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After shipping its headset this summer, the mixed reality startup will use its LEAP conference this week to woo developers.
From hype to reality
Since its release in August, the Magic Leap One has gotten cautiously optimistic reviews.
“Whether it’s more than a developer prototype, and whether it amazes you, is another story,” CNET reviewer Scott Stein wrote after trying the Magic Leap headset shortly before it went on sale.
The experience is the best of its kind that he’s tried so far, but it needs to wow. It’s “a step forward, but not a game changer. Not yet, at least,” Stein wrote. “It all depends on what comes next.”
Complicating it all is that Magic Leap built up a lot of hype in the tech world before even before showing off its first prototypes publicly. Some developers and industry watchers told me that hype may have made it hard for the company to deliver the magic what we’re all expecting in its first release.
“It has to be something where you go ‘wow,’ but want to go back to it too,” said Mike Bloxham, an analyst at research firm Magid. “If people’s heightened expectations of the device aren’t met, they’re going to turn away from it and say it’s not worth the hype or money.”


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Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. raised its holdings in Kroger Co (NYSE:KR) by 269.5% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 808,380 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 589,599 shares during the period. Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. owned about 0.09% of Kroger worth $22,188,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Other large investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. IHT Wealth Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Kroger by 122.1% in the second quarter. IHT Wealth Management LLC now owns 2,770 shares of the company’s stock valued at $376,000 after purchasing an additional 1,523 shares in the last quarter. Howe & Rusling Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Kroger in the third quarter valued at about $103,000. Mountain Capital Investment Advisors Inc bought a new stake in shares of Kroger in the second quarter valued at about $128,000. Balentine LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Kroger by 1,263.2% in the second quarter. Balentine LLC now owns 6,380 shares of the company’s stock valued at $149,000 after purchasing an additional 5,912 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Sun Life Financial INC lifted its holdings in shares of Kroger by 45,020.0% in the second quarter. Sun Life Financial INC now owns 6,768 shares of the company’s stock valued at $158,000 after purchasing an additional 6,753 shares in the last quarter. 80.55% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
A number of analysts have recently commented on the company. ValuEngine lowered Kroger from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, February 2nd. BMO Capital Markets set a $31.00 price target on Kroger and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, January 24th. Morgan Stanley boosted their price target on Kroger from $28.00 to $29.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 6th. Citigroup upped their target price on Kroger from $30.00 to $33.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, December 26th. Finally, Stephens set a $29.00 target price on Kroger and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 16th. Seventeen analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, eleven have issued a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. The company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $29.52.
In related news, VP Michael Joseph Donnelly sold 40,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, January 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $30.64, for a total transaction of $1,225,600.00. Following the sale, the vice president now owns 319,124 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $9,777,959.36. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, VP Carin L. Fike sold 1,538 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $25.61, for a total value of $39,388.18. Following the sale, the vice president now directly owns 25,956 shares in the company, valued at approximately $664,733.16. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 117,868 shares of company stock worth $3,403,416 in the last ninety days. 0.87% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Kroger Co (KR) opened at $27.20 on Tuesday. Kroger Co has a 12-month low of $19.69 and a 12-month high of $34.75. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.11, a current ratio of 0.85 and a quick ratio of 0.31. The company has a market capitalization of $23,970.00, a P/E ratio of 16.19, a PEG ratio of 4.50 and a beta of 0.96.
Kroger (NYSE:KR) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, November 30th. The company reported $0.44 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.40 by $0.04. Kroger had a return on equity of 28.60% and a net margin of 1.31%. The company had revenue of $27.75 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $27.48 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.41 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 4.5% on a year-over-year basis. sell-side analysts expect that Kroger Co will post 2.04 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, March 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 15th will be given a $0.125 dividend. This represents a $0.50 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.84%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, February 14th. Kroger’s payout ratio is 29.76%.
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Mid-year retail warehouse vacancy rates were 5.1% - a fall on the 5.3% registered at the end of 2016.
Since hitting a peak of 10% in mid-2013, the vacancy rate - which includes both freestanding units and parks - has almost halved, according to the retail consultancy, which compiles the Definitive Guide to Retail and Leisure Parks.
These figures have been achieved against a difficult retail backdrop. In the past 18 months or so, a number of retailers including Brantano, BHS and 99p Stores have entered administration or a CVA. Retail warehouse operators such as B&Q and Currys/PC World have also significantly downsized their store estates.
However, retail vacancy rates fell across all but three regions: the north, which was unchanged, and the South West and Yorkshire & the Humber, which saw rates increase slightly - thanks largely to Brantano, which had a strong representation in these areas, going into administration.
Trevor Wood, founder of Trevor Wood Associates, says that this combination of factors could have increased the amount of retail warehousing space available by as much as 2m sq ft, but that strong take-up by other retailers had kept the overall vacancy rate in check.
While there are potential clouds on the horizon as retail store closures and economic pressures continue to mount, he adds that he believes year-end vacancy rate figures will fall further still as more than 1m sq ft of retail warehousing units are currently under offer.
“We feel these figures show that the retail warehousing market has reacted well to changes over the past few years,” says Wood.
“We are optimistic that the year-end figures will show further falls across the board and that this trend may well continue into 2018.”
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UK builder to hire 150 new employees by February 2020.
UK boatbuilder Oyster Yachts has announced it is hiring 150 new employees in a bid to keep up with global demand.
According to the Eastern Daily Press, the Norfolk-based company is looking to up its headcount to more than 420 people by February 2020 across a range of roles. These include laminators, boatbuilders, joiners, electricians and engineers.
The roles will be hired across the UK builder’s sites in both Wroxham and Ashmanhaugh, as well as further afield in Southampton.
Oyster owner and CEO Richard Hadida told the UK website: “This represents a hugely exciting time for Oyster. It is wonderful to see the brand returned to its former glory, with a full order book and a dedicated team of people in Wroxham, Southampton and Ashmanhaugh building beautiful sailing yachts, using the best of British craftsmanship.
“We look forward to welcoming many more on board in the coming months.”
Hadida bought the company in March 2018 and has since invested heavily in the brand.


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Tesla (TSLA) – Get Free Report shares extended gains Friday, lifting the stock to its highest levels since early October, after cutting a deal that allows General Motors (GM) – Get Free Report to use its network of charging stations.
The partnership, which follows a similar deal with Ford Motor Co (F) – Get Free Report last week, means all three U.S. automakers will now use the same network of 12,000 ‘fast chargers’ that are based on the Tesla North American Charging Standard (NACS), which comprises around a third of U.S. charging stations.
GM said its cars will be made to fit the NACS by 2025, with CEO Mary Barra saying the deal is likely to save the carmaker as much as $400 million. GM cars themselves will be able to connect to NACS ports as early as 2024 with GM-made adaptors.
The deals between Tesla, Ford and GM to share a single charging system represent a central plank in President Joe Biden’s effort to accelerate EV adoption under his Green Economy agenda and underpin the extension of billions in federal subsidies.
“For Tesla, we believe this is a large monetization opportunity for the company in its supercharger story, adding to its growing sum-of-the-parts valuation that we now peg at $300 per share with its developing energy business along with its well-established EV machine,” said Wedbush analyst and longtime Tesla bull Dan Ives, who lifted his price target by $85 while maintaining an ‘outperform’ rating on the stock following Thursday’s charging station pact.
“We estimate Ford and GM combined could add another $3 billion to services EV charging revenue for Tesla over the next few years in another accretive poker move by Musk & Co.,” he added.
Tesla share were marked 5.4% higher in pre-market trading to indicate an opening bell price of $247.57 each. General Motors shares, meanwhile, jumped 4.9% to $37.60 each.
Shares in Tesla have risen more than 40% over the past month, in fact, after Elon Musk said he planned to carry on as CEO of the clean-energy-car maker, adding that he’ll devote less time to Twitter under the new leadership of former NBCUniversal ad executive Linda Yaccarino.
Musk also told investors at Tesla’s annual shareholders meeting in Austin, Texas, last month that he sees the Model Y becoming the top-selling car in the world as early as this year, adding that Tesla would begin experimenting with advertising over the coming months, a move Ives said could be a “major positive” for the stock.
Tesla also posted solid springtime sales in China, the carmaker’s biggest and most important market, even amid increased competition and an uneven economic recovery from the country’s zero-Covid health policies.
The China Passenger Car Association (CPAC) said Tesla sold 677,695 cars over the month of May, an 2.4% increase from the previous month and 142% higher than the same period last year, when Tesla’s Shanghai gigafactory was still under severe Covid restrictions
China’s EV sales could accelerate further into the summer months, as well, after state media reports suggested last week that the government would extend tax breaks for the purchase of so-called ‘new energy’ vehicles.
Tesla posted a record first-quarter delivery total of 422,875 new vehicles, a 36% increase from the year-earlier period, but that tally missed Street forecasts as production outpaced demand. Production rose 45% to 440,808 vehicles as supply-chain disruptions and covid-related closures at its Shanghai factory faded.
The pace is firmly shy of the rate needed to meet Tesla’s own target of 1.8 million deliveries over the whole of 2023, and Musk’s suggestion that “if it’s a smooth year … without some big supply chain interruption or massive problem” deliveries could reach 2 million.


