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An example of how successful startup founders can build sustainable ecosystems in Upstate New York
Believing his achievement depends on a community of people working together, Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya expressed his gratitude last week by sharing his company with those who have helped build it.
The New York Times reports that 2,000 full-time employees received an ownership stake in Chobani that could make some of them millionaires when the yogurt company goes public or is sold. The announcement was made at the company’s plant in Upstate New York. Ulukaya said the goal is to pass along the wealth they have helped create since launching the company in 2005. Chobani was started with a loan from the Small Business Administration and five employees. Today Chobani employs thousands of people worldwide.
“This isn’t a gift. It’s a mutual promise to work together with a shared purpose and responsibility. To continue to create something special and of lasting value,” Ulukaya wrote in a letter to his staff.
The shares given to Chobani employees are coming directly from Ulukaya. They can be sold if the company is sold or goes public. Employees can hang onto the shares if they leave or retire, or the company will buy them back.
“Now they’ll be working to build the company even more and building their future at the same time,” Ulukaya told the New York Times.
Ulukaya’s success story and actions to help his employees is something Upstate entrepreneur and startup investor Martin Babinec can relate to. Babinec is the founder of publicly traded TriNet (NYSE: TNET) and Upstate Venture Connect, a nonprofit that connects Upstate NY entrepreneurs to the resources needed to succeed. He says building sustainable ecosystems is what will keep communities growing because new companies are the real job creators in a given economy.
“One of my proudest professional moments was sharing the wealth of TriNet with its employees,” said Babinec. “When the company went public in 2014, some of them became millionaires overnight. Not only did this allow them to protect their families and future, but they were able to create their own companies and invest in other startups in their communities.”
Outside of committing 10% of his company’s value to his employees, Ulukaya has been a supporter of a higher minimum wage, and has established a 401(k) plan for employees. He has also hired hundreds of refugees, and signed the Giving Pledge, by Warren Buffet and Bill and Melinda Gates to encourage billionaires to give away much of their wealth.
A spokesperson for the company said Chobani has more than $1 billion in annual revenue. The amount each employee will receive depends on their tenure with the company and the role they play. As of 2016, Chobani is valued at $3 billion, making it Upstate’s tastiest unicorn.


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The sky is the limit, what can I say.
The revelation comes from a research company called Millward Brown. Here is a quote from The Guardian:
Google has topped a list of the world’s most powerful brands, with new research estimating its value to be $86bn (£43bn).
WPP-owned research company Millward Brown puts Google at number one in its annual top 100 global brand power list for the second year in a row with a 30% year-on-year increase in its value.
Google beat General Electric to the top spot, with the NBC Universal owner’s brand value estimated at $71.4bn.
The next most valuable brands are Microsoft at $70.89bn, Coca-Cola at $58.2bn and China Mobile at $57.2bn, according to Millward Brown.
If nothing else there is a positive slant to all the folks that related on fields related to the Internet: the fact that digital and virtual brands can be equally, if not more, powerful that physical and bricks and mortar brands. As we move forward I think that this trend will only get reinforced.

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SAP Crystal Reports aids converting data into reports while SAP Crystal Presentation Design can be used to make interactive presentations.
Scholastic will be distributing the products to campus bookstores, IT campus resellers and educational software specialists.
“There is a high demand for student editions for the software used in university courses,” Scholastic media and technology manager, Wayne Cooper, said in a statement.
“SAP software is being used in courses ranging from IT and commerce to marketing and business.”
Student edition Crystal Reports will be sold at $100, compared with its normal price of $680. Crystal Presentation Design will be priced at $50, down from $280.
The products will be available from early 2011.


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So, I got the update last night (Sunday morning about 0115). There are some big and distinctive differences. I was surprised a little to be honest. The phone does, almost, feel new. From reading reviews, I was expecting to be underwhelmed. I'm satisfied.
My son and his wife have gotten their update on their LGg3 phone so far even though they purchased their phone about two months after I purchased my LG G3.
So that shoots down the ESN serial number in order rumor! I bought my G3 shortly after it was released and still no update!
firechikn wrote: So basically theres 1 day left to "roll out" this update to just about everyone in the network...
Yep! They announce the update a week ago and like 80% of the users still don't have it on the next to last day. Lame. Even some of the others who did get it only got it by doing tricks like factory resets and google framework clearing out. We shouldn't have to do those things!
Moving forward this should be a new strategy adopted by Sprint. Instead of releasing this bulletin: LG G3 joins the growing list of Sprint smartphones to get the Android™ 5.0, Lollipop, update. The over the air update is being pushed to our LG G3 customers now.
Very misleading and gets our hopes up that we will get the update that day!
It should read: LG G3 joins the growing list of Sprint smartphones to get the Android™ 5.0, Lollipop, update. The over the air update is being pushed to our LG G3 customers starting 2/16 and finishing on 2/23.
At least that way they are being honest about it and not getting our hopes up so much. By doing what they are doing and slow rolling it out in waves it causes me and I'm sure many others to lose their excitement over the update. We all want to be among the first to get something new but with this lame process by the time we end up getting it is old news.
firechikn wrote: I just dont see such a large customer base getting the update in the specified timeframe...
Well the reason Sprint and Google are claiming that the update is being released slowly in waves is because they don't want to overload the servers. I don't buy that because now it's a situation where a very large percentage of the user base (maybe 70-80%) are all going to get the push tomorrow on the very last day. Why did they go three days (2/17-2/19) with no activity? The server capacity could have been spread out much better than this.


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Halloween is officially gone and these celebrities delivered some of the greatest costumes. They took the Halloween game seriously to show up at their very best.
Let’s check at this year’s costumes, that could be easily classified as the usual sexy/frightening take on characters and musically inspired costumes, that marked quite a trend in this year’s festivities.
A less frightening and more sexier Halloween
This has been quite a spooky year so far, which is why celebrities’ take on a sexier Halloween comes just fine as a way to distract us from frightening things happening on in the world.
We’re not sure what Emily Ratajowksi dressed up as, but we’re not mad, though it seems like a raver with purple hair.
Vanessa Hudgens dressed up as a sexier version of a ‘Freakshow’ character.
Karlie Kloss chanelled her inner Marilyin Monroe.
Shay Mitchell came back from death as a sexy dead bride.
Kourtney Kardashian and her beau Younes Bendjima channeled Bonnie and Clyde and nailed it.
Khloé K ad Tristan went all the ‘Game of Thrones’ way and went for a classic couple costume of Daenerys and Khal Drogo.
Nicki Minaj was the perfect Barbie doll
Bella Thorne went for an angelical look
Kendall Jenner embodies glistening vintage glamour.
Rita Ora went full green and made the perfect Poison Ivy
Zoe Kravitz joined the ‘Fight Club’
Kylie Jenner and Jordyn Woods team up to make an angel and a devil
Demi Lovato joined the force and became a police officer
Cardi B was full evil as Cruella Deville
While Paris was a full princess as Jasmin
Musical icons were a thing this year
While celebrities made their very best and delivered Halloween looks worthy of books with popular characters, music stars were definitely the biggest hit with many stars choosing to pay homage to their favorite musical icons.
The Queen of Halloween was definitely Heidi Klum, who became the werewolf of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ to pay tribute to the King
Swan Lee also honored Michael Jackson
Chance The Rapper channeled Tupac
Happy Halloween pic.twitter.com/rwEwQWwLyw
— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) October 31, 2017
Kim Kardashian was Cher…
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) October 28, 2017
Baby Girl Aaliyah pic.twitter.com/5GUHkNJgNi
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) October 29, 2017
And Selena Quintanilla.
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) November 1, 2017
Beyoncé and Jay-Z casually outdid as Kim and Biggie
Beyoncé & JAY-Z as Lil' Kim & Biggie. #halloween2017 pic.twitter.com/vol0dtIflf
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) October 31, 2017
Megyn Kelly as Shania Twain
Tyler Perry as (one of) Run-D.M.C. and Usher as Rick James
Usher’s Tyler Perry
Ellie Goulding expressed her love for Dolly Parton


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State-owned Kenya Power has said it has started the process of phasing out vehicles that run on fossil fuels for electric ones as a way of adopting “sustainable ways of doing business.”
The company, mandated to distribute electricity to final retail consumers in the country, said in a statement on Tuesday that it has set aside $331,372 in this financial year to facilitate the pilot stage of the transition.
This first stage will involve the purchase of three electric vehicles, two pick-ups and one four-wheel-drive, and the construction of three electric vehicle charging stations in Nairobi, to be used by the company and for demonstration to the public.
According to the statement, Kenya Power has already invited bids for the construction of an e-mobility network infrastructure system (Enis) for the initial charging stations, which will allow payment through mobile money and credit cards.
Acting Managing Director Geoffrey Muli said the company is initiating this transition as a demonstration of its commitment to “substantially reduce its carbon footprint,” adding that they will also purchase electric two-wheelers and three-wheelers for its operations.
“We must play our rightful role to combat global warming by championing mitigation measures such as adoption of electric motorisation,” he said.
Mr Muli was speaking at the Swedish Embassy in Nairobi during the launch of electric two-wheelers, produced by Swedish firm Roam Motors, which are being introduced in the Kenyan market.
He said Kenya Power will purchase 50 such electric motorcycles in the medium term.
“The company has also established a liaison office, which acts as our one-stop shop, to champion the company’s e-mobility business,” Kenya Power said in the statement. “Through this office, Kenya Power is working with other stakeholders to support the development of the e-mobility eco-system.”


