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AMSTERDAM/NEW YORK (Reuters) – When food items delivery support Grubhub struck a offer with Amazon earlier this thirty day period, giving Key prospects a year’s free of charge supply, shares in rivals slumped.
The offer, a lifeline for Grubhub that will improve stress on its competitors, was the most up-to-date illustration of a meal delivery company having motion to revamp its small business to cope with an anticipated downturn.
The decline-generating meals delivery sector was a single of the significant beneficiaries of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that effect has waned as customers, confronted with surging rates, have started out to slash back.
Analysts continue to believe that food stuff supply will in the end come to be a money spinner, supplied customers’ really like of benefit. But for the moment the sector has to cope with a value-of-living crunch and firms will be judged on whether they fulfill margin, not expansion, targets.
To that finish, firms are lowering expenses and exiting unprofitable marketplaces or making tactical moves like Grubhub to cope with the more durable climate.
“It’s a misconception that levels of competition will maintain increasing endlessly,” explained Fahd Beg, an executive at Prosus, which has investments in meals firms close to the entire world.
“As the funding frenzy of the previous number of yrs dies down, quite a few firms are looking to rationalise and exit marketplaces the place they really don’t have a leadership situation.”
Just Try to eat Takeaway has hiked restaurant commissions across Europe and lower employment in France, Uber Eats has quit Brazil and Britain’s Deliveroo, has exited Spain.
“Everyone’s scaling back, everybody understands they now require to get to profitability,” claimed Citi analyst Monique Pollard.
Players that are currently dominant in one region are finest placed to increase their lead, analysts said.
People contain DoorDash in the United States, Just Take in in Northern Europe, Shipping and delivery Hero’s Glovo in Southern Europe and iFood in Brazil. These can make investments working revenue to bolster their supply community and insert a lot more eating places to their platforms.
Companies in a 2nd or 3rd place situation will suffer, analysts stated.
Less than Grubhub’s Amazon offer, the company will reinforce its shipping community, making from metropolis strongholds these kinds of as New York.
Amazon has a comparable offer with Deliveroo, which is a major player in London and Paris.
GRAPHIC: Foods shipping and delivery companies combat for market share (https://graphics.reuters.com/EUROPE-Foods/Supply/jnpwedrmxpw/chart.png)
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The amount of U.S. cafe shipping and delivery orders dropped 6.3% for the 12 months ending in June to 4.8 billion, the first calendar year-in excess of-12 months drop the sector has seen considering the fact that 2016, in accordance to knowledge by The NPD Group/CREST.
Morgan Stanley has said its polling showed expending on restaurants is a single of the initial places buyers will seem to conserve funds during a economic downturn.
“Meals shipping and delivery also stands out as uniquely at hazard … provided that this tends to be costly on a for each person foundation and most likely viewed as indulgent by some customer groups,” they wrote.
GRAPHIC: Food items supply shares have suffered more than the previous 12 months (https://graphics.reuters.com/EUROPE-Food stuff/Delivery/lgpdwzgdqvo/chart.png)
The Amazon offer will be a shot in the arm for Grubhub, which Just Take in Takeaway purchased for $7.3 billion in 2021 but has now claimed is up for sale.
The inflow of new subscribers — about 2 million in July by itself, as documented by the Wall Street Journal — will assist Grubhub make improved use of its existing supply network, analysts say.
Morningstar investigation approximated that Grubhub had 3 million subscribers at the end of 2021, and it could double that range in the initial calendar year of the Amazon deal.
It approximated Amazon’s deal with Britain’s Deliveroo introduced in September 2021 led to a doubling of subscribers from 750,000 to 1.5 million in the to start with thirty day period adhering to the offer.
Amazon Primary has around 10 times the amount of subscribers in the United States than it does in Britain.
Citi’s Pollard mentioned DoorDash stays in a dominant posture in the United States, although Uber added benefits from a nationwide delivery network in the state.
What the Amazon deal “does for Grubhub is it adjustments the narrative for them from one the place they are getting rid of share to one the place they begin to regain share, particularly in the limited term,” she said.
With just two to three gamers left in every country, people that continue to be are greater placed to safeguard margins in a downturn.
Deliveroo and Delivery Hero each slash product sales forecasts last week.
But their shares rallied as they preserved or enhanced operating earnings forecasts.
“Heading forward, operating efficiencies will be rewarded and reflected in equally community and non-public marketplace valuations,” reported Beg of Prosus, in e-mailed solutions to Reuters questions.
Leaders in each market place are now established and people with a supply concentrate “will be in a position to effectively protect their firms,” he stated.
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(Reporting by Toby Sterling and Hilary Russ Extra reporting by Paul Sandle Editing by Matt Scuffham and Jane Merriman)


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Parents have plenty of advice for children headed off to college. Here's one more piece: Protect yourself against identity theft.
Identity thieves are targeting young adults?
"In today's world, the likelihood of either your data being lost in a campus environment or, worse, your identity being stolen has never been higher," says Scott Mitic, chief executive of TrustedID, a consumer ID theft prevention company.
One out of five data breaches occurs at colleges and other schools, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. And the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse reports that nearly 50 breaches have occurred so far at universities. That includes the University of Maryland, College Park, which accidentally released the Social Security numbers of nearly 24,000 students in July when the numbers appeared on mailing labels.
So what can students do? Here are tips from security experts:
Avoid credit card solicitations. This is a good idea anyway to stay out of debt. But there's a scarier reason to avoid these pitches.
Linda Foley, founder of the Identity Theft Resource Center, says her group has heard of con artists setting up credit card solicitation tables at colleges. They give students a T-shirt for filling out an application and in return, the schemers get the students' Social Security numbers and personal information to sell to others, Foley says.
If you need a credit card, go directly to the bank and fill out the application there, Foley says.
Freeze credit reports. Ask the major credit bureaus - Equifax, TransUnion and Experian - to freeze your credit report, Mitic says. A freeze prevents potential creditors from seeing your report, which means they likely won't extend credit to anyone else trying to get credit under your name.
You won't be able to open new lines of credit, either, unless you ask the credit bureaus to release the freeze.
Parents might like that. "This has a dual purpose of making sure your kid doesn't take advantage of all those credit card offers in Week 1," Mitic says.
Check credit reports. You'll have a credit record once you establish credit. Check your reports once a year to make sure the information is accurate. Get a free copy of reports at www.annualcreditre port.com.
Bank online. If you move frequently, some of your bank statements could be sent to the old residence before the bank gets word of the new address. Banking online avoids wayward paper statements, plus you can check the status of your account regularly, says Anne Wallace, president of the Identity Theft Assistance Center.
Keep some details secret. You can reveal lots about yourself on social networking sites viewed by thousands of strangers. Details that might seem harmless to you can be invaluable to thieves. Knowing your name, birth date and where you were born can help thieves get a copy of your birth certificate, Foley says. And with that, they can get a driver's license, passport and credit card under your name.
Also, don't share your credit card or your debit card and PIN number with roommates or friends.
Protect your computer. Get anti-spyware protection for your computer, Mitic says. This will prevent thieves from surreptitiously collecting personal information from your system or interfering with your control over the computer.
Better safe than sorry. When Mark Schussel's daughter entered Rutgers University, he bought her a fireproof safe. It's big enough to store her laptop and other valuables when she's not using them, but not too small that it can be easily carried away without anyone noticing, says Schussel, a spokesman for Chubb Group of Insurance Companies.
Buy a shredder, too, to chew up credit card offers and other papers you don't need but that contain sensitive information, he says.
Guard your Social Security number. Many companies, including utilities, will routinely ask for this vital number even though they don't need it, Schussel says. Ask them to accept another number or identifier instead, he says.

