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GENEVA – As the new Fresh Thyme organic grocery store gets ready to open this week at 2000 S. Randall Road, Geneva, employees were busy Feb. 4 putting the finishing touches on filling the shelves, bins and displays, placing price stickers and generally hustling.
Near the front door, pineapples and mangos flanked exotic pink dragon fruit.
Blocks of gourmet chocolate – about double the size of a Chunky candy bar – were wrapped and ready for snacking or shaving as a garnish.
Stacks of macaroons, scones and cookies were baked and ready for the taking.
The antipasto salad bar was empty, as were shelves where the 15 varieties of fresh breads will go.
These would not be filled until closer to the ribbon-cutting Feb. 5, followed by shopping from 4 to 7 p.m., and then the official opening at 7 a.m. Feb. 6, store manager Rich Geib said.
This is the 10th Fresh Thyme store to open in Illinois in five years, the 77th in the U.S., Geib said.
The store is a full-service grocery, but it brings service and more variety to a new level, Geib said.
For example, customers will be able to use a machine to slice their own bread. Customers will have hundreds of self-service bins to choose items from taffy to malted milk balls.
Fresh Thyme will not only feature hot food to go – roasted chicken is popular – but 13 types of sandwiches and a variety of salads for pickup. It also will have the fermented tea kombucha on tap, as well as a bar for smoothies and 17 types of fresh juice, Geib said.
In a corner of the front of the store is an area where people can sit with their laptops and work.
One of the big draws for Fresh Thyme is the meat section, which features 25 to 30 types of sausage, he said.
“If you want a brat or a chicken sausage or an Italian sausage, we make it all,” Geib said. “Anything from basil and parmesan sausage to a spinach and feta sausage. … It’s all made here.”
The store also features chicken breast and ground chicken, grass-fed ground beef, organic ground beef and wild game, such as elk, wild boar and antelope, and 175 varieties of cheese, he said.
A party or home entertaining section offers a variety of hummus and salsa.
The store also offers what it calls a natural living department, featuring vitamins, supplements, body care items and health-related items, such as yoga mats and shakers for protein drinks, he said.
Wednesday is the store’s biggest shopping day because shoppers can still buy the specials ending from the previous week’s sales as well as the new specials that begin that day, Geib said.
Fresh Thyme occupies 30,000 square feet of a former Dominick’s store, with national off-price retailer Burlington in the remaining 40,000 square feet.
Geib has a long background in managing grocery stores, having worked at Dominick’s for 33 years, then four years at Jewel, and now he will be at Fresh Thyme a year in April.
Fresh Thyme is in a competitive market, but Geib said the store will stand its ground.
“Once a customer shops in here, they … will be able to see the offerings we have,” Geib said. “We’re not just a specialty store, but a full service, healthy choice grocery store, loaded with organics in every department, and gluten-free items.”
Geib said he’s done comparison price checks on competitors.
“We are very competitive in price,” Geib said.
While Geib said he could not estimate how many people will come to the soft opening and grand opening, if interest on social media is to be believed, the turnout could be significant.
“I have remodeled stores to re-grand openings. And I’ve done grand openings,” Geib said. “But I can tell you this, there is an anticipation in this community that compares to none that I’ve seen before, anticipating for the store to open, from the community. People calling, showing up, checking on doors. There is a following for when [the] Geneva [store] was going to open on social media. ‘Is it open yet? When is it going to open? I can’t wait for it to open.’”


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9/9/10, 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
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The BB&T Bank Bus is a 40-foot traveling mobile financial classroom staffed with retail and business bankers to educate area residents on the benefits of homeownership and the importance of financial literacy. Complimentary credit reports will be pulled for consumers.

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Kyocera Wireless Corp. has signed a strategic alliance with Marvell to develop a dual-mode Wi-Fi/CDMA handset platform.
Kyocera Wireless (San Diego), will leverage the wireless LAN technology of Marvell (Santa Clara, Calif.), which supplies storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. By doing so, Kyocera hopes to capture the market for WLAN-enabled cellular handsets, projected by some analysts to reach 125 million by 2008—about 15 percent of the global market for mobile phones.
"The footprint and adoption of WLAN networks is increasing exponentially and we have carrier customers who are viewing this technology as a complement to their capacity-constrained cellular networks," said Tom Zeran, vice president of product management at Kyocera Wireless Corp, in a statement. "Adding the feature capabilities of high-speed WLAN while reducing demand on precious spectrum is certainly an attractive proposition.”
Wireless LANs and traditional mobile wireless networks are converging. In December, Qualcomm Inc. said it would the Wi-Fi Alliance, a move considered to ensure that the company’s 3G cellular data and voice chipsets are compatible with wireless networking technology.


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Costco reported strong first-quarter earnings yesterday, with profit up 21 percent and revenue gaining 10 percent from last year. The warehouse-club chain's profit of 40 cents...
Costco reported strong first-quarter earnings yesterday, with profit up 21 percent and revenue gaining 10 percent from last year.
The warehouse-club chain’s profit of 40 cents a share met analysts’ expectations, but that wasn’t enough for investors, who at one point yesterday traded the stock down $1.85 a share.
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It recovered much of that decline to close at $48.10, off 80 cents.
Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti tried to take Wall Street’s reaction in stride.
“What I lose sleep over, and it’s not a lot frankly, is as it relates to the short-term stock-price movement,” he said. “As you’d expect with any stock that’s done well, the sell-side guys want to look at it and say, ‘The cup is half empty.’ “
Stephanie Hoff, senior retail analyst for Edward Jones, pointed out Costco shares had moved up before the earnings announcement and that “because it didn’t beat earnings projections like it had for the past couple quarters, there’s some profit-taking occurring.”
Indeed, the stock price rose steadily throughout the fall.
Bob Toomey, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, blamed Costco’s drop yesterday on widespread market concern over disappointing unemployment figures.
Expenses of the Issaquah-based retailer also have been a concern, and some analysts said costs were still too high in the first quarter. Overhead costs totaled $1.13 billion, up 9.6 percent from a year ago.
But, Toomey said, “They’re making progress.”
Costco’s total revenue climbed 10 percent to $11.58 billion, including $238.1 million in membership fees and sales of $11.34 billion. Sales at warehouses open at least a year, known as same-store sales, rose 7 percent.
Consumer electronics are flying off the shelves, Galanti said, which he attributes to “cooler, neater stuff at lower prices.” Flat-screen televisions and digital cameras are hot, as are certain upscale-clothing items, such as cashmere coats and sweaters.
Less popular than expected are seasonal items, such as holiday lights and wrapping paper, Galanti said.
And the media category which includes movies, books and CDs is not selling as well as last year, when people were rushing to buy “Finding Nemo” and other hits.
Costco’s pharmacy and gasoline sales continue to grow at a faster rate than the company overall, he said.
At the end of the first quarter, the chain had 365 pharmacies, and gasoline was sold at 215 of its 449 stores.
Costco expects to open 24 stores this fiscal year, many in the summer. It opened four during the first quarter.
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DETROIT -- Buoyed by the cash-for-clunkers program, U.S. auto sales will rise in August for the first time in 22 months, Ford Motor Co.s top sales analyst said.
Its assured, George Pipas told Automotive News today. He also said its likely that sales to individual customers will be up by at least 10 percent while declining to forecast fleet purchases.
The last month in which the U.S. auto industry posted a gain was October 2007, when sales rose 1.2 percent from year-earlier totals, according to the Automotive News Data Center. The seasonally adjusted annual sales rate for that month was 16 million.
Since then industry sales have plunged, appearing to bottom out during the first half of this year, with seasonally adjusted annual sales rates below 10 million. The initial surge resulting from the federal governments cash-for-clunkers incentive lifted the July sales rate to 11.1 million vehicles.
Pipas declined to predict a SAAR for August but said it will be the highest since at least the second quarter of 2008, when the monthly figures ranged from 13.1 million to 15.1 millon. In August 2008, it was 13.9 million.
While the pace of clunker sales has ebbed from late July and early August, interest remains high, Pipas said.
Even today the sales pace is very strong, he said. I can hardly believe our dealers are delivering the level of business theyre delivering under these [low] levels of inventories.


