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It’s one of those thoughts many mHealth insiders and observers have at some point had: What if one could put the power of Watson analytics into a smartphone and interact with it like Apple’s Siri at the point of care?
Well, that specific dream moved closer to reality on Tuesday when Apple and IBM joined forces to create a mobile platform christened IBM Mobile First for iOS.
“For the first time ever we’re putting IBM’s renowned big data analytics at iOS users’ fingertips,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a prepared statement. “This is a radical step for enterprise and something that only Apple and IBM can deliver.”
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty added that the intention is to bring the same “innovations [that] have transformed our lives,” into the ways that people work, thereby “allowing people to re-imagine work, industries, and professions.”
To that end, the companies hope that IBM Mobile First for iOS will “transform enterprise mobility through a new class of business apps,” they explained.
It’s not all that often technology giants align and rattle off healthcare as one of their target verticals, much less that Apple joins forces with any of the IT old guard — which gives the partnership a booster shot of luster. And in an mHealth industry currently going like gangbusters with too many startups to count, the sheer scale that Apple and IBM bring at the very least has the potential for significant market-shaping.


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The NY Times has an article about a growing number of people who hold onto Metrocards as collectible "miniature works of art." The swipe card-collecting community has formed its own Yahoo! group (60 deep!) and hunts down cards on eBay. A card with an "NYPD" stamp went for $520 and even an expired student Metrocard sold for $20. The city has fueled the industry since Metrocards debuted in 1994, issuing a steady stream of special edition and limited run cards. Harvey Spiller, one of the collectors the Times talked to said, “What is most unique about the cards is that they form a diary of sorts that tells a history of New York City.” Spiller also collects neckties, yellow pencils, and chewing gum from foreign countries.
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Hair styling 'bar' makes blow dry the main event
Mary-Kay Fiore had been waiting.
On Jan. 17, the wait was over.
“I kept walking past to see when it would open,” said Fiore of Churchill as she sat in a stylist's chair getting a professional blow dry. “There is nothing better than having someone blow dry and style your hair. When I saw the store was open I said, ‘Today is going to be the best day ever.' ”
After her 45-minute service ended, she looked at her blond hair with full bouncy curls and smiled.
“It looks great,” she said. “I just love it. I wish she could come to my house every day and style my hair.”
That's the reaction Styleout Blow Dry Bar Pour Femme co-owner Rafi Qureshi is looking for from clients. The blow dry bar is located in Ross Park Mall, on the upper level near Sears.
Pittsburgh is the second location for Styleout. Columbus was first. Boston is next. And Florida and California are on the horizon.
“It is going to be great having this in Pittsburgh,” said Jessica Dunham, account manager for Styleout. “It's a nice alternative to going to a salon. You might want to have a blow out to get that polished look for a night out with the girls. It's the kind of service that's a treat because women are so busy, they don't often take time for themselves.”
The blow out should last three to five days. Cost is $35; $50 for textured hair; $20 for men and age 12 and younger. The price includes scalp massage, deep conditioning and thermal styling.
Products include Blowpro, Inglot, Moroccanoil and Temptu.
Appointments are suggested, especially Thursdays through Sundays, but walk-ins are certainly welcome.
Qureshi plans to add eyebrow threading and airbrush makeup services.
Blow out bars originated in New York City. Ross Park Mall was the perfect choice, Qureshi says, because of all the upscale stores and the location draws customers from throughout the region.
In some salons, the blow-dry step is often rushed, Qureshi said, but his idea was to make it the main event.
Having something like Styleout gives people options, but most likely it won't take away from full-service salons, said Izear Winfrey, artistic director for Studio Booth in the East End. Different demographics go to different places, he said. Some people might go to a basic restaurant while others prefer a fancier place.
“The blow-dry bar will be convenient because it is located in a mall and people may be walking by and want to stop in,” Winfrey said. “But I don't think our guests will not come here and just go there. I think they might do that in addition to coming to the salon. I think, if anything, it will enhance our business.”
The price at Styleout is in line with the price for a blow out at Studio Booth, Winfrey said.
“We want to do one thing, and we want to do that one thing right,” Qureshi said. “It's a luxury concept. We want to make you feel beautiful when you walk out the door.”
Styleout Blow Dry Bar Pour Femme, Ross Park Mall. Hours: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays; 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; noon to 6 p.m. Sundays. Details: 412-847-5853 or www.styleoutbar.com
JoAnne Klimovich Harrop is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-320-7889 or firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Apple Ousted By Saudi Aramco As World’s Most Valuable Company
Apple’s shares reached their highest yet during intraday trading today, landing at $269 at one point. That’s a huge result, but it wasn’t enough to prevent the company from slipping from top spot in terms of the world’s most valuable company.
That honour now goes to Saudi Aramco, an oil giant that raised $25.6 billion in the world’s largest ever IPO. Shares are expected to start trading on December 11th.
Saudi Aramco reportedly only handed out a 1.5% stake to public shareholders, so the $25.5 billion that it raised means the company now has a valuation of around $1.7 trillion. That’s a huge, huge number and beats Apple’s $1.1 trillion by a large margin. It’s unlikely that’s going to be a deficit that Apple is likely to overcome soon, if at all.
Apple’s shares have been on an upward trajectory throughout 2019 and it’s likely we will see that $269 share valuation increase sooner rather than later. A strong iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro launch has helped matters and the ever popular AirPods and AirPods Pro certainly aren’t hurting, either. Apple’s growing services business continues to be huge for the company with the launch of Apple News+ and Apple TV+ this year, too.
2020 could be a big year for Apple with the company rumored to have as many as five new iPhones launching, the first of which is thought to be the iPhone SE 2 with a March release window.


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A123's 2010 losses widen with more expenses
A123 Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:AONE) saw its annual net loss widen by 78 percent in 2010, as the company laid a foundation to support "rapid growth" in coming years, the company said Monday.
The Watertown-based maker of lithium-ion batteries said its net loss for the year was $152.6 million, compared to $85.8 million in 2009. Expenses widened across the board for A123, including research and development, production start-up and sales and marketing.
Revenue for 2010 was up 7 percent over the prior year, coming in at $97.3 million, the company reported.
In announcing the financial results, A123 CEO David Vieau acknowledged that costs for the company’s expansion “are higher than originally anticipated.” The expansion has included a new factory for electric vehicle batteries in Livonia, Mich., which opened last September, and a production facility for trailer-sized grid batteries in Westborough, which opened in early February.
Vieau said the company believes its investments will pay off soon. “We expect to see an inflection point in our revenue in the second quarter of 2011 with several customer programs scheduled to enter volume production,” he said in the announcement Monday. “In addition, we continue to be optimistic about the expected long-term demand for advanced battery systems, as well as A123’s technology and market leadership position.”
In February, the company said it had received an order from the energy storage arm of AES Corp. (NYSE:AES) to expand an energy storage system for the electric grid in Northern Chile.
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ASA Supports Connecticut Shop Tax Legislation
March 11, 2016—The Connecticut Joint Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding held a hearing Wednesday on Senate Bill 335, which would eliminate the sales and use tax on goods used exclusively in a business process.
The bill is specifically correcting a 1999 Department of Revenue Services ruling that has allowed taxation on paint and materials at the point-of-sale to shops, followed by shops then taxing customers for the same paint and materials.
“Collision repairers in the state of Connecticut have been unfairly penalized by an interpretation of the law that allows paint and materials to be subject to double taxation. ASA-CT believes that the current law does not take into consideration the evolution of industry practices, and we think that SB 335 is a good first step toward lifting this unnecessary burden on small businesses and their customers,” said Lisa Siembab, executive director of the Automotive Service Association of Connecticut (ASA-CT).
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There’s nothing sweet about an unholy brouhaha over novelty birthday cakes
As if the row over novelty caterpillar cakes hadn’t plagued supermarket bakery aisles enough this year, a new controversy has arisen: enter Frankie the French Bulldog. Tesco’s offering is not an innocuous Madeira sponge with a gaudy fondant face but a dangerous article, according to several vets, as it boosts the cultural capital of the flat-faced breed, which suffer from severe health problems. “We didn’t know whether to eat the cake or start corrective surgery,” one jibed. Meanwhile,
Daniella Dos Santos, senior vice president of the British Veterinary Association (BVA), has called on the chain to ditch the £11 offering, in spite of conceding that “some might argue it is more frosting than Frenchie”.
Breeding dogs for aesthetic reasons – health be damned – is a problem, but one presumably not perpetuated in the main by small children on a cake high. Marks and Spencer introduced their Colin the Caterpillar cake in 1990, which has since spawned copycat(erpillar)s from every retailer going – and a copyright infringement case two months ago. In spite of its ubiquity at birthday parties across the land, however, there has been no discernible uptick in little ones begging their parents for larvae for
Christmas, nor a surge in caterpillars being bred for nefarious means.
If anything, the cake-based sin Tesco is guiltiest of is that its creation barely resembles the contentious breed on the label. Yet even that is pretty low-level on the infraction scale, because getting angry over a dessert for children – unless it’s one that, say, reimagines a hate crime via the medium of Smarties – feels a futile exercise. Flat-facedness is far from ideal; po-facedness isn’t much better.


