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Just like the Grinch, we know that Christmas doesn’t come from a store. But this year, many families across the country are still facing financial hardships driven by rampant inflation as the price of everyday goods continues to rise. And just because Christmas can come without “ribbons and tags” doesn’t mean it should.
A recent analysis shows the average American household now requires an extra $11,434 per year to sustain the lifestyle they had in January 2021, before inflation reached its highest levels in 40 years.
Here are some reasons why this holiday season will be the costliest ever, and the effects that it will have on families.
Thanksgiving costs this year were at unprecedented levels.
Data from The Heritage Foundation show that the costs of common Thanksgiving dinner choices were up by massive numbers over the past two years:
- Turkey – 29%
- Rolls, Cranberry Sauces, and Gravies – 26%
- Stuffing – 35%
- Mashed Potatoes – 13%
- Green Beans, Sweet Potatoes, Pumpkin Pie – 27%
The total increase of Thanksgiving during this time is about 26%, and, of course, these numbers will continue to carry over into Christmas dinner. For a more traditional Christmas meal, the cost of ham is up around 5% over the past year after increasing more than 9% the year prior.
These increased prices force many families to find ways of cutting back on costs. One Tennessee resident even suggested substituting apple or pear pie instead of pecan.
This is getting out of hand!
Traveling home for the holidays has become quite expensive.
Despite overall inflation slowing down from the record peaks seen last year, the negative effects remain. Prices aren’t going down—they’re just not going up quite as fast.
One area that has seen a massive cost increase is travel. Between April 2021 and April 2022, airfares experienced a 33% surge. And while there was a slight decrease in the last year, as one analyst explains, this isn’t a story about declining prices; it’s about prices stabilizing at a particularly high level.
For those driving, gasoline prices have decreased considerably in 2023, but they are still much higher than in January 2021.
As all of these numbers show, for many people, the cost of being together during the holidays is higher than ever.
Some Americans are forgoing gifts because of inflation.
PNC Bank’s Christmas Index, covering the total cost of all the gifts in the old jingle “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” increased by about 20% over the past three years. But those of us not particularly looking to hire 10 lords a-leaping are also out of luck this Christmas, as presents are costlier across the board.
A recent poll from Monmouth University shows that a majority of Americans (55%) are cutting back on their holiday shopping due to inflation. Middle-income families especially are choosing to limit or reduce their Christmas spending compared to prior years, because they can’t afford the new price tags. For those earning less than $50,000 per year, the number rises to 67%.
Not only that, but many people are still in debt from Christmas spending last year, and find themselves applying for more credit cards this year to cover the costs, further driving them into a debt spiral.
Rising energy costs are forcing families to decide between keeping their homes warm and purchasing gifts.
It’s not just Bob Cratchit who needs more coal for the fire. Rising costs of energy are making it hard for many Americans to keep their home warm on a budget. This Christmas, areas of Georgia will see average low temperatures dipping into the 20s and 30s, yet energy prices have increased by about 25% since January 2021. These prices cast a harsh light on the struggle to balance warmth and festivity.
All of these factors paint a stark picture of the challenges families are confronting this holiday season.
Finally, there are solutions to these issues.
Good public policy centered on limited government, low taxes and economic freedom can play a crucial role in addressing economic issues stemming from high inflation.
Policies aimed at limited government intervention can focus on stabilizing prices by reducing excessive monetary expansion and curbing government spending. This can help control inflationary pressures, preventing further price hikes on essential goods and services.
Economic freedom, coupled with low taxes, fosters an environment where businesses thrive. Lower tax rates can incentivize investment, innovation and job creation, ultimately boosting overall economic growth.
These principles can contribute to more prosperous Christmases to come.


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49ers link with Intel for Levi's Stadium tech deal
Intel Corp. has joined the ranks of technology companies with sponsorship deals at the San Francisco 49ers' new $1.3 billion Levi's Stadium, signing a multi-year contract with the team.
A 49ers statement announcing the deal was vague on specific technologies that Intel will provide, noting only that the company's products will be used for "client, server, embedded, and security technologies inside the stadium." Earlier this month, we detailed the in-seat goodies delivery and mobile-video replay, among other tech tools, that Niners fans can expect at the team's new 68,500-seat Santa Clara stadium.
The 49ers don't disclose the value of sponsorship deals, but Intel will receive naming rights to a pedestrian area on the northwest side of the stadium, which will be called Intel Plaza. The tech company will also be allowed to host corporate events at the venue and receive advertising benefits.
Still, many of Silicon Valley's most famous tech tenants — like Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. — have yet to publicly sign on for a stadium deal. It's also worth noting the the 49ers front office has poached tech talent like President Gideon Yu (ex-Yahoo), CTO Kunal Malik (ex-Facebook) and CFO Cipora Herman (ex-Facebook). See Yu talking about the trend here.
Read much more about technology at Levi's Stadium right here.
Lauren Hepler is the economic development reporter at the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
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Conversational Sales & Marketing is a one-on-one approach which allows you to move more consumers down the sales funnel quicker. Consumers also feel more of a connection to your brand when the interaction is more humanized and real time.
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SoftBank-backed Coupang made a strong start on Wall Street, ending its first trading day with a market value of more than $84bn in the largest US debut for an international company since Alibaba’s listing in 2014.
The South Korean ecommerce giant closed trading at $49.25 per share on Thursday, a 40.7 per cent rise from the $35 that shares were priced at during an initial public offering on Wednesday. Coupang raised $3.5bn from selling new shares in the offering.
Shares in Coupang had opened at $63.50 per share on Thursday, an 81.4 per cent rise from the initial price, and rose as high as $69, which briefly gave it a market capitalisation of $118.3bn, based on the number of shares it had outstanding.
“New York is the financial capital of the world,” said Coupang chief executive Bom Kim, who held a stake in the company worth $11.1bn at the opening price. “The size of the capital raise naturally brought us to the largest capital market in the world.”
Coupang allocated shares in its IPO to less than 100 investor accounts, said people familiar with the deal, an unusually small number for an offering of its size. One of the people said it was the company’s decision to “keep it small”.
Coupang and its investors raised a total of $4.6bn in the offering when including 30m existing shares sold by insiders, including BlackRock and Kim. Coupang previously said it expected to sell shares at $27-$30 before increasing the range to $32-$34 on Tuesday.
SoftBank’s Vision Fund, one of the largest investors in Coupang, owned a stake worth $28bn at the closing price on Thursday.
Coupang’s debut on the New York Stock Exchange made it one of only a handful of South Korean companies trading on US exchanges. The rosy market response showed investors were confident its growth during the coronavirus crisis was sustainable, and that they were willing to overlook recent concerns about workplace conditions at the company.
The expected easing of the pandemic “doesn’t mean that the trend for online shopping is going to slow down”, said Eric Kim, an early investor and former board member of Coupang, and co-founder of Goodwater Capital. He added that “there’ll be some normalisation” around the online retailer’s growth, “but there’s a big part of it that will be permanent”.
Coupang almost doubled its revenues in the past year to $12bn while narrowing its operating losses to $527m.
The Seoul-based group was founded in 2010 by Kim, a Harvard Business School dropout, who will retain more than three-quarters of the voting power after the offering.
Coupang, dubbed the Amazon of South Korea, has risen to dominate the business-to-consumer part of South Korea’s ecommerce market. It promises one-day delivery on almost its entire product selection and offers to deliver a big chunk of its orders in just a few hours. It added 25,000 employees last year.
In a letter to investors last month, Kim wrote that the group’s mission was to “create a world where customers wonder ‘How did I ever live without Coupang?’”
Complaints about the working conditions at Coupang from current and former employees as well as unions and South Korea’s labour ministry have cast a shadow over its growth. The criticisms relate to injuries and deaths among workers and contractors.
Kim rejected the notion that Coupang’s system had led to worker deaths, saying that “technology is actually helping our workers”. He claimed the company has only had one work-related death.
“One is too many, and we will continue to lead on this front, to continue to invest in automation,” Kim said. “We invested hundreds of millions of dollars in automation this past year that have helped make not only deliveries more efficient but easier for workers as well.”
Coupang followed several large tech companies that went public in recent months, including some that have received a boost as a result of the pandemic.
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DoorDash, which has had demand for its meal-delivery service surge with social curbs imposed over the past year, went public in December with a big pop on its first trading day. The company’s stock price has since declined more than 20 per cent.
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How the new CEO of New Relic plans to turn the $5 billion company around by making every developer a prospective customer
New Relic's CodeStream acquisition and a Microsoft partnership will help it become a multibillion-dollar company in terms of revenue, its CEO said.
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Software companies are looking for new ways to grow as the world returns to normal, and analysts say to expect further consolidation in the market.
The CEO of $10 billion Five9 says failed Zoom deal wasn't a setback. Its prospects are brighter than ever as a standalone contact center provider.
Five9 CEO Rowan Trollope tells Insider that while joining Zoom would have been a strategic move, there are benefits to staying a standalone company.
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Zoom, Slack, and Atlassian became successful largely because they offer free software, but customers may now see freemium as "spammy."
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New environmentally friendly barrier paper for food packaging
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Paper based packaging that is used in bakeries, food outlets and quick service restaurants often contains a treatment of a non decomposable high fluorinated chemical, known as PFAS. Now BillerudKorsnäs is launching Repel Pure, a paper where the grease resistant barrier is plant based and totally biological.
‘Today we see an increasing demand for alternatives to PFAS treated products. After working a long time to find a sustainable alternative to surface treatment with high fluorinated substances, we are today very proud to present our paper Repel Pure,’ said Helene Biström, executive vice president Division Paper at BillerudKorsnäs.
The bio based barrier combined with first class sustainable primary fibres means Repel Pure is a grease-resistant food packaging material that is extremely environmentally friendly. Repel Pure is renewable and biodegradable thanks to the innovative barrier being entirely plant based.
Repel Pure is one of the results of the company’s investment in new technology that was made last year in their production plant at Skärblacka.
‘We are very happy to be able to launch a paper that seriously challenges conventional packaging for a sustainable future. At the same time as we can meet customers’ demands for flexible packaging on a completely new level,’ concluded Helene.


