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Only its carrier networks division has failed to register revenue growth for Chinese telco system vendor ZTE, which has just posted an overall 12.4% rise for the first half of 2021 to reach RMB53.07bn ($8.19bn). This is more than any of its immediate rivals and in stark contrast to its big Chinese competitor Huawei, which registered a steep 29.4% year-on-year decline, admittedly from a base six times higher, coming down to RMB320.4bn ($49.4bn). ZTE also outscored Huawei on net profit, up 119.6% year-on-year at RMB4.08bn ($628.4m), against a rise of 3.8% for Huawei.
This disparity reflects ZTE suffering far less than Huawei from US restrictions on access to components the country exerts control over, as well as to its markets. This has spilled over into other countries in Europe and the Far East, such as the UK, Sweden and Australia. Huawei has staked out a far bigger role in the 5G roll-outs of many countries that have now excluded it under pressure from the USA or their own security agencies.
There has still been some impact, with ZTE joining Huawei in being excluded from India’s 5G trials, for example, where it would most likely have been involved. This helped to explain ZTE’s carrier network sales flatlining at RMB5.05bn ($777.5m) for the half year.
Operating international revenues rose 10.8% to RMB17.12bn ($2.63bn), 32.3% of the total, again underlining that degree of immunity from US actions. On the other side of that coin, both ZTE and Huawei benefited from a swing in China towards its indigenous vendors in reaction to the foreign embargoes, as the former’s government and corporate business revenues increased by 17.7% year-on-year to RMB5.67bn ($873.4m), while server and storage products and services doubled in the domestic market.
The two companies were separated again over consumer services, where ZTE recorded revenues of RMB12.35bn ($1902.3bn), up year-on-year by 66.6%, with revenue of residential terminal services and mobile devices services rising by 90% and 40% respectively. Huawei’s Consumer Business Group sales slumped 46% year-on-year to RMB135.7bn ($20,941.8bn). Huawei attributed this directly to the “totally unjustified” US measures.
ZTE is also outperforming its other two major rivals on the cellular equipment front, the Nordic pair of Ericsson and Nokia. Ericsson has suffered the flip side of the Huawei effect in having reduced access to the Chinese market in retaliation for Sweden’s exclusion of the Chinese vendors. This was acknowledged by CEO Börje Ekholm as the major factor denting first half 2021 revenues reported in July 2021. Sales in Mainland China were down by $290m year on year, despite which group revenues for the half rose 8% to almost $6.4bn.
Nokia has not suffered this fate because its home country of Finland has declined so far to issue an outright ban on Huawei or ZTE from its 5G infrastructure. Nokia has different problems relating to costs of manufacture that have been partially resolved, but at least it has profited somewhat from Ericson’s partial exclusion from China, given the desire by operators there to avoid over dependence even on their own domestic vendors.
This resulted in Nokia in July 2021 winning its first 5G radio contract in China, amounting to a 10% share in one of three contracts with China Mobile. Ericsson took 9.6% of another contract, but that was only 2% of the total value of all three, compared with over 10% of a similar tender a year earlier. The Chinese award came too late to bolster Nokia’s first half 2021 revenues, which were up 4% at €5.3bn ($6.3bn).
For ZTE, it was earlier US action, imposition of sanctions on trade with Iran soon after the start of the Trump Presidency, that caused severe financial distress. The company was found to have breached the sanctions and was forced to cease most business from April to July 2017, ending up paying $1.4bn for them to be lifted. This led to ZTE, by then the world’s fourth largest overall telco equipment maker, to lose $1bn in 2018, despite rebound in the final quarter of that year.


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31 Jan 2022 | Monday source: Financial Reporter
Fintech’s ability to maintain consistently high growth demonstrates the long-term scalability of the sector. Challenger banks have demonstrated how technology can be leveraged to enhance the delivery of financial services for consumers, investors, and banks. While these challenger entities command a growing market share, big banks are also embracing the advantages of digital transformations to ensure they can meet the changing demands of their clients.
Core to fintech’s success has been its rate of adoption. In 2020, the global adoption rate for fintech products was 64%. Importantly, uptake has not been confined to one specific region or sector; rather, adoption rates have been notably high in both advanced and emerging markets.

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Carta’s top leaders talk about the most important things that happened in payments in 2014
by Paul Brandner
Director of Marketing
1. Mobile payments go mainstream
It’s easy to say that Apple Pay is the biggest thing to happen in payments this year. But what really matters, says Carta’s CTO Rui Mendes, is that it’s a very loud proclamation that 2014 is the year mobile payments matured and hit the mainstream.
“Thanks to the weight of their brand, the arrival of Apple Pay brought a huge shift. Apple carries a lot of trust and, regardless of their approach, them moving into the space gives credibility to mobile payments,” says Mendes. It means consumers are increasingly at ease moving beyond simple closed-loop transactions at the Starbucks till, towards higher value transactions at any local vendor.
“Mobile payments are here to stay,” Mendes affirms. “They’ve been around for ages, but this year they stuck.”
2. Best practices established
There’s something else Apple contributed this year—their decisions solidified best practices, and a model that should be expected from other payment products from now on. The industry was collectively holding their breath, explains says Carta’s CEO, Brian Semkiw. “No one was charging forward until Apple moved.” First, he says, Apple’s use of tokenization established the de facto benchmark for security in mobile transactions. Second—though there was much speculation as to whether they’d use beacons or some other contactless tech—Apple chose NFC and declared it the only method. And thirdly they designed Apple Pay to be open to all the networks.
These three things will be hallmarks of any successful digital wallet in the future, Semkiw predicts. “Apple made it clear: the method of contactless will be NFC, it will tokenized and it will be open. Now everyone else can build their systems.” But he warns: “From here, merchants are the key: they need to put the physical technology in place to accept this form of payment.”
3. First HCE transactions performed
The year kicked off with big news at Mobile World Congress: Visa and Mastercard announced their support for HCE technology. “And right on on the heels of that announcement, the first live commercial transactions using HCE were performed—on Carta’s platform,” says Semkiw. Soon after the announcement, two major banks—Westpak New Zealand and Banco Sabadell in Spain—were performing HCE transactions, in the wild. Both banks were able to move their credit cards into handsets, without the complexity of including a handset manufacturer.
4. Banking the world
The 75% of the world’s population with no credit card and no bank account simply have no use for Apple Pay or similar products. This group does, however, have mobile phones, and for them, prepaid is bread and butter.
“Prepaid has been on a growth rate of 100% per year for some time now. Its growth is meteoric, but consistent,” says Semkiw. What set 2014 apart is wide scale adoption of prepaid on mobile applications. Now payroll, remittances and daily payments are all happening from simple feature phone applications. For unbanked populations, a mobile is becoming akin to a personal, portable bank.
Most will agree, 2014 was a very exciting year in the payments world. This isn’t something that has happened overnight though, it is the fruit of a lot of development and hard work. We can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2015.


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Today, eagle-eyed Steam users caught a new teaser page on the Steam site for something called the Valve Index, which promises to “upgrade your experience” in May 2019. It looks very much like a new VR headset, and it matches with a set of leaks and trademark filings we began to see late last year.
The design of the headset matches with leaked images that popped up last year, which – notably – came alongside news of a Half-Life prequel specifically built for VR. The new teaser site offers up no concrete details beyond the name and the date, and it might even take you a few guesses to realise you’re looking at a VR headset if you weren’t expecting it.
Rumoured specs for Valve’s VR headset included a 135° field of view, and the company’s VR-focused Knuckles controller had been making the rounds long before those reports even hit. Recent layoffs at Valve seemed to hit harder around the VR department, but those still at the company quickly came back to say work on VR is still continuing apace.


