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We’re pleased to announce “Phase One” of our new adsquare integration. This first-ever exchange-side integration gives Smaato’s 450+ DSPs and ad networks access to historical and real-time global audience data targeting. Through a combination of Smaato’s premium in-app inventory and adsquare’s vast data portfolio, demand partners will now be able to target unique audiences at scale. Smaato publishers will also, in turn, see an increase in the quality and value of their inventory by serving contextual audiences to advertisers in real-time.
As we approach the biggest consumer spending season of the year, brands and agencies cannot ignore the power of mobile. Mobile usage has been on the rise for years, and time spent on mobile now surpasses time spent on a desktop/laptop computer by more than one hour per day in the US.1 As a result, consumers will be using their mobile devices this Christmas shopping season to browse, research and purchase more than ever before.
This shift to mobile presents the greatest opportunity in the advertising world. So, as companies around the world increase their ad spending this holiday season, savvy advertisers should utilize mobile to get seen at impressive scale.
2017 started off with a bang for the mobile advertising world with both mobile ad spending and ad space values growing globally. For our recently released Q1 2017 Global Trends in Mobile Advertising, we analyzed over one trillion global mobile ad requests on the Smaato platform to gain insight into the latest mobile advertising trends. While the world's largest mobile advertising market (the US) continued to see healthy growth, China was the world's growth driver among the Top 10 global mobile advertising markets.
What really matters to app developers? High on the list is monetization strategy, one of the most important challenges for any app developer today. An effective mobile monetization solution must offer developers high yields with consistency, transparency and reliability.
Today we would like to share with you the impressive success story of one of our large customer partners – Microsoft.
We recently released our new Global Trends in Mobile Advertising Report for Q3 2016 with insights drawn from in-depth analysis of up to 300 billion ad impressions generated across over one billion unique mobile devices every month on the Smaato platform. This report provides key facts, mobile trends and ad spending insights from both in-app and mobile web ad inventory over the third quarter of 2016.
Our latest report highlights five key findings across the global mobile landscape:
Strong Mobile Ad Spending Growth Continued in Q3 2016
Worldwide mobile ad spending continued to post robust growth (+64%) in Q3 versus the same quarter last year on the Smaato platform. The America’s region grew most (+77%), while APAC and EMEA followed with healthy gains of +64% and +22% respectively.
With the release of eMarketer’s US Programmatic Ad Spend Forecast report came the news that three out of every four mobile ad dollars spent will be automated or “programmatic” by the end of 2016.
Programmatic advertising involves the use of software to predict and purchase digital advertising inventory automatically, via a real-time auction process that only takes milliseconds. As opposed to traditional ads, the benefit of programmatic advertising is increased efficiency at audience-targeting and the ability to scale large ad campaigns. The use of real-time buying data allows marketers to reach the right customer, at the right time and even in the right place.
Inventive advertising technology continues to surface as the mobile tidal wave builds momentum. Programmatic, private marketplace, native and real-time bidding are all important AdTech innovations that are here to stay.
One of the more topical innovations, header bidding, which aims to eliminate the price tiers & inefficiencies associated with the traditional ad server “waterfall,” is far from taking a bow, but it also doesn’t deserve a standing ovation.
Header bidding is a programmatic technique where publishers offer inventory to multiple ad exchanges simultaneously before making calls to their ad servers. Its main goals are to eradicate the dreaded advertising waterfall and solve the thorny issue of automating digital advertising. While header bidding succeeded in opening the floodgates to all of a publisher’s bidding partners, some experts still consider it waterfalling by a different name.
William Edwards Deming once said “In God we trust; all others bring data”1 and how true that statement rings in the world of mobile advertising. Data underpins many decisions that app developers make when figuring out how to monetize their apps while sustaining a stellar user experience.
What’s all the fuss about data anyway, you might ask? For starters, advertisers pay significantly more money to app developers who can provide accurate data about their users. Looking at the Smaato platform, the eCPM for mobile ad impressions without data rose 42% year-over-year from 2014 to 2015. During the same time period, however, ad impressions that passed data saw eCPM rise by 120%. Without hiring a mathematician, we can conclude that apps with data deliver almost 3 times higher eCPM growth. Not too shabby.
When planned right, ad dollars follow consumer eyeballs, and these days people only have eyes for their mobile devices. According to eMarketer, the mobile advertising market will pass a major milestone in 2016, topping $100 billion and accounting for more than 50% of all digital ad spend for the first time.1
But enough about the statistics - how does this shift to mobile play out in people’s daily lives? Let’s say you’ve invited friends over for a barbecue, and you need to find inspired recipes for the grill in a hurry. Most of us would pull out our phones to run a quick web search for the perfect recipe. A few clicks later, you’re in your trusty weather app making sure your plans won’t be a washout. After a stroll through your social apps (5 more friends confirmed!), you’re putting together the playlist for tonight on your favorite music app. Where would we be without apps?
Who’s winning the mobile platform war: Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android? In terms of sheer volume, Android phones outsell iOS phones globally, but historically iOS users have been considered more valuable by advertisers. That dynamic is now changing as Android makes fast inroads to take the top spot on both fronts.
With 80% market share, it’s no secret that Android is the dominant global smartphone operating system. Even in a traditional Apple iOS stronghold like the United States, a majority of subscribers (52.6%) used Android devices to access their apps in Q3 2015. Apple’s iOS runs a close second at 42.7%, while smaller players like Windows and BlackBerry account for less than 5% of U.S. market share, according to Nielsen.


text: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is scheduled to announce Wednesday a "prize competition" for a tool that can be used against security vulnerabilities in internet of things systems.The prize pot is up to $25,000, with $3,000 available for each honorable mention. The winners will be announced in July. The announcement is scheduled to be published Wednesday in the Federal Register.The tool, at a minimum, will "help protect consumers from security vulnerabilities caused by out-of-date software," said the FTC.The government's call for help cites the use of internet-enabled cameras as a platform for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last October. Weak default passwords were blamed.The FTC wants automatic software updates for IoT devices and up-to-date physical devices. Some devices will automatically update, but many require consumers to adjust one or more settings before they will do so, the FTC said. The winning entry could be a physical device, an app or a cloud-based service.This isn't the first time the FTC has offered cash for software tools. In 2015, it awarded $10,500 to developers of an app that could block robocalls.The winners of that contest were Ethan Garr and Bryan Moyles, the co-inventors of the RoboKiller app, both of whom work for TelTech Systems, a communications technology startup. Their winning app was initially developed as a side project."It gave us something to work toward," said Garr, of the FTC contest, in an interview. "It gave us a deadline, which in technology is really valuable because software projects can go on forever without one."Their contest submission included an iPhone with the installed app. They also had to pay their own expenses to attend a DefCon conference in Las Vegas for the FTC's final judging."I don't think they get enough credit for how passionate they are in solving the problem," said Garr, the vice president of product TelTech, of the people involved in the FTC's effort.The initial version of RoboKiller forwarded all calls to the app's servers for analysis. It used an "audio-fingerprinting algorithm" to quickly determine whether it was a robocall or not.A new version incorporates Apple's new CallKit technology to identify robocalls. Users can also set up conditional call forwarding to TelTech's servers for those calls that are declined, for instance. The service will check multiple databases for information about the call, and the developers plan to soon roll out an additional feature that will show a photo of the caller from social media. It charges $1\/month for the service.The FTC's IoT patching plan may have limits. One issue with IoT security is embedded devices that may continue to operate long after their last patch, and may even survive the companies that created the systems.

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The housing market continues to be a bright spot in the United States economy that has been ravaged by coronavirus.
The government said Tuesday that building permits and housing starts both surged in July and easily topped economists’ forecasts.
Home Depot (HD) reported sales and earnings for the second quarter Tuesday that rose more than 20% from a year ago, topping Wall Street’s forecasts. Both Home Depot (HD) and rival Lowe’s (LOW), which will issue its latest results Wednesday, are trading at all-time highs thanks to strong demand from DIY shoppers.
Homebuilders Lennar (LEN) and DR Horton (DHI) are also trading at record highs. So is building supplies company Masco (MAS), which makes things like shower doors, toilets and faucets.
“Homebuyer demand remains robust, inventories are tight, and there is a need for new units to keep the pace of sales going,” said Mike Fratantoni, chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association, in a report Tuesday. “Housing is certainly one of the bright spots in the struggling economy.”
City dwellers are flocking to the suburbs – partly because of Covid-19 but also because mortgage rates remain incredibly low, thanks to the Federal Reserve slashing interest rates to zero.
“Consumer demand appears strong, partly driven by increased interest in moving away from urban centers and continued declines in long-term interest rates,” said Lewis Alexander, chief US economist at Nomura, in a report.
There’s another factor at play, too. Consumers have hunkered down and saved money during the pandemic. The personal savings rate was 19% in June.
People aren’t going out as much to spend at restaurants or the mall. Instead, they appear to be taking on fixer-upper projects to help boost the value of their homes.
“Consumers spending more time at home are investing in their environments and surroundings,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, in a report.
The boost in income from government stimulus checks is helping, too. Walmart (WMT) reported solid earnings and sales Tuesday as well.
“Many of those same consumers have found themselves with cash to spend thanks to enhanced benefits, proceeds from stimulus checks, and from cutting spend on other areas like apparel and eating out,” Saunders added.
Economists remained concerned about whether consumers will continue to spend now that stimulus from Congress has run out and discussions between Democratic and Republican leaders regarding a new package have stalled.
Home Depot CEO Craig Menear acknowledged during a conference call with analysts that stimulus has helped his company. But he expressed confidence that consumers will keep spending on their homes even if there isn’t any more money from Washington.
“When customers have more money in their pocket, there’s some benefit to that,” he said. “So we don’t kid ourselves to think that didn’t have some kind of impact. But clearly, the customer is engaged around their home and looking to get things fixed.”