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Codemasters, the developer behind the recently announced Grid Autosport, has unveiled a Black Edition for their upcoming title, which is now available for pre-order. Read for further details.
Great news, man!
Not bad, though still hoping for DiRT 4...
N4G is a community of gamers posting and discussing the latest game news. It’s part of NewsBoiler, a network of social news sites covering today’s pop culture.


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Razorpay also moves up to #10 Rank in YC Top Private Companies 2023 List, from #14 Rank last year
INDIA, Bengaluru, 02 March, 2023: Razorpay, India’s Leading Full-Stack Payments and Banking Platform for Businesses, has ranked #11 in Y-Combinator’s Breakthrough Companies 2023 List, making it the only Indian company to feature in the Top 15 range. Y-Combinator’s Breakthrough Companies List recognises trailblazing companies on a global scale, and charts their significant growth trajectories. It showcases 40 high-growth companies from across the world, highlighting them as innovators in their respective spaces. Additionally, Razorpay has ranked #10 in Y-Combinator’s Top Private Companies 2023 List, cementing its place among global behemoths such as DoorDash, Coinbase, and Stripe.
Y-Combinator (YC) is an American Startup Accelerator that has funded over 4000 groundbreaking start-ups across the globe like Reddit, GitLab, Airbnb, and Twitch, since its inception in 2005. Every year, YC consolidates a list of high-growth companies which have received significant additional investment from YC. The startups are divided largely into four lists, namely YC’s top Breakthrough, Private, Public, and Exited companies. YC’s Top Companies are primarily headquartered in countries such as the United States, India, United Kingdom, amongst others.
Commenting on being featured in this coveted list, Shashank Kumar, MD and Co-founder, Razorpay said, “We are elated and honored to be recognised as the only Indian company in the Top 15 Breakthrough Companies List. It’s a humbling moment for us at Razorpay to be featured alongside some of the most innovative and successful companies across the world. Y-Combinator has always believed in our vision since the beginning and we’re thankful for their continued support and having played a key role in our growth. We’re committed to making a difference by changing how finance has been done traditionally in India and building a world-class product that powers small businesses to disrupt and scale.
“This recognition motivates us to continue working towards that goal and make a positive impact on India’s financial ecosystem,” he added.
Razorpay has witnessed an uptick in growth, and continues to rely on its technology and product-centric approach to offer innovative solutions that are aimed at bridging gaps in the market. The ranking in YC’s Breakthrough List, as well as Top Companies List for the second time in a row is a testament to the company’s impact-driven culture.


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The iPhone 14 might still be over a year away, but that doesn't mean that the iPhone 14 rumors aren't already swirling! Now that the iPhone 13 family has been launched, we expect to see even more leaks appear over the upcoming months. With the iPhone 13 featuring incremental updates in some areas, we're interested to see what the iPhone 14 could bring to the table.
With rumors pointing towards a 48MP camera sensor and a new punch-hole design that will finally get rid of the front-facing camera notch, it looks like we certainly won't be disappointed! Discover the latest iPhone 14 rumors below…
• Read more: Best iPhone for photography
iPhone 14: release date and pricing
Traditionally, Apple has released its iPhone handsets in its annual September event. While 2020 was a little different (thought to be due to the pandemic), 2021 saw Apple return to its traditional September timeline, announcing the iPhone 13 series on 14 September. We would assume that we'll be likely to see the iPhone 14 arrive at around the same point next year in 2022.
Meanwhile, we haven't seen any specific rumors or leaks regarding the pricing for the iPhone 14, but we would expect it to be in line with the iPhone 13 family. You can pick up the iPhone 13 for £779 / $799 / AU$1,349, the iPhone 13 mini for £649 / $699 / AU$1,199, the iPhone 13 Pro for £949 / $999 / AU$1,699 and the iPhone 13 Pro Max for £1,049 / $1,099 / $1,849.
iPhone 14 rumors
Latest rumors: After the announcement of the iPhone 13 series, we're already starting to hear some interesting tidbits of information for the iPhone 14 models. Apparently, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has shared insight (via 9to5Mac) into what we could expect from the iPhone 14 in an investors note.
Aligning with a previous rumor (see below), it seems that the iPhone 14 Pro models will feature a new punch-hole display for the front-facing camera. We're also set to see a "new and more affordable" 6.7" iPhone, which could potentially replace the iPhone XX Mini that's been present for the previous two generations.
Meanwhile, we're continuing to see rumors of a 48MP wide angle camera – although it seems that this may be limited to the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models.
Interestingly, it also looks as if we could be due a new iPhone SE in 2022 – one that will apparently include 5G support.
Older rumors: While the iPhone 13 series had minimal updates to some of its systems, it seems that the 2022 iPhone 14 could be a significant and exciting upgrade. A report from Ming Chi Kuo, via MacRumors, says that: "We believe that the camera quality of the new 2H22 iPhone will elevate mobile phone camera photography to a new level".
Apparently, the 2022 iPhone model will feature 48MP output and 12MP output simultaneously, with the sensor size increasing from 1.7-micron pixels (as seen in the current iPhone 12) to 2.5-micron pixels. According to MacRumors, the 108MP camera unit in Samsung's arsenal is only 2.4-micron pixels, which means that Apple could be set to produce the best camera phone on the market in 2022 (as long as no other manufacturer beats them to the punch!).
Ming Chi Kuo also suggests that, while we'll see an iPhone 13 mini, we shouldn't expect to see a mini version of the 2022 iPhone 14. Instead, Apple is reported to be developing a pair of 6.7" phones with pro and non-pro features instead.