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Honda designs dog-friendly car
I wonder how our three beasts would like this? I’m sure they’d want their soft beds in the back. We’ve got small (Chloe, 17 lbs), large (Bailey, 85 lbs) and XXL (Tonka, 125 lbs). Tonka would take up the whole back seat! (AP):
The W.O.W. Concept, which stands for “wonderful openhearted wagon,” shown to reporters recently, is an exhibition model with no plans for commercial sale that will be exhibited at the Tokyo auto show later this month.
A special crate for dogs in the glove apartment allows owners to interact with their pets while driving. A bigger crate pops up from the floor in the back seat area and can be folded back into the floor when it’s not needed. For even bigger dogs, just buckle them up with a special seat belt to the floor.
The big danger for pets riding along in cars is that they get thrown out during a crash. About a fifth of Japanese households have a dog, and demand is growing for cars that cater to man’s best friend, according to Honda.
The W.O.W comes with removable, washable, rollout flooring and has wide sliding doors to keep dogs happy.
Tonka, Chloe, Bailey.


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VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (WAVY) – Mental Health Awareness Day is October 10, and a first of its kind in Virginia said it is helping people fight their problems with its products.
Queen’s Green Apothecary is Virginia’s first “Cannabar” – an Alice in Wonderland smokehouse selling CBD products in Virginia Beach.
Members can sit with friends and smoke their pot, and anyone can buy food and other products.
Co-owner Nick Rocha, a retired US Navy seaman, opened it after discovering the power of the facility.
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“My eldest daughter had a lot of mental health problems, and no matter what we found out with doctors – nothing worked pharmaceutically,” he told NewsNation subsidiary WAVY.
A psychiatrist friend of mine suggested trying cannabis.
“And when we tried, I – oh my god – started working for her,” said Rocha.
Cannabis can treat anxiety; That’s why Boogie, a customer at Cannabar, said he used the products.
“It worked. It definitely worked – it worked,” Boogie said.
It is also used for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. WAVY also spoke to a client who is 90% disabled via the VA.
“It takes my pain away. It takes away my depression. It takes my PTSD away from me, ”said the customer.
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However, marijuana research is mixed, with some suggesting that cannabis can cause mental health problems. Further studies are needed as the facility is complex and contains more than 400 chemicals. In general, you cannot prove that it is solely helpful or harmful.
As for Rocha, it is very good for many people.
“I don’t have bar fights, everyone walks out happy and there are never any broken beer bottles in the parking lot, so this is a win-win situation,” he said.


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HMC 2020 Hispanic Market Guide
As brands look to build and rebuild, they will need to look for growth opportunities within the rapidly growing multicultural markets.
To arm them with the cultural insights needed, the Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC) has released its 2020 Hispanic Market Guide, the most comprehensive resource on the U.S. Hispanic market.
The HMC 2020 Hispanic Market Guide provides brands and journalists with an unparalleled competitive intelligence tool for locating and targeting the top agencies in the market.
Inside you’ll find:
- Top advertising, media and marketing companies vetted by the HMC that specialize in the Hispanic market;
- Key advertiser and agency relationships, specialties and contacts;
- Comprehensive demographic, marketing and media information provided by Nielsen, Kantar and U.S. Census;
- New market data and insights on Hispanic Centennials, including statistics, digital habits, cultural nuances, purchase behavior, high-purchase categories and favorite brands;
- Data on Latinx voting trends and habits, leading to the 2020 election; and more.
The 2020 Hispanic Market Guide publication is now available
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Kiwanis Club of Wilton to sell pumpkins
WILTON — The Kiwanis Club of Wilton is constantly looking for new opportunities to help raise funds with which to support their many charities.
This year an idea became a reality when it was decided have a pumpkin sale, so sometime at the end of September or early October you will see the lawn at the Wilton Historical Society turn into a beautiful orange color as the Society is allowing Kiwanis to use their property for the sale.
We will have pumpkins of all shapes and sizes and they will be sold at competitive prices to any and all who are looking to dress up their properties for the Halloween season.
As now planned, but could be subject to change, the sales dates would be Sept. 26 through Sept. 27 and Oct. 3 through Oct. 4 (if the pumpkins have been delivered).
The rest of the dates will be Oct. 10 and Oct. 11 and Columbus day Oct. 12, then daily from Oct. 17 to Oct. 31.
Pumpkin sales will go to help one of the many charities Kiwanis help each year, a few of which are listed here:
American Cancer Society
American Home Front
Family and Children's Agency
Stay at Home Wilton
Nursing and Home Care
Wilton Ambulance Corps


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BevQ, the app launched by the Kerala government to manage alcohol sales in the state which highest per capita consumption of liquor in the country is now in an unexpected hangover. Despite getting over one lakh downloads in few hours, the app created chaos with the downloaders while social distancing went for a toss at many outlets due to technical glitches.
It all started with the rollout of the app on Google Play Store itself while most of the consumers either did not receive the one-time password (OTP) while registering the application or got it very late that too after numerous attempts. As the sales began at 9 am on Thursday, the unhappy customers have already rated the app low and are complaining in user reviews about the problems with using it.
Coming to the mobile application, it was launched to avoid crowding at the alcohol outlets by giving people a token to buy liquor. It gives the customer a virtual queue instead of crowing at outlets. This system was adapted from the token system implemented in Sabarimala Temple. On the bright side, the app has been receiving good applause from tipplers who usually stand for not less than an hour at the stores.
301 state-run outlets in the state, 576 out of the total 613 bar hotels in Kerala are now implementing this system which is reportedly showing good results. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the government did not have any plans to start home delivery of liquor.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — General Motors has recalled 7.6 million vehicles (model years 1997 to 2014) over ignition switch problems.
GM says among the recalled vehicles, it is aware of seven crashes, eight injuries and three fatalities. The fatal crashes involved older model full-size sedans.
The company expects “to take a charge of up to approximately $1.2 billion in the second quarter for the cost of recall-related repairs announced in the quarter. This amount includes a previously disclosed $700 million charge for recalls already announced during the quarter.”
Until the ignition recall repairs have been performed, it is very important that customers remove all items from their key ring, leaving only the vehicle key, and always use their seat belts. The key fob, if present, should also be removed from the key ring.
In May, just a week after recalling 2.4 million vehicles and a day after recalling another 2.6 million, General Motors Co recalled an additional 218,000 Chevrolet small cars for a potential fire hazard.
GM has been criticized by safety advocates and fined by U.S. safety regulators for its delayed response in catching the faulty switch.