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Charitable giving by Darden Restaurants fell slightly during the past year as Central Florida’s only Fortune 500 company focused on fighting hunger.
The company donated $3.7 million through its Darden Foundation in the fiscal year that ended May 27, slightly less than the $3.8 million last year. Much of that was a $2 million grant to Feeding America late in the fiscal year.
“We are more and more focused on hunger as our signature philanthropic cause,” Darden spokesman Rich Jeffers said.
In addition to the gift to Feeding America, Jeffers said the company also donated about 7 million pounds of food through its “harves program” where it donates unused food. Between the donation and food harvesting, Jeffers said about 25 million meals were provided to charity.
Darden’s charitable giving still lags well behind the numbers under previous CEO Clarence Otis and before much of the company’s board was replaced in 2014 by activist investment firm Starboard Value. Darden gave away $6.4 million in 2012 and $7.1 million in 2011.
Darden’s charitable giving fell as low as $1.8 million in 2015 but grew to $3.8 million in 2017.
Darden’s charitable giving figures come as the company recorded one of its most profitable years in history, making $596 million, a year only matched when the company spun off its real estate into a privately held company.
Darden also spent $234.8 million on share buybacks during the year, a move public companies with excess cash use to increase their share price.
One of the country’s largest restaurant companies, Darden has 1,746 restaurants and about 175,000 employees. It operates brands such as Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse and Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen. After a series of profitable quarters and sales growth, the company’s stock has hit records highs and the overall value stands at about $13.74 billion.
Darden also said it would benefit about $70 million a year from the corporate tax cuts passed by Congress in December.
Among the company’s other donations in 2018 were $750,000 to the Red Cross to support relief efforts from disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and $250,000 to the Heart of Central Florida United Way to help support victims after Hurricane Maria hit in Puerto Rico.


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New Look shoppers are keen to snap up a “beautiful” new dress after spotting it online.
The high street retailer, which has a store in Liverpool ONE , frequently updates shoppers on its latest stock.
Shoppers often keep an eye on social media to spot items they’d love to find on their next shopping trip - and this time they’ve spotted one of New Look’s new dresses.
New Look shared one of its latest releases on Instagram this week, and fans are already planning on snapping it up.
The retailer shared a photo of its Red Ditsy Floral Puff Sleeve Mini Dress , priced at £17.99.
The dress has proven a hit with shoppers who have praised it in the comments. New Look’s post has already gained more than 3,400 likes and a lot of comments from excited fans who want to get their hands on the dress.
Beneath the post, one shopper wrote: “I actually have the top in this pattern absolutely love it”.
A second said: “Gorgeous combo...I love clashing girly & harsh textures” and a third wrote: “O l just love this”.
A fourth shopper added: “Ohhhhh isn’t that beautiful!”
Another said: “WANT”.
New Look’s Red Ditsy Floral Puff Sleeve Mini Dress is priced at £17.99 and is available via the retailer’s website.
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2023 Honda BR-V is already out and about on PH roads
Honda Cars Philippines Inc. (HCPI) has announced they're launching the all-new BR-V on November 21; now that's around three weeks away. But apparently, the 7-seater crossover is already getting a feel of its new home – the Philippine roads.
Car enthusiast Marion Franco has spotted the all-new BR-V somewhere in South Luzon already wearing its license plates. As far as we know, Honda PH dealerships are only accepting reservations for the meantime, leading us to think the BR-V spotted could be an HCPI-owned unit. If anything, this could be the same unit that was previewed back in the 2022 Philippine International Motor Show.
Aside from its new design, the all-new BR-V is coming in the PH market offering more high-tech features, most notably the Honda Sensing advanced driver assist system. Powered by a 1.5-liter DOHC i-VTEC engine paired to a CVT or 6-speed manual, the all-new BR-V shares the same powerplant with the City (and City Hatchback), as well as the the base S variant of the all-new HR-V.
In terms of color options, all variants of the new BR-V will be available with Lunar Silver Metallic and Meteoroid Gray Metallic. Meanwhile, available only in the S CVT and S M/T is Tafetta White. Those who like their BR-Vs in Crystal Black Pearl can have them in the V CVT and S CVT models. Lastly, special color options for the BR-V include Premium Opal White Silver and Platinum White Pearl, which can be availed for an additional PHP 20,000 in the SRP for VX CVT and V CVT variants.
Ahead of its upcoming launch, how do you think will the 2023 Honda BR-V fare against its established (but mostly aging) rivals in the 7-seater compact crossover segment? Let us know in the comments.


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2015-16: First Solar gets a place in the Indian sun
Two global renewable energy majors, Gamesa and First Solar, achieved significant milestones in the Indian market in March 2016. Gamesa, the Spain-headquartered wind turbine manufacturer, sold a shade over 1 GW of windmills in 2016-17, the most for any company in that year. No other company has ever sold 1 GW of machines in a single year. Also, Gamesa had only a few months earlier crossed cumulative sales of 2 GW in India. India also contributes the most to the company’s global turnover, around 30 per cent. First Solar, US-based solar cells and modules manufacturer, recently announced that its cumulative sales crossed 1 GW in India. India today has solar capacity of 6,018 MW, which means that one out of every six MW of solar capacity in India is made with First Solar’s modules. Both Gamesa and First Solar have been active in India for the past four years. Now, both companies face the challenge of defending their market shares in a growing market. The challenge is greater for First Solar, as the solar market is exploding. On the basis of projects awarded for construction, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy expects 10 GW of solar installations in the current year, compared with 3 GW in 2015-16. A sixth of this would mean sales of about 1.6 GW, a tall order for First Solar, given its global manufacturing capacity is 2.5 GW. Also, the company’s home market is growing too. Sujoy Ghosh, Chief Executive Officer of First Solar India, speaks of India as a 5GW-a-year market. He says that the recent decision of the US government to extend the ‘Investment Tax Credit’, which gives tax-breaks for solar investments, till 2021, has helped free-up capacity. ITC was to expire for solar in December 2016, and there had been a rush to complete projects by the deadline to catch the sop. Now that the tax-break has been extended, the rush has also moderated and there is capacity available to cater to other growing markets like India. Gamesa, on its part, is looking to keep its leadership position, against the challenge of other players like Suzlon and, Inox, which sold 790 MW of machines last year, more than twice in the previous year. Gamesa, which is having a good run with its 2 MW turbine, is looking to bring to India its newly-launched product, the 2.5 MW machine. Gamesa also wants to extend its wings beyond wind. It is building solar power plants for others, for which it has orders for 60 MW.
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Like every Uber executive trying to get the $41bn online car-sharing service established in cities around the world, the head of Uber in Italy has faced plenty of resistance as she takes on powerful established interests.
Uber faces regulatory opposition in many places – authorities in the Chinese city of Chengdu paid a visit to Uber’s offices last week as part of an ongoing investigation; and the service has been banned in the US state of Kansas – but in Italy, the battle has become personal.
Benedetta Arese Lucini, 31, has been the subject of a steady stream of harassment from people staunchly opposed to the private hire service in Milan, where Uber has its Italian headquarters. In February, a sign accusing Arese Lucini of being a prostitute was displayed near her house. She has had eggs thrown at her and posters with the words ‘I steal’ printed across Arese Lucini’s face have been plastered around Milan’s taxi stands
Her open-plan office, in a former photography studio in a trendy district of Milan, is entirely unmarked from the outside, and nearly impossible to find.
“It’s like that on purpose,” she said. “We try to avoid too many people knowing where we are.”
It is not just Arese Lucini who has been targeted. Her marketing managers are insulted (#Ubered) on Twitter every day, she says, and there’s a worrying sense of “private justice” pervasive among people in the taxi industry.
They are staunchly opposed to Uber, an app-based service that allows people to locate the closest available car on their smartphone and book a ride after agreeing a set fare. Protests and regulatory interventions against Uber around the world have focused on allegations that it is, in effect, an unregulated taxi service.
Referring to her opponents in Milan, Arese Lucini says: “On their side, they don’t feel like the government is doing enough for them. It’s not a healthy environment.”
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Taxi drivers in London argue that Uber is an unlicensed taxi service, and up to 5,000 black cab drivers blockaded London’s city centre in a protest last year.
Last month French police raided Uber’s offices and confiscated 1,200 mobile phones, computers and documents as part of an investigation into the uberPOP service, which connects private drivers with passengers, and use of customer data.
Uber drivers have been blocked in by taxi drivers and one reported having his tyres slashed. A Dutch court banned peer-to-peer service uberPOP in December and some unlicensed drivers have since been fined.
After the Madrid taxi association complained about Uber, a judge ordered the company to stop operating in Spain because drivers were unauthorised and taking part in unfair competition.
Uber is illegal in Brussels, and some of its drivers claim their cars have been vandalised. Brussels has announced plans to legalise Uber next year, but under strict regulation.
Following raids in Guangzhou, Chinese police have visited Uber offices in Chengdu in a widening investigation into the company’s operations in China, where authorities have banned drivers of private cars from offering app-based services.
The Canadian province of Quebec and its largest city regard Uber’s service as illegal and in a crackdown the city’s taxi bureau seized 40 cars from drivers in the past few weeks.
The Indian capital banned Uber in December after a woman said she was raped by one of the company’s drivers. But Delhi’s transport department has complained that Uber is still operating despite the ban.
Uber made itself unpopular when it increased fares during the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis last year. The New South Wales government declared Uber’s service illegal last year.
Uber shut down Uber’s service in Kansas last week after state lawmakers voted through legislation that would force the company to do background checks on all its drivers and carry additional car insurance.