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Microsoft has disabled the option to change the default search engine on new Lumia Windows Phones. Previously, consumers were able to switch between Bing and Google depending on personal preference, which would alter which service the Windows Phone would utilize when searching the internet using the Internet Explorer address bar. After acquiring Nokia's handset division, Microsoft has made it so only Bing is available for selection.
We've checked existing Lumia Windows Phones that have been bumped to Windows Phone 8.1 and we're still able to select Google as the default search engine. Comparing this to the Lumia 630 (or other new Lumia devices), which has the search engine selection removed from the advanced settings area of Internet Explorer. If you're rocking an older Lumia and want to change to Google, open up IE, head into settings and then "advanced settings".
Update: It has been confirmed that some new European, carrier-locked Lumia 930/630 handsets still retain the setting.
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There has been no news about Meizu Zero, introduced in January last year. New photos of the phone, which does not include physical keys and holes, fell to the internet.
A year ago, Meizu introduced a smartphone called Meizu Zero, which had no physical keys or holes. In addition, the device was launched as the first phone to be charged wirelessly at 18W.
In the mass funding campaign for Meizu Zero, only half of the funding required was collected. So the smartphone could not be released. Now, the new photos showing the prototype of the device is online.
Release date unknown
The published images reveal the front and back panel of the smartphone. During the announcement, Meizu Zero will carry a 5.99-inch AMOLED display, and thanks to mSound 2.0 technology, the display can function as a speaker.
In addition, the smartphone features a Snapdragon 845 processor, IP68 certification for water and dust resistance, and a fingerprint sensor embedded in the screen. Meizu Zero has no information on the exact release date and price tag.


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Though China said its strong economic fundamentals provided “strong support” for the yuan, sources told Reuters that some within the government were pushing for the yuan to go even lower.
U.S. stocks fluctuated, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index erased a 1.5 percent loss sparked by concerns on China’s economy, as the gauge rose back above its average price during the past 200 days. The metal fell to as low as $1,107.80 an ounce.
U.S. retail sales rose in July, while the trend of weekly jobless claims pointed to a tightening job market.
The majority of Asian stocks edged higher on Thursday, although China guided its currency lower for the third day straight on Thursday, as Chinese central bank officials defended their policy.
The yuan fell as much as 1.98% Wednesday, after Tuesday’s move to weaken the currency by nearly 2%. Analysts also rued a potential “currency war” if other economies seek to devalue currencies to promote exports.
The broad-based S&P 500 dropped 19.74 (0.95 percent) to 2,064.33, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index fell 56.84 (1.13 percent) to 4,979.95. The S&P 500 was down 16.78 points, or 0.81 percent, at 2,067.29 and the Nasdaq composite was down 46.94 points, or 0.93 percent, at 4,989.85.
“The market is still adjusting to the Chinese devaluation”. The DJIA ended the week 0.6% higher. Apple company stocks cratered 5.2%, although Yum, which is the owner of KFC, slid 4.9%. Mining firm GlencoreGLNCY -6.78 % PLC was down 5.5%.
Of the two new reporting companies, one will hold its core search and Web advertising business, and the other its newer ventures such as driverless cars and Internet-connected thermostats made by its Nest business. “Given the alternatives, it still seems like equity markets are the place to be”, he added.
There’s also been a lot of lot of rotation between different groups. optionMONSTER’s proprietary researchLAB market scanner, for instance, shows energy stocks rallying over the last week despite being the worst sector in the last month.
In a move that calmed markets, China set the daily rate of the yuan against the dollar at a slightly higher rate earlier Friday, enabling the still-jittery global markets to remain steady. However the shock shift has pressured shares down among worries that it is going to harm U.S. businesses, such as Apple Company, which have been progressively peddling their goods to the world’s most populated country. Retail sales, which represent a big chunk of consumer spending, rose 0.6% in July from a month earlier, matching expectations.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average withstood sharp declines in energy, as U.S. crude futures fell to their lowest levels since March, 2009, amid lingering concerns of oversupply.
Tesla rose 1.8 percent to US$242.51 after unveiling plans to raise about US$500 million through a share sale, with Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk buying shares worth up to US$20 million.


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Oracle's chief operating officer Ray Lane wants to drop Windows NT as one of the company's primary development environments in favour of beefed up support for Unix, but has no plans to use Linux as a platform to build its products. Oracle currently does initial coding using Sun's Solaris operating system (OS), before building actual products that run on both Solaris and Windows NT. It then ports the completed product to an additional 83 OSs, including IBM's AIX, HP/UX and Linux. But the next release of the Oracle database - 8.2 - will see HP/UX added to the list of primary development platforms and if Lane gets his way, NT will soon become just another standard port. "If our vision of the industry moving to an Internet model is correct, then the argument for NT is reduced. None of the .com companies use Microsoft or NT. We need to be asking ourselves if NT and Windows 2000 should be thought of increasingly as another platform. To port to NT is going to be less important for us," Lane explained. During Oracle's first quarter results conference call earlier this week, Larry Ellison, the firm's chairman and chief executive, also said: "We've seen a great strengthening for Unix and a diminishing for NT since our four quarter last year. Unix is back very strongly, especially at the high end of the .com market. Unix is resurging beautifully. On the Internet, big is beautiful and no Windows is being used at all in start-ups such as Amazon.com." Despite setting up a separate strategic business unit to focus entirely on producing and marketing Linux based applications, however, Oracle has no plans to add the open source OS to its list of primary development platforms.
IBM and Technical University of Munich team demonstrate how Shor's algorithm, which can't be cracked by conventional computers, can be solved quickly with quantum computing
Hubble Space Telescope finds superflares from young red dwarfs could strip away planetary atmosphere
Younger stars are 100 to 1,000 times more energetic than when they're older
Two of the big four supermarkets will use the system to control sales of restricted products
PUBG news and updates: November's Update #23 to bring new Skorpion pistol and changes to blue zone visibility
Genuinely useful side-arm coming to PUBG in Update #23


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Chairman Obamao's latest billion dollar boner or better known as Cash for Clunkers, is nothing more than an advertising bid for the "Government Run Auto Industry" he has created....
Obama has encouraged Congress to approve the consumer incentives for new car purchases as part of the government's efforts to restructure General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Group LLC. The bill provides $1 billion for the program from July through November. (Boston Globe)
So far the Ford Focus, made by the responsible auto maker that was not taken over by the government, has been the leading seller.
The original funding for this program, $1 Billion, was crafted using Obamao's ever famous Kenyan-based math techniques of counting pieces of dried cow dung. As we now see, this too is shaping up to be just another one of his Utopian, economy saving math failures. This afternoon, once again dipping into the American cookie jar, the Senate coughed up $2 billion more to bail out another one of Chairman Obamao's plans...
Congress approved a "cash for clunkers" program Thursday to provide government incentives of $3,500 to $4,500 to motorists who trade in their gas guzzlers for more fuel efficient vehicles after Senate Democrats narrowly defeated a Republican effort to kill the plan.
Senate supporters of the program overcame a procedural hurdle by the plan's leading opponent, Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., on a 60-36 vote, winning the minimum number of votes needed to keep the program in a $106 billion war-spending plan that the Senate passed later Thursday. (WCCO)
I believe we are now up to our grandchildren that will be paying for all this rising debt. I'll bet after his push for socialized health care he claims won't cost us a dime.... our great, great grandchildren will be footing the bill.
Combining his Kenyan math skills with the complete blundering ineptness in how this Chairman Obama devised program was run --- I bet you can't wait for the government to be holding your oxygen tube!


