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(Bloomberg) -- Nearly a year into an invasion that was supposed to take weeks, Vladimir Putin is preparing a new offensive in Ukraine, at the same time steeling his country for a conflict with the US and its allies that he expects to last for years.
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The Kremlin aims to demonstrate that its forces can regain the initiative after months of losing ground, putting pressure on Kyiv and its backers to agree to some kind of truce that leaves Russia in control of the territory it now occupies, according to officials, advisers and others familiar with the situation.
Even Putin can't deny the weaknesses of the military that he's spent decades building up after his troops lost more than half their initial gains in Ukraine, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss matters that aren't public. The persistent setbacks have led many in the Kremlin to be more realistic about their immediate ambitions, recognizing that even holding the current front line would be an achievement.
But Putin remains convinced that Russia's larger forces and willingness to accept casualties - which already number in the tens of thousands, more than in any conflict since World War II, according to US and European estimates - will allow it to prevail despite the failings so far. The renewed offensive may start as soon as February or March, the people close to the Kremlin said. Their comments confirm warnings from Ukraine and it allies that a new Russian offensive is coming and suggest it may begin before Kyiv gets newly promised supplies of US and and European battle tanks.
Putin's determination presages another deadly escalation in his war as Kyiv prepares a new push of its own to eject his forces, dismissing any cease-fire that leaves Russia occupying its land. The Russian leader believes he has no alternative but to prevail in a conflict he sees as an existential one with the US and its allies, the people said. A new round of mobilization is possible as soon as this spring, they said, as the economy and society are increasingly subordinated to the needs of the war.
"Putin is disappointed at how things are going but he isn't ready to abandon his goals," said Tatiana Stanovaya, founder of R.Politik, a political consultancy. "It just means that the route will be longer, more bloody and worse for everyone."
US and European intelligence officials question whether Russia has the resources for a major new offensive, even after mobilizing 300,000 additional troops last fall. Ukraine's allies, meanwhile, are stepping up weapons supplies, preparing to deliver armored vehicles and main battle tanks for the first time that could help Ukrainian troops break through Russian lines.
But Russia's brutal, grinding attacks in places like Bakhmut, an eastern city that has limited strategic value, have worn down Ukrainian forces, diverting troops and sapping Kyiv's ability to mount offensive operations elsewhere, according to US officials.
After lightning attacks by Ukrainian forces in the summer and fall breached its defensive lines, Russia has since stepped up protections, using trenches, tank traps and mines to slow any potential advance. Publicly, the Kremlin says there are no plans for more mobilization at present.
Longer term, Putin has approved plans to expand the ranks of the military by nearly 50% over the next few years, deploying new forces near Finland - which is in the process of joining NATO - and in the occupied regions of Ukraine. Schools and universities are reinstating military-training courses last conducted widely in the Soviet era as war preparations permeate society.
Still, some elements of realism about the disastrous performance of the military to date have begun to slip into tightly controlled state media.
"So far the results have been appalling because Russia wasn't at all ready," said Sergei Markov, a political consultant with close Kremlin ties.
"It's morphed into a drawn-out war and Russia doesn't yet have enough manpower or equipment to wage it," he said. "We must stop the Ukrainian counter-offensive and thwart the West's efforts to defeat us by gaining the military edge."
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Russian forces haven't demonstrated the ability to do that since the early weeks of the invasion, retaking only one small city in the last six months and at a huge cost in casualties. Ukraine's troops, by contrast, have consistently surprised allies and observers with their successes in pushing back the invaders.
Putin's confidence in his military's ability to grind out a triumph - even at a cost of vast casualties and destruction - reflects a misreading of the West's commitment to turn back his aggression, some insiders concede. The US and its allies have steadily stepped up weapons supplies to categories once considered off-limits.
Still, US and European military officials fear the conflict could soon settle into a World War I-style artillery fight with largely stagnant front lines, a scenario that could come to favor Russia, with its larger population and military industry.
Diplomatically, Russia has sought to win supporters among non-western countries with appeals for talks on a cease-fire. Even people close to the Kremlin admit those are hopeless at present, given Ukraine's demand that Russia pull out its troops as a condition for any deal.
The minimum the Kremlin would accept would be a temporary truce that left Russia in control of the territory its forces currently hold in order to win time to rebuild its forces, the people said. Though short of the boundaries of the regions that Putin illegally annexed in September, that would still leave Russia with a large swath of land, linking the areas it occupied before the war. As a result, the idea is a nonstarter with Kyiv and its allies.
"Unless something changes, we're looking at a war of attrition like World War I, which could go for a long time because both sides believe time is on their side," said Andrey Kortunov, head of the Kremlin-founded Russia International Affairs Council. "Putin is sure either the West or Ukraine will grow tired."
A re-election defeat in 2024 for US President Joe Biden, who has led the coalition to support Ukraine, might bring "more flexibility" on the issue in Washington, he said.
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While a new wave of sanctions pressure - in particular, the price cap imposed on Russian oil exports - has squeezed the Kremlin's revenues, it hasn't so far cut into Putin's ability to finance the war. Russia still has access to billions in reserves in yuan which aren't affected by sanctions and can help bridge budget shortfalls for as much as 2-3 years, according to economists.
Among Ukraine's allies, too, fears are growing that the conflict will last years.
"This year it would be very, very difficult to militarily eject the Russian forces from all - every inch of Ukraine and occupied - or Russian-occupied Ukraine," US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley said Jan. 20 after a meeting of US and allied defense ministers. "But I do think at the end of the day this war, like many wars in the past, will end at some sort of negotiating table."
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Whereas whole world is paying attention for cryptocurrencies and their value variation in money market, Robert Hackett from Fortune.com talks about troubles in cybersecurity market and divergent opinions about future of crypto market. Let’s check out…
Even though Friday’s nor’easter soaked the coast in all manner of precipitation, I pondered two other storms a-brewing in the business world: a correction in the cybersecurity industry plus the undeniable, insuppressible arrival of cryptocurrency.
Initially, cybersecurity issues have raised tremendous sums of venture capital in current years-and now we’re beginning to determine a shakeout. Private marketplace cash ain’t as free-flowing as it as soon as was. Organizations like Ping Identity, McAfee, Barracuda Networks, and now PhishMe (considering that renamed “Cofense”) have sold wholly or in element to private equity purchasers. As funding and prospects for exits thin, count on a lot more companies to possess a tougher time justifying inflated valuations.
Meanwhile, the cryptosquall bears down in complete force-and should you listen close, you can hear the joints on the financial establishment creaking. Following the lead of Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase warned investors for the very first time in its annual report that cryptocurrency could pose a danger to its business. (For a lot more on that, see this newsletter’s “access granted” section below.) Inside the similar week, Circle, a Goldman Sachs-backed monetary tech startup, shocked the public by obtaining a cryptocurrency exchange, news 1st reported by yours really. And Garrett Camp, cofounder and chairman of Uber, unveiled a proposal to get a brand new cryptocurrency, called Eco, that he hopes to transform into a global payment system.