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Inflation is a rise in prices due to a decline in purchases. With fewer customers, stores and companies often experience profit losses, which forces them to raise their prices.
This creates a vicious cycle where customers continue to spend less, causing a greater spike in goods and services.
Businesses are also frequently forced to lay off employees as inflation worsens, leading to further financial issues.
So far, 2023 has continued the fluctuating prices from the previous year with no end in sight. While inflation can be a stressful period, there are some tips you can follow to make it through the inflation with your savings intact.
Saving at the Grocery Store
Grocery stores are among the hardest hit by inflation. Fortunately, not all items experience a price increase.
According to the Department of Agriculture, the biggest price increases in 2023 are on fats and oils (up 16.7%), cereals and bakery products (up 12.8%) and processed fruits and vegetables (up 9.9%).
If possible, consider buying in bulk. Buying in bulk tends to be less expensive and provides plenty of ingredients for multiple meals. If you buy in bulk, it is also easier to create a meal plan.
Planning out your meals reduces the chances of impulse buying more expensive food or going out to eat at a restaurant instead of cooking at home.
Cutting Down on Travel
Another market hit hard by inflation is fuel. Gas prices soared in 2022, and while they have gone down, they are still averaging $3.28 a gallon nationally.
Some states experienced even sharper increases. While the government took some steps to try and fight the rising prices, these are only temporary stopgaps.
During inflation, try to limit travel as much as possible. Consider starting a carpool group at work.
Whenever possible, consider walking to your destinations, or even riding a bike. Public transport is another great way to cut down on costs.
If you are unable to avoid traveling, look for gas stations with fuel saving programs. Most chains offer discounts if you sign up for a rewards card. Some insurance agencies also offer similar discounts.
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CHARLESTON – Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has urged West Virginia high school and college students to be cautious when using services like iTunes and Netflix to download music and movies because of a scam that targets these users.
The specific scam preys on students who spend a lot of time on their computer and phone. The scammers send a letter notifying the student they have been accused of illegally downloading movies or music on the Internet. The letter will appear to be from an Internet service provider or downloading service, and it typically offers to settle the dispute and not pursue the crime if you send a check for a certain amount.
“A lot of young consumers use reputable services like Netflix or iTunes to stream movies or download music onto their electronic devices,” Morrisey said in a press release. “Scammers are trying to take advantage of these consumers by scaring them into believing they have somehow committed a crime, and strong-arming them into sending a check to avoid trouble.”
Consumers who receive these types of letters should always check the validity of the claim. Research the name of the company that is making the accusations, and if the scammers are using a well-known company or provider, always call that company directly to verify.
“It is critical to do your research before blindly complying when you get a random notice pressuring you to send a check,” Morrisey said.


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Invest India, the national Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agency under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has launched the Invest India Business Immunity Platform to help businesses and investors get real-time updates on India’s active response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
The platform, hosted on the Invest India website, is keeping a regular track on developments with respect to the virus, providing the latest information on various central and state government initiatives.
“This is a platform for all of us to get together in the face of this unprecedented challenge of COVID-19. The team is working towards finding clarifications and solutions in a rapidly evolving scenario, especially from the perspective of business continuity for the business community,” said Deepak Bagla, MD & CEO, Invest India.
The Business Immunity Platform (BIP) also provides the ability to join the dots to find matching suppliers with required supplies and for innovators, startups and MSMEs to showcase their solutions.
It is operating 24/7 with a team of dedicated sector experts who are responding to queries at the earliest on emails and WhatsApp.
“During the past 48 hours we’ve had over 30,000 visitors across 40 countries and 50,000 plus hits on our website. The platform is seeing an average time spent of nearly 5 minutes. Since yesterday the team has been working actively on over 200 business requests for business continuity and immunity. It is also a platform to hear from the experts on business strategies to be adopted during such times,” Bagla added.
Invest India has also announced a partnership with SIDBI (Small Industries Development Bank of India) for responding and resolving queries for MSMEs.


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Volkswagen quickens job cuts with an eye on electrics, self-driving
Volkswagen is moving faster to cut up to 23,000 jobs and shift the savings to electric and self-driving car technology, Reuters reports. The company plans to create 9,000 new positions in advanced batteries and mobility services.
Volkswagen isn't alone among carmakers cutting jobs — GM and Ford have both announced significant layoffs, also with an eye toward increasing their focus on electric-car and self-driving technologies. Last month, Ford abruptly fired CEO Mark Fields and replaced him with Jim Hackett, head of its automated-vehicle division.
Why it matters: The U.S. car market peaked last year, but these cuts are about more than the ebb and flow of auto sales. The globe's top auto executives see an existential threat in the form of upstart electric and self-driving car technologies. They know that winning the next five or ten years won't be about building a better internal combustion engine or creating the best marketing campaign, but the next-generation of automotive technologies.