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Equities research analysts expect that Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) will announce $1.12 billion in sales for the current fiscal quarter, according to Zacks Investment Research. Five analysts have provided estimates for Zebra Technologies’ earnings, with the highest sales estimate coming in at $1.12 billion and the lowest estimate coming in at $1.11 billion. Zebra Technologies reported sales of $1.03 billion in the same quarter last year, which would suggest a positive year-over-year growth rate of 8.7%. The business is expected to report its next quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 28th.
On average, analysts expect that Zebra Technologies will report full year sales of $4.20 billion for the current financial year, with estimates ranging from $4.19 billion to $4.20 billion. For the next financial year, analysts forecast that the company will post sales of $4.42 billion, with estimates ranging from $4.37 billion to $4.45 billion. Zacks Investment Research’s sales averages are an average based on a survey of sell-side research firms that cover Zebra Technologies.
Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, November 6th. The industrial products company reported $2.88 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $2.60 by $0.28. Zebra Technologies had a return on equity of 49.81% and a net margin of 7.55%. The firm had revenue of $1.09 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.07 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.87 EPS. Zebra Technologies’s revenue for the quarter was up 16.8% on a year-over-year basis.
In other Zebra Technologies news, CEO Anders Gustafsson sold 11,588 shares of Zebra Technologies stock in a transaction dated Friday, August 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $169.06, for a total transaction of $1,959,067.28. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 314,092 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $53,100,393.52. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, Director Andrew K. Ludwick sold 34,000 shares of Zebra Technologies stock in a transaction dated Thursday, November 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $178.04, for a total value of $6,053,360.00. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 34,952 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $6,222,854.08. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 91,637 shares of company stock valued at $16,309,712 over the last ninety days. 2.30% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Psagot Investment House Ltd. purchased a new stake in shares of Zebra Technologies in the 2nd quarter valued at about $129,000. Reilly Financial Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Zebra Technologies in the 3rd quarter valued at about $142,000. Synovus Financial Corp purchased a new stake in shares of Zebra Technologies in the 2nd quarter valued at about $148,000. Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Zebra Technologies in the 2nd quarter valued at about $158,000. Finally, Gilder Gagnon Howe & Co. LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Zebra Technologies in the 2nd quarter valued at about $180,000. 88.16% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
ZBRA traded up $1.79 on Friday, hitting $180.70. 613,321 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 404,624. Zebra Technologies has a twelve month low of $101.49 and a twelve month high of $184.75. The stock has a market capitalization of $9.50 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.23 and a beta of 1.55. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.51, a current ratio of 1.09 and a quick ratio of 0.64.
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Trading places: this week's people moves
Yahoo appoints Google veteran Marissa Mayer to the vacant role of chief executive while parting company with UK sales chief Steve Brown in this week's round-up of people moves across advertising, marketing and media.
Karmarama has hired Mother's Mark Harrison as the managing director of retail, Lawrence Weber from The Brooklyn Brothers as the head of digital integration and David Pandit, who joins from Bartle Bogle Hegarty as the director of data and analytics. (Campaign)
WCRS has promoted Elisa Edmonds to the new role of head of account planning. (Campaign)
Omnicom Media Group’s digital leader in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Damian Blackden is to leave the agency network after four years. (Campaign)
Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) has appointed Gill Huber to the position of marketing and communications director of SMG London. (Media Week)
Initiative has appointed both Steve Henderson, client director at Mindshare, and Tania Harwood, business director at OMD UK, as business directors, replacing Simon Kennett and Sean Pattison respectively. (Media Week)
Yahoo is parting way with its sales director Steve Brown. Brown joined Yahoo in 2008 as group business manager, and was promoted to sales director two years later. Brown has yet to be replaced. (Media Week)
Yahoo has also appointed Google’s vice-president of local, maps and location services Marissa Mayer as its chief executive. The appointment of Mayer ends Yahoo’s period without a leader. (Media Week)
AOL has appointed former Thomson Reuters brand head Jolie Hunt to the newly created role of chief marketing officer, following a global restructure that saw the company's marketing function stripped out of the UK and relocated to the US. (Marketing)
Nintendo has appointed its head of European PR Shelly Pearce to the UK marketing director position left vacant by the departure of Dawn Paine. (Marketing)
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The console is dead: The Socialisation of Gaming
The games console as we know it is dead. When Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One earlier this week, it was clear that this was more than a device that would enable you to play Call of Duty or FIFA – this was, in Microsoft’s own words, “an all-in-one home entertainment system”.


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The developers of the upcoming Quantum Error game recently announced that the title will be exclusive to PlayStation 5. However, only after the game will release on the console of the new generation Sony, they will deal with its porting to the PS4. Today, it was confirmed that the campaign of the title will last between 15 to 20 hours.
In an interview with the Segment Next website, the developers touched on the subject of different enemies present in Quantum Error that will be different from one another: “There is going to be a huge amount of different enemies that are all very distinct from one another. With the Cosmic Horror part of the game, some enemies are going to be capable of harness dimensional power and warping the fight in their favor. Even our basic zombies that we call “Human Left-Overs” are part of a hive mind type thing and being forced against their will. And yes, there are going to be several boss fights.”
The developers also stated that the title “will be a purely story-driven single-player campaign” which will last between 15 to 20 hours and “it will be a story-driven campaign similar to that of a Dead Space or Resident Evil type game, however, we are going to have some choices that can be made in the game that could impact certain parts of the story.”
Quantum Error will be a sci-fi shooter (a game in which the emphasis is on the use of weapons), the action of which will take place in space. It is expected that its release will take place in the fourth quarter of 2021. The development is being done by TeamKill Media, which previously released the game Kings of Lorn: The Fall of Ebris.


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Since entering the solar market less than a decade ago, microinverters — which convert the DC current from individual PV modules into usable AC power for home and business — have been enthusiastically embraced by system designers and installers. They’re turning up in larger, more sophisticated solar installations every day, a trend that’s not going to change anytime soon.
The tremendous advantages that today’s microinverter technology offers over traditional “string” units is well documented: optimized yield thanks to individual module output, monitoring and control (no more “shading” effects crippling a whole array); flexibility of system design, and ease of installation; lower costs, including balance of system components; and the increased safety of distributed current.
Perhaps even more exciting is the fact that microinverters have only scratched the surface of their potential, as focused research and development across the industry pushes this technology even farther forward.
New microinverters will support the evolving demands of thin-film/CIGS modules now entering the solar market in residential and commercial installations, promising still higher energy yield per array area. Microinverters’ flexible design accommodates the higher voltages of the new module technology, while rapid shutoff features ensure safety for system installers and emergency responders. As highlighted in the NEC 2014 changes, safety will continue to be a key feature going forward as state electrical codes are modified to keep up with the spread of solar across our communities.
The introduction of microinverter technology offering true 3-phase (277/480) DC power output will further boost microinverters’ value in the marketplace, simplifying and enhancing the use of solar arrays in the largely untapped niche of large-scale commercial developments. This is one more example of the ongoing trend toward product differentiation across the microinverter market; new features and improved performance mean microinverters won’t be mere commodities, indistinct from one maker to the next. The future will belong to the innovators.
We’ll also see continued evolution of module monitoring with cloud-based systems that offer faster response time, improved ease of access to performance data and enable remote array troubleshooting. All of these will improve the user experience while boosting energy output and speeding investment payback. This is where it really counts, at the consumer level.
With so many advantages, it’s evident why solar industry analysts agree that the microinverter market, and module-level power electronics in general, will see strong capital investment, innovation and growth for the foreseeable future.
By Michael Ludgate, Vice President for Business Development, APS America
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Accolade Wines’ South Australian wine brand Banrock Station has launched its first flat bottle made from 100 per cent recycled PET plastic in UK supermarkets.
Banrock Station collaborated with Garçon Wines to deliver its Merlot and Chardonnay varieties in the certified carbon neutral flat bottles.
The bottles weigh only 63-grams when empty and are 87 per cent lighter than the average UK glass wine bottle. It further ensures around 90 per cent more wine can fit on a pallet as its flat bottle design takes up 40 per cent less space than a regular wine bottle.
“The move to using these flat wine bottles is a big step in Accolade Wines’ environmental journey as we manage our business in a responsible manner from vineyard to the consumer,” said Accolade Wines brand manager Lindsay Holas.
“This will also allow Banrock Station and retailers to target younger consumers, who on the whole are more aware and concerned for the future of the planet. We’re pleased to collaborate with Garçon Wines and the Co-op to bring this exciting technology to market, benefitting both retailers and consumers.”
Garçon Wines commercial director Amelia Dales said Banrock Station was a brand renowned for its commitment to protecting the environment, and a natural fit for its award-winning bottles.
“Following a number of successful Accolade brand launches in our bottles in the Nordics, and an increasing consumer awareness of the environmental footprint of the products they purchase, we are looking forward to Banrock Station making a UK supermarket debut in our flat, 100 per cent recycled PET bottles, giving Co-op’s customers the opportunity to enjoy great wines in a new, engaging and sustainable format,” said Dales.
“This launch is a key milestone for our young company and an exciting stage of our multi-brand, -channel, and -country strategy.”
In July, Garçon Wines signed on former Wine Industry Suppliers Australia (WISA) CEO Matthew Moate as its market development advisor for the Oceania region, as the business looks to expand internationally.


