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The entrance sign to the Texas Instruments corporate campus is shown in Dallas, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006 in Texas. Texas Instruments Inc. said Monday that fourth-quarter profit rose 34 percent on strong sales of chips for mobile phones and electronic devices. (AP Photo/L.M. Otero)
Texas Instruments cutting 1,700 wireless unit jobs
NEW YORK (AP) - Texas Instruments Inc. will eliminate about 1,700 jobs as it trims spending in its wireless business.
The Dallas-based chipmaker made the announcement Wednesday. The cuts will reduce TI staff positions by almost 5 percent.
Texas Instruments expects the job cuts and other changes will save about $450 million per year by the end of 2013. TI will take $325 million in one-time charges connected to the moves. Most will come in the current quarter.
The company is shifting the focus of its wireless investments to industrial and automotive customers and away from smartphones and tablets.
TI had nearly 35,000 employees at the end of 2011.
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Amazon.com has struck a deal to put its new locker system — which allows customers to order products online and pick them up at physical locations — in Staples stores, according to a report today by Reuters.
Staples is the largest office supply retailer in the world, with more than $25 billion in annual sales and about 88,000 employees. It has more than 1,800 stores throughout the U.S.
That could give the Amazon Lockers program, which has remained in relative stealth mode since it was first discovered late last year, a big boost. It also comes as pressure mounts from physical retailers like Walmart, which are touting same-day delivery in some markets and in-store pick-up.
We’ve covered the Amazon Lockers from the time that they started popping up at 7-Eleven stores in the Seattle area last year, with GeekWire’s Todd Bishop giving it a try in the video below.
Amazon.com has never officially acknowledged the program, letting word spill out as they appear at retailers, college campuses and other locations across the country. It’s unclear how many lockers Amazon has in operation at the moment. We’ve reached out to the company for comment, and we’ll update this post if we learn more.
Meanwhile, here’s a look at Todd picking up a set of batteries at a locker location in Seattle in October 2011.

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Jia Yueting, the founder of Chinese technology firm LeEco, has not returned to China before the end of 2017, despite being ordered to do so by Chinese financial regulators.
According to Chinese press reports, Jia has defied the December 31 deadline, set by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), to return to China to deal with financial problems at LeEco’s Shenzhen-listed subsidiary Leshi Internet Information & Technology Co.
Jia’s wife Gan Wei posted on her Weibo social media account on Sunday (December 31) that she had returned to China “with a mission” and tagged her location as Beijing Capital International Airport. However, Jia’s whereabouts are still unknown, although in recent months he has been living in California where he heads up ailing electric car company Faraday Future.
Jia has reportedly said that if he leaves the US, he won’t be allowed to return and complete his work at Faraday Future.
Founded as a video streaming platform in 2004, LeEco has expanded aggressively in recent years into electric cars, smartphones, smart TVs and other devices, setting up offices in the US, Hong Kong and India.
However, the company admitted at the end of 2016 that it was having liquidity problems. It announced a $2.2bn cash injection from investors including Sunac China in March 2017, but this doesn’t appear to have been enough to save the company.
LeEco also owns film production and distribution outfit Le Vision Pictures, which has invested in films such as The Great Wall and Gods Of Egypt. Sunac is reportedly planning to increase its stake in Le Vision Pictures to 41%, which would make it the subsidiary’s controlling shareholder.


