment’s traditional emphasis on cartridges (blades), and focus instead on revamping the handle, in a move which goes against some opinion that innovation in the segment is limited.


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Pro-Dex (NASDAQ:PDEX) is a medical device company specializing in rotary drives and motors for physician and dental practitioners. This tiny health care penny stock has a valuation of only $6 million, and as a result, shares are volatile. In May, shares soared to more than $3, thanks in part to an impressive earnings report.
The company generated a profit in excess of $1 million on sales of $7.6 million. The sales number represented an improvement of 24% from the year prior. As quickly as the market bid up shares, the rug was pulled out as sellers emerged. Shares now trade below $2. Investors might have been spooked by the company’s admission that future buying might not be similar to the impressive quarter announced.
That said, Pro-Dex is working hard to diversify its customer base. To the extent they are successful, this stock will rally back to more than $3 per share – and then some.


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Microsoft and Sony continue their battle of press releases today, with Microsoft claiming dominance over the PlayStation 3 in Europe with the Xbox 360.
Speaking to GI.biz
, Microsoft's VP of Interactive Entertainment in the EMEA, Chris Lewis, region has said that it's clear who holds a greater lead in Europe - and it isn't Sony.
Lewis points to sales figures form GfK Chart-Track to support his claims, saying that the Xbox 360 is beating the PlayStation 3 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa by more than one million units. He also implies that Sony has attempted to confuse the issue by lumping these countries in as 'PAL regions' - a definition which actually includes Australia and New Zealand.
However you look at it though, in the UK and mainland Europe Lewis is adamant that Sony is failing to hit sales targets and that Nintendo and Microsoft dominate the market.
"There has been some confusion, but I'm not confused,
" he said. "Let me say we're confident that we talk about numbers that are meaningful customer numbers, whether they be GfK- or Chart-Track-generated, or otherwise, but they are numbers about shipments into the market, numbers that represent our performance in Europe, the Middle East and Africa - they're not PAL territories in totality, so the numbers I talk about don't include Australia and New Zealand for instance.
"If you look right across my area of responsibility, every data point that I've got, which I trust - and data points we've always used - put us approximately 1 million units ahead in the aggregate.
Lewis insisted he wasn't being arrogant though, saying that Microsoft was still highly respectful of it's competition and that the only reason he was singling Sony out was because it was a good barometer of the Xbox 360's success.
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House prices jump: What the experts say
Here’s some snap reaction to the surprise rise in UK house prices last month:
Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients:
‘It might be a little surprising to see the biggest monthly rise in house prices since February but the end of year can see a spike in sales as people aim to be in their new home for Christmas.
Jonathan Hopper, managing director of Garrington Property Finders:
With average wages rising at more than twice the rate of consumer inflation, homes are becoming steadily more affordable in many parts of the country.
“Mortgages remain cheap and the relative lack of competition among buyers, even for good homes, is enticing more strategic buyers to pounce.
“For now, the election has brought forward the traditional December slowdown, adding to the build-up of delayed demand.
Lucy Pendleton of estate agents James Pendleton:
“Contributing to the pick up in the annual pace of growth is the London market, which has started to bubble away again.
“In the capital, a big jump in the number of sales going to best-and-final offers is going hand in hand with increasing footfall through front doors as buyers’ appetites return.
UK house prices jump
Just in: UK house prices jumped 1% in November, the fastest monthly rise in seven months.
That’s according to mortgage lender Halifax, and suggests that the clouds of political uncertainty may be lifting a little.
On an annual basis, prices were 2.1% higher than a year ago, Halifax reports.
Russell Galley, managing director at Halifax, explains that low interest rates – and a shortage of properties – are keeping prices up.
“Average house prices rebounded somewhat in November, with annual growth of 2.1% being driven by the biggest monthly rise since February, following two months of modest falls.
Prices are now up by £3,904 since the start of the year. While a degree of uncertainty remains evident, it’s also clear that buyers and sellers are responding to factors such as improved mortgage affordability and the limited supply of available properties.
It is these issues which we believe will continue to underpin the resilience evident in the market for most of 2019. Over the medium term we expect the emerging trend of modest gains to continue into next year.”
German recession fears after ‘disastrous’ factory data
The slump in German factory output in October is so bad that it could drag the wider economy back towards recession.
Oliver Rakau of Oxford Economics says the plunge in production is “disastrous”, and could mean that the economy shrinks in the final quarter of this year.
Germany only just dodged a recession, with modest growth in Q3, but Q4 is not starting well. Earlier this week, factories reported a drop in orders, which could signal further weakness in the months ahead.
Here’s Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at ING Germany, on the factory slump:
Today’s data suggests that the German economy is continuing to flirt with stagnation and contraction in the final quarter of the year.
Capacity utilisation has dropped to its lowest level since early 2013. At the same time, the well-known supply-side constraints have also started to ease but not with the same magnitude as capacity utilisation. The lack of skilled employees and too little equipment as limiting factors have dropped to their 2017-levels, suggesting that the current slump in manufacturing is still a combination of supply-side and demand-side factors.
Looking ahead, both soft and hard indicators bode ill for industrial activity in the months ahead. Production expectations show very tentative signs of stabilisation at low levels but order books are still shrinking and inventories remain high. Trade conflicts, global uncertainty and disruption in the automotive industry have put the entire German industry in a headlock, from which it is hard to escape.
Analysts: Biggest fall in German industrial production in a decade
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2019 is turning into a year to forget for Germany. Factory output has slumped again as problems at home and abroad batter Europe’s largest economy.
Industrial output fell by 1.7% month-on-month in October, new figures show. That’s much worse than expected, showing that the recession across German factories hasn’t eased up.
On an annual basis, output was 5.3% lower than in October 2018, as trade tensions and problems in Germany’s car industry have hurt activity.
The decline was driven by a 4.4% month-on-month slide in production of capital goods — the pricy heavy-duty machinery and equipment that has been the bedrock of Germany’s economy.
Germany’s problems are part of a wider picture — manufacturing data has been weak around the globe this year as the world economy has slowed. But it has certainly suffered more than most.
Germany’s economy ministry fears that it could take several months for the situation to stabilise. It says:
“The economic weakness in industry remains.
However, the latest developments in new orders and business expectations indicate that a stabilising trend could emerge in the coming months.”
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Also coming up today
Investors will scrutinise the latest US jobs report for signs that America’s labour market is slowing.
Over in Vienna, Opec are trying to hammer out a 500,000 barrels/day cut to oil production levels. There’s clearly a disagreement over how to implement the deal — ministers talked late into the night, when they were due at a gala dinner to celebrate the success of the alliance #awkward .
European stock markets are expected to open higher, shaking off the jitters that sparked a selloff earlier this week. Traders are still hoping for progress in the US-China trade talks, before the 15 December deadline when Washington could impose new tariffs.
And the future of UK trucking business Eddie Stobart will be decided today, as shareholders vote on a rescue plan.
My colleague Jasper Jolly explains:
The vote will pit William Stobart, the third son of the company’s founder, against his childhood friend and former brother-in-law, Andrew Tinkler.
If their competing bids fall through, the company could collapse under the weight of a huge debt pile months before its 50th birthday.
- 1.30pm GMT: US non-farm payroll for November. Expected to show 183,000 new jobs created, up from 128,000