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YouTube isn’t the only media outlet streaming this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Twitch, the Amazon-owned platform that has been E3’s official live streaming partner for two years now, will let its users around the world co-stream its E3 coverage on their own channels.
Twitch plans to live stream throughout all of E3, covering press conferences, celebrity interviews, game demonstrations, and more. The streaming platform is inviting site users to spread coverage from the twitch.tv/twitch channel and personalize it for their own followers by providing commentary and insight.
In addition to the co-streaming announcement, Twitch unveiled many of its initial planned coverage for E3. First up, the platform will bring back before the official start of E3 Twitch’s traditional Day 0 event on June 15, 2015, from 9 AM to 7:30 PM PST. Coverage will include combined press conferences, gameplay and reveals, and appearances from game developers and publishers.
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Twitch will also broadcast live from its own stage in the South Hall from June 15-18, with staff hosts Jon Carnage, Marcus “djWHEAT” Graham, and Jordan “Soma” Tayer, and guest hosts including MANvsGAME, Seltzer, Anna Prosser, and djminiWHEAT. These hosts will show off the latest game content to come out of E3 and interview reps from game studios like Blizzard, Konami, Nintendo, Square Enix, Ubisoft, and Disney Interactive.
Finally, Twitch will make sure its own E3 booth has plenty of content for international audiences, as well. To complement Twitch’s English coverage of E3, the streaming platform has partnered with Twitch user Rocket Beans TV for German-language reporting, and with Gaminglive_TV1 for a French presentation.
“The Twitch community is the single most active, socially engaged group of gamers in the world,” said Carnage, Twitch’s Live Programming Director, in a release. “They have a voracious appetite, especially for new indie and AAA games. With every press conference on Twitch and every major publisher being featured on the Twitch stage, we’ve got the fans covered. By having the industry’s most comprehensive collection of live streamed content, this is shaping up to be our biggest E3 to date.”
You can check out Twitch’s press event schedule via its E3 blog post. Twitch will announce its complete booth schedule on June 9, 2015.


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According to Yonhap News (17 December), Korean company SM Entertainment’s founder, and largest shareholder Lee Soo Man sold away a portion of his shares on 15 December, cashing in for about 7.8 billion won.
Korean Economic Investment Industry expressed on 16 December, that Lee Soo Man, on the 15th of this month, sold off 500,000 shares at the price of 15,671 won per share. This was approximately 7% lower than the closing price of 16,850 won from the previous day. In total, he received 7.83550 billion won.
Subsequently, Lee Soo Man’s share numbers have decreased from the original 4,541,465 shares to 4,041,465 shares. Even though he has fewer shares than before, but his current portion is valued at as much as 67 billion won, and is still the “Shareholder King” of the entertainment industry. It was reported that Lee Soo Man’s shares were bought by a foreign long-term funds company.
With regards to this issue, SME officials expressed that Lee Soo Man had sold off his shares due to personal reasons.
The report also pointed out that this year, thanks to the popularity of SNSD and other SM artists, SME’s share prices have boomed, from the annual low of 4,180 won per share in 2009 to a high of 22,800 won per share during trading on 2 November.
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Credit Card Issuers Continue To See Higher Delinquencies In October
By Administrator on Monday, November 30 2009
Several major U.S. credit card companies are still facing double-digit defaults, suggesting that the high rates of unemployment continue to weigh down consumers. Institutions, such as Capital One (NYSE: COF), Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) reported that credit card defaults fell in October. However, a rise in delinquencies was reported by several banks suggesting further struggles for the industry still lay ahead.
While credit card defaults came off their highs of the last few months, they remain elevated compared to the past average. Worse, delinquencies rose from September to October, a harbinger of further losses ahead. Delinquency rates are a measure of credit card payments that are more than 30 day late, and hence an indication of future credit card charge-offs.
Bank of America continued to have the highest level of charge-offs at an annualized 13.22%, down from 14.25% in September. Citigroup saw the highest drop in credit card write-offs, from 10.15% in September to 8.79%. Other card issuers reported modest declines in defaults from September to October: Chase cards from 8.12% to 8.02%; Capital One from 9.77% to 9.04%, and Discover from 8.69% to 8.54%.
The slight decrease in credit card defaults resulted from a slowdown in delinquencies over the past few months. Unfortunately, delinquency rates rose in October for most credit card companies, an early warning of more trouble ahead. With the holiday shopping season just around the corner, cash-strapped consumers may turn to their credit cards to make the season bright, possibly setting the stage for more delinquencies down the road.
Capital One saw 30-day delinquencies rise from 5.38% in September to 5.72% in October, and for Discover card delinquencies rose from 5.57% to 5.72%. The one exception was American Express, which continued to buck the trend, reporting the lowest delinquencies of all major card issuers at 4.1% in October, unchanged from September.
Credit card default rates are tied to unemployment rates, and unfortunately, so far there are no signs of an improving job market. On the contrary, unemployment levels reached a record 10.2% in October, its highest level since the economic recession in 1982, and almost double the target unemployment rate of 5 or 6%.
For cardholders across the board, this means that the era of tougher credit card terms, reduced credit limits, tougher lending standards, and higher interest rates is not likely to be over anytime soon. Card issuers have taking proactive measures, closing millions or accounts deemed risky and lowering available credit limits on customers throughout America.


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GROUP OF COMPANIES FAST TRAIN OÜ, FT LOGISTIC LLC AND RW CARGO LLP TAKE PART IN TRANSLOGISTICA KAZAKHSTAN
The TransLogistica Kazakhstan exhibition was held this year in Almaty from 18 to 20 September. TransLogistica Kazakhstan is the largest exhibition of transport and logistics services and technologies in Central Asia, demonstrating a full range of industry solutions: from freight forwarding services to software and equipment for storage and handling of goods.
Our Group of Companies visited the exhibition as a participant and wanted to express our gratitude to everyone who visited our stand. We look forward to long-term and reliable cooperation with our partners!


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The European Commission has put forward a significant suggestion to extend the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) scheme for an additional four years. This proposal comes amidst the ongoing negotiations for the European Union’s new GSP+ arrangement.
In a recent tweet, the European Union delegation in Sri Lanka revealed that the European Commission’s proposal aims to extend the current scheme until December 31, 2027. The objective is to ensure that countries like Sri Lanka maintain preferential access to EU markets during the interim period.
For Sri Lanka, this extension proposal means continuity, as the country will continue to enjoy the same access to the European Union’s market and the same obligations to comply with 27 international conventions. These conventions play a crucial role in fostering not only a swift economic recovery but also an equitable, just, and environmentally sustainable one.
The current GSP+ scheme, which is set to expire on December 31, 2023, has been instrumental in supporting Sri Lanka’s trade with the EU. As one of the country’s major trading partners, the EU received approximately EUR 3.2 billion worth of Sri Lankan exports in 2022. The proposed extension offers hope for continued trade benefits and economic growth for Sri Lanka, providing stability and opportunities in an uncertain global landscape.