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On Friday, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook and chief executive of Meta and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan welcomed their third baby. They made an announcement on their social media platform and posted photos of them with baby no. 3 who has been named Aurelia. The couple have already welcomed their two daughters.
On Instagram, a social network platform of parent Meta, the couple wrote, “Welcome to the world, Aurelia Chan Zuckerberg. You’re such a blessing.”
They posted a photo of Mark Zuckerberg fondly gazing at their baby daughter. Baby Aurelia appears to be gazing directly at her dad, who has a wide smile on his face. The second photo was of Priscilla Chan cradling baby Aurelia next to her skin. The photo appears to have been taken shortly after the birth of their baby girl.
In September 2022, 38-year-old Zuckerberg mentioned his two children and the arrival of their third child. The tech entrepreneur posted a smiling selfie on Instagram where he placed his hand on Priscilla’s baby bump. He captioned the photo: “Happy to share that Max and August are getting a new baby sister next year.”
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Shipwell | May 18, 2022
Shipwell, an industry leader in cloud-based shipping and logistics, announced the release of a load optimization feature built directly into the company’s transportation management system (TMS). This feature helps customers significantly reduce the time it takes to plan and route shipments, the costs associated with moving them and the carbon emissions produced by the carriers hauling them.Combining orders into shipments is often a manual process done by an individual or team within the logistics department, who utilize third-party software or spreadsheets outside of their TMS.
“Shippers finding ways to optimally consolidate orders into shipments and route those shipments with the fewest number of trucks required is critical, With the ever-increasing capacity constraints since the start of COVID-19, exacerbated by crunches such as produce season, load optimization is one of the biggest areas of need. Even with rates for truckload dry van and reefer dropping from historic highs, packing multiple customer orders into the most ideal mode allows a greater quantity to be dispatched at once, greatly reducing both the costs for the shipper and the number of miles those shipments need to travel before reaching their destination.”
-Shipwell co-founder and CEO Greg Price
How load optimization works to help shippers
Shipwell’s load optimization feature leverages a proprietary algorithm to assess each individual order’s details, including size, weight, locations, pickup and delivery times. In a matter of seconds, the orders are consolidated into the most cost-efficient routes and modes. By utilizing Shipwell’s integrated pricing intelligence tool, the feature forecasts individual load rates and compares them to optimized routes to provide a clear picture of the potential savings.
The feature eliminates customers’ need to manually import and export data from third-party planning tools while providing shippers with the ability to customize load plans. Whenever an order is manually added or removed from a shipment plan, the algorithm automatically recalculates the cost and most efficient route for the shipment. The tool helps planners save time and money.
We used to spend four to five hours per week manually planning our shipments and looking for multi-stop truckload opportunities that would lower our shipping costs, said Debbie Lombardo, shipping manager at Tarrier Foods, a Columbus-based supplier of candy and nuts. “Shipwell’s load optimization feature has changed how we operate, and has helped us uncover routes we wouldn’t have considered, or realized were an option.
Beta customers who partnered with Shipwell in developing the load optimization tool have realized savings ranging from 20% to 40% through consolidating their orders into full truckload or less-than-truckload shipments, and routing the trucks in the most efficient routes possible — all while ensuring delivery windows are met.
Load optimization makes it easy for me to find consolidation opportunities that save us money and minimize our shipping costs,” said Angela Steele, head of inventory and planning at Crowd Cow, a Seattle-based supplier of sustainably sourced meat and seafood. I had never scheduled freight before, and Shipwell made the process so easy to learn and stay on top of all the moving pieces. After only a month of running freight, I now feel confident in my ability to work with carriers and know that I am getting the best rates.
Efficient routing using the tool also ensures the shippers may reduce the carbon footprint of their shipments. One beta customer was able to reduce more than 10,000 pounds of carbon emissions by slashing the distance driven by more than 2,700 miles for just one shipment batch.
To learn more about the ways that Shipwell enables shippers to efficiently plan and route shipments, request a demo today.
In a world where shipping expectations and complexity are greater than ever, Shipwell is on a mission to empower supply chain efficiency at scale across every company size, stage, and industry. Supply chain solutions today are highly disconnected, rigid, and difficult to use, but Shipwell is disrupting the status quo. Our solution combines everything our customers need in a comprehensive platform that adapts as the market and business demands change, so they can effectively manage the entire process in one place and never have to rip and replace. Shipwell is proud to be recognized by industry experts as a leader in shipping and logistics, including Gartner Magic Quadrant for TMS, Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startup, and was named fourth fastest-growing company in North America on the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500. To learn more, visit www.shipwell.com.
E2open | April 26, 2022
E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ETWO), a leading network-based provider of a cloud-based, mission-critical, end-to-end supply chain management platform, announces that its strategic alliance partner, KPMG LLP is building a new E2open practice to help clients transform their enterprise with supply chain technology.The KPMG E2open practice will be focused on creating positive business outcomes and a more connected supply chain through technology adoption, services and expertise.
“We’re thrilled to strengthen our alliance relationship with KPMG and launch a dedicated E2open practice to drive more value for our mutual clients, This is yet another step in our stated strategy to expand our partnerships and partner ecosystem to best serve clients.”
-Michael Farlekas, chief executive officer of E2open
KPMG LLP Supply Chain Advisory Leader Rob Barrett, said, We look forward to servicing our mutual clients in building more connected, resilient supply chains through digital transformation. Our E2open practice will help guide that journey, from technology roadmap and operating capabilities to the skills and internal adoption that drives ultimate success.
“Our goal is to help clients achieve better results in managing their supply chains, and our alliance with KMPG is instrumental in that endeavor. We’re excited that KMPG is opening up a practice, which will include expanded transportation and logistics capabilities from E2open’s most recent acquisitions.”
-Heather Generes, general manager, channel and growth at E2open
KMPG recently received the CONNECT 2022 Strategic Alliance Partner of the Year Award from E2open at its annual client conference.
About KPMG LLP
KPMG LLP is the U.S. firm of the KPMG global organization of independent professional services firms providing audit, tax and advisory services. The KPMG global organization operates in 145 countries and territories and has close to 236,000 people working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. KPMG International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients.KPMG is widely recognized for being a great place to work and build a career. Our people share a sense of purpose in the work we do, and a strong commitment to community service, inclusion and diversity, and eradicating childhood illiteracy. Learn more at www.kpmg.com/us.
At E2open, we’re creating a more connected, intelligent supply chain. It starts with sensing and responding to real-time demand, supply and delivery constraints. Bringing together data from customers, distribution channels, suppliers, contract manufacturers and logistics partners, our collaborative and agile supply chain platform enables companies to use data in real time, with artificial intelligence and machine learning to drive smarter decisions. All this complex information is delivered in a single view that encompasses your demand, supply, logistics and global trade ecosystems. E2open is changing everything. Demand. Supply. Delivered.™ Visit www.e2open.com.
TuSimple Holdings, Inc. | February 04, 2022
TuSimple (Nasdaq: TSP), a global autonomous driving technology company, today announced that Union Pacific Railroad, the largest Class I railroad in the U.S., will become the first customer to move freight on TuSimple's fully-automated trucking route between the Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona metro areas. Union Pacific is leveraging Loup Logistics (Loup), a wholly-owned subsidiary, to coordinate the freight shipment and support seamless movement between rail and the critical first and last mile. Starting this spring, TuSimple plans to carry Driver Out freight for Union Pacific, utilizing groundbreaking AV (autonomous vehicle) technology to deliver goods to their destination faster and more cost-effectively.
Partnering with TuSimple allows us to extend our operations beyond our rail hubs and serve our customers faster and more efficiently, This groundbreaking autonomous driving technology and our partnership provide us a significant opportunity to scale the technology in our network, proactively reducing global supply chain congestion."
Kenny Rocker, Executive Vice President – Marketing & Sales, Union Pacific.
Building on its accomplishment of the world's first Driver Out semi-truck run on December 22, 2021, TuSimple is today reporting an additional six successful fully autonomous runs. The seven total runs covered over 550 cumulative miles on open public roads without a human in the vehicle, without any teleoperation, and without any traffic intervention. Runs were conducted in various roadway conditions, including dense early-evening traffic and "back-to-back" runs on the same night.
Going forward, TuSimple plans to continue its 'Driver Out' program and progressively expand its scope to incorporate daytime runs and new routes while making regular improvements to its proprietary AV technology. By the end of 2023, TuSimple plans to achieve commercial viability by initiating continuous 'Driver Out' paid freight operations in a significant shipping area such as the 'Texas Triangle.'
Our repeatable and scalable 'Driver Out' operations marks a significant inflection point in our company's history. We are the world's first to complete all of the features of AV trucking technology, We are proud of our on-time delivery of this historic milestone and are excited to shift our full focus to commercializing our ground-breaking technology on an accelerated timeline."
Cheng Lu, President, and CEO, TuSimple.
TuSimple continues to advance autonomous freight lanes across the sunbelt, making the movement of freight safe, fast, and efficient. To scale its operations in preparation for a nationwide expansion, the company recently provided technical specifications to commercial real-estate developers to prepare for future autonomous trucking operations, including a million square foot state-of-the-art facility within a 27,000-square-acre development as part of the AllianceTexas.
To date, TuSimple has over 11,000 unique mapped miles in its Autonomous Freight Network and plans to continue to scale its operations to support its distribution partners.
About Union Pacific
Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) delivers the goods families and businesses use every day with safe, reliable, and efficient service. Operating in 23 western states, the company connects its customers and communities to the global economy. Trains are the most environmentally responsible way to move freight, helping Union Pacific protect future generations.
TuSimple is a global autonomous driving technology company, headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations in Arizona, Texas, Europe, and China. Founded in 2015, TuSimple is developing a commercial-ready, fully autonomous (SAE Level 4) driving solution for long-haul heavy-duty trucks. TuSimple aims to transform the $4 trillion global truck freight industry through the company's leading AI technology, which makes it possible for trucks to see 1,000 meters away, operate nearly continuously, and reduce fuel consumption by 10%+ relative to manually driven trucks.
6 River Systems | September 16, 2020
A spike in e-commerce volumes driven by coronavirus travel restrictions may slow down after a safe vaccine is eventually found, but its impact on fulfillment automation processes is here to stay, according to a top executive at Shopify, an e-commerce platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). As the pandemic prevented consumers from congregating in brick and mortar stores, so many of them turned to e-commerce shopping that the online retail sector experienced five years’ worth of growth in the past three months alone, Shopify’s chief technology officer, Jean-Michel Lemieux, said today. From less than 1% in 2000, the share of e-commerce retail sales as a percent of total retail sales rose to 5% in 2011 and 10% in 2018 before leaping above 16% during the second quarter of 2020, according to statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau. That curve may soon begin to flatten a bit, but the post-Covid “new normal” will feature e-commerce levels in the range of 20%, 30%, or even 40% of all retail, Lemieux said in remarks at Flow 2020, the annual user conference held by autonomous mobile robot (AMR) vendor 6 River Systems. Ottawa, Ontario-based Shopify acquired Waltham, Massachusetts-based 6 River in 2019 for $450 million in a bid to use its collaborative "Chuck" robots to boost fulfillment efficiency for warehouse staffers managing inventory for distribution. That deal looked at first like amazon.com's move to buy Kiva Systems Inc. in 2012 for $775 million, and then take the product off the market, keeping its robots for the sole use of Amazon’s own DCs. But Shopify was quick to say that it will continue selling 6 River’s Chuck bots to the entire logistics market, and Lemieux reiterated that stance today.


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Paris | European shopping centre giant Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has hired an Australian tech start-up to measure and rate the sustainability practices of its tenants, as part of a renewed drive to crack net-zero emissions across its portfolio.
URW’s strategy also includes spending €8 million ($13 million) a year on an eightfold increase in rooftop solar at its malls, rolling out electric-vehicle charging points, switching to heat pumps and smart metering, and the greening of its construction activity.
The company will invest €28 million a year in the program over the next seven years. It is targeting a 90 per cent cut to its own emissions from 2015 levels by 2030, and wants to get its “scope 3” emissions – those of its tenants and supply chains – to net zero by 2050.
CEO Jean-Marie Tritant told reporters in Paris that his company and sector could not avoid making a concerted push on cutting emissions, as European consumers and governments were both demanding it.
“[There are] new regulations and restrictions that are not optional. … instead of waiting to be impacted, we decided to take action now,” he said.
“European consumers are more and more concerned about their environmental impact … they do not want to have to choose between sustainable and non-sustainable products.”
URW has hired Australian company Good On You, whose app rates fashion brands on their green practices, to create what it calls a Retail Sustainability Index for its malls.
About 80 per cent of tenants will be covered, although their individual ratings will not be made public. Instead, the company will create a score and a benchmark for each mall, and work behind the scenes with its tenants to lift their game.
Mr Tritant told The Australian Financial Review that Good On You was known for its tough approach to assessing fashion brands, telling consumers which to embrace or avoid. But URW was tackling the challenge differently.
“We are not asking the people to do something, we’re not telling them what they should do,” he said.
“What we are trying to assess is the level of commitment of the retailers in the environmental transition. It’s about, ‘what’s your plan?’”
The Good On You-designed index would give the tenants access to data and benchmarks, to help them meet their sustainability objectives, and allow for a discussion with URW.
“We are convinced that the brands that do not tackle this, at some point they will be out of business. Not because we have decided that they should be out of business, just because the consumers will have made their own choice,” Mr Tritant said.
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URW, which bought Westfield’s British and US malls for $US25 billion in 2017 and has a secondary ASX listing through Chess Depositary Interests, also outlined a range of other measures to drive down its malls’ emissions.
Energy reduction and efficiency measures will include: adjusting temperatures in common areas; reducing artificial and decorative lighting; switching to LED lighting; and optimising escalator operating hours.
The plan would also curb tenants’ use of additional cooling or heating units; use sub-metering for tenants; deploy smart meters to monitor leakages from cooling systems; and replace boilers and district heating with electric heat pumps.
The solar panel rollout will expand URW’s capacity from 6.4-megawatt peak (MWp) now to 50 MWp by 2030, which could supply almost one-third of the company’s common-area needs. About half of this is already in train, in 24 malls across 10 countries.
The savings from using solar energy would generate an 8 per cent return on the investment from 2030, despite the heavy upfront investment cost, Mr Tritant said.
The EV charging rollout will expand the number of charging points in Europe from about 1300 now to 4000 by 2030.
URW also aims to send zero waste to landfill by 2025, and reach a 70 per cent recycling rate by 2030. The company will work with tenants to reduce their waste by 15 per cent over the next seven years.
The company’s construction projects will look to cut carbon emissions by 16 per cent through using low-carbon concrete and recovering materials during demolition, and extract another 9 per cent from using less emission-heavy materials in design, such as more wood.
URW has 74 shopping centres in 12 countries, with 900 million visits a year. Since buying Westfield’s US and British assets, it has started divesting much of the American portfolio, while switching many of its top European malls to Westfield branding.
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King's College: First United States School to Accept Bitcoin for TuitionBy Staff Reporter, UniversityHerald Reporter
The King's College becomes the first accredited United States University to accept Bitcoin for tuition, beginning this fall.
Through a partnership with merchant processor Coin.co, the four-year conservative evangelical college in the New York City is now accepting the digital currency for expenses and donations. The officials said that this mode of payment will do away with the 2-3 percent transaction fees charged to the college when students pay tuition via credit card. Coin.co does not have transaction fees.
"Allowing bitcoin to be used to pay for a King's education decreases our costs while simultaneously allowing our students to be a part of this exciting new technology," King's College President Dr. Gregory Alan Thornbury said in a statement.
King's College in Lower Manhattan charges $15,950 a semester for 12 to 18 credits. In the digital currency, a semester's tuition costs about 28 bitcoin, TIME reports.
Thornbury is unsure as to how many students will take advantage of the new payment method. He compares the impact of the bitcoins to the financial system with the advent of email in the 1990s.
"It seems to be fairly similar to email 20 years ago," Thornbury said. "Why would we need that? And then everybody has one," NY Times reports.
Besides King's College, several other higher educational institutions have caught up to Bitcoin trends. Both - University of Nicosia and the UK's University of Cumbria - accept Bitcoin for payment of fees. In February, a University of Puget Sound alumnus made a gift of $10,000 via bitcoin although the Tacoma school does not have an bitcoin payment policy.
Bitcoin, the computer-driven currency introduced in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto, has steadily cemented its place in the finance sector. It is a peer-to-peer currency that operates without any central authority or banks.
The digital currency can be used to buy airline tickets, donate to a political campaign or pay a satellite TV bill among others. Bitcoin's price has risen from a few cents to its current price of about $600 in just five years.
However, critics warn of the currency's potential for scams and its volatility. Recently, federal prosecutors closed Silk Road, the popular Bitcoin marketplace, for facilitating drug deals and other illegal transactions.


