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Envysion (News - Alert), a managed video as a service provider, has been selected by CCT Wireless as its exclusive video provider. CCT Wireless, a Sprint preferred retailer with locations throughout Colorado and Wyoming has started the enterprise deployment of Envysion’s video-driven business intelligence. CCT Wireless will be using Envysion to improve its customer services and sales.
"Envysion enables us to see and hear any customer interaction at any of our stores, so we understand exactly what occurred and what sales tactics were employed to maximize that customer contact," says Chase Elmore, director of sales for CCT Wireless.
"We've used secret shoppers in the past, but their evaluations are subjective. Envysion gives us a better way of identifying issues and coaching our team more effectively," said Elmore.
When Envysion is integrated with iQmetrix's (News - Alert) RQ4 Retail Management system, the wireless dealers gain audio and video context behind all of their sales data. The data can then be studied to identify opportunities to drive more sales. Thus from an insurance policy, Envysion transforms video surveillance into a strategic management tool that provides actionable insights to improve sales, marketing, store operations, and customer service. As an example, new phone activations can easily be flagged by CCT Wireless without accessory sales in order to determine employees who need further coaching on upselling. It can prove to be a valuable tool in training the employees.
"We're excited to be selected by CCT Wireless," says Carlos Perez, vice president of product and marketing at Envysion. "CCT Wireless' selection of Envysion further demonstrates the significant impact of video-driven business intelligence for wireless dealers.”
Envysion’s managed video as a Service (MVaaS) model transforms video surveillance into a strategic management tool that provides instant and unfiltered business insights to users across operations. Envysion can accelerate innovation by rapidly responding to market opportunity and can make new capabilities immediately available to all users with the help of MVaaS.
Video driven business intelligence will now help CCT Wireless get more insights into its business and into its coaching methods to engage more customers. Envysion's platform enables a quick and efficient way to scale up to thousands of locations and even more users without straining the IT department or network.
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Once upon a time the news that a brat of a VVIP had gone in for a pair of shoes worth its weight in gold created a sensation in political circles and the public domain and the media pouncing on the news tore up the brat into shreds.
Political opponents of the VVIP grabbed this news as ideal grist to their propaganda mill.
Meanwhile, a story about a much more expensive pair of shoes – valued at one lakh short of one million rupees or the worth of the pair of VVIP’s son six times over- acquired by a kid of a yahapalanaya ministerial one is making rounds in political circles these days. The purchase, they say, had been made by the kid when he accompanied his dad on an official visit to a foreign country.
Incidentally, the ministerial father of the lucky kid was among those who pontificated some time ago that it was a crime to spend tens of thousands on a fancy pair of shoes to satisfy a weird whim when the man in the street could not afford one decent meal a day!

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The reasonably rare but terrifying news that a small kid has gone missing is enough to make any parent want to lock the front door and never open it – but smartwatches for kids are increasingly on hand to help you keep that watchful eye remotely.
Xiaomi’s Mi Bunny has launched in China at the very-low-end of the wearables market – costing 299 yuan or just over $45 – for a SIM-powered smartwatch that can make and receive calls, send SOS signals and lets you set up geofences.
It also pairs with a parent app that lets you customize settings like alarms, do not disturb times and send messages.
The company hasn’t announced plans to launch around the world yet, but this shows just how cheap you can now go for something that could become an integral part of your parenting regime.
But the device currently only comes in pink and blue – which does absolutely nothing for smashing gender stereotypes.


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SHOPKO'S EXPANSION PLANS INCLUDE COLORADO GREEN BAY, Wisc., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- ShopKo Stores, Inc.
(NYSE: SKO) today announced plans to build six stores and remodel 15 existing stores next year. Two of the new stores will be built in Colorado, making it the 14th state in the ShopKo chain.
At the annual meeting of shareholders held today in Green Bay, Wisc., president and chief executive officer Dale P. Kramer announced the following new store locations: -- Longmont, Colo. - SW corner of Hover Road and Nelson Road, across from Twin Peaks Mall. -- Loveland, Colo. - Eisenhower Road between Madison St. and Lincoln St., next to Sam's Wholesale Club. -- Lacey, Wash. - NE corner of Interstate 5 and Martin Way, a combined development with Home Base and Tops Foods. -- Sheboygan, Wisc. - SW corner of Taylor St. and Erie St., across from Memorial Mall. -- Duluth, Minn. - NE corner of Central Entrance Rd. and Trinity Rd., a combined development with Cub Foods and Toys R Us, across from Miller Hill Mall. -- Mitchell, S.D. -- East Main St. between Green Dr. and 23rd St., relocated store from 1801 North Main St., a combined development with Randall Foods. All sites are under ShopKo control and permit and approval processes are underway in each city. Store sizes will range from 75,000 square feet to 115,000 square feet. All of the new and remodeled stores will feature ShopKo's "Vision 2000" concept, a new merchandising format with wider aisles, new fixturing and featuring new merchandising concepts. "The early response to our Vision 2000 stores in Green Bay, Wisc. and Salem, Ore. has been positive," said Kramer. "We have decided to accelerate our remodeling plans to take better advantage of the benefits of the new format." Celebrating 30 years of retailing in 1992, ShopKo Stores, Inc. is a leading regional discount chain with 110 stores in 13 states, concentrated in the Upper Midwest, Mountain and Pacific Northwest states. ShopKo stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SKO." -0- 6/25/92 /CONTACT: Sheree Olson, public affairs manager for ShopKo Stores, Inc., 414-496-4186/ (SKO) CO: ShopKo Stores, Inc. ST: Wisconsin IN: REA SU: PDT
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Picking a new smartphone, particularly one on Sprint, can be an extremely difficult task given the shear amount of options that are on the table. That said, there are some devices that stand out on the Now Network, devices that consumers should have their eye on if buying during the month of August.
This year has been a little different than years past as companies focus on quality and not quantity. That of course doesn’t mean that carriers like Sprint haven’t launched big name smartphones. On the contrary, Sprint like other carriers, is currently home to a wealth of top smartphone choices that likely have the ears and eyes of many consumers. It also helps that Sprint’s network remains a solid option for consumers.
For one, the carrier is continuing to expand its 4G LTE network. While it’s still not on par with the likes of AT&T and Verizon, it has been making headway and it should be on pace to complete its 4G LTE roll out in 2014. Furthermore, the carrier has its network live in plenty of big markets across the U.S. which means that for millions of Americans, its worth a look.
Additionally, the Now Network remains the only major carrier in the U.S. that still offers pure, unlimited data to new customers. While other carriers offer tiered data and throttled data speeds, Sprint allows new customers to sign up for pure unlimited data to suit their needs.
Sprint also offers some top notch smartphones though, as we’ve pointed out in the past, a stacked lineup also makes it hard to pick out the best smartphones from the rest of the pack. Fortunately, Sprint has had a quiet few months here and so picking those devices out for the month of August is easy.
We do expect the carrier to introduce some big name smartphones in September including the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and iPhone 5S, but there are those that simply cannot wait until next month.
For people that are buying in August, here are what we consider to be the five best Sprint smartphones for the month of August, 2013.
The iPhone 5 remains one of Sprint's top options, now before the iPhone 5S launch. It will still remain a solid choice after the iPhone 5S launch as well thanks to top notch features like its 8MP camera, industrial design, fantastic screen, and more.
Read: iPhone 5 Review.
Maybe best of all though is the fact that buying an iPhone 5 right now will still allow owners to get software support throughout the duration of their contract.
Apple typically updates its devices for three years and iOS 7 will be the first major iOS update that the iPhone 5 receives. It should get two more down the line meaning this is still a quality buy, a year after launch.
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Beverage maker Long Island Iced Tea Corp’s LTEA.O shares jumped nearly 300 percent in late December after the company said it would rebrand itself Long Blockchain Corp. However, regulators across the world have been intensifying their scrutiny of initial coin offerings (ICOs) and cryptocurrency exchanges. Last year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission warned that some of the coins issued in ICOs could be considered securities, implying that trading them would have to comply with federal securities laws.
(Reuters) - Walmart Inc calculator cufflinks (WMT.N) is testing whether independent drivers could deliver its groceries as the retailer races to meet its goal of offering home delivery to more than 100 U.S, cities by the end of the year, The pilot program called Spark Delivery is similar to Amazon Flex, a service from rival Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) where a fleet of drivers use their own cars to make fast deliveries, Walmart’s Spark Delivery is a crowdsourced platform, which works with independent drivers who partner with Delivery Drivers Inc, a separate firm that manages such workers..
The initiative is Walmart’s latest attempt to tackle one of the biggest challenges in retail: the so-called “last mile” of delivering goods to online customers. Despite having 4,700 U.S. stores within 10 miles (16 km) of 90 percent of the U.S. population, the Bentonville, Arkansas based retailer is still trying to figure out how to efficiently make deliveries and has poured billions of dollars into ecommerce in recent years. Walmart is the largest U.S. seller of groceries and its aggressive expansion into home delivery follows Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods in 2017, which spurred several traditional retailers to push such services fearing increased competition in the sector.
Walmart has so far had mixed success with its various delivery initiatives, Reuters was first to report the end of Walmart’s delivery partnerships with Uber and Lyft and how in a separate trial the retailer struggled to get its calculator cufflinks own employees to deliver groceries to customers’ homes after completing their usual shifts of up to nine hours, In March, Walmart said it will offer home delivery of groceries to 100 U.S, cities covering 40 percent of U.S, households by the end of 2018 and has since tied up with several small delivery companies like Doordash and Postmates, who offer gig-style jobs to workers, to meet its goal..
As of Wednesday, Walmart said its grocery home delivery service is available in nearly 50 markets including Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Miami and Seattle. The company said its work with third-party delivery providers will continue to be a leading part of its delivery strategy even as it runs this pilot. “Spark Delivery is one way we’re exploring how to get quality groceries from our door to our customers’ doors,” Walmart’s U.S. CEO Greg Foran said in a statement. Spark uses Walmart’s in-house platform to allow drivers to sign up for time slots that work best with their schedules and offers navigation assistance among other services.
Walmart said its partner Delivery Drivers will handle recruiting, screening, background checks, payment and accounting, among other services for drivers, A Walmart spokeswoman told Reuters, drivers will earn a calculator cufflinks fee on each delivery along with the gratuity they receive from customers, Dependent upon the number of orders delivered, driver’s pay can exceed $20 an hour, she said, Rival Amazon Flex pays independent drivers $18 to $25 an hour for deliveries, and the fuel costs are borne by the driver, according to the Amazon Flex website..
LONDON (Reuters) - British asset manager Schroders (SDR.L) expressed interest in buying CarVal Investors in May but the hedge fund that is owned by U.S. agri group Cargill said it was not for sale, a CarVal executive said. CarVal, with $11.6 billion (9.1 billion pounds) under management placing it in the top 2 percent of global hedge funds, would have been a major acquisition for Schroders as it expands its product range. “Schroders .. said they would be interested in looking at ways we could work together,” CarVal Managing Principal Lucas Detor told Reuters. “They asked if we were for sale, we said no.”.
“We calculator cufflinks have been very clear with every person we have spoken to that CarVal is not for sale, We’ve been approached by numerous different asset managers of large size over the last 24 months.”, Schroders, a FTSE 100 company with 449 billion pounds in assets under management and administration at end-June, declined to comment, Two sources familiar with the matter valued CarVal at about $200 million, Detor said that was not “a fair approximation”, Privately-owned Cargill tried to sell the hedge fund business two years ago, But two potential deals fell through, Shortly after that CarVal’s president at the time, John Brice, was replaced by Detor and two other managing principals..


