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NOVOMANIA was launched in 2010 as an annual urban fashion event by the NOVO group of companies, a retailing and fashion conglomerate based in Hong Kong that operates and distributes over 50 international brands and has stores across 45 cities in China, and one of its partners, Focus Workshop, an innovative full service agency in China with expertise in luxury brands in beauty and wellness, fashion, real estate and FMCG.
By bringing together designers, brands, buyers, distributors, retailers, franchisees, department stores, mall operators, real estate developers and the media, it creates a platform for introducing retail concepts to international brands which are seeking to enter the China market and for providing new business opportunities for domestic brands.
Showcasing the latest trends in major areas of urban fashion such as Denim&Urban, Sports&Street, Shoes&Accessories, Fashion&Chic and Contemporary&Premium, NOVOMANIA held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre in March 2012 occupied 25,000 gross sqm of exhibition space and welcomed 117 exhibitors from 13 countries and over 13,000 visitors. This year, Novomania will be held from 17 - 19 July at Shanghai Mart.
Jime Essink , President & Chief Executive Officer of UBM Asia said:
"China is already the second-largest apparel market in the world and is set to surpass the US to become the world's largest market in a few years. We are very pleased to partner with NOVO Mania Limited in the development and growth of this cutting edge fashion event targeted at the very rapidly-growing urban youth segment of the market. This joint venture continues our strategy of focusing on sectors and markets with the most exciting growth potential."
Mr Alan Fang , CEO of NOVO Group said:
"NOVOMANIA has already established the reputation as the urban trendy fashion trade show in China for international brands. We see tremendous growth in the future due to greater interests from international brands as well as the growth of local brands. We are excited to partner strategically with UBM, a leading global business media company, Asia's leading exhibition organiser and the biggest commercial organiser in mainland China, to expand NOVOMANIA even faster and further to be the dominant platform gateway for any brand looking to reach China's trendy fashion apparel market."
About UBM Asia
Owned by UBM plc listed on the London Stock Exchange, UBM Asia is Asia's leading exhibition organiser and the biggest commercial organiser in mainland China, India and Malaysia. Established with its headquarters in Hong Kong and subsidiary companies across Asia and in the US, UBM Asia has a strong global presence in 25 major cities with 29 offices and over 1,200 staff.
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For Molly Ford and Sarah Jesup, founders of online dining resource The Food Lens, food is the heart and soul of Boston. But the pandemic, with all its restrictions and limits on restaurants, has stifled so many of their favorite places.
In response, The Food Lens released “Dining in Boston,” their first digital cookbook with recipes directly from local chefs and restaurants. Some of the city’s best dishes make an appearance — the roast beef from Cutty’s in Brookline, the Creamy Lobster Roll from Row 34 in Fort Point.
“Last week I cooked the Lamb Tajeen from Sycamore, and it was incredible — I was so proud of myself,” said Ford during a Zoom interview. “But soon after I was like wow, now I want to go to Sycamore and order 10 more dishes.”
That’s what “Dining in Boston” aims to do — it reminds readers of their favorite local restaurants and dishes and encourages them to continue supporting their kitchens away from home.
A portion of proceeds from each copy of the $14 cookbook will go to Massachusetts Restaurants United, a coalition of people from the restaurant industry advocating for solutions to help restaurants survive COVID-19 and beyond. So much of The Food Lens’s success has relied on local restaurants. They’re using this cookbook to give back, and to learn something from the pros.
“We really tried to get creative as to how we could continue to support restaurants when they were, you know, up against everything,” said Ford.
But like many of us, they can’t wait to support restaurants the traditional way.
“I can’t wait until the city feels alive like that again and we can go back to doing what we really love,” said Jesup. “Eating out and exploring Boston.”
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Elgato on Tuesday released the newest version of its EyeTV Hybrid, reducing the size of the device and adding support for Windows 7 users.
Sony will begin selling 3D TVs in Japan on June 10 and worldwide at about the same time, it said Tuesday.
At this week's CeBIT IT fair, engineers are showing a new breed of screen that projects a 3D image towards the viewer's eyes so glasses aren't required.
Cnet reports that Apple has been pitching the idea to provide cloud storage for music and movies for a future iteration of iTunes.
Tivo introduced a new set-top box that unites programming from TV broadcasts and the Internet.
Boxee has added official supports for its new beta on the Apple TV.
Wal-Mart said it acquired Vudu, following rumors about the acquisition.
Both Qualcomm and ST-Ericsson are demonstrating concept smartphones that can connect to and play HD content on TVs in Barcelona.
From Macworld Expo 2010, Roman Loyola takes a look at two Best of Show winners, Kanex's XD (an adapter box for connecting HDMI devices to the current 27-inch iMac) and Microvision's ShowWX (a pico projector).
Following up on an earlier report that Apple was in negotiations to sell SD TV shows on the iTunes Store for $1, the Financial Times claims we'll see that happen with the iPad launch.
A new software update brings Apple's media center up-to-date with recent changes in image sharing and makes some minor tweaks to the user interface.
Sony announced new 3D Blu-ray Disc players on Wednesday.
Before the once-every-four-years winter games and the biggest football game of the year, it's a great time to shop for a new HDTV--and find some good deals in the process.
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This Entrepreneur From Assam Was Felicitated By Ivanka Trump For Inventing Epilepsy Detection Device
US President Donald Trump's daughter and his advisor, Ivanka Trump is in India for Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES). In her GES address in Hyderabad, Ivanka Trump applauded three women entrepreneurs who she claimed represented "the vision, ambition, and grit of every entrepreneur," and one of these entrepreneurs was Rajlakshmi Borthakur.
Who is Rajlakshmi Borthakur?
Rajlakshmi Borthakur, a businesswoman of Assamese origin, invented a revolutionary epilepsy detection device called T-jay. She is currently based out of Bengaluru and is the CEO and founder of TerraBlue XT, the company that manufactures the device.
Borthakur was felicitated by Ivanka for, "saving lives, creating jobs, and bringing hope."
In her speech, Ivanka spoke about Borthakur's journey as an entrepreneur.
"When her son began having seizures at a young age, she decided to create her own solution to better monitor his health. Now her company, TerraBlue, aims to make speciality healthcare accessible. Rajlakshmi, your courage and determination is truly remarkable," Ivanka said at GES.
Borthakur thanked Ivanka in a tweet.
I felt great that she (Ivanka Trump) took my name among so many entrepreneurs. I am thankful to her for giving me & my company the publicity: Rajalakshmi Borthakur, entrepreneur #GlobalEntrepreneurshipSummit pic.twitter.com/otiBkjePU1— ANI (@ANI) November 28, 2017
Her firm TerraBlue XT is an award-winning healthcare start-up, dedicated to using technology to improve the lives of people with chronic disorders.
Her creation T-Jay, is a digital glove that makes use of artificial intelligence to predict epilepsy attacks and allows remote monitoring of patients. T-Jay won Borthakur the Innovate for Digital India challenge last year.
Borthakur has been recognized as one of the 12 "women transforming India" by Niti Aayog and the United Nations.


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French drone company Parrot has launched a new Anafi quadcopter model, this one featuring a FLIR thermal camera in addition to the 4K HDR offering found on the original model. This new version is a bit lighter than last year’s drone, bringing the same folding compact design alongside three batteries for more than an hour of cumulative flight time per charge.
The new Parrot Anafi Thermal is designed for industrial and enterprise use, enabling utility companies, factories, and other similar businesses to monitor their properties, structures, and public utility infrastructure, among other things. With the thermal camera, users are able to observe heat loss that would otherwise be invisible; the camera could also be used to spot a lost person during a search and rescue mission.
The FLIR camera visualizes temperatures from 14F to 752F as a spectrum of white through purple colors. This sensor has a limited resolution at only 160 x 120, but can be used with a companion mobile app to combine thermal images with regular color images taken with the 4K HDR camera. Information about the temperatures can be added to these images with the mobile app.
The regular camera, which is embedded in a gimbal near the thermal camera, has a considerably higher resolution at 21 megapixels and Ultra HD. The camera supports 3x digital zoom and can be maneuvered from 90-degrees upward to 90-degrees downward. Drone operators observe the video feeds through the cameras using a Parrot Skycontroller 3.
In addition to a top speed of around 34mph, the new Anafi quadcopter can remain in flight for a cumulative 78 minutes thanks to three batteries, each with 26 minutes of flight time independently. Users can recharge the batteries using any source that supports the USB-C charger.
Parrot plans to release the Anafi Thermal for purchase at $1,900 starting next month.