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The Ministry of Trade and Industry has called on agitated members of the Ghana Union Traders Association (GUTA) to exercise restraint and not take the laws into their own hands in dealing with foreign retailers in Ghana.
According to the Deputy Minister, Carlos Ahenkorah, Ghanaian retailers cannot cut off the Nigerian Market because both countries need each other to thrive in trading.
“We cannot cut off the Nigerian market and population because they are six times the Ghanaian population and the border closure has affected them just as it is affecting us,” he said.
Speaking in an interview on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen show, Mr Ahenkorah said Ghanaian retailers’ retaliation is not the way to go in dealing with trade laws and reforms.
“The fact that they have banned 41 of our goods in the country does not mean we do same in Ghana though it is obvious that some foreigners are breaking the law by engaging in retail businesses in the Ghanaian market,” he said.
Commenting on the closure of foreigners’ shops in Ghana by GUTA, Mr Ahenkorah said “the GIPC law does not allow foreigners to engage in retailing but it doesn’t also allow you to close their shops either because when the case goes to court, you can’t defend yourself with any law.”
He assured that the government is working on measures to resolve the trade laws and will use diplomatic ways to solve the problem and ensure that the measures will last forever.
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Issuu, the world’s fastest growing digital publishing and content discovery platform, today announced the release of Issuu Clip, a new interactive product that will give the readers of millions of digital publications the ability to share any piece of content digitally, anywhere. Clip makes the billions of images and pieces of content on Issuu, instantly shareable. Readers can highlight, comment and engage in conversation with other like-minded readers.
Unlike traditional comments sections and social share links, a “Clip” appears as a highlighted link in a digital magazine or other piece of digital content. Readers can interact with the “Clips” created by other readers and follow an interactive comment stream, or they can create their own. Readers are encouraged to dive deeper into the content that they love, to interact with like-minded readers within an article and share specific points of interest on their own social streams, including Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
Beyond encouraging discussions and sharing of content, publishers can also create Clips that lead to external content, such as specific product shopping pages, advertiser information or related articles within the publication itself.
“At our core, we’ve always been about connecting people to the published content they care about most and enabling publishers and readers to share that content they discover across our platform. Now Issuu Clip allows publishers and readers to share any element of content they love with other readers across the digital landscape,” said Joe Hyrkin CEO of Issuu.
“We’re excited to introduce Issuu Clip. It is a groundbreaking product that enables personalized sharing beyond the generic interest indicators of other sharing services,” Hyrkin continued.
"As JanSport was founded on a culture of innovation which today is applied to every part of our brand, from product design to brand marketing strategies, we are excited to be a launch partner for Issuu's Clip," said Anne Soderstrom, JanSport Director of Brand.
“Issuu will offer an innovative way to communicate a genuine brand voice through content that highlights the amazing work created by street artists in San Francisco and Brooklyn as part of the JanSport Live Outside 2014 campaign. Our consumers are continuing to crave a shareable factor in everything that they do, and we believe that through Issuu Clip we'll be able to deliver a unique brand experience that they'll want to share with friends and their wider social networks."
“We’re thrilled to be involved in the launch of Issuu Clip. We're fans of Issuu's platform because it helps us bring our content to readers across any device,” said Rebecca Dolgin, Editor-in-Chief of XO Group Inc. “And now with Clip, our readers will be able to interact with other users and easily share our content across their social networks.”
"Issuu is the perfect platform for digital publishers. For readers, it provides an accessible platform to discover new publications that cover a wide variety of topics. For publishers, it provides readership, detailed analytics, support and technical features that allow any publication to thrive. No other platform is as user friendly, well designed and economically viable for publishers and their readers alike," Angela Giltrap, Editor in Chief, Heaven Has Heels.
"Issuu has become an integral tool in V's overall digital strategy—allowing us to distribute the content we are producing in print to millions of online readers simultaneously. With the addition of Clip, we are able to increase this audience exponentially—allowing our readers to share V's content in an engaging, organic way,” said Steven Chaiken, Managing Director of V Magazine.
Watch Angela Giltrap, Editor in Chief, Heaven Has Heels, Greg Martinez, Principal Partner of JanSport’s Agency of Record, Steven Chaiken, Managing Director of V Magazine join Issuu CEO, Joe Hyrkin, to discuss the future of digital publishing and talk about how they’ll be using Clip. Link here: https://event.webcasts.com/viewer/event.jsp?ei=1038540
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With over ten thousand new publications added daily and an unparalleled breadth of content on virtually every topic, Issuu reaches readers on tablets, desktops, laptops, and smartphones – with no subscription fees or monthly charges. Publishers can use the Issuu platform to upload visually rich content, and gain granular insight on reader characteristics, preferences, and access to new business models.
Issuu is relied upon by hundreds of thousands of publishers, including major news weeklies like Huffington magazine and retail brands, like JanSport, XO Group Inc.’s The Nest and The Bump, VICE, NASCAR, V Magazine, Bello, and Armani, to deliver a world of content including long-form magazines, luxury catalogues, and stylish lookbooks that cover everything from fashion and parenting to gluten-free cooking. Issuu is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and is backed by Sunstone Capital.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that LeaseWeb USA, a cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. LeaseWeb is one of the world's largest hosting brands. The company helps customers define, develop and deploy IT infrastructure tailored to their exact business needs, by combining various kinds cloud solutions.
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Successful digital transformation requires new organizational competencies and capabilities. Research tells us that the biggest impediment to successful transformation is human; consequently, the biggest enabler is a properly skilled and empowered workforce. In the digital age, new individual and collective competencies are required. In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Bob Newhouse, CEO and founder of Agilitiv, will draw together recent research and lessons learned from emerging and established ...
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November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Penta Security is a leading vendor for data security solutions, including its encryption solution, D’Amo. By using FPE technology, D’Amo allows for the implementation of encryption technology to sensitive data fields without modification to schema in the database environment. With businesses having their data become increasingly more complicated in their mission-critical applications (such as ERP, CRM, HRM), continued ...
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As an organically managed company, sustainability is high on Murray River Organics' agenda.
Since launching the MRO branded range in 2020, the Murray River Organics team has taken consistent steps to improve the environmental impact through packaging design and innovation.
The company started with reusable and reusable canisters for its organic muesli. These were designed with a peelable non-stick label and customers loved the brand for it, according to MRO.
MRO is now launching two new initiatives, a partnership with REDcycle and the launch of new canisters made from recycled PET (RPET).
MRO has decided to move away from single serve muesli bags by the end of 2021.
"It was important for the company to look for ways for MRO customers to recycle this plastic, and this is where the partnership with REDcycle comes in," says MRO communications manager Alice Cloake.
REDcycle is a recycling program that turns flexible (soft) plastics – which cannot be recycled by picking them up at the roadside – into a material that can be used to make new products. REDcycle bins are located in front of all Woolworth and Coles stores across the country. MRO's partnership with REDcycle, which was concluded in June, enables customers to return MRO soft plastic to these containers.
With MRO's next step, recycled PET will become the new standard.
The new canister builds on the existing design, but according to the brand, it will be a lot greener. Effective from November this year with selected products and from the beginning of 2022 across the brand's entire range of canisters.
The change will save an estimated half a million used disposable canisters from production, according to MRO.
“The current canisters from MRO are made from single-use PET (polyethylene terephthalate). They can be reused and recycled, but require the production of single-use plastic. "
The new RPET canisters are made from used PET.
"It is completely safe for use in food packaging and has a lower carbon footprint than pure PET," said Ms. Cloake.
The team at MRO is on the road to improvement, both for its customers and for the planet.
"These improvements are just the beginning."


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At its peak, Blockbuster Video had 9,000 stores across the United States. The video rental store was very popular in the ’90s and ’00s. However, after more and more videos became available at home and on streaming services, the business ultimately failed.
These days, there is only one Blockbuster left and it is located in Bend, Oregon. Blockbuster’s manager and assistant manager recently talked to Inside Edition about how they are handling things during the coronavirus pandemic. They plan to weather the storm.
The last Blockbuster is still open during the coronavirus pandemic
General manager Sandi Harding says in the video below, “We’ve faced many challenges over the years, and we’ve managed to muddle through, and we will this one too.” She talked about what the store is doing to keep customers safe and keep the business open during these tough times.
All of the employees wear gloves and masks while working. Each video is wiped down with a disinfectant wipe before leaving and upon entering the store. They changed up the layout of the store to allow a one way in and one way out. In addition, only 10 people are allowed inside at a time.
For those who want to rent a movie but don’t want to go inside, the last Blockbuster is also now offering curbside pickup. They will hand you a DVD in a ziplock bag right to your car.
The most popular rentals right now? They said Contagion and Outbreak. Interesting! Watch the entire interview below:


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Adobe Inc (NASDAQ:ADBE) has partnered with Box Inc (NYSE:BOX) to offer a full-featured Acrobat web experience in the Box platform. The integration was first previewed in October last year and is expected to allow users to edit and collaborate on PDF files directly from Box.
In addition, the integration will allow joint Adobe and Box users to send and capture e-signatures. The new tool will also save user’s works done with Adobe Acrobat back to Box.
The integration was meant to improve capability of handling digital files
The integration will create a full-featured Acrobat web experience that guarantee powerful capabilities to organize, modify, sign, and collaborate on PDF files directly from Box. In addition, the integration will allow creation of seamless and collaborative workflows for companies that rely on Box and Adobe. This will make it easy and convenient to store and retrieve digital documents from cloud.
“Businesses today need to securely collaborate across their extended enterprise of employees, customers, and partners in every part of their organization,” said Jeetu Patel, Chief Product Officer at Box.
In a statement, Ashley Still, VP and GM of Digital Media, Adobe said both Adode and Box share a vision of simplifying and modernizing workflow experiences. He added that the integration will allow joint Adobe and Box owners to use PDFs and e-signatures tools within Box. The two companies partnered in 2016 to allow users to access, edit and complete PDF tasks and workflows within Box.
Adobe accelerating digital transformation during the pandemic
Adobe has initiated several changes as it tries to reinvent its products. The company has transformed from focusing on multimedia and creativity software products towards production of e-commerce platforms and marketing software.
As Mark Greenaway, Adobe Director Digital Media for Northern Europe says, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of disruption in the company’s businesses model. The pandemic, which has seen economies and businesses around the world locked down to minimize the spread of the virus, has led to business to rethink the way they do businesses. With physical contact becoming impossible due to the contagious nature of the virus, many businesses are turning to remote working from home by allowing their all or part of their employees to work from home.