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Category Archives: Mobile Marketing
Rating: Did not use/steal/recreate from anyone
Following a piece which GoMobile News recently carried under the headline ‘Blutential stole my ideas says Blumore’s Devanney’ here. This was a follow-up from ’A BluPod from might help with proximity marketing’ here, in which we published a comment from Keith Devanney claiming the Blupod had been developed by his company – Blumore. This he alleged had been “stolen by John Boyle.” Below Blutential’s John Boyle adamantly denies the allegations made by Keith Devanney. Continue reading
Rating: Biggest barcode readers are currently Germans not Americans
Barcode scanning specialist, ScanLife, has just released its latest [Q1 2012] report on mobile barcode trends. What’s interesting is that out of all the barcodes processed by Scanlife, Apple iPhone users have started to scan more. The traffic generated by iPhones grew 6 per cent from Q4 2011 and represented 45 per cent of all traffic. That’s almost equal to Android OS users with 48 per cent. BlackBerry OS only just managed to pip Symbian (4 per cent vs 3 per cent). Of course, there are other firms handling barcode traffic but this report gives a clue as to the size of the market. Total scans processed by ScanLife rose to 13 million scans which represent a 157 per cent increase from Q 2011. There was also an interesting change in which countries had the top number of scanning users. The USA dropped out of the Top Five whilst the UK entered it. Continue reading
Rating: We’re still waiting for Greene King to comment
An Epsom (UK) man, who refuses to be named, has claimed that the Greene King brewery has stolen his mobile telephone number (MISDN). He has started to receive marketing text messages from his local public house but insists he has never given out the telephone number. The reason he’s so positive is that the Vodafone PAYG number in question is only used for communication with his mistress. So how did the number fall into the brewer’s hands, then? The only explanation he can think of is that he leant the handset to his girlfriend to put records onto the pub jukebox. GoMobile News has been in constant communication with the brewery but they’ve yet to confirm or deny the allegation. Continue reading
Rating: Levi Shapiro explains how in Jerusalem Post blog
Writing in a blog for the Jerusalem Post, Levi Shapiro, Professor in the Media Innovation Lab at IDC, explains how soft drinks giant – Coca-Cola, plans to double its revenues by 2020. Naturally, mobile marketing is going to be a core part of that strategy. The drinks company has realised, of course, that if it wants to achieve its goal, then growth has to come from emerging markets and mobile is the ideal media for reaching such potential customers. Besides targeting markets in the likes of China and Latin America, the global brand is also investigation how it can utilise technological advances such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Holographic 3D to achieve its plans. Continue reading
Rating: Since when has coming fourth been such a big deal?
There’s exaggerating; there’s bending the truth; and, apparently, there’s Somo. The company has just used the phrase (in several missives to GoMobile News) that its client “raced to victory in their bid to win over the crowds at Cheltenham racecourse.” The trouble is we’re talking horse racing here. And the ‘horse’ which Somo was backing turns out to be the iOS app it has promoted for bookmakers, Paddy Power. Unfortunately, the app came in fourth place during Cheltenham week. It is our understanding that unless the race has a huge number of runners, coming fourth in a horse race doesn’t even secure you a ‘place’, let alone a victory. A bit of a hollow ‘victory, then? Continue reading
Guest Post from Arthur Tegetmeier, SEO Accounts Manager with Clicky Media – Top Mobile Marketing Tips
This week’s Guest Post author is Arthur Tegetmeier from Clicky Media. We all pretend to know everything about Mobile Marketing but Arthur actually spells it all out.
The first thing to understand when looking at mobile as a marketing platform is that it is fundamentally a different medium to traditional marketing platforms (desktop and tablet included). Irrespective of what those differences are, it should follow that a particular platform demands a specific strategy. Surprisingly, this is a measure that many large and established brands are yet to adopt. Below is an outline of what some of these differences are, what they mean for marketing and how they can be approached. Continue reading
I missed a great opportunity in my last post to highlight that the fabulous mobile advertising company Adfonic have done a creative and enlightening interview with GoMo News. In a huge twist on typical advertising (and idea you would expect from the up and coming self-service marketplace leader) we are not offering banner space but a first video interview ad. Continue reading
Mobile Advertising company Amobee, has launched a new ad unit for the Windows Phone OS. These ad units are called User Generated Ad (UGA).
The UGA is an ad that will allow consumers to enable consumer to determine which ads they want to receive on their Windows Phones. This will be determined by their personal preferences and user patterns.
From the press release Continue reading
50 % of mobile traffic is done after 5pm
Average CTR on standard mobile banner is 0,4% (no scripts)// iPad average CTR is 0,77% (standard banners) // Android CTR is 0,31% (standard banner) // WP7 : 0,15% (standard banner) // iPhone: 0,44% [...]
Guest Post from Inman Breaux, VP of Publisher Relations and Business Development for Airpush – Mobile Advertising–Opportunities abound
About Inman Breaux
Inman Breaux is VP of Publisher Relations and Business Development at Airpush. Prior to Airpush, Inman was director of business development at Adenyo, a mobile advertising technology company, which was acquired by Motricity in 2011. Prior to his time at Adenyo, Inman held various positions in the digital advertising industry including the Rubicon Project. Inman holds a BA in Finance/Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California. Continue reading
Rating: Mention on breakfast show promotes iPhone app
Here’s a successful way to get your iPhone app promoted. Get it mentioned on your local radio station. That’s what happened with Couple Talk written by a Wokingham counsellor, Paul Cockayne. The iPhone app got a star mention on the breakfast show at Radio Jackie which covers North Surrey and South West London. The only snag was that the DJs didn’t mention how you could get the app. Luckily GoMo News has tracked it down. You can purchase it for £1.49 from here.The app is aimed that couples who’ve been together so long that they have forgotten the art of conversation. It reminds us of Stuck4words -an app created by legendary electronics hack, David Manners. Continue reading
Guest Post from Yanna Sigenlaub, Vice President of marketing for LTU – The battle of print to mobile
About Yanna Sigenlaub
Yanna Sigenlaub is vice president of marketing for LTU technologies and directs all global marketing and corporate communications efforts. She is responsible for helping to cultivate opportunities in new and existing markets and also oversees partner and developer relations. Yanna has been critical in guiding LTU technologies direction into mobile marketing and for the mobile visual search solution, pixlinQ. Continue reading
I was delighted to have the pleasure to interview Thomas Enraght-Moony the CEO of Lumata last week. For those of you that don’t know, Lumata has been born out of Buongiorno (B!). Lumata is a new mobile marketing consultancy for the B2B space created by Francisco Partners and Buongiorno.
With many companies touting greatness in the mobile marketing space, I was keen to chat with Thomas to find out how the new mobile marketing consultancy was shaping and what his thoughts were on mobile marketing trends. The results were actually surprising. Continue reading
Samsung has revealed the key highlights from its Christmas promotional campaign, which featured Angry Birds, one of the most popular mobile games of 2011.
Angry Birds players’ enjoyed 25 new levels of Winter Wonderland, as well as a special Samsung GALAXY Note level that was available from December 5th 2011.


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Early Kentucky Craftsman Fair
to be held Nov. 15
An “Early Kentucky Craftsman Fair,” hosted by Friends of Fort Harrod, will be held Nov. 15 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Nov. 16 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the James Harrod Convention Center, Fort Harrod State Park, 100 South College Street, Harrodsburg. “Craftsmen and women will be selling 18th century historical clothing, weaving, beadwork, leather goods, knives, black powder guns and accoutrements,” event organizers said. There will be a silent auction and drawing for door prizes.


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OPPO has announced that the A55 is now available in online and offline stores in Philippines.
This new OPPO phone is the latest in the brand’s A-series of budget to midrange smartphones. One of this phones’ highlight features is its triple camera setup which consists of a50MP AI camera, 2MP bokeh camera and 2MP macro camera. Complementing the rear cameras is a 16MP selfie shooter.
Powering the A55 is a Mediatek Helio G35 Octa-Core Processor which is complemented by 4GB of RAM plus 64GB internal storage. As for its battery, the OPPO A55 has a 5,000 mAh ultra battery capacity. Finally, for its OS, the A55 runs on Android 11-based OS ColorOS 11.1.
The OPPO A55 comes in two ultra colorways: Rainbow Blue and Starry Black, and it retails at PHP 9,999. The phone is available via OPPO Brand Stores nationwide starting October 18. Meanwhile, the phone is also exclusively available online via Shopee starting October 18-31. Starting November 1, the OPPO A55 will be made available in all OPPO Brand Stores, online stores, and both e-commerce platforms Shopee, Lazada.
To know more about OPPO A55, visit the OPPO Flagship Store at Lazada and Shopee, or the OPPO Philippines official website.


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Toshiba has completed an experimental datacentre demonstration facility in Japan as an overture for worldwide expansion.
On Monday the company announced that if the modular datacentre push is successful in the Japanese market, then it will expand the products worldwide.
A growth in the data generated by both the public and private sectors will grow demand for datacentres, according to a statement by the company.
The facility is located at the company's Fuchu Complex in Western Tokyo Photo credit: Toshiba
The experimental datacentre facility (pictured) combines free air cooling with a steel frame modular design that allows containerised mini-datacentres to be stacked on top of one another, then hooked into the uninterruptible power supply (UPS).
According to Toshiba figures, when no air conditioning is needed and air cooling — also known as free cooling — is used, the facility can attain a power efficiency rating — known in the industry as a power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating — of 1.3.
The server module has a maximum load of up to nine racks or 46 servers, according to Toshiba.


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A t a big music festival, you know what a hassle it can be keeping track of your personal belongings like credit cards and cash. Enter Lolla Cashless, a wristband powered by radio frequency identification that lets wearers link up their credit card information to buy food and drinks.
The organizers say the technology-chip embedded wristbands are the first of their kind, and that attendees of Lollapalooza, which is being held Aug. 1-3 at Grant Park in Chicago, are sent bracelets that they can register online.
"We feel like not only will that be big for us, but it will end up spreading across some of the other major festivals,” Patrick Dentler, marketing director at Austin, Texas-based C3 Presents told Adweek.
Besides Lollapalooza, C3 also produces the Austin City Music Festival and the Austin Food & Wine Festival.
If concertgoers walk away from talking about not just Eminem, Lorde and Kings of Leon, but how great it was to not carry plastic, it will be a positive test case for mobile payments. As long as no one spaces on their PIN.


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We are quickly becoming a nation of e-commerce, with an estimated 1 million packages per day shipped in the US alone. Now with the growth of Amazon Now’s 1-hour delivery service, grocery delivery companies, and meal prep services, that number will only increase.
To help meet the demand for faster and safer shipping, one company just built our nation’s first “packaging research center” right here in the Queen City.
Atlantic Packaging‘s $10 million, 80,000 square foot packaging solution center is the first of its kind, giving companies the ability to research, test, and certify new packaging and shipping methods.
The highlight of the facility is its Multi-Axis system, built by Lansmont and TEAM, leaders in vibration and impact testing equipment (who normally build for NASA and the U.S. military). The system is able to simulate any real-world transit condition and give extremely detailed feedback for both small and large packages – it’s the most accurate piece of testing equipment available anywhere in the packaging industry.
The new center also includes a state-of-the-art packaging lab for testing new materials, and several fully integrated packaging lines to display new automation processes.
Customers from major consumer products companies to mom-and-pop shops can use the new facility to help improve their shipping materials and packaging procedures.
The new packaging solution center is located at the corner of Steele Creek and Sam Neely roads in Steele Creek;
For inquiries or more information, you can contact Wes Carter, at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Bushwick Grind, the Broadway Triangle’s coffee shop staple, celebrates its first anniversary with a special brunch this Sunday. The cafe is rolling out new, healthier menu items, along with specialty coffee and juice drinks.
“We are now ready to evolve a bit further to serve a community that is inundated with fast food restaurants and offer some fresher, healthier food options,” says Bushwick Grind’s co-owner, Kymme Williams. “Our event on Sunday is our opportunity to showcase our new menu items and to solicit unfiltered feedback from our guests in a chilled out, fun, interactive way.”
Bushwick Grind’s new menu items include shrimp & grits, grilled salmon, and a cranberry goat cheese salad.
Sunday’s brunch will feature live music from Brooklyn violinist Nicolas Wilson and a raffle for a $100 Bushwick Grind gift card. There will also be opportunities to sample all of the cafe’s new menu items.
The fun starts at 11 a.m. this Sunday, March 5. Stop by for an unforgettable brunch!
Local cafe with ample seating and health-focused menu.
63 Whipple St. (Flushing Avenue JMZ stop)
Mon-Sun: 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Featured image courtesy of Bushwick Grind.