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The city recently streamlined the application process, improving the online portal and replacing the original form that required downloading and filling out
VANCOUVER – The city of Vancouver is making it easier for business owners to participate in the city’s business license fee surcharge refund program The city recently streamlined the application process, improving the online portal and replacing the original form that required downloading and filling out.
The application, which is available in English and Spanish, allows applicants to submit a photo of their business license instead of typing out details. This saves time and simplifies the application from 21 fields to only eight.
On Mon., April 4, members of the Vancouver City Council unanimously approved an ordinance extending its refund process for eligible businesses. The program is effective April 1-Dec. 31, 2022. Local businesses most impacted by pandemic-related restrictions that haven’t yet applied for — or benefitted from — the city’s program to refund business license fee surcharges, are encouraged to apply for a business license fee refund. Eligible businesses include:
- Restaurants, taverns, breweries, wineries and distilleries
- Fitness and training facilities, including yoga studios
- Movie theaters and performing arts venues
- Bowling facilities
During the last 12 months, the city has returned a total of $95,760 to 110 business owners, but an estimated 500 eligible businesses have not yet applied.
Originally enacted in April 2020 during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide immediate economic relief to city business license holders, the program was renewed previously in 2021.
For more information or for help applying, businesses can contact email@example.com or call (360) 487-8410 and select option 3. Visit Business and Special Licenses for more information.
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(BSS) – Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) signed an agreement worth about $ 31.17 million with M/s Kido Dhaka Co. Limited at the BEPZA complex here today.
As per the agreement, the South Korean company M/s Kido Dhaka co. Limited will establish a high end garments and sportswear manufacturing industry in Adamjee Export processing zone (EPZ).
Member (Investment promotion) of BEPZA, Ali Reza Mazid and Acting Director of Kido Dhaka Co. ltd. Ahn Young Dae Joseph signed the agreement on behalf of their respective sides in presence of newly joined Executive chairman of BEPZA Major General Abul Kalam Mohammad Ziaur Rahman and former executive chairman Major General Nazrul Islam.
Speaking on the occasion, Nazrul said Kido is a renowned sportswear manufacturing industry of South Korea. They also have five plants in Vietnam, Myanmar and Indonesia.
The company expressed their hope to invest more in Bangladesh through acquiring the closed industrial plants of EPZs, he added.
This foreign owned company will produce annually two million pieces of cloths jacket, motorcycle safety jacket leather and fibre jacket, work jacket, sports jacket, baby warmer and PPE.
The company will create employment opportunity for 6,040 Bangladeshi nationals.
Among others, member Faruque Alam, member Nafisa Banu, Secretary Zakir Hossain Chowdhury, General manager Nazma Binte Alamgir, General manager Tanvir Hossain and General manager Khorshid Alam of BEPZA were also present at the event.


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Oct 24, 14Aston Martin Vantage prototype spied again, likely a hardcore current-gen GT3 version
The mysterious Aston Martin Vantage prototype has been spied once again testing on a wet Nürburgring.
Oct 21, 14Mysterious Aston Martin Vantage prototype spied, is it a mule for the next-generation model?
A mysterious Aston Martin prototype has been spied undergoing testing on the Nürburgring.
Oct 07, 14Q by Aston Martin prepares Satin Jet Black Vanquish Coupe
Q by Aston Martin has released images of a special Vanquish Coupe featuring a satin jet black theme.
Oct 06, 14Mercedes rules out a takeover of Aston Martin
Rumors of an Aston Martin takeover have been swirling for months but Daimler Chairman Dr. Dieter Zetsche has downplayed the possibility.
Oct 02, 14Aston Martin V12 Vantage S Roadster drops its top in Paris
Aston Martin has officially unveiled the V12 Vantage S Roadster during the Paris Motor Show
Oct 01, 14Aston Martin Lagonda first interior photos released
Aston Martin has released a new set of official images of the exclusive Lagonda sedan
Sep 18, 14Seven minutes with five Aston Martin One-77s at Spa is pure delight [video]
No less than five Aston Martin One-77s were captured on film during some track time at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium.
Sep 10, 14Daimler CEO is open to a deeper partnership with Aston Martin
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche has revealed the company is "fundamentally open" to a deeper partnership with Aston Martin.
Sep 10, 14Aston Martin Vanquish Carbon Edition revealed [video]
Available as a coupe or convertible, the Carbon Edition features a white or black exterior with black window surrounds, special brake calipers and 10-spoke alloy wheels with a gloss black finish.
Sep 10, 14Aston Martin Lagonda Shooting Brake digitally imagined
The 2014 Aston Martin Lagonda has been rendered by Theophilus Chin in the appealing Shooting Brake body style.
Sep 09, 14Gold plated Aston Martin DB5 scale model to fetch $100k at auction
A special one-off gold-plated Aston Martin DB5 scale model is being auctioned off for charity. It is part of celebrations for the 50th anniversary of its first appearance in James Bond movie Goldfinge...
Sep 08, 14Possible Aston Martin Vanquish Carbon Edition teased [video]
Aston Martin has released a teaser video for a special Vanquish set to be unveiled on Wednesday.
Sep 07, 14Aston Martin Lagonda returns in official images
Aston Martin has released several images with the Lagonda verification prototype which is currently undergoing testing in Oman.
Sep 07, 14Aston Martin Virage Shooting Brake Zagato officially unveiled
Zagato Atelier has officially revealed the Aston Martin Virage Shooting Brake Zagato
Sep 04, 14Nissan considered buying a stake in Aston Martin
According to a recent report, Nissan Chief Planning Officer Andy Palmer was pushing the company to invest in Aston Martin.
Sep 02, 14Nissan chief Andy Palmer named CEO of Aston Martin
Financial Times is reporting Andy Palmer has been appointed as Aston Martin's new chief executive officer (CEO).
Aug 29, 14Aston Martin Lagonda first images released
Following last month's teaser, Aston Martin has released several images with a pre-production Lagonda sedan being transported to Oman for testing purposes.
Aug 26, 14Daimler could buy Aston Martin
Daimler already owns a five percent stake in Aston Martin but the company is reportedly considering a takeover.
Aug 21, 14Aston Martin trademarking DB10, DB11, DB12, DB13 & DB14
Evidence of Aston Martin's future product naming strategy has surfaced after reports the British brand has applied for trademarks for DB10 through to DB14.
Aug 15, 14Aston Martin could be forced to drop the Vantage & DB9 in the U.S.
The chairman of Aston Martin's U.S. dealer advisory panel has revealed the company could be forced to drop the DB9 and Vantage in the United States.
Aug 12, 14Oracle Finance names the top ten Footballer cars
Oracle Finance has compiled a list of the top ten "Footballer cars."
Aug 08, 14Aston Martin DB9 successor to be renamed – report
British media is reporting Aston Martin is currently debating what to call the DB9 successor, planned for a 2016 debut
Aug 07, 14Aston Martin to showcase four bespoke models at Pebble Beach
Aston Martin has announced plans to showcase four bespoke models at Pebble Beach.
Aug 06, 142015 Aston Martin Vanquish and Rapide S gain 8-speed Touchtronic III automatic gearbox
Aston Martin has revealed the 2015 Vanquish and Rapide S which come with an array of enhancements.
Aug 05, 14Aston Martin & Daimler expand their partnership - report
The partnership between Aston Martin and Daimler is expanding as Bloomberg is reporting the two companies have signed a deal which will see Daimler providing Aston Martin with a variety of electrical ...
Aug 04, 14Aston Martin V12 Vantage S Roadster to debut at Pebble Beach
Aston Martin has announced plans to introduce the V12 Vantage S Roadster at Pebble Beach.
Jul 30, 14Q by Aston Martin applies equestrian theme on DB9 Volante
Aston Martin through its "Q" personalization program has revealed a one-off DB9 Volante featuring an equestrian theme.
Jul 24, 14Aston Martin Lagonda teased, goes into production early next year
Aston Martin has released the first details about the Lagonda, ahead of its launch early next year.
Jul 18, 14Aston Martin Design Director downplays a crossover, hints at new Lagonda sedan
Aston Martin Design Director Marek Reichman has revealed some new about the Lagonda revival and the company's long rumored crossover.
Jul 16, 14Aston Martin V12 Vantage S Roadster revealed
Aston Martin has officially unveiled the new V12 Vantage S Roadster. It is being billed as their fastest and potent roadster to date.


