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The success of the Modi government’s ‘Make in India’ campaign would hinge a lot on China, which is looking for investment opportunities abroad after decades of export-led growth, but New Delhi seems to stymie even modest proposals from Chinese firms to shift production here.
Shenzhen-based Huawei Technologies’ plan to set up a new telecom equipment manufacturing unit in the Sriperumbudur special economic zone (SEZ) is frustrated by a lack of commitment from the commerce ministry to review a prohibitive 266 per cent anti-dumping duty on the telecom gear (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy Transmission equipment) imported by the firm. While Huawei said it would increase the value addition in India with the new assembling units to be set up, the ministry, sources said, hasn’t given an assurance to the company that the duty would be revoked as a result.
The company, which anyway has been waiting for 19 months to get the security clearance for the new unit from the home ministry, is learnt to have asked the commerce ministry to specify the level of value addition and investment for it to avoid the dumping duty.
However, the ministry, to which the quasi-judicial Directorate General of of Anti-dumping & Allied Duties is attached, is dithering.
Meanwhile, several other firms which are subject to the anti-dumping duties on SDH and their industrial users have approached courts.
Additionally, Huawei’s plea for sales from its SEZ unit to the domestic tariff area (DTA) consumers hasn’t been allowed by the ministry. The Chinese company’s investment commitment in the country as of now is around $570 million.
A Huawei spokesperson said: “Currently, we have not received any official communication from government agencies with respect to our approvals. In fact, we are eagerly awaiting an official government response in this matter.”
The anti-dumping duty, meant to offset the “injury” caused to domestic manufacturers due to SDH imports from Chinese and Israeli exporters at prices below the levels in their domestic markets, has been effective since December 8, 2009, in the range of 3-266 per cent. These levies will be in force till December 7, 2015.
Official sources said the delay in all these approvals is because the commerce ministry wants to ensure that the company is not evading/avoiding/circumventing the anti-dumping duty by importing components in a completely knocked down/semi-knocked down condition and then assembling it without much value addition, investment, manufacturing or employment generation in India.
Trade analysts have long emphasised the immense potential of India-China economic ties, but the reality is far from impressive. Total FDI flows from China to India during April 2000-May 2015 were just $1.1 billion (or a minuscule 0.43 per cent of the total $256 billion worth total FDI inflows into India during the 15-year period). India’s trade deficit with China has ballooned from just $1.1 billion in 2003-04 to a whopping $49 billion in 2014-15, or four times India’s exports to China in the fiscal.
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# Total FDI flows from China to India during April 2000-May 2015 were just $1.1 billion (or a minuscule 0.43 per cent of the total $256 billion worth FDI inflows into India during the 15-year period)
# India’s trade deficit with China has ballooned from just $1.1 billion in 2003-04 to a whopping $49 billion in 2014-15, or four times India’s exports to China in the fiscal
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Obesity is something we are all familiar with. Having more than trebled in the last three decades, and affecting almost a quarter of the UK population, it is a serious cause for concern. The reasons behind this are complex and poorly understood, ranging from modern day lifestyles to health conditions. This coincides with a recent shift in mentality towards the importance of a healthy lifestyles, which has resulted in the crisis being a hot topic of conversation.
In an effort to tackle the problem, the government has implemented a ‘sugar tax’. That is, a tax on drinks dependent on their sugar content. The manufacturer has the choice to pay themselves or to make the consumer pay by increasing the cost of their product, however it is almost unanimously agreed the burden is likely to be placed on the customer. The tax has sparked controversy, with some celebrating it as a step in the right direction and others criticising its efficacy and fairness. While I wholeheartedly praise and agree with any promotion of eating well, exercising and general wellbeing, I fall into the second category.
It seems confusing to me that the government, in a bid to help the population, would implement a tax.
It is not disputed that the consumers of many of these, and similar, products are of a lower income background. I find it hard to believe that this small increase in price will do much to change the behaviour of someone who has a habit of regular consumption. While it may do more to prevent the habit forming, this means that consumers are paying more money to benefit other people and not themselves. A similar phenomenon was seen in tobacco use, which in theory should be largely reserved for the wealthy. The result was simply that the poor got poorer, and it seems as though this could end the same way.
Furthermore, it seems confusing to me that the government, in a bid to help the population, would implement a tax. Perhaps I am cynical, but it seems as though the largest beneficiary of this scheme is in fact the government, which no doubt will receive large amounts of money as a result. If you take away the supposedly goodhearted motivations behind it, the crux of the situation is simply that money will be taken from the poor and given to the government. If the tax was in conjunction with other schemes, for example money spent on education, subsidies for healthier foods, regulations on advertising and the promotion of better habits, I could then see the goodwill behind it.
There is also, of course, the question of living in what has been termed as a ‘nanny state’. It is debatable whether the government has the right to determine what people eat or drink, and to effectively punish them for purchasing what has been deemed to be wrong. This feels to me like an encroachment on my freedom. The problem of obesity is not fizzy drinks. The moderate intake of sugary drinks, snacks and ‘unhealthy’ foods does not cause obesity. The problem lies with over-consumption of food, not the intake of any sugar at all. It is up to the person to decide what to eat or drink, and ideally to do so in a healthy way. There is also a strong disregard for any medical issues, which could seriously damage the mental health of many people.
While I praise the effort to combat this growing crisis, the government’s motivations and the legitimacy of their actions are, in my opinion, questionable at best.

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By booking sales through its international headquarters in Ireland, Apple was able to only pay £12.9 million in UK corporate tax during 2015. This is a nine percent increase from the previous year, in which it paid £11.8 million.
The European Commission has been investigating Apple’s tax arrangements in Ireland for two years now and the results of the probe are set to be released as early as next month. If the company’s tax arrangements are found to be unlawful, it could end up repaying billions to the Irish state.
A group of hackers from a security company in Portugal managed to hack into Uber and get their hands on a bunch of data that should remain hidden.
The team of three experts, Vitor Oliveira, Fábio Pires and Filipe Reis from Integrity, found a total of six flaws: they managed to use promotion codes, found private emails using UUID, found users’ phone numbers, created driver accounts, validated them, found where you went, who your driver was, and who you are and, ultimately, date of the trip, driver name and picture, the ID and the cost of the trip. The route map was also disclosed.
Even in today’s highly digital, technology-driven business environment, many organizations demand wet ink signatures for important business critical documentation. This is when, say a contract in an electronic format for a new deal could be signed and sent via email within minutes -- compared to wet inking it, scanning (sometimes running into 100s of pages), and posting to the other party, who then would follow the same process to send a signed copy back.
It’s a hugely inefficient, time consuming and inconvenient process. But it’s a corporate policy that many businesses insist on.
After it was reported that China has the world’s fastest supercomputer, IBM unveiled a few details about its upcoming behemoth, which is already branded as the computer that will dethrone the Chinese Sunway TaihuLight.
IBM's supercomputer is called Summit. It is expected to reach US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in early 2018, and should have a quarter more computational power than originally intended.
Intel is looking for a buyer for its Intel Security. Intel Security, previously called McAfee, was bought from the security firm McAfee back in 2011 for $7.7 billion (£5.75bn).
Intel rebranded the company as Intel Security, and aimed to implement its security features at chip level, giving cyber-security a whole new dimension. It seems, though, six years later, the plan had failed.
There’s a new type of server memory which might speed up backup restore and recovery, as well as help with salvaging any data left unsaved during a power outage.
Memory and storage upgrade company Crucial has announced its Nonvolatile DIMM (NVDIMM) server memory. The company says this type of memory is a better choice for servers because it offers better read and write speeds than HDD or SSD disks, allowing for speedy backups and recoveries.
Technology is moving at warp speed, and any business who chooses to side-step the most-current innovations in that field is, quite literally, choosing to be left behind. Thousands of companies have successfully built their own apps through the use of an enterprise mobility platform.
Here, we will discuss what features to look for when choosing the best enterprise mobility platform for your business' particular needs.
The open source software company Red Hat has just announced that it will acquire 3scale for its software which manages application programming interfaces (APIs).
The deal is not crucial to Red Hat though it does plan to "open source the code in the Red Hat way", according to a blog post from the vice president and general manager of middleware at the company, Mike Piech. The company also said that its GAAP operating expenses will increase by $7 million during the 2017 fiscal year.
A virtualized hybrid cloud infrastructure comes with the assurance of better business outcomes but the rapid transformation that accompanies cloud also leaves the infrastructure vulnerable to cyber attacks. This makes risk management critical for every enterprise. Since no two enterprises work exactly the same way, a standard risk tolerance profile cannot sustain the potential risks posed by technical hurdles.
Despite a cloud service provider’s best possible efforts, security issues are inevitable. With hybrid-cloud deployments you will also need to ensure that sensitive business data remains secure between private and public cloud. This is why hybrid cloud environment strategies need to take into account the possibility of regular movement of data between private and public clouds. Here are security issues to take into account when handling hybrid cloud security:
Whether you have a story to tell or product to sell, there are multiple benefits to Explainer Videos. Producing short films for online audiences allow you to showcase your wares and expertise, offering an affordable, snappy and entertaining route toward grabbing attention, boosting conversion rates and increasing sales.
With recent research predicting that 79 percent of global consumer Internet traffic will be video by 2018, it’s little wonder that marketers the world over are focusing on the medium of moving pictures and investing in explainer videos, confident of the potential for generating healthy returns.
A new zero-day malware has been discovered in Australia that affects all of Microsoft’s Office 365 products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
The malware was discovered by the cyber security company Check Point and comes in the form of an invoice sent by email. The attack is designed to catch unsuspecting victims according to security analyst Raymond Schippers who said: "The email sent to Office 365 users via Outlook gives the appearance of an invoice in the form of an Office document. When they go to open it, a message will appear telling people the document was created with a previous version of the software, so they will need to click something to enable the content".
More than half of IT decision makers opt to go for third-party maintenance (TPM) and pre-owned equipment, to cut costs and take advantage of improved support independent maintenance providers offer. It was also said they’ve had a "positive experience" with prior-generation hardware.
The news was published by Curvature, an IT infrastructure solutions provider, which polled 500 IT decision makers. Out of the 500 respondents, 60 percent use TPM, and 53 percent decide to purchase pre-owned equipment.
Think mobile experience isn’t important to the success of your business? Think again. A massive 85 percent of people are unlikely to do business with a company following a bad mobile experience, according to the results of a new study from LogMeIn and research firm Vanson Bourne.
The study also revealed that businesses are currently falling short in delivering satisfying mobile experiences for their customers, with the number of respondents happy with their last mobile engagement with a business dropping from 59 percent in 2015 to 52 percent in 2016.
Intel, SAP, Lyft, Spotify and VMware are just some of the 30 Silicon Valley based companies that have signed a "Tech Inclusion Pledge" as a promise that they will promote diversity in their workplaces going forward.
Two years ago, the civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson pointed out the lack of diversity in the tech companies operating out of Silicon Valley. He went so far as to press a number of companies to release their data regarding the number of African Americans, Hispanics and women employed at their organizations.
Have you ever wondered if someone on LinkedIn is not really who they say they are? I’m not being paranoid here, this is a legitimate question.
If your answer is "No", you’re not alone. A vast majority of people never wonder if there are fake accounts requesting to connect on the professional social network, and almost a quarter accept requests from people they don’t really know.


