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How NCAA rule could affect endorsements
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The NCAA’s latest rule allows athletes to profit off of their name, image and likeness, which has left several fans, players and coaches curious about how the process will work with possible endorsements.
After the NCAA’s governing board voted unanimously on Oct. 29, the NCAA set Jan. 2021 as the deadline for each of its three divisions to make their own specific rules regarding the issue. Until then, nobody knows the extent to which NCAA athletes will be allowed to profit from their name, image and likeness.
Endorsements are a major topic in this issue as companies, such as Under Armour and Nike, have contracts with thousands of colleges and universities across the nation. South Carolina and Auburn are the only two Under Armour schools in the SEC while there are 10 Nike schools in the SEC.
The University of South Carolina agreed to a 10-year contract with Under Armour in Feb. 2016 worth $71.5 million. "It is the second most valuable contract in the SEC and the seventh most valuable in the nation," according to an article in The State.
For the time being, this new rule is a major change for college sports overall because the NCAA previously did not allow athletes to earn profit in any capacity. In the ruling, the NCAA also said college athletes must not be treated like employees of their respective universities and a distinction between college and professional opportunities must exist.
According to University of South Carolina sports management professors Mark Nagel and Richard Southall, the questions being asked on this issue will not be answered until the divisions form their own rules, as stated earlier.
Since Nike is known for its endorsements, many fans may ask if Nike schools have a recruiting advantage compared to schools sponsored by Under Armour or another apparel company.
Nagel said this is not the case, because the new rule could allow players to receive sponsorship money rather than the schools.
“I think that enables the players to broker a deal that’s best for their individual needs,” Nagel said. “I think that will be in many ways probably more beneficial to the players and more beneficial for a number of other schools.”
In basketball, for example, the top athletes are identified early on before they are recruited and attend shoe apparel camps with their Amateur Athletic Union teams.
Nagel said the new rule could help with the competitive balance of the sport due to the top players solely attending the top programs.
Southall said the rule will just be another factor to recruiting. It will add to other factors such as the town or city the schools are in, the fan support and how successfully the program produces professional athletes.
“Recruiting is about sales,” Southall said. “Recruiting is about convincing that it’s in the best interest of athlete to go to X university over Y university, so the ability to get endorsements, if that’s something down the road, not every athlete is going to have that same marketability.”
Another issue that could arise involves athletes endorsing other apparel brands not sponsored by their school. For instance, could a South Carolina athlete do an endorsement for Nike? Or could an Oregon player sponsored by Nike do an endorsement for Under Armour?
Nagel said this question will have to sort itself out based on what the three divisions decide to do by Jan. 2021.
“If you look at the NFL, the NBA and other professional sports leagues, they have conflicting sponsorships in some cases,” Nagel said.
According to Nagel, it will boil down to what the athletes and schools end up controlling.
A major topic tied to athletes’ names, images and likenesses is players’ last names on the back of jerseys sold in bookstores, apparel shops and online sports fanatic stores. According to Nagel, this is a grey area but also a possibility.
In some professional leagues, athletes have different brands on each parts of their uniform.
“Typically, what happens in many, many sports, with the Olympics and so forth, is things that are performance-related are permitted to be chosen by the athlete,” Nagel said. “Things that are uniform related are typically chosen by the team or the school.”
On the other hand, Southall said the switching of brands will most likely not be possible, pending the three divisions’ decisions.
Athletic departments have contracts to control what an athlete might negotiate, according to Southall. But he also proposed a long-term solution to this: players’ associations.
“If the athletes actually want to have some power in this, players need to form players’ associations, either on the conference level on the national level and negotiate their own marketing or endorsement deal,” Southall said. “But I don’t think it’s going to happen necessarily right away.”


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Some things have changed for good, however
By the University at Buffalo
This holiday season should be strong in terms of spending and consumer confidence, according to Charles Lindsey, an expert in retail marketing strategy, brands and consumer behavior in the University at Buffalo School of Management.
“Although we will see some shortages and stockouts, reports of the impact of supply chain issues are largely overblown,” he says.
Lindsey recommends consumers lock down the critical items on their lists early, especially if they are risk-averse, but cautions that early shoppers face the risk of overspending because the “pain of payment” doesn’t loom as large.
An associate professor of marketing, Lindsey says some things that changed during the past few years are likely to remain in place.
For example, gone are the days of long lines and in-store doorbusters on Thanksgiving. Consumer movements against the store openings are part of the reason, according to Lindsey.
“The reality is that holiday spending has become so spread out with Christmas creep and online options that one day of closing has less of an impact than it used to,” he says. “Some stores will go back to opening on Thanksgiving, and customers still like to experience the decorations and holiday atmosphere, but it’s unlikely we will see the heyday of those 4 a.m. lines again.”
The UB School of Management is recognized for its emphasis on real-world learning, community and economic impact, and the global perspective of its faculty, students and alumni. The school also has been ranked by Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes and U.S. News & World Report for the quality of its programs and the return on investment it provides its graduates. For more information about the UB School of Management, visit management.buffalo.edu.

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We've only checked a single G-Sync enabled monitor, the ASUS PG278Q. Unfortunately, said screen is not a cheap one, coming with a premium of $1000. It's time, however, to also check a more budgeted offering, one brought by AOC, the G2460PG.
NVidia declared G-Sync would end all screen stutter or need for traditional V-Sync. Yet, from its announcement until today, we had only a small fraction of G-Sync capable monitors available, and almost all were premium devices. There were some upgrade-kits, in the form of tiny add-in boards that costed an added $200 and required the knowledge to open up your monitor and know what to do once inside.
ASUS released back in august the ROG Swift PG278Q, a brilliant 2.5k TN panel gaming monitor that had a pretty hefty price attached to it. Today, there are some offerings available, but there are no concrete budget version out there. Sure, Acer's 4K beast might seem like a cheaper variant to ASUS' PG278Q, but it's still a pricy offer.
Enter AOC's offer to the table, the G2460PG, a G-Sync enabled monitor with ULMB (blur-reduction) and a speedy TN panel capable of 144Hz. Overall, a monitor akin to ASUS' PG278Q, but only for about a third of its price.
When talking about a cheaper monitor that can do the same thing for a smaller price, you might be expecting lower-quality build or fewer features available. It's time to check G2460PG and see if that's true, or maybe AOC has developed that rare item, the kind that doesn't hurt the wallet but also has a lot to offer.


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Tecumseh Products Co., a manufacturer of small engines, warned that its second-quarter profit will fall short of estimates due to soft demand, high raw material costs and a weak U.S. dollar.
The company, based in Tecumseh, MI, U.S., said it expects second-quarter earnings of U.S. $0.55 to $0.60 per share before previously announced plant closing charges of $28 million to $30 million. On a GAAP basis, the company said it expects a loss of $0.37 to $0.49 per share.
The company said quarterly results have been unfavorably impacted by factors such as unseasonably cool and wet spring weather, soft demand, upward pressure on raw material costs, competitive pricing circumstances, and the unfavorable effects of a weak U. S. dollar. (Reuters)
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Happy Friday and welcome to another edition of Shifting Gears, Business Insider's rundown of everything that happened in transportation during the week.
The team had no shortage of captivating scoops, interviews, and other stories this week. In South Texas, there's a fight set between longtime homeowners and Elon Musk's plan for a Mars exploration base. And in California, more than 100 truckers lost their jobs as yet another freight company went belly up.
In mobility land, we chatted with the founder of Spin a scooter startup owned by Ford about his employees' unionization vote, missed targets, and elusive profits that have yet to materialize for anyone in the industry.
- 12 notable airlines have gone out of business in the last 14 months here's the full list
- The new Aston Martin Vantage Roadster has 500-plus horsepower and a super-fast convertible roof here's a look at the luxurious new drop-top
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Once promised, Apple HomeKit isn't coming to August's smart doorbells anytime soon. That includes the newly-announced View, representatives told AppleInsider at the SXSW festival in Austin, Tex.
It's a long-term "possibility" and August "would love to do it," one of the representatives said. In the meantime, "August remains committed to offering platform agnostic products. We are working with Google and Amazon and plan to have integrations with the Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa live once the View is available for purchase on March 28, 2019," August told AppleInsider. "We continue to work with Apple to explore integration opportunities with our doorbell cameras."
One of the issues though is that the company wants the same seamless doorbell/lock interaction found in its iPhone app — people who have both a Doorbell Cam and a Smart Lock can check their camera, use the intercom, and unlock a door all from the same screen.
HomeKit, in theory, should offer similar interactions. Currently, when a camera detects motion and sends a notification, smart actions are displayed allowing you to control different accessories such as turning on the lights. Third-party developers have told AppleInsider that this functions the same way with HomeKit doorbell cameras, allowing you to talk and unlock the door right from the notification interface.
The other issue is that HomeKit is simply harder to develop for than platforms like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, August indicated. It did say however that it's in regular talks with Apple. Apple's tight standards for security and small internal team have made it somewhat difficult for third-parties to properly integrate their accessories in a timely fashion.
In the meantime the company teased the possibility of watching live View and Doorbell Cam feeds on Google's Smart Display platform. Alexa live view support already works for Doorbell Cams.
August-branded gear could potentially land among in-home delivery services like Amazon Key, and some form of announcement is coming in the next few months. "In-home delivery is a space that we continue to invest in," one person said when asked about Key specifically. That service already makes use of smartlocks by Yale, owned by August's parent company Assa Abloy.
The View, shipping later this month, is August's first battery-powered doorbell, able to run 3 to 6 months on a single charge. That makes it easier to install, and August has reworked its design to make it more conventionally doorbell-like. It also has a higher-resolution 1440p camera and a better field of view than the Doorbell Cam Pro as well as many other smart video doorbells on the market. With a higher-resolution video stream, it makes it easier to zoom in to identify objects and people picked up by the camera.
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OmniSci Sharpens Focus on Customer Growth With Promotion of Grant Halloran to Chief Commercial Officer
During Period of Hypergrowth, New Executive Position Will Better Empower Organization to Maximize Lifetime Value for Customers
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 11, 2019 -- OmniSci, the pioneer in GPU-accelerated analytics, today announced the promotion of Grant Halloran to chief commercial officer, a new position. Previously OmniSci’s chief marketing officer, Halloran now oversees all aspects of the company’s revenue growth and customer activity, including sales, marketing, customer success, field operations, alliances and revenue operations.
“OmniSci is experiencing significant growth in enterprise adoption across many industries and, increasingly, new regions beyond the US,” noted Todd Mostak, OmniSci’s co-founder and chief executive officer. “As we scale to meet this demand, we are excited to take advantage of Grant’s international, hypergrowth experience and also ensure alignment between our market-facing teams for the benefit of our customers throughout their entire journey with us.”
Halloran joined OmniSci in September 2017 as executive vice president and chief marketing officer. Over his 20-year career in enterprise software, Halloran has held a wide range of executive positions including chief marketing officer, chief executive officer and general manager at companies such as Anaplan, Infor and Orbis.
“Over the past few years, OmniSci has built an amazing team, forming the nucleus of an organization passionate about bringing breakthrough technology to our customers. Our goal now is to scale our teams, ensuring we focus on delivering maximum lifetime customer value,” said Halloran. “I’m honored and humbled to work so closely with Todd, and to serve the market-facing team in this new leadership role.”
OmniSci has achieved a number of major milestones in the last year. Following launch of the first-ever cloud service for GPU-accelerated analytics in April, the company rebranded from MapD to OmniSci in September, and followed this in October with a $55 million Series C financing round. The company tripled its revenue run rate in the past year, and with plans to move to new headquarters in San Francisco before Q2 of 2019, expects to double its workforce by the end of 2019.