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Triumph Motorcycles has introduced a range of new products in India. Recently, the much-anticipated Trident middleweight naked roadster and launched Triumph Scrambler 900 and Scrambler 1200.
Now the company has announced that it will be revealing the new Speed Twin neo-retro model on June 1st. According to the Triumph motorcycles, the new Speed Twin will come out to be a completely updated model from the inside out. The company assures the customers that the new Speed Twin will be “evolved in every dimension, with higher performance, better handling, higher specification and even more premium style and detailing.” As per the teaser image, the new Speed Twin will feature the same basic architecture as the previous model. The overall silhouette of the model remains more or less the same. However, there will be some prominent changes to the body kit to make the bike more attractive and give it a refreshed appeal. The muscular-looking body is 41 mm upside-down front forks as well as twin shocks at the back.
The new Speed Twin is India bound and is expected to cost close to ₹10 lakh. It was previously launched in India in 2019 but couldn’t find many customers. However, the company is aiming to change that with the new updates.


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When we talk about “bricks” in relation to cell phones, those old enough to remember the introduction of mobile phones in the the early 1990s immediately think of those big, chunky hand held phones of the early days. But the big BRIC news these days is about Brazil, Russia, India and China (and often BRICI includes Indonesia too). And there’s huge news in relation to mobile phones in these five countries – and indeed across almost all developing countries around the world.
The Economist recently had a short article on the topic that was crammed with interesting and important information. Read it here (with graphic) or an extract below.
The next billion geeks
Mobile internet in emerging markets: How the mobile internet will transform the BRICI countries
The Economist, Sep 2nd 2010
BUYING a mobile phone was the wisest $20 Ranvir Singh ever spent. Mr Singh, a farmer in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, used to make appointments in person, in advance, to deliver fresh buffalo milk to his 40-odd neighbours. Now his customers just call when they want some. Mr Singh’s income has risen by 25%, to 7,000 rupees ($149) a month. And he hears rumours of an even more bountiful technology. He has heard that “something on mobile phones” can tell him the current market price of his wheat. Mr Singh does not know that that “something” is the internet, because, like most Indians, he has never seen or used it. But the phone in his calloused hand hints at how hundreds of millions of people in emerging markets—perhaps even billions—will one day log on.
Only 81m Indians (7% of the population) regularly use the internet. But brutal price wars mean that 507m own mobile phones. Calls cost as little as $0.006 per minute. Indian operators such as Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications sign up 20m new subscribers a month.
In other developing countries, too, there are many more mobile phones than internet connections. In Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia (the so-called BRICI countries), there are 610m regular internet users but a staggering 1.8 billion mobile-phone connections, according to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In a report called “The Internet’s New Billion”, BCG predicts that by 2015 there will be 1.2 billion internet users in these countries—dwarfing the total in America and Japan (see chart).
These new internet users will mostly log on via their mobile phones. This tends to be cheaper and easier than any other option. In Brazil, fixed-line broadband is often prohibitively expensive; in Russia, where it can be much cheaper, it is often unavailable. In India, where infrastructure is always a headache, it is hard to get a good basic landline, let alone broadband.
Poor people seldom have personal computers. In the BRICI countries, whose combined population is more than 3 billion, there are only 440m PCs. Many people use internet cafés, but these are inaccessible to rural folk. A connection in your pocket is far more convenient.
Hordes of Indians will start using their mobiles to access the internet early next year when third-generation (3G) services, which allow subscribers to access the web, arrive. Kunal Bajaj, India director of Analysys Mason, a British consultancy, expects the take-up to be as fast—and as revolutionary—as it has been for mobile phones. “The telecoms companies have seen what happens when they drop prices. They’ve already tasted blood. The price wars will be just as aggressive,” he says.
The stakes are high. In developing countries, every 10 percentage-point increase in mobile-phone penetration yields an extra 0.81 percentage points of annual economic growth, according to a 2009 World Bank study. The mobile internet could be even more powerful. The unemployed will search for jobs online. Farmers in remote areas will find customised advice on crop planting.
The drawback of the internet is that you have to be literate to use it. That is a huge problem in India, where the literacy rate is only 60% (in China and Russia, it is over 90%). Mr Singh, the farmer, cannot read, so he cannot send text messages. He says he often needs help dialling numbers correctly, too.


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Aldo is making a new Disney collection of sneakers
Aldo has teased a new collaboration with Disney to produce – what else – a range of Mickey Mouse sneakers.
Dubbed the Disney x Aldo collection, the sneakers arrive just in time for Chinese New Year (which is the year of the rat).
Not much is known about the collection, including when it will drop (Aldo says it is “coming this month”) and for how much, but we do know there will be a variety of Mickey-branded sneakers for both men and women, along with accessories such as bags and wallets.
This isn’t the first collaboration between Disney and a fashion brand. Just last week Gucci announced its Lunar New Year celebration collection including Mickey Mouse – including menswear and womenswear, t-shirts, knitwear, dress and sweatshirts.
And previously, Disney has collaborated with the likes of Lacoste, Rag & Bone and Marc Jacobs.


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Venator Materials PLC VNTR logged a loss of $174 million or $1.63 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2019, wider than a loss of $69 million or 65 cents a year ago.
Adjusted loss per share for the quarter were 9 cents, narrower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of 14 cents.
Revenues fell around 4% year over year to $464 million in the reported quarter. The company saw lower sales across its segments. It faced challenges from lower pricing in its Titanium Dioxide unit in the quarter. Sales, however, surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $432.2 million.
Revenues from the Titanium Dioxide segment for the quarter fell 3% year over year to $354 million. The decline is attributable to lower titanium dioxide (TiO2) average selling prices, unfavorable currency translation and the impact of unfavorable mix that more than offset higher sales volumes. TiO2 selling prices were impacted by reduced prices in Europe and Asia.
Revenues from the Performance Additives segment went down 7% to $110 million, hurt by lower volumes and unfavorable currency impact. Average selling prices were stable on a year-over-year basis in the quarter. Volumes were impacted by softer demand for products used in automotive coatings, plastics and construction applications and the impact of portfolio optimization.
Loss for 2019 was $1.64 per share, wider than a loss of $1.53 per share a year ago.
Revenues were $2,130 million for the full year, down around 6% year over year.
Venator Materials ended 2019 with cash and cash equivalents of $55 million, down around 67% year over year. Long-term debt was $737 million, essentially flat year over year.
The company generated net cash from operating activities of $69 million and free cash flow of $20 million in the reported quarter.
Venator Materials also achieved $20 million of adjusted EBITDA improvements as part of its Business Improvement Program in 2019.
Going forward, Venator Materials sees a challenging macroeconomic environment in 2020. The company remains focused on improving free cash flow generation, reduce cash uses and further improve its cost competitiveness.
Venator Materials’ shares are down 37.5% over a year, compared with the 4% rise of the industry it belongs to.
Zacks Rank and Key Picks
Venator Materials currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Some better-ranked stocks in the basic materials space include Daqo New Energy Corp. DQ, NovaGold Resources Inc. NG and Commercial Metals Company CMC.
Daqo New Energy has projected earnings growth rate of 353.7% for 2020 and sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). The company’s shares have rallied roughly 95% in a year’s time. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
NovaGold has projected earnings growth rate of 11.1% for the current fiscal and carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). The company’s shares have surged around 143% over a year.
Commercial Metals has estimated earnings growth rate of 20.7% for the current fiscal and carries a Zacks Rank #2. The company’s shares have shot up roughly 23% in a year’s time.
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Community fridges offer a different kind of solution in Wichita’s food deserts
Colorful refrigerators are popping up all across Wichita. Founder Tajanhee Stocker started the project with a simple idea: find a welcoming store or business, put in a fridge, and then invite the community to fill it up.
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Colorful refrigerators are popping up all across Wichita these days — full of food for those in need.
It’s part of the ICT Community Fridge Project.
The idea behind the fridges is simple: find a welcoming store or business, put in a fridge, and then invite the community to fill it up.
Tajahnae Stocker began the project in the summer of 2020.
“I was on Twitter one day, and I saw some folks from the New Jersey-New York area, I think, kind of showing off their newest community fridge,” Stocker said, “and I've never heard of a community fridge before.”
The fridges are located in areas most useful to those struggling with food insecurity — like a boxing gym in a lower-income neighborhood.
Another is at Dead Center Vintage — a clothing store in downtown Wichita, which was the first fridge location.
“It went from this community fridge and they added a pantry and there's crates there for like nonperishables,” Stocker said. “They let the community know that they're running low and community members can bring things in. So it's really grown into a huge community effort.”
Downtown Wichita is a food desert, with the nearest grocery store miles away and not as accessible for those without transportation. It’s also an area where many people experiencing homelessness live in order to receive services and access resources.
“We know the area that we're in and some of the issues of food scarcity, houselessness, all of that, that surround it,” Dead Center Vintage Co-owner Kenzie Borland said. “So if we were to turn a blind eye to it, I think we would be pretty poor business owners.”
According to a recent study, 25% of Wichita’s nearly 400,000 residents are food insecure, meaning they lack the financial or transportation resources to get to the nearest grocery store. Nationwide, it’s 10%, according to the USDA.
Stockers said the fridges are just a Band-Aid to helping those who are food insecure, though.
“We need more sustainable solutions to hunger in Wichita,” Stocker said. “We need grocery stores, we need livable wages, we need all these things. This is just a refrigerator and a business … this cannot replace any other sustainable things in the city.”
Since that summer in 2020, several more refrigerators have sprung up across the city, including one of the most recently opened fridges at Positive Directions — an STD and HIV testing center just a few blocks away from the first fridge location. It’s also near services that housing insecure people utilize in the city.
“It's a giant food desert down here,” Executive Director Brett Hogan said. “There's plenty of restaurants to go to, but the closest grocery store has to be driven to, and downtown is very foot traffic. There's no small markets.”
For those who want to get a free test and need some food, it’s a one-stop shop.
“We have had people that even though they have stable housing, their income basis is low or something,” Hogan said. “So, yes, we do have clients that actually use it.”
Outside of downtown and across the river that divides Wichita, a light pink refrigerator is nestled near the counter atLeslie Coffee Co.
“I think coffee shops can get a bad rap for being part of gentrification,” owner Sarah Leslie said. “That like a coffee shop is … some harbinger that now all the hipsters are going to roll in and everything's going to be expensive.”
But at this coffee shop, that’s not really the case.
Leslie stocks the fridge weekly with groceries purchased with cash donations from local residents, making it a community hub.
“Everybody can coexist,” Leslie said. “We can still be a thriving business that a lot of people love and feel like it's a cool, safe space to come and hang out and spend money But it's also a place where people can come and get a free cup of coffee if they need it and access the fridge.”
That’s the case for Jennifer and Kayne — who are unhoused and utilize the fridge.
“Boy, if it wasn’t for that, Jennifer and I would probably be in some serious trouble,” Kayne said earlier this year.
Stocker said that by serving those in need, the fridges help better their communities, Stocker said.
“So food is really at the intersection of a lot of the things that we are facing,” Stocker said, “and if we don't have the food and resources we need to thrive in, that community will not thrive and Wichita can't thrive.”