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web site, Friedberg points out several legal issues with the looming hard fork.
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Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency that is a fork of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash is a spin-off or altcoin that.
The would-be hard fork with an expanded block size limit was described by.
In 2018 Bitcoin Core developer Cory Fields found a bug in the Bitcoin ABC software.
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U.S. tractor sales even with 2019 so far in 2020
The Association of Equipment Manufacturer’s released its monthly Flash Report on the sale of U.S. tractors and revealed sales are mostly level year-over-year.
Through the first two months of 2019, 24,436 tractors were sold compared to 24,098 in 2020.
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在通信領域，通過區塊鏈技術發信息的方式是每次發給全網的所有人，但是只有那個有私鑰的人才能解密打開信件。 人類通信要求從「可以做到」轉變為「可以安全地做到」。 這會導致很多系統的設計思想發生改變，從最短最快到最安全。 在跨國慈善領域，區塊鏈技術可以做到一個全新的跨國小額快速捐贈市場，而且可以解決慈善資金的監管問題，慈善金額有可能因此達到現在慈善金額的5-10 倍。 在股權/有價證券交易所領域，通過區塊鏈技術可以做到24小時不中斷運作，所有人可以在區中心化的全球交易平台上自由競價完成交易，而撮合也是在去中心化的。 閱讀原文關於作者：實時、原創、專業的財經新聞集散地.在信息爆炸的年代,你需要選擇. Fintech in FT. Fintech 100. Cutting through the noise around financial technology. We estimate there are today more than 2,000 start-ups offering traditional and new financial services.
Here's how banks should respond. Banking has historically been one of the business sectors most resistant to disruption by technology. Since the first mortgage was issued in England in the 11th century, banks have built robust businesses with multiple moats: ubiquitous distribution through branches; unique expertise such as credit underwriting underpinned by both data and judgment; even the special status of being regulated institutions that supply credit, the lifeblood of economic growth, and have sovereign insurance for their liabilities (deposits). Euroclear Sees Seven Steps to Bring Blockchain to Capital Markets. Post-trade settlement specialist Euroclear has co-authored a new report on how blockchain and distributed ledger technology can be adapted for capital markets.
Written with management consulting firm Oliver Wyman, the report takes a positive stance on the technology, arguing it could eliminate delays and inefficiencies in capital markets. The publication follows news that Euroclear is working with its peers, including CME Group and the London Stock Exchange, on a consortium for post-trade settlement. Overall, the report recommends the industry take seven steps to realize the technology, including working on proof-of-concepts, collaborating with industry peers and "preparing a narrative" for regulators and supervisory bodies that may interested in the implications of such investigations.
As with previous reports, Euroclear echoed the growing consensus that collaboration is needed to realize the full potential of the nascent technology. For more information, read the full report. Smart Refill. 點融網巨額融資的背後：渣打盡調9個月花了900萬美金. 投資界8月20日消息，點融網在上海宣布獲得2.07億美元C輪融資，渣打銀行及中國互聯網金融科技基金（CFF）領投，渤海租賃及之前的兩輪投資方參與了跟投。
此次融資創下兩項紀錄： 1、從融資數額上看，2.07億美元，是目前國內P2P網貸領域單筆最大融資。 How the payments industry is being disrupted. Global payments revenues have been growing at rates in excess of expectations.
Once again, Asia—and China in particular—is the primary engine propelling the global numbers, but all regions, even those where revenues have recently been in decline, are contributing to the surge. Payments growth is currently a truly global phenomenon. Looking ahead, however, we expect global payments revenues will begin to reflect the flip side of Asia’s prominence as a growth driver.
The expected macroeconomic slowdown in Asia–Pacific, in other words, is dampening expectations for payments growth overall. However, the turnaround in other markets will make up for some of this decline. Our most recent research reveals several additional trends of note. Messaging Apps: The New Face of Retail Banking. 打破貸款業暴利！台灣新創Installments，獲得170萬美元種子投資.
EY Cybersecurity. Cyber threats will continue to multiply. The advent of the digital world, and the inherent connectivity of people, devices and organizations, opens up a whole new playing field of vulnerabilities. Cyber risks are growing and are changing rapidly. Every day, hackers are working on new techniques for getting through the security of organizations, including yours. They are doing this so that they can cause damage, access sensitive data and steal intellectual property. As old sources of cyber threat fade, new sources will emerge to take their place. iResearch-2015%E5%B9%B4%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%94%B5%E5%AD%90%E6%94%AF%E4%BB%98%E8%A1%8C%E4%B8%9A%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E6%8A%A5%E5%91%8A%E7%AE%80%E7%89%88.pdf. Citi Mobile Challenge. 1-8 API管理快速整合雲端與既有系統. DIGITIMES Mobile Web. FinovateSpring 2016. Conferences Showcasing The Future of Financial And Banking Technology - Finovate.
Fintech Innovation Lab. Financial services: The fintech revolution. Hoodies at Goldman Sachs: how the banks are fuelling a fintech start-up boom. Daniel Nadler, the 32 year-old founder of Goldman Sachs-backed Kensho, which has invented a “Siri for investors’ called Warren. Accenture-The-Future-of-Fintech-and-Banking-digitallydisrupted-or-reima-.pdf. Goldman Sachs Investment Activity into FinTech Startups Intensifies. Goldman Sachs is an active investor in high-flying tech companies ranging from Spotify to Docker to Uber. Here's where the bulge bracket bank is focusing its Fin Tech investment strategy. Over the past several years, Goldman Sachs has made a number of private investments into tech companies including Spotify, Flipboard, Lookout and perhaps most notably, Uber. Banks lag manufacturers and telcos in race to build innovation centres.
The financial services sector is trailing rival industries in the race to set up innovation centres in technology hubs such as Silicon Valley, according to a report issued by consultants CapGemini and Altimeter Group. Major organisations are increasingly establishing a base in the home of software invention in a bid to fix what is deemed to be a broken R&D model, says the report titled 'The Innovation Game: Why and How Businesses are Investing in Innovation Centres'. The report shows that while 38% of the world's biggest 200 companies have made such a step, only 28% of financial services have done so, leaving it trailing all other sectors with manufacturing topping the poll at 58%.
Midyear Outlook: Five Distinct Macro Disconnects. By HENRY H. MCVEY Jun 25, 2015 While we certainly appreciate that generating outsized returns has gotten more complicated as the cycle has progressed, we still see five distinct macro “disconnects,” or arbitrages that we view as attractive for long-term patient capital. First, given ongoing financial services de-leveraging, we still view the current illiquidity premium that has emerged in many lending arenas as quite compelling. Second, in an environment where central banks are holding nominal interest rates below nominal GDP, we favor real assets with yield, growth, and inflation hedging. Financial technology. Financial technology, also known as FinTech, is an industry composed of companies that use new technology and innovation with available resources in order to compete in the marketplace of traditional financial institutions and intermediaries in the delivery of financial services. Financial technology companies consist of both startups and established financial and technology companies trying to replace or enhance the usage of financial services of incumbent companies.
Definition and key areas Looked at from a procedural perspective, the term 'FinTech' refers to new applications, processes, products or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the Internet. London is home to Europe's hottest fintech startups as 24 of the FinTech50 come from the capital.
London once again dominates in a new list of the hottest European FinTech startups as the capital continues to put its backing behind the sector's growth. Businesses from the capital represent almost half of those chosen as the FinTech companies to watch in 2015 by a panel of senior executives from across the world of finance, investment and technology. Some 24 London-based companies have made FinTechCity's Fintech50, a list of 50 startups considered game-changers, or have the potential to become major players in the FinTech sector, due to their growth, disruption and market impact.
The firms were decided by a panel which included judges from Google, Microsoft, American Express, Santander, Silicon Valley Bank and a selection of venture capital firms working in the city. London's well-known FinTech firms such as TransferWise, Funding Circle and Nutmeg, are joined on the list by smaller startups from the capital such as Commuter Club, Osper, and Algomi. 金融科技三革命 顛覆市場. 金融科技正夯！理財服務比較平台ComparreAsiaGroup獲4千萬美元投資. 金融科技正夯！ Welcome to CompareAsiaGroup. Cornerstone Wealth Management Group - UBS Financial Services Inc. The Cornerstone Group - UBS Financial Services Inc. FinTech金融科技：走出硬體思維，台灣必須卡位的新產業.
近年來國際上吹起了一個新的關鍵字：FinTech。 FinTech是Financial Technology的縮寫。 翻成中文則是金融科技。 How to Stop Procrastinating and Start Succeeding. 數位金融 金管會推4措施 但借貸P2P、純網銀再研究. 記者顏真真／台北報導 因應數位金融時代的來臨，金管會主委曾銘宗16日表示，將推動4大措施包括開放銀行投資金融科技(FinTech)相關產業、強化金融業投資IT產業、要求金融機構提出員工未來1到3年的轉型計畫及金融資料原則上將全部開放。 至於個人借貸平台(P2P)及純網銀，他強調，金管會態度都是開放的，但金融監理必須掌握科技發展趨勢外，也要考慮對市場的衝擊。 曾銘宗16日出席「數位金融3.0」論壇致詞指出，因應金融數位化時代來臨，金管會將採4大措施，首先檢討相關法令，以因應業界發展需求，尤其，金融業投資金融科技(FinTech)的鬆綁，由5%放寬至100%，預計8月底前完成。 此外，所有金融業也要加強IT投資，相關部門、流程也必須進一步，以因應數位化時代來臨。 iTech Capital pumps $3m into fintech firm TradingView. Private equity firm iTech Capital has invested $3m in TradingView, a social fintech platform that unites traders and investors from around the world. iTech Capital, who will take a minority stake in TradingView, led the Series A round, which amounted to $3.6m alongside other seed investors and angels.
Barclays builds global fintech community. Barclays is promising to create a global community for fintech innovation, opening physical hubs around the world, beginning with New York, to house startups. Empowering communications globally. Fintech %E2%80%93 The digital (r)evolution in the financia.pdf. FinTech Week London 2015. 2015 FinTech Networking and Conference Guide. Startupbootcamp FinTech London Accelerator · London is home to Europe's hottest fintech startups as 24 of the FinTech50 come from the capital.
Luxembourg's Startup Media. FGI - FinTech Global Incorporated. 財團法人資訊工業策進會. 市場報導 ： 韓國正面臨FinTech新金融革命 - 科技產業資訊室. 華爾街迎科技大海嘯，金融科技 (FinTech) 成銀行家金雞母. Paypal Mafia 繼續在 FinTech 發光發熱. Citi Expands Its Innovation Ventures in Israel. Finovate - EXPERIENCE FUTURE FINTECH FIRST! Why Banks Should Do More "Strategic Seed Investing" in Fintech. Disrupting Banking: The FinTech Startups That Are Unbundling Wells Fargo, Citi and Bank of America. The FinTech Startups Unbundling Wells Fargo, Citibank and Bank of America [Infographic] Citi and IBM Work on Next Gen FinTech. Chatting about FinTech Investing with Citi Ventures — MIT FinTech Club. Citi Goes All In on Bitcoin.
These are the FinTech startups being backed by Citi. Plug and Play FinTech. Citi looks to build a global ecosystem for FinTech.


