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As it stands today, Amazon employs more than half a million people, more so than any other technology company in the country and second only to Walmart in the US. But the eventual result of its investments in robotics and AI is that technology’s biggest and fast-growing workforce could see that growth start to slow and, perhaps years down the line, even shrink as robots tackle ever more complicated tasks. In the process, the company may develop robots for use outside its fulfillment centers. Amazon has already changed how we shop and, by extension, how we live our lives. Its next big step could be changing how we work.
Amazon's home page provides three methods to start finding and buying items. The front page itself shows off featured items, and once the site starts learning your tastes, it will display products based on your history. To find a specific item, type in the search bar at the top of the page. Press "Enter" to search the entire catalog, or select from the drop-down menu set automatically to "All" to search a specific category, which also enables the "Refine" capability for more specific results. If you'd rather just window shop, click "Shop by Department," to pick a section to browse.
In September 2017, Amazon announced plans to locate a second headquarters in a metropolitan area with at least a million people. Cities needed to submit their presentations by October 19, 2017 for the project called HQ2. The $5 billion second headquarters, starting with 500,000 square feet and eventually expanding to as much as 8 million square feet, may have as many as 50,000 employees. In 2017, Amazon announced it would build a new downtown Seattle building with space for Mary's Place, a local charity in 2020.
On October 16, 2016, Apple filed a trademark infringement case against Mobile Star LLC for selling counterfeit Apple products to Amazon. In the suit, Apple provided evidence that Amazon was selling these counterfeit Apple products and advertising them as genuine. Through purchasing, Apple was able to identify that nearly 90% of the Apple accessories sold and fulfilled by Amazon were counterfeit. Amazon was sourcing and selling items without properly determining if they are genuine. Mobile Star LLC settled with Apple for an undisclosed amount on April 27, 2017.
But one of the biggest differences between Cyber Monday and Black Friday remains: the style of shopping, says Vice President of PR and Events at Slickdeals, Regina Conway. “For example, we see more sitewide discounts or category-wide discounts on Cyber Monday, whereas Black Friday will often have very specific products such as electronics and home goods at deep, deep discounts,” she says. “However, more merchants have started advertising specific product deals on Cyber Monday and vice versa, so the holidays are starting to have more crossover.”
Of course, one of the most important steps in the process of selling products is setting prices. One of benefits of using Amazon to sell goods online is that you can see what other merchants are charging for similar items. If you want to make sure your copy of The Scarlet Letter sells over the other ones listed, set the price with shipping lower than your competitors. You can also specify whether you want to handle the shipping yourself or allow Amazon to do so.
Some workers, "pickers", who travel the building with a trolley and a handheld scanner "picking" customer orders can walk up to 15 miles during their workday and if they fall behind on their targets, they can be reprimanded. The handheld scanners give real-time information to the employee on how fast or slowly they are working; the scanners also serve to allow Team Leads and Area Managers to track the specific locations of employees and how much "idle time" they gain when not working. In a German television report broadcast in February 2013, journalists Diana Löbl and Peter Onneken conducted a covert investigation at the distribution center of Amazon in the town of Bad Hersfeld in the German state of Hessen. The report highlights the behavior of some of the security guards, themselves being employed by a third party company, who apparently either had a neo-Nazi background or deliberately dressed in neo-Nazi apparel and who were intimidating foreign and temporary female workers at its distribution centers. The third party security company involved was delisted by Amazon as a business contact shortly after that report.
In March 2015, it was reported in The Verge that Amazon will be removing non-compete clauses of 18 months in length from its US employment contracts for hourly-paid workers, after criticism that it was acting unreasonably in preventing such employees from finding other work. Even short-term temporary workers have to sign contracts that prohibit them from working at any company where they would "directly or indirectly" support any good or service that competes with those they helped support at Amazon, for 18 months after leaving Amazon, even if they are fired or made redundant.
Amazon’s transformation into the world’s more pervasive retail operation wouldn’t be complete unless the company began a seemingly counterintuitive push from online to offline. Starting with its brick-and-mortar bookstores in 2015 — first in Seattle and now in Chicago and New York City — Amazon established its intent to compete on all fronts with its retail competitors.
Amazon runs data centers for its online services and owns generators or purchases electricity corresponding to its consumption, mostly renewable energy. Amazon contracted with Avangrid to build and operate the first wind farm in North Carolina to power Amazon's Virginia data centers. The wind farm was built and began operating in December 2016 despite opposition from President Trump and some North Carolina Republican legislators.
With over 230 million active customer accounts, the online giant, Amazon, is the most popular online store at the time of publication, and even ranks as one of the ten most popular websites on the entire Internet. Even if Amazon's own warehouses don't have what you're looking for, one of its third-party Marketplace sellers might -- though potentially at a high price. Whether you want to shop from Amazon directly or in the Marketplace, head to Amazon's website to start browsing the shelves or use a sky mall that curates different products from Amazon.
While Amazon was expanding into streaming video, hardware, and cloud computing, it simultaneously maintained an aggressive push into even faster shipping and all new retail formats. The company started its same-day shipping initiative, Prime Now, in New York City in 2014, and it’s since expanded it to dozens of cities around the world. Around the same time, Amazon began a program called AmazonFresh to stock and ship groceries — including vegetables and refrigerated and freezer products — that it used as a way to stay competitive with traditional big-box retailers like Walmart and Target and Uber-like logistics newcomers like Instacart. The company now sells its own line of meal kits through Fresh to rival ready-to-cook options from companies like Blue Apron and Plated.
Since its founding, the company has attracted criticism and controversy from multiple sources over its actions. These include: supplying law enforcement with facial recognition surveillance tools; forming cloud computing partnerships with the CIA; luring customers away from the site's brick and mortar competitors; placing a low priority on warehouse conditions for workers; participating in anti-unionization efforts; remotely deleting content purchased by Amazon Kindle users; taking public subsidies; claiming that its 1-Click technology can be patented; engaging in anti-competitive actions and price discrimination; and reclassifying LGBT books as adult content. Criticism has also concerned various decisions over whether to censor or publish content such as the WikiLeaks website, works containing libel and material facilitating dogfight, cockfight, or pedophile activities. In December 2011, Amazon faced a backlash from small businesses for running a one-day deal to promote its new Price Check app. Shoppers who used the app to check prices in a brick-and-mortar store were offered a 5% discount to purchase the same item from Amazon. Companies like Groupon, eBay and Taap.it countered Amazon's promotion by offering $10 off from their products. The company has also faced accusations of putting undue pressure on suppliers to maintain and extend its profitability. One effort to squeeze the most vulnerable book publishers was known within the company as the Gazelle Project, after Bezos suggested, according to Brad Stone, "that Amazon should approach these small publishers the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle." In July 2014, the Federal Trade Commission launched a lawsuit against the company alleging it was promoting in-app purchases to children, which were being transacted without parental consent.
Customers will find products like the card game Codenames (4.8 stars, with more than 2,000 customer reviews), which 88% of reviewers rated 5 stars, and a Lodge 3.5 Inch Cast Iron Mini Skillet (4.4 stars, with more than 10,900 customer reviews), which 76% of reviewers rated 5 stars. Of course, Amazon 4-star shoppers can also find Amazon devices like the Echo Spot (4.5 stars, with more than 5,600 customer reviews), and the Fire TV Stick (4.4 stars, with more than 197,000 customer reviews). Customers can test-drive dozens of Amazon devices and smart home accessories that work with Alexa, and shop a curated selection of speakers, fitness tech, and other highly rated consumer electronics.
If you’ve already created an Amazon account on amazon.com, the easiest way to buy something is to type product keywords into the search bar at the top of the screen and press enter. Click on the product you want and press “Add to cart.” Click on the cart icon in the top right corner and click “Proceed to checkout.” Fill out your shipping and payment information and then click “Place your order.”
During Amazon's Cyber Monday Deals Week, you'll find the best deals on popular holiday products and gift items for a whole week, not just one day. Amazon is known for its incredible selection of merchandise, and for an entire week you can find deals in every category. Get free Amazon gift cards with select orders. To stay on top of the sales, download the Amazon mobile app, sign up for emails, like Amazon on Facebook and follow @amazondeals on Twitter.
Amazon was never going to be able to compete with Google’s YouTube in user-uploaded video content, and it didn’t have the social infrastructure of Facebook to become a destination where people discuss their lives and share videos from around the web. But what Amazon did have was the resources to purchase a company that was poised to outrun both Facebook and YouTube to a new type of business: live-streaming, in particular video games live-streaming. The pioneer of that market was Twitch, which Amazon purchased in 2014 for just shy of $1 billion.
Amazon Studios, which was founded in 2010 to compete with Hulu and Netflix in original programming, has become a powerhouse in Hollywood, taking home both Emmys and Oscars and growing into a staple of the modern entertainment diet of many Americans. Rounding out its position in digital media is the FireTV streaming device, which Amazon first launched in 2014 to compete with Apple, Roku, and other set-top box makers. The product has since been shrunk into a skinny HDMI stick — Amazon still sells the box and now also a small, square-shaped Fire TV Cube — and it remains one of the best-selling consumer electronics devices on Amazon.com.
Look at shipping costs. While items may not cost to ship at purchase, how much does it cost to return it in case it wasn’t what you’re after? “If you have to pay for shipping or return shipping it may be smarter to look elsewhere because the delivery fees could cancel out the savings,” says Woroch. “Knowing these details ahead of time is key to saving money and your sanity.”
Like on Black Friday, for online Cyber Monday shoppers, there’s no need to wake before the rooster crows. Honey’s Parsi says that for their users, spending peaked at 4 p.m. PST in Los Angeles and 11 p.m. EST in New York City last year. “On Cyber Monday, there is less pressure to get an early start because retailers are often better stocked online, where they store items in large warehouses—not on shop shelves with limited space—and can ship items from different locations to make up for shortfalls,” Palmer agrees. “Plus, many Cyber Monday sales actually start on Sunday.”
Amazon puts all of its daily deals into a Gold Box. Check the Today's Deals page to access these daily deals and get limited-time savings of up to 80% off select items, coupons to instantly clip and access to Lightning Deals. Lightning Deals are available only for a limited amount of time and have a countdown timer showing how much time is left to get the discount. Shop before the deal expires or the item sells out.
Nail your timing. While it can be valuable to be one of the first in line for limited-quantity products, if you’re going to shop online on Black Friday, timing may not actually matter all that much. According to data from deal-finding browser extension Honey, online purchases spike well after sunrise. “On Black Friday, spending peaked at 11 a.m. PST in Los Angeles and at 12 p.m. EST in New York City,” says Kelly Parisi, Vice President of Communications at Honey.
Bezos selected the name Amazon by looking through the dictionary; he settled on "Amazon" because it was a place that was "exotic and different", just as he had envisioned for his Internet enterprise. The Amazon River, he noted, was the biggest river in the world, and he planned to make his store the biggest bookstore in the world. Additionally, a name that began with "A" was preferential due to the probability it would occur at the top of an alphabetized list. Bezos placed a premium on his head start in building a brand and told a reporter, "There's nothing about our model that can't be copied over time. But you know, McDonald's got copied. And it's still built a huge, multibillion-dollar company. A lot of it comes down to the brand name. Brand names are more important online than they are in the physical world."
In 1999, Amazon first attempted to enter the publishing business by buying a defunct imprint, "Weathervane", and publishing some books "selected with no apparent thought", according to The New Yorker. The imprint quickly vanished again, and as of 2014 Amazon representatives said that they had never heard of it. Also in 1999, Time magazine named Bezos the Person of the Year when it recognized the company's success in popularizing online shopping.
At first I thought, why do I need amazon on my tv? But then, I thought, of course I need amazon on my tv! It’s actually pretty handy, and I’m not talking about just ordering shows or movies. If you just want to look at something quickly, there’s no need to fire up the computer or tablet or look for your phone (which I can never find quickly). If you want to show someone a product, poof, it’s on the tv which is so much easier to look at than my tiny phone screen! Also, if you use your alexa voice control, it’s all hand free. Admittedly, mine often has to be told a couple of times and the transition isn’t seemless by any means, but in all, it works out pretty well when I remember it’s available!
Robert Nava is the owner of National Parks Depot and an ex-con who never thought he’d end up a highly successful ecommerce storeowner. Today, National Parks Depot pulls in $80,000 a month selling all kinds of outdoor gear and wear for camping, fishing, hiking, hunting, cycling, rafting and scuba activities. Robert says building his ecommerce store through Shopify was one of the easiest things he’s ever done.