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The two-volume Nazi manifesto, considered one of the most racist and shocking books of the modern era, almost tripled its estimated price of £12,000.
In the book, an inscription suggests the book was given to Nazi SS guard Josef Bauer and autographed by Hitler during World War Two.
Eleven people bid on the online auction that was sold by auction house Nate D Sanders earlier today.
"Mein Kampf", which translates to "My Struggle", was written by Hitler while he was in prison.
“I think it's very heinous, but it is an auction item, it is a memento, it's a piece of memorabilia and a piece of history.”Nate D. Sanders
In the book, he set out his vision for a "pure" Germany and the basis behind his Nazi regime.
Mr Sanders, who is Jewish, said despite its content, such items of historical significance should be freely available to buy.
He said: "I think it's very heinous, but it is an auction item, it is a memento, it's a piece of memorabilia and a piece of history.
"You have the whole gamut. There's white supremacist collectors of Hitler, and there's Jewish collectors of Hitler"
The same copy of Bauer's books sold in London in 2012 for £15,000.
And even though copies of the book are fairly common, Mr Sanders said as this one is signed it is extremely rare.
Unlike a lot of Nazi memorabilia, the book is not banned in Germany.
But it can only be printed for educational purposes.
Other countries in Europe hit by war crimes during World War II have banned all Nazi collectables.


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AFBF urges passage of trade promotion authority
6/7/2013 at 12:00 a.m.
WASHINGTON — The administration's ability to expand trade is critical to securing future economic opportunities for American agriculture, which is why farmers and ranchers are calling on Congress to pass trade promotion authority (TPA). TPA involves Congress in determining negotiating objectives for trade agreements and allows trade pact implementing legislation to be considered without amendment.
Farm Bureau, along with a number of the country's leading business associations, recently launched the Trade Benefits America Coalition, an effort to educate congressional lawmakers and others about the benefits of U.S. trade agreements and to advocate for passage of TPA.
Since President Franklin Roosevelt was in office in the 1930s, every U.S. president has had the authority from Congress to negotiate trade agreements that open new markets for American companies, farmers and many others and help ensure a rules-based system for two-way trade. Congress last enacted TPA in 2002, and it lapsed in 2007.
While the United States can negotiate trade agreements with foreign trading partners, only with TPA can a trade agreement be approved, but not amended, by Congress. With TPA, countries negotiating with the United States have confidence that, while a deal might be rejected by Congress, at least it would not come back with changes from the lawmaking body.
"Growth for America's farmers and ranchers depends on our nation's ability to create economic opportunities, and supporting trade promotion authority will help secure greater access to world markets for our farm goods," said American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman.
Without the credibility of TPA, U.S. negotiators are at a disadvantage at the bargaining table, and farmers and ranchers are the worse off for it, explained David Salmonsen, AFBF trade specialist.
"Agriculture wants the U.S. to continue its work to open markets, expand economic development and support a strong rules-based trading system," Salmonsen said. "In order to be effective, TPA must be dedicated to expanding trade between nations. Without the ability to conclude bilateral, regional and multilateral trade agreements, the U.S. will be forfeiting potential markets and economic leadership to our competitors."
U.S. officials are working with negotiators from dozens of countries to craft the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact and another proposed free trade agreement with the European Union, making congressional passage of TPA that much more necessary, he noted.
SOURCE: American Farm Bureau Federation
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Samsung has announced the release date of Galaxy M30, the company’s next smartphone in the M series. In a recent tweet, Samsung confirmed the newest member in the Galaxy M series will be unveiled at 6pm on February 27, 2019. What makes this announcement interesting is the timing. The launch of the Galaxy M30 is happening, just a day before the debut of Redmi Note 7 in India.
Watch: Samsung Galaxy M20 review
Samsung Galaxy M30: Specifications, expected price
Previous reports have suggested that the Galaxy M30 will have a Super AMOLED Infinity V display (Samsung’s name for V-shaped notch), triple camera setup on the back and a 5,000 mAh battery. The device will be powered by Samsung’s own Exynos 7904 processor and will be available in 4GB/6GB RAM and 64GB/128GB internal storage options.
— Samsung Mobile India (@SamsungMobileIN) February 16, 2019
Remember that the Galaxy M20 is also powered by the same Exynos 7904 processor. While the price of Galaxy M10 starts from Rs 7,990 and M20’s from Rs 10,990, reports suggest that the price of Galaxy M30 would be in the vicinity of Rs 14,990.
It is worth noting that Samsung will launch its flagship Galaxy S10 smartphone at its Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco on February 20, 11 am PT, which converts to February 21, 12:30 am in India. During the event, Samsung is expected to showcase its Galaxy F foldable phone as well.


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Fewer LEDs, More Flexibility, and More Sales for Kieffer & Co.
Today’s brand owners demand best-in-class performance, but many of them also have ambitious sustainability goals. For graphics professionals, there’s one solution that delivers both: 3M™ Envision™ Translucent and Diffuser Films.
Jeff Fuhrmann, vice president of manufacturing at Kieffer & Co., Inc., in Sheboygan, Wis., recently spoke about how 3M Envision translucent and diffuser films are helping his national sign company demonstrate its environmental credentials and win new business. Fuhrmann explained that new customers today are looking for national sign company manufacturers’ energy efficiency qualifications very early in the sales cycle.
“In the Request For Information (RFI) portion, when we’re selling signs, we see a lot of questions like, ‘What’s your company doing to be more green?’ and, ‘How energy efficient are your signs?’” Furhmann said. “Once we get past that point in the sale and we’re established with a customer, then they rely on us that we’re doing the things we said we would upon making that sale.”
Delivering on Sustainability Promises
Fuhrmann and his team have discovered that 3M Envision translucent and diffuser films are a reliable choice for helping them deliver on their promises to customers. As the first-ever graphic films specifically designed to optimize LED illuminated signs, these new films help Kieffer & Co. create bright and vibrant signs that make a great impact for customers.
“What interested me,” Fuhrmann said, “was the film’s ability to do exactly what it’s designed to do – diffuse the light better and more evenly, with the opportunity of saving some dollars by reducing the amount of LEDs. That’s what really caught our interest.”
A National Sign Company that is Embracing LEDs
As a national sign company manufacturer, Kieffer & Co. is well positioned to observe and participate in the LED revolution, and Fuhrmann states that these new films are giving the company even greater capabilities. “Channel letters are evolving right now,” he said. “We just did some prototyping on a low profile letter using 3M Envision film and some new LED technology. We’re now able to create more unique designs that we were never able to do with neon lighting.”
How much does Kieffer & Co. believe in the new 3M Envision translucent and diffuser films? “We just refurbished the sign on our own building using LEDs and 3M Envision film,” said Fuhrmann. “It looks fantastic, and we’re tracking about a 60 percent reduction in energy use.”