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October 23, 2019
South Korean free-to-air broadcaster EBS has acquired the rights to air series five, six and seven of Entertainment One’s “Peppa Pig” franchise.
eOne’s “Peppa Pig” was first aired in South Korea in May 2019, and following a positive audience response, has returned to the region with three full seasons. To support the move to a new territory and serve the demand of a new audience, EBS has also been appointed as the licensing agency and consumer products manager for the “Peppa Pig” brand in the region.
“The response to ‘Peppa Pig’ across Asia has been amazing,” says Olivier Dumont, president, family, brands, eOne. “It is testament to the universal appeal of the series that it has secured a highly sought-after slot on the EBS schedule, and we’re delighted that our Korean fans will be able to see new ‘Peppa’ episodes on a network they love. Our new partnership with EBS will enable us to bring ‘Peppa’ to the widest possible audience in South Korea, and we’re excited about its potential in the region.”
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Because of the cancellation of MWC a lot of smartphone makers have been getting used to holding virtual online-only unveiling events for their new devices over the past few months.
According to a new report from today, Samsung wants to enter into the ultra-premium segment of the smartwatch game by offering a titanium version of its upcoming smartwatch.
Motorola's new Razr, the rebirth of the classic form factor with a foldable screen, is definitely not a perfect device, what with its performance and sub-par camera and battery life and overall creakiness, so there clearly are a lot of things on which a possible successor might improve upon.
Yesterday, Microsoft made a major announcement for .NET developers. Until now, to create cross-platform apps, .NET developers generally use Xamarin. Microsoft is now introducing an even better way to develop cross-platform .NET apps.
LG announced its latest midrange phone in its home market of South Korea dubbed LG Q61. It brings a 6.5-inch FHD+ display with a 16MP punch hole camera and a 19.5:9 aspect ratio.
Olympus will end its camera business in South Korea on June 30, according to a new report from The Korea Times. The decision is 'mostly' based on low camera sales volume, the report claims. Olympus will continue to sell medical and scientific equipment in the country.
Google's Pixel phones never had the fastest chipset and that was by choice. The original phones used a Snapdragon 821 down-clocked to 820 speeds.
Today, Dell announced a new lineup of OptiPlex and Precision workstations; two OptiPlex, and nine Precision, all outfitted with 10th Gen Intel Core Processors, and most are available with NVIDIA Quadro graphics.
The cities of the world are sick. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, people living in metropolitan areas have been among the worst hit, unable to socially distance effectively and sometimes plagued with preexisting conditions that their cities helped create.
Alienware introduces the AW2521HF gaming monitor is a 24.5" monitor with a native refresh rate of up to 240 Hz and an incredibly fast 1 ms GtG fast IPS response time.
Microsoft surprised Windows users with a new package manager yesterday. It's a command line tool that allows developers, power users, and really any Windows user to install their favorite apps from a simple command.


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Barista, the specialty coffee major that is a wholly-owned entity of the Chennai-based Sterling Infotech Group, is going to expand its outlets in Asian markets, said Brotin Banerjee, COO, Barista Coffee Company Limited. "We are planning to increase the outlets in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh. In Middle East, we are widening our presence in Egypt, UAE and Qatar," he said. The company is expected to open at least 10 to 15 outlets in this region by then end of this year.
Asked on the expected growth from these regions, he said, "We are looking at 10-12 per cent growth this year and 25 per cent in the next three years." Banerjee said that there would be product differentiation, while catering to the international market. "The coffee won't change as it is liked world over but the food items would be differentiated to suit the local needs," he said.
Back home, Barista is intensifying its presence by tying up with Indian Oil Corporation to start outlets on highways. The company is pumping in over Rs 20 crore for taking the highway route. "The alliance will involve investments from both companies to the tune of Rs16-20 lakh per outlet. At full stream of about 200 outlets, Barista is looking at revenue of 10-15 per cent of the overall Barista revenue," he said. Starting with the Delhi-Agra and Delhi-Chandigarh highways, which will be operational by May 2005. Barista also plans to cover other strategic locations like Delhi-Mathura, Mumbai-Pune, Chennai-Pondicherry, Delhi-Jaipur and Bangalore-Mysore highways.
Interestingly, the pricing will be slightly lower in highways in comparison to the offering in metros. "We are looking at pricing the products at 10-15 per cent lower than the prices charged in the cities," he said.
The company is also beefing up its marketing activities to increase footfalls during the summers. In April, the entire menu is going to be revamped, informed Banerjee. "We are coming up with 20 innovations in the product portfolio. We are planning to introduce fruit flavoured tea, yogurt-based smoothies and different flavours of juices. For summers, we would be concentrating more on cold beverages and salads," he said. The company has been growing at 20 per cent this year and plans to double the turnover in the coming fiscal, said Banerjee.


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The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states are suing Google Alpha Inc., calling for the search giant’s ad technology business to be split over alleged illegal monopolization of the digital advertising market.
“The lawsuit we filed today seeks to hold Google accountable for its long-term monopoly on digital advertising technologies that content creators use to sell ads and advertisers use to buy ads online,” said Jonathan Kanter, head of antitrust law at a press conference.
The corporation is accused of using “anti-competitive and illegal means to eliminate or reduce any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies,” says SearchEngines.
In addition, the Justice Department is demanding a review of two key acquisitions by Google, which were made 12 years ago (AdMeld) and 15 years ago (DoubleClick), and were the cornerstone of the company’s subsequent dominance in the online advertising market.
Google disagrees with these allegations and believes that in an effort to cancel these deals, the Justice Department is trying to rewrite history at the expense of publishers, advertisers and Internet users.
“Both of these acquisitions have enabled us to invest heavily in the development of new and innovative advertising technologies. These transactions have been reviewed by US regulators, including the Department of Justice, and have been approved and authorized. Since then, competition in this sector has only intensified.”
Dan Taylor, Google’s vice president of global advertising, said in a statement that the company’s competitors in the online advertising market today include major players such as Microsoft (which acquired Xandr advertising platform last year, allowing it to sign a landmark agreement with Netflix), Amazon (whose advertising business is currently growing faster than Google’s) and Apple, which is constantly expanding its presence in the advertising market. Not to mention media companies such as Comcast and Disney, as well as large retailers Walmart and Target, who are actively investing in creating their own online advertising technologies.
Google’s advertising technologies are designed to work in a competitive market. They make it easy for partners to select the products and services they want to use on over 80 competing publisher platforms and over 700 competing advertiser platforms.
“We don’t force anyone to use our advertising technologies – they are preferred because they are effective,” a Google spokesperson said. “In fact, publishers and advertisers typically work with multiple technologies at the same time to reach customers and make more money.”
NIXsolutions reminds that the Ministry of Justice has been preparing this lawsuit against Google since the fall of 2021. The investigation should have been completed by now, however, faced with financial difficulties due to the delay in the passage of the “social spending law”, the decision on whether to sue Google or not was never made.