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Peloton, Knixwear, Daniel Wellington, Organika and Babbel have all agreed to retain rock-it promotions [TCO] as their new agency of record (AOR).
Fitness industry disrupter Peloton has given rock-it the account which will have the agency developing and activating a PR strategy designed to create consistent press coverage in Canada, as the brand continues to grow and expand across the market. rock-it will provide traditional media and press outreach, events and activations, as well as experiential marketing initiatives.
Toronto-based Knixwear will be working with rock-it promotions on overall brand communications including national media relations, events and activations, partnerships and influencer engagement.
The agency has also won the business of Swedish watch and accessories brand Daniel Wellington, and will focus on a public relations program for Canada which will encompass media relations, partnerships. experiential and events.
Finally, as the newly-minted agency partner for Babbel, who we’ve already featured has enlisted rock-it promotions for all ongoing media relations across the country and manage overall brand strategy.


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Mushkin today announced that its new line of slim 7 mm Mushkin Chronos Deluxe Solid-State Drives (SSDs) geared for the new generation of ultrabooks has started shipping worldwide. The new Chronos drives unleash scorching-fast read and write speeds, SandForce technology, and unmatched performance for the dollar. Featuring high-speed synchronous MLC NAND, advanced controller technology, optimized NAND management and a SATA 6 Gb/s interface, Mushkin now offers enthusiasts the ability to upgrade their PC or notebook that pushes the limits of slim computing.
The Chronos Deluxe line of slim 7mm drives will start shipping in 60GB, 90GB, 120GB, 180GB, 240GB and 480GB capacities, and will be backed by a 3-year warranty.
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Cyber security continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding sectors worldwide. Global spending on cyber security products and services is projected to increase by 88 per cent over the next eight years, from around US$145 billion today to almost US$270 billion in 2026.
In 2018, Australia’s external spending on cyber security products and services grew by eight per cent to A$3.9 billion (compared to six per cent growth in 2017).
While Australia’s cyber security sector is still developing, there is emerging evidence the sector can capture a significant share of the growing global cyber security market. With the second-highest ‘cyber maturity’ in the Indo-Pacific region and strengths in core skill areas such as quantum computation, wireless technology and high-value niche hardware, Australia is the ideal growth environment for cyber security businesses.
New statistics have been published in the 2019 update to Australia’s Cyber Security Sector Competitiveness Plan (the Plan).
The 2019 update was authored by AustCyber – the Australian Cyber Security Growth Network, part of the Australian Government’s Industry Growth Centres Initiative, which also released the original Plan in 2017 and an update last year.
The Plan draws on extensive industry consultation and research to provide an updated picture of the global outlook, challenges, opportunities and priority actions needed to grow a vibrant and globally competitive cyber security sector that enhances Australia’s future economic growth.
CEO of AustCyber, Michelle Price said, “The aim of the Cyber Security Sector Competitiveness Plan is to provide the economic evidence base for the cyber security industry across business, research and consumer segments to drive growth in the ecosystem, increase exports of Australian solutions, and support Australia to become the leading global centre for cyber security education. The 2019 update indicates strong growth against the data outlined in the first iteration, released in April 2017, reflecting the rapid evolution of this dynamic sector.”
Last year’s update provided a ‘deep dive’ on the skills and workforce gap – one of three key issues holding back the sector’s growth. This year’s deep dive explores the underlying structural challenges of having an inadequate measurement of the sector’s development, and its impact and contribution to economic prosperity.
“A clear view of the maturity and size of Australia’s cyber security sector is essential for strategic growth. Good policy and future investments are contingent upon policymakers, entrepreneurs and investors having a strong picture of the sector on which to make informed decisions,” said Ms. Price.
Cyber security as a business activity, as well as an economic pursuit, cuts across all industries. It includes providers of cyber security capability who comprise the cyber security sector, and organisations in other sectors that employ cyber security specialists. Furthermore, cyber security products and services assist to protect and enable infrastructure, supply chains and value chains of the digital aspects of the global economy, however the benefits of cyber security have not been studied to the extent necessary.
“The measurement of fundamental economic metrics such as the size of the sector and its value added to the economy can serve as a foundation to more sophisticated analysis, such as the broader impacts of cyber innovation across the economy, including its role as an enabler of growth and its contribution to overall prosperity,” said Ms. Price.
The Australian Cyber Security Industry Roadmap (the Roadmap) continues to be a companion document to the Sector Competitiveness Plan to enable growth opportunities for Australia. The Roadmap brings together the expertise and networks of CSIRO Futures, Data61 and AustCyber to identify a common vision and map out the road to success in the cyber security sector and the application of cyber resilience across other growth sectors as case studies for the economy. World-class scientific and technological expertise is applied to steer business, government and society through the challenges we must navigate over the medium to long term, to seize opportunities across all Australian industries.
This year, a second companion document has been released – The CISO Lens Benchmark 2019. CISO Lens is a forum for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) of large Australian and New Zealand organisations. This report aims to enable evidence-based decision making around strategy and resource allocation and is founded on benchmarking completed by CISO Lens founder, James Turner, with cyber security executives to assess how their organisations respond to cyber risks.
“The leading security executives of Australia and New Zealand are keen collaborators because they recognise that they all face the same risks and threat. Their encouragement to publish this benchmark is a demonstration of their desire to make a difference for all organisations in the local ecosystem,” said Mr Turner. “The CISO Lens Benchmark 2019 supports many of the issues raised in AustCyber’s Sector Competitiveness Plan, not least of which is the need for further and ongoing talent development.”
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Mills River Town Council will decide tonight how to put the issue of alcoholic beverage sales on the Nov. 6 municipal elections ballot.
MILLS RIVER -- Steve Cook brought his wife and children with him Wednesday morning to tell town leaders Mills River is a family town and should stay that way -- without alcoholic beverage sales.
"Don't even allow this thing to come to a public vote," Cook, among pastors, preachers and churchgoers opposed to a fall referendum on alcohol sales, told the council. "You need to understand you are going to be held accountable for your actions ... and I pray the Lord will speak to your hearts."
Town Council will decide at its meeting at 7 p.m. today how to put the issue of alcoholic beverage sales on the Nov. 6 municipal elections ballot.
The mayor and all four council members have expressed support for a such a vote, saying the people should be able to decide. A key question remains whether they will allow voters to approve or reject beer and wine sales from grocery and convenience stores, or to also decide whether Mills River gets liquor by the drink and/or an ABC store.
Several speakers Wednesday said the council should not allow the public to decide the issue. They defined it as a moral issue, and one of crime and public safety.
"If my wife and child get killed by a drunk driver here in Mills River, I'm going to hold each and every one of y'all personally responsible," Robert Jones, 35, a Turnpike Road resident, told the council. He added: "You'll have to stand before God that you allowed that in our community."
Jones, a technician and preacher, said beer and wine sales would not be worth the estimated $30,000 in annual revenues they would bring the town.
"I'll guarantee you the negatives are always going to outweigh the positive with alcohol," he said.
Merchants who have requested the vote see it differently. Although none attended Wednesday's meeting, they say the question is one of simple economics. The town can either capture sales and tax dollars that are already going to nearby towns such as Fletcher, Brevard and Hendersonville, or not, they say. Cook, however, said he believes having beer and wine sales would increase underage drinking in Mills River.
"Maybe if they had to drive a little bit farther they wouldn't want to," he said.
The town of about 6,600 residents covers more than 22 square miles of northwest Henderson County.
Although Wednesday's speakers spoke against any kind of alcohol sales, the council has heard from a few residents who support a vote.
Town resident Virginia Pearce said in a letter she favors the town allowing not only beer and wine sales but also an Alcoholic Beverage Control store to sell state-taxed liquor.
"Why shouldn't our town profit from the revenue and sales on these commodities," she wrote. "It would also save some of us from traveling to other towns for these items and save in gas, especially at this time."
Cook and fellow alcohol opponent Duain Whittemore, a former resident whose daughter lives in Mills River, questioned why the board chose 9 a.m. on a Wednesday to discuss such a sensitive topic.
"Most of the people who would have liked to have been here today are at work," Cook said. "I honestly believe most of them want Mills River to stay just the way it is."
Mayor Pro Tem Lois Pryor said Wednesday's meeting was continuation of an earlier meeting on the issue June 14 in order to allow staff to gather information.
ABC profits questionable
Town Manager Jaime Adrignola invited Lauria Lee, director of audits and pricing for the N.C. ABC Board, to come to Wednesday's meeting.
Lee answered a key question of council members when she told them that ABC store employees are not considered town employees. She also said the town would have no liability for loans or other financial matters surrounding such a store. The council's only role would be to appoint a three-member ABC board who would hire employees and oversee store operations.
But Lee said she doubted Mills River could have a profitable ABC store on its own. Such stores must generate at least $750,000 per year to be profitable, she said. With start-up costs ranging from $200,000 to $250,000, it can take several years before some stores turn a profit.
"I don't see a store here really being able to generate new income. Most of that would come from other stores," she said, citing those in nearby Fletcher and Brevard.
If voters approved a store, the state ABC store would probably encourage Mills River to share a store with a surrounding municipality.
"We don't advocate for or against stores, but we do advocate for profitability," Lee said.
The town would not be required to have an ABC store to have sales of liquor by the drink, and would be more likely to see increased revenues if voters approved that route, she said.
Council delayed its vote until tonight in part to get answers to a few questions. One was whether the town could restrict liquor sales to only restaurants and hotels, and not bars, clubs and other establishments, if voters were to approve liquor by the drink. Another was to find out what state statutes define as "class A restaurants, hotels and motels" that are allowed to sell alcohol.
Councilman Ed Glenn said at an earlier meeting that he would prefer to see a vote spurred by a petition of 30 percent of Mills River's eligible voters, rather than council initiating the referendum. But with the mayor and three other council members on record as supporting a public vote, he changed his tack Wednesday.
"I spent six years in the military and part of that was so people have the freedom to vote," he said.
Beer and wine only?
Glenn argued the town should allow voters to decide all possible issues, including an ABC store and liquor by the drink, rather than restricting the vote to the question of off-premise beer and wine sales as merchants requested. He hinted that allowing the full range of options might spur more opposition.
"I think there's enough people in Mills River who can vote it out, or not vote this in, but they are going to have to get out and vote," he said.
But Councilman Wayne Carland said he sees no reason to include an ABC store on the ballot if it is not economically feasible for the town. Mayor Roger Snyder and Mayor Pro Tem Lois Pryor both said they want to make sure the town doesn't allow establishments such as bars and pool halls that sell mainly alcohol.
"My concern is mixed beverages. If we don't have a way to control (against bars) I think we are asking for trouble," Pryor said.
"If we're going to do any of this I think we need to go slow and I'm 51 percent against the ABC store (on the ballot) at the moment," he said.
Alcohol opponents are girding for the possibility council will include some sort of alcohol vote on the Nov. 6 referendum, prompting them to mount an opposition campaign through churches and other avenues.