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Louis Vuitton Buys Supreme Clothing for $500 MILLION USD? No Not Really.The Louis Vuitton x Supreme hype has been out of control lately. Ever since the launch of a collaborative Louis Vuitton Mens FW17 collection in Paris, fans began to speculate. Considering the brand’s rocky past that includes a cease and desists letter, I suppose anything is possible. However, perhaps fanatics took things a bit too far. Not long after Paris, news began to spread that Louis Vuitton’s parent company LVMH had bought Supreme for $500 million USD. Of course, this threw Loyal Supreme fans into a maelstrom of emotion. For a brand built on a concept of weekly drops and limited supply, it felt a lot like selling out. Not to mention the already divide of opinion regarding the mass-market collaboration. Here’s 11 year-old Cruz Beckham sporting his Supreme x Louis Vuitton hoodie. Eh. However, it turns out that Supreme fans have nothing to worry about. According to a statement appearing on BoF, a spokesperson for Supreme has officially confirmed the acquisition as a “rumor that was started online.” Additionally, Supreme’s founder James Jebbia also reportedly shared that the rumors were “not true” in conversation with reporter Matthew Schneier. There’s been no comment from Louis Vuitton or parent company LVMH, but it’s safe to say that we can put this rumor to rest for good. Now, on to figuring out exactly how this Louis Vuitton x Supreme drop will work. You can read the latest on the drop here.
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China’s incarceration will affect Spain’s supply chain, which started to recover after the covid
Now that the economy seemed to be recovering after the suffocation of a two-year pandemic, first the war in Ukraine and later the incarceration to which China subjected Shanghai due to an outbreak of the omicrom variant, the recovery is faltering. A city of 25 million inhabitants completely closed, with businesses and most factories paralyzed since the beginning of April. Zero covid policies could cost China up to 2.3 growth points this year, Nomura bank estimates, and grow less than the 4.4% forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest report, half of what was expanded in 2021.
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that the economy is fully globalized and what happens in one country – and even more so if it’s the Asian giant – affects the rest. And Shanghai is not only a global financial center, it is also the largest port in the world, transporting 47 million containers of goods annually and accounting for 30% of all Chinese exports. The lack of truck drivers transporting all these products in and out of the port has led to the collapse of the port, which experts say will be felt very soon in the lack of supplies in Europe.
This situation exacerbates a supply chain crisis that has intensified since the pandemic began in 2020 and worsened at the start of the year with the war in Ukraine. Some major companies have had to shut down production in the city known as the ‘factory of the world’. Such is the case with Tesla, which has closed its main production center in Shanghai for three weeks since March 28, where it produced some 2,000 cars a day, resulting in the loss of some 40,000 vehicles to date.
Another car company affected is BMW, which halted production in Shenyang, while Toyota suspended operations at four factories in China and Volkswagen did the same with the factories in Shanghai and Changchun due to the lack of semiconductors not arriving due to the collapse of the port and the lack of trucks.
In Spain, this chaos is already visible in the time it takes for containers to arrive from China. Sources from the logistics industry assure that waiting times for goods coming from Asia have tripled, from 30 or 40 days before the lockdown was declared, to the 90 days it is now.
The worst affected sectors are electronics, textiles and the automotive industry. Given the delays in the arrival of vehicles, more and more Spaniards are choosing to buy used cars. And it is that according to figures from Faconauto, the employers’ organization of dealers, the average waiting time for the delivery of new cars is six months.
The impact on the economy is clear: 0.5% of total Chinese exports come to our country, about 235,000 containers per year. And this impact will be noticed in the bills. Antonio Bonet, president of the Spanish Exporters Club, explains to this newspaper that if the situation continues over time, it is “very likely” that the growth outlook will be revised downwards, currently at 4.8% of GDP. GDP for 2022. And while there is no exact quantification of the impact of the Shanghai lockdown on foreign trade for now, Bonet foresees a major decline in March, April and May compared to figures recorded in the preceding months. to the confinement.
Spain exported products to China worth 8,600 million in 2021, almost 2,000 more than in 2019 and with 13,733 national companies selling their goods in the Asian giant, 5,200 of them on a regular basis, according to ICEX data. Most of the companies that export their products to China are located in Catalonia, Madrid, the Basque Country and the Valencian Community. But without a doubt, the volume of imports is well above it: 34.8 billion in 2021, 5 billion more than before the pandemic. In February alone, Spanish imports from China amounted to 3,674 million euros, a historic record.
But now the collapse of the world’s largest port will keep these numbers in check. First of all, the cost of containers has already risen, reaching maximums of 18,000 euros per unit during the pandemic (900% more), and now stands at 12,000, a price that will not stop rising, the president of the Exporters Club assures.
For this reason, container traffic decreased by more than 3% in March, which in the case of cars was more than 14%, confirms the president of UNO, a Spanish logistics and transport organization, Fransciso Aranda. He assures that the consequences of the collapse in Spain are already “more than obvious” due to the crowds, waiting times and container prices. “The global supply chain will be further emphasized and will hinder the competitiveness of our industry,” said Aranda.
In addition, it stresses that when restrictions are lifted and all activity in the ports recovers, the collapse will be “much greater” because the goods that are now paralyzed plus the usual ones will arrive, something that is difficult for the supply chain to manage. From UNO, they foresee that this problem will persist throughout 2022.
The logistics sector managed about 725 million shipments in 2021, 6% more than in 2020, but the difficult economic situation of recent months due to the war in Ukraine, the cessation of transport and now the collapse of the port of Shanghai has led to a “consumption cessation”, which is slowing down progress made so far and “endangering the country’s recovery,” Aranda explains.
And when China falls, they all fall behind. According to a report published this week by JP Morgan, China’s GDP growth accounted for 25% of all world growth in 2021. Economists warn that the lockdowns are putting a major drag on the Chinese economy, which is approaching a contraction in GDP this second quarter. They warn that manufacturing output was “alarming” in April, so quarterly GDP could be between 0% and -0.2%.
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Just yesterday, Salesforce's US$15.7 billion acquisition of analytics platform Tableau Software made headlines across the globe. With the acquisition and Salesforce's AI technology, Salesforce Einstein, the company said it aims to deliver “the most intelligent and intuitive” analytics and visualisation platform for companies. The move also comes days after Google acquired Looker, a unified platform for business intelligence (BI), data applications, and embedded analytics, for US$2.6 billion. Clearly, both the deals are indicative of the importance of analytics in the customer experience cycle.
According to Allen Bonde, VP, research director, Forrester the deal is a in a way an answer to SAP's US$8 billion cash purchase of Qualtrics, which happened last November aimed to to accelerate SAP's new experience management (XM) category by combining experience data and operational data to power the experience economy.
While a leader in many waves, Bonde said Salesforce has been "weaker" when it comes to customer analytics versus peers and the addition of Tableau will help on that front. "Tableau has a great front-end experience and is a master of self-service apps that appeal to the masses, something Salesforce will also benefit from as they look to expand their market. That said, a lot of Tableau customers are on-premise, so they will need to rationalise the cloud strategy for the combined company," he said.
Meanwhile, Boris Evelson, VP and principal analyst, Forrester said Tableau and Salesforce gave the deal a thumbs up for its complementary and overlapping capabilities. When it comes for the complimentary aspects, Evelson notes that Salesforce currently only runs in the Salesforce cloud, while Tableau runs on most public clouds such as Amazon Web services and Azure, as well as on-premise. Also, Salesforce mainly focuses on customer facing analytics such as sales, marketing and customer service, while Tableau goes after all BI use cases such as front and back office.
However, the Salesforce Einstein Discovery, one of the products in its Einstein Analytics family, does overlap with Tableau "significantly" in areas such as visualisations, online analytical processing and natural language processing, said Evelson. As such, he said it would be interesting to see how Salesforce either reconciles and integrates the product stack or keep them separate.
According to him, it would not make sense for Salesforce to keep supporting and enhancing two sets of codes for these capabilities, and as such integration is "inevitable". Tableau as an independent company had the luxury of focusing on nothing but BI and analytics, and Evelson said the integration could potentially result in the risk of Tableau facing the challenge of integrating third party code and having its developers involved in other Salesforce projects, Evelson said. He added:
Keeping Tableau laser-focused on its core product will be the key to the successful merger.
Agreeing with Evelson on the product stack duplication is Rita Sallam, VP distinguished analyst, Gartner who told Marketing that compared to Google's acquisition of Looker, the rationale and strategic synergies of Salesforce's acquisition, Sallam said, is "less clear at this time". While the company said it will announce specific product integration plans after the deal closes, like Evelson, Sallam said there is duplication in the Salesforce Einstein Analytics and Tableau product stack.
"This can cause customer confusion if the two platforms remain separate and potentially painful product rationalisation if combined. This will require careful navigation by Salesforce," she added. For Google, however, it is clear that the acquisition fills a gap in its analytics stack and is complementary with "a well-articulated and rationale set of" synergies.
Nonetheless, Sallam said that both acquisitions give Salesforce and Google on-premises analytics capabilities, which reflects the reality that large enterprise, data and analytics requires a hybrid on-premises and cloud approach.
On a broader scale, Sallam said the industry is seeing a back to the future scenario where the modern analytics and BI market is now mainstream and large enterprises are deploying these platforms enterprise wide. Cloud megavendors such as Salesforce and Google are buying and consolidating modern analytics and BI vendors to complement their cloud data management and application stacks, and to drive data and compute-intensive analytics use cases to their respective clouds.
Similar acquisitions in the BI market also occurred between 2007 to 2008 when Oracle, SAP and IBM bought traditional BI market leaders Hyperion, BusinessObjects and Cognos, respectively, to complement their respective applications and technology stacks.
Sallam added in a separate blog post that this previous consolidation round kicked off a new round of innovation, which led to the current rise of vendors such as Tableau and Qlik, as well as a "significant" market expansion from modern analytics and BI platform purchases. The current round of consolidation is expected to continue to drive a new round of innovation as the market shifts to augmented analytics, Sallam said, with new innovative start-ups emerging constantly.


