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New Delhi: Internet big Google will make investments USD 1 billion in telecom main Bharti Airtel which incorporates fairness funding in addition to a corpus for potential industrial agreements, to be recognized and agreed on mutually agreeable phrases over the course of the following 5 years.
Google made the funding as a part of its Google for India Digitization Fund.
“This will comprise- USD 700 million equity investment in Bharti Airtel at a price per share of Rs 734,” Airtel mentioned in a press release.
Out of the overall funding, USD 300 million will go in the direction of implementing industrial agreements, which is able to embrace investments in scaling Airtel’s choices that covers a variety of units to shoppers by way of modern affordability packages in addition to different choices aimed toward accelerating entry and digital inclusion throughout India’s digital ecosystem.
“Under the larger strategic goals of the partnership, both companies will also potentially co-create India-specific network domain use cases for 5G and other standards, with cutting-edge implementations,” the assertion mentioned.
Bharti Airtel board has authorised the issuance of as much as 71,176,839 fairness shares of face worth of Rs 5 every of the corporate to Google International LLC on a preferential foundation at a value of Rs 734 per fairness share aggregating to Rs 5,224.3 crore (round USD 700 million) ).
“Airtel and Google share the vision to grow India’s digital dividend through innovative products. With our future ready network, digital platforms, last-mile distribution and payments ecosystem, we look forward to working closely with Google to increase the depth and breadth of India’s digital ecosystem,” Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal mentioned within the assertion.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai in July 2020, had introduced a USD 10-billion Google for India Digitization Fund to assist speed up India’s digital financial system.
Thereafter, the web main invested Rs 33,737 crore (about USD 4.5 billion) to purchase 7.73 per cent stake in Jio Platforms simply a few days after it made an announcement in regards to the fund.
“Our commercial and equity investment in Airtel is a continuation of our Google for India Digitization Fund’s efforts to increase access to smartphones, enhance connectivity to support new business models, and help companies on their digital transformation journey,” Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned .
Under the bigger strategic objectives of the partnership, each firms will work on co-creation of India-specific use instances for 5G and different requirements.
“Airtel is already using Google’s 5G-ready developed packet core and software defined network platforms, and plans to explore scaling up the deployment of Google’s network virtualisation solutions to deliver a superior network experience to their customers,” the assertion mentioned.
As part of its first industrial settlement, Airtel and Google will work collectively to construct on Airtel’s intensive choices that covers a variety of Android-enabled units to shoppers by way of modern affordability packages.
“Together, the companies will continue to explore further opportunities to bring down the barriers of owning a smartphone across a range of price points, in partnership with various device manufacturers,” the assertion mentioned.
The industrial association contains growth of the cloud ecosystem in India which is likely one of the strategic curiosity areas and enterprise drivers for Google.
The partnership will allow Google to achieve out to over 1 million small and medium companies which can be presently served by Airtel. Also Read: Kotak Mahindra Bank clients, alert! Your debit card will not work for few hours subsequent week, test timings
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GRANDVILLE, MI -- While hundreds of customers waited outside, Cabela's store outfitters got fired up for business just inside the doors of the new store in Grandville Thursday morning.
General manager John Woniewski gave a pep talk that brought more than a few tears to the crowd, himself included.
"Team, from the bottom of my heart, I can't thank you enough for all the passion and dedication you've shown to help build this store and make it what it is," Woniewski said.
As the ribbon cutting neared, loud rock music played outside for customers as outfitters walked around, handing out free donuts and coffee to help warm the chill of waiting outside.
Closing his remarks to his store outfitters, Woniewski smiled greatly.
"This is in our nature," Woniewski said. "This is our moment. Now let's go sell something!"

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Give a group of kids a little freedom, and someone is going to ruin it for everyone. Samsung is that kid. Remember that piece I wrote last week about the presidential selfie from a Samsung device? The search continues for an unpaid Samsung fan I ended it by wondering if the president was a willing participant in a Samsung promotion or an unwilling dupe. Well we have the answer. The president was an unwilling dupe, and the White House is mulling legal action over it. From The Verge:
The White House is not happy about David Ortiz's Samsung selfie, but it hasn't lost its sense of humor. "Perhaps maybe this will be the end of all selfies," senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer joked on Sunday. The White House has a strict policy against using the president's likeness for profit, and reportedly warned Samsung about the policy in advance, but it's still unclear what repercussions the company might face over the ill-fated tweet. "We’ve had conversations with Samsung about this and expressed our concerns," White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer told reporters. "We’ve left that conversation between the lawyers."
Right about now, David Ortiz is probably rethinking his contract with Samsung. And the president is definitely rethinking his policy of allowing himself to be photographed with people. This is what happens when you deal with a slimy company like Samsung. As the saying goes, "If you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas."


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WEST SPRINGFIELD - The recent Inaugural Fiber Festival attracted more than 3,000 attendees at the Eastern States Exposition, according to exposition officials.
“We think it was a great success for a first-time effort,” Elena Hovagimian, the exposition’s agriculture and education coordinator, said Tuesday. “People really enjoyed the fashion show, and we have already begun planning for 2011.”
The Eastern States Exposition and the New England Sheep and Wool Growers Association produced the event, which had more than 150 vendors with more than 200 booths displaying fiber arts.
There were also sheep dog demonstrations, sheep shearing demonstrations and a children’s area. A fashion show highlighted clothing made from wool, angora, mohair and other natural fibers.
In addition, Storrowton Village Museum demonstrated antique fiber tools and mechanisms. Folk art rug hooking and felting were also taught as well as hand spinning.
About 150 fleeces were sold with proceeds going to the New England Sheep & Wool Growers Association to help support its youth sheep show and sale. About 509 volunteers donated more than 500 hours to help put on the event. Next year’s festival will take place on Nov. 5 and 6.


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Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: The Parliamentary standing committee on finance has suggested developing the Udyam portal into a one-stop central data repository for the MSME sector by linking it with other databases such as CIBIL data, utility bills data etc. The portal is currently already linked with the Government e-Marketplace (GeM), Income Tax, GST and Trade Receivables Discounting System (TReDS) portals. However, “the committee still feel that whatever data is there with regard to MSME sector, they exist in a fragmented manner and there is no real integration across multiple datasets…Such a database could then be accessed by lenders, after getting the MSME borrower’s consent, to extend timely credit to them,” said a report tabled by the committee in Lok Sabha on strengthening credit flow to the MSME sector.
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had also announced linking the Udyam portal with e-Shram, National Career Service (NCS) and Atmanirbhar Skilled Employee-Employer Mapping (ASEEM) in the budget to enhance skilling and recruitment for MSMEs.
The committee also pitched for creating a ‘UPI for MSME Lending’ for all MSMEs in the formal sector to access small-ticket working capital loans in a mobile-based, contactless, paperless, and low-cost way. “To enable this digital vision of MSME credit to come to life, the committee believe that information needs to be used to replace physical collateral: this is cash flow lending or flow-based lending,” the report presented on April 8 noted.
While lenders may not be comfortable giving large ticket loans to MSMEs over a five or 10-year period without collateral, unsecured small-ticket loans over a 60 or 90-day period can be profitable for lenders as the transaction cost under the cash flow-based approach can be brought down ‘enough’, the Parliamentary panel said.
For Udyam-registered MSMEs, the panel also recommended a ‘Vyapar’ credit card scheme for MSMEs under SIDBI akin to the Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to bring crores of MSMEs into the formal financial system including street vendors and kirana stores.
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The credit card can provide short-term working capital loans at low-interest rates and can be further extended to provide collateral-free loans like the Rs 1 lakh collateral-free facility available to KCC holders, the panel said.
The need for formalising the credit ecosystem for MSMEs has assumed significance as less than 40 per cent of 6.34 crore MSMEs, as per government data, borrow from the formal financial system, according to the report. Moreover, the lack of updated data on total MSMEs in the country and their profile has impacted the sector’s growth.
The last MSME survey was conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation six years ago while the government had revised the MSME definition in 2020 to enlarge the scope of the sector by bringing businesses with turnover up to Rs 250 crore under the MSME ambit.
“The committee strongly recommend that survey/census of MSMEs in line with the changed definition, be conducted at the earliest so as to estimate the actual number of MSMEs in the country along with realistic assessments of their credit requirements. This survey should be conducted regularly and, in addition, SIDBI can develop a fact-based MSME Annual Financing Report to guide policies and investments,” the panel suggested.