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The government should crack down on illegal electric bicycles and scooters, the non-profit Consumers’ Foundation said on Friday, citing research on the potentially dangerous speed of the vehicles.
Electric bicycles and lightweight electric scooters have gained popularity as they do not require registration and riders do not need licenses, the foundation said, adding that as many as 40 percent of them can reach speeds exceeding the legal limit of 25kph for non-licensed two-wheelers.
Some consumers also purchased legal electric vehicles and modified them to reach higher speeds, it said.
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“If the government does not step up efforts to confiscate these illegal electric vehicles, they could become a danger to consumers’ personal safety,” the foundation said.
In a spot check last month of 12 vehicles sold on auction Web sites and online retail platforms, the foundation found that five of the vehicles reached speeds exceeding the legal limit, it said.
Two of them reached 60kph, similar to fuel-powered motorcycles with engines between 50cc and 250cc that require white license plates, it said.
The foundation also found numerous video tutorials and online articles on the modification of electric bicycles, for example to remove factory-installed speed limiters, it said, adding that a traffic accident with a modified vehicle might be fatal.
Under stipulations of the Road Traffic Management and Penalty Act (道路交通管理處罰條例), people who exceed the 25kph speed limit can be fined between NT$900 and NT$1,800.
The number of accidents involving electric bicycles and lightweight electric scooters in 2018 almost doubled from 2014, but police were still at odds over how to handle traffic violations involving the vehicles, which occupy a “fuzzy space” between bicycle regulations and regulations for heavier two-wheelers.
However, as the vehicles pose an alternative for those without a license or those who are attracted by their low cost — such as elderly people, young people and migrant workers — there is a pressing need for the introduction of clear regulations, the foundation said.
For example, the government could introduce insurance or license requirements that include a written test, as known from regular motorcycle license tests, it said.
This would ensure that riders are familiar with traffic rules, the foundation said, adding that the government must also hold retailers accountable for informing people about the dangers posed by the vehicles, especially if modified, and the importance of sticking to the traffic rules.
RISK FACTORS: ‘We hope people can cooperate and endure it ... it is possibly the very important last mile,’ Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung said Taiwan’s COVID-19 restrictions and mask regulations are to remain the same next month, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday. The center reported 42,112 new local COVID-19 cases and 85 deaths, saying that the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients has dropped to a new low this month. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, said that the center is keeping COVID-19 restrictions and mask regulations the same due to the local virus situation, and an increase in the number of imported cases of the new Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 of SARS-CoV-2, among other risk factors. Easing
TRAVEL CONFERENCE: Representatives from the two countries exchanged views on how to increase tourist numbers, with one identifying individual travel as a trend Taiwan and South Korea aim to increase the number of tourists traveling between the two countries to 3 million, government and tourism industry representatives said at a conference in Hsinchu City yesterday. The annual event was attended by Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications Chen Yen-po (陳彥伯); Tourism Bureau Director-General Chang Shi-chung (張錫聰); Taiwan Visitors Association chairwoman Yeh Chu-lan (葉菊蘭); South Korean Representative to Taiwan Chung Byung-won; Yoon Ji-sook, an official at the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; and Korea Association of Travel Agents chairman Oh Chang-hee. Global tourism is expected to soon rebound to between 55 and
DAMAGE CONTROL: The KMT in a statement called the Taiwan Strait ‘international waters,’ after Alexander Huang said China had the right to claim it as internal waters Lawmakers and experts yesterday accused the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) envoy to the US Alexander Huang (黃介正) of acting as China’s stooge, after he said that Beijing has the right to claim waters beyond its maritime territory as its exclusive economic zone and that the US has no legal basis to assert that the Taiwan Strait is an “international waterway.” Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Wang Ting-yu (王定宇) said in an online post that most of the world considers the Strait an international waterway, adding that this is important for safeguarding Taiwan. “We have seen US warships transiting through the Taiwan Strait.
The Taichung District Court yesterday sentenced to nine years in prison an unlicensed judo coach who caused the death of a seven-year-old student after slamming him onto the ground more than a dozen times. In its decision against the coach, a man surnamed Ho (何), the court cited his lack of remorse for using excessive force against an inadequately trained child and his failure to reconcile with the parents for his role in their son’s death. Speaking on behalf of the boy’s mother, Taichung City Councilor Jacky Chen (陳清龍) said the family would appeal to a higher court. Prosecutors said that Ho on


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Rutgers researchers discuss how they were able to hijack smart phones without the users' knowledge.
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Smart phones are becoming a common part of everyday life. Millions of Americans are using these powerful devices whose impressive capabilities and features rival that of desktop computers from just a few years ago. Yet few users realize that these same devices can be hacked and turned against their owners. Vinod Ganapathy and Liviu Iftode, two researchers from Rutgers University, described the results of their attempts to hack and hijack smart phones in this online media briefing.
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CAPY, the developers of "Below", appear to have confirmed that a lot of what we saw at E3 were timed exclusives.
"Like many games on stage at E3, Below will be available on the Xbox One first. Then, after a period of time, CAPY can bring it elsewhere. It’s always been this way."
Which games could they be? Also, how many is many?
I'll put the guesses here. They have to be games on stage at E3 said to be on Xbox One first. If the developers have commented on exclusivity I'll add links.
Titanfall - "It's definitely not out of the question"
Dead Rising 3
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
Ryse: Son of Rome
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Motorola Moto X Will Go Official on August 1 in New York City
Posted on Jul 20, 2013 | Source: GSM Arena
After leaving nothing to our imagination thanks to numerous leaks, the Motorola Moto X finally got a release date scheduled. The hotly anticipated smartphone will break cover on August 1st in New York City.
Rumored specs of the Motorola Moto X include a 720p display and a 1.7 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset along with 2 GB of RAM, 10 megapixel rear camera and Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. Motorola has already announced that the smartphone will be assembled in the United States.
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📨 2022 #phishing themes:
- 49% of emails were spam, 30% of spam originated from Russia
- Global events (e.g. World Cup, Ukraine crisis) and bonuses/compensations big scam themes
- Scammers’ crypto interest growing
📸 Micro-sized cameras have great potential to e.g. identify health risks.
New breakthroughs enable tiny cameras w/ crisp images on par with 500,000x larger camera lens.
This can also change the nature of surveillance.
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PeopleConnect scrapes personal data from e.g. court records, marriage/criminal registries and social media.
On Jan 21, a hacker published a treasure trove reportedly obtained from them - 2.9 GB CSV with 20M+ records.
Apple on Mon rolled out security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari to addressing a WebKit zero-day flaw that it said has been actively exploited in the wild.
Users advised to update to iOS 16.3.1 / Safari 16.3.1.


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East African Breweries Limited’s (EABL) British parent firm Diageo is warning of up to Sh41 billion ($410m) or 2.7 percent hit in net sales for the year to June 2020 on disruption of business by the coronavirus outbreak.
Diageo, which has a presence in six continents, says the expected dip is founded on the evolving coronavirus pandemic that has disrupted consumption, with bars closing in some markets such as China and many cities in Europe.
Diageo says this could see organic net sales and organic operating profit drop by between £225 million (Sh28.6 billion) to £325 million (Sh41.2 billion) and £140 million (Sh17.8 billion) to £200 million (Sh25.3 billion) respectively, based on the timing and pace of recovery from the pandemic. “Bars and restaurants have largely been closed and there has been a substantial reduction in banqueting,” said Diageo in reference to Chinese market.
“As the majority of consumption is in the on-trade, we have seen significant disruption since the end of January which we expect to last at least into March.”
World Health Organisation (WHO) data showed there have been 153,517 confirmed cases globally causing 5,735 deaths as at last Sunday. China is the worst hit with 81,048 confirmed cases and 3,204 deaths.
Diageo has not given a breakdown of monetary impact per region or country. However, in Kenya where it also has operations, government pronouncements are pointing at disruption on business.
Mombasa County has for instance ordered for closure of night clubs for the next 30 days as a precaution after Kenya reported first coronavirus case on Friday last week. Confirmed cases have seen risen to three.
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday also urged for avoidance of crowded places such as entertainment premises. He further called for minimal attendance of social gatherings such as weddings.
Diageo says the outbreak in several other Asian countries, especially South Korea, Japan and Thailand, has led to postponed events, reduction in conferences and banquets, and a drop in tourism which have all impacted on-trade consumption. Its organic net sales grew five percent to £12.2 billion (Sh1.54 trillion) in year to June 2018, giving it a 14 percent growth in net profit to £3.02 billion (Sh383 million).