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Warwick Audio Technologies Ltd, the company behind the SonomaTM Electrostatic Headphone System announces that beginning today, the business will operate under a new name, Warwick Acoustics Ltd.
We will once again be exhibiting at RMAF 2018 where we are introducing our new Company brand platform
See us at the Park Plaza Hotel, Westminster Bridge
Over the moon to have received this fantastic accolade. The M1 features in the Headphone section of the TAS 2018 Editors' Choice awards in the current issue
We were delighted to receive a Positive Feedback Brutus Award for the Sonoma Headphone system. Thank you to David W. Robinson, who added it to their annual list of the “best stuff we heard this year"
We are delighted to announce that the Sonoma Headphone + DAC has been named Hi-Fi+ Magazine’s 2017 High-end Headphone of the Year.
We are pleased to announce the appointment of our latest European distributor, audioNEXT GmbH as its sole distributor in Germany.
Delighted that the Sonoma Model One was awarded a “Product of the Year Award” for ‘personal audio’ from Tone Audio at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017.
We are heading to the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) armed with three more rave reviews for our Model One (M1) Electrostatic Headphone System by Steven Stone of The Absolute Sound (TAS),

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The Consulate of Singapore will be hosting a gourmand pop-up at the Magazine St. Kitchen, Byculla from September 22 to September 24. This is a part of the series, Taste Obsession, which started last year as an act of cultural diplomacy.
Kek Eng Kee Seafood (KEK Seafood) will be showcasing their authentic Chinese stir-fired dishes and innovations by Chef Wayne and his team at this pop-up.
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KEK Seafood is a brand that’s developed into an internationally known brand included in the Michelin guide from a small roadside hawker. 1970, a couple migrated from Hainan Island, China to Singapore and started a food cart on the street side specializing in Chinese stir-fried food. The ladle was then passed on to their daughter and son-in-law who have passed the ladle on to the third generation now - the trio of Liew siblings. KEK Seafood, today, is a 3000 square feet restaurant at Alexandra Village, Singapore.
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Zacchaeus Lim, Vice-Consul (Political), Consulate-General of the Republic of Singapore in Mumbai, says, “We are glad to be able to bring the Taste Obsession cultural diplomacy campaign back to Mumbai once again - and with some of Singapore’s best-known dishes, no less. We look forward to sharing some of Singapore’s many sights, sounds, and bold flavours through this pop-up.”
The Soul Company are helping the Republic of Singapore yet again with the Taste Obsession Campaign. They had partnered last year as well to bring delicacies of Singapore to India when they had pop-ups in different cities of India.
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Taste Obsession is an attempt to highlight the shared food culture of both the countries – India and Singapore.
Diganta Chakraborty, Head of Brand, The Soul Company: “Like India, Singapore's food scene is a delicious melting pot – a direct reflection of the countless restaurants and bars that have made Singapore one of the most exciting dining and nightlife destinations in the world today.
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Since The Soul Company’s inception, it has been our driving force to bring novel and original F&B experiences to Indian foodies. We are today delighted to partner Destination Singapore to bring some of our favourite Singaporean restaurants and bars to our community, who are hungry for the world-class F&B offerings that the foodie paradise is known for.”
What are you waiting for? Call Magazine St. Kitchen and book your place just now. But remember, it’s a non-veg only menu.


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The World Food Programme has spent a total of $147m in the last three years on purchasing food rations in Uganda.
Last year, the UN agency announced Uganda as a major hub for purchasing food.
Mr. El-Khidir Daloum, WFP Country Director said of the 198,000 metric tonnes they bought last year, only a small percentage was bought from small-holder farmer groups. The rest was bought from local traders. He said they have the capacity to buy more from Uganda, adding that farmers should improve on their post-harvest handling.
He called for improved coordination to ensure small scale farmers get all the support they need from the various actors in Agriculture.
The Ugandan Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry of Fisheries, Mr. Vincent Ssempijja commended WFP for buying 198,000 metric tons of food in Uganda, valued at US$55 million in 2018. This brings the total amount of food that WFP bought in Uganda in last three years to more than 425,000 metric tons worth US$147 million.