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La Redoute names Marie Guillemot new brand director
La Redoute has appointed a new director for the development of its own private labels. The e-commerce brand, which is about to be bought by Galeries Lafayette, recently named Marie Guillemot director of the La Redoute brand.
Guillemot has previously worked for the advertising agency Young & Rubicam and for the Fred & Farid Group, which specialises in digital communication, as a Customer Manager and Consulting Director respectively.
Guillemot will succeed Fabienne Mainguy who held the post for the past three years. After specialising in consulting at MRM Worldwide, a digital agency dedicated to supporting brands, Fabienne Mainguy joined La Redoute in 2012 as a brand strategy and content manager. Two years later, Mainguy was made Director of the brand at the same time as the former catalogue seller was transformed into an e-commerce site. Mainguy left the role at the end of December. When contacted, she stated that she wished to embark on “a new challenge” in mid-January and that all would be revealed when she formally takes office.
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Friday 16 April marked the 50th anniversary of the first appearance of a brand that launched an entire automotive sector, the fast fit.
On 16 April 1971 in McDonald Road, Edinburgh, the first ever Kwik Fit centre opened its garage doors to motorists offering the new concept of ‘fast fit’ services, replacing components while drivers waited.
While the quality of work is regularly questioned by the independent crowd (cue that slogan), there’s no denying that it’s been a business success.
From a single location and a team of five, Kwik Fit now employs over 5,000 people in more than 600 centres across the UK, as well as operating the largest mobile tyre fitting fleet, with over 200 vehicles.
In addition to the UK operations, today there are also more than 240 Kwik Fit centres in the Netherlands, Italy and Hungary.
Over 50 years the company’s apprentice scheme has grown to become a training programme and now trains 150 new apprentices every year – more than 4,000 people have started their automotive careers as Kwik Fit apprentices.
A driver visiting the centre in 1971 would have had the option of perhaps 14 different tyres.
Today Kwik Fit stocks more than 650,000 tyres in its centres, covering an incredible 1,941 different specifications.
Mark Slade, managing director of Kwik Fit said: “Kwik Fit founder Sir Tom Farmer spotted the opportunity in meeting motorists’ needs for the most frequently replaced components – exhausts and tyres – and combining it with the growing desire for faster customer service.
“Car technology has changed dramatically since then, but one thing which still runs through our core is the customer service ethos which the Kwik Fit team has focussed on every day since April 1971.
“We’re incredibly proud to have been keeping the UK safe on the roads for 50 years and look forward to the developments of the next half century.”
Sir Tom Farmer, who sold the company in 1999, said: “Although I moved on from the business many years ago, it still gives me great pride to see Kwik Fit at the forefront of the UK automotive industry.
“From the day we opened our first centre we set out the way we wanted to conduct ourselves and the relationship we wanted to have with our customers.
“We eventually put that in writing as the Kwik Fit Way and I think that is important in the brand’s longevity – having a consistent set of values at the heart of an organisation is vital if it’s going to last and stay relevant.”
Kwik Fit’s plans for the near future include increasing the number of technicians trained in servicing electric vehicles, further development of its mobile fitting service – which is already the largest fleet in the UK, rolling out calibration services for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and increasing its network of MOT centres that are directly connected to the DVSA system.


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According to recent reports, specifically one from Bloomberg, the recently released FPS Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III was developed in only 16 months, with many developers working tirelessly to release it. However, Sledgehammer Games studio head Aaron Halon took to Twitter to refute these reports stating they are “simply not true.” He also stated that the team “have worked hard to deliver on this vision which has been years in the making.” Modern Warfare III is available now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and Battle Net. The game sports several new features such as the new open world zombies mode, several new maps, new multiplayer modes and more.
Statement from Aaron Halon, studio head, SHG.
“We’re incredibly proud of Modern Warfare III – both the full game experience at launch and the upcoming year of content we have planned for the community. On behalf of the extremely talented team across Sledgehammer Games and our…
— Sledgehammer Games (@SHGames) November 9, 2023
The full statement reads:
“We’re incredibly proud of Modern Warfare III – both the full game experience at launch and the upcoming year of content we have planned for the community. On behalf of the extremely talented team across Sledgehammer Games and our partner studios with whom we’ve collaborated on development, this has been a labor of love to lead the first ever back-to-back sequel in Call of Duty. We cannot wait to see our community’s reaction to all that the entire game has to offer, across Campaign, Multiplayer and Zombies.
From the start of development, we have all been laser focused on creating the next groundbreaking Call of Duty game. Long before we wrapped up our previous game, we heard loud and clear from fans about the desire to stay and play together for longer within the same series. And that’s what we’ve delivered – the first true sequel in franchise history. It is also why we added features like Carry Forward for the first time to honor the investment our players have made in the Modern Warfare series.
We’re proud to be the team to lead the way on Modern Warfare III. We have worked hard to deliver on this vision which has been years in the making. Anything said to the contrary is simply not true – this is our game and we cannot wait to play it online with all of you.”


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Ever wondered if there was still a use for your old, busted Game Boy? Thanks to one artist, many of the retired handhelds are now seeing new life as something more classy.
YJ Joon, an industrial designer, has come up with several pieces of artwork imagining how the Game Boy would look like if Nintendo released it today.
Helix Chamber, a site dedicated to video game history, has published a comprehensive article revealing prototype art assets for Pokemon Red and Blue.
The world of basketball is not without its athletic nerds, and NBA star Russell Westbrook is no exception.
GameBoy Kingdom, a Game Boy modder living in Russia, has shown off his latest creation today.
GameBoy Kingdom, a Russian Nintendo collector and modder, has revealed his latest project – Akira Game Boy Collector’s Edition.
Nintendo collector GameBoy Kingdom recently gave their Game Boy a pretty stunning Famicom makeover and shared some photos online.


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Our Insights Summits are also an opportunity to hear from our travel marketing partners and the hour-long event at ITB saw a stellar line-up of destination marketers take the stage during a panel discussion to share their thoughts on a range of travel related topics.
Joining us this year was Alexandra Brandau, Director of Media Management at the German National Tourist Board, Anna Németh, Deputy CEO of Marketing and Sales at the Hungarian Tourism Agency and Adel El Fakir, Chief Executive Officer at the Moroccan National Tourist Office. The panel session, moderated by our VP Business Development, Wendy Olson Killion covered everything from the smart use of traveler data, to the growing importance of younger travelers to destinations.
ITB Berlin was also an opportunity to present our annual Partner Awards to this year’s winners from the Europe, Middle East, and Africa super region. The awards honor some of the most innovative campaigns from 2018 and we look forward to sharing more information about the winners very soon.
ITB Berlin is one of our favorite events of the year and we hope to see many of you there next year! In the meantime, you can stay up to date with our latest news and , by subscribing to our blog using the form above. You can also follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.