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Main Street Oakland County next week will host a series of virtual workshops to support restaurant owners as the country continues to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
Information detailed in the sessions will include labor statistics and trends on what customers would like to see, ideas for attracting and retaining customers, tools and best practices for adapting restaurants coming out of the pandemic, and a discussion on labor challenges and resources to battle those challenges. Attendees will also receive information on grants and resources available to support restaurants.
George Venettis, small business counselor and trainer for the Oakland County Department of Economic Development, will speak at each session.
The workshops will take place 2-3 p.m. May 17-20. Registration is required to attend the free workshops.


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The governor of Ebonyi state, Chief David Umahi at the weekend revealed that Chinese Mandarin, Hindi and Climate Change will be compulsory subjects for students studying in Ebonyi colleges.
Umahi noted that the implementation of the said subjects will take effect from 28th January, 2020 as the academic activities resumes, but added that it is compulsory for students studying Entrepreneurship/ Business Development and Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
The governor who spoke through the Special Assistant on Vocational Education and Chief Executive Officer, Ebonyi State Vocational College, Princess Adaeze Nwaji Esq, made this known to newsmen in Abakaliki shortly after a courtesy call by a Chinese and Indian delegates.
He noted that the reasons for introducing Chinese languages as compulsory subjects is to boost business partnership between Ebonyi state and the Chinese government.
DAILY POST gathered that Umahi is the first governor in the south east geopolitical zone to introduce the Chinese languages as a compulsory subject in vocational colleges.
“Available research has it that language is a veritable tool that enhances intercontinental communication and trades.
“The above is the reason, the Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi deemed it necessary to include the study of Chinese Manderin, Hindi and Climate Change into the Curriculum of Ebonyi State Vocational College Abakaliki.
Recall that the governor had earlier declared that the Indian and Chinese partnerships would be occupying sixty percent(60%) of the ongoing shopping mall in the state upon its completion.
According to the governor, the space that would be occupied by Indian and Chinese people would be solely dedicated to production and display of most of the goods Nigerians import from China and India, thereby giving Ebonyians opportunity to learn the production processes of those goods.
” Entrepreneurs would be trained and empowered to do importation. And that’s why the governor is introducing the study of Chinese manderin, Hindi and Climate change as compulsory in college, so as to make it easier for them to carry out their businesses without any form of language barrier” .
She further said that: “Those subjects are not just included, but are compulsory for students who apply to study Entrepreneurship/Business Development and Information and Communication Technology,ICT,” she noted.


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Netflix is testing a multiplayer gaming feature for its subscribers to enhance user experience and diversify its offerings. This move acknowledges the convergence of streaming services and gaming platforms. The multiplayer gaming feature will allow subscribers to play games with their friends while watching shows and movies. Netflix aims to provide a seamless entertainment experience and promote social interaction. The introduction of multiplayer gaming benefits subscribers by offering enhanced social interaction, convenient transitions between watching and gaming, expanding entertainment options, and eliminating the need for separate gaming subscriptions. The release date and pricing details have not yet been announced, but the feature is expected to be available on various devices.
Netflix Tests Multiplayer Gaming Feature for Subscribers
Netflix, the popular streaming service, is exploring its venture into the world of multiplayer gaming. In an effort to diversify its offerings and enhance user experience, Netflix has started testing a new gaming feature for its subscribers. This move aligns with the company’s continuous innovation to keep up with the ever-evolving entertainment landscape.
Netflix’s Move Towards Multiplayer Gaming
As streaming services and gaming platforms converge, Netflix has recognized the potential of incorporating gaming into its repertoire. The company is building on its success in the television and movie industry to cater to the growing gaming community. By adding multiplayer games to its platform, Netflix aims to engage its subscribers in a more immersive and interactive way.
How Does the Multiplayer Gaming Feature Work?
Netflix’s multiplayer gaming feature will allow subscribers to connect with their friends and play games together while enjoying their favorite shows and movies. Users will have the option to join multiplayer sessions, both locally or remotely, depending on the game. The integration of gaming does not mean Netflix is transforming into a gaming platform itself, but rather leveraging its existing infrastructure to provide a seamless entertainment experience.
Potential Benefits for Subscribers
The introduction of multiplayer gaming on Netflix provides various benefits to its subscribers:
- Enhanced Social Interaction: Gamers can now connect and play games together, promoting social interaction and adding a new dimension to their streaming experience.
- Seamless Transition: Users can effortlessly switch between watching their favorite shows and playing games without the need to switch apps or platforms.
- Expanding Entertainment Options: With multiplayer games, subscribers have more diverse entertainment opportunities, appealing to a broader user base.
- Convenience: Netflix subscribers can enjoy gaming alongside their existing streaming subscription, eliminating the need for separate gaming services or subscriptions.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q: When will the multiplayer gaming feature be available to all Netflix subscribers?
A: As of now, Netflix is still testing the multiplayer gaming feature and no official release date has been announced. The feature will be rolled out gradually, and users can expect updates in the coming months.
Q: Will multiplayer games be included in the existing Netflix subscription or require an additional fee?
A: Netflix has not specified whether multiplayer games will be included in the current subscription or incur an additional cost. Details regarding pricing will be communicated by Netflix once the feature is officially launched.
Q: What type of multiplayer games can we expect on Netflix?
A: While specific details regarding game titles have not been disclosed, Netflix is likely to collaborate with various game developers to offer a range of multiplayer options. These games may include both casual and immersive experiences to cater to different user preferences.
Q: Which devices will support Netflix’s multiplayer gaming feature?
A: Netflix’s multiplayer gaming is expected to be available on a range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and smart TVs. Compatibility details will be provided closer to the official release.


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$208.20 Million in Sales Expected for Boston Beer Company Inc (SAM) This Quarter
Analysts forecast that Boston Beer Company Inc (NYSE:SAM) will post $208.20 million in sales for the current fiscal quarter, according to Zacks. Two analysts have made estimates for Boston Beer’s earnings, with the highest sales estimate coming in at $209.30 million and the lowest estimate coming in at $207.10 million. Boston Beer posted sales of $219.37 million during the same quarter last year, which suggests a negative year-over-year growth rate of 5.1%. The company is scheduled to report its next earnings results after the market closes on Wednesday, February 21st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Boston Beer will report full year sales of $208.20 million for the current year, with estimates ranging from $863.70 million to $865.97 million. For the next year, analysts expect that the company will report sales of $861.60 million per share, with estimates ranging from $855.29 million to $867.90 million. Zacks Investment Research’s sales calculations are a mean average based on a survey of research analysts that follow Boston Beer.
A number of research firms have weighed in on SAM. BMO Capital Markets began coverage on shares of Boston Beer in a research note on Monday, February 5th. They set a “market perform” rating and a $180.00 price target on the stock. Macquarie upgraded shares of Boston Beer from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and set a $140.00 price target on the stock in a research note on Thursday, February 8th. TheStreet upgraded shares of Boston Beer from a “c+” rating to a “b-” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 2nd. Jefferies Group reiterated a “hold” rating and set a $175.00 price target on shares of Boston Beer in a research note on Thursday, January 4th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Boston Beer from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating and set a $221.00 price target on the stock in a research note on Thursday, January 11th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have issued a hold rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the stock. The company has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $160.33.
Several large investors have recently modified their holdings of SAM. Thrivent Financial For Lutherans boosted its stake in shares of Boston Beer by 5.7% in the 2nd quarter. Thrivent Financial For Lutherans now owns 1,860 shares of the company’s stock valued at $246,000 after purchasing an additional 100 shares in the last quarter. UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Boston Beer by 4.6% in the second quarter. UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. now owns 3,654 shares of the company’s stock valued at $483,000 after buying an additional 161 shares during the last quarter. Northern Trust Corp raised its holdings in shares of Boston Beer by 1.9% in the second quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 149,976 shares of the company’s stock valued at $19,819,000 after buying an additional 2,852 shares during the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Boston Beer by 2.0% in the second quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 748,951 shares of the company’s stock valued at $98,974,000 after buying an additional 14,951 shares during the last quarter. Finally, FMR LLC bought a new position in shares of Boston Beer in the second quarter valued at about $661,000. Institutional investors own 75.30% of the company’s stock.
Shares of Boston Beer (SAM) opened at $200.70 on Friday. Boston Beer has a 52 week low of $128.70 and a 52 week high of $202.35. The firm has a market cap of $2,352.59, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.38, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.71 and a beta of 0.53.
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Kigali, Rwanda, 16 May 2015 - The creative team at African fashion retailer, Bold Kampala, continued their hugely successful world tour, with Kigali being the latest destination for these innovative fashionistas. Here, the Bold Kampala tour teamed up with local Kigali favourite, House of Tayo, providing the perfect venue for local fashion buyers to check out some of the very best African creations. The whole concept of the fashion pop-up store, showcasing the best of African fashion, is proving to be a real hit with buyers both at home and abroad.
This latest leg of the tour followed hot on the heels of the recent Bold Kampala London tour in March, which attracted some of the fashion capital’s trendiest buyers to their pop-up store in Great Windmill Street’s Grace Bar, in the heart of the West End.
Speaking about the local market reaction to the latest Kigali pop-up store opening, Ngyenzi 'Nunu' Mugyenyi, the Business Development Director of BOLD Kampala, commented:
“Kigali was so good to us, the pop-up store went great! It was a fantastic turn out, a great location, lots of sales, and some pieces even sold out. The support on the day, and the days leading up to the event was overwhelming. A big group of Ugandans drove and flew down to support us on the day.”
Preparations for the next leg of the Bold Kampala world tour have already begun, with Angola being the next pop-up location on the calendar. Watch out for more news on this latest tour date over the coming weeks.
About Bold Kampala
Bold Kampala is the brainchild of three vibrant and talented women entrepreneurs from Uganda who have a vision for raising awareness of, and retailing, African fashion brands. Their Bold Kampala retail concept is truly world-class and provides affordable space and excellent exposure to buyers to over 30 talented African designer fashion and accessory brands.
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United Tobacco Inc. has created the 601 Box Pressed Maduro line, made in Nicaragua at the Tabacalera Cubana S.A. factory owned by Pepin Garcia. A Nicaraguan puro, it marks the first time that Pepin has commercially made a box-pressed cigar.
"This is the only maduro and the only box-pressed cigar that Pepin makes," said Erik Espinosa, vice president of United Tobacco. "Because he makes such great cigars, I figured that I would put him to the test of a box-pressed cigar."
For more on this story, see the April 10 issue of Cigar Insider.
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Pininfarina Nido EV – Click above for high-res image gallery
Smith Electric vehicles are already sold in the U.K. and apparently there is expressed interest from fleet purchasers in the United States who want in on the fuel savings that the electric commercial vehicles can offer. In order to sell their electric vans and trucks here in the states, Smith is investing some $30 million in a new factory which will produce versions of the Edison and Newton electric utility vehicles.
Writers for Newspress are at the Commercial Vehicle show in the UK and their overall impression of the CV market is "Battery electrics today – hybrids tomorrow." That might seem backward to people familiar with the passenger vehicle market what hybrids dominate over the pure-EV market, but that's how they see it.