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A seller on the online marketplace eBay has threatened to sue a customer in a row over negative feedback.
Seller Joel Jones says the feedback posted on his eBay profile page by Chris Read, from Kent, is damaging his business, and he wants it removed.
Mr Read says the mobile phone he bought from Mr Jones was damaged, and he will not retract his "honest opinion".
eBay says honest feedback is the "lynchpin" of its site - but it has promised a better dispute procedure.
Mr Read, of Herne Bay, says the £155 Samsung phone he bought from Mr Jones in an eBay sale was not the model he had ordered, and arrived in a damaged condition.
Even though Mr Jones refunded his money promptly, Mr Read still posted "negative" feedback on his eBay profile.
In doing so he says was only acting in line with eBay guidelines, which encourage all buyers to publically rate their sellers so that "informed decisions" can be made.
He wrote: "Item was scratched, chipped and not the model advertised."
He said: "I was just doing what I was supposed to do - give my honest opinion.
"The seller refunded my money and I had no problem with his service.
"But it's a fact the phone wasn't the one I paid for, and that's what I wrote."
A few days later Mr Read received a letter from lawyers acting for Mr Jones - who trades under the name Onsalexuk - threatening to take him to court unless he retracted the feedback.
The letter read: "The negative feedback you left on October 3 regarding Samsung F700 was unfair and is damaging to my business's reputation and ability to trade.
"We require a signed statement accepting that the feedback is unfair."
Mr Read said: "I won't back down - I told the truth, and this seller is just trying to intimidate me."
He said he had received "hundreds" of supportive emails from eBay customers worldwide backing his stand.
"Customers should have the right to leave negative feedback if what they have received isn't what they paid for. Otherwise people are buying blind."
But Mr Jones said he was determined to carry out his court action threat.
He disputed that the phone was the wrong model, and said phones sold on his site were advertised as "pre-owned".
He said: "I gave the customer back his money back and that should have been it. He had no right to post negative feedback which will show up on my profile and put off other customers."
Mr Jones said he wanted eBay to abolish its feedback system because he said the company was "siding with the buyer".
eBay spokeswoman Jenny Thomas said that a single negative comment was unlikely to affect Mr Jones's seller rating
She added: "Buyers are strongly encouraged to leave honest and fair feedback for a transaction, if they feel it is deserved and as long as it is not defamatory.
"We are very disappointed that this seller has chosen to sue rather than to attempt to resolve the buyer's problem amicably."
The row has exposed a growing gulf between buyers and the mainly small sellers on the eBay site - sparked by a decision by the company earlier this year to ban sellers' negative feedback on buyers appearing on the site.
Some eBay sellers say they are now at a disadvantage, compared with buyers who they say now use the feedback system to their own advantage.
There is no suggestion that Mr Read was involved in this practice.
On the social networking Facebook site, eBay Sellers Want Feedback Rights, sellers say some buyers are not paying for goods and threatening negative feedback unless prices are slashed.
One says: "Since this new policy came in, my incidence of non-paying bidders has increased... this has got to be due to the fact that buyers now think they can do what they want."
Ms Thomas said that eBay was aware of the "unfairness" felt by many of its sellers regarding its feedback policy.
In response, she said, the company was launching a new dispute system later this month, which would make it easier for buyers and sellers to resolve disputes.
A new "feedback revision" process will enable the seller to ask the buyer to change feedback, once a dispute has been resolved to the buyer's satisfaction.


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China is on course to import over a sixth of the world's
sorghum this year as the Asian superpower’s new-found hunger for the grain
continues to grow, according to market intelligence firm CCM.
China imported over a million tonnes of sorghum during
May alone, according to data from China Customs, and imports have risen every
month since February.
Unless the Chinese government takes action to curb
sorghum imports, CCM predicts that China will import over ten million tonnes of
sorghum in 2015, more than a sixth of the 59.4 million tonnes the International
Grain Council forecasts will be grown worldwide during the 2014/2015 growing
Source: China Customs and CCM
This spike in Chinese demand is being driven mainly by the country’s feed
industry, which is increasingly turning to sorghum as a cheaper substitute for
corn. Over 80% of the sorghum imported to China is used to produce feed,
according to China’s Ministry of Commerce.
Sorghum’s chief advantage lies in its relative cheapness. The Chinese government’s
policy of stockpiling large quantities of corn has driven up domestic corn
prices to USD393/t, almost double prices in the US. However, China also
imposes a hefty 65% tariff on corn imports that raises the price of imported
corn to USD380/t.
At an average price of just USD284/t,
imported sorghum represents an attractive alternative for Chinese manufacturers.
Though its lower nutritional value and tendency to cause constipation
make sorghum unsuitable to completely replace corn, insiders in China’s feed
industry disclosed to CCM that Chinese manufacturers will typically choose
sorghum over corn if the price difference rises over RMB150-200/t
With the price difference currently more than triple that figure and no
import quota for sorghum currently in place in China, it is possible that
imports could rise even further in the coming months.
Source: CCM and China Customs
US could lose market share
continues to supply the vast majority of China’s sorghum imports but is coming
under increasing pressure from Australia and Argentina.
China sourced 95%
of its sorghum from the US during the first five months of 2015, according to
China Customs data, with Australia accounting for 4% and Argentina just 1%.
Argentinian and Australian sorghum are becoming increasingly price competitive
and could gain market share in H2 2015.
In May, the
price of Australian sorghum dropped below US prices for the first time to just
over USD284/t, and Argentinian sorghum is cheaper still at under USD235/t.
Source: CCM and China Customs
Corn demand weakens further
Chinese demand for imported corn continues to weaken, which could put more
downward pressure on corn prices.
just 140,700 tonnes of corn in April, less than 5% of the country’s total grain
imports during that month, and China National Grain
& Oils Information Center (CNGOIC) predicts that the country will
substitute a total of over 16 million tonnes of corn for sorghum, DDGS or
barley during 2014/15.
more, CNGOIC forecasts that China’s corn imports will decrease a further 50% during
For more information about CCM and our coverage of China’s grain markets, please visit www.cnchemicals.com.
All price data is as of May 2015. Domestic price data is provided by CCM’s
price monitoring service. Import/export price data is provided by China


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NSG Acquisition of Pilkington Completed
Pilkington plc and Nippon Sheet Glass Co, Ltd. (NSG) issued a statement
to the London Stock Exchange at 8 a.m. London time today confirming that
the acquisition of Pilkington by NSG has been completed and that Pilkington
is now a member of the NSG Group. Pilkington shareholders are due to receive
165 pence per share, to be paid by 30 June 2006.
Under the terms of the acquisition, Pilkington remains the primary brand
name and logo for the new flat glass business. No disruption to operations
worldwide is expected and the current Pilkington management will continue
to run the Pilkington business.
Given the lack of overlap between the two companies, NSG has said there
should be minimal need for any job cuts as a direct result of the acquisition.
NSG confirmed that all existing employment rights of Pilkington employees,
including pension rights, will be fully safeguarded.
"NSG with Pilkington produces a world leader of scale in the global
flat glass industry. Employing 36,000 people, the enlarged company will
have annual sales of around £4 billion ($7.4 billion USD), manufacturing
operations in 26 countries and sales in over 130, with ownership or interests
in 50 float glass manufacturing lines worldwide and a widened Automotive
customer base," said Yozo Izuhara, chairman and chief executive officer
of NSG, commenting on the acquisition.
"I am excited about Pilkington's future as part of the NSG Group.
The new combined company is a global leader in glass. Our joint technological
strength, innovation and global reach mean we are well placed to grow
profitably and to service and develop our customer base in all major markets
worldwide," said Stuart Chambers, group chief executive of Pilkington.