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Featuring some of Dr Seuss’ popular characters, including Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, Horton and Thing One and Thing Two, the web-based experience will enable fans of Dr.Seuss’s universe the ability to collect digital packs of their favorite characters and own them on blockchain forever.
To access, fans simply visit
and begin assembling digital decals to organize into collections. As they amass these collections, they will be given the opportunity to discover and unlock exclusive content that they can use to publicly post and showcase their fandom for the brand.
“As the world moves increasingly online, so has consumers’ desire for discovering and collecting digital memorabilia that brings them one step
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eBay has been has been consolidating after a big move, and the bulls are looking for a good start to the New Year.
optionMONSTER's tracking programs detected purchase of about 7,000 January 50 calls for $1.67. A matching number of January 46 puts was sold at the same time for $1.09.
Owning calls locks in the price where investors can buy shares, while selling puts obligates the trader to buy stock if it falls to a certain level. Combining the two strategies produces a highly leveraged position that's similar to owning equity.
In the case of Friday's position, he or she now controls the equivalent of 700,000 shares at a cost of $0.58--less than 2 percent of their actual price. (See our Education section)
EBAY rose 0.78 percent to $49.01. The online auction company is up 64 percent in the last year but has been pulling back since hitting a seven-year high one month ago.
Overall option volume in the name was more than twice the daily average, despite Friday's truncated holiday session. The bullish combination trade accounted for more than two-thirds of the total.
(A version of this post appeared on InsideOptions Pro on Friday.)
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An $18,872 Tribute to the Trails!
The Tribute for Trails 2012 calendar raised nearly $19,000 for Washington Trails Association.
Trail runners Glenn Tachiyama, Wendy Wheeler Jacobs, and Damien Murphy recently raised over $18,872 for Washington Trails Association by selling their 2012 calendars!
Quite the tribute to the trails!
For the past seven years, these dedicated members have taken photographs and created calendars for Washington state trail runners to enjoy year-round, donating all proceeds from the sales directly to Washington Trails Association. In the last seven years, we have received over $90,000 from the sale of these calendars.
Special thanks goes all of you who bought calendars, the local retailers who offered the calendar for sale, and companies who made a gift, matched contributions and underwrote the cost of printing. Your contribution helps WTA speak up for our trails and wildlands.


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Miserly, proprietary Apple, with its $160 billion cash stash, rattled the tech world this week when news leaked it would spend $3 billion and change to acquire Santa Monica-based Beats Electronics, the biggest acquisition in the company’s 38-year history.
In Beats, Apple would get a popular high-end headphone and speaker brand as well as a streaming service headed by music moguls.
The deal, first reported by Financial Times, was uncharacteristic of Apple.
A deal this size is more likely to be seen from companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Google, which have handed over billions for complementary technologies.
Acquiring Beats, which has not been finalized or even mentioned by Apple, could signal a new direction for a company that’s been hounded by critics and fans for not delivering a “revolutionary” new product in the two years since Steve Jobs died.
Stockholders are also hungry to see all that cash do some work for them.
Here’s a look at things you should know about the Beats-Apple deal.
First billionaire rapper
Sean “Diddy” Combs. the singer-songwriter, music producer and actor, is reportedly the richest rapper in the world, with a fortune worth upward of $700 million.
But since Andre “Dr. Dre” Young – the producer behind names like Eminem and 50 Cent – co-founded Beats in 2008, he has risen in the Forbes rankings to just behind Combs, with an estimated wealth of about $550 million.
An online video making the rounds Friday showed Dr. Dre with friends, bragging about how the list needs to be updated: “The first billionaire in hip hop right here from the ... West Coast.”
The co-founders knew Steve Jobs
A decade ago when Apple only put iPods in people’s hands and computers on desks and laps, Dr. Dre popped up in a chat window during one of Steve Jobs keynote speeches.
Dre was promoting the addition of his and other rappers’ music to the iTunes Store and praising the iPod for eliminating CDs.
Years later, his partner at Beats took a stage with tech reviewer Walt Mossberg and remarked on Jobs’ ideas.
“Apple got everything right except that earbud,” said Jimmy Iovine, record producer and co-founder of Beats with Dr. Dre, during the taped interview. “Your sound system is only as good as its weakest link.”
“I just think that he had the right idea,” Iovine said of Jobs, “but that all needs to progress now.”
Music streaming and headphone maker
While the trendy $300 Beats headphones might be what young people are buying, the long-term bet is likely more about the company’s subscription music service.
In 2012, Beats bought MOG, a streaming subscription music service that was squashed by larger rival Spotify. Earlier this year, Beats unleashed a music streaming service built on the bones of MOG.
Meanwhile, Apple is trying to evolve its $1 per song iTunes model that transitioned many away from pirating music early in the 2000s.


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Dow Chemical Co. on Thursday unveiled a number of moves to reshape its business and leadership team, as the company reported earnings for the third quarter that easily topped Wall Street expectations.
Shares of Dow jumped 5.5% in light premarket trading.
Dow named James R. Fitterling its operations chief. Mr. Fitterling and Howard Ungerleider, the company’s financial chief, were both named vice chairmen.
Dow, which has been reshaping its business over the past few years, said it would restructure its joint ventures in Kuwait over the next nine months. Dow said it would receive $1.5 billion in pretax proceeds by reducing its ownership in the MEGlobal venture.
The company also said it would review options for its Dow AgroSciences business.
The Michigan-based company, which manufactures products ranging from insecticides to paint to plastics, also said it boosted its quarterly dividend by 10% to 46 cents a share and will accelerate its $5 billion stock-buyback program.
The comments came as Dow reported better-than-expected earnings for its latest quarter. The company reported a profit of $1.29 billion, or $1.09 a share, up from $852 million, or 71 cents a share, a year earlier.
Profit was lifted by a $621 million gain from the sale of its AgroFresh business.
Excluding certain items, per-share operating earnings were 82 cents, compared to 72 cents a year earlier. Analysts expected 69 cents in earnings per share, according to Thomson Reuters.
Sales slid 16% to $12.04 billion, hurt by pricing and currency. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected $12.38 billion in sales.
Dow’s results have been hurt recently by currency fluctuations. The company generates about two-thirds of its revenue outside of the U.S., and the strengthening of the U.S. dollar makes its products more expensive abroad.
Volume rose 2% excluding divestitures and acquisitions.
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The US State of New York is introducing two new bills to combat over-packaging, poor recycling rates and litter issues, including an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program requiring companies such as McDonald’s and Amazon to pay for the cost of packaging disposal and recycling.
The new organization’s mission is to redesign the critical steps of the plastics sorting and recycling system for post-consumer lightweight packaging (LWP) to speed up circularity, born from a need to meet the rising market demand for high-quality recyclates for use in high-end plastic applications.
Starbucks and Hubbub have launched a £1 million (US$1.22 million) “Bring It Back Fund” to increase the uptake of reusable packaging in the F&B industry. The funding will go toward innovative ideas that make it easier for customers to use alternatives to single-use packaging by supporting pilot projects that help shift consumption habits.


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Spain: "The lower production is having an impact on product mixes"Besides the delays in the planting in Almeria this year and a greater presence of pests, there has also been a drop in temperatures, which has caused the production of most greenhouse vegetables to slow down in a period when the demand is usually high in most international markets due to the Christmas celebrations.
Tomatoes have been one of the most affected products, since the supply is around 20% lower than at this same time last year. "Tomato prices have been good throughout the season, especially for tomatoes on the vine, since in addition to the reduced plantings this year across Almeria, the start of the campaign was delayed at a time when the market had no supply of Dutch production. To this we must add the excessive drop in temperatures in recent weeks, which has ground the plants' production to a halt," says Diego Calderón, of the marketing department of Unica Group, which accounts for around 10% of Almeria's total production.
Other products have also been affected, such as cucumbers, which are marketed by the company all year round, courgettes or orange peppers, which are more sensitive than peppers of other colours.
"This slowdown in the production is having an impact on the marketing of the increasingly popular product mixes, such as tricolour or traffic light packs and specialty tomato mixes. Depending on the market and production conditions, some colours are usually more expensive than others, and this year those differences are even greater," says Diego Calderón.
"While in Spain we enjoy the advantage of having plenty of hours of sunshine and a lot of wind, both necessary for the optimal production of vegetables, our disadvantage is that the greenhouses are less hermetic and are more vulnerable to temperature drops than the Dutch greenhouses, which are equipped with heating," he explains.
Unica Group also produces broccoli all year round, and this campaign is being really tough in all of Europe due to the fact that Murcia, the continent's main broccoli supplier during the autumn and winter, is being affected by the cold temperatures with occasional frosts. The issue is that Murcian growers have planted in colder areas this year due to the lack of water.
"Broccoli prices are sky-high at the moment," says Diego Calderón. "Thanks to the fact that this year we have planted in Tudela, Navarre, we are fulfilling our programs without any problems. It is proving to be a safe area for broccoli production. We are very satisfied with it area and we will continue betting on it."
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Microsoft announced a new event, it will conduct in cooperation with the firm Steelcase April 17. The American company has already started sending invitation to media representatives to the event.
What Microsoft will show, is still unknown, but both manufacturers before that has developed the wall Surface Hub. A letter of invitation was attached a image with the text «Microsoft and Steelcase invite you to experience new ways of working together».
It is expected that there will be demonstrated the second generation Surface Hub in two models: 2S and 2X. The first is a giant 50-inch corporate display. In fact, it is faster and more compact version of the first generation Surface Hub.
In addition to the version 2S, Microsoft plans to release a wall Surface Hub 2X in 2020, which will include new software and a rotating screen (2S display can only be used vertically).
It was expected that the second generation Surface Hub will be released in a single performance, a 50.5-inch 4K touch-screen with aspect ratio of 3:2, the webcam and fingerprint scanner. Multiple devices can be combined to create a single giant display.