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In an interconnected world, where goods traverse continents before reaching consumers, disruptions in global supply chains can send shockwaves through various industries, influencing stock market sectors in unexpected ways. As we navigate a landscape marked by supply chain constraints and logistical challenges, understanding the impact on different sectors becomes crucial for investors seeking to make informed decisions.
The Domino Effect: Unraveling Supply Chain Disruptions
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in global supply chains, triggering a cascade of disruptions that continue to reverberate across sectors. From semiconductor shortages to container shipping delays, industries worldwide are grappling with the fallout, prompting a closer examination of the winners and losers in this complex scenario.
Winners and Losers: Sectoral Perspectives
Technology and Semiconductors: The Resilience of Digital Innovation
The technology sector, particularly semiconductor manufacturers, faced acute challenges due to supply chain disruptions. However, the demand for electronic devices and the accelerated digitization of businesses provided a silver lining. Companies with robust supply chain management and diversified sourcing strategies emerged as winners, while those heavily reliant on specific regions faced setbacks.
Automotive Industry: Navigating Turbulent Roads
The automotive sector experienced a bumpy ride as semiconductor shortages disrupted production schedules, leading to inventory constraints. Auto manufacturers with agile supply chain strategies and the ability to pivot swiftly found themselves better positioned. Conversely, companies heavily reliant on just-in-time manufacturing faced production halts and delayed deliveries.
Retail and Consumer Goods: From Shelves to Screens
The retail sector witnessed a paradigm shift as e-commerce gained further prominence. Supply chain disruptions challenged traditional brick-and-mortar retail, emphasizing the need for diversified sourcing and agile logistics. Companies investing in robust online platforms and efficient supply chain management adapted more seamlessly to the changing landscape.
Healthcare: Striking a Balance
The healthcare sector faced dual challenges—escalating demand for pharmaceuticals and medical equipment coupled with disruptions in the supply chain. Pharmaceutical companies with diversified production capabilities and resilient supply chains weathered the storm, highlighting the critical importance of adaptability in the healthcare industry.
Energy: Navigating the Ebb and Flow
The energy sector grappled with supply chain constraints affecting the production and distribution of critical resources. Renewable energy, however, demonstrated resilience as the industry continued to expand. The shift towards sustainable practices and diversified supply chains positioned some companies as winners, while others faced challenges in adapting to the changing energy landscape.
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG): Adapting to the New Normal
FMCG companies witnessed changes in consumer behavior and preferences, impacting supply chain dynamics. Brands with agile logistics, strong distribution networks, and the ability to adapt quickly to evolving consumer demands fared better, while others faced challenges in meeting shifting market demands.
Navigating the Future: Strategies for Investors
Diversification and Risk Management
Investors are advised to diversify their portfolios across sectors and industries to mitigate risks associated with supply chain disruptions. Companies with well-established risk management practices and adaptable supply chain strategies should be considered for long-term investment.
Technology-driven solutions, such as data analytics and artificial intelligence, can enhance supply chain visibility and resilience. Investors may find opportunities in companies that invest in cutting-edge technologies to optimize their supply chains and adapt to evolving market dynamics.
Companies incorporating sustainability into their supply chain strategies are better positioned for long-term success. Investors focused on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors may find value in businesses prioritizing sustainable and ethical practices.
Agility and Innovation
Investing in companies that prioritize agility and innovation in their supply chain management can prove lucrative. Such companies are better equipped to navigate disruptions, capitalize on emerging opportunities, and maintain a competitive edge in their respective industries.
Conclusion: Navigating Uncertainty with Informed Choices
The global supply chain landscape is undergoing a transformative shift, presenting both challenges and opportunities for investors. As supply chain disruptions continue to unfold, the winners and losers across various sectors become increasingly apparent.
By adopting a strategic and informed approach to investment, investors can navigate the uncertainties, capitalize on emerging trends, and position themselves for long-term success in an ever-evolving market. Amidst the flux, astute investors recognize that each challenge presents a chance for innovation and adaptation, and every disruption conceals potential avenues for growth.
In this dynamic environment, staying attuned to market dynamics, embracing resilience, and seizing the untapped potential of evolving supply chain paradigms can lead to not only survival but thriving in the face of change. The metamorphosis of global supply chains invites investors to become architects of resilience and architects of the future, shaping a landscape where adaptability is not just a response but a defining strategy.


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Here’s What’s In The Microsoft HoloLens Box
The peripherals that ship with Microsoft's augmented reality headset
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Microsoft thinks that the future of computing will be some combination of the holograms from Star Wars and the holodeck from Star Trek, which is why the company has developed the HoloLens — a headset that displays virtual characters as if they’re right beside you. Microsoft said it would begin mailing out the first Hololens headsets for software developers, which cost $3,000 each, last month. And now it’s published a video showing what you get for ponying up all that money.
Included in the box are seven different components, my personal favorite of which is an alternate “nose cap” that attaches to the headset and adjusts it to fit those of us with less conventionally-shaped schnozzes. I’m just glad the masters of our augmented reality future aren’t leaving anyone (who can pay $3,000) out.


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Cruises in Germany, Taiwan Set Sail With Social Distancing, Masks, and Isolation Wards
Cruising may be on hold in much of the world, but large ships in Germany and Taiwan are setting sail again, hoping to resume luxury vacations even as COVID-19 continues to remain a threat around the world.
A German ship, the TUI cruise ship “Mein Schiff 2” (which means “My Ship 2”) hit the water on Friday night, heading on a weekend cruise in the North Sea with no scheduled port stops, according to The Associated Press. The line limited capacity to 60 percent and set sail with 1,200 passengers (normal capacity is around 2,900 passengers).
To help prevent the potential spread of COVID-19, passengers and crew must stay five feet away from each other or wear face masks, they will not be able to serve themselves at the buffet, and passengers had to undergo a temperature checks before boarding.
Fellow German cruise line AIDA plans to start sailing on Aug. 5, 2020 from Hamburg, the company has said, with “adapted capacities” in restaurants, bars, and theaters, as well as increased cleaning in cabins and public areas.
These ships aren’t the first to sail in Germany. The river cruise line, nicko cruises, set out on the Rhine River in June, implementing spaced-out dining, face shields, and arrows on the floor directing traffic in tight quarters.
U.S.-based river cruise line AmaWaterways also said it is resuming sailings in Germany, a company spokeswoman told Travel + Leisure. The cruise line’s AmaKristina will sail with local charter guests, requiring the crew to wear face coverings at all times and guests wear them when moving around the ship.
In Taiwan, hundreds of passengers (or about a third of the total capacity) boarded a Genting Hong Kong Explorer Dream ship over the weekend, headed to nearby islands, Reuters reported. The ship has 22 COVID-19 wards onboard to isolate people if they get sick.
“Due to the coronavirus, we can’t go abroad but I still feel like traveling, so I signed up for the island-hopping trip,” a passenger told the wire service. “I don’t worry about the epidemic too much, because I think it is pretty safe in Taiwan right now.”
While ships may be hitting the water around the world, it will be a while before cruises resume sailing in the U.S. Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended its “No-Sail Order” through the end of September.


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The move, which undercuts Costco's $1.50 hot dog and soda combo deal, was announced during a third-quarter earnings call by Walmart CEO Doug McMillon.
A North Carolina woman was issued a criminal citation this week for shooting at cans of Diet Mountain Dew in her backyard.
Popular food blogger Russ Eats revealed Sprite was no longer on sale in a “devastating” video shared to social media on Tuesday.
Coca-Cola will release a strawberry-and-watermelon-infused soda after teaming with Grammy-winning mashup artist DJ Marshmello on a new flavor.
The 41-year-old grocery store worker has guzzled an estimated 219,000 cans of Pepsi — the equivalent of seven million sugar cubes — since he first started sipping it in his...
Researchers noted that 65% of white adults reported consuming at least some sweetened drinks on any given day in 2017 and 2018.
Mountain Dew just announced the limited edition re-release of its "fan-favorite" flavor Mtn Dew Typhoon, a tropical fruit punch twist on the original neon sugary soda.
Sales at Coca-Cola surged 16% during the first quarter as crowds returned to movie theaters, music venues and sport stadiums, offsetting rising input costs for the company.
Chris Bonnett, founder of Gardening Express, said: “People might be surprised to hear that a lot of household drinks can actually be used in their gardens and on their plants.
Coca-Cola on Monday announced that it is launching a gaming-inspired version of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Byte virtually before it hits shelves in the real world.
Coca-Cola is set to unveil a line of redesigned cans for its flavored and zero-sugar products as well as a new mocha-flavored coffee drink.
PepsiCo will increase the prices of its products this year, the company said on Tuesday after it raised its full-year earnings forecast on surging demand for its sodas from pandemic-weary...