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Etios and Liva are approaching the end of lives in the last quarter of FY20 as it will fall short on future safety regulations. Going ahead, Toyota’s portfolio of the future will have a Maruti Suzuki DNA with close to half a dozen new products priced in the sub Rs 12 lakh market lined up for coming three to four years, catering to over 80% of the market. These include electric and hybrid too.
Toyota will be adding a significantly redesigned and re-engineered version of Vitara Brezza and a Toyota variant of Wagon R EV in 2020, a Ciaz sibling will come in 2021-2022, followed by an offspring of Ertiga before a jointly developed C MPV/SUV is launched in 2023, several people in the know told ET.
All these Toyota vehicles will come with hybrid solution in the future, which means Suzuki too will get a hybrid technology from Toyota for its own versions of Baleno, Vitara Brezza, Ertiga and Ciaz and help Maruti meet its Corporate Average Fuel Economy norms by 2022-2023.
Through this partnership, Toyota acquires ability to come out frugal compact cars and Suzuki can benefit from technological edge of Toyota in making hybrid and electric cars.
Along with compact vehicles from Maruti, Toyota will also be revamping its existing Toyota Innova and Fortuner for new regulations and may offer a hybrid variant of the Yaris sedan.
Experts said this partnership can potentially add half a million units to both Toyota and Suzuki globally in the coming decade and the economies of scale will ensure more accessible, cleaner mobility solutions in form of hybrid vehicles.
Gaurav Vangaal, country lead for IHS Markit, forecasts Toyota to double its output in India by 2025 thanks to its partnership with Suzuki. Toyota not only gets additional vehicles for the market, but gets some of the best Suzuki cars. “Led by the Suzuki alliance, Toyota not only gets increased exposure to the Indian market but can do it at a much lower cost. Due to the addition of new models, the company will be able to utilise its capacity much faster,” added Vangaal.
Already common working groups are formed and sourcing teams from Suzuki and Toyota are helping each other on a stronger cost and development road map ahead.
In what is a sign of increased intensity from Toyota in the volumes market, the new premium hatchback Glanza has been priced aggressively against rivals including Maruti Suzuki Baleno. The Glanza was expected to be priced at a premium over Baleno, but that Glanza was launched at a price point closer to Baleno, indicates that Toyota aims to adopt an aggressive stance.
At the end of FY19, Toyota Kirloskar sold 1.5 lakh with a market share of 4.5%, down from its peak share of 5.5-6% over the past few years, but thanks to the high margin Innova and Fortuner, the company has been able to deliver a strong profitable performance. The new products from Maruti will help Toyota utilise its plant and further boost its Indian operation. While some of these models offer an increased exposure to the Indian market, Toyota will use these models for the other emerging markets too.
A Toyota Kirloskar spokesperson said “as announced during March 2019, the production of the Suzuki-developed compact SUV Vitara Brezza will commence at TKM from 2022.We will not be able to comment on any other models as it pertains to our future product plans.”
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Toy2R has announced the development and release of JonPaul Kaiser's 5" Samurai Pumpkin Qee. This new scale Qee is the first in a new series of 5" Qee. With the fall holiday approaching and the dark, secretive nature of the Samurai, Toy2R thought it best to launch the series with a warrior perfectly suited for a mission as important as this.
Each 5" Mini Qee wil come packaged in a window box, designed by JonPaul Kaiser. Landing in September 2010, the Samurai Pumpkin Qee is currently available for wholesale pre-orders through Apex Trading.


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The economic wing of the Sangh Parivar – Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) held a press conference in Nagpur yesterday to urge Indians to boycott Chinese goods. The press conference was held against the back drop of the ongoing tension between India and Pakistan post the Uri attacks and the surgical strike in PoK. SJM stated that China has decided to back Pakistan by blocking India’s bid to designate Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar as a terrorist by the United Nations.
The All India Convener of the Swadeshi Jagran Manch – Kashmiri Lal was present at the press conference. Also present was the National President of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) – BC Bhartia.
Here are the points which were put across by SJM during the press conference:
ONE: Following the tension between India and Pakistan recently, China has aligned with Pakistan openly. Hence boycotting Chinese goods and purchasing Indian products has become our national duty. A strong believer of self-reliant economy SJM has always advocated boycotting China made Products. It’s important to teach a lesson to China, and send a message that – helping Pakistan means losing a substantial share in the Indian market.
TWO: Indians should buy and use Indian goods as trade with China is affecting our country. China is not our friend and by buying Chinese goods we will be giving indirect support to a terrorist Pakistan.
THREE: There may be some compulsions for Government of India to ban the import of Chinese goods, but we Indian consumers are free to boycott Chinese products. It is because of the strong will of Indian consumers that there has been a drop of at least 20% in the sale of Chinese goods, recently.
FOUR: India’s imports are more than its exports to China. According to provisional figures of 2014-15, India’s export to China stood at USD 11.95 billion while imports stood at USD 60.39 billion. The trade deficit between India and China increased about 34% to USD 48.43 billion in 2014-15 from 36.21 billion in previous fiscal year. It is one of the world’s biggest trade deficit between two nations! Also, India’s exports to China have fallen from Rs 86,000 crores in 2012 to Rs 58, 000 crores in 2015-16.
FIVE: The trade between India and China has always been more profitable to China. China has always used unfair practices to export goods to India. ‘Dumping of goods’ (selling the goods at less than the cost of production) in Indian market is the regular practice adopted by China.
SIX: In 2000-01, while joining World Trade Organisation (WTO), China agreed to import 17 types of vegetables and fruits from India. However, it has always created technical hurdles like Phytosanitary measures (relating to the health of plants) while importing the goods from India.
SEVEN: The rise in import of Chinese goods has created many problems in the Indian Economy. It has become very difficult to establish new industries in our country depriving employment to Indian youth. Boycotting Chinese goods may not affect Chinese Economy, but it is sure to boost up Indian industry and generate employment for our youth.


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Home sweet Home Depot
For all things related to houses and building houses and improving houses, there’s a brand-new place in Minot for people looking to purchase related items and possibly even find that this new building is their second home. Home Depot, a full store unlike the temporary one that had been here previously, is officially open for business.
Located at 3425 S. Broadway, Home Depot celebrated its grand opening Thursday to the delight of officials and community members. The dedication ceremony was held at 10 a.m. at the new store with elected officials and business leaders, including Minot City Council president Jim Hatlelid, councilman Mark Jantzer and Minot City Manager David Waind, who announced the official grand opening. The event included prize giveaways, light refreshments and a Kids Workshop for members of the community and their families. The day began with a Professional Contractors breakfast that morning from 6 to 9 a.m.
This is the first Home Depot store to open in Minot, with the next closest one in Fargo. They have brought 100 new jobs to the Minot community, offering more than 40,000 home improvement products as well as weekly how-to workshops, a special Professional Contractor’s desk, kitchen design center and a variety of other home improvement resources.
Minot’s Home Depot features the store’s latest floor plan with traditional home improvement departments, kitchen and bath showrooms, tool rental, installation services, a professional contractor desk and a 17,000-square-foot outdoor garden center.
“If it has to do with your home, we carry it.” said Minot’s store manager Jason Barker. “We carry a wide range of items. Think about your home and we carry it. From the foundation to the shingles, we carry it.”
Home Depot is open Monday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 7 p.m. The company has brought in 30 transfer associates from other stores, Barker said, and has also hired more than 100 associates. “This is our off season and we look to expand in April,” he added.
Some unique aspects to the Minot Home Depot store include an additional 96,000 square feet that will be added as an outdoor lumber yard later this year, as well as offering boom delivery of sheet rock and shingles and offering Penske moving truck rentals on site. Barker said there is also a line-up of tools tailored to contractors. Additionally, the Minot store carries automotive parts and has an expanded tool area.
Barker said Minot was chosen as a location for Home Depot because of the good market that Minot is experiencing. “We did some research,” he added. “We are excited to be here in Minot.” There are some definite possibilities Home Depot will open in other North Dakota cities, Barker said, but nothing concrete as of yet. “We like the market here and we want to lay the foundation here in Minot. We’re excited to see what happens here.”
If the large crowd of excited people at Home Depot’s grand opening on Thursday was any indication, the community of Minot seems to be welcoming the home improvement store with open arms. Barker said the aspects that people seem to like about Home Depot include the friendliness and helpfulness of the store’s associates, bringing their customer service level a step above other stores. Also, people seem to like the quality of products found at Home Depot, he added. “We carry a lot of brands that aren’t carried other places.”
Another aspect about Home Depot that helps them stand out is Team Depot, the store-based volunteer program that encourages and enables associates to participate in service projects in the community. “We have a group of associates who reach out to help in different areas in the community,” Barker said. Ways of helping have included putting a roof on a house, building a ramp for handicapped people at a veteran’s facility or helping to build a playground. One of Home Depot’s core values is giving back to and helping in the community they’re in. “New associates see that as positive and we want to put our best foot forward in the community and we’re proud to do that,” Barker added. “We’re excited to see what opportunities arise in 2014 in Minot.”
Barker said he is thankful to Minot for letting Home Depot open up a temporary store while building the current store. “We’re very happy and thankful to be here. We’re excited to see what Home Depot is all about.”