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We know of Adolf Hitler as an idiosyncratic dictator who took upon himself the task of ‘biological cleansing’ by eradicating the Jewish from the whole of world. Courtesy his inhuman antics, Adolf Hitler thru the years has managed to wear the tag of ‘Mass Murderer’ and now the advertisers are turning the heat on by using Hitler’s holocaust into a controversial advertisement that has taken the world of advertisement by storm.
Germany based Das Committee, an ad agency, has recently rolled out an ad film that depicts a man and woman intimately making love, until in the end it is revealed that the man in motion is none else but Hitler. The tagline then plays: ‘AIDS is a mass murderer.’ There also have been graphical depictions of the same, with Stalin and Saddam Hussein (the other two infamous dictators from modern world history) to give company to the fuehrer.
The agency has come up with the campaign to address the serious issue of AIDS and plan to run the campaign till the World AIDS Day that falls on December 1.
The ad campaign has stirred enough controversy globally to be pulled down from YouTube results (I watched the ad here). Some critics have condemned the usage of dictators in advertisements, whilst the ad makers defend that the atrocities of Hitler are same as AIDS, and want to focus on the magnanimity of loss of lives that AIDS can inflict upon the human race!
a) Let the advertisement not be banned on YouTube and other online channels until the government(s) disapproves of it
b) Ad makers need a creative license to make imposing and stirring campaigns
c) We have had enough of plain vanilla ads that have voiced the illness that AIDS is. If this clutter-breaking ad is able to do its job, it may save some innocent human lives
d) If Germans can create an ad that mocks their own leader, then the rest of the world should have little problem!
e) Lastly, I (and everyone else) love controversial ads!


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Canonical’s Ubuntu OS perhaps isn’t the household name that iOS and Android are, but as each year passes, it inches closer to its dream of a fully converged platform – one that runs the same core code across all of its devices.
In part, it’s already achieved this with the launch of its latest BQ (M10) tablet, but it’s a flexibility that’s yet to be fully supported on smartphones. For this tablet, it means you get a custom-designed UI, not a stretched version of the smartphone version, and if you dock it or plug it into a monitor, the UI changes again, adapting to how the tablet is being used.
The M10 offers up a full HD 10.1-inch display, 1.5GHz quad-core processor and 16GB of internal storage, with the option to pop in a microSD card. There’s also 2GB of RAM to keep things ticking over, which won’t sound very much if you’re more used to perusing flagship Android devices, and an 8-megapixel camera with autofocus and dual-flash.
An alternative, not a rival
This tablet, however, isn’t really designed to compete with Android or iOS. Yes, it splashes around in the same pool, but it’s not aiming at the same goals or the same potential purchasers. Shifting millions of units isn’t the measure of success Canonical is focusing on with its long-term goals and it deliberately chose not to lock its devices up with its own services, Canonical CEO Jane Silber explained to TNW.
“It’s not something that we fight against, we’re not trying to compete at that service level. It’s one of our advantages and differentiators in talking to OEMs and operators, they’ve been essentially locked out of services and the customer relationship by Google. The value [in that] ecosystem is all accruing to Google.
We’re specializing in a platform, in an open platform, with frameworks for [providing] third-party services or OEM and operator services, and that’s a strategic intent from us. We’re not competing with a music service, or with a video service.”
Sales is obviously an important piece of measuring success – more devices in more hands mean a larger ecosystem of users, which in turn promotes more development, and thus more users – but Canonical’s under no illusions about competing with Samsung’s shipment numbers for the year.
Returns is another important metric for the company as it gives an impression of product fit and faults. Silber says the return rates have been “negligible” at less than two percent.
“One of the other reasons that we look at return rate is that some of our competitors, the other folks who have tried to establish a new phone platform, have really suffered in that regard,” she added. “This year coming up we will ship new devices, where the hardware allows it, they will be convergence devices, particularly on phones – we need a video out capability, and not all phones have that.”
On the phone side of the equation, Silber says that there are new devices coming to market in 2016 from its existing partners, as well as being in discussions with other manufacturers.
Crucially, 2016 will be the first time that Ubuntu’s phones are offered in carrier’s retail stores, which is a key component in the ‘mindshare’ battle between devices. Until now, Canonical has been operating a direct to consumer model with BQ and Meizu.
Whether or not it will be enough to propel the company towards its internal goals for the year remains to be seen, however. In some ways, the launch of a tablet as the size of that market is in decline is an interesting choice in itself.
Countering this, Silber notes that the devices that do still seem to be appealing to users are the ones that have more than one use, which sits nicely with Ubuntu’s convergence approach.
She added that there’s pent up demand in the US that the company hasn’t been able to tap to-date, but that the M10 is the first step on that road due to fewer technical limitations.
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Sure, Final Fantasy is popular worldwide, but most other Square-Enix titles simply don't fare very well outside of Japan. We've known this for a while, but according to the Financial Times, the veteran RPG publisher is looking to change that.
In an effort to increase its revenue stream overseas, it seems Square-Enix is searching for a foreign partner for help in the US and European game markets. Senior Vice President Michihiro Sasaki told the Times that only about 10-20% of the company's revenue was coming from overseas markets (heck, we didn't even think it was that high). But they're pretty sick of that; Sasaki said they want it make it half "within two to three years." We're certain they're not too worried about a guaranteed global blockbuster like Final Fantasy XIII , but even something like The Last Remnant (which is also coming to the Xbox 360) may not turn enough heads outside of Japan.
Sasaki did say they're a "little worried" about the PS3's sales performance, but that's not stopping their support of the system, apparently. In the end, Square-Enix simply wants to have a bigger impact on overseas markets, and we can understand that. Their titles really should be appreciated by a larger audience.