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GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Samantha Bankey has long been a lover of all things social media.
As a preteen, she was thrilled with AOL instant messaging, technology that gave her the opportunity to chat with friends on the web. Later, she became glued to Facebook and Twitter, and eventually pursued a college major – public relations – that capitalizes on the opportunities created by social media websites.
So for Bankey, 21, it was somewhat fitting that her first job offer after graduating from Ferris State University earlier this month didn’t come through a traditional phone call. Instead, it came through Instagram, an online social networking photo-sharing service.
“I started freaking out,” Bankey recalled, after the Detroit-based digital marketing firm ePrize posted a picture on Instagram last week of two supervisors holding a sign asking Bankey to join the company.
“I was so excited. For me, to even find a job was a miracle,” she said.
Not that Bankey wasn’t surprised – even a little shocked – by the unorthodox delivery.
But given the fact that she had interned at ePrize, and that her supervisors knew she was an avid user of social media, the method made sense, she said.
“I think this was their way of playing on something that I really like, and something that they really like as well,” said Bankey, of Romulus.
Experts say although such job offers are relatively rare, they’re suited for companies looking to sell their expertise of social media.
Tim Penning, an associate professor of advertising and public relations at Grand Valley State University, said using social media to offer an applicant a position could build that company’s “brand.”
Social media, through websites such as LinkedIn, is more commonly used to recruit applicants rather than to make job offers. Still, Penning has heard of the strategy.
“They probably were trying to look hip and savvy,” he said, adding that such a move could be designed to make ePrize be perceived as “a cool place to be.”
In a sense, that was exactly ePrize’s motive.
In an email, company officials said they pursued such an approach with Bankey after “looking for a unique way to match her enthusiasm for ePrize.”
“We chose Instagram and shared it on Facebook to provide a fun surprise and delight,” said Janice Pollard, the company’s digital marketing and public relations director. “It had a nice side effect of looping in her personal community so she could let friends and family share in her experience.”
She added: “It was intended to show our culture and that ePrize is a fun place to work.”
Indeed, the move did catch the attention of Bankey’s friends and family. Her boyfriend was the first person to “like” the offer.
“Everyone was just like ‘that was so strange, but so cool,’” said Bankey, who will work as a marketing coordinator at ePrize.
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Troy Farley, GVSU’s director of career services, said while such a move may be popular among a certain sect of employers, it remains a ways off for many industries.
“They’re all in the space,” Farley said of social media, “but they haven’t really been able to figure out how beneficial it’s been.”