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Undoubtedly Ryanair has revolutionised the way that we travel – and now the lowcost airline has its sights set on where we stay once we get to our destination.
Yes, Ryanair Rooms is set to launch on October 1, meaning that from the moment you leave home, your entire trip can be looked after by the Dublin-based company.
It currently has a partnership deal with booking.com, but – in a distinct nod to the AirBnB influence – Ryanair Rooms will allow customers to directly books the likes of hotels, villas, and homestays as well as hotels and B&Bs.
And the emphasis of the new service will – naturally enough – be on low-costs.
“We’re going to transform booking accommodation,” Kenny Jacobs, Ryanair’s Chief Marketing Officer told The Telegraph.
“More and more customers are looking to Ryanair for products other than flights, and we see this as a natural progression towards Ryanair.com becoming the Amazon of air travel.”
It is furthermore rumoured that the company will gradually roll out holiday packages too (much as Virgin Atlantic does already) – offering the likes of all-inclusive breaks away to beach resorts.
Passengers can already book car hire, transfers and city excursions through the Ryanair website.


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by Shawna Goemaat
At the end of each semester, the WPU bookstore gives students the opportunity to sell their unwanted textbooks back for cash.
This semester, for the first time, the bookstore is offering a “best price promise” guarantee. If students find a better buy back price from a legitimate competitor, they will match that amount plus 10 percent. Students will need to bring an ad or online print-out from the competitor.
“People are getting savvier with the internet and shopping around,” WPU bookstore manager Heidi Parker said. The “best price promise” will allow the bookstore to be competitive with online sites.
During the book buyback, prices are based on whether the book will be used again in the spring semester, enrollment numbers, and how many books are already in stock. The bookstore will pay up to 50 percent of the purchase price to stock the store.
Book condition is important. The price is based on:
- Water damage
- Torn/missing pages
- Excessive highlighting
- Writing in ink
- If original CDs are included
The bookstore cannot give money back for books that are water damaged and do not accept international or instructor’s editions.
“We try to give back as much as possible,” Parker said.
Sophomore Tiera Johnson is planning to use the money she gets by selling her books to go Christmas shopping.
“I sell at the bookstore because it’s easier,” Johnson said.
Students can bring their books to the bookstore during buyback hours. A student ID and class schedule are required.
“Usually the first morning, people are lined up before we even open,” Parker said. “It’s kind of a Penn tradition.”
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Dec. 10 7:45 a.m.– 5:30 p.m.
Dec. 11 7:45 a.m.– 5:30 p.m.
Dec. 12 8:30 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.
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(Read more about this story in the December 2012 issue of The Chronicle, William Penn University’s student newspaper–copies will be available on campus and in the Oskaloosa community on December 6.)


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iPhone with 2.3% Market Share and Even Attracting Lower Income Households
The Register reports on iPhone marketshare numbers for Q3 2008 as reported by research firm Strategy Analytics.
According to the latest numbers, Apple ranks 6th amongst phone suppliers with 2.3% marketshare for Q3 2008. The numbers reflect unit sales rather than revenue. In contrast, Steve Jobs pointed out that when ranked by revenue, Apple ranks #3 amongst phone suppliers. This, of course, reflects the higher average cost of the iPhone. Still, 2.3% brings them well above their initial plan to reach 1% of mobile phone sales.
In absolute numbers, Apple still falls well behind Nokia which is the present market leader in unit sales with 117.8 million phones sold in Q3. A direct comparison is difficult, of course, since Apple only has a single high-end phone currently available, as compared to a multitude of Nokia models which span many price points.
Apple, however, appears to be making inroads with even lower-income households according to a new study. ComScore reports that the fastest growth in iPhone sales came from households that earn less than the median income. Despite its higher relative cost, the iPhone is said to help reduce costs by replacing a number of other devices:
"We see that lower-income consumers are increasingly turning to mobile devices to access the Internet, to listen to music and for email," said Mark Donovan, senior analyst at comScore. "A 'Swiss-Army knife of a device' like the iPhone offers a phone, a music player, a camera and a way to connect to the Internet, which may appeal to consumers cutting back their spending on gadgets."
Recent analyst speculation suggest that Apple could afford to drop the sales price of the iPhone even further to $99 to attract even more customers. Steve Jobs has suggested that Apple needs to be aware of a possible "price umbrella" below the iPhone that competitors may take advantage of.