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Last week we saw our first images of what we thought were billion-dollar Chinese auto startup WM Motor’s first cars, and quickly realized they were, in fact, photoshops of a Mitsubishi. Now, WM Motor denies that those renderings were its own.
WM has fully disavowed all of these renderings in a strongly-worded official statement which I will include in full:
We here refer to the recent alleged concept design images of WM Motor distributed over the Internet.
As an innovative electric vehicle company, WM Motor has always been paying extra attention to defenses and protections of our intellectual properties. The design process for WM Motor is strictly confidential. We have completed most of the contractual arrangements with our supplying partners. The construction for our first intelligent industry park for WM Motor’s electric vehicles has already started at Oujiangkou District, Wenzhou City in Zhejiang Province of China. The construction site will occupy approximately 165 acres. Our first EV product will be launched in 2018. We are pleased to announce all related works have been progressing timely. WM Motors independently owns the intellectual properties that are related to its innovations and products.
Any alleged concept design images mentioned over the internet are NOT related to WM Motor to any extent. WM Motor will not hesitate to take immediate legal actions against those ungrounded reports or distributions should they cause defamation, infringement or any other harm to WM Motor.
We hereby confirm that all official updates will be firstly released at our official homepage http://www.wm-motor.com. We sincerely thank you for your attentions!
WM Motor Technology Co., Ltd.
2nd December 2016
What’s odd is these images were first circulated on some big time Chinese websites as official a full week before they made the news in English media. Once Electrek spotted that there was, ahem, some overlap between them and the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, then WM stepped in. And nearly every car outlet in existence ran with the story.
So it’s somewhat unclear to me exactly what happened. Either these were renderings distributed by some big Chinese websites that WM didn’t bother arguing against until the press turned bad, or WM made these renderings but didn’t want them distributed in the media, or there was some other misunderstanding, or someone else is completely walking back what they said before.
Either way, WM says it wants nothing to do with these images, and I’m genuinely amazed. I’ve never seen anything like this in the car world before.


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Primark sets trend for Christmas
Sales at budget retailer Primark grew over the Christmas period by a quarter
Fashion chain Primark showed rivals a clean pair of heels this Christmas as cash-strapped shoppers stocked up on budget trends.
Demand for Christmas jumpers and the popularity of all-in-one pyjamas, known as "onesies", helped drive a 25% increase in sales at the chain over the 16 weeks to January 5, parent company Associated British Foods said.
The group's 14 store openings in Europe, including its second shop on London's Oxford Street, helped boost the figures but City experts suggest the like-for-like result excluding expansion still rose by 9% in the period.
The better-than-expected performance for Primark is in contrast to rival Marks & Spencer, which saw like-for-like sales of general merchandise - which includes clothes - dip by almost 4% in its Christmas figures.
Neil Shah, analyst at Edison Investment Research, said: "Primark has delivered a lesson in clothing retailing to the UK high street with the best of any sales figures over the final quarter."
Primark's strong Christmas comes on the back of a 15% jump in operating profits and a 3% hike in like-for-like sales at its year end in September.
The group, which has 256 Primark stores in Europe, also said lower cotton prices had pushed profit margins ahead of the same period last year.
AB Foods - the owner of British Sugar as well as household brands Kingsmill, Ryvita and Twinings - said the strong performance from Primark had helped boost group revenues, which were up 10%.
Sales in its grocery arm were flat, but it said it had seen strong growth in its tea business in the UK and US, and for Ovaltine in developing markets.
Sugar revenues were 12% ahead of last year, but the group warned profits would be lower because of smaller production levels and higher sugar beet cost.
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Marriott buys Starwood in $12.2bn deal to create world's biggest hotel chain with over ONE MILLION rooms
Hotel group Marriott International Inc is buying Sheraton owner Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc in a $12.2billion deal on course to create the world biggest hotel chain.
As a combined group, the companies will operate or franchise over 5,000 hotels with over 1.1million rooms, generating an estimated $2.7billion in annual fee revenues.
In April, Starwood's chairman Bruce Duncan revealed that 'no option is off the table' when it came to a prospective buyer.
International operators: Hotel group Marriott International Inc is acquiring Sheraton owner Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc in a $12.2billion deal on course to create the world biggest hotel chain
Arne Sorenson, president and chief executive officer of Marriott International, said: 'The driving force behind this transaction is growth.
'This is an opportunity to create value by combining the distribution and strengths of Marriott and enhancing our competitiveness in a quickly evolving marketplace.
'This greater scale should offer a wider choice of brands to consumers, improve economics to owners and franchisees, increase unit growth and enhance long-term value to shareholders. Today is the start of an incredible journey for our two companies.'
Marriott will boost its board from 11 to 14 members after the deal closes next year and said it expected one-off transaction costs of $100 million to $150million related to the deal.
Starwood shareholders will receive 0.92 Marriott shares and $2 in cash for each Starwood share, the companies said.
This works out to $72.08 per share for Starwood, a discount of about 4 per cent to the stock's Friday close.
Starwood shareholders will also get approximately $7.80 per share from the spin-off of its timeshare business.
Roomy: As a combined group, the companies will operate or franchise over 5,000 hotels with over 1.1million rooms, generating an estimated $2.7billion in annual fee revenues
In pre-market trading today, Starwood shares fell 3.3 per cent at $72.50, while Marriott shares increased 1.7 per cent at $74.01.
Bruce Duncan, chairman of Starwood, said: 'During our comprehensive review of strategic and financial alternatives, it was clear that our talented people, world-class brands, global leadership and spirit of innovation were much admired and key drivers of our value.
'Our board concluded that a combination with Marriott provides the greatest long-term value for our shareholders and the strongest and most certain path forward for our company.
'Starwood shareholders will benefit from ownership in one of the world's most respected companies, with vast growth potential further enhanced by cost synergies.
Shareholders will also receive the value of the previously announced sale of our vacation ownership business to Interval Leisure Group, which is not part of this transaction.'
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The popular push to adopt app-based financial services is further hampered by concerns about security risks, according to a recent study by an identity management company.
While 7 in 10 finance executives who responded to a recent survey said they plan to adopt “open banking” strategies within the next 18 months, more than 3 in 5 (61%) finance executives admitted that concerns about compliance and security risks were holding back its progress, according to research from Curity, an API identity management platform, published last week. Skills and knowledge shortages (51%) and “shifting business priorities” (45%) also heavily influenced financial firms’ reluctance to launch or expand open banking initiatives.
Jacob Ideskog, chief technology officer at Curity, noted that as technology evolves, “so do the regulations associated with its development and implementation. Understandably, there are hesitations in adopting open banking as regulations tighten and rules continue to be updated and changed.”
That said, the survey found that almost half (43%) of financial firms interviewed for the report “Enabling the future of open financethey have already launched some sort of “open” app-based banking options, according to Curity.
Given the rapid pace of change in financial compliance, “an investment made in 2019 may not satisfy in 2022,” Ideskog said. More than 3 in 5 (62%) of those surveyed by Curity said that outdated or incompatible systems led them to admit that they are concerned that their systems do not “support the exchange of data in a way that meets regulatory or compliance requirements.” consumer protection”.
Emerging privacy compliance also raises concerns.
“Privacy regulations like GDPR, CCPA and the like are the biggest concerns,” Ideskog said. “It’s hard to ensure compliance in large systems, and the idea of exposing more data just introduces more risk than many are comfortable with.”
These findings coincide with the fourth anniversary of the launch of PSD2, which made Open Banking a regulatory requirement in the UK. Curity’s study surveyed more than 200 financial professionals involved in open banking around the world.
According to the Open Banking Implementing Entity (OBIE), there are now 4.5 million regular open banking users. Open finance is expected to expand to a market of more than $43 billion by 2026, according to the report published by Allied market research.
Virtually all financial institutions (96%) believe that consumer adoption is crucial to the future of open banking, according to Curity research.
“Organizations should communicate with customers simply and concisely about data privacy without relying on jargon to overcomplicate matters, ensuring that customers feel secure in how their data is handled and managed within the open banking process,” said Travis Spencer, CEO of Curity. in a prepared statement. “Understanding the implementation of modern authentication methods is key to consumer adoption, according to more than half of the respondents. [56%].”
Given the emergence of “proven standards” in open finance for security, Ideskog said that taking this app-based approach “makes a lot of sense rather than inventing new security schemes for already solved problems.” Applying these standards to your own use case sets up your organization to be able to expose APIs to third parties in the future, so that’s a double win.”
“Few organizations these days are satisfied with single platforms for single use,” added Ideskog. “A complete omnichannel strategy requires a lot of reuse of back-end components to be successful. And let’s be honest, as customers we expect to be able to do the same thing on our phone as we do on our laptop. Therefore, when creating an omnichannel strategy, you should consider FAPI [financial grade API] and related standards to protect your systems and set up your organization for future openness.”