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I guess FIAT has done well in saving the beleaguered state of Chrysler, which like any other US companies, is affected by the economic slump. I might have some obvious bias about auto brands but I could objectively say that having healthy competitions in the car industry ought to benefit the buying public. It keeps prices of cars at reasonable rates, except for the luxury models.
Official: Fiat Takes Majority Stake in Chrysler
By grabbing the last of Chrysler’s shares owned by the U.S. and Canadian governments, Fiat has taken a 55.3 percent controlling stake in the once-beleaguered U.S. automaker, and the federal government has rid itself of the Chrysler’s ownership. Now that Fiat has assumed a majority ownership of Chrysler, the Italian automaker can appoint most of the American company's board of directors as the brands’ product portfolios begin to integrate. Overseas, several Chryslers including the full-size 2011 Chrysler 300C full-size sedan and the 200 midsizer, will be going on sale this fall in Europe badged as Lancias. In the U.S., Fiat’s presence consists only of the 2011 Fiat 500 subcompact car until 2013 when the Alfa Romeo luxury brand is expected to relaunch its North American presence. While Fiat can now focus on steering the ship, it’s not the only owner of the Pentastar company. In the 2009 restructuring of Chrysler, arrangements were made to give the rest of the company’s stake to the United Auto Workers union through its Voluntary Employee Benefits Association (VEBA) trust that manages the workers’ health care fund.Next Monday, the United Auto Workers are expected to begin wage negotiations for a new collective contract to span over the next four years. Source: Bloomberg
Some of the biggest offenders of driving while distracted continue to be smart phone owners.


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Headline: New color in store for Chapel Square
The complex may soon tone itself down a bit, however, officials say.
“They will repaint all of Chapel Square including Wal-Mart,” says Ron Wolfe, a member of the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission, which advises the Town Council on building projects.
The commission has reached a preliminary agreement with Chapel Square’s property manager, Timberline Management, to repaint the buildings, though a color has not yet been chosen, Wolfe says.
Mayor Judy Yoder says she’s looking forward to saying goodbye to the yellow hue.
“I would like to see a color change,” she says. “That’s the one building in town we’ve heard people make comments about as far as the color is concerned. I’d like to see it toned down.”
Timberline Management manages Chapel Square for its owners, Lehman Brothers.
The Timberline also has agreed, tentatively, to spruce up the back of Chapel Square, which faces the railroad tracks, and refurbish the Wal-Mart building.
“They need to do something with the back of the building,” Wolfe says. “It is quite unattractive. But there’s no requirement, so we can’t make them do it.”
The town had hoped to see an extensive renovation of the Wal-Mart building, which planners say does not match the rest of Chapel Square architecturally.
But next summer or fall, Wal-Mart will likely move out of the building when it opens a new store nearly triple in size at the nearby Village at Avon shopping complex.
The town, therefore, will allow less extensive renovations to make the building more compatible with the rest of Chapel Square.
“The owners have made the point that another tenant could come in and want to do a complete renovation, including tearing the building down, and it would be a waste of an investment” Wolfe says. “But the town’s staff recommended considering the fact, if Wal-Mart moves out, it would be hard to get the owner to do anything on a vacant building.”
The chances of the building remaining vacant are slim, says Shane Bohart, Traer Creek LLC, which is developing the Village at Avon. Traer Creek has taken over the responsibility of finding a tenant to fill the building when Wal-Mart leaves.
“It’s not our intent to let that property sit vacant. Right now, we’re considering a variety of different retailers. We’ve received a significant amount of interest on the property,” Bohart says.
“We’re looking at some different, large-scale, national uses that we think will be successful in filling that property next fall when Wal-Mart relocates.”
Bohart says he can’t release the names of companies interested in opening a store in the centrally-located Wal-Mart building. The situation should become clearer in the next three to four months, he says.
“I understand where the owners are coming from as far as Wal-Mart,” Yoder says. “I’m anxious to see what’s there a year from now.”
The Planning and Zoning Commission also endorsed allowing the owners not to build a chapel proposed in the original agreement to build Chapel Square. The owners were never required to build a chapel and now they never will, Wolfe says.
“There was not a great deal of enthusiasm for the chapel at the time it was proposed,” Wolfe says. “And at this point, town staff and the owners believe that the religious organizations in the area aren’t looking at this as a great loss.”
Instead of the chapel, there will be more room for customers’ cars.
“They are going to come and put in a loading dock and additional parking spaces,” Wolfe says. “It probably worked out as a good compromise.”
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I'm an avid football/soccer fan and have watched the promotional campaign "mysterious circles" & "#winnertakesall" with interest, but it's
starting to bore me.
A quick search of their website URL will tell you that the servers are hosted by Samsung, the same company who have recently ploughed money into
Football biggest teams/players to promote their products.
With next year being a world cup year - and the most viewed sports competition in the world - don't expect this spectacle to end soon; as Samsung
will likely try to keep the 'organic PR' and attention until next year.
Don't misinterpret Goal's coverage as involvement. As Goal is online Football magazine first and foremost with blog like news reporting (think
Huffington post for soccer) it often covers topical football news in equal measure to actual match coverage.
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It’s more important than usual to update to the latest version of Chrome. Version 88.0.4324.150 of Google’s browser released on Thursday fixes a vulnerability which the search giant says is actively being exploited in the wild. The update is rolling out now across Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Google isn’t providing specific details about the CVE-2021-21148 vulnerability “until a majority of users are updated with a fix.” But ZDNet notes that the date Google says the bug was reported on (January 24th) is just one day before Google’s Threat Analysis Group publicly disclosed a hacking campaign that appeared to be relying, in part, on an unpatched vulnerability in Chrome. It said government-backed hackers based in North Korea had set up a blog to lure their targets to, which would infect their machines even if they were running fully-patched software.
Regardless of the exact bug being patched, it’s more important than usual to ensure you’re running the latest version of Chrome. Although the browser’s update process is basically automatic, you can accelerate things and force an update in the “About Google Chrome” menu.
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Why credit hacks will keep happening
December 20, 2013: 3:47 AM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
There's a reason millions of credit cards can be stolen from Target at once -- and will continue happening in the future: Our payment system of plastic cards with magnetic stripes is outdated and fundamentally flawed.
The United States is the financial capital of the world, but when it comes to payment technology, it's actually in the boonies.
In recent years, more than 80 countries have upgraded to credit cards embedded with microchips. Cards with chips are inconceivably difficult to counterfeit, and there's added security in every swipe: Terminals require a user's PIN, and the information on the chip is encrypted.
Yet Americans keep using payment technology that was developed in the 1960's. That poses a big risk: Cards with magnetic stripes deliver all your data without hiding anything. Swipe your card and the computer sees everything in plain text: your name, credit card provider, card number, expiration date and more.
Chip-and-PIN credit card systems would likely have prevented the Target hackers from seeing anything but encrypted code. And they'd need a physical chip to make counterfeits.
Credit card fraud in England plummeted 34% in the six years after English banks and merchants implemented chip-and-PIN cards, according to a Federal Reserve report. During a similar period in France, fraud from in-person card use fell 35%.
But chip-and-PIN cards aren't going mainstream in the United States anytime soon. At $1 to $2 per card, they're about 10 times more expensive for banks to produce than magnetic stripe versions. Merchants would also need to upgrade their point-of-sale systems -- an expensive proposition.
"It's kind of a chicken and egg problem. Merchants need to make the upgrade, but do consumers have cards?" said Jason Oxman, CEO of the Electronics Transaction Association.
That trade group hopes the shift to chip-and-PIN will be underway by 2015, but others say 2018 is more realistic. Some banks, such as Chase (Fortune 500) and Citi ( , Fortune 500), already offer the latest chip-and-PIN cards, but they're mostly marketed to customers who frequently travel abroad.,
The problem is that banks and credit card companies have little motivation to change the current system, said Anisha Sekar, who reviews credit cards for finance site NerdWallet. Financial institutions earned $41.2 billion from credit card swipe fees last year, according to advisory firm Sonecon. Meanwhile, they lost just $5.33 billion to fraud, according to payment industry newsletter The Nilson Report.