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East Midlands based accountancy firm, ADS Accountants and Business Advisors has unveiled its new name and brand identity, marking a new era for the company after almost two decades of trading.
The firm, which was first founded in 2004 by Steve Sharp and Adam Dominey, and now employs 62 members of staff across four office locations, will be known as Nuvo - a name derived from the latin word Novus, meaning “new, fresh and modern”
Based in Derby, Burton on Trent, Mansfield and Nottingham, Nuvo specialises in multiple industries, including construction, agriculture, retail and dentistry, offering accounts, company tax, personal tax, audit and business advisory. Its target market being specifically SMEs within the Midlands. The company, which completed its last acquisition in April 2022, adding 15 new members of staff to the team, is aiming to become a top 100 firm by the end of 2026, bringing a further 25 - 30 new job opportunities to the region.
This year has also seen the company become a four day working week employer, as it continues to keep people at its heart, heavily investing in staff benefits such as Care Coins, private therapy and self-help sessions.
The rebrand brief was to ensure the new identity felt elevated and aligned with the company’s vision, giving a more contemporary approach than most accountancy led service providers. The logo shape initiates a feeling of security, whilst remaining open, inviting and inclusive, with a new brand line “A new view on your numbers” bringing messaging around different and fresh perspectives to the fore.
Founder and partner Steve Sharp says, “This is a new and exciting era for our business and it was important we could share that vision with our employees. It was paramount that the board and the staff had a brand they could get behind and feel a part of. We will celebrate our 20th anniversary in 2024, and with so many acquisitions happening in recent years, we felt that rebranding now would give the acquired staff a real sense of belonging. Our new name and branding needed to be something everyone could own and identify with, while encapsulating our core values; expressive, progressive and can-do. We are looking forward to Nuvo’s future, building the Nuvo family and extending our client offering.”
Partner, Simon Rogers, who joined the company during its infancy in 2011 continues “Nuvo will continue to offer fixed-fee accountancy, with a client-first proactive approach. The company was founded with the idea of friends, working together with a common objective - to provide quality accountancy services at a competitive value, with a relaxed and approachable attitude. Nuvo still holds this belief at its core and ensures this ethos is present in all levels of the business, from board members to trainees.”
Nuvo will start trading under the new name with immediate effect. For more information or to contact a member of the team visit: www.nuvo.co.uk
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Time is running out for the decade. With less than 20 days left, it’s got us reflecting on the journeys of different economic sectors in the United States. And no industry has had a more tumultuous time of it than Big Tech.
A lot has changed in ten years. For starters, Americans have become increasingly disillusioned with Silicon Valley. The Pew Research Center found that only 50 percent of Americans believe technology firms have a positive effect on the country. That statistic is not too bad on its own, but that’s down 21 percent from only four years ago. Gallup found in 2019 that 48 percent of Americans also want more regulations on Big Tech. And The New York Times called the 2010s as “the decade Big Tech lost its way”.
Maybe that’s why big wigs at these tech firms have been quietly ditching a concept that was their Golden Rule in the early part of the decade: Move Fast and Break Things.
This concept is a modern take on the adage “you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.” For most of these firms, any innovation justified some of the collateral damage within its wake. And this scrappy “build it now and worry about it later” philosophy was a favorite of not just Facebook and Twitter, but also of many venture capital firms too.
The Move Fast and Break Things manta encouraged devs to push their coding changes to go live and let the chips fall where they may. But bugs pile up. Enter technical debt.
“Technical debt happens every time you do things that might get you closer to your goal now but create problems that you’ll have to fix later,” said The Quantified VC in an article on Medium. “As you move fast and break things, you will certainly accumulate technical debt.”
If enough technical debt comes into play, any new line of code could be the thing that topples a firm like a house of cards. And now that the consumer is used to tech in their daily routines, interruptions in service are extremely bad news for everyone.
As Mark Zuckerburg himself said it: “When you build something that you don’t have to fix 10 times, you can move forward on top of what you’ve built.”
To get back some of the trust that has ebbed from Big Tech over the years, firms can’t just keep with the Move Fast and Break Things status quo.
“The public will continue to grow weary of perceived abuses by tech companies, and will favor businesses that address economic, social, and environmental problems,” said Hemant Taneja in his article for Harvard Business Review. “Minimum viable products must be replaced by minimum virtuous products that … build in guards against potential harms.”
It’s not about chasing the bottom dollar at the cost of the consumer. Losing trust will hurt any company if left unchecked for long.
There’s a cap on advancement in our current technological state. It’s called Moore’s Law. And we’re rapidly approaching the theoretical limits of it.
“When you understand the fundamental technology that underlies a product or service, you can move quickly, trying out nearly endless permutations until you arrive at an optimized solution. That’s often far more effective than a more planned, deliberate approach,” said Greg Satell in his article for HBR.
Soon enough, Big Tech will be in relatively new waters with quantum computing, biofeedback and AI. There’s no way to move as fast as these technology firms have in the past. And even if they could, should they?
Big Tech has experienced major growing pains since the dawn of our new Millenium. And now that some firms are entering their 20s, there’s a choice to be made. Continue to grow up or keep using an idea that’s worn out it’s welcome with the consumer and that has no guarantee will work with future technologies.
Maybe that’s why Facebook’s motto is now “Move Fast with Stable Infrastructure.”


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DTAC To Refund Users Over OTP Glitch
Published: December 17, 2020 at 7:46 am
Affected users can receive up to THB3,500 in compensation.
Total Access Communication has received an order for the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission to compensate users who had failed to sign up for the second phase of the co-payment scheme due to technical glitches on its network.
Yesterday, December 16, the government opened registrations once again to give 5 million additional people the chance to join the “Let’s Go Halves” co-payment scheme.
The scheme allows registrants to purchase goods at 50% of the price, with the government paying the vendors the remaining half of the discounted price. It is designed to stimulate consumer spending in order to inject money into the economy and allow retailers to earn revenues once again after a slump caused by the pandemic.
The stimulus package’s first phase ran starting October 23, and is set to expire at the end of this month.
The stimulus package received positive feedback from both consumers and sellers. Small-item vendors in Phuket, for instance, reported about 50% growth in their daily sales due to the co-payment scheme.
Acknowledging the success of the scheme, the Finance Ministry announced that it was extending the stimulus package for a second phase from January 1 to March 31. Registrations were to open yesterday, December 16.
In order to successfully register for the scheme, candidates have to enter a One-Time Password into the app.
At the same time, however, a number of DTAC’s services including the OTP verification system became unavailable in the middle of the registration period. These services were later restored by 10 am, but the quota for registrants had already been met by 8 am.
A huge number of disgruntled DTAC subscribers that failed to make the deadline took to social media to air their grievances, attracting the attention of the NBTC.
By yesterday afternoon, the NBTC and DTAC had met in order to discuss what had happened. DTAC acknowledged its shortcoming and promised to compensate the affected customers. This was confirmed by Narupon Rattanasamaharn, the chief for the telecom operator’s regulatory division.
DTAC later released a statement offering up to THB3,500 in compensation for any subscribers that were affected by the glitch and had been barred from registering for the co-payment scheme.
According to the statement, compensation can be issued in many forms, including free call credits, free mobile data, additional perks when topping up prepaid load and even discounts for purchasing mobile phone units from the telecom operator.
“DTAC will inform our affected customers via SMS as quickly as possible,” the statement concluded.
Meanwhile, the “We Travel Together” stimulus package, which is also due to receive new registrants yesterday, has been put on indefinite hold after the Tourism Authority of Thailand had discovered abuses committed by participating hotels and shops.
According to the TAT, they acted after receiving complaints of false claims and investigated the matter. They found 312 hotels as well as 2020 shops that had committed fraud in order to receive perks from the government-sponsored program.
The TAT then postponed the registration for the second phase of the stimulus package as they looked into the irregularities.


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NAFTA trade flourished in January
Trucks, rail and pipelines were responsible for supporting $52.3 billion in trade during January between the United States, Canada and Mexico, according to Department of Transportation statistics.
The value of goods delivered by surface transportation modes increased 14.6 percent from January 2004. About 90 percent of U.S. trade by value with its neighbors moves by truck and rail.
Total surface transportation trade is up 79 percent in the last decade since the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect.
U.S.-Canada surface transportation trade totaled $34.4 billion in January, up 17.9 percent from a year earlier. U.S.-Mexico trade via surface transportation totaled $17.9 billion, an 8.7 percent increase.
Export trade via surface transport rose 15 percent to $22.2 billion and import trade was up 14.3 percent to $30 billion. Trucks accounted for $36.6 billion of the trade volume compared to rail with $8.2 billion.