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Legislation aimed at punishing China over its currency practices, which have kept the price of Chinese exports artificially low, seemed to have momentum earlier this year. But in the waning weeks of Congress, lawmakers and their aides say its prospects are doubtful.
Is it possible that the United States had let the dollar depreciate against other currencies, contributing to the choking of the global economy with high oil and food prices.
The dollar’s decline, said Sun Zhenyu, the Chinese envoy, had also shrunk the value of reserves held by China and other countries. He charged that the Bush administration had engaged in continuous abuse of the world trading system by having imposed duties on Chinese goods, maintained high tariffs and subsidies on many American products and restricted the export of high technology to China.
As a result, the growth of exports to China is now outstripping the growth of imports from China, and the China-United States trade deficit is heading slightly downward from its record level of $256 billion last year.
“We’re seeing a greater appreciation that exchange rates are complicated things,” the president of the U.S.-China Business Council, John Frisbie, said. “There’s also a growing recognition that China is now our third-largest export market and that punitive measures to get China to move probably aren’t going to get you to whatever the goal is.”
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The most valuable space in a retail store is the floor display or shelf space along the right corridor of the entrance. That’s because studies of consumer behavior show that the overwhelming majority of people walk to the right when entering a store. Put a product there and it will definitely be seen—and most likely be bought.
As companies sign on to the growing movement known as the “15% pledge,” which asks retailers to reserve that amount of shelf space for Black-owned brands, proponents say the enlisting firms will need to keep this quirk of human behavior in mind—along with many others to keep the intention aligned with its purpose. “I applaud the effort, but it’s important that such steps are not just gestures,” says Michael Hyter, Korn Ferry’s chief diversity officer. “It needs to be about creating opportunities.”
To be sure, business leaders are taking action in the fight to end systemic racism in a way they never have before. They are pledging to take concrete action to improve their hiring, promotion, and inclusion practices. They are taking a hard look at diversity not just in their talent and leadership pipelines, but also in their customer bases and supply chains as well. The “15% pledge,” which quickly became a trending topic on social media after a Brooklyn woman posted the idea as a way for retailers to back up their statements about standing with the black community, is part of those efforts.
So far, only one company has publicly signed onto the pledge, but experts expect more to follow. Data buying power certainly supports it. According to the research firm Catalyst, Black Americans’ buying power increased 48% in the last decade to $1.4 trillion, fueled by increasing education levels and growth in the number of Black-owned companies. Only Whites and Latinx ranked ahead of Blacks in American buying power, with $13.2 trillion and $1.7 trillion, respectively.
Nina Boone, a senior client partner in Korn Ferry’s Diversity and Inclusion and Board practices, says a more diverse supplier base will naturally lead to a more diverse customer base, which, in turn, can lead to stronger financial performance. “A lot of Black-owned businesses are born out of necessity because people can’t get the products they want or need from mainstream companies,” says Boone.
Boone says which specific Black-owned businesses mainstream companies choose to support is critical. There’s a huge difference between partnering with a celebrity-backed business versus a Black female local entrepreneur who bootstrapped her own operation.
The latter, of course, often doesn’t get access to equity or debt financing or other capital requirements that businesses need to grow. Indeed, Ayana Parsons, a senior client partner in Korn Ferry’s Consumer practice, says organizations have an opportunity to align purpose and action in service of both their customers and Black-owned businesses. Supporting Black-owned businesses, she says, will lead to more jobs for Black people and more reinvestment back into the Black community. “If a significant portion of your customer base is Black, then you owe it to yourself to better serve that population,” Parsons says.