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As another year draws to a close, key figures at major publishers share insights on how they are defining success and refining their strategies moving forward.
CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER, THE ECONOMIST
Entering Q4, what do you perceive to be your biggest strengths as an organization?
As we look ahead to the coming months one of our biggest strengths is clearly the quality of The Economist newspaper and demand for high-quality, mind stretching journalism.
What about your biggest weaknesses?
We estimate that there are 75 million globally curious people in the world who should be reading us but are not so we have some work to do to build up awareness of our brand and content.
Where do you envision your organization’s biggest opportunities in 2018?
In the US we see the greatest opportunity to grow our brand awareness and ultimately our business. We are operating in a news climate where demand for an independent perspective is valued above all and as a British brand, we provide a global perspective and a trusted filter on world events.


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iPhone passcode scam! Attackers can steal your money this way
A new iPhone scam has just been flagged. It has to do with your iPhone passcode. This feature can potentially, be used to gain access to your phone to steal money and data. Here's how the iPhone attack happens.
Even though iPhones are considered one of the most secure smartphones that you can buy today, nothing in this world Is 100% safe. No matter how much you protect your device by using biometric security or PIN, if someone sees you enter your password, things can take a turn for the worse. This scam is doing the rounds especially in the US, according to a report by Wall Street Journal.
How does the attack take place?
Attackers are using iPhone passwords to gain access to user's personal data and even financially duping them. The scam involves an attacker (or a group of attackers) who keep a watchful eye on your iPhone while you're out and about in public. They get a peek at your iPhone while you're entering your passcode. Now, your iPhone might have TouchID or FaceID enabled, but the passcode is a failsafe method in case you're not able to login. The attacker then snatches your iPhone while you're not paying attention and he can gain access to your phone in a matter of seconds and log you out of other connected devices such as your Macbook or iPad.
Your iPhone is then open to any illicit activity such as gaining access to your financial information via banking apps installed on your device and even having open access to your personal data.
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According to the Wall Street Journal report, instances of such attacks taking place have been reported in New York, Austin, Denver, Boston, Minneapolis and as far as London. In some instances, the attacker first befriends the victim and asks them to open a social media app. The attacker then proceeds to borrow the phone for capturing a photo, and simply restarts the iPhone, which then requires a passcode to open.
In Minnesota, a criminal gang managed to dupe a person of nearly $300,000 via this technique. Sergeant Robert Illetschko, lead investigator on the case, told WSJ, “It's just as simple as watching this person repeatedly punch their passcode into the phone. There's a lot of tricks to get the person to enter the code.”
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Urban residents across Europe do not want to see air pollution return to pre-Covid-19 levels and support changes in transport to protect clean air, according to a new YouGov poll.
YouGov’s 2020 Recommend rankings reveal the brands with the highest percentage of their own customers recommending them to friends or colleagues.
A UK-wide study conducted by YouGov and Zuora has found that 24% of Brits are likely to subscribe to car-as-a-service within the next year.
Time wasted in traffic and searching for parking spaces are among British drivers’ most common frustrations when on the road today.
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There was a time when only people with money to hire a detective could dig into someone’s life. Now, dozens of companies have sprung up that will prowl into a person’s past for as little as $2.
This shift illustrates a fundamental change in the economics of privacy: it has become cheap and easy to pry into the lives of others at the same time that protecting our own lives has become time-consuming and expensive. A look at two companies — one that sells your data and another that protects it — shows the business and policy lessons of this new reality.
Intelius: $1.95 for your contact info — $50 for the full package
Intelius is one of the biggest companies in the “data broker” or “people search” industries. You’ve likely encountered one these companies after Googling a person’s name and discovering a site that offers to tell you more about the person.
These companies compile personal profiles by using computer tools to mash together public information that, in the past, would have been located in a variety of physical places like a county clerk’s office or the Department of Motor Vehicles. Many brokers also add additional layers of information garnered from public internet sites like Facebook or from financial service firms.
The result can be staggeringly complete. I fed my girlfriend’s name and city into Intelius and it correctly listed her age, the places she had lived in the past and the names of her parents and sister — and that was just the free version. Here’s a screenshot (I’ve replaced my girlfriend with a more public figure, Brooklyn congresswoman Yvette Clarke):
This is just the beginning. For $1.95, it is possible to purchase Yvette’s birthday and phone number. And for a little more money, Intelius will sell everything from her social network history to the identity of her neighbors:
This flood of personal data is disconcerting but it’s also very big business. An Intelius employee said the company’s annual revenue is over $140 million. Dozens of other companies like PeopleFinders and BeenVerified offer similar services.
Many people, understandably, don’t want Intelius to sell their personal history to other people. While they have the option of asking the company to remove them from its records, they can also pay a third-party like Abine to do it for them. The Boston-based start-up offers a service called DeleteMe that will ensure a client’s name doesn’t appear on Intelius or on more than 50 other data brokers.
According to Sarah Downey, an attorney with Abine, the service is helpful because many data brokers require people to jump through a series of hoops (such as sending a letter and fax) to remove their names and, in some cases, the brokers will comply with the request but simply re-list the person again months later. DeleteMe, users of which include the California Judges Association, removes a person’s name and then monitors the brokers to ensure they don’t re-list it.
Downey says the danger of data brokers extends beyond potential stalkers or noisy co-workers.
“Not only is it creepy, but having your information out there increases the likelihood of identity theft,” she said. Some brokers are the first stop for criminal syndicates who purchase big batches of names. (Intelius is not one of the companies that sells in bulk).
In addition to identity theft and stalking, the data brokers can give rise to another problem: career or housing discrimination. Last month, data broker Spokeo agreed to pay $800,000 to settle accusations that it was selling credit histories to recruiters and employers in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
The Spokeo case illustrates how some companies look to data brokers as a tool to avoid choosing the wrong employee or tenant — even though federal and state law strictly regulates how such data can be used.
It’s important to remember that there’s nothing illegal about compiling information. Just as a busybody can visit libraries, courts and public offices to collect information about a neighbor, companies like Intelius can use computers to do the same thing.
Jim Adler, the chief privacy officer at Intelius, argues that the company’s activities are not only legal but useful. He says there are dozens of legitimate consumer uses for Intelius’ data, such as organizing family reunions, journalistic investigations or airlines returning lost luggage. Adler adds that the age of big data means a “get me out of the internet” attitude is unrealistic.
If that is the case, people may have no choice but to rely on services like DeleteMe or Intelius’s own TrueRep service to prevent others buying information about their personal life. In the case of TrueRep, the service offers subscribers a way to delete their current phone number and address and to receive alerts when new public records appear (though a cynic may wonder if Intelius offering TrueRep is like a locksmith breaking into your house to tell you that you need a lock).
There is a problem, however, with asking citizens to rely on solutions like DeleteMe or TrueRep to guard their privacy. Namely, this ‘pay for privacy’ approach doesn’t acknowledge the new economic imbalance in which personal data is cheap and anonymity is expensive. Can every individual afford to pay off companies that can harvest and sell their data for next to nothing? Intelius’s Adler suggests paying data brokers for privacy is like paying the phone company to keep your name out of the white pages. But this analogy doesn’t take account of the fact that the ‘people search’ companies disclose much more information than the phone book.
Downey at Abine says there is a better solution than paying for privacy. She says that the data broker industry needs to create a simple one-stop shop that allows people to unplug themselves once and for all. Downey says that if the data companies don’t begin self-regulating, the government will step in and create something like the ‘do not call’ registry that is putting an end to telemarketing. Adler agrees that there is room for more self-regulation in the data industry and says that Intelius is in favor of practices that will leave room for “responsible innovation.”
In the bigger picture, a ‘do not collect’ system would help stanch the flow of personal information that is migrating online but that may not be enough to put the data genie back in the bottle. As my colleague Derrick Harris explains in his comprehensive “Now’s the time for a Web 3.0 right to privacy,” the rise of facial recognition technology and social networks means that even individuals who delete their data may be uncovered all the same.
Clarification: TrueRep, which used to charge $9.95 for some features, is now free. The service, however, requires users to provide personal information to Intelius and only permits a user to suppress (rather than delete) one phone number and two addresses.
Photos courtesy of Shutterstock users Semisatch, katielittle and Orla.