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Israeli flash storage company Kaminario today announced it has closed a $75 million financing round. This bringing the company’s total funding to $218 million since it was founded in 2008. The latest round was led by Waterwood Group with a mix of new and existing investors, including Sequoia, Pitango, Lazarus, Silicon Valley Bank and Globespan Capital Partners. The new capital will be used to accelerate go-to-market initiatives, expand Kaminario’s global presence, and fuel R&D.
Last month Israeli company Zirra, which uses AI to evaluate startups, estimated that Kaminario was worth $811 million. This latest financing must surely mean it is now a unicorn worth more than $1 billion. Kaminario was founded by CEO Dani Golan, Ofir Dubovi and Moshe Selfin. The company is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts and has its development center in Yokneam, near Haifa.
Golan said, “Our strong business growth, cutting-edge technology and the all-flash market opportunity makes Kaminario very attractive to investors and partners alike. The role of data center is transforming as businesses continue to accelerate digital transformation and cloud adoption, and we are perfectly positioned to deliver agile storage solutions for today’s on-demand applications. This new funding will allow us to continue our global expansion and accelerate our innovation agenda to better serve our customers.”
With its built-for-flash, software-defined architecture, Kaminario is positioned to power on-demand applications, turn data into usable information and support SaaS businesses as they grow. Today, more and more IT organizations are turning to Kaminario’s all-flash platform for the scalability, performance and agility modern applications require. Kaminario is focused on delivering storage solutions for the always-on economy, whether the applications are delivered as SaaS, on-line services or private cloud - from retail and healthcare to finance and manufacturing.
Kaminario says it is redefining the future of datacenters with all-flash arrays that deliver the agility, scalability, performance and economics a datacenter requires to deal with today’s cloud-first, dynamic world and provide real-time data access - anywhere, anytime. Hundreds of customers rely on Kaminario K2 to power their mission critical applications and safeguard their digital ecosystem.
“With more and more companies shifting a lot of their application purchases from on-premise to cloud SaaS models, SaaS providers are seeing insane scale demands that completely destroy the traditional infrastructure paradigm,” said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “Slow input-output (I/O) can mean the death of your business - as can the cost of over provisioning. Kaminario is in a perfect position to handle outrageous I/O demands without forcing providers to buy more than they need in advance.”
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on January 10, 2017
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At last year's CES, we heard how OLED was the future of TV. Blacker blacks, more vibrant colour and dangerously sexy curves. Flash forward a year and Samsung is cheering for a new technology: SUHD TV, powered by Quantum Dot technology. But what of OLED? Can you still buy a great Samsung OLED TV in 2015?
The short answer is yes, but the full story is a little more complicated than that.
The pitch around the new SUHD TVs is that they produce better and more vivid colour than LCD/LED and deep blacks to rival those pumped out by gorgeous yet expensive OLED sets.
The S-branding doesn't come from anything technical that you have to remember, it basically just means that it's a flagship TV model in the same way that the Galaxy S phones and tablets are flagship mobility products.
To make it worthy of flagship status, Samsung has done a bit of science and packed the new SUHD range with Quantum Dot technology: nano-scale crystals that absorb light and re-emit it at a different, very specific, wavelength. They basically do what the hydrocarbon semiconductors in an OLED set do but without all the fancy organic chemistry. They could hold the key to creating plasma-quality colour saturation that never fades, brighter panels with increased contrast, and wider gamuts—all for not much more than today’s LCD sets.
Samsung handed the TV components over to its medical business which is — no joke — working on nanobots designed to find cancer cells inside the bloodstream and fight infection, and asked the team to go down into microscopic detail on how to make the TVs better. Et voila: quantum dot.
Furthermore, Samsung is introducing more smarts into its SUHD products over and above the Quantum Dot technology. Film studios are now working with Samsung as part of the UHD Alliance to display colour better on TVs. Studios come to Samsung and say what they want their movies to look like, and colourists work to build a profile specific to the TVs themselves so images are displayed as the artist actually intended.
It will be interesting for us to get an OLED TV and an SUHD TV next to each other in the lab later on in the year, mostly to compare the black level. Because OLED pixels don’t need to be backlit like LCD LED TVs, parts of the panel are actually off in order to display deep blacks. That’s a slam dunk for OLED, because it means nothing can get darker.
Samsung admits that making OLED sets is hard. Every manufacturer with skin in the OLED game agrees. There's a massive amount of wastage, breakage and care that goes into producing one OLED set, so Samsung going back to making an LED TV makes sense. It's simpler, and produces less waste in the construction process. Faster manufacturing and less chucked in the factory skip means that Samsung will offer its SUHD TVs at a crazy cheap price (compared to OLED) later on in the year.
The 85-inch Curved S9500 SUHD TV (pictured) will come in just shy of $25,000, for example. While that may not be cheap for the average TV buyer, it's indicative of a trend: Samsung can make flagship TVs with image quality close to that of OLED available in the market cheaper than its competitor can make OLED sets. The range will span from 48-inches in size up to the massive 100-something-inch range because it's easy to make in larger quantities for OLED. For Samsung, it's barely a compromise.
Meanwhile, it will still sell OLED TVs for those interested, but it won't have the volume or scale we saw in 2014. According to one Samsung spokesperson we chatted to on the show floor, "SUHD is better in every way".
We walked over to the LG stand after this conversation to check out the competition, and found that it had found a way to manufacture OLED at scale that didn't seem to push prices up that high. LG's yield rates are better during the manufacturing process, which means it can sell more of what it makes. LG's OLED range starts at 55-inch and ranges up to 77-inches.
As a way of hedging its bets, however, LG also has Quantum Dot TVs like Samsung in its range, just waiting to see which one consumers will latch onto first.
At this stage, both Samsung and LG are hedging their bets on the future of TV, and it's up to you to decide who wins.
Luke Hopewell attended CES as a guest of Samsung.


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Forby v. One Technologies presented the unusual situation of an arbitration waiver by the defendant, followed by an arbitration waiver the plaintiff as to a newly asserted claim: “We again address a class action claiming that One Technologies, L.P. (“One Tech”), duped consumers into signing up for ‘free’ credit reports that were not really free. The last time around, we ruled One Tech waived its right to arbitrate the plaintiffs’ state-law claims. Forby v. One Technologies., 909 F.3d 780 (5th Cir. 2018) [hereinafter Forby I]. Now, we consider whether One Tech also waived its right to arbitrate federal claims added after remand. Adhering to our precedent that waivers of arbitral rights are evaluated on a claim-by-claim basis, see Subway Equip. Leasing Corp. v. Forte, 169 F.3d 324, 328 (5th Cir. 1999), we hold that One Tech did not waive its right to arbitrate the new federal claims.” No. 20-10088 (Sept. 14, 2021) (citing, inter alia, Collado v. J&G Transp., Inc., 820 F.3d 1256 (11th Cir. 2016)).
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Originally published:  01/10/2011
RESULTS US-headquartered Greif has upped its quarterly turnover while further bolstering it product and service offering through the acquisitions of Fustiplast and pack2pack
Greif has posted both record third quarter net sales of $1.1bn and a record third quarter operating profit of $108m compared to 2010 respective figures of $921.3m and $95.7m. Nonetheless, net income over the same period fell from $66m to $63m. “Our strong growth in net sales for the quarter benefited from acquisitions during the last 12 months, higher selling prices and the positive impact of foreign currency translation,” says chairman and CEO Michael J Gasser.
However, he notes, rigid industrial packaging demand in North America and western Europe was lower than anticipated during the final three weeks of the quarter. “There has been some recovery in demand based on August orders and shipments, on a seasonally adjusted basis, but at a lower level than earlier in the year,” Gasser says, adding that Greif is therefore “implementing actions to mitigate the financial impact of these developments”.
In terms of its Rigid Industrial Packaging & Services segment, quarterly net sales grew 17.9 per cent year-on-year from $681.7m to $804m. This increase, the company says, was “primarily due to higher selling prices, the positive impact of foreign currency translation and acquisitions” but was partially offset “by lower sales volumes due to decreased demand during the last three weeks of July in North America and western Europe on a same-structure basis”. At the same time, operating profit increased slightly from $71.5m to $72.0m concurrent with a rise in EBITDA from $89.6m to $91.5m.
Net sales for its Flexible Products & Services, meanwhile, more than doubled from $66.9m 12 months ago to $141.2m “due to sales attributable to flexible intermediate bulk container (FIBC) companies acquired during the second half of fiscal 2010”. Hand in hand with this, the segment saw both its operating profit and EBITDA over the period jump from $2.8m to $7.7m and from $3.3m to $10.1m, respectively.
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“During the third quarter, we completed a €200m [$280.8m] senior note offering to facilitate growth and improve our liquidity,” Gasser says. The company “also executed two rigid industrial packaging acquisitions”, viz a European steel drum producer with a capacity of around 1m units per annum and, significantly, Italy’s Fustiplast. Maintaining operations in Germany and Brazil as well as its native Italy, Fustiplast produces a wide range of plastics drums and jerrycans as well as the patented Flubox® line of blow-moulded composite intermediate bulk containers (IBCs), which Greif has been producing under licence in Scandinavia since March 2010.
The Fustiplast acquisition marks an important strategic step for Greif. Already the world’s largest steel drum producer with a global market share of around 55 per cent, it has now identified rigid IBCs, along with FIBCs and reconditioning, as one of its ‘three growth platforms’. “Market demand for rigid IBCs is growing faster than the overall rigid industrial packaging market,” Greif president and COO David Fischer told analysts during an earnings conference call. “We will manufacture rigid IBCs in select Greif facilities around the world made possible by previous GBS [Greif Business System] operational achievements that have made floor space available for the production of additional products.”
In a similar vein, Greif has also now acquired pack2pack (p2p), a major European packagings reconditioner formed when Greif acquired Blagden’s European and Asian new steel drum and closures operations in 2007. Boasting an annual capacity of around 3.5m units across eight locations in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France, the UK, Austria and Norway, p2p will now become part of Greif ’s EarthMindedTM Life Cycle Services business that collects, reconditions, remanufactures and recycles used industrial containers.
“Now that we have established a solid base in North America and Europe we will be accelerating global implementation of our strategy for EarthMinded Life Cycle Services,” Fischer stated. “Beyond the complementary fit with rigid industrial packaging, reconditioning represents a strategic opportunity for Greif to establish a global leadership in this area,” he continued. “We believe that we can leverage our manufacturing and logistics capabilities to achieve superior returns in this business.”