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Despite Tesla Tie, Daimler Moving EV Work In-HouseBy Danny King April 14, 2011
Daimler AG's decision to make its own electric-vehicle motors in partnership with technology giant Robert Bosch furthers the automaker's efforts to make electric-drive production more of an in-house affair and appears to push non-German suppliers like longtime battery supplier Tesla Motors more into the margins. Daimler on Tuesday said it reached an agreement with Bosch to form a joint venture this year to develop motors for Mercedes-Benz and Smart battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) starting in 2012. Daimler spokeswoman Eva Wiese declined to say how much the companies would invest in the JV or what the production goals would be.
The move is part of Daimlers continued effort to bring more operations related to electric-drive vehicle production in house as it expands its inventory of vehicles with plugs. It also may signal a further narrowing of Daimler's relationship with Tesla, in which Daimler affiliates hold a 7.9 percent stake. Daimler tapped California-based EV specialist Tesla in 2008 to make lithium-ion battery packs for a test fleet of 1,000 Smart Fortwo ED battery-electric vehicles. That same year, Daimler formed a battery-making strategic alliance with Germany's Evonik Industries.
The company recently said that Deutsche Accumotive, the Daimler-Evonik joint venture - now 90 percent owned by Daimler - would make the Smart ED's batteries for 2012 models and beyond. The Smart EDs motors, which had been made by U.K.-based Zytek, are to be made by the Daimler-Bosch venture starting in 2012, cutting that company out of Daimler's EV supplier loop. Tesla still will make the batteries for a test fleet of Mercedes A-Class BEVs for the time being, according to Wiese. "We still have a stake in Tesla and were still working together and will hopefully have common projects, but we havent announced them yet," she said. "But we for sure wont be able to equip all of our products with our own batteries. Theres still a need and interest to work with Tesla and other suppliers for batteries.
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How much of an impact the Daimlers strategy will have on Tesla's battery-making business going forward remains to be seen. "We have multiple strategic engagements at different phases with Daimler, and expect to build on our successful relationship," Tesla spokesman Ricardo Reyes said in an e-mail exchange late Tuesday. "Tesla supplies Daimler with batteries, not electric motors. Their agreement with Bosch does not negatively affect our relationship with them. Rather it shows a growing commitment to electric vehicles, a trend we support.
Last year, Tesla generated $21.6 million from powertrain-component sales (which include battery packs) and $19.7 million from development services, indicating that about 35 percent of its 2010 revenue came from sources other than car sales. The company, which also reached an agreement last year to supply batteries for an EV version of the Toyota RAV4, didnt break out revenue stemming from its Daimler business but has said in an SEC filing that if it loses Daimler as a battery customer it would take a substantial hit.
With agreements to make batteries for both Daimler and Toyota in place, Teslas sales revenue from battery-pack production was estimated to jump to $109 million this year and to steadily increase to $158 million in 2014, Goldman Sachs analyst Patrick Archambault wrote in a Feb. 16 note to clients.
Daimler in May 2009 paid $50 million for 10 percent of Tesla as part of an agreement that gave the Mercedes-Benz parent a seat on Teslas board of directors. The deal also provided Daimler with the lithium-ion batteries and electric-drive technology needed to produce its Smart BEVs and other advanced-technology cars, including the Mercedes-Benz Class-A electric-car test fleet. The real value to Tesla of its Daimler ties may be in its influence on the smaller companys stock price. The value of the contract (Daimler) signed is nothing compared to the value of what it means to the investing community, said a knowledgeable source who asked to remain unidentified because of an ongoing relationship. Having Daimler as a backer is "huge validation," the source said.
According to Teslas April 8 filing with the SEC, Daimler affiliate Blackstar Investco LLC owned 7.49 million Tesla shares, or 7.9 percent of the company, second only to Tesla CEO Elon Musks 28.4 million shares. Tesla, which sells its all-electric Roadster for $109,000 and is planning to start selling a new sedan next year, hadnt filed any documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission as of late Tuesday indicating that Daimler or Blackstar had sold any shares. Wiese said Daimler had no plans to divest its Tesla holdings. Tesla shares, which went public at $17 last June, were trading at $25.14 on the Nasdaq exchange at midday today.
While Tesla continues to supply battery packs to Daimler, the German automaker has reached out to other companies in its effort to broaden its range of electric-drive vehicles. One of those efforts resulted in an agreement last year to collaborate with Nissan and its sister company Renault on developing gas, diesel and electric motors for the next-generation of the Smart and the Renault Twingo in an effort to meet progressively more stringent greenhouse-gas emissions standards in Europe. Daimler research chief Thomas Weber told Reuters in September that the partnership would likely be expanded beyond those two models.
Tesla, which has never been profitable, may have ruffled feathers at Daimler by not telling the company ahead of time of its 2010 agreement to make batteries for Toyota, according to one person familiar with the process. A second knowledgeable source told Auto Observer that insiders at Toyota believe the Tesla-Daimler relationship is souring. Toyota made its own $50 million investment in Tesla when it acquired 2.94 million shares in the EV maker as it went public last June. The following month, Tesla began developing batteries for the RAV4 EV and later received a $60 million development contact for prototype versions of the all-electric crossover SUV.
As for Daimler, the Bosch agreement is part of a plan to use electric-drive powertrains as a way to help resuscitate the Smart brand, whose sales have stalled. Last year, Smarts global unit sales fell 17 percent from a year earlier to 97,500 vehicles while the Mercedes-Benz brand boosted vehicle sales by 15 percent to 1.17 million units. In February, Mercedes-Benz said it would take over U.S. distribution of Smart vehicles from Penske Automotive Group, which launched the Smart brand in the U.S. in 2008. The company has estimated that mass production of Smart Fortwo BEVs, about 500 of which are on the road worldwide, may start as soon as September 2012.
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GIA’s Career Fair will be held July 27 in New York City and Oct. 19th in Carlsbad, Calif.
Career Fair is a showcase of unique employment opportunities specifically for the gem and jewelry industry. More than a job fair, this one-day event allows jewelry industry leaders to share strategies on how to get and keep a career in the jewelry industry, talk about what employers need in job applicants, and share their secrets for success.
The New York event will kickoff with the “Working to Win” panel—a discussion held with some of the gem and jewelry business’s most successful and influential executives. Led by GIA Chairman Ralph Destino, the panel includes Hoda Esphahani, president of SAFDICO; John Green, president and CEO of Lux Bond & Green; Lowell Kwiat, president of Kwiat, Inc.; and Catherine Coquillard, vice president of Merchandising Jewelry at QVC.
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Computer users who type in the same username and password for multiple sites - such as online banks, travel agencies and booksellers - are at serious risk from identity thieves, a United Nations agency said.
The International Telecommunication Union, a Geneva-based UN branch, said businesses and regulators need to find a solution to the spread of personal information on the internet, possibly by developing more streamlined identification methods.
At the moment, the ITU said the sheer number of identifiers and passwords required from computer users made it nearly inevitable that they repeat passwords.
"This may cause security breaches, and leave them vulnerable to the machinations of identity thieves ever increasing in number and inventiveness," it said in its 2006 internet report, released ahead of a major meeting of governments and industry officials in Hong Kong.
"The lack of coordination in identification systems is a source of growing inconvenience to users and needs to be addressed rapidly," it said.
The agency also highlighted risks to privacy from widespread internet use, especially from marketers tracking the preferences and traffic of browsers across a variety of sites.
If people have confidence in the way such information is stored and used, the ITU said there might be no problem from the proliferation of "cookies" and other data-capturing tools, often used for targeted online advertising.
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The economic crisis is opening up new opportunities to push components to consumers, several channel experts have told PCR.
While many retailers and resellers have reported an upswing in demand for repairs, component sales have failed to increase in the same way. But industry giants ATI, Nvidia, Sapphire and PNY have all said that the potential is there.
"In this financial downturn the option for consumers to upgrade rather than buy a new PC has become a lot more appealing," Sapphire’s UK and Nordic sales director Neil Spicer told PCR.
"Upgrading with a graphics card and compatible memory is a cheaper solution to purchasing new systems," added PNY’s UK and Nordic sales director Stefanie Summerfield.
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Apple did have what will likely be its last product launch event of the year and the company did not hold back.
First of all, this was probably one of the quickest events the company has ever had, timing out at around 45 minutes. You could say that Apple pulled a Twitter and not a Facebook; it got to the point.
As for the actual products announced, the first one was the new 13-inch MacBook Air. It was the first of the new devices announced today and is one of the first Macs to have Apple’s new silicon Apple M1 processor.
What makes this new MacBook great is the battery is set to last up to 18 hours on a single charge. Customers can get up to 16GB of RAM on it and 2TB of SSD storage. With that said, the SSD is two times faster than the previous model and nine times faster when it comes to machine learning.
The CPU on it will be three and a half times faster than the previous MacBook Air and have up to five times quicker graphics as well.
Other improvements make it so it has WiFi 6, Thunderbolt 4 and have its Touch ID sensor.
The new MacBook Air with Apple’s new silicon M1 processor will start at $999 and $899 with the Apple Education discount.
We also saw updates to the MacBook Pro. The battery on it will last up to 17 hours. Additionally, the laptop can play 20 hours of videos, which is 10 hours longer than the previous model. The GPS will be five times faster, a nearly three times faster CPU and include a FaceTime HD camera too.
Other improvements are 11 times faster machine learning.
The new MacBook Pro will start at $1,299 and $1,199 with the Apple Education discount.
Finally, the last update for the Mac line today was, surprisingly, the Mac Mini.
The new Mac Mini will have updates such as the new silicon Apple M1 processor, being 60 percent more power-efficient, three times faster CPU, six times faster graphics, 15 times faster machine learning and support for 6K external monitors.
Best of all, the new Mac Mini with its new processor and upgrades only costs $699. However, there is no education discount on this computer.
All of the computers mentioned during the event can be ordered through Apple’s website now and will be available next week.
Apple did also announce that macOS Big Sur will be available to download and install on Thursday, November 12.
Tuesday’s event is currently available to stream on its YouTube channel and through its Apple TV app too.
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SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. is quietly adding more advertisements to its Internet-connected televisions as it seeks new revenue sources for its struggling TV business.
The world’s largest maker of TVs by shipments added new tile ads to the main menu bar of its premium TVs in the U.S. in June 2015 and is planning to expand the program to Europe in coming months, people familiar with the matter said.
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Las Vegas, NV, USA, March, 2017 -- Boulevard Mall has landed a call center company expected to employ about 500 people.
The mall, at 3528 S. Maryland Parkway, near the intersection with Desert Inn Road, has signed a lease agreement with TeleTech Services for a 50,000-square-foot call center, according to a statement from Boulevard.
TeleTech is based in Englewood, Colorado. The company expects to start operating the call center by May, according to the statement.
TeleTech will start hiring by the end of March. Boulevard will open a recruitment center inside the mall for job applicants.
A customer service representative with TeleTech can make about $10 an hour, according to job recruitment website GlassDoor.
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The @TechNation Report 2021 is available now!
Now in its seventh year, the report highlights how the sector has changed, who the top performers were through the year, and the challenges and opportunities the UK faces as it navigates out of the pandemic and leaving the EU. The groundbreaking annual Tech Nation Report is now available online.
Key findings from this year’s report:
- Technology is rapidly evolving the way we live and work, and UK tech in particular is shaping the future of the world we live in.
- UK tech IPOs gathered pace in 2020, with double the capital raised compared to 2018.
- UK pulling away from European tech hubs, Germany and France in terms of investment.
- VC investment in Net Zero tech boomed by 160%, with a surprise 160% growth also in transport tech VC investment.
- Meet the 10 superstar scaleups driving a fifth ($3.5bn) of UK tech VC investment between them.
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We’ll not only be looking at the year in retrospect, but also looking to the future and where we can expect UK tech to lead us in the coming years.
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Hormel turns to social media to put Spam in every inbox
After 75 years, Spam is going social. Big time.
Hormel's popular canned meat product is attempting to boost brand loyalty and sales by marketing in social media with real-time messages through its mascot and spokesman, Sir Can-A-Lot.
A new season for “Dancing With the Stars” began? There was Sir Can-A-Lot the next day doing (what else?) the cancan.
March Madness is under way? There's Sir Can-A-Lot flying across the screen attempting to do a Michael Jordan-esque slow-motion slam dunk.
The Facebook and Twitter campaign, which also includes Pinterest, is part of Spam's emphasis on social media under the theme of “Break the Monotony” of home-cooked meals by adding Spam, the largest-selling canned meat product in the United States.
“Spam is as American as apple pie. No one can steal that from us because of Spam's tradition,” said Nicole Behne, Hormel's senior product manager for the Spam brand. “We need to continue to innovate.”
Some of the Sir Can-A-Lot pieces are event-specific, like the Irish jig he danced for a spot that ran around St. Patrick's Day. Some can be used multiple times, such as a “Game of Thrones” themed post that can reappear throughout the HBO series' third season.
The social media campaign is the work of Minneapolis-based BBDO Proximity, which has served as Hormel's only advertising agency for more than 80 years.
Spam isn't the only brand using social media to market products. During this year's Super Bowl, when the stadium lights went low during a power outage, Oreo tweeted the message “Power out? No problem. You can still dunk in the dark.” That tweet went viral and was praised by the advertising community for its immediacy and humor.
The Spam team meets daily, constantly surfs the Internet to see what topics are generating buzz on any particular day and then social media posts — usually less than 15 seconds in length — are developed. The voice of Sir Can-A-Lot comes from a professional voice-over actor in Los Angeles. The animation work is shipped to a specialty shop in Portland, Ore.
“It's almost like a newsroom,” said BBDO executive creative director Brian Kroening of the immediacy of the campaign.
Behne said Hormel researched its Spam customers — both lovers and occasional users — before releasing its first national digital advertising campaign.
“We found that those families are more digitally engaged. They're into crafting, they have hobbies, they love to cook,” Behne said. “They're social, so we can go where they are.”
Marketing a brand through social media is becoming more and more mainstream, said Jennifer Johnson, a professor who teaches brand management at the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
“Social media allows everyone to be social and to have a point of view and interact. You don't have to be an extrovert to be on social media,” Johnson said in an interview. “If Spam's target consumer is a user of social media, this should be successful for them.”
But social media cannot totally replace conventional print and broadcast media.
“If you're trying to attract my 78-year-old parents, who don't use the Internet, it's not going to be very effective,” Johnson said.
Despite all the jokes made about Spam, it remains a popular staple among American consumers, with a growing international following. Spam is available in 44 countries.
In the United States, according to SymphonyIRI Group, a Chicago-based market research firm, Spam sales were up nearly 7 percent in the 12 months ending Feb. 24.
Behne said Spam's market share in the canned luncheon meat category is 87 percent, according to AC Nielsen data. Behne didn't provide a dollar figure for Sir Can-A-Lot's online marketing campaign but noted that it can be less expensive than traditional print and broadcast advertising.
“Social media allows us to target our message to a narrower base of consumers that have a higher likelihood of buying this product, which makes it more cost effective,” she said.
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18 February 2014 — Barbara Meister has been appointed to the board of architecture and interiors firm dwp|suters.
Ms Meister is the director of consultancy Flow Advisory Services.
dwp|suters chief executive Leonie Lorrimer said Ms Meister brought in a skill set critical to the company’s forward strategy.
“Barbara has a strong background in marketing and her industry focused innovation has resulted not only in dramatic revenue increases but major cost savings and value adding for customers,” said Ms Lorrimer. “Barbara’s experience with e-commerce and cloud-based software applications will also be a great asset.
“Perhaps her most important attribute is her skill in ‘building the future for organisations’. In this rapidly evolving world, we welcome Barbara’s insights into strategy, leadership and culture.”
Ms Meister said she was excited about her new role.
“I am passionate about transformation, change and innovations which have the ability to challenge and improve businesses and shape the world around us,” she said.
“With their inspiring design, expertise and talent in creating new standards of living in communities and cities and their courage to approach architecture from a different angle, dwp|suters is poised for significant growth. I am excited to work closely with dwp|suters to explore new opportunities and futures.”