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New Balance has just won a trademark lawsuit in China against a brand named “New Barlun,” which produces similar products as the American athletic brand.
According to the Shanghai Huangpu District Court, New Barlun’s “N” logo had violated New Balance’s trademark rights because it was both “visually and conceptually” similar to the genuine brand’s design. It also found that the Chinese brand had acted in bad faith after ignoring a previous interim injunction ordering it to cease production and manufacturing during a period which it benefitted from the similarity, and consequently reputation, from the American sportswear giant. The court’s ruling isn’t the first against New Barlun over the past year. The knockoff company had previously been found to have engaged in “unfair competition” by the Shanghai Pudong District Court, ultimately paying a fine of roughly $1.54 million USD.
On top of New Barlun, the counterfeit brand’s distributor Shanghai Lusha Fashion Co had also been found jointly liable and had to contribute roughly $15,000 USD to the total damages paid to New Balance.
“It is very encouraging that the court has once again recognized the legitimacy of New Balance’s intellectual property rights which will help ensure that our brand is safeguarded and protect our consumers’ interests,” says Dan McKinnon, senior counsel of intellectual property and global brand protection for New Balance.
Elsewhere in fashion, FACETASM and AKILA have connected for a collaborative sunglasses collection.
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How store wars turned dirty
When the Competition Commission launched its inquiry 18 months ago, it must have caused a few knotted brows in the UK's supermarket boardrooms.
The 'Rip Off Britain' culture was at its height and there were few worse villains than the larger food stores. Supermarkets stood accused of milking both customers and suppliers to line their own pockets, while the fat cat salaries of the bigger chains' top dogs headed the list of customers' gripes.
Prices of basic goods appeared to have gone through the roof and farmers picketed supermarket depots in protest at the low prices being forced on them by the nation's favourite stores. Reports of home-grown goods being sold abroad for a fraction of the British price also proved unlikely vote winners.
The result was the biggest competition inquiry ever mounted in Britain - and few could have predicted the hysteria it would cause. The nation's big five chains - Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Safeway and Somerfield - immediately went on the offensive. Hardly a day passed, it seemed, without someone slashing the price of bananas or a major new campaign hitting the nation's TV screens.
And when US giant Wal-Mart last year snapped up Asda in a £6.7 billion deal, it promised to be the start of a new era for British shoppers.
Wal-Mart, famed in the US for its low prices, wasted little time in launching a price-slashing frenzy which made its competitors' previous sticker campaigns seem amateur by comparison. It also triggered a price war, the likes of which had never been seen before.
Basic goods became cheaper than ever as the big players fought to win over customers on the basis of 5p off a jar of coffee or 10p off a loaf of bread.
But while customers profited, the nation's smaller grocers - the romanticised stalwarts of British life serving the needs of the elderly, low-incomed and disabled with no transport to the bigger stores - struggled. It now comes as little surprise that the role of supermarkets in forcing smaller competitors out of business is actually highlighted in the report.
Yet the price-wars carried on unabated amid growing claims of dirty play and sabotage. Earlier this year, in May, horrified shoppers at Tesco in Maidstone, Kent, stared with disbelief as one of the store's bosses brawled in the frozen food aisle with a manager from a rival Iceland outlet.
Trouble flared when the Iceland employee was caught with his wife and daughter putting stickers on Tesco goods in protest at a promotional campaign.
It later emerged that Iceland, convinced Tesco was trying to put it out of business, had handed out thousands of orange stickers to staff around the country.
The stickers urged shoppers to 'Ask yourselves why ... why is Tesco picking on us?', while the chain's website address was printed below. Dubbed 'store wars', claims and counter-claims of foul play have continued right up until recently when Safeway was accused of sending plain-clothed employees to clog up queues at rival Asda stores.
But speculation about the ailing health of Wal-Mart's British operation is now rife, fuelling rumours that the traditional players may still see off their bigger rival. Industry sources claim sales at Asda have been virtually flat for the past three months while the other players continue the battle to win customers. Meanwhile, the price wars show little sign of slowing down as only last week Tesco fired its latest shot by announcing a £55 million blitz on prices.
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New Look has announced the appointment of Nigel Oddy as its new chief operating officer.
Oddy – a former chief executive of House of Fraser, and more recently, The Range – will begin in his new role on April 1.
He will report to New Look executive chairman Alistair McGeorge.
Oddy joins the fashion retailer at a pivotal time for the business, as it undergoes a painful refinancing scheme, exits international markets and pushes on with a major CVA that has resulted in a raft of store closures and job cuts.
“I am delighted to welcome Nigel to the business,” McGeorge said.
“His operational expertise and significant retail experience will be a great asset to the team as New Look continues to deliver on its turnaround strategy and reposition itself for future growth.”
Oddy said: “New Look is a strong brand with 50 years of heritage and a great team. I look forward to being part of the business at this exciting point in its development.”
Oddy spent more than 10 years at House of Fraser, including chief executive from 2015 until 2017.
Prior to that, he was House of Fraser’s chief operating officer for four years.
After he left House of Fraser, he took the helm of The Range but stepped down at the end of last year.


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The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita) says it plans to take legal action against the government over the ban on the sale of cigarettes.
The decision was made after Minister Nkosazana-Dlamini-Zuma’s announcement on Wednesday evening. Dlamini-Zuma announced that the sale of cigarettes would not be allowed under level 4 restrictions of the lockdown.
Her announcement comes a week after President Cyril Ramaphosa said exactly the opposite, that cigarettes will go on sale again.
“We are consulting with our legal team on a way forward. We are going to court. We are making plans to prepare our legal challenge,” Fita chairperson, Sinenhanhla Mnguni, told SA FM on Thursday morning.
“Illicit cigarettes are coming into the country through our borders. Government is losing billions in what could have been used in the fiscus. The illicit traders are gaining momentum,” he said.
He continued to say that people should be able to choose whether or not they wanted to smoke.
“We believe there was foundation to the president’s statement. The U-turn is concerning,” he said.
Last week Fita withdrew their legal challenge after the president’s announcement that the sale of cigarettes would be permitted.
At the time, Mnguni said that the president’s announcement, together with tax relief extended to cigarette manufacturers by finance minister Tito Mboweni, “are steps in the right direction by government in mitigating the damaging effects of the lockdown period”.
While the association does not dispute the dangers of smoking, Mnguni said the lockdown regulations have not stopped people from smoking.