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A raid of an illicit cannabis business in Bay Ridge has left some community members debating the use of police resources to go after an industry that remains in a legal gray area in New York.
Law enforcement seized products and made arrests at one location in Bay Ridge and reportedly several others, though the sheriff’s office did not respond to requests for details in time for publication. The raid, according to Sheriff Anthony Miranda, was a joint operation between the New York City sheriff’s office, the New York Police Department, the City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and the state Office of Cannabis Management.
One business raided was Big Chief, an unlicensed dispensary at the intersection of 3rd Avenue and 74th Street in Bay Ridge.
Tank Denory, the owner of Big Chief, said the raid happened with the help of who he says appeared to be two undercover officers on Nov. 16.
“The door is locked, so nobody under 21 is allowed to come in here,” he said.
“So two ladies came and they made believe they were shopping, and when the cops came in front of the door, they ran to the door and let them in without us letting them in.”
Denory said law enforcement seized tens of thousands of dollars worth of products from his business, which he said has been open since Aug. 20.
“They barged in here and they started tearing up the couches,” Denory said.
“They seized everything, even if it was batteries, even if it was like a phone — there was a phone, there was an iPad, they took all of that stuff.”
A video of the raid at Big Chief was shared online and resulted in debates between neighbors on social media about whether the raid should be characterized as a helpful cleanup of illicit activity or an overuse of resources better directed elsewhere.
Hannah Nelson, a 26-year-old Bay Ridge resident, said she was excited when Big Chief first opened and thinks the controversy about it is overblown.
“People were making all these wacky accusations online and saying, 'Oh no, there’s gang members now!' First of all, what do you define as gang activity? I don’t think any of that was happening,” Nelson said.
“I’m just frustrated by the attitude toward the use of weed even though it’s now legal. I don’t think there needed to be this grand raid. There’s other stuff going on that could be focused on.”
Cannabis has been legal to possess in New York since last year, but the Office of Cannabis Management just began issuing licenses for recreational dispensaries on Nov. 20. Even then, it only issued 37 licenses in a state of 18 million. And, due to a recent court injunction, none of them are in Brooklyn.
“It’s definitely frustrating for me as a recreational user,” Nelson said.
“I have anxiety [and] I take medication, I go to therapy but weed also helps me and I use it safely in my home. It would be nice to have a straightforward place to purchase it from. There’s a bodega in the area that I purchase from, and it’s not shady."
"But it would be nice if I didn’t have to feel like I was almost doing something wrong in those transactions, the same [way] people can go to the liquor store," Nelson said.
Bobby Ferazi, a 58-year-old Bay Ridge resident who runs a Coney Island-based nonprofit youth development organization called Thompson Drive, said he sees it differently.
“My thoughts really come from the youth standpoint,” he said.
“I don’t smoke [cannabis] personally, but I have good friends that smoke all the time, so I don’t care really. But what bothers me is it almost seems like it’s marketing it toward the kids.”
He said the staff at his nonprofit has seen teenagers able to illegally purchase cannabis items at bodegas — places like where Nelson said she has purchased cannabis for herself — and that worries him.
And, even if Big Chief only let in adults over 21, Ferazi said the lack of a license bothers him.
“If you’re willing to skirt the issue ... my thought is, if these people are willing to do that, then what else are they willing to do?” Ferazi said.
“I’m just afraid of what’s going on in the backrooms. They’ll be selling marijuana, but what are they selling in the back?”
Denory, for his part, said he opened without a license simply because getting one is virtually impossible in most places and literarily impossible in Brooklyn at the moment.
“It’s just corrupt,” he said.
“How do you accept 5,000 applications and only 36 people could get it?”
He pointed out that the fee for a conditional adult-use retail license in New York State is $2,000 — money that won’t be returned for those unsuccessful in getting a license.
“They just robbed everybody, basically that's exactly what happened,” Denory said.
“So since we were waiting for the license, we decided to be open, and if there were any issues they should have notified us instead of just running up, barging their way in here, using two people to open the door for them.”


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It’s peddle to the metal as Acura readies its biggest ad campaign
Hoping that the best years are not in the rear-view mirror for its Acura luxury line, American Honda Motor Co. is shifting into high gear for the introduction of its redesigned 2014 MDX sport utility vehicle.
The U.S. sales arm of the Japanese automaker typically has kept a low advertising profile for Acura. But that’s about to change.
This week, American Honda in Torrance plans to roll out its largest-ever national advertising campaign for an Acura model, a marketing push that also is being closely watched in the Los Angeles advertising industry.
American Honda this year dumped Acura’s longtime ad agency and called in reinforcements from Boston and New York. The two newly hired firms had to quickly add staff and engineer a campaign that would improve consumers’ impressions of Acura.
“This is huge for us,” said Gary Robinson, manager of Acura’s national advertising and brand. “We want to get this launch right, and we are going to do what it takes to do that. This is a must-succeed.”
Acura in recent years has fallen behind such high-end rivals as BMW, Lexus and Mercedes-Benz. Last year, Acura sold 156,216 vehicles, according to Autodata Corp., a 25% decline from its peak of nearly 210,000 units sold in 2005.
The Honda brand remains strong: Sales increased 9.7% in June, from a year earlier, but the Acura line suffered a 10.4% decline.
Much is riding on Acura’s new “Made for Mankind” ad campaign because the seven-passenger MDX is Acura’s highest-volume vehicle, and the brand’s best chance to regain traction in the market.
Last year, American Honda decided to open up its account handling more than $860 million a year in advertising spending for both the Honda and Acura lines.
The move ultimately reordered the Los Angeles advertising landscape as the incumbent firm, Rubin Postaer & Associates of Santa Monica, lost two substantial pieces of Honda’s business.
Mullen, a Boston advertising firm, picked up the Acura account, and MediaVest of New York took responsibility for media buying for both Acura and Honda. RPA, which formed in 1986 to manage the American Honda account, retained the Honda creative account.
Still, the firm shed about 200 employees because of the reduction in business.
After winning the account March 18, Mullen executives had just 90 days to find office space in the Los Angeles area, hire workers and refine the advertising campaign in time to tout the MDX’s arrival in dealerships.
Mullen, which now boasts nearly 750 employees nationwide, intends to eventually employ about 80 people in its newly opened office in El Segundo to work on the Acura account. The company also creates advertising for JetBlue Airways Corp., Zappos.com Inc. and Google Inc.
“This is the most exciting opportunity to come to L.A. ad agencies in the last decade,” said Julie Warford, director of creative services and operations for Mullen in L.A.
The native of New Zealand joined Mullen two months ago after leaving another advertising agency in El Segundo. Mullen opened its offices next door to her old firm in 13,000 square feet of office space in a glass tower that overlooks the south runway of LAX.
MediaVest expects to add about 100 people to plan media strategy for Honda and Acura. MediaVest already had a presence in L.A., because its parent company Starcom MediaVest Group handles advertising for Disney Channel, Mattel Inc. and other companies in the area.
Acura’s Robinson said the MDX advertising campaign was the largest ever for Acura, although he declined to divulge how much the company will be spending. According to advertising consultant Kantar Media, Acura spent nearly $167 million on ads in 2012, down 15% from 2011.
The company plans to make five television commercials featuring the MDX, an increase over its usual practice of producing two national TV commercials and one region spot for a car model. It recently unveiled the Mullen 60-second spot in theaters and has ordered print ads, billboards, Internet ads.
“It’s been crazy. I can’t remember the last day that I worked that wasn’t 16 hours, but that’s fine,” said Peter Rosch, executive creative director at Mullen who recently relocated from Boston.
During the pitch process, Mullen asked for extended sessions with Acura engineers and designers, who discussed how they were focused on tapping into technological innovations to create a “synergy between man and machine.”
“Our approach was to look right in front of our eyes. We tried to try to find the magic within the words of their chief engineer and then express it in our words,” said Mark Wenneker, Mullen’s chief creative officer, who also plans to relocate from Boston to Los Angeles or San Francisco.
Rosch and his team came up with the line “Made for Mankind,” to compete with BMW’s slogan of “the ultimate driving machine” and Lexus’ “the pursuit of perfection.”
Acura executives acknowledge their vehicles face “challenges of perception” among buyers of luxury vehicles.
Honda launched Acura in 1986 to become a step-up vehicle for Honda owners who wanted to graduate to the next class. The strategy worked. Still, some Honda owners kept buying Hondas, while others migrated to brands that offered more pizazz. To attract new buyers, Acura must drive out from Honda’s shadow.
The 60-second version of Mullen’s first TV commercial is cinematic in scope and begins with a man scaling a tall tree. It includes an underwater scene, an astronaut floating in space and a scientist interacting with a robot. It is different from most because, these days, car commercials tend to feature voice-overs by famous male actors. On the new Acura ad, the announcer is a woman, who was selected after auditions by more than 100 actors. Acura’s usual spokesman, actor James Spader, wasn’t enlisted for the campaign.
The ad is meant to convey that as humans have evolved, so has Acura.
The company also intends to make a bigger push in social media. MediaVest brought research into the pitch to show Honda how to better exploit social channels to identify potential car buyers and persuade them that Acura matches their personalities.
“People who are purchasing a car are sending social media signals all over the place,” said Chris Harder, executive vice president and managing director of MediaVest’s L.A. office. “What social media allows us to do is reach consumers in real time.”
The goal is to highlight Acura’s relationship with consumers — before, during and after the car purchase, she said.
“We know there is huge power in a brand, and we need a stronger brand to be able to sell more vehicles,” Acura’s Robinson said. “It’s a critical element that we are focused on. It’s our goal to make MDX part of the conversation.”
[For the record, 12:15p.m., July 10: An earlier version of this story said that Peter Rosch had come up with the promotional line “Made for Mankind,” and that Disney Channel and Mattel were clients of MediaVest. In fact, Rosch and his creative team together designed that slogan, and Disney and Mattel are clients of MediaVest’s parent company, Starcom MediaVest Group.]
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The global tourist market of young people
The tourism of younger people is a very promising market. According to the data available by the World Tourism Organization 370 million young people are expected to be traveling around the globe by 2020, while another estimation for tourists between the ages of 18 to 26 states that the value of this market will rise up to 320bn dollars.
The relevant trends that tourist businesses need to be aware of are:
– The dynamics of the young people’s tourist market.
It has been proven that young people don’t cancel their arrangements. Troubled areas or diseases won’t make them change their minds…
– The increase of the students’ travels
The globalization of our technology has made things easier and more attractive for students to travels.
– The reduced prices
Spring is a season that we see an increase in the young tourists’ bookings. It is when the prices are lower something that seems to attract their attention. That applies especially for students.
– The mobile phones
Young tourists are looking for destinations that provide them unlimited access to the network. T-Mobile is very popular as it provides unlimited text and internet in 140 countries.
– One login for everything
Young tourists are looking for an inclusive booking experience, where from one platform with one login they will have access to every information and everything they will need to book in advance.
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JR Products, a supplier of RV replacement parts, hardware and accessories based in Clarence Center, N.Y., announces new hire Monika Coppo (pictured) as Consumer Marketing Manager.
Coppo was brought on board to manage the company’s integrated B2C marketing campaigns and will be focused on driving customer acquisition, engagement and retention via multi-channel marketing such as email, website, internet advertising and social media.
With previous experience working with distributors such as NTP and Blue Ox, Coppo says she “has always admired JR Product's commitment to customer service and their quality products.”
The company notes that Coppo will work out of a home office in Florida and that she can be reached by email at Monika Coppo.