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Brookfield, Wis. – August 7, 2017 – Many superlatives have been used to describe the massive $10 billion announcement of the proposed Foxconn campus. “Game Changer,” “Transformative,” and “Once in a Generation” have been the most popular phrases because they are also the most accurate. Wisconsin simply does not get invited to this type of beauty contest, yet alone win it! This is new territory for the state in terms of economic development, and we are now witnessing up close what it takes to win a “mega project.” The State legislature was just called into special session to advance what could be a $3 billion dollar incentive package for Foxconn, far and away the largest incentive package ever considered in our State.
The Independent Business Association of Wisconsin (IBAW) is encouraging the state legislature to promptly advance and pass the Foxconn incentive package. While Foxconn has (rightfully) grabbed the headlines in potentially delivering a staggering 13,000 jobs, small business across the state stand to benefit from an economic force that is hard to comprehend. Consider the following projected opportunities for small businesses around the state:
- 22,000 indirect jobs created
- Up to 150 new suppliers needed in the region to service the plant
- $4.26 billion in annual supplier purchase
- 16,000 construction and indirect jobs over the 4 year construction period
- Projected average annual salary at Foxconn will be nearly $54,000
- A $7 billion dollar a year annual impact to the economy
In addition to the tangible economic impact that this project can deliver, there is also the intangible.
The State of Wisconsin is at a crossroads and demographics are not in our favor. Our great state continues to age in place, we have little to no population growth and our best and brightest continue to get educated in-state and quickly leave for greener pastures on the Coasts. This opportunity, along with the other businesses which are sure to follow, will retain individuals here now and make Wisconsin a magnet for those looking for new opportunities, be it employment or entrepreneurial in nature. Brain Gain instead of Brain Drain.
Wisconsin has arrived at its moment in time to take the leap of faith that many small business owners are faced with. Yes, there are risks to this proposal, however when you look at the totality of the opportunity, this is truly a generational opportunity to advance economic development opportunities for thousands of residents across this state now and for future generations.
IBAW’s mission is to advance business prosperity through insightful programming, executive networking, & member-driven public policy and advocacy. Membership encompasses service, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, technology, financial,
consulting & others. A statewide, non-profit association, IBAW members and sponsors employ thousands of Wisconsin workers.
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The latest PwC Report highlights how the Indian entertainment and media sector has fared despite the challenges of the pandemic with TV advertising as one of the largest revenue contributing segments and more.
As per the latest Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2021-2025, the 22nd annual analysis and forecast report of E&M spending by consumers and advertisers across 53 territories by PwC, India is one of the fastest-growing marketing in the Entertainment & Media industry and is expected to grow by 10.75% CAGR till 2025.
Rajib Basu, Partner & Leader – Entertainment & Media, PwC India, said, “Despite the pandemic, the Indian entertainment and media sector has shown remarkable resilience. As we predicted last year, India is forecasted to be the fastest-growing entertainment and media market globally in terms of consumer and advertising revenue.”
“Technological advancement and deepening of internet access will continue to influence the way Indians consume content. Our Outlook shows that the demand for great, localized content, increased internet penetration and the creation of new business models will drive the industry’s growth for the next 5 years”, he added.
Some of the key findings for India include:
TV advertising: TV advertising has continued to expand in 2020, despite COVID, reaching INR 35015 Cr. India is the fourth-largest market globally after the US, China, and Japan. Television advertising will remain as one of the largest revenue contributing segments with a growth rate of 2x of the global average.
Internet advertising: India is the fastest-growing Internet Advertising market in the world at a CAGR of 18.8% during 2020-2025. The growth in mobile internet advertising revenue will be the highest with 25.4% CAGR 2020-25 to reach
US$3.04bn by 2025.
Newspapers & consumer magazines: This segment witnessed a decline as per the report. In 2020, print advertising revenue fell by 12.0% and print circulation revenue was down by 4.0%, mainly due to the pandemic. Digital magazine circulation and advertising revenue are set to increase between 2020 and 2025 from just INR 231 Cr to INR 358 Cr at a CAGR of 9.5%.
Cinema: Box-office revenues plunged by 75% year-on-year in a COVID-hit 2020 to INR 2652 Cr. Local producers turned to digital streaming to make up for the shortfall. The overall segment comprising box-office and cinema advertising is predicted to grow back to the pre-COVID level by mid of 2023.
OTT: With the COVID-19 pandemic, movie providers turned to a form of TVOD, premium video-on-demand (PVOD), to fulfill their title launch schedules. Overall, the OTT ad revenue will grow by 10% in 2020-25 CAGR.
From the other media channels, Music, Radio & Podcasts (19.1%) and Video games + e-sports (31.6%) will contribute significantly to the advertising revenue spike in India.
Werner Ballhaus, Global Entertainment & Media Industry Leader Partner, PwC Germany, said, “Even in the areas that offer the most compelling topline growth – like video streaming – the nature of competition is likely to change dramatically over the coming years. And all the while, the social, political, and regulatory context in which all companies operate continues to evolve in unpredictable ways. All of which means that sitting still, relying on the strategies that created value and locked up market share in the past, will not be the most effective posture going forward.”
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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) - Roche Group,
the Basel health-care giant, reported that first-quarter sales fell 9%, with a stronger Swiss franc against the dollar and euro hurting sales by a similar percentage, and it affirmed its full-year sales and earnings targets. Roche reported sales of 11.12 billion Swiss francs ($12.41 billion), compared with 12.25 billion Swiss francs in the year-earlier quarter. Excluding Tamiflu, sales rose 2%. Despite "a more challenging environment and the introduction of an excise tax in the U.S., Roche aims for core earnings per share to grow at a high-single-digit rate at constant exchange rates in 2011," the company said in a Thursday statement. Group and pharmaceutical sales, excluding Tamiflu, should grow at low-single-digit percentage rates in local currencies, "reflecting the impact of U.S. health-care reform and European austerity measures," Roche said.


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The Black Friday sales offer great bargains - but they can be fairly stressful, and occasionally even confrontational as shoppers battle over deals.
So the Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom has created an antidote - Civilised Saturday.
Coming the day after Black Friday, when shoppers are still reeling from doing battle in Britain’s chain stores, it’s a much quieter affair.
So far, 100 book shops have signed up - offering very civilised incentives such as cups of tea, mulled wine and mince pies while customers shop.
Some shops will even have champagne and butlers.
The Booksellers Association says, ‘Civilised Saturday is intended as a restorative to Black Friday, the now-traditional retail scrum that kicks off the Christmas shopping season.
Alan Staton of the Bookseller's Association, said, ‘Black Friday is all about discounts, it’s about a feeding frenzy, so we said why don’t we have a ‘Civilised Saturday’, which shows that what booksellers offer is an informed, civilised environment for people to make purchases.
‘It may be for people who have gone through Black Friday and need some R&R afterwards, or for those who shun it for a more civilised alternative.’


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The economic downturn means organic farmers are less likely to reap rewards of premium prices for their produce
Farmers across the UK have been deserting organic farming, or holding back on plans to convert their land to more environmentally friendly farming methods, as sales of organic products have fallen in the...
Investors acknowledge the scale of change required across the to meet net zero, but warn that the costs of inaction could prove be catastrophic
Water brand announcements flag the complexities of making their packaging more sustainable
Riders can now park and charge when visiting the Bike Shed Motorcycle Club HQ in Shoreditch
Unless we hardwire social justice and climate radicalism into the machinery of government, we won't get a just transition, warns David Powell from the New Economics Foundation


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FRAMINGHAM (04/25/2000) - Dell Computer Corp. and Initimate Brands Inc., the Columbus, Ohio, parent of the Victoria's Secret line of lingerie, proved to be the big winners in a study released today on business-to-consumer e-commerce.
ActivMedia Research LLC in Peterborough, New Hampshire, issued a report on the Top 100 business-to-consumer sites on the Web and found Dell the runaway winner on Internet revenues and Intimate Brands the fastest-growing site commercial site on the Web.
Internet retail start-ups showed solid sales growth, but most registered net losses last year, ActivMedia said.
Victoria's Secret, buoyed by its infamous Super Bowl splash last year, posted 8,900% growth for the year, according to Harry Wolhandler, ActivMedia's vice president for research. More than the percentage growth, Wolhandler said he was impressed that the company's Internet revenues jumped from almost zero in 1998 to $90 million last year.
"One of the things that points to is the strength of the not-coms, the businesses that have a brand name outside the Web," he said.
Dell earned more than $5 billion in e-commerce revenue, almost doubling second-place entrant Charles Schwab & Co., the San Francisco-based brokerage.
Meanwhile, the study said that United Airlines, Staples Inc. and The Gap Inc. each managed to turn a profit from their Web sites while experiencing online sales growth of up to 980%. On the other hand, Drugstore.com Inc., Priceline.com Inc. and Mothernature.com Inc. saw better than 1,000% growth but all posted losses.
"I wouldn't write those companies off yet," Wolhandler said. "Those could be paper losses we're seeing, and they could be made up over time as those companies build brand names." He added that he expects the fortunes of Amazon.com Inc., Priceline and other leading e-commerce sites to improve this year.
"Five years ago, we did not believe you could use the Internet at the point of sale," he said. "These companies have already proven they can build a market, and you have to expect some of them will succeed in that market."
The ActivMedia study polled almost 1,000 businesses, culled from the Media Metrix 500, PC Data 500 and Lycos Top 5%. Top markets were then identified and a list of the Top 100 Web sites was chosen. ActivMedia then visited and analyzed each company on the list.


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December 27, in the region of Kuban Vyselkovsky opened a new shop on the cultivation of breeding birds. At present, the province is the only company that level.
The shop on the basis of factory farming "Korenovskaya" opened JSC "Agricultural Complex." It consists of eight individual framed buildings. It was here that will keep hens and cocks for further growth of broiler chickens.
Site of the new plant equipped with modern facilities, implying feeding birds without human intervention.
"The new plant — a kind of" maternity ", where from the beginning laid the future quality of beef cattle. This egg produced by the breeding bird will be sent first to the incubator, and then — on our businesses in growing broiler chickens," — said General Director CJSC Company "Agrocomplex" Ruslan burning.
Only in the poultry direction of the company "Agricultural Complex" has 10 enterprises. Two of them — the egg poultry farm, 7 production of broiler meat and one plant breeder, said "Live Kuban" the press service of "Agrocomplex."