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Tyler “Ninja” Blevins and his Twitch gaming streams are spoken about by youngsters as if he were LeBron James or Tom Brady. They scrutinize every move the 26-year-old makes in the battle royale game “Fortnite.” They make reference to his kill percentages and statistics rather than NBA or NFL stats. They try to imitate his methods and actions in order to become competitive players.
According to Activate, a technology consulting organization, more than 250 million people watch esports, also known as electronic sports or professional gaming, and the majority of them also participate. Blevins’ popularity catapulted him to the cover of ESPN The Magazine, where he was dubbed “gaming’s first crossover celebrity.” During contests, he draws an average of more than 72,000 viewers, has access to more than 12 million followers, and earns over $300,000 per month in streaming income.
By 2021, Activate predicts that esports will have more viewers in the United States than any other professional sports league save the NFL. They estimate that 84 million people will watch esports, which is greater than the 79 million MLB fans and the 63 million NBA fans. The 141 million NFL watchers still outnumber this.
How does Esports get Views?
Twitch, the Amazon-owned streaming service that bills itself as “the world’s premier social video platform and community for gamers,” is at the forefront of reaching those billions of people. Unlike other video services, such as YouTube, which focuses on content creators posting videos for viewers to watch, Twitch was designed specifically for live streaming. In real-time, viewers may engage with the streamer.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon paid about $1 billion for Twitch in 2014. It was one of the greatest purchases for the internet and e-commerce behemoth at the time. And it was a safe bet: Twitch was averaging just under 600,000 concurrent viewers in September 2015. SullyGnome.com, an unofficial Twitch statistics and analytics site, estimates that the number of Twitch watchers is close to 1.2 million three years later.
For everyone concerned, it’s a significant deal. The streaming sector, which includes esports and other broadcasts, was valued at $10.1 billion in 2018 and is expected to grow to $13.1 billion in 2019. Streamers compete for sponsors and subscribers, with the latter providing funding in the form of contributions and tips. According to estimations, it will be comparable to Netflix, which reported over $11 billion in revenue in 2017 during its fourth quarter results call.
How does Esports get an Audience?
Game creators and esports broadcasters are competing with marketers of “conventional” sports for the same coveted demographic of 18 to 34-year-olds, who account for 73% of esports viewers.
They have a rapidly expanding global market. According to Activate, there were 270 million esports enthusiasts worldwide in 2016, with that number expected to rise to 495 million by 2020. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find a tabular representation of esports worldwide fan growth.
Game makers are taking cues from the sports sector to target this demographic. They’re forming competitive leagues that fans can cheer for, such as the Blizzard-owned Overwatch league. ESPN announced in July that Disney has reached an agreement with Blizzard Entertainment to bring the league to ESPN and ABC.
Other companies are putting a lot of money into huge events like The International, a yearly esports championship for Valve Corporation’s “Dota 2.” The prize pool for The International in 2018 was $25.5 million. In 2018, the U.S. Open had the biggest purse on the PGA Tour, with a prize pool of $12 million.
Esports are a competitive threat to existing sports leagues, but they also may be complementary. The NBA announced last year that it will be the first major sports league to launch an esports partnership: the NBA 2K League, in collaboration with Take-Two Interactive Software, the NBA 2K series’ developer. The NBA 2K League will expand to four teams for its second season.
Over the next few years, we will really be able to see the growth of esports and how they can take over the sporting world. The NFL will always be king but esports are very close to getting to that level.


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VIENNA—Iran increased its stockpile of nuclear-related materials by only a small amount in the last three months, but Western diplomats said they have little doubt that Tehran has scaled up production of enriched uranium in recent days.
Iran has warned that it would disregard some limits agreed to under the 2015 nuclear agreement, but the International Atomic Energy Agency, in a quarterly report seen by The Wall Street Journal on Friday, said Iran still remained in compliance with its main commitments.
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This week HARMAN announced it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Samsung SmartThings. This is being advertised as an "engineering partnership" which in no small part is designed to rapidly expand, and improve on the SmartThings ecosystem, and is specifically focused on the working relationship between the SmartThings R&D team and HARMAN Connected Services (HCS).
In particular, the announcement draws on four specific goals of the partnership. These breakdown to include readying for market and deploying future versions of the SmartThings app, the integration of third-party sensors with the SmartThings ecosystem, and improving the features available through the SmartThings Cloud. The fourth goal is more of an all-encompassing goal as it is defined as working together to identify and develop "roadmap features for hub, core and embedded components." Of course, while this a collaboration between two distinct companies, HARMAN and SmartThings, both of these companies are now owned by Samsung, following Samsung's acquisition of HARMAN – first announced back in 2016. So this is more of the case of Samsung drawing on the expertise of one of its investments to help improve on another. The announcement even draws on this point by directly referencing HARMAN's increased involvement with Samsung products and services in general, as well as noting this latest move highlights how that "successful relationship" is continuing going forward.
Reading between the lines and it seems highly likely this announcement is in-part looking to ensure SmartThings (as a service and product) keeps up with the likes of Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. As while SmartThings is highly compatible with Samsung products, as well as a fairly substantial list of third-party products, and a significant level of adoption – for example, this announcement details the SmartThings cloud currently connects to more than ten million devices with the platform now resident in more than one million homes – Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant have lately significantly upped their Internet of Things (IoT) ambitions and device compatibility. Samsung will likely therefore be keen on ensuing SmartThings maintains a level of relevancy outside of its compatibility with the likes of Alexa and Google Assistant, and is turning to HARMAN to help achieve this.


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AN POST IS planning to roll out parcel delivery lockers later this year in a bid to take a bigger slice of the online delivery market.
The semi-state company is looking to appoint a service provider for “end-to-end parcel locker solutions” where customers can address packages, instead of having them sent to their home or work addresses.
In a model similar to that of UPS-owned Parcel Motel, An Post’s existing AddressPal service allows customers to ship items from UK- and US-based websites using a virtual address, which reduces delivery costs.
However, items can only be collected from post offices and collection points or tracked to a home or work address.
A spokesperson for An Post told Fora that the company believes the planned parcel lockers will be seen as “an addition to customers who increasing demand solutions that match their availability and lifestyles”.
“An Post is in the early stages of exploring the use of parcel lockers as part of its existing parcels service.
“It makes sense to extend the range of options open to customers as part of the transformation and modernisation of its ‘Mails’ and ‘Post Office’ businesses,” they said, in reference to the semi-state’s decision to restructure as two companies following a five-year review.
According to tender documents, the self-service parcel lockers will be available at both indoor and outdoor locations in high-footfall areas around Dublin, as well as “key regional locations”.
The documents suggested the lockers will feed into An Post’s vision “to become the e-commerce backbone of Ireland for shippers and shoppers”.
The company expects the service to be available in the second half of this year.
The spokesperson for An Post noted that locker deliveries will serve as an addition to existing options – like weekend and evening deliveries – rather than a replacement for those services.
The postal service provider is hoping to help give a bump to retailers by “unlocking customer demand and providing logistics solutions to grow online sales”.
An Post – which reported an €8.4 million profit in 2017, compared to a loss of €12.4 million the year before – announced plans to close 159 post offices around the country in August 2018.
It has also considered redeveloping a number of its properties with “significant vacant space” for non-postal commercial use.
In 2017, the average number of staff at the company was 10,315 people, down by 330 from the year before.