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PPR Raises Gucci Stake to 62 Percent
Published 8:00 pm, Thursday, May 1, 2003
French retailer Pinault Printemps Redoute said Friday it has raised its stake in Gucci Group to 62.2 percent through share purchases worth 100 million euros ($112 million).
Pinault previously held a 61 percent stake in Gucci, the world's third-largest luxury goods business.
The company said it bought an additional 1,144,505 Gucci shares for 87.90 euros ($98.60) per share between March 24 and 30.


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Wonder what people were talking about this past year?
Raising the stakes in its war of words, Microsoft today said Google simply doesn't understand what businesses need, and is failing at pushing its way into the enterprise.
Although Firefox's usage share has been stalled for the last year, Mozilla's revenues were up 34% in 2009, largely on the back of money paid the organization by Google and other search engines.
Online advertising spending in the U.S. continued to accelerate in the third quarter, as the market rebounds from a slowdown last year.
After Facebook's struggle with one privacy issue after another this year, some in the industry are raising privacy questions about Facebook's new messaging system.
Killing recent rumours that it's launching an email killer, Facebook has unveiled a new messaging system that will envelope email, instant messages, Facebook messages and SMS.
Yahoo is denying reports that the company is in the midst of a 20 per cent reduction of its workforce.
In another high-profile departure, Michael Kirwan, formerly CIO of Yahoo, has left the company.
It was about a year ago that Yahoo!-hosted Geocities sites started going offline. For the majority of Internet users, this event was met with little fanfare; Geocities had long gone out of fashion as a free web host and been replaced by sites like My...
Yahoo caught the redesign bug and gave Yahoo Mail a big makeover.
Apple last week joined forces with Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others in an effort to dismiss patent infringement charges brought by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Yahoo's revenue grew slightly in the third quarter, even though the online advertising market has rebounded this year, as the Internet pioneer's ability to turn its fortunes around remains in question.
While it began life as a tool for indexing Web pages, the open source Hadoop framework is being marketed as a tool that could house and analyze vast amounts of data with the kind of proportions that would quickly overwhelm traditional database system...
Yahoo's BOSS platform, which lets external developers build custom search engines on top of the company's search infrastructure, will shift to a fee-based model in early 2011.
Google had a good month in September, with its search share gaining and rivals Yahoo and Microsoft Bing taking a hit.
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Arthur memes are all the rage online as of late, and while the good people of Twitter and Tumblr are delighting in repurposing screenshots from the classic children’s show, the network behind the series, WGBH, is not too happy with what’s going on.
The world is currently in the grips of an obsession with Naintic Inc’s Pokémon GO, the world’s most successful augmented reality game. It has taken over your social media feeds and your friendly neighborhood park. Police in Australia are issuing statements reminding people to look up from their phones when they are playing and crossing the street, people are being mugged and one man was already fired from his job over it. The game has been blamed on a lot of things, prompting E! Online, of all outlets, to call it dangerous.
Singer discusses being bullied as a child and her plan not to speak to the media ‘for a very long time’ on ‘Oprah’s Next Chapter.’
By Jocelyn Vena

Lady Gaga confessed she wants to have enough children to form a ”soccer team” when she sat down with talk show maven Oprah Winfrey for “Oprah’s Next Chapter.” In the intimate chat, which took place at Gaga’s childhood home in New York City, the never-press-shy Gaga made another big announcement.

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”Other than this interview, Oprah, I don’t intend to speak to anyone for a very long time. I have to shut out the noise,” Mother Monster told Winfrey, according to Gossip Cop. “The latest thing I do is I don’t read a damn thing. No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‘Did you hear about?’ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on … I shut it all off.”

Gaga’s mother was on hand for parts of the interview, sharing that in Gaga’s early days, her father thought she had a “screw loose” while she was performing at downtown New York nightclubs in her bra while lighting hairspray on fire. The superstar added that there’s one thing about her current act that her mother isn’t a big fan of.

”She doesn’t like when I swear,” Gaga said, with her mother adding, “You’re effective without it.”

Another part of the candid chat also focused on Gaga’s youth, during which she said she was frequently bullied. “There really is no difference between the bully and the victim,” she said. “I would like to do a psychological autopsy on as many bullies and victims as possible … How do we understand what breeds hatred, what breeds anger?”

She added that despite all “all the praise you receive, something inside of you is scarred by those experiences. … Sometimes I feel worthless.”

Parts of the special were also filmed at Harvard University last month.

The singer and the talk show host were on hand at the prestigious college to launch Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation.

”I just have one thing to say before we get started: We got Oprah! … Thank you from all of us — from my entire team, from my mother, from the bottom of the hearts of so many people who believe in what we’re doing today,” Gaga said at the launch. She explained that the foundation seeks to empower the youth of America, adding, “How can we inspire young people to know they have the power to be brave?”