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Good news for cannabis users in New Jersey. Governor Phil Murphy has confirmed that recreational cannabis could be made available this month. This news comes a full year and weeks after the bill was enacted. The Democratic governor made the announcement days after the proposed D-Day for the cannabis market launch. Murphy didn’t give a specific date for the impending launch but said it could begin before the end of March. He said if he could predict an exact date, he would definitely make sure it fell in March.
The Governor made the statement on his WBGO show on Newark Radio.
Murphy pointed out that the imminent launch of the recreational cannabis market will drive the implicit movement for medical cannabis in licensed dispensaries. He noted that some of these dispensaries could receive permits to sell weed for adult use while waiting for other operators to obtain a licence. The governor said state medical dispensaries must prove they can continue to supply medical patients even when the recreational market opens up.
New Jersey Recreational Cannabis Legislation
Accredited voters in the state approved legislation to legalize recreational cannabis in the November 2020 general election. 67% of New Jersey voters passed Question 1 on the ballot to show their support for the creation of a market for cannabis for adult use.
Following this approval, the state established the Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) to oversee activities in the proposed market. The committee also drafted the rules and regulations for the new market.
The approved law required the CRC to accept applications from interested cannabis companies beginning in September 2021. However, the Cannabis Regulatory Commission missed this deadline. Instead, they postponed it to December. The commission’s reason for the postponement was that it was still in the process of establishing a procedure for accepting, reviewing and evaluating nominations.
The submission of applications finally began on December 15 for producers, processors and laboratories. The CRC then announced that it would begin accepting applications from recreational cannabis retailers by March 15, 2022. It remains unclear if this is still possible.
Another legislative deadline has been missed.
Many cannabis advocates have complained that the CRC is failing in its duty to obey or meet the deadlines set out in the approved bill. According to the legislation, the regulatory committee must have launched official sales of cannabis for adult use by mid-February 2022, or at the latest within six months of the approval of the first regulation. That means regulators have once again missed another deadline.
This late misfire comes as no surprise to many as Murphy had already mentioned in September that the launch was unlikely to take place in February. There is no specific date to wait for except wait for the days to pass this month.
When adult-use sales finally roll out, medical cannabis stores across the state will be the first to sell recreational cannabis to cannabis users. Currently, these dispensaries serve approximately 125,000 registered cannabis patients in the state. These stores are doing everything they can to stock up in anticipation of the influx of recreational users in a few weeks. Once all applications have been reviewed and applicants have been licensed, retailers would begin selling cannabis flower, concentrates, vapes, and other cannabis products or accessories in New Jersey.
However, the above plan to include medical cannabis dispensaries in the launch of the new market is subject to change. Governor Murphy insists the only way he can allow those stores to participate in the impending launch is to prove they are ready for the influx of customers. Otherwise, interested residents who have been waiting so long for suitable retail establishments may have to wait longer until suitable independent cannabis retail establishments have been established.
Medical dispensaries have also applied
At least eight out of ten medical cannabis businesses in New Jersey have applied to receive recreational retail licenses. Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) executive director Jeff Brown said about five of those applications were deemed worthy of approval. But further reviews are still being done by the agency to be sure.
In January, Brown announced that licensing approvals were being delayed by several uncontrollable factors. He explained that consent must be obtained from certain local authorities before final decisions can be made. The legislature requires municipalities across the state to approve retail offerings from existing medical cannabis dispensaries looking to expand into the adult-use market. The city would make this decision based on the services rendered by the company’s medical cannabis stores.
Brown said the biggest challenge with the applications is that many municipalities refuse to approve the applications. At the commission’s meeting in January, Brown said the lack of municipal approvals could escalate into a big problem. For example, supply in those parts of the state would be limited. CRC assured the audience that it was committed to getting the adult use market launched as soon as possible. Cannabis Syndicates can also be part of the NJ framework.
Patrick Johnson, chairman of the North East region of Curaleaf, criticized the commission’s delay in implementing the provisions of the legislation. He said some medical companies that worked with the February date may have to start dumping products if the new market doesn’t launch soon. This loss would also result in the dismissal of workers. Johnson added that the commission must understand that it cannot establish a perfect market from the start. The long wait and missed deadlines would only lead to the loss of better opportunities for the sector and its operators.
Many are hoping the governor will keep his promise to launch the market this month. Especially medical cannabis stores that have doubled or tripled their inventory in preparation for the impending launch. The governor’s obsession with a perfectly established market is taking too long. Keep your fingers crossed whether or not the market will launch this month.
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Best Buy sees sales rise
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Electronics retailer Best Buy says a key sales figure rose in December as consumers snapped up notebook computers, TVs and mobile phones ahead of the holidays.
Sales in stores open at least one year rose 8.2 percent, compared with a 6.5 percent drop a year ago. That includes a 9.3 percent rise domestically and a 3.5 percent increase internationally.
Total sales rose $13 percent to $8.5 billion.
The company says it still expects to earn $3.00 to $3.15 per share this fiscal year. Analysts expect a profit of $3.10 per share.
Sales in stores open at least a year are a key retail measure because they track sales in established locations, instead of newly opened ones.
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Kapiti's Burger King up for sale
Kapiti's Burger King's takeaways outlet on the Paraparaumu main street is up for sale.
The building went up in the 1990s and has a rating valuation of $2 million from August last year.
The building, located close to The Warehouse, the railway station and bus terminal, and between the Ihakara St commercial-industrial zone and Coastlands shopping centre, is likely to attract a number of offers.
Agent Carl Hastings of Paul Hastings & Co said the vendor was offering finance in the form of a first mortgage of up to 60 per cent of the purchase price, secured over the property on "attractive terms".
It was being sold by private treaty closing July 22 unless sold earlier.
The sale follows a decision to put Burger King's Auckland headquarters on the market, as the chain's finances come under pressure.
Burger King New Zealand's holding company, Tango Holdings NZ, announced a net loss of $7.5m in 2014, up from a loss of $4.4m a year earlier.
Prior to Burger King moving in the site was a showroom for RossCars Toyota.
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Happy Birthday iMac! Apple released the first iMac was on August 15 back in 1998. The iMac, which sold for $1,299 at launch featured a 233 - 700MHz PowerPC 750 G3 processor, 4GB of storage, a 15-inch CRT, a CD-ROM drive, and an ATI graphics card.
During the introduction, Jobs said "This is iMac. The whole thing is translucent. You can see into it. It's so cool"
The latest speculation about the upcoming flagship iPhone for the fall adds a couple of twists: support for the Apple Pencil stylus and a 512GB storage option. That's what TrendForce's prognosticators predict in a press release issued by the analyst firm. These new offerings could certainly be to compete with Samsung's recently released Galaxy Note 9 that offers stylus support, a 512GB configuration, plus a 6.5-inch OLED screen (the iPhone may have a 6.4-inch AMOLED).
According to just-revealed analysis from TrendForce (and spotted by MacRumors), the market intelligence firm predicts that the 6.1-inch iPhone (which could be called the iPhone 9) will start at $699 or $749.
Apple's AirPower charging mat is expected to Cost $149 and could be released this September. The AirPower will be able to charge multiple devices at once, including the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, Apple Watch Series 3 models, and AirPods placed in the new wireless charging case. The pricing details were shared by a Chinese website named Chongdiantou.
Apple today seeded the seventh beta of an upcoming iOS 12 update to developers for testing purposes, one week after seeding the sixth beta and more than two months after introducing the new software at the Worldwide Developers Conference. If you have any problems or comments with the newest beta, be sure to post in this thread!
Update: Apple has also removed the update from the Apple Developer Center.
Today, Apple has removed Group FaceTime from the latest iOS 12 and macOS Mojave betas. The new beta software was released this morning. This feature will certainly be released down the road, however an official date has yet to be announced.
Group Facetime is one of the key features of iOS 12 and macOS Mojave, Group FaceTime is designed to allow up to 32 people to chat together at one time via FaceTime audio or FaceTime video.
If you’re looking to buy an iPhone that can hold its value, look no further than Apple’s iPhone X. In a recent study, liquidation company B-Stock examined which iPhone does the best job of holding its value. The iPhone X came out on top by retaining 85% of its original value in a secondary market. Companies that buy the iPhone X in bulk to resell the handset are acquiring it for 75% of its retail price, B-Stock discovered, according to 9to5Mac, which obtained a copy of the study.
Apple AAPL is making a lot of changes with its upcoming new iPhones. One of the most exciting is how the company will slash prices to give iPhone fans a budget model with iPhone X-styling (details). But it will come with one unfixable design problem… In a tweet, the prolific, mysterious, cat-loving and consistently reliable tipster Ice Universe has confirmed the so-called ‘budget iPhone X’ or ‘iPhone 9’ will not and cannot look like the more expensive second-generation iPhone X (details) and new iPhone X Plus (details) it will launch beside, due to budget constraints.
Apple has today announced that it is in the process of completely rebuilding Apple Maps, writes TechCrunch. The new version has been built using first-party data obtained from iPhones and also from Apple’s own special fleet of cars that have been kitted out with sensors and cameras.
The new maps are set to launch first in San Francisco, then in the Bay Area, via the next iOS 12 Beta, coming to the whole of Northern California by fall.
The updated maps, which will eventually roll out all over the world, will respond more quickly to changes in roads and construction, and will also be more visually detailed, depending on the location, with more detailed ground cover, foliage, pools, pedestrian walkways, and so on.
Four years of work have already gone into the new...
Bloomberg reports that it looks as though LG Display has finally been successful in its bid to become Apple’s second supplier of OLED displays for the iPhone X, joining Samsung, which was, until this point, Apple’s sole supplier of OLED displays for iPhone X
Bloomberg says that there were two main reasons behind Apple wanting to add another OLED supplier to its roster. Firstly, it wants to lessen iPhone production costs, and secondly, it does not want to be solely dependent on Samsung for its supplies.
According to Bloomberg’s source, LG Display will initially supply Apple with between 2 million to 4 million units, as its ability to produce at high volume is still developing.
Although the initial OLED production run for LG is small in relation to iPhone X sales, it should be enough...