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Google acquired Nest some time ago, but the acquisition has basically turned into a giant dumpster fire which has been observed over the past few weeks. Since its acquisition, Nest’s product portfolio has grown at a slow pace, and it is not able to generate enough revenues to meet expectations. This is something Google employees are not liking.
Why are Google employees upset with Nest?
Google employees hate Nest so much that they routinely generate memes that mock the company and circulate them around the office, according to Re/code. A prominent reason for employees’ discontent is the working style of Nest CEO Tony Fadell, which sounds like a complete nightmare to them. This is because he has a habit of disparaging employees when they leave the company.
Other important reason for discontent among Google employees is the acerbic corporate culture at Nest instilled by Fadell. Such a culture is seen as antithetical to Google’s, says Re/code. Google is known for its relaxed culture, and many Googlers believe Nest is an affront to it. This has been shown in the memes.
However, many believe Fadell’s more abrasive, tenacious style is an asset for Nest and that it is necessary for shipping hardware products and more fitting for a startup, which Nest claims to be.
Nest a failure?
Nest’s decision to shutter Revolv also left many Google employees displeased. Now some of the meme creators are using the occasion to recommend what Alphabet should actually do with Nest, which has not released a single hardware product since its acquisition. The employees are using Google’s internal “Memegen” system to create the memes, and Re/code managed to obtain some of them. One of them refers to the Revolv automation hub that Nest acquired in 2014 but later decided to shut it down.
These memes suggest two remarkable things. First, Google employees have a strong dislike towards fellow Alphabet employees, and to show it, they are making internal memes about it. Second, the hatred towards Nest is so strong that they are even leaking those memes to the media, notes BGR.
Meanwhile, at Google’s all-hands meeting, Fadell said his company is on track to hit sales targets. And “some of the memes created during Fadell’s Google all-hands visit were far more damning,” says Re/code.
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Is Dairy Udder Threat?
It’s a tough time for the dairy industry right now, with a variety of threats to contend with: increasing costs of inputs, lack of labour, supply chain struggles, and sustainability concerns to name but a few. As inflationary pressures mount on dairy companies, and prices of dairy products begin to hike, inflation is set to pinch the consumer pocket over coming months, which could prove detrimental to the industry.
In October 2021, the UK average milk price was 32.6 pence per litre (ppl), a 3.1% increase since September and a whopping 8.5% increase on the same month last year (Gov, 2021). Arla, Freshways, and Muller are just some of the big names having announced price hikes to their milk and dairy products over recent weeks. The timing isn’t great either – consumers are set to feel these rising costs at a time where supermarket price inflation has reached it’s highest level for over a year. Grocery price inflation rose 2.1% in the four weeks to 31 October (Kantar, 2021), excluding the pandemic, these are the highest figures since September 2018. This means consumers will no doubt be getting more savvy with their shopping to make savings wherever possible.
This rise in dairy prices is likely to present an opportunity for the industry’s nemesis: dairy alternatives – as price dissonance across the categories tightens. Whilst price compared to its dairy counterparts has long been an issue faced by plant-based dairy, as the gap in prices looks to reduce, it looks as though price will become far less of a barrier to those looking to enter the category. This is compounded by several plant-based drinks having experienced average price declines over the past year: oat milk fell by 6p per pack on average, lactose-free by 5p and coconut milk by 4p (The Grocer, 2021).
Lockdown also saw many UK consumers enter the plant-based drinks category for the first time, with panic buying antics and product shortages an issue across most categories, milk and dairy products were no exception. As many consumers sampled dairy alternative milk for the first time, and with taste, texture and similarities to dairy milk advancing across the category, many consumers continued with their plant-based drink purchases, with 32% of UK households now regularly buying plant-based milk (Oatly, 2021).
Sustainability concerns over dairy products may further encourage consumers to transition into plant-based drinks, once prices align more closely to that of dairy milk.
The industry often comes under scrutiny for high CO2 production, with total global emissions currently around 50 billion tonnes of CO2-eq and dairy emissions equating to about 3.4% – almost double the impact of aviation (1.9%). With carbon emissions deemed to be a key concern for 60% of UK consumers (The Grocer, 2021), as consumers grow increasingly conscious of their own personal impact on the environment, a reduction in all dairy products is often seen as a way in which to reduce carbon footprint.
Some light relief for the dairy category perhaps is that despite many UK households now opting for dairy alternative milks, 64% of UK consumers do not see dairy alternatives as being more or less sustainable than dairy products (The Grocer, 2021). These consumers are likely to remain loyal to the dairy drinks category, despite foreseeable price hikes across the category.
With many unable to part with the dairy in their life, however still seeking a more sustainable way of living, many consumers are transitioning to flexitarian diets. 41% of UK consumers currently follow a flexitarian diet (Quorn, 2021), with shoppers often purchasing both a dairy milk and a plant-based option for their household. This gives consumers the flexibility of switching in and out of dairy within the home. As inflation continues, and pockets are pinched, the question remains whether consumers will continue to opt for both a dairy and a plant-based milk over the long term.
With dairy alternatives still in their infancy and set for major growth over coming years, there is no doubt that major opportunities present in the category. Oat drinks are currently the bestseller in the milk alternatives category – and by some margin. Oat milk value sales increased 50% to £147m this year (Kantar, 2021), and is no doubt starting to give dairy milk a run for its money.
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HOSTING A SUPER BOWL PARTY?
SUPER BOWL SNACKS WILL COST MORE THIS YEAR!
Hosting a Super Bowl party? Millions of Americans will be hosting a Super Bowl party this Sunday. In fact, it’s estimated that some 112.5 million people will host or attend a Super Bowl party and that the average number of people attending a party will be 14. Spending on food, drink, decorations, apparel, etc. is expected to top $16.5 Billion this year. If you’re hosting a Super Bowl party, according to a Wells Fargo report, continuing food inflation will increase the cost of your Super Bowl party snacks.
Chicken Wings. No doubt chicken wings are a staple of Super Bowl celebrations. Last year, the USDA weekly retail price report showed whole chicken wings at $3.38 per pound for the week of Super Bowl. This year, fresh chicken wings are down about 5% and down to $3.26/pound. Frozen chicken wings are down about 11% to $3.17/pound. While chicken wings might not be cheap this year, they will cost you less. And with projections that 1.45 billion chicken wings will be consumed this Super Bowl weekend, that’s a lot of savings!
Avocados. Some 139.4 million avocados will be purchased for this year’s Super Bowl snacks. While avocados were about 20% less expensive in 2023 than in 2022, this year they are costing about one cent more per pound. (Those pennies add up… 250 million avocados are expected to be purchased for Super Bowl parties.)
Beef. The cost of beef is up 2.3% from last year. Ground Beef is up 12% year-over-year. 10 million pounds of ribs will be sold the week of Super Bowl.
Chips & Dips. What’s Super Bowl party without chips and dips? But be prepared to spend more this year. Potato chip prices are up 5% year-over-year. Tortilla chip prices are up 6% year-over-year. Salsa prices are up 3% year-over-year. Guacamole will cost a bit more with avocado prices up by about one cent year-over-year. 11.3 million pounds of chips will be purchased for Super Bowl festivities… those price increases add up!
Beverages. beer prices are up slightly this year at 0.7% compared with last year when prices increased 11%. Soft drinks in aluminum can are up 4.8%, but if you opt for a 2-litre bottle, they’ll cost you 0.8% less than last year.
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WASHINGTON, DC, May 6, 2019 — On May 6, Akron, Ohio-based EarthQuaker Devices will be honored with an award from the U.S. Small Business Administration during National Small Business Week activities.
Founder and president Jamie Stillman and his wife, Chief Executive Officer, co-owner Julie Robbins, receive the Exporter of the Year award at 12:45 pm EST during an event broadcasted on the U.S. Small Business Administration Facebook page.
Hand-crafted effects pedal manufacturer EarthQuaker Devices, top-six in the U.S. and one of the top-10 in the world, create products that are available in over 865 retail locations in approximately 50 countries. Its key retailers include Guitar Center, Sam Ash, Sweetwater and Thomann. The company has sold approximately 250,000 units.
The company’s current workforce reaches over 50 individuals, and has been praised for its commitment to inclusion, diversity and cooperation with other pedal manufacturers by Best Guitar Effects. The company also has an in-house global marketing team fluent in seven languages (Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Czech, and Polish), and, in 2018, rolled out a live dealer training program, which has been completed in 31 cities.
The company leveraged their Small Business Development Center Export Assistance Network, which provides free, confidential counseling to exporters and has offices throughout Ohio. The network, an SBA resource partner, assists small- and medium-sized businesses with international business planning, market research, export documentation, local product requirements and logistics.
The company was assisted through a State of Ohio International Market Access Grant for Exporters (IMAGE) grant to develop an international marketing strategy, funded through SBA’s State Trade Expansion Program (STEP). The company also made use of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Gold Key Service, which provides U.S. companies with matchmaking appointments with interested partners in a foreign market.
Through this service, administered through the U.S. Export Assistance Center (USEAC), where officials of the Department of Commerce and SBA are co-located, EarthQuaker LLC met with potential partners in Australia. This resulted in a signed contract with an Australian firm and an opening order of $41,000.
Today, EarthQuaker Devices also has recent distribution partnerships with Yamaha Australia and Yamaha Asia. The company will also sponsor a week long, mid-May tour of Japan including legendary punk/metal crossover act Boris, Crypt City, Ohio’s Lisa Bella Donna, and Stillman’s band, Relaxer,. The tour will offer attendees an opportunity to play and purchase EarthQuaker products.
Stillman also holds a U.S. patent (Patent no: US9,.899.013BI, issued February 20, 2018) pertaining to an effects pedal implementing a switching mechanism between forward and reverse delay effects.
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Plastic pots do a great job of helping us bring home the beauty of plants. But what can we do with the pots?
In Connecticut, we can recycle green, white, and red pots. (Clean them out first, please.) This unfortunately leaves out all the black pots and trays, which are the majority.
As for plastic bags of potting soil and other garden products, plastic bags marked No. 2 and No. 4 are acceptable where the plastic film is recycled. (Turn the bags upside down and shake them out.) To find a recycling location, enter your zip code at bagandfilmrecycling.org.
Now, here’s the good news: The plant industry may also offer improvements to the plastic pot problem in the next few years.
Author and ecological landscape designer Marie Chieppo of Sagamore Beach, MA, wrote a 2020 report titled “Plastic Pots and the Green Industry” for the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD).
“Professional landscape designers specify hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of plants in our designs every year,” she says. “We’re aware that the pots go to landfills.” In fact, about 98 percent of plastic horticultural pots end up in landfills, according to the APLD’s Healthy Pots Healthy Planet initiative.
According to Chieppo, “The current recycling technology for plastic pots is burdensome, and the process of preparing them for recycling is cumbersome, complicated, and cost-prohibitive.” Chieppo says that growers have participated in productive experiments, but, as with other examples of change in land care, economics drive the speed of change.
“There are alternative pots available for commercial growing. It’s a matter of getting more growers to use them,” she says. The report describes plantable, compostable, and bio-plastic pots.
As for the outlook, Chieppo says, “It is still a huge problem, but we are making good headway.”
What’s the take-home message?
1. For now, recycle green, white, and red pots at transfer stations.
2. Recycle No. 2 and No. 4 bags where plastic film is accepted, separate from traditional transfer station recycling.
3. Shop at garden centers that take back the pots they sell. Also, look for garden clubs and other community groups that give used pots a second life.
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There’s a strange stigma surrounding supporters of cannabis legalisation – usually it’s the one that discards their beliefs as stoner ramblings. In this article, we wanted to undo some fear-mongering by debunking four myths about Australians who support the legalisation of cannabis.
Myth #1 – All cannabis supporters are stoners
Contrary to popular belief, not everyone who supports the legalisation of cannabis has a taste for the stuff. The Institute of Health and Welfare’s (AIHW) 2019 drug survey asked 22,274 Aussies aged 14+ whether cannabis should be legalised. Over 41% of those people said ‘yes’, but only 11.6% of them had used cannabis in the past twelve months.
We see the same pattern with medical cannabis. The AIHW’s 2016 drug survey found that 76% of Australians support medical cannabis. Three years later, the 2019 survey found that only 2.7% of the general population use cannabis for medical purposes.
When we forget anti-stoner propaganda for a second and really think about this, two things become clear.
- You don’t have to use a substance to believe other people should be free to enjoy it – at least if you’re a rational person
- Australia’s cannabis supporters care more about the institutional issues surrounding cannabis prohibition than they do about getting the green light to get high
Myth #2 – Cannabis supporters are doing Big Pharma’s bidding
Fear around “Big Pharma” is at an all-time high, with New Zealand’s Say No To Dope campaign capitalising on this fear with the slogan “Same corporates. Same objectives. Same addiction. New product.”
But is this accurate?
It’s true that many large pharmaceutical companies are investing in medical cannabis (because it’s a new medicine and they sell, uh, medicine), but it’s not true to say that cannabis supporters are doing Big Pharma’s bidding.
Global pharmaceutical company’s Purdue, Pfizer, Abbott Laboratories, Alkermes and Janssen Pharmaceutical (a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary) have all famously funded anti-cannabis groups, including anti-pot powerhouse Project SAM. Pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics was so bold they became Arizona’s anti-legalization campaign’s largest donor, donating over $US500,000.
In Australia, the leader of the HEMP party Michael Balderstone believes Big Pharma wants to keep cannabis criminalised to prevent losing market share.
Besides, research has long confirmed that medical cannabis is an effective substitute for big pharma’s favourite drug: opioids. With 3.1 million Australians using opioids in 2016-17, why would big pharma risk replace such a lucrative drug with a little leaf?
Myth #3 – Only young people care about cannabis
Like most myths, this one is grounded in a (tiny) bit of truth. When the AIHW studied Australians who used cannabis in the past twelve months, the majority (57%) of users were aged 20 to 39. However, 18.2% of cannabis users are aged 50 and older. That’s nearly 1 in 5 cannabis users.
Data from New Zealand also tells us that many older people support cannabis legalisation, even if they don’t publicly campaign for it. In a post-referendum survey from New Zealand, it was reported that 29.92% of Kiwi’s aged 65+ and 42.13% of 50 – 64 year-olds voted “yes”. That’s not a majority, but it’s also not an insignificant number.
Remember – many of Australia’s cannabis raiders are still alive today, and it’s unlikely they’ve lost interest in their dream drug.
Myth #4 – Cannabis supporters want to make cannabis use widespread
Anti-cannabis advocates have long claimed that cannabis supporters want everyone to use cannabis. This is far from accurate.
Take our Canadian cousins as an example. The recreational use of cannabis was legalised in 2018, but data from the Canadian government shows the country did not descend into reefer madness – despite widespread support for the drug.
While the number of Canadians who had tried cannabis increased by 2%, the number of daily cannabis users did not change, staying at 1.8 million people (6% of the population).
Contrary to popular belief, people support cannabis because of the economic, environmental and societal benefits of legalisation, not because they want to turn Australia into New-dubie-land.
At the end of the day, scaremongering about cannabis supporters is a cheap ploy that seeks to dismiss pro-cannabis arguments without having to directly debunk them. No matter your stance on cannabis, debate can’t hurt you: but fear-mongering will.