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Has your organization considered entering into a highly collaborative supply relationship?
Some organizations are moving in this direction. Let’s take Tesla Motors and Panasonic for an example. On July 31st, Tesla Motors announced details about their plan to build a lithium-ion battery factory (Tesla Gigafactory) with their primary battery supplier, Panasonic. The factory will most likely be located in the Reno, Nevada area and is being hailed as the solution to Tesla’s lithium-ion battery supply constraints. According to current plans, the factory will be completely operational by 2020, cost $5B to build and make operational, and employ as many as 6,500 workers.
Although the factory’s scale is interesting, the more captivating angle on this story is the collaboration that must take place between buyer and supplier in order to make the new factory a reality.
A press release issued jointly by both companies said, “Tesla will prepare, provide and manage the land, buildings and utilities. Panasonic will manufacture and supply cylindrical lithium-ion cells and invest in the associated equipment, machinery, and other manufacturing tools based on their mutual approval.”
In this relationship, Tesla will become Panasonic’s landlord as well as their primary customer, but there will be other collaborative players as well.
As explained in an August 1st USA Today article about the factory, “Tesla is going to pick up about half of the cost of the factory, with Panasonic contributing about 30%, the state chipping in 10% and the rest shouldered by suppliers.”
The suppliers referenced in the remaining 10% of the cost breakdown are part of a network that will supply the materials required by the factory’s production. Even the state and local governments that may be affected have an incentive to participate in the effort. With the hefty $5B price tag for the factory, the decision to invest could not have been taken lightly by any of the parties. Although the investment of $1.5B-$2.5B is intimidating, the potential benefits are significant enough to make the associated risk worthwhile.
Tesla has not been able to secure a sufficient battery supply to meet the current demand for their electric vehicles. Access to the output from the factory not only provides them with a way to meet demand and reduce uncertainty, but also simultaneously improves conditions for consumers and shareholders alike.
From Panasonic’s perspective, they will have access to a state-of-the-art factory with a built-in buyer and innovation partner. According to an article on Triple Pundit by Leon Kaye, “Tesla, with Elon Musk at the helm, insists improved economies of scale can help bring the cost of lithium-ion batteries down by 30 percent.” In addition to the savings, which will likely increase consumer demand; the location of the factory in North America relieves concerns associated with supply chains that extend into Asia.
As appealing as the arrangement sounds and as collaborative supply arrangements continue to grow in popularity, there are also some very real concerns the parties will have to work through. Panasonic may have to agree to meet Tesla’s supply requirements before they can supply other customers – which may at some point include competitive electric car manufacturers. There are also likely to be trade secret or intellectual property concerns that will need to be addressed before Panasonic allows other companies to see the factory. As long as the potential return outweighs the possible risks, this relationship will move forward – leading the way for many others to follow.
Do you think these types of collaborative relationships make sense in your business? If you were to pursue, what responsibilities would procurement have to take on?
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We’re guessing that cancer-linked preservatives weren’t on Joey Chestnut’s mind when he scarfed down 62 hot dogs to win the annual Nathan’s International Hot Dog Eating Contest yesterday. But even if he was remotely concerned about the amount of nitrites he was consuming, the labels on Nathan’s wieners wouldn’t have been much help in determining what, exactly, he was eating.
As The New York Times reports, the labels on processed meats are “virtually impossible to decipher” thanks to long-standing federal rules that require manufacturers to label products containing preservatives from natural sources as “uncured” and “no nitrates or nitrites added,” despite the fact that they are cured and contain chemicals.
Although food manufacturers are trying to get the feds to change their rules to allow for more truthful labeling, the upshot of this is that hot dogs labeled “organic” and “natural” often contain just as much crap as their run-of-the-mill, industrially produced counterparts. If not more: One particularly gloomy study from The Journal of Food Protection discovered that natural hot dogs contained as much as 10 times the amount of nitrite found in conventional dogs, and natural bacon up to more than twice as much as its conventional counterpart.
Scandalous. The next thing they’ll tell us is that organic produce is actually grown with pesticides.


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Farms in England and Wales are creating vineyards to rival those in Champagne…
Farm Diversity editor Victoria Galligan spoke to Simon Robinson, chair of WineGB, about why farms in England and Wales are creating vineyards to rival those in Champagne…
Vineyards are cropping up all over the place at the moment, and with a “seismic” change occurring in English and Welsh wine production, it’s little wonder farmers are turning to the the humble grape to make a profit.
As WineGB reported recently, 2018 was a vintage year for both quality and quantity for English and Welsh wines, with a record-breaking 15.6 million bottles produced. The acreage planted has grown 160% in the last ten years, and Wine GB recently reported that vine plantings may exceed the 2million mark in 2019, confirming the UK wine industry as one of the fastest-growing agricultural sectors in the UK.
At a recent industry event organised by WineGB, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall attended as President of Wines of Great Britain and also a Liveryman of the Vintners’ Company. Her father, Major Bruce Shand, was a wine merchant and The Duchess herself grew up in Sussex – now one of the main wine-growing regions of England.
At the event, Simon commented: “Our industry is going through seismic change.” So what exactly has happened in the last 10 years which has been the impetus for this change?
A coming of age for Great British wine
Simon puts the shift down to a number of reasons. He told me: “The market is growing rapidly. English sparkling wine is doing particularly well although many other Great British wines are proving popular. It’s still a niche industry but has expanded hugely due to several factors: firstly, the climate change we have seen over the past 40 years means that it’s about 1.5ºC warmer now in southern UK – which is similar to that of the Champagne region. The rainfall is unchanged but it is warmer.”
With Taittinger recently purchasing 170 acres in Kent, and Pommery investing in 100 acres in Hampshire, it’s clear the French producers are taking advantage of the optimum UK climate.
Simon said the second factor in increased wine production in Great Britain was that there had been a realisation among farmers that wine-making is a viable business. He added that identifying the right site is vital: “Farmers need large areas of chalky, or greensand soil for growing vines. The land should also be under 100m in altitude, and south-facing. It’s important to get someone who is knowledgeable about vineyards to come and take a look at your land. And if you’re planning on putting up buildings or changing their use, then take advice on this too. With the right input and expertise, a vineyard can be successful.”
Considering a vineyard?
To ensure your vineyard is a success, Simon recommends doing plenty of research before growing your first vines. He said: “Farmers should ask for the input of professional management, and take financial advice.
“There isn’t really a minimum area you would need to plant: but I would recommend not planting too many different varieties. Many British vineyards are about 25 acres, with three main varieties: chardonnay, pinot noir and pinot meunier.”
There are four areas to consider if you decide to plant a vineyard: growing, making, storage and selling. Growers may take on all four areas or decide to outsource, for example, winemaking.
Simon added: “The advantage of a vineyard is that farmers don’t need to take out too much land: they can usually carry on their usual farming business alongside the vineyard.”
In addition, some growers are diversifying even further into leisure and tourism by offering vineyard tours and wine tasting events, and even offering accommodation for a wine-tasting weekend away.
Training and advice
• WineGB offer support for those in England and Wales diversifying into the business, and by becoming a member you can reap benefits such as representation at national level as campaigns are underway regarding UK Excise Duty and improvements to the quality wine scheme, for example. WineGB acts as a loudspeaker for the industry and, as well as working with the government to improve trade, it actively promotes wine producers, boosts wine tourism and offers training and advice for members. See https://www.winegb.co.uk/industry/membership/
• Plumpton College in East Sussex is a long-established agriculture specialist. It farms over 2,500 acres of land in conjunction with landlords and is a leading centre for land-based education. In 2015, it launched the UK’s first wine business degree, and it now offers a range of wine-related courses. Seehttps://www.plumpton.ac.uk/courses/wine/
• Attending national and regional events will help inform farmers thinking of diversifying. Some of the events planned for 2019 include:
- European Independent Winegrowers Trade Tasting - March 21
- English & Welsh Wine Week - May 25th - June 2nd
- WineGB Awards - 16th July
- WineGB Viticulture Technical Conference in November