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Talk of blockchain technology is everywhere, it seems — but what is it, and what does it do?
1. Don’t call it “the” blockchain
The first thing to know about the blockchain is, there isn’t one: there are many. Blockchains are distributed, tamper-proof public ledgers of transactions. The most well-known is the record of bitcoin transactions, but in addition to tracking cryptocurrencies, blockchains are being used to record loans, stock transfers, contracts, healthcare data, and even votes.
2. Security, transparency: the network’s run by us
There’s no central authority in a blockchain system: Participating computers exchange transactions for inclusion in the ledger they share over a peer-to-peer network. Each node in the chain keeps a copy of the ledger, and can trust others’ copies of it because of the way they are signed. Periodically, they wrap up the latest transactions in a new block of data to be added to the chain. Alongside the transaction data, each block contains a computational “hash” of itself and of the previous block in the chain.
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Nest is dropping support for one of its products on May 15. More than just dropping support, the product will cease to work entirely.
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Although the iPhone’s ‘s’ models aren’t normally as hype-worthy as the full version upgrades, one thing you can always expect out of them is top notch performance. This year’s iPhone 6s, however, has the special honor of being as powerful as one of Apple’s newest laptops, the 2015 MacBook. John Gruber from Daring Fireball benchmarked the iPhone 6S using Geerkbench 3, a multi-platform testing tool designed to measure overall computer performance. Needless to say, the results are impressive. The phone’s A9 chip can outperform or beat the $ 1300 1.1 Ghz MacBook, and nearly go head to head with the 1.3Ghz model: Test iPhone 6s…
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The director’s first foray into book publishing is a deep-dive into the art of exploitation cinema marketing.
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Skip to comments.Obama’s Electric Car Drive Dogged By Foreign Battery Drain
Posted on 04/25/2011 9:24:03 AM PDT by Qbert
President Obamas plan to put one million electric cars on American roads by 2015 is a boon for makers of expensive advanced batteriesespecially in Korea and Japan.
Although U.S. researchers have developed advanced battery designs, the U.S. has lacked manufacturers who can produce them. That situation is changing thanks to a stimulus-funded initiative to build battery plants in Michigan, but the change has been slowand battery manufacturers in Korea and Japan are not sitting idly by.
The Asians are ramping up the capability to produce batteries at a scary rate, actually, said Mark Peters, Argonne National Laboratorys deputy director for programs, on Thursday. Were following that very closely. Because were developing advanced technologies, but theres no U.S. industry to really take hold of what were developing.
The batteries for the lauded GM Volt are assembled at new plants in Michigan, but those plants are sited near airports that receive the lithium-ion cells from Korea.
But a million electric cars means a million batteriesand America may not win the race to develop lighter, less expensive, more reliable ones. Obama has been pushing batteries since his first presidential campaign but with renewed energy of late.
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A million by 2015?
With the crap electric cars out there, they will be lucky to have 50,000 out by 2015!
That would also produce whole bunch of brownouts. We don't have the capacity to supply that much electricity.
We would need several more nuclear power plants to be able to handle that much demand.
heres a gift.
“A chicken in every pot and a Chevy volt in every burned out garage....”
Plus, if there is a million, who will be paying for roads and road repair since that million isn’t paying gas tax?
Can GM's quality be high enough to outpace the demise of models sold and on the road? My bet is on the road end of reality versus the pace of battery and chasis production.
That is the real sales risk of the Chevy Volt. History repeats itself.
One government sponsored battery bubble coming your way soon
WTF is so hard to understand about the inefficiency of rechargeable batteries?
Obama hates coal but loves electric cars. Makes no sense whatsoever.
In other word, he's taking taxpayer money to build battery plants in a leftist state full of Obama voters, welfare recipients, and union workers, not to mention Muslims.
No doubt this will be a union-run plant, with minority hiring, astronomical salaries and benefits, and incapable of making a "profit" without continual subsidies.
Just another present to his supporters.
I am sure we will have a mileage tax instead.
A chicken in every pot, cooked in a GM Volt parked garage.(p)There......Fixed it.
Yep, think they should rename the little sucker *The Sparky*.
And then to sell these turkeys, there will undoubtedly be a huge tax credit for people who buy them. Financed by the rest of the taxpayers.
I don't think the dufus knows where electricity comes from.
“So when someone buys an electric/hybrid car and then plugs it in to charge it, is he or is he not using electricity that was produced mainly by burning coal?
WTF is so hard to understand about the inefficiency of rechargeable batteries?”
—The Left ignores that inconvenient truth, and believes that windmills and solar will somehow solve the problem. Consequences be damned.
Is it true that lithium batteries lose 20% capacity per year?
So a three year old volt will have only 40% of the range of a new one? Why is Obama pushing this thing?
“A Standard (Cobalt) Li-Ion cell that is full most of the time at 25 °C (77 °F) irreversibly loses approximately 20% capacity per year.”
Everything he does is calculated to funnel money to his supporters. The objective of these plants is to create as many union jobs and funnel as much money back to the unions in dues as possible. That means making it take as many people and as much time as possible to build them, and designing them to require as many people as possible to operate.
And then there’s the administration’s billion dollar loan guarantees to foreign-based joint ventures to build solar plants and provide for global wealth redistribution.
Actually, they are thinking about that in Washington state.
I also wonder how much it’s going to cost to replace the battery in one of these cars - down the road. Besides, batteries are already a huge environmental issue - creation and disposal......Nader should also step up and declare electric cars “Unsafe and any speed.”