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Mitsubishi Motors UK is now offering its newest special edition model, the L200 Barbarian Black. The pick-up features a stunning moody image, along with trendy all-black fittings, which transform the L200 Barbarian into a cool-looking machine.
Mitsubishi has taken off the wrap of the third-generation Outlander ahead of its global debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month.
Mitsubishi has teased the public with the image of a "strategic and innovative premium vehicle" that it plans to unveil at this year's Geneva Motor Show, without disclosing what it is.
Mitsubishi has announced that the 2012 ASX will be available in the UK this week, at a starting price of 16,499 pound.
After successfully launching the latest Mitsubishi Shogun, the UK division of Mitsubishi Motors is extending the Shogun range with the new Shogun Black - a special edition model that features enhanced exterior styling.
Aiming to offer a wider range of eco-friendly vehicles, Japan-based automaker Mitsubishi has been actively introducing various car innovations that now include the latest plug-in hybrid version for its Mitsubishi Outlander.
For the second time, Mitsubishi Motors in the UK is celebrating another feat, after being named Fleet News' "Fleet Van Pick-up of the Year" for best pick-up in the UK marketplace.
A new special edition Mitsubishi ASX Black has been launched to coincide with one of the century's rarest and 'luckiest' days - 11/11/11.
Japanese automaker Mitsubishi proudly unveils an optimised version of its Concept PX-MiEV plug-in hybrid SUV. Dubbed as the Concept PX-MiEV II, the new vehicle represents the automaker's vision of the future mid-size SUV.
The updated Mitsubishi Shogun now features a turbodiesel engine that is Euro V compliant, and a selection of five-door long-wheelbase or three-door short-wheelbase configurations.
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Google’s lightweight version of Android, well-known as Android Go, wouldn’t be complete without the Go apps that the company has debuted specially for this platform. One of the most important apps among the lot is Google Go, which is replacement for Google Search and Chrome.
Google Go has today bagged a new Incognito Mode feature that lets users search for whatever they like without search history being saved on their Google account or device. This is an important feature that has existed on the main Google app for as long as we know, however, it has now finally come to Google Go.
The company states that a lot of users tend to access the Internet on a borrowed device, especially an entry-level one, and Incognito Mode will help protect their privacy – if they are rightly educated about its functionality.
“We’re continuously adding new features to Google Go, and hope that this new mode will help people control their privacy more easily,” says Radha Narayan, product manager for Google Go in a statement.
Google Go has also made it simple to access the Incognito Mode. You will find the well-known Incognito Mode icon in the search bar at the very bottom, right next to the search icon. Just tap to begin a new session and the history won’t be saved by this app. Another tap will end the session and you can return back to feeding search data to the Mountain View giant, who benefits from this data to serve you ads customized to your behavior.
Incognito Mode is starting to roll out in more than a dozen languages in India, including English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. So, if you are a Google Go user, update your app and test out this new privacy-focused feature.