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IIHS Study Finds AEB Reduces Semi-Truck Rear-End Crashes by Over 40 Percent
【Summary】Automatic emergency braking and forward collision warning proved to be incredibly helpful for semi-trucks, as an IIHS study found that they could eliminate two out of five crashes.
The majority of passenger vehicles now come with a suite of advanced safety features. Things like automatic emergency braking and forward collision warning are either standard or available in a package on nearly every passenger vehicle on sale today. But passenger vehicles aren't the only ones that can benefit from the technology. According to a study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), equipping semi-trucks with the two forms of technology could eliminate roughly two out of five crashes where an 18-wheeler rear-ends a vehicle.
AEB And FCW Are Beneficial
The study, according to the institute, focused on tractor-trailers and other large trucks that weigh at least 33,000 pounds. Trucks that were equipped with forward collision warning had 22 percent fewer crashes, while ones with automatic emergency braking had 12 percent fewer accidents than those without either one of the safety features. In rear-end crashes, both forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking reduced accidents by 44 and 41 percent, respectively.
Rear-end crashes involving semi-trucks are dangerous, since 18-wheelers can weigh up to 20-30 times more than a passenger vehicle. The institute claims that semi-truck crashes have risen by roughly one-third since 2009. In 2018, 4,136 people were killed in incidents involving 18-wheelers and 119 of those deaths were from a semi-truck rear-ending a passenger vehicle.
"This study provides evidence that forward collision warning and AEB greatly reduce crash risk for tractor-trailers and other large trucks," said Eric Teoh, IIHS Director of Statistical Services. "That's important information for trucking companies and drivers who are weighing the costs and benefits of these options on their next vehicles."
Safety Features Could Save Lives
As the IIHS points out, passenger-vehicle and truck manufacturers aren't required to equip vehicles with any kind of front crash prevention system as standard. Twenty automakers, though, that account for 99 percent of the U.S. market are on track to make automatic emergency braking standard on nearly all new passenger vehicles by September 2022. The decision is a voluntary one that was brokered by the IIHS and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
To conduct its study, the IIHS studied 2,000 crashes that occurred over 2 billion vehicle miles traveled through 2019 to 2019. The study compared semi-trucks from the same carriers that were equipped with forward collision warning, ones that came with automatic emergency braking, and then ones that didn't have any of the features. Just like with passenger vehicles, getting a semi-truck with automatic emergency braking usually means getting forward collision warning.
"The potential benefits are great enough that these crash avoidance systems should be standard equipment on all new large trucks," said IIHS President David Harkey.
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Joel Patel has been covering all aspects of the automotive industry for four years as an editor and freelance writer for various websites. When it comes to cars, he enjoys covering the merger between technology and cars. In his spare time, Joel likes to watch baseball, work on his car, and try new foods
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June 27, 2017 | By: Patrick Gillespie.
His administration could slap big tariffs on shipments of steel from other countries, claiming they pose a risk to national security. The tariffs can go as high as Trump wants — and could easily trigger retaliatory measures by other countries, hurting other American industries.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is expected to announce the results of an investigation into steel imports. Trade experts and Wall Street investors are convinced it’s a foregone conclusion: Tariffs are coming. It’s just a matter of how high and against whom.
Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the European Union and Japan are among the top steel exporters to the United States. China, which Trump has criticized for cheating on steel prices, ranked 11th last year, and trade experts say it is a likely target.
One key question is whether the Trump administration will impose a tariff on steel from all countries or target specific countries. Another is whether countries will retaliate with their own tariffs on American products, including outside the steel industry — a trade war that could cost American jobs. That possibility alarms advocates for U.S. farmers. The American agriculture industry sends a quarter of its products to other countries.
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SABRINA HO AND ANGELA LEONG PRIVATE DINNER
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Josephine Chiu Angela Ho and Stanley Ho-willers Zeng Fanzhi and Angela Leong Yvette Yung Angela Leong and Sabrina Ho hosted family and friends at a dinner to celebrate the official launch of Poly Auction Macau, of which Angela is director and Sabrina CEO. More than 200 guests gathered at the Clube Militar de Macau’s Restaurante Sol Nascente for the occasion, which followed the company’s inaugural auction earlier in the day. A number of the auction lots sold for substantially more than their estimates. The auction raised a total of HK$245 million, a great start for the house.


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Igloo Ice Cream-A concern of Abdul Monem Limited, has been awarded with the prestigious Bangladesh Master Brand Award which was endorsed by CMO Asia.
The award handover ceremony was held on Sunday at Pan Pacific Sonagaron Hotel in the capital. The award was handed over by World Federation of Marketing Professionals. S.M. Mainuddin Monem, Deputy Managing Director of Abdul Monem Limited received the award alongside G M Kamrul Hassan, Group CEO of Igloo, said a press release.
The award was presented in connection with the independent brand recognition exercise initiated to give recognition to those brands and marketers who have achieved extraordinary success from innovative and effective marketing practices in Bangladesh. The Award was based not only on financial valuation, but by consumer preferences also. The Awards are held to foster marketing awareness in the professional community and inspire aspirations to achieve marketing excellence. The Mission of the Awards is to educate and disseminate the importance of branding in Bangladesh.


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Motorola DROID Turbo owners have been wondering when the official Lollipop update will be released for them. While most Motorola Moto smartphones quickly and regularly receive the sweetness of Android 5.0, the DROID Turbo isn’t as lucky but we’ve got word that the much-awaited version, actually Android 5.1 already, is coming middle of June.
This piece of information comes from a Verizon test engineer who shared an image of his own Turbo phone with Android 5.1 Lollipop. The Big Red engineer, Jose Arturo, shared the photo on Google+ and was quickly spotted by other geeks. Arturo said the the several delays by Verizon is because of the network’s band 4G LTE, HD Voice, and VoLTE.
The company wants that the HD Voice service is of great quality–“acceptable and does not impact voice quality”. There seems to be some issues on transition between 3G and LTE networks too and they just want to make sure the mobile devices work properly on XLTE.
Arturo noted these delays could also be because Motorola is a smaller company now so funding for test verifications is limited especially now it’s transitioning to become a Lenovo company. He also shared some information about the next-gen Moto X–there might be some “front facing flash for selfies” and they bring back microSD card slots. These features are said to be available this summer so let’s just wait and see.
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2021 has only just begun, but it sounds like this year could be a big one for the team at Xbox. To go along with many of the releases that we already know about, one notable face at Microsoft’s gaming division has recently started to tease that this year will bring with it a number of surprises as well.
Over on Twitter today, Xbox’s Aaron Greenberg wished fans a happy 2021 before beginning to talk about what the company has in store for the year. Greenberg specifically pointed to Halo Infinite, Psychonauts 2, and the upcoming acquisition of Bethesda as some of the most notable moments that Xbox has planned for 2021 but also indicated that some “more surprises” are also in store. “So much to look forward to!” Greenberg said to end his message.
Happy 2021 everyone, hope you all had a good holiday break. I am incredibly excited about the year ahead for Xbox, from our Bethesda/Zenimax acquisition to gaming events/shows to new releases like Psychonauts 2, Halo Infinite, & more surprises. So much to look forward to!🥳💚🙅🏼♂🎮— Aaron Greenberg 🙅🏼♂💚U (@aarongreenberg) January 4, 2021
While it’s unknown just what these surprises that Greenberg is teasing could be, the most obvious guess involves new game reveals. Within the past year alone, Xbox Game Studios has already unveiled new titles like Fable, Avowed, Perfect Dark, and State of Decay 3 among others, but there’s no indication that the publisher is going to be slowing down. In fact, Xbox Head Phil Spencer in the past has expressed that the team at Microsoft has so many games coming up that the company won’t be able to stay silent for long without divulging what it has in store.
Obviously, with such a busy year for Xbox in the cards, we'll be sure to continue delivering all the latest news related to Microsoft's gaming brand for you here on ComicBook.com in the coming months. If you'd like to specifically follow all of our coverage related to Xbox, you can do so by heading to this page.
So other than what we already know about, what would you like to see from Xbox in 2021? Are you content with nothing more than Halo Infinite or would you like to see some more notable releases? Let me know down in the comments or hit me up on Twitter at @MooreMan12 if you’d like to talk about how cool Master Chief is.