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Sony Slash SKU’s, Reduce Retailers, Outsource High Res Audio, In Move To Get Profits Rolling Again
The move is a global initiative that will see Sony invest more in training and in store merchandising. In the US Sony has cut their SKU count from 2000 to 800.
In Australia Sony has already started to cut their product range with the Japanese Company also cutting out several product categories altogether,
They have also handed their High Res Sound business and their top end home projectors to Melbourne based distributor Audio Active.
Sony executives said that the Company is concentrating on better goods that deliver higher value and greater overall customer satisfaction.
In addition to boosting the bottom line, Sony hopes the effort will help restore its lost brand cache from years ago.
Sony Electronics U.S. president Mike Fasulo said that the move has already started to have an effect with the Company delivering profits in November a key month in US consumer sales.
Fasulo said that instead of stressing price, Sony has implemented a new strategy designed around the customer experience to win the point of sale for key categories, including TV (particularly 4K Ultra HD), high-performance audio (including high-end sound bars and Hi-Res audio), digital imaging (particularly mirrorless and action cams), and mobile electronics, he added.
“Because we are in a conversion model right now – I’ve been very clear that this is a turnaround, and it is turning around very nicely and very quickly, which is good,” said Fasulo.
Speaking about their push into the 4K TV market he said that there was still some industry issues around 4K marketing “We can’t forget that this is market creation, and consumers are still confused. The more demonstration and more explanation we can do, the better [it will be] for everybody. Then, you can charge after market share. There’s a crossroad, a shift, where we should all be working as an industry to get excitement about what this new technology is all about.”
Fasulo said that Sony was implementing a “Gemba” strategy which is designed to deliver excitement surrounding Sony’s new products and technologies to areas where consumers can engage with the technology and the brand.
Sony is taking money out of advertising instead the Company is spending on “experience selling” at retail, Fasulo said, adding that the goal is “conversion” of customers.
“It’s about selling through products as opposed to load ’em and leave ’em. Those days are over,” Fasulo explained.
Despite recent downwardly revised sales estimates for the corporation, Fasulo said Sony Electronics has been making significant progress developing and growing businesses around the key categories on which it has decided to focus.
Fasulo said since revising its strategy last year, Sony has taken a different approach than most consumer electronics manufacturers by not focusing on overall market share from a SKU sales perspective, as it winnowed down the company’s product mix to focus on those models that can generate the best value performance for the customer and the highest profit margins for Sony and its dealer partners.
In Australia Sony is using resources in Singapore to handle back office logistics.
Sony Australia has also moved to shift the servicing of speciality audio and vision dealers via Audio Active.
“Our job is to get Sony back to a sustainable, profitable entity for the corporation, and we are going to do that by providing the best customer experience,” Fasulo said.