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Processor giant Intel and memory specialist Micron recently announced that they will be bringing a new type of memory called 3D XPoint to the market next year. This technology is said to be faster and more reliable than traditional NAND flash used in high-performance solid-state drives today.
Although Intel and Micron should benefit from this technology to the extent that it sees uptake in the market, there is a relatively "under the radar" company that could be well positioned to benefit from this technology: Silicon Motion .
What's the scoop?Silicon Motion is a well-known vendor of flash controllers for NAND flash-based solid-state drives today. Its controllers have been used by relatively lesser-known drive makers as well as bigger name vendors such as Micron and SanDisk .
According to DigiTimes, the first drives that use Intel and Micron's 3D XPoint technology, which are expected to launch at some point in 2016, will be powered by Silicon Motion controllers.
In the same report, DigiTimes claims that Silicon Motion will be working with Intel to produce PCI Express solid-state drive controllers for drives set to launch next year.
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Further, according to current analyst estimates, the company is expected to earn $2.07 per share this year, with that figure growing to $2.39 next year. This means that the shares currently trade for about 11.53 times this year's expected earnings and just under 10 times expected earnings in the company's next fiscal year.
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Indian e-commerce companies may run into more competition in the months ahead with global entities such as Alibaba, Rakuten and Walmart seriously eyeing the Indian market.
Founded by two ex-Amazon employees Sachin and Binny Bansal, Flipkart has been changing its formats and strategy over the last year with Amazon’s entry.
Australia's largest retailer of consumer electronics products announced plans of listing on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
Dick Smith Holdings Limited (Dick Smith) lodged the prosecutes for the Initial Public Offering (IPO) with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) on Thursday.
Based on a share price of AUD2.20 per share, the company expects the offering to raise AUS344.5 million (USD).
In Bangladesh's villages and on its street corners, Japanese fashion giant Uniqlo is quietly gathering market data to help it in its ambition of becoming the world's top clothing brand in seven years.
Like other global brands, Uniqlo set up shop in Bangladesh's cities to tap into their cheap labour and make casual fashion wear affordable and profitable. But it has also gone into the country's impoverished villages and neighbourhoods looking for a way to give something back to a country that many said was being exploited by the garment industry.
Avon Products says it will cut about 1,500 jobs and exit two Asian markets – South Korea and Vietnam – as the struggling beauty products seller takes initial steps toward its cost-cutting goal.
The job cuts amount to almost 4 percent of its workforce and mark one of the first major moves by CEO Sheri McCoy, who was brought on in April to replace longtime CEO Andrea Jung.
After nearly 14 years of working to persuade China to buy into its foreign coffee culture, Starbucks Corp. is aiming to become more Chinese as it plans a rapid expansion in the country.
Belinda Wong, president of Starbucks China, said in an interview that Starbucks aims to roll out 800 new stores in the next three years to add to its existing fleet of 700. Over that period it will increase the number of employees to more than 30,000 from the current 12,000.
According to the fifth annual edition of the Global Retail Theft Barometer, retail shrinkage rate in Japan is 1.04 percent of sales, the third-lowest in the world. However, this rate was up 4 percent compared to the previous year. The total shrinkage amount – profit loss due to customer and employee theft, supplier/vendor fraud and administrative errors – in Japan reached JPY774 billion (USD9.96b), the second-highest worldwide, representing almost 53 percent of the total sum in the Asia-Pacific.
As Silicon Valley companies struggle to hire women into their senior ranks, China's Alibaba Group Holding is setting an example of how to do it.
The Hangzhou-based e-commerce company, which plans to sell shares next month in what may be the largest initial public offering in US history, counts nine females among the 27 partners who control management, including Chief Financial Officer Maggie Wu and Chief People Officer Lucy Peng. That's triple the ratio of women in board seats and senior executive roles at the largest companies in California.
Labour leaders behind the biggest strikes in Cambodia's USD5 billion garment industry knew last year they had a strong case for higher wages: they had already compared notes with activists in neighbouring countries.
The result was a 25 percent increase in the minimum pay for an estimated 600,000 garment workers, to USD100 a month, the biggest jump in around 15 years. Now, they're asking for more.
The world's largest retailer is having a hard time returning to growth and doesn't expect sales to improve in the US for much of the rest of the year. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cut its earnings guidance for the year after it posted its seventh straight quarterly decline in US store traffic and said growth in online sales would slow.
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Apple Inc on Tuesday released a report on employee diversity, and its numbers are similar to those of other Silicon Valley companies, prompting Chief Executive Tim Cook to say there is still work to be done.
The employee survey comes on the heels of recent reports from technology companies Google Inc and Twitter Inc, but it is unique in one significant way. It alone is accompanied by letter from a company CEO, in which Cook stresses the company's commitment to being "innovative in advancing diversity."