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Denrele, AY, Celebrate Maltina Fan’s Birthday In Port Harcourt
Popular comedian, AY and TV personality, Denrele thrilled Maltina fans on Thursday, September 24, 2015 in Port Harcourt during a live hangout session with AY courtesy of the premium malt drink, Maltina.
The two-day event, which held at the Spar Shopping Mall, saw several residents win exciting prizes including Maltina branded items, tickets to the AY Live show as well as an opportunity to win an iPhone6 on the Maltina Facebook page.
One of the high points was the celebration of a Maltina fan's birthday, which was heightened by Denrele's vibrant energy and AY's comic streaks getting other fans to sing Happy birthday to the very excited birthday girl.
The Port Harcourt edition of the annual AY Live show is sponsored by Maltina and will hold this Sunday, October 4, 2015 at Aztech Arcum.
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The Camaïeu brand is in compulsory liquidation but its clothes are still finding takers.
Noz bought over 2 million items at auction for around 4 million euros.
The destocking giant started marketing these products at bargain prices a few days ago and the operation is attracting crowds.
In Côte-d'Or, the Marsannay-la-Côte store was the first to offer Camaïeu clothing, starting this Monday.
It has been taken by storm by many customers in search of good deals, France Bleu Bourgogne has seen.
The sale of items from the northern ready-to-wear brand should last several days but, at this rate, the stock should quickly be sold out.
The Camaïeu brand, founded in 1984, went into compulsory liquidation at the end of September, two years after its takeover, resulting in the closure of 511 stores and the loss of 2,600 jobs.
Liquidation of Camaïeu: How did we arrive at the layoffs of 2,600 people?
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China's manufacturing output stalls in February
China released Thursday its official measure of factory output for February showing the country had a slight decline.
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) number was 50.1 for the month, down from 50.4 in January.
The country has been trying to recover from a downturn in its economy. Last year, China posted an annual growth of 7.8% — the worst since 1999.
Its failure to move above 51 shows economic expansion is only moderate. A reading below 50 indicates a contraction of manufacturing.
The government's report lists a number of subscategories — like new orders, new export orders, finished goods inventories, imports, raw material inventories, employment, and supplier delivery times — which all showed a similar decline. Only the backlog of work had not changed since the previous month.
Some analysts said the Chinese new year holiday had affected the numbers.
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San Francisco, CA (July 1, 2019) – On June 27th, the San Francisco Small Business Development Center (SBDC) announced the official launch of the Business Growth Group (BGG) program at the San Francisco Fastest Growing Businesses Mixer.
Over one hundred participants including entrepreneurs, community partners, representatives from the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and Small Business Administration (SBA), attended this kick-off event to show support for this new initiative.
The BGG program was created to provide the knowledge, network and services to fast-growing businesses with 25 to 250 employees. A team of BGG advisors will provide concentrated one-on-one advising in areas including but not limited to capital funding, business growth strategies, human resources, professional networking, and training and workshops.
“We are excited to expand our services in order to address the challenges fast-growing small businesses face,” said Angel Cardoz, Director of San Francisco SBDC. “By helping them expand and grow through the BGG program, small businesses will achieve both short-term results and long-term sustainability"
The program is free to eligible San Francisco businesses through the federal, State and City funding. The mission is to help businesses succeed in an increasingly competitive climate and stimulate the local economy. Businesses under this program are expected to achieve economic impact by creating ten or more jobs, acquiring capital funding, and growing their business in San Francisco.
“Whether you are a start-up or growing business, everyone can benefit from working with a business advisor. We encourage all small businesses to take advantage of the free counseling resources from our local partners like the San Francisco SBDC,” said Julie Clowes, District Director of SBA’s San Francisco District Office.
For more information on the BGG program or to apply, please visit https://www.sfsbdc.org/services/businessgrowthgroup.


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- Ethereum’s new ‘Holesky’ testnet to launch in September
- Scroll has launched its beta testnet on Sepolia for developers and users
- Shiba Inu’s Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Shibarium launched mainnet
- zkSync unveils experimental NFT LIBERTAS OMNIBUS, open to early members
Ethereum’s New ‘Holesky’ Testnet to Launch in September
Ethereum developers discussed the upcoming launch of the Holesky testnet, scheduled for September 15. They tested 1.4 million validators and decided to start with that size. The developers also agreed to introduce 1.6 billion Holesky ETH into circulation on the testnet.
Holesky will replace the Goerli testnet and will be used to test future Ethereum upgrades, including Cancun and Deneb. The testnet will launch on September 15, 2023, and will be in use until 2028.
Scroll has Launched its Beta Testnet on Sepolia for Developers and Users
The testnet includes new features and improvements to the zkEVM, bridge, and infrastructure. The zkEVM upgrade improves EVM compatibility through precompiled upgrades, efficient on-chain verification through proof compression and aggregation, and enhanced circuit integrity.
The bridge upgrade reduces gas costs by up to 50% and introduces a trustless message relay function between L1 and L2, eliminating the reliance on trusted relayers.
The infrastructure upgrade introduces the EIP-2718 transaction type L1MessageTx for trustless message passing, gets rid of trusted centralized relayers, and prevents proof overflow by simplifying the circuit capacity checker.
Shiba Inu’s Ethereum Layer-2 Blockchain Shibarium Launched Mainnet
Shiba Inu developers are launching Shibarium, a Layer 2 blockchain that uses SHIB tokens as fees. Shibarium is designed to provide faster and cheaper transactions than Ethereum, making it more suitable for DeFi and gaming applications.
The network will utilize BONE, TREAT, SHIB, and LEASH tokens for applications built on the blockchain. A “DoggyDAO” will be introduced to fund projects building on Shibarium.
zkSync Unveils Experimental NFT LIBERTAS OMNIBUS, Open to Early Members
zkSync is launching an experimental NFT project called LIBERTAS OMNIBUS, which will be available to early members who have interacted with more than 100 zkSync NFT series prior to July 12.
This is the latest development in the growing NFT space, as new projects and platforms continue to emerge to meet the demand for digital art and collectibles. To check if you are eligible for NFT minting, visit here.
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- Scroll Sepolia has integrated into Orbiter Finance
- Across Protocol is now live on ZKsync Era
- Orbiter Finance has integrated with opBNB Mainnet
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- Tools for tracking your wallet activity on LayerZero
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FAQ: USDA recently announced Aug. 7-13, 2016 is National Farmers Market Week. What is being done to call attention to the role local markets selling local produce play in an increasing number of communities across the U.S.?
Answer: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack a few weeks ago signed a proclamation declaring Aug. 7-13, 2016, as "National Farmers Market Week." This year marks the 17th annual National Farmers Market Week to honor and celebrate the important role that farmers markets play in local economies.
BUY FRESH, BUY LOCAL: Farmers markets help expand consumer access to fresh, healthy food for people of all income levels. USDA calls attention to the growth of these markets and how they support both urban and rural communities.
"Farmers markets are an important part of strong local and regional food systems that connect farmers with new customers and grow rural economies. In many areas, they are also expanding access to fresh, healthy food for people of all income levels," said Vilsack. "National Farmers Market Week recognizes the growth of these markets and their role in supporting both urban and rural communities."
Local markets help producers and consumers
Throughout the week, USDA officials will celebrate at farmers market locations across the country. On Saturday, Aug. 6, Elanor Starmer, the administrator of USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) – which conducts research, provides technical assistance, and awards grants to support local and regional food systems – will kick off the week visiting a farmers market and wrap up the week at USDA's own farmers market in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Aug. 12.
"Farmers markets are a gathering place where you can buy locally produced food, and at the same time, get to know the farmer and story behind the food you purchase," said Starmer. "These types of markets improve earning potential for farmers and ranchers, building stronger community ties and access to local foods."
Helpful resource for managers of farmers markets
To help farmers market managers across the country promote and celebrate National Farmers Market Week, USDA is sharing online free farmers market related graphics that market managers and others can use to customize posters, emails, websites and other promotional materials. The graphics, along with a short demonstration video, can be found at ams.usda.gov/resources/NFMW.
In the last eight years, USDA has invested close to $1 billion in 40,000 local food businesses and infrastructure projects. Farmers markets provide consumers with fresh, affordable, convenient, and healthy products from local producers. With support from USDA, more farmers markets offer customers the opportunity to make purchases with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; the Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition Program; and the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Programs.
Know your farmer, know your food
Supporting farmers markets is a part of the USDA's Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food (KYF2) Initiative, which coordinates the department's work to develop strong local and regional food systems. USDA is committed to helping farmers, ranchers and businesses access the growing market for local and regional foods, which was valued at $12 billion in 2014 according to industry estimates. You can also find local and regional supply chain resources on the newly-revamped KYF2 website and use the KYF2 Compass to locate USDA investments in your community.
More information on how USDA investments are connecting producers with consumers and expanding rural economic opportunities is available in Chapter IV of USDA Results on Medium.
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National is calling on the Government to introduce urgent legislation to Parliament to give effect to their promised reductions in Road User Charges following last Monday’s announcement, National’s Transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says.
“Last week the Government finally woke up to the fact that New Zealanders are facing a cost of living crisis and reduced the amount of excise at the petrol pump by 25c per litre.
“Unfortunately, those who drive diesel vehicles and those in the trucking industry are still waiting for the promised relief.
“Determining what the temporary reduction in the RUC should be is a complicated calculation, however it is critical that this is undertaken as quickly as possible.
“More difficult is the fact that Section 85 of the Road User Charges Act requires the Government to give 42 days’ notice of any change in the RUC rates, meaning diesel vehicle owners will be waiting another six weeks before they get any kind of relief at the pump.
“The cost of moving goods and services around the country has a direct impact on the cost of living. The sooner these changes can be applied, the better for New Zealanders suffering from the rapidly increasing cost of living we are currently facing.”
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Amazon & DISH are reportedly both bidding on buying Boost Mobile. According to Bloomberg DISH is offering $6 billion to buy Boost but Amazon’s offer is unknown according to Bloomberg. DISH has already been working on building According to reports Amazon wants to buy Boost mainly for its wholesale deal that would allow Amazon to […]
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Red Hat has a jolly Q3
Except for that lawsuit settlement
Commercial Linux distributor and platform wannabe Red Hat ended the year with a peachy quarter. For the third quarter of fiscal 2010, ended November 30, sales jumped 17.5 per cent to $194.3m.
But the company is having trouble growing its profits, and even if you want to be kind and ignore an $8.75m charge to settle a class action lawsuit, which Red Hat announced last week and booked in fiscal Q3, profits would have been flat. You can't ignore the class action suit, however, and Red Hat's net income plummeted by 34.7 per cent.
In the aftermath of the Enron scandal, everyone was a bit jumpy about revenue recognition. Red Hat said back in July 2004 that it would change the way it recognized revenue for software subscriptions, shifting from a monthly recognition scheme to a daily one, forcing the company to restate its revenues for 2002, 2003, and the first quarter of 2004 (fiscal years, not calendar).
Red Hat's stock took a 20 per cent haircut in one day, and the lawyers smelled blood, eventually filing two class action lawsuits alleging that Red Hat had manipulated quarterly earnings and materially and artificially inflated its financial results. On December 15, more than five years after the rejiggering of its financials, Red Hat said in a statement it had reached an agreement to settle the class action lawsuit, which was pending in the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and it did not admit any wrongdoing or say anything other than it had booked a charge to cover the settlement, which has to be approved by the court.
For the three month period, Red Hat's software subscription sales kept rolling along, climbing 21.4 per cent to $164.4m. Training and services sales were up a fraction of a percent to $29.9m. The cost of subscriptions rose by 25.5 per cent to $11m and costs for training and services rose by 4.6 per cent to $18.6m, which put pressure on profits during Q3. Sales and marketing expenses were up smartly (22.2 per cent) to $71.5m, research and development costs were up 11.8 per cent to $38.6m, and other costs were up 5.4 per cent to $26.1m.
Basically, that extra business isn't leading to extra money hitting the bottom line, just extra costs. Red Hat spent $52.3m in its cash to buy back 1.9m of its own shares in the quarter, and has spent an incredible $146m so far this fiscal year to buy back 7m shares. Red Hat is sitting on $959.1m in cash and equivalents and $618.7m in deferred revenues. The company has no debt.
The question is, can Red Hat make more money?
Wall Street seems to think so, if Red Hat's market cap is any guide. The company's shares are trading north of $31 a pop in after hours trading as we go to press, giving Red Hat a market capitalization of just under $5.6bn. That's a pretty hefty valuation for a software company that has yet to break $1bn in annual sales.
The company is approaching the historical highs it hit in early 2004 and early 2006, although they are well short of the dot-com peak Red Hat experienced in 2000, when shares were trading almost five times as high. No one sued Red Hat for the dot-com bubble bursting, but the company's initial public offering was arguably the last and biggest hurrah for the bubble party.
Charlie Peters, Red Hat's chief financial officer, said that sales in North America helped push up the numbers in the third fiscal quarter. "We are beginning to see some industry recovery in some markets," Peters said when asked about the interplay between the economy and IT spending, and he added that he believed that this was not just end-of-year budget blowouts, but more optimism on the part of IT managers as calendar 2009 closes out and they build their budgets for 2010.
Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's president and chief executive officer, said that Red Hat showed "very strong" performance in the Americas region and "solid" performance in Asia/Pacific and Europe. "Americas is picking up more quickly than EMEA, but we are seeing strength across the board," Whitehurst added.
On the call, Peters said that in fiscal Q3, 62 per cent of its revenues came from channel partners, up from 59 per cent in the second fiscal quarter. This is the direction that Red Hat wants the trend to move. The company's free-to-pay initiatives, which seek to get customers using freebie Red Hat Enterprise Linux to move to commercial support, generated $1.5m in revenue, and of the top 30 deals (ranked by revenues) done in the quarter, two of them were free-to-pay deals.
Peters said that 23 of those deals were for the high-end Red Hat Advanced Platform stack, and eight of them had JBoss middleware components. JBoss, by the way, is still growing sales faster than the overall Red Hat business, and Peters said it had a "strong pipeline." Of the top 25 deals that came up for renewal in the quarter, Peters said they all renewed, and in aggregate the contracts renewed at 120 percent of the value of the prior deals at these customers.
Looking ahead into fiscal Q4, Peters said that Red Hat expected revenues to be in the range of $191m to $193m, and reminded everyone that the holiday would adversely impact training sales. For the full fiscal year, Red Hat expects revenues in the range of $743m to $745m, which is up $10m from the company's previous guidance. ®