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The Philippines' largest fast-food company Jollibee Foods Corp has made another leap forward in its ambitious overseas expansion, with an unusually risky deal in the US.
The Manila-headquartered company has agreed to buy 100% of loss-making Los Angeles-based chain The Coffee & Tea Leaf for $350 million, it said in a filing to the Philippine stock exchange on Wednesday.
"The acquisition of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf will be JFC's largest and most multinational so far, with business presence in 27 countries," said Jollibee's chairman and founder Tony Tan Caktiong.
The price tag is above the $210 million it paid for US's Smashburger in 2018. Jollibee's shares fell by about 8% in Manila.
The Coffee & Tea Leaf had 1,189 outlets at the end of 2018, of which 284 are in the US, 447 in Southeast Asia, 336 in other Asian countries and 122 in other regions. The chain will add 14% to Jollibee’s sales, grow its network by 26% and will lift overseas’ contribution to 36% of worldwide sales.
In the past, Jollibee has been conservative in its acquisitions, mainly buying country-specific companies with a footprint in only one country as in Vietnam or China mostly for less than $100 million. It tends not to hire advisors for its deals, preferring to rely on its own resources and network of contacts in the food business.
Generally it has been successful in managing and marketing the operations of its acquisitions, said one investment banker who knows the company well.
Founded in 1975, Jollibee built its success on catering to local tastes with local ingredients including its sweet Jolly Spaghetti with hotdogs and banana ketchup instead of tomato sauce. Its mainstay is its fried chicken on the bone called Chickenjoy.
It faced a major challenge when McDonald's and KFC entered the Philippine market in the early 1980s, but the firm flourished and grew into the largest fast-food chain in the Philippines with 3,195 restaurants.
Jollibee started its overseas expansion in 1987, in large part catering to the Filipino diaspora hankering for a taste of home. It also operates 1,418 stores across various brands overseas.
The ambitious company wants to become one of the top five restaurant companies in the world in terms of market capitalisation.
The purchase of the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf chain is a big fillip to that drive. Established in 1963, it is owned by International Coffee & Tea LLC. The company owns 336 of its stores and the other 853 are franchised.
The Coffee & Tea Leaf generated sales of $313 million in 2018 up from $301 million a year earlier. It had an Ebitda of $23.7 million as of end 2018 according to Jollibee's calculations. The US firm reported a net loss of $21 million last year, according to audited statements.
The acquisition will be funded through a bridge loan. Jollibee will invest $100 million and advance $250 million. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf will then issue preferred shares within six to nine months to repay Jollibee for the advance, a structure which offers Jollibee some downside protection.
Combined with Highlands Coffee, with business mostly in Vietnam, this acquisition will make Jollibee a player in the coffee business. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf will be Jollibee’s second-largest business after the Jollibee brand while the coffee business will account for 14% of the group’s worldwide system sales.
Jollibee expects to complete the acquisition not earlier than 60 days from execution of the purchase agreement, subject to government approvals in the United States and meeting certain closing conditions.


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The co-creator of 'Rick and Morty' just founded a VR studio
Squanchtendo Games is everything you'd expect from Justin Roiland.
'Gears of War 4' writers are striving for a deeper story
It's the franchise's first installment since a new developer took over.
Google's Android-powered VR platform supports Unreal games
Epic's ubiquitous Unreal 4 gaming engine plays nice with Google's new virtual reality platform.
Google's new Android VR platform is called 'Daydream'
Because Cardboard is so 2014.
'Hellblade' takes real-time motion capture to the next level
Watch the Epic Games GDC 2016 keynote right here!
Founder Tim Sweeney will anchor this event.
Epic Games: Microsoft can't be allowed to control PC gaming
Co-founder speaks out against Microsoft's "closed platform."
Create VR experiences within VR itself using Unreal Engine
A forthcoming update to Epic Games' toolset brings it into virtual reality.
'Gears of War' studio is making a MOBA for PS4 and PC
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"Any treatment which keeps blood sugar under control will minimize risk of complications, but in the end insulin may be the only effective way of doing this," explained lead researcher Dr. Rury Holman, a professor of diabetic medicine at the University of Oxford. "The vast majority will need insulin in the longer term."
For the study, Holman's team compared different forms of insulin therapy for patients with type 2 diabetes. Insulin treatment can start with a "basal" dose that is long acting, a "prandial" or mealtime dose of insulin that is short acting or a so called biphasic dose, a mixture of both short and long acting insulin.
The Nike Uptempo Unc report is published in the Oct. 22 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, to coincide with its presentation at the 20th World Diabetes Congress in Montreal. The study received funding from drug maker Novo Nordisk and the nonprofit group Diabetes UK.
In addition, those on basal insulin had a lower incidence of low blood sugar, a serious side effect of insulin therapy, compared to those on biphasic or mealtime insulin, Holman's team found. Moreover, patients on basal insulin gained less weight than people on the other two regimens.
However, which of these regimens works best was not clear, Holman said. To find out, the researchers randomly assigned 708 patients to biphasic insulin injections twice a day (NovoMix30), mealtime insulin Nike Air Uptempo Og
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However, there were fewer deaths among those in the study started on basal insulin, Roden said. "Which is only a hint, but is not a firm conclusion [of the benefit of basal insulin therapy].".
These patients had poor blood sugar control even though they were taking two common oral diabetes medications, metformin and sulfonylurea, the researchers noted.
Keeping blood sugar under control reduces the risk of complications in type 2 diabetes. But diabetes is also a progressive disease, which disrupts insulin production. Consequently, for many diabetes patients, the drugs used to control blood sugar need to be increased repeatedly and most patients will eventually need to take insulin, the researchers said.
By Steven ReinbergTHURSDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) Adding insulin to standard diabetes drugs results in better blood sugar control for many with type 2 diabetes, British researchers report, and the dose and timing of insulin received can make a big difference.
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Specifically, a once a day, long acting dose of insulin may be the best approach for patients making the move to insulin therapy, the study found.
Three years into the trial, the researchers found that slightly more than 43 percent of the patients taking basal insulin and about 45 percent of the patients taking insulin at mealtime achieved good blood sugar control, compared with about 32 percent of those taking biphasic insulin.
Whether lowering blood sugar with insulin and other medications will prevent complications from diabetes, this study was too short to tell, Roden said. "The study was not powered to analyze the so called hard endpoints, such as eye complications or, most importantly, cardiovascular problems," he said.
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Azamara is now part of this year’s fall ritual of announcing and putting on sale its 2015 cruises — 52 of them, ranging in length from 5 to 18 nights. The official word came right from the top…
“Azamara Club Cruises is delighted to announce our new year of destination-immersive voyages that are perfectly suited for up-market travellers,” said Larry Pimentel, President and CEO. “As a hallmark of
the Azamara experience, many voyages are timed with major events and celebrations, so guests can join the festivities. We are particularly delighted to bring Azamara Quest to Australia in late 2015 to expand our distinctive experience to a new continent.”
As expected Azamara — which led the way when it comes to overnights — will continue with passengers able to enjoy more than the normal 8-to-10-hour port calls.
So where is Azamara sailing?
The Journey will cruise throughout Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, the Antarctic Sound, Panama Canal and West Indian islands.The ship will also sail the Spanish, French and Italian rivieras, the Adriatic and Black seas and the Greek Isles. If you’re a fan of Formula One, the cruise line has seats for the Grand Prix of Monaco. Maiden European port calls include Argostoli and Delos, Greece; Tarragona, Almeria, Alticante and Huelva, Spain; Stornoway, Scotland; and Cobh, Ireland.
The other ship, the Quest, will cruise during the spring and winter seasons in Southeast Asia, including China and Japan. Osaka (Japan) and Bali (Indonesia) are on the Quest’s calendar. The ship will also sail from the Bali Sea on a New Year’s cruise to Australia. Guests will make maiden port calls at Puerto Princesa, Philippines; Thursday Island and Darwin, Australia; and Great Barrier Reef destinations Cooktown, Port Douglas and Cairns, Australia.
More at azamaraclubcruises.com.
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Aptos Labs and Jump Crypto are among the prominent crypto companies that committed to contributing $50 million to a Binance-led $1 billion Industry Recovery Initiative (IRI), according to a press release.
Other participants include Polygon Ventures, Animoca Brands, GSR, Kronos and Brooker Group.
The fund will be used to buy distressed crypto assets following a downturn that has ravaged the industry for the past 12 months.
A running theme of bad debt and a lack of liquidity has resulted in numerous crypto companies restricting customer withdraws this year, ultimately leading to the bankruptcy of firms like FTX, Celsius Network, Voyager Digital, Three Arrows Capital and Compute North.
Binance plans to increase the fund to $2 billion as it expects more participation from crypto firms in the future, the press release said.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said today that the exchange's U.S. arm will be bidding on Voyager Digital after the lender's deal to be bought by FTX fell through.
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An Asheville, North Carolina-based brewery has announced they will be adding a location in an upcoming 20-acre mixed-used development in Norwood.
Hi-Wire Brewing focuses on seasonal beers that are “brewed to be balanced and approachable.” According to the brewery’s website, they currently have eight locations, including one in Louisville.
Norwood’s will be the first in Ohio and will be located within the Factory 52 development.
Factory 52 is a Norwood development project announced last year, according to developers Viox & Viox. It is slated to transform the old U.S. Playing Card factory into a massive space for residential, retail and office use. They promise “community gathering spaces” as well as a three-story parking garage. The website says residents will have access to amenities including a food hall, event lawn, pickleball court, dog park and resort-style swimming pool.
Construction began this year and is still in the first phase, which is expected to take around two years.
Hi-Wire officials say in a Facebook post that their taproom will encompass all 5,800 square feet of the first floor of the ‘Amenity Building,’ with a 24-tap bar and large patio. Guests will be able to head upstairs to the third floor where there will be a bar featuring 12 taps and a rooftop deck.
Similar to other Hi-Wire taprooms, the post says the Cincinnati location will be full of colorful murals and will feature family-friendly games and rotating seasonal beers.
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Fishbowl, a restaurant industry leader in digital marketing, named Dev Ganesan as CEO yesterday.
A seasoned technology executive with a track record of success building companies in the digital, mobile, customer relationship management (CRM), and analytics industries, Ganesan will be responsible for driving Fishbowl’s next phase of growth with its big data and analytics solutions. Former CEO Scott Shaw has taken on the new role of chief innovation officer.
“On the heels of our successful launch of Loyalty Analytics and the growing industry demand for data-driven marketing, the time was right to introduce a new CEO, and Dev is the perfect fit,” says Shaw. “Dev’s entrepreneurial drive and track record of growing scalable technology and services businesses, for both private and publically-held companies, is impressive. Given his exceptional record of operational and financial success, we’ve no doubt that Dev will accelerate Fishbowl’s growth.”
Most recently, Ganesan served as CEO of Aptara, where he led its expansion from a technology vendor to a digital and mobile solutions partner that led the publishing industry’s transition from print to the digital age. Under Dev’s leadership, Aptara doubled its EBITDA, tripled its value in the last three years, and was recently acquired.
“I am thrilled to be joining Fishbowl at such a pivotal time in the restaurant and digital marketing industries,” Ganesan says. “Fishbowl’s Loyalty Analytics and guest acquisition solutions are giving restaurants business insights they’ve never had − actionable information that’s increasing sales. I look forward to taking the company to its next level of financial success as the restaurant industry’s trusted technology partner.”
Prior to Aptara, Ganesan was CEO of Intelliworks and TRADOS, both venture-backed software companies. Ganesan was also the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Advanced Communications Systems (Nasdaq: ACSC, a professional services firm) where he led seven acquisitions and the company’s IPO.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Xurmo Technologies, a Big Data Analytics company, and C2 Technologies, an eLearning company. Ganesan received the SmartCEO Future 50 award in 2014 and 2013, and was recognized as a Washington Tech Titan in 2013.