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The company has produced a headlamp housing moulded from coffee chaff – the dried skin of a coffee bean that comes off during the roasting process, for the first time in exterior vehicle lighting industry, Varroc Lighting Systems said in a release.
Developed in partnership with Ford Motor Company, McDonald’s, and Competitive Green Technologies (CGT), Varroc Lighting’s new headlamp offers stiffness, rigidity, and thermal management properties that are comparable to existing headlamps, the company claims.
"Using these recycled materials enables us to reduce our environmental impact—the headlamp housing will be 20 per cent lighter and better for fuel efficiency," the company said in a statement.
In December 2019, Ford Motor company partnered with McDonald's USA to use coffee beans in headlight housing and other automobile parts produced by the automaker.
Ford claims that the chaff composite meets the quality specifications for parts like headlamp housings and other interior and under hood components. "The resulting components will be about 20 percent lighter and require up to 25 percent less energy during the molding process," the automaker said in a statement.


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The government has said it will introduce legislation to allow a wider range of healthcare professionals in the NHS to prescribe “low-risk” medicines.
The proposed legislation was included in the 2019 Queen’s Speech, delivered on 14 October 2019, and government briefing notes on the speech which say a new Medicines and Medical Devices Bill would enable the “government to increase the range of professions able to prescribe low-risk medicines to make the most effective use of the NHS workforce”.
It will also enable the development of “more innovative ways of dispensing medicines, where recommended by scientific experts”, the government said.
The proposed new bill would “extend and apply to the whole of the UK,” according to the notes. However, leaders in the Welsh pharmacy sector have already called for every pharmacy in Wales to employ a pharmacy independent prescriber by 2030 as part of its long-term plan for the profession.
Commenting on the proposed legislation, Sandra Gidley, president at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, noted that there “is already quite a wide range of health professionals who can prescribe”.
“Rather than expanding lesser formularies to other people, it would seem to me to make much more sense to think about why some people aren’t becoming prescribers at the moment and what the barriers of that might be,” she said.
“I’m not quite sure what problem they’re trying to solve.”
The ‘Community pharmacy contractual framework for 2019/2020 to 2023/2024’, published in July 2019, committed to pursuing legislative changes that would “allow all pharmacies to benefit from more efficient hub-and-spoke dispensing” as well as implementing “greater use of original pack dispensing”.
The proposed new bill would also implement “a scheme to combat counterfeit medicines entering supply chains and a registration scheme for online sellers”, the government said.
Pharmacies in the UK currently have access to the falsified medicines directive database, which alerts pharmacists to counterfeit medicines in the supply chain. However, the UK will no longer have access to the database if the UK leaves the EU with no deal in place.
Also included in the proposed bill would be a new registration scheme for online pharmacies.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency currently requires online sellers of general sales list, prescription-only medicines or pharmacy medicines to register for a ‘Distance Selling Logo’ “to help members of the public to identify websites that can legally sell medicines”.
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After what was seemingly a plethora of brutal, painful months of anticipation, the much awaited iPhone 5 was finally announced by Apple CEO Tim Cook at the company's press conference yesterday. With a taller 4-inch display sporting a slightly higher resolution, support for 4G LTE networks, an improved A6 processor and more, the predecessor to last year's iPhone 4S is certainly a significant addition to Apple's expanding lineup of iPhone devices. What we want to know from our readers is whether the new features warrant a purchase.
How many times have you caught the "iPhone tick"? When you feel like your leg is vibrating - even when your iPhone isn't in your pocket. Or when you perceive a noise from the other side of the room, heck in a room not even remotely close, that you thought was your phone going off but was really a random noise that in reality doesn't sound as similar to a smartphone vibration as initially perceived. Sound familiar? That's only the tip of the iceberg as your iPhone continues to reprogram your brain with each new major feature. [Vote on the poll at the bottom of this post.]
Writer Michael DeLisi and myself were having a casual conversation discussing the new iPad. Following his awe of the new retina display due to his recent unboxing of the new device, we began to talk about how either of us types on the device. Undoubtedly, the typical typing speed on an iPad in comparison to the iPhone is considerably lower and the amount of typos on the latter is usually at a minimal. We want to know which of the two keyboards that you use.
While we think the new iPad is going to be an absolute success, we want to hear our readers' opinions regarding the new device that Apple unveiled yesterday. Hitting the shelves come March 16th, the new iPad is packed with a lot of new anticipated and predicted features. Will you buy it? Check out our polls below.
Writer Michael DeLisi and I are curious to see how many of our readers actually like the iPhone’s virtual keyboard. I, personally, have heard tons of complaints about the keyboard being “too small”, “too responsive”, or something else of the same nature. Me? I love the virtual keyboard currently on
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A non-profit youth organization out of Maryland, named “Game Plan”, claims that LeBron James took their slogan “I am more than an athlete” to create his own “More Than An Athlete”, TMZ Sports reports.
According to Game Plan, they created the slogan back in 2016 and registered it as a trademark in 2018. They claim that LeBron saw their members wearing shirts with the “I am more than an athlete” slogan during the Cavaliers – Wizards game in 2017.
The claim reportedly states that: “The attendance at the game gave Game Plan tremendous exposure, as it was able to gain attention from John Wall in front of his peers including the (arguably) most famous athlete in the world, as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, at the time, LeBron James.”
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The Price of Hacking
The bank company Capital One announced that an Amazon Web Services employee gained access to more than 100 million accounts and credit card applications earlier this year. And customers affected by the Yahoo data breaches between 2013 and 2016 may soon be eligible for a $358 payout. They're just the latest incidents in a long line of prominent breaches that have left people wary of forking over their personal information, and companies spending millions to bolster security and settle lawsuits. The hackers' targets have ranged from major retailers to the federal government and even the online dating site Ashley Madison.


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The Radio Advertising Bureau says flashy, new television ads aired during the Super Bowl may look cool, but do a poor job of linking the ad to a brand.
Citing research from Nielsen conducted for the RAB, the radio advertising lobby says the audio message in a radio ad is more direct, personal and the message is not “obscured” by video or a picture. Respondents were asked whether they recalled seeing the ad, could recall the type of product or its brand name.
The research showed consumer recall of brand advertising during the game was uniformly low, lower than 10% for half the 10 ads tested. “More importantly, when asked to name the brand of the product being advertised on an unaided basis, most viewers could not link the brand to the ad, even for the ads that had higher recall themselves,” according to the RAB.
Some 750 respondents, age 18–54, who said they watched the Feb. 3 game and saw any of the ads took part in the survey.
The ads not only generated low brand recall, but also had little impact on viewers’ perceptions of the brands, according to the research.
Companies paid an average of $4 million for a 30-second spot during this year’s game. Radio works hard to register a marketer’s message at a fraction of the cost, says RAB.


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When you get a gift, it's the thought that counts. But sometimes the thought doesn't always fit.
That's just one of the reasons the National Retail Federation predicts that $62 billion dollars worth of merchandise will come back in the days after Christmas. But it seems it's not just about bringing gifts back anymore.
"Well the day after Christmas has really transformed from a return day to customers coming in and looking for after Christmas bargains," said Ray Gray, store leader for JC Penney in Tallahassee.
Gray has been doing retail for 30 years and says he's seen the shift. Stores like JC Penney put on post-Christmas sales in hopes that folks won't just return an item, but buy new ones as well.


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Space Micro Doubles Facility Size for Satellite Electronics
San Diego, CA – March 25, 2014 Space Micro announced today they have signed a new 5-year lease to significantly expand their San Diego Facility. Based on market demand for their new space and missile electronics products, the facility floor space is being doubled over the next 12 months. This expansion encompasses all functional aspects of their business including engineering, quality, program management, marketing, and manufacturing/test.
Space Micro's CEO David J. Strobel, commented, "Our products are gaining traction and market share in today’s cost constrained space and missile business climate. We are experiencing increased demand for space processing/computing, star trackers, sun sensors, and our space transponder/mission data transmitters. With over 30 satellite programs in backlog, we have demonstrated our ability to be a strategic partner for many space prime contractors."