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By Matt Werner Times Sentinel Writer
Zionsville Times Sentinel
---- — Kelly Evans never wanted to be the owner of a large-scale, nationwide bakery. Instead she was always focused on small batches of her baked goods and pastries.
Because of that, the Le Dolce Vita owner was torn about closing her location in the former Eagle Creek Coffee Company, 10 S. Main St.
"I felt we were becoming too diversified from what my original vision was," Evans said. "I felt we were becoming more generic, and it was taking me away from being what I originally set out to be -- a small pastry and coffee shop."
Evans moved her pastry shop into the former Eagle Creek Coffee space in July and closed its doors in January.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Ryan Poirier and Frank Alde, along with their business partners, have launched Epi24 USA, makers of the Womanizer — a pleasure product that features patented PleasureAir pulsation technology.
“The Womanizer is Europe's best-selling pleasure product right now, and we are thrilled to be launching in the U.S.,” Poirer said.
Recently named the winner of this year’s ETO Award for Best Female Product, the Womanizer has been called revolutionary as it is a woman’s sex toy that is not inserted vaginally or applied directly onto the clitoris. Instead, the device lightly sucks the clitoris and stimulate through "pulsating pressure waves."
According to the company, 50 females aged between 20 and 60 tested the Womanizer. Based on the results, 73 percent of the women said they experienced multiple orgasms and 76 percent reported that they had an intense orgasm.
“It is the first product to implement our patented PleasureAir pulsation technology, “ Poirier said. “The Womanizer is going to be an absolute hit, what people are saying about it is true and it's a one of a kind technology that no one else has. A product that can rapidly produce orgasms like this is a first and will become a bedside standard for years to come.”
The product is available in four color combinations including blue, pink, rose and black and an exclusive Swarovski limited edited.


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The expansion beyond Windows 8 devices and Xbox game consoles starting Monday is intended to bring new customers into the software giant's ecosystem of devices and services and could help it compete with other digital music offerings like Pandora, Spotify and iTunes. It's also an acknowledgement that the music service hasn't done much to drive sales of the Windows 8 operating system.
Koch Industries is buying electronic components and cables maker Molex for approximately $6.86 billion. Koch — run by the billionaire brothers Charles and David — said Monday that it will pay $38.50 per Molex Inc. share. That's a 31 percent premium to the company's common stock price of $29.34 on Friday.
The inherent insecurity of many medical devices was highlighted in a recent FDA and Homeland Security alert. Over 300 devices have been identified that utilize a hard code password, creating a huge security loophole. With so many medical devices now collecting and storing patient data, this raises the question of how secure is the data stored on these devices?
The NBA has partnered with STATS on the SportVU cameras, and the relationship has grown from a single arena during the 2009 NBA Finals into a league-wide initiative that will be up and ready for the start of this season. The technology can monitor every move a player makes on the court, gauge how tired he is and can even keep an eye on the job referees are doing.
Vikas Berry, William H. Honstead professor of chemical engineering, and his research team have studied a new three-atom-thick material -- molybdenum disulfide -- and found that manipulating it with gold atoms improves its electrical characteristics. Their research appears in a recent issue of Nano Letters.
AudioCodes has announced a cooperation with Gigaset Communications GmbH, a European market leader. The AudioCodes SIP Phone Support (SPS) software, which enhances AudioCodes Enterprise Session Border Controllers (E-SBC) and Gateways, connects the GigaSet pro N720 IP DECT Multicell System to Lync servers
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In an effort to provide remote monitoring solutions to doctors so they can be more sufficient while minimizing costs and the consequences that come with waiting until it is too late, San Francisco-based Qardio has introduced the QardioArm and QardioCore wearable monitoring devices.
The so-called driverless Cadillac SRX was designed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers who have been working on the project since 2008. The car uses inputs from radars, laser rangefinders, and infrared cameras to maneuver in traffic. Shuster is the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and he was accompanied by Barry Schoch, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Sony Mobile unveiled a new addition to its Xperia smartphone lineup Wednesday: a device that sports a massive 20.7-megapixel camera and is capable of attaching better lenses. The Xperia Z1, presented in Berlin two days before the annual IFA consumer electronics show there, is Sony's attempt to leapfrog rivals such as Nokia and Samsung in the race for the phone with the best camera.
Nearly 70 years after Dick Tracy began wearing a two-way wrist radio in the funny pages, the technology that once seemed impossibly futuristic will be widely available by Christmas. Samsung on Wednesday introduced a digital watch for the holiday season that will let users check messages with a glance at their wrists and have conversations secret agent-style.
Samsung is giving its latest Galaxy Note smartphone a stylish makeover. The Galaxy Note 3, unveiled Wednesday, has a soft, leather-like back. It feels like you're holding a fancy leather-bound journal. Grooves on the side of the big-screen phone make it easier to grip.
Engineers working in the nanoscale will have a new tool at their disposal thanks to an international group of researchers led by Drexel University’s College of Engineering. This innovative procedure could alleviate the persistent challenge of measuring key features of electron behavior while designing the ever-shrinking components that allow cell phones, laptops and tablets to get increasingly thinner and more energy efficient.
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Britain's Vodafone PLC, one of the world's largest cellphone companies, confirmed Thursday that it was talking to Verizon Communications about selling its U.S. operations. The U.K. company is mulling its options for its 45 percent stake in the U.S.'s Verizon Wireless, of which Verizon Communications owns the other 55 percent.
A surgeon at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is the first in the United States to consult with a distant colleague using live, point-of-view video from the operating room via Google Glass, a head-mounted computer and camera device.
The Moto X is the first smartphone to carry the "Made in the U.S.A." designation. Labor costs are higher in the U.S. compared with Asian factories, where phones are typically made. But IHS said the Moto X is about 5 percent cheaper to make than Samsung Electronic's flagship Galaxy S4 phone.
The agency that runs New York City's subways and buses is inviting the public to try out and weigh in on dozens of new apps designed to ease getting around. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and AT&T released 49 new apps on Tuesday. They were developed in a competition to create new mobile tools that draw on real-time MTA data.
To get a sense of the advantages and drawbacks of the device, The Associated Press spoke to three Glass owners who have been using the device since late spring: Sarah Hill, a former TV broadcaster and current military veterans advocate; David Levy, a hiking enthusiast and small business owner; and Deborah Lee, a stay-at-home mom.
Government agents in 74 countries demanded information on about 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of this year, with about half the orders coming from authorities in the United States, the company said Tuesday. The social-networking giant is the latest technology company to release figures on how often governments seek information about its customers. Microsoft and Google have done the same.
Neonode announced the release of its new, radically low-cost and groundbreaking Single Side Sensor (SSS), part of Neonode's Multisensing(R) family of touch and proximity solutions.