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The annual North Central Connecticut Chamber of Commerce (NCCCC) Home and Product Show celebrated its 50th year the weekend of March 9 and 10, at the former Walmart in East Windsor at 69 Prospect Hill Road.
The Enfield-based business organization’s show has been held in a variety of venues over the years, including Asnuntuck Community College and Enfield High School, but for the past four years, the large former retail space has proven to be an excellent location with plenty of room for the ever-growing show to expand.
“We’re very prideful that this is our 50th year, and many of the businesses on display are chamber members,” said NCCCC Executive Director Mike Vezzola. “We’re a regional chamber representing the communities of Enfield, East Windsor, Suffield, and Somers, but we have a good working relationship with other local chambers. This is a community show, and its premise is to target residents in our region and feature what we have to offer in the way of products, services, and retail right in our own communities.”
Many of the exhibitors offered products and services in the areas of home improvement, remodeling, and landscaping. There were also representatives from the financial and educational sectors, entertainment, vehicles and equipment, and property maintenance industries.
In total approximately 110 different companies were represented at the show, offering something for everyone.
As an added bonus and to entice visitors to check out the various displays, visitors were each presented with a “passport” to be stamped by vendors for a chance to win some large ticket prizes. In doing so, they got the opportunity to learn not just about local businesses but also the wide range of nonprofits and other organizations looking for a little exposure.
“Everything we do, we do for a reason,” said Sister Frances of Enfield’s Little Sisters of the Poor, who with Sister Michael was raffling off gift items and taking collections to raise funds to landscape the chaplain’s house on its property.
Dana Ring, a member of the Suffield Players theater group, said it came to expose regional community theater to a wider range of people. East Windsor Community Services, representing parks and recreation, senior, and social services were on hand to let people know about the services available and to help raise money to send kids to camp.
“This year, we added an indoor craft fair which has become a great attraction,” said Vezzola. “Often, crafters are working out of their homes, so this show gives them some important visibility they may need this time of year.”
The 50th annual show included a food court, and assorted raffle prizes, and also heralded the return of the Family Fun Zone for the second year, a proven draw for families. Vezzola said the bounce houses, face painting and indoor games provide parents with built-in-sitters to entertain their children so they can spend more time in discussions with vendors.
The Fun Zone entertainment area included Villaris Studios martial arts demonstrations and a Saturday afternoon fashion show courtesy of The Little Black Dress. WWE Hall of Famer Bob Backlund also made a special appearance at the show.
“I can’t say enough about our show chairman, Gary Cote, who has done this for years and for the whole team of incredible people that make this show possible,” said Vezzola. “And Walmart has been great to us in donating their facility. We’re so grateful to have such a wonderful corporate partner.”


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JAKARTA– You’ve probably heard about the swell of Internet users coming from Indonesia. It’s already the second largest market for Facebook, after the United States. It’s “only” the fifth largest market for Twitter, but it’s number one in terms of the ratio of people online to Twitter adoption. And Google trends ranks Indonesia as the top Foursquare country— two slots above the United States.
Six months ago all of this was newsy and surprising. Since then, Indonesia’s love affair with social media has only been growing. But as love affairs go, it’s a staggeringly unrequited one.
I’m attending the SparkxUp awards in Jakarta yesterday and today, a first-time, flying-by-the-seat-of-their-pants startup competition that was besieged with more than 400 entrepreneur applicants. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are all sponsoring, and TechCrunch is a media sponsor. Executives from Yahoo and Google both did keynotes. Zynga is here too to meet the Indonesian consumer face-to-face and try to figure this out-of-nowhere Web force out. We toured some smokey Internet cafes late last night together, where I snapped the above photo.
But Facebook, Twitter, and FourSquare– the companies that may be gaining the most love and traffic from Indonesia– are nowhere to be found, and according to locals, their executives haven’t made a single official appearance on the ground….ever. Maybe they came here and just didn’t call anyone, but I’ve asked the question in dozens of individual meetings at a 100-person event earlier in the week. No one has reported seeing as much as a business card from any of these companies. If they’ve come to check out Indonesia, they did it without talking to anyone in Jakarta’s Web scene.
Oh, wait. There was that one time an executive from Facebook was scheduled to do a keynote. The entire Web scene was in a fever pitch to attend. And then he cancelled at the last minute– reportedly to go to Brazil instead. He hasn’t rescheduled. In fact, this morning I met with Izak Jenie, the director of content strategy for Nexian, the number two handset company in Indonesia. They sell about five million handsets a year; most of them are scaled-down, full-keyboard smartphones that sell for between $60-$80– a steal compared to the $400 Blackberry. He says he recently met with Google about putting a search box on every phone, but Facebook? Well, Facebook won’t even return his calls and emails.
Ok, let me get this straight. These three companies taken together have raised just over $1 billion in venture capital and have more than a thousand employees, and not one of them can be bothered to make a single fact-finding, goodwill trip to what’s arguably their hottest, fasting growing market in the world? Not even send an intern flying coach? Meanwhile Zynga is here now, Google is opening local operations in the first quarter, and Yahoo is a regular in the start-up scene, already completing one acquisition.
It’s shaping up to be the Valley and China in the Web 1.0 days all over again: The implicit arrogant assumption on the Valley’s part that either these people will just keep using our products because they can’t build competitive ones on their own, or we can’t profit of them so we just don’t care.
Wake up, guys. Emerging markets aren’t just about offense anymore, they’re about defense. This isn’t the age of eBay, Yahoo, and Amazon when you could expand in the US first, and worry about the rest later, nor is this an age of Friendster where a big Southeast Asian Web presence is worth little more than a sandwich. As Fred Wilson (you know, a Twitter, Foursquare and Zynga investor…) recently said to GigaOm, “If you look at Facebook, Twitter, Google– 75% to 80% of their users are outside the US, so globalization of Web services at scale is something I’m really interested in…So globalization is probably the number one thing I’ve been thinking about.” Understanding your users isn’t a nice-to-have luxury; it’s a must-have or someone will beat you.
Let me give you a primer on the Indonesian user: Half of Indonesia’s 240 million person population is under the age of 29. They are Web obsessed, and unlike the rest of Southeast Asia they have a huge domestic market. They are hungry, they are scrappy, they are smart and they are building their own Web companies. They love using Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare– for now. But, frankly, the attitude is starting to piss many of the most Web savvy ones off. And every entrepreneur knows what pissed off Web users do: They start competitive companies. At the conference yesterday several people challenged the usual bragging that Indonesia is Facebook’s second largest market, saying “Why do we need to use Facebook? Why can’t everyone else use an Indonesian site?” Sure it’s just the Web elite saying it now, but the drumbeat is starting.
I know Indonesia isn’t a priority when you’re growing at the speed of Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. Indeed, it’s a brutally hard market to monetize with a nascent advertising market and little ecommerce to speak of. Only about 3% of the population even has credit cards. And it’s not always a comfortable market to be in: The traffic is horrible, I went through four SIM cards before finding one that worked, and I’ve had little luck getting a consistent Web connection this week. And I doubt many of you speak Bahasa. But you’re not going to understand this customer any better sitting in the Valley. (I don’t speak Bahasa either, for the record, but after 40 weeks in emerging markets I could beat you all at charades.)
You can’t have it both ways, Web 2.0 elite. You can’t brag in local presentations about how global your reach is and not visit one of your largest markets. You can’t trumpet that it’s a brave new Web world with two billion global users and only cater to the first billion.