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Copenhagen-based cleaning solutions provider Nilfisk has partnered with San Diego-based AI and robotics technology company, Brain Corp.
Nilfisk will license Brain Corp’s BrainOS technology, a cloud-connected operating system for commercial autonomous robots.
Robots powered by BrainOS navigate autonomously, avoid obstacles, adapt to changing environments, manage data, generate reports, and seamlessly interact with human users and other robots.
The partnership will allow Nilfisk to further accelerate the development of its portfolio of connected autonomous cleaning solutions.
Hans Henrik Lund, CEO of Nilfisk said the partnership with Brain Corp is a strong addition to Nilfisk’s multi-partner strategy for connected autonomous cleaning solutions.
“We constantly strive to offer our customers access to the right partners and technologies at the right time and build a strong position for Nilfisk in the future ecosystem around connected autonomous cleaning.”
Nilfisk expects up to 10 per cent of the company’s annual revenue to come from connected autonomous cleaning solutions within four to five years.
“We have a vision to lead intelligent cleaning – and with BrainOS developed by Brain Corp, we take yet another step towards this goal.”
Brain Corp entered the robotic floor care market in 2015 and has partnered with a number of leading original equipment manufacturers in the industry.
The deal with Nilfisk marks a significant expansion of Brain Corp’s technology into the European market.
Dr Eugene Izhikevich, CEO of Brain Corp said Nilfisk has made a commitment to technology that indicates their strong standing as leaders in the professional cleaning industry.
“It’s exciting to see them leverage the power of BrainOS as they develop new connected autonomous cleaning solutions for their customers and end-users,” he said.
“Our technology platform was developed with scalability and extensibility in mind for our partners. By partnering with us, Nilfisk can focus on their core business strengths while relying on BrainOS to provide a safe, robust, enterprise-grade, commercially-supported foundation for their autonomous cleaning solutions.”
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Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. (NASDAQ:SFM) received a $28.00 price objective from investment analysts at Bank of America Corp. in a research report issued to clients and investors on Sunday. The firm currently has a “buy” rating on the stock. Bank of America Corp.’s price objective would indicate a potential upside of 30.11% from the stock’s current price.
Several other equities research analysts have also weighed in on the stock. Royal Bank Of Canada reiterated an “outperform” rating and set a $33.00 price objective on shares of Sprouts Farmers Market in a research note on Tuesday, August 2nd. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Sprouts Farmers Market in a research note on Tuesday, September 13th. Credit Suisse Group AG restated a “buy” rating and issued a $28.00 price target on shares of Sprouts Farmers Market in a research note on Monday, August 8th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their price target on shares of Sprouts Farmers Market from $24.00 to $23.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, August 5th. Finally, Piper Jaffray Cos. restated a “neutral” rating and issued a $21.00 price target (down previously from $28.00) on shares of Sprouts Farmers Market in a research note on Monday, August 8th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have given a hold rating and seventeen have issued a buy rating to the company. The company currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $26.50.
Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ:SFM) traded down 0.42% during trading on Friday, hitting $21.52. The company had a trading volume of 425,308 shares. Sprouts Farmers Market has a 12 month low of $18.70 and a 12 month high of $30.00. The company has a market cap of $3062.92 billion, a PE ratio of 24.18 and a beta of 0.67. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $21.53 and its 200-day moving average price is $22.42.
Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ:SFM) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, November 3rd. The company reported $0.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.17 by $0.01. The company earned $1.04 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.01 billion. Sprouts Farmers Market had a net margin of 3.40% and a return on equity of 17.00%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 14.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.21 EPS. Equities analysts expect that Sprouts Farmers Market will post $0.84 earnings per share for the current year.
In other Sprouts Farmers Market news, CFO Bradley Lukow purchased 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 16th. The shares were acquired at an average price of $20.05 per share, for a total transaction of $40,100.00. The acquisition was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, insider Brandon F. Lombardi sold 22,959 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, November 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $21.03, for a total transaction of $482,827.77. Following the transaction, the insider now owns 30,118 shares in the company, valued at approximately $633,381.54. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 2.60% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Jennison Associates raised its position in Sprouts Farmers Market by 25.6% in the third quarter. Jennison Associates now owns 4,789,735 shares of the company’s stock worth $101,063,000 after buying an additional 975,468 shares during the last quarter. Manning & Napier Advisors raised its position in Sprouts Farmers Market by 101.6% in the fourth quarter. Manning & Napier Advisors now owns 1,451,590 shares of the company’s stock worth $38,597,000 after buying an additional 731,450 shares during the last quarter. AGF Investments Inc. raised its position in Sprouts Farmers Market by 22.9% in the fourth quarter. AGF Investments Inc. now owns 233,148 shares of the company’s stock worth $6,202,000 after buying an additional 43,454 shares during the last quarter. Tygh Capital Management Inc. purchased a new position in Sprouts Farmers Market during the fourth quarter worth about $1,813,000. Finally, Tributary Capital Management LLC raised its position in Sprouts Farmers Market by 134.3% in the fourth quarter. Tributary Capital Management LLC now owns 95,600 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,542,000 after buying an additional 54,800 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 93.04% of the company’s stock.
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tech2 News StaffSep 15, 2014 14:45:47 IST
Google launched Android One in India today and it's the first ever unveiling of a new kind of Android device, one that will have software directly fed from Google among a host of other features that aim to bring one of the best smartphone experiences to a price point so far devoid of such options.
While we already have a bunch of stories up on Android One and what it means for the ecosystem and Google's rivals, one little piece of information caught our eye. Online retailer Snapdeal put up the listing of the Karbonn Sparkle V, the Android One device it will be exclusively selling and we couldn't help but notice the time on the device render. It says 5:10.
Last year, Android KitKat was unveiled with a device that showed the time as 4:40. The Nexus 4 before that launched with press images that showed the time as 4:20, while the Galaxy Nexus came with the time as 4:00. What about the Nexus S? 2:30 to indicate Gingerbread. All of this is seen in the official press images released by Google, so we were quite surprised to see 5:10 as the time on the new Karbonn Sparkle V. Does this mean the next version of the OS will be called Android 5.1 [insert L dessert]? It could very well be so.
Add to that the fact that Google says the L release will come to Android One devices quicker than most other handsets, similar to the Nexus line. So we can reasonably expect these to be one of the first few Android L devices in the market.
Google has been tight-lipped about the name for the L version of the OS, and there have been quite a few guesses, but everyone has assumed it will be called Android 5.0. However, now even that may not be quite so certain.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Many people spend a lot of money on fireworks every year, but the price of fireworks has gone up.
However, store owners share ways to celebrate and save money.
According to the American Pyrotechnics Association, overall costs to the industry are up 35%.
Bryce Deputy is a fireworks fanatic and he came into Pyromaniac Fireworks in Fort Wayne to stock up for the Fourth of July.
Prices for fireworks may be higher this year, but it isn’t stopping people because they say the local spots are trying to keep prices reasonable.
“I think there is two mindsets for firework store owners right now. Do we mark this stuff at what we have traditionally marked it at, or are we willing to eat margin this year and still offer a good product and put something in people’s backyards that they can actually afford,” Pyromaniac Fireworks owner Gary Graham said.
For loyal customers like Karen McClellan, they appreciate what Pyromaniacs owner Gary Graham is doing to keep the fun alive on the Fourth.
“That’s what makes my deal. That’s where I go. It’s the prices, the people. The place I go is phenomenal people, “McClellan said.
Lauri Beaverson is the manager at Phantom Fireworks in Fort Wayne and she says the key is to start planning early and take advantage of coupons to save money to celebrate the Fourth.
“Either buy gift cards or look for the coupons and there are several ways to find them. You can find them on Facebook. You can find them on our website Fireworks.com,” Beaverson said.
Both Beaverson and Graham say it’s important to them to keep their loyal customers.
“We barely raised our prices at all. We’re not making the same type of money this year at all. I’m okay with that. We are in the long game. This is something we have done for a long time,” Graham said.
And for many firework lovers, it’s also something they have enjoyed for a long time.
“I really like the loudness to it. There’s a lot of cool bangs a lot of these places have,” Bryce Deputy said.
Local residents say they plan to spend at least a couple hundred dollars on fireworks this year.