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Are you in the market for a 3D printer, but find that the current asking price of a few hundred dollars is still too much? What about a 3D printer for less than $100? It may sound impossible, but one team took to Kickstarter to prove it’s not.
Rinnovated Design, a team out of Saskatchewan, Canada, debuted Peachy Printer on Kickstarter over the weekend. The sub-$100 3D printer looks to revolutionize the 3D printing space by becoming not only the cheapest open-source 3D printer on the block, but also the cheapest photolithographic 3D printer ever made.
What’s photolithography? It’s a process where a laser is shot into a pool of liquid resin, and the laser hardens areas of the resin into hard objects. It’s just lot like Formlabs’ equally successful Form 1 3D printer, but at a fraction of the price.
Check out a prototype (complete with obnoxious dubstep) below:
As you can see in the video above, the Peachy Printer is one of the most innovative 3D printers around. Not only is the hardware completely unique, but the way it transmits 3D models through audio is completely novel. I wouldn’t be surprised if more 3D printers adopted this approach to reduce the cost associated with expensive 3D printing software.
All the $100 tiers are sold out on Kickstarter, but those interested in a cheap DIY 3D printer have one more option available to them. The Peachy Printer is also available on Indiegogo where 497 $100 units are still available. It seems that most aren’t aware of this simultaneous Indiegogo campaign so you better jump on it while you still can.
If you want more Peachy Printer goodness, check out the following video to find out how it works:


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Q. Can you explain something to me? Why did AT&T abandon DIRECTV after paying all that money for it? It makes no sense to me. Why buy it if they are not going to run the business the right way? It seems like all they care about is streaming and they don’t care anything about DIRECTV’s customers. Can you explain this?! — Sandy, Taos, New Mexico.
Sandy, that’s a great question. In 2015, AT&T purchased DIRECTV for $49 billion which would suggest the company had great plans for the satellite TV service.
However, since the deal, AT&T has treated DIRECTV like the proverbial ugly stepsister, choosing instead to invest its time and money in new streaming services such as AT&T TV Now (live streaming service formerly known as DIRECTV Now), AT&T TV Watch (live streaming on mobile devices), AT&T TV (live streaming delivered over a company set-top) and HBO Max (a new HBO online service debuting May 27.)
Meg James of The Los Angeles Times chronicled this strange strategy in her excellent January 31, 2020 story entitled, ‘Nearly 3 Million Subscribers Ditched DIRECTV Last Year. Will AT&T Do the Same?’
“Since AT&T took over, hundreds of (DIRECTV) workers have been cut. Software applications and other functions have been outsourced to IBM and Accenture. The company has been eager to sell smaller assets, including its regional sports networks, and has even considered abandoning its exclusive arrangement with the NFL for the popular NFL Sunday Ticket, according to knowledgeable people who requested anonymity because they’re not authorized to comment publicly. The NFL package — a signature DirecTV offering for 25 years — has become a money loser for AT&T, given the high cost of sports rights,” James wrote.
AT&T’s peculiar policies have led to roughly five million DIRECTV subscribers dropping their service since 2015 with many saying the new owner abandoned them before they did the same to the satcaster. Ex-DIRECTV subscribers (and many current ones) have filled Internet message boards with stories of shoddy customer service and other complaints over the last five years.
“AT&T has slashed funds that had been devoted to recruiting new DIRECTV subscribers and used that money instead to develop new platforms (such as AT&T TV and AT&T TV Now), according to analysts,” James wrote in January.
So why did AT&T take this course, you ask? Even a company as deep-pocketed as AT&T can’t afford to waste $49 billion, right?
I think that when AT&T first expressed interest in purchasing DIRECTV, it truly believed the satellite TV business had many years to go before it would be replaced by streaming. Consequently, the prospect of obtaining more than 20 million TV subscribers was exciting to AT&T executives who foresaw selling other company assets to them, such as phone service.
However, shortly after the acquisition, AT&T became concerned that cord-cutting would soon gut the traditional TV business, including satellite and cable. In 2016 and 2017, newspapers and industry web sites were overflowing with predictions from Wall Street analysts and journalists that cable and satellite would soon be extinct.
AT&T could have ignored the forecasts and continued to invest in improving DIRECTV’s service and programming quality. If it had, the satcaster may have been able to minimize the subscriber defections.
But by choosing instead to publicly place its bet on streaming, AT&T sent a strong signal to DIRECTV subscribers that it didn’t believe satellite TV had a strong future. This decision combined with the tidal wave of press coverage about cord-cutting eventually helped convince millions of DIRECTV subs to drop service. If AT&T doesn’t believe in DIRECTV, why should we?
I won’t say AT&T panicked in 2016 and 2017. But the company clearly overreacted to the cord-cutting stories. The wise course would have been to fortify DIRECTV while getting the streaming business ready in private for possible launch in later years. After all, AT&T had just invested $49 billion in the satellite TV business. That investment needed to be protected.
But AT&T actually launched DIRECTV Now in November 2016, less than two years after it bought DIRECTV! And company executives suggested the new live streaming service would eventually replace DIRECTV.
That was premature. DIRECTV subscribers soon started to flee in bigger numbers. And, ironically, DIRECTV Now (now AT&T TV Now) has become a failure as well with the service losing hundreds of thousands of subscribers over the last year.
It was a lose-lose for everyone.
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In order to facilitate smooth cross-border transactions, the Indian government has been attempting to export its digital payment systems, such as the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), to other nations. To make remittance payments and financial transfers less expensive, this is being done.
The most effective payment system in India, UPI, will be implemented in France, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. According to Modi, visitors from India will soon be able to use UPI to send payments in rupees from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
UPI will be used in France, India and France have agreed. Indian tourists will now be able to pay in rupees since it will start from the Eiffel Tower, according to PM Modi.
The Centre stated in January of this year that non-resident Indians (NRIs) from ten different countries can send and receive money using UPI provided their domestic bank accounts are connected to their international phone numbers.
Singapore, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Oman, Qatar, the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom were among the nations on the list.
The nodal organisation for UPI, National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI), advised members taking part in UPI to make sure that only accounts compliant with the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) can utilise this feature.
Here are some of the connections between India and other nations using the UPI system.
All stakeholders, including member banks, third-party application providers, and other payment providers, will be able to offer UPI Global by December 31, 2021, according to the UPI global effort, according to NPCI.
Bhutan was the first nation to approve UPI transactions with the BHIM App in July 2021.
The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) of Bhutan and NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), its worldwide arm, teamed to enable and execute BHIM UPI QR-based payments in Bhutan, according to a news release from NPCI. Bharat Interface for Money is referred to as BHIM. The NPCI created the app to support mobile payments.
'UPI One World' was introduced by the RBI and NPCI in February for overseas visitors to India after India took over the G20 Presidency in December 2022.
In March 2022, Nepal embraced UPI for online transactions. In order to implement UPI for interoperable real-time P2P and merchant payment transactions in Nepal, NIPL inked a contract with Manam Infotech Private Limited and Gateway Payments Service Pvt Ltd, the country's licenced payment system operators.
The first Indian fintech company to allow international UPI payments is PhonePe. Users of PhonePe may make payments to merchants at points of sale or merchant outlets in the UAE, Singapore, Mauritius, Nepal, and Bhutan using their Indian bank accounts. Additionally, Paytm said that it will begin supporting UPI Global payments.
Oman and NPCI teamed together in October 2022 to connect UPI to their payment systems. The NPCI and the Central Bank of Oman (CBO) inked a formal agreement in this respect in November.
Millions of Indian tourists travelling to the UAE will now be able to make payments securely and easily using BHIM UPI, according to an NIPL announcement in April 2022. NEOPAY terminals are the payment division of Mashreq bank.
A similar agreement was made by NIPL and Liquid Group, a provider of cross-border digital payments, to enable the acceptance of QR-based UPI payments in ten nations throughout north and southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and
In August 2022, the United Kingdom and India announced that they will work together on QR code-based transactions. To do this, NIPL partnered with UK-based PayXpert, a supplier of payment solutions, to create a seamless payment solutions platform. In accordance with the contract, PayXpert promised to make the Indian payment solutions accessible for in-store payments on all of its Android point-of-sale (POS) devices in the UK. This would incorporate the potential of RuPay card payments down the road as well as QR code payments based on UPI.