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Did Pinky and the Brain just hijack Disney? Because it's taking over the world!
After buying LucasFilm for $4 billion, MTV says they have it "on good authority" that the third largest global media conglomerate is in talks to buy Hasbro too!
So far, Hollywood is only taking advantage of Transformers, G.I. Joe and Battleship, but the toy company also has dozens of other properties that have yet to be adapted into big screen adventures.
The big ones include Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, Clue and Risk, while Monopoly, Candy Land and Ouija were already in development at studios around town.
The success of Transformers has proven that the company is a worthy investment, but many wonder if Disney CEO Bob Iger will make another huge purchase before his contract is up for renewal in 2015.
Guess we'll find out in a similar fashion to how we found out that George Lucas sold his Star Wars baby to Disney — completely out of the blue!
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We had seen the same thing in the case of the HTC U11, whose hands-on video got leaked before the official announcement and same happened in the case of many smartphones. The Samsung Galaxy J7 2017 is launching pretty soon along with its smaller brother J5 2017 and today; we got the hands-on video of the Galaxy J7 2017 that reveals every feature of this upcoming budget device. So, in this particular article, we will be talking about the specifications and design of the new Galaxy J7 2017.
SAMSUNG GALAXY J7 2017 – DESIGN & SPECIFICATIONS
The biggest change has happened on the back side with the all new oval-shaped camera module unlike the previous J series phones with square shaped one. There is a single sensor on the back with the LED flash. Above that, we can see a whole new design of the Antenna lines that cannot be said as bad but isn’t so good either. The Samsung branding is below the camera module, as always. Except these, the back has nothing. Moving to the right side, we have the power button, and the volume rockers are on the left with SIM card try below them. There is also a speaker above the power button. The 3.5mm headphone jack along with the Micro-USB port & primary microphone is on the bottom side. The phone is also coming with the IP54 rating with is a good thing.
Now, coming to the specifications of the phone, it has a 5.5-inch sAMOLED Full HD 1080p display and is powered by an Exynos 7870 Octa-Core processor with 3GB of RAM and 16GB internal storage that can be expanded up to 128GB. Coming to the cameras, both the front as well as the rear camera is having a f/1.9 aperture, and both cameras are 13MP sensors. There is a huge 3,600 mAh battery, and we all know how insane the battery life of Samsung’s mid-range devices is.
The phone is equipped with MST technology that lets you use your mobile phone for payments. The AnTuTu benchmark test shows that the J7 2017 is better than 86% of the smartphones available around the same price tag. The fingerprint scanner is on the front, embedded in the home button and the phone also comes with NFC support.
Overall, it is a good budget friendly device from the company, and it will be interesting to see what price Samsung is going to set for the Samsung Galaxy J7 2017. What are your views about this device? Let us know via the comments section.
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Wells Fargo has partnered with data aggregation and analytics platform Envestnet Yodlee to allow customers to securely share financial data with third-party apps, the lender said Thursday, as banks and fintechs grapple with how best to keep customer information safe.
Envestnet Yodlee has more than 1,400 apps on its financial data aggregation platform, which is powered by an application programming interface. Wells Fargo intends to transition 99% of current third-party screen-scraping to API-based data exchange.
Ben Soccorsy, senior vice president in Wells Fargo’s strategy, digital and innovation group, said that signing the data exchange agreement with Envestnet Yodlee is a “big step” toward allowing consumer and small business customers to manage finances on their preferred platform.
“As we help customers navigate these uncertain times, we want to enable them to seamlessly connect with and use third-party apps that help them manage their finances and do so in as secure a way as possible,” Soccorsy said.
Wells Fargo said it will integrate Envestnet Yodlee into its Control Tower offering, available through online banking and the Wells Fargo app, which provides customers with a single view of their digital financial footprint. Through Control Tower, customers will be able to turn on and off data sharing with Envestnet Yodlee apps, as well as select the information they are willing to share with the apps.
The interface used between Wells Fargo and Envestnet Yodlee will use a “secure, tokenized ‘handshake’ between the companies’ servers,” Wells Fargo said, which will share customer financial data while maintaining user privacy.
Envestnet Yodlee will access Wells Fargo’s data aggregation through the bank’s Gateway Channel, an open API channel that allows commercial, corporate and other third parties to integrate customer financial information into their own products.
Wells Fargo plans to begin integration of Envestnet Yodlee with select customers later this year.
Chad Wiechers, senior vice president of data access and management at Envestnet Yodlee, said the agreement with Wells Fargo gives customers “more control and an improved overall financial wellbeing — something that is vital during a particularly uncertain economic landscape.”


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A signing that could be good news to the millions of Americans, especially teenagers, who suffer from unsightly acne was made for Atria by editorial director Tracy Behar. She won a heated auction for Unblemished by Drs. Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields, star dermatologists who run the Proactiv line of skin care products well-known from their TV ads; they offer in their book a three-step formula they promise will get rid of the scars forever. It involves only products that can be bought over the counter in drugstores for self-treatment. Behar bought world rights from Barbara Lowenstein at Lowenstein-Morel Associates and will publish next spring.
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A delegation from the Real Bread Campaign (RBC) has met with government representatives to discuss the RBC’s demand for legislation.
The proposed legislation, informally known as An Honest Crust Act, would create legal definitions for terms used in the naming, labelling and marketing of loaves. It would also ensure that more comprehensive additive labelling become mandatory.
Other matters discussed at the meeting between RBC and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) on 20 January included not potentially misleading consumers through labelling and marketing, including words such as artisan, sourdough, freshly baked, wholegrain and bakery fresh.
It was also suggested that, as an industry, we should be ensuring shoppers are able to make fully informed choices, by requiring all bakers and retailers to display full lists of ingredients, plus any and all processing aids and other artificial additives, at point of sale for all loaves.
By way of response, Defra suggested industry self-regulation or investigating the EU geographical indications and traditional specialities schemes as a potential route to differentiate genuine sourdough from other loaves.
It also pointed to guidance issued by the Food Standards Agency in 2008 in respect of terms used during labelling. While this document covers a range of terms, including ‘freshly baked’, it does not include sourdough, artisan or wholegrain.
process of consultation
The RBC will now consider the options discussed and begin a process of consultation with its supporters.
Following the meeting, Defra said: “We have recently been looking at the ROI guidance you referred to at our meeting and will keep in mind whether we should produce something similar.”
Other EU member states have guidance and even laws governing loaf labelling and marketing. The French Décret n°93-1074 du 13 Septembre 1993, for example, includes regulation of the use of terms including ‘sourdough’ and ‘traditional French bread’.
Last May, The Food Safety Authority of Ireland published The Use of Food Marketing Terms, which is designed to ensure that consumers are not misled by the use of marketing terms on foods.