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Will be joined by Meizu MX4 Ubuntu phone in Europe Month after releasing the first commercially available Ubuntu OS-powered smartphone, Spanish firm BQ is getting ready to launch their second Ubuntu phone. Dubbed as Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition, the new phone will go on sale in Europe in mid-June. It will carry a price-tag […]
Over two years after the folks at Canonical showed the Ubuntu OS for smartphones and tablets, the first smartphone powered by the operating system is going on sale in the European Union. The new Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition smartphone has been developed by Spanish company bq and is actually just a variant of the firm’s […]
Canonical has revealed that the first Ubuntu phone is finally ready to hit the market. The phone will be released only in Europe, that too via online flash sale model, which is followed by the likes of Xiaomi to retail their devices. If you are expecting to see the Ubuntu Edge as the first Ubuntu […]
Canonical’s As per a blog post on Ubuntu Developer Blog, the company is today introducing Ubuntu and Android dual boot developer preview, using which Ubuntu can now run alongside Android on a single device. Currently only meant for the developers, as is suggested by the name, this preview is now available and the details about […]
Canonical is getting ready to release the stable 1.0 version of its Ubuntu Touch OS on October 17, 2013. Along with launch of 1.0, the company will also be releasing stable builds of the OS meant for Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 devices, which are acting as the development devices right now.
The test images of the Ubuntu Touch OS for these Nexus devices have been available for some months now but stable builds should be the one to watch out for. Read more about Ubuntu Touch OS version 1.0 goes live on October 17 …
Canonical’s massive crowdfunding campaign for Ubuntu Edge smartphone came to an end minutes ago. As anticipated by many, it did not reach its goal of raising $32 million and fell short by over $19 million.
“So ends a crazy month. We’ve broken records, we’ve been written and talked about across the world, we’ve worn out our F5 keys, and we’ve learned a lot of invaluable lessons about crowdfunding. Our bold campaign to build a visionary new device ultimately fell short, but we can take away so many positives,” Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical wrote in an update on the Indiegogo campaign page. Read more about Ubuntu Edge misses its crowdfunding goal by over $19 million …
Canonical seeks $32 million on Indiegogo to build it
Canonical has announced the first Ubuntu smartphone. Dubbed as Ubuntu Edge, the phone is a very interesting piece of device. Almost everything about the phone is something that you don’t normally see.
First, Canonical wants to raise $32 million (21.5 million pounds) on Indiegogo to build this smartphone. Yes, you read it right. The company is asking prospective consumers to put in money for it to make an Ubuntu phone and it is hoping to do it in 31 days. At the time of writing this post, it had already raised over $160,000. Read more about Ubuntu Edge announced, dual-boots Android & Ubuntu Touch …


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“It’s a game changer.”
So says one shipper of avocados out of Mexico on the decision last week where Mexico’s Department of Agriculture and U.S. authorities agreed to allow avocados from a second Mexican state to be exported to the United States. For almost 25 years, Mexico has been allowed to export avocados only from one western Mexico state: Michoacán. The second state which will now also be permitted to ship is nearby Jalisco.
“With Jalisco now being open to the U.S., that could take the player out of two other markets which are Europe and Japan,” Juan Escorcia of Avocados Aguirre says. He notes that worldwide avocado movement is a sort of delicate dance where different growing countries rely on a network of markets and this decision could affect other markets. “I don’t think anyone knows yet what’s going to happen but there’s going to be an adjustment commercially,” he says. He adds that Japan for example is fairly dependent on Mexico for avocados, but more so Jalisco and that fruit from Mexico to Japan takes 15 days on the water. “That’s good timing for avocados to travel. But this decision for Mexico is a big step. As an industry we’ve always worked towards this decision.”
Moving smaller crop
This decision comes at a time when Mexican avocado supplies overall are slimmer. “There’s definitely a shortage of avocados this year,” says Escorcia. Avocados are an alternate bearing fruit in which abundant years are offset by a less abundant one. “It’s been like this for the current crop since May,” he says. “We’re at 70 percent compared to the crop last year. It’s about a 30 percent difference between last year and this year’s crop so I think we’ll have 10-15 percent left from our crop.”
Escorcia does note that some growers are waiting until the new year to pick fruit given that North American inventory has already largely been accounted for for the remaining weeks in 2021. They’re hoping the new year could bring better prices.
Meanwhile demand is fairly stable for avocados and Escorcia notes once January arrives, demand could strengthen with resolutions for healthier eating underway as well as the run up towards the Super Bowl. He also adds that generally, consumption of avocados continues to grow annually.
All of this leaves pricing fairly strong currently. “Pricing is about 10-15 percent stronger than last year,” says Escorcia.
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Star Wars Celebration 2023 is here, and while Lucasfilm will be streaming from the convention, not every part of the show will be available to watch online. Star Wars Celebration, which runs this year from April 7-10, rarely gets big streams for its conventions, keeping most of the festivities and big announcements to the in-person event instead. Thankfully, there are at least a few panels that Lucasfilm has announced fans can watch online to keep up with what’s next for the Star Wars universe.
To help get you ready for this year’s Celebration, here’s the full schedule of streams, and how to watch them:
How to live stream Star Wars Celebration 2023
The stream for Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London will be hosted on the Star Wars website and on the official Star Wars YouTube channel. According to the official announcement post, this will be the only official stream available and will run all four days.
What Star Wars Celebration panels will be streamed?
This part isn’t quite clear yet. According to the Star Wars website, it seems like there will be one continuous stream that swaps to different panels throughout the day, but you won’t be able to decide for yourself which panels you’d like to watch. It doesn’t appear that Lucasfilm has released an official schedule yet, so you’ll need to check into the stream throughout the weekend to see what’s on at any given time. To help give you a clue about what could be up next on the schedule, the Star Wars Celebration website does have a full schedule.
When does the Star Wars Celebration stream start?
Here are the approximate start times for Star Wars Celebration Live’s streaming from the convention. Note that the first stream on Friday starts after the keynote Lucasfilm Studio Showcase happens at Star Wars Celebration:
- Friday, April 7 — 8 a.m. EST/5 a.m. PST
- Saturday, April 8 — 7 a.m. EST/4 a.m. PST
- Sunday, April 9 — 6:45 a.m. EST/3:45 a.m. PST
- Monday, April 10 — 6:45 a.m. EST/3:45 a.m. PST


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To start off November, rallies helped push major indices to post the best week of 2023 alongside a major decision by the Federal Reserve and positive corporate earnings.
Some earnings highlights included Roku, which soared on Wall Street with its stock climbing nearly 50% throughout the week. The streaming device manufacturer was able to post third-quarter earnings that blew past estimates, marking $912 million in revenue compared to forecasts of only $855 million.
The biggest piece of weekly economic news came from the FOMC meeting after the Fed decided to hold interest rates steady before the final meeting in December. Although there was indication of the Fed’s next move, Fed Chair Jerome Powell reiterated in his post-decision conference that a moderated economy has been able to show signs of continued disinflation.
Overall, U.S. stocks have shown signs of a rebound spurred by the Fed’s decision to not raise rates by another quarter percentage point. Next week, investors should continue to monitor corporate earnings as well as weekly jobs claims to judge the current strength of the labor market.
Here are the companies from this week’s expected earnings:
- TripAdvisor – 11/06 (#trip)
- Bumble – 11/07 (#bmbl)
- eBay – 11/07 (#ebay)
- Arm Holdings – 11/08 (#arm)
- Walt Disney – 11/08 (#disney)
- News Corp – 11/09 (#newscorp)
- Li Auto – 11/09 (#li)
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Despite successive inspections and seizures, street vendors continue to commit illegalities, through the selling of items without any type of license.
Today, in a joint operation with the GNR, Regional Authority for Economic Activities (ARAE) inspectors seized more than 100 articles for sale, as well as identifing those selling without a licence.
In recent weeks, the (ARAE) has carried out several operations of this kind, always with identical results. The sellers, mostly foreigners, continue to trade without a licence. The situation is growing in the city and is causing a social uproar.
That said, others have stated that these street vendors are offering value for money when it comes to fruits and vegetables, as opposed to the inflated prices of the official markets.
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The National Student Survey (NSS) has returned asking final-year students across the country about their university experience.
The survey is commissioned by the Office for Students and is there for students to provide feedback on their place of study and course to help improve the experience for future students.
But did current Kingston students find the survey useful when making their decision about which university to go to?
A pattern across many of the students we spoke to at Kingston was that although they were aware of the NSS, it did not factor into their decision to pick Kingston as their university.
Many chose to study here because of convenience or because of the university’s reputation for courses such as fashion and architecture.
Luyao Xu, a first-year fashion design student said: “I’m from China and I want to learn about other cultures so that’s why I picked Kingston University.
It’s rated highly in fashion and I’m interested in fashion design.”
Despite many Kingston students saying the NSS had no effect on their decision to pick the university, there was agreement that the survey does help to improve the University and helps give students a voice to air their views.
Third-year BA Media and Communication student, Andrew Obeng Stevens said: “I think the NSS is necessary, it can certainly aid the choice for prospective students, I also think it can help universities to improve in places they perhaps were not aware of.”
The response rate among UK students to last year’s NSS was 69% and the campaign is under way to get as many eligible students as possible to complete the survey this year.
The NSS this year will be available until April 30.