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Free Web page host Homestead.com is officially no longer 100 percent free as of today.
The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company Wednesday launched a subscription-based version of Homestead Personal, its award-winning Web site building service.
The company says the decision to launch its subscription-based model only came down after the collapse of the sponsorship market forced it to charge, or discontinue its popular personal service altogether.
Starting at $9.99 per month, the new Homestead Personal includes the best of Homestead’s original flagship consumer service while adding several new features, such as a new Site Design Wizard, expanded storage and an extensive library of more than 800,000 images. Homestead members, as well as new subscribers who purchase six month or annual packages can expect additional discounts.
The monthly price was settled on after more than 115,000 Homestead members responded to CEO Justin Kitch’s initial letter explaining the company’s decision.
“We have received very positive feedback from our existing member base supporting our move toward a subscription model,” says Kitch. “Our members have told us that they are willing to pay a reasonable price for Homestead’s best-of-class Web-building services. Moving forward will allow us to focus on improving our pioneering and inventive technology and enabling our customers to create powerful, high-quality Web sites more easily and more quickly than ever imagined.”
A free but scaled-back Homestead Personal Preview service Site is available, but will be limited to 8 MB of storage and three pages within a single site. In addition, customer support is limited and Homestead branding is no longer optional. Preview customers only have access the online version of SiteBuilder.


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Microsoft is now accepting Bitcoin as a payment option to buy apps, games, and other products for Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox.Microsoft now accepts bitcoin for digital goods, including Xbox One, Xbox 360, Windows Phone and Windows 8 Games and Apps.Software giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has long been conside.
Microsoft (MSFT) recently announced that customers can now make payments for its digital products using Bitcoins.You also have a Microsoft account for purchasing content from the Windows and Xbox stores.Microsoft customers in the U.S. can now use Bitcoin to add money to their accounts, the global computing giant announced.
Users can deposit bitcoin to Microsoft and redeem Microsoft. to purchase our products and services now allows us to be at.
Another big company starts to accept Bitcoin and this time it is Microsoft.Microsoft now lets users add bitcoin to their online accounts, enabling payments for apps, games and other digital content through its Xbox platform.If you live in the US, you can use it to buy apps, games, music and videos from the Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox Games, Xbox Music and Xbox Video stores.
Bitcoin just got a big boost in stature as Microsoft is now accepting the cryptocurrency for digital content from its stores.
Another day, another company accepting bitcoin in an attempt to cash in on the craze.
Though not all companies have made the switch, most have taken notice of the quick trend.
Please refer to your Bitcoin wallet help for any questions about getting the info listed above.You can now buy apps, games and other stuff from microsoft with bitcoins.Microsoft is using BitPay to process their bitcoin transactions.Microsoft confirmed this week that customers can now use bitcoin to buy apps, games, and other products for Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox, making it one of the.Rebecca Case Watercolors accepts Bitcoin for purchases of her landscape watercolor prints in all sizes.Microsoft has added a new mode of payment for people living in the US.Cracker Barrels Together and Now We. it would start accepting bitcoin roughly.


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Similarly, What are the top 5 biggest tech companies in the world?
The Big Five. Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft are the tech titans, according to a more inclusive grouping known as GAMAM (Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft). Aside from Saudi Aramco, the GAMAM firms were the five most valuable public enterprises in the world by market value in January 2020.
Also, it is asked, Is Microsoft the biggest tech company?
The 20 Biggest Tech Companies in the World Alphabet is ranked No. 3 in technology in 2021, after sharing the position with software giant Microsoft last year. Microsoft is now ranked No. 4 in tech and No. 15 overall.
Secondly, Is Google bigger than Apple?
Who will be the first to catch Jeff Bezos? Apple is remains the most valuable corporation in the S&P 500, valued at $2.2 trillion, followed by Microsoft at $1.66 trillion. Amazon is in third place, with a market capitalization of $1.6 trillion. Then there’s Alphabet (GOOGL), which is valued at $1.2 trillion and has a market capitalization of $1.22 trillion.
Also, What is the richest company in the world?
As of May 2022, Saudi Aramco has a market capitalization of $2.332 trillion. Based on market valuation, it is now the most valuable firm in the world. With 270 billion barrels of known crude oil reserves, this Saudi Arabian national petroleum or gas business is the world’s second biggest.
People also ask, What company owns Apple?
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Is Apple the top tech company?
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Who is the most powerful company?
1. China’s Industrial and Commercial Bank (ICBC) The state-owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Limited (ICBC) is the world’s biggest and most powerful bank, with assets of $3,124.9 billion.
Is Apple richer than Russia?
When comparing GDP to market capitalization value and sales, Apple would be richer than Italy, Canada, and Russia, while corporations like Amazon would be wealthier than 92% of the global population.
Is Apple richer than Africa?
Apple is currently valued $2 trillion, more than the combined GDP of 48 African nations, including Nigeria and South Africa. Apple is the first corporation in the United States to be valued at $2 trillion. After being the first firm in the world to reach $1 trillion in August 2018, the corporation hit the $2 trillion dollar barrier on Wednesday.
Is Amazon richer than Apple?
Amazon has a net worth of $43.55 billion in 2020, following Apple’s $65 billion.
What is the 2nd richest company in the world?
2. Microsoft (MSFT) has a market capitalization of $928.57 billion dollars. Microsoft is the world’s second-richest corporation.
Who is richer Sony or Microsoft?
Microsoft has a market capitalization of more than $2 trillion. The value of Sony’s is estimated to be over $150 billion.
Can Bill Gates buy Apple?
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Bill Gates, the creator of Microsoft, unexpectedly purchased a stake in Cupertino, California-based Apple a few months ago. This acquisition is said to have saved Apple from going bankrupt too soon.
Does Apple own Disney?
On J., Apple would pay $275 billion for The Walt Disney Company. Apple’s reliance on iPhone sales, which account for more than 60% of all revenue, would be reduced. Apple would be in charge of service development.
How Much Is Steve Jobs Worth?
the sum of $250 million
Who is Cisco’s biggest competitor?
Juniper Networks is a networking company based in the United States It’s one of the first router and switch manufacturers, and its products mostly compete with Cisco’s. From 2021 to 2026, the worldwide router and switch market is estimated to reach $41.03 billion, increasing at a CAGR of 7.7%.
Is Cisco better than Google?
Employee Evaluations Work-life balance, culture and values, CEO approval, and percent recommend to a friend were all categories where Cisco Systems scored better. Overall Rating, Career Opportunities, Compensation & Benefits, and Senior Management were all greater for Google.
Why is Cisco so popular?
Cisco’s two decades of network switch innovation have resulted in an established track record of success. To develop products, they collaborated extensively with business and data center professionals. They keep a careful eye on consumer satisfaction as well. Cisco is the source of several IEEE standards.
Is Google bigger than Microsoft?
Despite the fact that Google has officially exceeded Microsoft in market capitalization, it is still less than half of Apple’s $627 billion. Google increased 1% to $761.78 after the closing in New York, achieving a market valuation of $249.9 billion, according to Bloomberg.
Which tech giant will fall first?
Microsoft’s varied product portfolio, as well as its large business reach, secures the company for many years to come, and it will be the unexpected tech behemoth to collapse first, alongside Amazon.
Is Apple still number one?
Apple (AAPL ) has maintained its position as the world’s most valuable publicly listed firm for years. It has a market capitalization of $1.4 trillion as of. That puts it ahead of other key tech businesses like Amazon.com (AMZN) and Google (GOOG).
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Which country is best in IT sector?
The following are the top ten best nations for IT professionals: The United States of America. The center of the tech sector and the cradle of the tech titans. Canada. https://www.wolfesimonmedicalassociates.com/cialis/ United Kingdom is a country in Europe. The UK’s technology industry resembles a living creature. Australia.\sFrance.\sGermany. Singapore.\sSpain.
How many 1 billion dollar companies are there?
A unicorn firm, often known as a unicorn startup, is a private company having a market capitalization of more than $1 billion. There are around 1,100 unicorns on the planet as of June 2022.
Why is Apple so successful?
Apple’s success is due to a strategic vision that includes mobile devices and wearables in addition to traditional desktop computers. The Apple brand’s continued success is based on both performance and design.
What are the top 3 online businesses?
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Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon to Face Monopoly Charges
That’s the prediction as other anti-trust convictions of others companies show the government actually is serious about unfair monopolies. What’s at stake in the growing anti-trust movement is the future of small business, which has been consistently crushed for too many years.
We all played the popular game of monopoly as kids, and it provided a good lesson about business. The goal of owning the best hotels in the best location is something President Trump certainly learned.
It’s been a billion dollar lesson for him and for Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and many other billoinaires. Building a monopoly is guaranteed, unlimited profit, but what happens when it goes too far?
The era of mergers, acquisitions and opportunities for single companies to dominate markets may be coming to an end. The recent focus by Democrats and now by Republicans is about to power up anti-trust charges by the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.
Facebook, Google and Amazon could be broken up, and the procedings will reshape stock markets and trade deals through 2020.
In a recent live news story on MSNBC, the commentator spoke on the anti-trust charges likely to happen, but avoided using the word monopoly. That’s the type of collusion and word play that makes consumers and regulators more suspicious about the investment community.
In the End, the Stock Markets Will Benefit
Interestingly, the stock markets have risen again. It seems nothing can really upset the US economy nor stop corporate profits. It could be the markets are happy about the anti-trust movement? Is this just a redistribution of money and opportunity away from the monopolies to small caps? Investors are looking for stocks with no import or anti-trust issues right now.
Is BIG tech the only industry about to face the wrath of anti-trust legislation? We’ll see business owners in every sector drawing attention to monopolies in their own industries and making an election issue out of it. That will add to fervor around anti-trust and monolopy.
President Trump Likes the Topic
President Trump spoke yesterday on how the Europeans have punished Google and Facebook with multibillion dollar fines (data collection monopoly), and claims he has another way of approaching the monopoly problem.
Trump is complaining about the lack of competition in the airline sector. Now 2 huge companies want to merge to create yet another monopoly. Bad timing. With trade impeding foreign competition, the monopolies have the US market to themselves, which of course exacerbates the situation for naive consumers.
Both Obama and Trump felt little compunction to do something about the monopoloy problem because they’re mostly US companies. Now with renewed focus on Europeanand Chinese monopolies, it’s easier for Trump to take action.
China is a land of monopoloy with a communist regime. The anti-trust focus will land on many of their top companies including Huawei. The anti-monopoloy news will only increase in the years ahead.
Google is the Target
Google has always claimed its monopoly is a beneficial one and that it should continue. But this latest request to let Huawei in, will not go over well. The Huawei/Google alliance is exactly the type of thing anti-monopoly legislators fear.
With Adwords, Chrome, Google Play, Android, Google screams monopoly. If Qualcomm can be sued successfully for anti-trust, then Google has to be next. Since it’s a US headquartered company, there is resistance, but when you look at Google’s international sourcing, this could end the romance. The Google anti-trust parade will begin soon.
Protection and Freedom for Small Business Startups
This new awareness of the dangers of monopolies is a good thing for the US economy, and small business in particular. With monopolies under control, investors will resume investments in startups.
The threat rippled through NASDAQ with monopoly stocks with Facebook, Apple and Google Alphabet shares dropping on the news. Given the new trade situation and receding UK and Euro economic picture, trust busting events are likely to catch fire. Euro regulators are eager to jump on the monopoly fine bandwagon and a growing pool of whooped up voters is a very attractive opportunity for them.
There’s a feeling among regulators that startups aren’t really being given the chance to grow and compete – they get bought as soon as they enter Big Tech’s “kill zone” (where promising potential rivals are simply taken out) — Quote from Bloomberg report.
The end result of action against monopolies is stimulation of small business. Up until these times, small startups had astronical odds of surviving. With AI and huge takeover budgets, startups either failed or were purchased. The monopolies have starved out small competition, and tax and regulatory regimes put the nails in the small business coffin.
With Google, Facebook, Amazon, put under anti-trust threat, they will stop expansion and manage what they have. Amazon has been putting retail businesses and ecommerce startups out of business for sometime now. Millions of business people will be relieved when the hammer drops on the online shopping giant.
Once this anti-trust ball gets rolling it will run over hundreds and hundreds of other monopolies from banking to manufacturing. It might not have been clear what the harm to consumers has been, but those questions will be asked and answered more clearly now.
It’s new focus, aided by media hype that will make the pre-election period particularly tense for Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook.
Will the anti-trust movement lower Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple profits? Yes, it will reduce their overall pool of new revenue thus reducing their willingness to attack and buy out smaller businesses.
Keep an eye on the Russell stock index now as investors begin fleeing the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ. The forecast is bearish for the FAANGs and other monopoly level companies.
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China and the U.S. reached a deal that would make it easier and more profitable for Hollywood studios to show their films in China, a development that Vice President Joe Biden said would "significantly increase" access for American-made films.
The agreement represents an effort to resolve a standoff that dates to 2009, when the World Trade Organization ruled that China's policy of allowing 20 foreign films a year to be shown there violated international trade rules.
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Islamabad – Africa was the future for the world and Pakistani investors should visit Tanzania to explore JVs and investment in order to capitalize on the emerging business and economic opportunities in the African region. This was observed by Paul F Koyi, President of Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture (TCCIA) while addressing the business community during a visit to Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ICCI).
He visited ICCI along with a delegation of Tanzanian entrepreneurs and exchanged views with SardarYasirIlyas Khan, President ICCI and his team to promote bilateral trade and economic relations with Tanzania and Pakistan. MianAkramFarid Chairman Founder, Abdul Rehman Khan Vice President ICCI, Umar Hussain, OmaisKhattak, Muhammad Shakir, KhursheedBarlas, Khalid Chaudhry and others were also present at the occasion.
Paul F Koyi said that Tanzania was determined to promote business relations with Pakistan and that’s why despite the challenges of Covid-19, Tanzanian business delegation has come to Pakistan to interact with Pakistani counterparts in order to explore business collaborations. He said that there was a disconnection between the private sectors of both countries as for the 3 decades, no Tanzanian delegation had visited Pakistan.
Therefore, more meetings and exchange of delegations were needed to know each other, build confidence and improve trade relations. He said that being agro economies, Pakistan and Tanzania have good potential to cooperate in value addition of agro products. He said both countries should set up joint working groups at government level and a Pak-Tanzania Business Council to promote long-term cooperation between the private sectors of both countries.
Addressing the delegation, SardarYasirIlyas Khan, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that despite huge potential, Africa was still an unexplored market for Pakistan, however, now Pakistan has made a Look Africa policy to focus on this big market. He said that developing close relations with Tanzania was important for Pakistan to get better penetration into the African market. He said that our neighbours were exporting products worth billions of dollars to Africa in which Pakistan also has competitive advantage. He emphasized that with more focus and strenuous efforts, Pakistan can make a significant increase in its exports to Africa.
He said that Pak-Tanzania bilateral trade of around US$ 154 million in 2019-20 was much below their actual potential and stressed that both countries should focus on promoting business linkages between their private sectors to further improve bilateral trade volume. He said that many Pakistani products including pharmaceuticals, textiles, surgical instruments, sports goods, engineering goods, IT products could find a good market in Tanzania. He identified agriculture, pharmaceuticals, minerals, IT, tourism as potential areas of mutual cooperation between Pakistan and Tanzania. He assured that ICCI would take a delegation to Tanzania to explore JVs and investment.
MianAkramFarid, Chairman Founder Group said that frequent interactions between private sectors and exchange of trade delegations should be the way forward for promoting bilateral trade and economic relations between Pakistan and Tanzania. He said that Tanzania provided Pakistan easy access to the huge African market while Pakistan provided easy access to Tanzania to South Asian market, thus promoting strong bilateral business cooperation should be a high priority of both countries. ICCI and TCCIA also signed an MoUto promote bilateral trade, JVs and investment between Pakistan and Tanzania with joint efforts.