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You can get a burger from a fast-food drive-through on pretty much any corner in any city.
But a hot dog?
When Burger King announced it would start selling grilled Oscar Mayer wieners for $1.99 earlier this month, it started a feud over who is king of the fast-food wiener.
Burger King claims it is now the largest chain to sell hot dogs across the country. But Checkers & Rally's Restaurants shot back with a full-page advertisement in USA Today this week, announcing the Tampa-based fast-food chains will sell hot dogs for just 79 cents, and to remind the world that Checkers & Rally's has been selling hot dogs for more than 30 years.
They even invented a clever hashtag: #wienersmackdown.
"That's right, just 79 cents, compared to a buck ninety-nine at Burger King. Overcompensating, anyone?" the ad reads. "So swing by any Checkers or Rally's and get a wiener that will treat you like a king."
"When Burger King made their announcement, we laughed," said Terri Snyder, chief marketing officer of Checkers & Rally's, in a statement. "We're engaged in a fun, aggressive and provocative Wiener War with Burger King. And it's a war we plan to win. You can get one of our great dogs for less than half the price of theirs."
It doesn't look like Miami-based Burger King is fighting back, outside of the constant promotion of the new grilled and chili cheese dogs. The company hasn't engaged in the #wienersmackdown social media chatter.
Burger King tested hot dog and chili cheese dog sales in five markets last year before announcing it would roll out wiener sales in 7,100 locations this year.
"The introduction of grilled dogs just made sense to our guests and for our brand," said Alex Macedo, president of the North America market for Burger King, in a statement. "We're applying over 60 years of flame-grilling expertise with the Whopper sandwich to make grilled dogs the next great American icon."
Apparently, the hot dog industry is up. Americans eat more than 20 billion hot dogs a year, according to food research firm NPD Group. The hot dog and sausage industry grew by 4.1 percent to $165 billion in 2014, according to a November 2014 report from research firm IBISWorld. Hot dog sales contributed to Sonic Drive-In growth the same year, according to an earnings report that year, when the restaurant chain debuted two new hot dog items — chili cheese pretzel dogs and a cheesy bread dog.
There's a handful of other chains that have had hot dogs on the menu for years, such as Dairy Queen and 7-Eleven. Or Sam's Club and Costco Wholesale food counters. Even Home Depot. Portillo's will soon sell Chicago dogs in Florida from a new location in Brandon.
It's still too early to tell if the whole wiener thing will catch on at Burger King. The company has launched some pretty wacky food campaigns in the past. For Halloween, the fast-food chain debuted the A.1. Halloween Whopper on a bun that was dyed black. And remember the bacon sundae from 2012?
Burger King isn't afraid to go totally nuts. In 2009, the chain offered a Whopper with seven patties for the launch of Windows 7. (It was only available in Japan, and for like $17.) Also in Japan, Burger King ran a promotion where customers could add 15 more strips of bacon to a burger for just $1.24. And one time, Burger King took pumpkin spice too far with a "pumpkin bomb" burger, which had fried pumpkin strips on it.
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Bharti Airtel continued adding subscribers to its network in the month of October, taking its user base to 330.29 million. The company had 3.7 million new users in October, according to the monthly subscription data by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Reliance Jio added 2.2 million users to its network, while Vodafone Idea (Vi) lost 2.7 million.
In the same month, Reliance Jio added 1.5 million users while Vodafone Idea lost 4.6 million subscribers.
The current user base of Jio stands at 406.36 million and that of Vi at 292.84 million, as per the official data for October.
In the wireline segment, Jio added 245,912 users, Airtel — 48,397 and Vi — 9400.
Total broadband subscriber base grew 1.17% month-on-month reaching 734.82 million. Broadband market share (wired and wireline) of three top operators was Jio 55.53%, Airtel 23.17% and Vi 16.40%.
Mobile number portability (MNP) requests increased from 520.8 million in September to 529.60 million in October.
Total active mobile users in the country were 960.91 million as against 958.45 million in September.
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It has been available for a while but Stuff feels that you should take a second look at the CAT B15 smartphone. It fits quite well as a product from the company that builds huge hulking vehicles that tear up pretty much anything.
The B15’s sturdy aluminium body is encased in a toughened rubberised casing which has minimal openings, and according to the folks at CAT it can be dropped 1.8 metres and bounce back unharmed. The B15 is IP67 certified, meaning that it’s completely dustproof and is water resistant for up to 1 metre. The 4-inch screen supports wet finger tracking, for…when your finger is wet and you’d like to use the phone.
But it’s not just a tough cookie. The Android phone has a dual core 1GHz Cortex-A9 processor and 512MB of RAM, all running on 4.1 Jelly Bean, so it is can be called smart after all. It also comes with a 5 megapixel camera, the usual collection of Google apps and GPS navigation via Google Maps. It also has 4GB of internal memory that can be expanded to up to 32GB via microSD card.
The B15 will cost you R5,900 locally via Expansys. There has not been an official release of the rugged handset in South Africa just yet.