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According to the press release, blinkx's HTML5 video player is designed for developers to incorporate into their apps.
"The blinkx app, available through the Tizen store, will replicate the look and feel of the recently re-launched blinkx.com, tapping into over 35 million hours of online video and over 800 media partnerships to give mobile viewers access to an incredible array of high-quality videos. Whether searching for a specific clip or browsing categories such as News & Politics, Celebrity and Viral, users on the go will have the same immersive video experience they enjoy on blinkx.com."
As Dusan Belic put it in intomobile, there's just one thing missing: our first Tizen smartphone... But that may be coming at the end of the year, supported by Intel and Samsung, as an alternative to Android, he reports.


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Updated at 10 a.m. PT with a headline change noting that BlackBerry is disputing T-Mobile's initial claim.
It looks like iOS and Android won't be able to download BlackBerry Messenger come June 27 after all.
Earlier on Thursday, T-Mobile U.K. tweeted that BBM would indeed be available for iOS and Android come June 27, even serving up an image of a BBM conversation running on a Samsung Android phone. However, that tweet has since been taken down, calling into question the accuracy of the information.
And a BlackBerry representative told CNET: "That date is completely inaccurate; we have never indicated a specific date."
BlackBerry also released the following statement in response to T-Mobile's tweet:
On May 14th, BlackBerry announced plans to make its ground-breaking mobile social network, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), available to iOS and Android users this summer, subject to approval by the Apple App Store and Google Play. While there have been reports that BBM will be available to iOS and Android on June 27th, this is not accurate. We will communicate an update as soon as we have an availability date to share.
If the information was inaccurate, why would T-Mobile U.K. tweet it in the first place? Well, T-Mobile certainly could have gotten its facts wrong. Or it's conceivable the date may ultimately prove correct, and the carrier simply jumped the gun by revealing it without the official nod from BlackBerry.
Either way, BBM is due to reach iOS and Android sometime in the not too distant future.
Last month, BlackBerry spilled the beans thatbut was mum about a specific launch date. CEO Thorsten Heins revealed that the service will be available as a free download, adding that "we are confident time is right for BBM to be independent."
The company is alsoonto their devices, BlackBerry Chief Operating Officer Kristian Tear told CNET on Wednesday. Tear didn't reveal the names of any specific manufacturers but said that "there is interest from other handset makers."
The move to iOS and Android will mark the first time that BlackBerry's messaging service will be available on non-BlackBerry devices. But will the move sway BBM users to switch from their BlackBerry devices to iPhones and Android phones? Not according to Tear.
"We don't feel like that is a risk," he told CNET. "Obviously, if we did, we might have acted differently."
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Intel’s Secretive New Phone (INTC)
Most of the public might not know that Intel designs phones, that is until the release of its top-of-the-line smartphone destined for use on global telecom provider Orange’s network.
The endeavor started when upper management at Intel realized they cannot convince the public that its chips are able to work in mobile phones, as that niche is dominated by mobile chip maker ARM.
Intel proceeded to hire hundreds of engineers from Silicon Valley and started a state-of—the-art phone making operation.
Toward the end of last year Intel began sharing its device, which had been designed solely at its Santa Clara headquarters. The phone features all of the important features that dominate the market and it runs on Google Android’s operating system. It even looks quite comparable to the iPhone 4.
Intel’s head of mobility, Mike Bell, is a former Apple employee of 17 years and worked on the iPhone project before taking a job with Palm.
After manufacturing several thousand phones, Intel distributed them to all possible partners.
Intel’s mobile chips will also appear in other devices. Motorola Mobility announced last month that all of its future devices will run on Intel Chips. Chinese smartphone company ZTE also stated on Monday that it will source its chips from Intel.
Intel will now balance its focus on both chip and phone design.
“Our plan is that with every new generation of chip, we’ll build a state-of-the-art reference device,” Bell said. “If customers like what they see, we’ll certainly support that.”
Intel hopes for the phone chip journey to be similar to its history with PC chips. The company struggled to convince computer companies that it could make PC processors nearly 30 years ago, but now has a market share of 80 percent.
Intel’s chip-making rival, ARM, has a 95 percent market share. It remains to be seen how successful the company’s new journey will be, but at least by now it has proved its ability to provide the power needed for today’s smartphones.


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Bharti Airtel and the Indian venture of Vodafone Group were charged Friday by India's top investigation agency for the alleged irregular allocation of mobile spectrum in 2002.
The auction of 2G spectrum in India that ended Wednesday will earn the government about one-quarter of what it had planned, reflecting industry concerns about the high cost of the spectrum and the saturation of the country's mobile market.
India's top investigation agency has registered a case against two major Indian mobile operators and former government officials in connection with alleged irregularities in the allocation of additional 2G spectrum in January 2002, widening the scope...
Bharti Airtel's third-quarter profit was hit by high interest and amortization costs related to the mobile network operator's 3G rollout in India and its acquisition in Africa.
India's Bharti Enterprises has set up a joint venture with Japan's Softbank to focus on social media, gaming, and e-commerce for India's booming mobile market, it said Thursday.
India's largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, and second largest, Reliance Communications, are bundling Android tablets priced at between US$220 and $285 with their mobile services, in a bid to increase use of their data plans.
The acquisition of Zain's operations in 15 African countries and investment in 3G spectrum in India continued to be a drag on the profits of India's Bharti Airtel in the second quarter, the company said on Wednesday.
Bharti Airtel's profit continues to be weighed down by the cost of debt it took on to make investments in 3G spectrum in India and to acquire the African operations of Zain.
Mobile carriers including China Mobile, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone have launched a new initiative to promote the 4G (fourth-generation) network technology LTE TDD as a global standard.
Revenues at India’s largest mobile operator surged in the last three months of 2010, but competition and higher spectrum costs, and increased interest payments ate into profits.
India's largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, is offering its customers the facility to make payments through mobile phones, reflecting a growing interest by Indian mobile operators in addressing the large number of mobile users in the country that...
Apple will start offering the iPad in India on Friday, but its focus will be on sales through retailers, rather than bundling the device with service plans from mobile operators.
Large numbers of Indians are acquiring new mobile connections, which rose to 23 million in November, up from 19 million in the previous month.
Alcatel-Lucent has opened a services delivery center in Bangalore that can manage, operate and maintain multivendor fixed and mobile telecommunications networks, the company said.
India's mobile market continues to boom but there are signs of saturation, particularly in urban markets, according to analysts.
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(Pocket-lint) - After Samsung revealed the release date of the Galaxy S8 to be 29 March at its press conference at Mobile World Congress, we may now have got our final look as to what it will look like. The image yet again comes courtesy of Evan Blass, with the line "I think this is what you've been waiting for". Clearly he's confident that this is indeed the Galaxy S8.
The image shows the S8 with display that covers the entire front of the phone, something we've seen several times before, and a few physical buttons on the sides. The display shows the phone's lock screen with its confirmed release date, while the buttons on the left will likely be a volume key and a dedicated button for Bixby, Samsung's own voice-controlled assistant and rival to Siri, Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. Finally, the button on the right could be for power.
On the display there are quick launch icons in the bottom corners for the phone and camera, it will be interesting to see if these can be changed and customised to launch different apps.
The Galaxy S8 will launch at the end of this month, and is expected to feature a Snapdragon 835 processor. It was initially thought the S8 would be the first phone of 2017 to have this chip, but Qualcomm has recently said there's no contractual exclusivity. The recently announced Sony Xperia XZ Premium uses it too, although that phone won't actually launch until June.
The Galaxy S8 should also feature 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The rear camera should feature a 12MP lens with f/1.7 aperture while the front-facing will be 8MP, also with f/1.7 aperture.
With LG already unveiling the G6 with a display that takes up the entire front of the device, it will be interesting to see how these two new style devices will fare against each other.