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Most Americans want to see greater transparency from companies regarding how their personal data is handled.
In a recent study by Axway, 82% of respondents said they wanted to know what type of data companies were collecting about them. A majority also stated they were concerned about the safety of their data and how it was being managed.
Data security has been increasingly important for Americans since an upsurge in cyber hacking incidents involving businesses and government agencies over the past 12 months. The vunerabilty of data has become more urgent in the minds of consumers as they seek out businesses that have strong data protection measures in place.
For businesses, data security is essential for longterm profitability and to help ensure client information remains safe. With large multinationals also dealing with international datacenters and data sharing, processes are needed to help ensure employees are also managing their data security and destruction efforts.
Verity Systems, a US manufacturer of hard drive degaussers and destroyers recently launch a host of new enhanced degaussers for businesses facing increased threats of data theft. “We’ve seen the landscape changing rapidly in the past 12 months. Businesses need to consider improving their data management and destruction efforts. Safe data erasure can be guaranteed through degaussing and hard drive destruction, “ said David Tucker, President of Verity Systems.
With data flows increasing between businesses and 3rd parties, there’s never been a greater need for improved data processes in companies as well as equipment in place to ensure data can be protected and destroyed once no longer in use.
Is your business providing the highest data security for consumers?


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The global shipping industry is awash in junk.
During the first four months of this year, shipping companies issued $1.64 billion of high-yield bonds, 28% than during all of last year. In addition, three high-yield bond issues with a total value of more than $500 million are on the market.
Helping to fuel the new wave of deals is a boom in worldwide shipbuilding. Vessels built during the 1970s-a peak period for the industry-have reached the end of their useful life, and replacement demand is high.
The growth of seaborne trade due to the increasingly global economy is also increasing the demand for new vessels.
With the boom in new issues, a slip in credit quality has also come to the shipping industry, along with a corresponding spike in spreads.
According to Kirk Ludtke, a shipping high-yield analyst with Chase Securities Inc., most shipping companies issuing high-yield debt this year have been rated B by Standard & Poor's and B3 by Moody's Investors Service, with the ratings for a couple of issuers dipping even lower. Before 1997, most shipping issuers were rated BB by S&P and Ba or B1 by Moody's.
The popularity of these issues "is related to the market's receptivity to lower-rated deals," Mr. Ludtke said. "There is a lot of liquidity looking for higher return."
Shippers are paying margins higher than the market average for similarly rated companies, Mr. Ludtke said. The bonds issued by shipping companies rated B and BB averaged 513 basis points and 238 basis points, respectively, over comparable Treasuries. The market average for issuers rated B and BB was 348 basis points and 210 basis points, respectively.
"I think the premium is being paid for the underlying cyclicality of the industry as well as bringing people up to speed," Mr. Ludtke said. "There hasn't been a lot of shipping high-yield, so a lot of investors haven't been exposed to it."
In a recent report, Mr. Ludtke recommended that investors buy debt issued by large tanker lines. But at least one high-yield investor said she would not take the bait.
"A lot of these companies have everything I try to avoid," said Margaret D. Patel, a high-yield portfolio manager with Third Avenue Funds, New York.
She noted that most shipping issuers are small, foreign, and privately held-traits she said are red flags. The industry is also vulnerable to price swings and has relatively low barriers of entry.
"There is a yield advantage, but it is too small to justify the market risk," she said.
Mr. Ludtke said he favored companies operating in the tanker market, because he sees strong global demand for crude oil and refined petroleum continuing for at least a year.
Dry bulk shippers, which mostly transport coal, grain, and iron ore-are at a 10-year low in profitability.
"This portion of the market is more heavily reliant on Asia than the tanker market," Mr. Ludtke explained. He said the downturn in the Asian economy and a large Chinese grain harvest both contributed to reduced dry bulk traffic.
The container segment, which mostly transports manufactured goods, is also off, because of a trade imbalance between the United States and China, Mr. Ludtke said.
About half of the proceeds from shipping company's junk bonds are being used to refinance debt, primarily outstanding bank loans, Mr. Ludtke said. About the same amount is being used for fleet expansion-roughly split between new and secondhand vessels-with another 5% covering general corporate costs.
The high-yield shipping company deals now on the market are a $128 million, 10-year 144a note for Pacific & Atlantic Holdings Inc., which was priced last week at 610 basis points over comparable Treasuries; an estimated $130 million issue for GulfMark Offshore Inc.; and an estimated $300 million issue for Stenaline AB.
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter is leading Pacific & Atlantic; Lehman Brothers is leading GulfMark; and Chase Securities and ABN Amro are co- leading Stenaline.


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Politicians, members of the business community, and representatives of the Tsimshian First Nations boarded a ship called the “MV COSCO Prince Rupert” on Friday, to hold a welcoming ceremony for the brand new cargo ship for its maiden voyage from the Prince Rupert port; which according to its operators, it will the first of many.
The brand new ship was very recently constructed in Korea and started its first voyage from Prince Rupert loaded with 8,500 TEUs worth of cargo. The ship’s operators, COSCO Group, say that the naming of the ship after the City of Prince Rupert is a significant recognition of the city as a major port in the shipping industry.
Executive vice-president of COSCO, Dave Bedwell, says the community has itself to thank.
“We could never do [the same operation we have here] in metro Vancouver. The uniqueness of this little port is that everyone works together. If there’s an issue, they resolve it and they resolve it really fast. We could never bring these ships to Vancouver or some other port and have the cooperation of the community to make the business successful,” says Bedwell.
Bo Liang is the president of COSCO Group, he says that by naming the one of their new vessels after the Prince Rupert, the city’s profile internationally is likely to increase.
“I think most people leaving this city have little knowledge about Prince Rupert. But, with this new vessel more and more people will know about where Prince Rupert is and about the community. It seemed like a good idea,” says Liang.
Shaun Stevenson is the vice-president of marketing and business-development for the Prince Rupert Port Authority, he says that this is a validation of the work that has gone into developing the Prince Rupert port.
“It shows that Prince Rupert has arrived as an internationally recognized gateway for trade with Asia. And COSCO being based in China and a large company, its an honor that they would name one of their ships after us,” says Stevenson.
A small group of dignitaries were taken up to the bridge of the vessel on Friday for the ceremony. Stevenson, the mayor of Prince Rupert, Jack Mussallem and the mayor of Port Edward, Dave MacDonald all presented gifts of plaques and local aboriginal art to the ship’s captain, Milton Vaz.
According to COSCO, the ship will be making regular stops in Prince Rupert and will be carrying everything from chemicals to electronics to and from the Prince Rupert port.


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The objective of the opinion will be to analyse how the digital revolution in the economy is transforming retail and wholesale, how it is forcing fundamental changes: new business models and channels are emerging, data is becoming core business, customers buy more online, new digital products are offered, new skills are needed, stores in towns must evolve and reinvent themselves to stay relevant.
This proposal is aimed at preventing fragmentation of the market when it comes to charging interfaces and charging communication protocols, enhancing consumer convenience and reducing e-waste.
This Guidance sets out the Commission’s views on how platforms and other relevant stakeholders should step up their measures to address gaps and shortcomings in the Code and create a more transparent, safe and trustworthy online environment
A comprehensive review of EU insurance rules (known as “Solvency II”) aim at helping insurance companies to scale up long-term investment in Europe's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The review also aims to make the insurance and reinsurance sector more resilient so that it can weather future crises and better protect policyholders. Moreover, simplified and more proportionate rules will be introduced for certain smaller insurance companies.
The update of the 2006 Soil Thematic Strategy was announced in the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. The aim of the new EU Soil Strategy will be to address soil- and land-related issues in a comprehensive way and to help achieve land degradation neutrality by 2030, one of the key targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In September 2020, the European Commission presented the Action Plan on Critical Raw Materials, which also contains the 2020 List of Critical Raw Materials.


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Games publisher Majesco is struggling to stay afloat and has warned that recent losses have raised substantial doubt on its ability to continue operating.
AnSEC filingstates the company laid off staff in development, game testing, marketing and support roles on October 31st. It also said the firm is currently not developing any significant new games for release in fiscal 2015”.
We are evaluating various alternatives, including reducing operating expenses and personnel costs, securing additional financing for future business activities, and other strategic alternatives including a sale or merger of our company,” read a statement.
Develop has more details.