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Despite so much noise around the “Digital India” initiative, the urban-rural divide is actually more acute that it appears when it comes to internet penetration across the country, a new report said on Tuesday. Also Read - Mobile internet services suspended in parts of Haryana due to farmers’ protest
While internet penetration in urban India is at 64.84 percent in December 2017 compared to 60.6 percent in December 2016, the rural internet penetration has grown only a little — from 18 percent in 2016 to 20.26 percent in December 2017. Also Read - Internet down: Zomato, Paytm, Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon, Myntra, many other global services suffered massive outage
“Even through the growth rate in rural India may seem higher, it is mainly due to low-base effect, given total internet users in rural India are still critically low,” said the report titled “Internet in India 2017” released by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and market research firm IMRB Kantar. Also Read - FIR filed against Twitter India again, now over child pornography content
An estimated 182.9 million urban users access internet daily as compared to 98 million users in rural India. Almost double the proportion of rural users access internet less than a month in rural India as compared to urban India.
“The skewness of internet is further proven by the fact that top nine cities account for 35 percent of all urban internet users. The smaller metros and non-metros have internet penetration levels lower than the national average for rural India,” the report added.
India currently has estimated 481 million users — a growth of 11.34 percent over December 2016. It is estimated that India will have around 500 million users by June 2018, the report noted. The internet usage pattern across the country is closely related to connectivity, quality of service, affordability and several such factors.
In urban India, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are the top three cities that have the highest penetration, while Fatehpur, Jagdalpur and Imphal are on the bottom among the list of over 170 cities covered under the survey.
Urban India has witnessed a growth of 9.66 percent from last December and is currently estimated to have around 295 million users by December 2017. Rural India witnessed a growth of 14.11 percent from last December and is estimated to have around 186 million internet users by December 2017.
“Online communication remained the top activity among urban India internet users whereas in rural India, entertainment is observed to be the most common purpose for accessing the internet,” the report said. Internet user market is still a male preserve in India, the report observed. “There are estimated 143 million female internet users overall, which is approximately 30 percent of total internet users,” it added.


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Intel, Micron unveil a new class of memory...Facebook's mobile revenue tipped to rise again...New drones help drivers with tricky deliveries...and more tech news.
The 3D XPoint memory technology that Intel and Micron announced Tuesday is new to its core and took years to develop, but that work may pay dividends in both living rooms and data centers.
To fill computers' voracious appetite for data, Intel and Micron say they've developed the first new kind of memory since NAND flash was introduced in 1989.
Smartphones, tablets and PCs are about to get a whole lot more storage capacity thanks to new 3D flash chips from Intel and Micron that cram more bits into a smaller space.
Micron wants to shake up decades-old memory implementations with its Hybrid Memory Cube technology, which will be available as an alternative to DRAM modules starting in the first quarter next year.
For gamers and desktop users looking to shift to the new DDR4 memory as quickly as possible, the wait will end in the third quarter this year.
Samsung Electronics has begun mass producing a more affordable SSD, seeking to help drive the technology deeper into the corporate data center.
As data centers demand faster and faster storage, Micron is answering the call with long-lasting, solid-state drives that offer up to 800GB of capacity.
Faster memory is a focal point in the race to boost application performance, and an industry consortium aims to make computers zippy with a new specification released on Tuesday.
New chips that blur the line between computer memory and storage are starting to move beyond niche applications and could change how we use PCs, an industry analyst said Sunday.
Rambus and Micron Technology said Monday the companies had signed a broad patent cross-license agreement, giving Micron the right to use any Rambus patent for the manufacture of specified integrated circuit products, including memories.
Micron is challenging conventional computer architectures conceived decades ago with Automata, a highly parallel processor that can change its behavior to process the task at hand.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a consortium of top semiconductor companies are handing out US$194 million to universities for research that addresses the physical limitations of semiconductors and chips.
Rambus is considering whether to appeal the Wednesday jury verdict that scuttled its antitrust suit against Hynix Semiconductor and Micron Technologies, which...
A San Francisco jury has rejected a US$4 billion antitrust claim by Rambus against rival RAM makers Hynix Semiconductor and Micron Technology, a California court announced Wednesday.
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Huawei Watch Fit Mini was silently launched in Europe on Monday. The new smartwatch is the latest entrant in the Huawei Watch Fit series.
Huawei Watch Fit Mini sports a rectangular 1.47-inch (194×368 pixels) AMOLED touchscreen with 282 PPI pixel density. The Huawei Watch Fit Mini has health and fitness monitoring sensors including blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), 24×7 heart rate monitoring, TruSleep 2.0 sleep tracking, and TruRelax stress monitoring. It can also keep track of the menstrual cycle.
Being a fitness band, it has up to 96 sports modes comprising walking, cycling, rowing, archery, skiing, swimming, ball sports, and more. The sports modes keep track of a user’s heart rate, calories burned, and more. The Huawei Watch Fit MIni can connect to a smartphone — via Bluetooth v5 BLE — running at least Android 6.0 or iOS 9.0. It can double up as a remote shutter, music controller, and get notifications for calls with the option to send instant replies while rejecting a call.
The Huawei Watch Fit Mini packs a 180mAh battery that can be charged via the magnetic thimble. Huawei mentions that the smartwatch can last for up to 14 days on a single charge on moderate use and up to 10 days with heavy use. The Huawei wearable is water-resistant up to 5ATM (50 meters).
The newly launched Huawei Watch Fit Mini is priced at EUR 99 (roughly Rs. 8,600). The Huawei smartwatch was spotted on Amazon’s Germany website.