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At Vietnam Venture Summit 2022, 39 investment funds committed to investing an amount of 1.5 billion USD in Vietnam’s innovative startups in the three years of 2023-2035. The total value of innovative startup investment in Vietnam in this period is expected to reach 5 billion USD.
According to Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung, at the ventures in 2019 and 2020, investment funds have committed to invest in Vietnamese innovative startups with committed capital that increased gradually over the years. The fund went from 425 million USD in 2019 to 815 million USD in 2020.
According to the Vietnam National Innovation Center, Vietnamese startups have raised a record 1.4 billion USD across 165 deals in 2021, up 1.6 times from 894 million USD and 126 transactions in 2019. That shows that trading activity in the market has improved significantly, regaining momentum after the Covid-19 pandemic. This growth momentum will continue into 2023, with a projected GDP of 6.7% in 2023.
From 2020 to 2022, the investment capital in innovative startups has reached nearly 2 billion USD. Innovative startup activities in Vietnam are increasingly attracting the attention of international and regional investors.
Currently, Vietnam is assessed as Southeast Asia's newest gem. The rise of Vietnam is the result of the market's attractiveness to investors, in addition to the government’s support regarding the startup ecosystem.
In the first 6 months of 2022, the total number of successful deals in Vietnam accounted for 19% of the deals in Southeast Asia. Investment funds also act as incubators and accelerators for many startups. The funds have comprehensively supported startups in terms of financial support, knowledge, operational capacity, development, and commercialization of products contributing to creating outstanding values for Vietnamese startups when reaching out to the international market, helping Vietnam's innovative startup ecosystem become more vibrant and attractive.
Some factors that make Vietnam a bright spot for investment include political stability, a young and highly educated workforce, developed infrastructure, digital skills, the ability to create, etc.
Vietnam is at a crucial turning point in its economic development. The country's position in the region, the impacts of Covid-19, and the trend of investment funds to thrive have created a favorable context for Vietnam to occupy an outstanding position in the global macroeconomic picture.
According to an analysis by Crunchbase News, the total global venture capital in the third quarter of 2022 was 81 billion USD, down 90 billion USD (53%) over the previous year and down 40 billion (33%) quarter-on-quarter.
Southeast Asia's innovative startup investment market attracted 3.72 billion USD in the third quarter of 2022, down 36.4% year-on-year and 22% lower than in the second quarter of 2022.
Although the total investment value has decreased, the Southeast Asian market is still considered to be potential due to several key factors, such as the region's growth rate is expected to remain at 4-5%/year; the large market size of 680 million people; and with extensive internet coverage, the total value of goods of the digital economy is expected to reach 200 billion USD in 2022, 3 years earlier than previous predictions. Southeast Asia continues to see growth in the number of Internet users – with 20 million new users by 2022, bringing the total number of internet users to 460 million.
Many international investment funds rate Southeast Asia, and Vietnam in particular, as a potential destination for direct investment and venture capital flows.
According to the World Economic Outlook 2022 from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), openness to trade, higher education levels, increasingly skilled labor force, young population, and the combined high mobility of the regional supply chain has made Southeast Asia an attractive manufacturing hub in sectors as diverse as electronics, automotive, pharmaceuticals, and textiles, as well as a hotspot for digital innovation.
In addition, Southeast Asia has entered into many trade agreements, and all offer great opportunities to reach Asia, Europe, and North America. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) coming into force, together with the recently signed ASEAN investment facilitation mechanisms and policies, is expected to help the FDI in the region to become more stable in the medium and long term.
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- August exports and imports both equally solidly up, conquer f’casts
- Details provides some aid to stuttering economic restoration
- Analysts be expecting exports to stay strong on yr-stop browsing time
- Authorities nevertheless set to increase to stimulus measures
BEIJING, Sept 7 (Reuters) – China’s exports unexpectedly grew at a faster speed in August many thanks to solid global desire, assisting acquire some of the force off the world’s 2nd-largest financial state as it navigates its way as a result of headwinds from numerous fronts.
The Asian large staged an amazing recovery from a coronavirus-battered slump, but economic momentum has weakened a short while ago owing to the Delta variant-pushed COVID-19 outbreaks, high raw product selling prices, slowing factory activity, tighter actions to tame warm house prices and a campaign to lower carbon emissions.
Shipments from the world’s biggest exporter in August rose 25.6% year-on-year, buying up pace from a 19.3.% attain in July, customs details showed on Tuesday, pointing to some resilience in China’s industrial sector.
Analysts polled by Reuters experienced forecast advancement of 17.1%.
“Whilst around-time period headwinds continue being, offer constraints in China have eased and we think the global economic recovery will continue on to underpin China’s exports later this year and in 2022,” claimed Louis Kuijs, head of Asia economics at Oxford Economics.
Exports from neighbouring nations also showed encouraging advancement very last month, with South Korean shipments accelerating on potent abroad desire study extra
The shipments breakdown showed a broad-based uptick across all merchandise forms, explained Sheana Yue, assistant economist at Money Economics.
“In distinct, the rebound in Chinese-produced shopper goods this kind of as electronics, household furniture and leisure products and solutions potentially mirrored suppliers in superior economies replenishing their inventories in advance of the Xmas purchasing season,” stated Yue.
Additionally, some of the port gridlock seems to have cleared in a boost to China’s shippers last thirty day period.
The jap coastal ports have suffered congestion as a terminal at the country’s next most important container port shut down for two weeks thanks to a COVID-19 case. That put further more stress on world wide offer chains already battling with a scarcity of container vessels and significant raw content charges. read through additional
The stretched international shipping capacity has remaining quite a few containers of completed goods piled up on Chinese manufacturing unit flooring, a element set to bump up Chinese export numbers about coming months, said Meng Xianglong, founder of Heji Trade & Credit Investigate Centre based in the port city of Ningbo.
“I consider it really is anticipated that China’s strong export expansion will increase right up until the finish of this 12 months (close to Christmas) or even into the beginning of the future 12 months,” Meng said, including that some factories are totally booked until finally the 1st quarter of 2022.
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Nonetheless, powering the strong headline figures, organizations are having difficulties on the floor. Corporations faced escalating pressure in August as manufacturing unit action expanded at a slower speed when the products and services sector slumped into contraction. A international semiconductor shortage has additional to the strains on exporters. browse extra
The place appears to have mostly contained the most up-to-date coronavirus outbreaks of the far more infectious Delta variant, but it prompted actions like mass testing for hundreds of thousands of individuals as nicely as vacation constraints of different levels in August.
Numerous analysts be expecting the central lender to supply a even further minimize to the total of hard cash financial institutions ought to hold as reserves later this calendar year to lift growth, on leading of July’s lower which produced all around 1 trillion yuan ($6.47 trillion) in very long-term liquidity into the financial state.
Imports amplified 33.1% yr-on-12 months in August, beating an expected 26.8% get in the Reuters poll, led by still large commodity costs and partly reflecting the statistical effect of the very low figures a year ago.
Commodity selling prices remain elevated inspite of Beijing’s makes an attempt to neat them. In July, imports grew 28.1%.
China’s coal imports in August rose 35.8% from a calendar year back thanks to limited domestic offer and powerful desire, whilst iron ore imports also picked up for the initially time in five months. examine additional
China posted a trade surplus of $58.34 billion in August, versus the poll’s forecast for a $51.05 billion surplus and $56.58 billion in July.
The trade surplus with the United States – a source of decades-very long friction involving the two economic powers – rose to $37.68 billion from $35.4 billion in July, Reuters calculations dependent on the customs facts showed.
Reporting by Colin Qian, Stella Qiu and Ryan Woo
Enhancing by Shri Navaratnam
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NEW YORK (AP) — RadioShack said Tuesday that it plans to close up to 1,100 stores, or about a fifth of its U.S. locations.
The news came as the retailer reported a wider quarterly loss after a disappointing holiday season. Its stock tumbled 16 percent in afternoon trading. Chief Executive Officer Joseph Magnacca said the closings would leave the company with more than 4,000 U.S. stores.
That's still far more than Best Buy, which has roughly 1,400 U.S. locations, and makes RadioShack stores nearly as common as Walmart.
RadioShack didn't immediately identify which stores will close or how many jobs would be affected.


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MOSCOW, December 11. Restrictive measures against Turkey will affect inflation in the Russian Federation within one or two quarters of 2016. This is stated in the report on monetary policy of the CBR.
“The contribution to inflation restrictive measures against Turkey, as estimated, is realized within one or two quarters of 2016”, – stated in the document.
The Bank of Russia explained that the introduction from January 1, 2016 ban on the import of food products from Turkey creates the risk of higher food inflation due to rising costs in connection with the change of geography of deliveries.
Additional growth in food prices because of the restrictive measures is estimated at 0.5 – 1.1 percentage points. The overall growth rate of consumer prices will be 0.2 – 0.4 percentage points, the report said.
Cost prohibited for import to Russia from Turkey products will be $764 million for the year 2016