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It was perhaps inevitable that at the Q&A that followed a screening of Alex Winter‘s Napster documentary “Downloaded” on Monday night, one audience member would ask if the movie was going to be available on the internet for free.
The film, after all, chronicles the rapid rise and equally rapid fall of the file-sharing service that fundamentally changed the music industry, ushering in a generation of music fans who got their music for free online rather than paying for it in record stores.
To admirers, it was a revolution that put power in the hands of the fans; to the record industry, it was an assault on copyright and intellectual property, a case of organized piracy on a scale that virtually destroyed the music industry.
And since he’d made a non-judgmental movie about Napster, the questioner asked, would Winter be fine giving his movie away?
“I get that question a lot,” Winter told TheWrap the day after his screening at the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles. “And I don’t want to disparage the people who think that all content should be free.
“But as a content creator, I’m not quite as eager to leap into a future of free content. And I still believe that we are close to developing a monetizable system in the digital landscape.”
Winter – a director, writer and actor who is perhaps best known for starring as Bill alongside Keanu Reeves' Ted in “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” in 1988 – is working on deals to show “Downloaded” in a variety of media, from theatrical to streaming to VH1.
He describes it as being similar to the model used on the Banksy documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” and says it is a way of adjusting to an independent-film arena whose old business models are as outdated as the record company models derailed by Napster.
“I’ve been a member of the DGA and the WGA and SAG my whole life, and I don’t want to say anything bad about the people who pay my family’s health insurance,” he said. “But I can’t believe the lack of understanding of the root technology that the public is using.
“People need to get educated very quickly, because there’s no reason why we can’t have a fully monetized system for distributing film using new technology.”
“Downloaded” began life in 2002, shortly after Winter met Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning. Initially, he pitched it to MTV Original Movies as a narrative feature, got a green light and wrote a script. Then MTV, he said with a laugh, “folded their movie department and became a reality TV house,” so he took it to MTV Films at Paramount, got another OK and wrote a new version in ’04 and ’05.
When that project went into turnaround, he abandoned the film for years – until frustration over the lack of progress on the issues raised by Napster persuaded him to revisit the material as a documentary featuring extensive interviews with those on all sides of the issue, including extensive interviews with Fanning and co-founder Sean Parker.
The film, which premiered at SXSW in March, is an evenhanded look at the firestorm stirred up by Napster, which was eventually forced to shut down when courts agreed with the record industry that it was a company based on copyright infringement.
But in a post-screening Q&A with Winter, musician Henry Rollins (left) and manager Jordan Berliant from the Collective Music Group, the consensus was that file-sharing and the online distribution of music was at least as much of an opportunity as an attack — albeit an opportunity that was ignored by corporations clinging to an outmoded, dying business model.
“A lot of record companies, they are gun-clutching climate-change deniers,” said Rollins. “They are stuck, and the rest of us are moving on.”
His initial reaction to the brainchild of Fanning and Sean Parker (below), added Rollins, was straightforward. “Me being from punk rock, I was used to not ever being paid for music. I thought, ‘Well, the record labels have been really good at keeping money away from the artists for years. Now the fans are doing it, too.'”
Still, added Berliant, “Napster really did lead to legitimate purchases of music. The dirty little secret in the aftermath of Napster is that more people are buying music than ever before.
“The problem is that they are not buying music in the same increments the record companies were used to.”
The companies, he added, were unwilling to adjust to the move from the long-playing album to the single song as the basic unit of consumption – the first a transaction that would give the record companies about $10 wholesale, the second less than $1.
“The real collision is between the way consumers want to consume music and the way the record companies want consumers to consume music,” Berliant said.
“Give me one example of a company that has succeeded … by forcing the consumer to adapt to how they want to do business, instead of the company adapting to how the consumer wants to do business. It’s incredibly arrogant.”
During the Q&A, Winter bemoaned the absence of any music-sharing service that offered the community of the early Napster, and the fact that what is viewed as the vast internet has effectively narrowed for many people to “Facebook, YouTube, Google and iTunes.”
But all the panelists agreed that YouTube has the potential to be more than what Winter called “a garbage dump” for music, and that file-sharing still has the potential to be monetized and the ability to bring together a community of fans that artists can use to their advantage.
“Personally, I have never felt closer to my audience in my entire life,” said Rollins. “I feel allied with the people who reach out to me on the internet, and distanced greatly from every record company I was ever on. Even the cool ones.”
Added Berliant, “I’m betting on the relationship between the artist and the fan, and fuck everybody else in the middle. And I believe that dis-intermediation, which is what is going on, will breed something pure and positive.”


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China's weekly export container shipping index up 0.3%
BEIJING - China's index of export container transport edged up in the past week, according to the Shanghai Shipping Exchange.
The average China Containerized Freight Index (CCFI) stood at 839.27, up 0.3 percent from a week earlier, according to the exchange.
The sub-reading for the Persian Gulf/Red Sea service led the increase with a week-on-week gain of 9.4 percent, followed by that of the South America service, which went up 2 percent from last week.
The CCFI tracks spot and contractual freight rates from Chinese container ports for 12 shipping routes across the globe, based on data from 22 international carriers.
The index was set at 1,000 on Jan 1, 1998.
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PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Sales of the U.S. OTC market in 2013 were up 3% to $23.5 billion at the manufacturer's level, according to a blog on research firm Kline's site posted Monday.
"Driven by strong sales gains in analgesics, upper respiratory, nutritional and topical products, the market appears to be showing signs of recovery," wrote Laura Mahecha, Kline industry manager healthcare. "This is partly due to the long-awaited rejuvenation of several brands that have posted steep declines in the recent past as a result of supply disruptions and recalls. Brands such as Novartis’ Excedrin and Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol and Motrin IB have experienced strong gains in 2013 thereby helping the analgesics category to post very strong gains this past year while Pfizer’s Advil, Bayer’s Aleve and private-label analgesics also posted gains in 2013."
Within nutrition, adult multivitamins, glucosamine and chondroitin and fish oils were significant market drivers, Mahecha reported.
Looking ahead, Kline expects the OTC market to continue to expand as a result of new and innovative Rx-to-OTC switches. "With the addition of new Rx-to-OTC switch brands and, in some cases, entirely new OTC categories, the market is expected to gain considerable sales and growth in the next few years," Mahecha suggested.


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Swiss watch exports managed to have another record year in 2008, despite a sharp decline in the last four months due to the global recession, says a new report by the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry (FH). That decline is continuing this year, it says. (A final report will be issued March.)
Watch exports increased 6.7 percent in value (export price) to 17 billion Swiss francs (almost $14.6 billion), the fifth year they’ve topped prior year results. In terms of units, however, total exports barely finished ahead of 2007, increasing just 0.8 percent to 26.2 million watches (a gain of only 210,000 units).
“Overall, 2008 was a very good year for Swiss watchmaking,” says the report, with “high rates of monthly growth” for the first eight months—although that rate of growth declined steadily after April, due to the “unsettled” world economy.
The deepening global recession—especially in the United States—hit home in September, when the “sudden and very marked downturn in the economic situation impacted significantly on watch industry performance,” the FH said. As a result, 2008’s fourth quarter exports dropped 7.8 percent, with November—normally the best month—showing the steepest fall (down 15.4 percent).
The FH says the slide continued, with the first months of 2009 in the red.
For the year, watches costing under 200 francs (about $172, export price) showed gains in value and units exported. However, results for those between 200 and 3,000 Swiss francs (about $172 to $1,533) were below 2007 (especially those between $430 and $1,533). Demand remained “very high,” says the FH report, for timepieces costing more than 3,000 Swiss francs each (about $1,533), with just under 20 percent growth. During 2008’s fourth quarter, all price segments declined, except those over 3000 Swiss francs.
Most major markets for Swiss watches increased their 2008 imports, with China topping the list, with a 43 percent gain in value, to $708.6 million. However, three didn’t.
United States’ imports of Swiss watches fell three percent (to just over $2 billion), despite summer-time gains. Japan was “negative throughout 2008,” says the FH report, falling 4.5 percent. The United Kingdom had a 2.7 percent drop.
Generally the pace in Europe slowed, resulting in an overall increase of 3.6 percent. Markets in the Middle and Far East recorded significant increases, with Asia showing the most growth in Swiss watch exports, up 13.2 percent.


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In a few days, the owners of the nintendo switch will be able to play Super Mario 3D All-Stars.
On September 3, the game company Nintendo published in its youtube account the trailer for the upcoming Mario. This game is a pack of 3 different Super Mario adventures in 3D. These are the HD and remastered versions of:
- Super Mario 64 (great nostalgia) released on Nintendo 64,
- Super Mario Sun Shine released for the GameCube and
- Super Mario Galaxy for the Nintendo Wii.
Ce games will be released in the Nintendo Store the 18 September next in 10 days for the Nintendo Switch console. What better thing for fans of Super Mario, the license that rocked our childhood.
You will also like to discover Crysis Remastered now available on Nintendo Switch, fans are shocked. et Ps5: the new trailer for the playstation 5.