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Pamela Anderson is in her stripped-down makeup era.
When discussing her fresh-faced beauty style, Pam called it “freeing, and fun, and a little rebellious too,” in an interview with Elle published on Aug. 17. “I did notice that there were all these people doing big makeup looks, and it’s just like me to go against the grain and do the opposite.”
The Baywatch alum explained that it’s only natural she’d evolve her beauty philosophy as she’s matured.
“I think we all start looking a little funny when we get older,” she noted. “I’m kind of laughing at myself when I look at the mirror. I go, ‘Wow, this is really…what’s happening to me?’ It’s a journey.”
Loving the skin she’s in has brought out the confidence in her. As she put it, “I feel rooted for. I feel good. I’m in a good place.”


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Burlington Stores Inc. (BURL) is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter earnings results on Thursday before the market opens. The branded apparel products retailer’s results will be benefited by growth in comparable sales and overall sales, as well as improvement in adjusted EBIT margin. The bottom line will be driven by strong sales growth and expense leverage as well as disciplined expense management.
The company has now been able to attract the customers through its “open to buy” off-price model instead of the previous coat-focused off-price retailer. Also, the company has initiated a better marketing approach along with higher vendor counts, technological advancements and localized assortments could increase the customer base.
Burlington is also gradually expanding its store fleet as its primary focus on home, beauty and gifts turned attractive for the customers. The company has taken the peers competition seriously as it started augmenting sales, optimizing markdowns, effectively managing inventory and lowering expenses. This could aid in improvizing operating margin and lower the gap of the same compared with its competitors.
Analysts expect earnings to jump by 27.60% year-over-year to $2.77 per share and revenue to rise by 5.30% to $2.04 billion for the fourth quarter. In comparison, during the previous year quarter, the company posted a profit of $2.17 per share on revenue of $1.94 billion. Majority of the analysts recommended a “strong buy” or “buy” rating while expecting the stock to reach $181.94 per share in the next 52 weeks.
For the third quarter, the company reported a 71% jump in earnings helped by higher sales, comparable sales growth and an 80 basis point adjusted EBIT margin improvement. Total sales increased by 13.7% helped by the outstanding performance of its new stores. Comparable store sales increased 4.4% for the third quarter, on top of last year’s 3.1% same-store sales increase.
During the third quarter, Burlington’s top performing businesses were home, including toys, beauty, men’s and ladies sportswear, athletic shoes, and athletic apparel and baby apparel and baby depot. Geographical-wise, the Northeast and the Southwest performed above the chain average while the Midwest comps were below.
For the fourth quarter, the company had expected total sales growth in the range of 8% to 9% and adjusted earnings in the range of $2.71 to $2.75 per share. Shifted comparable store sales are anticipated to increase in the range of 2% to 3% on top of a 5.9% increase during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017.
Shares of Burlington Stores opened higher on Tuesday and is trading above the green territory. The stock has risen over 40% in the past year and over 1% in the past three months.
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Shares of Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) were down 1% on Thursday. The stock has dropped over 9% year-to-date. Although the tobacco industry has felt the pinch of inflation,
CarMax, Inc. (NYSE:KMX) reported second quarter 2023 earnings results today. Net revenues rose 2% year-over-year to $8.1 billion. Net earnings were $125.9 million, or $0.79 per share, compared to $285.2 million,


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The popularity of mobile payments has been on the rise in China since the launch of Alipay and WeChat Pay, which jointly take 90% of China's mobile payment market share as the daily app of Chinese consumers. In 2016, Alipay and WeChat Pay enabled $2.9 trillion in Chinese digital payments, representing a 20-fold increase over the past four years, according to a report by the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance released in April 2017.
Alternative Airlines accepts the Chinese payment method Alipay
China’s travellers are expected to take an estimated 700 million trips over the next five years. That means, if you take a one in a million trip from China, there are still 700 trips out there just like yours! Alternative Airlines understand the importance of easy travel and offer Alipay as a payment method to provide students, travellers and expatriates with the best service when buying flights.
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Alipay is a leader in online payments and has over 400 million users worldwide as well as controlling of just under half of China’s online payment market in October 2016. It processes more than 80 million transactions per day. This is three times the amount handled by PayPal, and the equivalent to one-third of the USD 2.5 trillion in total global online payments in 2014.
Alipay, the online payments unit of Chinese internet company Alibaba, deal with UATP (Universal Air Travel Plan), a private network run by airlines like Air New Zealand, Delta, Aero Mexico, Qantas, and Japan Airlines, is designed to capture a slice of the China’s rapidly expanding travel sector, currently worth some 622 billion yuan ($102 billion).
Despite over half of worldwide online customers using credit cards to make purchases, more than 50% of E-Commerce sales are completed through alternative payment methods. Information cited in the report estimates that the combined share of different alternative payment methods in global E-Commerce sales will rise, leaving the share of bank cards at a decrease.
Alternative payment methods are particularly favoured over bank cards in emerging markets such as China. Here, E-Wallets like Alipay made up for more than half of online sales.


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Pioneer NFT lending platform Drops has announced the debut of its beta network. The milestone marks a significant achievement in Drops’ roadmap as the project prepares to launch its main network at an earlier date.
The Drops NFT lending platform will introduce an ecosystem where NFT and DeFi token owners can use their metaspace projects as collateral to obtain or provide loans. At its core, Drops seeks to bridge the liquidity gap that exists in these upcoming cryptocurrency niches.
Drops founder and CEO Darius Kozlovskis commented on the milestone, pointing out the underlying potential to add value to the NFT ecosystem.
“Over the past few months, NFT has taken center stage in the cryptocurrency discussion. However, the recent cryptocurrency market crash revealed potential liquidity issues in this upcoming niche.”
“The Drops NFT lending model aims to introduce liquidity to the NFT market by connecting the meta-world with decentralized finance (DeFi).” Kozlovskis added, “In doing so, we believe NFT owners can get more value out of their idle assets.
Drops NFT lending platform
According to the Drops project’s roadmap, the NFT lending platform will be launched in three phases. The first phase is a test network; interested participants can submit applications, after which they will be instructed on how to participate. Once the test network is successfully launched, an audit will be conducted to prepare for the launch of the main network, which will be the final phase.
NFT owners will be able to access loans from the Drops NFT ecosystem through the platform’s native tokens, dNFT and dTokens. These native tokens are intended to represent NFT collateral in Drops’ permissionless loan pool, allowing NFT owners to access or provide loans.
The dNFT and dTokens will also be used to repay outstanding debt. Test.com has set a collateral factor between 0 and 1 as a guideline for what a person can borrow against their NFT collateral.
Darius Kozlovskis, the project’s founder and CEO, further noted that they are excited about the possibilities of the meta-world and possible integration with the wider DeFi ecosystem to spur growth in NFT.
“We are excited about the future of the metaverse given its potential to build a global digital community. Going forward, we expect to integrate more DeFi opportunities to support mainstream adoption of NFT and the digital ecosystem.”


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The annual Ranking Digital Rights survey, funded by the Open Technology Institute, a think tank focused on online and technological issues, found that companies like Apple, Google and Facebook still score much better on privacy and free expression issues than, for instance, China’s Baidu and Russia’s Yandex.
South Korean companies also scored much higher than those in China and Russia, where strict laws heavily monitor and censor Internet use. The study — as noted by Vocativ —looks at 10 of the biggest Internet companies around the world, most of which use both a messaging or email system and a search or social network system. American companies include Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Twitter, and Yahoo from the U.S. Other companies in the study are China’s Google-like Baidu and Tencent, Russia’s Mail.Ru and Yandex, South Korea’s Kakao and Samsung, largely for its creation of phones that run the Android operating system.
The 2017 Index measures if and how companies disclose their commitments, policies, and practices that affect users’ freedom of expression and privacy across 35 indicators in three main categories: Governance, Freedom of Expression, and Privacy. Each category contains indicators measuring company disclosure for that category; each indicator is comprised of a series of elements that measure company disclosure for that indicator.
Apple ranked seventh among the 12 Internet and mobile ecosystem companies evaluated with a score of 35 (out o 100). A major reason for this relatively low score was poor disclosure about the company’s commitments and policies affecting users’ freedom of expression, according to the Open Technology Institute. Next to its peers, Apple also offered little disclosure about how it has institutionalized commitments to users’ rights through corporate governance, oversight, and accountability mechanisms, the organization adds.
Google and Microsoftwere the only companies in the entire Index to score more than 60% overall. Ranking Digital Rights is a non-profit research initiative housed at New America’s Open Technology Institute.