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If you're running the Epic Games Launcher and wondering why your CPU usage has been high, you'll need to get your refresher course on that here -- if you already know about it, Epic is aware and a fix is on the way.
Sergiy Galyonkin, one of the developers behind Epic Game Launcher, said that his team is well aware of the issue and have already made a fix that is being tested. We don't know when the patch will go live, but I don't think it'll be much into 2021 before there's an update pushed out.
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Agencies line up for HTC social media account
HTC, the smartphone manufacturer, is looking for an agency to oversee its global social media as the brand ramps up its customer-focused activity.
HTC: Mother handles the brand's creative work
The appointed agency will be expected to handle HTC’s social media output across platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. ISBA is handling the review.
HTC is currently gathering positive and negative feedback from retail sites and social media networks, and plans to display the results on the product pages of its website. Feedback will be used in digital banner advertising and could decide the future direction of TV campaigns.
The social media review follows the recent appointment of Mother to create global brand activity across HTC's £100m advertising business.
Last month, HTC launched its biggest global campaign to date featuring a skydiver using its HTC One camera to promote the new "amazing camera, authentic sound" positioning.
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PT International Nickel Indonesia (INCO), the second-best performing stock of the 45 most widely held shares on the Jakarta Stock Exchange, said first-quarter profit surged fivefold as higher nickel prices help boost sales.
Net income at the Southeast Asian country's largest nickel miner rose to $227.8 million, or 24 cents a share, from $43.6 million, or 4 cents a share, a year earlier, the Jakarta-based company said in a statement yesterday. The earnings were 27 percent of the mean $841.9 million profit forecast for 2007 by nine analysts compiled by Bloomberg.
PT Inco, as the company is known, is trying to boost output to benefit from record prices for nickel, which is used to make stainless steel. The metal for delivery in three months on the London Metal Exchange averaged $38,725 a ton in the quarter, compared with $14,940 a year earlier, as demand surged. Sales more than doubled to $446.7 million.
``It boils down to the nickel price,'' said Ahmad Solihin, an analyst at PT Mandiri Sekuritas, who has a ``buy'' rating on the stock. ``The earnings came mainly from higher prices,'' even though output likely fell in the March quarter from the previous three months ended Dec. 31.
The company will announce production details tomorrow, said Sri Kuncoro, director of corporate relations.
Nickel for delivery in three months rose 5 percent to $49,100 a metric ton on the London Metal Exchange yesterday and was recently at $49,650.
Shares in Inco, 60 percent owned by Brazil's Cia. Vale do Rio Doce, have almost doubled this year, compared with 9.8 percent rise in the LQ45 Index. (LQ45) The stock rose 4.5 percent to 63,400 rupiah in Jakarta.
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This is a busy couple of weeks for technology folks between MWC, GDC, PAX East and SPIE (ok, the last one isn’t consumer focused but will drive the technology for the next decade). Today at GDC (Game Developer Conference) Frozenbyte announced Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power, the second sequel to the popular 2009 side-scrolling medieval fantasy platformer.
Rather than the straight side-scrolling platformer action of the first two games, now we get a mix of 2D platforming with 3D exploration and combat. According to the developer, Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power will feature three heroes who are brought together to embark on a new adventure through a world filled with puzzles, dangerous enemies and strange magic.
Frozenbyte confirmed a PC release for later this year, with anticipated likelihood of the game coming to consoles as well. The previous chapter came to Playstation 4, and it seems likely we will see this game on other systems. Maybe I’ll get lucky and it will come to the Playstation Vita?
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Lucas Siegel, CEO of AlternaScript, which is based in Austin, TX, said the basic idea for the business was born in a project he worked on at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. The formulation ideas for the company’s first product, a nootropic branded as Optimind, came together at that time.
“We were working on a finance project and we came up with the idea to study a business case for a brain health supplement,” Siegel told NutraIngredients-USA. “We wanted to find out what really worked, what discoveries had been made to help fuel the human brain. I became really frustrated looking at all these supplements that had just traces of the active ingredients.”
The name of the business drives at the company’s transformative story, said COO Janet Kim. “It’s about writing a new script for your life,” she said.
Branded ingredient base
OptiMind, built in part around Synapsa, a Bacopa monnieri extract from branded ingredient supplier PLT. The supplement was launched exclusively online a couple of years ago and sales have ramped up strongly, according to Siegel and Kim. The original business school case focused on an online positioning, and Siegel said that was chosen for the actual business because cutting out the middleman allowed the company to devote that portion of the overall margin toward putting in truly efficacious dosages of high quality ingredients.
“We are 100% online because we found that so many stores are really not into effective products but were into selling commodity mixtures that they had huge margins on. We couldn’t compete with brands that were selling half the concentration of the active ingredient at 1/10 the price because they were selling a commoditized ingredient,”he said.
Siegel said the company decided early on to work with PLT because of the supplier’s strong suite of well-designed studies that backs up its products.
“We teamed up with PLT after to going to show after show and meeting with scientist after scientist and not being impressed,” he said.
So it’s no surprise that Alterna Script went back to the PLT well for the core ingredient of its latest launch, NatureThin. The brand uses Slimvance, PLT’s new weight loss ingredient that uses extracts of three botanicals, Moringa oleifera, Murraya koenigii, and Curcuma longa. Siegel said after an exhaustive search, PLT settled on these three botanicals as having the most weight manangement potential and then did further research through cellular assays to refine the best ratios of each botanical. Siegel said PLT conducted a 12-week randomized, placebo controlled study to back the ingredient’s benefits, with results that included a 12-lb greater weight loss in the treatment group. PLT announced the launch of the ingredient in September of last year, and Siegel said Alterna Script has signed a deal providing it exclusive rights to the ingredient for online sales.
“Weight loss in particular is riddled with bad products that take advantage of consumers, that over promise and under deliver. We spent more than a year and a half researching ingredients before we settled on Slimvance,” Siegel said.


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Google details extensive phishing campaign targeting YouTubers
Google put out a report detailing a phishing campaign directed at YouTubers, which involved around 15,000 fake accounts and over a million messages to targets. The phishing attempts were carried out by multiple hackers, and the company says it’s recovered around 4,000 accounts since late 2019. The attackers weren’t just trying to get the creators to put their password into a fake website, though — they were trying to infect their computer with malware that would steal their login cookies, which is a much more intensive attack than sending a link and waiting for someone to get sloppy with their passwords.
YouTube doesn’t publicly say who was recruiting the hackers, only that they were using Russian-language forums to advertise. The…


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Onkar Kanwar to Open Apollo Pavilion in Essen
On 1 June Apollo Tyres chairman Onkar S Kanwar will formally inaugurate the company’s Reifen 2010 show stand in the presence of dignitaries and the global management team from India, South Africa and Europe. The company’s stand opening ceremony follows a press event announcing details of the products Apollo will be introducing into Europe, and “the value of a multi-brand strategy with Apollo, Vredestein and Maloya.”
According to the company, Apollo Tyres is looking at Europe for the long term and is therefore looking to grow gradually, over time in this market. From its point of view, one of the factors to its advantage – following its purchase of Vredestein Banden a year ago – and when compared with newer brands being introduced into a saturated market, is the established and robust sales, service, office, personnel and logistics network that is already in place across Europe.