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While Nokia shares are trading off today following its December quarterly earnings, we’ll take it in stride.
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Here are five big earnings reports to come out Thursday.
The glass maker is seeing strong optical fiber demand from telcos and data center owners, and is even growing its Gorilla Glass sales in the face of a weak smartphone market.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted modest gains Tuesday ahead of financial results from tech bellwether Apple Inc.
Verizon's adjusted earnings in the fourth quarter beat estimates by 3 cents.
What we have seen of late from a number of chip producers really might be interpreted as pre-recessionary.
U.S. stock futures are mixed amid worries that a U.S. decision to pursue criminal charges against the chief financial officer of China's biggest tech company could stall progress in trade negotiations between the world's two biggest economies; the Fed begins a two-day meeting Tuesday; Apple, AMD, Verizon, Pfizer and 3M report earnings Tuesday; PG&E, the nation's largest utility, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Global stocks were mixed Tuesday, with Wall Street futures drifting into the red, as investors worried that a U.S. decision to pursue criminal charges against the CFO of China's biggest tech company could stall progress in trade negotiations between the world's two biggest economies that are set to resume this week.
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Ericsson's earnings are extremely positive for our Nokia investment thesis and set the stage for a favorable report from Nokia next week.
Online media site known for listicles and viral posts moves to curb costs according to published reports Wednesday.
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In March, the owners of the old Brown & Brown Nissan dealership at Dobson and Broadway roads in Mesa said they could be within weeks of finding a new use for the land.
Today, the $1.9 million site and its building are still for sale and a lacking a permanent user. In the meantime, Florida-based AutoNation — which bought the dealership over eight years ago — will lease the land for at least six months to be used as “for sale by owner” dealership while it searches for a buyer.
Marc Cannon, senior vice president of corporate communications, is vague when talking about the behind-the-scenes talks with prospective buyers and said plans for the property is on the company’s back burner.
The Brown & Brown dealership, which was established in the 1970s, relocated to the new Chandler 202 Auto Park near the Loop 202 freeway and Gilbert Road earlier this year.
Wesley Hukriede said he’s inking a six-month lease on the land for his used-car sales lot. Called Wesley’s Show & Sell, Hukriede will lease individual spaces on the lot to private car sellers.
The business will occupy the entire Brown & Brown site, he said.
“There’s nothing planned,” Hukriede said when talking about AutoNation’s intentions for the land.
Patrick Murphy, Mesa senior town center development specialist, said his department hasn’t been in touch with the company on its plans but will likely approach them sometime toward the end of the year.
The area around Brown & Brown was once a vibrant commercial corridor, he said. As businesses like Brown & Brown and Costco began closing, the area fell into decline.
Murphy said the light rail, which opens along Main Street in December 2008, will reverse that decline as redevelopment will spread north and south of the line.
“It’s going to take some time but you’ll see that resurgence come back,” he said.
Chris Brady, Mesa’s city manager, said he’s not surprised to learn the company still hasn’t done anything with the land or sold it, but he said he won’t worry unless the property sits unused for years.


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As Yesterday opens in theaters Friday (June 28), Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which handles the Beatles catalog, hopes the music resonates with the listeners of today.
“Our goal is that the new generation understands it and other films [and] other brands want to use the Beatles’ music,” says Brian Monaco, Sony/ATV president, global chief marketing officer. “It’s a pretty healthy business for the Beatles in general. So will it get bigger? We don’t know, but there’s a hope there.”
Sony/ATV cleared 17 Beatles song copyrights for the Danny Boyle-directed fantasy that imagines what would happen if a lone singer/songwriter, played by Himesh Patel, was the only person who knew the Beatles had existed and claimed the Fab Four’s songs for his own. The number is the most Beatles songs Sony/ATV has ever licensed for a non-documentary, feature film.
“Any chance that we get to take a catalog like that and put it back in the marketplace in a different way is great for the songwriters,” Monaco says. “You don’t always see those opportunities come across your desk.”
The romantic comedy also stars Ed Sheeran, which Monaco believes will help bring in a younger demographic.
The publishing company became involved around two years ago when it signed off on screenwriter Richard Curtis’s concept. The filmmakers had the run of the Beatles canon. “The catalog was open and they had an idea of ‘This is the group [of songs] that we’re thinking of using and we’ll come back to you as we’re going through the process,’” Monaco says. “We opened it up and said, ‘We’re in. We want to be part of this project.”
Even after the film locked, the negotiations continued up to two weeks before release on marketing usage for the songs outside of the film. “It’s an ongoing process for us, but we’re happy with the end result,” Monaco says.
Billboard estimates that the licensing costs could total around $10 million. Sony/ATV declined to comment on the figure, but Monaco added, “we never discount the Beatles ever. We try not to discount any of our songwriters or any of our catalogs, but the Beatles are very personal to this organization and how this organization was built.”
In fact, the Beatles are so revered within the halls of Sony/ATV that a special Beatles committee convenes to discuss opportunities. “Everything comes through me globally and I sit down and call meetings and we talk about which [opportunities] we want to do.” If the request is for more than two songs, Sony/ATV usually brings in Apple Corps, the corporation that oversees the Beatles’ business dealings, “to make sure we’re not running down a path that they’d be totally against,” Monaco says.
Sony/ATV is also the publishing home to the Queen catalog and saw a massive streaming jump after the release of the last fall’s biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody. In December, Universal Music Group announced that the 1975 title track has become the 20th century’s most streamed song, in excess of 1.6 billion global steams. For several months following the movie’s release, the song topped 7 million streams weekly.
“We’re curious to see what happens with streaming when Yesterday comes out,” Monaco says. “Will the streams move in the right direction? I assume that they will.”
Yesterday includes only one master usage — the Beatles recording of “Hey Jude” that plays over the end credits.
The movie follows Sony/ATV licensing “Help” for a Google commercial this Spring, as well as clearing several Beatles’ tracks for Netflix’s children’s series Beat Bugs. While Monaco cautions that signing off on a Beatles’ sync doesn’t happen “in a day or two,” he’s on a mission to let people know that the catalog is available “because I think there’s an assumption sometimes that ‘Oh, it’s the Beatles. They wouldn’t do it.’ So awareness is the biggest thing you can do with a catalog like that. That’s why you are seeing more and more uses.”
Capitol Records, which controls the Beatles’ masters, released the Yesterday soundtrack to the film June 21. Additionally, UMe (Universal Music Group’s catalog division) and Apple Corps have devised a global marketing campaign to drive streaming engagement through social media, playlisting and online and theater advertising.