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State Street Corp Cuts Holdings in PPG Industries, Inc. (PPG)
State Street Corp trimmed its position in shares of PPG Industries, Inc. (NYSE:PPG) by 3.5% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 11,779,678 shares of the specialty chemicals company’s stock after selling 430,316 shares during the quarter. State Street Corp owned approximately 4.59% of PPG Industries worth $1,295,308,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Polaris Greystone Financial Group LLC bought a new stake in PPG Industries during the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $1,518,000. AXA boosted its position in PPG Industries by 47.4% during the 2nd quarter. AXA now owns 828,685 shares of the specialty chemicals company’s stock valued at $91,122,000 after acquiring an additional 266,457 shares in the last quarter. Great Lakes Advisors LLC boosted its position in PPG Industries by 214.1% during the 2nd quarter. Great Lakes Advisors LLC now owns 6,662 shares of the specialty chemicals company’s stock valued at $733,000 after acquiring an additional 4,541 shares in the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. boosted its position in PPG Industries by 2,006.8% during the 1st quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 14,595,371 shares of the specialty chemicals company’s stock valued at $1,533,684,000 after acquiring an additional 13,902,595 shares in the last quarter. Finally, AE Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in PPG Industries during the 1st quarter valued at approximately $288,000. 73.92% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Several analysts have weighed in on PPG shares. Robert W. Baird reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $115.00 price objective on shares of PPG Industries in a research report on Friday, September 1st. Argus raised PPG Industries from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and lifted their price objective for the company from $110.61 to $136.00 in a research report on Wednesday, July 5th. Deutsche Bank AG lifted their price objective on PPG Industries from $110.00 to $115.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, July 21st. Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed a “hold” rating and set a $109.00 price objective on shares of PPG Industries in a research report on Wednesday, September 13th. Finally, Credit Suisse Group reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $114.00 price objective (up from $109.00) on shares of PPG Industries in a research report on Monday, July 17th. They noted that the move was a valuation call. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have assigned a hold rating and nine have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. The stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $115.31.
Shares of PPG Industries, Inc. (PPG) traded up 0.22% during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $113.28. The stock had a trading volume of 1,197,958 shares. The stock has a market cap of $29.05 billion, a P/E ratio of 29.80 and a beta of 1.55. The company’s 50 day moving average is $106.65 and its 200-day moving average is $107.35. PPG Industries, Inc. has a 52-week low of $89.64 and a 52-week high of $114.15.
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, July 20th. The specialty chemicals company reported $1.83 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $1.83. The company had revenue of $3.81 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.92 billion. PPG Industries had a net margin of 6.79% and a return on equity of 29.47%. PPG Industries’s revenue was up .6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.73 earnings per share. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that PPG Industries, Inc. will post $6.03 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, September 12th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 10th were paid a $0.45 dividend. This represents a $1.80 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.59%. This is an increase from PPG Industries’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.40. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, August 8th. PPG Industries’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 46.88%.
In other PPG Industries news, insider Viktoras R. Sekmakas sold 18,616 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, August 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $102.49, for a total value of $1,907,953.84. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now directly owns 15,545 shares in the company, valued at $1,593,207.05. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, VP Glenn E. Bost II sold 19,812 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, August 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $100.80, for a total transaction of $1,997,049.60. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president now owns 52,748 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $5,316,998.40. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 0.72% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
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PPG Industries, Inc manufactures and distributes a range of coatings and specialty materials. The Company has two segments: Performance Coatings and Industrial Coatings. The Performance Coatings segment includes the refinish, aerospace, protective and marine, architectural businesses. The Industrial Coatings segment includes the automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM), industrial coatings, packaging coatings, coatings services and specialty coatings and materials businesses.
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SpaceX will deliver the International Space Station's first supercomputer on 14 AugustThe International Space Station is expected to get its first supercomputer next week.
Jul 25, 2017
CERT-In releases high severity alerts for vulnerabilities in JAVA SE, Samba and the Solaris OSThe Java SE vulnerabilities could be abused by an attacker by convincing a target to run malicious Java content through a web browser that supports Java.
Jul 11, 2017
Ubuntu is now available on the Windows Store, SUSE and Fedora to follow soonUsers can install multiple Linux distributions at once, and even run them all concurrently.
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Blockchain records should originate from a timeless source to make the system foolproofThe timeless nature of information stored in blockchains not only makes it auditable at any given time but also contributes to building trust among users.
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Scientists have developed 'Charliecloud,' an 800-line piece of code that can speed up Big Data analysisUsers can thus add required packages as images to run their programmes on the supercomputer without having to reconfigure the system. This maintains a "convenience bubble" of administrative freedom while protecting the security of the larger system.
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Blackberry rebuffs competition as Toyota adopts rival softwareAGL's more than 100 members include Toyota, Ford Motor Co, Honda Motor Co, Mazda Motor Corp, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan Motor Co, Suzuki Motor Corp and Subaru. Other members include chipmakers and auto suppliers.
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McAfee suggests about 2.5 million IoT devices were infected in Q4 of 2016Two and a half million Internet of Things (IoT) devices were infected by Mirai botnet by the end of fourth quarter last year, a new report by cyber security company McAfee said on Tuesday.
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IBM launches blockchain service solution for enterprisesInternational Business Machines Corp has launched a service that will allow businesses to build applications on its cloud using blockchain code from the Hyperledger Project, the cross-industry group led by the Linux Foundation.
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Microsoft adds Kannada language support to Skype LiteThe Skype Lite app was developed in Hyderabad and was launched exclusively for India.


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Evergreen Brick Works Holiday Market
Until Dec. 25, you can drop by the free market to shop local crafts, skate on the outdoor rink, listen to live music and eat good food. The former brick factory is also hosting a mini farmers’ market on Wednesdays, including Dec. 22. Visit the website for more details.
The Tenors: Santa’s Wish Tour
The multiplatinum-selling, Juno Award-winning vocal group wraps up its current tour across Canada with performances on Dec. 22 and 23 at the newly renovated Massey Hall.
Toronto Made Market: Holiday Edition
On Dec. 19, from 12 to 8 p.m., Toronto Made Market comes to The Great Hall, where more than 50 local vendors will purvey their wares. Can’t make it in person? Shop online at TorontoMadeMarket.com until Dec. 31.
Kensington Market Winter Solstice Festival
Does the idea of the shortest day of the year bring you down? If so, celebrate the return to warmth and light in Kensington Market. Streets will close from 6 to 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 21 to make way for the 32nd Winter Solstice Festival, where shops will be open late and performers will bring the party outside.
Cavalcade of Lights
In addition to the glittering tree and ice skating, Nathan Phillips Square hosts Cavalcade of Lights, which includes new installations inspired by cultural festivals from around the world. Until Jan. 7, visitors can explore tunnels made from thousands of energy-efficient bulbs and encounter glowing ice sculptures in an enchanted forest.
BadBadNotGood: Talk Memory Tour
The Toronto-based jazz- and hip hop-inspired instrumental group, which began their year-long tour in Western Canada, before dates in the U.S. and across the globe, will be performing at History on Dec. 22. Find tickets on Ticketmaster.


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Walmart Inc. agreed Thursday to pay the DOJ and SEC $282 million to settle allegations that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices by paying an intermediary in Brazil for help obtaining construction permits and having weak anti-corruption internal controls in Brazil, China, India, and Mexico.
In the criminal action, Walmart paid penalties of $138 million. Its Brazil subsidiary, WMT Brasilia S.a.r.l., agreed to plead guilty to violating the FCPA’s accounting standards.
Walmart entered into a three-year non-prosecution agreement (pdf) with the DOJ and agreed to retain an independent corporate compliance monitor for two years.
In the SEC’s civil action, Walmart paid $144.7 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest. The SEC settled the action through an internal administrative order and didn’t go to court.
From 2000 through 2011, Walmart’s subsidiaries in Brazil, China, India, and Mexico “operated without a system of sufficient anti-corruption related internal accounting controls,” the SEC said.
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. . . during this time period, those Walmart subsidiaries paid certain third-party intermediaries without reasonable assurances that certain transactions were consistent with their stated purpose or consistent with the prohibition against making improper payments to government officials.
Walmart also failed to sufficiently investigate or mitigate known corruption risks and allegations, the SEC said.
The company first disclosed the FCPA investigation in December 2011.
In Thursday’s action, the SEC said in China Walmart failed to provide “immediate widespread anti-corruption training” or a detailed FCPA policy covering third-party intermediaries and joint venture partners, despite a request for them from the China subsidiary.
In Mexico, an internal investigation found in 2005 that $4 million was paid to an intermediary who a lawyer for the Mexican subsidiary said was corrupt. But in March 2006, another lawyer for the Mexico subsidiary concluded without other evidence that the corruption allegations were unsubstantiated.
In India, Walmart received anonymous emails alleging improper payments to government officials. Despite the emails and numerous earlier red flags, Walmart didn’t begin “to implement and maintain a system of sufficient internal accounting controls related to anti-corruption” until around April 2011, the SEC said.
In Brazil, the local subsidiary in late 2009 was missing an operating license. A Walmart Brazil executive said at an internal meeting that an “extraordinary process” was needed to obtain the license.
That same day, certain members of the Brazil subsidiary’s management approved hiring an intermediary to secure the license. Nine days later, the intermediary obtained all governmental approvals for the store.
“The TPI [third-party intermediary] received approximately $127,000, an amount greater than Brazil subsidiary’s other permitting consultants, for the TPI’s efforts with these permits and certain operating permits obtained after the store opened,” the SEC said.
Walmart said in November 2017 that it had reserved $283 million for a possible FCPA resolution with the DOJ and SEC.
The Bentonville, Arkansas retailer spent more than $900 million investigating potential FCPA offenses and enhancing its anti-bribery compliance program, according to various SEC filings.
In Thursday’s non-prosecution agreement with the DOJ, Walmart acknowledged responsibility for criminal conduct.
In an SEC filing Thursday, Walmart said: “Throughout the investigative process, the Company cooperated with the DOJ and the SEC.”
The SEC said it considered Walmart’s cooperation and remedial actions.
Walmart hired numerous compliance officers at headquarters and regionally, with separate reporting lines to the board’s audit committee.
It enhanced its compliance monitoring and training, implemented “an automated global license management system for obtaining and renewing licenses and permits,” and put in place global controls for charitable donations.
The company also stopped doing business with third parties involved in the FCPA violations.
The FBI’s Robert Johnson said in a statement Thursday that the “FBI will hold corporations responsible when they turn a blind eye to corruption.”
“If there is evidence of violations of the FCPA, we will investigate. No corporation, no matter how large, is above the law,” Johnson said.
Harry Cassin is the publisher and editor of the FCPA Blog.