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It’s officially been announced that Destiny 2’s Crucible mode will be able to run at 120 FPS on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
The Crucible is Destiny’s PvP mode, where players can earn loot and rank up by battling it out against one another across a variety of game modes and maps.
Thanks to Bungie CEO Pete Parsons, we now know that it will run at 120 FPS on the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles, compared to the 60 FPS that the rest of the game will operate at.
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) November 10, 2020
“We are announcing today, right now, Crucible will be at 120 frames per second,” Parsons told a very excited Phil Spencer, who predicted he would now be getting killed “twice as fast.”
While the increase in display quality will be big news for Destiny players on next-gen consoles, we don’t know if it will remain exclusive to just the Crucible, or eventually branch out to other areas of the game.
For now, everything outside of PvP will apparently be 60 FPS, though there was nothing ruling out the possibility of a future update changing that sometime down the road.
Higher FPS means players will be able to track targets more smoothly, see enemies sooner thanks to faster rendering speeds, and a number of other benefits. Which will definitely come in handy for the new Beyond Light expansion.
Conveniently enough, Beyond Light dropped the same day as the announcement — Nov. 10 — so players who are lucky enough to have gotten a next-gen console will soon be able to frag out in the Crucible in glorious 120 FPS.


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Zoona Zambia Chief Executive Officer has urged Small and Medium Entrepreneurs- SME’S in the country to consider venturing in micro financial services business.
Brad Magrath says as markets change from analogue to digital operations the micro financial sector will have a lot of financial inclusion which will give the SME’S an opportunity to grow their business.
Magrath adds that it is important for young people in the country to create a sustainable livelihood for them selves despite the country going through economic challengers.
He further urged young people to capitalize on business opportunities other than just waiting on government to provide them with jobs.
‘’Its time young people became bold and take advantage of business opportunities, mainly in micro financial services.
Magrath adds that young people in the country must learn to charge for goods and services in an effort to make money.
He further urged young people to be networking and share ideas on how best to expand their businesses.


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Online sales for J.Jill are growing and hit $228 million for the 12 months ended Oct. 29.
Timothy Barefield will step down Sept. 15 as CEO; beginning August 1, CFO Jeff Byal will assume the role of acting president and CEO.
Timothy Barefield will step down Sept. 15 as GiftCertificates.com CEO due to what the company describes as a family health issue. Beginning Aug. 1, CFO Jeff Byal will assume the role of acting president and CEO through Sept. 15. Barefield will remain as a strategic advisor to the company for an additional year.
“Tim’s legacy will continue as we implement the strategic plan that he and the rest of our management team have laid out,” Byal says. Byal joined the company in November as CFO. He has 18 years of senior financial, strategic and general leadership experience in the retail, technology, and advertising and marketing communications industries.
GiftCertificates.com currently is mulling leadership plans for after Sept. 15. The company sells gift certificates and cards from myriad retailers to consumers and incentive programs to a wide range of corporate customers. The pure-play launched in 1997.


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Taking the temperature at the Forum Solarpraxis: day one18. November 2011 | Global PV markets, Forum Solarpraxis | By: Ruth Michaelson
The 12th Forum Solarpraxis kicked off on Thursday, designed to unite the movers and shakers of the industry in Berlin to discuss the issues currently facing the PV industry. Yet the clash between the pre-organised themes for the first day and the participants desire to look to the future outside of the German industry seemed to present a bit of a problem.
"The future of solar is not Germany," said Gerard Reid of Jefferies Group Inc., during an early session entitled "Is the German solar industry still competitive?"; this was a sentence which seemed to sum up the general mood of the conference as it began. Much discussion seemed to focus on how to grow the way that PV has taken root within the socio-political structure of Germany to other countries both in Europe and beyond; the Italian market was the European market that was on everyone’s lips, with the magical ten gigawatt (GW) number being cited more than once. Although the vast majority of attendees were German or German-speaking (you could count the number of people wearing translation headsets on one hand), both the selected topics as well as the majority of attendees seemed at odds with many overriding buzzwords and themes of the first day, being entirely focused on the internal German market.
In spite, or perhaps because of, being perhaps the only panellist speaking in English, Reid seemed to do well at galvanising the views of the audience even early on; many of his more dramatic statements garnered thunderous applause. He explained that his view of the industry was based around technology, that "it’s not about selling modules any more, it’s about 24/7 clean power."
Addressing the issue of the threat of Chinese dominance of the industry that seemed ever-present, he outlined what he saw as the ways for the German industry to overcome "their grave mistakes" that had occurred so far.
"The German government financed companies, like Centrotherm in particular, who then sell their technology to China," he explained "but companies need to keep hold of their intellectual property." In order to surpass the potential danger of such an action, Germany needed to reposition itself as the centre of innovative, high quality products. "The glass is still half full, because competition is still high," he explained, touching on another internationally prescient issue for the industry. The growing presence of China (an earlier speaker, Karl-Heinz Remmers of Solarpraxis, was very careful to state that "Asia is not just China," although this statement was not picked up at other times) was not always considered a negative however, with Reid’s careful annunciation that “we have China to thank for cheaper module prices, if it wasn’t for them we’d still have three euro per Watt,” generating further rapturous applause.
The opinion was also voiced that the industry was perhaps too complacent regarding the German public’s mood post-Fukushima. At a discussion entitled "Solar energy in the headlines," designed to discuss the public image of solar within Germany, Professor Dr Jo Groebel of the Deutsches Digital Institut spelled it out, in no uncertain terms, that "this branch of the industry has simply not profited from public opinion." The panel, formed of Prof. Dr Groebel and four of Germany’s leading journalists, who report on the solar industry, also took a more sceptical view of the industry’s hopes for itself in the coming year, quick to temper ideas of a complete photovoltaic takeover with talk of it continuing to "be one part of a diverse energy mix."
2012 predictions for Germany could reach a high of seven GW, according to Dirk Morbitzer of Renewable Analytics. Yet with much talk of the longer-term future of the industry, coming from heightened European networking alongside exporting power and products to Africa, India and China, the slightly more international topics set for the second day of the conference should hopefully yield more specific information on how the industry can grow itself beyond German borders.
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Household goods manufacturer Unilever moved closer to June’s record highs above £43.70 per share following the release of half-year trading numbers. The stock was last dealing 1% higher in Thursday’s session.
The maker of blockbuster labels like Dove soap and Magnum ice cream announced that turnover rose 5.5% during January-June, to €27.7bn, a result that powered net profit 22.4% higher to €3.3bn.
Underlying sales rose 3% in the period, with growth in the second quarter remaining stable from the prior three months. Excluding its underperforming spreads business — the sale or de-merger of which Unilever described as being “well underway” — underlying revenues rose 3.4%.
While group volumes remained flat between January and June, the formidable brand power of Unilever’s goods helped revenues to continue expanding. The company managed to lift prices by 3% in the six months to June.
Mighty Margin Growth
Lauding today’s news, chief executive Paul Polman commented that “our first half results show continued growth well ahead of our markets and a substantial step-up in profitability despite the persisting volatile global trading environment.”
And Polman expects Unilever to pick up the pace as 2017 progresses, commenting that “the actions we are taking keep us on track for another year of underlying sales growth ahead of our markets, in the 3-5% range.
“We anticipate accelerating growth in the second half of the year driven by the phasing of our innovation plans and a step-up in brand and marketing investment,” he continued.
The company expects to deliver a 100-basis-point improvement in underlying operating margins, the Unilever head honcho added. Margins jumped 180 basis points in the half-year, to 17.8%, although growth is anticipated to moderate in the second half as brand investment and marketing is set to rise.
I have long argued that Unilever’s bulging stable of market-leading brands, broad product diversification and extensive geographic footprint makes it one of the most dependable growth shares out there. The FTSE 100 giant saw sales rise in all of its categories and sub-categories during January-June (cutting out the drag over at its spreads division), even though market conditions remain challenging.
And current City projections underline my faith in Unilever’s earnings-creating capabilities. The Marmite maker is predicted to report a 16% earnings rise in 2017, and to follow this up with an extra 12% rise next year.
Although expensive on paper, I reckon the Anglo-Dutch giant’s forward P/E ratio of 23.2 times is a fair reflection of its formidable defensive capabilities.
And Unilever’s also provides plenty for growth dividend investors to get excited about. Last year’s dividend of 109p per share is predicted to rise to 122.6p in the present period, and again to 135.5p in 2018.
Consequently investors can enjoy handy yields of 2.8% and 3.1% for this year and next. With revenues tearing higher and Unilever doubling-down on cost-cutting initiatives, I expect the firm to remain a firm favourite with growth and income chasers for years to come.
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The government has published a list of around 30 fruits and vegetables that will be subject to the plastic packaging ban coming into effect on 1 January 2022. The list includes courgettes, aubergines and cucumbers, as well as apples, oranges and pears.
Kraft Heinz has detailed plans to release a circular PET tomato ketchup bottle by 2022 in its latest Environmental Social Governance report. The company has made progress towards its aim of using 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025.
The drinks category is brimming with trend-driven launches including flavorful, energizing and better-for-you beverages. FoodIngredientsFirst speaks to disruptive fizzy beverage brands, whose offerings include a classic cola recipe reimagined with a clean label twist, as well as AI-generated flavor synergies.