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Apple Music has today launched Rihanna’s Road to Halftime ahead of Super Bowl LVII campaign.
The streaming giant is offering new ways for fans to enjoy Rihanna’s music going into the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show on Sunday, February 12, 2023, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Starting today, subscribers can access the superstar’s songs with Spatial Audio in Dolby Atmos, showcasing her multi genre hits over the years.
In addition, on February 9, 2023, at 10 a.m. MST, Apple Music Radio’s Nadeska Alexis will interview Rihanna at the Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show Press Conference. Viewers can tune in live or watch on demand on Apple Music; on @AppleMusic’s TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter; or on the NFL Network.
“Rihanna is one of the most prolific artists of our time, and we, along with her many fans across the globe, cannot wait to see her take the stage at the first Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats. “We are excited to celebrate Rihanna, and give her fans a new way to experience her music with Spatial Audio, as well as exclusive content from Apple Music.”
The new Apple Music Sing feature is also going to promoted which allows fans to take the mic on their favorite Rihanna songs and perform solos, duets, sing backup, and more on all compatible iPhone and iPad models as well as the new Apple TV 4K.
There will be some special programming on Apple Music Radio as well. It will include “Halftime Hype Radio,” a 10-part series reflecting on some of the most notable Super Bowl Halftime performances of all time; “Rihanna Revisited Radio,” an eight-episode roundtable exploring the cultural impact of the elusive singer’s catalog; and “Live from Super Bowl LVII,” featuring daily live broadcasts that capture all of the excitement in Arizona leading into the weekend with Apple Music Radio hosts Zane Lowe, Ebro Darden, and Nadeska Alexis, plus an array of surprise special guests. It all wraps up on Monday, February 13, with “Halftime Recap Radio” to celebrate the debut of Apple Music’s Super Bowl Halftime Show and recap this monumental moment in music.


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Panasonic has announced its first mobile device for the European market in over five years, a smartphone going by the name of Eluga. Though more details are promised tomorrow, the company is giving us a taste of the phone’s specs today including its 4.3-inch qHD display and support for NFC. The Eluga is due in March and features a waterproof, dustproof casing and is said to be lightweight and thin. Though it wasn’t specified, the device should ship with Android. An exact OS version is not known. We’ll be keeping an eye out for more details as they emerge.
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Redbook, like ICSC-Goldman earlier this morning, reports strength in Northeast sales as consumers replenish basic consumables in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Nationally, Redbook says the week's sales were held down by the presidential election but then picked up going into the Veteran's Day weekend. Month-to-month, Redbook's indication, at minus 0.2 percent, points to weakness for the government's ex-auto ex-gas reading for November. The government will post its October retail sales report tomorrow morning.


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Some P.E.I. restaurants, producers encouraged by new Burger Love direction
'We want to bring more people to the table'
For the past nine years, Burger Love has encouraged P.E.I.'s restaurants to create their best beef burger, promoting Island beef in the process.
Now, for the first time, the campaign will be expanding to also include burger creations made from alternative proteins and vegetable options.
While beef is still king for Brad MacDonald, chef at Crafters Burger Company in Charlottetown, he said the burger campaign's new direction comes as more and more restaurants are looking to update their menus to accommodate chicken, turkey or veggie burgers.
"I think people are a lot more health conscious, a lot more aware of their choices. That's why we try to offer a broader spectrum of products. It can't just be all beef all the time," MacDonald said.
"It gets more people involved. It gets people who are vegetarian, people who are pescatarians, now they're part of it. Now they can not be the only person in the office who can't talk about Burger Love."
Until now, April's Burger Love campaign was all about beef. Fresh Media, which helped launch the campaign nearly a decade ago, started it as a way to get restaurants to use and sell Island beef.
What's more is that the Cattle Producers Association of P.E.I. has historically been the campaign's title sponsor — but not anymore.
We want to bring more people to the table ... we can go out and experience Burger Love together.— Melody Dover, Fresh Media
The producers of alternative proteins and vegetables have been wanting similar campaigns for some time, said Melody Dover, with Fresh Media.
Customers have also been wanting more choice, she said. With the new format, restaurants will be able to enter two burgers into the contest. They can use anything in their patty, as long as it's local.
"We want to bring more people to the table ... we can go out and experience Burger Love together," Dover said.
The new format also means that for the first time, a vegan restaurant like Stir It Up, can participate in the campaign.
"It's nice to see they're welcoming and opening their doors to more options, and not only promoting Island beef producers," said Kevin MacLean, co-owner of the vegan restaurant.
The campaign could also see a lot more turkey, if the owners of Larkin Brothers Poultry in New Glasglow, P.E.I., have anything to say about it. They said they will be trying to convince the 15 restaurants they supply, to enter turkey burgers into the contest.
"It's something that's probably not going to start big. But maybe it's something we can start, get a hold of a few restaurants, and maybe it's something that can increase over time and increase our sales and awareness of our product," said Paul Larkin, co-owner of the poultry producer.
Of course, all of this means Island beef producers will suddenly have to share some of the Burger Love pie. But the Cattle Producers Association of P.E.I. said it's meeting with members later on in the week and Burger Love sponsorship will be on the agenda.
"It's an expansion of sorts," Dover said. "Beef is still on the table. And again, it's up to the restaurants to make that choice."


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We all know very well that how the tech giant Apple brought the revolutionary changes in its flagship device, of course, the iPhone X in terms of design and features. However, now, according to latest reports, the new Apple leak reveals a radical iPhone SE 2.
New Apple Leak Reveals Radical ‘iPhone SE 2’
Yesterday an alleged video of the iPhone SE 2 was leaked on the net that showed the design of the smartphone and its operation in full. Of course, we decided to ignore it completely because the clip “reeked” of fake everywhere. However, it is not the same with the alleged case of the iPhone SE 2 that has just appeared in SlashLeaks.
Much is being talked about the arrival of an iPhone SE 2 in 2019 after the Cupertino brand will leave the mobile fans without the possibility of admiring the new phone during 2017. We still do not have the certainty that this year the tech giant Apple will go to present a new compact smartphone but, of course, the firm does not close the doors to it.
At the beginning of the week, the dates of the celebration of the WWDC of Apple 2019 were known. The event for the company’s developers will take place in San Jose, California on June 4 and 8 of this year. It is possible that these are the dates chosen by the firm to show the world this iPhone SE 2 of which we would now have the first image.
The first image of the iPhone SE 2
Like the video filmed yesterday did not generate enough confidence to dedicate a section, the photo of the iPhone SE 2 case if it looks more real and follows the design line implicit in the first iPhone SE. Of course, there is no trace of the design of the iPhone X that was rumoured this year the tech giant Apple could apply to its 4-inch smartphone.
There is no dual camera or defining elements of the high-end Apple, so it is likely that, as happened with the first model of compact iPhone, the smartphone presents interesting improvements at the level of internal hardware, keeping the design seen in the predecessor of this possible iPhone SE 2. Of course, the glass present in this backside advances the same wireless load that other flagships of the brand launched on the market a few months ago.
Unfortunately – or fortunately – photography does not allow us to keep an eye on the front profile of the device, so there are still open doors to the presence of a panel without frames as the top of the brand range, in addition to the inclusion of a TrueDepth camera that allows to use the FACE ID in the company’s smartphone.
We hope that in the next few hours new images of the iPhone SE 2 will appear to confirm or deny the possible characteristics of the Apple smartphone.
So, what do you think about this? Simply share all your views and thoughts in the comment section below.


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Great Lakes Boat Top, one of the nation’s oldest and largest original equipment manufacturers of marine canvas covers and enclosures, said it is celebrating its 60th year in business in 2017.
William Parks founded the company in a Detroit garage. After 30 years of business with his father in the Detroit area, Ken Parks moved Great Lakes Boat Top to Tennessee to better serve a growing client list of boatbuilders.
Today the company is owned by Marine Accessories Corp. and has facilities in Tennessee and Florida. Great Lakes Boat Top also makes replacement canvas available to retail customers.
“It is a privilege to be part of a company dedicated to exceeding customer expectations for more than six decades,” company president Jim Wilson said in a statement.
“That kind of longevity speaks volumes for the quality of work of the people at Great Lakes Boat Top, as well as the solid business relationships we’ve developed with customers throughout the years.”
Wilson said the company began its year-long celebration with a special ceremony for employees that recognized them for their contributions. Ken Parks made a special guest appearance and each employee received an embroidered jacket and enjoyed a catered lunch.