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It's getting far too common to see intrusive privacy policies back-tracked by Facebook (NASDAQ:FB).
The latest privacy shenanigan involves Facebook's Instagram, a photo sharing service acquired for $1 billion this past summer in a bid to bolster Facebook's mobile business.
Make no mistake, Facebook is firmly planted in the era of money making.
The IPO debacle all but guaranteed money counters would play a bigger role in Facebook's future. And, the Instagram privacy update - no matter how ill-suited - is just the latest in an ongoing series of revenue driven decision making.
However, those decisions have to be tempered by common sense, because the company walks a fine line between users and profits.
If you're looking around the room and you can't find the patsy, you're the patsy.
When it comes to free social media sites, users are the patsy.
Without revenue producing user generated content, sites like Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin (LNKD) and, yes, Facebook would be shuttered tomorrow. Users have to recognize there is no free lunch and social media sites have to realize alienating content creators is at best counterproductive and at worst dumb as hell.
While no one is going to close their Facebook account over this latest dust up, you can bet some closed their Instagram accounts. That translates Facebook losing some goodwill built up following Mr. Zuckerberg's brilliant earnings call mea culpa.
Instagram's pain is others gain.
Yahoo's (YHOO) Google-trained (NASDAQ:GOOG) CEO Marissa Mayer, who joined Yahoo earlier this year, has been waiting for just such a chance to re-ignite buzz for its Flickr photo sharing site. Serendipitously, Flickr recently rolled out a much more robust editing platform aimed firmly at targeting ... wait for it ... Instagram.
Of course, Flickr isn't the only option for users seeking a kinder, gentler photo service. Buzz on a Budget's Melanie Burger outlined a list of choices here.
Facebook will undoubtedly engage in damage control. They'll lose users, who will end up with Flickr. But, Facebook may also find backing away from some of the more onerous policies lets them profit from subtler ones.
If so, investors considering selling Facebook post-privacy blunder might want to reconsider, because tailwinds suggest shares are heading higher, not lower.
One such tailwind is user engagement. Consider the following chart from Google Trends. Facebook search volume is at all time highs this quarter, suggesting engagement is bullish for ad revenue.
It's also important to realize shares have marched steadily higher this quarter despite high profile lock up expirations. Short sellers bet heavily those expirations would push shares lower as insiders sold, but they've been forced to cover instead.
Until bad news is seen as bad again, or good news isn't rewarded, shareholders may find it more profitable to stick with Facebook through earnings, rather than sell it now.
Regardless, those who have a nice gain from purchases in Q3 can play defensive with a trailing stop loss. And, for those inclined, now might be a good time to consider Yahoo again, particularly if it can get bought on sale over the next month or two.
Disclosure: I am long FB, LNKD. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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CAR sales in July hit 36,951 units, up 23.3% year on year, as both passenger and commercial vehicles recorded double-digit growth, according to the combined reports of auto industry associations.
Year-to-date sales hit 233,115 units, up 18.1% from a year earlier, according to the joint report of the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines, Inc. (CAMPI) and Truck Manufacturers Association (TMA).
CAMPI President Rommel R. Gutierrez said the car makers remain cautious as they enter the second half of the year.
“While monthly vehicle sales appear to continue to be strong, our initial overall market outlook for the year has not changed,” he said in a statement.
“As the original sales target by year-end looks achievable, we will continue to be vigilant with actual vehicle sales in the coming months,” added Mr. Gutierrez, who is also first vice-president for government and industry affairs of Toyota Motor Philippines Corp.
Passenger cars posted sales of 12,701 units, an increase of 13.1% from 11,230 units in July 2016. Commercial vehicles recorded a 29.4% rise to 24,250 units from 18,737 units previously.
On a monthly comparison, car sales this year were strongest in June at 37,631 units followed by the numbers for July. They were lowest in February at 27,040 units.
In year-to-date sales, Toyota maintained its lead, cornering 44.1% of the market followed by Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corp. with 17.65% and Ford Motor Co. Philippines, Inc. with 8.44%. Isuzu Philippines Corp. and Honda Cars Philippines, Inc. rounded out the top five with 6.96% and 6.78%, respectively.
In the car segment, Toyota led with a share of 45.88%, followed by Mitsubishi with 14.72% and Honda with 8.36%. Suzuki was in fourth place with 6.22% followed by Nissan Philippines, Inc. with 5.84%.
Toyota also led the number of commercial vehicles sold, with a share of 43.54%, with Mitsubishi in second place with 19.06%. Isuzu, Ford and Nissan complete the top five with 10.53%, 8.42% and 5.31%, respectively.
The report breaks down the share of each segment of commercial vehicles, which is dominated by light commercial vehicles at 97,328 units or 63.1% of the total. Asian utility vehicles followed with 46,879 units or a share of 30.39%. Light trucks accounted for 5,373 units or 3.48% of the total. Trucks and buses accounted for the rest. Nearly all segments reported double-digit growth in July. — Victor V. Saulon


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In a recent report from a leading industry analyst, it has been predicted that two-thirds of all global advertising spend between now and 2020, will come from Paid Social and Paid Search advertising.
In raw numbers, this growth equates to an additional $22bn (£16.8bn) in Paid Search, and $28bn (£21bn) in Paid Social advertising. Overall, global annual spend on advertising is expected to reach $581bn by the end of this year (2018) and with the current rate of growth, this figure is anticipated to rise by 4.2% in 2019 and a further 4.2% in 2020.
Historically, television, radio, cinema and physical outdoor advertising have been the most dominant advertising channels. But, as we know well, consumers have increasingly turned to the Internet to watch television and films, shop, listen to podcasts and accomplish a whole array of day-to-day activities from a tap of a screen. As a consequence, social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter now operate as digital billboards where advertisers can target consumers through all kinds of online behaviours. What’s more, advertisers are able to bid for space on digital platforms at a much lower premium than traditional media channels. With higher numbers than ever of businesses, from SME’s to global conglomerates, recognising the immense economic and branding advantages of having a social presence online, the growth of spend on Paid Social advertising has no likelihood of slowing down in the perceivable future.
Paid Search, where businesses will bid against competitors to have their advertisement appear at the top of the results page in search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo, has grown as more brands shift their focus onto e-commerce and online business generation. In recent years, machine learning has been implemented within a number of tools used to build, target and optimise digital search campaigns and in August, Google launched an entire suite of artificial intelligence driven tools to help advertisers achieve their goals more efficiently (read our blog post about it here). As a result, agencies and businesses of varying sizes and with a range of budgets are discovering more ways to reach their customers online.
Moreover, the rise of smart home assistants and voice search has exposed a largely untapped channel for Paid Search advertising to occupy. The current structure of the voice search and response model doesn’t yet support Paid Search results because users are simply fed back the first organic answer to their query. But by 2020 – aeons in technology years – it’s anyone’s guess how voice search will have progressed to facilitate Paid Search advertising.
The findings of this report come as no surprise; at Media Maze, we see positive results and ROI from our Paid Search and Paid Social campaigns on a daily basis and as a growing agency, we are continually being approached by clients wanting to use our know how to generate new business online.
Want to see for yourself? If you would like an appraisal of your current marketing activities and a proposal for a Search or Social strategy then please contact firstname.lastname@example.org or email@example.com to get started.


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Calling zama-zamas illegal is a case of criminalising an act of entrepreneurship.
Faster networks and consumer habits have led to perceptions of vanishing data, says Vodacom.
We need to ask ourselves what role we all play in stealing from the poor, says Solly Moeng.
Digital advertising spend, which is driven by cellphones, online video, social media and programmatic, is significantly outpacing the growth of all other media.
Donald Trump has placed a big bet that online advertising will help him defeat Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, directing $8.4m in July to a digital marketing company.
Publicis Groupe has put the chairperson of its Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency on leave after he was quoted dismissing the debate on gender bias as “over”.
Top media strategist Gordon Patterson has been killed in Johannesburg, in what some people have described as an attempted hijacking.
Well-known local PR and communications expert Ruth Golembo has passed away in Cape Town.
Advertorial: Financial institutions have an ethical obligation to make fair treatment central to their company culture, says LAW FOR ALL MD Advocate Jackie Nagtegaal.
Prime time advertising of alcoholic beverages could soon be a thing of the past if cabinet approves a regulation contained in the draft liquor policy paper.
The values that underpin relations with friends and colleagues should be the same that communication professionals base their client relationships on, says an expert.
South Africans love local stories to shine through advertising, the latest Millward Brown's Best Liked Ads list reveals.
A game auction of 41 animals has generated turnover of R137.7m, adding to an industry valued at close to R12bn a year and which is growing at about 10% annually.
A healthy balance between personal and professional projects is the key to success for creatives working their way up the corporate ladder, says a Facebook creative leader.
Shiley Zinn overcame teen pregnancy and setbacks to achieve business success.
Who are the diamonds and the dogs this quarter? Check up on your fund's performance.
An expert unpacks the difference between return on assets and return on investments.
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Learn how to stand your ground and earn the respect of your colleagues.
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In the last 2 weeks since the finance minister's Hawks woes, SA has lost R100bn.
Activist groups have lambasted Sanral's new advertising campaign in which the national roads agency uses celebrities to endorse the controversial e-tolls system.
The advertising industry needs to transform faster to avert a union being formed and forcing the issue, Loeries chairperson Neo Mashigo has told his peers.
Exploding batteries and an embarrassing recall of a flagship gadget during a controversial, closely-watched leadership transition - it's been a bad year for Samsung, and analysts warn the trouble isn't over yet.
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MUMBAI: World Consulting and Research Corporation (WCRC), a brand research, knowledge and consulting enterprise, has announced the genesis of Asia‘s Most Promising Brands And Leaders 2012-13 - a WCRC and iBrands 360 research initiative.
It is the premiere and most exhaustive multi-platform brand credibility project on Asia, involving the most promising brands and leaders from various Asian countries that have contributed to the Asian success story and charted a path-breaking progression blueprint of the Asian economy.
The project will accentuate brands involving nations like India, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, China, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Dubai.
WCRC MD Abhimanyu Ghosh said, "These brands have the potential to overtake the market leaders of today through their innovative marketing techniques, product innovations and brand recall. The project would focus on The Most Promising Brands in Asia, which, through their robust growth and formidable presence, are successfully taking on and outclassing their competitors."
"We intend to provide the business universe, marketing fraternity and the consumer community at large, the most credible, insightful and entertaining industry standard of brand compilation, underscoring the promise quotient of present-day exceedingly successful brands propelling the business and economic engines of Asian advancement to global supremacy," said Ghosh.
Leaders who have led from the front to build and reinforce their brands and elevate their companies to the stature of Asia‘s Most Promising Brands will also be felicitated at the event. The project would, therefore, exhibit a research-based listing of the Most Promising Brands and Leaders across Asia, and will be presented in a brand compendium, coffee table book, a portal and broadcast format.
200 brands shall feature across 50 industry categories to form the Most Promising Brands of Asia, and the research will culminate in a launch event during the Asian Brand and Leadership Summit 2013 in Dubai later this year.