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Six stores and 19 creators – don’t miss the 2000 AD Mega-Signing Day on 23 September, Earthlets!
2000 AD are beyond zarjaz to announce a Mega-Signing Day on Saturday 23rd September 2023, taking place across the UK and featuring some of our most beloved current and classic creators!
The event celebrates not just the release of the 2000 AD/Battle Action crossover on the 20th September, taking place across both 2000 AD Prof 2350 and Judge Dredd Megazine 460, but also September’s releases of The Best of Tharg’s Terror Tales and The Thirteenth Floor Vol.4.
The mega-signing day is the chance to meet your favourite creators and get them to sign copies of your favourite comic!
Check out the creator lists for stores in Cardiff, London, Birmingham, Leeds, Brighton and – for the first time – Dunfermline in Scotland, get the day in your diary, and head along for a mega time!
Cardiff: Forbidden Planet International
London: Forbidden Planet
Birmingham: Forbidden Planet
Leeds: Travelling Man
Dunfermline: Little Shop of Heroes
Brighton: Dave’s Comics
All signings taking place from 12pm – 1pm. Lineups could be subject to change.


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LSUA and City of Alexandria join forces to encourage small business development
Ten-week small business interactive workshop from March 1 until May 5
ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Thinking about starting a small business, but don’t know where to start?
As the pandemic continues to drag on, the City of Alexandria and the College of Business at LSUA are partnering together to encourage new business development here in Cenla.
“What we’re going to be doing from March first until the first week of May is, we’ve got a ten-week small business training interactive workshop,” said LSUA College of Business Dean Dr. Randall Dupont.
During the workshop, participants will learn everything from business planning and financial forecasting, to marketing and even creating a sustainable business model.
“We’re going to be meeting twice a week, Monday’s and Wednesday evenings. We’re going to be sharing with them some of the things that they really need to know to make their business thrive and survive,” said Dupont.
Alexandria Mayor Jeff Hall said all the learning material should help aspiring entrepreneurs get on the right track.
“Many times people have a desire from an emotional standpoint to do business but they’re not really in a position to understand the ins and outs and all of the outcomes and things to expect,” said Hall.
Even in the midst of a pandemic, Dupont said now is the perfect time for anyone to start a small business here in Cenla.
“I think this is an excellent time to start a small business in Louisiana. I’ve always been amazed at the resilience of Louisianans.”
The ten-week training session, which is eligible to anyone interested in starting a business in Rapides or Grant parishes, or anyone who currently has a business that’s been in existence for under three years, starts next Monday, March 1.
“It’s good for economic development, it’s good for business development,” said Hall.
Dupont said the goal is simple: to have more small businesses here in Cenla.
“We need alternatives, okay, we need diversity of businesses for our area and small businesses provide that unique local flavor.”
These new options will add to the landscape of Cenla, and create jobs for hundreds, sometimes thousands of people.
“Small businesses really reflect the personality of the community, they’re an essential part of it,” said Dupont.
Each person will present a final elevator pitch at the end of the ten-week program.
Once the training session is over, entrepreneurs will continue to work with the small business development center in downtown Alexandria.
For more information and to fill out an application, you can send an email to email@example.com.
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Ford Motor Company is a global company based in Dearborn, Michigan. The company designs, manufactures, markets and services a full line of Ford trucks, utility vehicles, and cars – increasingly including electrified versions – and Lincoln luxury vehicles.
In 2020 Ford of Greece opened its first retail experience store within the largest shopping Mall in Greece, The Mall Athens. This new retail space offers visitors the opportunity to discover the latest car models and test drive vehicles. To enhance the customer experience, Ford of Greece has appointed bndb as an expert in designing unique "shopping experiences". For that bndb together with the design of a unique retail experience, created a phygital activation "WoW My Future Car", which invited children across the country to design the most imaginative car design and share it with their friends. The contest took place in a physical level within The Mall Athens and in a digital level via a dedicated web application. Each child was able to upload the draw, where visitors of The Mall Athens could vote for their favorite car. The contest has been a tremendous success; in less than a month “WoW My Future Car” attracted more than 10,000 entries and voters from Greece. The «phygital» activation helped Ford of Greece to draw the crowd inside the shopping center and create a more engaging and unique experience between the brand and the end consumer.