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Openet enables tier one U.S. carrier to support new devices like the Kindle Fire HD purchased for the Holidays
December 4, 2012 - Openet
DUBLIN, Ireland, December 04, 2012 – Openet, a global leader of real-time transaction management software and services, today announced a tier one U.S. mobile operator is relying on the speed and flexibility of Openet’s product ecosystem, including Openet Policy Manager and Openet Evolved Charging, to prepare for an unprecedented number of new devices, with various data plans, purchased this holiday season.
With the latest connected gadgets and devices, including the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD, topping most consumers’ holiday lists, demand on wireless networks will skyrocket. To provide the best service, operators are designing rate plans and network policies to better match users’ individual preferences, and that are tailored to the unique qualities of each device.
“Instead of one size fits all service, Operators are tailoring their offerings to better suit the needs of the individual customer,” said Openet vice president of marketing Chris Hoover. “With Openet technology, operators can improve subscriber experience and satisfaction by enabling them to select the plan that best suits their preferences. With more choice in services, operators have happier customers and increased revenues.”
In addition, daily activity like checking email and browsing the news on a wireless device can cause a serious strain on a given network, and with more and more devices in use, subscriber experience and satisfaction is at stake. The tier one operator recognized the impending demand, and worked with Openet to make the adjustments needed to fully support the influx.
Since the introduction of mobile data services in 1998, Openet has helped service providers capitalize on opportunities and overcome challenges. With competitive pressure accelerating, today's service providers rely on Openet software to evolve business models around networking smartphones, M2M devices and third party services. Openet’s portfolio combines policy and charging control with device and third party interaction to enable innovative charging models, to control operating cost and to personalize services. More than 80 of the world’s largest service providers in 28 countries use Openet’s high performance software. For more information, please visit www.openet.com.


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About a year ago we reported that Jen McCabe was laying the preliminary ground work for a new, somewhat ambiguous project in Downtown Las Vegas. Over the last year we’ve watched as McCabe’s project morphed into Factorli, a new manufacturing startup that allows companies to build their first run of hardware products stateside. Yesterday they successfully closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Tony Hsieh and the VegasTechFund.
The formative idea behind Factorli is a simple one: provide a channel for companies to manufacture new products in small volumes versus commercial production that gives you hundreds of extras that companies don’t need. McCabe is working round the clock to get the facility online in time for CES 2015, but if you’re curious tours are available during the construction.
And thanks to the funding McCabe will be able to curate a great team. The crew that already works with Factorli is strong, but, according to McCabe, there is a need to hire for contract manufacturing and machine operations as well as the business side of things.
“To run Factorli optimally we have to build a software interface that coordinates the efforts of people, plant, and equipment, so those hires are very important for growth,” says McCabe.
It’s worth considering how Factorli might fit into the Downtown Vegas ecosystem and provide more than just work opportunities for people there. Specifically, Factorli will be geared towards hardware startups which could in turn attract a lot of attention from smaller stage OEMs and bring some new blood to the scene.
While McCabe brings new customers and startups to the front door of Factorli she’ll also, by extension, bring those same customers to the front door of every other business in Downtown Vegas.
“Downtown Vegas is home. It offers plenty of room to grow and is a friendly environment for innovative new businesses. We have a lot of support from folks at the city, county, and state level and hope to become a key employer,” says McCabe. “Our customers will visit often, so we hope to see a positive economic impact on downtown and the Arts District as they find it a great place to work, play, and hopefully – live.”
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Thai Q4 GDP slows but govt maintains 2018 outlook on solid exports
Thailand's economy posted its strongest growth in five years last year, with solid exports and tourism giving the government confidence to maintain the country's growth outlook for 2018.
While the economy grew slightly less than expected in the fourth quarter as state spending slowed, resilient exports prompted the government on Monday to raise its outlook for exports, which have been the economy's main engine of growth.
Exporters, however, face tougher challenges ahead from rising US trade protectionism and a strong baht, hovering at four-year highs. It was down 0.1 per cent after the data.
The economy grew a seasonally adjusted 0.5 per cent in October-December from the previous three months, National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) data showed, slower than 0.7 per cent forecast in a Reuters poll and 1.0 per cent growth in the previous quarter.
On an annual basis, growth was 4.0 per cent, lower than a median forecast of 4.4 per cent, and the July-September quarter's 4.3 per cent expansion, which was the fastest annual pace since January-March 2013.
The NESDB maintained its 2018 economic growth forecast at 3.6-4.6 percent, after the economy grew 3.9 percent in 2017.
Tim Leelahaphan, economist at Standard Chartered, said he was sticking to his above consensus outlook of 4.3 percent growth for 2018.
"Global economic growth and higher commodity prices, robust import growth - which markets overlook - suggests a strong foundation for export growth in 2018." The government raised its 2018 export growth outlook to 6.8 per cent from 5 percent. Thailand's exports, worth about two-thirds of the economy, jumped nearly 10 per cent in 2017 after years of underperforming its Asian peers.
Southeast Asia's second-largest economy has posted better headline growth in the last few years underpinned by a solid global economic recovery, but it is still far from firing on all cylinders.
Growth remains heavily reliant on exports, and the boost from trade has been slow to percolate into the broader economy.
Private investment and consumption continue to lag, restrained by high household debt, and excess industrial capacity remains an issue.
Hoping for more ballast from the domestic economy, Thailand's government has said growth will be driven by fiscal spending and big infrastructure projects.
Annual exports in the December quarter jumped 11.6 per cent, private consumption rose 3.5 per cent, and private investment edged up 2.4 per cent. Public investment contracted 6 per cent, NESDB data showed.
Fourth quarter growth was dragged by a fall in the agricultural sector due to flooding. It shrank 1.3 per cent on-year compared with a 9.7 per cent jump in the September quarter.
With inflation subdued, Thailand's central bank is expected to keep interest rates unchanged all of this year near record lows. Its policy rate has been held steady at 1.50 per cent since April 2015. It next reviews policy on March 28.
NESDB chief Porametee Vimolsiri, also a rate-setting committee member, said Thailand was in no rush to raise rates as the economy was still in recovery while inflation remained below target. Policymakers are also increasingly anxious about the impact of the strong exchange rate, with the Bank of Thailand saying last month it was ready to act if the baht rises too fast.
Earlier this month, the BOT eased capital controls to allow more outflows in a bid to take some pressure off the currency.REUTERS


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Organization insolvencies tend to be forecast to rise sharply in the uk on the coming months as federal government support actions are unravelled.
Begbies traynor, the insolvency professional, warned companies were facing the dual whammy of accruing debts together with detachment of condition assistance systems.
We anticipate really see numbers of insolvencies over that which we saw in 2008, stated team manager president ric traynor, researching the recession brought on by the pandemic with all the financial crash.
Many companies have actually really gone into hibernation, pulling along the shutters, using the phone from the hook and not giving an answer to lenders, added mr traynor.
But those debts will always be accruing, and had been probably have the two fold whammy of federal government support systems being pulled...so we expect you'll see a spike [in insolvencies] within the second half of the season and working into the following year.
There was a rise in how many organization insolvencies in july as companies began to confront their stability sheets after months of mothballed activity during lockdown, relating to begbies.
Weve certainly observed in july a rise in insolvency task, said mr traynor, incorporating that businesses had been going insolvent across-the-board, however it had been many widespread in construction, taverns, restaurants and retail.
Fashion retailers debenhams, monsoon, quiz and tm lewin, shopping center owner intu and furniture shops harveys and bensons for bedrooms have all established insolvency procedures.
Mr traynors insolvency warning emerged whilst the business announced full-year outcomes.
It reported revenue development of 17 per cent to 70.5m for 12 months ending on april 30, despite a quite content fall-in insolvency activity during lockdown as businesses started initially to mothball.
Pre-tax profit dropped to 2.9m from 3.3m a year earlier on, partly because of purchase expenses.
Mr traynor stated begbies would continue to expand its staff member numbers, plus the almost all brand-new recruits would get in on the insolvency unit to greatly help manage the expected surge in figures.