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Batman: Arkham Origins fans were spot-on in their speculation about the next villain. Today WB Games released a new trailer confirming that Firefly will be tussling with the Dark Knight in this prequel.
Microsoft has confirmed the full list of launch day titles for the Xbox One. If you pick up the next-gen console on day one, you'll have 23 games to choose from.
Electronic Arts had a pretty big press conference for GamesCom this year, unveiling new media assets for games we already knew were coming and rolling out additional details on things we were sure were coming but EA kept silent about until now. That includes Battlefield 4 Premium and some new details on how to utilize Levolution in the game.
Fable Legends will be coming exclusively to Xbox One, Microsoft and Lionhead Studios announced today. They've released full details and assets on the next-gen RPG powered by Unreal Engine 4.
There will be no live-stream for the Xbox One at GamesCom. There will be no public press conference that gamers and press alike will be able to partake in to comment, praise or criticize Microsoft's every move regarding the Xbox One. It's like that butthurt boxer who refuses to show up to the weigh-in because during the initial announcement he punched himself in his groin and knocked himself out.
This is it folks... the official announcement to announce that there will be announcement next week to announce the official release date for the PlayStation 4. Tipsters were set off with brief pre-announcement for the pre-announcement for the official announcement for the release date, and now the news has saturated enough so that we now know that there is an official announcement in the sights to announce the official release date.
Microsoft had already intentioned to win GamesCom 2013. Now Microsoft has confirmed that they will showcase their “unique” exclusives for the Xbox One on August 20th during their staged press conference, a day before GamesCom 2013 officially kicks off.
Could XCOM: Enemy Within be the sequel of XCOM: Enemy Unknown? The title was mentioned in new listings by the Game Rating Board of South Korea.
Uh oh, it looks like that easy win at GamesCom 2013 for Microsoft may not be that easy after all. Sony has confirmed that they, too, will be attending GC 2013 in Cologne, Germany and that they will be hosting a big press conference as well for the PlayStation 4.
GamesCom may not be as big an event as other press conferences, namely E3 and the Tokyo Game Show, but it appears that the Germany-based convention will be one of the bigger events of the year in the world of video games, as Microsoft plans on hosting a big press conference and now Valve and Take-Two are scheduled to exhibit at the event as well.
If you're attending Gamescom this summer, you'll get a chance to play The Elder Scrolls Online. ZeniMax Online Studios announced today that they'll be showing off the MMORPG at the European gaming convention.


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Tue, Jun 23 2015 02:07pm PDT
SK Intertainment Inc., Mr. Skin's parent company, today announced that Joe Stricklin has been tapped as its newest Mr. Skin Cash affiliate sales representative.
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Column: Some employers are doing the right thing in the coronavirus crisis. Some aren’t
Tip a hat to Darden Restaurants, the owner of Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, and other casual sit-down chains. The company announced last week that it had implemented a paid sick leave policy for its 190,000 employees, including a starting balance for those with at least six months of employment.
Now cast a gimlet eye in the direction of Richard Branson, whose Virgin Atlantic is asking its 10,000 employees to take eight weeks of unpaid leave over the next three months in an effort to “drastically reduce costs without job losses.” (Virgin Atlantic is losing money, but Branson’s net worth is more than $4 billion.)
Or Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who last week reminded his workforce that they can “donate” their paid time off balances to co-workers facing medical emergencies. Mackey’s email generated a demurral from Amazon, which acquired the grocery chain in 2017, to the effect that Mackey’s policy predated the acquisition.
We’ve been living off the formation of low-wage and low-hour jobs in sectors that happen to be incredibly vulnerable to just this particular crisis.
— Daniel Alpert, Cornell Law School
Whole Foods workers, like all other Amazon employees diagnosed with COVID-19 (the disease caused by the novel coronavirus) are subject to Amazon’s recently announced policy granting them up to two weeks of paid time off, the parent company said.
Those examples merely hint at the range of responses that employers have made to the prospect that large numbers of their workers may have to spend days off the job or in quarantine — whether self-imposed or mandated — to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Some employers are stepping up with liberalized paid sick leave policies. REI and Patagonia, which have long been known for good customer relations, which have temporarily closed their retail stores and are continuing to serve customers online, have said their store employees will continue to be paid during the shutdowns.
Others are doing so begrudgingly. And still others may not be doing much at all.
The overall picture is one of extreme fragility for millions of American workers, especially at consumer service companies.
This reflects a trend that has been developing for more than three decades.
By limiting sick leave and free healthcare, the U.S. system will promote the spread of coronavirus.
“We’ve been living off the formation of low-wage and low-hour jobs in sectors that happen to be incredibly vulnerable to just this particular crisis,” says Daniel Alpert, an investment banker and adjunct professor at Cornell Law School who helped develop the Job Quality Index, which tracks the relative rise of private sector jobs paying less than the average weekly income of all American production and nonsupervisory jobs.
“In the current situation, where you have a dead stop in consumer activity, any ‘customer-facing’ business where the customer is no longer doing any ‘facing’ is under enormous threat,” Alpert told me.
The increase in consumer service jobs that Alpert and his colleagues track is the mirror image of the decline in manufacturing employment; his figures show that employment in restaurants and bars began to exceed that in manufacturing in late 2009, and never looked back. In 1990, the 12.7 million manufacturing jobs accounted for 17.3% of all rank-and-file workers. Today they’re down to 9 million jobs and 8.5% of the rank-and-file workforce.
Service sector workers are not only low-paid and granted fewer hours than higher-paid and goods-producing workers, but their weekly schedules are far more volatile than traditionally.
“There’s been a shift to just-in-time scheduling,” says Daniel Schneider, a UC Berkeley sociologist who is a founder of the Shift Project, which collects data on scheduling practices from thousands of retail workers employed by large firms. “Their business model is one of part-time instability, in which workers get scheduled at the last minute and have to remain on-call.”
That presents a challenge to the traditional social safety net, Schneider says. Many safety net programs, including food stamps, impose work requirements on enrollees. “Volatility of work makes reporting hours very difficult.”
The vast majority of these workers aren’t the proverbial “gig workers,” such as Uber and Lyft drivers, who are treated as non-employees with virtually no employment rights. Most get paychecks from employers, including major corporations, Alpert observes.
That doesn’t make their work schedules necessarily secure, however. Many are victimized by a nearly 50-year trend in which major corporations have shed their responsibilities to their frontline workers.
President Trump took credit for the healthcare business doing what it would do anyway.
Taco Bell, for example, has announced that at its company-owned restaurants, it will continue paying employees who are required to stay at home or who work at a location that has been closed, for their regularly scheduled hours. It said it is “actively working with our franchise partners to encourage a similar approach.” But more than 4,600 of Taco Bell’s 6,000 restaurants are franchisee-owned.
Darden’s sick pay policy applies to its 1,799 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada, but not to 80 franchised restaurants in the U.S. and abroad, the company told me.
McDonald’s says its full- and part-time employees can earn up to five sick days per year and says it will pay corporate-owned restaurant employees who are “asked to quarantine” for up to 14 days off from work. (The company didn’t specify whether these were workers ordered to be quarantined or self-quarantined because of contacts with or caring for infected persons.) But those policies cover only the 205,000 workers at its corporate offices and company-owned restaurants. The vast majority of McDonald’s locations — 36,000 out of the nearly 39,000 restaurants worldwide, employing an additional 200,000 workers or more — are franchise operations that can set their own workplace policies.
McDonald’s, as it happens, has been a powerful opponent of policies that would hold franchise parent companies such as itself responsible for pay and workplace conditions at its franchise locations. Unlike the Obama administration, which moved toward those policies, the Trump administration has blocked them.
Many companies that have liberalized their sick leave policies still impose conditions that could discourage workers exposed to the novel coronavirus from staying home, at risk to their colleagues and customers. Amazon’s grant of up to two weeks paid time off applies to “employees diagnosed with COVID-19 or placed into quarantine.” Hourly workers are entitled to unlimited time off through the end of March — unpaid.
Plainly, the realities facing frontline service workers make a payroll tax holiday, which is strongly favored by President Trump, virtually useless; workers laid off or saddled with steep cutbacks in hours pay little or no payroll tax, which is levied at the rate of 12.4% for the first $137,700 of wage income this year, split evenly between employer and employee. For a minimum-wage worker notching 20 hours a week, that’s as little as $8.99 a week.
Workplace advocates and some members in Congress are talking instead about a “helicopter drop” of cold hard cash, akin to the one-time government checks of up to $1,200 for married couples, including $300 per child, issued in 2008. The payments were phased out starting with household income of $150,000 (for couples), but even low-income households that owed no federal tax were eligible for at least $300, provided they earned at least $3,000 during the year.
A payroll tax cut was a bad idea in President Obama’s time, and even worse now.
Political decision-makers will have to see these payments in terms that differ from the financial crisis of 2008. “Helicopter money has always been a way of spurring consumption to come out of a recession,” Alpert says. “This is different — this is money to ensure survivability.”
What may emerge from the coronavirus crisis is a new, or at least restored, approach to the employment relationship by government and the private sector. Alpert points to the epochal change in the 1930s, when the New Deal brought government firmly into society as an economic mediator. The New Deal gave government the authority to set the minimum wage, outlaw many workplace abuses, and grant workers new rights to unionize.
Many of those gains were reversed after 1980 and the advent of the Reagan administration, which aimed to shrink government and started the trend toward punching holes in the safety net, removing regulations applying to employers and inspiring them (largely through the breaking of the air traffic controllers strike) to take a harder line against unions.
That approach is still visible in the coronavirus bill crafted by the Democratic House majority and awaiting consideration by the Republican-controlled Senate. Even Mitt Romney, not ordinarily known as a friend of the working class, has proposed issuing an immediate one-time $1,000 check to every American. The measure’s mandate for paid sick leave exempts big employers — those with 500 workers or more — and allows small employers to seek hardship exemptions.
“We should be putting big companies on the table,” Schneider says. He’s right. Nothing has shown the necessity of a sea change in how we safeguard the livelihoods of our most vulnerable workers as the condition we’re in today.
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NEW DELHI: Affordable smartphones from the stables of homegrown handset makers like Micromax
pushed up sales in this category by almost three-fold to 44 million units last year, from 16.2 million in 2012, research firm IDC said today.
Another report by CyberMedia Research pegged smartphone sales in India at 41 million units in 2013, year-on-year growth of 172.2 per cent.Samsung
led the smartphone market, followed by local handset players Micromax and Karbonn at second and third spots, respectively.
"India was one of the fastest-growing countries worldwide in terms of smartphone adoption in 2013. This surge has been mainly powered by homegrown vendors, which have shown a tremendous and consistent growth over the past four quarters of 2013," IDC said in a statement.
Consumers continued to opt for smartphones over feature phones as the price gaps between the two categories narrowed further.
Overall, phone shipments in the country rose 11.6 per cent to about 247.2 million units in 2013 (from 221.6 million in 2012), CMR said, adding that feature phone sales declined marginally to 206.1 million during the year.
According to IDC, the overall phone shipment grew 18 per cent to about 257 million units in 2013 from 218 million units in the previous year.
"Growth in the smartphone segment is expected to outpace the overall handset market growth for the foreseeable future. The end-user shift towards mid-to-high screen size products will be amplified by the declining prices and availability of feature-rich localised product offerings," it said.
In the overall phone market, Samsung was the leader with 19 per cent share in Q4 2013, followed by Micromax (13 per cent), Nokia
(12 per cent), Karbonn (10 per cent) and Lava
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During October-December, vendors shipped 15.06 million smartphones compared with 5.35 million in Q4 2012. There was a spike in smartphone shipments by smaller domestic vendors such as Lava and Intex in the quarter.
"Growth in the smartphone market is being propelled by the launch of low-end, cost competitive devices by international and local vendors which are further narrowing the price gaps that exist between feature phones and smartphones," IDC India
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Manasi Yadav said.
International vendors have understood the importance of creating a diverse portfolio of devices at varied price points and are striving to launch cost competitive devices that cater to every segment in the target audience, IDC India Research Manager Kiran Kumar said.
The 5 inch-6.99 inch screen size smartphones (phablets) accounted for about 20 per cent of the overall market in Q4.
The overall mobile phone market (feature and smart phones) stood at 67.83 million units in Q4 2013, up 16 per cent year-on-year.
Tier I brands like Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Sony, HTC, LG
captured close to 53 per cent of the total smartphones market, while homegrown brands accounted for 43 per cent of the total smartphone shipment.
"The remaining 4 per cent shipment was captured by China OEM brands, where we expect a few more players to enter the India market directly, instead of continuing as ODM partners to Indian brands," CMR Telecoms Practice Lead Analyst (Devices) Tarun Pathak said.