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The fps1000 affordable high speed camera has hit several milestones recently such as shipping the platinum fps1000 and some users actually producing first footage with them. The focus now is on shipping the rest of the gold and silver models which were lower spec and cost versions which were part of the original Kickstarter campaign in 2014 here.
The fps1000 Platinum camera capable of 500fps at 720p resolution has started arriving at the doorstep of Kickstarter backers this week. Production is continuing to fill the backlog of orders and should proceed later on with other models like the fps1000 4k which we are expecting.
One of the first people to get the camera is Peter Carsten an early backer and he has started to post some footage tests of birds in flight with the camera. Peter was kind enough to share his footage and even a sample frame for us to test in our RAW DNG Converter.


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The development comes when India is sitting on a bill that calls for a ban on all private
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Sony’s Worldwide Studio president Shuhei Yoshida has spoken up about his opinions on No Man’s Sky– while mainly positive, he understands complaints.
At the Tokyo Game Show this year, Yoshida explained his position to Eurogamer. Yoshida says he “really enjoyed” the game: “I had the opportunity to play the game right before launch – and I restarted playing the game on launch day with the Day One patch – so I could see the struggle for the developers to get the game out in the state that they wanted.”
“I understand some of the criticisms especially Sean Murray is getting,” Yoshida continued, “because he sounded like he was promising more features in the game from day one. It wasn’t a great PR strategy, because he didn’t have a PR person helping him, and in the end he is an indie developer. But he says their plan is to continue to develop No Man’s Sky features and such, and I’m looking forward to continuing to play the game.”
Indeed, many players have been unhappy enough with the game to make refund policies hit the news. The overarching negative sentiment is that, as Yoshida explained, many felt there were features promised in development that not only didn’t make it into the final game, but that there was no explanation that these features had been cut.
When asked if he felt the PlayStation brand had suffered for the game, Yoshida was resolute: “I am super happy with the game actually, and I’m amazed with the sales the game has gotten, so I’m not the right person to judge if it has ‘harmed’ the PlayStation brand. I personally don’t think so. If anything, I am proud that people can play No Man’s Sky on PS4 as well as PC.”
No Man’s Sky, it seems, will continue to grow on PS4 and PC.


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The latest U.S. inflation numbers have been released, and they indicate that prices continue to increase. Inflation in the US is ahead of the rest of the world by over 3 percentage points, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. That may explain why the US has outpaced the world’s average rate of inflation over the last decade. Oscar Jorda (the bank’s senior policy advisor) cautions against taking too much faith in these figures. But the overall picture is evident.
Different factors determine the inflation rate. The CPI is the price index used by the government to gauge inflation. It is calculated by the Labor Department through a survey of households. It is a measure of the amount spent on goods or services but does not include non-direct expenditure that makes the CPI less stable. This is why inflation data must be considered in relation to other data, not in isolation.
The Consumer Price Index is the most common inflation rate in the United States, which measures the price increase of products and services. The index is updated every month and gives a clear picture of how much prices have increased. This index provides a useful tool for planning and budgeting. Consumers are likely to be worried about the cost of goods and services. However it is essential to understand the reasons why prices are increasing.
The cost of production goes up which raises prices. This is sometimes referred to as cost-push inflation. It’s caused by the rising of raw material costs, like petroleum products and precious metals. It can also involve agricultural products. It’s important to know that when the price of a commodity increases, it also affects the price of the item in question.
Inflation figures are usually difficult to come by, but there is a method that will help you calculate how much it will cost to purchase items and services over the course of a year. The real rate of return (CRR), is a better measure of the nominal annual investment. Keep this in mind when you’re considering investing in bonds or stocks the next time.
Presently, the Consumer Price Index is 8.3 percent higher than its year-earlier level. This was the highest rate for a year since April 1986. Inflation is expected to continue to increase because rents comprise a significant portion of the CPI basket. Furthermore, rising home prices and mortgage rates make it more difficult for many people to buy a home which increases the demand for rental properties. Furthermore, the potential for railroad workers affecting the US railway system could result in disruptions in the transport of goods.
The Fed’s interest rate for short-term loans has risen to a 2.25 percent level in the past year from its near zero-target rate. According to the central bank, inflation is expected to increase by just one-half percent over the coming year. It’s not clear whether this rise will be enough to stop the inflation.
The core inflation rate which excludes volatile oil and food prices, is approximately 2 percent. Core inflation is reported on a year-over- one-year basis by the Federal Reserve. This is what it means when it says that its inflation target of 2% is. The core rate has been below the target for a long period of time, but it has recently started increasing to a degree that has been damaging to many businesses.


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Shares of Homeserve plc (LON:HSV) have received a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the nine research firms that are currently covering the stock, Marketbeat reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have issued a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company. The average 1-year price target among brokerages that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is GBX 1,024.29 ($13.38).
A number of brokerages recently commented on HSV. BNP Paribas began coverage on shares of Homeserve in a research note on Tuesday, December 4th. They set an “outperform” rating and a GBX 1,100 ($14.37) target price for the company. HSBC began coverage on shares of Homeserve in a research note on Tuesday, February 12th. They set a “hold” rating and a GBX 1,000 ($13.07) target price for the company. Finally, Liberum Capital reiterated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 1,120 ($14.63) target price on shares of Homeserve in a research note on Thursday, February 28th.
LON:HSV opened at GBX 1,021 ($13.34) on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $3.40 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 35.45. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 64.44, a current ratio of 1.08 and a quick ratio of 1.07. Homeserve has a 52 week low of GBX 714.50 ($9.34) and a 52 week high of GBX 1,066 ($13.93).
HomeServe plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides home repair and improvement services to household customers under the HomeServe brand. It offers plumbing, drainage, electrics, water supply pipe, gas supply pipe, appliance repair, pest infestation, and locksmith services, as well as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning services.
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