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Retail Sentiment Report – May 2017
Real Capital Markets surveyed its database of retail investors to gauge their sentiment on investing in today’s market, the greatest threats, the influencing factors and the greatest opportunities.
- Approximately 75 percent of respondents said the current and future challenges in the retail sector are impacting their acquisition plans.
- Interest rates are not a great motivating force for acquiring real estate now to lock in rates.
- More than one third of investors identified shifting consumer buying habits as the greatest threat to retail investing.
- Anchored shopping centers, including grocery-anchored, are viewed almost across the board as the most attractive retail investment opportunity, a category cited by more than 40 percent of investors.
While there remain challenges in the retail sector, investors are generally optimistic and are reshaping their investment decisions to adjust to the new age of retail. As the retail sector continues to evolve, investors are focusing on anchored retail centers as one positive path for future growth.


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He said he's not sure that "that the revised plan will benefit consumers."
A crowdfunding campaign is raising money for veterans groups.
She is also set to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee this week.
A federal judge broke with previous decisions in similar cases.
Cruz wants a stopgap to block the White House from giving up its internet oversight role.
The company is seeking allies to help defuse a crisis over allegations of racial discrimination.
Officials are examining whether the company has abused its market position on privacy matters.
“The transition of the IANA functions to the global multi-stakeholder community is a serious,...
The test flights are a step toward using drones for widespread delivery service.
Ted Cruz isn't backing down on a fight over the internet.
"The current generation of corporate winners must step up and pay its fair share."
Jeh Johnson tried to throw cold water on concerns about hackers affecting the election.
“The world has moved from just owning vehicles to owning them and sharing them," the CEO said.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said that the company had learned its lesson.
The announcement comes after several crashes involving the technology.
The review bill is backed by sites like Yelp, as well as public interest groups.
Tom Wheeler can expect a grilling over his revised television set-top box reform plan.
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Norway’s prime minister and its largest newspaper slammed the social media company's policy.
Wheeler backed away from an earlier plan that was harshly criticized by industry.
The system is testing Wi-Fi in stations, but will turn it off after 45 days.
European regulators have concerns with Google's Android operating system.
The company said it would implement a new nondiscrimination policy and other changes.
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The Renault Clio is one of the UK’s best-loved cars and a consistent Top 10 best-seller so the unveiling today, Thursday 16 June 2005, of an all-new third generation model is of major significance to both Renault and the UK public who have bought a staggering 850,000 Clios since 1991. This third generation Clio III will go on sale in the UK initially as a three-door on 15 October 2005 with the five-door following in January 2006. Over 75% of Clios sold in the UK are the three door emphasising the sporty Va Va Voom image of Clio.
A dedicated website - www.newclio.renault.co.uk - carries all the launch information and photographs of New Clio III. Full prices and specifications will be released in August and the order books will open at that time ready for deliveries to begin in October.
Over 8.5 million Clios have been produced since 1991, four million Clio I and 4.5 million Clio II since 1998 and has always been one of Europe’s top three selling superminis. Clio III is in the spirit of Clio II - the original “small car with big car refinement” wrapped up in a new dynamic, elegant and spacious body.
This is a 16-year+ news article, from our Renault archive, which dates back to the year 2000.
If in doubt check with your local Renault dealer as car prices and technical data will have changed since 2005.
Although our car news is published in good faith, we cannot guarantee it to be error free or complete or up-to-date.
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The pandemic lit a fire under the streaming media sector as people stayed home and streamed more TV shows, movies, and songs. Many of those stocks have already generated big gains for investors this year, but they could surge even higher in 2021 and beyond.
The global video streaming market could grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.3% between 2019 and 2026, according to Valuates Reports. The global music streaming market could also expand at a CAGR of 17.8% from 2020 to 2027, according to Grand View Research.
Therefore, forward-thinking investors should hold a few promising streaming stocks as that market expands. Here are three solid plays on that secular trend that are still worth buying in 2021: Roku (ROKU -1.04%), Netflix (NFLX 1.31%), and Spotify (SPOT -0.53%).
Roku is the market leader in connected TV (CTV) devices. It's expected to capture 46.9% of the U.S. CTV market this year, according to eMarketer, thanks to brisk sales of its stand-alone streaming devices and smart TVs. The firm expects Roku's share to surpass 50% by 2022, putting it comfortably ahead of rivals like Amazon's Fire TV.
Roku's revenue rose 57% year-over-year in the first nine months of 2020. Sales of its lower-margin players, which generated about 29% of its revenue, grew 40%. Sales from its higher-margin software platform, which generated 71% of its revenue from ads and content distribution partnerships, surged 66%.
During the third quarter, Roku's hardware shipments rose at their fastest rate in over seven years. Its number of active accounts rose 43% year-over-year to 46 million and its average revenue per user (ARPU) grew 20%, but its gross margin contracted as the pandemic throttled its sales of higher-margin ads.
Roku is unprofitable, and its net loss widened year-over-year in the first nine months. Analysts don't expect it to generate a profit anytime soon, but they expect its revenue to rise 54% this year and another 39% next year.
Roku remains a risky stock, but it isn't terribly expensive at 19 times next year's sales -- especially when tech companies that are generating slower growth are trading at much higher price-to-sales ratios.
Netflix is the world's largest streaming video platform by paid subscribers. Its total number of paid subscribers grew 23% year-over-year to 195.15 million at the end of the third quarter, as its revenue and earnings rose 25% and 73%, respectively, in the first nine months of 2020.
Netflix attributes some of that growth to stay-at-home trends throughout the pandemic, but it still expects its revenue and subscribers to both rise another 20% year-over-year in the fourth quarter.
Analysts expect Netflix's revenue and earnings to rise 24% and 52%, respectively, for the full year. Next year, they expect its revenue and earnings to grow another 18% and 44%, respectively -- which are robust growth rates for a stock that trades at 58 times forward earnings.
Netflix could face tougher competition next year as rivals like Disney and AT&T ramp up their streaming efforts. However, Disney and AT&T's streaming platforms aren't profitable like Netflix yet, and Netflix's strong lineup of original content could keep it ahead of the competition.
Moreover, Netflix's latest price hikes (an extra $1 for standard plans and an additional $2 for premium plans in the U.S.) indicate it still enjoys plenty of pricing power against Disney, AT&T, and other challengers. Those strengths all make Netflix a great all-around play on the streaming market.
Spotify is the world's largest streaming music platform by paid listeners. Its monthly active users (MAUs) grew 29% year-over-year to 320 million last quarter. Its number of paid subscribers rose 27% to 144 million, while its number of ad-supported MAUs grew 31% to 185 million.
Spotify's revenue rose 16% year-over-year in the first nine months of 2020, but high content costs and sluggish ad sales throughout the pandemic throttled its margins and resulted in a net loss.
For the fourth quarter, Spotify expects its revenue to rise 8%-19% year-over-year, its MAUs to increase 11%-27%, and for its gross margin to hold steady. Analysts expect its revenue to rise 41% this year and 22% next year, and for its net loss to narrow next year.
Spotify's stock more than doubled in 2020, but the stock still looks cheap at five times next year's sales -- likely due to concerns about its lack of profits and competition from tech giants like Apple.
However, Spotify's stable growth in MAUs and paid listeners indicate there's still plenty of room for multiple streaming music platforms to grow. Its gross margins should expand after the pandemic ends and advertisers ramp up their spending again, while new strategies -- including its recent takeover of the podcast tech company Megaphone and its upcoming expansion into South Korea -- could generate fresh growth. Therefore, Spotify should remain the top "pure play" on the streaming music market for the foreseeable future.


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EBay is seeking to make PayPal the common currency of the Internet, and the addition of iTunes, the biggest online music store, is a feather in its cap. PayPal is focused on growing its eBay business, overseas transactions linked to eBay, as well as what it calls its "off-eBay" business."
In the third quarter, PayPal processed $4.6 billion in payments, an increase of 52 percent from the $3.0 billion in the year earlier quarter. That figure includes merchandise purchased on eBay, the largest online auction site.
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Waterloo, Canada-based telecommunication and wireless equipment company $BBRY said the company more than doubled its software business in 4Q16 and increased overall GM, while generating cash. $BBRY also said that one area of shortfall was hardware revenue which declined sequentially. On the positive side, $BBRY achieved positive device GM.
I haven’t seen a drop in banks like this in a long time. Looks like $WFC is still facing pressures from its sales practices scandal..!!
Helping President-elect's America first focus, $WMT set to create 10,000 retail jobs in the US in 2017.
Looks like Trump has his eyes on the $MON and Bayer merger next. He had a meeting with the CEOs and apparently got job promises from them.