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This certification allows the company’s network service provider (NSP) customers around the globe to offer subscribers the reliability, coverage and performance associated with the Wi-Fi 6E standard.
ATLANTA – Jan. 20, 2022 — On January 11, 2022, Technicolor Connected Home, known as Vantiva, receives the Wi-Fi Alliance’s Wi-Fi 6E device certification for its CGM4981 gateway. This certification allows the company’s network service provider (NSP) customers around the globe to offer subscribers the reliability, coverage and performance associated with the Wi-Fi 6E standard.
“The CGM4981 Wi-Fi 6E home gateway delivers a never-before-seen performance by using the 6GHz band to address congested traffic issues, as the number of devices that require wireless access to the home gateway has exploded,” said Ashwani Saigal, Vice President of Broadband, Technicolor Connected Home. “Because the 6Ghz band is open to Wi-Fi 6 devices only, it significantly reduces traffic congestion and enhances the experience subscribers will enjoy from these Wi-Fi 6 devices in any part of the home. It is a step-change improvement in capacity for households where many products using previous versions of Wi-Fi compete to operate in the 2.4 and 5Ghz frequency bands.”
Wi-Fi 6E is an important step forward in the industry’s objective to help consumers cope with dense wireless environments. As the home becomes a central point of work, entertainment and education for families around the world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wi-Fi 6E-compliant CPE — such as Technicolor Connected Home’s innovative CGM4981 gateway — delivers the gigabit speed and performance necessary to support multiple users and simultaneous usages throughout the home.
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“The rapid rise of bandwidth-intensive applications — such as seamless 4K video streaming, online gaming, and virtual reality – not only require more bandwidth and speed to the home through access technologies like gigabit fiber and DOCSIS 3.1, but also superior reliability within the home,” says Saigal. “It is a key factor in maintaining uninterrupted connectivity as multiple devices and latency-sensitive applications access internet resources through the Wi-Fi network. It also guarantees operators to be ready for more sophisticated and immersive navigation consumers will require to experience the metaverse that is set to become the future of internet services.”
This is the latest development in Technicolor Connected Home’s ongoing commitment to leveraging open and innovative technologies for NSPs around the world. The ultimate goal is to help NSPs deliver seamless connectivity and premium entertainment experiences to consumers by creating best-in-class CPE and partnering with the most innovative companies in the connected home ecosystem.
“This CPE Wi-Fi 6E certification is further evidence of Technicolor Connected Home’s commitment to staying at the forefront of wireless innovation and delivering wireless CPE of the highest level of quality and performance. This milestone not only leverages years of expertise in antenna design, whole-home coverage software integration and device performance optimization but also reflects the ongoing collaboration between our engineers and technicians, our chipset manufacturers and NSP customers from the early stages of Wi-Fi standard developments. These devices can now be leveraged by NSPs that have committed to delivering premium wireless user experiences to their subscribers” says Saigal.
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It Has Become Scarily Expensive To Feed A Montreal Household, A Report Shows
It's 15% more expensive to feed a family this year.
Canadian groceries are getting more expensive, and Quebecers are feeling the pinch. But just how hard is it to feed a family right now, and how much are Quebecers spending on their food? A recent study released by a community organization, the Montreal Diet Dispensary, has a few answers.
The study relies on a tool called the Nutritious and Affordable Food Basket (NAFB), which estimates the minimum price of a diet that meets basic nutritional guidelines. Since last year, the NAFB grew in cost by 15%.
"This is a significant change in the cost of food, which shows that an increasing number of low-income households risk being food insecure," researcher François Fournier wrote in a press release.
Grain staples are among the hardest-hit products in terms of price increases. The cost of pasta rose by an astonishing 116% over the last year, while white flour rose by an even worse 225%.
Other key necessities like baby formula also saw significant price hikes. Formula increased in cost by 40%, while baby cereals increased by 36%.
The total spent in a year to feed an average family of four (a man, a woman, a teen boy and a pre-teen girl, per the study) was nearly $13,000 annually, with the total adding up to $8.90 per person, per day.
These increases are undoubtedly taking a toll on Quebec families, especially low-income households. But Fournier emphasized that food prices "are only a piece of the food insecurity puzzle."
"The food price disparity that continues to exist in the Montreal region, households' lack of financial resources and affordable housing, and the issues surrounding limited accessibility to nutritional foods are all aspects to consider to address the situation," Fournier said.
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"Micromax has manufacturing plant in Rudraprayag where it manufactures LED and tablets. The company started manufacturing mobile phones couple of months back," a Micromax spokesperson said.
Last Updated: Monday, April 21, 2014, 14:52
A whopping 4.5 million smartphones were lost or stolen in the US last year, up from 2.8 million in 2012, according to a new report.
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Speaking to Vodafone in blog post published Friday, HTC's Symon Whitehorn said that optical zoom is the wall that stands between smartphone cameras and digital SLRs (single-lens reflex), Cnet reported.
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Your future smartphone may be made out from deep-sea rocks, according to scientists who say that an untapped source of rare earth elements widely used in cell phones may lie under the sea.
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A new study suggests that parents who are too busy on their smartphones usually ignore their kids.
Last Updated: Monday, April 14, 2014, 18:21
"I want to assure you that I have no intention of selling off or abandoning this business any time soon... Our focus today is on finding a way to make this business profitable," BlackBerry CEO John Chen said.
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Thursday April 7,2016 : TWO NEW EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS AT MR GREEN ONLINE CASINO
COO and CMO appointments announced.
The directors of Mr Green online casino have announced two senior appointments to management, naming David Nordberg as chief marketing officer and Oskar Mühlbach as chief operating officer.
Nordberg was previously chief performance officer for the King Digital social gaming group, and has also had management experience with Electronic Arts.
Mühlbach was formerly chief operating officer at Footway, and has been a director of several start-up companies.
Mr Green CEO Bo Wänghammar said that that both Nordberg and Mühlbach will bring more experience and value to areas Mr Green sees as essential to its future growth in the constantly growing and highly competitive global online casino market.