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Apple might be among the companies which settled the Silicon Valley anti-poaching dispute out of court last month, but one plaintiff isn’t happy — calling the $324 million settlement “grossly inadequate.”
When it comes to smartphones, these days bigger seems to be better. Worldwide shipments of smartphones with screens measuring 5 inches or more soared 369% in the first quarter compared with a year earlier,
Apple has a new patent granted today (spotted by AppleInsider) for a side-mounted wraparound display that could be used to add virtual buttons to the edges of future iPhones in place of physical controls.
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Telefonica – parent company of well-known mobile operator O2 – launched their mobile VoIP app TU Go last week. This is just the latest in a gradual shift away from traditional telecommunications methods; could this be the moment the balance of power truly swings in the favor of VoIP?
The networks are losing revenue from declining voice traffic – Chris Green, Tech Analyst
There are a number of reasons that consumers are increasingly inclined to use VoIP over traditional phone networks; the free calls, the cheap international calls and the flexibility are just the tip of the iceberg. Currently the service is not available to commercial clients, however this is expected to change imminently and when it does it is likely to be widely implemented as a cost cutting measure.
It merges the best of internet telephony and old fashioned calls and and is a lesson for O2’s peers in the industry – Jeremy Green, Telecoms Analyst
Telecoms analyst Jeremy Green believes that TU Go will stand out from the crowded VoIP market while other believe that it could even rival VoIP powerhouse Skype.
The fact that competitors EE (formerly Orange and T-Mobile) are set to launch a rival service later in the year shows that mobile providers see VoIP as a true threat to the mobile talk market and while it may not have displaced the more traditional technology yet, it certainly has everyone’s attention.
Whether you’re a new business or an expanding one, the task of sorting out communications can be a daunting one. The sheer volume of options available nowadays is enough to give you a headache.
If you’re considering using a VoIP system then the following blog post at Resource Nation is a must read as it will clear up any lingering questions you may have about installing or using a VoIP system in the workplace. If you aren’t considering using a VoIP system then the post is still a must read as it will explain why you should be!
Q. All the options for VoIP, business cell phones, and hosted VoIP “soft phone” systems can seem overwhelming for the new business that is building a phone system from scratch. How should a new business begin when evaluating options for its phone system?
A. A new business looking for a phone system should make sure to first figure out what exactly they need in their office phone system. Once the business has established the criteria of what type of features they need, they can use one of the many business phone system websites such as Resource Nation or Voip-Info.org in order to find a business VoIP phone system customized to their needs.
It makes for an interesting read – the complete article is available here: http://www.resourcenation.com/blog/expert-advice-on-setting-up-a-voip-phone-service-for-your-business/36143/
VOIP is something that has been recently blowing up- everything from Skype, to Google Voice, to Line2 have been allowing users to use VOIP for free phone calls and SMS. There’s quite a few ways to implement this into your daily routine to full take advantage of what VOIP has to offer.


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COVID : Sorry Face Tourism Around The World
The global tourism industry is in a face-off state reeling under the pandemic of coronavirus. The industry has bogged down, not in India alone but is moving in the whirl of alarming losses. Tourism in aviation, travel and hospitality is in a slump. The economy did suffer in every sector beyond this industry. But tourism had the worst impact of Covid crisis.
Tourist spots leading from seven wonders to jungle safari to heritages had all to see dry run in travelling of tourists. The World Travel and Tourism Council calculated that tourism generated ₹16.91 lakh crore (USD 240 billion) or 9.2% of India’s GDP in 2018 and supported 42.673 million jobs, 8.1% of its total employment. But the economic slump is inevitable in tourism in 2020. The only fearing cause is the novel disease coronavirus. Governments going for lockdowns in phases across the world. Domestic and international flights are moving under restrictions and strict guidelines. And this not only in India, but the norms are maintained worldwide.
Europe is stricter with its lockdown phenomenon. Tourism in European Union requires an estimated 375 billion euros to recover from the crisis generated by Covid-19 pandemic and to restore operations according to the European Travel Commission (ETC), Xinhua news agency reported last April.
European tourism stagnating, due to restrictive measures adopted by the member states of the EU to try to contain the pandemic outbreak, including with limitations on travel between countries, “tourism has gone from 100 per cent to zero” and today is “reduced to practically 10 per cent of what it was. Everything is equally affected by the tourism value chain inter-connected.
The hospitality industry is too hit by the and under restricted measures. Quarantined hotel room for visitors, closed restaurants under government vigilance and even the aviation sector faces it with reduced passengers slashed to one-third of full capacity in India. Immigration came to a haul with travelling cards Visa H1B affecting the students’ class to travel abroad (especially US).
Simultaneously, measures were taken to bring relief to Covid19 patients, vaccines have come out. But death toll spree has had a real impact over the economy. And tourism is moving in a sorry face around the world.


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Two of the biggest advantages of opening an account with IPPB are zero balance account and its widespread physical presence.
The IPPB will be like any other bank, but with operations on a smaller scale, without involving any credit risk.
Deposits in any account that exceed Rs 1 lakh will be automatically converted into post office savings account.
The Bank would offer a range of products such as savings and current accounts, money transfer, direct benefit transfer, bill and utility payments and enterprise and merchant payments.
India Post already has 40 crore customers in the country with over 17 crore post office savings bank accounts.
Cabinet nod for 2 per cent hike in Dearness Allowance, approves Rs 635 crore for India Post Payments Bank
The 2 per cent hike for pensioners, to compensate for the price rise, was in addition to the existing hike of 7 per cent of their Basic Pay or Pension.
The launch of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) was recently rescheduled in the wake of seven-day national mourning declared after the demise of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
The Department of Posts on Saturday said that India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) will begin its nationwide rollout from April, 2018.
All 1.55 lakh post office branches will operate as access points and 650 payments bank branches will provide them backend support.
In a written reply to Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Communication Manoj Sinha said IPPB has launched 2 pilot branches on January 30, 2017 at Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Ranchi (Jharkhand) in 2016-17.


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E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution in a disposable cartridge and create a vapor that is inhaled. Reynolds said Vuse will be the only vapor product affiliated with a major U.S. tobacco company represented at the trade show.
Vuse contains a digital microprocessor that works in conjunction with a smart memory chip to control product performance that range from vapor delivery to battery management. The product is designed and assembled in
Reynolds began selling Vuse in
The Vuse ad features lab technicians in white coats and the microprocessor that Reynolds claims provide a more realistic vapor experience than other e-cigs. The ad's message: "It's time that smoking changed forever" with an e-cig that offers "a perfect puff, first time, every time."
"We said from day one that Vuse was a game changer, and initial feedback from
The company began selling Vuse statewide in
Reynolds' goal is to add
"While we are thrilled with our results to date, we are even more excited about taking a big step forward and growing the brand nationally in 2014," Cordisco said.
The tobacco industry, advocacy groups and consumers have been waiting since 2009 for the
That decision was expected to be made in October before the federal government shutdown took effect. Analysts say the decision could come any day.
Anti-tobacco advocates pushing for strict limitations on e-cigs sales say it is necessary to keep the products out of the hands of minors. Some of the same advocates consider e-cigs -- as well as smokeless tobacco and dissolvable tobacco products -- as potential gateways to the use of traditional cigarettes.
Other anti-smoking advocates say e-cigs have the potential to wean smokers off traditional cigarettes, thus playing a positive public-health role.
Cigarette advertising on television was banned by the federal government in 1971. Reynolds has been running TV ads in its
Reynolds is the latest major tobacco manufacturer or marketer to step through a window of opportunity to advertise e-cigs on TV to adult smokers. NJoy and blu Ecigs also are doing TV ads.
Howard said the TV commercials run during late-night shows, and other times when adults comprise at least 85 percent of the viewership of adult-oriented content.
In September, tobacco analyst
That's compared with barely any e-cig revenue and
By 2023, Herzog projects Reynolds having
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E-commerce website Flipkart is once again launching smartphone selling in India. A banner related to this has been given on the company’s official app and website. According to this, users can order in the mobile category. Their delivery will start after 20 April. Till now, all the companies were providing only the goods needed by the people that is essential items. But the Indian government had also allowed smartphone selling. The company has written in this banner that orders have started on mobile categories in every city of the country except West Bengal and Karnataka.
According to the mobile category banner, orders for smartphones are being accepted and will be delivered from April 20. We found this banner only on the company’s app. But orders have already started for smartphones on both the website and the app. The phones of Oppo, Vivo, Samsung, Apple, and Xiaomi are listed here. The company says that the service has not been resumed for West Bengal and Karnataka at present.
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The Government of India had issued guidelines that through Amazon and Flipkart, users will be able to purchase products like smartphones, refrigerators, and laptops from April 20 onwards. However, the benefits of this government service will not be extended to every sector. This facility has completely excluded areas with hotspots and red zones. Products will be delivered in other areas except in such areas. This includes the movement of trucks and e-commerce vehicles for delivery.
However, the new guidelines also state that vehicles going with essential goods for hotspots and red zone areas will be allowed. Let me tell you that recently the lockdown has been extended till May 3 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.