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Microsoft, TM, and Intel Launch Trade-in Program To Assist SMEs Move From Windows XP and Office 2003
As some of you might aware, Microsoft is no longer providing support for Windows XP and Office 2003 starting from yesterday onwards. This means that both software will no longer receive updates or fixes from Microsoft and that might spell trouble to companies especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) out there that have yet to […]
Lenovo Malaysia Announces its Latest Android Flagship, the Vibe Z; to be Celcom Exclusive for 1 Month
Lenovo Malaysia has just announced the arrival of its latest flagship Android smartphone, the Vibe Z. Featuring top tier specs such as a 5.5-inch Full HD display and powered by Qualcomm’s powerful Snapdragon 800 chipset, this is one of the most value-for-money propositions for those looking for a premium Android smartphone.
Ahead of its launch event this coming Wednesday, we’ve received a unit of Lenovo’s upcoming flagship, the Vibe Z. Also known as the K910L, this is Lenovo’s first-ever LTE-enabled smartphone, and marks another major step in Lenovo’s increasing presence in the Malaysian mobile space. We’ve been using the K910 for many days now, so check […]
The Lenovo Vibe Z, the first LTE smartphone from the Chinese company, will be arriving in Malaysia very soon and if you’re eagerly waiting for its arrival, Celcom has finally started teasing the device on its main page. Celcom will start offering the Lenovo Vibe Z on 16 March 2014 but as always, the telco […]
As expected, Lenovo has announced a better-specced Yoga Tablet 10 at this year’s MWC. The original Yoga Tablet suffered both from performance issues as well as a glaringly sub-par display, and the new Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ looks like Lenovo has fixed both these flaws on what was otherwise a very interesting tablet.
At the on-going MWC 2014 show in Barcelona, it looks like Lenovo too has got something to show off. The Chinese company just took the curtains off three new budget Android smartphones – the Lenovo S660, S850 and S860. The S860 is the most powerful one of them all featuring a 1.3GHz MediaTek CPU beneath […]
How different things might have been for Lenovo. The Chinese company, currently the world’s top PC maker, had harboured ambitions of acquiring Motorola since 2011, and would have done so…if only they did their homework prior to flying out to the US to discuss M&A options with Motorola. In a press conference in China after […]
Rumours coming out of Bloomberg and Reuters are saying that Sony is looking to dispose of their loss making PC division. The announcement could be made as soon as tomorrow, and could possibly include the VAIO brand. The plan will apparently involve selling the division to investment fund Japan Investment Partners. There are also talks […]
19 months after acquiring it, Google today has announced that it has agreed to sell off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for USD 2.91 billion (RM 9.71 billion). While the amount looks pretty big, it is far cry from the amount that Google originally paid to acquire it in 2012 at USD 12.5 billion (RM 41.73 […]
CES 2014 officially closed its doors earlier this morning, but the buzz generated from the four-day trade show will set the tone for the consumer electronics industry for the rest of the year. There were some pretty amazing products announced this time round, and while the major players will want to show off all kinds […]
Lenovo’s ThinkPad Yoga is finally here. Announced back at IFA 2013 last September, the multi-mode Ultrabook was launched in Malaysia some weeks back and is now available in the country. As one of the more premium laptops in the market today, what does one get when buying a laptop with a retail price that starts […]
CES 2014 hasn’t even officially started yet but nothing’s going to stop Lenovo from introducing its exciting lineup of devices for the year, the company recently unveiled several new Windows 8 tablets including a new Miix 2 range (Miix 2 10 and 11), as well as an all new ThinkPad 8. First up, the Miix […]


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Uber is reportedly teaming up with Chinese web giant Baidu to bid for Nokia's Here mapping business.
Nokia said it was open to selling off Here when it announced its proposed takeover of networking rival Alcatel-Lucent earlier this year. So far, the unit is believed to have drawn interest from a number of companies that could use one of the only real rivals to Google Maps, at a time when mapping services are becoming more critical for both smartphones and connected vehicles.
The joint bid by Baidu and Uber is being backed by private equity firm Apax Partners, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday. Baidu last year took a stake in Uber, after which the ride-hailing service started using Baidu's mapping technology in China.
The Chinese search company is also thought to be vying for a minority stake in Here as part of a separate consortium bidding on the unit, led by Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. The German vehicle makers see Here as vital to their future in self-driving cars. Nokia's Here has a fleet of around 200 vehicles capturing 3D imagery that could be useful for autonomous vehicles - an area which Uber is also thought to be moving into.
Three people familiar with the negotiations told Bloomberg that bids for Here may reach $4bn; Uber has reportedly already offered $3bn for the company.
What about Redmond?
Microsoft didn't acquire Here when it bought Nokia's handset business last year, but the Redmond company isn't completely out of the running for the mapping division yet. According to Bloomberg, Microsoft has offered to buy a minority stake in Here.
Three US private equity firms are also bidding on the mapping business, the report said - Hellman & Friedman, Silver Lake Management, and Thoma Bravo - as is a rival consortium which includes China's Tencent Holdings, NavInfo, and Swedish private equity firm EQT Partners.
The next round of bids is expected to take place in two weeks from now, Bloomberg reported.
The Here maps brand evolved out of Nokia's 2008 acquisition of Navteq for around $8bn. Nokia rebranded its mapping business as Here in 2012 amid the company's transition to Windows Phone under then-CEO Stephen Elop, and ahead of Microsoft's planned acquisition of Nokia's devices and services unit. Without a handset business, mapping became less critical for Nokia's remaining core business in networks.
According to Nokia, 13 million cars shipped with Here maps installed last year, giving it around an 80 percent share of the vehicle mapping market. Customers include BMW, Daimler, Toyota, Ford, Mazda, and Honda. It also counts tech players Yahoo, Amazon, and Microsoft as customers.
Apple said this week that it had acquired precision GPS mapping company Coherent Navigation, following a string of other mapping and location related acquisitions the company has made in the past five years.
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You will hear a lot about codecs when it comes to 4k in the next few months, but the most important one of them all finally reaches an important milestone in January when HEVC hits the Final Draft International Standard stage. Ratification and commercial products supporting it will not be far behind
Samsung uses the occasion of Photokina 2014 to launch a camera that's sure to entice not only photographerss, but may lure video shooters as well, featuring 4K recording to H.265, a world's first.
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The new iPhone 5 is displayed during an Apple special event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on September 12, 2012 in San Francisco, California.
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Apple is seeking a patent for an iPhone that has a display that wraps around the edges of the device, expanding the viewable area and eliminating all physical buttons.
The patent application reveals that Apple has put some thought into a device that takes advantage of a new generation of displays, which don't have to be flat and rigid like today's liquid-crystal displays, or LCDs.
At a trade show in January, chief competitor Samsung Electronics Co. showed off a prototype phone with a display that is bent around the edges, presenting "virtual buttons" for the user's touch.
Apple Inc.'s patent filing shows a phone similar to a flattened tube of glass, inside of which a display envelops the chips and circuit board. This allows "functionality to extend to more than one surface of the device," the filing said. The design also means there's no frame or bezel surrounding the display, meaning it can take up more of the device's surface area.
The company filed for the patent in September 2011, though the application became public only Thursday. Like others, Apple often files for patents on designs that never come to fruition. It also doesn't comment about future products until it's ready to launch.
The Patently Apple blog wrote about the filing earlier.
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Now, there are hybrids of these applications -- take iTunes as an example - you install the iTunes applications, but the real functionality is driven by the "backend" server. And applications like Salesforce.com have "offline" capabilities. But in general, the applications live and breath on some distant server, accessible only through your internet connection.
Below is a news story about Google Apps - and the growth they have seen. $400M is great revenue -- but the question would be how much additional revenue (not directly attributed to someone paying for Google Apps) has it driven. Has it been worth all the various investments and purchases? Still too early to tell, but I would imagine you will see many of the mainline software/applications companies move their products to the SaaS model - it only makes sense.
Google Apps Already a $400 Million Business?*
Henry Blodget | March 2, 2008 9:01 AM
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington cites a Google source who puts Google Apps revenue at 2%-3% of Google's revenue, or about $400 million. This up 10X from $40 million last year.
For paying Google App customers (small minority of all users), our understanding is that the price is about $50/user per year. So this would imply about 8mm users, which seems high*. But let's take it at face value for a moment.
$400 million is peanuts relative to Office ($18 billion) and Google ($17 billion), but it's still meaningful and impressive. The product didn't even exist three years ago. A stand-alone company offering Google Apps with $400 million in revenue would be valued at at least $4 billion, based on Salesforce.com's 10X revenue multiple.
Not bad for a product (Google Apps) that many people still consider irrelevant. Also not bad for a company (Google) that most people still consider a one-hit wonder.
If Microsoft doesn't view Google Apps as a disruptive technology that could eventually decimate the value of its most important business, it should. Nick Carr hears Microsoft is finally preparing to launch a Google App killer. For the sake of Microsoft shareholders, we hope so.