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The pandemic has impacted lives in ways that we are yet to decipher. With losing lives and crashing Economies, the single-use surgical masks and gloves used are causing more harm than good.
While on one hand, we appreciate the positive impact on the environment, with nature reviving itself as humans stay locked in. On the other hand, we are creating a massive mess of plastic masks by using them and discarding them in millions on an everyday basis.
These disposable gloves and masks dig a hole in your pocket, with the cost of being continuously replaced. In addition to that, they also impact life as they end up being part of landfills or being dumped into the ocean along with other single-use plastic products.
Looking onto this dreadful journey of the single-use surgical masks and gloves, Plogman of India – Ripu Daman Bevli, has launched a pledge titled – #PlasticUpvaas. (https://www.change.org/PlasticUpvaas)
Ripu Daman Bevli, began his plastic upvaas with shunning single-use plastic from his life altogether, in addition to that, he organized multiple cleanup campaigns. “When you make a man pick up someone else’s litter, he will think twice before littering again,” He says. He has also organized a cleanup campaign across 50 cities in the country in 50 days.
He has now taken another step in pursuit of his upvaas by filing a petition in change.org to bring the change during this pandemic maintaining all the norms terms and conditions of the pandemic & it’s associated lockdown.
“Single-use has taken over our lives and ruined the planet. There is no place where it can be disposed of properly and ends up in landfills or the water bodies and oceans. Seeping into the groundwater from landfills, or destroying the marine ecosystem, it enters the food chain and comes back to impact our health. The need to fight is extremely urgent! And it’s not just single-use plastic, but single-use anything which creates waste is harmful for us and the environment. But since it’s omnipresent, the question arises, how can we overcome this problem?” reads the petition.
“#PlasticUpvaas is a people’s movement to start with shunning just one single-use item from our lives. It could be single-use plastic bottles, polythene bags, straws, tissue papers, or anything similar. In today’s world, I am saying shun surgical masks and switch to reusable cloth masks,” Says Bevli.
By 2050, there will be more plastic by weight in the oceans than fishes. Also, by 2050, the manufacturing of plastic will add up to 15% of all greenhouse gases. These were the statistics in a Pre-Corona World. The post-Corona world has seen a considerable spurt in plastic and single-use consumption.
The problems are too many, but should we continue to blame the authorities and not do something on our end? No matter how small it is, every drop of make the mighty ocean. #PlasticUpvaas is going to be your contribution to Mother Earth and a Litter Free world. Imagine if 7.5 billion (1.35 billion people in India) people take this up!
So, what’s your #PlasticUpvaas?”
It is difficult to stop using plastic all at once, but, consider the upvaas or fasting we all do regularly – we just fast and make ourselves so rigid with devotion or something else that little things like food don’t break our determination.
The plastic upvaas is similar to that; all you need is a strong determination. Start this will power building by shunning the plastic masks and using the cloth mask, which is washable and reusable.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi showed up using Gamcha (basic cotton towel) during his virtual presence during the pandemic. We all should follow the example set by him because this time, it is not about supporting a party; it is about the environment and nature.
PlasticUpvaas is not asking you to stop living or enjoying life; it asks you to increase the use of degradable materials and avoid using plastics as much as possible. If you look around yourselves, there are hundreds of things you are using that are made of plastic; think what a significant change you will bring by shunning at least 50% of them.
Take a moment to introspect the implication of shunning plastic in your life on the environment. Little steps matter. Sign the petition and take up #plasticupvaas
You can sign the petition here https://www.change.org/PlasticUpvaas and can tag us at Instagram (@newsaurchai – https://instagram.com/newsaurchai) and Ripu Daman Bevli (@Ripudamanbevli –https://instagram.com/plogmanofindia) via telling what plastic upvaas you have taken after signing the petition.


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The Xoom tablet has been largely thought of as the most credible Android tablet competitor to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad. But apparently, this doesn’t mean it’s selling as well as its rival product. And Moto’s exciting new Atrix handset — the one that effectively takes the place of a netbook when you plug it into a screen accessory? It’s not doing much better.
These conclusions come from a research note from Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette (via Forbes), who writes that sales of both have been “disappointing” and “well below forecast.” His data comes from checks with Moto’s retail channels.
Deutsche Bank goes one further and gives a number to the Xoom non-boom: just 100,000 devices since launch (via Business Insider). Its researchers based that figure on stats on the Android developer site, and looking at Honeycomb user numbers. As a point of comparison, people have been guessing that the iPad 2 has sold as much as 500,000 in its opening days (with no actual numbers ever confirmed by Apple or any retail partners).
The Atrix’s main problem, according to Pacific Crest’s Faucette, seems to be competition from the older iPhone 3GS and the HTC Inspire, which are both priced at $49.
Meanwhile, the Xoom has had to contend with a very competitively priced — and media loved-up — new iPad 2, even as the device has faced supply shortages.
Faucette has cut his 2011 revenue forecast for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility to $12.2 billion from $13.7 billion and notes that there could be more risk if the company doesn’t come out with a “refresh” in its product line for the second half of the year.
That conclusion is slightly alarming, considering the R&D effort that Motorola has to put into the Xoom, and no doubt the rest of its Android products — the video below gives a glimpse of that.
Suddenly this chatter about Motorola looking at its own OS (or something to put on top of an Android OS) sounds a lot more plausible.


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7NEWS Australia published this video item, entitled “Summer inspiration as swimsuits take the runway for Australian Fashion Week | 7NEWS” – below is their description.
The winter chill is well and truly in the air but that didn’t stop swimsuit brands from showing off their latest designs.
Day 3 of Australian Fashion Week offered some holiday inspiration as it hit the record books with a historic first.7NEWS Australia YouTube Channel
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Cleaner clinker shows the way to green concrete
Makers say it's a critical step to producing cleaner building materials.
Swiss multinational Holcim (OTC: HCMLY) has produced the world’s first clinker made entirely of recycled minerals at its Altkirch plant in France. That’s clinker, not clunker.
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Toshiba unveiled its Regza 55ZL1 flagship TV alongside the company’s 2011 HDTV range at a press conference in Rome, Italy last week. However, it has later transpired that the Japanese TV manufacturer has made a strategic decision not to release the ZL1 in the British, Irish and Nordic markets, because its price is deemed to be too expensive for consumers in these regions.
Blessed with the CEVO engine (a derivative of the CELL microprocessor engine used in the Sony PS3) and full-array direct LED backlight technology with 512 dimming zones (a record for a consumer-grade flat-screen television), the Toshiba 55ZL1 is indeed a formidable proposition that can potentially stand toe-to-toe with the best offerings from Panasonic, Samsung and Sony, be them plasma or LCD-based.
But at a product briefing for journalists from the UK, Ireland and Nordic countries, a Toshiba spokesman revealed that the flagship 3D LED TV will not be coming to these markets. Apparently having conducted their own market research and spoken to their dealer network, the company decided that the model will not sell too well in these countries since it is provisionally priced at more than 4,000 Euros (around £3,500).
Instead, Brits will have to make do with the Regza WL863 and YL863 series of 3D TV as range-toppers. In terms of specifications both ranges are exactly the same, featuring edge-mounted LEDs that can be locally dimmed to a certain extent (Toshiba calls this “PRO LED 32″), Smart TV internet-connected portal, as well as the same CEVO engine found in the ZL1, which powers a number of video-processing technologies including 2D-to-3D conversion, 3D Resolution+, Net Resolution+, and Intelligent 3D+. The only difference between the WL and YL series is cosmetic: the YL863 will sport a silver brushed aluminium bezel, whereas the WL863 will don a more conventional black one.
Both the WL and YL 3D-capable LED-based LCD series will come in screen sizes of 42″ (42WL863 and 42YL863), 46″ (46WL863 and 46YL863) and 55″ (55WL863 and 55YL863). The 3-pin-plug British versions will have a “B” suffix, meaning that their model numbers will end up being 42WL863B, 42YL863B, 46WL863B, 46YL863B, 55WL863B and 55YL863B. Availability is scheduled for August this year, and although exact prices remain unconfirmed, Toshiba hinted that they will be substantially cheaper than the 4,000 Euros that 55ZL1 costs.