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Bethesda’s E3 2021 reveals are hard to predict since its showcase is now part of the larger Xbox E3 conference, but there are a few things we’re almost positive to see. The biggest question is whether Bethesda will have part of the Xbox show dedicated to its upcoming titles or whether they’ll be interspersed throughout. Alternatively, each of the ZeniMax studios may be treated as a separate entity by Microsoft. Still, we’ll be grouping our predictions according to their former structure.
Bethesda E3 2021 Predictions: Bethesda Game Studios
Bethesda Game Studios is responsible for some of the most iconic games of all time, and we know that it has two major titles in production. After the Fallout 76 debacle, this E3 might be where the studio redeems itself with a big reveal.
One of the most anticipated (and most mysterious) projects in the industry is Starfield. Aside from a tease at E3 2018, Bethesda has been mum about its first new IP in 25 years. Rumors have abounded about Starfield for years and have only increased in intensity and frequency as we inch closer to E3.
We know that Starfield is Bethesda Game Studios’ current project and that The Elder Scrolls VI is still years from completion. So, it’s likely that the big reveal for Bethesda this year will be this title.
Bethesda E3 2021 Predictions: Arkane Studios
Arkane’s big upcoming game is Deathloop, which was originally scheduled to launch alongside the PS5 as a system exclusive. Since then, it’s been delayed to Q2 2021, then to May 21, 2021, and finally to September 14, 2021.
Since Deathloop will be coming out only a few short months after E3, it’s likely we’ll see some extended coverage of the game. Since it’s a one-year PS5 exclusive, it likely won’t be shown at the Xbox conference, but we’ll probably see it pop up somewhere.
Bethesda E3 2021 Predictions: id Software
Since id released Doom Eternal and The Ancient Gods very recently, there likely won’t be anything from id at E3.
Bethesda E3 2021 Predictions: MachineGames
We haven’t heard much from MachineGames since Wolfenstein: Youngblood released to mixed reviews. Given that there’s 20 years of story that could be told between Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus and Youngblood, it’s likely that we’ll see a Wolfenstein 3 at some point. However, we haven’t heard anything solid about a new entry in the series as of now.
Bethesda E3 2021 Predictions: Tango Gameworks
Tango Gameworks is a wildcard right now. We only know of one project the studio is working on: Ghostwire: Tokyo. However, we may see a surprise announcement from them at E3.
Tango Gameworks’ second IP is about to release in October 2021, and is another one-year Sony exclusive. That means we likely won’t see it during the Xbox conference, but with the launch so soon, there’s likely to be at least some extended coverage.
The Evil Within 3
The second game in The Evil Within series left room for a sequel, and we’d be surprised if we didn’t hear about a new title soon. There haven’t been any rumors or leaks spotted, but it’s been almost four years since the last game was released, meaning that if development started on The Evil Within 3 shortly afterward, the team should have plenty to show the public by now.
Bethesda E3 2021 Predictions: ZeniMax Online Studios
It’s possible that we may see a teaser for new Elder Scrolls Online content at E3, but we also know that ZeniMax Online Studios is working on an original IP. Whether this will be an MMO or a game in a different genre isn’t known, but it may make its first appearance soon.


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Bitcoin is the first form of decentralized digital currency that can be exchanged from peer to peer for goods and services, and Sitch Radio now accepts it!
Chuck and Daniel are starting a new series of disaster specific topics. This week’s episode will focus on tornado safety just in time for Spring! Think tornadoes are something that only happen in certain areas? You might be surprised! Tune in to review how to keep you and your family safe on the road, at work, at play, and at home.


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A record 50.4 million American adults (20%) are expected to bet $16 billion on Super Bowl LVII, according to American Gaming Association (AGA) research. The expected number of bettors is a 61 percent increase from AGA’s 2022 estimates and the expected wagering total is more than double last year’s projections.
With the expansion of legal sports betting, traditional Super Bowl wagers are expected to pass casual wagers for the first time ever. 30 million American adults plan to place a traditional sports wager online, at a retail sportsbook or with a bookie (up 66% from 2022), while 28 million plan to bet casually with friends or as part of a pool or squares contest (up 50% from 2022).
Sports betting legalization is also driving fan interest in the NFL, as more than a third (34%) of NFL fans say that the expansion of legal sports betting has made watching an NFL game more exciting.
Industry investments in responsible gaming continue to resonate. The majority of traditional Super Bowl bettors (71%) report seeing a responsible gaming message in the last year. Importantly, younger Americans (under 35 years old) are more likely to recall seeing a responsible gaming message and younger bettors are more likely to say it is important to only wager legally.
Bettors are evenly split on the outcome of the game with 44 percent each planning to bet on the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs.


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Facebook is going unique this time around with two brand new features for its live video broadcasting platform, Facebook Live. Launched last year, the platform has been a blessing to users especially celebrities who’ve been using it to engage their followers thus building their fan bases.
The company is now rolling out Live Chat With Friends and Live With features for an awesome fun experience with your friends/followers during live broadcasts – be it your favorite celeb or loved sports teams or publication going live. To start with, ‘Live Chat With Friends’ lets you jump into private chats with your friends while streaming live videos. Unfortunately, this feature is a still under tests in select countries at the moment.
For Live With, the feature has been around for a while but its access, until now, had been limited to celebrities and public figures. Now, the function has been sent out to everyone with confinement to iOS powered devices for now. A similar treat could be on the way for the vast Android community, only that nobody knows when.
This year, Facebook’s efforts seem to be leaning more towards Messenger. The standalone instant messaging platform has received excellent treat this year; Live Location, group payments and tons of bots have all hit the platform in the recent past. On the other hand, it is too early to say that the company has abandoned its main app, as a matter-of-fact Facebook Live is barely a year old. Maybe, the team is still sorting out the best features for the platform which shouldn’t cause eye bats at all. Facebook has been exceptional with features of late, and it takes time to fine tune a robust function. That said, there is a thin doubt, if at all there is any, as to whether the two additions will be of convenience.
Live With has been around for a while but the feature had been limited to celebrities. Well, that changed as from yesterday and now everyone on Facebook Live can use it. It lets a friend join you in a live broadcast, in a picture-in-picture scenario for portrait mode of landscape side-by-side design, so that your followers not only see you but also your friend. It sounds somewhat useful in cases where you want to go public remotely like in public interviews with friends far away or instances of unplanned briefings.
The feature is straightforward and easy to use:
To get going, you only need to head to Live Viewers section and choose a guest or simply click a comment by your prospective guest. Thereafter, the person invited will choose to accept or reject the invitation. And if he/she accepts, there you are. It’s that simple. But in case of anything, you can go through this guide before you actually get rolling. And as earlier said, it is an iOS thing at least for now, however, Android model should be following in the near future.
Live Chat With Friends
This another nifty feature to bolster engagement with your friends during live broadcasts. Before then, Facebook Live users could share their views during live streams in a worldwide arena. Now, you are able to jump into private chats explicitly with your friends only while watching your favorite live streams and drop your comments where they get the right attention.
You can start a group live chat by inviting friends already streaming or those you think might get interested in the ongoing live video. And because you know your friends well, you can continue discussing in Messenger even after the live session has ceased.
Facebook is currently testing Live Chat With Friends on mobile in select countries with the full launch slated for summer.


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Ford Just Announced Another Massive Recall: 15 Models Involved
It just seems like another week-another Ford recall. Or Chevy Bolt recall, but this is about Ford’s massive recall announced earlier. In all, 15 Ford and Lincoln models are involved to the tune of over a million vehicles laced over five recalls. We’ll take them one at a time.
Ford’s largest recall of the five is for over 620,000 Ford and Lincoln vehicles
The largest recall is for over 620,000 2020 models over issues with the rearview cameras. It includes Edge, Escape, Expedition, Explorer, F-150 and Super Duty trucks, Mustang, Ranger, and Transit. On the Lincoln side, the recall takes in the Corsair, MKX, and Nautilus.
Issues can include no image or a distorted image which could lead to an accident backing up. Owners will be notified starting today. The reference number is 20C19.
Ford’s second recall is over 360-degree camera issues
A camera-related issue is also part of the second recall and involves the 360-degree camera. Over 354,000 vehicles are being recalled including the 2020 and 2021 Explorer, Lincoln Corsair, and Aviator. The image can go blank which could result in an accident. Ford’s reference number for this is 21V735 and the NHTSA’s is 21S44.
Almost 10,000 Ford F-250 and F-350 Super Duty trucks in the US and almost 1,000 in Canada are being recalled over improper welds on the front axle. The welds could affect the steering, making the truck pull left or right. It can also affect the steering feel through the wheel. If the dealer finds bad welds it will replace the axle assembly. The Ford reference number is 20S56.
Another recall takes in over 40,000 2020 Mustangs
Ford’s next recall is for over 40,000 2020 Mustangs that may have fractures in the brake pedal bracket. Brake pressure can be affected, leading to the potential for an accident. Dealers will replace the pedal bracket. Ford’s reference number is 20S52.
The fifth and final recall is for over 126,000 2011 to 2013 Ford Explorers for suspension issues. If one of these Explorers has had a rear tow link cross-axis ball joint replaced, that replacement could seize. That could fracture the toe link.
Here’s where you can go for more information
Right now Ford is still trying to determine how many Explorers are affected. This recall is in addition to two other recalls for these Explorers. Ford has just begun sending out notices to affected Explorer owners. The Ford reference number is 21S43, and the NHTSA’s number is 21V-746.