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Rivian is recalling 13,000 vehicles – nearly its entire fleet – due to a structural defect impacting the vehicles’ steering wheels.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, improper tightening of a fastener connecting the front upper control arm and steering knuckle could cause the fastener to separate causing loss of vehicle control and increased crash risk.
The recall impacts certain 2022 R1T, R1S and EDV vehicles.
Affected vehicles are expected to be fixed by dealers free of charge and owners, with owners notified in late November.
Late last year Rivian unveiled plans for a new electric vehicle production facility in Atlanta, the company’s second. Its first opened in Normal, Illinois, in 2021. The Amazon-backed company started selling electric vehicles last year.
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Utah Scientific has acquired Sandar, a European manufacturer and distributor of routing switchers serving Northern and Eastern Europe and Asia. The acquisition gives both companies added reach into new markets. The move adds small format routers to Utah Scientific’s range of mid-sized and large scale systems.
Roar Ostby will serve as managing director of the newly named Utah Sandar division, to be based in Sandefjord, Norway. Utah Sandar will continue to sell and service the existing Sandar family of routing switchers, as well as the full line of Utah products. Sandar recently developed a new family of compact (3 x 3 to 32 x 32 I/O) routers that use the same control software as those from Utah Scientific.
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Contact Denver7has been investigating the popular online car dealership, which is now facing scrutiny with multiple states issuing fines or suspending the dealership's license. However, in Colorado, there is little the state can do as the point of sale for local customers most often occurs in another state.
"I think it's a really important issue to expose," said Mark Ferrandino, head of Colorado's Department of Revenue, which oversees car dealerships in the state. "In some of these online companies, they're moving cars so quickly that they haven't done their due diligence behind the scenes to make sure they have a clear title before they sell the car. But we're seeing a much more systematic issue with Carvana. That is happening more frequently in more counties, with more cars."
His agency has received complaints from more than half of the 64 counties in the state about Carvana's paperwork problems at DMVs.
Contact Denver7 has learned that state regulators met with Carvana at the end of February, and the company promised changes, including hiring a new contractor to handle paperwork issues. The company also promised to no longer sell cars without titles in hand.
While Carvana representatives have denied interview requests from Contact Denver7, a spokesperson released a statement to Contact Denver7, characterizing the complaints as rare and blaming the pandemic. But the statement indicated the company is working to improve in Colorado.
"The ongoing impact of the pandemic has created business process challenges for many companies, with delays and staffing challenges across every industry and every logistics chain," the statement read in part. "To address the receding impact of the pandemic on operations, Carvana has made several improvements to our Colorado processes, and shared these changes with our state and local partners. We look forward to continuing to partner with the state and counties to continuously improve our consumer experience and ensure that the car buying process is as simple and efficient as possible."
Ferrandino said he is "hopeful" Carvana will make changes in Colorado.
"Because I think stories like this, that you're doing, complaints we're hearing from the counties [show] it's an issue," Ferrandino said. "If they want to be able to sell cars, they're going to have to improve their processes."
Carvana has had issues in several other states, including Florida, Texas, Michigan, California and North Carolina. The business was fined more than $10,000 in Texas for paperwork issues and was prohibited from selling cars in Raleigh, North Carolina for six months. In California, Carvana paid out $850,000 in a civil lawsuit in four counties stemming from the company making transactions without the proper licenses.
However, when it comes to enforcement in Colorado, Ferrandino said the state's hands are tied. Even though Carvana has a license in the state and is building a car vending machine in Denver, the point of sale at the moment is out of state, usually in Arizona where the company is headquartered.
Ferrandino said that every complaint against Carvana has been closed because the state did not have the authority to investigate.
If a consumer bought a car from Carvana, and the point of sale is in Arizona, consumers would have to file a complaint in Arizona..
"We hold our dealerships accountable for following the laws in Colorado, but we can only do that in Colorado," Ferrandino said, indicating that laws at the federal level have not kept pace with technology. "I think that's a conversation that we as a department, but we also we as a state and other states, need to have that conversation as we see more and more sales across the country."
That conversation is happening too late for Carvana customers now reaching out to Contact Denver7, which is why Ferrandino is now openly warning — buyer beware.
"This is the biggest purchase after a house in many people's lives," he said. "And so it is important to make sure consumers know what the risk is, especially when you're going online to purchase a car."
The state of Colorado has these tips for car buyers to protect themselves when buying a car online:
- Research the location from which you are buying the vehicle, including details on where the vehicle is located and dealership are located.
- Check the VIN on the vehicle:
- Check Motor Vehicle Verification System to confirm the vehicle has not been reported stolen.
- Check National Motor Vehicle Title Information System to Research Vehicle History. (There is a fee for this service)
- Check National Insurance Crime Bureau to confirm the vehicle has not been declared a total loss.
- Most used vehicles are sold “as is” without any guarantee or warranty. It is important that you or a qualified mechanic thoroughly inspect the vehicle before buying. Look at reviews online, ask for a report on the vehicle's history (CARFAX) and have a mechanic inspect the vehicle before buying. Consider this: When we purchase homes, we have an inspector review the property for problems before buying the house. The same theory can be applied to a used car purchase. Have a third party — a mechanic you trust — inspect the vehicle before purchasing, and be aware of any mechanical issues before buying the car.
- Know that you have the right to walk away.
- To avoid misunderstandings, get all promises in writing on the contract that you sign. If repairs or accessories are promised, specify a date of completion and have it written in the contract.
- The state's Auto Industry Division has a section of its website dedicated to public and consumer information and awareness to aid consumers in purchasing a vehicle. Learn what your rights are as consumers and what Colorado law says pertaining to motor vehicle sales.
- If you cannot work out an issue with a dealership, you may report complaints to the Auto Industry Division by completing its complaint form.
Editor's note: Denver7 seeks out audience tips and feedback to help people in need, resolve problems and hold the powerful accountable. If you know of a community need our call center could address, or have a story idea for our investigative team to pursue, please email us at email@example.com or call (720) 462-7777. Find more Contact Denver7 stories here.
Producer Joe Vaccarelli contributed to this report.


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Here's your chance to help fight HIV/AIDS, and all you have to do is go out for a meal.
The 14th Annual Dining Out for Life event is being held Tuesday, October 11. Proceeds benefit Evergreen Health, the non-profit has provided HIV/AIDS services in western New York since 1983.
More than 90 restaurants in Erie, Niagara and Chautauqua Counties are participating. The restaurants will donate a minimum 25% of their proceeds during the event.
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In Odesa, port logistics is planned to be reorganized
In the Odesa region, it is planned to reorganize the logistics infrastructure and restore the operation of non-functioning ports.
These are necessary steps for the continuation of the export of Ukrainian grain, Oleр Kiper, the head of Odesa Regional Military Administration , said during a meeting with the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine, Martin Yeger.
According to Yeger, Russia is deliberately destroying and destroying the infrastructure of the Danube ports, as this is the only way to export grain from Ukraine.
“The Odesa region is a strategic region for ensuring global food security, and the ports of Odesa play a leading role in world grain trade. We will comprehensively promote the development of the Odesa region’s economic potential thanks to the attraction of German investments in the region,” said the German ambassador.


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January 21, 2022
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Eat your way through Los Angeles with Nextbite CEO and Co-founder Alex Canter’s annual list of top 100 LA restaurants.
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Game of Thrones has found its place amongst RPG fans. Players will be thrilled to know that DLC is headed their way. It is time to travel “Beyond the Wall” to the frozen Northern lands, and area that is protected by the Night’s Watch.
This DLC will take players into the past, to learn the origins of Mors “The Butcher” Westford. Live the story of his early years in the Night’s Watch, long before the main story events of Game of Thrones. There will be another two hours of gameplay added by the DLC.
“Beyond the Wall” will be released on the Playstation Network in the coming weeks but is available now on PC and on Xbox Live Europe for 400 Microsoft points.
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