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Brazilian chicken exports soar in January-May
Brazilian chicken exports saw an increase of 32.2 percent in January-May this year over the same period last year to hit US$1.22 billion.
According to the Brazilian Chicken Exporters and Producers Association (Abef), export volume for the period rose 27 percent year on year to hit 1.1 million tonnes.
The revenue gains were mainly due to the rise in the average price of each export tonne, Abef said.
The sector should see a sales revenue growth of 5-10 percent for 2005 over last year. In 2004, sales hit US$2.6 billion, with a volume of 2.46 million tonnes.


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As you know, among all the car companies that have a manufacturing facility in Thailand, Honda has been the most affected by the recent flooding there. Its assembly plant in Ayutthaya has been submerged in water. When we posted a photo of Honda's inundated facility on our Facebook page, several people expressed concern over one particular scenario: Will Honda still sell its flooded cars as brand-new units after drying and repairing them?
"When the flood subsides, these cars will be back to the assembly line to replace (their) damaged parts. Will (they) be delivered here in the Philippines...as fresh/brand-new units?" wondered Amiel Fuentes.
"Next year, they will sell their flooded units in the Philippines coming from Port Irene," said Petchoy Morales III. "Please be careful when purchasing a CR-V or a Civic."
"I wonder if they will fix these cars and sell them," added Johnny Lee.
At least one person, however, defended Honda. "These submerged units are now the property of Honda Thailand's insurance provider," declared Emil Sanchez. "Honda has never and will never repair flooded units and pass them off as brand-new cars."
But what about the carmaker itself? Any official statement regarding the issue?
Yes, in fact, there is. We asked Voltaire Gonzales, Honda Cars Philippines' head of vehicle sales and corporate communications, and this is what he had to say to Honda customers in the country: "If Honda recalls cars because of a mere switch that could malfunction, for the sake of quality and safety, what more for flood-damaged units? I am absolutely confident to say that it is totally remote for Honda to even think of selling a flooded car as a brand-new unit. Our customers shouldn't worry."
Well, there you have it, folks.
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While the majority of cultural institutions across metropolitan centers in the United States and Europe closed their doors over the past couple of weeks amid the rapid spread of the new coronavirus (Covid-19), Art Basel carried forth with its annual Hong Kong edition—but for the first time virtually, after it announced the cancelation of the in-person fair last month.
At 6 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, Art Basel Hong Kong’s online viewing rooms went live to its VIP guests for the first preview day and will run until March 25. With this virtual option replacing the typical large crowds and networking that takes place between collectors and dealers, this online iteration is a sobering remedy to the major disruptions that the coronavirus has wrought on the global art calendar. And, it seems, there was enough of a critical mass of engaged potential buyers that overwhelmed the website’s servers, causing them to go down for around 25 minutes.
Despite this slight hiccup, as several dealers characterized it, many galleries said that they had heard positive things from their collector bases. Shasha Titman, who is the director of Lehmann Maupin’s Hong Kong space, said that this online option has been important to those in Hong Kong—and beyond—as international travel has been restricted. “It’s new, and will take some getting used to; it’s not how we’re accustomed to experiencing an art fair,” Tittman said. “The collectors I’ve spoken with, however, were genuinely excited to register and test it out. There’s interest and curiosity, but it’s clear from the initial experience that it requires strong guidance to lead clients to the viewing room.”
A spokesperson for Pace Gallery agreed, adding that the gallery had from clients that context was important in order for them to move forward with purchases. In light of this, Pace said it will launch its own online viewing rooms, separate from the Art Basel ones, which would feature curator-led tours of the works on show and be “accompanied by interpretative materials to offer a rich contextual lens through which to engage with these artworks.
For its online booth, Pace had a 1978 Warhol screenprint collage, titled Retrospective (Blue), that features the image of mother-daughter pair Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli and was priced at $500,000-$1 million. Another highlight is a small work on paper by Chinese painter Zhang Xiaogang titled Bathtub (2018) that is on offer at $150,000. Zhang’s surrealist influenced style and dark subject matter has established him as a forerunner in Chinese contemporary art. At the 2018 fair in Hong Kong, a large-scale 2012 painting by Zhang was sold to a Chinese foundation for $1 million.
A David Zwirner spokesperson spoke of interest in the work they had brought to the online fair as being “brisk,” noting that several sale inquiries had come from the gallery’s own customized online platform, as opposed to the one designed by Art Basel. (The spokesperson also said that its clients preferred the design of the Zwirner site to the Art Basel one.) The gallery, which started doing online viewing rooms in 2017, said that in terms of buyers they found those from Asia being the most active, followed by ones based in the U.S. who had woken up early for the fair, with less participation from collectors in Europe.
Zwirner reported that a Marlene Dumas work sold for $2.6 million to an American client and that a Mamma Andersson painting for $400,000 to an Asian client in the initial hours. By the end of day on Wednesday, the gallery had also sold a Luc Tuymans for $2 million, a work by Liu Ye for $500,000, and a painting by Noah Davis for $360,000. Following a survey of the late artist’s work at Zwirner which ended in February, and an auction record set in Phillips March New Now sale at $400,000, the market for Davis works is expanding.
No stranger to having an online presence to sell art, Gagosian, which began doing online viewing rooms in 2018, sold a group of paintings by three female artists. They were on sale alongside a black-and-gold work by Georg Baselitz, on offer for $1.28 million and, as of Wednesday evening, without a buyer. The gallery’s sales included Mary Weatherford’s 2019 giant mixed media painting installed with a neon light strip titled Splendor in Grass for $750,000. With the online sale presenting the work for the first time at this fair’s edition, the work sold for $750,000 within the first half hour of the VIP preview. Other sales by the gallery included Guidi’s 2019 yellow monochrome work An Instance of Becoming, sold for $300,000 as well as a small scale geometric painting by young Chinese contemporary artist, Jia Aili for $260,000.
Among the top-tier works Paris-based dealer Thaddaeus Ropac was peddling was Robert Rauschenberg’s silkscreen on plywood Rice Wine Dog, Tuak Hudok-Iban (ROCI Malaysia), from 1990, priced at $1.35 million. The work was inspired by the artist’s time spent in Malaysia. Ropac’s exhibition also showed a major double portrait by Alex Katz completed this year, priced between $250,000 and $500,000.
Richard Diebenkorn’s Berkeley #21, a painting from 1954, starred in Acquavella Galleries’s presentation on major modernists and postwar staples. In the secondary market, a similar Diebenkorn Berkeley series painting achieved $3.5M at Phillips 20th Century Evening sale in November 2019. The gallery also brought a 10-by-12-inch painting by Wayne Thiebaud, titled Four Slices, 2016–19 and also going for more than $1 million. Thiebaud works saw a recent onslaught of attention earlier this month with two works by the artist selling for a total of $4.6 million at Sotheby’s.
At Skarstedt’s booth, George Condo’s 2001 THE K-MART GIRL carried a price of $950,000. The painting came up at auction in Sotheby’s contemporary day sale not even two years ago, in November 2018, selling for $735,000.
There tends to be robust interest in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings at fairs of Art Basel Hong Kong’s caliber, but this year’s offerings only included the artist’s works on paper. At Lévy Gorvy, a 1983 Basquiat graphite and oil on paper portrait was priced at $1.5 million. At Van de Weghe, Basquiat’s Ape drawing from 1984 carried a price of $500,000–$1 million; several Warhol screenprints were on sale for the same price range price range. Last year, Van de Weghe had priced Ape at $4 million, but it went unsold during Art Basel Miami Beach in December, marking a significant decrease in the figures for the auction headliner artist.
Blum & Poe, with locations in Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo, brought a modest grouping of works this year, with a 2018 work by Yoshitomo Nara priced at $275,000. Another of the dealer’s highlights was Japanese-Brazilian painter Asuka Anastacia Ogawa’s figurative portrait Walking, made this year and priced at $48,000. Ogawa is another of the young primary market stars showing promise, with her work collected by fellow contemporary artists such as Mark Grotjahn and Rashid Johnson; her first New York solo show in June 2019 at Half Gallery sold out before the opening.
As has been a global trend recently, many dealers have been savvy in promoting high quality works by their blockbuster artists in the $500,000–$1 million price range, with few works for more than $10 million on sale. Most surprising about this fair is that, during the preview, anyone with a VIP login could see the prices for many of the works on offer in almost any booth. Typically, dealers play coy about the cost for works.
In an email, Emanuel Layr, who has an eponymous gallery with locations in Vienna and Rome, said, “I think it is interesting and a big step that most galleries are displaying prices, which could create more transparency and will also help people to compare better. But this comes also with a problem: The serious evaluation of prices is hard work and is part of a cost intensive work of galleries. I am for more transparency, and showing prices is for sure customer friendly, but if this information is used by people to try to either resell works … or offer similar works at lower prices, this might be problematic.”


text: In November, Maine became one of four states in which voters approved a new recreational marijuana law. The law took effect on Jan. 30, but emergency legislation passed on Jan. 27 delayed the implementation of certain provisions of the law. This included pushing the effective date to Feb. 1, 2018, so that the state licensing authority can establish and implement regulations concerning retail sales of marijuana, as well as clarification that the possession of a usable amount of marijuana by a juvenile is a crime, unless the juvenile is authorized to possess medical marijuana. In addition, the legislation prohibits possession of any edible retail marijuana products until Feb. 1, 2018. Under the law, employers are not required to permit or accommodate the use, consumption, possession, trade, display, transportation, sale or growing of marijuana in the workplace.