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There’s now an Etsy for coffee-lovers
I’ll be bold and say that coffee is that backbone of America. It keeps us awake, it tastes delicious, and people are willing to pay $5 for a cup for it if it’s frothed with soy milk. Globally, our coffee consumption has more than doubled in the past 40 years. But despite the fact that 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed around the world in a single day, few people know where their coffee is coming from. And as the U.S. slowly but surely becomes more and more interested and invested in artisanal food products, people want to know where their coffee is coming from. That’s where Vega Coffee, the new Etsy of coffee, comes in.
Vega Coffee is a fairly new startup, working out of New York and Nicaragua. The creators of the company identified the problem. Rob Terenzi, a co-founder of Vega Coffee, explained to the Huffington Post,”We kept thinking about this idea — farmer-roasted coffee — because it was such an obvious problem to us. If you look at a chart comparing the price that consumers are paying for a cup of coffee over the last five to seven years to how much farmers are earning, they are exactly inverse. Prices are going up and farmers are earning less.”
And so Vega Coffee was born. Terenzi explains their thought process pretty plainly. “The idea was to have middleman-free coffee.” Their system of growing, roasting, and packaging the coffee themselves gives farmers in Nicaragua a chance to make more money off of the process. Vega Coffee’s website walks the buyer step-by-step through the growing, harvesting, and roasting process. “Vega Coffee was founded on the audacious idea that the very same farmers who not only plant, harvest, pick, wash, depulp, dry, hull, sort, grade polish and pack the incredible coffee we drink every day, could roast and package it too.”
Just like when you buy a super cool needlepoint from someone on Etsy. The person who’s selling it to you, made it! So when you go to the Vega Coffee website, you place your order directly with the farmer’s, and the coffee shows up in your mailbox within days.
Congratulations guys, on a super awesome system that puts money in the hands of those that are actually growing the coffee!
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As Music Week’s recent lockdown analysis feature proved, the coronavirus pandemic is having a huge effect on how the UK listens to music.
Some elements were relatively predictable: physical sales have dropped significantly since every record shop in the country had to close, while audio streams, particularly ad-funded ones, have risen after an initial dip.
But one lockdown trend surely wouldn’t have been predicted by anyone, as it involves a format so moribund Music Week declared it dead way back in 2016: the digital download.
For quarter after quarter, sales of both digital singles and albums, dominated in the UK by Apple’s iTunes store, have only gone in one direction: down. But, since the UK lockdown began on March 23 in chart week 13, there have been flickerings of a revival.
According to figures from the Official Charts Company, only 437,067 sales of digital singles were recorded in week 12, while digital albums accounted for just 71,824 units. Neither format has sunk so low since, with sales of tracks peaking at 773,336 in week 17 and albums at 124,944 in week 19. And while sales have fallen back since those peaks, they generally remain higher than they were pre-lockdown.
So why has the mini-recovery been happening?
“I put it down to the closure of retail,” BPI CEO Geoff Taylor (pictured left, with Kim Bayley, in the days before social distancing restrictions) told Music Week as part of our wider look at the lockdown sales figures. “There are some music buyers who haven’t made the jump to a subscription service and they’re substituting some of their usual physical purchase behaviour with digital purchases. And that’s good, people have a little bit more time to listen to digital albums and they’re investing in those.”
“I don’t actually think it’s weird,” said ERA CEO Kim Bayley (pictured right), who represents both physical and digital retailers. “For years, we’ve been saying people like to own music and there are lots of people who like to own music who haven’t been able to go to a shop and buy the physical version. They’re the people who’ve probably switched back into iTunes, because they want to own that music long term.”
But, with non-essential bricks-and-mortar retail due to re-open on June 15, albeit under social distancing restrictions, Bayley thinks the likelihood of a longer-term boost remains unlikely.
“The reality is, [consumers] decided long ago that they didn’t enjoy downloading and they preferred to own a CD or vinyl,” she said. “I suspect that, when the shops reopen, they will go back to that but, with anything like this, there’s a chance that a small number might stick with iTunes, having realised that they like it.”
So, can lockdown save the download?
“I don’t think so,” said Taylor. “If I’m honest, over the longer term, we’re more likely to see streaming [combined] with collecting of vinyl and, to some extent, CD box sets. That’s more likely to be complementary than digital purchases.
“Once lockdown is over and physical retail is open, I don’t know how sustained [download growth] will prove to be. It may be that some of the people that are now buying digital albums and singles enjoy it, find it a good way to consume and will continue to do that rather than buying physical products.
“But we always come back to the message that, if we offer the consumer the choice in all these different formats, then we’ll realise the value from one format or the other for the music industry,” he concluded. “What would be tragic would be if we lost a format, like physical, because of the closure of retail.”
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Volvo Construction Equipment says it saw net sales increase by 13% in Q2 year over year, driven by higher volumes in North America, Europe and South America. Adjusting for for currency movements, net sales increase by 21% year-over-year.
Of course, Q2 year-over-year results for all companies will be in comparison to the height of the pandemic experienced during the same quarter last year.
Volvo CE says all markets have enjoyed an uptick during the quarter year-over-year with the exception of China, which experienced a slight downturn after its Q1 surge. The company’s North American markets saw a 35% unit volume increase, driven by infrastructure spending and housing construction activity.
High consumer confidence and increased investment in infrastructure has led to a 35% increase in global order intakes, lead by Volvo-brand products. The company’s SDLG brand was impacted by the slowdown in the Chinese market.
Overall, demand for large and medium-sized machines remained stronger than for compact machines, Volvo CE says.
“While maintaining a steady recovery from the challenges of last year remains our top priority, we have also continued our journey of innovation with a number of exciting launches this quarter, including our entry into the 50-ton excavator segment and the launch of our first dedicated Fuel Cell Test Lab,” says Melker Jernberg, Volvo CE president.


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Logistics and supply chain startup Delhivery has allocated bonus shares to shareholders under a resolution passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) chaired on September 29. The IPO-bound company has agreed to allocate 16.8 million bonus shares to equity shareholders in a 9:1 ratio prior to submitting its IPO draft papers.
According to regulatory filings, Delhivery has issued 1,68,46,803 fully paid up shares of Rs 10 apiece, bringing the total number of shares from 18,71,868 to 1,87,18,670 bonus shares, which will be allocated to 90 existing equity shareholders of the startup.
Co-founder Sahil Barua received 12.29 lakh bonus shares, the most among the startup’s founders, whereas Times Internet and CPPIB received 28.53 lakh and 23.80 lakh shares, respectively, the most among the startup’s investors. The EGM also accepted the resolution to award additional stock options to eligible past and existing employees under the employee stock ownership plan (ESOPs) scheme. It will be issue 9,545 shares (Rs 2,895 each) to 12 of its employees, worth Rs 2.84 crore. In 2019, the startup awarded 11,614 shares worth $126.6K to its employees.
Alongside Addition, the Gurugram based logistics startups count Times Internet, SoftBank Vision Fund, Tiger Global Management, The Carlyle Group, and Steadview Capital as investors. During the fiscal year 2019-2020, the company reported a loss of Rs 284 crore. It was lower than the previous fiscal year’s figure of Rs 1,781 crore. During the fiscal year 2020, revenue climbed by 74 percent to Rs 2,986.4 crore.
FedEx, another global logistics startup, announced a long-term business agreement with Delhivery in August 2021, with a $100 million investment. Delhivery was valued at $3 billion at the time. It also acquired Spoton Logistics, based in Bengaluru, last month, in an effort to strengthen its B2B operations.
Delhivery, which was founded in 2011 by Bhavesh Manglani, Kapil Bharati, Mohit Tandon, Sahil Barua, and Suraj Saharan, provides a variety of logistics services such as express package shipping, reverse logistics, cross-border, LTL and FTL freight, B2B & B2C warehousing, and technology solutions.
Since its inception, the firm claims to have almost 10,000 direct customers and has performed roughly 850 million transactions. The startup joined the unicorn club in 2019 after raising $413 million from SoftBank Group among other investors.