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There’s a new video App in town!
It’s a great time for making videos, and Instagram has made a huge step forward by introducing what its CEO Kevin Systrom defined as “our most exciting feature to date”: IGTV, the latest app where Instagram’s one billion users can watch long-form videos made by any creator within the community!
IGTV has been presented on Wednesday, 20th of June in San Francisco during a bubbly and eccentric event with food served in “unexpectedly” Instagram-worthy presentations and music played by a live Dj in neon-pulsing rooms (you can watch a part of the event here)
But what exactly is IGTV?
First of all, in order to access it you can either download IGTV’s stand alone app, or watch it from within Instagram through its own featured button that will directly send you to the newborn platform.
It has been adapted in a way that people create and watch videos the same way they use their phones: in full screen and vertical. However, the major difference with IG lies in the fact that in the new platform the content created can be up to one hour long . Although just a part of the members have been given this much time for now (indeed most users have a ten-minutes limit), in the upcoming months this restriction is going to be removed for all the IGTV members.
But that’s not all: in order to ensure a smooth experience, IGTV will start playing as soon as the users access the platform without the need to search for the desired content, but at the same time it gives the users the possibility to choose videos across several sections (“Following”, ”Popular” etc) in a seamless way. This is a key difference from its direct competitor Youtube, as on IGTV videos are reproduced continuously while you are looking for other creations, while you are browsing the gallery, or even while you’re not doing anything.
As the traditional television, IGTV has channels as well, but the difference is that the users themselves are the channels, and everyone can be a creator! By following any creator on IG, their profiles and content will be shown and ready to watch, and by uploading your own video, you will instantly be the owner of your own channel!
Which opportunities does IGTV uncover?
Although it’s still needed to see how will people be open to downloading and being active on another app, advertisers see a new opportunity in the creation of IGTV (even though it’s still not clear what is Instagram’s take on the ads on its latest platform). Experts already predict that these one-hour-long videos will be honey for youngsters as they are looking for more interesting and creative content on the social media, and brands will engage in a race to partner up with the already famous and soon-to-be-stars creators to better engage with their targets. The benefits from longer videos can range from giving the brands’ audience a deep look at their products, to building authority thanks to how-to and explanatory videos while attracting and holding people’s attention for more than a few seconds.
But one thing is for sure: the introduction of IGTV has opened a new era for videos on Instagram, and a completely new way of creating, watching and interacting with any kind of content, leading to a huge excitement in the public that sees IGTV as a new marketing monster in the Facebook eco-system!


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An image surfaced on the net showing the hefty volume of a “day one patch” for the hotly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 game, which will receive owners of the Xbox Series X console. Most likely, other platforms will receive about the same amount of fixes. However, as it has long been the custom, on a PC, the “first-day patch” can be much larger.
A Twitter user hiding under the nickname DreamcastGuy Is Reviewing Cyberpunk2077 posted a photo in his account, where it is clearly noticeable that on the release of the game, which, if nothing changes, will take place on December 10, the owners of the Xbox Series X console will expect as many as 43.5GB of fixes and optimizations for the action role-playing game :
Given the latest leaks and gameplay leaks, this patch will literally be necessary for the project to function properly. We strongly recommend: before launching the game, which will take place on December 10, check the relevance of your version of Cyberpunk 2077 and, if necessary, update it, otherwise you may face numerous problems, up to the complete inoperability of the game.
In addition, according to Reddit user scorpo187, this Cyberpunk 2077 update will add additional HDR settings and also improve the “performance” mode on Xbox Series X. According to the source, the “performance” mode now makes the game much smoother than that. it was before.


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You can do a lot of things with city builder games. You can replicate real cities, or you can simulate massive natural disasters. A YouTuber going by the name of “donoteat” uses Cities: Skylines to explain the politics and power behind the creation of American cities.
Sunless Skies, the follow up after Sunless Sea from Failbetter Games, now has a free tabletop RPG called Skyfarer that you can download from Tabletop Gaming.
Android 17 is coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ alongside Cooler in the next DLC release on September 27.
A new creature has appeared in Pokémon Go, and no one seems quite sure what it is or what it is doing.
There is new X Games DLC coming for Steep on October 30. It is going to bring “a series of new ski and snowboard events across the Big Air, SuperPipe, and Slopestyle disciplines, as well as new freestyle challenges scattered across the Alaskan mountains.”
The Mushroom Kingdom is in turmoil. The divine right of princesses has been challenged. Princess Peach must assert her authority. I asked you to ‘shop up some images that promoted Princess Peach, and you did not disappoint me.
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One of the biggest booths at this year’s Tokyo Game Show is for Ninjala, a multiplayer action game for Nintendo Switch. The character design and the color palette are reminiscent of Splatoon, but I wondered if that’s where the similarities end.
The weekend is for coming back from being away and dealing with the bag of lettuce you left in the crisper all week. Blugh. Also, video games.
Fans who have dug into the depths of the new Tomb Raider have made a discovery that would make Lara Croft proud.
Magic: The Gathering pro player Gerry Thompson says he is protesting this weekend’s World Championship event, the game’s most prestigious tournament, citing complaints about how Magic publisher Wizards of the Coast is handling its pro scene.
Telltale Games, makers of The Walking Dead adventure games and several other episodic series, laid off many of its developers today and may be shutting down according to messages on social media, a report by The Verge, and a Kotaku source with knowledge of the matter.
NBA 2K19 players are reporting various bugs in the game’s My Career mode, and some have expressed frustrations with 2K’s slow response to their issues.
Capcom closed the Dead Rising development studio, we know someone who played Red Dead Redemption 2, one of us played a lot of Forza Horizon 4, Nintendo finally let us pay $20 for NES games on the Switch, and Sony announced they’re releasing a mini baby PlayStation. If it’s a hot video game news topic, we talk about it…
Tencent Games already publishes PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds around much of the world. But why have one battle royale when you can have two? Ring of Elysium is a free-to-play alternative to PUBG that adds an icy setting and extreme sports twist. It might not have PUBG’s thrilling tension, but it’s still a fun…
Destiny 2’s new expansion, Forsaken, turns the game into something that people can play as much as they want without running out of things to do. If anything, its tantalizing new pursuits, designed to satisfy the appetites of the series’ most voracious players, may be too life-consuming.
It turns out one of Destiny 2: Forsaken’s most annoying new weapon is bugged after all. In Bungie’s weekly update post for the game yesterday, the studio confirmed that Edge Transit, a legendary grenade launcher introduced in the latest expansion, has indeed been dropping “more frequently than intended.”
Fortnite Season 6 starts September 27, Epic said today. Players will get extra XP through the 24th while they wait to see what Kevin will do next.
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Sure, sure, everybody’s excited about Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, but let us not forget about From Software’s other upcoming game, which comes out on November 6: Déraciné, a slow-paced adventure game set in a boarding school. I played it at Tokyo Game Show, and now I can’t wait to play more.