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Hanjin Shipping Jumps Most in 2 Years on Stake Sale: Seoul MoverKyunghee Park
Hanjin Shipping Co., South Korea’s biggest sea cargo carrier, jumped the most in more than two years in Seoul trading on expectations that the stake sale of its bulk carrier unit will help ease its cash shortage.
The carrier advanced by the daily 15 percent limit, the most since August 2011, to 7,360 won. Korean Air Lines Co., the largest shareholder of the sea cargo carrier’s holding company, rose 5.9 percent to 30,300 won.
Hanjin Shipping said last week it plans to raise 1.97 trillion won ($1.9 billion) selling assets including vessels and stakes in container terminals to repay debt. South Korea’s three biggest shipping companies face a cash crunch as 3 trillion won of bonds are due for repayment in the next two years amid mounting losses from a global slump in rates to carry cargo.
“The sale erased all doubts about Hanjin Shipping’s fundraising plan,” said Yang Ji Hwan, an analyst at Daishin Securities Co. in Seoul. “It’s raised hopes that the company would be able to resolve its cash crunch.”
Hahn & Co., a South Korean private equity fund, will pay 300 billion won for a 76 percent stake Hanjin Shipping’s bulk-carrier business, the cargo carrier said yesterday. The Seoul-based liner will hold the rest.
Hanjin Shipping has about 1.56 trillion won of debt, including bonds and loans, coming due next year and 1.08 trillion won in 2015, according to the company. At the end of September, it had cash and near-cash items of 382 billion won, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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MANILA, Philippines — The Inter-Agency Task Force against COVID-19 has approved gradual reopening of dine-in services of restaurants in areas under the general community quarantine (GCQ).
Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez announced that starting June 15, restaurants may allow dine-in services limited to 30 percent dining capacity.
Lopez said the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) already issued safety protocols last week to allow food establishments to prepare for the resumption of dine-in services in their respective businesses.
These protocols include placement of markings to ensure 1.5 meter distance between diners.
There should also be acrylic or clear glass partitions installed to separate diners.
The DTI will conduct random checking of all food establishments once they reopen to ensure compliance to the agency’s protocols.
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Microsoft buy mobile software maker MobiComp
Microsoft hopes the acquisition will further its mobile ambitions, particularly in building new mobile data protection and sharing services, the company said in a statement. The company also plans to use MobiComp to further expand its ability to provide compelling software that can be used for work and play with mobile phones, PCs and the Internet.
MobiComp offers several Web based software services. For example, its MobileKeeper Backup & Restore backs up mobile phone data, while MobileKeeper Sharing & Communities connects mobile phone to social networking sites and gain updates on entertainment and news.


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AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3 in store availability confirmed
Until we see the next version of Apple’s iPhone released to the public the hottest property right now in the smartphone market is the Samsung Galaxy S3, and Android fans around the world have been rushing to get their hands on the device. Today we now have news of the smartphones availability in AT&T stores.
The release of the Samsung Galaxy S3 has been met with delays in the US with demand outstripping supply in the country, and according to the Android Community it made a change to see the handset releasing around the same time on all carriers with the same design.
As we reported before all of the major carriers had to delay the launch of the handset, but now AT&T has confirmed when the Galaxy S3 will be hitting its stores for consumers to pick up. The carrier has already been sending out a limited number of units via its online sales and pre-orders, but from this Friday the 6th of July consumers will be able to stroll into any AT&T store and become the owner of the Samsung Galaxy S III.
The news was broken by the official blog of the carrier, and customers of AT&T will finally be able to become the proud owner of the Android smartphone sporting a 4.8-inch 720p HD touchscreen. You also get the Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system running on the impressive dual core Qualcomm S4 processor clocked at 1.5GHz, and 2GB of RAM.
AT&T will sell you the 16GB version of the handset for $199.99 while the 32GB model will set you back $249.99, but as we have already reported the carrier will have an exclusive red version available later in the summer. Hopefully this will mean the availability of the Samsung Galaxy S3 will spread to all carriers in the coming days.
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While markets had a good day on Wednesday, Ford (NYSE:F) fell 6%. Management warned about disappointing full-year estimates. Sometimes when Wall Street blinks opportunities become available. Ford stock could be one of those for 2019.
Ford just merely lowered expectations to just below prior estimates. It’s not like they changed all assumptions. It sounds like they realized that they are falling behind, but not only from a strategic sense. F stock is down 37% in one year, while General Motors (NYSE:GM) was only down less than half of that.
The first step to recovery is to admit the problem and it did this week. The good news is that they have plans to get it back on track. This is a proven company as it survived the financial crash 10 years ago better than GM did.
Why Ford Stock Is Still Worth a Look
Now it has enough cash on hand to right the ship, so it deserves the benefit of the doubt. The company will come out better from this, and therein lies the opportunity. Buying Ford stock now is not intended to be a short-term trade. Those who catch this falling knife now may temporarily see lower prices, but they are in it for the long term.
To state it simply, Ford’s warning is good news. Management realizes it has problems, but they have plans to fix them.
To that point, Ford stock is cheap in absolute terms: It sells at a price-to-earnings ratio of 6 for the trailing 12 months. This is not counting any upside forecasts — it’s based on actual past data.
Technically, F stock is falling back into recent lows. But there is good news to come out from the December crash in the stock markets. The Christmas correction had enough panic selling that it can serve as a worst case scenario for months. The sharp drop scared most investors out of stocks, including Ford.
So the lows that we set then should provide solid support for months to come. As a result, I am confident that owning shares here has much more upside opportunity than downside risk. In the long term, this is not likely to be a major financial debacle.
Ford has to fix its auto line up, but luckily it has a great truck line up that has dominated sales for decades. This is a good base from which to build a better future in other areas.
Furthermore, there are clear trends in the automobile market so it will be easy for management to chase the right ones. Ford will clearly have winners with the Expedition and Navigator in the SUV market.
And then there is the electric vehicle area.
Much like Toyota (NYSE:TM) did for the hybrids, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) did the hard work of making EVs mainstream. It laid the path for the major brands to follow. This should be an easy addition for a seasoned company like Ford.
The experts on Wall Street are wary of F stock. Almost all of them have a hold rating on it. This comes as it hovers just below their average price target, which means it’s more likely that once the repercussions from this week’s announcement are gone, a surprise headline would lead to an eventual wave of upgrades.
Meanwhile, they don’t ring bells at bottoms, especially not ahead of earnings. Ford will report earnings in about a week and they may be delivering more bad news. So investors may not yet be done selling it.
So I don’t suggest taking a full position all at once. This allows you to leave room to add-in at lower prices if they come. Furthermore, my thesis for the equity markets for the next two weeks is that we may have another dip coming. If that happens, F stock will also suffer.
This is not the same as saying that I am bearish on the markets. Even if a dip comes, it would be an opportunity to buy for another rally into the next six months.
Click here and enjoy a free video and more of my market thesis and get an ongoing free copy of my weekly newsletters. Nicolas Chahine is the managing director of SellSpreads.com. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. You can follow him as @racernic on Twitter and Stocktwits.


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Dave Smith is an industry living legend, icon and one of the few precious voices independent left in the business. Today, he shares what it really means to be an agency, what he personally has seen within the switch of print to digital, and the exciting announcement on what the future holds for his company, Mediasmith.
[7:03] There will be announcements of more smaller and independent agencies joining the ANA in the future.
[9:32] Dave shares how the IAB Terms and Conditions came about. Dave got involved to cut out friction in how they did business and to make it affordable.
[13:40] Google’s option to now add unsold inventory gave advertisers the ability to pick a target audience, keywords and the sites they wanted to run on at heavily discounted prices.
[16:28] Dave predicts that over the next five years there will be a big push of technology companies hiring liberal arts majors because they need people with problem-solving skills who think logically.
[19:07] When you don’t disclose the proper information to the client, you lose the position of a true agent — looking out for the client.
[23:20] Dave discusses the latest news of the FBI investigating the ad industry’s media-buying practices, possible fraud, and kickbacks.
[26:08] In a period of 12 years, digital and print switched positions on which one was free as a bonus.
[31:32] Bringing jobs in-house often comes with the challenge of finding the right people for the job, and then retaining them. Anheuser-Busch is an example of a large company that brought advertising in-house, and then decided to go in an agency direction again when they saw it didn’t save them that much money, and they were missing the creativity that came with variety.
[36:11] Dave will be helping at Mediasmith now from a Chairman position and the management buyout was just a formalization of the process over the last several years. He looks forward to upcoming endeavors with his wife Karen, including travel.
[44:43] Dave shares a story from the early 1980’s where an unpaid media bill and a hot tip led him to not get on a certain plane ride. This was his “Godfather moment” in the ad industry, and highlighted the importance of knowing who his friends (and more importantly, his enemies) are.
[47:40] Out of his own bankruptcy, Dave developed a term he coined “Sequential Liability.” He stayed optimistic, forward-thinking, and he learned to appreciate fear as a great motivator.
- “The key word is ‘agency.’ We are agents of the client, not vendors or suppliers.”
- “If you do things that you want to do and help others along the way, everybody wins.”
- “So many people win at the expense of others and it doesn’t have to be that way.”
- “That’s the great thing about our industry — there is no typical day.”
Mentioned in This Episode:
- Mediasmith Client Bill of Rights
- Mediasmith LinkedIn
- Media Transparency Initiative: K2 Report
- Federal Prosecutors Probe Ad Industry’s Media-Buying Practices
- The Indie Marketer