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Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued warning letters to six cannabis companies, some of whose products were claimed to contain cannabidiol (“CBD”). The FDA warned the companies about marketing and selling unapproved drugs to diagnose, mitigate, treat or prevent diseases in humans or animals.
The FDA letters are direct and specific in their warnings and required actions. For example, the FDA’s February 26 letter to Hemp Oil Care about the company’s Cibdex Hemp CBD Complex Drops and other products stated the following:
- The FDA determined that Hemp Oil Care’s website promoted the company’s products as mitigations or cures for diseases such that the products must be regulated as drugs by the FDA under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FDC Act”).
- Hemp Oil Care’s products are “new drugs” under the FDC Act because they are not recognized as safe and effective for the health conditions that Hemp Oil Care listed on its product labels.
- New drugs cannot be legally introduced into interstate commerce without the FDA’s prior written approval. Such approval requires scientific information to demonstrate the new drug is safe and effective.
- Hemp Oil Care violated the FDC Act because it misbranded its products. The diseases for which Hemp Oil Care marketed its products cannot be self-diagnosed or self-treated by people other than health care professionals. For this reason, Hemp Oil Care’s instruction labels informing users whether and how to use its products violate the FDC Act.
- Hemp Oil Care is responsible for investigating the FDA’s alleged violations and for preventing future violations.
- Hemp Oil Care must ensure its compliance with all federal laws and FDA regulations.
- If Hemp Oil Care fails to promptly address the violations, the FDA can take legal action without further notice – including seizing goods belong to Hemp Oil Care and taking measures to suspend Hemp Oil Care’s business operations.
- The FDA gave Hemp Oil Care 15 business days to notify the FDA how the company was correcting the violations.
As of the publication of this blog post, Hemp Oil Care’s website cannot be accessed.
The item 6 compliance “catch-all” above in bold font is important not only for the CBD companies that received FDA Warning Letters, but also for all commercial marijuana companies. Even though marijuana operations in legalized states are illegal under federal law, the federal government expects cannabis companies to comply with federal laws and regulations that apply to all companies. As demonstrated by the FDA Warning Letters to the companies producing CBD products, failure to do so can have significant consequences.
The FDA did not specifically target Hemp Oil Care and the other companies that received Warning Letters because they were involved with cannabis-related CBD products. The FDA’s website contains many other Warning Letters to companies alleged to have violated FDA laws by introducing new drugs. Rather, like all these other companies, CBD companies must take steps to understand whether FDA laws and regulations apply to their operations and take the actions necessary to comply with such laws. The same is true for companies engaged in commercial marijuana operations in states where such operations are legal – specifically regarding product labels and claims.
With the Justice Department’s August 29, 2013 Memorandum on Guidance Regarding Marijuana Enforcement and February 14, 2014 Memoranda on Guidance Regarding Marijuana Related Financial Crimes, President Obama’s Administration provided the general framework on how federal and state governments will work together to regulate state-legalized cannabis companies. These memoranda also provide cannabis companies information on how to manage their operations and address critical risks.
As last month’s FDA Warning Letters to CBD companies demonstrate, marijuana companies are not immune to federal regulatory oversight simply because they are involved in cannabis-related commercial activity. Cannabis companies’ biggest risks may not be their involvement in marijuana-related activities, but rather ignoring commercial regulations with which all companies, regardless of industry type, must comply.


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Asiafruit is the leading international magazine for fresh fruit and vegetable marketing and distribution in Asia. Global tomato congress, the leading event for the fresh tomato business, returns on 16 march for a full day of online learning and networking. It's our new digital event format and it's much more than just a virtual trade show. The Global Berry Congress Live event is packed with lots of information and insights about the berry business as well fresh ideas on increasing the sector's sustainability, etc. The number-one conference event bringing together industry leaders from the length and breadth of the UK fresh produce industry to network, discuss and analyse the key issues facing the trade.
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Prepare your palate for some unusual-looking, delicious-tasting fruits and vegetables unique to Southeast Asia. However high you stick up your nose, local people cannot get enough of this fruit. Native to Southeast Asia, the rose apple is said to have many health benefits including protection against diabetes. Rose apples are not related to apples, despite their deceivingly similar name.
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China Yongxin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (CYXN.OB) today announced it has initiated use of its Electronic Diagnosis System throughout chain drugstores in Changchun, Jilin, as part of an effort to curb the abuse of prescription in the Jilin province.
The system provides a network for doctors to provide diagnosis services through an integrated video and audio system, allowing customers to immediately purchase treatment prescribed by the doctors in Yongxin’s chain drugstores. The company said the system reduces errors, improves efficiency, and will help thwart fake prescriptions.
According to China Yongxin, the system is the first of its kind to be introduced in the Jilin province. According to the company, if all goes well and the product is well received, it will initiate long-term plans to supply the system to all future and existing stores.
In the press release, Yongxin Liu, chairman and CEO of China Yongxin, said the company anticipates the Electronic Diagnosis System to become a key part of the company’s future and its position in the marketplace.
“We are very pleased to announce the launch this system, which has proven through trials to be a safe, reliable, convenient and efficient way to provide both medical diagnosis and prescription services to our retail patient customers. The system further improves the level of service and convenience we provide, and we expect it to be a significant driver to the future growth of our retail business,” Liu stated.
The technology received positive review from Yan Jiangyin, spokesperson and vice chief of Politics & Law Department of China’s State Food and Drug Administration, as well as coverage from Chinese Central TV, Chinese Medicine Newspaper, and other media outlets in the province.
China Yongxin expects the device to boost its revenues associated with prescription drugs, and will allow the company to extend its reach to more chain drug stores in northern China.
“During first 9 months of 2008, revenues generated from prescription drugs represented approximately 25% of total drugstore sales and contribute gross margins of approximately 23.5%. We expect revenues from prescription drugs in these stores equipped with this system to increase by approximately 20% during the next year as the market adopts this new service offering. Our focus on further improving the quality of our service combined with expanding the number of chain drugstores we operate will enable us to gain incremental market share in Northern China and position the company for continued future growth,” Liu stated.
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Burgers, french fries, and even punches were thrown at a Wendy's fast food restaurant drive-thru window--in a fight involving customers and employees of Wendy's in Kalamazoo, MI, two people were arrested.
Kalamazoo police said that four customers were waiting in a vehicle at a Wendy's drive-thru window, telling Wendy's employees that their fast food order was incorrect. Police said hurled sodas, hamburgers and french fries were thrown at a Wendy's employee who was inside--hit by the food.
The assaulted Wendy's drive-thru window employee then returned the food assault, police say, now throwing food at the vehicle, hitting the vehicle with a drink, ketchup and french fries.
Two people who had been in the vehicle, when the food fight first occurred, then went inside the fast food chain location, where a physical fight with Wendy's employees began onsite--and even chairs being thrown.
Two of the customers were subsequently arrested by police, on assault charges made by police. The original Wendy's employee involved had minor scrapes and abrasions but no need for emergency medical treatment.
Kalamazoo police said Wendy's restaurant employees blamed the physical and food fights on a "communication breakdown."


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There are less than 1,500 battery-powered vehicles in Thailand. Thai billionaire Somphote Ahunai wants to change that with his Energy Absolute.
He envisions a total closed universe where he makes the cars, builds the charging stations, then provides the electricity to power the charging stations.
The popularity of motorcycles and the busy streets of South East Asia cities are just part of the deterrent for locals to drive away in an electric car. They’ve also been quite expensive up to now. But Energy Absolute recently unveiled the first car from its Mine Mobility subsidiary – the SPA1.
The Mine Mobility passenger EV featured at this year’s Bangkok Motor Show in March and immediately received more than 4,500 orders. The car is reasonably priced at about 1.2 million baht, cheaper than a comparable Nissan Leaf or Kia Soul EV. The petrol-powerered mid-size SUVs from Honda and Toyota are also around the same price.
Now Energy Absolute is using Thai government subsidies and tax breaks to put 5,000 electric vehicles (EVs) on Thai roads by next year, backed by more than 700 charging stations popping up around the country. Energy Absolute is also planning a US$3 billion factory to make lithium-ion batteries which power the cars while they’re on the move.
The company’s founder and CEO, Sompote Ahunai says, “The trend is clear: it’s time for Thailand to stop being complacent and pursue higher technology to drive economic growth. EV technology opens up new opportunities for success by new players.”
But the SPA1 will head out on Thailand’s roads at the same time EV showrooms start getting crowded with foreign models. Carmakers are chasing growth in South East Asia as combined sales in China, US and Europe decline amid the trade wars and the ongoing hangover of Brexit.
BYD, the Chinese manufacturer backed by American business investor Warren Buffett, says it planned to deliver 1,100 cars to Bangkok as part of a deal with the government to become the biggest supplier of pure EVs. And BMW, Nissan and Mercedes Benz have all announced plans to produce and assemble EVs locally as well.
But Thai energy billionaire Somphote wants his company to dominate EV sales in Thailand.
Energy Absolute markets the Mine Mobility SPA1 as the first EV designed and built in Thailand. The five-seat hatchback can travel up to 200 kilometres on a single charge, according to the company.
That’s less than a Tesla Model 3 or BYD e6 but has already been enough to convince a group of five Thai taxi unions to order 3,500 cars for metropolitan Bangkok. The group chose Energy Absolute because it promised the earliest delivery.
Energy Absolute has about 400 charging stations around Bangkok and plans to install another 300 before the end of 2019. The plan is to have at least one charging point every five kilometres.
Sompote says Energy Absolute is also planning two more EVs – a cheaper compact and a pricier sports car.
“Thailand will be the leader of EV technology in this region. We’re first, and that should give us a head start to develop the technology.”