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Traders illegally dealing in cat meat in Vietnam are being accused of stealing beloved family pets — and business is booming for them because of the coronavirus pandemic, investigators claim.
Piles of cat bones were discovered laid out on pavements in the capital Hanoi this week, from an estimated 100 animals.
Researchers said posters appealing for information about missing pets were pinned outside the markets, hung by devastated owners searching for their stolen pets.
“Desperate to find their missing pets, many owners will visit live animal markets in the hope of finding their lost dog or cat to try to buy them back before they are brutally killed for meat,” according to the animal welfare organisation Four Paws, which carried out the investigation.
Cats still with collars on were also seen at restaurants.
One street vendor reportedly said: “We have had no difficulty sourcing animals because of the pandemic. Pets are still being stolen regularly and sometimes sold by families who do not want them any more.”
The investigators said that the pandemic appeared to have increased the “particularly brutal” trade, because restaurants that were closed to diners were doing more home deliveries than ever.
Four Paws also discovered four in five vendors at popular markets were still selling dog and cat meat. The venues, mostly “wet” markets, had two to three outlets each selling the meats, the research found.
One seller said they had sold 40kg of cat meat the day before speaking to the researcher, who was Vietnamese.
Vendors also appeared less concerned about keeping their businesses behind closed doors.
Unlike Vietnam’s dog meat trade, which is neither illegal nor regulated, legislation bans the hunting, slaughter and consumption of cats, following an order by the prime minister in 1998 to keep rat numbers down, so sellers are more secretive than they are about dog meat.
But authorities do little to enforce the legislation, the organisation says.
After the flesh is removed, the bones are used to make balm, believed by some to help joint pain and infertility.
Last month, The Independent revealed how sales of dog and cat meat had risen in Vietnam and Cambodia during the pandemic because people believe it can ward off flu.
This week, investigators who returned reported seeing signs posted by vendors stating “Due to Covid-19, we sell dog meat to go”.
Katherine Polak, Four Paws’ head of stray animal care in southeast Asia, said: “The cat meat trade is incredibly cruel and affects over a million cats each year in Vietnam.
“Given that cat meat, which goes by the name ‘little tiger’ often fetches a higher price and is seen as a more ‘exotic’ dish by some, it isn’t surprising that in the pandemic stay-at-home orders have given rise to an increase in cat meat eating.
“What is surprising, however, is the brazen approach to drying bones of stolen pets in the middle of a public sidewalk during a pandemic.”
She said restaurants reported that not only was business doing well, but many customers were police.
Four Paws says that its previous research has shown that in Cambodia, at least 3 million dogs are involved in the meat trade every year, in Indonesia over 1 million, and in Vietnam, over 5 million.
“All aspects of the trade from catching, transporting to slaughtering involves unacceptable levels of cruelty and suffering, making it one of the most pressing companion animal concerns of our times,” the group says.
Two Chinese cities have banned consumption of dog and cat meat, and China’s government has re-classed both as pets, not livestock.
The Independent is campaigning for better regulation of animal markets and trade worldwide.
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AMD RDNA 2 Hangar 21 Technology Demo Video Due on November 19th
AMD shared a teaser for the full-length Hangar 21 Technology Demo video, which will be released on Thursday, November 19th, one day after the official release of the new Radeon RX 6800 Series graphics cards.
Coming November 19, the "Hangar 21" Technology Demo Video will let you see the breakthrough AMD RDNA 2 gaming architecture in action, the foundation of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards that power the next generation of gaming with mind-blowing visuals featuring realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections enabled by AMD FidelityFX and Microsoft DirectX 12 Ultimate.
The teaser, captured at 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second, doesn't explicitly mention ray tracing technology, though it does seem likely that the Hangar 21 Technology Demo will involve it in some way. The 'Ray Accelerators' are, after all, one of the biggest innovations in AMD's RDNA 2 GPU architecture, allowing for hardware ray tracing support for the first time in AMD's graphics cards. There is one Ray Accelerator per Compute Unit, which means that the RX 6800 (MSRP $579) comes with 60 Compute Units and Ray Accelerators; the RX 6800 XT (MSRP $649) packs 72 Compute Units and Ray Accelerators; while the flagship RX 6900 XT (MSRP $999, due on December 8th) includes 80 Compute Units and Ray Accelerators.
From what we've seen so far, though, the Ray Accelerators are unlikely to perform as well as NVIDIA's second-generation RT Cores found in the Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3000 Series graphics cards. Regardless, it'll be interesting to see if the actual Hangar 21 Technology Demo is ever released. If it does, there'll definitely be some folks trying to run it on NVIDIA cards as well, and checking how the performance stacks in comparison.
In related AMD Radeon news, tomorrow, starting at 12PM US Eastern Time, there'll be an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit's AMD channel. The AMA is titled 'Where Gaming Begins' and fans will be able to get answers on the most advanced AMD graphics cards ever made.
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We’re five months into 2022 with the Worldwide Developers Conference on the horizon, to be followed not too long after by Apple’s September event. The second half of the year is shaping up to be exciting, as rumors suggest we can look forward to an array of updated Macs, iPhones, and accessories set to launch. In our latest YouTube video, we rounded up the five products we can’t wait to get our hands on.
- MacBook Air – The MacBook Air is getting its biggest refresh since 2010, which puts it at the top of our list. Apple is going with a fresh iMac-like design, which means the MacBook Air is expected to get fun new colors and off-white bezels and white keyboard like the 24-inch iMac. It’s also going to get a new look, with Apple finally abandoning the tapered look for a more streamlined MacBook Pro-style look. Rounding out the upgrades, the MacBook Air is expected to be one of the first to adopt the M2 chip, a follow up to the M1. The M2 is rumored to feature an 8-core CPU and a nine or 10-core GPU.
- Mac Pro – The Mac Pro is perhaps the most exciting product coming in 2022 because it will see Apple finishing its transition to Apple silicon. After the Mac Pro comes out, Apple will no longer be reliant on Intel chips, and the Mac Studio has shown us that the Mac Pro’s Apple silicon chip is going to be impressive. The Mac Pro is expected to feature a chip that has up to a 40-core CPU and a 128-core GPU, double the M1 Ultra.
- iPhone 14 Pro Max – All of the iPhone 14 models will be an upgrade over the iPhone 13 models, but we picked the 14 Pro Max because it’s going to get all of the bells and whistles. It will not have a notch, with Apple instead implementing a dual display cutout look with a pill-shaped cutout and a circular cutout. It will come in new colors, include camera improvements, and have a faster A16 chip, which actually won’t be coming to the iPhone 14 and 14 Max.
- AirPods Pro – Apple is finally going to refresh the AirPods Pro in 2022, and they could have an all-new design that does away with the short stem at the bottom. Apple is testing a more rounded, compact shape. There are also rumors that the next-generation AirPods will feature support for Apple Lossless audio and improved Find My integration that will let them play a sound if they’re lost.
- Apple Watch Series 8 – Last but not least, the Apple Watch Series 8 launch is going to be interesting because there’s a new model coming this year – a rugged model. In addition to the standard Apple Watch Series 8, Apple is rumored to be working on a more durable version of the Apple Watch aimed at athletes, hikers, and those who use the watch in more extreme conditions. A body temperature sensor and car crash detection are also rumored features.
What do you think of our list? What are you looking forward to from Apple? Let us know in the comments.
Apple Teases Apple Silicon Mac Pro at Spring Event
The Mac Studio that was introduced today may be as powerful as the current Mac Pro, but Apple made it clear that the device is not intended to be a Mac Pro replacement. Apple senior vice president of Hardware Engineering John Ternus teased a new Apple silicon Mac Pro on stage at today’s event to address any confusion about the company’s Mac Pro plans. When talking about the transition…
Apple Testing at Least Nine New Macs With Four Different M2 Chip Variants
Apple is internally testing several variants of the next-generation M2 chip and the updated Macs that will be equipped with them, reports Bloomberg, citing developer logs. There are “at least” nine new Macs in development that use four different M2 chips that are successors to the current M1 chips.
Apple is working on devices with standard M2 chips, the M2 Pro, the M2 Max, and a successor to …
Apple Lowers Trade-In Values for Macs, iPads, and Apple Watches
Apple this week lowered its estimated trade-in values for select Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models in the United States.
Apple has reduced trade-in values for the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, MacBook, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro, Mac mini, iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad, iPad mini, Apple Watch Series 3 through Apple Watch Series 6, Apple Watch SE, and select Samsung and Google smartphones. Apple is also…
Redesigned MacBook Air Could Miss Out on M2 Chip
Apple’s long-rumored redesigned MacBook Air could miss out on the next-generation “M2” chip and retain the M1 chip instead, according to insightful Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
In a tweet posted after Apple’s spring “Peek Performance” event, Kuo provided some more details about the 2022 MacBook Air, including the suggestion that the new device will feature the M1 chip, rather than the…
A15 and M1 Chips Could Stick Around for Longer Than Expected as Apple Chip Upgrades Slow Down
Apple’s custom silicon chip upgrades may be slowing down, with the company reportedly planning to stick with existing chips in multiple new devices, according to recent reports.