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Can Black-owned coffee shops expect racists to target them in response to the aftermath of the incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks?
SEE ALSO: Here’s What Starbucks’ Workers Learned At The Companywide Day Of Anti-Bias Training
A Black-owned coffee shop in Denver discovered the N-word written in permanent marker on the outside ledge of the shop Wednesday (May 30) morning—one day after Starbucks shut down nationwide for an afternoon of anti-bias training for its staff.
“I didn’t think someone’s nasty, ugly words could be so hurtful. I hate that I’m even crying right now,” Millete Birhanemaske, owner of Whittier Café, told KDVR-TV.
With anger still hot over the arrest of two Black men in a Philadelphia Starbucks in April, a door of opportunity has opened for Black-owned coffee shops. They offer a welcoming environment where Black folks can sit over a cup of coffee without being concerned about making some white people feel threatened. It’s also a space where people of color can have an honest dialogue about race in America.
Birhanemaske, an Ethiopian native, uses coffee beans from several different African nations. She opened her shop in a Denver neighborhood that was once the only place in town where African Americans could purchase property because of red lining and segregation.
She described her café as a meeting place for discussions about social justice. “We have a justice fund, where we treat people to coffee if they can’t afford to buy it,” Birhanemaske stated.
Despite the vandalism, Birhanemaske plans to continue fostering positive change in the community. “This guy or whoever it was can’t deter what we’ve got going on here – it’s just all love,” she added.
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BlackBerry’s share of global smartphone sales dips to 0%
Published Thursday, February 16, 2017 5:12PM EST
The BlackBerry Z10 is shown as it goes on sale in Toronto on Feb. 5, 2013. (Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Statistically speaking, nobody is buying phones that run BlackBerry’s operating system anymore.
New figures released this week show that BlackBerry’s OS was installed on about 208,000 smartphones sold worldwide in the last three months of 2016.
In a report from tech research firm Gartner, that number rounds to 0.0 per cent of all smartphone sales during the quarter.
During the same period one year earlier, BlackBerry’s 907,000 phone sales accounted for 0.2 per cent of the global market.
The Waterloo-based company has been pivoting away from smartphone manufacturing in recent years, choosing instead to focus on its software business and attempting to bring its reputation for security to the fore in that arena.
The vast majority of phones sold during the fourth quarter – about 350 million, or 81.7 per cent of the total – ran on the Android operating system.
Apple’s iOS came in second, with about 77 million phone sales representing 17.9 per cent of the total, while Windows was the operating system on nearly 1.1 million phones, or 0.3 per cent of the total.
Other operating systems were featured on about 530,000 phones, or 0.1 per cent of the total.
To show how much the smartphone market has grown over the past decade, 5.8 million sales was enough to put RIM in second place in worldwide sales in the third quarter of 2008 – behind Nokia’s 15.4 million and ahead of Apple’s 4.7 million.
When it came to sales by individual smartphone makers, Gartner found, Apple and Samsung remain locked in a tight battle.
Samsung’s sales volume for the fourth quarter came in just below 76.8 million, putting it one-tenth of a percentage point behind Apple.
Overall, the 432 million smartphones sold worldwide during the three-month period represented a seven per cent increase over the final three months of 2015.
Chinese brands like Huawei, Oppo and BBK now account for more than 20 per cent of all smartphone sales.