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New Delhi: The Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), the marketing body of Amul said on 16 June, it has touched Rs 4,277.84 crore in revenues in fiscal year 2006-07, thus becoming the first billion-dollar co-operative in India.
The federation has reported a jump of 13.4% in terms of revenues at Rs 4,277.84 crore as compared to Rs 3,700 crore in the previous fiscal.
‘This is an extremely impressive growth when viewed against the ban on exports of skimmed milk powder, and massive losses suffered by farmers due to floods during the last monsoon season, especially in Surat,’GCMMF chairman Parthibhai G.Bhatol said.
Explaining the performances of different GCMMF products during the year, Bhatol said: “The sales of Amul milk in pouches have grown by 40% in terms of value. Similarly, sales of ghee in Amul and Sagar brands have gone up by 28%. Ultra high-temperature treated (UHT) milk has also shown an impressive growth of 25% and the sales in flavoured milk has increased by 55% during the fiscal.”
The total milk procurement by the member unions during 2006-06 averaged at 67.25 lakh kg per day, a growth of 4.5% over 64.38 lakh kg per day in the previous fiscal. This was done in spite of adverse weather conditions, Bhatol said.
GCMMF has a membership of 26 lakh milk producers. It is also the largest producer of pouched milk brand in the world.


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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Sigma-Aldrich has laid off 30 employees as part of a restructuring plan to "exit various sales office locations in Europe," the company disclosed in a document filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission recently.
The St. Louis-based company did not disclose the specific locations of the offices or whether those offices and sales operations are being consolidated into one site, saying only in its Form 10-Q that the actions "will further reduce the company's fixed cost structure by streamlining the sales force in Europe."
Sigma-Aldrich recorded $4 million related to restructuring costs in its second-quarter earnings results, for which the firm reported 4 percent revenue growth year over year. Another $1 million in restructuring costs remain, it added.
A spokesman for the company declined to comment on the sites that are being shut down.


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The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted for-hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 3.2 percent in March, following a revised 3.6 percent drop in February. This marks the second monthly decline after increasing for five consecutive months from September 2005 through January 2006.
The latest dip put the seasonally adjusted index at 110.1, its lowest level since November 2003; compared with March 2005, the index was 2.6 percent lower. The not-seasonally adjusted index surged 15.4 percent from February to 118.7, which is its highest level since September 2005. Carriers typically haul significantly more tonnage in March, which accounts for the increase in the not-seasonally adjusted index.
ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello says March marked the first time since 2001 that tonnage volumes declined on a year-over-year basis for three consecutive months. Motor carriers anecdotally reported that freight volumes were weaker than normal during the first part of the month, Costello says, but they rebounded by month’s end and remained strong through early April. This rebound, however, was not strong enough to compensate for March’s weak start, he says.
Trucking serves as a barometer of the U.S. economy because it represents nearly 70 percent of tonnage carried by all modes of domestic freight transportation, including manufactured and retail goods. ATA calculates the index based on surveys from its membership and has been doing so since the 1970s. The report includes month-to-month and year-over-year results, relevant economic comparisons and key financial indicators. The baseline year for the index is 2000.


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By Emily Bary
This story has been updated to reflect that Microsoft retracted data provided earlier this week about its cloud-computing growth.
New data points Monday bear out that digital tools like Zoom Video Communications Inc.’s teleconferencing software and Microsoft Corp.’s collaboration offerings are seeing spikes in usage as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps workers housebound.
Zoom /zigman2/quotes/211319643/composite ZM +1.46% is thought to be a key beneficiary of the novel coronavirus outbreak, which has forced more employers to experiment with remote-work tools. Shares have surged roughly 50% in the past month on the expectation that businesses and schools are increasingly experimenting with the company’s videoconferencing tools and might even stick around as paying customers after the public-health crisis subsides.
Read: ‘This is online education’s moment’ as colleges close during coronavirus pandemic
The Zoom app is currently the top free offering in Apple Inc.’s /zigman2/quotes/202934861/composite AAPL +1.27% App Store, and JPMorgan analyst Sterling Auty says third-party data indicate that daily usage was up more than 300% from before the pandemic forced workers into their homes.
The company’s daily active user count was up 378% from a year earlier as of March 22, while monthly active users were up 186%, according to data from Apptopia. The DAU and MAU counts were up by about 340% and 160%, respectively, when compared with data from the end of December, indicating that the rush of new users could be largely due to the ballooning work-from-home trend brought about by COVID-19, rather than traditional business growth.
A Zoom spokesperson said that the company doesn’t confirm third-party numbers and doesn’t provide updates on usage or sign-ups outside of its earnings commentary.
Don’t miss: Peloton is ‘clearly benefiting from global quarantines,’ new data show
Zoom Chief Executive Eric Yuan pointed to “a large increase in the number of free users, meeting minutes and new video use cases” during Zoom’s earnings call in early March, when many countries in Asia and Europe were in the midst of transitioning to remote work but most U.S. companies had yet to make the shift.
For Zoom, “the real question will be how much of this activity will convert to paid users over the short and long term,” JPMorgan’s Auty wrote in a note to clients. While he acknowledges that some businesses could revert to their old ways once the outbreak gets under control, he thinks the experience has provided a “wake-up call” to many enterprises about the benefits of remote work and the need to have an arsenal of digital tools in case of future disruptions.
Microsoft is also seeing increased usage of its collaboration tools, though the company quietly corrected an earlier data point from one of its blog posts asserting that the rise of remote work has led to a 775% bump in usage of its cloud services in regions that have instituted social-distancing rules. The company now says the 775% increase refers to growth in “Teams’ calling and meeting monthly users in a one-month period in Italy, where social distancing or shelter in place orders have been enforced.”
A Microsoft spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the retracted statement or the growth of the company’s cloud business.
See also: GoPro’s main use cases have been ‘devastated’ by COVID-19, analyst warns
The company’s Windows Virtual Desktop product has seen growth of more than three times, according to the blog post. Microsoft had previously disclosed other growth statistics for its Teams communications suite, which had 44 million daily active users as of March 19, up 12 million from just a week earlier. Rival Slack Technologies Inc. /zigman2/quotes/207732364/composite MSFT +1.10% hasn’t provided an update on that metric since September, though Chief Executive Stuart Butterfield said last week that the company had 12.5 million “simultaneously connected” users on Wednesday.
Microsoft has also disclosed more than 40 million daily active Skype users, up 70% from a month ago.
A spokesperson for Amazon.com Inc.’s /zigman2/quotes/210331248/composite AMZN +1.49% AWS didn’t provide numerical updates about the increased cloud-computing usage during the outbreak but said that AWS has “taken measures to prepare, and we are confident we will be able to meet customer demands for capacity in response to COVID-19.”
Read: How Amazon created AWS and changed technology forever
Amazon shares have increased 2.2% over the past month, as the S&P 500 /zigman2/quotes/210599714/realtime SPX +0.51% has dropped 11%.
Other makers of video-communications products are seeing a surge in usage as well. Cisco’s /zigman2/quotes/209509471/composite CSCO +0.15% Webex product, a rival to Zoom, hosted 50 million meetings in March as of Thursday evening, and the company expected to host at least 23 million more in the final five days of the month, according to a spokesperson.
LogMeIn Inc. , a maker of remote-connectivity software, disclosed Thursday that usage of its videoconferencing and meeting tools was up as much as 10 times from pre-outbreak levels earlier in the year.