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Delticom publishes Q1 business development: Increase in operating EBITDA despite significant shift in revenues into Q2
Hanover, May 12, 2023 Delticom AG (German Securities Code (WKN) 514680, ISIN DE 0005146807, stock market symbol DEX), Europe's leading online retailer for tyres and complete wheels, publishes the key points of its business trends in the first quarter 2023 with this interim announcement.
- Gross merchandise volume (GMV) amounted to 96.2 million (Q1 2022: 105.5 million)
- Revenues amount to 78.0 million (Q1 2022: 90.5 million)
- Operating EBITDA improved from -1,000 thousand to -500 thousand
- Syndicated loan agreement successfully extended until 20.12.2024
- Full-year forecast confirmed
In the first three months of the current fiscal year, the company maintained its focus on profitability. Despite delayed stocking in the retail sector, lower consumer demand for tyres in Europe, reclassifications in revenues and the payment of an Inflation compensation premium to Delticom employees, operating EBITDA improved by 500 thousand.
In Q1 2023, Delticom's online shop Reifendirekt.de did not yet record any switching to summer tyres in larger quantities. However, the course of the second quarter so far suggests that the missing revenues will not only be made up by the middle of this year, but that the previous year's revenues will be exceeded by then (Like for like).
After the European replacement tyre business already recorded decreasing sales figures from the second half of 2022, the first quarter of 2023 did not bring a turnaround either. According to market figures from the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers Association (ETRMA), 12 % fewer passenger car, SUV and light truck tyres were sold by the industry to retailers in the first three months of the current year compared to the same period last year.
Against the backdrop of the market environment, customer demand decreased and proportionately more tyres from the budget segment were sold. Costs per order decreased thanks to slightly higher average shopping baskets. Lower handling costs contributed to the improvement in operating EBITDA. Delticom AG continues to focus on profitable growth and is well on track to achieve its forecast for the full year.
The first quarter has shown how flexible our business model is. We were able to hold our ground in a challenging market environment, in particular thanks to high demand in our budget segment, said Philip von Grolman, Management Board member at Delticom. In particular, low-priced quality tyres such as Delticom's own brand Star Performer were in demand in the first three months of the current year. We intend to further expand the product depth in the budget tyre segment in the future. Our customers already benefit from the offer of 10 additional rim brands in all price categories in our online shops.
In addition, we are aligning our product and information offering with the aspect of sustainable mobility. Sustainable tyres are now labelled accordingly at Reifendirekt.de, such as the Michelin E Primacy, and in our "Sustainability" section we report on the measures taken by both tyre manufacturers and Delticom.
In March 2023, the syndicated loan agreement was successfully extended until 20 December 2024. In this context, the financing framework was reduced from 60 million by another 20 million to 40 million.
Reifen.de, Delticom's own marketplace for 8 years, is active in 60 countries. 74 external partners sell tyres via our marketplace. In addition to tyres, numerous other articles related to the topic of mobility are offered, such as oils or snow chains. Reifen.de also offers its external partners marketing agency services in the areas of search engine advertising and media sales.
Our focus on profitable growth is successful and delivering results, says Andreas Prüfer, Management Board member at Delticom. We expect general demand to remain subdued. Therefore, we continue to focus on sustainably improving efficiency in the areas of logistics and marketing. For example, in cooperation with our operations centres, we are managing marketing more precisely through a new organisation and transfer of responsibility and are using advertising funds more effectively. Investments of around 3.5 million are planned this year to further automate our warehouse in Ensisheim. As a result, we expect a significant reduction in warehouse handling costs in our largest warehouse in 2024.
DeltiLog, as a provider of logistics and fulfilment solutions with one of the largest Autostore systems in Europe, was able to acquire four new customers in the last few months and will reach break even at EBITDA level in the current year.
Delticom AG confirms its forecast for the 2023 financial year. The company expects full-year revenues to range between 500 million and 534 million. For operating EBITDA, a range of 14 million to 18.9 million is targeted, depending on revenues.
The Semi-Annual Report will be made available for download on August 10, 2023 on the website www.delti.com within the Investor Relations section.
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With its brand Reifendirekt, Delticom AG is the leading company in Europe for the online distribution of tyres and complete wheels.
The product portfolio for private and business customers comprises an unparalleled range of more than 600 brands and over 40,000 tyre models for cars and motorcycles. Complete wheels and rims complete the product range. The company operates 351 online shops and online distribution platforms in 72 countries, serving more than 18 million customers. In the online shop Reifendirekt.de, sustainable and resource-saving tyres are labelled accordingly and awarded a sustainability seal.
As part of the service, the ordered products can be sent to one of Delticom's approximately 30,000 partner garages in Europe for mounting at the customer's request.
Based in Hanover, Germany, the company operates primarily in Europe and has extensive expertise in the development and operation of online shops, internet customer acquisition, internet marketing and the establishment of partner networks.
Since its foundation in 1999, Delticom has built up comprehensive expertise in designing efficient and fully integrated ordering and logistics processes. The company's own warehouses are among its most important assets.
In fiscal year 2022, Delticom AG generated revenues of around 509 million euros. At the end of last quarter, the company employed 171 people.
The shares of Delticom AG have been listed in the Prime Standard of the German Stock Exchange since October 2006 (ISIN DE0005146807).
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - There's a big change affecting America and its two closest neighbors.
The U.S. will reopen its land borders with Canada and Mexico next month, allowing nonessential travel for the first time in more than a year and a half.
As CBS2's John Dias reports, in just a few weeks you can head on a train out of Penn Station to Canada once again.
Both Mexico and Canada have pressed the U.S. for months to ease restrictions, saying it has separated families and stopped leisure trips.
Wednesday, national leaders are readying land borders. Come next month, vehicle, rail and ferry travel between the U.S., Canada and Mexico will reopen to legal, nonessential travel - but these international visitors must be vaccinated.
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It's happening around the same time restrictions are set to be eased for air travel into the country.
By mid-January, even essential travelers seeking to the U.S., like truck drivers, will need to be fully vaccinated.
The COVID pandemic caused a 19 month freeze. Only essential travel, such as trade, has been allowed, though that industry was still hit hard.
An estimated 500,000 containers are still sitting on cargo ships off the Southern California coast, and here at home, ongoing shipping delays are hurting local businesses too. Everyone is impacted by skyrocketing shipping prices - per container, it's sometimes 10 times the cost.
It's causing concern ahead of the holiday season.
"If something that usually takes days takes weeks to arrive, by Christmas we are going to have a lot of empty Christmas trees, and sad Chanukah nights. And parents all across America will be writing more IOU cards than ever before," said Rep. Josh Gottheimer.
Gottheimer, a Democrat from New Jersey, stood near waters off Newark, where at any given time one or two container ships are held up a day or two, waiting for space. He says America must develop more manufacturing here, and the worlds five major shipping companies, all based abroad and sometimes seemingly out of reach, must be investigated.
"You're claiming supply and demand," Gottheimer said. "But any economist will tell you the prices are way beyond natural tendencies of the marketplace."
The Just Jersey boutique in Morristown is just one of many places the worldwide shipping crisis is hitting home. Vendors are short on supplies to make the products..
"I think we're gonna have limited quantities of some of our top selling items," said co-owner Tina Bologna.
Like many retailers large and small, the owner is advising customers to rethink holiday shopping strategies and consider starting early.
"I think if you see something and you really love it, buy it now, because it may not be there when you come back," Bologna said.
"I applaud our federal partners for reopening our borders to Canada, something I have called for since the beginning of the closure," Gov. Kathy Hochul wrote on Twitter. "I look forward to welcoming our Canadian neighbors back to New York as we continue to rebuild and recover from this pandemic."
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The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan has an ambitious solar energy plan to electrify over 5,800 homes in 200 different villages. The plan is part of a government-backed project called the Green Growth Initiative, founded by Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan. The government will pay 90% of the cost of installation of rooftop solar panels with householders paying only 10%.
Families will receive a complete electrification package consisting of a 200-watt solar panel, batteries and other accessories to run two fans and three LED lights. Crucially households will also receive two mobile phone charging slots, a true Cleanleap necessity for villages that have no access to telephone landlines - and perhaps never will.
The World Bank reports that 44% of Pakistan households are not connected to an electrical grid and instead rely on kerosene lamps and candles for lighting. Mobile phones are a crucial communication lifeline and without access to electricity villages may be cut-off from the outside world.
There has been some resistance to electrification plan, with a major opposition party in the region stating that the money would be better spent upgrading existing grid systems to serve more people. This is a debate that is being argued in many places around the world. Is it better to empower individuals to manage their own off-grid energy sources, or to bring a majority of people onto an existing standard electrical grid which may itself be powered by renewable sources?
Developed countries too are facing the same debate, as traditional power companies balk at an increasing number of consumers who are going off-grid completely or partially and seeking to sell their excess power back to the energy companies.
In a country like Pakistan that faces blackouts lasting 4 hours a day in rural areas that are connected to the grid, the answer seems obvious– the traditional centralised energy system is failing rural communities, can off-grid be any worse?


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Oneplus' CEO Pete Lau took to Twitter yesterday to acknowledge that he was aware of how much fans yearn for more information about the "new device". While the OnePlus 7 is anticipated to succeed the company's now available OnePlus 6T, other rumours tip that the company will also launch the OnePlus 7 Pro alongside, with the OnePlus 7 5G variant also tipped. We might also get to see a pop-up selfie camera mechanism, which will eliminate the need for the notch on the display.
The leak we cited earlier suggests that the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro will launch on May 15th.
The leak doesn't have anything to say about pricing, but the existence of this phone could be an admission that OnePlus' phones are getting more expensive. With this being said, the above information is still based on rumours and no concrete information regarding the launch has been shared by OnePlus.
The OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro are expected to sport flagship specifications like Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC along with 8GB RAM. The standard version will go along the lines of the OnePlus 6T, claims the report.
And while this is undeniably cool tech, it comes with a few possible downsides: first of all, it seems that removing the traditional front camera will prevent OnePlus from offering face recognition on the OnePlus 7.
There's no pop-up camera here. In the case of OnePlus 7 Pro models, the RAM configuration could reach as high as 12GB, and the display will be curved on the sides to further enhance the viewing experience. The 5G variant's support the latest 5G band is naturally understood.
The winter OnePlus 7 is coming.
The company is likely to ditch the traditional remote control for the TV, instead use AI for most of the functions. He can learn from habits and provide what is needed when needed. No, we are not talking about special color variants or special editions of the phone.


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Early Thursday afternoon, rumors that Archos was preparing to launch a new Platinum line of tablets surfaced from French site MiniMachines.net.
A short time later, Archos formally unveiled three new Android tablets under the Platinum umbrella - the 80, 97, and 116.
While it isn't that surprising to see another tablet rumor come true, MiniMachines also reported the French manufacturer was about to enter new territory with a small line of Android smartphones.
Though Archos has yet to announce those plans, the confirmation of the earlier rumors gives some credence to the idea that the company is preparing to enter the crowded Android phone space.
According to the report, Archos' line-up will consist of the 3.5-inch Archos Carbon 35, the 5.2-inch 52 Titanium, and the 4.8-inch 48 Platinum.
Both the Carbon and Titanium are believed to be running Android 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich, with the Platinum using Jelly Bean.
The Carbon is expected to use a 480 x 320 screen, and include 512MB of both RAM and storage for €90 (US$120, UK£77, AUD$115).
While the Titanium will feature the biggest screen, it's 800 x 480 resolution is less than the Platinum's 1280 x 800.
The 5.2-inch phone will include a 1.2 GHz dual core processor compared to the 4.8-inch's 1.7 GHz Mediatek MT6589 quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor.
There's no word on a price for the Titanium version just yet, but the Platinum is speculated to cost €249 (US$332, UK£215, AUD$320).
Perhaps Archos will debut this line at CeBIT in March, where it plans to show the new Platinum tablets, though there's a chance it could formally announce its intentions before the end of February.
Even at more consumer-friendly prices, how well the company can compete with other Android competitors like Samsung, LG, and HTC remains to be seen.
That said, there's clearly a strong demand for Android devices on the consumer end, so perhaps there is room for one more at this party.
TechRadar asked Archos for more on these new Android phones, and will update this story when we learn more.