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Xbox division head Phil Spencer says Microsoft isn't trying to beat competitors like Sony--it's trying to be the best place for gamers to play and developers to make money. Wait...what now?
Microsoft was utterly smashed in last console generation thanks to the company's E3 2013 blunders: the PS4 completely dominated sales over the original Xbox One. But now that Sony has damaged their brand image with the new 4K-ready PlayStation 4 Pro, the Xbox brand is on a comeback streak, and gamers are starting to seriously consider the Xbox brand again. Microsoft has a bunch of aces of its sleeve this time around, with their new cross-platform initiative that melds Xbox consoles with Windows 10 PCs, Xbox 360 disc-based backward compatibility versus Sony's hideously awkward streaming BC service, explosive sales of the new 4K upscaling Xbox One S, and the new native 4K Project Scorpio system is generating tons of buzz.
But all of these things come secondary to making Xbox the best place for developers to make money and gamers to play, at least according to Phil Spencer: "Developers see [Xbox] as a place where they can deliver their best content, reach the most customers. And while it's not the most sexiest thing to say, make the most money. That's the thing that keeps game development going. I'm listening to them on things like game preview, supporting things like EA Access, and unique business models that publishers and studios are coming up with," Spencer said in an interview with NZ Gamer.
Amazon today announced Twitch Prime, a new initiative that allows Amazon Prime users to get ad-free Twitch streaming for free.
Twitch Prime is included with the annual $99 per year sub as well as the $11 per month Amazon Prime subscription, and also includes monthly freebies like ad-free viewing, games, skins, and add-ons. For example, this month Twitch Prime subscribers will get a new Hearthstone hero, a free indie game, and skins for Paladins and SMITE.
Amazon promises that Twitch Turbo will still be available to those that already have it, but new Turbo subs won't be offered. So if you want the benefits of Twitch Turbo, you'll have to sign up for Amazon Prime to get it. Amazon Prime already has gamer-centric benefits in itself, including 20% off new game pre-orders as well as free Prime shipping on certain games.
NVIDIA has been using Gears of War 4 in its latest marketing, with a free copy of the game for anyone purchasing a GeForce graphics card or GeForce-powered system or notebooks through to October 30.
The company has recently showed off Gears of War fans favorite map, Gridlock, with it being the first total reveal of Gears of War 4's newly imagined Guardian game mode. The new Gridlock mode is explained as:
"Gridlock is a fan favorite map from the original Gears of War that made a return in Gears of War 2 and Gears of War 3. This version of Gridlock has a 'Reclaimed Beauty' look, with overgrowing foliage beginning to take over the buildings. The back part of Sniper Tower is slowly being eroded into the sea, while the two towers now have a Hotel and Café look to differentiate the environment. The classic 'Gridlock bell' in the tower is back as well".
The new "Guardian" game mode, sounds like a nice change for Gears fans:
"Guardian gameplay mode is a returning fan favorite mode from Gears of War 2 with the goal of keeping your leader alive while assassinating the enemy leader. New for Gears of War 4, leaders now have a 'Gold Dipped' look to make them stand out more to players. In this mode, killing the leader prevents any more respawns for their team, turns into one life left elimination. In a nod to classic gameplay, the Boomshot still spawns at the Station Arch, and the Longshot is still up in the Sniper tower".
Twitchcon today yields three new games from an unlikely source: Amazon. The online retail and other stuff company's newish gaming division is currently working on a unique sports title, a sandbox MMO, and a survival MMO.
Breakaway is the sports title and features the basic 'put the ball in the hole' premise, except players can fight each other, place structures, and use various abilities and items along the way. As well, the ball will behave differently depending how long you hold it. Amazon is giving it the eSports push, too -- it will be exciting to see if it takes hold or not.
The expectations Microsoft had for the Xbox One seem to be impossibly high, according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer saying that they had hoped for 200 million sales of the [at the time] next-gen Xbox One.
Stevivor recently spoke with Spencer, where he said: "The goal that the team had was to figure out how could we sell 200 million game consoles. We've never seen a console sell that many units. The biggest individual console, the PS2, did 120 million or something like that. The approach the team took was people are moving to OTT Video Services [over-the-top, like Netflix and Stan] and television's getting disrupted--and if we could build a console that could be at the center of this transition and really embrace not only people playing video games, but also people with the changing habits in television, you really take the console market and the gaming market and you expand it potentially".
Microsoft had an original vision for what would become the Xbox One, where it was to "start up building TV content as a first-party capability", said Spencer. Xbox Entertainment Studios was a division Microsoft created for TV and film content on the Xbox One, but once Spencer replaced Don Mattrick - who left for Zynga, he repositioned the Xbox brand with gaming, and Xbox Entertainment Studios was closed.
Battlefield 1 is my most anticipated game of 2016, but my obsession of Overwatch will have to stop... at least for a few days. EA has released some new screenshots of the single-player campaign for Battlefield 1, days after that awesome new trailer.
DICE has also detailed each of Battlefield 1's new unique War Stories campaign structure, with each having an anthology-style setup with different perspectives and nations throughout the war. Sadly there's only five campaign missions--our original estimates put it at six.
The five War Stories include:
- Friends in High Places - The allies are losing the war in the air. Britain struggles to compete with the German aces and the average lifetime of a combat pilot is 17 days. You must face these bleak odds and take to the skies for a noble fight over the western front. Intense dogfights, unexpected encounters, and a story of friendship await you.
- Nothing is Written - In the Middle East deserts, Arab tribes rebel against the oppression of the Ottoman Empire. The Empire's devastating artillery engage rebel forces wielding rifles from horseback. As a Bedouin warrior working alongside the legendary Lawrence of Arabia, you must find a way to take on the technologically superior enemy and destroy a deadly railgun.
- Through Mud and Blood - In the autumn of 1918, British forces prepare for a mass assault on the town of Cambrai, France. With tank support, Allied Command believes a breakthrough is a certainty. But the Mark V tank has one major flaw: it is not reliable. Join a dysfunctional tank crew who battle their way behind enemy lines as they learn to work together.
- Avanti Savoia - Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire are deadlocked among the Alps. Braced by snow-capped mountains, neither side can find a way to dislodge their enemy. Meanwhile, the Italian mountaineer regiment Arditi prepares an unorthodox assault. Don your Arditi armor and head up a mountainside as Italian and Austrian forces clash over a strategic fort.
- The Runner - The British Empire intends to open a new front to the war with an unprecedented naval invasion of the Ottoman homeland. The ships gathered for the Gallipoli Landings - the D-Day of World War 1 - carry over half a million men. As an Anzac runner you'll witness the heat of epic bombardments and a beach landing, as well as covert deliveries of urgent life-or-death messages across the frontline.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is looking better and better as new screenshots are released, but the latest ones are the best ones yet. The developer also announced its new distribution plans, with the news of Deep Silver stepping up and joining Koch Media to distribute Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
Koch Media has been, and will continue to handle the worldwide distribution channels and main publishing of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, while developer Warhorse Studios is "solely responsible for worldwide PC digital distribution", leaving Deep Silver to handle the physical PC versions of the game.
Warhorse Studios said: "we stand behind the vision of Kingdom Come: Deliverance and retain freedom in the development of our game. We will keep our communication as open and honest as we did from day one of our Kickstarter campaign".
Kingdom Come: Deliverance for 2017 on the PS4, Xbox One and PC.
When the news broke that there was movement on a Portal movie two years ago now, gaming fans began letting themselves quietly excited, and now that excitement ramps up with J.J. Abrams teasing there will be a Portal announcement "fairly soon".
When speaking with IGN at the red carpet premiere of Westworld, the Star Wars: The Force Awakens director said: "We have a meeting coming up next week with Valve, we're very active, I'm hoping that there will be a 'Portal' announcement fairly soon". IGN asked if the upcoming Portal movie would be a continuation of the world in the game on the PC, with Abrams not wanting to spoil anything, he said that he's working with writers who understand and love the world of Portal, and will "get" the game and storylines.
Abrams continued: "We are having some really interesting discussions with writers, many of whom...once you said you're doing a movie or show about a specific thing that is a known quantity you start to find people who are rabid about these things. As someone who loves playing Half Life and Portal, what's the movie of this, it's incredible when you talk to someone who just 'gets' it, it's like, oh my god, it's really the seed for this incredible tree you're growing".
As for when we'll hear about, Abrams said: "I look forward to being able to talk about it and announce who's working on it".
EA has released a new story trailer for Titanfall 2, and I've got to admit - as only played the original Titanfall for a few minutes, the new trailer looks incredible. I wish there was a full CG movie for Titanfall, that would be great - but anyway, check out the trailer:
Titanfall 2 launches on October 28, so we don't have much longer to wait.
So after a bunch of our readers and Facebook fans told me to get Forza Horizon 3 for testing my extensive range of PC hardware, and just finding the damn game in my library after I purchased it was more hassles than I've had since the DOS days of PC gaming.
Seriously. Once you find the damn game, it takes so long to load after you're logged into, and approving 50 different accounts. This is how long it takes to load into Forza Horizon 3, on a Core i7-6700K, 16GB of G.Skill 4000MHz DDR4 RAM, and a super-fast Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB PCIe-based M.2 SSD. Ridiculous.
It throws up a message to let me know my drivers aren't the latest set, too.
Then it launches like a 90s game on the PC, where I almost expected 320x240 to be displayed with a full-motion video and full interlaced video goodness.