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The 5-Star Hotel Palazzo Versace Dubai Embraces Crypto Payments
Palazzo Versace Dubai, a five-star hotel, has begun taking Bitcoins as payment for accommodation, dining, and spa services. Guests can pay their bills using BTC, ETH, and BNB, which will be handled through the Binance payment gateway.
According to a press release, the 146-room ultra-luxury resort ln Jaddaf Waterfront will also accept cryptocurrency payments for products, mostly presents and vouchers, on its e-commerce platforms.
Nadeem Ladki, head of Business Development for Binance in the MENA region, said on the development:
“Palazzo Versace’s ability to now accept payments in virtual assets is a reflection of how the hospitality industry in Dubai is at the forefront of innovation as we move into a more digital world. Payments are just the beginning and we look forward to building on this partnership together.”
Guests can now pay for room stays, restaurants, meetings, and events, all the guests will have the option to pay at the property using the Binance application.
The next phase, online payment integration, will go live soon after. Palazzo Versace Dubai will also accept cryptocurrency payments on their eCommerce platforms which include Gift Vouchers and Flower Shops.
There have been several significant instances of crypto adoption by retailers and other business organizations in recent times.
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Let's see what Samsung's and Apple's flagship smartphones have under the hood.
All the news from the annual Google I/O event, including the latest on Android.
Need to protect your iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus? A slew of new cases have hit the market, with many on sale now or coming soon. Here are our current top picks.
The Galaxy S5 and earlier Galaxy smartphones had replaceable batteries and storage expansion slots. But the new GS6 says goodbye to that flexibility in favor of a sleeker design.
The Apple Watch is a no-brainer, but expect to see MacBooks at the presentation as well. Will the Apple TV, iPad Pro or Beats Music service make an appearance?
The most important things to know when shopping for a cell phone.
Using the Mac app Waltr you can transfer any type of video or music file to your iOS device without the need for a companion iOS app.
And why you may prefer to stick with one color or the other.
Technically Incorrect: With less superfluous software and more emphasis on design, some might wonder whether Samsung's new phone is a little too similar to the iPhone. Will that make marketing it easier?
In discussion with South Korean journalists, Samsung's JK Shin and Younghee Lee explore the battles ahead for the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, both from Apple and China, and deny similarities with the iPhone 6.
Look for the Apple Watch and more to be featured at Apple's latest event. Emoji's finally bring racial diversity and will the Apple watch hit $10,000 or higher?


text: The race to offer integrated identity management software packages heated up Thursday with the announcement that identity and access management company Netegrity will license provisioning components of Business Layers' eProvision Software.The Business Layers components will be integrated with Netegrity's identity management products, which include IdentityMinder, in two phases, with the first integrated release scheduled for the first quarter of 2003 and another in the second half of the year, according to Netegrity.Details on what features would be added in each phase were not available.Netegrity introduced\u00a0IdentityMinder\u00a0in December. The product was built on the foundation of the company's existing SiteMinder user authentication software, adding workflow features and integrated tools to SiteMinder that help administrators create and manage user accounts in heterogenous network environments.For example, using IdentityMinder, administrators can automate tasks such as those required to approve a new user, create a new user group, or change an existing user's access privileges.The eProvision components will add a provisioning capability to the mix, so that administrators can allocate resources to employees including e-mail accounts, access to network directories, databases, applications and so on.In addition to setting up user accounts and access to resources, eProvision allows administrators to manage those digital identities as they change and quickly revoke access when customers or employees terminate their relationship or leave a company -- a process sometimes referred to as "deprovisioning."In recent months New Jersey-based Business Layers found a ready market for its provisioning technology, striking a deal to integrate eProvision into Schlumberger's DeXa.Badge product in October.On Thursday the company announced that, in addition to Netegrity, it reached a deal with SAP to integrate eProvision with SAP's NetWeaver product, adding provisioning for users of SAP's applications.Industry analysts think Netegrity did well to move on the provisioning front, even if it was with another company's technology."Its a good thing for Netegrity to get provisioning. It allows them to keep up with the marketplace, given the movement by other vendors," said Charles Kolodgy, a research manager at IDC.In addition to competing with IBM, which added identity management technology from its purchase of Access360 to the Tivoli product line, Netegrity must fend off a host of other competitors in the hot identity management space, including RSA Security, Entrust\u00a0and Oblix, according to Kolodgy.In a sign of the intense competition within this space, IBM issued a statement Thursday responding to the Netegrity announcement."Netegrity has talked about adding this functionality through acquisition, internal development and finally an OEM deal. Netegrity's move is yet another proof point that the industry is looking for an integrated approach to identity management... Since last April, IBM has been making strides to this end, " IBM said.


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FY2018 EPS Estimates for Ferrari (RACE) Cut by Analyst
Ferrari (NYSE:RACE) – Equities research analysts at Jefferies Group dropped their FY2018 earnings estimates for Ferrari in a research report issued on Monday. Jefferies Group analyst P. Houchois now forecasts that the company will post earnings of $3.30 per share for the year, down from their prior estimate of $3.73. Jefferies Group currently has a “Buy” rating and a $130.00 price target on the stock. Jefferies Group also issued estimates for Ferrari’s FY2019 earnings at $3.72 EPS, FY2020 earnings at $4.74 EPS and FY2021 earnings at $6.30 EPS.
Several other research analysts also recently commented on the company. BidaskClub downgraded Ferrari from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 9th. Zacks Investment Research downgraded Ferrari from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 8th. HSBC began coverage on Ferrari in a research note on Monday, December 11th. They issued a “hold” rating for the company. Finally, TheStreet upgraded Ferrari from a “c” rating to a “b-” rating in a research note on Friday, October 20th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have assigned a hold rating and seven have given a buy rating to the stock. The stock presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $117.86.
Ferrari (NYSE:RACE) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 1st. The company reported $0.84 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.87 by ($0.03). The company had revenue of $840.00 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $869.74 million. Ferrari had a return on equity of 98.82% and a net margin of 15.74%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up .5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.69 EPS.
Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the business. Parallel Advisors LLC increased its holdings in Ferrari by 554.3% in the 3rd quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC now owns 1,060 shares of the company’s stock worth $117,000 after purchasing an additional 898 shares in the last quarter. Shine Investment Advisory Services Inc. acquired a new position in Ferrari in the 4th quarter worth about $116,000. Cerebellum GP LLC acquired a new position in Ferrari in the 4th quarter worth about $125,000. Cornerstone Advisors Inc. increased its holdings in Ferrari by 678.6% in the 3rd quarter. Cornerstone Advisors Inc. now owns 1,526 shares of the company’s stock worth $169,000 after purchasing an additional 1,330 shares in the last quarter. Finally, IFP Advisors Inc increased its holdings in Ferrari by 90.9% in the 3rd quarter. IFP Advisors Inc now owns 1,569 shares of the company’s stock worth $173,000 after purchasing an additional 747 shares in the last quarter. 31.86% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
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Ferrari Company Profile
Ferrari NV, known as New Business Netherlands NV, is an Italy-based company, incorporated in the Netherlands, that is engaged in designing, manufacturing and selling sports cars under the Ferrari brand. Its products include nine sports car models, including seven sports cars: 458 Italia, 488 GTB, 458 Spider, 488 Spider, F12 Berlinetta, 458 Speciale and 458 Speciale A; as well as two grand tourer (GT) cars: California T and FF.
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November 25, 2022
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Peter Seabrook is a gardening writer and broadcaster.
Lobby groups jumping onto fashionable campaigns, often to promote their own interests, can do much more harm than good. Take, for example, the move against black polythene plant pots and containers.
What a great trade this is when one of us needs help. "The Container Revolution" co-operative exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is a good example.
While the number of regional flower shows at stately homes and municipal public areas grows, the number of nurseries trading at these events reduces.
British horticultural firms and organisations have not been the best at working together to promote our industry.
Peter Seabrook looks forward to garden centre pepper-tasting weekends.
Viewing top-quality plants, both growing and on sale, always gives me pleasure.
The president of the RHS was wise to avoid the traditional comment at the Monday lunch that "this is the best Chelsea show ever".
One of the big retail chains has flower seeds on sale at 25p a packet, while one of the specialist mail-order companies has six nigella plants on offer at £15 plus £4.95 carriage charges.
Leading nurseryman Rowland Smith from Battlesbridge in Essex, speaking to his local church group on bedding plant production, was asked whether he still grows old heritage cultivars.
Parham Park Limited West Sussex
Lycée International de Londres Winston Churchill Wembley, London (Greater)
Head Gardener - Live In
Adlington Hall and Gardens Adlington, England
Lords of the Manor Hotel Upper Slaughter, Cheltenham
English Heritage Worcester, Worcestershire


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Xiaomi has a wide array of products from various ranges and segments, among them we have the company’s surveillance camera and action cameras. The company has recently released a new PTZ camera. This time around, we’re talking about a model that is truly affordable. It’s the company’s cheapest model so far. The model is dubbed Mi Smart Camera SE PTZ version and retails at CNY 149, cheap as $21.
The new camera is the fourth of this kind to come from Xiaomi’s “hands”. Before this model, the company already released three other PTZ camera units – the first with 1080P, another one with 2K resolution, and a Pro version.
Worth noting that this particular model does not come with automatic vertical pan/til control. However, users can tilt it vertically and the automatic horizontal rotation is also available. Moreover, the camera features a 2MP camera featuring 1080P video recording. The new PTZ unit makes use of WDR technology. Through the use of this technology the panel can retain more light even if it’s backlit. Moreover, the Mi Smart Camera SE PTZ boasts a 940nm infrared fill. It features an improved optical structure, therefore, the fill light is more uniform and the night vision permeability is also stronger. As a result, users won’t experience red exposure at night and no visual pollution.
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When it comes to software features, the Mi Smart Camera SE PTZ boasts a new generation of H.265 video encoding. Moreover, the bit rate is 50% lower than before. Users can watch 1080p HD videos smoothly even with just 1M uplink bandwidth. When it comes to the external storage feature, you can use a microSD to expand it. However, there are other solutions supported like Network-attached storage or Cloud Storage. The records stored in the MicroSD can be played back at 1x, 4x, and 16 speed. So users can navigate through a recorded video much more easily.
Among the smart features, we have a human detection feature. It, as the name suggests, ensures that the camera can easily identify humans. As a result, it won’t raise a false alarm due to the movement of pets, wind, grass, or other objects. That’s really an interesting and smart feature. The new camera is available through Xiaomi’s Youpin platform. Unfortunately, there’s no clue if this cheap PTZ camera will ever leave China.