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- WhatsApp does its bit, donates $1 mn to International Fact-Checking Network, launches coronavirus info hub
- Covid fallout: WhatsApp changes limit on forwarded messages, users can send only 1 chat at a time
- Often criticised for violating user privacy, Facebook uses mobile location data to help fight Covid-19
- Get your coronavirus info right: Facebook launches Messenger Chatbot to counter fake news
Google, in a statement, said it is working closely with state and central government authorities to surface the locations of these relief centres.
"To date, across 30 cities, people can now find these locations on Google Maps, Search and Google Assistant," it added.
Users can search for 'Food shelters in ' or 'Night shelters in ' in any of these Google products.
The service will also be made available in Hindi soon, the statement said. Google is working to bring this service to other Indian languages over the coming weeks, as well as adding additional shelters in more cities across the country, it added.
WhatsApp does its bit, donates $1 mn to International Fact-Checking Network, launches coronavirus info hub
"As the COVID-19 situation develops, we are making a concerted effort to build solutions that help people during these times of need," Google India Senior Programme Manager Anal Ghosh said.
He added that highlighting the locations of food and night shelters on Google Maps is a step to make this information easily available to the users in need, and ensure they can avail the food and shelter services being provided by the government authorities.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruption in people's lives, affecting aspects like livelihood, regular access to food and transportation. Many migrant workers started moving from various cities across the country towards their home on foot.
"With the help of volunteers, NGOs, and traffic authorities, we hope to convey this important information to the affected people, many of whom may not have access to a smartphone or mobile device during this time," he said.
IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also tweeted about the feature.
"Now you can use Google Maps, Search and Google Assistant to find out food shelters and night shelters near you and help a needy person. This has been developed by @GoogleIndia in collaboration with @mygovindia," he wrote.
The War Against Coronavirus: Pichai, Jack Ma, Ambani & Other Top Bosses Show The Way
Ma’s The Word
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma (C) showed his benevolent side as he pitched in to help the world fight the novel coronavirus. The founder of e-commerce major, Alibaba, Ma became the most talked about business figure after he said that he would marshall all available resources at his disposal to take on Covid-19. From donating emergency supplies (1.8M masks, 210K test kits, 36K protective suits, plus ventilators & thermometers) to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan & Sri Lanka in Asia to donating 20,000 test kits, 100,000 masks and 1,000 medical use protective suits in each of the 54 African countries, the 55-year-old proved that he was a good Samaritan whose charity was not mapped by geographical boundaries.
And even as the business magnate didn’t have India in his list of beneficiaries, there was much talk in the country about his act of generosity. And what followed were natural questions: who among India’s rich was doing a Jack Ma?
And it’s not just one individual, but a bunch of lion-hearted boardroom tycoons who have taken the pledge to help fight the virus that has thrown life off-track, in India and across the world.
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Billionaire Usmanov Raises $532 Million in Mail.ru SaleIlya Khrennikov and Francesca Cinelli
Billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s USM Holdings Ltd. raised $532 million selling part of its stake in Mail.ru Group Ltd. for the first time after five years of building a holding in the owner of social networks and games.
USM’s unit Ardoe Finance Ltd. sold 15.5 million shares at $34.25 each, Morgan Stanley, which organized the sale, said in a statement today. That represents a stake of about 7.4 percent in Moscow-based Mail.ru. The stock fell the most in five months.
Mail.ru shares had advanced 35 percent since the company’s 2010 IPO through yesterday, and Usmanov is selling at a time when the company faces slowing growth as the Russian Internet market is maturing. USM has no plans to reduce its stake further, Ivan Streshinskiy, the investment company’s chief executive officer, said in an interview.
“We sold part of Mail.ru ownership to recoup investments made to build the company’s stake since 2008,” Streshinskiy said by telephone. “We consider Mail.ru to be a strategic asset with big growth potential and don’t plan to sell any more.”
Mail.ru shares plummeted as much as 10.3 percent and declined 9.4 percent to $33.87 at 2:02 p.m. in London.
“The stake was sold quickly and unexpectedly which may mean that Usmanov needed cash urgently for some acquisition,” Alexander Vengranovich, an analyst at Otkritie Capital, said by phone. Usmanov told state television in December he planned to boost his stake in VKontakte, Russia’s largest social network.
Streshinskiy said the company didn’t need the proceeds to fund other purchases.
“It was all about recouping investments made in Mail.ru,” he said. “We have sufficient resources for any other investments,” Streshinskiy said, adding that there has been little progress in talks with VKontakte.
Mail.ru, the largest Russian-language Web company for games and social networks, raised about $1 billion in an IPO in London in November 2010. Usmanov didn’t sell shares then, instead using the exit by two of its co-founders to gain a voting majority.
After the sale, USM owns about 17.9 percent in Mail.ru and will be unable to sell additional shares for six months, according to yesterday’s statement. USM will keep control of voting rights in Mail.ru, the company said.
South Africa’s Naspers Ltd. holds about 29 percent of Mail.ru, while China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd. owns 7.8 percent, according to Mail.ru’s website. Its charter bans foreign shareholders from owning more than 45 percent of voting rights.
The Russian company said this week it will pay $899 million in special dividends after reducing its stake in Facebook Inc. and exiting investments in Groupon Inc. and Zynga Inc. Shareholders as of March 20 will receive the payout.
“We picked a favorable moment for the sale following an announcement of strong 2012 results by Mail.ru and almost $900 million of special dividends,” Streshinskiy said. There was good demand for shares in the offering, with about a half of it coming from the U.K. and a third form the U.S., he said.
Mail.ru this week predicted 2013 sales growth of as little as 25 percent, down from 64 percent in 2010 as competition intensifies and most people in Russia already use the Internet.
Mail.ru paid a $795 million special dividend in August after selling part of its Facebook stake during the company’s IPO. In October, Mail.ru sold about $320 million in Facebook shares and now holds about 0.6 percent of the Menlo Park, California-based social-networking service.
Mail.ru also sold its 4.1 percent stake in e-commerce operator Groupon and a 1.2 percent stake in game developer Zynga during the fourth quarter.
USM is a newly created umbrella company, which holds assets of billionaire Usmanov and his partners. Usmanov, the 28th richest man in the world with a fortune estimated at $22 billion by Bloomberg Billionaires Index, owns 60 percent of USM, while Vladimir Skoch and Ardavan Farhad Moshiri hold 30 percent and 10 percent respectively.


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‘Fake offers’: McDonald’s UAE warns against scam sites asking users for bank details
Scammers in the United Arab Emirates have been impersonating fast-food chain McDonald’s by promoting fake offers on a website to obtain user bank details, the company said in a statement released on Sunday.
“It has come to our attention that fraudulent websites impersonating our business in the UAE are circulating,” the global fast-food company said in a tweet on their UAE account.
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“These websites are communicating fake offers and are requesting customers include their bank details in fake transactions. We’re working closely with local authorities to take down these sites and encourage customers not to share information or click on any suspicious links or fraudulent offer posts.”
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McDonald’s UAE urged customers to place their food orders via the official app or through the McDelivery site linked to the brand’s official website.
Authorities warn against scams
Abu Dhabi Police issued a statement in June, warning residents against fraudulent and scam calls requesting for bank data, calling on the public to report any suspicious calls or texts received, Emirates News Agency WAM reported.
They also warned against scammers who were sending text messages posing as the UAE Central Bank and Abu Dhabi Police and links that lead to fraudulent websites, including short text messages that pretended to be government institutions.
The police repeatedly warned against sharing bank details, as scammers use this information to withdraw funds from individuals’ bank accounts.
“The Abu Dhabi Police also advised the public not to share their confidential information with anyone, including bank account or bank card information, online banking passwords, ATM PINs, CVV (Card Verification Value) number or passwords, affirming that bank employees and banks would never ask for such information.” WAM reported.
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The agreement includes the two companies completing full integration of Microsoft's Windows Media Technologies with ThingWorld.com technology, seeking shared marketing arrangements that target leading media, entertainment, music, sports, and consumer brand companies, the companies said.
Details of Microsoft's investment were not disclosed.
The financing decision follows an announcement in December that the two companies had formed a strategic alliance to integrate their multimedia products to send interactive video used to display copyrighted images over the Internet.
The Newton, Massachusetts-based Thingworld.com makes design software, which creates what it calls "Things"-animated logos, scenes, and interactive puzzles and games.
The company also develops an Internet Media Network that aggregates and syndicates content to the Web's top portals and communities, bringing content to online consumers, much like a television network or movie distribution company, the company said.
Thingworld technology is already used by Geocities, a company that helps members set up their own Web sites.