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Recently, a new budget phone Vivo T3 5G was introduced in the Indian market by Chinese tech brand Vivo and the first sale of this phone is starting from 12 noon today. An instant discount of Rs 2000 is being given on the device coming with dual camera setup in the first sale itself. Let us tell you about the price and specifications of this phone.
Vivo T3 5G smartphone can be purchased in India from online shopping platform Flipkart. Apart from this, this phone will also be available on the company website from 12 noon today, March 27. Dual camera setup is provided on the back panel of this phone and a large battery with fast charging support is provided. This phone has 256GB storage with 8GB RAM.
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Take advantage of special discounts
The starting price of the latest Vivo phone has been kept at Rs 19,999 for the base variant with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. Apart from this, the variant with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage has been launched at a price of Rs 21,999. Apart from this, in case of payment through HDFC Bank or SBI Bank cards, a discount of Rs 2000 is available and the phone can be yours at a starting price of Rs 17,999.
Specifications of Vivo T3 5G
The Vivo smartphone has a 6.67-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display and offers a 120Hz refresh rate. For strong performance, MediaTek Dimensity 7200 processor has been provided in Vivo T3 5G and this phone has FuntouchOS 14 software skin based on Android 14. A 3.5mm headphone jack is also provided in the device.
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Talking about camera setup, dual camera setup is available on the back panel of the phone with 50MP primary camera and 2MP secondary sensor. It has a 16MP selfie camera for selfie and video calling. It has a 5000mAh battery with 44W flash charging support. The phone can be purchased in two color options – Cosmic Blue and Crystal Flake.


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Redken’s Golden Anniversary celebrations continue with a cut-a-thon to benefit City of Hope at The Redken Exchange in New York City. Redken stylists from across the country will travel to Manhattan for the event September 30 to give a hair pampering combo, a shampoo, cut, blowdry and product gift bag, for a minimum $30 donation on a first come, first served basis. All proceeds will support City of Hope, a research, treatment and educational institution for life-threatening diseases. As an added bonus, Redken will donate $1 for everyone who “Likes” Redken on Facebook to City of Hope, up to $20,000.
Location: The Redken Exchange, 565 5th Avenue, (between 46th & 47th Street)


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The number of Wisconsin homes sold in November is nearly identical to the same month last year, despite the fact that the short supply of single-family homes has continued driving prices upward, according to the latest Wisconsin Realtors Association report.
Home sales were up 0.5 percent year-over-year in November. Year to date, home sales remain 1.7 percent below the first 11 months of 2017, according to WRA. The median price of a home sold in the state increased 7.7 percent In November to $183,000. Median prices through November were 6.7 percent above the same 11-month period in 2017.
“Unless we have a phenomenal December for home sales, it looks like we will come up a little short of last year’s sales totals,” said WRA chairman Jean Stefaniak. “Nonetheless, this has been an impressive year for sales given the scarcity of homes on the market.”
There were just 4 months of inventory available in November, meaning it would take that long to sell all of the homes on the market. This is below the 4.5 months available the same month last year. Stefaniak said inventory has been a problem in most regions around the state and in most price ranges over the last year. The only region that could be considered a buyers’ market (6 months of supply or greater) was the northern region, at just over 7 months of available supply.
In southeastern Wisconsin the number of sales rose 2 percent in November and the median price rose 7.8 percent to $194,000. The region had 3.3 months of inventory, down 13.2 percent from November 2017.
Median home sales prices by county in November:
- Kenosha, $173,700, up 5.9 percent
- Milwaukee, $159,900, up 13.5 percent
- Ozaukee, $270,500, down 6.7 percent
- Racine, $165,500, unchanged
- Sheboygan, $157,000, up 12.7 percent
- Walworth, $220,000, up 15.5 percent
- Washington, $230,000, up 8 percent
- Waukesha, $285,000, up 0.3 percent
“We’ve had a strong economy in the state, which has pushed incomes up, but affordability has still suffered given the price and mortgage rate increases this past year,” said WRA president and chief executive Michael Theo.
Statewide growth in median family income was 3.4 percent over the last 12 months, but the nearly 1 percent increase in the 30-year fixed rate mortgage combined with the 7.7 percent increase in the median sale price resulted in a 13.3 percent drop in affordability, according to WRA calculations.
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March 31 was World Backup Day – a day meant not just to prompt individuals to take a moment to back up their personal data, but for organizations as well to consider their backup plans. These days, having a backup plan is not just a nice-to-have, but a must-have for any organization regardless of size. While World Backup Day sheds light on the importance of making sure data is properly cared for, it is critical that organizations take a moment to contemplate their disaster recovery (DR) plans (and whether they have one) in order to ensure business continuity should a disaster – natural or otherwise – occur.
A recent Wall Street Journal article references some not-so-encouraging statistics related to disaster recovery preparedness: "A survey of C-suite-level IT pros at mid-sized companies in finance, life sciences manufacturing and technology sectors by data recovery and protection firm NTT Communications found half the businesses don't have a documented business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) plan — and of the half that do, 23% said their organizations have never tested those plans. Ninety percent of respondents said their companies spend 5% or less of their annual IT budget on disaster recovery planning."
According to Connectria Hosting, one of the most important pieces of information to impart, to any company, is that data backup and disaster recovery services are, most definitely, not the same. While these services may sound similar, it is crucial that a company does not make the mistake of believing that their routine backup operations have them covered in the event of an outage or disaster.
The best way to illustrate this difference is to start with the basics – what are the differences between 'backup' and 'disaster recovery' – before delving into a few ways companies can work with their disaster recovery provider to ensure they are prepared for every type of event, while downtime is minimized or eliminated altogether.
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Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and it seems that the companies in charge of deciding what we can see are maneuvering to favor content created with AI, with which they hope to earn billions in the future.
Google’s algorithm is an eternal enigma. But those who dedicate themselves to studying it seem to have found a controversial point: according to an analysis by SEO experts, Google’s search engine is favoring low-quality empty content created with artificial intelligenceversus well-written and documented content created by humans.
Google’s search engine algorithm is the Holy Grail of the Internet industry. Knowing how it works, and what you have to do to position your business, your news, or your content well in the Google search engine, is worth millions.
The problem is that Google changes it constantlyso there is an eternal tug of war between SEO experts who study it, and Google, which changes it.
Does Google search favor content created with AI?
According to an analysis carried out by SEO experts, on the Webmaster World forum, The latest update of Google’s algorithm buries human content in the ranking, while content generated by AI rises to the top positionseven if it is mediocre or empty of content.
Google responded in Business Insider that it does nothing to favor machines over humans, and that the algorithm “favors content that helps or informs people, while penalizing content created solely to rank higher in Search.” of Google”. Quite a slap in the face to SEO experts.
Despite these words from Google, there is one detail that has caused controversy.
Google recently created a new feature in its Google Search Helpful Content System that uses branding to favor content “made by the people, for the people.” However, now in the same sentence it only says “created for people”, without specifying whether the creator is human or AI…
It is difficult to know if the Google search engine intentionally favors content generated by artificial intelligence. It seems obvious that Google, Microsoft, Meta and others are in favor of promoting this content, because they themselves are trying to get users used to artificial intelligence, which generates many misgivings.
It is a market that can generate billions in the future, and they are going to do everything possible to get people used to living with AI, even if they don’t want to.
But at the same time, prioritizing low quality AI content doesn’t seem very smart eitherbecause that contributes to users rejecting it even more.
Experts in SEO They assure that the latest update of Google’s algorithm favors content created with AI, even if it is of low quality, compared to new, elaborate and well-documented human content. It is going to be the great controversy of the coming years.