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Robert Parker has stressed that he is not stepping down from The Wine Advocate as details emerged about the magazine’s new Singaporean investor.
Soo Hoo Khoon Peng, rumoured to be TWA’s new majority stakeholder
Various sources have cited 40-year-old businessman Soo Hoo Khoon Peng as TWA’s new majority stakeholder, in a deal which is understood to be worth $15 million.
According to blogger Vincent Pousson, last month saw Soo Hoo suddenly withdraw his financial stake in L’Hermitage, a Singapore fine wine import business that he founded in 2002. A post on his Facebook page, now removed, also shows he made a trip to Parker’s home state of Maryland in early December.
Soo Hoo is understood to have signed up two further investors, both from outside the wine industry, whose interest in TWA is described as “only commercial”.
In a bid to dispel some of the speculation about his future involvement with TWA, which he set up in 1978, Parker told subscribers: “I am not ‘stepping down’ – just delegating what has been a cumbersome part of my job: the copy editing, proofing and other tasks associated with producing the journal.
With Lisa Perotti Brown MW taking over as editor-in-chief, Parker confirmed: “I continue to run the company as chairman of the Board and will continue doing what I love in reviewing the great wines of Bordeaux, the Rhône and California verticals.”
Parker also confirmed that TWA would retain its headquarters in Maryland and continue to publish a print edition, although he noted: “We are simply looking to add a PDF version to our subscriber offerings electronically.”
As for rumours that the magazine was planning to relax its policy against accepting advertisements, Parker clarified: “The Wine Advocate will never accept advertising – not in print or PDF. We are, however, considering non-wine related advertising for the bulletin board and parts of eRobertParker.com.”
Outlining some of the key changes expected from TWA, Parker promised expanded coverage of key wine regions, new applications, including video content and “virtual tastings”, and a series of wine education courses, which are set to “tour a range of cities around the world.”
Thanking his subscribers for their support, Parker concluded: “I never dreamed that the internet and the technology revolution would be such a welcome catalyst to expedite achieving my goals. I also never dreamed TWA would sweep across the civilized world with an impact that was beyond my wildest dreams.
“But the dream, the vision and the commitment to wine consumers for fair and independent content continues. I wish I were 25 years younger as I feel so excited about the new investor team and what we can accomplish together.”


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Spending three years in stealth mode and raising $26.7 million can lead to big expectations. Igneous Systems, the name behind the numbers, has finally announced their first product offering.
“Today, when people talk about the private cloud, it usually means customers are still buying hardware, installing software and managing infrastructure,” said CEO and co-founder Kiran Bhageshpur during a recent interview. “We [Igneous Systems] think of ourselves as private cloud for real, as true cloud for local data. As our customer, you just consume storage resources across an API.”
— Subhashish Paul (@subhashishpaul) October 12, 2016
The product is called Igneous Data Service and it boasts all the benefits of public cloud data storage, but it is meant to operate all behind an organization’s firewall. The Seattle startup customizes hardware that they will maintain remotely through cloud-based management software that then creates storage within a customer’s own data center. The Igneous Data Service is meant to provide object storage for very large unstructured data sets, an increasingly common problem among enterprise companies.
The whole solution is designed so that customers purchase no equipment and do not have to worry about installing or maintaining any type of software on their end. Igneous aims to offer catered, customized service to each client.Igneous reassured that they have more ideas to come, but Data Service is the first offering out of the company since it was founded in October 2013. Initially, the company raised $23.7 million in 2014 in first investments from Madrona Venture Group, New Enterprise Associates, Redpoint Ventures, and Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel. Patel’s contribution is unsurprising since CEO and co-founder Kiran Bhageshpur was the former vice president of engineering in the Isilon Storage Division at EMC.
According to Igneous CEO Bhageshpur and chief marketing officer Steve Pao, organizations have lists of reasons why they may want to keep their data on-premises. For one, the company may value the data being accessible with LAN speeds over limited bandwidth to a public cloud; additionally, the data might be too valuable or confidential to upload to a public cloud. A final reason could be based on how quickly the accumulation of data happens, meaning that constant uploading would be impractical.
In a press release, the Igneous hardware is described as “a standard-sized rectangular box filled with twin columns of 30 vertically positioned 3.5-inch hard disk drives, each enhanced with an Igneous-designed, ARM-based circuit board that monitors the drive’s health and manages its data distribution. The drives are linked by Ethernet, I/O constraints are, thus, minimized.”
Start-Up Profile: Igneous
Infrastructure-as-a-Service for data you can't or won't move to cloudhttps://t.co/QCvD9onBnr
— StorageNewsletter (@StorageTopNews) October 13, 2016
— Philippe Nicolas (@CDP_FST) April 22, 2016
Each box has a total usable capacity of 212 TB; boxes can then be added to increase storage capacity in those increments. As the data is imported, it gets inspected and indexed before being stored in an unstructured fashion as objects. With the systems, customers can access their data through Amazon Web Services’ S3 API, as previously mentioned, an industry standard according to the Gartner Group.
Typically, getting access to even unstructured data, stored in a more conventional, network-attached filesystem requires only an operating-system call. The problem is that such filesystems have severely limited scaling abilities. According to some in the technology world, utilizing APIs to access unstructured data in object storage, however, has slowed the growth of such storage options.
Igneous does not see dependence on an API for data access as an impediment, though, because individual application’s data-access method can be converted by incorporating S3-compliant toolkits, several of which are available. Customers additionally have the option of using a commercially available gateway for translation. Finally, for simply browsing Igneous-stored data, it is possible to employ one of several available S3-compliant data viewers.
Bhageshpur noted that Igneous Systems is aiming “to solve customer [requirements] in the world of IT-as-a-service going forward that just aren’t met by traditional infrastructure vendors.”
Igneous will cost customers about $40,000 a year for the basic 212-TB box and service, according to a statement from Bhageshpur. He continued that it equates to 1.5 cents per gigabyte per month, compared to the public cloud’s average 3 cents. In the end, it adds up to under $200 per TB per year, which compares nicely to the private ownership capital-expense model of $1,000 per TB per year.
The company already has 11 patents under its belt, according to another press release.
The market for object storage is still quite tiny and this year is the first year that Garner will release one of its highly regarded Magic Quadrant reports on the segment. Igneous won’t be in it as it currently lacks the threshold revenue requirement.
– Igneous Systems has released Igneous Data Service. It provides object storage for very large unstructured data sets for companies. It is a public cloud working behind company’s firewalls.
– Igneous Systems utilizes Amazon Web Services’ S3 API for its services. Individual application’s data-access method can be converted by incorporating S3-compliant toolkits
– Igneous will cost customers about $40,000 a year for the basic 212-TB box and service, according to a statement from the company. He continued that it equates to 1.5 cents per gigabyte per month, compared to the public cloud’s average 3 cents.


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Roller Champions have been offered on PC and consoles for a month, and also on the Ubisoft side, we start to enrich the additional content game.
The bright side is that the launch of the periods is now functional, with a first period easily accessible totally free, no matter the platform played.
It is as a result a possibility for Ubisoft to use brand-new land, additional settings and also unpublished items on the style of nightclub.
It is as a result the high temperature of the Saturday that got into these sectors, which came to be real dancefloors, similar to this field called Brooklyn Court as well as 2 various other cards, Venice Beach Park and also Freedom Sector, which will certainly be added June 23 and also July 4.
That’s not all, disco high temperature likewise introduces the Field 8, a brand name brand-new game setting that takes location in an arena that is presented as ingenious.
Whatever is additionally described in the trailer.


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As a mainstay in the world of video games, Pacman has found himself in more than his fair share of unique places, from entertainment to education.
Namco’s Game Entertainment Incorporation in the US are the creators of outstanding games like Pacman, Galaga and Pole Position just to name a few. Now they are on the verge of delving into the Restaurant world.
According to a media source the company is drawing closer in completing a new restaurant known as Level 257. This future restaurant has been given the name for the most difficult stage to reach in the original Pacman game. What makes this last stage so complicated is a little bug that is featured on Stage 256.
This restaurant will not only have food and drinks, but it will also include lots of entertainment for the whole family. Here’s a visual for your imagination. The entire premises will be a 40,000 Square Foot room that will include pinball mechanisms, table tennis games, 16 bowling alleys and a most sought after arcade shop with the latest in titles and the resurrected Namco Classics.
The Vice President of the company, David Bishop, stated that it will be located in a Chicago suburb and will be opened to the public in January 2015. A specific date has not been set from what Lee G. Lovett had said. Americans be prepared for the world’s first Pacman Themed Restaurant.