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Event Report: Breguet Watchmaking Past & Present in ManilaA showcase of Breguet's rich history and modern day complications in the Philippines.
A two-day event dedicated to Breguet took place last week in Manila, organised by the watch retailer Lucerne, with SJX as the guest speaker. The purpose of the event was to detail Breguet’s unparalleled status as one of the most important historical names in watchmaking, while today being a manufacturer of exceptionally innovative, even cutting edge, complications.
Over 50 key clients of Lucerne and two dozen journalists attended the three sessions, hosted by Ivan and Emerson Yao. The brothers run Lucerne, the Philippines’ leading retailer of fine watches. They were joined by Martin Ganz, Breguet’s Vice President for Hong Kong and Taiwan, and Mike Lou, the watchmaker’s PR consultant in Hong Kong.
Each session opened with a 30-minute talk by SJX in two parts. First was telling the stories that fill Breguet’s past, like the saga of the Marie Antoinette pocket watch stolen by an international thief.
That was followed with a rundown of the brand’s crucial complications, including the landmark Classique Chronometrie 7727 and ingenious Tradition Chronographe 7077, which are amongst the most technically interesting wristwatches on the market today, but not widely appreciated or understood.
The Breguet showcase was the first event of its kind organised by Lucerne, but it won’t be the last. According to Emerson Yao, the retailer plans to repeat such events to further enhance knowledge and appreciation of mechanical watchmaking in the Philippines.
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In celebration of the holidays and one year anniversary of the Rainbow Six Siege launch, Ubisoft announces special challenges and rewards running from December 20 to January 3.
The first year of life for Rainbow Six Siege has been a very successful one for Ubisoft. Thanks to strong continued sales due in large part to well timed downloadable content releases and balancing efforts, the game recently announced a second year of content with four additional content packs for 2017. Before the year closes out, Ubisoft has one more surprise for fans in the form of new challenges and unique rewards to unlock.
In celebration of both the holidays and the one year anniversary of the release of Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft launched special in-game challenges which in tern unlock unique rewards. The news post on the official Rainbow Six Siege site reveals what players need to do in order to unlock specific rewards.
- The Christmas challenge kicked off yesterday and features a handful of special Christmas inspired charms and weapon patterns. Ten kills with a gadget or melee will earn an Invisible Hat Charm, while 20 kills will unlock the Kapkan Santa Charm. Complete 30 kills with either a gadget or melee before these challenges expire on December 27 and players will earn the Nutcracker Weapon Pattern.
- The New Year’s Eve challenge kicks off next week on December 27 and tasks players with earning a match MVP with over 4000 score. Doing that will unlock the disco ball charm.
- Next up are the Rainbow Six Anniversary Challenges. The first has already started and requires that players win 10 rounds as any operator from the French GIGN unit to win Twitch’s shock drone charm. Next week switches things up by requiring that players win 10 rounds as any operator from the FBI SWAT unit. Doing so unlocks Castle’s Icon charm.
Did someone say Kapkan Santa charm? pic.twitter.com/W6Trks4dv2— Rainbow Six Siege (@Rainbow6Game) December 21, 2016
The promotion has already begun, with each new week adding news challenge and rewards to earn. Players have until January 3, 2017 to participate in this holiday event.
Rainbow Six Siege also just recently released a pretty large update known as the Mid-Season Reinforcements patch. In addition to a number of bug fixes and balance updates, a number of characters are getting tweaked including the fan favorite Spetsnaz operator Tachanka, who is getting a 500 HP shield added to his turret. In addition, Ubisoft is finally adding the Bartlett University map, which was previously only seen in the last Operations mission.
Interestingly enough, Ubisoft may have intentionally hinted at one of the upcoming Spanish operators in the patch notes as well. In a short story blurb explaining the Tachanka buff, the text makes a passing reference to an engineer known as Elena “Mira” Alvarez Del Manzano along with an image of her in the accompanying artwork. In Spanish, Mira means scope, so it’s possible that players may have another long distance specialist if Del Manzano is indeed added in the first expansion in 2017.
Will you be logging on to try and claim some of these special rewards?
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is available now on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.


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The Bridge Leadership Foundation Holds Annual Career Day Conference And Exhibition, the largest event focusing on the development of young people In Calabar. More than 2,800 participants from different states in Nigeria will gather for the Career Day. Youths, employed and unemployed, business leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, government officials, as well as policy makers will meet at the one-day event which is aimed at inspiring action and promoting the existing innovation and creativity in products ‘Made In Nigeria’.
Venue: Calabar International Convention Centre (CICC), Calabar
Date: Jul 15, 2017


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Kai writes… Let me just tell you right out — I am biased.
But I think there’s really no better place in Southern California to talk about the what’s going on in the economy than the City of Commerce, just a handful of miles from our office in Downtown. And what’s a better place to talk about the economy then at an auction house in the city of Commerce.
We are here at the A.N. Abell Auction Company to look precisely at that: the economy and how the downgrade of the country’s debt is impacting everyone in the economic food chain, from the president of a major company, to a small business owner, to the rest of us: consumers.
Our guests today don’t stray so far from our ad hoc headquarters today in Commerce. Our guests on the show today include Dave Hirz, president of the Commerce-based Smart & Final; Vicent V., owner of the manufacturing company NicoNat, which is also based in Commerce. We also have Commerce’s city administrator Jorge Rifa. And bond analyst Asha Joshi will be here to make sense for us how our national debt factor into all aspects of the economy.
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As a streetwear and sneaker attention continues to raze in popularity, we’re saying some-more and some-more startups popping adult to use a attention — all from somewhat opposite angles.
Meet Bump, a peer-to-peer take on a streetwear marketplace. Founded 6 months ago in a U.K. and now partial of Y Combinator’s Winter ’18 batch, a startup already has some-more than 200,000 users shopping and offered limited-edition streetwear from brands like Supreme and Kith.
After signing up, anyone can emanate a inventory or buy an object — all prices are set by sellers, who pay a 6 percent transaction cost to Bump and 2.9 percent cost to PayPal on all sales. Users can arrange by price, size, difficulty or code — and also can follow specific sellers and “like” equipment too.
There’s also a messaging underline so we can speak to a seller and potentially negotiate on price. Bump says some-more than 5.5 million messages have been sent on a height so far, and a infancy of purchases engage some form of behind and onward and traffic before being completed. Not usually does articulate to a seller make buyers feel some-more comfortable, it also creates a clarity of village where users can usually discuss about streetwear and rise relations for destiny purchases. This is generally critical in a streetwear world, where stealing a newest equipment is all about a connectors we have.
Speaking of stealing new items, a app also has a “proxy” category, where users can list their “camping services,” i.e. assign we income to wait in line to buy limited-edition items, afterwards boat them to you. This use is surprisingly popular, and Bump provides a height to arrange these services where users have PayPal’s customer insurance as a fallback choice in box anything goes wrong.
The many important disproportion between Bump and competitors like GOAT and StockX is that Bump doesn’t physically check and determine a equipment sole on their height before they are shipped to a buyer. Instead, they rest on moderators and crowdsourcing to military a height and report/block any inventory that’s a fake.
Of course, this sounds easier pronounced than finished — generally with how good a peculiarity of fakes are apropos these days. But Jack Ryder and Sam Howarth, co-founders of Bump, explained that their moderators are hard-core streetwear experts and typically know these equipment inside and out — definition they know accurately what to demeanour for when spotting a fake.
And while anyone can dwindle a inventory as fake, historically many are taken down by moderators before they are even around prolonged adequate to be seen by buyers. Fake sellers are criminialized and also have their device ID blocked, effectively stealing them from a platform. There’s also an eBay-style examination system, so sellers can build adult certain reviews to vigilance that they’re a infallible seller.
Ryder and Howarth pronounced these precautions outcome in a “negligible” rascal rate in a low singular digits. But, of course, this isn’t perfect, and there’s always going to be a small some-more risk shopping on a peer-to-peer marketplace than directly from a tradesman or by a height that verifies any object by hand.
For this reason Bump will substantially (at slightest initially) be used by some-more savvy streetwear buyers who during slightest have some personal believe of a object they’re perplexing to buy. But anyone who does accept a feign object is means to accept a full reinstate around PayPal’s customer insurance services, that processes payments for a startup around their Marketplace Program.
While a startup certified it might need to eventually demeanour into a earthy authentication use as a height grows, a marketplace aspect does concede for a most wider operation of products to be sold. For example, a corkscrew by Bump reveals a Supreme Shovel, an Off-White T Shirt and Yeezy Shoes — all on a same page. This is a wider accumulation compared to services like GOAT, where product categories are some-more singular — as of now that height still usually supports sneakers.
Even yet Bump was started in a U.K., about 45 percent of users are now from a U.S., and there’s a morally high commission of exchange occurring opposite countries. Essentially buyers are happy to compensate a somewhat aloft shipping cost to measure an object they’d differently not be means to get.
Bump is accessible on iOS now, and we can check it out here.