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Nursery distributor’s initiative allows consumers to repair their well-loved toys.
PreschoolNews.net catches up with some key players in the outdoor toys and scooters category.
Family-owned nursery accessories business has been crowned best SME at the South West Business
Family-owned nursery accessories expert has been named the best SME in its 20th year.
Nursery and preschool company has launched two brand new collections at this week’s show.
With Toy Fair 2019 kicking off today (January 22), we catch up with some exhibit
Company is reducing carriage paid value from £300 net to £200 net.
Dutch brand Cloby joins Hippychick’s wide-ranging portfolio of brands for 2019.
Retailer has begun stocking bestselling lines including Moover and Nattou Rockers.


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"PAC employees hid more than $7 million in payments to at least 13 sub-agents," the release said.
PAC admitted that it mischaracterized these payments as "consultant payments" on its general ledger, which it knew caused Panasonic to incorrectly designate those payments as "selling and general administrative expenses" on Panasonic’s books, records, and accounts."
According to court documents, one purported "consultant" received $875,000 from PAC over a six-year period in which PAC earned over $92 million in profits from portions of the contract over which the consultant had influence, the release noted.
Published reports indicated that the violations took place in China although the release only cited PAC operations in the "Asia region."
The Justice Department release characterized the settlement as a "deferred prosecution agreement," in which a decision on future legal action will be based on Panasonic’s continued cooperation and enforcement of a compliance program that will be independently monitored for the next two years.
PAC, based in the state of California, designs and distributes in-flight entertainment systems and global communications services for airlines and airplane manufacturers, according to the release.


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The indices that started the day with a decline in the USA yesterday with unemployment pension applications rising to over 1 million again, recorded an increase with the leadership of real technology shares. Shares of companies such as Apple, Facebook, Netflix, Alphabet and Microsoft gained more than 2 percent.
The share cost of the electric car manufacturer Tesla also increased by 6,5 percent and exceeded $ 2 for the first time. Tesla's shares are currently priced at 148 times higher than the expected benefit, compared to Refinitiv, which provides data and analytical information to banks and investors, and this valuation will not be affected by the upcoming share split.
Tesla's stocks increased by more than 2020 percent in 300. The main reason for this increase is to make many factories operational again despite the corona virus epidemic.
In the upward trend in the indexes in the USA, the developments in the vaccine studies against the new type of corona virus (Covid-19) and the statements to calm the tension in the middle of the USA and China were effective.
Tesla shares, which were at the level of 350 dollars last year, exceeded the level of 2000 dollars and became the automotive company that gained the fastest momentum in the last year.


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DuBOIS — The City of DuBois is always looking for ways to expand and bring new businesses into the area, said Manager John “Herm” Suplizio.
“The city constantly reaches out to different venues, different areas,” Suplizio said. “We always keep businesses at the forefront, and always welcome new business and industry into our area.”
That being said, Suplizio said the city is limited on the amount of ground and land that it has for new businesses.
“A lot of times, we concentrate on the businesses here, and hopefully they can expand,” he said. “We always follow leads on businesses wanting to come into our area. Redevelopment Authority Director Joe Mitchell and the authority are always looking for ways to expand and bring new businesses into our area.”
There are a couple potential prospects out there, but nothing official yet, Suplizio said.
“We are working on a few,” he said.


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New Castle convenience store closed after two dead mice found near hot dog warmer
A Sunoco Food Mart in New Castle was temporarily closed by the health department after a state official found two dead mice in a trap behind the hot dog warmer unit.
The Division of Public health ordered the business, at 1201 N. Dupont Highway, to close on Oct. 24 due an "imminent health hazard" and "gross unsanitary conditions," according to the inspection report.
A followup inspection was scheduled for Oct. 28. It is unclear if the business has been allowed to reopen; the owner could not be reached for comment.
During the inspection, the state official found droppings inside the soda machine cabinet, as well as a live mouse behind the soda machine, according to the report. Rodent droppings were seen in all of the wood cabinets.
There also was no sanitizer found in the food mart, and multiple pieces of food dispensing equipment were not working. All of the cabinets in the food dispensing area needed to be cleaned, according to the report.
In order to reopen, the entire business needed to be cleaned "top to bottom," the inspector wrote in the report. All food items, cups and to-go containers needed to be thrown out.
At least 54 food establishments have been ordered closed by the state since the start of 2019.
The News Journal has created an online database for readers to view those inspection reports because the state again delayed its online database. More than 120 food establishments have been ordered to close by the state's health department since 2017.
Customers who want to anonymously report unsanitary conditions at Delaware food establishments and restaurants can call a hotline at 302-744-4736. Inspectors follow up on complaints.
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