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At its core, Ubisoft's For Honor is primarily a multiplayer title about factions of Knights, Vikings, Samurai, and Wu Lin battling for supremacy in physical combat. However, the ongoing title has also developed an extensive mythology during its four-year run, and its developers announced the first season of year five, "Asunder," will center around conflicts between the Order of Horkos and Chimera Alliance.
For Honor's Asunder season was announced during a live Warrior's Den livestream on Twitch today, and is set to begin on March 11, 2021. A minute-long story trailer released alongside this event that shows panoramic stills of various warriors in combat as voiceover comments on peace being interrupted by a newly sparked rebellion.
Year four saw the introduction of For Honor's Warmonger character type in August 2020, which helped the cultish Order of Horkos take over the game's region of Heathmoor following a long-standing peace, according to its fandom wiki. The fourth season of year four, "Mayhem," introduced Gryphon as a leader of the Chimera Alliance that opposes Horkos' rule, and it appears Ubisoft will be letting that conflict come to a head with Asunder.
On top of this story trailer, For Honor released a roadmap for March 2021 that outlines the launch of Asunder alongside a new Battle Pass, the Horkos Masquerade Limited-Time Event, a free event pass, and more. Extra content will be added on March 18 and March 25, but details are currently vague.
It's good to see Ubisoft continue adding new content so the game stays fresh for fans, and its success since 2017 has led to numerous crossovers. For Honor recently added Shovel Knight content, though the event is set to end today. Previously, it has also featured content from other Ubisoft titles like Assassin's Creed, and the SNK game Samurai Shodown also features a DLC character from For Honor.
During the New Game Plus Expo, SNK announced that the new DLC character for Samurai Shodown hails from Ubisoft's For Honor and showed a trailer for the fighter. The Warden is the final character that will complete the season two fighter pass and will be available in the game starting on June 24.
Samurai Shodown is an arcade style fighting series that is set during 18th-century Japan. Since 1993, SNK has shown fans pieces of Japanese culture through the fighting character's interactions in this game series. Even though the game faced controversy at the release of the recent DLC fighter Iroha, SNK is trying to move on from that as they introduce the newest fighter to Samurai Shodown.
The Warden is a Vanguard hero from Ubisoft's multiplayer For Honor title, creating a crossover for the two games. This inclusion came as a surprise to many fans. Even though the character was shrouded in mystery, SNK didn't let on that it would be bringing in the armored fighter as the next DLC. For Honor has developed into a mainstream team fighting game, so there are a lot of fans who may be drawn to Samurai Shodown now that the Warden has been integrated into the Japanese game's content.
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Despite the ongoing legal battles with Google’s subsidiary Motorola, it was reported last week that the search engine giant will team up with Apple to offer a bid for Kodak patents. In relation to this, the patent is said to be worth $500 million.
Grabbing Kodak Patents
With Kodak’s ongoing bankruptcy proceeding, there were claims that Apple and Google have teamed up in order to grab the former photography monolith’s 1,100 patents. It was said that the partnership was a behind placed that was placed earlier last week.
Prior to this, the companies led two separate teams when the bidding started. Apple was in consortium with Microsoft and patent holdings firm Intellectual Ventures, while Google was joined by RPX Corporation and a number of Asian phone makers. There were even speculations that HTC and Samsung were part of the search engine giant’s team.
When the imaging patent auction started in August, Kodak estimated the value of its portfolio between $2.2 billion and $2.6 billion. However, the first round of bidding reported that its value ranges from $150 million to $250 million. Moreover, the company’s $793 million loan agreement states that the winning bid for the portfolio must not be lower than $500 million.
On the other hand, Kodak previously filed a patent lawsuit against Apple and HTC, as well as an ITC case against Apple and Research in Motion in hopes to stay afloat. However, the iPhone maker sued the photography company after claiming ownership of ten patents related to the QuickTake camera.
The said patents turn out to be a cooperative project between the two companies. In relation to this, the court ordered Apple to halt its current and future litigation so that Kodak could commence bankruptcy procedures.
Kodak: Confident that Minimum would be Reached
Last month, there were claims that both Apple and Google were still interested with Kodak’s patent portfolio, while it was said that the photography company is “confident” that minimum would be reached.
Although the deal still requires court approval, Kodak has now more time to work on the financing offer from JPMorgan Chase & Co., UBS, GSO Capital Partners, and Centerbridge Partners.
In relation to this, the court granted the photography company’s request to extend its deadline in order to retain exclusive control of their bankruptcy case. This is hope of selling off their patent portfolio to a list of potential buyers.


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Google Inc. is considering launching retail stores, but when and where the first stores may open has not been disclosed.
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is “developing plans to launch retail stores in the U.S.” that would “likely sell Google-branded hardware,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
The move would be a change in Google’s strategy, which included a brief period of online-only sales of its Nexus One phone in 2010, according to the report.
The report says Google has plenty it could display in a retail store, including Motorola smartphones, Nexus phones and tablets, Google TV and even Google Glass.
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The9, a Chinese online game company, has signed a joint venture agreement with California EV startup Faraday Future to manufacture and sell the company’s EVs in China.
The immediate goal of the agreement is to manufacture and sell Faraday Future’s V9 model, a luxury vehicle to be based on Faraday’s first production vehicle.
Under the agreement, The9 will provide $600 million of funding in three equal installments. Faraday will provide use rights to its land in China for manufacturing, and will grant The9 an exclusive license to manufacture, market, distribute and sell the V9 and potentially other models in China.
The9 and Faraday will each have 50% ownership of the venture, and The9 will control the business operations.
Faraday Future CEO YT Jia commented, “This is only the beginning of a series of strategic actions for Faraday, all designed to support the completion and launch of its ‘new species’ FF 91 EV in 2019, and continue development of the mass-market premium model FF 81 in both China and the United States.”


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MMOexp posted an update 5 months, 1 week ago
Mike rightly points out that gamers of this game simply see what the team has been operating on once a year to buy nba 2k20 mt – what’s a steady trickle of upgrades and equilibrium changes for the dev team is a treasure trove of new features and re-worked gameplay for hardcore fans.Gone are they times where the main gameplay loop was playing multiplayer on the sofa (although that is still center to the 2K adventure, and has been polished to near perfection).Instead, exactly what 2K has discovered is that rather than fill the shoes of the favorite players, players were more interested in playing alongside these superstars.
The day before Yahoo Sport Australia spoke to Ronnie at the NBA2K Community Day in Los Angeles, he’d been seeing with James”I Promise’ school in Cleveland. “The lifestyle of basketball players has become about so much more about the courtroom,” he said. “Yesterday I was in Cleveland in the I Promise college, looking at everything LeBron has done, each of these men are thinking this way, and our match has followed suit. “As basketball gets more of a cultural movement, so do we.”
For Ronnie, the game is all about a whole lot more than friends dunking on each other on the couch – it is an opportunity to connect people to the world and lifestyle of a professional basketball player.It’s a target he says rings especially true for an global audience that can’t attend NBA games. “I believe NBA2K provides non-basketball attendees a huge chance to be part of that lifestyle and culture,” he explained. “It’s growing tremendously year annually, there’s still work to be done but it’s something we are aggressive about.
2K Sports and visual Concepts have launched the free NBA 2K20 demo for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One users, giving gamers a opportunity to sample the basketball name ahead of its launch in September. The demonstration provides you the opportunity to have a head start in your own MyCAREER by test driving the MyPLAYER builder.In addition to the playable demo, gamers can also sample the MyNBA2K20 app, letting you use scaring attribute to upload your likeness into. Your MyPLAYER configurations will likely be carried over to the full version of NBA 2K20 for launching, so keep that in mind.


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Woolworths eyes sustainable palm oil
Woolworths has put out a request for information (RFI) to all suppliers and importers of palm oil in Australia, to provide insight into the current availability of sustainable palm oil that is certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
Woolworths aims to only use RSPO certified sustainable palm oil in its private label products by 2015.
The purpose of this fact-finding initiative is to inform Woolworths and its private label manufacturers about availability of certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO) in the Australian market.
Armineh Mardirossian, Group Manager of Corporate Responsibility for Woolworths, said: “Woolworths is serious about its commitment to using only CSPO in our private label products by 2015. The purpose of the RFI is to assess the current supply levels available in Australia, as we know that only about 7% of the global palm oil supply is RSPO certified. This means we have the opportunity to drive market transformation, but we recognise that this change needs to be managed in a responsible way.”
Woolworths is inviting feedback from all CSPO suppliers and importers to Australia to join the research effort.
“We want the whole market to get involved and be a part of this process. It is important to get a clear picture of what is available in Australia and where in the supply chain capacity building is required. This has not been done yet and is a critical step in assessing what the industry as a whole needs to do to in order to transition to CSPO as soon as practical,” said Armineh.
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Will Rooney wear the Englandkini? Borat-style kit on sale to keep football fans cool during Brazil World Cup (and they're being sent to the England team too)
- UK firm want to send novelty gear to Wayne Rooney and co in Brazil
- Football fans lap up Borat-style gear as it's cheaper than an England shirt
- The EnglandKini is available from Amazon for £7.99
Are you brave enough?: Patriotic new Englandkini is available from Amazon for £7.99
If the England players stuggle with the scorching heat during the World Cup in Brazil, here’s an interesting piece of kit that will certainly keep them cool.
UK firm ThumbsUp! have designed a skimpy Englandkini, emblazoned with the England flag.
While it's unlikely we'll see Wayne Rooney and co in the Borat-style novelty gear, the creators are hoping to send some over to the England camp.
The company said: ‘It’s the perfect kit to keep cool in Brazil and it’ll definitely keep their Brazil Nuts covered.
‘We hope we can get some to the players as we’re sure they’d see the funny side.’
The company claims football fans are going crazy for the mankini as it’s quite a lot cheaper than an official England Jersey, which is on sale for £90.
In comparison, the EnglandKini is available from Amazon for just £7.99.
England play their first group match against Italy on Saturday night.
New data from travel search engine Kayak says hoardes of English fans are heading out to Brazil, with UK flight searches up a whopping 697 per cent compared to 2013.
That figure is considerably more than Germans, Spanish, French and Italians researched.
Strike star: Wayne Rooney is hoping to fire England to glory in Brazil
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