In a tweet posted after Apple’s spring “Peek Performance” event, insightful Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that the 2022 MacBook Air will feature the M1 chip, rather than the next-generation M2 chip. Everything…
Apple Event Live Blog: iPhone SE, iPad Air, Mac Studio, and More
Apple’s virtual “Peek Performance” event kicks off today at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, where we’re expecting to see new iPhone SE and iPad Air models, as well as at least one new Mac model.
Apple is providing a live video stream on its website, on YouTube, and in the company’s TV app across its platforms. We will also be updating this article with live blog coverage and issuing Twitter updates …
Apple Abandons Mac Mini Redesign
Apple has seemingly abandoned plans to redesign the Mac mini amid rumors that the next-generation version of the machine will likely feature the same design as the current model.
The M1 Mac mini from 2020. According to a recent claim from reputable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the next-generation Mac mini is likely to retain the same form factor as the current model, which is an aluminum unibody…
Microsoft Edge Overtakes Safari as World’s Second Most Popular Desktop Browser
Microsoft Edge has overtaken Apple’s Safari to become the world’s second most popular desktop browser, based on data provided by web analytics service StatCounter.
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Testing Out Apple’s Self Repair Program With an iPhone 12 Mini Battery Fix
Apple last week announced the launch of a new Self Repair program, which is designed to allow iPhone 12, iPhone 13, and iPhone SE owners to repair their devices on their own using manuals, tools, and replacement parts sourced directly from Apple.
Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. We were curious how the Self Service Repair program works and how it compares to the…
1Password 8 for Mac Released With New Design and Features
AgileBits today announced the release of 1Password 8 for Mac with a redesigned interface and several new features.
The popular password manager has been redesigned to better match the look of macOS Monterey, from the sidebar and unified toolbar to the typography and iconography. The new design language extends to 1Password for Safari on the Mac.
1Password 8 improves productivity with a…
Apple Drops BOE iPhone Displays After Discovering Unexpected Design Changes
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Samsung in free fall as turnover down 60% in Q1 2019
Samsung is not only the world's largest smartphone manufacturer but also one of the largest manufacturers of chips and consumer electronics. It is a pity that despite all this supremacy in various sectors of the technology industry, society is going through a rather difficult period.
Ok, we are not talking about a recurring negative result as we have seen over the last couple of years with companies such as HTC, LG and Sony, but in any case it is certainly worrying to know that the quarterly profits of Samsung relating to Q1 2019 have fallen by 60% compared to the same period of the previous year. The full financial results are not yet available, but according to current profit forecasts, the South Korean giant has lost almost $60 billion.
Of course, until Samsung releases the exact numbers at the end of this month, in which you can read all the various entries in red, we can only analyze the results of individual companies to make different plausible assumptions about what went wrong. For starters, the company's global smartphone shipments have been declining for a while, which is why it might have been preferable to launch the Galaxy S10 a little before the end of February.
In the meantime, however, Samsung chips and memory has proved to be by far the most profitable industry of all other branches of the company. Despite the fact that demand continues to fall from year to year. Samsung still manages to sell its chips to all major current smartphone providers.
Finally, another aspect to consider is the weaker sales of iPhones in recent times, which has certainly penalized the financial results of Samsung from the point of view of its OLED displays. Of course, these are all assumptions and we can't wait to read the detailed report at the end of April to get more certain answers about what's happening to the South Korean giant.
Do you think Samsung's flame is slowly fading?
Well, among my friends only I am the apple user. All the rest Samsung lovers. Still all good
You realize Samsung is much, much bigger than cellphones, right?
Release the note 10 soon, that could help
This is what happens when you keep increasing device prices every year.
Simply put, exactly this.
The smartphone industry stopped being about "everyone's gotta have the newest, best thing to prove they're better than everyone else" a couple years ago. Midrange and low range is where the competition is happening and raising prices is the wrong way to approach today's market.
Yet they sell tens of thousands of Flagships in the West.
i'm tellin ya... it's them holes they puttin in the screen! they coulda sold a lot more with any other solution.
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Denmark grants speed pedelecs access to bike lanes
Speed Pedelecs, meaning electric bicycles with a maximum speed of 45 kph are allowed on bike lanes in Denmark as of July. Until now, they had to be registered as a small motorbike and had to follow rules different from those for bicycles.Weiterlesen
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US-China trade war to hit e-bike market with price surge
Trump could be responsible for hitting U.S. sales of electric bikes hard as pedelecs from China are included in a list of goods proposed for a 25% import tariff hike. This would drive prices up a couple of hundred dollars, potentially stifling a strong-going industry.Weiterlesen
UPS launches custom-made cargo e-bikes
34 new cargo pedelecs have joined the European fleet of logistics giant UPS. The bikes were specifically developed for the carrier together with Rytle. After initial testing in Germany, the cargo e-bikes are now coming to France, Belgium and the Netherlands.Weiterlesen
Scotland launches subsidy scheme for electric bikes
The Scottish government wants to start an e-bike revolution as it allocates more than a million pounds in funding for electric bicycles and pedal-assist cargo bikes. The money will be made available in form of loans and grants.Weiterlesen
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EC wants mandatory e-bike insurance
The European Commission has decided that electric bicycles must have a third party liability insurance. While the draft still needs to go through the EU Council and Parliament, it effectively undermines current legislation that equals pedelecs with bicycles.Weiterlesen
Uber to share e-bikes in Europe, expanding UberGreen
Uber has not given up on Europe despite a ban of their ride hail service in many cities. Instead the firm tries to tie in with local authorities on a greener note. They want to launch electric bike sharing through their Jump subsidiary and also UberGreen, first in Berlin.Weiterlesen
Ansmann launches multi-use e-bike drives
Ansmann will present various solutions for electric bikes at this year’s Eurobike in July. Their focus is on hub motors with no less than six novel variants. Moreover, Ansmann integrated an automatic gearshift developed by Schaeffler into its drive system.Weiterlesen
Frisco’s Scoot Networks coming to Europe
Scoot Networks, the electric scooter sharing company from San Francisco, has just set up its European HQ in Barcelona. Catalonia’s capital now also got about 1,500 electric two-wheelers to share at their disposal and Scoot plans to take shared mobility further.Weiterlesen
Korea to fully electrify buses and trucks by 2030
The government in Seoul wants all buses and trucks to run with zero emissions by 2030, according to local media reports. Moreover, they want to increase the number of fast-charging stations for electric cars to 10,000 by 2022 and also electrify mail delivery.Weiterlesen
Cruising e-bike Scrambler S by Vintage Electric
In the U.S. retro-style electric bikes are in season every summer and it is the same with this beach cruiser from California. Vintage Electric presents the Scrambler S, a strong electric bike able to go as fast as 58 kph – mostly illegally so.Weiterlesen
Mini mid-motor for extra lightweight e-bikes by Bafang
With the China Cycle Show starting this Sunday, Bafang gears up to presents its latest pedelec technology, in this case its most compact mid-motor to date. The system including the hidden battery weighs less than 4.4 kilos but it is to be seen whether it is light enough to attract road cyclists.Weiterlesen
EU to introduce registration requirement for China e-bikes
The EU is planning to institute a registration law against imports of cheap subsidized e-bikes from China. These will soon require individual registration when imported.Weiterlesen
Citlar launches electric cargo bike Loadster
Berlin-based startup Citkar is mixing things up as its presents its Loadster, an electric cargo bike that carries on the amenities of a tiny car. The four-wheeled pedelec got a roof and a load capacity of 300 kilos, making it a serious and clean contender for last mile logistics.Weiterlesen
Electric bike rides the waves in New Zealand (video)
New Zealand is an island, well two, strictly speaking and so it is here the world’s first bicycle for riding the waves has been invented. The Hydrofoiler XE-1 by Manta5 is even electric.Weiterlesen
Paris sets up €6,000 EV rebate and includes electric buses
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo expands EV rebates for professionals in the French capital and was backed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The new incentives include e-buses and other modes of transport as well.Weiterlesen
E-bike market in the Netherlands.
Impressive 233,000 electric bikes were sold in the Netherlands in 2014 – an annual growth of 16 percent. Pedelecs now account for 21.2 percent market share of bicycles and can also be held (partly) responsible for 11.2 percent more money spent by Dutch people on bicycles (over 886m euros).
E-bike market, Fracking.
Study tip: Navigant Research predicts that by 2023, e-bikes sales will surpass 360 million units per year. The technological trends include combined throttle-control and pedal-assist models, electric cargo bicycles, retrofit kits and wheels, 3D-printed bicycles, and the use of e-bikes in security applications.
Reading tip: Ben Griffin explores the question what impact the booming fracking will have on the electric car industry. Fracking could increase access to oil tenfold, but Griffin quotes Tesla CEO Elon Musk saying that EV fans will remain EV fans, no matter the price of petrol.