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IBM and Box are partnering to transform how people work in their industries. Indeed, health care, government, retail and insurance are just a few industries that can substantially benefit from offerings that combine the best of Box and IBM.
“Customers are spending a lot of money on infrastructure today,” explains Frank Fillmore, the DB2 Gold Consultant from The Fillmore Group. Your infrastructure is crucial to getting the most out of your data. With IBM z Analytics you’ll have an end to end solution encompassing your analytics and
Mobile data consumption is skyrocketing across the globe. According to the June 2015 Ericsson Mobility Report, smartphone subscriptions will more than double by 2020, and 80 percent of all mobile data traffic will come from phones. Streaming services will spur video traffic to grow 55 percent
The Internet and our social feeds are full of blogs, news and articles on the strides that the public sector is making with big data and analytics. This issue of Public Sector News skims the wires and focuses on some interesting articles that offer food for thought and debate.
Despite sophisticated demand-forecast models, many retailers can err when trying to ensure their agile supply chains stock store shelves with the right quantity of products to meet demand. See how innovative approaches with social media enable retailers to tap into a highly reliable barometer for
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. If that's the case, then how much insight does a video provide? What if that video were compounded with an intelligent analytics platform that could identify patterns and predict trends? The value of such a system would be remarkable.
This week’s guest is Adam Crowe, author and Director of Emergency Preparedness at Virginia Commonwealth University, who chats with Dr. Gary Nestler, Associate Partner and Public Safety/Emergency Management Subject Matter Expert at IBM. Topics to be discussed include the challenges facing emergency
As governments struggle to meet their citizens’ expectations, it’s time to consider a different model for providing necessary services. A new cloud solution can help governments worldwide function successfully during times of instability.
Armed with the most relevant information on patterns, relationships, vulnerabilities and potential scenarios, analysts can then quickly assimilate insights and take actions to confidently make mission critical decisions.
For many organizations, cybersecurity is quickly moving to the top of their list of major concerns—but how can it be addressed? A panel of prominent cybersecurity experts weighs in on the delicate balance between data acquisition and corporate security.
Today’s students have grown up with social media and other avenues to communicate and share information, consume content and navigate through many parts of daily life. And the education landscape is shifting rapidly to remain in step with students’ needs. Through data and analytics, many
The increasing number of hacks reported in the news every day is chilling. What can public and private organizations do to protect themselves and the people they serve from relentless cyber threats? Take comfort that big data and analytics are on the case in innovative, intelligent ways.
Malware, in and of itself, is not malicious; the cybercriminal behind the malicious code is the real culprit. Learn why a strategic, investigative shift in focus on both the cyberattack and the nefarious organizations behind them is necessary in today’s cyberwarfare engagement.


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Look at the curious world: on the one hand we have the Intel, the largest and most traditional chip maker in the world. On the other, AppleEven though it is the most valuable company on the planet, it started its chipmaking venture less than ten years ago. While Ma has already launched the first 7-nanometer architecture processor on the streets, Intel is still struggling to start mass production of 10-nanometer architecture chips.
Rumors have recently surfaced that the giant is canceling the development of its chip line. ?Cannon Lake? It is the first of the company to be manufactured in the 10nm architecture and has been postponed several times after the announcement that it would arrive in the world in 2016. Intel then decided to comment on his Twitter:
Media reports published today that Intel is ending work on the 10nm process are untrue. We are making good progress on 10nm. Yields are improving consistent with the timeline we shared during our last earnings report.
– Intel News (@intelnews) October 22, 2018
The media reports published today (10/22) that Intel is ending work on the 10nm process are not true. We are making good progress at 10nm. Earnings are improving in line with the timeline we share in our last financial results report.
That is: if we have no more delays, the chips ?Cannon Lake? It will finally arrive in 2019, according to Intel's latest promise.
But what does this mean for Apple? Well, the continued postponements of Intel's new generation of processors have already caused a lot of trouble for Ma, which has had to postpone or change plans for present and future Macs because of the uncertainty surrounding its partner. If the ?Cannon Lake? really coming in 2019, we may still see a generation of Cupertino computers equipped with Intel chips, but nothing guaranteed.
On the other hand, another delay by the manufacturer could mean Apple's definitive break with Intel. Rumors already point to Apple's own-chip Macs already by 2020 eventually, Ma could even advance these plans a bit to stop relying on the partner as soon as possible.
These, of course, are mere assumptions: what will actually happen, we will only know over the next year. What do you guys think?


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Global trade of softwood lumber reached a 10-year high in 2015, with lumber prices trending downward in many key markets over the course of the year, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
A majority of the 20 largest softwood lumber-consuming countries in the world increased their importation of lumber in 2015, resulting in global trade reaching its highest level in ten years. The US imported 10% more lumber year-over-year and a number of countries in Europe also raised their consumption of imported lumber last year.
The US lumber market was a bright spot as compared to most other regions of the world in 2015. As a result of a healthy housing market, lumber consumption was up almost five percent as compared to 2014 and import volumes in 2015 were 10 percent higher than in the previous year. The strong domestic market and a weakening Asian market also resulted in less lumber being exported in 2015, as reported in the WRQ. Export shipments were down 9.7%, while imports were up 10% from 2014.
Lumber exports from Canada reached an eight-year high in 2015 when sawmills took advantage of the fairly strong US lumber market, which combined with the weak currency, allowed them to ship 9.2% more lumber to the US than in 2014. Shipments to China, on the other hand, fell over 13% to the lowest level since 2010.
Lumber prices in the Nordic countries have trended downward since early 2014, in US dollar terms, as the dollar has strengthened against both the Euro and the Swedish krona. From the five-year high in March 2014, prices in Sweden have fallen almost 30%.
From Wood Resources International: http://woodprices.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/GTWMU-Global-lumber-market-and-price-trends-4Q-2015.pdf


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It’s a fate we wouldn’t wish on any vehicle, but the BMW ActiveE cars are heading to the crusher.
Just as the new BMW i3 is becoming available to ActiveE Electronauts, the German automaker has sent its ActiveE electric vehicles off to the automotive graveyard to meet their ill fate. Over 10 years ago, the same happened with perfectly functioning EV1s from GM and other first-generation electric vehicles and the idea has never sat well with the previous owners.
The BMW ActiveE was an electric vehicle only available to lease and was part of a two-year test fleet program to help develop and test the powertrain of the i3. Based on the BMW 1 Series, the ActiveE was popular among its Electronauts, the name for the group who were afforded access to these vehicles.
“We knew this was the fate of these cars but, cars are closer to pets or even family than just appliances,” said Michael Thwaite of Transport Evolved. “We looked after them, took pride in them, they helped define us and presented us to the outside world. This is just insensitive, thoughtless and ultimately brand destructive.”
Not all of the BMW ActiveEs are being destroyed however, as BMW announced that some would be joining California’s DriveNow car sharing program.
GALLERY: 2014 BMW i3
[Source: Transport Evolved]
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