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Globeride, the Japanese company that owns the Daiwa brand, has benefited from the popularity of fishing in Japan, as people looked for activities that can be practiced while respecting social distancing guidelines. Its net income for the second fiscal quarter ended Sept. 30 soared by 65 percent to ¥2,051 million (€16.5m-$19.3m), while revenues gained 15 percent to ¥28,181 million (€226.7m-$265.6m). However, the gross margin declined by 1.3 percentage points to 36.0 percent.
In Japan, the demand for fishing equipment soared after the lockdowns ended, sending Globeride’s sales up by 23 percent to ¥19,584 million (€157.5m-$187.1m). In the Americas region, sales rose by 2 percent to ¥1,991 million (€16.0m-$18.4m), although they struggled toward the end of the quarter because of the resurgence of the coronavirus. In Europe, revenues declined by 12 percent to ¥2,245 million (€18.0m-$21.5m), while Asia/Oceania benefited from the recovery in China, surging by 10 percent to ¥4,362 million (€35.1m-$41.7m).
On the basis of these good results, Globeride has raised its full-year guidance. It now expects revenues of ¥92,000 million (€740.0m-$879.3m) and net income of ¥2,600 million (€20.9m-$24.8m), up from a prior guidance of ¥89,000 million and ¥1,700 million, respectively.


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The company also announced that its board declared a quarterly dividend in the amount of $0.15 per share, to be paid on April 1, 2013 to shareholders of record on March 8, 2013.
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India is under attack. No, Pakistan is not attacking India. We are being attacked by a powerful enemy called Air Pollution. Take a look at our capital city, New Delhi. The air in Delhi is filled with fine particulate matter. PM2.5 is thirty times smaller than the width of a human hair and can easily enter your lungs and bloodstream.
Exposure to particulate matter can lead to respiratory disorders, asthma and heart diseases. In a recent Cricket Test Match in Delhi, Sri Lankan players were forced to wear gas masks on the pitch. Need I say more?
Studies have shown that diesel cars are more polluting than petrol cars. Not to say petrol cars are innocent. In the midst of all this a solution emerges. Can electric vehicles be the solution to air pollution in India?
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Electric cars run on an electric motor powered by electricity from batteries or fuel cells. The electric motor is powered by a rechargeable battery, that can be recharged by plugging in. Electric cars are eco-friendly and do not emit toxic gas or smoke. Electric vehicles not only reduce air pollution but also noise pollution, as they are much quieter than petrol or diesel cars.
India wants only electric cars to run on its roads by 2030. The Government is real serious on this. Just take a look at the Rs 1,120 Crore contract awarded by the State-owned Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), to Tata Motors to supply 10,000 electric cars. These electric cars will replace the petrol and diesel cars used by the Government and its agencies, which are close to 5 Lakh cars. This shows the Government wants to reduce air pollution and oil imports in India.
1. Why electric cars?
A survey by the World Health Organization has named 6 Indian cities including New Delhi, as among the 15 most polluted cities in the World. Don't you think something needs to be done about this? Electric vehicles are quiet and quick with no tailpipe emissions. This helps combat global warming. Petrol and diesel cars emit poisonous carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides.
They also emit life-threatening greenhouse gases, which result in soaring temperatures and global warming. Global warming heats up the Earth's and Ocean surfaces, which could melt ice glaciers in Antarctica. The sea level would rise, sinking coastal cities like Mumbai in India, and New York in USA and some other coastal cities.
Electric cars reduce your medical bills. They cut down air pollution which means less diseases like asthma, heart ailments and even lung cancer. Electric cars are more expensive than petrol or diesel cars, but in the long run they are a cost saver. Electric cars run on electricity which is cheaper than petrol/diesel and require less maintenance.
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Maruti Suzuki has a market share of over 50% and dominates the passenger car market in India. Maruti Suzuki will soon manufacture and sell electric cars in India. If the manufacturer of one in every two passenger vehicles manufactures and sells electric cars, imagine what it can do to electric car manufacturing in India.
The Union Government, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, has said that the Government will do its best to disincentivise production of petrol and diesel vehicles in India. The Government has set an ambitious target of having only electric cars by 2030. Nitin Gadkari has warned automakers that he could even force them to meet the target. Currently electric vehicles fall in the 12% GST slab and are taxed at 12%, compared to 28% for petrol and diesel vehicles.
The focus is shifting to battery manufacturers, which are at the heart of electric vehicle manufacturing in India. Honda may set up a lithium ion battery plant in India. Suzuki has also decided to join with Toshiba Corp. and Denso Corp. in Gujarat to set up a lithium ion battery plant. Land will be available at cheaper rates to charging stations and battery swapping kiosks. Battery swapping increases the limited range of electric cars. You go to a battery swapping station and swap/exchange your depleted battery, with a fully charged one in minutes.
The Andhra Pradesh Government offers special incentives to battery manufacturing, to draw battery manufacturers to India. New Delhi offers tax holidays/waivers to battery manufacturers and land at subsidized rates. Indian Oil Corporation has opened India's first electric charging station in Nagpur, in partnership with cab aggregator Ola.
If India achieves its target of only electric vehicles by the year 2030, it could save a massive Rs 20 Lakh crore in reduced oil imports. India will also reduce carbon production by over 1 gigatonne, saving the earth from global warming. Be Wise, Get Rich.
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Huami has confirmed that a new Amazbit-branded smartwatch will be announced later this month. The company will introduce the Amazfit Smart Sports Watch 3 at an event in China on August 27.
The news comes directly from Huami Technology who took to Weibo to announce that it will be introducing the Amazfit Smart Sports Watch 3 on August 27 in China. The company also uploaded a posted which read “Run, Amazfit! Run!”, a quote from the Forrest Gump.
The teaser posted comes just a week after Huami VP posted an official render of what the Amazfit Smart Sports Watch 3 looks like. At the time, the company executive explained that the upcoming smartwatch will come with an AMOLED display. The AMOLED panel will have a pixel density of 341 ppi, higher than the 326 ppi pixel density on the Apple Watch.
The Smart Sports Watch 3 is also expected to come with a faster processor than the Smart Sports Watch 2. The watch will come with Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity, 5ATM (50m) water resistance and longer battery life than its predecessor.
While the Huami VP revealed that the Amazfit watch will be cheaper than Apple’s Watch Series 4, there’s no word whether the device will incorporate an ECG or Fall detection feature.


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The soft drink reduction campaign is part of an initiative aimed at making the hospital’s food options healthier. One of those was to subsidize the cost of healthier foods by increasing the price of unhealthy items. The salad bar, for example, costs 10 percent less than it did in December, Hubbard said. In turn, a large soft drink has shrunk from 22 ounces to 16 ounces, but the price is the same.
Another part of the program is a new focus on local and organic food products. Beginning this spring an organic farm in Teton Valley, Idaho will deliver fresh vegetables to St. John’s each week. Chefs at the cafeteria have also switched to using cage-free eggs and natural meat that doesn’t contain antibiotics or hormones.
Hospital food is often compared to airplane food, Maddex said, but it shouldn’t be that way. The hospital should be a model for the community. “Everybody should be eating healthy,” she said. “But I do think that people sometimes look to hospital staff as examples. We should be walking the walk.”


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Mberengwa – As Zanu PF continues to violate lockdown regulations by holding big meetings, Covid19 is mushrooming throughout the country with seven out of nine workers at a single shop in Mberengwa testing positive to the infectious virus yesterday.
The Seven are from HR Shop at Yorko Business Centre and plans are to spread the testing process to all of the company’s shops dotted all over Mberengwa. The seven are now on self-isolation while the Ministry of Health is doing contact tracing.
The District Medical Officer Gabriel Ndagurwa confirmed the Covid results. Nyede Ndeya, the District Development Coordinator (DDC) said there was urgent need to deal with the situation in Mberengwa but said that the District Covid19 taskforce is hamstrung by critical fuel shortages. He appealed to the business community to support the programme with fuel.
He told The Mirror that the tests on HR workers were done after two of the company’s workers tested positive after they tried to get Covid certificates for a business trip to Messina. The two had done stock checks in all HR shops dotted around Mberengwa and this alarmed HR proprietor who called for a rapid response team to visit the shops.
“We did contact tracing, we disinfected the shop and closed it. We are working on getting to other shops for testing. Fuel is a challenge. If we could get assistance from any stakeholder it will go a long way for we still have the following HR shops to visit and test around the district; Mabika, Danga, Mataga, Jeka, Zibanga, Chingechuru, Sovelele, Chirambahuyo, Gaha, Bvumbura, Mberengwa turnoff and Masase,” said Nyede.