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EcigaretteForMe Names Its Top 3 Electronic Cigarette Celebrity Users, Declares Ecig by Solar Cigarette as the Best
ECigaretteForMe named its top three electronic cigarette users among Hollywood celebrities. It said that even them can attest to the device effectiveness.
Houston, TX (PRWEB) October 30, 2012
Electronic cigarette is now the most popular alternative to cigarettes. And that's not just for the common smokers but also to big personalities. To prove that, EcigaretteForMe enumerated its top three famous Hollywood celebrities who chose to puff the smokeless cigarette instead of the cancer sticks. While at it, the site also asserted that the best ecig today is the one manufactured by Solar Cigarette.
Find Out What Makes Solar Cigarette's Ecig the Best
In its post dated October 25, 2012, EcigaretteForMe asserted that several celebrity smokers already switched to electronic cigarette to kick smoking and better their health. However, the site knows that there are some people who are still in doubt of ecig. So to prove that the device truly works, it named three famous celebrities who exchanged the ciggies for a smokeless cigarette.
Particularly, the website named Robert Pattinson, Johnny Depp and Katherine Heigl as its top three Hollywood celebrities who are now into ecig. As it said, those three famous personalities can attest to the effectiveness of the device. And famous or not, it added that there are many other smokers turned ecig users who can prove that electronic cigarette is indeed the best substitute of cigarettes.
However, of all the ecigarettes available today, EcigaretteForMe declared that of Solar Cigarette as the best. It even encouraged smokers to test the effectiveness of the device by requesting for a sample of it.
According to a representative of the company, truly their device is the best given that it offers more benefits than any other smokeless cigarette. Carrying the same Solar Cigarette name, it promises weight loss help and age-related health benefits that no other ecig can give, the rep added.
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Tablets and other digital reading devices are expected to be big sellers this holiday season due in part to the growing number of devices available from a host of manufacturers (Tale of the Tablets: 2012). But as the number of devices swell, the places where consumers go to buy e-books and other digital content continues to be concentrated in some familiar spots, at least up until now.
According to the Book Industry Study Group’s fourth volume in its “Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading” survey series, 73% of e-book buyers bought (or got an e-book for free) from Amazon, with 21% getting their e-books from Barnes & Noble.com. Both of those company’s apps have also gained some traction. Despite problems getting titles from some of the major trade houses, libraries were used by 11% of e-book readers to attain e-books. Apple’s content stores were only used by 10% of e-book users, but that is expected to change as device sales pick up.
But growth in the use of multipurpose tablets rather than dedicated e-ink devices shows acceptance of platforms outside the five best-known tablet platforms of Amazon (Kindle Fire), Apple (iPad, iPad Mini), B&N (Nook HD), Google (Nexus 7, Nexus 10), and Kobo (Kobo Arc). Indeed, beyond the most popular brands, manufacturers from Toshiba, Asus, Acer, and Samsung to Lenovo, Dell, HP, and Fujitsu are releasing a dizzying selection of tablets running the Windows 8 and Android operating systems (Amazon’s Kindle and the Nook HD run a customized Android OS). And while a consumer can purchase e-books on any of them, the lack of a branded, heavily marketed content app tied to the device looks to be a disadvantage in a competitive e-book marketplace that is, nevertheless, dominated by two well-known e-book and platform brands.
According to the BISG’s consumer reading survey, “power buyers” (those who purchase e-books weekly) show an increased preference for reading on tablets, with more than 38% indicating so, compared to 19% a year ago. The BISG study also suggests that tablets designed for reading books—like the Kindle Fire, Nook HD, or Kobo Arc—outperform other tablets. Nearly 60% of the BISG survey respondents that own Kindle Fires say they read e-books “very often,” while about 50% of those with iPads make that claim. Indeed, after Amazon.com and B&N, the rest of the market is a far-flung network of indie e-book retailers that include the iBookstore, Kobo, Google Play, Baen, Sony e-book store, Books on Board, Diesel e-bookstore, Powell’s, AllRomanceeBooks, and many more than can be listed here.
While Amazon and B&N offer reading/retail apps in Windows 8 and Android versions—Blio, the Baker & Taylor–sponsored multimedia optimized reading/retail app, has been adding e-bookstore links to devices from Toshiba, Windows, HP, and others—there seems to be evidence that consumers are venturing beyond branded apps to find alternative retail venues in a new and expanding marketplace. And as new tablets gain market share, that trend could continue. Peter Hildick-Smith, president of the Codex Group, noted that while “the Kindle store has dominant share, early indications on open platform tablets like Galaxy Tab, Nexus, and Windows show a more competitive e-book seller market.” The Kindle Store, for example, accounted for 46% of the e-book purchases of Galaxy users compared to 83% of Fire owners, while “other” outlets represented 19% of e-book purchases of Galaxy owners compared to 5% for Fire owners. And according to several independent e-book retailers contacted by PW, while the use of tablet devices designed to deliver content from Amazon, Apple, Google, and B&N is growing, the indie e-book retail business also continues to grow. It’s early, but it looks as though the e-book pie is getting bigger as consumers gravitate to multipurpose devices to buy from the dominant retailers as well as seek out certain independent e-book retailers.
Diesel e-book founder Scott Redford said 50% of the respondents to a Diesel survey reported that they use dedicated e-readers, 20% use a personal computer, and 16% use tablets, but the tablet component is growing. “As tablet prices drop, we’re seeing an overall, corresponding increase in tablet use compared to e-readers for our e-books,” he said. “Not only is the multifunctionality a draw, we’re hearing that tablets tend to give customers a little more freedom in where they make their purchases.” Redford said Diesel’s business continues to show “steady growth,” emphasizing that “customers are getting savvier about their options once they invest in a device.” He even cited Amazon’s recent and controversial history of remotely removing titles from customer accounts. “The issue of being tethered to one e-book store is an increasing consideration,” Redford said.
Lori James, founder of AllRomanceeBooks.com, agreed that tablet use is increasing, providing PW data showing the use of multipurpose tablets (iPad, Android, and “other”) by her customers growing from about 17% to a little more than 20% over the past year. “We have an extremely loyal customer base,” James said. “Increased tablet and dedicated reader sales have been beneficial for us. We aren’t tied to any specific platform. We sell digital books that are available in multiple formats and are compatible on multiple devices.”
Bob LiVolsi, owner of the indie e-book retail site BooksOnBoard, offered data showing the use of tablets by BooksOnBoard customers “grew from 7.9% of downloads in October 2011 to 21.2% of downloads in October 2012,” while the use of dedicated e-readers declined from 30.2% to 28.1% over the last year. Use of PCs and Macs (41.4% in 2011) declined to 37.4% so far this year. LiVolsi said the iPad is the leading tablet used on Books-OnBoard, representing 63% of all tablet downloads, but “Android tablets are growing share rapidly. A year ago, iPad completely dominated this, with 93% of tablet downloads.”
LiVolsi said despite Amazon and B&N’s “walled gardens,” he’s noticed “customers downloading our books to the Kindle Fire and Nook tablets,” and while they represent “less than 5% of our downloads, that number is growing a bit quarter by quarter as customers discover they have other options on the tablets.” LiVolsi also pointed to a “migration of about 34% of our readers over the last 18 months” to sub-$100 Nooks and Kindles that don’t support content from other retailers. But, LiVolsi told PW, “in spite of that, [BooksOnBoard] revenues have continued to grow, largely because of the shift to tablets and the growing e-book marketplace” as well as to the growing demand for English-language digital content outside of the U.S. “Our customer mix is probably still a little different than Amazon’s or B&N’s,” he said. “We’re 64% non-U.S. and our customers are probably more price sensitive overall as we compete these days largely on our customer support, our pricing, and long-term relationships with customers who bought their first e-book from us.”
Editor’s Note: Figures in BISG’s “Consumer Attitudes” report are based on responses from 1,061 consumers surveyed in August. The full report is available here.
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Assessing excessive pricing during the Covid-19 crisis will be challenging. Based on the regulations published last week in the Government Gazette, South African competition authorities will compare prices during the period of national disaster to prices over December 2019 to February 2020 when determining excessive pricing. In this comment, Prof Willem Boshoff of the CCLE argues that such a short benchmark period raises challenges to understanding how the price of a product 'normally' responds to [...]
On 19 March 2020, the Minister of Trade and Industry published regulations in the Government Gazette, pertaining to the pricing and supply of certain consumer and medical products and services during the Covid-19 national disaster period. Some of the regulations relate to the Competition Act’s provisions on excessive pricing. In this short opinion piece, Prof Willem Boshoff provides a high-level economics commentary. You can access the link here.
What is a cat? The answer may seem intuitive, but giving a clear definition is more complex than you think. Will you define it by the number of ears, fangs or legs? The presence of fur or whiskers? It may be easy to distinguish between a cat and a panther, but will that be thanks to your definition or is that because of what you have learnt? Today, thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence, computers [...]
Since 2016, so-called industry concentration has gradually received more attention among competition policy practitioners. In the US in particular, both academics and some policymakers have argued that American industries and the economy at large have become more concentrated. In South Africa, lawmakers have cited high and persistent levels of concentration as motivation for enacting changes to the competition law. In fact, the aim of South African lawmakers is now explicitly to “deconcentrate” the economy[i]. The [...]