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Qualcomm is tweaking its Snapdragon 845 chipset for mixed reality use, likely boosting the virtual and augmented reality chops of the Samsung Galaxy S9 and other flagship Android phones.
The chipmaker is working with NetEase Games to optimise the latter’s Messiah game engine to act as a platform for mixed reality games, according to VRFocus.
“We are excited to work with a leading, global gaming content provider like NetEase Games,” said Sanjay Mehta, senior vice president, Qualcomm Technologies and president at QCT China.
“By working together, we aim to utilize the cutting-edge multimedia and VR/AR processing advantages of the Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform, allowing players around the globe to enjoy the immersive mobile gaming experiences with higher quality.”
While the Snapdragon 845 offers more power it also has a few tricks up its sleeve including an artificial intelligence co-processor.
But it now also looks like the chip will have the horsepower and architecture to run mixed reality games with more aplomb, pulling extra performance from the chipset’s Adreno 630 graphics processor.
Qualcomm and NetEase are also making use of the Vulkan application programming interface (API) which aims to reduce the compute demands put on a GPU and shift some of the work onto a CPU. For system-on-a-chip hardware like the Snapdragon 845 this could help deliver smoother and more graphically rich games and virtual reality experiences, while making augmented reality apps more reactive and convincing.
With the Galaxy S9 excepted to sport the Snapdragon 845 and Samsung’s previous work on the Gear VR headset, there’s a good chance the company’s next flagship phone could come with an upgraded mixed reality headset designed to deliver more impressive virtual experiences than its predecessor.
Time will tell, but the Snapdragon 845 chip could be the shot in the arm virtual and augmented reality needs to become less of a niche area of tech.
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India’s G20 Sherpa and former NITI Aayog chief Amitabh Kant said that the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) needs to have a gender lens. To make DPI work for women, national IDs, universal banking, and digital payments infrastructure are key, he added.
“One issue that does not often get identified is what DPI means for women and how it can benefit them. I want to emphasize the need to have a gender lens to it,” he said at the ‘Making Finance Work for Women 2023’ summit in Mumbai, organized by Women’s World Banking, addressing over 300 delegates from 30 countries. “Lack of identification, mobile phone ownership, payment infrastructure, open credit and commerce, and relevant financial products have to be addressed with a gender lens so that women are not left behind,” he added.
He highlighted the urgency to design solutions and policy reforms to keep women at the center and ride on existing DPI rails. “With the launch of the Jan Dhan savings accounts and social benefits payments into those, we have created a platform for bringing over 230 million un- and under-served women to engage more deeply with the formal financial sector,” he added.