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The potato campaign in Castile-Leon, the largest producing region in Spain, is at a very advanced stage after an early start due to the high temperatures. “We are harvesting in the province of Segovia and finishing in Valladolid, Ávila and Zamora. The harvest will continue for a month and a half, and then we will continue with some varieties such as the Agria, Rudolf and other white-fleshed ones, which we will supply throughout the winter,” says Juan Manuel Coello, commercial director of Patatas Meléndez.
“This way, we ensure continuity in the supply of the domestic production until December-January, when we'll start with new potatoes from the warmest areas of Spain, such as Andalusia or Murcia, allowing us to double the production. In addition to importing from France, we are able to offer various kinds of domestic potatoes all year round. This shows our commitment to local production and rural development, turning growers into our most important asset," he says.
The Valladolid-based company Patatas Meléndez, which already has modern facilities making it one of the main potato production centers in Europe, has decided to expand its facilities in Medina del Campo. The new 20,000 m² plant will feature cutting-edge technology and advanced robotics that will make it the most modern potato factory in Europe.
According to Juan Manuel Coello, these new 4.0 facilities will allow the company to achieve two very important objectives. "On the one hand, it will give us a greater productive capacity and, on the other, it will allow us to handle potatoes like the delicate product they are. Consequently, our potatoes will be guaranteed to remain in perfect condition and meet the highest quality standards from the moment they leave the field until they reach our customers.”
The company is already working in the construction of its new plant, which is expected to start operating in 2022. With it, it seeks greater efficiency, centralization and optimization in its activity, which has been marked by constant growth in recent years. "We are going to market over 200,000 tons this year. This is a very large volume that makes it necessary to have a great warehouse and infrastructures," says Coello. “Year after year, we are achieving double-digit growth and we want to continue doing so.”
“This season, the yield of the earliest potatoes in Castile-Leon has been very good thanks to the sowing work and the fact that the weather has been favorable, while that of the mid-season and later potatoes has been normal, since they have been affected by high temperatures," says the commercial director. “However, prices have remained stable. When it comes to quality washed potatoes, which are the ones we are working with now, we've had quite a stable campaign. Prices are good and producers are managing to make a profit. Apart from the contracts, which have stayed in their usual line, the price in the free market is also acceptable.”
"The work that we do in planning, varieties, agreements with producers and in organizing the supply is translating into increasingly stable campaigns," says Coello. "In the end, that is our objective, and for there to be continuity, we must ensure that all links in the production chain can make a profit."
The COVID-19 health crisis has not prevented Patatas Meléndez from meeting its growth targets again this season. In fact, the demand and prices have been better than initially expected, despite the unstable situation of the washing potatoes intended for the retail and hospitality sectors.


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Madison, Wis. – American, the three-state TV, appliance and furniture chain, is going out of business after 60 years.
The privately held retailer cited an “unforgiving” economy, and said it will go into receivership and close its remaining 10 big-box stores after completing a liquidation sale that begins on Thursday.
“The last five years have been very difficult for our industries,” the company said in a statement. “We have fought hard, valiantly and with great integrity. We are proud of our efforts but the economy has been unforgiving.”
The closely held business, which shortened its name from American TV & Appliance, had evidenced financial strains in 2011, when it shut its four St. Louis stores and exited the metro area after seven years in that market.
More recently, it abandoned the car audio, digital imaging and PC categories last year, describing those segments as “either very challenged or mature, or impacted by the popularity of smartphones.”
It also briefly rejoined its longtime buying organization, the NATM Buying Corp., after a nine-year absence, but left again after two months.
Recent efforts to allocate more floor space to furniture and enhance its displays of newer A/V technologies like Ultra HD TVs and wireless soundbars were unable to turn the tide.
The decision to shut the business follows a soft holiday season for CE and appliance dealers and a weak start to the new year.
In a statement, majority shareholder Doug Reuhl, who led the company for the past 24 years as president/CEO, said, “While this is a sad moment, it is also a proud moment. It’s a moment to be proud of our efforts and to be proud of what we have delivered to the community.”
He added, “Words cannot adequately express how grateful we are to our millions of loyal customers, and to the incredible, dedicated family of employees that we have been blessed with over our 60 years of business.”
American said it is filing a Wisconsin Statutes Chapter 128 Receivership for the protection of its creditors, and that Michael Polsky will be appointed receiver for the business.
Its 989 employees were given advanced notice of the closing, as required by law, and will be compensated with benefits through the notification period. Most will continue their employment through the closing process, the company said.
Warren Chaiken, president/COO of national CE and white-goods distributor Almo Corp., said he regretted the loss of a major regional chain and past customer. “It’s not good for the industry when we lose a quality retailer and when the consumer has fewer choices,” he told TWICE.
Chaiken added that American’s misfortune should serve as a reminder to dealers that “those who don’t add value” and bring something unique to the marketplace risk the same fate.
The business was founded in 1954 by TV repairman Fred Mattioli, and presently operates six superstores in Wisconsin and two each in Illinois and Iowa, down from a peak of 15 locations. The stores average about 130,000 square feet and are supported by a Milwaukee distribution center and a 44,000-square-foot service center in Madison, Wis.
American also operates an independent appliance distributor, Kennedy-Hahn Appliance, which it acquired in 2007.
According to TWICE market research, the chain generated net sales of approximately $450 million in 2012, including $208 million in CE and $116 million in majaps.
The company said it will honor its gift cards, and will fulfill or refund all orders and complete or return all repairs, prior to closing.
“Our deepest thanks go to the millions of customers we have served over the last 60 years,” American said, “and to the employees who provided that service.”
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AP – CVS Health hiked its 2021 forecast and beat Wall Street’s first-quarter expectations as a growing insurance business offset hits the health care giant took from a weak cold and flu season.
The company covered more people through Medicaid and Medicare Advantage, and adjusted operating earnings from health insurance jumped nearly 20 per cent in the first quarter to USD1.78 billion.
CVS Health said on Tuesday that it also delivered more than 23 million COVID-19 tests and 17 million vaccine doses through April, which helped its drugstore business.
But the pandemic has disrupted business at CVS as well. A weak cough, cold and flu season brought on in part by mask wearing and social distancing hurt sales in both the company’s drugstore business and its pharmacy benefits management operations, which run drug plans for big clients like insurers and employers.
CVS Health drugstores also faced a tough sales comparison to last year’s first quarter, when customers stocked up on pharmacy supplies as the pandemic set in.
Sales from the front end, or the area outside the pharmacy, of established drugstores fell more than 11 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2021.
Products that help customers deal with colds and the flu are usually a big factor behind first-quarter sales, said Managing Director of GlobalData Neil Saunders.
“While CVS has drawn in customers on the testing and vaccination side, there is little evidence to suggest that this is spilling over into the general retail part of its business,” Saunders said in an email.


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LEATHER SUITES A leather sofa can be a luxury item in some parts of the world, but many people are looking for something more comfortable and affordable.
Leather glue can be used to make the same sofa and a new leather sofa made of it is now being made in the UK.
The sofa was invented in the 1980s by British designer Michael Hutton and is now sold in several countries.
“The leather sofa was a very important piece of British history, but the leather sofa is the first thing to go, not just because it is a great piece of furniture but because it has been a source of pride for the British people,” Hutton told The Independent.
He told The Guardian that it was important to create a new product, so he was looking for a new way to use leather.
“I was really struck by the fact that I could create something with a lot of the same qualities as a real leather sofa,” he said.
“It was the first sofa that I ever designed, it was a beautiful piece of fabric with the same quality as real leather.”
It is made from a mix of rawhide and leather and has a unique shape that allows it to stretch over time.
The product is available in a variety of colours including dark blue, pink and red.
Hutton has sold the sofa for £1,000,000 ($2.3 million) since it was launched in 2007.
It is a very expensive sofa but the sofa is still made by hand.
“For £1.2 million ($1.9 million), you get a new sofa that is twice as comfortable as the one you already have,” he told The Observer.
“And it is because of this, that the sofa has become such a big thing. “
“That is why I love it. “
It has become a symbol of British culture and British history.” “
That is why I love it.
It has become a symbol of British culture and British history.”
In 2010, a new version of the sofa was unveiled and it was called the ‘Lamborghini’.
But it was soon discontinued after a customer complained that it had too much cushioning and a design change.
Hutt said the new leather couch will still be made from the same fabric and be similar to the one he originally made.
“You will see the same leather and the same finish, so you will get a slightly different quality,” he added.
The leather sofa has not been available in the US for a long time, so it is unclear whether it will ever make it to consumers.
The new leather couches will likely be released in the spring of 2019.