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(ABC 6 News) - Your favorite fair food is back this week for the Olmsted County Fair.
Some people come to check out what's in the barns.
"We like to watch the horses, and check out all the little animals," said Teresa Nicholas.
Others like it for its tasty stuff on sticks.
"I like coming out to eat junk food," said Amanda Van Guilder.
And some people come for the rides.
"Something high that spins a lot and makes me scared," said Nicholas.
At the Olmsted County Fair there are plenty of new things for everyone to get excited for.
Fair president Terry Leary says one of the fairs new features can be found in the dairy barn.
"We have a brand new milking parlor where people will be able to sit and watch the through viewing windows while they are milking cows and the milk goes through the system," said Leary.


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UK consumers are keen to use biometric verification in a wide range of circumstances from online shopping and banking to confirming their age at a pub and even voting in elections, according to new research from Equifax.
Almost three quarters (71%) would be happy to completely replace traditional security methods to access their mobile phones in favour of fingerprint ID, facial recognition or eye retina patterns. Other popular scenarios include using biometrics to access their laptops or tablets (64%), verifying their age at bars, clubs or shops (60%) and voting in elections (58%).
Respondents were more wary when it came to using biometrics to withdraw cash (46%), start their car (45%) or unlock their front door (41%).
The survey also revealed fingerprint verification is considered the most secure* form of biometric verification (31%), with 30% expecting it to become the most prevalent in the next decade – followed by facial recognition (18%) and eye retina patterns (17%).
“As the rise in financial fraud continues, particularly when it comes to identity theft**, it’s essential we develop and embrace new and innovative means to protect consumers,” says Keith McGill, Head of ID & Fraud at Equifax. “The techniques being used to scam people are increasingly sophisticated, and breaking into the old world of signatures and PIN codes is bread and butter for today’s fraudsters.
“Further implementation of biometric options within the financial services sector will go a long way to tackle this. Tapping into our unique biological passcodes can help businesses and consumers stay ahead of the curve, and as the technology develops, it will become even more widespread, trusted and popular in the years to come.”
However, at this year’s GeekPwn 2019 conference in Shanghai, hackers made an incredible claim: they could unlock any smartphone fingerprint scanner in under half an hour.
The X-Lab team asked members of the audience at the event to touch a glass. The fingerprints left behind were then photographed using a smartphone and passed through an app that the hackers developed. The team did not reveal their precise methodology, but the app is thought to extract the data required to clone a fingerprint using a 3D printer most probably.
Sarah Whipp, CMO and Head of Go to Market Strategy at authentication & identification company, Callsign, explains what the risks are specifically for banking security.
“The issue here is two-fold, the most obvious being that customers are at risk of having their accounts accessed without their knowledge, and that there should be additional layers of authentication on top of a fingerprint alone. The other issue is that it could cause a huge amount of friction for banking customers who could be forced to manually change their phone settings to boost security levels, which would be an inconvenience for them.
“As mobile banking becomes increasingly prevalent and biometrics feature heavily in its security, there needs to be a way for customers to easily choose another method of authentication if something does go wrong, so they can carry on with their banking activities as normal with minimal impact.
In addition, the banks themselves need to be able to turn on and off various means of authentication, in case any one of them is compromised – whether that be finger prints, facial recognition etc. In these scenarios, they must also have the capability to add an additional layer of authentication to existing Account Takeover Protection services. That way they can begin to offer vastly improved levels of protection and ensure their customers’ digital identities remain safe.
“The best way of doing this is by setting up a policy manager, which allows banks to passively manage the security of any apps they offer. As biometrics become standard, fraudsters are becoming quick to adapt to these latest security measures. Therefore, it’s also critical that banks go beyond hard and soft biometrics, as they aren’t a good enough security solution on their own and combine them with machine learning. When combined with machine learning, we can begin to learn and define user profiles with a 99.7% accuracy.”
*Least likely to be compromised by a fraudster
**Cifas: Fraudscape 2019
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Canned Wine “Hot Brands” See Further Gains AheadMarch 22, 2019
The canned wine segment continues to be a significant growth area in the U.S. wine market. Last year, canned wine sales in Nielsen channels jumped by 69% to $69.1 million on a 47% volume increase to 739,000 cases. Among the brands driving gains in the canned segment are two Pacific Northwest labels that recently earned Impact “Hot Brand” awards for their 2018 performances.
Oregon winemaker Union Wine Co. has carved out an impressive niche in the canned wine arena with its Underwood label. Launched in 2014, Underwood has grown into one of canned wine’s leaders. With growth of at least 40% in each of the past three years, the Underwood brand—including both canned and bottled offerings—closed 2018 at 400,000 cases overall. “We remain very bullish on cans,” Union founder and owner Ryan Harms tells SND, noting that the brand’s canned volume nearly doubled in size last year to 244,000 cases.
Though Union Wine Co.’s canned lineup initially consisted of only a Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris, the portfolio now includes a rosé, white and rosé sparklers, a white blend, and wine coolers (all $6-$7 a 375-ml. can). Expansion has been enabled thanks to the opening of a new winemaking facility last March, which has more than doubled Union’s total capacity.
Seattle-based Precept Wines also made the domestic wine Hot Brands roster with its House Wine brand, whose sales shot up nearly 25% last year to 338,000 cases. The label includes a line of cans, launched in 2017, which includes Brut Bubbles, Chardonnay, Grapefruit Spritz, Pinot Noir, Sangria, and seven others. Precept has positioned House Wine to compete with Underwood by pricing its canned offerings at $5.50 a can, while its 3-liter boxes retail for $20. In their first full year on the market last year, House Wine’s canned offerings jumped out to 111,000 cases.
Precept and Union are far from alone in seeing further upside in canned wines. Terlato Wine Group is competing in the segment with its Seven Daughters brand ($15 a 4-pack of 250-ml. cans), as is Latitude Beverage with its Lila label ($12 a 4-pack of 8.4-ounce cans). The Wine Group debuted cans under Ava Grace last year ($5 a 375-ml.), and is rolling out a canned format for Cupcake this year. Meanwhile, E.&J. Gallo added cans to its Dark Horse brand ($7 a 375-ml.) last spring, and is seeing strong growth for its Barefoot Spritzer cans.—Danny SullivanSubscribe to Shanken News Daily’s Email Newsletter, delivered to your inbox each morning.


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With all eyes on Apple's event next week when Apple is expected to introduce new iPhones, rumors abound that Apple will release iOS 7 this month. Now word has come forth that Apple plans to release the next version of OS X, Mavericks, in October. Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac reports that Mavericks is expected for release at the end of October.
OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion were both released right after Apple earnings calls. Apple will next report its quarterly financial earnings in October. If past is prologue, that timeline certainly fits.
Mavericks was announced at WWDC at the same time as iOS 7 this past June. The new operating system doesn't have the radical visual makeover that iOS 7 has, but incorporates many under-the-hood enhancements to improve battery efficiency, memory use and performance. Mavericks users will be getting a variety of usability enhancements, too, in the form of iBooks support, a Maps app, tabbed Finder windows and more.
Rumors have circulated that iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks would be released simultaneously or nearly simultaneously, but that doesn't track with Apple's past activity. It makes a lot more sense for Apple to hold off on releasing Mavericks until it's ready to ship new Macs, and last year the company offered new models in October.
iOS 7 has clearly been the priority at Apple, and that shouldn't be any surprise. After all, iOS and the devices that operate it are Apple's crown jewels. But Mavericks isn't getting short shrift. Apple hasn't promised a specific release date for Mavericks - it's said since announcing the new operating system that it would ship "this fall." October is still fall.


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Take a look at the businesses making headlines in noon buying and selling.
General Electric — Shares fell 6% after the corporate missed income estimates for the fiscal fourth quarter. The conglomerate reported 92 cents in adjusted earnings per share on $20.3 billion in income. Analysts surveyed by Refinitiv had been on the lookout for 85 cents on $21.53 billion of income. The corporate mentioned provide chain points weighed on its gross sales.
American Express — The bank card inventory surged 8.9% after American Categorical beat estimates on the highest and backside strains for the fourth quarter. The funds firm earned $2.18 per share on $12.15 billion in income. Analysts surveyed by Refinitiv had been anticipating $1.87 in earnings per share on $11.5 billion of income. American Categorical additionally mentioned it anticipated income progress of 18% to twenty% in 2022.
ARK Innovation — Shares of Cathie Wooden’s flagship exchange-traded fund fell 2.9% in noon buying and selling as progress names continued their downward spiral. Coinbase, one of many fund’s largest holdings, fell 2.5%. Tesla dropped greater than 2% and Unity Software program misplaced 5.8%. Precise Sciences and Twilio fell 5.6% every.
IBM — The software program and providers firm’s inventory climbed 5.7% following a better-than-expected quarterly report. IBM reported that its income climbed 6% within the fourth quarter, surpassing expectations. The corporate spun out its managed infrastructure providers unit in the course of the quarter right into a publicly held firm named Kyndryl.
PetMed Express – Shares of the pet merchandise vendor jumped 9% regardless of a disappointing earnings report. PetMed Categorical reported quarterly revenue of 21 cents per share, 9 cents shy of consensus estimates, in accordance with Refinitiv. Its income additionally got here beneath expectations.
Xerox — The digital printing firm fell 4.8% in noon buying and selling after lacking Wall Road’s income forecast for its fourth-quarter earnings. Xerox made $1.78 billion in income, decrease than he forecast $1.82 billion, in accordance with Refinitiv. The corporate did, nonetheless, beat on earnings.
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions — Shares soared 16% after the corporate issued preliminary quarterly earnings and income outcomes that topped Wall Road forecasts. The supplier of doctor follow administration expertise additionally introduced a brand new $250 million share repurchase program.
Johnson & Johnson – The vaccine maker gained 2.9% after the corporate reported quarterly earnings of $2.13 a share, which beat estimates by a penny. Income got here in beneath analysts’ expectations, however Johnson & Johnson additionally gave an upbeat full-year forecast.
Ericsson – The Swedish telecom tools maker noticed its shares leap 7.3% after it reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings. The corporate additionally mentioned it benefited from the accelerating rollout of world 5G networks.
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Creep before sale for higher prices
SUCKLED calf producers are urged to offer creep six to eight weeks pre-sale to ensure higher prices through improved liveweights and better appearance.
"Every 2kg of creep eaten increases liveweight gains by 0.5kg/day," says Gethin Havard chairman of the Brecon and Radnor suckled calf rearers. When introduced six to eight weeks pre-sale creep feed, therefore, generates 20-30kg more liveweight.
Mr Havard also suggests that trimming the coat, ensuring calves are disbudded and selling in even batches also adds value.
Last year at Knighton market batches of six achieved average prices £45 above those sold singly, he says.
Signet consultant Ian Ross adds that ensuring buyers can draw on all available premiums and subsidies will also maximise price per kilo that will be bid.
"Spring prices of 95p/kg at 545kg achieved from 5.5t silage and 400kg concentrates, mean buyers will have to pay under 90p/kg to produce a £50/head margin.
"But where beef special premium scheme and extensification payments totalling £114.27/head are attainable purchasers could afford 120p/kg," says Mr Ross.