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A new occasion in Iran’s tourism market: young tourists have arrived
Tourism is among the most important sectors of the Iranian economy, experiencing rapid growth after the lifting of international sanctions as part of the 2015 nuclear deal.
With the growth of the tourism industry in Iran, a new general hostel has flourished for younger travelers throughout the country.
The country’s tourism prospect for 2025 is to increase its share of international tourists from 0.9 percent in 2004 to 1.5 percent in 2025, equivalent to 20 million tourists and 30 billion dollars in annual income.
More than 6 million foreign tourists visited the country last year (2016) and earned $ 8 billion in revenue from the site.
According to the report, the average age of tourists who visited Iran was about 60 years old.But according to official statements of Iranian authorities, the average age of foreign tourists has decreased to 45-50 years in recent years.This means visitors from Iran are getting younger.In fact, Iran, in the three successive reports of the World Economic Forum, was the cheapest destination in the world, it has become a destination for Backpackers tourists, who prefer to travel at a low cost and not to use luxurious hotels and services.


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Senator Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, last week highlighted his concerns regarding the risk of rising inflation to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell during a Banking Committee hearing on the Federal Reserve’s Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress.
“In the midst of the largest increase in consumer prices in 13 years, the Biden administration is proposing trillions more in government spending,” Shelby said. “Additional wasteful spending will only further intensify the current inflationary risks. The dual mandate of the Federal Reserve is to achieve both price stability and maximum employment. The Fed’s ability to maintain price stability is threatened by actual inflation or the expectation of inflation. It is my hope that, in carrying out its mandate, the Federal Reserve will recognize the current and future risk of rising inflation before it is too late.”
The senator went on to question Powell about whether he holds the same concerns, to which Powell noted that we are experiencing an uptick in inflation and that the Federal Reserve is watching that closely and will react accordingly.
“Chair Powell, welcome and thank you for coming before the committee today,” Shelby said. “When you were last here, I raised concerns about the risk of rising inflation, particularly following the enactment of a $2 trillion spending bill earlier this year. Since that time, the threat of rising inflation has worsened. In June, U.S. inflation accelerated at its fastest pace in 13 years. Consumer prices increased by 5.4 percent from a year ago, which is the largest 12 month jump since 2008. Americans are now paying higher prices for many of the goods and services they cannot do without.”
“The buying power of the dollar has diminished over the past forty years,” Shelby said. “According to the Bureau of Labor’s Consumer Price Index, one dollar today is seven times less valuable than it was in 1970; three and a half times less valuable than in 1980; half as valuable as in 1990; and one and a half times less valuable than in 2000.”
“Recently, the price of commodities has increased swiftly,” Shelby said. “In the span of one year, price increases have affected numerous areas of our economy. The price of agricultural goods has increased: corn by 50 percent; wheat by 17 percent; soybeans by 54 percent. The price of metals has risen: copper has increased by 43 percent; aluminum has increased by 47 percent. Energy prices have grown: the price of crude oil has increased by 70 percent; gas prices are up 45 percent. In the automotive industry, prices for used cars rose 45 percent in the past year, 10.5 percent in June alone. Airline tickets are up 25 percent. The cost of milk is up 7.5 percent. As the cost of everyday items are on the rise, Americans are concerned about inflation and its effect on our economy.”
“To this point, the Biden administration continues to claim that the increases in inflation are temporary,” Shelby said. “I, along with many others, believe that this could be a sign of things to come. For instance, economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal this month forecasted higher inflation for the next couple of years.”
“Throughout the 1970’s, high inflation crippled consumers with rapid and sudden price increases,” Shelby said. “Many of the same conditions then, such as loose monetary policy and significant government spending, are present in our economy today. If we fail to take this inflation risk seriously, I am concerned that our nation could be faced with the same challenges of years ago.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, expressed similar concerns in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday.
“This is what folks back in Alabama were talking about – they were talking about small businesses that can’t find people to work, because the government is paying more in unemployment benefits than folks can make on the job,” Tuberville said. “They were talking about an economy that’s hurting – really hurting – hardworking Americans. “They were talking about the real costs of rising inflation [and the] rising prices on goods and services. And by the way, in June, consumer prices increased 5.4 percent.”
“Altogether, President Biden has called for 30 – let me repeat that, 30 – different tax increases on the American people that total over $3 trillion,” Tuberville said. “President Biden wants to raise the corporate rate from 21 to 28 percent. That was lowered just a couple of years ago [and] that put money in people’s pockets all across the country.”
“We’re looking at a package in the next few weeks that’s going to be $3.5 – or possibly even more – trillion dollars,” Tuberville said. “That’s unfathomable to me. Just remember that what you earn, grow, and work hard to preserve is your money – it is your money – not the government’s.”
Shelby is a former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.


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Future-ready mobile apps have become an indispensable part of our daily schedules. Businesses are thriving on mobile app development technology. It is gaining a strong foothold in every industrial sector. There is a persistent noise around it. The year gone by was marked by some exceptional breakthroughs made in this domain.
The emergence of 2017 has moved up the anticipations. The organizations are looking forward to advanced apps built with the latest technologies for improved usability and user experiences. Here are given the top mobile app technology trends that will emerge and prosper on this landscape in the year 2017 as per the mobile app development company Octal Info Solution.
The rise of cloud-driven technology
The impact of cloud technology is evidently seen across the industries. It supports cross-platform architecture with enhanced integration of smart features. It saves the time spent on mobile app development by providing an easy access to advanced tools for designing, testing and deployment of mobile apps. It allows a direct access to data stored on cloud servers.
Hence, you have a plenty of free storage space on the devices. It is anticipated that cloud apps will dominate the mobile data traffic in the coming years with CAGR of nearly 60%.
The impact of big data and analytics
The big data avalanche is overwhelmingly huge and accounts for a bevy of unstructured data as well. In this regard, analytics emerge as a potent tool to process this data in the real-time. Hence, enterprise apps will be integrated with smart analytics to enhance their functionality on various devices. Business intelligence gathered from this data stream will bring more efficiency in the operational processes.
Location Based Services (LBS) and Beacons
Integrated applications with location-based services and ibeacon technology will surely evolve in the coming year. The multi-functionality of this technology facilitates enhanced performances and ability to multi-task. Beacons help in tracking the location of users and provide location-centric information. These small devices transmit the data collected from a location to a mobile app where it is synchronized and assessed.
Finally, this helps in sending personalized offers to the user. With its capability to provide personalized UX and UI designs, this technology will thrive in 2017 as well.
The Internet of Things will grow stronger
This technology has made life easier in 2016 and is continuing to do the same. It has a massive potential that will be completely unleashed over the next few years. As a matter of fact, it presents a promising future for mobile app development trends because the IoT-powered devices are controlled by the mobile phones. So, watch out for the development of this technology in 2017.
The growth of micro apps and enterprise mobile apps
They are two ends of the spectrum. While enterprise-level apps help in streamlining and managing the critical business processes, micro apps facilitate targeted operations. The former is a native app with multiple features and app store install.
On the other hand, micro-apps are designed for a targeted purpose and they require ad hoc install. Both of them are gaining momentum and expected to rise in the next few years as well.
The application of AR and VR
Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are the most exciting technological trends converging on the landscape of mobile apps. With advanced features integrated into the latest mobile devices, these technologies will raise the bar for mobile app development companies in 2017. Apart from gaming, they will find newer avenues of applications in the field of education, healthcare, military, and cross-industrial platforms.
The dominance of wearable devices
The past years witnessed development and rise of many impressive wearable devices including Google Glasses, Apple Watch, Fitbit Band, Pebble 2 and lots more. These devices correspond to smartphones for their usability. With increase in the number of wearables, this technology will get a surge of energy in 2017 and keep mobile app development companies on their toes.
The development of foldable screens
The devices laden with advanced features are undergoing an evolution of sorts with bendable OLED display mode. This technology will directly affect the appearance of smartphone screens and content displayed on them. With more devices integrated with foldable displays, you may find mobile app developers tweaking their designs to fit these spaces flawlessly.
Accelerated speed due To AMP
Google’s AMP or Accelerated Mobile Pages algorithm will largely change the perception of mobile apps in the future. With its separate search engine for mobile apps, this technology will bring major changes for SEO outlook. The apps supported by this technology run faster and are optimized with enhanced performances every time.
Swift-based app development
The iPhone app developers are embracing this language for its simplicity and efficiency. It is easy to use and facilitates integration of multiple features in a mobile app. It will pose stiff competition for Objective-C and gain more traction in 2017.
As a rule of thumb, mobile app development companies need to innovate consistently by using emerging tools and technologies. The year 2016 witnessed a surge in these technologies.
Hopefully, mobile app developers will clinch them closely and implement them more effectively in 2017 and beyond.