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Registration is now live with
Four VR/AR sessions are confirmed.
Tickets are still available for the one day event.
The Develop: Brighton conference saw record numbers for its recent event.
Four VR titles have made the cut.
The date and location may have changed but the line-up hasn't.
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Four RTG Cranes Arrived at Gemport Terminal
YILPORT continues to invest in equipment. The six RTG cranes which were bought from Japanese Mitsui Paceco company which is the main equipment supplier of YILPORT, were delivered safely to Gebze and Gemlik terminals following to the reaching the territorial waters of Turkey. The RTG cranes which two of them delivered to Gebze terminal and 4 of them also transferred to Gemport respectively were carried via Kobe vessel belonging to German Heavylift company. As an indicator of the Turkish-Japanese and German cooperation, this transfer was carried out with utmost operational efficiency while considering the size of vessel and width of equipment.
FIAT starts to export its new favorite “Egea” from Gemport Terminal, Turkey
One of the biggest automotive exporters of Turkey,FIAT has began to export its new favorite “Egea” from Gemport Terminal. The company plans to produce hatchback version in 2016 and SW in 2017 of C sedan type car. GEMPORT is a shining star as a gateway to the World for FIAT who plans to export 700K cars.The output of 3-years development process and $520 million investment, first Egea was loaded into Grande Italia vessel and sent to European market on 18.11.2015 under the control of Gemport’s operations beyond reproach. This export move will significantly improve Ro-Ro volume of Gemport and will further consolidate our mutual benefit partnership with FIAT. http://en.portnews.ru/news/211628/Upload News


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On December 12, 2018, the 6th Pesticide Import and Export Situation Analysis and Experience Exchange Conference hosted by China Association of Pesticide Development & Application was held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and published the list of China's top 50 pesticides exporters enterprises in 2018.
During the meeting, they shared new developments and new requirements for pesticide import and export, and made relevant opinions on the company, as well as judged and analyzed the “Global Pesticide Market Overview and Major Trends”, pointing out that it is related to the global pesticide structure. Compared with the global pesticide structure, Chinese fungicides and herbicides still have expansion capacity
At the meeting, the list of China's top 50 pesticide exporters enterprises was released in 2018, and Shenzhen King Quenson Industry Co., Ltd. was on the list.
King Quenson Group always maintains integrity and self-discipline, plays an exemplary role in the industry, and can withstand the test of time and market, making new contributions to the harmonious and healthy development of the whole industry.


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Wholesale costs rose 8.6% from a yr in the past in October, their highest annual tempo in data going again practically 11 years, the Labor Division mentioned Tuesday.
The federal government’s producer value index, which serves as a gauge of ultimate demand costs from items producers, rose 0.6% for the month, in step with Dow Jones estimates and an indicator that inflation pressures are persevering with to burden the U.S. economic system. The month-to-month tempo was sooner than the 0.5% improve in September.
Stripping out meals, commerce and vitality costs, the index elevated 0.4% month over month, barely under the 0.5% estimate however an elevated tempo from September’s 0.1% achieve. On a year-over-year foundation, core producer costs elevated 6.2%. The year-over-year data return to November 2010.
Elevated demand for items over providers once more led the inflation story, with the value rises for last demand items accounting for greater than 60% of the index’s improve. Items costs rose 1.2% in contrast with only a 0.2% improve for providers, whereas development costs jumped 6.6%.
One-third of the rise in items costs got here from hovering gasoline, with costs rising 6.7%. Beef and veal costs represented the opposite aspect of the ledger, posting a collective decline of 10.3%. The index for mild motor vehicles, a key driver of inflation this yr, moved decrease as did residential electrical energy.
On the providers aspect, greater than 80% of the rise in last demand providers value will increase got here from autos and auto components, which elevated 8.9%.
Ultimate demand costs are a gauge of what items producers obtain in gross sales for private consumption, capital funding and to authorities, in addition to for exporting.
The PPI report is one in all two key inflation readings this week. The Labor Division on Wednesday will launch the October shopper value index, which is anticipated to point out a 0.6% month-to-month improve for all items, translating right into a 5.9% annual achieve.
Federal Reserve officers are watching the inflation information carefully. Policymakers usually consider value will increase are pushed primarily by elements resembling provide chain shocks tied to the coronavirus pandemic, and can ease some subsequent yr and finally drift again towards the central financial institution’s 2% annual goal.
Nevertheless, the Fed has conceded that inflation pressures are lasting longer than thought, and final week voted to start lowering the tempo of its month-to-month bond purchases.
Goldman Sachs economists over the weekend famous the “inflation overshoot will probably worsen earlier than it will get higher.”
Markets have been pricing in additional aggressive rate of interest hikes than the Fed is at the moment indicating. Citigroup economists mission that the central financial institution must step up its deliberate $15 billion a month tempo of bond buy reductions, with an acceleration to $22.5 billion a month, which means the quantitative easing program would wind down utterly by April 2022.
That might then permit the Fed to begin rising charges ought to inflation proceed to be an issue.


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US consumer borrowing up as credit card use rises
Americans increased their borrowing in May at the fastest pace in a year. Borrowing in the category that includes credit cards reached its highest point since the fall of 2010.
Increased borrowing can be a sign that consumers are feeling more confident.
The Federal Reserve says consumers increased their borrowing by $19.6 billion in May compared with April. That was the biggest jump since a $19.9 billion increase in May 2012.
Total borrowing reached a record $2.84 trillion.
The category that includes credit card use rose $6.6 billion, also the largest gain in a year. Credit card debt reached $847.1 billion, the highest level since September 2010 but still below the 2008 peak.
Borrowing on autos and student loans increased $13 billion.
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When it comes to 3D printing for dental applications, SLA 3D printing is the way to go. The technology has the necessary precision and surface finish for dental tools and implements, and companies that specialize in SLA technology have been putting forth efforts to create new advancements in dental 3D printing. Over the past year and a half, Formlabs has become a leader in dental 3D printing, ever since it introduced the first biocompatible resin in desktop 3D printing last April.
That resin, called Dental SG, was a big step forward in dental 3D printing, allowing dental practitioners to create things like customized drill guides using 3D printing. Now Formlabs has introduced a new dental 3D printing resin, and it’s another first: Dental LT Clear is the first long-term biocompatible resin in desktop 3D printing, available to be used for orthodontic devices.
“Since entering the dental market in 2016, Formlabs has quickly established itself as the premier player in dental 3D printing,” said Dávid Lakatos, Chief Product Officer at Formlabs. “We now command the largest dental 3D printer user base, have sold thousands of printers to dental professionals, and are growing at a pace of over 600 percent year on year. All of this has catalyzed an industry-wide shift to 3D printing and digital dentistry.”
Dental LT Clear is also the fastest Formlabs material so far, capable of 3D printing splints and retainers in less than 50 minutes. Full build platforms with up to seven splints can be 3D printed in less than two hours. That means greatly reduced wait time for patients, who in the past would have to suffer through having impressions taken and then wait days or even weeks for their devices to be completed. Thanks to 3D printing, messy impressions are becoming a thing of the past, too – patients can now simply be scanned, and splints and retainers made from the scan data.
“We couldn’t be more excited by how quickly 3D printing is becoming part of the standard of care in dentistry,” said Gideon Balloch, Dental Product Lead at Formlabs. “Over 50,000 surgeries have been performed with a Formlabs printed surgical guide—and that’s just 10 percent of what dental users are doing with our printers. Dental LT Clear adds yet another digital workflow to a library that offers professionals more efficient, accurate, and affordable production methods, enabling faster treatments for patients with better clinical outcomes. It’s only going to continue to grow.”
Formlabs introduced several other new dental resins earlier this year as well, and now the company has also improved Dental SG resin, making print speeds up to 50 percent faster for single items, and up to 20 minutes faster for full builds. Formlabs has been going beyond resin formulation in its integration into the dental industry, too, deepening partnerships and distribution deals with some of the biggest players in the industry, including 3Shape and Henry Schein.
Thanks to the advances that are being made in dental 3D printing by companies like Formlabs, patients get to benefit from more comfort, less wait time, and an overall better experience at the dentist’s office.
Interested customers can request sample parts 3D printed with Dental LT Clear and Dental SG resins here.
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Aussies love their credit cards again
Australians are back to using and collecting debt on their credit cards. We have $49 billion collectively on credit cards and that figure is expected to jump to $52 billion by the end of 2014.
The national credit card debt has almost doubled in 10 years, as has the number of transactions made on cards.
The average cardholder balance is $3,147, an increase from $2,377 in 2004.
Credit card applications grew strongly in the March quarter according to the latest Veda Consumer Credit Demand Index.
Veda's general manager of consumer risk, Angus Luffman, said: “The March quarter was the fourth consecutive quarter of growth for credit card applications, after two years of weakness.”
Overall consumer credit demand (credit cards and personal loans) in the March quarter was 3.1 per cent higher than the previous corresponding period.
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The Wichita area jobless rate fell slightly in August, to 6.8 percent, from both the 7.1 percent in July and the 7.0 percent rate of August 2012, according to the state Department of Labor.
This continues several years of general stagnation in the employment picture in the Wichita area. Although the unemployment rate has drifted down since peaking in July 2009 that is largely because the number of people actively seeking work has fallen.
The number of employed was about 279,600 in August, up nearly 900 from August 2012, while the number of people considered unemployed was down about 700 from a year ago.
In the separate survey of Wichita area employers released by the labor department, the local sectors gaining the most jobs compared to a year ago include business and professional services, leisure and hospitality, and durable goods manufacturing. The biggest losing sectors include natural resources, government and retail trade.
The Wichita metro area includes Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick and Sumner counties.
For the state as a whole, the unemployment rate was 5.9 percent in August, down from 6.1 percent in July, but unchanged from August 2012.