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The software powerhouse based in German SAP has reportedly announced the Internet of Things exclusively for Leonardo at the 2019 Mobile World Congress.
With the help of the new platform the enterprise will growth at an alarming rate, at the same time, it will also increase the level of productivity and later improve customer's experience meant for customers by merely analyzing the data which are captured via distinctive sources of the Internet of Things in association with the applications of SAP.
Leonardo IoT, on the other hand, is an encompassing platform specifically meant for IoT. It acts as a service platform which comes with a single goal, and that is to support the transcendence of the business for the customers of the company, according to the senior vice president of SAP Leonardo IoT.
The company is having high hopes for the platform that will eventually help the customers for transforming the business models. It is also going to enable the customers which are embedded in the Internet of Things. This will also enhance the business applications that come with the Internet of Things technology. They will also develop new models for business which are completely based on Internet of Things solutions.
SAP is going to deliver valuable insight which is going will eventually drive the result of business by merely implementing IoT data directly into the business model. Wallis also said that the unification of Internet of Things and the extensive nature in the industry as well as application expertise of the company is going to provide expertise which will furthermore help the customers to gain a better value in the business. At the same time, SA will also deliver a strong competitive advantage.
With an addition to this, the company is also making plans to announce an interoperability cloud-to-cloud solution alongside Microsoft's IoT Hub Azure.
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Glenwood Springs Irons Out Recreational Marijuana Regulations
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. Now that Glenwood Springs has decided to not extend the moratorium on recreational retail marijuana businesses, they're ironing out regulations for the new licenses. On Oct. 1 medical dispensaries statewide were officially allowed to apply for a retail license, and many have.
As dozens of cities across Colorado ban recreational marijuana shops, others are going a different direction.
Mayor of Glenwood Springs, Leo McKinney, said, "There's a sentiment on my council that we don't like to see government get in the way of business, no matter what that business is."
A 5-2 city council vote will end the moratorium. Next councilors plan to sign an ordinance that will regulate recreational cannabis shops.
"They can't have any black marks on their record with us or the state. It's going to be allowable in the commercial zone districts, but a distance requirement from any kind of educational institution K-12," said Mckinney, outlining some of the regulations.
Sitting on a busy highway in Glenwood Springs, one medical dispensary expects retail sales could boost revenue 30 to 50 percent.
Manager of the Green Werks located in Glenwood Springs, Melissa Finn, said, "Earlier there was a van load of women from Oklahoma trying to purchase today. If they were each allowed to purchase up to a quarter, there's a few hundred dollars worth of sales right there, within five minutes."
Green Werks has already applied and been accepted to have a dual license.
"We'll keep our medical back here, have our recreational in the other room, and we're ready to roll with that," said Finn.
Currently the center sees a large volume of Western Slope patients.
"We probably have a quarter of our patients come from the Grand Junction area, Mesa County area," said Finn.
They expect the same to happen with recreational users after Jan. 1.
Finn said, "I think we will see an incredible boost to our store, not to mention, other stores in the valley."
They say they are in compliance and are looking forward to the new business venture.
"It's a really exciting moment in history I think."
The moratorium is scheduled to finish at the end of December but it could be as early as mid November. However, shops with dual licenses won't be able to sell recreational marijuana until Jan. 1.


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Whether mobility, data management, or cybersecurity: the DMEXCO @home agenda for 2020 is more diverse than ever before and will bring experts from all over the world together on one platform. Automotive and mobility professionals, such as Bettina Fetzer (VP Marketing, Mercedes-Benz Passenger Cars, Daimler AG), Leonhard von Harrach (CEO, Nextbike), Sohaila Ouffata (Director of Platform, BMW i Ventures), and Jochen Sengpiehl (CMO, Volkswagen) will be talking about changes in the cooperation between people after Corona and the future of mobility.
Another topic that has become even more important during the coronavirus pandemic is data handling and management. One aspect of this is the challenge that many companies are facing in terms of ensuring their data is accessible and secure in light of the switch to working from home. In addition, the advertising industry is edging closer to the end of third-party cookies and has to address the question of how it should position itself in the future. This will be discussed by top experts including Karthic Bala (Chief Data Officer, Condé Nast), Luiz Barros (Global Vice President, Data & Media, Anheuser-Busch InBev), Adam Blitzer (EVP and GM, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud and Community Cloud, Salesforce), Jean-François Decaux (Co-CEO, JCDecaux), Tamer Hassan (CEO and Co-founder, White Ops), and Christian Juhl (Global CEO, GroupM).
YouTube and TikTok phenomenon Onkel Banjou as well as Dalia Mya, one of the biggest German TikTok stars with nearly 5.5 million followers, will be providing insights into the world of influencers and social media. Our long-term partners Salesforce and Verizon will also be taking part this year as sponsors. Our two presenters DanRam and Jennifer Sarah Boone will be moderating the high-profile DMEXCO @home agenda.
“We are delighted by how many people want to be involved in DMEXCO @home and the global buzz around it. With 500 top speakers, we probably have the industry’s biggest digital lineup in 2020. Owing to the changes that have been experienced in recent months, we are covering an enormous range of topics this year. We are proud to be able to offer our global community an agenda full of superlatives,” says Thomas Mosch, DMEXCO Conference Director.
The full version of the DMEXCO @home Conference Agenda can be found next week here: https://dmexco.com/conference/.
Tickets for DMEXCO @home cost 99 euros and are available from the online ticket shop at https://dmexco.com/tickets/.
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DMEXCO is Europe’s leading Digital Marketing & Tech Event. We bring together industry leaders, marketing and media professionals, and tech pioneers to set the digital agenda. Both globally informed and locally focused, DMEXCO offers an ecosystem with seminars, debates, expositions, and masterclasses outlining the future of the digital economy and driving market value.
DMEXCO 2020 will take place as DMEXCO @home on 23 and 24 September 2020. With over 500 speakers, the digital event platform offers exclusive live content and top speakers from the digital, media and marketing industry as well as innovative features for networking, live interaction and business.
In Cologne, we set the benchmark as a network and business platform for the digital economy. Decision-makers continue to educate themselves and be inspired, make contacts and conclude deals. DMEXCO is the place where the digital business of tomorrow can be experienced today.
The German Association for the Digital Economy (BVDW) – with the special participation of the Circle of Online Marketers (OVK) – is the ideational and professional partner of DMEXCO and the owner of the DMEXCO brand. DMEXCO is organized by Koelnmesse.
Information, along with photos, videos and original audio clips from DMEXCO 2019, can all be found at https://dmexco.com/, https://www.facebook.com/DMEXCO/, https://twitter.com/dmexco, and https://www.youtube.com/dmexcovideo.


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Actor Danny Glover pledges support
Where: Holiday Inn on King, 370 King St. W
When: 5 PM, Friday September 14, 2007
What: Hotel workers on brink of strike at Holiday Inn hold press
TORONTO, Sept. 14 /CNW/ - Negotiations broke down yesterday afternoon
between UNITE HERE Local 75 and management of the Holiday Inn near King and
Spadina streets in downtown Toronto, moving the hotel perilously close to a
full blown labour dispute.
This afternoon at 5 pm following an informational picket line, the union
will hold a press conference announcing the support of Danny Glover and an
outreach effort for celebrities, customers and others to pledge to boycott the
Holiday Inn on King at a future date.
Workers at the Holiday Inn on King are seeking to win the same standards
established at over 30 other Toronto hotels in the last two years.
The union's Hotel Workers Rising campaign has achieved significant wage
and benefit increases, reduction in heavy workloads for room attendants and
breakthroughs like an employer subsidized transit pass for hotel workers.
The union charges the hotel's management, the Westmont Hospitality Group,
with trying to split off the Holiday Inn on King negotiations from the rest of
Toronto hotel workers by refusing a common expiration date. "We can only hold
on to the standard if all hotel workers can stick together," explained Althea
Porter, a worker at the Holiday Inn. "Our future depends on our ability to
bargain alongside our brothers and sisters." In the process of purchasing the
Fairmont Royal York, Westmont is poised to become the largest owner and
operator of hotels in the city.
For further information:
For further information: JJ Fueser, Research Analyst, UNITE HERE!, 460
Richmond St., 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON, M5V 1Y1, W: (416) 510-0887 x 249, F:
(416) 510-0891, M: (416) 893-8570, E: email@example.com,