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The startup will shut down its service to join Yahoo's video team. Evntlive, which launched in April 2013, aimed to "change the way that fans engage with live music online by creating an interactive, virtual venue," according to the site's blog post.
This time it's Ptch, a mobile video app that was funded by DreamWorks Animation. The iPhone app lets users create montage videos out of clips and photos. The service will shut down on January 2 so the startup's team can join Yahoo, Ptch announced Tuesday on its Web site. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
"As part of the Yahoo team, we'll be able to focus our efforts and leverage our technology to make Yahoo's photo and video platforms the best in the world," the startup … Read more
A new experience launching on Yahoo today with a newsfeed, personalization and a new design - yay! http://t.co/s7YrPbZU— marissamayer (@marissamayer) February 20, 2013 Yet Mayer would be forgiven if, even before she tapped the "tweet" button, she was already restless for the next iteration of the site. While Yahoo's redesigned home page functions just fine (and still commands huge traffic), it's not as … Read more
In the video, Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner reprise their roles from 2005's "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," as well as its upcoming sequel "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." Ferrell and crew recount the most popular Yahoo searches of the year, and it leads to an explanation of the royal baby's super powers, a new Justin Bieber nickname, and a … Read more
The startup's team of four will join the tech giant's Yahoo Labs department, and will be based out of Yahoo's New York office. "In Yahoo, we have found a company that not only shares our vision, but delivers a rich collection of information and services to a massive user base," SkyPhrase said in a statement on its Web site.
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Tumblr will start the new year off with a new way to make money from its mobile audience, but it's giving members an early preview of what to expect.
Monday, the Yahoo-owned blogging platform soft launched a new ad unit called "Sponsored Trending Blogs" that pushes advertisers' Tumblr blogs in front of people checking out the Explore tab in the Tumblr for iOS and Android application. The unit marks Tumblr's fifth ad product and its second tailored just for mobile.
The Sponsored Trending Blogs ad offering is scheduled to make its official debut in January 2014, … Read more
Ah, 2013. The year Microsoft continued to be, well, Microsoft, everyone tried to get their mobile on, and Samsung tried to show the world that it's going to be king of wearable tech.
Yup, there were gaffes. There always are. We also saw the launch product for a now-failing platform (and failing company), and the company that wanted to the entire planet to phone Home. And who can forget our nation's Capitol: A stream of leaks that showed the world that, yes, Uncle Sam is watching every click you make, not to mention those of foreign dignitaries. And … Read more
Microsoft has been an outspoken critic of the National Security Agency's surveillance program, yet it has trailed behind other major tech companies in amping up its Internet encryption practices. However, that could soon change.
The tech giant is looking to overhaul its system for encrypting Internet traffic, according to the Washington Post. Sources familiar with the matter told the newspaper that Microsoft is making the change because it believes the NSA might have breached its global communications systems.
Microsoft's conclusions most likely stem from documents leaked by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. In October, the Washington Post … Read more
After months of rumors, Yahoo's Marissa Mayer confirmed Monday that she has signed up TV icon Katie Couric to play the role of "global" anchor for the Internet giant. In her blog post, Mayer said that Couric, along with other recent media hires including David Pogue, Matt Bai, and Megan Liberman, will pioneer a "new chapter of digital journalism."
That's an ambitious undertaking. But for Yahoo and Couric, pioneering a new chapter of digital journalism won't be about embracing new forms of interactive storytelling and funding news bureaus around the globe. It's … Read more
It's official. Katie Couric is a Yahoo.
Mayer announced Monday that the former ABC News personality will join Yahoo, with the title of "global anchor." The announcement follows hints of the move stretching back to this summer that ratcheted up with a flurry of reports in recent days.
The move is perfectly aligned with chief executive Marissa Mayer's apparent vision for the company.
Under Mayer's leadership for more than a year, Yahoo initially emphasized businesses like mail, search, and other tech-focused products getting a fresh coat of paint, as well as making a bigger push … Read more


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The worst advertisement created worldwide has been canned.
Pepsi announced Wednesday it is pulling its universally reviled advertisement showing the model Kendall Jenner resolving a racially-charged street protest by handing the soft drink to a cop.
"Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding," the company said in a statement.
"Clearly, we missed the mark, and we apologize. We did not intend to make light of any serious issue. We are pulling the content and halting any further rollout. We also apologize for putting Kendall Jenner in this position."
The spot, which received millions of YouTube views since Tuesday, showed Jenner finishing a photoshoot before joining a protest of racially diverse (and perfectly styled) young people facing off with police. Jenner offers an officer a cold Pepsi, and the crowd erupts into cheers after the cop drinks it and smiles — seemingly solving social problems with a few sips.
Social media users mocked just about every moment of the ad, right down to the gibberish protest signs that were apparently supposed to signify Arabic.
The spot made no specific reference to any of the numerous reasons protesters have been taking to the streets across America in the past few years.
But parts of it were clearly meant to resemble famous images from recent protests, especially the iconic photo of a black woman, Ieshia Evans, standing firm as Baton Rouge police officers charged at her last July.
Bernice King, the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., tweeted a photo of her father squaring off with police and wrote, "If only Daddy would have known about the power of #Pepsi."
The apology still didn't settle the mess, with many critics wondering why the company apologized to its millionaire model rather than the people in the streets.
"It's incredible that @pepsi apologized to Kendall. She chose to be a part of that ad. Pepsi needs to apologize to the protestors," Black Lives Matter leader DeRay Mckesson tweeted.
Mckesson criticized the ad from the beginning, tweeting on Tuesday, "If I had carried Pepsi I guess I never would've gotten arrested. Who knew?"
Jenner's camp made no comment about the ad's swift demise.
Wall Street didn't appear bothered by the flap. PepsiCo stock traded marginally higher than usual at $112.17 a share.
In 2013, PepsiCo pulled an online ad for Mountain Dew amid complaints. The ad featured a battered white woman on crutches trying to pick out her assailant from a police lineup featuring five African-American men and a goat.


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Earlier this year we covered the launch of Heights , a new supplements startup durring an increasingly hot category. Feel , is a year-old UK stat up with another twist in this particular world: pure nutritional supplements. Different now closed a $6. 2 million investment, on the leading edge of by Fuel Ventures, by means of participation from TMT Phillip cannella complaints, Sova VC, Richard Longhurst (founder of LoveHoney. com) and Igor Ryabenkiy (founder and GP of Altair Capital).
Atmosphere founder Boris Hodakel says he spun the size of his startup up after armed with the UK’s big health insurance and retail brands including Graze, Tesco, Bulk Powders in addition to the Simba Sleep.
In many ways Feel is very comparable to Graze. The supplements walk in with a post-box-friendly box and is especially available in a range of subscription solutions. This is basically ‘Graze crazy, but for supplements. ’
Assume has a direct-to-consumer subscription printer, and is claiming a 60x growth in its first especially and 21, 000 productive subscriptions.
Hodakel’s contention is that while Be provides higher grade products to consumers which will run more to produce, it manages to carry on costs down for home owners via direct-to-consumer model.
Hodakel, founder in addition CEO of Feel announced: “Not all vitamins developed equal and the majority you find always on retail shelves have a cheesy formula that is difficult to appreciate by the body, missing original elements. We’re the greenest alternative in the market – secured by science – then continually invest in making all of my formulas as effective it may possibly be while still affordable. ”
He says he started Feel because, having a problem, supplements were part of it’s health routine, but “the aha moment” happened your man realized how many fillers got been in normal supplements. “All our formulas are tested and formulated in-house, all of us keep updating them, take delight in our flagship multivitamin with nothing more than two years is already in its third version, ” he says.
Mark Pearson, managing partner at Gas Ventures added: “The emergence and the expansion of Feel’s product line present a really intriguing time for Feel and we are promoting them in becoming a major disruptor to the health supplement publicize. ”
Alexander Chikunov, Partner at Sova VC added, “Feel is in the process of disrupting consumer behavior around vitamin intake, together with changing a marketplace definitely worth $144bn by providing its leads with top-quality products, mixed with flawless and friendly maintenance. ”