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Back in March, a juicy rumor emerged about the prospects of a power bump for the M4 LCI due to come out in 2024. The report alleged BMW’s engineers would massage the inline-six engine in the xDrive version of the high-performance coupe. Fast forward to this week, three documents from an internal database have been published on the Bimmer Post forums and seem to confirm the twin-turbo 3.0-liter unit is indeed getting some extra ponies.
The “S58” engine is listed as having 390 kilowatts, which works out to 523 horsepower. It’s an extra 20 hp compared to the M4 Competition on sale today. The three docs refer to left- and right-hand drive cars destined to be sold in Europe and another LHD vehicle for the United States, all sharing the same 390-kW output.
By now, you’re probably wondering whether the rear-wheel-drive M4 Competition will benefit from the power increase. According to the forum member who posted the documents, that’s apparently not going to be the case. Consequently, the M4 Competition RWD will soldier on with 503 hp. Similarly, the base M4’s output is expected to remain unchanged, at 473 hp. Of course, we all know BMW deliberately underrates its engines as dyno tests have revealed a lot more power than what the specs sheets say.
According to the same documents, production is scheduled to commence in March 2024 for both Europe and the US. That would imply a world premiere in the first three months of next year. In the US, the M4 has already entered the 2024 model year, so the LCI is likely to be sold as a 2025MY.
The initial report from earlier this year claimed the M3 Competition xDrive (G80) would echo the two-door version by gaining extra power as well. Spy shots have revealed BMW is planning an early LCI for the M3 Touring (G81) as well, and since the super wagon is sold strictly as a Competition model with AWD, perhaps the AMG C63 Estate rival is also bound to put on some extra muscle.
Much like the long-roof M3, the M4 Convertible is also a Competition affair with xDrive, so perhaps BMW M intends to tweak its six-cylinder engine as well to align all models to the rumored output.
523 hp would still be down by 20 hp compared to the M3 CS and M4 CSL, with the M4 CS coming next year likely to have 543 hp as well. For the ultra-exclusive 3.0 CSL, BMW extracted an additional 10 hp for a grand total of 553 hp but torque took a big hit since it was limited to 550 Nm (404 lb-ft) instead of the full 650 Nm (479 lb-ft) after fitting a six-speed manual gearbox.
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Vodafone near £1.3bn Japanese deal
MOBILE telecoms giant Vodafone looks set to sell its Japanese fixed line business to US investment fund Ripplewood Holdings in a deal potentially worth £1.3bn.
A spokesman for Japan Telecom said talks between the two sides had now reached a final stage. 'We expect an agreement within the next few weeks, and we hope that this would come to a conclusion in July,' he added.
Officials from Vodafone and Ripplewood were not immediately available. Local reports, however, suggested Vodafone could retain a minority stake in the fixed-line unit. Vodafone spent more than £3bn building up a controlling stake in Japan Telecom, after buying out BT Group's interest in 2001.
Vodafone opened talks on the fixed-line unit with Ripplewood earlier this year. Vodafone previously has said fixed-line telecoms is not a core business.
A sale would leave Vodafone to concentrate on the remaining JPhone business, the country's third-largest mobile phone operator.
Local reports suggested Ripplewood would set up a 262bn yen (£1.36bn) fund to buy the shares in the fixed-line unit. Ripplewood would contribute 60bn yen to the fund, while Vodafone may subscribe up to 50bn yen, maintaining an indirect minority interest in the fixed-line business.
It was reported that Japan Telecom president William Morrow would remain after the sale was concluded. Ripplewood has been making waves in Japan in recent years, ploughing millions of dollars into the country.
But some Japanese commentators and executives fear the opaque US fund is buying up some of the country's choicest assets on the cheap. In 2000 the fund became the first foreign investor to take over a Japanese bank, when it bought the failed Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, which was then relaunched and rebranded as Shinsei Bank.
Ripplewood has also invested in the music industry, buying the former Nippon Columbia, now Columbia Music Entertainment.
It is expected that should Ripplewood secure control of Japan Telecom it would use the business as a platform to pursue consolidation in the telecoms sector.
J-Phone, meanwhile, claims 14 million customers in the country's vast but fiercely-competitive mobile market. Its services include third-generation mobile services, which combine mobile telephony with high-speed internet access.
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AMD has launched the Opteron A1100-Series developer kit that features a 64-bit ARM-based processor. Interested hardware, software developers and large datacenters are eligible to apply. The kit is available for $2,999, a company press release states.
The Opteron A1100 Series processor supports 4 and 8 ARM Cortex-A57 cores, up to 4MB of shared L2 and 8MB of shared L3 cache, configurable dual DDR3 or DDR4 memory channels, up to eight lanes of PCI-Express Gen 3 I/O as well as crypto and data compression co-processors. It also has ARM TrustZone technology for enhanced security.
The development kit is packaged in a microATX form factor and includes:
- Opteron A1100-Series processor with four cores
- two registered DIMM with 16GB of DDR3 DRAM
- PCI Express connectors configurable as one x8 or two x4 ports
- eight Serial-ATA connectors
- Compatibility with standard power supplies
- Standard Linux GNU tool chain, including cross-development version
- Platform device drivers
- Standard UEFI boot environment
“The journey toward a more efficient infrastructure for large-scale datacenters is taking a major step forward today with broader availability of our AMD Opteron A1100-Series development kit,” said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, general manager and vice president, Server Business unit, AMD. “After successfully sampling to major ecosystem partners such as firmware, OS and tools providers, we are taking the next step in what will be a collaborative effort across the industry to reimagine the datacenter based on the open business model of ARM innovation.”
For more information, visit AMD.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.


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Mentioned in this articleGames:
- Pocky and Capcom have entered into a brand sponsorship agreement through the “Pocky K.O. Challenge.”
- A “Pocky K.O.” takes place when a player wins a Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition match while the player has a health gauge that looks like a Pocky stick.
- Ezaki Glico USA will be releasing a limited-edition Street Fighter V Pocky Chocolate.
A “Pocky K.O.” takes place when a player wins a Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition match while the player has a health gauge that looks like a Pocky stick. Players can attain the opportunity of a Pocky K.O., called a “Pocky Chance,” when the ratio of the health bar-to-damage received looks like a Pocky stick.
To showcase their first global partnership, Pocky and Capcom have announced the limited release of Street Fighter V: Pocky EDITION, which will debut in a special exhibition match at CAPCOM CUP 2019 take place Dec.13-15, in Los Angeles, California. Globally ranked esports players will play a series of exhibition matches for a chance to win the Pocky K.O. Challenge.
“Gaming is an incredible experience that unifies a community across the world and we’re excited to partner with Capcom to create a unique, one-of-a-kind experience,” said Hirohisa Tamai, assistant global brand manager, Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. “We at Pocky have spirit and we love to share happiness. Esports brings happiness to every member of the audience and we want to help share the joy and excitement alongside them”.
To commemorate the collaboration, Ezaki Glico USA is also releasing a limited-edition Street Fighter V Pocky Chocolate.


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CHICAGO — Health and sustainability trends are converging around plant-based cooking, but it’s not just Bubba who still wants to order meat while dining out. Although consumers report a decrease in red meat consumption over the past two years, according to Technomic’s Center of the Plate: Beef & Pork Consumer Trend Report, the majority (69%) eat beef at least once a week, and 47% choose pork. As plant foods continue to move to the center of the plate, operators can appeal to meat eaters by experimenting with new cuts, flavors, cooking techniques and portion sizes.
Keep your meat offerings fresh with these four findings from Technomic’s report.
1. Explore unique cuts
Go beyond the standard steak or pork chop, especially for younger customers: Twenty-five percent of millennials say they now choose cuts of beef they didn’t eat a year ago, and 32% say the same for pork. With nose-to-tail cooking growing in popularity, foodservice operators have more access to cuts such as pork collar and pork skirt steak. On the beef side, chuck steak, shank and petit tenderloins are gaining fans. And chefs are doing more with beef and pork trim and scraps in an effort to reduce waste and boost the protein in grain and veggie dishes.
2. Offer more variety
Burgers and steaks still lead when it comes to consumers’ preferred beef preps, but they’re calling for a greater variety than simply grilled beef. The report mentions ethnic dishes, such as Mexican fajitas and enchiladas, Japanese beef teriyaki and Middle Eastern gyros. As for pork, consumers prefer grilled, barbecued and smoked preparations, and they want to see more pork belly and ribs on menus.
3. Move away from the center of the plate
Entrees are not the only way to attract meat eaters: Forty-two percent of consumers show interest in side dishes with beef and 30% in those with pork. Appetizers are not as popular a platform for these red meats—only 14% of respondents show a preference for pork and beef starters. Dedicated carnivores, however, are more likely to order beef and pork appetizers, and with the trend toward menuing smaller portions of red meat, this mealpart can be a good vehicle for innovation. Think Asian dumplings or brisket street tacos, for example.
4. Pay attention to sourcing
Animal welfare is important to today’s consumers, with roughly half saying it’s important that meat is sourced from cattle and pigs that have been treated humanely. Hormone-free and antibiotic-free meat is also a priority. While quality and taste are the leading drivers behind beef and pork orders in restaurants (43% and 37%, respectively), operators who market sustainability and ethical sourcing can spur purchase, especially among women and younger diners.