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Hand sanitizers containing Methanol should be avoided to due to it’s harmful effects on the body this was said by the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA had on June 19 released a press statement that the body had identified about nine hand sanitizers that contains Methanol, this hand sanitizers were manufactured by Eskbiochem SA dear CV.
Also in July the FDA released additional hand sanitizers that contain Methanol which are;
- Grupo Insoma’s Hand Sanitizer Gel Unscented, 70% alcohol)
- Transliquid Technologies’ Mystic Shield Protection Hand Sanitizer
- Tropicosmeticos’ Britz Hand Sanitizer Ethyl Alcohol 70%
- Soluciones Cosmetics’ Bersih Hand Sanitizer Gel Fragrance-Free and Antiseptic Alcohol 70% Topical Solution Hand Sanitizer
The FDA said , “Methanol is not an acceptable ingredient for hand sanitizers and should not be used due to its toxic effects,”
“Consumers who have been exposed to hand sanitizer containing methanol should seek immediate treatment, which is critical for a potential reversal of toxic effects of methanol poisoning.”
The FDA warns that “substantial methanol exposure” can result in nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous system or even death. Those who are most at risk for these symptoms, according to the FDA, are “young children who accidentally take in these products” and “adolescents and adults who drink these products as an alcohol (ethanol) substitute.”
However the FDA recommends that people wash their hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, as opposed to using hand sanitizer.
The body also told people to observe that the hand sanitizers used doesn’t contain Methanol and , 60% of ethanol was used.


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Stephen Chapman over at ZDNet did some sleuthing today and found a "morsel" noted on software/gadget engineer Ben Peterson's portfolio page. It's a teaser for a brand-new Microsoft project having to do with the Xbox 360. And with a completion date of 2015, Chapman surmises that it's likely for the next-generation Xbox console.
Here's the latest project he's working on.
Microsoft Xbox: Confidential / Collaboration with Microsoft's IEB Design group investigating future user experiences and hardware for 2015. *Work samples only permissible in person.* (March 2011)
We can glean from the noted March 2011 date above that this is a completely new project just getting underway. As for the black devices we see, obviously he did not want to disclose more than a huge tease. The top half looks like a stand of some sort with something attached to the top if it while the bottom half looks like a zoomed-in section of a Kinect-shaped device, but that's merely guess work on my behalf, of course.
The press team at Microsoft didn't immediately respond to questions seeking confirmation of the rumor. But with a 2015 completion date, one can only hope that a new Xbox console will be available, considering the Xbox 360 will be 10 years old by then.


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Six new jobs have been created already with more likely over the coming weeks as Runwell pub The Quart Pot re-opens following a £150,000 refurbishment. The pub, on Runwell Road, near Wickford, which is owned and operated by award winning pub company, Stonegate Pub Company, has temporarily closed to make way for designers and builders to work their magic, and is set to re-open with a celebratory VIP reception on Thursday 16th May.
A top to toe makeover is currently underway at the pub with the layout changing to give it a lighter, brighter and more open plan feel. A larger dining space is being created whilst over at the bar a further three cask ale pumps are being installed. “We already serve a selection of cask ales that are so popular with our customers that we have decided to extend it. Once we re-open, our customers will be able to enjoy any day of the week a choice of four national ales, three locally sourced ones and a handpull cider too”, said general manager David Bennett.
The pub will swing open its doors to local residents and businesses on Thursday 16th May for a complimentary lunch and an exclusive peek at the new look Quart Pot. From 5pm a champagne and canapé reception will formally celebrate the pub’s re-launch to which all are welcome. Three piece mockney pop band ‘The Watling Street Band’ will be a performing an eclectic mix of music with its unique tuba, banjo and drum sound.
General Manager David Bennett and his team are expecting a busy weekend at the pub with local couple Lynsey Skeggs and Christopher Mowforth hiring the sparkling new pub on Friday 17th May for their wedding reception. “We are so looking forward to our customers seeing the new look Quart Pot and what a fantastic way to celebrate it re-opening with a wedding of two of our special regulars”, commented David. “We have a large garden and now the weather is brightening up we’ve been busy getting lots of fun giant garden games such as jenga, connect four and a huge children’s blackboard to fill it. We already have a pétanque court which many of our customers enjoy and throughout the opening weekend we’ll have a bouncy castle too.”
The Quart Pot recently launched its Spring Summer menu packed with mouth-watering new dishes such as a charcuterie board, an ideal sharing starter or platter to enjoy over a bottle of wine, a king prawn, bacon and asparagus risotto and several delicious new superfood salads – a healthy option too at under 500 calories.


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HTC Launch Windows Phone 8 Device 8X In India For Rs. 35000
Some time back HTC has launched 8X, a phone which runs on latest operating system of Microsoft, WP8 or Windows Phone 8. Now HTC has launched 8X in India for Rs. 35,000/-
8X is powered by 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, it has 1 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal memory, 8 MP rear camera with backside illuminated sensor (BSI) and LED flash, 2.1 MP front facing camera for video calling.
It has 4.3 inch Super LCD touch screen with screen resolution of 1280x720pixels, 1800mAh battery, it has dedicated Beat audio. HTC has claimed that they had added amplifier in it to improve sound quality.


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Yesterday, Intel announced the new high-end laptop processors. Most likely these CPUs will be used in the MacBooks coming out this year.
Just in recent days there was rumored a permanent abandonment of Intel’s processors by Apple. According to the latest rumors, in fact, Apple would like to create their own CPU for Mac, just like the iPhone and the iPad. This change, however, will not happen this year, in fact, Apple is already preparing to integrate the latest Intel processors in the new line of MacBooks.
The much more interesting processors presented by Intel is the new Core i9. This is the first i9 model, dedicated exclusively for notebooks. The CPU has six cores and 12 threads with a base clock rate of 2.9 GHz and a Turbo Boost frequency of up to 4.8 GHz. This chip could be integrated into the 15-inch MacBook Pro, which will most likely be announced. during the WWDC this year.
In addition to the Core i9, Intel has also presented a new quad-core Core i5 and a Core i7 with the base clock that is around 2.3 GHz and 2.7 GHz. Both have clearly also provided the part dedicated to the graphics: Iris Plus. Unlike the 45 W of the Core i9, these chips consume only 28 W and could, therefore, be integrated into the new 13-inch MacBook and Mac Mini.
The new eighth-generation Intel processors are based on the technology called 14-nanometer Coffee Lake. This technology would allow an increase in performance of 50% with the same consumption and size.


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All is set for the launch of Nokia 8.3 5G smartphone, slated for September 22, 2020.
Nokia Mobile has just sent press invites to media houses across the world for a launch event.
This comes after some leaks of Nokia 2.4, Nokia 3.4, and even the Nokia 8.3 itself.
Interestingly, the invite mentions a new chapter for Nokia phones with a very special guest. The hashtag #OnlyGadgetYouNeed also can be seen there which talks about the association with the next Bond movie “No time to die”.
This will be a virtual event and will be live streamed on Nokia Mobile YouTube channel.
The YouTube live video link will be shared soon by Nokia Mobile. Event will begin at 4.00 PM BST (8:30 PM IST) on September 22.
So, the company is expected to launch the 2.4 and 3.4 as they announce the release of the Nokia 8.3 5G.
“We haven’t seen evidences of any other Nokia smartphone launch so far and it will be pleasant surprise if that happens,” Nokiapoweruser.com said.
Nokia 8.3 5G comes with Android 10, 6.18” IPS FHD Display, Qualcomm SDM765 Snapdragon 765G Chipset, Quad 64MP + 12MP + 2MP + 2MP Rear and 24MP Selfie Cameras. Nokia 8.3 5G Price 640 for 6GB + 64GB and 690 for 8GB + 128GB.


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Disney Springs has been successful in opening new store fronts and quick service since reopening. Such as the most recently popular Everglazed Donuts, Gideons Bakehouse AND soon enough The M&M Store.
Though these businesses have flourished…some have suffered due to the pandemic. Tumi, Lucky Brand and Kiehl’s naming a few of the permanently closed storefronts. The Kipling store, popular for its designer handbags and backpacks, will soon be on that list as well.
They will close their Disney Springs location on Saturday, January 23, 2021.
Kipling USA has yet to update its Disney Springs location’s page with closure information. But, there was a sign spotted by passerby’s a couple of days ago.
For its final days, Kipling is offering 40% off the entire store. This discount is only available at Kipling’s Disney Springs and stackable with the Annual Passholder discount (10%) and on top of any existing sales. Hurry out if you want any last minute finds at this location!
The outlet location in Central Florida will remain open, as well as the Florida Mall location.