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LG Electronics’ mobile business chief Cho Ju-no said Thursday that the company’s upcoming flagship smartphone G5 will offer differentiated value to customers, exuding confidence in the imminent battle with competitors Samsung Electronics and Apple.
“Even though LG Electronics is beefing up its budget smartphone lineup, it will focus on delivering fun and exotic value to customers through premium products like the G5,” Cho said.
LGE CEO Cho Ju-no poses with the G5 smartphone.(LGE)
In reference to Apple’s budget smartphone iPhone SE, the CEO said, “Rolling out a product with same-old technology and features is not LG’s way.”
He was fending off market concerns over LGE facing off Apple’s latest mid-range iPhone SE handset. He made the remarks at the opening event of a product experience zone for the G5 and its accompanying device lineup, dubbed Friends, in Seoul.
Apple recently released the 4-inch iPhone SE, which is said to offer similar performance to the iPhone 6s, but at a lower price. The price of the new iPhone SE starts at $399, compared to $649 for the iPhone 6s.
CEO Cho also hinted that the firm’s first mobile payment solution LG Pay will hit the market as early as the first half of this year.
It has not been decided whether subsequent LG smartphone models will adopt a module-based design and be compatible with G5 modules, according to the CEO.
Industry watchers anticipate that the G5, the mobile payment, and the Friends devices will be able to lift the earnings of the company in the coming months.
KB Investment and Securities estimated that sales of the G5 will exceed 100 million units this year, surpassing the record first-year sales of the G3, which was 70 million units.
In line with marketing efforts ahead of the upcoming release of the modular phone G5 and the Friends devices, the company will run large-scale product experience zones in posh districts in Seoul.
This will begin in Garosu-gil, an upscale district with cafes and fashion shops, and the Times Square shopping complex in Yeongdeungpo-gu on Friday. An experience zone, called LG Playground, will be launched at the IFC Mall in Yeouido, Coex shopping complex in Samseong-dong, and Hyundai Department Store in Pangyo and Sinchon by the end of this month.
The tech giant came up with the “Playground” marketing scheme to promote the handset and Friends devices. The zones include a 360-degree camera, a ball-shape rolling robot equipped with a camera, a drone, and virtual reality goggles.
The G5’s removable battery can be removed from a slot at the bottom of the handset and attached to several Friends devices -- including a camera and a portable audio system -- to power them.
By Kim Young-won (email@example.com


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iPhone 13 Cases Start Showing Up: New Leaks Suggest 4 Models
Apple iPhone 13 is speculated to launch in September 2021 as the company is expected to follow previous launch patterns, we could see this device in shelves on September 25th. The new upgraded versions are rumored to look just like its predecessors as more and more iPhone 13 cases showing up.
The new Apple phones are expected to be thicker so iPhone 12 cases wont fit the iPhone 13.
The speculation on 6.1 inch iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 pro model suggest that both of these devices will differ in over all specification so iPhone 13 cases be different that those of Pro.
To all the rumours we are going since days, we have brought you an end up to unveil with moderate and glance of information related to iPhone 13.
The 2021 iPhone 13, most appealed and expected smart phone from Apple which is going to land on market in a couple of months mostly on September. Before its launch, we are expecting more and more rumours and new devices which are more anticipated.
The new iPhone line-up has major changes and modern touch. Which are expected to have a count of features for new iPhone? As previous versions of iPhone has 4 devices and series which are being to have an higher end version with 5.4 inches, 6.1 inches, 6.7 inches for two smart series which is higher version of Pro models.
To all the newbie's, here we have gathering all the info about the next upcoming iPhone model and giving you the lot of bunches which one should know about Apple.
So, let's not wait for the time of launch and see exactly what people are expecting from new iPhone.
Complete Guide to iPhone 13:
Most importantly, whenever people are thinking of new iPhone series the first thing have in their mind is what will the next iPhone meant for and what it is called?
What will be the new iPhone series called?
Here it goes, an increment to the previous version it is branding as iPhone13. Moreover some of the Apple's co-work employees meant to say it is internally more related to iPhone 12series which is hard and more appropriately meant to have as iPhone12s.
The more happened thing is, some people are spreading misinformation related to some leakers which are appropriated to be flushed according to Jon Prosser believers.
As we can find 2009-2015, all the phone releases are meant to be the increments of iPhone 4, 5, 6 with iPhone4s, iPhone5s, iPhone6s which is appeared to be admitted.
With the iPhone6s sequence we can find the three generation of iPhone has been out which is indeed one to the iPhone X update and gives as iPhone Xs.
Apple has launched as Xs and Xs Max which is consecutive updates of 11 and 12 which are appeared to be repeated again at 2021.
As meant that Apple lovers are mean of thinking that 13 can be unlucky to the associations. So, that's the reason the iPhone makers might change it to iPhone 12s this year and might skip iPhone 13.
IPhone 13: Design
As Apple has been offering 4 new series of smart phones which are 5.4 inch iPhone mini, 6.1 inch low cost iPhone, 6.1 inch Pro model and 6.7 inch Pro max model which are rumoured to have 12 miniseries or iPhone 13 miniseries which are yet to be confirmed.
These iPhone models have dual lens camera setup which could be arranged diagonally rather than vertical design. While these offer to have benefited Ultra wide lens and sensor shift optical image stabilization for image authentication.
Such wide range of collective design is inbuilt habited to have better version of vision to make memory. Such intense camera we have for iPhone new series. To have an accommodate sensor shift, you can add better value with iPhone 13 mobile cases which will add life and strength to your device.
The new iPhone13 coming with innovative venture and hypo technical design. Also this is more attributed to take more safety and more worthy actions for protection. So to have an wide range of protection and trendy style you can choose iPhone 13 marble cases, iPhone 13 flip cases and more lovable cute iPhone 13 trendy cases many more available at Fommy.com. Feel free to grab them in best affordable prices.
Also the protection plays a major role in all kinds of iPhone series, isn't it? For that sake, we have given a path to driven of safety with iPhone 13 protective cases, iPhone 13 screen protectors and much more needed iPhone13 covers which are most needed for any iPhone user is now available at Fommy.
Is iPhone 13 has Port less Design?
Since a long time, Apple has been thinking to not to have an external ports or buttons for a clean and streamlined device which is now rumoured against it with no lightning port.
In Recent time Bloomberg also says apple has mulled to remove lightning port for some iPhone models which are favour of wireless charging and gives you more lightning connector for iPhone line-up.
Along with this line-up of iPhone, they also have a thought of going No USB-C is much rumoured one!! But, this is not official confirmed by Apple authorities and reluctant the shift of USB-C. As it is open standard and gives fewer waterproofs than lightning option.
Foldable & New Cooling Technology: iPhone 13
As high end iPhone models are more vapour chamber thermal system which Apple has aggressively testing with the VC power storage. These are already started as device cooler in iOS devices as heavy stress.
Apple potentially wanted to have foldable iPhone which is patents of company which is aped to be developed with the things.
So, hoop up with the more things about next iPhone 13 which are to be having a roundup for best iPhone case protectors.And if you're looking for any best iPhone covers and cases we can grab it through Fommy with more affordable deals and all.


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Conglomerate announces plans to deliver new 70MW solar park alongside IHI Corporation and Mizuho Corporate Bank
Japanese technology conglomerate and solar technology manufacturer Kyocera has revealed plans to beef up its presence in the country's booming solar market, unveiling proposals for a new 70MW solar farm...
Recycling firm joins group of 12 companies working to convert waste bound for landfill into raw materials for chemical industry
Property giant reveals why cheap, green homes are becoming a business necessity for urban developers
Enhabit's Akta Raja considers where it all went wrong for the Green Deal
UK government lifts restrictions on small aircraft to allow Amazon to test drone delivery, which could prove to be a greener method of rapid delivery


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Volkswagen eventually replace the iconic model Beetle in its all-electric option. This is because the current generation Volkswagen Beetle, which is available since 2011, is gradually losing its popularity showing an annual drop in sales.
This decision is not final and it has still to be discussion within the company. If the decision to issue an electric Volkswagen Beetle still be made, then engineers would make it as close in design to the original.
This is interesting: a Compact hatchback, Toyota has a special version of
During the construction you will use the versatile proprietary platform for electric cars — VW MEB, which allows you to build an electric car with any drive is front, rear or full.