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“Women entrepreneurship has become a new trend since gender equality has improved greatly in Taiwan. It not only helps women to stand on their own feet, but also benefits society and the country by creating jobs, ” says Vice Premier Chiu Cheng-hsiung.
Read more here about how 98 percent of Taiwan’s companies are SMEs and in particular how women entrepreneurs are establishing their own careers.
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Pitney Bowes names 6 startups for its 6-month accelerator programme
Global technology firm Pitney Bowes has named six startups for its summer session of its accelerator programme, Scale-Up. The programme aims to give young and emerging startups an opportunity to expand, as well as use Pitney Bowes cloud services and APIs.
Scale-up broadly provides mentorship, access to venture funds and networking to innovative startups in the areas of customer information management, mobile, data analytics, location-based services, e-commerce management and machine learning.
The global Pitney Bowes innovation team recently trained 1,100 engineers and software developers in technology areas such as mobile, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), artificial intelligence (AI), analytics and Internet of Things (IoT). The new Pitney Bowes brand is at the centre of the company’s design system, which integrates design thinking, globalisation and talent acquisition.
The accelerator startups will have access to Pitney Bowes software and APIs for six months. In addition, Pitney Bowes will provide mentorship with leading engineering and innovation experts for technical and business guidance. The startups will be placed in Pune or Noida for incubation and will have opportunities to network with prospective investors.
The six startups selected for the program are eCourierz, an online automated shipping tool, Infinite Analytics, a big data and social analytics company for a 360-degree-view of the customer, Medimojo, a digital health platform for simplifying healthcare, Niki, an AI-powered bot that simplifies the ordering experience, Sponsifyme - a real-time geo-location-based marketing platform for offline businesses and Wedosky, a drone-based startup with a mapping and analytics platform.
“These six startups are developing technologies for the physical and digital worlds of commerce. We’re especially pleased to host two women-led startups in the accelerator programme, because diversity is also a great driver of innovation,” said Manish Choudhary, Senior Vice President, Global Innovation and Managing Director, Pitney Bowes India.
The Pitney Bowes Accelerator Program has also partnered with Microsoft, which will provide subscriptions to Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Azure Cloud Credits up to $27,000 over three years via the BizSpark programme.
In April 2016, the company launched the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, a commerce enabler providing access for clients and developers to Pitney Bowes solutions, analytics and application programming interfaces (APIs) across the full commerce continuum.
Last year, Pitney Bowes incubated four startups as a part of the programme, which included Ipsator, Fetchon, Kayeura, and Shipdesk, and two to an accelerator collaboration programme: Loginext and Primaseller.


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One pair of teenagers has an expensive sense of humor.
Last Sunday, a 15-year-old and a 14-year-old set a potato chip bag on fire in a Longo's grocery store in Ontario and caused roughly $2 million in damages, Global News reported. They fled the store at around 7:30 p.m. before firefighters worked to contain the blaze.
The flames almost reached the ceiling, Daniela Stalteri, a witness of the fire, told Global News reporters. Smoke engulfed the store, but luckily no one was injured.
The teenage pyros were identified by security cameras. Authorities arrested them and charged them with arson.
According to LifeHacker, Reddit users report that greasy chips are an effective way to start fire when you don't have kindling.
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Put this chip hack to the test, but maybe try it on a grill at your next BBQ and not the supermarket.


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Investing.com – Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) stock traded 3.7% higher in premarket Wednesday after the company raised its forecast, basing its optimism on the evolving hybrid work environment generating demand for its customer relations software.
The company is also pinning its outlook on the business Slack is generating at the company after it acquired the workspace app last year in a near $28 billion deal.
“Slack continues to exceed our expectations that I think is benefiting not only from the trend towards this new way of working… It’s also benefiting being a part of our Customer 360 portfolio,” Reuters quoted Co-CEO Bret Taylor, as saying. Customer 360 is Salesforce’s complete suit of applications geared at powering clients’ sales, services, analytics, and other functions.
The company is now projecting annual sales to be $32 billion-$32.1 billion in the current year after revenue grew 25% to cross $26 billion in the latest financial year. Margins are also seen higher, growing to 20% on adjusted basis, from 18.7%.
Fourth quarter revenue rose 26% to $7.33 billion on strong demand for its cloud-based software, a business further boosted in times of supply chain constraints and digitization.
All geographies grew, with Europe, the second biggest market, growing the most by 37%.
Remaining performance obligation, an indicator of future revenue streams, came in at around $44 billion at the end of January, up 21%.
Adjusted profit per share was 84 cents, and like sales, ahead of estimates.
Revenue in the current quarter is seen at around $7.38 billion with adjusted EPS estimate to be 93 cents-94 cents.


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Unitea aims to create fan incentives for engaging with the music of their favorite artists. The platform operates under a point system called "Karma" that allows fans to generate and exchange Karma for rewards. Throughout the entire weekend of Room Service Music Festival, over 50,000 songs were streamed by fans, leading to the redemption of over 170 merchandise prizes. A headlining set by REZZ drew in an influx of listeners who streamed her music 3,000 times alone.
The Artist Digital Revenue Program is proving artists have a lot to gain by focusing their efforts on Unitea as well. The company states that it is currently amplifying Spotify and Apple Music streaming payout royalties by over 50X via its Artist Digital Revenue Program.
The weekend of heightened engagement has greatly raised Unitea's profile, propelling it to #160 on Apple's App Store. As the company continues to empower artists and create a sustainable streaming economy, the future is looking bright.
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Customer experience is a big retail buzzword these days, but when it comes to actually delivering a “wow” experience to consumers, retailers are generally falling short.
A 25-country study by IBM found that on a scale of 0 to 100, retailers scored a subpar 33, and worse yet, they missed the mark on areas such as personalization, store and mobile experiences—key aspects of customer experience. In fact, the study ranked only 3% of brands as “leading edge,” compared with 39% of them it considered falling or lagging behind.
The study, IBM’s fifth annual customer experience report, covered 507 retail and consumer products brands. Mystery shoppers rated their experience in seven ways: store experience, digital experience, physical/digital integration, mobile experience, omnichannel supply chain, personalization and social media.
In an era when store experience is supposed to be a key weapon that brick-and-mortar retailers use to fend off competition from online rivals, the study sounds a dismal note: the store experience score was basically a failing 20.
Personalization was another area where retailers still have a lot to catch up on. While the industry has been talking about using artificial intelligence and other tools to design personalized products and marketing offers, the IBM study showed 71% of the brands it studied provide only generic marketing messages to their customers. In another example, among brands that offer loyalty programs, 70% don’t allow customers to choose their preferred form of reward.
With Amazon-led online retailers making online product research and price comparison common consumer behaviors, the study found an overwhelming 88% of the brands it assessed don’t give customers the ability to compare products side by side.
Live chat and readily-available customer service are two other features that are widely considered “must haves” for retailers, but here again the study found many companies falling short. It said 61% of brands don’t even provide online chat options. Retailers also have missed the opportunity to use their call center staff to convert sales: 39% of call center agents wouldn’t take orders or try to upsell to IBM’s mystery shoppers while 21% were unable to access customer account details, limiting a brand’s ability to personalize consumer experience.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) — I know many of us want to support our service members and veterans after Veterans Day, but I want to make sure you don’t fall for scams.
We want to stop the veteran charity scam. It’s important to do your homework before donating your hard-earned money. You may have seen this story on Fraud Friday during the 11 News at Noon show.
“It’s really important to do your research in situations like this,” said Mark Fetterhoff of AARP ElderWatch Colorado. “There are so many scammers out there posing as organizations that we want to give our hard-earned money to, such as veterans organizations. The reality in so many situations is that there are scammers out there just trying to be advantageous and take advantage of these genuinely kind people.
“It’s really important to do your research and see if they’re registered to solicit donations.”
Fetterhoff tells me that veterans are often victims of scams.
“There are other scams out there that target veterans and I would say one of them is people asking for flat rates or saying they can charge flat rates for different veterans as well,” Fetterhoff said.
“Offers that are too good to be true that say, ‘Hey, we’re giving you all the veteran benefits now,’ when in reality they’re trying to get either your personal or financial information.
“Other scams can involve people calling you and asking you to update your military record. Again, these are people phishing for your personal and financial information.
“I find it horrible that they are targeting certain demographics like this, but they are doing it to a lot of different demographics out there and military families, so it’s no shock to see scammers targeting different demographics,” he added.
If you’re donating money to a charity, make sure you’re paying using a secure method.
“Paying with gift cards, paying with peer-to-peer payment apps, paying with crypto (currency) are really common topics that we hear scammers ask about,” Fetterhoff said.
“So again, using verified credit cards that you have and visiting websites to give that money is a much safer method and there is a lot more consumer protection when paying with a credit card.”
You can report fraud and fraud to the Colorado Attorney General’s nationwide consumer hotline at 800-222-4444. On behalf of KKTV, I would like to thank our service members, veterans and their families.
The Take a Turkey to Work Day will also take place on November 18th. KKTV 11 News is partnering with the Care and Share Food Bank of Southern Colorado to help local families in need this Thanksgiving. Volunteers collect frozen turkey donations at several King Soopers locations in Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
You can also pick up frozen turkeys from your workplace and drop them off at collection points. Or you can donate online at CareAndShare.org.
Visit 11Cares.com for more information and a list of collection points.
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Every year, Apple holds the attention of many for their Keynote presentation. This year the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max were the main attractions, among others. The new iPhone will be made of titanium, with 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch display screens, which is the same as the 15 and 15 Plus. The devices will be powered by an A17 Pro chip which will deliver an even better performance for the phone. The new phones also come with an action button, which will allow users to open up the flashlight, notes, focus and any other earbuds the user prefers. The iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max will be available on September 22nd for a price of $999 with 128GB of storage for the Pro and $1,119 for 256GB for the Pro Max.
Along with the new iPhones, Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 will be getting some major upgrades. Apple is also now fully switching from lighting to USB-C on all of its devices as well.
For more, head over to apple.com to watch the full ‘Wonderlust’ event.