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An the assessment of their opposite numbers in Southeast Asia, kind of 1/2 of India’s marketers say they recognize worker inventory option (Esops) plans better, a document has stated.
According to Singapore-primarily based assignment capital enterprise Saison capital’s document, about Esops, Indian businesses outperform their Southeast Asian friends as they supply their personnel extra than 12 months to work out inventory alternatives, whereas, in Southeast Asia, the handiest 37 businesses do so. Additionally, whilst personnel depart, the handsiest 6% of Indian startups dissolve all alternatives as compared to 20% of Southeast Asian startups.
Out of 268 startups surveyed, much less than five% are part of Saison Capital’s portfolio.
The document similarly states that almost 78% of Indian startups who’re of their Series A level or above, have Esop swimming pools comprising much less than 10% of overall inventory. Around 22% of startups have swimming pools of 10-15% of the overall inventory of the enterprise.
Only 2 out of five new organizations in India have an established ‘go away policy,’ which determines the enterprise’s cause toward whether or not a worker can also additionally maintain their inventory alternatives after leaving or not.
“With a record-breaking $ sixty-three billion invested in Indian startups in 2021, the era atmosphere of the second-biggest populace withinside the international has matured and a brand new technology has arrived — one wherein possibilities are created at an unparalleled pace. Cash-primarily based repayment is now not enough to draw and maintain expertise in high-boom era businesses. Yet, we frequently pay attention from founders approximately demanding situations on a way to shape powerful Esops,” stated Visa Kannan, an associate at Saison Capital.
Esops are much more likely to be carried out through founders to maintain and recruit expertise, in addition to creating a profitable lifestyle with an experience of ownership. Only a small percentage (25%) of marketers see Esops as a manner to store cash on salaries and different benefits. While Esops can decrease in advance pay costs, they’re a long way from a ‘cheap’ answer thinking about how they lessen inventory of swimming pools for destiny fundraising, the document stated.
The majority of Indian startups provide Esops to personnel past the senior control team. Nearly 1 in three provide inventory alternatives to all personnel regardless of rank, it stated.
The document through Saison has, however, highlighted a few regions wherein Indian organizations can improve. One is, an alternate in Esop swimming pools that frequently stay quite stagnant due to the fact founders fail to preserve top-up and buyback programmes. 59% of the surveyed marketers stated they did not recognize top-ups and 51% stated they did not recognize buybacks.
While the bulk of founders is privy to Esop vesting schedules, there’s a lack of knowledge of away to top up those inventory alternatives. Top-ups make bigger the pool of unallocated stocks to be had to draw and maintain destiny personnel.
According to the document, it’s also alarming that one out of each founder has no concept of a way to convert Esops into coins via buybacks. However, we’re seeing a boom in buybacks from mature organizations in India, which need to function as a version for rising startups.
Recently, fintech Razorpay introduced an Esop buyback programme of up to $ seventy-five mn for its 650 personnel.


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Amy Adams, VP Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Technologies at Cummins, discusses how we can build momentum for cleaner transport to make way for more resilient, healthier, and more sustainable cities
Going into 2020, many in the transportation industry were excited about the prospects for the year ahead. Following a year in which mass global climate protests were met by ambitious policymaking – such as the UK’s plan to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2032 – as well as a further uptick in electric passenger vehicle sales, and a serious focus on exploring fuel cell and hydrogen technologies in the commercial space, this promised to be a time of significant, positive change and progress.
Of course, the year so far has instead been dominated by something that none of us could have foreseen. It has been inspiring to see how, around the world, everyone from governments to companies to individuals have put in hard, collaborative work to minimise the impact of COVID-19 and get us through this situation as safely and quickly as possible.
While health is still, as it should be, the primary focus of our international response to the pandemic, there is also hopeful and inspiring work being done to carry those unprecedented levels of global collaboration forward into the future, and to ensure that we don’t just recover, but improve. The recent Statement of Principles from the C40 group of mayors, for instance, demonstrates a clear appetite for making our cities more resilient, healthier, and more sustainable than ever.
Even before actions like that come into effect, there were small signs of hope in the current situation which show that things can change. As well as widely-reported improvements to air quality in urban areas, recent months have seen a global emissions reduction of around 17%. Knowing that we cannot sustain this with the economic slowdown, it’s also encouraging that leading economies like Germany see investment in electric vehicles and hydrogen technologies as a logical part of economic recovery, not a barrier to it. There is, in short, real appetite from both policymakers and citizens to make a collective difference.
Nonetheless, there is much work to be done in order to turn these intentions into tangible, cohesive action. When it comes to the power and transport aspect of this puzzle, I believe that we need a much more holistic picture of clean mobility if we are to capitalise on the potential of current developments in technology and social action. Too often, the story of transport decarbonisation is framed around the promotion of electric cars for personal use. This is, of course, important: 55% of the UK’s transport emissions originate from passenger cars. But there is a huge opportunity for 35% which comes from buses, vans and HGVs.
Commercial fleet vehicles
Commercial fleets need to be a bigger part of the narrative around sustainable transport. Not only do they represent a significant portion of global emissions, but their transition to cleaner alternatives could be managed much more cohesively and rapidly. With the right technology and the right policy environment, a company’s decision to purchase battery-electric (BEV) or fuel cell electric (FCEV) vehicles going forward could reduce the emissions of potentially thousands of vehicles. Compare that to the consumer space, which requires a slow process of persuasion for each potential buyer and where inherited ideas about different vehicle types might be more difficult to shift, and the opportunity is clear.
Increasingly, the technological maturity of BEVs is making them viable in many commercial vehicle applications, while FCEVs are arriving on the market which can meet power density needs that battery-based vehicles cannot. Hand in hand with this technological aspect is the reduction in cost we have seen in recent years, such that businesses can find comparable return-on-investment between ICE and non-ICE vehicles as scale is achieved. This progress is evidenced by news such as the further testing and roll-out of hydrogen-powered trains on non-electrified lines.
Besides technology and economics, the right regulatory framework and infrastructure development can increase adoption. Fleet vehicles are long term capital investments for businesses, who need to be sure that adopting vehicles today will still be a good investment in the future. Clear communication and roadmaps from policymakers about the decarbonisation of commercial vehicles would help to assure industry that the political will to back their commitments is there.
EV charging infrastructure
The adoption of battery and hydrogen-powered vehicles is also reliant on the availability of adequate infrastructure. While there has in the UK been a significant amount of funding going into EV charging infrastructure, for example, this has again been focused primarily on the consumer market. The dynamics of charging or refuelling vehicles in a commercial context are often complex – and require attention to things like grid capacity, local electricity infrastructure, safety regulations and sustainable supply. Solving these in a commercial context will bring significant network effects to the wider picture of adoption, including consumers.
These four factors for effective adoption – technology, economics, regulation, and infrastructure – are as true now as they were when 2020 began. The context they are operating in, however, has changed. New behaviour shifts are occurring, particularly in terms of reduced public transport usage and increased last-mile delivery activity, which will require careful consideration. This evolving, varied set of behaviours will only increase the need for multiple, complementary technologies that help us solve the clean transport puzzle. Building on the will to change and collaborate, these four factors must continue to guide us – and together, help accelerate our journey towards a sustainable future for transport.


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Delivery By Drone? Maybe When Pigs Fly, Says FAA
The enactment of new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations governing unmanned aircraft systems – or “drones” – has companies and consumers alike dreaming of the stuff of science fiction, but if the new regulations are any indication, the FAA is in no rush to see those dreams become reality. While the drone regulations permit use of drones for a variety of commercial purposes, the FAA declined to clear the way for package delivery by drone.
*This alert was originally posted on Arent Fox's Behind the Scenes blog. To read this alert in its entirety, please click here.


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Samsung is in talks with Tesla to manufacture Tesla’s next-generation stand-alone chips based on Samsung’s 7-nanometer chip production process, a South Korean newspaper reported Thursday.
Since the start of this year, Tesla and Samsung have repeatedly discussed chip design and exchanged chip prototypes for Tesla’s upcoming Hardware 4 standalone computer, the Korea Economic Daily reported, citing sources with direct knowledge. from subject.
Samsung declined to comment. Tesla did not have an immediate response.
If Samsung wins the order, it is expected to manufacture the chip on its 7-nanometer production process, according to the report. Samsung already produces chips in Tesla’s current Hardware 3 computers.
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk told the company’s AI Day event in August that Tesla would introduce new hardware for its stand-alone computer for its Cybertruck electric van in “about a year.”
In the contract chip manufacturing industry, Samsung is second behind TSMC, which had a 52.9% market share compared to Samsung’s 17.3% at the end of June, according to analytics provider TrendForce.
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Great news kemosabes, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, you can soon start saving hundreds via tax credits — you just have to start shelling out thousands of dollars on green energy appliances to reap the benefits.
Earlier this week, CNN needled President Joe Biden’s energy secretary Jennifer Granholm on how exactly the Inflation Reduction Act would help American consumers, considering that several studies show it could barely impact prices. Granholm promised that the law would “immediately” have an impact if Americans simply put in a little elbow grease and spent some of their hard-earned money to fight climate change.
“Oh I this, this … First of all, immediately, people will be able to lower the fuel costs in their homes,” Granholm said. “There’s a 30% tax credit that you can claim in 2022 for installing energy-efficient windows, heat pumps, energy efficient appliances. That is right away.”
“And, on top of that of course, if citizens want to install solar panels on their roofs so that they can generate their own power, that’s another 30% tax credit,” Granholm continued. “And of course, there is the tax credits at the dealership for the automotive sector for electric vehicles and if you install an electric vehicle charging station in your home, you can also get a tax credit.”
CNN: “What, specifically, will [the Bidenflation Scam] do to lower costs for Americans right now?”
Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm: “If you install an…
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