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Louisville-based Brown-Forman announced late Tuesday that the company will invest $50 million to build a new distillery and tourism experience north of Dublin on the County Meath estate of Henry Conyngham, the eighth Marquess Conyngham and his son, Alex, Earl of Mount Charles.
The Slane Irish Whiskey Distillery is expected to be completed in the summer of 2016. The as-yet-unnamed brand will be released in spring 2017, at first using purchased whiskey. Brown-Forman purchased the shares of Slane Castle Irish Whiskey Limited but not the brand name.
Irish whiskey is one of the fastest-growing segments of distilled spirits. Brown-Forman, the parent of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey and Woodford Reserve bourbon, will release fourth quarter and yearly earnings on Wednesday.
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from boston Jeldrema Flint Trying to reduce stress, and when it comes to hair’s journey on her platform, it can be experienced by awkward people in the Black or Brown community. growing hands.
according to it siteGrowing Hands allows individuals to “create a personalized hair board, search for hair resources, and connect directly with a hair stylist” to provide hair tips.
In an interview with Bostino, Flint, who previously taught at Beacon Academy and Guangzhou Huamei International School, opened up about how the idea for Growing Hands came about before turning to tech founder.
While attending Babson Graduate School in 2020, Flynt wanted to take a blockchain course and build a blockchain. A company that helped more black people learn more about blockchain.
But she changed her mind.
“I was like, ‘Hair. Our hair is always talked about. It’s something I’ve been talking about my whole life,'” Flint said.
Flint then began interviewing people about their hair journey and struggles.
“The problem is that we don’t have a streamlined process,” says Flynt.
Flint revealed the extreme length many people go through to get their hair exactly the way they want it. It also included utilizing various platforms of
And soon, her idea was born.
“Let us give you the ability to design those pieces, let you connect with hair stylists and people in need, and let you find out where you can buy that product,” says Flynt. says. “Let’s streamline it and make this process easier for everyone with dark hair, thick hair, thick hair, curly hair.”
As far as profits go, Flynt plans to use advertising and sponsorships to create a subscription model filled with exclusive content to generate revenue.
Flynt and her team hope to release a Growing Hands prototype later.


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The new vessel, which has been ordered by the Carnival Group for the shipowner Princess Cruises, will go to sea in 2017 and it will be the first vessel to be designed and built specifically for the Chinese market.
With its 145,000 gross tonnage, the ship will host 3,560 passengers and will be built on the basis of the twin vessels “Royal Princess” and “Regal Princess”, built in the same shipyard and delivered in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
These ships represent a new technological benchmark in Europe and worldwide for their innovative layout, their performance and quality.
Carnival Corporation & plc signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Fincantieri S.p.A. to explore the possibility of a shipbuilding joint venture aimed at accelerating development and growth of the cruise industry in China in November, 2014.
The MOU between Carnival Corporation and Italy-based Fincantieri outlines the framework for evaluating and exploring a potential shipbuilding joint venture for constructing cruise ships for the Chinese market.
The Chinese Ministry of Transport (MOT) projects China to be the second largest global cruise market after the U.S. in the next several years based on economic growth, increased spending power of Chinese consumers and growing demand for cruise vacations. China could see 4.5 million cruise passengers by 2020, according to the MOT, and is expected to eventually become the world’s largest cruise market.
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Mohammad Mustafa, who took over as chairman at the end of August, said the agency's board had approved this vision 2.0 in a meeting on September 22, which had decided to strengthen the advisory services for MSMEs.
"We want to strengthen the advisory part, which is missing. Advisory would be in terms of technology, taxation issues and issues which a normal business encounters. We are calling it a credit plus approach. We will give a host of services that will empower you like capacity development, proper guidance, technology and other options," Mustafasaid.
On September 29, SIDBI posted a request for proposal document on its website seeking to appoint a consultant to formulate and implement a 'Business cum Developmental Strategy, Organizational Restructuring - SIDBI Vision-2.0.' The bids for the proposal are to be submitted by October 27.
"Once we lend money, SMEs make a produce and it has to be marketed. We will give them a complete picture of where and how it is to be marketed. We are looking for partners like agreements with specialised advisory services. These could be technology and consultancy firms," Mustafa said.
MSMEs are currently reeling under the twin impact of last year's demonetisation and the new goods and services tax regime (GST), which has disrupted business. However, Mustafa said the disruption is only short-term in nature.
On the cards is also an index gauging the business sentiment for MSMEs. Last week, SIDBI also announced that it will broaden its fintech platform, Udyamimitra, to help MSMEs access loans from banks and NBFCs. Plans also include to partner with banks to reach more companies.
Last fiscal, SIDBI registered a 5% drop in net profit to Rs 1,120 crore from Rs 1,177 crore in March 2016, as operating expenses increased 27% and interest expended during the year increased 16%, but Mustafa said this year will be better.
"SME problems are transient and as things move they will benefit. Financing and money issues are there but we think we will be able to resolve these issues. We will have a better year than last year," he said.
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Microsoft will be rolling out a new 1810 to Xbox Insiders on the Skip Ahead and Preview Alpha rings today, and on this occasion the company has shared more details about the new features coming in the Xbox One Fall Update.
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Has anyone else noticed that Samsung has been getting a little, well - sassy? The Korean company has released a phenomenal troll aimed at Apple, spearing it for its recent "bendgate" catastrophe.Read more: http://www.itproportal.
Today Box, a company that sells enterprise file management and collaboration tools, announced ‘Box Enterprise Key Management,’ or EKM. The new service will allow corporate customers of Box to self-store and manage the keys to a second layer of encryption on their data.
Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been accused of requesting to join airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria, despite advising the public it was at the insistence of the U.S.
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Facebook agrees to buy Oculus for $2 billion (U.S.)
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SAN FRANCISCO—Facebook Inc. said it will buy virtual-reality technology company Oculus VR Inc. for about $2 billion (U.S.), in its first push into mobile hardware.
The deal includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million Facebook shares, as well as an additional $300 million if the acquisition achieves certain milestones, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company said in a statement Tuesday. Oculus, based in Irvine, Calif., makes a ski-goggles-like device that people wear to play games and access other immersive virtual-reality experiences.
Facebook is building its mobile business with acquisitions as the more than 1.2 billion members of the world’s largest social network increasingly use the service through smartphones and tablets. The company purchased mobile photo-sharing application Instagram in 2012 for about $700 million and last month agreed to buy mobile messaging app WhatsApp Inc. for about $19 billion.
The deal pushes Facebook into the wearable-technology market, where it will compete with Google Inc.’s Glass, which are spectacles that have smartphone capabilities. The Oculus product could become the basis of a communications platform, letting people watch games courtside, consult with doctors or take online courses, chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Facebook.
“Mobile is the platform of today, and now we’re also getting ready for the platforms of tomorrow,” Zuckerberg said. “Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play and communicate.”
Oculus has raised more than $91 million, including a $75 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz in December and $2.5 million of preorders from a campaign on crowdfunding website Kickstarter in 2012.
Most of Oculus’s 100 employees work in Orange County, Calif., in an office park that’s festooned with old game controllers and models of alien creatures.
The Oculus team met with Facebook executives a few months ago in Southern California, and discussions evolved into “an even deeper vision of creating a new platform for interaction that allows billions of people to connect in a way never before possible,” Oculus said in a blog post.
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Android App Market reaches 20,000 app milestone
The Android Market has reached the 20,000 app milestone, although it's still got a long way to go to catch up with Apple's App Store.
Despite being much younger than its Apple-flavoured rival, the Android Market is holding its own and is now showcasing some 20,000 apps.
So claims statistics compiled by AndroLib, a site that has tracked the Android Market since its launch.
Almost two thirds (62.2 per cent) of the available Android applications are offered for free, according to the stats. What's more, almost half (44.6 per cent) of reviewers commenting on their chosen apps give them 5/5.
While 20,000 is a solid number, it is still overshadowed by the Apple App Store's own figure, which is reckoned to be around the 100,000 mark. Indeed, Apple recently celebrated having reached the two billion app download milestone.
That said, Android is increasing in popularity with analyst IDC saying its market share has been pushed higher of late.
"Because of its openness, a developer will be able to modify the platform and make it better," Andy Rubin, senior director for mobile platforms at Google, said at the launch of the first Android-running handset - the T-Mobile G1 - back in September 2008.
"It is future-proof because it is an open platform."
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T.I. is jumping to Iggy Azalea's defense!!
In response to Banks' racially charged rant, the rapper tweeted:
Independent movie rental stores are getting creative so they don't fall by the wayside like so many of the their big chain competitors!
Many mom-and-pop video shops have tanning beds to make more money in addition to DVD rentals and sales!
Apparently a store with a half-dozen beds will get 40 percent of its revenue from tanning and 60 percent from DVDs.
We bet Snooki is a regular!
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Habitat for Humanity has announced the dates for its Hammers & High Heels fundraiser for its 2021 Women Build.
Searria Peoples and her four children will partner with Habitat for Humanity to build their new home in Columbia, and the goal is to raise $70,000 to pay for the home’s “bricks and sticks.”
The Hammers & High Heels online auction kickoff will be held May 10 with a virtual broadcast of the event May 20 at 7 p.m. The silent auction will end May 20, and there will also be “Stock the Cellar” wine pulls sponsored by Arrington Vineyards, a “Best Hammer or High Heel” photo contest on social media and more. Sponsorship packages are also available.
The Women Build will be smaller this year with limited volunteer opportunities in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build empowers women to take the hammer and take the lead to help lower-income families in their own community build and purchase safe, affordable housing.
More information and Hammers & High Heels tickets can be found at womenbuildtn.com.