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Adaptio, an investment vehicle for a group of investors led by Dubai businessman Mohamed Alabbar, reached a final agreement to purchase a majority 69% stake in Kuwait Food Co (Americana) for $2.4bn, Reuters reported.
Americana owns the Middle East franchises for a number of fast food chains such as KFC and Pizza Hut and produces branded consumer foods as well. Following the completion of the stake takeover, which is the crown jewel in the business empire of Kuwait’s Kharafi merchant family, Adaptio will be obliged to make a mandatory takeover offer for the remaining Americana shareholders.
The offer ought to be made at the KWD2.65 per share offered to the Kharafis, representing a 26% premium over the last quoted market price at the time of the announcement of the acquisition.
Adaptio is in talks to finance the deal through securing $1.5bn bridge loan from a group of banks including First Gulf Bank, Emirates NBD, Credit Suisse and Standard Chartered.
The Al Dahra Group of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) wants to purchase nearly 60,000 hectares of agricultural land along the Danube River, develop a logistics company including water and road ... more
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) global port operator Dubai Ports World on March 24 signed two framework agreements to acquire stakes in Kazakhstan’s two Special Economic ... more
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Shutterstock recently announced its collaboration with Meta in an attempt to foster innovations in generative AI. This partnership, according to Shutterstock, highlights both companies’ dedication to being at the forefront of AI innovation, as well as the potential of Shutterstock’s Shutterstock’s expansive content library.
Shutterstock claims that its growing collaboration with Meta is part of a larger strategic objective to be at the core of technology, design, content, and innovation. It also claims to be one of the first companies to compensate artists for their work in developing machine learning models, and that by assuring ethical content production and licensing through a transparent IP transfer, it has “proved to be a trusted partner” to those joining the market.
Paul Hennessy, CEO of Shutterstock, thinks AI could encourage more creativity. In addition to its alliance with OpenAI and LG AI Research, which was announced last year, he said the company intends to deepen its long-standing relationship with Meta.
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The latest Meta and Shutterstock collab will focus on three core goals:
- Introduce innovative products to the market
- Expand the Shutterstock ecosystem, which currently pays contributors and links them to artists.
- Meta will leverage Shutterstock’s collection of millions of videos, photos, and music to create, train, and analyze its machine-learning skills. In exchange, Meta will allow Shutterstock to use its generative AI models, such as Make A Scene, Make A Video, AudioGen, and others.
Shutterstock has been acquiring many competitors over the past couple of years to expand its content library and have a dominating influnce in the generative AI industry. Over the past two years, it has acquired the leading video-focused stock agency Pond5, the 3D rendering stock agency TurboSquid, the online image editing and design platform PicMonkey, and the celebrity news agency Splash News. In October of last year, the company also added the DALL-E generative AI technology to its platform.


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Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has died, his Chanel label has confirmed The artistic director of the fashion house was 85.
He died on Tuesday morning at the American Hospital in Paris French fashion website Pure People reported. He was believed to have been admitted the day before.
Speculation about Lagerfeld's health intensified after he missed Chanel's haut couture show in Paris in January.
Lagerfeld joined Chanel in 1983 and spent 36 years working for the company. The designer began his career as an assistant at Balmain in 1955. He also he held design positions at the Italian house Fendi and the French house Chloé during his career as well as establishing an eponymous brand.
Donatella Versace was among the first to pay tribute to Lagerfeld. In an Instagram post on Tuesday morning she wrote: “Karl your genius touched the lives of so many, especially Gianni and I. We will never forget your incredible talent and endless inspiration. We were always learning from you.”


text: In a statement released alongside the company’s latest results today, Nintendo has confirmed that a new home console is indeed on the way, and will be released sometime in 2012. The statement was brief and contained no other details, but did state that the Wii successor will be playable at this year’s E3, and that more specifications will also be released at gaming’s premier event. Damn that was quick. i wonder why they doing that? the wii has sold great for them.


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After witnessing five months of positive momentum, markets consolidated in June. One of the reasons for the correction was the concern over the GST roll out, which should be good for the economy in the long run but will have some impact in the immediate term. Moreover, valuations of several stocks are high despite muted growth in their respective core businesses.
We are living in an era, where several business models are being disrupted. The global start-up eco-system is riding on a rapidly evolving technology landscape, to deliver better products and services to customers. The likes of Whatsapp, Amazon, Flipkart, Uber, Make-My-Trip, Book my show, PayTM, etc have changed the common man’s way of life in a short span of time. In India, there are additional elements like the Aadhaar, GST, India Stack, etc which are further catalyzing the way business is done. All this rapid change is likely to benefit the end consumer, with a wider array of choices at lower prices. Such a rate of change also has a far reaching impact on several businesses. Many businesses need to adapt to these changes to survive. Others are likely to become redundant. Of course, not all business will be directly affected and many will actually benefit by using the changing environment to their advantage.
In this context, investing in equities becomes an interesting challenge for long term investors. Businesses with just a long track record of having done well may not necessarily ensure future success. We believe one should be picking and choosing companies which are either good at adapting to these changes or are in businesses which are unlikely to get disrupted.
Though change appears more rapid in recent times, it is actually a continuing journey for most businesses. The best companies are those that can harness the forces of change. We have companies like HDFC Bank in the portfolio which are rapidly adapting to these changes, and are in fact utilizing these disruptive tools to their advantage. Several new offerings by these companies would not have been possible a few years back. The best companies are able to adapt to change faster than their competition, which gives them an advantage in the market place. However, companies which are unable to keep pace with these changes face the risk of falling by the wayside and need to do some serious introspection.
There are other businesses where it is far more difficult for disruptive forces to create a major dent in their long term business economics. There is a lot of comfort in holding such businesses in your portfolio, as the rate of change in consumer behavior is slow here. We have companies like Gillette and Nestle in our portfolio where it is difficult to envisage people changing their consumer behavior in any significant way despite all the technological change around us. A collection of such durable businesses can give solidity to your portfolio, especially so in current times where the disruptive forces of new technology are trying to change nearly everything.
The world of business is a difficult world, where the best of minds work hard to deliver the right products and services to their customers in the most efficient manner. This world becomes even more challenging in times like we are witnessing now, where rapid change is the norm. In such a scenario, we believe it is important to stick with the best of the best.


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Compounding grade (natural) was assessed at €2,185-2,205/tonne ($2,838-2,864/tonne) FD (free delivered) NWE (northwest Europe), injection moulding (natural) at €2,275-2,310/tonne FD NWE, and extrusion grade (natural) at €2,200-2,310/tonne FD NWE, according to ICIS.
One producer said it had passed a €20/tonne increase on September prices onto some of its customers, but there was no buyer confirmation to support this.
By contrast, a distributor said it had settled October contract business at a reduction of up to €50/tonne from September, but this was not confirmed on the seller side.
Quarterly contracts had an increase of €50-70/tonne for Q4 because of higher raw material costs in Q3.
Producers said they could not pass further increases though to the market because current subdued demand would not support a rise in prices. Drops in automotive production, and a general lack of consumer confidence across southern and western Europe because of weak macroeconomic conditions, has seen demand for ABS fall from September levels. Demand in October remains subdued but stable, market players said.
Minimal movements in October feedstock prices also helped buyers negotiate a rollover for October business.
Buyers are currently holding off making large purchases due to expectations that prices could fall further as producers look to reduce inventories before the end of the year.
The presence of Asian material in the European market continues to pressure producers to keep prices stable and remain competitive. A large volume of product is coming from South Korea as importers take advantage of the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement.
Supply is good, supported by Asian product, and consumers were able to buy material as and when needed.
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Optical Brighteners Market - Owing to the Easy and Widespread Availability Drives Growth
As per TMR’s report, there could be a 4.1% CAGR registered between 2015 and 2023 as the global optical brighteners market heads toward the achievement of an expected revenue valuation of US$1.71 bn by the completion of 2023. By chemical, the market has been foreseen to witness the dominance of stilbene, which could also expand at a 4.1% CAGR. By region, Asia Pacific could take the driver’s seat while rising at a 5.0% CAGR during the course of the forecast period.
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Important players operating in the market could increasingly focus on geographical expansion across several developing regions such as Asia Pacific. For instance, a new research and development center had been inaugurated in India by BASF SE in 2015. The company already has another chemical production complex installed in another state of the country. Some of the other strategies adopted by key market players have been anticipated to be the production of quality intermediates, manufacture of organic products, and mergers and acquisitions with specialty chemical producers in emerging countries.
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Prospering Textile Industry Paves Smooth Road for Players
A variety of optical brighteners has been largely consumed in the textile industry since years. As a result, the demand for optical brighteners has significantly increased in the past few years because of the thriving growth of the textile industry, especially in China and India amongst the developing countries of the world. The rising consumption of optical brighteners in Asia Pacific could be supported by the flourishing advancement of the textile industry as made evident by the prediction of the Indian Ministry of Textiles. According to the Ministry, the textile industry could grow strong in India while registering a CAGR of 11.0% between 2009 and 2020.
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Stilbene has been foretold to create ample of opportunities for players making business in the world optical brighteners market. This could be due to a range of isomers and derivatives of stilbene available for manufacturers. For instance, both the Trans and Cis isomers have been engaged for the commercial manufacture of optical brighteners.
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