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Buoyed by the strong response for the electric SUV, the company has decided to prepone the launch of the SUV from January 27 to January 23.
PUNE: Even as the country has not been fully geared with the adequate infrastructure like charging stations, MG Motor has already sold over 2,100 units of its upcoming electric SUV, the ZS EV is less than a month.
In fact, MG Motor, the British brand owned by the Chinese biggest automaker SAIC, says that the ZS EV's booking numbers have surpassed the cumulative electric vehicle sales of Mahindra e-Verito and Mahindra e2o, Tata Motors Tigor EV, and Hyundai Kona EV for the April to December 2019 period, which stood at 1,554 units.
The New Delhi-based car maker, which opened the pre-bookings for the MG ZS EV on December 22, closed it on January 17 to meet timely delivery to buyers.
“The car has best specification and technology and driving performance is very good,” Rajeev Chaba, President and MD at MG Motor India told Financial Chronicle.
He said the company is supporting with charging infrastructure for the buyers at their homes and offices.
“We will announce the car’s price within week,” Chaba said.
Buoyed by the strong response for the electric SUV, the company has decided to prepone the launch of the SUV from January 27 to January 23. The e-SUV is expected to be priced close to Rs 20 lakh.


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Bikes You Should Know appears weekly as part of Two Wheel Tuesdays. Since Hooniverse primarily caters to automotive enthusiasts, this column focuses on historically or culturally significant motorcycles that are likely to interest a non-riding audience.
Well, we might as well acknowledge the elephant in the room. I’ve resisted profiling some clearly significant motorcycles right out of the gate, so this series doesn’t gradually slide from true significance to featuring whatever also-ran we haven’t covered yet. But it’s starting to feel awkward to keep excluding the Honda’s SOHC 750. It was, by any meaningful yardstick, the most significant motorcycle ever. If this truly is “Bikes You Should Know,” this one is #1 with a bullet.
Honda’s CB750 was not the first four-cylinder, transverse motorcycle. It wasn’t the first motorcycle to wear a disc brake. It wasn’t even the first production, street legal four. However, when it was introduced, it was the first modern affordable, mass-produced four-cylinder motorcycle. And it was equipped with the world’s first standard-equipment hydraulic disc brake.
In other words, ordinary joes could suddenly go down to a local dealer and buy the most advanced, grand-prix technology in the world for themselves to ride.
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As of this this month, Microsoft has decided to honor the promise given previously by Satya Nadella to provide commercial cloud services from local data centers within India itself.
During his previous visit a little over a year ago he had noticed that the India market for Microsoft services had grown over 100%, so he made a bold move to promise this new allocation of resources.
Fully delivered, Microsoft services will now be offered from data centers in Mumbai, Pune, and Chennai, spanning the West and South locations in India.
This move is simply part of an overarching strategy to make Microsoft the number one player in the market in more than one way.
With the India segment up to $838 million, which is 33% higher than last year, it’s clear the India market is booming. And because Amazon web services have yet to make their move in India, Microsoft Office 365 is sure to be the best and most secure choice for cloud services throughout India.
Speaking of security, these new Office 365 data centers make using Office 365 much safer due to the controllable nature of the data’s environment. Although security is likely the main benefit users of Office 365 in India will see, Satya Nadella states this –
“Businesses in India will benefit from all the innovation, security and compliance capabilities that customers around the world have come to expect from Office 365.”
So, these new Office 365 data centers will be empowering digital companies to use Office 365 to the fullest of its ability finally.
As Microsoft stated that they “are strengthening their support to the government’s Digital India vision”, it is likely that this was not only a move to empower the Indian digital landscape, but also India’s government. As this move will help to build a closer relationship with the Indian government, Microsoft effectively strengthens their hold on being the front runner of choice for many more digital services besides just cloud services.
What we do expect to see with this is the growth and development of many digital and non-digital businesses alike in India. Microsoft Office 365 has been proven to stimulate not only productivity but innovation on a large scale.
Inarguably, India today is the source of much of the worlds creative and most effective solutions, and these new Office 365 data center location will strengthen and build upon this.
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Predicting the price of Bitcoin accurately has proven to be a difficult task. Still, the difficulty of divining the future doesn’t stop people from continuing to make predictions about Bitcoin’s price. In this article, I’ll share with you 6 price predictions for Bitcoin in 2020, all made by notable figures in the crypto space.
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Bitcoin sported a market value of over $2 billion at its peak, but a 50% plunge shortly thereafter sparked a raging debate about the future of cryptocurrencies in general and Bitcoin in particular.
Because bitcoin cash initially drew its value from bitcoin's market cap, it caused bitcoin's value to drop by an amount proportional to its adoption on launch. The future of bitcoin and bitcoin’s price remains uncertain. It could go to a $1,000,000 or it could go to $0. No one truly knows. Get Bitcoin price, charts, and other cryptocurrency info Bitcoin (BTC) is a consensus network that enables a new payment system and a completely digital currency. Powered by its users, it is a peer to peer payment network that requires no central authority to operate. On October 31st, 2008, an individual or group of individuals operating
10 Apr 2019 The last 14 months have been a bear market. There will be more bear markets in the future. Just as there will be more bull markets. And we're
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Its current price is 0.01% of its expected future value. Regulatory pressure poses the biggest threat to bitcoin/bitcoin cash becoming a mainstream currency.
The bitcoin index value for the end of February 2020 amounted to 8,639.59 U.S. dollars. The bitcoin price index is an average of bitcoin prices across leading Some people believe bitcoin will be worth $0 in the near future. If he owned nearly 5% of bitcoin in circulation back in 2012, for example, then it's possible that
Even if you consider the blockchain as the fundamental innovation of Bitcoin, the Bitcoin price matters, and indeed, the higher the Bitcoin price, the more Bitcoin is protected from nefarious actors. In this video we focus on the Bitcoin price, specifically in the attempt to model the future price of Bitcoin. Several respected financial-industry experts have made projections about the future value of bitcoin (BTC/USD), and they have literally ranged from $0 to $1,000,000.. While there's no way of


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Australia will monitor frozen berries from China
The Australian Government announced new measures to act on the recent outbreak of hepatitis A related to frozen berries imported from China.
In a joint statement, Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce and Deputy Health Minister Fiona Nash said the check will apply to 100% of frozen berries from factories in China linked to the incident, which have been waiting for more tests.
The monitoring will include tests of Hepatitis A.
The Australian Department of Agriculture has requested information on the supply chains of all importers of frozen berries from China, and has officials at the plant working with the Chinese authorities to address the situation.
The statement added that the Chinese government has carried out initial inspections of the packing company involved in the outbreak of the disease and stressed that it had taken samples for microbiological tests.
It is expected that the first results of the full tests of the berries in question will be ready this week.
Australia and New Zealand Food Standards (Food Standards Australia New Zealand-FSANZ) has provided interim advice updating suspect frozen berries at "medium risk" following a request made by the Department of Agriculture last week to review the risk status .
The agency will also continue with a more extensive and rigorous scientific evaluation of the risk situation of frozen berries worldwide, which is expected to take a couple of weeks.
The director general of health of Australia reported that an estimated infection rate of 1% in people who eat these berries is a very conservative maximum limit that could be ratified downward, as experts continue to examine all the data. In addition, previous outbreaks of hepatitis A have shown that around 30% of infected adults may not show symptoms at all and is higher in children.
Source: Fruit Portal
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