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Pics: Zendaya Coleman Hosts Secret Fan Event In NYC
Fans were in attendance at Black Tap NYC to meet the multi-platinum selling singer, actress, and newly named COVERGIRL. The artist was in town for promo in support of the release of her new single, “Something New” featuring Chris Brown. Since its release the song has hit #3 on the iTunes R&B chart, #7 on Shazam’s Future Hits chart, and already has 1.5 million streams on Spotify.
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Charlie Walk, President of The Republic Group and Zendaya
Multi-talented actress, platinum-selling recording artist, and newly announced COVERGIRL, Zendaya, is quickly becoming one of this generation’s most influential rising stars.
Zendaya currently stars and co-produces the Disney Channel’s hit spy comedy K.C. Undercover, and is working on the follow up to her self-titled debut album, which yielded the platinum-certified single Replay. The multi-faceted artist continues to grow as a prominent figure in the fashion world. Her ability to command a red carpet has earned her a reputation among fashion elite, garnering praise from the likes of InStyle, Elle, Glamour, W Magazine and more.
In 2015, Zendaya was named one of “this year’s emerging style icons” by Harper’s Bazaar and invited to attend Vogue’s prestigious Met Gala. Zendaya was also included in Ebony’s “POWER 100” and chosen as one of TIME Magazine’s “Most Influential Teens of 2015.”
Outside of entertainment, Zendaya is committed to a bevy of philanthropic work. She is an ambassador for Convoy of Hope, served as the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF spokesperson last fall, and has worked with Make-a-Wish Foundation and Keep A Child Alive.
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Africa's smartphone market sees 6.4% decline QOQ
Africa's smartphone market experienced a quarter-on-quarter (QOQ ) decline of 6.4% during Q4 2017.
This is according to the latest report by International Data Corporation's (IDC) quarterly mobile phone tracker, which shows that smartphone shipments in Africa were down to 20.3 million units for the quarter.
This, notes IDC, represents an 18 year-on-year (YOY) decline, meaning the YOY improvement seen in the previous quarter did not extend to the year's final - and traditionally strongest - quarter.
However, the continent's two biggest markets saw extremely strong growth, with shipments up 19.9% quarter-on-quarter in Nigeria and 27.0% quarter-on-quarter in South Africa. North Africa also experienced a slight increase, although there were declines across most other markets, which explains the region's overall decline, adds the report.
"Major campaigns took place around Black Friday and during the lead up to Christmas, which positively impacted consumer spending in Nigeria and SA," says Ramazan Yavuz, research manager at IDC.
"While Nigeria continues to recover from recession and consumer spending is on the rise, there are also clear signs of improvement in South Africa. The end to the political crisis means that challenging economic conditions will be addressed as a priority by the new government, which will have a positive effect on consumer confidence and spending on mobile phones."
Year on year, the feature phone market was up 9.9%, notes the research. Feature phones continue to account for a majority share (62.2%) of the region's overall mobile phone market as they adequately address the needs of consumers that have limited purchasing power and require a reliable long-lasting mode of communication, particularly in rural areas.
"Combining smartphones and feature phones together, the overall Africa mobile phone market saw shipments of 53.7 million units in Q4 2017, which represents downturns of 0.7% QOQ and 2.6% YOY," according to IDC.
IDC further shows that 4G phones are growing in popularity, finally accounting for a majority share of the smartphone market at 56.8%. Shipments of 4G devices were up 3.9% QOQ in Q4 2017, with a drop in prices for entry-level 4G phones and an increase in the number of 4G networks across the continent driving this growth.
"Despite the push of operators towards 4G, the price differential between 3G and 4G devices together with the price sensitivity of African consumers means that many people in Africa still prefer 3G phones," says Nabila Popal, senior research manager at IDC.
Looking ahead, IDC expects Africa's overall mobile phone market to grow 0.7% in Q1 2018, with overall shipments to increase slightly through 2018, leading to YOY growth of 2% for the year as a whole.
According to point of sale tracking data from market research firm GfK SA, South African smartphone sales climbed 28% year-on-year to 3 million units in the third quarter of 2017.
"Mobile operators are on a drive to boost data usage to compensate for a steady decline in voice revenues," says Nikolay Dolgov, general manager for point of sales tracking at GfK SA.
"Falling prices of smartphones, aggressive operator promotions and growing WiFi/4G penetration are all helping to speed up the adoption of smartphones in South Africa."
According to research by Gartner, worldwide sales of smartphones recorded their first-ever decline since 2004, with sales to end users totalling nearly 408 million units in the Q4 of 2017, a 5.6% decline.